Start your campaign with a SHIPWRECK - Dragons of Stormwreck Isle Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- This ship WILL sink... what will the party do? In this video, you get the strongest start to your D&D campaign: a SHIPWRECK. This will elevate your Dragons of Stormwreck Isle adventure and make your Starter Set experience memorable.
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0:00 The STRONG START
0:18 Example description
1:45 All about SKILL CHALLENGES
3:43 Obstacle - Something in the water!
5:10 Obstacle - A harpy attack!
6:53 Obstacle - Fire!
7:51 Homework
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Have to say Matty P you're a fantastic bloke
I used this in my opening session for my players yesterday and they (and I) absolutely loved it
It really introduced the threats well, they're chatting about it outside of the game and everything
10/10 would wreck again
Oh sick! Glad it went well :) I love a strong start like this!
lol "10/10 would wreck again" - that made me laugh
I'm experiencing one of those cases of convergent design. My brother and I have been brewing up a level 1-X adventure where players get marooned on a archipelago, controlled by a pirate lord Blue dragon, and have to escape over the course of the adventure.
Great minds!
My daughter wanted to learn DnD, so I made a little training one shot, where she meets another adventurer who works for Aidron, and tied in to her backstory. Her backstory, that she thought up, included her having a letter in draconic warning of a powerful ritual being done somewhere… I told her perhaps the letter mentioned ‘sparkrender’.
I just ran our second session, which included getting on the boat and some lore dump during the travel, and this sinking scenario.
She’s hooked, and I cannot thank you enough.
So good! Glad it's going well :)
DMed my first session last night. Ran this with my players and they loved it!! I switched it up by telling them what travesty occurred and having them tell me how they reacted. Based off their response I determined what skill to roll for and it lead to a super engaging first session. Great stuff
Great job Coco! A strong start like this always gets the players on board :)
I used a Shipwreck as a "tutorial" for my all new to D&D Party. Was a pretty nice setup.
Oh nice! Did you do a skill challenge or did you resolve it with more straight-up roleplaying?
@@heyitsMattyP both pretty much. It was basically a little tutorial where they first met each other, got a few npcs to interact with, got a generic “rats in the basement“ quest to see how combat works, and then an escape from the sinking ship with introduction to saving throws and skill checks.
Amazing... This is so good it's surprising it wasn't included in the actual box set.
That's so nice of you to say! Thank you :) I've run this twice, and one of my players said these early scenes were her favourite bit
That would imply wotc would actually put effort in their products… cant even remember when that was the case
Great video, I really love the idea of cinematic cold opens to D&D games, So much cooler way to start your games than the traditional "In a Tavern" trope
Cheers mate! I do a cold open literally every campaign, though not always as dramatic as this
I played this yesterday with one of my groups. They loved this, and the trauma afterwards. Thank you!!!
You legend! Well done. I'm glad it went well :)
Ooo a shipwreck is such a great way to kick off the action!
Man that intro got me so excited to DM for the first time!! Stormwreck isle is really living in my head. Hopefully all goes well today! Thanks for all the inspiration. The patreon content is such a nice addition to the adventure as well :)
Oh sick! Well if it works on you, hopefully it works on your players too :)
Matty P - you've done it again! Your ideas and videos jump that gap I feel between the "universal" content Wotc makes and how to ACTUALLY make it engaging for my homies. Thank you sir!
Thanks Bryan! I reckon this module has strong themes, otherwise I couldn't do stuff like this :)
Actually I just thought of something -- in the adventure proper, the Compass Rose has been sunk for over 40 years and is part of why there's so many zombies and shipwrecks accumulated there, as per the name of the island. If the Compass Rose is only sinking -now-, what do you do about the other stuff it would have impacted?
It could still very well be an area with a lot of wrecks -- prone to storms and with a lot of jagged rocks and piled up debris. It's a perfect hunting spot for a harpy, but there's not much she can do about the sailors who sink before she can get them or die inside the ships, so there are still plenty of corpses around to be reanimated by the curse. I think in the adventure proper, the sunken bones of a gold dragon have something to do with all the wrecks. Maybe the draconic energy emanating from the remains causes the corpses to decompose more slowly?
Before even watching this video I thought of the party arriving in a shipwreck. I thought it would make more sense that way and foreshadow the shipwreck questline. So I ran my first ever campaign, I told my party they were heading to Neverwinter, didn't say anything else. That was a mistake, on the ship they asked me questions about Neverwinter that I hadn't prepared at all... Thankfully I managed to recover composure when we were on the island. Now I know that I at least need to prepare anything that I mention even if slightly.
Great minds :)
And it's OK to say that you don't know when the party asks you questions! You don't need to know everything.
Hey Matt
Running session 1 of DoSI this weekend with my group of new players.
Hoping to really draw them in with this shipwreck malarkey and have them really hooked on playing the game.
I'll be using your skill challenge, trauma dice and zomboes for sure.
We'll see how it goes and thank you for the great content!
Cheers Sam! Hope it went well :)
Videos good here's engagement
Thanks Bob!
Great stuff!
Cheers Brandon!
I’m only now starting to investigate DoSI and I love this stuff - the basic material leaves lots of gaps.
Cheers mate! I prefer an adventure that leaves gaps - homebrewing this stuff is my favourite part of the hobby :)
I've gone down a rabbit hole with Aleitha being on Compass Rose going to Stormwreck Isle to meet up with her husband. Given the male human already on SI is Tarak trying to start a new life, I got to thinking. If Tarak is the husband (real name Brastos), why are they worshiping Orcus? So, I now have a backstory for Tarak having run a heist gone wrong in a vampire's manor (he thought it was just a rich guy). Tarak was bitten and kept at the manor. Over time Tarak became a vampire and made his way to SI by Orcus' command to raise Sharruth as a Dragon-lich. In my digging, I found references to red dragons worshipping Orcus. So Tarak is a vampire in Dragon's Rest, studying herbalism to convert the Myconids to undead creatures (the problems in Seagrow Caves are part of his research), using the harpies to lure in fresh meat, and practicing a medieval type of medicine on everyone (blood letting, etc.). I'm curious if I can get my group of new players to start following Tarak's quest line and unwittingly do his work... They may even like it.
The Myconids have caught on to Tarak's plans, hence the octopus to keep in him out as they try to remedy the problem themselves. They may give hints to the players after the area is cleansed.
And the cleric's dream after destroying the talisman is changed to give hints.
Ultimately, Tarak/Brastos is happy for the group to rid the island of Sparkrender and then wants to get them off the island as quickly as possible. Or find a chance/reason to convert them to his cause.
Sounds like you've got the hombrew bug :)
My suggestion, would be to give everyone that succeeds at the skill challenge, a roll on the item table. Make it so their actions helped to give them better starting equipment, but still randomized enough to hopefully not break that start to much. Even better I'd say, is allow everyone to roll on the item table, regardless of their successes, but you give different item tables for better success. Allowing for players to always still get an item roll, but depending on their success, will increase their chance for better gear.
Something simple like some basic items such as torches, daggers, rope, or something similar being in the table for those that don't succeed at all. They're still getting some useful items, and maybe even put a health potion on the table so they can get lucky and get something really helpful. Then increase the items to things like, tool kits and crafting supplies, giving players a chance to grab some decent starting gear, also probably toss in a few weak items like torches and daggers, but maybe increase how many they get. Next we move into the more successes, and that's where you get into better weapons and armor, as well as maybe a few very weak and simple magic items. Things that are going to be helpful but, not go so far as to already ruin most of your game.
Be sure to obviously make the items make sense on your lists. Simple items are pretty easy to justify in almost any situation, but finding a random Laser rifle, probably wouldn't... depending on your setting at least lol. You probably would want to allow everyone to end the encounter and start the next phase with some starting gear, but not all their starting gear. I've always kind of handled that as, you can pick X number of items from the starting gear list (often being only 1). More often then not players pick a weapon or focus, and that's understandable. However if you want to help the players out more, you can wait till they have rolled on the item table, tell them what they got, and then let them choose 1 item from their starting list. You can also be tough on the players by either giving them no starting gear at all, or having to roll for what starting items they get off another table.
Tables are nice, but just remember to not rely to heavily on them all the time. They're nice to have, but they can get boring and underwhelming if they're used to often. They work great for situations like this, creating skill challenges for the player to deal with, without you having to come up with one on the fly. Even having ways to succeed with each skill checks is actually pretty awesome, though I'd probably suggest not doing that for your own campaign all that frequently. That's a lot of effort for not a lot of use. It's actually a lot better to allow the players decide how they want to complete the challenge, but not all players know exactly what it is they'd do with a random Survival check to keep themselves alive in a giant octopus attack.
I love the idea of shipwreck starts, but I've never been in a good campaign with one. They're never usually bad, they just end before it goes anywhere. I wish I could play more D&D, but sometimes it's just hard to find the time.
Yeah man! Shipwrecks are great in stories -- I caught the bug form the Count of Monte Christo. Now I just need to plan a jailbreak start to complete the set :)
I really like to start a campaign with an event like this. You don't really need a session zero if you ask each player to tell you why they are traveling to X aboard a ship. Now they are all on board. Rather than start with skill checks though, I'd probably just describe the storm and how the ship was sunk, and end with the PCs hanging on to a bit of debris floating in the water as the sun rises, then something brushes against the leg of a PC. It's a small shark, roll initiative. (despite the trouble of fighting in water, it should be an easy fight) Next, have them wash up on a deserted beach, and have to worry about shelter, food, and water.
Part of a session 0 is dealing with IRL stuff like boundaries, what they want out of the campaign etc. As for in-game stuff I think you're right that you can have the backstory be a creative part of session 1 prologue. Just don't neglect making your players feel comfortable with the group and the game
I still run a session zero / let's all make characters session, but I run this kind of scene at the end of that session, then we pick up the next session on the beach
I love a shipwreck. I have two problems with using it here, but I'm sure they can be overcome.
First, I like the players' first encounter to be something they can wreck house in. A chance to feel big and badass and happy they chose to play this game.
Second, I would like to build some attachment to this ship before I sink it.
Fair enough! For me it's a good introduction to my style at the table, because I like to let the players take the reins of descriptions and populate scenes with whatever they want.
@@heyitsMattyP I like doing that, too. Sometimes I get players who hesitate to do that - like they've been trained to let only the DM do all that. But they usually come around.
Levels of success = more gear that they get to start with after the ship is wrecked.
The highest level of success means that the player keeps all gear.
The lowest level means they are in nothing but their commoner's clothes.
Also, this shipwreck is a great way to let players "learn" what class they are playing. The back story the player comes with can be whatever, but you have the character sheet for the class.
As they perform the checks throughout this event the players learn what class they are playing.
Oooh yeah that's some Hard Mode stuff! The next video will talk a little about removing player gear as a dramatic consequence - they hate it! But it's a good motivator sometimes.
"you'll get literally everything I've ever made, its is a steal , please rob me" XD
It's true!
Thank you very much. I will lead my first campaign as DM. Unfortunately, I don't quite understand how the story should continue after the minigame. How do the players arrive safely on the beach when the ship sinks? What happens next, as the players arrive on the island in the middle of the night? Are they then also pursued by the undead? How are the encounters with the NPCs when they arrive?
"What happens next?"
Once the players start directing the show, who knows! Just gotta roll with it and keep pushing it forward where you can
So this seems like a perfect little break for my group from our normal game and allow our gm to play for once. What you suggest if I wanted to up the players level to say 8?
Where is the video for this week? My dosi game is on Sunday, and I was hoping for one more tips video... after all, Matty P was doing one video each week.
Where are you up to? Send me an email and I'll send you a pdf to help you through it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to ensure that you foreshadow Alietha properly during this skill challenge scene full stop behind me an octopus a pretty straightforward but none of the still challenges really lend themselves to describing something to do with this NPC
You could just place her in one of the challenges alongside one of the players
3:52 Am I the only one who noticed that the text says "something slimly?"
Haha, I refuse to proofread! Sometimes you've just gotta call a project done and click publish, otherwise I'd be working on it forever :)
@@heyitsMattyP Honestly, that's pretty sensible - I would probably do the same thing.
If the player failed 3 skill challenge, does this mean they all die or they still wake up on the beahc shore but like hurt a little bit or something like thaht?
And after they succed 4 or more, what happen? The ship wreck and they wake up on the beach?
The successes and failures are shared by the whole party. After the skill challenge is complete, the ship sinks and you move onto the beach scene.
Is there another way to buy those pdf files?
I want to avoid making a patron account, if possible?
Send me an email and let me know what you want, and I'll just send em to ya
@@heyitsMattyP Cool! What is your email address?
It's a great opening but i am afraid it will create much plotholes later on forcing on more and more homebrewing of the adventure.
That's what prepping an adventure is about.
So this seems like a perfect little break for my group from our normal game and allow our gm to play for once. What you suggest if I wanted to up the players level to say 8?
Upping the shipwreck challenge or the whole module to level 8? For the shipwreck challenge, I'd reckon just add 4 to all the DCs.
For scaling the module, that's a bigger task. Not only are you making harder encounters, but I think the dungeons need to be bigger.