How Can You Invite Guest Players Into Your D&D Games?

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00:00 - Why You Might Want to Invite a Guest Player
02:30 - How Do You Recruit Guest Players?
03:33 - How Does Character Creation Work?
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07:02 - How Do You Handle Session Zero Topics?
09:25 - Tell Your Other Players There Will Be A Guest
14:36 - Get the Guest in as Soon as Possible
16:04 - What Does the Guest Want Out of the Game?
17:19 - Conspiring with the GM
19:05 - Are They Gonna Be Permanent Players?
20:42 - Outro
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@SupergeekMike 27 дней назад

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@Lurklen 27 дней назад

I've had really good luck with this, and really bad luck with this. My little sister has brought a few boyfriends to join our long running home game. And sometimes it's been great, and other times it's been a real shit show. But I learned from every experience, and now, if someone wants to bring someone in, I've got process I'll go through first. Number one being "Do *I* want to play D&D with this person?" If they can't even pass that threshold, then it's an easy no. But, some guest allies have allowed for some great moments. I had one where a guest PC for a few sessions turned on the characters in a great double cross, and kept sabotaging the mission in very plausible and "unlucky" ways. They were killed in dramatic fashion, but it was a great series of sessions.

@Sootielove 27 дней назад

I really appreciate these moments where you recognise the differences between Critical Role as a production vs a home game. It can example good/bad dnd practice, but some things are just different when it's professional vs you and your friends at home. You can't usually vet home game guests in the same way or at least expect a certain level of behaviour for it being recorded

@mattball8622 26 дней назад

Yeah, 100%. The players at the CR table are professionals first and foremost, so it's okay for them to wait to be introduced because they're getting paid. Even if you have fun at your job, it's still a job, and the same can't be said for someone who's just there to play and has to spend a lot of time not doing that!

@adamcimrmann 27 дней назад

Those are some scary ass dogs, Mike

@Spark_Chaser 26 дней назад

I've rewritten entire adventure ideas because a player at the table had a "dog" phobia. Granted, this leads to the reminder that you can always reskin a critter to have another creature's powers. When the phase "dog" was turned into a phase cat, it went over pretty well.

@junderlandgames1186 26 дней назад

I’m now afraid of dogs

@DavidCookeZ80 26 дней назад

I think Mike's been creating stat blocks from D'Vana Tendi's log entries.

@Alche_mist 15 дней назад

As my wife has a phobia of actual, four-legged dogs, I felt slightly targetted (though it's actually not her line or even veil for those to be in the game - it's the real deal where she freezes).

@adamcimrmann 15 дней назад

@@Alche_mist All of them, or just the big ones?

@ani_anonymuncle 27 дней назад

Listening to this while I did the dishes, and thus not seeing the on-screen graphic, sure made that description of a dog phobia increasingly surreal 😂

@savnana3605 27 дней назад

I ended up going from single session guest to core party member in one session. The party was doing a fight pit type arena event, and I pitched to the DM "hey, what if I'd built a cheerleader to sit in the stands", as a full support bard tossing out healing words and bardic inspirations from the stands. It ended up being SO clutch the party basically begged me to stick around long term as their fan girl. Which even lead to some 'DM conspiracy' since I was an important noble that 'mysteriously vanished' since she just. wandered off with the party. So recruiting me accidentally lead to this big chase with the party labeled as kidnappers and dealing with random mercenaries sent to retrieve me. While they were trying to stop the world from ending in a 'we're the good guys you idiots' type situation.

@AronZell 27 дней назад

For home games, the table needs to know who is joining them to avoid personal conflicts. The surprise can come from not knowing the character the gueat is playing.

@PVS3 27 дней назад

On the lines/veils/dogs thing - I suspect more often than not you'll have either 1) Broad overlap with existing boundaries, requiring minimal extra communication 2) A specific, messy, but above-all UNIQUE conflict like the "dog" example. Something that requires deep consideration of the individuals involved, and where general advice is less applicable.

@bluebay1031 26 дней назад

Robbie Daymond was the ideal guest player imo. He slotted well into the established dynamic in terms of both player and character, he didn’t take it so seriously that it made the game less fun to watch but also serious enough that it didn’t throw things off, had clear respect for the game and it’s established setup and viewerbase but didn’t hold either of those things in such a high regard that he was afraid to bring his own spin into certain areas, and was charismatic on his own enough that there’s wasn’t a need to involve other PCs for me to be interested in his character. He was probably the best integrated guest player, to the point that a lot of people wanted him to become a permanent cast member. I can’t say follow his lead as a guest player because it’s just…not that simple?? But I think he’s good to look to for an inspiration and general skeleton of guest-starring, if nothing else. (This also isn’t a dig at the other guest players. I didn’t enjoy *all* of them, but most of them are at good slots on the CR Guest Player tier list. I think there were only 2 that I didn’t really like on any level, the rest ranged anywhere from fine to awesome. I just personally think Robbie did it the best.)

@Whiskypapa 26 дней назад

I honestly can't remember not liking any guest player on CR... Maybe the very beginning of Will Friedle's appearance, since he's character felt very negative. But that very quickly changed, as I appreciated the dynamic that character brought to the table. Funnily, Wil Wheaton's character was also a bit negative in personality and I've lost a tiny bit respect for him as a person later on due to his comments after CR's Geek and Sundry departure, but I loved his character from the very beginning.

@MisterFizzer 27 дней назад

Wasn't expecting the nod the Matt Colville's almost-guest-spot! I remember listening to him read out some of their plans on stream after Campaign 2 wrapped. I've guested at a table or two for friends, and it's always felt a little like being an act on a variety show. Be interesting enough for the moment, then fade into the background quickly.

@impofstpete727 24 дня назад

I was brought in as a guest for about 3 sessions by the DM to kind of help create a teaching moment for the players. He had a player with a paladin that was derailing the game and kind of bullying the other players. It worked, they all learned some major lessons, at the cost of my character dying. The others stood up to the paladin's bad behavior and they all began to finally galvanize as a team. The DM said it wasn't his style to fix problems like this in game but I was adamant that it work. Plus I got the chance to use my orc bard who dresses like a cheerleader. Rest in peace Marborg, you had team spirit.

@TakeWalker 27 дней назад

I once had a guest player in the "friend in town for the weekend" vein, in a superhero RPG with an easy and fun random character generation system. :) Thus, the climax of the first six issues of the game involved an unexpected cameo from Bubbles, the Space Dolphin! Who was literally a hyper-intelligent dolphin who rocketed down from space like a meteor to join the fight. It was great and everyone loved it. XD

@Kafaldsbylur 27 дней назад

I was a guest player in a friend's game once. I had designed, with the GM's help, an irritable hermit ranger who could assist the party with their current mission, but would have little reason to follow them into the rest of the campaign (since, you know, guest character). It didn't turn out super well. While the game itself went fine, the character didn't mesh super well; after the session, the GM told me that if that had an NPC, the players would have just left her behind and did the mission on their own. And I don't entirely disagree, but I think he and I drew different lessons from the experience. He seems to think it would have been better for the guest character to be friendlier so the party would have had a greater incentive to take her along. For my part, I don't think friendliness is the only incentive that would have worked, but we did forget to make sure there was one; the party already knew the location where the adventure was taking place, they had a connection with the dragon the villains had kidnapped, I (both as the player and the character) didn't know of any secret passageway or shortcut that would have been of tactical advantage, etc. Long story short, aside from an extra weapon, the character wasn't really bringing anything to the table. In conclusion, the lesson of the story is to always make sure your guest character has a reason to be invited that is more than just "Well, the guest player is sitting at the table, so we should bring their character along so they're not bored".

@mariecosmos4383 26 дней назад

The two times I've been a guest player, my general feeling has always been wanting more. The first time, I ended up staying for too many sessions for my schedule due to some miscommunication with the DM, but then after I kept feeling the need to ask the DM if I could tell him what my previous guest character had been up to in the background, mostly just to him reprising my guest character in a later arc, but that's as far as it went. It got to the point though that it didn't really seem it was going anywhere so I just started joking that my character died in the apocalypse that the party was solving. The other time was more recent but feels similar. I guest starred in a game as a psychopomp in training sent to monitor the party, and felt a lil bummed when I couldn't give the DM a few parting requests of calling dibs on being the party's psychopomp on account how well the session went. I think the lesson is that DMs really need to set expectations of what happens after, is your character going to become an NPC or just never be heard from again? Will there be chances to reprise them or are they being handed to the GM? Even if they don't show up, are they even still relevant in the background? As important as entering a campaign, knowing how and when you'll be dipping out is another thing.

@Spark_Chaser 26 дней назад

We had a guest player who was a friend of, and conspiring agent for, the Overseer in our Fallout 2d20 game. He was a friendly "preacher" of the Church of Atom who got us helping them with some plans they had for the local area. It would turn out later that said character was the Number Two man in the villain group, and us helping him was going to bring a lot of Hell down on our heads, but we had a good time with a new friend to the group.

@SummerOtaku 27 дней назад

One of my first 3e experiences was coming into the DMs campaign as a guest player (I lived in another dorm so more difficult to do pick up games with). I played a dryad NPC with the objective to distract the group and maybe take a wrong path. My actress self thrived, lots of fun!

@steegen101 27 дней назад

I love the idea of giving a guest an objective. That sounds like it was so fun!

@serenitysilvermoon2309 26 дней назад

I actually had the chance to guest in about a half-dozen sessions a friend of mine was running. She's a professional DM and the planned upcoming combats 4-5 players around level 5, but this particular group only had 3, so since I knew the setting and had a PC from an old campaign that fell apart due to scheduling, my 6th level Pact of the Witch Bladelock was able to help out the party. Was great for me because I got to revisit an old favorite character (who has had far-reaching implications due to her patron in the settings of this DM) and sling some dice, my friend got someone she could trust in on of her paid games to not screw anything up and the players got to have their moments. I knew full well this wasn't Medb's story, she was just there to help out

@jakelevinson7802 16 дней назад

I don’t have time to watch this video because things are busy right now and I’m very tired, but I wanted to leave a comment and I like to hopefully help you in the algorithm because your content is absolutely amazing and so good that you put so much work into it well also dealing with a new kid

@claudiamcfie1265 27 дней назад

I had a guest player last week. It was a lot of fun for everyone. The player was itching for some DnD but couldn't commit to a full campaign because scheduling. The guest had only played 5e and we run PF2e.I asked them to pitch a character concept narratively, then built the character sheet for them. I asked them to come an hour earlier for a brief mini-session 0 and explained the key character feats and features to them. I had the guest PC meet the party at a roadside inn on the way to the next location, and gave them a choice about why their character was at the inn. The guest chose to be the bartender. I gave the party a few minutes to prepare what they needed before leaving their base, then jumped straight to their arrival at the inn, which I then narrated from the guests point of view. In the end, the party played a full 3 hour session without leaving that Inn. Let's just say plenty of shenanigans happened.

@gsfjohndoe 26 дней назад

I think the lines and veils thing is especially useful to determine if the guest player is even a basic fit for the group. For example, if the players phobia of spiders (which I assume is what the odd dog example was about) is so severe that even the simple word spider is horribly triggering for them, and your adventure involves a bunch of spider themes, the best solution here is to simply not include the guest as they are obviously ill suited for this adventure. And they probably need to work on their phobias if even the simple word 'spider' is triggering instead of hoping the world around them will bend to extremes to accommodate their fear of even the word 'spider'.

@zeldablizzard 26 дней назад

We brought a guest player in for a fight in Tyranny of Dragons involving three black dragons - two adults and one ancient. We had just had to cut a player for personal reasons, and this guy was available at short notice. When we wrapped up, my now-wife said "we want to keep him in the party, let him know he's permanent now". He was so flattered the party liked him so much. Thankfully he knew the system really well, so we could hit the ground running.

@Lngbrdninjamasta 27 дней назад

I am literally contemplating having a guest player at my Monday table game! Thank u Mike 💓

@EscapeRealityFilms 27 дней назад

In my Edge of the Empire campaign, had a player join as a guest Inquisitor to just mess with the party for a session and figured it would just be that with his busy schedule at the time, only for them to became a part of the party after they outsmarted him and "convinced" him to join them instead.

@kyleward3914 27 дней назад

I played a goblin druid with a lot of pigs in a Pathfinder game. I think he was called a boar shaman or something. He was Florf the Boaring. I left the campaign for various reasons, but, some time later, the GM invited me back for a special session where the party had to fight a leveled up Florf who was being mind controlled. They broke him free of mind control, at which point he remembered the in-character reasons he left and kept fighting them.

@mallenwho 9 дней назад

My local church once did a 24h dnd fundraising livestream, where the donations allowed people to influence everything from dice rolls to the overall story arc. I made a substantial contribution to request I be a guest PC at some point in the 24h. I finally got rolled in at 1am as a stone giant they ran into. I forget the specifics, but the party managed to drop me off a cliff or down me in about four minutes of play time. Not the most fun experience but I guess the players did not want someone cramping their style even if it was a donor. That has continued to leave a sour taste in my mouth ever since.

@sid5092 27 дней назад

This video has the perfect timing for me because I'm currently trying to get a guest player into my campaign, although I'm a player, not the DM. The DM (and the rest of my group) normally play in person at our university, but a lot of us have gone back to our hometowns over the summer so we're switching to online games for a few months. One of my best friends in my hometown is really invested in our game- I call her to talk about our sessions after each one, and she's a fantastic artist who has drawn multiple of our characters and is working on a campaign poster for us. I've introduced her to my DM over a discord call, and all three of us are probably going to end up working together to make my friend's character and get her into the game (although we told the other people in our group about it). I'm pretty sure the two of them are conspiring together cause they made me take my headphones off for like 5 minutes during the call where I introduced them to talk about secrets, and I'm really excited for that. Thanks for the great advice about bringing guest players in! Love your videos!

@christianadams211 25 дней назад

I have shocked my players with a new and guest players. I did this by setting the presidents for new players to watch a little bit of the game to see how the quarks of players and character before even making their own character. So sometimes after a session or two they will be introduced at a predetermined point I steer the group towards as a the GM. Knowing they were there already and being comfortable allows them to be caught off guard.

@BigKlingy 26 дней назад

My sister was once a guest player in a campaign. She ended up playing an NPC who had already been travelling with the party for several episodes, so the narrative didn't have to justify her character showing up. Don't know if a guest taking control of a recurring NPC is a common occurrence. I guested in a game when I wanted to try out TTRPGs after getting into Critical Role, but it was for a oneshot in a different system, so I didn't have to be integrated into anything ongoing. It was fun, but the DM threw in some references to their regular players' in-jokes from earlier campaigns and those all awkwardly flew over my head.

@hadesblackplays 24 дня назад

i asked my players if they were ok with the idea of inviting someone. they were reluctant at first but then said guest wasnt a murderhobbo nor trying to steal the spotlight. she was happy to be there playing some good ol' dnd. 4 sessions went on and i asked my players if they were ok with her being a permanent player. so far so good. Communication is key.

@GolDRoger-hl1xi 27 дней назад

Thank you for not suddenly jumpscareing me with a picture of spider mike

@MorningDusk7734 27 дней назад

I have a back pocket character idea I keep for specifically if I’m called upon to be a guest player, a ranger that specializes in aquatic enemies and fights using a cane pole like a quarter staff. This basically lets me drop in anywhere there would be water, and lets the DM flavor the session with fish and other aquatic enemies.

@bradygroves988 25 дней назад

I think it's really important to make sure your guest player's playstyle matches the party's playstyle. You can see how important this is on Critical Role when they have guest players who are "performers" joining an existing party of "roleplayers". But I also think guest players should make a point to try to match the tone and style of the group you're joining.

@casterknot5094 27 дней назад

Never be afraid to say no. Especially if you already feel like you have max players. I have spectators almost weekly who enjoy just watching

@Stephen-Fox 26 дней назад

To be fair, some board games rarely run shorter than 4 hours as well (Roads and Boats, Twilight Struggle, members of the 18XX family... I think there's a space set game that does that also, published by Fantasy Flight, whose name has slipped my mind right now)

@Mytkos910 27 дней назад

I was a guest player on a twitch livestream game that a friend of mine was a part of for 2 sessions. A few months later I was invited back for a longer stint and have been a part of that game since.

@deth2you458 27 дней назад

I returned as a guest player a few times whenever the character I used to play as in the previous campaign returned

@Skimmer951 26 дней назад

I acted as a guest player once, i was mainly meant to give some lore about demons and devils because i knew a lot out of game and dm was stressed with little prep time so i was just gonna play a npc ecturer but the group liked him so much that I got invited to stay for the rest of the campaign. Sadly that went rather horribly with a lot of drama at the end, I was never incorporated properly into the group and never informed of particular triggers which led to a lot of conflict later with a very sensitive player who couldnt handle angry voices. Things i could have kept in mind and adjusted if we had like a session re-zero when i joined up. Never really felt like i got to leave the guest player status even when we played together for 2 years.

@serbobertross5948 27 дней назад

My girlfriend lives medium distance so when she stays over on weekends, she sometimes plays guest characters in our games. Usually she’s an acquaintance of some or all of the party, so she can bump into them at the start and play along the whole game.

@frozenfeonix1328 27 дней назад

i probably ruined any future guests in a friends campaign since i basically just played as an evil cleric for a god of werecreatures NPC that in the last session had hired the party to escort and help him retrieve "a holy relic of his order" he had nothing to pay them and my instructions were if at any time i was found out, got the artifact or the party started to lose is was to run like hell every once in a while id get asked what that character was doing my advice dont make the first guest a villain or youll give the party trust issues

@wverms 26 дней назад

Could always do an update of the lines and veils with everyone as a guest player comes in with the very real reason of making sure there’s nothing unspoken about guest player wouldn’t have figured out as a way to get the guest players lines and veils in in a way the party wont exactly know who wrote them

@bristowski 26 дней назад

This is a good channel. I like Mike.

@MrVotiga 15 дней назад

I invited my dad to play as a guest in my game for a couple sessions. He enjoyed it so much, he's still playing in the group

@MrVotiga 15 дней назад

I asked my regular players for permission ahead of time, and I ran a one-on-one prep game for my dad.

@MrVotiga 15 дней назад

We play on a VTT, so some of the prep game was to teach my dad how to use the VTT and learn 5E. I also gave him some campaign relevant information to share if he chose to once he joined the group.

@RottenRogerDM 27 дней назад

I have guest players show up with some notice, and we generally waved the storyline to just have fun. Now days it is easier because I am a 95% Adventure League DM, so the regulars know drop ins will happen.

@happychap8457 27 дней назад

its a real pet peeve of mine when groups don't bring in a guest or new player asap. first door / cupboard /window ect you get too the new / guest player is there. hell, last time i brought in a new player they just fell out of a portal. boom job done. and don't be difficult about letting them join the group in game. pick a common goal and agree to join together, even if its just "for now".

@dividendjohnson4327 26 дней назад

I feel so seen by this video. Finally, someone understands my problem with dogs. They do have way too many eyes and way too many legs. They’re creepy. They’re just creepy.

@PyroBlaze202_alt 26 дней назад

We've only ever brought in a guest once (to fill the seat of someone that was absent) and they ended up staying lol

@RobKinneySouthpaw 27 дней назад

If I really plan to introduce someone halfway into the adventure, I'd give them a different start time. Takes work to hit the pacing but it works. When the doorbell rings, it's intro time.

@BlackOpMercyGaming 27 дней назад

I was asked to be a guest player in a group of 5+DM due to a PC having real world tragedy happen, but she was the party wizard... They literally stopped the session outside of Mordenkainen's tower because the wizard PC needed to learn a Mcguffin spell from him to take care of a General of the BBEG. Wizard leaves 2 days later... My older brother and the DM were friends back in boy scouts and i knew one of the players from band, so the DM reached out to me through my brother... we talked and decided that i was an apprentice of MK and so when the asked for assistance (instead of a spell "hand waved the wizard away), he offered to send me with the group(as i was the one who helped him develop the spell). 4 years and 2.5 campaigns later, im currently the fairy Knowledge domain cleric helping the party navigate the FeaWild in wild beyond... best group ive ever played with and am now a guaranteed seat at the V table... and all of that because they needed another wizard for 2-3 sessions for a major thematic set piece that couldn't really be changed

@Sicara91 26 дней назад

I was once a guest player in an online game. I barely knew the DM and didn't know the player so it was weird that the DM asked me to join and pretend to be a friend and then turn on the party. I did that and it was weird, and of course I didn't stick around. A few months later he again asked me to play and my character would pretend that I had changed my mind again and then again betray them. It was really weird logistically too because I was just in the vc but he just said I was hanging out to see if I wanted to join the group. The whole thing was a mess tbh

@jonathanschaefer9848 27 дней назад

Not guests but I was gonna run an intro one shot for some friends and acquaintances. And I just threw way too much at them too quick. I said it was all optional but I learned I should’ve just told them when and where to show up, because it fell through absolutely due to my overenthusiasm.

@Aidscapade71 26 дней назад

Bringing in guest players is a lot like bringing in a new PC, either because they're joining or character passed & they need a new one. Unless the person is comfortable with it, you need to make introducing them as quickly as possible a priority.

@Tim_Beitel 26 дней назад

On the subject of Critical Roll making their guest players wait for a big reveal, Michael Cain once said, “I work for free, you pay me to wait.” Unless you’re paying your players, for some reason, like Mike said, don’t make your guest players wait too long. Respect their time

@benm4710 27 дней назад

My DM brought in a guest player for a couple sessions to push the story along and help navigate as a rogue. But they were devious and the guest player betrayed us. Which... i wasnt expecting. It definitly pushed the story along and pushed my character into being less trusting

@donkeyfly43 27 дней назад

Aubrey Plaza on Harmonquest is one of the reasons I hate having “guest players” at the table, because they tend to either not say anything at all, or to blow up every scene with chaotic energy

@Moulk 25 дней назад

This is something I kinda wanted to try (but my friend dind't want to be a guest player haha). But since we play online, my main question was, how do I bring in the guest mid session to surprise the party? I can't make them wait in the discord server or it will spoil the surprise. I didn't find a good solution, but I'd ve curious to know if someone has one. Best one would be "don't make it a surprise", of course.

@zefiewings 16 дней назад

by the by- the music that plays in the 7:05 mark and on; is that from an indi game series perchance?

@SupergeekMike 16 дней назад

It’s actually from Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com

@hunrahel 27 дней назад

Re Adding new lines/veils without revealing things about the guest: mix in numerous additional changes to camouflage the real ones, and be open about how and why it's happening?

@BomimoDK 27 дней назад

Can we get an episode on having a guest DM who can't behave normally/respectfully? or communicates and runs their play different from the DM. Seems the crit role fandom is having a meltdown over exactly that. reading behavior as banter and banter as as behavior.

@worldscoolestperson7672 27 дней назад

lol are you referencing the chromatic orb

@matthewmyatt5698 26 дней назад

I basically have a queue of guest players right now. Most of my table is made up of my girlfriend's coworkers and I had to cap it at 6 PCs. I'd love to just include everyone who wants to play all the time, but then I'd be approaching ten PCs and that's ridiculous. Like you said, it's not Critical Role.

@sherbert1321 27 дней назад

SPOILERS FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF CR C3 So happy Robbie’s back

@Lurklen 27 дней назад

Critical Role is a show, your home game isn't. Whole different buy-in when you are a paid player on a show, than just a pal hanging out in a game. Feel free to surprise you *PC'S* with guest *Characters* but not your players with guest players. (I mean, dependent on the context of your personal relationships with these people.) And when it comes to consent stuff, I think one of the determinations you should make about whether this guest gets to join your game, is whether their preferences match the groups. I think it's up to the group whether they want to pause their deal with...dogs, or whatever. If 5 people have bought in on something, a sixth shouldn't automatically decide that thing is a no go now (that said, if your regular players are up for changing things up, go for it. But it should be up to them, it's their game).

@JoULove 27 дней назад

Fear of puppy dog eyes 🐶

@SupergeekMike 27 дней назад

No one can resist puppy dog eyes!

@ryanschramm8147 24 дня назад

"What does your guest player want to get out of the game?" Campaign 1 endgame spoilers ahead .....well, Joe?

@coltonbroadwater9326 27 дней назад

I too hate how dogs crawl up and across walls.

@tonysladky8925 27 дней назад

I didn't invite them, but I was the DM at the time one of our players suggested inviting another of our friends to guest and greenlit it. And boy howdy, did I not realize how much of a friend group internal politics minefield we stumbled into... Without going into all the gory details, the takeaway is definitely "Surprise guests sound like fun, and Actual Plays make them look like it, but it's probably better to make sure everyone at the table and/or the broader friend group not just the D&D group is on board beforehand."

@tonysladky8925 27 дней назад

Also, as an Elden Ring fan, your dogs confuse me. Everyone knows dogs are scaly and slow-moving with big, hard shells, not fuzzy with lots of legs and eyes and webs.

@oscargarciahinde4247 26 дней назад

Great now I have a dog phobia.

@kamiitto7574 27 дней назад

Dogs huh 🤔

@ChanceDrive 26 дней назад

Some people are actually afraid of dogs and not the abominations you described

@peterwest319 27 дней назад

Yes......dogs

@Motherboard1213 27 дней назад

Hi 🫶

@manueltorresart2345 27 дней назад

So, your guest player is afraid of AI dogs, something to have in mind. Anyway, I'm not thinking in having guest players yet because I don't feel confident I could do it well. Maybe after a few years of DM training I'll think about it.