i spit up my cherry coke while drinking it when i heard you say "take the most important city in your adventure and........hit it with a meteor " hahaha, great f$$$king answer i love it, going through table top book buying mood the past month ,osr books, degenisis, lancer, and now im on the 5e content list. And listening to this and you guys being one of the first 5e channels i used for 5e tips/advice/just chats etc., this for sure is one of the two books im getting off my 5e list. I just know its going to be good , 5e fans gonna love it, and i wouldnt be surprised if osr guys just convert the stats and use the setting. Thanks for the content and the setting you guys have built up.
Greetings from Michigan!! I’m a first time DM, and you dudes helped me out so must with my first campaign!! I have a few experienced players, and a few newbies, but it’s been awesome so far! They’re only at level 5 so far, but I can’t wait to continue. Wish me luck on Saturday lmao. Love you guys!!
I had a situation where my player died a stupid death. The rolled low on perception, I rolled a crit (max damage+rolled damage) with a swarm of insects and straight up killed the character (level 1 is ROUGH!). Luckily the party had paid for an experienced guide who was with them and I quickly made the call that the guide had an emergency scroll of revivify. Saved the character, campaign continues and now the players have basically decided that the guide is their favourite NPC. They now refer to him as archer dad and honestly he's one of the coolest characters I've got to play as a DM. Player deaths happen but stupid deaths are dumb and it's always better to do some hand waving for a better story. Also, he's keeping an account of resources they're using and going to get his cut of their reward. Plus the players have learned; they've stopped taking watches alone, they've learned to check an area before running into it (another player went down because they walked into a pond full of venomous snakes) and so everybody is having more fun because they get to play their characters becoming actual seasoned adventurers.
My players had a choice of about 20 campaigns they could play for our in person game (I think it's finally OK to get back to in person with careful people). They picked Dungeons of Drakkenheim, and I'm glad they did. You guys produced a great product, and I can't wait to run them through it. Love the pop culture references as well (Octarine...Tarna :) ).
Hey Monty, what are your thoughts about the delirium hearth have a conscience? Not a humanoid train of thought, but something like a ecosystem with a desire. Spoiler ahead... . . . . . . . I rly have this idea when the amethyst academy talked about put the hearth to contain the shield around the city. My thoughts was... "Man of course that think would corrupt and take control of this shield! At least in my hand it would be catastrophic!"
This was an important thing to remember. When the party fails, that does not always mean death. Death should be a factor, but the story can also be enriched by failure such as the Ewok trap, QOT drink test, losing a bag of holding filled with gold, and/or having to serve the ones that conquered the party.
Really great to listen too, kinda sad that my theory was now proven wrong but still really helpful and insightful. ((my theory was the demons are ALSO afraid of delrum and using the prime materal worlds as reserch testing grounds to try and figure out an answer before the delrum kills them, which is why so many demon lords were making a presents known oh well)
Plugging the nighttwist monster from dungeon dad as another possibility for the corruption eating plant. Maybe it eats the corruption, but also anyone that comes within 5 miles of its song. Maybe it needs to be planted in the throne room portal after defeating the abomination on both sides or in the shard of the shattered pieces of the delerium heart.
I just need to ask. With Siphon Contamination does the second person in which the contamination is siphoned into has the one round before monstrous transformation so they can be potentionaly saved by heal spell?
I believe the text for siphon contamination states that the gained levels of contamination and monstrous transformation cannot be prevented in any way.
The gith could possibly be tied in as part of the events that brought elves to the world as sort of carry-on baggage in a way. not losing the extraplanar bit but removing the world-changing implications that multiple separate extraplanar races came from different parts of the multiverse
I'm starting a campaign (well session 1) tomorrow over on start Playing games! Shout out to Tripp for recruiting some of my players from your Patreon Discord server!! Huge fan you guys! can't wait to start tomorrow!
If you printed lots of pages in a row on a laser printer and take a big sniff at the printer and the pages. That is a heavy ozone smell. This happens because the laser of the printer has enough energy to put several O2 moleculs into O3 moleculs
I couldn't remember my question when your prompt was sent out but I wanted to ask why you didn't include stat blocks for the body guards for River and Eldrich. I was hoping to see something cool and unique, mainly something very fitting for the amethyst academy, for them.
Initially when my party met Lucretia I inadvertantly had her cast purge contamination on a PC who had level 2 and boils all over his skin, in an attempt to make them initially seem benevolent. I didn't realise sanctified characters couldn't cast these spells, didn't read the part where the spell fails. So I think I'm going to home rule that if you are sanctified casting these spells gives you exhaustion 1-3 levels depending on the spell that is cast as it should be extremely taxing.
There's actually no problem here. Purge contamination isn't in of itself a contaminated spell. If you reread all the spells and their descriptions, contaminated spells actually reference as such before their spell level.
One of my players is playing kenku warlock with dark one as patron. We decided, that what happened is, that their patron sent them ton Caspia to investigate Delerium, because they (the patron) are scared of it.
Why dont any of the taverns in the Buckledown Row map match their respective descriptions? Has anyone made maps which better reflect the descriptions or have people just altered the descriptions to match the maps?
I feel like Lucretia almost needs to actually be entirely correct, not just a maybe. Because spoilers… . . . . . . . . If I remember, her end goal is the world being converted to golden delerium, which will then end up being spread across the cosmos and save other worlds from unstable delerium when our planet inevitably blows up from being converted to delerium. I don’t see a lot of players going with that faction/ending, allowing the planet to be destroyed, on a maybe. But if she’s correct, it becomes more “do we sacrifice our planet to save others?”, which is a bit more of an interesting hook imo.
I'd see about having a bit of both. They can send out smaller collections of purified delirium out there. Think of it as seeding other places and letting the people their choose for themselves. I don't know. I just feel like there's a comprise here
1:17:20 why don't other nations invaded Drakkenheim? Because a meteor just destroyed his most valuable asset, there is not much to gain there. And there the years passed and then... Wow where did this purple rock come from? That destroyed city? Ohh now there a thing that is worth the effort!
@@CrownlessStudios they still do, but then there was not much gain in the invasion, the land in question was not rich by it resources, but when something valuable was found, people start to come
On the subject of integrating PCs of odd races into the setting, one of my players wanted to do a minotaur (from one of the Magic books, I think?) I said sure, and then considered that there are monster minotaurs in the city... well, I decided that they are the same race: born as "sentient" minotaurs, smaller and capable of being any alignment, but with a spark of rage within that if given in to too often or too long can lead to a transformation into a monstrous minotaur, which is not only bigger and stronger, but according to legend will not die of old age. So monstrous minotaurs are pretty rare, but it can naturally be a temptation for the elderly to allow that change in hopes of continued life. I figure the meteor hitting Drakkenheim caused any minotaurs living there at the time to undergo their transformation instantly. It'll be interesting when the PCs finally get far enough in to meet one.
I would be careful with this, though. You really want to avoid making the monsters seem too sane or make the players feel bad for killing them. People have brought up doing the same thing for the ratlings with ratling player characters, and Monty has said that the danger comes from now having to consider whether or not you should kill the ratlings when that is not part of the conflict in the campaign at all. The ratlings (and similarly, the minotaurs bear some of these traits) are crazy, psychopathic, sadistic, and cannibalistic murderers who wouldn't think twice about eating a defenseless old person. So regarding what you are doing, it can work, but make sure to emphasize that these other minotaurs are horrible monsters that are far beyond redemption, and do not possess a moral compass.
what would you do if your players wanted to play this campaign but using the 2024 5.5E players handbook, feats, weapon proficiencies etc? would it work as well, be too easy for the players? are there simple changes to bring it up to 2024?
I like how it took a few turns to do my name and it still went wrong. Edit: Thanks for they answer, I have a player that is playing a cleric of a old god.
This is not a coincidence. Monty said somewhere (forget where) that delirium was inspired by tiberium and older sci-fi uses of the ‘magic rocks from space’ trope
Honestly if you’re looking to do faction based anything, a good place to look for inspiration and ideas would be fallout new vegas lol. God what a good game lol.
Currently playing a college of swords bard in dungeon of the mad mage. I am the main tank and literally a jack of all trades. I feel like he is almost carrying the group with his high ac and the amount of attacks he can soak. So far lvl6 total 4 bard 1 rogue 1 fighter.
Hey guys. I just finally started running my campaign last week, and I got my Kickstarter package yesterday! One question I have (forgive me if you answer this elsewhere, feel free to direct me elsewhere) but I have checked the whole book and I can’t find anything about the Hooded Lanterns tarrifs. It’s mentioned in a random encounter that it’s half of all loot, and Ansom mentions waving it this once for saving Petra, but otherwise in the text it’s no where I would naturally come across it. Right now there’s no need for it to come up, but I want to include it so my group doesn’t just go for them as the clear good guys. I want a clear draw back for every faction and I feel the lack of money translates to the tariff. What do you recommend for the tariff?
The way they describe the inevitable fate of the world kind of sounds like WH40K. It’s all screwed either way, so now it’s just a question of who rules the remnants of the world before it all goes to crap.
After 5 weeks waiting patiently, this mute start was all I wanted😂😂
Great intro👌👌😂😂
Dungeon Dudes are masterclass!
Great quality content, discussions, guidance for play, GM knowledge and inspirational lore.
So,first off,
I really love Dungeon Dudes,their videos & Dungeons of Drakkenheim..!
The beginning & end of this video are
What the heck is going on.
“In Drakkenheim, no one can hear you stream.”
i spit up my cherry coke while drinking it when i heard you say "take the most important city in your adventure and........hit it with a meteor " hahaha, great f$$$king answer i love it, going through table top book buying mood the past month ,osr books, degenisis, lancer, and now im on the 5e content list. And listening to this and you guys being one of the first 5e channels i used for 5e tips/advice/just chats etc., this for sure is one of the two books im getting off my 5e list.
I just know its going to be good , 5e fans gonna love it, and i wouldnt be surprised if osr guys just convert the stats and use the setting. Thanks for the content and the setting you guys have built up.
My first thought on the corruption eating tree was “no, that’s how you get a Gulthias tree!”
Greetings from Michigan!!
I’m a first time DM, and you dudes helped me out so must with my first campaign!! I have a few experienced players, and a few newbies, but it’s been awesome so far! They’re only at level 5 so far, but I can’t wait to continue. Wish me luck on Saturday lmao.
Love you guys!!
It melds seamlessly with fools gold.
Can't wait till the back order comes in! I'm super hyped!
Awesome live.
Thank you for answering my question! Definitely the perspective I needed for fitting it into my campaign setting.
yay!
1:04:20 ... @Monty I think you were speaking about "panspermia" -- the hypothesis first posited by the 5th c. BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.
I love how monty asked "well? What have you done for me lately" in blackjack mel's voice
I had a situation where my player died a stupid death. The rolled low on perception, I rolled a crit (max damage+rolled damage) with a swarm of insects and straight up killed the character (level 1 is ROUGH!).
Luckily the party had paid for an experienced guide who was with them and I quickly made the call that the guide had an emergency scroll of revivify. Saved the character, campaign continues and now the players have basically decided that the guide is their favourite NPC.
They now refer to him as archer dad and honestly he's one of the coolest characters I've got to play as a DM. Player deaths happen but stupid deaths are dumb and it's always better to do some hand waving for a better story. Also, he's keeping an account of resources they're using and going to get his cut of their reward.
Plus the players have learned; they've stopped taking watches alone, they've learned to check an area before running into it (another player went down because they walked into a pond full of venomous snakes) and so everybody is having more fun because they get to play their characters becoming actual seasoned adventurers.
My players had a choice of about 20 campaigns they could play for our in person game (I think it's finally OK to get back to in person with careful people). They picked Dungeons of Drakkenheim, and I'm glad they did. You guys produced a great product, and I can't wait to run them through it. Love the pop culture references as well (Octarine...Tarna :) ).
Montys comments on the Multiverse cracked me up, seeing how this is literally about all the parallel Drakkenheims people are and will be creating. 🤯
Ah. Mordheim lives, in 5E! Thanks, guys...Seriously saved me weeks of work!!
Noneed to apologize on your views of the human species your 100% correct
Just got my stuff... looks great so far
Hey Monty, what are your thoughts about the delirium hearth have a conscience? Not a humanoid train of thought, but something like a ecosystem with a desire.
Spoiler ahead...
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I rly have this idea when the amethyst academy talked about put the hearth to contain the shield around the city. My thoughts was... "Man of course that think would corrupt and take control of this shield! At least in my hand it would be catastrophic!"
This was an important thing to remember. When the party fails, that does not always mean death. Death should be a factor, but the story can also be enriched by failure such as the Ewok trap, QOT drink test, losing a bag of holding filled with gold, and/or having to serve the ones that conquered the party.
Really great to listen too, kinda sad that my theory was now proven wrong but still really helpful and insightful. ((my theory was the demons are ALSO afraid of delrum and using the prime materal worlds as reserch testing grounds to try and figure out an answer before the delrum kills them, which is why so many demon lords were making a presents known oh well)
Plugging the nighttwist monster from dungeon dad as another possibility for the corruption eating plant. Maybe it eats the corruption, but also anyone that comes within 5 miles of its song. Maybe it needs to be planted in the throne room portal after defeating the abomination on both sides or in the shard of the shattered pieces of the delerium heart.
Mork borg with heros. Can't wait for this the come in the mail
I just need to ask. With Siphon Contamination does the second person in which the contamination is siphoned into has the one round before monstrous transformation so they can be potentionaly saved by heal spell?
I believe the text for siphon contamination states that the gained levels of contamination and monstrous transformation cannot be prevented in any way.
@@ronengaming ohh yeah thanks, i misunderstood the wording.
Could you guys take all these videos for the Kickstarter and put them in a Playlist, thar we can have a link to?
The gith could possibly be tied in as part of the events that brought elves to the world as sort of carry-on baggage in a way. not losing the extraplanar bit but removing the world-changing implications that multiple separate extraplanar races came from different parts of the multiverse
I'm starting a campaign (well session 1) tomorrow over on start Playing games! Shout out to Tripp for recruiting some of my players from your Patreon Discord server!! Huge fan you guys! can't wait to start tomorrow!
Came late to this. I love the moment where you van tell Monty just told Kelly that no one heard him. 🤣 love ya guys. Thanks for the video forum.
Best intro
If you printed lots of pages in a row on a laser printer and take a big sniff at the printer and the pages. That is a heavy ozone smell. This happens because the laser of the printer has enough energy to put several O2 moleculs into O3 moleculs
I couldn't remember my question when your prompt was sent out but I wanted to ask why you didn't include stat blocks for the body guards for River and Eldrich. I was hoping to see something cool and unique, mainly something very fitting for the amethyst academy, for them.
Initially when my party met Lucretia I inadvertantly had her cast purge contamination on a PC who had level 2 and boils all over his skin, in an attempt to make them initially seem benevolent. I didn't realise sanctified characters couldn't cast these spells, didn't read the part where the spell fails. So I think I'm going to home rule that if you are sanctified casting these spells gives you exhaustion 1-3 levels depending on the spell that is cast as it should be extremely taxing.
There's actually no problem here. Purge contamination isn't in of itself a contaminated spell. If you reread all the spells and their descriptions, contaminated spells actually reference as such before their spell level.
One of my players is playing kenku warlock with dark one as patron. We decided, that what happened is, that their patron sent them ton Caspia to investigate Delerium, because they (the patron) are scared of it.
Why dont any of the taverns in the Buckledown Row map match their respective descriptions? Has anyone made maps which better reflect the descriptions or have people just altered the descriptions to match the maps?
I feel like Lucretia almost needs to actually be entirely correct, not just a maybe. Because spoilers…
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
If I remember, her end goal is the world being converted to golden delerium, which will then end up being spread across the cosmos and save other worlds from unstable delerium when our planet inevitably blows up from being converted to delerium.
I don’t see a lot of players going with that faction/ending, allowing the planet to be destroyed, on a maybe. But if she’s correct, it becomes more “do we sacrifice our planet to save others?”, which is a bit more of an interesting hook imo.
I'd see about having a bit of both. They can send out smaller collections of purified delirium out there. Think of it as seeding other places and letting the people their choose for themselves. I don't know. I just feel like there's a comprise here
Is there a part 2?
45:25 I imagine delirium is alive and the heart of the crater is large enough to be sentient and wittingly supports the weakest faction.
1:17:20 why don't other nations invaded Drakkenheim? Because a meteor just destroyed his most valuable asset, there is not much to gain there. And there the years passed and then... Wow where did this purple rock come from? That destroyed city? Ohh now there a thing that is worth the effort!
Because they lack the resources to protect large groups of people from the haze.
@@CrownlessStudios they still do, but then there was not much gain in the invasion, the land in question was not rich by it resources, but when something valuable was found, people start to come
On the subject of integrating PCs of odd races into the setting, one of my players wanted to do a minotaur (from one of the Magic books, I think?) I said sure, and then considered that there are monster minotaurs in the city... well, I decided that they are the same race: born as "sentient" minotaurs, smaller and capable of being any alignment, but with a spark of rage within that if given in to too often or too long can lead to a transformation into a monstrous minotaur, which is not only bigger and stronger, but according to legend will not die of old age. So monstrous minotaurs are pretty rare, but it can naturally be a temptation for the elderly to allow that change in hopes of continued life. I figure the meteor hitting Drakkenheim caused any minotaurs living there at the time to undergo their transformation instantly. It'll be interesting when the PCs finally get far enough in to meet one.
I would be careful with this, though. You really want to avoid making the monsters seem too sane or make the players feel bad for killing them. People have brought up doing the same thing for the ratlings with ratling player characters, and Monty has said that the danger comes from now having to consider whether or not you should kill the ratlings when that is not part of the conflict in the campaign at all. The ratlings (and similarly, the minotaurs bear some of these traits) are crazy, psychopathic, sadistic, and cannibalistic murderers who wouldn't think twice about eating a defenseless old person.
So regarding what you are doing, it can work, but make sure to emphasize that these other minotaurs are horrible monsters that are far beyond redemption, and do not possess a moral compass.
That was super helpful.
But why did it end almost half way thought
what would you do if your players wanted to play this campaign but using the 2024 5.5E players handbook, feats, weapon proficiencies etc? would it work as well, be too easy for the players? are there simple changes to bring it up to 2024?
Oh no! You cut out about how the falling fire followers care about the death of the world.
New glasses Kelly? Looking sharp. :)
I'm one of the people that asked why it wasnt a tpk?
Lol, at the beginning I thought my ear buds were broken
I like how it took a few turns to do my name and it still went wrong.
Edit: Thanks for they answer, I have a player that is playing a cleric of a old god.
1:10:00
when I think of delirium, I think of tiberium
This is not a coincidence. Monty said somewhere (forget where) that delirium was inspired by tiberium and older sci-fi uses of the ‘magic rocks from space’ trope
Honestly if you’re looking to do faction based anything, a good place to look for inspiration and ideas would be fallout new vegas lol. God what a good game lol.
When talking of the pandemic,
"During the before-times...."
Dungeon Dudes are MBMBAM fans confirmed.
sound?
Currently playing a college of swords bard in dungeon of the mad mage. I am the main tank and literally a jack of all trades. I feel like he is almost carrying the group with his high ac and the amount of attacks he can soak. So far lvl6 total 4 bard 1 rogue 1 fighter.
Hey guys. I just finally started running my campaign last week, and I got my Kickstarter package yesterday! One question I have (forgive me if you answer this elsewhere, feel free to direct me elsewhere) but I have checked the whole book and I can’t find anything about the Hooded Lanterns tarrifs. It’s mentioned in a random encounter that it’s half of all loot, and Ansom mentions waving it this once for saving Petra, but otherwise in the text it’s no where I would naturally come across it. Right now there’s no need for it to come up, but I want to include it so my group doesn’t just go for them as the clear good guys. I want a clear draw back for every faction and I feel the lack of money translates to the tariff. What do you recommend for the tariff?
"I guess I have a little bit of a cynical view in that respect..."
Me too.
The way they describe the inevitable fate of the world kind of sounds like WH40K. It’s all screwed either way, so now it’s just a question of who rules the remnants of the world before it all goes to crap.
What happened
0:48. Sound. 😉 😜
There is no good without bad. Trying to make everyone feel good all the time is futile.
There only needs to be the potential for bad. Evil can lose.
You can be whatever it is you want to be, as long as it isn’t “homosexual”...DnD5E
What? There is a gay couple in one of the Tasha's book illustrations