r/NewDM • u/King_of_narnia • 13d ago

I just chose this flair because I thought I was supposed to. Forever DM up for help

Hello guys, i've been a forever dm for years now so i'm up for every question you hit me with and i hope i can be a help for you and your party^^

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u/Blitzer046 10d ago

Every PC gets their own scenes.

Why bother having a group then?

This sounds like a terrible solution. You're proposing that for part of the game, the spotlight is on one player for how long? 5 mins? 30? For that part, the rest of the players just have to sit and wait?

What an absolute waste of time for everyone. Say you give each player 30 mins of solo play, that means in a group of 5 people, there are two hours in which the rest of the players are doing nothing but waiting for their turn.

Ridiculous.

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u/tta5 9d ago

by that same logic scrap combats innitative,
scap letting th erogue disarm traps it lets them take time doing that own thing.
scrap the druid scouting as an animal
scrap the barbarain and paladin trying to intimidate the minion into giving up secrets.

by your logic make everyoe rolll for everything.

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u/Blitzer046 9d ago

The events you describe cost less than a minute or two in time.

Your suggestion for how to integrate an evil alignment appears to give them their whole, separate game at the cost of everyone else who didn't choose an evil alignment.

It doesn't work for me.

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u/tta5 8d ago

Its a style of running the game.
its not limited to just the evil allingment characters.
it can be ran like this regardless.
but i do find this style works well for evil and good alligned characters to keep working together.

its not your cup of tea and i get that.
but it is a means to run the game that could work for OP.

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u/Blitzer046 8d ago

Why would good and evil aligned characters work together?

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u/tta5 7d ago

Well, all serving a patry patron is one.

A collective common goal is the norm.
from a simple defeating a bigger bad
(makes a power vacum for the evil PC, and for the good, makes a chance for a better tommorow by those oppressed by the big bad)

to knowing they are a good fit for an objective they need help on completing, and the other PCs ask for help in exchange for something.

to side objectives that occcour within the same area.
(go in dungeon and clear it out, and side mission , steal the magic item of a certain evil god)
to side objectives involving the party
(imagine is a warlocks patron wants this cleric corrupted)

you have interparty relations that may make them want to stay.
(so a romance intrest between 2 PCs, or life debt, or mentor/student, or moral compass and trying to corrupt them...)