Month: April 2024

Ep89: Running Large-Scale Combat

Are there large armies clashing in your world? If so, then eventually you may have the party getting involved with fighting them, so knowing how to run large scale combat is a useful skill for DMs.  In this episode of becomingDM, John and Danielle talk about some options for how to run large scale combat…
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Ep88: Running Theater of the Mind Combat

Sometimes you don’t have time to create a map for your combat encounters.  Sometimes the players do something unexpected and get into a fight that you weren’t prepared to put on the table in front of you.  Sometimes you just don’t have enough space to run the combat that you would like with minis and…
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SQ6: How Much Time Does it Take to Plan a Session

We have seen several people curious about how long it actually takes to plan out a session lately.  In this becomingDM side quest, John looks at the factors that can influence how long session planning takes and then reveals his average prep time.  Join us for the side quest!