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Technically always rounding down is false. In most cases you do round down, however not in every case. The most common exception is if you take average Hit Points instead of rolling. I think there is also some class features that you round up with.

Me and my group enjoy the challenge of encumbrance. We don’t use it all the time but if you’re off down a dungeon or mine, or on a journey where you can’t take a cart then you can only take what you can carry. It adds an extra dimension and challenge to the game.

Ryan love this. went to the guild threw you a few bucks ( plus pick up your Crypt of Kolos too). Might I also suggest adding to the DM tools a table of the schools/types of magic and a brief description. Whenever anybody does detect magic and finds it they always ask what kind. Might be handy in a table for fast use. thx for everything!!

When my group first started we were all new including myself, the dm, and had to learn the rules as we played through LMoP. Our wizard is a doctor and boardgame nut so I just trusted him to know the rules for casting for the first half of the campaign

<3 Edit: My players are still going nuts with the gold teeth from Phandalin.

Bless you my beloved DM. I got this set last month and still haven't run it...I mostly ran homebrews.

five twenty-four is what I have gotten in the habit of saying & writing it is 5.24.

"5e is way less deadly than his predecessors" yeah, me coming here to prep the new adventure after my players wiped in Phandelver lmao

Well now... Isn't this the duo I didn't know I needed! Good to see you collab! :D

Have I got a card based mini game for you 😄

Yo, why didnt i know you did a pod cast with dire den? Ive been watching the two of you alot recently!!!

I’ve always thought of Sildar as Jora from GoT

Dooooooom!

Thanks again for having me! I've been thinking about it since we spoke, and I actually think my next vinyl is going to have to be Dark Side of the Moon. It's the perfect record to throw on, turn off all the lights, and just lose yourself in it!

personally I find Icespire Peak kinda underwhelming, namely due to the notice board due to how videogamey it feels. As someone who plays heavily modded Skyrim it reminds me of the Missives mod where its some decent coin as a reward at the start but as you get to higher levels you just feel like ignoring it. Despite LMoP being the 'linear' adventure it has better ways of giving out quests i.e talking to people and joining factions as rewards

How did you decide which characters were attacked by the goblins? Is that just the DM's prerogative?

Wow. Having the players control the NPCs in fights is an amazing trick. They're responsible for survival, but can get as much help as they want without burdening the DM. I regularlybhave 10 plus enemies on the board in curse of strahd which makes it so much work on the GM

After 10 days of travel, my physical copy should finally be arriving today

🥳🫂👍🏿 Love a good zine - brings me back to a part of my youth I never got to participate in - big fan of throwing all your ideas out there - best of luck with the kickstarter - Nimble just pulverized their target, and the stretch goals alone have added lots of extra work for Evan - Dad always said, “it’s hard to like hard work.” I always say, “hard work is hard” - much of my job can be lonely, and the idea of having an intentional space to share that common stress is very nice - I hear a lot of creators say they don’t really tell people what they do and don’t like the idea of their friends and family watching their videos - least favorite: interpersonal conflict that ends up being my job to sort out (as the DM) - sounds similar - I’ve been talking with one of my friends about paid games for this very reason - he told me he heard of a group that doesn’t even pay the DM, they all just give it to him and he donates it to a charity - next game: doppelgangers as an infectious disease produced by a fungal lord (warlock patron) attempting to take over the sanctuary metropolis for the main world - I keep a list of “loose ends” that I reincorporate into the game any time I get a chance - doors do take a surprising amount of time to get thru - we had that happen recently - other times, I’ve narrated them walking thru it, because there were no consequences to barging thru, and I didn’t want them to spend 45 minutes debating, checking for traps, coming up with absurd ways to open it from a distance, etc. - having an emotional investment is the best ways to get the players to really buy in and engage about people and events they encounter - this is why there’s the joke: wow the players really love this character [inner voice: kill them!] - my favorite mimic is a little music box - not sure mimics can be cute, but if any of them could be, that’d be it - Quinton Reviews says that’s kind of how youtube success works: once you make a video that pops off, make that video (a very similar video) 5 more times - then you’ll have an audience and a niche and can expand from there - these days I have a weekly in person game on Tuesday nights, and we play even if we’re missing people, which I think is what makes the system work - it’s been ongoing for a couple years now, so it’s ingrained into our lives - it was easy in high school: game every Friday and Saturday for 12 hours at a time, but life has changed, and it’s a lot harder to play for so long and so often - I’m very lucky with my current group, especially because they tolerate my constant house ruling

Acting!

Lookit this guy... yucking it up... having a great time... he's not one of the 300 special roleplayers on the planet.

🥳🫂👍🏿 It’s tough when the new version comes out, and you have to read what you think you’ve already read - it doesn’t have a dev log of changes to shift you over, so it can have hidden changes (even non-mechanical) like you describe

Thank you so much for having me on 😊 it was an absolute blast!

We need more videos about this adventure!

I am gearing up for my first ever DM experience, and this is the adventure I'm planning to embark on with my friends. Thanks for the video/tips!

I'm still of the opinion that the no spell slot used castings of the Ranger's "Hunter's Mark" spell should also be concentration free in addition.

🥳🫂👍🏿 Been going to Wally for a while getting ideas for puzzles - wow, the red box - that’d be awesome - do either of you have the experience necessary to give your thoughts on BECMI vs BX? Ah yes, traps and puzzles - I subscribe to the view that a good trap is either a puzzle or a hazard - a secret button you step on that explodes and kills you is very much more realistic as far as traps would be (e.g., IEDs) but don’t make for as much fun - I started playing during 2e, and even way back then, the idea you could just die right off the rip from a single bad roll just seemed so weird, and I honestly never got used to it - hard to come up with good advice that hasn’t already been said, but “slow down” is a great piece of wisdom - in my job, we are encouraged to wait and listen, and that is a very valuable skill for a DM - I do love to listen to my players discuss what to do - at some point I may give them a little prodding to move along - I’ve been experimenting with so many different systems lately it’s hard to know what I’m “working on” - I’ve been enjoying using some older systems lately, such as reaction rolls - random tables have also been very helpful with sparking ideas - we’ve been playing in a sanctuary metropolis for the past few months, and it took a bit to get comfortable just running a dense urban environment - esoteric suggestion on that: Dortoka City on the Sea of Glass - Web DM recommended it, and I was not disappointed - there’s a lot of useful info in that little book - love a “weird little guy” - world building detail… I love a good map - pantheons are great - in my old world, there were three “over gods” and a collection of regents that were go betweens for mortals and gods (sort of like saints) that people would pray to and gain their power from - speaking of MTG, on my house rule quest, I saw a guy using the MTG library website that will give you a random card on a click as inspiration - usually the flavor text would be something he could spin into a part of the story - TTRPG highlight reel… I always love when players take things in a totally different, narratively satisfying direction - we had an encounter that I assumed would be a final battle with the BBEG, and the players negotiated their way out of it by appealing to her interests, and one of them sacrificed himself, agreeing to stay behind to work for the BBEG, to save the characters that were his surrogate children - it was such a poignant moment - as a player… I have had far fewer opportunities to play rather than DM, but I had a great character in Red Hand of Doom named Benevolent, Lion of Brindol - he was a paladin with a giant golden hammer who always shouted to “Fear the Flame of Benevolent, Lion of Brindol” - he once crashed his hippogriff thru a wall to take out an assassin sniper which totally shocked everyone at the table, including the DM - it was awesome - I agree that being DM is the best seat at the table - sources other than TTRPGs include books, videos, other games, random tables… reading the first book of the Dresden Files had a big impact on the way I constructed magic in my world - for me, research is inspiration - GTA 3 was a great pastime in my childhood, we’d just drive around listening to the radio (chatterbox was king) - the last game I played was Inscryption - super game - definitely recommend - full of surprises - yes, d6, homebrew, slot based, probably cleric but I’d like it to be wizard, drow or aasimar, standard array, balance, no flying PCs, Amazing Wizard’s “Running a Maze or Labyrinth with Cards”, Nimble - congrats on the puzzle book - also looking forward to your book Ryan

About to run this adventure. Your videos gave me a ton of ideas. Thanks a lot. Was thinking about kobolds in the abandoned storageroom. I intend to play kobolds as intelligent creatures and I imagine that if they found themselves in serious trouble, the last one or two could try to run towards the throne room as you pointed. What about the hall trap? Would you rule that they know about it (its not clear to me if they set that up; it seems it predates the kobolds) and they just jump over it? Would they trigger it? Perhaps if the PCs see the kobolds jumping over some floor tiles it can give them a hint about the trap.

The downtime is great I will say depending on how invested the characters are in the town downtime might not convince them to stick around so I might suggest if you want something that takes up a significant length of time in game would be to run a condensed version of the lost laboratory of qualish from extra life and say that the reason they are going there is because they found paperwork and maybe some designs from qualesh in the wave echo cave

I've been following the channel and all the guidance surrounding LMoP, P&BSO and now DoIP. I started my group with P&BSO so I didn't know what to do about DoIP, but I came up with this idea: It happens AFTER the Mine starts producing Magical Items after all, Dragons love magic Items and gold... I wonder if this could be the adventure in between the Psionic Goblin invasion and started of the second part of P&BSO.

Great tips! Ty

This is a fascinating process.

How did I totally miss Cones of Dunshire?!!!!!

1000% exactly what I was just looking for as rewards for defeating a mushroom/spore themed evil homebrewed druid, wonderful, immediately landed in my cart

Looking a the book and seeing the maps with squares and characters having movement. I'm kind of confused on how to DM the battle phases and how movement works and letting the characters make their decisions in battle. It's been 20 years since I played DND now my kids want to run this adventure and I've never DMd before. I want it to be a great experience but I'm also trying to get the grasp of how to keep them engaged and make sure I don't absolutely mess up the whole story by not knowing battle tactics and not knowing if I should let them take certain quests or not off of the board based on how difficult it is.

I picked this book up because the alt cover looked amazing when it came out and the time has finally come to run it, I actually do really like the features and flavor it adds with the metamorphosis of the characters and their environment.

Thank you, picked up the set with my son today, gonna have a larty of 3 others who have never olayed and i only played when i was young. This helps so much

This was an amazingly helpful video, I would love to see this for the other Dolmenwood adventures as well!

Can't wait for DSDPTTRPGBC!

I want Dan to be my Gm

That's great advice about not getting daunted by TH-camrs. They can give you so many ways to do it that you don't feel like starting.

'Number 9' was a laxative pill given out by army doctors in WWII, so 'number 9, doctor's orders.'