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Could I make a magic user who has a really weak body, but what is great at magic? If so, how would I handle the stats with that? Would I keep the constitution low or high?

This is a fantastic step-by-step. Love it.

Great idea!

This was awesome! Any other cool ideas coming up?

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This dude is an awesome DM that host D&D games on StartPlaying. It’s an awesome way to play d&d if it’s hard finding a group around your area.

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Hi RJ! I just stumbled upon your channel and this series and I am enchanted by the insights I receive from you working through your own process. I hope your channel will grow quickly to match the quality of your content. One question though: You kind of pointed towards the fact, that the Hags would stop the players if they simply walk away. Wouldn't that be exactly railroading them into one specific outcome? And maybe one feedback: the recording volume of your voice is quite low in this series. Maybe turn it up a notch in the future :)

Awesome! I love this!

Wow this is perfect. I just found you and I wanted to check more of your content. I've recently thought about using krita for map making but I'm still very new to everything, this is very helpful. Thank you!

Just wondering, is there a reason you didn't use the original planescape factions for Sigil? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faction_(Planescape)

Also, the pawnshop have your characters ask if they have the items

How long are your sessions? This is an incredible process that I'd absolutely steal for a full campaign based in one city (e.g. Ravnica, Cyberpunk, any WoD campaign ever) but for an open table with a loop around leaving and coming back to the city, I'd worry about my players getting bogged down in the home base and running out of actual adventure time. We tend to go for 4 to 4.5 hours biweekly.

Just found this series and a BIIIG piece of advice: get the playlist for this series in order. Part 1 should be on top, not on the bottom. Make everything in order. Once your playlist for this series is fixed I'll try and give it a watch :)

Environment is also huge. It's going to determine or at least inform everything about the town/city. If its a town on a river, for instance, everything is going to be different compared to a mountain town. For me I always make it step 1 especially since in the context of improv, environment is likely already decided. If something is on a river its probably going to be larger and have great farming, trade, and transportation options whereas if its in the middle of mountains its probably poorer/smaller and relies heavily on logging and mining with another larger neighboring city they rely on for materials and trade.

My trap is simple.... The player falls into a pit of darkness.... There will be an IMMEDIATE OBVIOUS SMELL all around them... If they use any sort of spark or fire or flame of any kind... The gas will have a chance to be lit.... The pit will also be filled with slimes resistant to physical and magical attacks but weak to fire........ So they have to find a happy medium of fire attacks and not blowing up.... They can risk it all or try to brute force the slimes with physical attacks that do next to nothing.... Also they will be fighting in complete darkness unless they use a light source..... Like a torch......

Haven't DM'd yet, but thinking that if I can't figure out a way to dissarm a trap, I present it in a one-shot, and wait until one of the players comes up with a solution I like!

in a DnD game i was the DM for, i had a minefield with elemental magic mines, the intention was for the group to use dispel magic but the barbarian of the group just decided to sprint through the minefield

Watching this knowing damn well I’m too lazy to make a game

First 😅 always wanted to do that... Now that I've indulged my inner child YAY next installment.

could you assist me on which video you discuss the cornell-style note taking?

This reminds me of w baytle i partaked in at lvl one where ee just murdered some alley robbers (i was a warlock)😂

I need more for a Playlist please. Thank you

Great info! Thank you for sharing.

I have written mysteries. I am helping AxalKay write a mystery for The Thirty Moons System. In that system rolling is not super important. All mysteries can be solved by asking the right questions. You can roll to get help. The rule we have is you must be able to solve the mystery wothout rolling. It must be written in a way that encourages rolling.

Eh, if you really do not have backstory prepared? Your character is now amnesiac. They know their name (subject to change, since it's a name they chose for now, not their real one), they have their things... but they do not know anything else. After that, you can either prepare the backstory for next session and slip it to DM, or get with GM after first session to brainstorm it together and weave it into what DM wants to do with the campaign. Then, it gets revealed bit by bit as your character's quest for their lost identity progresses.

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I really love the passionate narration of forgetting to write a backstory.

I did something like this with my latest character. Ven was orphaned at birth, being raised by many different families, until a dwarf adopted him. This dwarf, while being his main guardian, never felt like a dad to Ven, more like an uncle that you grow to treat more like a friend. No one knew what really happened to Ven's parents after they abandoned him, but hes determined to find out where his parents are, or at least how they died. So he leaves the comfort of the capital with a group of people he met at an escort job, and hes on the hunt for any clues on what may have happened to them

I'm pretty sure my newest character is an orphan. but we haven't focused much on backstory so they're currently just really fast and comically stealthy. and a kleptomaniac. i robbed a 20th level wizard because I thought it would be funny

That link is startplaying.games/gm/rjcurrer Right now, I only have one-shots scheduled, but I'll be adding campaigns in the near future. I'm leaning towards playing Ghosts of Saltmarsh with Tales from the Yawning Portal blended in, but I'm open to suggestions. What campaign would you want to play?

i would have loved to watch this but its too quiet for me to understand what your saying

Raw treasure matters to the character if the players make it matter. Being rich due to massive loot from extremely dangerous dungeons should show in your character's growth. The issue here is with D&D. Other systems have hard coded rules that allow your character to grow mechanically as they grow personally including due to how they carry/present themselves once they're loaded from that dragon's hoard. Only really D&D has such a strict and limited progression system. Any D&D player, however, can play their character as rich if they're rich. That matters if they let it.

❤very true❤

My first Dm was really good at this. He was playing with all new players and he was teally good at giving everyone chances to give ideas and also giving every character some moments to shine. For example, i was playing a monk and he let me kill the dragon we were fighting by elbow dropping it

There’s actually three, with the third being episodic. Shadowrun, deathwatch, and Vaesen fall well into this category.

See I don’t really know how to make a good campaign, but I can improv well enough to make my bard fight a moose.

I am currently running a wizardy school campaign and it's crazy how character driven the story of, but the players just don't realize

CORRECT! I like to call these Innate goal story’s And bespoke goal story’s. Innate goal story’s should take the hero’s internal pre existing goals, give them a somewhat clear path to achieve them, and put some sort of clear risk of failure on it Bespoke goals should radically change the hero’s life with risk of drastic consequences if they don’t take action At least that’s my approach

How do you ensure the players have the opportunity to figure out the "fatal flaw" without handing it to them?

My ruling always has been Bonus action: drink the potion roll the dice Action: Drink the potion for the max amount/Feeding potion to another player rolling thr dice I think this personally gives the most risk/reward with potions because while yes they do delay the inevitable sometimes you just need that delay yo win a combat meanwhile the action let's actual healing be done with a potion and getting people up with one makes things more tense.

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I honestly think I needed to see this, thanks a bunch dude. I hope you stay safe out there! 👍

The rule we use currently at the table is the best variation we have found so far for our group. Healing potions exclusively can be used as a bonus action however if you use a full action you don't have to role. You take the max that the potion could heal. In our campaign gold is not something that is given out hand over fist so that makes the use of a potion a far more tactical decision. We are lvl 9 in a long campaign and my pc has made maybe 3000 total gold up to this point. That 300gp potion looks very different when gold is not something easy to come by.

We rule it as a move action. If you want to move and drink you can sacrifice your standard action

...it's called acting. He's telling you to use an old Stanislavski method of acting.

As a forever GM this is something I tell my players every session 0 (even vets) especially people new to TTRPGs. As a player the natural tendency is to look at your skills and think "which of these can solve my issue" when you should instead be thinking "how would my character *attempt* to solve the issue?". Put it on the GM to call out what rolls to make. Sub'd

It makes prep harder but instead of looking at the campaign like a video game with red or blue Kool-aid I've always had success drafting a storyboard of sorts with main essential plot points and then letting the player decisions fill in basically everything else. It requires you to woldbuild a lot more because you have to give yourself pieces to throw into the campaign later but it leads to very organic storytelling

Free agency and “real” choice is what makes the game a fantasy reality brought to life ❤