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I love Grace. I love that she's getting prominent roles in sketches even though it's her third episode, I knew her from before she was cast and know she's fucking hilarious. But where the hell is Saidah Belo-Osagie? We're seen her in like one small role in one sketch per episode. I know people write their own stuff and make her sketches just aren't making it but it feels weird that there are two rookies this year, one has already gotten quite a spotlight and the other had like two lines in last night's episode. Again, no shade to Grace, and frankly no shade to anyone -- I just want to actually see her because I feel like they've yet to "introduce" her to the audience like they did Grace.

UPDATE: Session ended about an hour ago. I introduced plot hooks in the wrong order, my players completely ignored half the stuff I prepped, I had to improvise much of what was going on, I made some bad calls based on both “oh god i didn’t consider you could do that” and “fuck what skill even is this”, combat was slow because there were some rules that I thought I knew but were actually incorrect (due to personally preferring a support spellcaster role usually for my characters). However! My players were understanding, they helped me out when I asked for it, I had fun, and my players told me they did too. So I think I will be calling this a success! Thank you everyone for your advice <3

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Hi everyone! I’m a first time DM, running my first session TOMORROW. Short campaign (aiming for about 4-5 sessions, homebrew world, 4 players total with one being brand new and three others from a previous campaign, all also my friends.

I’m kind of really worried in a way where I’m not worried about any one specific thing, but the overall Task of being a DM. What if I haven’t prepped enough? What if I’ve prepped too much? What if I forget everything I know about dnd in the moment due to the stress? What if my players don’t like my world or the plot hooks or any of it? What if nobody has fun?

How does everyone manage the anxiety, if you get it at all? Does it fade over time? What can I do to make sure I and my game are Ready? And like the title says, if you could travel back in time and give yourself DM advice say 10 minutes before your first session, what would it be?

Sorry if this is in violation of the last rule, I thought it might be helpful to everyone & not just first time DMs, but I can delete if it is. Thank you! :)

I’m not usually big into sports but I love watching football when the international tournaments (mainly the World Cup and the Euros) come around. All and any match-ups. Obviously I’m aware that some of the matches are scheduled for times that functionally make them impossible to watch while out, but I’d love to watch those for like 8pm-1am with people. Does anyone know what pubs will screen matches? Not just the opener on Thursday but consistently through the month leading up to the final. I’m in Stoneybatter (but more than willing to make the trek) if that’ll matter!

So I’m a new DM and I’ve just started a campaign with my friends (all veteran players except for one, who is playing for the first time) with a mystery plot and that skews more towards roleplay/social interaction, and I’ve been brainstorming puzzles to give my players. I realized that I have a few of NPCs who logically might speak languages the PCs don’t know, and might want to discuss the central mystery with each other in a language where they’re less likely to be understood if overheard. Now, we’re a pretty international bunch with I think 7-8 languages between the 5 of us, but my mother tongue is one that nobody else speaks and that doesn’t even share a language family with any of the other ones.

Would a puzzle-like espionage situation where the party tries to listen in on a heated argument between some NPCs and receive out-of-context information via loanwords (ex “elf” “politics” and the names of noble houses, already known to players) and straight up instances of bilingual code-switching for a few words be fun / acceptable to do? I know you’re generally not supposed to have NPCs talking to each other too much, but I figure if I make it a challenge to overcome instead of a lore dump / “the-DM-Show Starring The DM and The DM” it might be engaging? Nobody, and I mean nobody else at the table speaks this language, so I don’t think it would be “unfair” to some people over others. Sorry if this a silly question, all the DM’s I’ve played with so far have been more-or-less monolingual! Thanks!

Edit: Thank you everyone for your feedback! I’m gonna run the concept of linguistic puzzles by the group but even if they seem up for it I’ll probably opt for a written one rather than spoken.