Just checked out Tristan's video on a proactive character sheet for 5E. (Note: I have no idea what "proactive playstyle" means- never come across the term in 40 years of gaming 🤪so I clearly missed something 🤣). Just made me think on games I've played that use mechanics to encourage certain playstyles. Some examples: Warhammer FRP gives out Xp for Personal and Group goals, short term and long term. Once those are achieved :kaching: Forbidden Langs give out Xp for characters when their Dark Secret comes into play somehow - it could be a character flaw, like Greed, or an enemy nobody knew about that starts messing with the party, or some shameful background element being revealed. Mutant: Year Zero gives out Xp when the PC has risked or sacrificed something to protect an NPC they have to protect, and also when they risk/sacrifice something to mess with an NPC their character hates. Also these extrinsic rewards work really well, I find. Don't know if they'd translate well to 5E with milestone Xp, though.

Anyone else over-prep here? I'm autistic and CAN'T HELP MYSELF! I designed something like 100 NPCs just to flesh out Constantinople by Night because that city didn't have enough NPCs in the sourcebook. I KNOW I won't use even half of them, but THEY'RE THERE so I know how the city ticks now!

Hello everyone! Excited to be here! I just found about about Skool like a week ago and I'm very impressed by what I've seen here. Setting up my own communities now (one is about role-playing games, for both GMs and players). As for my GMing exp - I've run games for 40 years, I was the first forever-GM in the group I got together back in the day. Unlike maybe most of you, I'm from Sweden originally, and so I didn't start with DnD, I started with Dragonbane - it was only available in Swedish back then. Some systems I've run over the years: - Dragonbane - Mutant - Chill - Call of Cthulhu - Delta Force - Middle Earth Role-playing - Rolemaster - Warhammer Fantasy RP - Top Secret/S.I. - Vampire: the Masquerade - Vampire: the Dark Ages - Werewolf: the Apocalypse - Mage: the Ascension - Changeling: the Dreaming - Wraith: the Oblivion - Vampire: the Requiem - Delta Green - Svavelvinter Rollspelet - Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare - Mutant: Year Zero - Forbidden Lands - Vaesen - Twilight 2000 - Bladerunner RPG - Dungeons and Dragons 5E - Pathfinder 2E

What do you use as teasers to get your group excited for the session? I'm running Toon tonight with a Mexican wrestling theme (making tacos & mezcal cocktails too as it's part one of my birthday celebrations 🥳) so have knocked up this poster & sent to the group WhatsApp. I've done similar things for our various campaigns, whether dropping faction logos & info for Traveller or back stories for plot threads in Blades. What do you do?