New dungeon master here. Do I need to learn a VTT? I can barely operate that box in the kitchen. I guess my lady calls it a stove.🤷🏿‍♂️

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXvHKXbn0EnJ5rXN9UICsiyynvdAZOHW3AIhVItFEjajUkMA/viewform?usp=publish-editor On Wednesday, March 18th at 7:00 PM EST, we'll be running a collaborative world-building session for anyone interested! Learn how to kick off a proactive, emergent game by participating in the process, and set up the campaign for our West Marches game in the months to come. You can learn more about the upcoming campaign here, and you can RSVP for the collaborative event with the link at the top of this post. There's no player limit for this meeting, so no need to worry about if there's room. For those who can't make it, don't worry! We'll be putting up polls and bits of the process here this week, so you'll still be able to leave your mark on the setting before the game starts. Check in the Live Events channel each day, as we'll be covering the setting, factions, NPCs, and more. Please note that this will be recorded and posted in our classroom tab (and nowhere else!) as an example of the Session -1 process. If you're uncomfortable with this, you're still welcome to join us with your camera and/or mic off, via the chat in the event, and in the surveys we'll run this week. Also feel free to reach out to us if you'd like us to edit the video before uploading it. Can't wait to see you all there!

Started playing about 9 months ago, also started DMing for one shots. Am 2 sessions into a campaign using Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (it's a starter adventure for dnd). I had read the proactive turquoise book many months ago so my players all have goals of varying complexity I'm working into this adventure module. I only started the newer book after this campaign started so we didn't do a session -1 but I'm intrigued to explore this more later. I'm also a talk therapist and just watched the zoom session of the gold membership, I see a lot of overlap in certain skills like using silence to encourage players to generate their own ideas and reviewing group norms or goals each session, basically holding the frame-- this was what drew me in so much to the first book, I love this idea of putting it back on the players, somewhat because I'm new, don't know all the rules, and in a way I'm not even that creative lol. So glad you started this community, I love the idea of more active player involvement!

The Dungeon Mistress is here. 😂 Hi, I'm Helen - a UK-based DM of one-shot adventures that I run at Manchester Board Game Festival. I also run Spelljammer for kids every Sunday, which is tremendous fun! I'll be running sessions at EasterCon and UK Games Expo (I'm still pinching myself), as well as submitting to Dragonmeet (next year). Oh, and I'll be doing my first actual play at the end of March. 😆

So I saw this community thing I think on Instagram and decided to sign up for it. I live in the UK so probably won't be able to attend many US based events due to timescales and my pretty hectic work schedule. I'm currently running a homebrew D&D 2024 game with some friends where we started to create the world using The Quiet Year, we didn't get through the entirety of the creation process as a few people were not quite gelling with it but I took what we created and went ahead with it. I want to run a Pirate Borg game pretty soon for my friends YouTube channel (Explorers of Elsewhere), I've run some one shots for him in the past and it was great fun. In my spare time I act, do improv and run a comic (as in comic books) art festival.