Matt Hayles

@headfallsoff Nobody in the galactic senate has staff.

In the CYOA game book "Mines of Moria," there are a few instances where there are descriptions of already-triggered traps. This really gave me a strong sense of place. Put traps that have already been triggered in your dungeons.

@lincodega Honestly this is a wonderful concept for a short story and a very bad bit of literary criticism.

This is why I can never leave twitter.

PIIzza Hut 🤷🏻

Friends, it happened. I walked into a Pizza Hut to order *for here* and they would not take my order unless I gave them a phone number.

One of my least favourite modern experiences is having to create an account to do... anything. I was trying to pay for parking once and they made me create an account. Just take my credit card, jeez.

Barbie was great and not particularly critical of men and what is everyone so upset about?

@DarkplaneDM For sure! Getting people to move around is great DM craft. I just want to acknowledge that the game penalizes this desired behaviour. Personally I love AoOs as an ability for select classes/monsters that want to pin down their enemies, but I don't love them as a universal rule.

@mathayles It’s never been an issue for me, but I think that’s because these techniques I use force players to eat the opp attack to achieve their objective. And I have monsters provoke attacks constantly, which does help set the tone, I think.

Today’s #DMLifeline: “Characters have no incentive to move during combat. How do you prevent every fight from being static?” Quick answer: use a larger battleground with multiple zones or features, and monsters coming from different places—including the sky. #dnd

@DarkplaneDM I agree with all this but *also* games with Attack of Opportunity rules strongly incentivise static battles.

You don’t even need traps, hazards, or special terrain to give the combat area some interest. Making it an odd shape, placing a big piece of cover or furniture to break it into zones, or (my go-to method) make 2-3 rooms that are connected serve as a large combat area. #dnd

@deja_writes @lucywoodz Happy to hear it!

@mathayles @lucywoodz Source found thank you!

Looking for Canadian consultant or company with a track recording of revamping hiring processes for companies looking to hire faster! #journorequest

Writing in a subjective voice creates complexity and nuance all on its own. Adding details gives the players more world-building to pick apart. Naming specific people and places makes the rumour interactable. And some parts of this may be proven false while other parts are true.

"Old Man Eucris claims he made his scabbard from the hide of a baby green dragon that he slew in his youth. If you get him drunk, he'll tell you he remembers the path to its lair. But he swears he'll never return, for he fears the vengeance of its mother."

My fave technique for writing false rumours for D&D-style RPGs is to follow @UmActuallyShow rules, that is: write a long, true statement that contains one falsehood. That way you're still communicating your world-building to your players, but encouraging skepticism and analysis.

@mawilson I've never been a writer! But that sounds like a good lesson haha.

I vehemently dislike the sorts of corporate pro-LGBTQ messaging that end with "regardless of" or "no matter your." Always ends up sounding a lot like "we support you, even if you're gay." Corporate comms managers can do better than that.

"Everyone is entitled to dignity and respect, no matter who they are, whom they love, or how they identify." "Healthcare is for everyone, regardless of gender expression." Can we please stop EVEN IF-ing queerness? K thx bi ✌️🏻

@CineastBenRowe Yah in the U1-3 printing I have it's stated as 2,000 people or so. I upsized it to 20,000 so my players would have a larger port to operate out of.

@CineastBenRowe Hey, lore question, do you know if there is a canon demonym for a resident of Saltmarsh?