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Finally, a player tips video that isn't condescending that most players will take the wrong way if sent by their DM! Thanks Bob :)

Accepting failure is also a HUGE tip for GMs. When a planned session falls flat, don't hate yourself. Investigate sessions in the past that worked well, identify elements that made it succeed. Conversely, identify weak points in that "failed" session, so you never make the same mistake twice!

Collaborating with the DM on your character's background is severely underrated! Creating ties to the world makes for a much more fleshed out character AND world, and also creates the opportunity for plot hooks and role play moments. If you're new or just don't want to mess with the setting, just ask how to make your idea work with his world. Good luck finding a DM who won't want to talk your ear off about all the different facets of his setting and they'll probably get a ton of inspiration just from hearing your idea!

I only played 4 sessions so far and the DM basically made us into the 4 four horseman of the apocalpsy. We ended up getting ambused by demons and now someone gave us four talking horses. We started to notice that weird stuff started to happen around us in town. I play a cleric and instead of healing people, the people I try to help get the plague. 😭 It was pretty exciting to figure it out. Now we have to "master" our powers so we can stop messing stuff up around us.

Fun fact about a fellow player at one of our games: Her dark elf rogue's character name is Bonk because when she came to the surface world she was taken in by a family of halflings and the youngest son couldn't pronounce her dark elf name so he called her Bonk instead. So she kept the name. :)

My favorite players throughout the years all had one thing in common: They chatted me throughout the week about their character. There were much fewer surprises in-game that way, they showed that they were invested in the world and in the game, I was able to know their goals and likes/dislikes better so I could tailor the story and rewards to them, and overall it just made me want to work harder on the game and the world to make it fun for them. Players who only talked to me and the other PCs on the day of the game seemed less invested, and would sometimes be disappointed or apathetic with the way their character arc and rewards went.

My golden rule: It's the job of each person in a roleplaying group, including the DM, to make sure everyone is having as much fun as possible, including the DM. Also communication in an open and respectful way, at the right time, is the key to groups that go on for years and years.

13 minute video up for six minutes already has comments about the video. Hmmm... Bob must have said something early in video to engage the viewers.

I ALWAYS makes sure to give my players an after-session feedback survey. The three questions I ask are: What they liked about the session, what they didn't like, and if they'd like to add anything else. It can be tricky getting your players to consistently do it so I decided completing a survey would give them a point of my homebrew inspiration they liked. It half remedied it, as I can still struggle to get responses. But if you're open to criticism and improving it's a super helpful tool.

As someone who's been DMing for more than 40 years, I endorse this list. 😆 For the rules one, I would say that just learning the rules for what their character can do would be enough to make me happy. I don't mind helping players out with reminders or quick explanations of rules for unusual situations or when they are trying out something new, but I expect players to understand how their own class abilities and spellls work so I don't have to stop the game to look them up.

A bonus advice concerning engaging: Don't just kill everything you believe to be a monster/bad guy/enemy sometimes the DM adds a story plot in these characters or they will turn them into one. try it, it is fun to "convert" a "Bad-Guy" to your side.

A Bard became one of my all time best characters (I’ve been doing this since the 70s) when he & I became the DM’s asset. This occurred because the DM had built his own world from the ground up and I, as a lore master, showed a lot of interest in the world allowing him to info dump often. I also became the party note taker as well as composing an in-character weekly recap of the game which always painted the other party members as heroes of ledgendary proportions which further ingratiated me to the DM as well as the party.

Fun Fact about one of my fellow PC’s: Their character told mine they were a noble, so I asked them what there titles were… Anyways my character now referees to them as ”Ressyn, the sweetest tongue, most beautiful voice, youngest son of the king Trogar.”

That last tip is something I have experienced as DM and am slightly ashamed to say, only started recently implementing it as a player. And BOY, does it help make the game fun, grounded AND smooth. Just by the simple act of asking or engaging with other people's backstory instantly transforms a group from a couple of mercenaries individually working at the same goal by luck of the fates to an actual group with greater stakes when a PC dies than just for the player that controlled that PC. As a wild magic sorcerer with large aoe spells and spells like dimension door that can save friends from the stomachs of monsters, it became so much more impactful when using those spells around friends and spending two of my turns just to give an ally a slightly greater chance of surviving than if I didn't. The sheer tension when you are standing next to a low health ally while a wild magic burst happens is something I would have never been able to experience before just talking to those silly little sheets of paper we call a character sheet with a backstory.

I thought I was immune to shitty player behavior since I had experience dming for a tough group but these vids make me realize that I’m just as bad at times and how to improve, as well as how to communicate problems with players without being a douche. Thanks for the advice!

I got sent this video from our DM as a sort of "thank you" letter. That's so sweet. To share the effect that taking an interest in another PC can have, one of our players didn't know what to build for the game, so she settled on a complete joke character, not to be taken seriously whatsoever. Well, too bad for her. I *did* take her character seriously, and now we're BFFs in the game. Just taking her at face value got her more invested in the campaign than she would have been on her own.

I never really comment on youtube videos but I just wanted to say thank you so much for your excellent subtitles on your videos. Makes it so much more enjoyable as someone who struggles with hearing.

Every time Bob gets to the part where he says, "Because I'm Bob, and this..." I immediately feel at ease

"Accept Failure." Oh boy, I finally have a story. So I was playing a paladin in an undead dungeon. There was a Specter floating just out of reach above some charging undead. Through both starting equipment and looting the dungeon, I actually had a longsword, a magic flame tongue short sword (which I was primarily using), and a longbow if needed. Our dragon monk frog lept into the air and pummeled the Specter, getting it super low. I wanted to kill it, but I didn't want to have to drop my short sword (which was ignited and my primary source of light in the dark dungeon) to draw my bow. So, thinking myself cleaver, I drew my longsword and threw it at the specter, an epic strike. I missed. After my hilarious failure, the specter retreated on its turn and I chased it, this time dropping my sword and drawing my bow, thinking the specter was hovering in the nearby light. As I was drawing my bow, the flame went out on my short sword. The torchlight, didn't extend far enough to cover the Specter (which was in the air), so it disappeared in total darkness. I had two shots, both with disadvantage. Knowing where it was moving to, I fired blind...and hit! Killed it with a blind shot as by sword flame was going out behind me! Managed to save an epic fail with a totally different epic success! Also, even knowing I killed it with that shot, my character didn't, so I had him fire his second shot into the wall before hearing the thud of the body hitting the ground (there were only a few undead left anyway. I did a lot of suboptimal things, but my DM was super cool with not punishing me for it and even helping out.

Good tips I like players that take notes and know their character and abilities especially spells. Respect at the table is needed for sure. Roleplaying is always nice too.

A youtube channel must always distinguish itself from others in order to stand out. Your recent focus on becoming a nexus of community information puts you in a unique position that is different from all the other dnd youtube channels. I'm happy to see you find a niche that supports the community and lets your channel grow. Well done.

What I want more than anything in my players is for them to be excited to forward their stories. I want them to engage with the players at the table, talk and plan things out with the group between sessions, and most importantly, *talk to me* about what they want to happen for the next session, or further down the road. If nothing else, that's what I think makes a player truly great.

with the last one though, I've noticed that a lot of players, and not just the old ones, don't really think out the motivations and backstories of their characters, but I find way the best way to do so is to work with the DM on your own so they can see how cool it will be. Last week, my DM did a whole section with my mom and we had a great interaction and afterward, one of the other players was like "I really need to flesh out my backstory" and he worked on it and this week the DM incorporated that into the session. Of course this also requires a DM that really puts the work in because I've had DMs where you might as well play a video game because the work I put into who my character was was completely irrelevant to the plot

one of my players was a cleric and one day just out of nowhere could see where the campaign was going and said "it's in the prophecies, brother, we must do this" his prophecies are now an integral part of the game. "Yes, and" + collaborative world building are the best. Stuff that happens that I have no control over is what makes me the DM have fun, i don't know what to expect, and reacting to it is the challenge and skill and what makes us all leave the table with a smile.

Never ceases to amaze me how hard some people seem to find just not being a dick... it's not hard, just don't be a dick Simple things like telling your party if you're making a meta character like a cleric, but intending to play them off-meta (ie not healing) I'd also take the 'accept failure' just one step further to 'embrace failure'. I see a lot of players seemingly accept it, but then they spend the rest of the session pouting which pressures the other players and DM to appease them next time. If you're also actively hoping to occasionally fail because it's fun, it also helps to crack down on meta gaming and min-maxing.

The rules one hits, I have had too many players say they are not really having fun. But have shown so little towards learning the rules, it makes me sad. Even basics like learning how the basic turn goes makes the game so much more for a player. It just makes being the GM so hard when you get to one players turn and you have to drop the game to explain how to make an attack a month into a campaign for the 5th time In a night. For exalted I give everyone a sheet that goes though the entire combat in a check list, and I make my players follow it every single time. It was a bit awquard at first. But I think my players have always done so much better despite it being so complex. I think D&D needs a good cheat sheet to give out players, I don’t really need most of the info given on DM screens, but would love a single sheet I could hand players. Just something like, taking your turn. Making an attack. Casting a spell. Simple, and covers some of the basics.

I find that in long campaigns with long hiatuses, backstory conversations between PC's are especially hamstrung by the player forgetting what they and their character know about the other PC's. For a campaign I'm in that had a year-long hiatus, I'm now going through my notes and trying to list all meta and in-game knowledge I have about each PC. I hope it enables deeper roleplay. I wish I did it sooner!

The most important thing for me is, show up on time, keep your phone in your pocket and try to organize when the next session takes place. Nothing shows more that you dont respect your dm then coming late, playing on your phone and never making suggestions when to play next time.

The most important thing for me is: communication. In and outside of the game. Tell me what you want from the game. I cannot read minds. I want my players to come up with an amazing backstory and let me weave that into the plot, so that their characters are actually motivated to resolve that plot. (also to talk them out of playing a toxic character that sabotages the party before they even start)

All of these are phenomenal! ESPECIALLY Collaborative Worldbuilding!

The 11 dislikes are from people who are salty that their DM sent them this video

Learned this week that the Aasimar Druid's family got murdered whilst protecting a Gate to the Feywild, the Tiefling Rogue got groomed as a child, the Leonin Bloodhunter might be royalty, and the Paladin Elf thinks that he was born from a tree...great tips, Bob!!!

7:40 my absolute favorite dnd moment was when my dwarf barbarian was walking into the woods accompanied by the city guard in search of some threat, and what would have been just a description of the forest we were walking through and a skip to the next combat was entirely changed when I interrupted the end of my dms fantastic description with one simple question: "are there monkeys?" And because he was awesome he said "yes. Absolutely." And dove right into the description of the monkeys I see and then my barbarian yelled so loud the monkeys fell out of the trees and he went over collected the dead monkeys (finishing one off) and walked back to my now in aw group of soldier acquaintances turned fearful helpers. It took all of five minutes and it added so much to my character, the flow of play and the overall humor of the game.

This is a great synthesis of the community post! As always, great insights delivered with soothing presence.

One of my players has giggle-fits that go be forever. They could be triggered by anything and I mean anything. One session he decided to walk into the front door of a stronghold that contained 15 goblins, 8 hobgoblins, a bugbear boss, a grick, and an owlbear. Everyone else wanted to sneak in, not knowing what’s to come, but he went right through the front door with his goblin sidekick. To my surprise, he did some great role play and I was going to reward him by making him the king over the goblins. He did great up to the point he got a giggle-fit and tried to grab a goblin to wipe his butt after taking a dump over a hole in the wall. He infuriated every goblin and they locked him and his sidekick in a dark room with a starving owlbear. He survived but just barely. I wish it was as easy as “be serious during serious moments and silly during silly moments “.

The note on accepting failure is absolutely a great one and seems to get overlooked. Tbh the Nat 1s are usually more fun to remember than the Nat 20s and it's great when it happens. When my paladin has to make a Dex save, I don't get mad at the inevitable failure - I usually preface it with a "it was nice knowing y'all" and make the roll and I go with it. When I fail a persuasion check, I roleplay really bad strawman arguments or sometimes end up making points against myself. When I miss an attack, I describe how I put too much weight behind my halberd and missed wildly. Moments of failure can and are fun if you're a good sport about it, and it's a solid bonus when you engage in roleplay based on your bad rolls. As a player, it's fun to make this bit of narrative make sense - as the DM, it's great to see players engaged this way and nice to have a brief moment to breathe during an encounter as the player describes what happens

Really good as usual. One thing I would add, "perfect your craft" i.e. somethings are more basic others are more advanced. Make an effort to get better.

Excellent tips all around... especially the one that's a reminder we have one mouth and two ears, so we should be listening twice as much as we talk.

A big tip back to DM's. Facilitate player interaction! Give moments, story beats, breaks in the narrative where players can do things. Rushing from set-piece to set-piece, or even worse, hushing players RPing with each other so you can continue your story, is only giving yourself MORE work to do!

I played several games as a PC before I became a DM and in all of those games I played, we didn't do travel time. If a place was three days away, we started walking and basically fast traveled. When I became a DM I decided that I didn't want travel to be painful, but there should at least be one night of camping if they're taking 3 days to travel somewhere. I came to this realization after watching Critical Role. So many of their interactions happened during watches, that it just made sense to me to add it to my game. Plus, without it, we'd might have miss the "killed my whole family" interaction which still makes me smile. Sitting around a campfire is something many of us know how to do instinctually, so sitting around a campfire in game isn't a stretch of the imagination. By setting up two shifts to watch camp, different PCs that may not speak often with one anther have a few minutes of conversation and interaction one on one, without interruption from the other players. It's been great.

As a player I managed to get a loop roaring with the DM which turbo-charged everything and brought huge amounts of detail and generated a phenomenal 25 year long campaign, much of which continued for me after the other players had dropped out years back. Cultivating a good working exchange with the DM and even feeding them creative data (videos, novels, graphics, scenarios) can make something really special happen. It's all about collaboration I think, despite me very much having to go it completely alone these days as a DM. 'Make your DM feel optimistic' is a good rule of thumb maybe. Bob World Builder, this video is really really good and I'd like to send the link to future players I get. Thought provoking and cool!

I had a “supporting the DM” moment once and it felt great. Basically in our world there’s only humans and a few monster races(But no tiefiling). My character, a Fiend Warlock, had as a role playing style turn more and more similar to a tiefiling when he uses a spell. My DM had the idea of making it the normal effects of making the pact when he saw it, not only that, eventually the tiefiling kind was born due to my character’s action. It was so awesome.

I’m the dm. Can’t wait to have my other players find out the war scarred tortle actually killed his whole village in rage after he found out that a certain magic powder he had been using was illegally made from other tortles. Hes sworn eternal vengeance on whoever made the invention. But he’s been keeping it surprisingly tight lipped.

Engage with the scene! If there’s an npc it’s because they’ve got something to fish out of them. I actually don’t play in the local shop anymore because I end up at a table of six people playing essentially solo campaigns and solo heroes. I get they want to express the character they’ve been thinking of all week, but be human-right?

One of the things that I appreciate most from my group is feedback at the end of the session. Because they let me know what do they like and what they don't like and then I think about a way that I can maintain the campaign I want to run while also making sure they get to enjoy it. Because as a DM can easily fall into the trap of satisfying my players and forget about his own satisfaction.

"Yes, and" is the mindset that has helped me be a better player so much

Thanks Bob, I think you bring up a lot of really good points, especially the last one. Thanks for sharing!

I'm old school 2nd Edition. I always tried to play like it was a living world. Most of my characters invested time and energy in the campaign as well as after the campaign. In some campaigns I played in, if I tried learning things about the other characters, they would think I was trying to either kill them or steal their treasure. See, I was the Thief in the group.

I appreciate the thoroughness of this video and the approach. I'll refer this to as many players as I can. Thank you for taking the time.

I love it. But one exception to keep your mouth closed when another player is talking. i had with another palyer an incharacter argument and we both incharacter yelled at each other and it ended in a fist fight between them. Also incharacter we made up for it. It was such an awesome RP moment and it was because with didnt shut up while the other was talking. I can't even remember why these both fought but it was hillarious for us players.

This is really great stuff man, thank you!

This is a great list to be able to remind oneself of from time to time! It’s so easy to forget some of these basics. Thanks for putting in the research to bring it to us!

This is great! Very concise and a new take on the topic. Cheers Bob.

All of this is great advice. Especially about characters matching the setting. I played in a Shadowfell game, playing a character I had made well before a campaign was even planned, who didn't fit at all. When he died, I made a Harengon monk who also didn't fit the setting. When I started wondering why I wasn't quite invested in the party's goals, I realized it was because, in a party of a half-orc oathbreaker, undead monstrosity, tormented wizard, and secretive warlock, a rabbit warrior didn't exactly make sense. So I rolled up a Shadar-Kai druid/cleric who was cursed with madness and now I fit in perfectly and everything flows much more naturally for us.

Accept failure? I full on embrace that. Failing is where my favorite dnd moments come from

Thanks Bob for the great tips as always.

Excellent advice here! Thankyou Bob (and everyone who submitted!) ☺️

For me the biggest factor of becoming a better player was adopting a personal leather bound journal. My fiancé who's also a player, bought me a monogrammed journal JUST for my DnD character. So for the past five or so years my DM has granted my characters' a bonus to Charisma and Intelligence (not past 16). In-between scenes and pauses you'll ALWAYS see my scribbling down text like it's a Baldur's Gate quest log.

I had my very first game of D&D this week and loved it. You've given me some great things to think about as I look forward to my next sessions. Cheers!

So here's the setting: My first campaign, session 2, everyone is new eccept DM (we're a friend group that already plays a lot of other games together), we just got out of some cave where some bandit group tried to feed us to giant spiders. We find a small town and NPC keeps affirming that there's no caves in that place. Everyone just decides to ignore it and move on to some other city. I'm sure DM had a whole ass plotline planned out for that cave but we'll probably never get back there xd.

Great advice. Thank you!

Wow, this video actually made me really appreciate that I have players who are really great most of the time. Thank you for making this video.

I just shared this with a table-to-be: character creation happens next week. Thank you for this list. I think it will really help our players who have never done anything like this before.

I love it when players get involved with the world-building, particularly when it comes to historical events and NPCs. If a player pops off some improvised story about some event that took place once upon a time, I take note of that and make it part of the world's history, though some of the actual details might be a little different than what the player had said, as things are often exaggerated or changed as stories are retold. Players sharing stories about various NPCs "back home" gives me material to work with and saves me a lot of trouble creating characters to populate that town that fit with the image the player has of it. If I had players that were really engaged, I would have them help build the world from the ground up by having them describe their characters' hometowns, some nearby settlements and points of interest, their culture, some interesting historical events that took place in the region, etc., then plop all of that into different areas on an otherwise blank world map and build around what the players had given me to start with. Add in whatever they improvise about their home regions during play and most of the heavy lifting is done for those regions by the time I actually need to do anything with them. First adventure takes place in a trade hub that is somewhat central to where all of the characters are coming from and the players are tasked with explaining what brought their characters to that location. My own worldbuilding can focus on the trade hub and surrounding region, expanding to other regions as the adventure moves to them. Early plot hooks move the adventures toward whichever player-made region is the most fleshed out, and we eventually make our way through each of the regions. From there, any future campaigns involving most of the same players can be set in that same world, which they are all intimately familiar with because they helped make it what it is.

Great video Bob! Gonna bookmark this one to share before starting a campaign.

An easy way to figure out how your character thinks is by taking a personality test online as my character. It really helps flesh out their personality

We need more videos like this. I know only a few other creators that address players, while we have a ton of content for GMs. Guy from How to be a Great GM recently talked about the GM being just another player, focusing on relieving GMs from extra pressure and responsibility. If both GMs and other players think like that, I believe we can have better, more enjoyable games. I particularly liked when you said GMs could (should) share worldbuilding with other players whenever possible.

Thanks for this video, I learned a lot as both a DM and a player. Totally sharing! Cheers :)

I LOVE this, Bob! Thank you! Sending this to my group. And you come across as SO empathetic that I'd let you raise my kid. But you wouldn't want to raise my kid because she's quite the minmaxer and way too jammy with rolling crits.

As a new player, I really apreciate this video. Just had my first session last week (yay!) and had a blast, think I did pretty good, and have been looking up how to make the game better. I love videos that teach players how to engage with the world and characters as a group, great work.

Thank you for this!!

Your work is thoughtful. I enjoy the videos.

Bob, thanks for being a good person. The fact that when talking about respecting other people your "everyone knows this" tone speaks volumes. Love the videos man!

Great video! I subbed right after watching. These are habits that I always try to engage in when I am playing, but are great reminders for everyone. In one of my current campaigns we have a new player who is playing a rogue as her first experience with DND. She is doing very well for a newbie, but my wife and I (as more experienced players) have been doing our level best to support her as she learns the game. I am playing and artificer(1)/wizard(x) multiclass, my wife is playing a Life Cleric, and we have been prioritizing support spells during early level play in order to get us through the rocky learning curve. I picked up Guidance as one of my artificer cantrips and as soon as I got Find Familiar at Wizard 1, I started having him perch on our rogues shoulder whenever she is doing her solo rogue thing to give her unlimited extra D4's on her skill checks, assist her in her investigation and searches so she rolls at advantage as well, and occassionally remotely heal her as required; while my wife will routinely bless the entire party so we all get those D4's in combat as well and make sure that none of us go down for any reason. Our newbie rogue is going through dungeons feeling like a super star and is loving the experience every step of the way. Now, this may be more than is required or recommended, but by actively engaging with her, and showing how teamwork bolsters everyone, we have a made committed new player, and more importantly, a new friend in real life as well.

Excellent as always, and I like the homework.

I'm both DMing and playing games at the moment, and this was a bit of an eye opener. Thanks for the video!

My favorite questions to ask my fellow PCs are “firsts” like when did you first know you could cast magic? When did you first pick up a sword? What was the first thing you stole? Lots of convos open up after that

This is great content! I’m starting a campaign with new people, who have never played DND. I’m definitely going to send them this video. As a friendly introduction 😊

Also with the creating your character for the setting. It is awesome for the DM to give the players a setting, then for the players to create characters with the setting in mind, then for the DM to start building adventures based on their characters and the choices those characters make.

I am currently writing a game, and I am openly chatting with all my players about plot points, NPCs, Homebrew, Homebrew rules, and the setting. Your advice on getting the players involved is really helpful

For point 1: Our DM asked us to provide birthdays for our characters, and informed us that two of them would have theirs during our next downtime, so we would have time to prepare. One character's animal companion had died in the climax of the last arc, so I (in-game) commissioned a wooden carving of ol' Boss. The player almost teared up at the image.

I like how welcoming Bob is when teaching us tips and tricks. So many talk down to new players and discourage them. Bob encourages Us. Thank You BWB

I think a lot of DMs could do well to adhere to #1. I don't expect them to understand every single rule perfectly by heart but what does annoy me is when they don't know basics like how surprise works, grappling or skills. It quickly destroys the game when they do something like call for a new stealth check every 30 feet then stealth is no longer a thing. So many DMs ignore so much of the game because they just don't bother to even read them. I'm sympathetic to the amount of information they need to know but it is a problem because it is a dangerous thing to be informing the DM that they are misunderstanding a rule. I end up trying to find a way to diplomatically ask after the session if we are playing with RAW or a house rule in regards to whatever it is that they seemed to just read the title of and make an assumption.

Thanks for the list, man. I'll take some to my table. 😊

This is a good compilation of whats nice to have in dnd.

As someone who's spent more time DM'ing then playing, the PC interaction is probably the most satisfying thing to listen to. Makes me feel that I somehow wove the threads of fate to gather an odd party together and it makes sense for them to adventure together.

Some of the best moments we've had around the table have been when someone rolls a 1 and fails spectacularly at something they were trying to do. So, I'd not, not only accept failure, but embrace it and own it.

Thank you for the tips! I'm nearly at the one year mark since I met my group and started playing. I really should talk to my dm more outside the game Plus the thanking thing. I do slip in comments about liking stuff from the game but I think I'll start thanking after every session It's one of those little things that make a big impact at the end of the day. Like a kiss at the end of a date. The best I've tried to help is learning obsidian and taking notes so I can casually mention some plot points and NPCs we've forgotten after a while.

I just want focus... don't be on your phones and not paying attention. My problem is that I understand why we have IRL conversations, not having seen some of my best friends for 2 weeks at a time, but its no excuse still lol.

This is priceless advice!!!!!

Great video! Thanks!

This is amazing. Also, I have found that it goes so much better when my experienced players are kind and respectful to newer players. I think the goal is to get everybody playing, and that’s hard to do if we make any new player feel unwelcome. It’s a hard game with hundreds of rules, make it fun so the DM has more people ti explore their worlds.

I'm a multi-time frustrated DM, and I love this list. I recommend it for everyone. Learning the rules is actually high on my list, and I pretty much always feel like we could've gotten more accomplished

when I GM, I always tell my players that, if something you feel should be in the scene, but I haven't described it. It's probably there. I haven't had any bad GM experiences using this guideline yet. And I hope that it encourages my players to be engaged in the scene! And as a player, I always tentatively use this guideline by asking if there's something that would seem likely to be there, if it is. And I accept whatever answer they give me. :)

Eliminating the gatekeeping on both sides. Being open to help from others, and helping others. Acknowledging egos and compromising can work wonders for building the community.

The number one thing that made me a better player: not playing the piano while waiting for my turn in combat

First video i see from you - i really like your voice, it's quite pleasant to listen to. :)

As a new player, I really appreciate the tips! I've got some work to do to become a better player.

Quality ADVICE ON LEVEL WITH COLVILLE AND MERCER. You have a new fan sir!