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Behind the Screens: DM Advice Q&A

Not Another D&D Podcast

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How to Write a Successful Story

Zach Z's advice for DMing: Start with the landscape. How much fauna or flora are you planning? It would also be different for everyone, but I think that's not true for all people. So if you are passionate about what you're trying to build, it will always be more fun than anything else. And then start talking about characters while you're building like the encounters and like the first session. You have two docs going simultaneously. There's like, there's big brain doc and there's tiny brain. Big brain doc is like the stuff that might never actually happen. Small brain doc is when someone gets a nat 20 on a history check.

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