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I love the anthology stile campaign. That's what I am running at the moment =D Great video! Thank you! And maybe I got an idea for a one shot interlude. Amazing! And my suggestion, if you want to GM the non chronological flashback campaign - play microscope and make every scene a oneshot were the player in turn order is the GM. This can totally work out. I play microscope almost every week and there is no reason why you should not be able to play oneshots instead of scenes. We actually de play Follow in our ongoing microscope game and it is a blast! And very close to playing an TTRPG in the same universe. Give it a try!

“Oh cool so my turn now” barbarian with a total ( 162 max hp at 8 right now

Cool video. Also this 19:22

If you touch my jelly beans istg

Sure, you can have then run into more and more stuff, but they will still insist they need a rest. Without the cliché doom clock, how do you prevent the 5 minute workday?

Another is: Don't be afraid to modify your monsters! I recently ran a BBEG fight and effectively upped the CR level by two or three, removing limitations, providing more legendary actions, and providing new (but appropriate to the BBEG's theme) abilities. It was brilliant. You can also do this with minions. Surprise the players with how the BBEG's lieutenants and minions seem tougher than the rank-and-file minions of the same type. You can always dial it back. It's harder to make things tougher in the middle of combat without having prepped everything to be tougher beforehand but it's easy to dial it back in the middle of combat. You can only increase a monster's HP so much before combat becomes a slog. So risk having a monster modified too much so you don't rely on HP and AC as your in-the-moment solution to too weak a battle.

this is a great video. I'm literally going to use some of these tomorrow. Thanks :)

Good advice You have to wear the party down before they can long rest

Loved this

Great Video! Helped Alot!

Your fighter build wouldn't work with the Potion of Speed. "...and it gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only)" So you only get one additional weapon attack from haste.

The using every skill part is excellent advice. Great Stuff

It’s great that so many people share their games. Lots to be learned and lots to be inspired by. Thanks!

One of the greatest episodes in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. I said it and I meant it. Great work everyone!

No cap, I can't recall the last time I ran an encounter to just kill the monster.. It's always a complication, there needs to be an important choice.

love this video. Using this in my next campaign for sure

Yes I use holidays and special events in my games

1:45 "wanted to make sure that when players and DMs read the spell". I've been DMing since 1976, And I've always found that one of the biggest problems with players and spells is that they actually DON'T bother to read them.... 😂

Great Video! As someone who plays a cleric a lot, I'm so happy about the healing fix. I'm not sure they are going to address this, but what was frustrating for me was all the material components. It seemed like a lot of bookkeeping for not a lot of roleplay. Also unless you're a cleric who took proficiency with Arcana, you can't create scrolls.

As a DM, I'm really looking forward to the revised rules - especially the language clean-ups and balancing.

Nice Video

6:59 we already have those spells, it's called spiritual guardians, we don't need 6 "new" versions of it, when I play a summoner I wanna summon a glabrezu, a green hag, or whatever else they had in the actual conjure spells, not fiendish spirit and have to choose between three bland grey blob templates that only come into existence when you use that specific spell, I wanna summon something that has lore and personality and actually exists in the game, or summon a bunch of dreches and watch them bum rush the closest thing they see. This also limits things for a DM, I like my monsters and npcs to be able to summon allies that actually exist in the world and have personalities, not fey spirit who just sits there and does nothing and says nothing until you tell it to do something, what would you even talk to it about, it didn't even exist until you summoned it, I can use infernal calling to bind a devil and get so much out of it besides just a template beat stick. It also breaks the shepherd druid and makes their main feature just plain useless. Also, my players hate what they did to druids and making them use temporary hit points so they're going to hate the changes to polymorph too, so I'm just gonna ignore 5.5 since most of it is just a bunch of nerfs that only nerf happy DMs like, less money for me to spend for half the subclasses in the original player's handbook.

As a ranger fan, I was a little disappointed to hear the way it ended up in the video. Making the class so dependent on hunter's mark for its core features doesn't seem like the right move to me. I'm interested to compare it to the 2014 ranger once it's out, and definitely willing to give it a try to see how it plays, but I may end up going with either a warden land druid or ancients paladin instead. Looking forward to seeing the final monk though, very hopeful there.

I'm considering running my next DnD campaign with the new system too. There are so many little frustrations with 5e that I've either worked around or hardly thought of for 10 years. All the new changes they're making have me thinking about the system more closely than I have in a long time

Spoiler alert!: I love the former mentor archetype. It reminds me of when you have to fight Chef at the end of South Park Stick of Truth.

Just stumbled upon your videos. Really great content! I do wanna say that your voice was pretty quiet despite having the volume cranked up.

Sounds like the ancestors did a lot of weird stuff for this video!

I got an ad break right when you started coughing. Didn't know if you were gonna make it

This is like alignment but actually tangible and useful!

This a really cool idea. It seems to me that you could place factions on a chart like this also.

False hydra?

I like this. Literally gave me an idea for an adventure while listening.

i have a pathfinder character i’ll be playing soon and she’s an automaton kineticist and i’m reflavoring her fire and metal elemental blasts as different mechanical weapons that are a part of her

Great feedback and very entertaining! Loved it and thank you!😊

This is an incredibly helpful tool! You've got yourself a new subscriber!

This was a well-timed video for me to see; I have a burgeoning campaign setting my players are still very early in, and this technique will help frame the central issues the factions/NPCs are involved with.

Nifty concept!

great video!

very fun video

good idea for a video :)

I like the idea, but I feel it relies too much on setting, which cannot be applied to every characters or every games, hance, I propose my own take on the matter: Sour: Qwirkyness. A trait or behavior that makes your character stand out. As an example, I have a barbarian that relys on taste to better understand her sourronding, meaning she will try to lick anything she can, A plant, a rock, a person (with consent) or even this visibly cursed item. Note that it doesn't need to be an Unique thing, The dumb barbarian or Horny bards are a bit cliché but do bring a sour taste to a character Sweet: No Notes, Cute is the way to go, but as an example, our Necromancer in the table I dm really loves dogs and will try anything to befriend them, even the wild ones Salty: Grit. I like the idea of "Militarism" better than the steampunk. So Salt could be any sort of Grit you could add to a character. Do they have scars? How did they get it? Adventuring is a dangerous career, how do they cope with Death? How do they feel about killing their foes? etc... Bitter: Tragedy or Edge. When we say someone is bitter, we mostly mean they are unhappy, so what pain and misery has your character suffered, or caused? Everyone has a dark secret they only reveal to their most trusted allies. Unami: Downtime. The unami taste is a special one, one that is less flashy than other taste, but is grounded, and so should it be for your character, when the stakes are low, what does your character likes to do? Craftsmanship is one example, but not everyone like making things, Maybe your character likes counting their gold and magic item, or prank their party members, or gossip about the latest NPCs they met. Who is your character between the flashy bits of adventure?

So who here wants to see a sweet&sour and salty&umami duo? I certainly do.

Very nice stuff, thanks for posting this. If you like geopolitics to go along with your power fantasy, as the PCs become true movers and shakers, this type of story is a great way to go beyond punching foes until the xp and gold falls out. I would also recommend checking out the outstanding Reliance: Interdependence and Inner Turmoil by Adam Bell. It provides a bit more mechanical/procedural support to this type of storytelling.

You know, I thought I’d stumbled upon another large DND creator until I saw that this video only had 600 views. Massively underrated, and I will be sharing this with my players

I am going to tell my players to watch this ❤❤🎉

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It's fun to recontextualize my old PCs through this lens

A very unique methodology, indeed. I think some of my newer players will appreciate this very much. Well done, as always.