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How to Give Just a Little More to Your Roleplaying as a Dungeon Master
You’ve probably wondered if you could do or give more. Specifically with your roleplaying, you may have finished a session and thought that you could do better. I’ve been there too. I’ve had many sessions where I’ve wished that I was a much better roleplayer.
Luckily today, we’re going to share 7 tips to help you give more to your roleplaying.
Welcome to How to Be a Better DM.
This is the show that helps you speed up the learning curve of being a DM without spending extra time, and extra hassle.
I’m Justin Lewis, and I’ve been helping dungeon masters now for over 150 episodes. I’ve spoken with Voice Actors, writers and even real life experts, all to help you be a Better DM.
Why Give more to your Roleplaying:
- We’ve all had those experiences after a really good roleplay where there’s almost this stunned silence
- Part of why we got into D&D was to reach that full immersion
- Your players want you to give everything you have
How to Give more to your Roleplaying:
- Be vulnerable
- Try things that may not work out
- Think about your players altruistically
- Forget yourself
- Try some real life Improv Classes
- Practice your Acting/Public Speaking
- Use the White Space of DMing
Mentioned in this episode:
Start Leveling Up As a DM
Wouldn’t it be nice to gamify your dungeon master abilities?
In D&D, characters can reach level 20, so why can’t dungeon masters?
We’re happy to tell you that now, you can.
We created the Dungeon Master Level-Up Guide.
It’s a simple tool to gamify your progression to higher and higher levels of dungeon mastering.
It includes Dungeon Master Levels 1 to 20 with associated XP requirements as well as a long list of Dungeon Master activities that will give you XP. Each activity has a Challenge Rating and an XP amount.
In order to level up, all you need to do is find out how much XP you have, find out how much you need and pick activities to try.
You can get the Dungeon Master Level-Up guide for free by going to session0studios.com/newsletter/, sign up for our newsletter and we’ll email you the Level-Up Guide.
Finally, leveling up as a DM can be as fun as leveling up a character.
Level Up Guide
Give Us a Rating and Review
You obviously have really good taste, you’re listening to How to Be a Better DM after all. We thank you for your support. If you’ve ever gotten anything useful from our show, take a minute to give us a rating and a review. It goes a very long way to making it so How to Be a Better DM can help many more dungeon masters just like you. If you love our content, help others become better dungeon masters too.
Always Have Your Sessions Prepared!
You work 8 hours a day. You spend time with your family when you come home. You do work around the house and it seems you never have as much time as you would like to prepare your D&D sessions.
Does this sound like you?
Wouldn’t it be amazing to have endless material prepared for your D&D sessions anyways?
That’s where Roll and Play Press comes in.
Roll and Play Press provides D&D 5e Compatible materials for any type of session. Running a one-shot? Check out their One Shot Wonders book with over 100 one-shot ideas.
Getting started with your new sci-fi campaign? Get their Game Master’s Sci-Fi Toolkit to have your games much more prepared.
Why reinvent the wheel? Check out Roll and Play Press at rollandplaypress.com and get 10% off when you buy something by using the code BETTERDM10.
Roll and Play Press
Brought to you by Session 0 Studios
Visit session0studios.com for more information.
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You’ve probably wondered if you could do or give more. Specifically with your roleplaying, you may have finished a session and thought that you could do better. I’ve been there too. I’ve had many sessions where I’ve wished that I was a much better roleplayer.
Luckily today, we’re going to share 7 tips to help you give more to your roleplaying.
Welcome to How to Be a Better DM.
This is the show that helps you speed up the learning curve of being a DM without spending extra time, and extra hassle.
I’m Justin Lewis, and I’ve been helping dungeon masters now for over 150 episodes. I’ve spoken with Voice Actors, writers and even real life experts, all to help you be a Better DM.
Why Give more to your Roleplaying:
- We’ve all had those experiences after a really good roleplay where there’s almost this stunned silence
- Part of why we got into D&D was to reach that full immersion
- Your players want you to give everything you have
How to Give more to your Roleplaying:
- Be vulnerable
- Try things that may not work out
- Think about your players altruistically
- Forget yourself
- Try some real life Improv Classes
- Practice your Acting/Public Speaking
- Use the White Space of DMing
Mentioned in this episode:
Start Leveling Up As a DM
Wouldn’t it be nice to gamify your dungeon master abilities?
In D&D, characters can reach level 20, so why can’t dungeon masters?
We’re happy to tell you that now, you can.
We created the Dungeon Master Level-Up Guide.
It’s a simple tool to gamify your progression to higher and higher levels of dungeon mastering.
It includes Dungeon Master Levels 1 to 20 with associated XP requirements as well as a long list of Dungeon Master activities that will give you XP. Each activity has a Challenge Rating and an XP amount.
In order to level up, all you need to do is find out how much XP you have, find out how much you need and pick activities to try.
You can get the Dungeon Master Level-Up guide for free by going to session0studios.com/newsletter/, sign up for our newsletter and we’ll email you the Level-Up Guide.
Finally, leveling up as a DM can be as fun as leveling up a character.
Level Up Guide
Give Us a Rating and Review
You obviously have really good taste, you’re listening to How to Be a Better DM after all. We thank you for your support. If you’ve ever gotten anything useful from our show, take a minute to give us a rating and a review. It goes a very long way to making it so How to Be a Better DM can help many more dungeon masters just like you. If you love our content, help others become better dungeon masters too.
Always Have Your Sessions Prepared!
You work 8 hours a day. You spend time with your family when you come home. You do work around the house and it seems you never have as much time as you would like to prepare your D&D sessions.
Does this sound like you?
Wouldn’t it be amazing to have endless material prepared for your D&D sessions anyways?
That’s where Roll and Play Press comes in.
Roll and Play Press provides D&D 5e Compatible materials for any type of session. Running a one-shot? Check out their One Shot Wonders book with over 100 one-shot ideas.
Getting started with your new sci-fi campaign? Get their Game Master’s Sci-Fi Toolkit to have your games much more prepared.
Why reinvent the wheel? Check out Roll and Play Press at rollandplaypress.com and get 10% off when you buy something by using the code BETTERDM10.
Roll and Play Press
Brought to you by Session 0 Studios
Visit session0studios.com for more information.
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