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June 2024 Front Porch Lecture (Patreon)

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2024-06-01 10:24:58
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The summer lecture series returns! In this exclusive long-form video, PDM talks about GenCon, his schedule, and hacks for player engagement. This video is available to all tiers as a special thank-you.

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June Front Porch

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Bagel-Man

Excited to watch Professor, I always enjoy your front porch lectures!

Robert DeLuca

I am so glad these are back Professor DM, morning coffee tastes Great Again!

Dan Green

Fantastic advice! Get well soon!

MrGunn

Dear Professor, Glad to learn you are pursuing a healthy life style, I hope your health continues to improve. You are correct Wizbros has no imagination or creativity, they are out of touch and don't respect D&D or its history. The 50th anniversary of D&D could have been a great time to promote the game and the hobby, Wizbros has completely failed leverage this singular opportunity. Love the Gamemaster advice; "How to keep your players engaged", great stuff. Best, MrGunn PS Let Tom know he has fans.

MrGunn
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@Bagel-Man There he is! Did you know I had to post on your behalf for the last video? So much work being first, don't make me keep carrying your load man... ;) :D LOL

Kage Holman

As an educator myself, I always look forward to the Front Porch Lectures. It’s one of those symbolic “starts” to summer vacation.

Tony

Have a great time at GenCon. I’m a teacher too but our school year starts right at the same time as GenCon so I can never go so I’m a little jealous. Anyway, really love your videos - especially your takes on the classic modules like KotB, Veiled Society and Lost City. Have a great summer.

Scott

Glad to be welcomed back to your front porch. Hopefully all goes well and you get to feeling better, take care of yourself!

Will Burton

Thanks, Professor - I always enjoy these chats. Take care of yourself, and get well soon!!!

Joe Corsaro

As a cranky old man I make my players roll d20's I can read across the table. Not only does it take the pressure of players in case someone next to them is fudging dice, it also speeds up the game quite a bit. I don't have to wait when someone rolls a seven and goes through all the modifiers in his head before he tells me he misses by six. My monster rolls are always in the open, just rivets players to the dice.

Firstspear

Hope your health journey continues in a positive direction. Your porch looks like a great place to relax and spend a moment just 'being'

Brian Colin Creature Curation

I enjoyed the front porch lecture and look forward to more of them. Hope our paths cross at Gen Con!

Robyn Derme

I had a feeling that PDM was a New Jersey Hillbilly. 😉. Still, nice video.

Stephen Forshaw

I always really enjoy your porch lectures :) AD&D 2nd edition (not sure about 1e off the top of head) and the TSR Marvel Super Heros game make you declare your actions before rolling initiative. I think this is a much more interesting way to handle combat. You commit to an action and lets see how things play out. The Marvel game does allow you to change your action once combat starts, but a penalty is applied to your new action.

Bryan Stephens

Love walking on my back porch while listening to your lecture from the front porch.

Justin Watson

Enjoy South Korea!🇰🇷 I lived in Seoul for three years when my dad was stationed in Yongsan. Lovely country, wonderful people. There’s always D&D going on in the Army. Unfortunately for me. all the D&D groups around me when I was in were from troops I was commanding so it might’ve looked like a conflict of interest if I was rolling polyhedrons with some of them off duty.

Elvis Ramone

Truly, whomever came up with the landscape DM screen is an unaccredited genius.

David Hoover

Love seeing the Front Porch Lectures again. We have been using a d6 initiative for about a year on my Saltmarsh Revisited campaign and also on one that just kicked off. Everyone likes the excitement and unpredictability on the encounters. The players have one person that rolls a d6, highest wins, ties go to players. Roll each round. The players have a set order each round/encounter. I think I introduced this after your Tom Moldvay Basic Rulebook video you did a while back. It was the version I started with.

Frederic Schmitt

I would love to see the player practical engagement stuff on YouTube. I think the taping yourself is a bonus tip, like who does that? But the other tips are pure gold. You, PDM, have everyday experience with engaging people. Who will teach us this art other then a good teacher? ~ Thank you for the video ☺

Brian Peters

Going to Japan? Nice. I won’t be there in the summer or I would offer to translate/interpret. Where are you going? If you have questions, DM me. On another note. Will you be renaming your channel Bro DM? Will you next catch phrase be “Do you even craft, Bro?” Just kidding glad everything is going ok and you are getting healthy.