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@gergosoos4652 Learning to role play in a deeper manner is definitely difficult, especially if their personality doesn't fly off at you. Start with why your character is powerful. Perhaps this individual is compensating for previous powerlessness for better or worse, or they're simply talented. People have reasons for the way they are, whether it be talent or need. I go to the gym, not because I just feel like it, but because I want to be healthy, there's a motivation, and motivation is the point. If you iron down why they are the way they are, then you think of what they currently want. Goals are big and should be worked through with your dm so they can be reflected in the game. So the reason they are who they are and what they want define a lot of what they will do, but then think of how they get it. I have a power gamer, his character lost his whole nation and most of his family, he's powerful because he wants to control his world in a way he couldn't when he was a kid and thus did everything to be strong. Your character may be more interested in a level of subterfuge by the sounds of it with his magic, so he may be more inclined in personality to not be an open book, choosing to use euphemism and obscurity when talking. I hope this helps a little.

@@gergosoos4652 mind if I use your comment/question for a video? I think this would be a good subject for me to go over.

Here's an improv tip I've given to every player who has ever approached me in 20 years of running D&D with a secret in his background. "All secrets in a narrative are eventually revealed, or they may as well not exist. So at what point do you want the secret to get revealed?"

Good advice

@@FamiliarEvils note me pls because I am interested in your solution.

I'm glad it helped! It's my joy to help bring more forms of story telling into the world. TTRPGs are amazing.

@@TheMightyBattleSquid no, but saying eating babies may be 😂.

@@imspmn2 lol thanks boss man

That's awesome! Thanks for telling me. It makes my day when I know my efforts have helped others.

I have some players who are definitely role play fans. Occasionally these non combat sessions occur and it always feels awkward as the dm but I like it.

Thank you! I'm stoked that my advice helped ❤️. Good luck with your new campaign!

Also, love your pfp, Wind Waker is my favorite Legend of Zelda.

@@FamiliarEvils Thank you! Wind Waker is my all time favorite.

Thank you! <3

Yeah. Fortunately my quality has been improving slowly over the last year, and I've been catching more mistakes like this earlier.

@@FamiliarEvils well, I finished the campaign. Ran with the ritual already in progress and my players came up with a few creative solutions. Took out sparkrender more quickly than I would have thought. Worked together to heal each other. They were pretty excited and now on to the next adventure. They don’t seem super keen on CoS. Possibly abyss since it’s in the under dark ad that’s kind of a cool setting to run a campaign. Or maybe run Pandavler since it has another dragon (they liked that part)

This is an entire article series, so there's a lot here, but it's absolutely worth getting into. The Dungeon Master Experience PDF: vk.com/wall-174681246_3129

@@FamiliarEvils Thank you very much for sharing

I may start this back up soon. I didn't stop because of disinterest, but because I'd heard from some reliable sources that it could be a problem with me reading these articles verbatim. Because of this, I attempted to get permission from Chris Perkins, but that's easier said than done. I'm going to try again, but I may go through with it if he still doesn't answer.

Hey it's been a while! Check my channel for a new Dungeon Master Experience. This one is for you! :D

That sucks that you didn't get to play longer. The angry DM bit is more of a joke, but really it's just that sometimes pets can get in the way, and if a bunch of people have them then combat takes twice as long especially if you're balancing out action economy. It's really just implementation and how you want to play things out while having a pet in the party. Like Trinket in Critical Role campaign 1 did get in the way a lot with travel, and that was a good deal of the reason why Sam/Scanlan had beef with Trinket as far as I understand. And then there is a lot of emotional stakes with keeping them alive, and they're often the weakest link if they aren't otherwise on the opposite end of the spectrum and OP.

Absolutely. That's something I do when it comes to the last point made about making 1hp minions. It really is a great tactic, and a lot of fun.

It's a matter of perspective really. Combat, tactics, danger, narrative are all heavily influenced by a DMs and a players ability to improvise. A player doesn't always know what a DM is going to pull out in combat, and tactics have to change. A DM doesn't ever have a perfect road map of where the narrative will go since a group can always make a vastly different decision than what you were expecting, taking a completely new direction. Now the comment may be slightly hyperbolic, but the point still remains that at least for me, the more I've learned about being a dungeon master the more it has been me learning to plan less or differently, and improv more. Even things that are planned have an element of improvisation to them, you certainly can't plan out every conversation like a BG3 dialog menu, and many core elements of your game are improvised both in and out of the game dependent on what ideas you have and when. This is why I say D&D or TTRPGs in a general sense are first and foremost an act of improvisation, because it's probably the one element you can't avoid if you actually want to role play.

@@FamiliarEvils I think I got it, I understood you wrong. It's not about putting improvising above the game but using it to stitch together what happens on is many spheres, not exactly a focus on purely improvisation in narrative but everything?

@@leonelegender Yes, basically improv influences the whole game because ultimately it is a role playing game, and even if you're playing it like a war game your greatest tool is going to be improvisation. Role play by definition implies improv.

Thank you 💖

Was a great moment!

I think you could, but I know health gets in the way these days 😔. But you're a great player and friend.

Thank you! I'm glad my tips have been helpful. To answer some of your questions, and those you didn't ask. 1. Don't worry about having one player play 2 characters. You have two simple options. You either create a sidekick (video displaying those in the description) which you have any and all of your players control in combat and you roll play as the npc. Or you just reduce some of the numbers of enemies by like maybe 1/4 the total. Also during combat as the DM hit points are fungible, if you have them fighting a big boss and they're losing, just reduce the HP of the enemy. Remember that you're first and foremost there to have fun, not simply follow a list of rules to the tee. 2. I've been through PoA as a player, and am technically running it now with my regular group (in the middle of prepping for that session). It's a good campaign, but I'd think of a way to disconnect the temples. They're designed to connect to each other which means you could spend the whole damn game in there and that's it. As a player who played through that I didn't enjoy that aspect. I would also say let them fight more of the final elemental boss'. The way it's set up is that only like one of them actually gets out before you kill the leader of each temple. PoA definitely takes work. I think finding a way to get them into Curse of Strahd would be great, and still run the Death House. CoS is probably the best adventure for 5e, I ran it myself as a first full campaign and I absolutely agree with the hype. A lot of it depends as well on who your players are. If they're big on the adventurers for higher / gold hound mercantile types then running some of the short adventures in succession with a story you all craft together would work if you get something like Tales from the Yawning Portal, Keys From The Golden Vault, or Ghosts of Saltmarsh. As far as I know with Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat it's a difficult game to run because it takes a ton of work for the DM to patch together. Lastly you could also try to string together the other two starter sets "Lost Mines of Phandelver" and "Dragon of Icespire Peak." I hope this is helpful and good luck!

@@FamiliarEvils yes the extra characters will be run as side kicks. I’ll take a look at Curse of Strahd. I have heard good things about it.

@@FamiliarEvils just completed the Compass Rose portion of the adventure and my players loved the additions and intrigue added with your suggestions.

All the rest of the maps are available already on my reddit. You can find them in the description of this video here th-cam.com/video/yS29c2ln8uE/w-d-xo.html. This is my full review and guide for the adventure.

There is a really cool 3rd party set of pdf's for Monster Hunter that would go well with all of this.

@@FamiliarEvils Is it the Battlezoo stuff by any chance?

Thank you! I'm glad I could help.

I'm not exactly certain. There are ways to change file types but you'd need to find out what that is, and then do that. I made these with a virtual table top in mind like roll20.

Yeah I had the same issue with this video. Still learning, but I'll research better audio knowledge. I plan on releasing a lot more soon.

Thank you! 😄 I'm glad you found it helpful.

That's what I like about ttrpgs though is they're whatever you're looking for at your table. I personally am looking to move to level up advanced 5e instead of supporting the new books.

It really can be a struggle to find a game. It is possible to find some online through roll20. I got into d&d, though, by starting games at a local store when no one else would run them. The people I ran the game for in this video are the same ones I found at that game store, like over 5 years ago now. Sometimes it just takes being the one taking initiative to get into games, though generally that means you're probably going to be the DM like myself.

I'm glad I could help 😀. That was why I made them myself. Good luck, and I hope you enjoy running the adventure!

Thanks, I hope it helps a lot of people out. I do wish it would have spread a little further, but still 1.2k is pretty good for my standards.

I use roll20 as my vtt of choice.

Thanks for the quick answer :)

That did come to mind a little for me, including Zero Punctuation. Ultimately I just thought people would appreciate as much information as could be done in as little time as possible. Doubt most people want to sit through like an hour and a half of content from people laughing uncomfortably as they read a joke written by someone else 😂. Which is the vibe I get from so many wotc dndbeyond videos that aren't just straight interviews.

I'm glad you appreciate the work! Here is the Reddit link for the maps: www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/comments/zpef1c/free_dragons_of_stormwreck_isle_map_pack_hd/ And here is a google drive link for the portions of my script that detail these sections. I purposely kept in extra parts of the script just to make sure that context of what, when, and where things are is maintained. Hopefully this link will work. docs.google.com/document/d/1cj0Q-A9y5DPDlLxjQmFDvROaU10oYIql/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108467874194124066551&rtpof=true&sd=true

Thanks! Do you by chance have the extra dialogue downloadable regarding what the characters experience on the ship. The content about the ghosts?@@FamiliarEvils

This will help sooooo much. Thank you!

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, he was the only one bringing it up, and everyone in my current group I run for are still around today, so it seems like they didn't care. Though everything is free now because we play online. Little over halfway through a multi-year campaign.

Thanks! I contemplated making a video as to why I'm not picking this book up but I preferred just working on my next actual piece of content. I personally won't pick up a copy till they release physical editions that no longer feature ai altered art. The quick speaking is mainly for these product overviews as I think people like to get the info on products like these as quickly as they can.

​@FamiliarEvils I like it! Reminds me of all the infinite videos. Keep up the great work

All good. It's me just speaking quickly. There are a few mistakes throughout, and I'd say the quality of the recording is still lacking.

Thank you! It's been quite wonderful seeing all the new subs lately. Took me well over a year to make 100, and now within a little over a week I've gained 26 more. I'll probably be making more videos like this as new products come along, they're easy and useful to make.