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Just watched a video from a guy talking about the RPG Pendragon where among other things you can get knighted and or become a Baron and you might have a castle or lands to operate in the winter when you are not adventuring. I have in the past tried to incorporate some of this idea as a treasure. Depends on the governmental system you have but it's nice for players to be given, a title, a house a tower, a baroncy, something that's not money, not a magic item. Some modules also hand out some of these things. Castle Amber produced some things like this as treasure. I think you could become a Lord of Glantri. It came with no money, no property but theoretically it gave you a more solid basis to deal with people in Glantri.

Yeah Love the Sand Box. I've got generally 3-4 directions my players can go in.

Horror on the Hill is fun. Love building on to existing adventures.

Somehow this feels even more racistist coming from them. Like they want racial purity. Instead of mixed races.

Those early modules for B/X and AD&D are fantastic. And they're meant to be adaptable aka *modular* to whatever world you're in, or even if it's just a one-off. Plus, they're flexible & open for however pc's approach them. I never really got to play them because the group I started with had been thru them, but as a consequence I got to read them, and I was fascinated at how they were mostly so well-constructed. Running them for new players is a great idea, and I would encourage going to the originals rather than relying on any version updated for whatever edition, or at least looking at the originals before using any later adaptation. imo, it should be relatively easy to adapt them yourself to whatever game you want.

I'm interested in acquiring hirelings, or I suppose henchmen given your definitions in my current campaign. Out of our consistent players we have a bard, a wizard, and myself as a paladin. I'm a Japanese themed mounted spearman (really I use a halberd but you get the idea). We have other players, a cleric which is nothing to sneeze at and a monk which is... ok, but mainly I'm the tank. I'm a crowd control dps healing tank. My DM is one of my best friends but he's very unforgiving in combat encounters. He will throw army's and beholders at you at level 4. I feel like I'm the only consistent martial class, so I would very much like to conscript some low level soldiers out of my own gold if I'm going to be the only player holding the front line in most encounters. I'm not even complaining about difficulty levels because I have very rewarding and interesting campaign with this DM. I just want to carry enough umphh in order to be the front line defense in case our other members flake out, and yes I agree with the advice most will give that if our other players can't be consistent then we should find more devoted players.😮

Great review...a little work but I'll give it a shot in Shadowdark or 3.5...

Inspiration is rare for my games so I use a houserule: you can use inspiration to forego a roll and treat it as the best possible result (instead of rolling you take a 20 on a d20, a 1 on a percentile roll etc.), or you can use it to reroll a failed check. When you might only get inspiration once or twice over a year and a half in real time it ought to count, should I be better at handing out inspiration? Probably, but for some reason I suck at remembering that's a thing, so on the very rare occasion that I do hand it out then I think it should count.

Do the backstory video! It sounds like Loki knows what's up!

I hate it when my wife runs away with the cheese merchant!

Used it for years - I call them Hero Points. I have not had problems with players fishing for them, but when rewarded, every player I have ever given them to have appreciated them, and many is the time they have been life saving in their use.

Inspiration gives advantage on checks, or an extra die of damage.

WFRP (original from 1986) and MERP have nice critical hits tables. With a certain death blow, I let that damage happen at full near, or at the end of the session. An internal organ was injured and PC will die from it, but thanks to this rule player won't sit for the rest of the session doing nothing.

I've found my party forgets about using their luck. I run a ShadowDark campaign and I give a roll advantage, but the players must declare it they are using it before they roll. I personally don't like rerolling. I give it out Luck for good roleplaying or just doing something that seemed cool.

Love the Dwarven Thrower.

Love your thumbnail though when I first see it I'm thinking I'm going to get something on Londo Molari from Babylon V. Now isn't solving a puzzle usually it's own reward? Takes you past something you otherwise have to fight. It's like it's own get out of jail free or inspiration token. Generally I give it out for a clever player idea , not for a good character roll. In original D&D I used to hand out experience points, 100, 200 experience points for a clever idea. Mostly only used it at low levels and it was around 10 to 20% of what they need for the next level. I like the luck points idea.

When I started DMing I always hid my dice rolls. I kind of thought it added to the mystery and would not take away from the narrative of the game. Looking back now I understand I was highly influenced by Matt Mercer’s narrative oriented style, but I could never really get it right. Slowly I got more down to earth, public rolls, humble beginnings, short and sweet-type of games. Cheers for a great video as usual!

Been waiting for this video, thanks loki!

My friends and I are currently running a game that sees new generations of people coming up from the Stone Age as they try to figure out (along with the players meta wise) what is the looming Eldritch threat, and how to stop it. Whole lineages and tribes of people and their descendants are made as both the players and DM co-create the world together.

Congratulations!

my aspiration for getting into GMing for the first time

"You" dont give players spells they get spells. counterspell only has 60' range a little positioning takes care of it. Not my cup o tea GM.You are just too controling. Be sure u are clear w players( no comprehend language? Are u serious its not speak language)

when I first started playing ttrpgs my brother ran a small game for me and some others, which sadly had to end before the story resolution, because people started moving to other cities. now years later most of us where living in the same city again and we started playing again. we reentered that first world I played in, but 1000 years later. our old characters had successfully finished their adventure and my cleric even started one of the now dominant churches of the land. one of the increasingly central mysteries of our current game are the details of the old parties never played ever foreshadowed final adventure. an expedition into a dark forest, that as I know now, is probably responsible for most of the sweeping changes to the world between the two games. this also relates to the coolest piece of treasure I ever received in a ttrpgs: my old player notes that our GM found again a few weeks ago, represented in game as my former character's journal.

I DM a sandbox open table for now 3+ years that had 30+ players over the time - some were only there for 1-2 sessions, others play really regularly. Some players build taverns in old dungeons (a former ghoul infested Mansion and an old halfling hill that was occupied by a wer-Chameleon), others formed religious cults for deities ( for a war entity somebody build a temple inside of a giants skull that he paid to be brought from outside into a city). The map has also some giant holes in it after a group had a crazy fight in a wizards tower with a demon that created them with a crystaline weapon, that other groups now use to explore the underdark through.

Congrats on being a farther, hope your blessed with more children yet!

First, congratulations on your son. Second, that's how we've been playing D&D with my group for the past 14 years, using the same campaign world is the way to go. 🥲👍

45 Years using the same world - up to three continents now. Never get tired of the Land, it the area gets stale, just shift a few hundred miles and bang! All new. Congrats! My oldest is 37, but I still remember holding them fresh and new.

Congratulations on the recent birth! Bless you and yours!

That real life Holy Roman Empire border gore 🤮

great map

This is exactly what it's about. I've put too much work in my Age of Swords setting to just throw it away. I've got 4 continents to work with, if I wanna change stuff up I'll just use one of the ones I don't have as extensive notes on.

Ahh... Sword and Sorcery. The good old time of being an adventurer with ambitions and drive, and not thrown at an adventure that takes 2+ year to finish :P

Interesting, I was thinking of returning to the Isle of Dread myself (after.... 40 years - gulp). Anyway, I have been playing on my continent now for 6 or so years (after having cruised around Middle-Earth for 30 years) and I intend on staying there for some more years to come. The Isle of Dread would be my attempt into getting away from a year long fight against Tiamat spanning two campaigns. I want something more basic now - exploring, treasure hunting etc. That said, my best wishes for your great adventure of being a dad. That's an experience I have never had.

Congratulations! Best thing to ever happen to me

Congrats!

I agree on the "recycling" of game worlds. I've run several campaigns in my game world and I start each new group in a new area. That gives me an excuse to flesh out more of the game world.

Congrats! Being a dad is the greatest kind of joy!

Great review and flick through

Constantly creating is one of the draw cards for DMs. Creating new regions or continents is a great compromise rather than creating a new world. You can also just rename and reuse an old city in a new world

Happy fatherhood!

Congratulations on the birth of your son Loki. I hope you have managed to name him after something or someone epic!

I’ve been using the same setting for 35+ years, Mystara with my own twists

"And may your first child be a masculine child." - Luca Brasi, Godfather Part I

Congratulations with your baby.😊

Anglo-Normans! Orcs! Dark elves! Oh my! How's your baby?

Already do and congrats on the kid

Looks like the tables in the original AD&D dmg. Do they have a table for ladies of the night?