Unfortunately TH-cam requires you to watch it. You can't watch another video or close your browser or turn off your computer or get up and go for a walk. Not my fault! I don't make the rules!
It's a modular synthesizer set up that he has been working on, and it isn't a loop. Basically each panel with knobs either outputs a sound or messes with the sound in some way, with each colored cable connecting the panels. If panel A generates a sound, a cable can connect it to B to run it through B's filter. Then from B to any other filter, another sound generator, or tons and tons of other options. Here's the cool part. His set up is self playing. He set some parameters, fiddled some knobs, and set up a panel to randomize various electrical currents. Plus a ton of other little panel settings. He set up the initial sound, but from there, the rhythms and notes are self generating. It's an instrument that plays itself. Very rad stuff!
I've watched this probably a dozen times before...and it's TODAY, with Russia and the Ukraine at war, that I've noticed him refer to that conflict years ago.
It's interesting that you say you have to fight the lich. Both times I played the adventure, we returned his phylactery to him in order to free him from his alliance to the dragonlord. We had 99 problems, but a lich wasn't one of them.
And that is how it is supposed to go. That fight is meant to be a curbstomp battle if the PCs fight him. It usually isn't, because the Ghostlord has a stunningly poor design from an optimization standpoint (blighter...*shudder*), and the PCs are handed the *perfect weapon to kill him in the first area of the adventure (the Staff of Life)!* Probably my least favorite aspect of the adventure, actually. In 5e, however... the Ghostlord is a much more intimidating foe, and if a group of level 8 or 9 PCs try to take him on, they will get owned so freaking fast!
I just started this for my players after Matt recommended it a few months ago. It's a great campaign. I hooked my players by making Azarr Kul be dragonborn and the long, lost hatchmate of the dragonborn paladin in their party. The dragonborn paladin had a vision of the opening scene --- the burning hills and massive army mobilizing -- and recognized the warlord as his brother. I ended up placing the whole thing in Faerun, south of the Shaar and east of the Wyrmbones Mountains. Some of the names of cities changed, like Brindol became Rethmar but otherwise it's pretty much the same. A few people have already done a ton of work updating some of the key monsters to 5e. You can find those online with a simple search.
"I have to wrap this up in 5 minutes!" -Proceeds to talk for 45 minutes- "So that's it, I'm gonna wrap this up." -Proceeds to talk for 10 minutes- This is why you have such long videos, Matt. ;)
@ Matt Colville: The 4th edition adventure you mentioned was probably "Reavers of Harkenwold". If you could to a future video on that one, that would be amazing!
I’ve been DND-ing for twenty-five years. An occasional DM. For the last two years I’ve been running monthly, The Rise of the Runelords Path. Found your channel a year ago. You have made my game so much better. I am a much improved DM and the players are getting a lot more from the game. Thanks you so very much.
I bought it last year after your recommendation. It's great! I already found a way to link Phandelver to Red Hand of Doom. After Phandalin they have a short adventure in Waterdeep. There, they will be summoned by the archmage of Waterdeep to find a friend of her's in the Elsir Vale. They will get there using a teleportation circle.
Wow. The Universe just folded in on itself! I have two hobbies. D&d and modular synth. Next thing i need is Matt wearing a T-shirt with catsonsynthesizersinspace!
20:09 - I am deceased 🤣🤣🤣 Having enjoyed hundreds of hours of Matt's D&D discussions, I have never heard him use this voice 😂 just startled my coworkers bursting out with a cackle 🖤
Ahhhh, I'm watching this video and suddenly recognise the name of one of the towns you've just mentioned, and an impending threat coming towards it! My DMs clearly been adapting this story so I can't listen anymore, but can't wait to see what he throws at us. Curse you Matt!
2 months later and we’ve wrapped it up. Really enjoyed how you mentioned it’s hard to tell what’s original and what’s been adapted from the adventure. Also think my DM did a smashing job putting this all together. Love your vids and happy it’s helped me and clearly them too. Cheers!
When I ran this adventure, my PCs made a deal with the lich lord, giving him back his phylactery in order to break his alliance with the horde. They also came in from the lion's mouth rather then from ground level.
"Ghost Lord? What's a Ghost Lord??? Do we have to fight a Ghost Lord? Uhmmm...." "Are we green? Corbin. Corbin. .." Awesome. LOL! You can't script this stuff!!!
I bought that campaign years ago. I love it, I love the story, I love the combat settings. My friends got half way through and were like "Yeah I'm done playing DnD for a while." Never got to finish it.
i am watching this on may 26th almost 3 months since Russia invaded Ukraine and i had to look at the date and it puts in to perspective how long that it has been going on.
I can’t believe I just started my RHOD campaign! My players started in Red Rock with a heavily modified Keep on the Shadowfell, are now lords and were simply helping a friendly Count in the West with some bandits when all of a sudden… GobHoblins :) Thanks Matt! Love this community 💗
Watched this video dozens of times and I’ve only now forced myself to look up the song Matt references towards the beginning of the video. Styx is pretty cool I’ve never heard of them before!
Hah, it would seem like the modern day analogue to an empire is a business. It's rare that businesses are in a steady state, they're either expanding or declining.
"WHO is the Ghost Lord? WHERE is the Ghost Lord?" Maybe if someone asked HOW is the Ghost Lord once in a while there wouldn't be a Ghost Lord to begin with.
RHoD is amazing. I ran a group through the first bit and it was so well thought out. Having a timeline that takes place in a dynamic world changed how I look at D&D.
Another fantastic video; thank you, sir. Your work has made me a better gamer, and a better DM. Keep up the awesome work, and I look forward to your next episode.
Ah Colville you're a man after my own heart! I loved RHoD! My first campaign began just before it came out. I loved it so much, that I scaled everything up to make their level.
Red Hand of Doom is an amazing adventure. Great and easy for adding content to keep it fresh. Some no win situations if PC’s aren’t smart. They will die gloriously. Thanks for resurrecting this. 5e convert.
I wish all adventures had these sidebars of Designer's Advice. I also wish we had more of these smaller adventures. I am a lot over full Adventure Paths.
One thing for sure, I have already changed the name and will never again use the Lost Mine of Ph whatever it is. It is a great adventure, but the worst name ever thought up to use for a D&D Adventure. Matt, your channel is great, the Running the game videos and all the others you have put together are absolutely great!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
"As -Our-Cool." OK that is indeed a clever and badass name! I wish I had discovered Matt sooner, it took me multiple decades to return to my early addiction to D&D. Now I am re-immersed and as I research enhancements for my campaign I'm just finding how fun Matt is as an awesome D&D raconteur.
""You have to be like a shark, right? Always swimming, always expanding" ... "There's this feeling that if you stop... everything's gonna collapse."" An interesting perspective with which to look at the Cyrodillic Empire in my UESRPG campaign, thank you.
Out of context I was trying to figure out why a shark is expanding and having horrible body horror images of sharks in my mind. But then I remembered he was talking about politics
@@moredetonation3755 It's an unofficial one (hence the "U": Unofficial Elder Scrolls RPG), but it's really good and has a fairly active community. You might have trouble convincing your friends to join you because it can seem kinda crunchy but it's not hard to learn and in my experience simulates the "feel" of the games fairly well.
I eas today ywars old that i realized the "Witch Wood! Night rider!" Was Witch Wolf from Styx. Thank you Matt for helping me realize im missing out on a ton of styx music.
I really like that this has been cut down to the really important information. When you're watching live it can be fun to just enjoy and hang out, but the VOD is always best when some stuff has been trimmed!
I often change the names in published adventures so that a player who may have read the adventure won't know that they might know what they know. The older the adventure, say 1E modules, are less likely to be familiar to newer players. I also change names to fit the adventure into a world other than the world where the adventure is set.
Wanted to compliment your editing of the VOD into this video. Don't know what time it took on your side, but having watched it live, you succeeded in improving that coveted signal-to-noise ratio.
Oh my gosh, dude, now I guess we're friends after all :) I had those albums on vinyl, then cassette, then (and still) on CD... "Krakatoa! You've changed your ways from evil days! Oh, I know a once violent isle..." The Serpent is Rising album was a monster of noise and fun. And of course, we must also remember the sage advice of ages: "Don't sit down on the plexiglass toilet." Hallelujah!
I adore this adventure so much! It was obviously a response to the battle scenes from the LotR films, and it works brilliantly. And there is so much depth that can be added to it. It works particularly well in Eberron, where Tiamat isn't a goddess, she is a demon Overlord, and functions as the equivalent of an Elder Evil. The stakes are *so* much higher this way! For anyone adapting it to 5e, be cautious with the dragons. They pack a *lot* of punch early in this adventure, particularly Ozzyrandion (the green dragon at the bridge). He can easily wipe a party of 5th-level characters with his breath weapon if you are not careful. I'd actually recommend re-fluffling a white dragon, whose breath weapon is just slightly less lethal.
29:28. So, the adventure is a Colville-style Skill Challenge with the encounter in the end proportionally difficult to the outcome of the players' actions.
FYI: thank you, thank you, thank you for your review, I liked it so much, I bought my copy and I am reading it right now, going to be starting a new group with 3 players that have never played D&D before and will make sure they have a blast and will not forget playing through this awesome adventure,.
Ran RHoD twice, in 3.5 and 13th Age. It was fun both times. The 13A conversion I did on the fly. That goblin ranger fight was fun to run. Thanks for the video and reminding me of the awesome memories of this module.
Hey may I love your channel. It has really helped me. I wish I would have found your channel before spending 400$ on the game. I am 15 and I'm a new dungeon master. Your channel has helped me with having a great time with my friends. I have also seen almost your entire running the game series, so thanks for that.
the DM Lair thank you so much. I know it's amazing you can literally do anything. And the only thing I want in life it creative control and playing and dming d&d allows me to do that.
I recently started playing again after many, many years. Over the holidays several relatives asked me to DM a group for them. So, I planned three modules and we just finished the second one yesterday. They are now level 5 and will be starting RHOD next. I had put their previous adventures in the mountains south of Elsir Vale and they just found a map and note in a treasure hoard that mentioned a powerful Staff of Life near Drellin' Ferry. I have been having a blast so far and I am really looking forward to RHOD.
Giant in the playground forums have a great handbook for running red hand of doom including making the adventure more challenging and just dealing with some of the challenges that can lead to underwhelming encounters.
Glad came across this, building home brew world and guess who has a feudal hobgoblin nation. RHOD sounds ideal to run for this! And my players will be none the wiser! How good.
@ 6:00 its crazy to me that this was always so prevalent in the world even back in 2018 and yet here we are 3 years later and people are defending this in my country. It' strange times for all and darker times for others. Stay safe and keep gaming!
Oh my gosh, I am incorporating elements of this book into my Ironfang Invasion campaign from Pathfinder! I am so happy that you're finally reviewing this.
Might have to give this adventure a look - although I'd reskin the Ghostlord to be an actual ghost lord, as that fits my next campaign setting more, and allows me to weave in an important NPC's as a corrupted Ghost hellbent on serving some unknown purpose untl he is freed! Loving the content as always
The way you summed up 'converting' is exactly how I have always approached it. I can't believe that people worte massive documents converting adventures from one edition to another. Just run it as if it was this edition ;)
I had never heard of the Strawbs but as soon as you 'sang' ;-) the song I thought, YES. Quick google search, listen to the song, think 'sure sounds like YES'. Then see that Wakeman was in the band. Great song.
My eyes lit up when he mentioned the Iron circle. Because that was the first adventure i ever played, and later ran. A simpler time, when I was a rail-roading pos XD
Wow! I just started running RHoD yesterday! I'm running in Greyhawk, so I replaced the Red Hand with the Scarlet Brotherhood, who are marching to solidify their total control over the Holds of the Sea Princes. I had been building them up as the major enemy, and my players have allied themselves with a rebel faction who i said had been spying on the Brotherhood from Vraath Keep (before it was taken by Koth). The best part of the first session, they show up at what they believe to be a rebel base and knock down that old shack out front immediately, alerting everyone inside. The manticore inside flies up onto the wall and asks if they work for the Brotherhood, and they reply without hesitation, "No! We're here to kill them!" and all hell breaks loose. Can't wait for session 2.
4:42 "If it turns that out a gray ooze in tougher in 5th edition than it is in 3rd edition, then my players' heroism will be maximized. [smirk]" LLLLLLOL
Ran RHoD straight off the shelf, almost no modifications, and it was awesome. One of the few times I've ever done that! My players STILL shudder at the memory of the Fane of Tiamat.
So, I joined a group that was doing the second half of the first act for HotDQ, and personally, it is some of the most fun I've had in a game I've played. I can see the whole 'Oh, fight that you are by no means ready for' thing as a bummer (our 2nd level Barbarian was brought to 1 point away from Instant Death, with Shield of Faith, Mage Armor, and Bless on him no less). It is one of the few pre-set campaigns I have actually enjoyed playing in.
Pretty good vid but a huge amount of dead time at the end.
Unfortunately TH-cam requires you to watch it. You can't watch another video or close your browser or turn off your computer or get up and go for a walk.
Not my fault! I don't make the rules!
its because Matt is lazy and needs to stretch his videos to reach the 10 minute minimum
Matthew Colville is a feeling cheeky tonight
Was the ending intentional then? It just seemed like a loop but maybe I missed something. (and for the record I did just go to another vid XD)
It's a modular synthesizer set up that he has been working on, and it isn't a loop. Basically each panel with knobs either outputs a sound or messes with the sound in some way, with each colored cable connecting the panels. If panel A generates a sound, a cable can connect it to B to run it through B's filter. Then from B to any other filter, another sound generator, or tons and tons of other options.
Here's the cool part. His set up is self playing. He set some parameters, fiddled some knobs, and set up a panel to randomize various electrical currents. Plus a ton of other little panel settings. He set up the initial sound, but from there, the rhythms and notes are self generating. It's an instrument that plays itself. Very rad stuff!
15:27 A twitch user whose name I can't read said "What's the Dex save of the town?" and I think that deserved more recognition
It was 3.5, so would have been a Reflex save.
TheLittleBilly
Definitely
I've watched this probably a dozen times before...and it's TODAY, with Russia and the Ukraine at war, that I've noticed him refer to that conflict years ago.
same here, it's alwais nice to find references to modern history literally happen in media we consume daily (wish it didn't involve a fucking war tho)
Same. I had to check the date to see if I had binged four years further than I thought
@@enricomigliorini9612 I did the same thing. I though he re-uploaded it!
You're right, I couldn't remember which video it was for the longest time until I started watching through the whole series again. It's chilling
Not a big history buff myself. Watching a bunch of his older videos for the first time - you can imagine my face when he said that
It's interesting that you say you have to fight the lich. Both times I played the adventure, we returned his phylactery to him in order to free him from his alliance to the dragonlord.
We had 99 problems, but a lich wasn't one of them.
And that is how it is supposed to go. That fight is meant to be a curbstomp battle if the PCs fight him. It usually isn't, because the Ghostlord has a stunningly poor design from an optimization standpoint (blighter...*shudder*), and the PCs are handed the *perfect weapon to kill him in the first area of the adventure (the Staff of Life)!* Probably my least favorite aspect of the adventure, actually. In 5e, however... the Ghostlord is a much more intimidating foe, and if a group of level 8 or 9 PCs try to take him on, they will get owned so freaking fast!
I just started this for my players after Matt recommended it a few months ago. It's a great campaign. I hooked my players by making Azarr Kul be dragonborn and the long, lost hatchmate of the dragonborn paladin in their party. The dragonborn paladin had a vision of the opening scene --- the burning hills and massive army mobilizing -- and recognized the warlord as his brother. I ended up placing the whole thing in Faerun, south of the Shaar and east of the Wyrmbones Mountains. Some of the names of cities changed, like Brindol became Rethmar but otherwise it's pretty much the same. A few people have already done a ton of work updating some of the key monsters to 5e. You can find those online with a simple search.
usually I hate hearing about other people's games, but that's a legit cool customization, bravo.
Matt, because of your videos I've bought four modules in the past three days. WotC should be paying you a commission.
12:10 "Just be a Dungeon Master" encapsulates Matt Colville D&D videos perfectly
Cayotick still some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten
How to be a good DM:
Step 1. Do it.
Step 2. Admire your work.
Well, after my first session I'd say: Works. Sort off.^^
"I have to wrap this up in 5 minutes!" -Proceeds to talk for 45 minutes-
"So that's it, I'm gonna wrap this up." -Proceeds to talk for 10 minutes-
This is why you have such long videos, Matt. ;)
And please don’t stop making long vids! I love ‘em.
Best advice Mr. Colville has ever given to any aspiring Dungeon Master: "...be a DM."
15:20 “If my math is right on that, then I deserve a cookie.” 😂
@ Matt Colville: The 4th edition adventure you mentioned was probably "Reavers of Harkenwold". If you could to a future video on that one, that would be amazing!
I’ve been DND-ing for twenty-five years. An occasional DM. For the last two years I’ve been running monthly, The Rise of the Runelords Path. Found your channel a year ago. You have made my game so much better. I am a much improved DM and the players are getting a lot more from the game. Thanks you so very much.
MacMcNurgle Agree. I’m running Rise of the Runelords for one of my groups and we’re going to start the Red Hand of Doom in another
I bought it last year after your recommendation. It's great! I already found a way to link Phandelver to Red Hand of Doom. After Phandalin they have a short adventure in Waterdeep. There, they will be summoned by the archmage of Waterdeep to find a friend of her's in the Elsir Vale. They will get there using a teleportation circle.
Wow. The Universe just folded in on itself! I have two hobbies. D&d and modular synth. Next thing i need is Matt wearing a T-shirt with catsonsynthesizersinspace!
20:09 - I am deceased 🤣🤣🤣
Having enjoyed hundreds of hours of Matt's D&D discussions, I have never heard him use this voice 😂 just startled my coworkers bursting out with a cackle 🖤
Ahhhh, I'm watching this video and suddenly recognise the name of one of the towns you've just mentioned, and an impending threat coming towards it! My DMs clearly been adapting this story so I can't listen anymore, but can't wait to see what he throws at us. Curse you Matt!
2 months later and we’ve wrapped it up. Really enjoyed how you mentioned it’s hard to tell what’s original and what’s been adapted from the adventure.
Also think my DM did a smashing job putting this all together. Love your vids and happy it’s helped me and clearly them too. Cheers!
When I ran this adventure, my PCs made a deal with the lich lord, giving him back his phylactery in order to break his alliance with the horde. They also came in from the lion's mouth rather then from ground level.
"Ghost Lord? What's a Ghost Lord??? Do we have to fight a Ghost Lord? Uhmmm...."
"Are we green? Corbin. Corbin. .."
Awesome. LOL! You can't script this stuff!!!
I bought that campaign years ago. I love it, I love the story, I love the combat settings. My friends got half way through and were like "Yeah I'm done playing DnD for a while." Never got to finish it.
I love how excited MC is when talking about RHoD
I'm using the Lost Mines of Phandelver to lead into RHoD. We're almost there, wish me luck!
17joren how did it go?
Still on the edge of my seat, waiting for this update
With the current situation, what you say at 6:00 about expansionism is quite scary to hear 🥲
I remember the Red Hand of Doom. We started strong and then everything went down the toilet when we got to the swamp.
"my brain's dribbling out my ears"
*drink suspiciously pink fluid*
6:13 Aged like campaign rations, that one
Im gonna insert this into my new campaign when my players get to level 6. The world i made fits perfectly with this isdea
i am watching this on may 26th almost 3 months since Russia invaded Ukraine and i had to look at the date and it puts in to perspective how long that it has been going on.
I can’t believe I just started my RHOD campaign! My players started in Red Rock with a heavily modified Keep on the Shadowfell, are now lords and were simply helping a friendly Count in the West with some bandits when all of a sudden… GobHoblins :)
Thanks Matt! Love this community 💗
Watched this video dozens of times and I’ve only now forced myself to look up the song Matt references towards the beginning of the video. Styx is pretty cool I’ve never heard of them before!
Love lore at the beginning of any mod because context is EVERYTHING.
RHoD was the first campaign I ran from beginning to end. It was brilliant to run with the conclusion a gigantic desperate fight. Love it
Hah, it would seem like the modern day analogue to an empire is a business. It's rare that businesses are in a steady state, they're either expanding or declining.
Really enjoyed the stream. Thanks for the great content! -CaptainShack
TheXPGamers when you realise two of your favourite youtubers know each other. But you’re 2 years late...
@@jamestyler3039 Same
You are not Captain Shack... FAKE!!!
Something is so fun about watching Matt get excited
You should make a list of awesome adventures for us to run.
Pathfinder had a new AP recently, Ironfang Invasion, which is somewhat similar, lots of hobgoblins.
"WHO is the Ghost Lord? WHERE is the Ghost Lord?" Maybe if someone asked HOW is the Ghost Lord once in a while there wouldn't be a Ghost Lord to begin with.
Red Hand of Doom was fantastic! I ran it 3 times and have been asked to run it again. I loved it!
RHoD is amazing. I ran a group through the first bit and it was so well thought out. Having a timeline that takes place in a dynamic world changed how I look at D&D.
Another fantastic video; thank you, sir. Your work has made me a better gamer, and a better DM. Keep up the awesome work, and I look forward to your next episode.
“You just be a dungeon master.” Maybe favorite quote
Ah Colville you're a man after my own heart! I loved RHoD! My first campaign began just before it came out. I loved it so much, that I scaled everything up to make their level.
Red Hand of Doom is an amazing adventure. Great and easy for adding content to keep it fresh. Some no win situations if PC’s aren’t smart. They will die gloriously. Thanks for resurrecting this. 5e convert.
33:51
They often don't include Paizo adventures like Rise Of The Rune Lords
15:46 "What's the Dex save of the town?" I just about fell out of my chair
I wish all adventures had these sidebars of Designer's Advice. I also wish we had more of these smaller adventures. I am a lot over full Adventure Paths.
setting up a red hand of doom game in Eberron at the end of the last war, having my players watch the 1962 Devils brigade for their backstory
One thing for sure, I have already changed the name and will never again use the Lost Mine of Ph whatever it is. It is a great adventure, but the worst name ever thought up to use for a D&D Adventure. Matt, your channel is great, the Running the game videos and all the others you have put together are absolutely great!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
"As -Our-Cool." OK that is indeed a clever and badass name! I wish I had discovered Matt sooner, it took me multiple decades to return to my early addiction to D&D. Now I am re-immersed and as I research enhancements for my campaign I'm just finding how fun Matt is as an awesome D&D raconteur.
""You have to be like a shark, right? Always swimming, always expanding" ... "There's this feeling that if you stop... everything's gonna collapse.""
An interesting perspective with which to look at the Cyrodillic Empire in my UESRPG campaign, thank you.
Out of context I was trying to figure out why a shark is expanding and having horrible body horror images of sharks in my mind. But then I remembered he was talking about politics
Wait, there's an Elder Scrolls RPG?
@@moredetonation3755 It's an unofficial one (hence the "U": Unofficial Elder Scrolls RPG), but it's really good and has a fairly active community. You might have trouble convincing your friends to join you because it can seem kinda crunchy but it's not hard to learn and in my experience simulates the "feel" of the games fairly well.
I eas today ywars old that i realized the "Witch Wood! Night rider!" Was Witch Wolf from Styx. Thank you Matt for helping me realize im missing out on a ton of styx music.
My God! Watching this video! You are totally fan-boying the module! It’s very funny! Good job!
I really like that this has been cut down to the really important information. When you're watching live it can be fun to just enjoy and hang out, but the VOD is always best when some stuff has been trimmed!
Really loved the dreamscapey music in at the end! More! MOAR!
I often change the names in published adventures so that a player who may have read the adventure won't know that they might know what they know. The older the adventure, say 1E modules, are less likely to be familiar to newer players. I also change names to fit the adventure into a world other than the world where the adventure is set.
Witch Wolf by STYX! Dude! (First 4 albums, actually, but you’re still my friend now!)
i woke up to the ending of this video and i thought i was losing my fucking mind.
Wanted to compliment your editing of the VOD into this video. Don't know what time it took on your side, but having watched it live, you succeeded in improving that coveted signal-to-noise ratio.
Oh my gosh, dude, now I guess we're friends after all :) I had those albums on vinyl, then cassette, then (and still) on CD... "Krakatoa! You've changed your ways from evil days! Oh, I know a once violent isle..." The Serpent is Rising album was a monster of noise and fun. And of course, we must also remember the sage advice of ages: "Don't sit down on the plexiglass toilet." Hallelujah!
I adore this adventure so much! It was obviously a response to the battle scenes from the LotR films, and it works brilliantly. And there is so much depth that can be added to it. It works particularly well in Eberron, where Tiamat isn't a goddess, she is a demon Overlord, and functions as the equivalent of an Elder Evil. The stakes are *so* much higher this way! For anyone adapting it to 5e, be cautious with the dragons. They pack a *lot* of punch early in this adventure, particularly Ozzyrandion (the green dragon at the bridge). He can easily wipe a party of 5th-level characters with his breath weapon if you are not careful. I'd actually recommend re-fluffling a white dragon, whose breath weapon is just slightly less lethal.
29:28. So, the adventure is a Colville-style Skill Challenge with the encounter in the end proportionally difficult to the outcome of the players' actions.
Four years ago: “…except for Russia with Ukraine.”
+1 internet for the Fifth Element reference
FYI: thank you, thank you, thank you for your review, I liked it so much, I bought my copy and I am reading it right now, going to be starting a new group with 3 players that have never played D&D before and will make sure they have a blast and will not forget playing through this awesome adventure,.
Ran RHoD twice, in 3.5 and 13th Age. It was fun both times. The 13A conversion I did on the fly. That goblin ranger fight was fun to run. Thanks for the video and reminding me of the awesome memories of this module.
Glad to be friends. I am one of the few people I know who paid attention to the first five albums. Always glad to encounter a fellow Stygian.
Hey may I love your channel. It has really helped me. I wish I would have found your channel before spending 400$ on the game. I am 15 and I'm a new dungeon master. Your channel has helped me with having a great time with my friends. I have also seen almost your entire running the game series, so thanks for that.
15 and just starting to DM? That's awesome! Best of luck, man. D&D is one of the coolest games out there. :)
the DM Lair thank you so much. I know it's amazing you can literally do anything. And the only thing I want in life it creative control and playing and dming d&d allows me to do that.
Absolutely. There's little that allows someone to exert as much creativity as DMing. :)
I know and not only that bit I like the feel of playing a character and switching my mind to what that person would think or feel.
Yeah but now you have $400 of cool shit you'll be using the rest of your life!
We love you Mr. Colville
I recently started playing again after many, many years. Over the holidays several relatives asked me to DM a group for them. So, I planned three modules and we just finished the second one yesterday. They are now level 5 and will be starting RHOD next. I had put their previous adventures in the mountains south of Elsir Vale and they just found a map and note in a treasure hoard that mentioned a powerful Staff of Life near Drellin' Ferry. I have been having a blast so far and I am really looking forward to RHOD.
Did anyone else just listen to the Synthesizer for like the whole 10 minutes? XD
TheGameGuy Yup, I'm considering grabbing it and looping it as background music for a sci-fi campaign...
With permission, of course.
Giant in the playground forums have a great handbook for running red hand of doom including making the adventure more challenging and just dealing with some of the challenges that can lead to underwhelming encounters.
styx witch wolf, you are a friend of mine. long live old school dungeons and dragons.
Glad came across this, building home brew world and guess who has a feudal hobgoblin nation. RHOD sounds ideal to run for this! And my players will be none the wiser! How good.
@ 6:00 its crazy to me that this was always so prevalent in the world even back in 2018 and yet here we are 3 years later and people are defending this in my country. It' strange times for all and darker times for others. Stay safe and keep gaming!
Great video, looking forward to reading this adventure and supporting the new kickstarter!
Running a Dovetailed Curse of the Reptile God, Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and Red Hand of Doom into a 3 part Campaign.
Oh my gosh, I am incorporating elements of this book into my Ironfang Invasion campaign from Pathfinder! I am so happy that you're finally reviewing this.
Thanks for editing last night's video, Matt. Keep up the great work.
LOT of editing! Cut out all the asides that weren't relevant. I think it resulted in a pretty watchable video! And it wasn't hard to do really.
Might have to give this adventure a look - although I'd reskin the Ghostlord to be an actual ghost lord, as that fits my next campaign setting more, and allows me to weave in an important NPC's as a corrupted Ghost hellbent on serving some unknown purpose untl he is freed!
Loving the content as always
Playing with my group right now!! Its awesome.
The way you summed up 'converting' is exactly how I have always approached it. I can't believe that people worte massive documents converting adventures from one edition to another. Just run it as if it was this edition ;)
I had never heard of the Strawbs but as soon as you 'sang' ;-) the song I thought, YES. Quick google search, listen to the song, think 'sure sounds like YES'. Then see that Wakeman was in the band. Great song.
My eyes lit up when he mentioned the Iron circle. Because that was the first adventure i ever played, and later ran. A simpler time, when I was a rail-roading pos XD
Watching this in December 2022 and Matt’s reference to Russia’s expansionist war in Ukraine from 2014 was both salient and prescient. Slava Ukraini.
your breakdown of this campaign is inspiring me to run a war against mind flayers across my setting's Astral Desert!
Wow! I just started running RHoD yesterday! I'm running in Greyhawk, so I replaced the Red Hand with the Scarlet Brotherhood, who are marching to solidify their total control over the Holds of the Sea Princes. I had been building them up as the major enemy, and my players have allied themselves with a rebel faction who i said had been spying on the Brotherhood from Vraath Keep (before it was taken by Koth). The best part of the first session, they show up at what they believe to be a rebel base and knock down that old shack out front immediately, alerting everyone inside. The manticore inside flies up onto the wall and asks if they work for the Brotherhood, and they reply without hesitation, "No! We're here to kill them!" and all hell breaks loose. Can't wait for session 2.
Now I'm really hyped about playing a module for D&D
Well, a shitty day just got better. Thanks Matt!
earliest i've ever been. Lookin forward to this, red hand of doom was cool
4:42 "If it turns that out a gray ooze in tougher in 5th edition than it is in 3rd edition, then my players' heroism will be maximized. [smirk]" LLLLLLOL
Ran RHoD straight off the shelf, almost no modifications, and it was awesome. One of the few times I've ever done that! My players STILL shudder at the memory of the Fane of Tiamat.
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Really enjoyed this. (saw the live stream)
would like to see you talk about more adventures in the future.
keep on doing you Matt. :)
Ran this around 2010 and it was a huge hit, great fun for the dm as well.
Matt, you rock man. New DM here and you’ve taught me so much!
I ended up getting this adventure, I can't wait to try it out!
Bought this adventure based on this video - great purchase.
Hi matthew colvile. I have never played red hand of doom but it sounds cool so i will watch the stream
My god, Matt thank you for speaking on behalf of a generation of lifelong GMs in adamantly stating that ToEE is absolute trash! :)
I find that the players have a lot of control on whether a given campaign is any good or not. A great adventure and DM can only bring things so far.
So, I joined a group that was doing the second half of the first act for HotDQ, and personally, it is some of the most fun I've had in a game I've played. I can see the whole 'Oh, fight that you are by no means ready for' thing as a bummer (our 2nd level Barbarian was brought to 1 point away from Instant Death, with Shield of Faith, Mage Armor, and Bless on him no less). It is one of the few pre-set campaigns I have actually enjoyed playing in.