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Just someone undergoing a little mid-life career redirection... by going back to school and getting a CS PhD at age 40.

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How can I explain to my player that Alchemist's Fire is safe to carry?
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How bad will refusing to defend PhD look on industry-job applications?
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A player always wants to recruit NPCs into the party. How do I handle this?
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Players Develop Backstories Too Much
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How should a DM resolve a smooth-talking player with a weak Charisma score PC?
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Player is obsessed with shaving my wookiee
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How to handle DM constantly stealing everything from sleeping characters?
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Player wants to steal items from previous character
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What is the origin of the concept of punishing players in-game as a GM?
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How can I deal with a player trying to insert real-world mythology into my homebrew setting?
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My players think they found a loophole that gives them infinite poison and XP. How can I add the proper challenges to slow them down?
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How to persuade players not to cheat?
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Can the Actor feat allow a character to effectively speak a language they don't know?
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How should I deal with a player who wants to dictate loot distribution?
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What do you do when your players guess your plots?
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What are good ways to resolve intense intra-party conflict without PvP?
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How do I prevent myself from freezing up during a game I'm DMing?
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Can I keep playing a character who annoys other PCs?
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How should I play my character (who is motivated to betray the party) and keep the game fun?
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Is it metagaming if I want to build a bomb?
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How can a DM communicate to the players that subtlety is needed in a mystery adventure?
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How can I roleplay a vulgar character without using profanity?
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I unknowingly guessed what will happen next in the module and it's angering the DM
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How can I communicate feelings to players without impacting their agency?
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Are these two methods of handling Elven Accuracy "Double Advantage" mathematically equivalent?
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How to challenge a pacifist party
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Is it unprofessional to add illustrations to a master’s thesis?
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Player has trouble imagining the ingame situation
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Can player build dungeons in D&D? I thought that was just a job for the DM
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What are the risks of TPK-ing the party at the start of a campaign deliberately?
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