{"id":36891,"date":"2022-05-03T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=36891"},"modified":"2022-05-03T00:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:16:31","slug":"rpg-quora-answers-by-mike-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/rpg-quora-answers-by-mike-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"RPG Quora Answers By Mike – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series RPG Quora Answers By Mike<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Image by Gordon Johnson<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a>, background coloration by Mike<\/p><\/div>\n

It took so much longer to plan out the article that I intended to publsh today, and it contains so many sections that I hasd grave doubts that I could finish it in time.<\/p>\n

Rather than risk having nothing to post in what is already shaping up to be a very busy week, I decided to present another episode of this ongoing (occasional) series.<\/p>\n

As usual, it contains links to 40 or so of my RPG-related answers on Quora.<\/p>\n

Some of these will be little more than a paragraph, some may be more substantial, but few will be anywhere near the length of the usual post here at Campaign Mastery.<\/p>\n

When we left off in Part 2 of this series<\/a>, I was up to mid-April 2019…<\/p>\n

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How do I play an evil DnD character that pretends to be good?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What do you find is the most fun D&D Class to play?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Were decades of earlier centuries as distinguishable from each other, like, for example, the 70s, 80s or the 90s of the 20th century?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What would air warfare look like in DnD?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What book marks the beginning of the urban fantasy genre?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When running an AD&D game, what do you do to really make your players sweat?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(This post was used as the foundation for an article here at Campaign Mastery, Occupying a PCs Shadow<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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In Dungeons and Dragons, how would the horde forces be structured?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In D&D, what did you think about the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish Module?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What, in your experience, is the most important element of running a tabletop RPG game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What are your favorite “collaborative” board games? Why?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a DM, what do you avoid in your games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What table should I get if I want it to be good for tabletop games but still usable as a normal table?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is it a general truism that it’s a bad idea to invite a spouse or SO to join an established D&D group? Do you have any stories where it did or didn’t work out?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dungeons & Dragons Players and Dungeon Masters: What was the most fiendish puzzle or trap you have come across in your games and how did you play out the situation?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a DM what pop culture references have you added to your campaign?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a DM, how did you manage and build encounters for a large party?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a DM, how do you run random encounters for your party while they are traveling?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Do you use any visuals for encounters in D&D or do you go with “theater of the mind?” Can visuals be too intricate and subtract from the role play experience?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What are ways someone can incorporate technology in the gaming experience for Dungeons and Dragons? Such as using text to deliver private messages to players.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(There’s something poignant about this question after the 2020 restrictions on play due to the Covid-19 pandemic, even if technology has moved so far in the time since it was written that it might be as dated as the dodo).<\/p>\n

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How did Dungeons and Dragons became such a phenomenon?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What action did your character take, during a D&D game, that shocked the DM?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In D&D 5e, to what extent do you consider Acrobatics and Athletics to be interchangeable?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What are the most popular tabletop roleplaying games aside from Dungeons and Dragons?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What are the pros and cons of each edition of D&D?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What’s the most common mistake players make when constructing player-characters for dungeons and dragons or any role-playing game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If camera accessibility was as prevalent throughout history as it is today, what are some moments that would have gone the most viral?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What is the difference between Drama and Melodrama as a genre, in regards to fictional storytelling?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’m about to publish two more ebooks, what should I do differently this time that I might not have thought about a few years ago?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How do blogs get away with using copyrighted images?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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D&D 5th Edition: What happens if you cast the ‘Detect Thoughts’ spell on a person while they are sleeping? Is it up to the DM to decide what happens?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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D&D 5th Edition: Can I cast reaction spells like Shield or Counterspell when I’m in the middle of casting a spell with a long casting time and don’t stop casting it? Counterspell has only Somatic components. What about casting shield?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How do you approach creating an adventure for a roleplaying game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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D&D: How do you make convincing NPC’s if you’re not great at multiple voices?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What’s the hardest bug you’ve debugged?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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People who play Dungeons and Dragons, what is the stupidest thing that happened because you rolled a 20?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When your Dungeons and Dragons campaign has less than three players is it a good idea for the Dungeon Master to provide some helpful DM NPC party members to fill out the group?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAs a DM, how to avoid unconscious metagaming when dealing with a high AC character?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Earth is transformed into a free-for-all battle arena. Everyone gets gifted with superpowers and only 1 000 000 people may survive. What’s your power and what’s your strategy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In D&D, when the DM presents the Party with one path that leads to gold and a different path that leads to honor and protection of the weak, which do you find the most rewarding to pursue?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The last time I posted one of these collections, I had been posting on Quora for a bit over three years, and was up to about 1400 answers in total. So now, it’s three years after that, and the total is now somewhere between 1800 and 1900 answers – and closer to the higher number, it’s been at 1.8K for a while now! So there will be several more of these occuring from time to time – but I’ll keep those in my back pocket for times when the Dreaded Deadline Doom begins to loom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series RPG Quora Answers By Mike<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

It took so much longer to plan out the article that I intended to publsh today, and it contains so many sections that I hasd grave doubts that I could finish it in time. Rather than risk having nothing to post in what is already shaping up to be a very busy week, I decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,215,70,357,288,74,89,221,12,91,94,95,313,96],"tags":[102,108,155,281,109,111,116,127,319,172,286,218,282,139,250,223,165,232],"series":[350],"class_list":["post-36891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dnd","category-dndnext","category-gm-ing","category-gaming-environment","category-metagame","category-mike","category-npcs-etc","category-opinion","category-pcs","category-plans-and-prep","category-ideas-and-inspiration","category-tools","category-traps","category-write","tag-advice-tools","tag-campaigns","tag-dd","tag-dd-5e","tag-dm-advice","tag-encounter-design","tag-game-mastery","tag-inspiration","tag-metagaming","tag-npcs","tag-opinion","tag-pathfinder","tag-pcs","tag-player-advice","tag-resources","tag-sci-fi","tag-tools-techniques","tag-writing","series-rpg-quora-answers-by-mike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1toiD-9B1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36896,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36891\/revisions\/36896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36891"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=36891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}