Empty threat. If he really meant it he would roll a d100 on the wild magic table.

I did a short lived and heavily modified Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign once. I made it kind of a lousiana bayou vibe, complete with spooky voodoo swamp gnomes. Wished it went further cause I loved the setting, but scheduling did it in in the end!

“People getting paid by AI say it’s great!”

Wow, shocker.

That is pretty cool!

A lot of the people who responded here have focused on the secrecy, but that’s actually not my goal with it really. It just seemed nice to put the laptop away for a while and have quick reference for rules and plot points all laid out at once.

Do people really have players trying to ferret out secrets that much, or that are that distrustful of dice rolls? I can’t imagine anyone doing that in my group, but maybe I just have a good one.

I do focus a lot more on roleplay and discourage metagaming, so maybe that’s part of it too.

Another vote for no screen! I definitely overestimated how common these were.

It really seems quite uncommon these days based on all these responses!

It’s interesting, it seems like most people don’t use one based on this thread.

For me the wall isn’t the point, I just like the idea of not using a laptop. I already spend a lot of time on the computer.

It sounds like most people are using a laptop!

I would love to get to that point someday. I still need cheat sheets though. 😉

Did you use one before you knew all the rules perfectly?

I like that NPC generator idea. That’s clever!

I actually wanted to get that DM screen you mentioned but it wasn’t available where I live. Hoping it becomes available someday though.

Well the goal would be to not have the laptop

This is never how copyright has worked, and that’s not even talking about getting permission from the person the photo is of. 😑

Why do so many AI people think that just because you found a way to scrape something, it’s OK to use however you want?

I would agree with that. I’d rather not play than play in a bad group (or a group that doesn’t play the style I enjoy)

Yeah, that makes sense. Those people would really hate my games because I’ve switched to call of cthulhu lately and in that game you are absolutely not powerful 😅

I guess that makes sense. To be honest for me it’s such a social experience who I’m playing with is the biggest thing I care about.

Do that many of you really play in these antagonistic as fuck groups? I see so many memes that imply a very a hostile dynamic between DM and players. I think you might need to find a better group if that’s the general atmosphere.

I’m glad I don’t play with people like this.

That does seem nice. One of the many reasons I DM 5e from a “does it make sense” perspective over a rules as written perspective.