I've had a fairly stressful year and this week's been going so well that I'm both suspicious and also prone to randomly crying about how good people are I'm very normal (and missed a lot of sleep last night)
Watch all of it
7 for 7 5 games DM'ed in four different campaigns, one of which was the finale. 1 game played in which was very chilled, and 1 night of dnd chat talking about balancing and campaign design in general. I am tired but happy.
Defending a corporation over a person is cringe
6 for 6, ran the next session of the Monday campaign, they crushed two fights, one player got a sick new lance, the other saw a glimpse of themselves as living wood and turned a chair into a saproling by accident, we love improv
Did a mini session 0 tonight and wrote and did map and enemy placement We are 5 for 5. I'm trying to drag two players in for a chill session tomorrow night, and then I start a new campaign on Sunday
The players know best without ever realising it... unless they also DM haha But yeah, giving space for players to just RP (if your group likes it) is an easy way to slow down the pace of a session if it's going haywire
It's definitely tough. But sometimes just sitting back and letting your players talk will give you loads of new ideas as they'll often make conspiracies and stuff themselves. Plus, even if you mess something up, they're still your friends so you can just retcon and chill :)
I do have a lot of prep work to do just in case any of these randomly fire again lol