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This is fascinating! Extremely valuable content!

Good to know!

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gr8 world building tips. the trick is to prep whats directly in front of the party and drop story hooks about an interesting location you want them to explore next. every location is the right location is superb advice. with practice your players wont know what u have prepped and what u have improved.

LOL Thought you were literally Alan Tudyk from the thumbnails... Still stayed and watched though hehe.

Okay but Topaz dragons actually don't like water, their lair wouldn't be underwater, they prefer to stay dry. Yeah, it is weird that they lair near seacoasts when they have the personality of cats. But they're gem dragons of course they're weird.

I think the better comparison is Harmonquest and Dimension 20. Both are behind a paywall, both are more comedy focused, improv comics just spitballing on stage for an audience first, story second. CR is free to watch and more like a let’s play, and their animated show is not the same as Harmonquest, as they rewrote everything to be structured for narrative storytelling, not just animating their gameplay. I actually really like Harmonquest, it’s what got me into D&D and I rewatch it all the time. I don’t rewatch CR because who has time for that, and I actually don’t watch D20 at all.

0:13 Don't start with quest hooks Donjon ChaoticShiny Roll 2 prompts and find how they conflict 1:51 Quest Hooks Who's involved, What things, Consequence impacts PCs 3:33 Rapid Dungeons History, Current Usage, Needed features, bullet list Throw two random encounters into a blender Derive quest hooks from how this conflict spills into PCs lap Throw narrative requirements into simple dungeon Bake at 420 for less than 15 minutes

Is this problem a product of the reaction to the mentality of "I want my character growth to be a matter of what I can do not what I own"? I remember a few years ago reading an article or forum post somewhere complaining about how the writer didn't like that. Character growth for Marshall characters was about their equipment rather than their own power, and how spellcasters growth was about their power, not just their equipment. Pair that line of thinking with the issue of DMS handing out too much powerful gear and then trying to scale back the power by having it stolen or lost or destroyed, and you'll get a batch of players and designers who recognize that the solution is to have power baked into the class progress table which can be tested and "balanced", rather than the equipment which can be mishandled.

Hard disagree. So many cool moments powered by an "actually I can do this" or "actually I'm still alive because of this". The whole table laughs every time. IMO that's why you have rules; if the DM just ruled that stuff, there'd be no tension

Wow lots of great points and given me lots of new ideas to incorporate into my campaign I host. Thanks loads!

Role playing games, dice, blah blah blah. Talk to us about where you got that BLAZER, sir

Random encounter tables are awesome. Hush.

I had to do a double take with his first example x'D

The RPG that I read and thought would be amazing but was way to slow, is Runequest.

I have lost faith in companies milking the DND brand to death . Fan products are the future . Paizo proved you can make an amazing game thats everything DND except the name . I am more excited over this than the next DND edition .

I disagree . A DM who only does his own thing falls into his comforts and habits . Adding a short adventure module is a breath of fresh air to any existing campaign .

Shame on you for supporting Ben Milton and Knave 2e. Ben lied to us Kickstarter backers and sold advanced copies of what was supposed to be a Kickstarter exclusive cover at a convention before ANY of the backers got their books. I still don't have mine as of this post. Then he treated us like we were the bad guys for complaining when the exclusive cover was renamed "premium edition." Don't support ANY content creator that lies and then disrespects their backers. Shame on you both!

A trick I started using in the 90's for dealing with encumbrance was to substitute 'weight a character can carry' for slots. i.e., the amount of 'stuff' - weapons, gear, supplies, 10-foot poles, a given PC could carry. Let's say an average human can carry 20 items easily, not including worn armor, clothes, belts, packs, and pouches. I then assigned 'slots' to such things such as a pack and pouch. The average pouch 3 slots, a pack 15 slots, that sort of thing. Then, the PC could carry an additional 5 'slots' with a -1 for actions, combat, movement, etc. This would accumulate. 10 extra items? -2, and so on. We noted things like carried bags, which could be dropped (and lost, forgotten, or stolen in the heat of combat) and time for 'shrugging out of my pack'. Each item was considered something that you needed a hand to handle. A torch is an item, a bundle is 'a number of items bundled'. Smaller items, such as caltrops (which usually come in a bag) would be a single item - i.e. 5 caltrops held in one hand. Regular Rations - 1 slot or item per day per person; iron Rations - 5 days per 'slot' because they're supposed to be condensed and meant for survival, not flavor. Potions are usually in vials, so same as caltrops, a mirror, string, etc, same thing, so a single slot could hold different, small items. To further help the Players, I'd made custom character sheets with 'slots'. Bags and Packs would have a separate, smaller sheet which would remind them of what 'could' be lost if you set it aside and forget to grab it. Trust me, it only takes once or twice for a party to slog back to that last site of combat to fetch a badly needed pack or two before they become more aware of such things. That also opens up the possibility for another encounter. After all, the dead and debris of a battle are rarely left alone for long, eh? Tiny items, like those commonly used as spell components, would be 25 per slot for simplicity. Arrow heads, coins, gems, spell components, spices, and so on. Then we'd adjust for size. Smaller characters like Halflings can carry 25% less than a human, so 15 slots, where as a large character, like a Dragonborn for example, can carry 25 and so on.

One of those things that players and GMs avoid early on (and hopefully, begin to embrace later when they're seeking a deeper, more immersive experience). Darkness and light, as well as resource management. They race and are granted magical means to see in the dark; to produce food and water on demand; etc. So many lost opportunities.

I don't understand how people got to "campaign" meaning merely a "story arc of adventures tied together by a common plot". "Campaign" has always meant "game setting of a DM for a specific group of players over time". I suspect because recent gamers only participate in 1-5 adventures before calling it quits, so they think a string of narratively related adventures is a "campaign".

I feel like this video needs some clarification. I dont remember the force dice mechanic in the west end version of starwars. It is definitly in the fantasy flight version. Likewise the hunger mechanic is in vampire 5e but he showed vampire 2e on the picture. I feel like when recomending games to people you should be clear aboit what game your recomending.

These are great points, and honestly why I found Riven so difficult and frustrating to complete back in the 90s. You had to pay attention to EVERYTHING, because at some point in the future you would have to use that information. You needed to keep a notebook to really work through the game

Pretty sure you could write a world builder guide like Bob did with Delve or Slyflourish did with LazyDM books.

Great video i dont know how this would wotk but would be great to hear your take on the plane of ravnica and the guild situation

Technoir RPG has a matrix to generate narrative on the fly, I never tried but some clever trusting creative groups might be able to play it without any DM at all.

I have never heard Tonkawa pronounced that way.

Your Mausritter sounds a lot like Bunnies and Burrows.

I know its two years too late but I can't resist: Marsember should be a popular and wealthy city? Excuse me sir, did you not read the name of said lake its nestled beside? Yes that's right, the lake of DRAGONS. Wanna guess how it got that name? Wanna guess why Marsember isn't so popular and wealthy despite its geopolitical location?

very useful world building tips!

pretty good, I liked the video. what about you?

Perhaps i'm thinking of diffrent er but to become the king you needed permission of papacy.

*Gehn. Legendary game!

You imply that Knight is an hereditary rank like the others. It ain't. Though it was common for a knigth's son to be knighted and to inherit his fathers land... it wasn't automatically so. And knightood could be granted by a senior knight: it didn't take a king until much later.

As for the last video's question, the D&D default mode of commoners being allowed to clear and claim land is a big change to feudalism.

I came for the game design and stayed for the existential dread

dont most zelda games do this.

Love you videos, brother! Keep being awesome! .. ... ... DC20 HYPE TRAIN!!! Kickstarter launch in less than 4 hours!!!

This is the kind of content I want from a dude named Baron de Ropp.

So useful for especially a Warhammer Fantasy campaign as your players are actually the people of the land.

Hot damn this is good content. I wish I found this a year ago.

and now after all these years Riven is coming back and will be expanded

Fantastic advice, I cannot thank you enough.

Dissertation. Huh.