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Finding inspiration and getting over the DM’s block

Your players are about to arrive to a new city you haven't fully built/designed yet. You realize the dungeon you built for your players lacks some palpable atmosphere or is pretty boring. Travelling from one place to the other seems more of a “get from point A to point B” than a real adventure. Your new NPC looks and feels exactly like the other one you introduced last session. If you are encountering any of those things, you probably are experiencing what some of us DMs like to call “DM’s block”, or just Writer’s block. You can lay on your bed for multiple hours or keep thinking about new things but you will probably not find anything useful to complete this week’s activity on the table. Having experienced this a bunch of times, I’m here to teach you the useful techniques I found work for getting some inspiration and continue creating new worlds/experiences for your players’ next session: Read, watch, listen This one is a classic tip everyone gives when asked how to ...