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When I get a chance to dive into something I am enthusiastic about, I will. There is no way I could choose not to because my inner toddler just runs at it like a labradoodle after a ball.
So when de RPG Props kickstarter by Props&Beyond came to live and had a facebook page and a discord channel I was in, and present. I got a chance to do some test-prints and together with some other excited enthusiasts I became an ambassador (which is a fancy title for 'get to do some test printing and bounce about it on the socials'). Of course I bragged about my RPG campaigns (as I always do), and some time ago I was asked if I would like to give an interview about being a GM. I did not mind at all, I love talking, writing and chatting about the hobby!
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Last time I gave a D&Demo (yes, D&D demo called D&Demo) I threw out all the characters I made for the demo the day after the festival. I had used those for a couple of years, and they had become a bit boring. They were a combination of level 1 and 2 D&D 5e, and rather simplified so explaining it all to people who did the demo to learn about the hobby would be easier for me.
As it turned out, about half of the demo-visitors were experienced players who loved playing a short, simple 1 hour adventure at a festival.
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Last weekend we had another session with our Saltmarsh-group. We started playing from the book Ghosts of Saltmarsh but have by now deviated so far from it that it is a homebrew campaign. I still have some of the original storylines in there, and the hometown is still Saltmarsh, so it remains my Saltmarsh group.
I had prepped everything in the session already for the previous session, but during that session they decided to go have a chat with the sea-elves. And not go into my awesomely prepped dungeon, for which I made pretty maps in Inkanate! This session I would not have it, so I kinda railroaded their behinds into my dungeon.
Because they had places to go, even of they were not aware of it.
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In a grey and misty past I played 2 or 3 sessions of D&D and I did not like that. I don't even know what version that was, but the DM was hackling the players how stupid they were for not solving his puzzles. I decided that D&D was not my kind of game, even though I loved Larping and I knew larping came forth from D&D. Years later, in januari 2015, I started DM-ing my first campaign: The Lost Mine of Phandelver from the D&D starter set.
What had changed?