| Thread | Title | Description | Tags | Added | Score |
|---|
| October 2009 |
| 6358010 | Sandbox DMing | Anonymous details an algorithm for running open, "sandbox" D&D worlds, then discusses DMing tactics. Mostly archivable for the algorithmic DMing idea. | Sandbox, DMing, D&D, DM, tips | 2009-10-21 | 8 | |
| December 2009 |
| 6975776 | Awesome DM tips are awesome | New DM asks for advice. Kind anon dumps what has the be a must read for DM's of 4th edition. | DnD, DMing, 4th Edition | 2009-12-03 | 4 | |
| 7251082 | Bad DMing storytime and advice | Anon asks for stories about poor DMing, and /tg/ provides; plenty of advice on how not to be a bad DM is given as well. | storytime, DMs, bad, DMing | 2009-12-23 | 3 | |
| February 2010 |
| 8175884 | How To Sandbox DM, Part 2 | A request from a DM turns into a discussion on sandbox DMing, references http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6358010/ and Ars Ludi. | DMing sandbox worldbuilding world building | 2010-02-20 | 2 | |
| April 2010 |
| 9403585 | Tables for adding flavor to a campaign | A huge resource of tables for DMs to use for their campaigns. Good material here for when your creativity got lost, or you need to speed up session creation. | Tables, charts, DMing, 2e | 2010-04-25 | 4 | |
| November 2010 |
| 12761258 | 1001 useful campaign ideas | Various fa/tg/uys chime in with useful plot hooks, villain ideas, riddles, and other tidbits for making your campaign better | dming, advice, ideas, roleplay | 2010-11-12 | 3 | |
| December 2010 |
| 13323951 | How to run a horror game | A discussion of how to run a horror game that actually scares your players. Many good ideas are forthcoming | horror, DMing, atmosphere, scary, | 2010-12-29 | 2 | |
| March 2011 |
| 14100433 | Puzzle Thread | /tg/ Discusses the use of riddles, puzzles, and other mental challenges they've used in their games. | RPG, Roleplay, Puzzles, Riddles, Riddle, D&D, Lovecraft, DMing, DM | 2011-03-02 | 0 | |
| 14130012 | Everything /tg/ Hates about D&D | The boring and overdone tropes and cliches that we all know and hate in our Roleplaying games. | D&D, dungeons and dragons, noobs, that guy, DMing, faggotry, kenders, cliches, RAGE | 2011-03-05 | 0 | |
| November 2011 |
| 16803032 | DMing Philosophers | Moderately amusing thread about entering a forest and how philosophers would DM it | philosophy philosophers comedy entertaining funny forest DMing | 2011-11-01 | 18 | |
| August 2012 |
| 20238400 | Bad DM cannot into drama | Douchebag DMing thread is taken over by the rageworthy tale of a DM who despite being a drama major completely fails to deliver any to his group. | Bad DMing, storytime, That Guy, That DM, douchebag DM | 2012-08-09 | 21 | |
| September 2012 |
| 20693047 | Scary Shit, DMing Tips | subtle things are the scariest | scary, bricks shat, DMing, tips | 2012-09-13 | 6 | |
| May 2013 |
| 24576270 | GM Toolkits for all to enjoy! | /tg/ gets together and posts all their favourite GM tools. | Tools, GM, GMing, DM, DMing, Helpful, Tips, Resources | 2013-05-03 | 18 | |
| 25148048 | Dick DM Moves | /tg/ vents about bullshit they've had to endure from their DMs | /tg/, dm, DMing, DMs, DM advice, DM, gm, GMing, Gming, GM, That DM, That GM | 2013-05-31 | 14 | |
| June 2013 |
| 25625236 | Secrets of GMing | GMs let us /tg/ in on their dirty little secrets | DM, dm, gm, GM, DMing, GMing, NPC, NPCs, npcs, npc, railroading, Railroading, players | 2013-06-25 | 6 | |
| August 2013 |
| 26793774 | Four powers, One World | /tg/ gets cracking on a new setting involving 4 major superpowers: USA, China, the EU and Russia, and Pan-Asia. | Setting, brainstorm, DM, DMing, GMing, GM | 2013-08-24 | 7 | |
| December 2013 |
| 28617703 | Times your group has had to end for the night | Times a campaign has had to restart, be rewritten, or put on hold because of silly bullshit players pull. Also a small bit of advice on worldbuilding. | DM, GM, DMing, GMing, worldbuilding, story, stories, storytime, PC, GMPC, DMPC, bard, paladin, seduction, cancer, Elder evil, EE, BBEG | 2013-12-02 | 5 | |
| 28921062 | Wilderness Surival Tips | OP Asked how to make survival interesting. Lots of good discussion. | Wilderness, RPG, DMing, GMing | 2013-12-18 | 0 | |
| November 2016 |
| 50350758 | Touhoufag asks for help with NPC behavior | Detailed discussion on generating NPC behavior which feels realistic and satisfying, especially with regards to irrationality end emotion | advice, GMing, DMing, NPCs, roleplay, roleplaying | 2016-11-24 | 7 | |
| August 2021 |
| 80949796 | How to make fantasy genre more interesting | Discussion on merits of high fantasy and low fantasy, how to make them better, and how to better DM. | Worldbuilding, Fantasy, DMing | 2021-08-25 | 1 | |
| March 2022 |
| 83616992 | Fae as Old Ones | OP requests help fleshing out his fae folk themed campaign with ideas for weird, eldritch horror. /tg/ obliges. | Fae, Fairy, fantasy, horror, folk, weird, worldbuilding, DMing, ideas, Aberrations, roleplaying, rpg, RPG, Fair Folk | 2022-03-18 | 11 | |