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This is great but it doesn't seem to work exactly this way in Foundry version 12 Build 330. I do not have the landing page as per 6 minute mark as there are no importer options

Thanks for showing the maps

Here is the deal. The % goes from 1-100. There is no zero result. the Single digit die indicates what number is in the 1's place. The double digit die indicates what number is in the 10's place. If they both come up 0, then the only number with a zero in the 10's and 1's places is 100. If you wanted a 10 result, then there needs to be a 1 in the 10's place. this is a 100.

Have you seen the new TTRPG DC20??? If not, I suggest doing a review on it too...

NIce video, but not feeling it,, its just a clone of 5e and well I wont give WotC any of my hard earned cash at all. I love KP but this feels like a step in the wrong direction! Hard pass.

This just came across my screen. Glad to see you back!

While many classes are buffed, I felt that monks were overall weakened with the changes to stunning strike, and only a few small buffs. The monk subclasses are very strong, though, so it may be that it balances out.

In the D&D UA you get two uses Channel Divinity at 2nd level, three at 6th level, and then four at 18th level. They now have two options for it at level 2. I think every class that has a Channel Divinity feature will get two options for it in their base class. If ToV is going to add base class options like additional Heroic and Epic Boons, I could see them adding additional things to do with your Channel Divinity in your base class.

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Thanks for doing this video! I've been reading through the players guide and have been looking for other people's thoughts about ToV. Personally, I quite like it, particularly because of the class abilities. I find them more interesting and evocative than the D&D versions.

I think, so far, the only change i dont like is the change between spell level and spell circle. I think it would be better presented as Spell Magnitude, so its a completely different word rather than character LEVEL/spell LEVEL and druid/spell CIRCLE.

OMG - so glad you are back! You had me nervous. Looking forward to more FoundryVTT stuff. YaaaY!!! I got my books and sleeve - but the GM Screen... the BEST GM Screen out in my opinion... doesn't fit in the sleeve for some dang reason. So one thing I want to ask - Are we supposed to play TOV Subclasses right next to and including the SubClasses from 2014 PHB? I mean, since they are only giving us two subclasses per class? Also, kinda wish we had more of a Ranger and Monk base class change but clearly they are addressing that through the SubClasses.

The majority of my players create their characters on D&D Beyond. So, it doesn't matter how good or bad Tales of the Valiant is, my group won't touch it.

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Welcome back! You're looking great!

Glad you are back! I love the art in both books.

Why Hello there! LETS GO ToooooooV!

good to see you back!!!!!

The city of Moonrise is built around a perfect isosceles triangle formed by twenty-eight liths. The precise purpose and origin of the standing stones has long been forgotten, but all agree that the triangle points exactly at the point where the moon touches the horizon as it sets on the winter solstice. The moon druids who worship at the site believe it is a message passed from Mother Earth to Mother Moon to guide her on her way. Those skeptical of the druids associate the site with were-creatures. An earthquake that lives on in the memories of only the oldest humans living in Moonrise leveled every building over two stories tall creating a plateau as the standing stones and their immediate vicinity rose 30 feet into the air. The arch-druid Aneth declared that Mother Earth had punished the city for obstructing Mother Moon’s view of her message. Since that day construction of buildings over two stories tall has been forbidden. Jaccan, Aneth’s successor, visits the stones on the nights of the full moon to perform rites known only to the druids. No paths exist to the summit as the regent of the city forbids all travel there lest the city once again suffer the retribution of the earth, the moon, or the druids. Of late swarms of albino rats have run freely through the city retreating to the plateau under cover of night to tell Jaccan of the unsavory business below. The young arch-druid contemplates taking matters into their own hands before the Mothers are stirred to action. Time grows short.

I don't understand how anyone could read this book and find it useful. Are you quite sure you actually read it? You say at the start that it's not a 5e book. It is a 5e book. All the NPCs and player options are for 5e. You even show a 5e Druid subclass in this video. I suppose you could argue a lot of it is system agnostic in the sense that it contains no concrete information, so isn't tied to 5e. The random tables are very generic lists of businesses, government types, districts etc. The art is just OK. It's arguable that some of the subclass options are flavourful but they certainly none have been playtested or given much mechanical thought. The NPCs are fine. Most of the text is stuff like: "The city watch serves as the city’s police force, responsible for maintaining law and order and keeping its inhabitants as safe as possible. They patrol the city streets, dealing with wrongdoers, breaking up arguments, reuniting lost children with their parents, giving directions to visitors, and so on." It goes on for another 3 pages like this and the only things you could put in a game are 3 generic Guard NPC descriptions and a d20 table of plot hook gems like 'you find a dead body'- that's literally the whole hook. Every single section is mostly the same sort of dull, empty filler.

Quick question, how did you make your Klavek Kingdom entry with the soldier image to the side and the text all a solid paragraph? Every time I place an image, it places along with the text. Thanks

Do the physical folded maps lay flat when laid out on a table?

Hmmm. So I have to be critical on this one. I was kind of... Ok, let's start with the good... 1. the back stories for each of these NPCs are excellent. They make total sense. I could swear that I met some of these people when I was serving in the army. Some of these characters are very real, even the evil ones. The idea of INSPIRATION is very true. It makes role playing these types of characters easier even if you don't have a military background. You can still give a good performance. 2. BUT - it is not as good as Revenge of the Horde. There are several reasons why. The biggest reason I was upset was I wanted to use some of these characters for a convention and kinda role playing class. The plant was to have these as pre-generated characters at level 8. Only one problem... No Matter what is in their occupation, No matter what the backstory says, the stat blocks at the different levels are all very similar. For instance ALL the Fighters are Champion Fighters. First set of Barbarians are Berzerker Barbarians and after you realize this, you stop looking. No one wants to play as a Champion Fighter. Why no Battlemasters? Then you realize they must have had to restrict themselves to using the SRD Classes and Subclasses. At that point you kinda want to throw the book away. You skip forward and you find a Rogue that has an Arcane Trickster Subclass - NOT on the SRD. You do eventually find a Eldritch Knight and a BattleMaster in the book about one third of the way in. 3. If you get a chance to make more of these books, please set up the table of contents as a Name/Species/Class/Subclass. The rest of the organization by alignment is good. Stop making a book to read. I want to buy a tool to use.

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Does the adventure take place in FR or some other setting? If in a different setting, how difficult/easy would it be to transfer the adventure to FR?

So it is really ''system agnostic'' correct? No precise game mechanic in it so we can use it in Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands or AD&D 2E right?

I ignored Kobold Press far to long... and now I think it beats WoTC by half a plane of existence.

Isnt their a box set or online tome of horrors avalible. Most players just hang outside and look around before entering the Death trap.

Got the audiobook and never had i finished listening to a book so fast. More well written than the Game Wizards and certainly was read better in audiobook form. The author constantly brought up how TSR discovered and ultimately lose talent, I was a bit disappointed on not hearing about the drama with David Trampier, one of the early iconic artists who abruptly cut all ties with TSR and quit the industry.

I've used your video countless times when introducing people to Dungeon Alchemist -- you really provide the best quick, clear overview of it that I've been able to find. Any chance you'll do a retrospective on how the software has developed since?

Tome of Horrors for 5e is really quite good, totally worth it. The Tome of Horrors 2020 is not. It looks amateurish for layout - lots of wasted space, the art is really hit and miss, to downright dreadful. Get the PDF if you absolutely have to have it and save the shelf space for any number of other monster books.

Are you going to get a chance to review Warlock Grimoire IV and Deep Magic II?

There are so many campaign builder resources out there. Which are your essential books that every gm should have in their toolbox?

is this how you orginized RotD?

Running this as our actual play starting in January

Problems with the first Tome of Horrors book: Monster Profiles: it boasts 325 monster profiles. 11 of these are "Mouse Dragons", around 10 Giant beetles, 5-6 Orbs of element, and each Dragon family takes 4 monsters each, so there are closed to 275 monsters, which is still great but the fillers pull down the quality of monsters you can find. Art Work: Some artwork is questionablee.g. Goblins 180-184 look really nice. Giant fly 150 is a enlarged picture of a fl and is blurry. Hell Moth page 196 isn't great but Hellbender 197 (same artist) looks lovely. Other monsters are almost anime drawings too. Info and Lore for Profiles. Some of the monsters, like the Dungeon Dragon, have brilliant backgrounds and interesting ideas to add to your table. Some of them barely give you a discription or how they live/work. Others give questionable tactics like the Advanced Demilich page 76 advising on alternating between its "Trap the Soul" ability which doesn't exist, and a banshee wail that is a Recharge 6 which is just bad advice. I'll be checking reviews of the 2020 version first before buying as the current ToH book has some flaws

Good to see you back.

The books were out in what... March? Good work on the VTT.

This was a really helpful review! Thank you!

Nice to see a company just trying to make good products these days! Thanks for peaking my interest!

Gonna watch this, trying to get a campaign set up

Agreed. This book looks absolutely fantastic. So beautiful. Am finally diving into the book to learn this beast, but thought I'd come here first for any tips on DMing.

Late to the party but just wanted to say thanks for doing these reviews. It really helps us to make a decision on if something is worth the purchase or not. Thanks to your review it definitely seems to be the case. Keep up the good work!

Do Crown of the Oathbreaker!!!!!!!

Great review. Makes me want to buy it!

Puzzles always make these games more interesting.... Just another dynamic of tabletop to enjoy!

This could be a cool magical item or maybe a character whos backstory has to do with luck magic or something, a gambler or something like that

Did you get a chance to dive into Auroboros at all? Would love to hear your thoughts on it