Dear Gary, Which Race is Best?

About this episode

The episode addresses various tabletop RPG questions regarding player engagement, house rules, and game systems.

Our tabletop RPG advice column, Dear Gary, returns with these questions: - Dear Listener writes: Dear Gary, I run games (often one shots) that are made accessible to a rather wide pool of players, and sometimes get an unexpectedly large group. How do I keep everyone consistently engaged in the session and off their phones at higher player counts? - Brian writes: Dear Gary, could you discuss the main house rules you use for your 5e/D&D games? Have you been inspired to add any rules from other game systems to your D&D games? - Brian writes: Dear Gary, what are your thoughts on game systems that use species (or race) as class, such as basic/expert D&D (from 80s), Dungeon Crawl Classics, or others? - Brian writes: Dear Gary, what is a game you have been eager to play but not gotten to the table? Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/243.

People in this episode

Host: Gary

Topics covered

• tabletop RPG
• game engagement
• house rules
• D&D
• game systems
• player counts

Keywords

• tabletop RPG
• D&D
• house rules
• game systems
• player engagement
• one shots

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