Post #2814962

2026-04-03 02:40 UTC

@bedirthan@dice.camp @randomwizard@social.vivaldi.net Great way to describe it, IMO. I think DL also provides a way for newer/inexperienced/less confident DMs to run an epic campaign/adventure path. I think we sometimes undersell how hard it can be to plan and track all the events and consequences for world spanning campaigns. DL solves a lot of that (in admittedly heavy handed manner). Also, DMs have to keep the curtain up, because it's not just reduced "off camera" activity but PC agency gets impacted as well.

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@randomwizard@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-03 03:00

@Craig@dice.camp @bedirthan@dice.camp I am not so against being a little heavy handed by having someone in authority in the campaign give a quest or clues. But it just seems really contrived to say "you have been looking for a cleric", "you meet goldmoon with a staff", "a strange old man in a tavern tells you where to go" Instead, it would be less grating to me, if it were more like Dragonmen armies are attacking. Ahhhh. Run. Then some old elf who has been around a long time says "this was told in a prophecy", "there are 3 things spoken of to help defeat the threat", "we can not spare any troops to investigate" Can you go get? Platinum Disks Dragonlances The Wisdom of the Tower of Sorcery I mean, there are even better ways of setting it all up, but that is just the simplest, one step removed from being too contrived.

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