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I love your videos but I have a tiny nitpick, that's Art Nouveau, not Art Deco, The easiest way to remember is art deco is more angular and solid, while art nouveau is more flowing. Again, sorry to nitpick, but I love both styles and I'm a art history nerd.
Garden of Ynn is awesome, I've run a couple of sessions, and looking forward to run more (my players keep wanting to go back!) Also, every time I go through the bestiary and see the Questing Beast, I think of your channel, so I'm happy you got around to review this!
I took this and dropped it into Alfheim (the old elf gazetteer). It really spiced things up. I just later revealed to the players the gardens where created by the May Queen. A great and powerful Fae Noble. The Alfheim Lord's owed her a favor.
I get the idea of spontaneously rolling stuff as you go along, but I think it pays to pre-roll encounters, etc beforehand. Gives you time to put more detail and thought into what you'll be presenting.
Sweet! I'm getting some major bioshock 1-vibes as well, some few inhabitants left but all are insane, and the Jugend-artstyle. I'm going to try this with the white hack system. I'm constructing a setting in a constant autumn-setting and i think this would be a great location for that.
Currently writing an Arthurian-inspired campaign that's going to transition into some wargame-y aspects, so thanks a ton for bringing The Dolorous Stroke to my attention!
A rewrite with new and original art is on kickstarter. Dunno if I can afford it though. Maybe I’ll just get the one book and just wish that I got everything later…
Hm for running it on the fly you could put everything into rollable tables if you use them on roll20 or fantasygrounds and then build a macro that rolls all of them at once. But thats just helpful for VTTs I guess. Also you would have to create each table 16 times to account for the added numbers for deeper areas... wich would mean a lot of frontloaded work but it would still be quite quick during play.
Thanks to your videos I just bought veins of the Earth and lotfp. Your channel introduced me to osr, and I want to go all in. So 2 things, are there any books with a lot of good random encounters for wilderness travels, particularly for a hex crawls? Which leads me to next one, it would be great to see a video that maybe details the ins and outs of running a hex crawls game. Thanks!
For some good GM Tool kits, take a look at these: - The Tome Of Adventure Design (published by Frog God Games) - The Dungeon Alphabet (published by Goodman Games)
maybe turning these tables into cards would be a good idea you can shuffle and draw cards from each deck, and just read them out loud. mark cards by their depth and add them to the pile as you go deeper.
I didn’t see it in the book (although I may have missed something) but are we aware that "gardens of Ynn" is a Lovecraftian reference? It’s a location within the Dreamlands.
Awesome video as always. Already added to wishlist on Drivethru. I was recently digging through my roleplaying games and re-found my copies of Freebooters on the Frontier and The Perilous Wilds. I was curious if you have checked them out before? They both have OSR approaches using Dungeon World.
So I love using random tables in my games... it is time consuming but if you let the players roll the dice then they feel more engaged in the game. They roll the dice, I look at the charts. I had one super complicated chart. A little unweildy, it was a vending machine. And the dice rolled depended on what the players used for currency and then it could have been food, magic items a lot of cursed, poisoned and trapped items... it was very risky to use. But so much fun!
Tales from the Loop has some alternate history 80s stuff going on (probably could be set in the present day too with a bit tweaking). Call of Cthulu can be set in the present day too and lets hope that is alternative otherwise were pretty much done XD. A lot of Superhero RPGs like Masks or Mutants and Masterminds would also be in modern settings. Also there's Worldwide Wrestling if you're into... well wrestling. Though that might well be our reality without any alteration. Can't think of more on the top of my head, but there are plenty out there.
There's a lot to like about this book, but, man, do I wish it weren't so linear. I'm trying to think of a way to hack the generator to allow for multiple pathways, but it might just be easier to take all the rooms and details and draw out a 35+ room dungeon.
It's very non-linear. I might not have explained it well, but you can have lots of different branching paths from a single node, and you'll run into some events that connect nodes you didn't expect.
Join the Questing Knights on Patreon: bit.ly/QBPatreon
Download my RPGs and adventures: bit.ly/ItchStore
My favorite OSR books: bit.ly/TopOSRBooks
My favorite RPG-related products: amzn.to/30kfamM
I love your videos but I have a tiny nitpick, that's Art Nouveau, not Art Deco, The easiest way to remember is art deco is more angular and solid, while art nouveau is more flowing. Again, sorry to nitpick, but I love both styles and I'm a art history nerd.
You're totally right. Art Nouveau is for elves, Art Deco is for dwarves.
@@QuestingBeast haha, that's how I explained it to my game group
Questing Beast Ahahaha that's actually a pretty great explanation!
Yup. Art Deco is "Art Nouveau for Industrial Designers" 😄
@@QuestingBeast A good response, which proves you DO get the difference even if you made a mistake!
Garden of Ynn is awesome, I've run a couple of sessions, and looking forward to run more (my players keep wanting to go back!)
Also, every time I go through the bestiary and see the Questing Beast, I think of your channel, so I'm happy you got around to review this!
I took this and dropped it into Alfheim (the old elf gazetteer). It really spiced things up. I just later revealed to the players the gardens where created by the May Queen. A great and powerful Fae Noble. The Alfheim Lord's owed her a favor.
That is so cool! I purchased the PDF and plan on making it a weird area in the barrow moors of Barrowmaze.
I get the idea of spontaneously rolling stuff as you go along, but I think it pays to pre-roll encounters, etc beforehand. Gives you time to put more detail and thought into what you'll be presenting.
Absolutely phenomenal. You've sold me on that & on the Dolorous Stroke, they both sound really incredible.
This sounds ideal for my Barbarians of Lemuria games , bought on the strength of this review. Thanks again.
Sweet! I'm getting some major bioshock 1-vibes as well, some few inhabitants left but all are insane, and the Jugend-artstyle. I'm going to try this with the white hack system. I'm constructing a setting in a constant autumn-setting and i think this would be a great location for that.
Currently writing an Arthurian-inspired campaign that's going to transition into some wargame-y aspects, so thanks a ton for bringing The Dolorous Stroke to my attention!
Omg this book 🤩
Everyone should read this just to spark their imagination.
I'm imagining this setting like Alice in Wonderland meets the Annihilation Trilogy
Bryan Smith oh snap, fantasy Annihilation is an amazing idea.
You nailed it.
Always interesting to see Sidhe.
I would have been happy to hear a quick comment on what the new class was.
A rewrite with new and original art is on kickstarter. Dunno if I can afford it though. Maybe I’ll just get the one book and just wish that I got everything later…
Yeah think this product is amazing.
Really well put together how they do the randomness
I love your videos man, keep it up.
Another Great Episode. I've been looking at buying "Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures" but I'm holding out to see your review of it... ;)
Hm for running it on the fly you could put everything into rollable tables if you use them on roll20 or fantasygrounds and then build a macro that rolls all of them at once. But thats just helpful for VTTs I guess. Also you would have to create each table 16 times to account for the added numbers for deeper areas... wich would mean a lot of frontloaded work but it would still be quite quick during play.
Bought based on the review. Thanks!
Thanks to your videos I just bought veins of the Earth and lotfp. Your channel introduced me to osr, and I want to go all in. So 2 things, are there any books with a lot of good random encounters for wilderness travels, particularly for a hex crawls? Which leads me to next one, it would be great to see a video that maybe details the ins and outs of running a hex crawls game. Thanks!
Hubris is great book for what you're describing. I have a review of it that goes into detail.
@@QuestingBeast Thanks, I'll go watch it right now.
For some good GM Tool kits, take a look at these:
- The Tome Of Adventure Design (published by Frog God Games)
- The Dungeon Alphabet (published by Goodman Games)
I bought this before I even finished the video!
Vivisection Theatre...?
Gooooo on...
maybe turning these tables into cards would be a good idea
you can shuffle and draw cards from each deck, and just read them out loud. mark cards by their depth and add them to the pile as you go deeper.
That's a cool idea
Trying to visualize the Gardens of Ynn in my head, I immediately thought of Michael Fishel's artwork.
I didn’t see it in the book (although I may have missed something) but are we aware that "gardens of Ynn" is a Lovecraftian reference? It’s a location within the Dreamlands.
Cool! I didn't know that.
That’s where I’d heard this before!!
Didn't know that.
This would be deliciously perfect for both chthulu and DCC
Awesome video as always. Already added to wishlist on Drivethru. I was recently digging through my roleplaying games and re-found my copies of Freebooters on the Frontier and The Perilous Wilds. I was curious if you have checked them out before? They both have OSR approaches using Dungeon World.
Bought!!!!
Reminds me of a D&D cartoon episode title...
Do you have any suggestions for modern settings? Like settings based in alternate realities of our own. Other than like Shadowrun obviously.
So I love using random tables in my games... it is time consuming but if you let the players roll the dice then they feel more engaged in the game. They roll the dice, I look at the charts.
I had one super complicated chart. A little unweildy, it was a vending machine. And the dice rolled depended on what the players used for currency and then it could have been food, magic items a lot of cursed, poisoned and trapped items... it was very risky to use. But so much fun!
Tales from the Loop has some alternate history 80s stuff going on (probably could be set in the present day too with a bit tweaking).
Call of Cthulu can be set in the present day too and lets hope that is alternative otherwise were pretty much done XD.
A lot of Superhero RPGs like Masks or Mutants and Masterminds would also be in modern settings.
Also there's Worldwide Wrestling if you're into... well wrestling. Though that might well be our reality without any alteration.
Can't think of more on the top of my head, but there are plenty out there.
There's a lot to like about this book, but, man, do I wish it weren't so linear. I'm trying to think of a way to hack the generator to allow for multiple pathways, but it might just be easier to take all the rooms and details and draw out a 35+ room dungeon.
It's very non-linear. I might not have explained it well, but you can have lots of different branching paths from a single node, and you'll run into some events that connect nodes you didn't expect.
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