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26 questions linked to/from What is a social contract?
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What is a good way to get regular people interested in D&D? [closed]
How do I get regular people, non-gamers, into playing D&D? Anybody have any useful ideas?
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What is the limit of the DM's power over the PCs? [closed]
Can a DM take your equipment away or affect your player character directly? This sounds a bit impossible for a story teller to do. I don't personally believe that the DM should be seen as a god in the ...
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How to describe & roleplay past torture, prejudice and gender discrimination without upsetting fellow players too much?
In the next adventure I'm going to play a drow male, who was casually bullied, whipped etc. by females of the drow society. That's how that society works, after all. It's in the books. He now has a ...
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Can a character relay a distance to another character in exact feet/squares?
This weekend while playing, our wizard found an invisible creature (detected with see invis) and when asked where it was by the party, the player started counting the squares to give an exact measure ...
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What is "RPG Theory?"
I first encountered this term a couple of months ago. A site search here found it tied into the gaming social contract here. Now that I've found it over here, I'd really like to know.
What exactly is ...
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What do you do when one of your players is being difficult?
I am running a campaign and have been for about 5 months now. All of my players are pretty new to D&D. All except one. He is honestly my worst player despite all of his experience. He is ...
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How to deal with player not having fun and not roleplaying?
First post here, so I apologize if I am breaking some conventions I am unaware of.
I am currently running a group of six people through Tomb of Annihilation
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How does Wish remove the Time Warp of the Feywild?
The Dungeon Master's Guide provides optional rules for Feywild magic. One of these is Time Warp, where 1 day in the Feywild ranges from 1 minute to 1 year "everywhere else in the multiverse" (p. 50). ...
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Where was the first Social Contract proposed in a rule book?
We have questions delving on the social contract themselves and what it is (like What is a social contract?), and there is also explained where the word comes from. We know very well that most RPGs ...
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Speaking in combat as character vs. Discussing tactics
Just got the beginner box, and I'm doing the gm part. PC's can as a free action 'speak to other characters' does this mean that during combat the players should not be discussing tactics or helping ...
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Avoiding Wrath of Fellow Players (And Death)
EDIT: Thanks for your very useful answers, everyone!
I was typing the original post in haste, and left out a few vital details:
PvP is okay in our campaign, as long as it is reasonable and in ...
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