Hello everyone! Im super excited to be apart of this community! My experience is a majority of DnD 3.5, and 5e. I have also played Pathfinder 1st edition and Vampire the Masquerade! I joined because I love DMing and any kind of advice or help is always appreciated!!!!

Just checked out Tristan's video on a proactive character sheet for 5E. (Note: I have no idea what "proactive playstyle" means- never come across the term in 40 years of gaming 🤪so I clearly missed something 🤣). Just made me think on games I've played that use mechanics to encourage certain playstyles. Some examples: Warhammer FRP gives out Xp for Personal and Group goals, short term and long term. Once those are achieved :kaching: Forbidden Langs give out Xp for characters when their Dark Secret comes into play somehow - it could be a character flaw, like Greed, or an enemy nobody knew about that starts messing with the party, or some shameful background element being revealed. Mutant: Year Zero gives out Xp when the PC has risked or sacrificed something to protect an NPC they have to protect, and also when they risk/sacrifice something to mess with an NPC their character hates. Also these extrinsic rewards work really well, I find. Don't know if they'd translate well to 5E with milestone Xp, though.

Okay so forgive me if it's ALL covered in the classroom, but I loved the concept of having goals for NPC's so I added it to my NPC making template. Is there anything I'm missing? - Name: - Profession/Vocation: - Appearance: - Personality: - Fears/phobias: roll d6 1 spiders 2 snakes 3 heights 4 water drowning 5 enclosed spaces 6 something oddly specific like having their back to a window, or the number 13 - Strengths: - Weaknesses: - Mannerisms: - Voice: - Short and long term goals:

Does anyone else play Shadowrun? Or is this mainly or exclusively a 5E community?

Does anyone here do world building? I tend to want to create a world and build up from there. Placing my PC’s somewhere that we can write our own story without established history. Though I can see how established history also creates places to reference and established history makes for less work in player knowledge base when making knowledge checks and such. I guess what I’m mainly asking is whether people prefer to use established worlds or make their own.