Cragmaw Hideout Encounters (LMoP DM Guide)
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- This video explains and demonstrates running the overall encounters from cragmaw hideout for the lost mine of phandelver. A dungeon masters guide to running the lost mine of phandelver for the dungeons & dragons 5e role-play game.
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I just ran session one, and we got to the caverns to end the session. Perfect timing as always Fred!
Excellent. Now how do I cover the rest without going insane, lol.
Same
5:05 sleep is a super effective spell ... that's a great suggestion (although as a DM I'm not going to help them come up with the option!) - but 5d8 against two goblins, they'll be sleeping like babies. Great videos!
Thank you.
until you roll 3's and 2's, and end up barely knocking out 1.
But is it worth using 1 of only 2 spell slots when they don‘t know yet what‘s to come in the whole rest of the dungeon?
This video was very helpful for helping prep this part of the adventure for my players. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
The coolest thing I ever had in this encounter was when the players alarmed the guards. They then decided to wait outside and when the goblins came out they were lead by Klarg holding a giant shield thez had cobbled together from those craits. All archerery was useless and I turned into a giant route for the players. But goblins not beeing desciplined they just ran after the players. This lead to a running battle that circled around and ended at the cave again, with klarg beeing the final boss:D
Sounds like a good time.😀👍
A bit like the Benny Hill show?
Benny Hill....... Classic👍
Thanks for the terrific video! It really helped. The first time our wizard & elf duo took on Klarg, they were soundly thrashed, tied up, and sent to Yimeek for processing. After a dubious deal with Yimeek to take out Klarg in four days - and then exchange Klarg's head for a badly wounded Sildar - they were booted out of the cave and they headed back to Phandalin to level up on brawls and side-quests. Four days and one level later, they took down Klarg like champs! Yimeek then wanted 500 gold pieces for Sildar so they took him down too. While Sildar was dropped from a ledge, he was healed by the wizard and joined the party. Now I just need to give the guy more of a personality - he was kind of quiet this time and everyone was forgetting he was there (including me).
You are welcome. I have a video on Sildar. Thanks for sharing your experience.
That's kinda cool the way you ran this.
Thanks.
Thank you, it really help me in my adventure!
You are welcome. I have a playlist of Lost Mine of Phandelver Dungeon Master Guide videos, if you are interested.
Hey Fred, question from a new DM, here. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read.
I have 6 players, all brand new, basically. I did expect us to be going slow, but the game seems to be going REALLY slow. Our last session, they began in the kennel with one of the wolves slain, another put to sleep, and another still trying to get out of it's chains. We played for about 2.5 hours and they are still in the kennel, lol. One of the players had managed to scale the crevasse/chimney and get a look at what's up there (Klarg's chamber). I made a perception roll for Klarg and determined that he could hear the PC climbing up. So, he hid behind some stalagmites and the room appeared to be unoccupied, but the PC could see the fire pit coals glowing. But, after 2 hours of nothing much happening (I guess too much meta-gaming and OOC talk) I had Klarg go ahead and send 5 goblins down (through the main passage) to the Kennel. They surprised the characters but were still defeated, besides two goblins who bolted and ran back into the cave. One of the wolves was released and bolted out of the cave (may come back later following the party). My questions is, am I doing something wrong? It just seems ridiculous that the party would start and end in the same room of a dungeon after a 2.5 hour session. Thanks for your expert advise!
New DM and Player's. Don't worry about it. Did everyone have a good time?
@@HowtoRPG Yeah, it was a good time had by all. Thanks for the encouragement.
@@GeorgeHofmann2 everyone having a good time is all that matters.
Fantastic Resource, thank you!!
You are welcome. There is a huge Playlist on all the locations and the NPC’s.
Started this campaign with a new group just before lockdown and I'm about to pick it up again online. Can't wait to run it. I've got 6 player so probably going to bump the enemy numbers a bit. I've already increased the size of cave to allow more combat space
I hope it all goes well.
@@HowtoRPG thanks dude. I've been loving your videos, they really flesh out the characters in the adventure
@@benry007 You are welcome.
Thanks for this video. Good work
Thanks Carlos. I have a video series on Lost Mine of Phandelver for Dungeon Masters that might help. All the best with your game.
What I learned from this video :
beer = bear
sex = six.
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You forgot about the hat points!
I am really enjoying your series. I’m an new dm and learning lots. How did you created the map boards?
Thanks. I have a live stream video on the process, that I made into an edited video. It is below and shows you.
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I changed the wolves in this part for Goblin Dogs from Pathfinder 1e
Fair enough.
Very good video. I have been contemplating using this dungeon as part of an upcoming d&d campaign, and your insight into running it has proven incredibly useful.
A quick query though - at around the 16:40 mark you say that the goblin on the bridge would suffer the same penalties as the players for trying to spot them in darkness, but goblins naturally have darkvision so would they not roll / use their passive perception as normal?
Any creature with Darkvision in darkness suffers disadvantage on perception checks. Darkness is treatef as seeing in dim light. This means Goblins, Elves, Gnomes and Half-Orcs.
Thank you for your kind words.
How do you get the maps like the one he's showing?
Amazing video! But where did you get these tiles, they are perfect!!
Thanks. The map is in the description. You need software to cut the map into smaller parts.
@@HowtoRPG what is the software and is it something I could take down to print shop and have done
@@j.c.davault8170 Yes. I got someone else to do it for me.
Question...how would you go about introducing the cave as the character go through it...like a fog of war type of thing?
Just describe what the Characters can see.
I have a feeling my players will jump from the wolf room to Klarg's room and fight. How do I run that? Should I have them roll initiative right away? Will it take a turn to get over the climb? Or will that just be their movement?
That is very likely. That's a lot of questions for a comment. I have a Lost Mine of Phandelver live stream tomorrow so we might be able to break that down.
The book says and weight in excess of 100 pounds on the ledge in the western passage loosens the whole thing and sends it tumbling down. Seems to me unless the group is made up entirely of halflings and gnomes they aren't going to be able to make it up that way. Am I reading this wrong?
No. Your right.
@@HowtoRPG I do like your way better though. I may have to consider waving the weight thing, or consider a skill check. Seems like the written version is just a way to set up the PC's to take damage. Thoughts, opinions?
@@mikelane4005 It is setup for the party to take damage. I don't think it's an issue.
Do you recommend printing these schematics, and should I hide it from my players? Or how do you do it?
I just draw it out on a battle map. This map was made for the video.
I think the goblin on the bridge would notice someone coming in with a bull's-eye lantern (which I doubt anyone would have at that point, unless they rolled up characters, rolled gold and purchased their own starting equipment) ...pretty sure none of the starter set pregenerated characters have a bull's-eye lantern
I pretty sure there are Lanterns on the supply wagon and a simple Torch would have the same effect.
@@HowtoRPG That's right! I forgot about the supplies on the wagon. Torch light certainly would flicker around and be easily spotted.
Hi! Thank you so much for this video. LMoP is the first campaign ever that I'll DM and I had difficulty with this level :P. I do have one question; do the players have to do something with the wolfs? Because in the book, it said the wolfs can't reach the players on the steps, so they have enough room to keep moving towards the bridge. Will ignoring the wolfs have any consequences for them? Thanks!
You are welcome. The wolves make noise. The metal stakes could be pulled out, holding the wolves. Klarg might hear the wolves, but unlikely over the waterfall.
Any tips on printing the maps from the adventures?
Get the High resolution maps from Mike. The link is in the description.
How did you make the board map?
I was given the maps in parts and asked my brother to print them on card.
Hey man, where are you based? Obviously NZ, like myself, at th moment, but where abouts? Wgtn? Would love to sit down and do a DM training session w you ha
I am in Helensville.
lol not sure if i ran it wrong, my party trickled up the chute in the wolf room and got annihilated
lol. Yeah that will happen.
@@HowtoRPG yea. tryin to decide whether to kill them, or have the one player that ran out get help, while they are held hostage
where did you get those tiles, or how did you make those?
It's complicated. What you want to do is look for a video called "How to print the List Mine of Phandelver Maps". Its all there.
If I have a map like this, would I not want to show the players the map because it allows them to meta game with the knowledge of where the goblins are and the secret entrance to the boss room? Or is it not a problem?
You decide, you are the DM right?
set up your map and familiarize yourself with placements for traps and enemies. Then just have your tokens waiting in a bag/box etc on standby until a player does something relevant to trigger them. THEN you add it to the board
The map is supposed to be covered up. You uncover it as players approach a part. Just as you use the fog map option online
12:35 - the plot hole that bothered me here is that the dogs would make a ton of noise before the characters even got sight of them, or at the least, when they approached the room. I mean, they're guard dogs right? The dogs will hear and smell the characters at the entrance of the cave at least, and bark, which then would alert Klarg.
I dunno, that's how I would play it.
There is nothing wrong with that. Also will depend on which way the wind is blowing...
Im running this encounter with my group and Its clearly detailed in the guide that The wolves are snarling and the players hear rattling chains. it also states that because these are savage animals constantly fighting for scraps the goblins ignore them snapping and snarling since theyre always doing it.
@@jader8500 I totally missed that...
@@8triagrammer Its a lot of info, im a DM for the first time ever and only started playing a week ago. All my players have never played before either so its up to me to try and memorize all this stuff. I totally overlook things too bro
@@8triagrammer I would not concern yourself with what is in the book. I liked your approach to the encounter.
Does that map / board come in the box set or did you make that yourself
I had to make the Cardboard Maps.
@How to RPG you did a really great job. Great video 👏
Your voice sounds familiar. Did you used to be in the Flight of the Conchords tv show?
Well as it happens, you caught me out. My father's name is Murray ;)
First time DM here, and all the players are new, too. Your vids are super helpful!! I'm wondering - do you put all the miniatures out when you put the map out? Doesn't that mean the players will already see where they will need to fight etc? Please excuse me if that's a silly question!
I'm interested to see what solution you came up with. You can use black (or any color) paper to cover the parts of the map the players do not see if you are using a map like this. Removing the necessary pieces to reveal it in sections.
Are these the maps in the link?
Yes, but you still need to cut them up.
@@HowtoRPG Thanks! Your chanel is awesome!
How did you do the map
With lots of help from a community member and my brother.
@@HowtoRPG that's awesome
@@josueroman9561 It was.
The map is awesome
Goblins have darkvision so their perception isn't penalised right?
Goblins have darkvision and can see in the dark compared to someone without darkvision who can see anything in darkness. A Goblin has disadvantage on perception and passive perception checks in darkness.
@@HowtoRPG The way I remember it is that darkvision improves darkness penalties by one step: dark becomes dim, dim becomes bright.
@@hqueso The issue is that most people don't understand dim light.
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You keep mentioning sleep as the one good tactic. It's one spell, out of 100 available at this lvl. Most player won't have it. This fights are too brutal for lvl 1 characters.
There are plenty of Dungeon Masters that had groups of level one characters who have done it, including myself.
@@HowtoRPG I too completed it as a player but I didn't enjoy any moment of it. It just felt like we got lucky with dice rolls. The boss, not only can take you down in one hit but can instantly kill your character with much damage one of his attacks do. And that without any crit.
@@mikelsmith6803 I've run this twice now, and one party, without a sleep spell, annihilated this dungeon. Just blitzed it. A combination of great stealth checks, caution, and a few lucky shots put them in the driver's seat for all the tough fights. The turning point was the elven rogue scouting up the stream unseen by the goblin on the bridge. The player specifically said they were scanning the bridge for a lookout. I gave the goblin Advantage on his Stealth since he had the ability to set up a hiding spot well ahead of time and gave the elf Disadvantage on the Perception due to lighting issues. The elf managed to hit the DC. He decided to take a shot at it with his short bow despite me informing the goblin had exceptional cover, practically just popping out his head on occasion (3/4 cover). He made the shot and the damage plus sneak attack dropped the goblin. From that point they blitzed the pool encounter and surprised the bugbear, ganging up on him and dropping him in the third round (the first was a surprise round, so he only got in one round of attacks before dropping). I'm guessing things would have been different if the bridge-goblin shot had missed or not dropped it.
The other group got spotted, double-flooded and TPC'ed (total party capture) early. I gave them a chance to escape being tied up in room 6 with Sildar, and they managed to convince the goblin to free them in return for taking down Klarg. A little mercy for a tough dungeon seemed in order for newer players, and I wanted to run a game where it wasn't always kill-or-be-killed, so it taught them a lesson that failing a fight didn't mean the end.
So, yeah, it's very tough, but it can be done, and not just on a rare occasion. And because of the politics caused by the involvement of the Black Spider, it's easy to justify the goblins taking poisoners if things don't work out. If a character does flat-out die, I would just allow their replacement PC to be a prisoner in area 6 along with Sildar. If you want to run a more brutal goblin gang that wants the party in the stew-pot more than they want them in custody, I'd recommend starting at level 2 and adding a few goblins (one to each of the second-in-commands room, the pool and the boss's room).
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How is this a guide? You are just rephrasing what's written in the module xD
Did you even watch the video?
Well it helped me alot
And isn't the book a guide itself to the adventure?
Don't be so Krol