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This guy reminds me of Kyle Gass, but in the beginning of the movie when he still has the long, lustrous hair. "They calls me KG-SoloMan-5000. And I aims to keep it that way! This place is tapped; I'm outta here. . ."

"I like big Cities and I can not lie!" Waterdeep: "Hold my Skullport." Sigil: "Hold my Portals" Ravnica: "Hold my Guilds"

Hey this is great advice, and I appreciate your straightforward and brief format. You get to the meat, give some examples, and then get out. This is very effective short form content, and I'm glad you're making it.

This video got recommended to me, and it really is a breath of fresh air. It's a practical bit of DM advice that is actually helpful. I'm going to check out more of your stuff and hope to find more like this. I'm tired of the usual "here's another tier-list" DND channel stuff.

Another tip to running cities: Most of them have a kind of personality, almost like a character unto themselves. The process of becoming a city entails a shared history of the region. This can flavor encounters in the city itself, and should certainly influence descriptive text. A city with high natural defenses augmented by a wall might have a very insular feel to it, where the PCs have to spend a lot of effort to become settled, but once they are accepted by the locals, they find doors suddenly opening for them--and when in conflict with outsiders, the locals are more likely to have their back. Meanwhile, a bustling port and trade center may have a very commercial tone to almost every transaction; if you have gold, you are welcome almost everywhere, right from the start. But at the same time, that cuts both ways--residents will cheerfully sell you out, or even accept contracts against you (not necessarily lethal).

This was really helpful! I've been looking at these videos all day and this one was both helpful and non-judgmental (like it just gave tips instead of criticizing some viewpoints) and I really liked it! Do you have any tips on how to come up with good NPCs?

Good stuff! Don't try to plan out every building in the entire city. Have a few key locations and NPCs. Handwave the rest. Caution the players about the local laws and who is in charge. They should not ruffle feathers in town, that could get very dangerous. Don't save the party often. Let the chips fall where they may. There are other options besides killing them.

I just stumbled on this review. You are a great reviewer and i m picky. Subscribed! 👍🏻

Nice Soth!

I haven't got the Time, apologies.

Town guards can be a great tool for DM'S to regulate a party IN GAME the idea a a major city with no police force is unlikely so they are constant looming threat to unruly players that won't ever be questioned.

Thx for the tips!

I am kinda surprised they did that

Cool Strahd is my favorite I only have have of them, my son has them all

100% agree. Great tips that I've been using for years. I'll add a couple from my own experiences- 1. You don't need to detail most of a city. I promise you that most people don't know the cities they've actually lived in very well. You only need details for areas you'll spend significant time in. 2. One of the opportunities offered in larger population centers is the use of rumors as quest hooks. Instead of clumsily giving clues directly from an obvious NPC, have your rumors be overhead while moving through the city. I generally have a list of 20 or so tidbits to overhear, that I break into 3 categories: useless, referential, and direct. By randomly selecting them, you'll get some repetition and that's OK. But more importantly, news of the situation you want the group to look into will be scattered about the city in a very organic feeling way, regardless of what else the party is doing.

OK, Time is finaly kaput. I do like D&D though. :)

I rum my game like a gritty crime drama. The fighters are in the role of Inquisitors working for the city guard captain. The wizards are employed as "Scribes" recruited from their guild to record significant events. Rogues are "Purveyors" of specialty items to the 9 affluent Houses. Of course the clerics are assigned to the sheriff's office as coroners, experts on causes of death and identification of diseases. They collect bodies and have records on births, deaths and marriages. The Almshouse is the emergency room and the orphanage is a great source of mischeif and intrigue. Sending the team out on missions drives the surface activity while I maintain the background factioins in response. There will be consequences - always. Not coupling the campaign or story to a player allows them to miss a session and the campaign goes unaffected. So it might be viewed as a sequence of one-shots, except that those who play every session are more aware of the underflow and its protagonists.

Time to roll on the Random Harlot table! 😆

I'd like the D&D Red dragon Lego set, but $350 is a bit steep and I'd probably take me a month to put it together LOL

Nice I have 5 of them My son got the whole set I’m not that big into Lego and suck at putting them together

I have some of the Lego minis. Good news show.

How???

Thanks for showing.

Nice I saw him at origins and he signed a book for me. Awesome stuff I need to get some more of his stuff I need a print or two

And they are ONLY USD 107 in my country ❤.

Like the thoughts. Generally speaking I start with regions and a few ideas for each. I try to start with a rumour table that can be picked up through social interaction. Depending what thread the players tug at decides what I'll build for them, within a general framework.

Aw dude no way I'm totally FOR the upscaling of dragon sizes! I think the issue becomes when 2 "young" figures are of different sizes XD but then again you can always just say "one is older but not quite an adult yet" I suppose

Something ive started doing is letting my players come up with a few of the locations or rumors of the town and then i flesh them out. Helps us all feel like we're making the story together.

I divide my city into districts and give them names like Cheapside, harbor district, academic, etc. Then I give them district information that differs such as City Guard Reaction Time, Pickpocket table based on average wealth for a given district and a Encounter table for both day and night cycles. I further set up each district like a hex crawl where the more a player looks and stays, the more likely they will find something they haven't seen or noticed before. These usually include 3 or 5 room [room used loosely here], adventures. This does take some time to setup my city took about a week to make and then another three for the hex crawl part of it. The advantage is that I can run this city for years of gameplay if the players want to. thanks for sharing your ideas.

I would of liked to hear specifically how you were able to save the party

I as an old school player prefer long form campaigns where the character stays the same and the adventures change over time. I used both premade and written for the world adventures but if using a premade I altered it to fit the world the pc's where in

nice! good practical tips. i run an urban centered campaign and have done so for 3 decades. agree a city is way more interesting than a dungeon or wilderness. factions, guilds, city guards, crime-lords, plots to overthrow the ruler, underground cults, spies, assassins, street gangs, con-men, sailors, muggers, sewers, mysterious priests, smugglers, prison breaks, crime-ridden districts... etc etc. I use Sanctuary Thieves World which is a city campaign with unlimited adventure hooks and unlimited potential for NPC social encounters. Hard to find now but highly recommended. Id buy a second copy of the Thieves World boxed set if i came across it for a good price, its that good.

Some of my best campaigns revolved around urban settings.

Great video!

Definitely worth a re watch next city I build

Greed. Plain and simple.

I enjoy a good non-tragic backstory! I had a character whose brother died but was brought back to life in his backstory, leaving my character as a folk hero off to fulfill his destiny while occasionally sending money back to his large farming family. My most recent character is an apprentice wizard who returned to his hometown to visit his family and met up with other adventurers there.

As a lifelong lego fan. And a recent dnd fan. The lego set is special to me. I do NOT understand the hate for it. With people from both fandoms not understanding things that are obvious to the other and unwilling to listen. The set is amazing and the story behind it is great

Great Video (I subscribed) 😁

It's Pa i(ee) zo, not pie-ay-zo, payaso🤡.

Are you serious!? The LEGO D&D set is just a singy and dumbed down version of the winning fan-design for way to much money. And on top of that you even have to pay extra, if you want to get the print version of the adventure. Maybe this hits the taste of the D&D-Audience who got their last LEGO set as a kid, but as someone who is both a long time D&D player and a collector of LEGO I find this set ugly and outrageously overpriced!

3:44 Deus, not Do

Good to know these would be cool

Yes You can always learn, especially while playing

Nice backstories

Thanks for the info

God, it's so refreshing to see somebody mention that Lego set in a positive light. Every Lego TH-camr I have seen has trashed it saying assorted nonsense like 'too bright and colorful', 'they changed the dragon color', 'it's childish', 'it looks like a toy'... I bought it, and I have to say that it may be my favorite Lego set period, bar none. Not a single Lego product I have ever purchased got my brain running like it did. As I completed every element of the set I was thinking 'oh that's a neat little encounter' which just got me to think of stuff that I could build myself. It is the PERFECT merging of two brands built on a core of creativity and expression. Lego didn't just get it right, they got perfection. When I was done building the set, I just wanted to play with it. That night I started making my own designs in Studio, which innevitably trailed off into my own brand of insanity. Then later, I invited a couple of friends over and we ran the module. It was FUN. I had fun playing with a Lego set for the first time since I was in middle school, rather than just getting a big impressive thing to stick on my shelf. They nailed it, and if Lego plays their cards right, this could rival Star Wars or Ninjago as one of their most successful lines. 10/10, no notes, perfection, those crazy Danes get D&D better than the people who own the IP.

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People act like this is new behavior for WotC. I played D&D for forty years but left when WotC tried to kill the OGL way back when 4e came out. I left and I’ve been enjoying Pathfinder ever since. WotC has been acting evil for almost two decades. They’ll never get another penny from me.

What does Cynthia Williams have in common with a chef who's always dropping their pancakes? They're both useless tossers.