I watch DMScotty to learn learn 'how to craft.' Hankerin, part of why I watch you is because you give me the 'why do I craft' and the 'what do I do with what I craft.' It's the difference in making the most beautiful game pieces and knowing how to play the game beautifully.
AAAAAAAAAGH! Fan girl moment! You legit just made my wife think I was crazy as I started yelling and waving my arms at my laptop, while watching this with headphones. Anyway to discuss the points brought to the table! This was a great thought session. I'm glad to see you define the two types of DM so well, because this is a concept I've been struggling with but didn't understand or know how to verbalize. I'm definitely the crafty DM. That part is easy for me, it's the mechanical part I struggle with as a new player/dm, but I think the mechanical part is what makes the crafts really shine so I'm working' on it. While the crafting parts of your vids are where I stole my craft aesthetic (and honestly your stuff was what made me pick up the foam and glue gun, not Scotty or DMG), the craft isn't the main reason I keep coming back for more. It's your DM philosophy, your thought process, your inspiration to achieve the most dynamic game situations possible! I love that your vids are %20 craft %80 talking, thats what makes your channel stand out. And the crazy amount of game ideas you can come up with using 5 pieces of scatter blows my friggin' mind! /love letter
+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass No prob man, you're my youtube hero. Can ya do me and all your watchers a solid and drop an annotation or something with my channel name in yer vid? All these fools searching Pilly Pal in youtube, commin' up cold!
Black Magic Craft lol, first thing I did was search Pilly Pal. Then I went to comments to see if I could figure it out. Makes sense it’d be you. Just built a set of your stackers today.
24:30 Never stop doing what you do!! As a few of the other comments have said. You are that voice that answers the question "what do i do with all this awesome stuff i crafted?" It may be true that some of the other crafting DMs do it better. But you actually show/give us awesome and practical knowledge of what to do with it! Not just "check out this cool thing" but "here are the principles that makes this thing so cool, and how YOU can make it awesome in your game."
Only D&D channel I watch you can't stop! I am a new DM but I come for your mechanics over your crafting tbh, nothing against your crafting I just don't have time as a physics major in college! So many creative ideas. And of course you're just downright entertaining! that's the best part!
I've been DM'ing for twenty years and I like to think I have my 'style' pretty well down by now, from the finite points of rules I tweak because they don't really feel consistent with the result of the game through to the encounter dynamics but I have to say your EXTREMELY well put ideas, and especially incorporating complex ideas behind literature and the audience experience (I want to guess a literature or philosophy major maybe? Ive seen you talk about fairly obscure bits of chem as well but I know its a broad discipline over there vs our focused model in the UK) have really change how I think about my games. I can't say if the PLAYERS notice a dramatic difference in THEIR enjoyment, but I damn sure do in mine. And fuel to keep the fire burning is what really matters when your campaign runs longer than two dozen sessions.
Love your vids! I’m a young DM in high school and I love your take on creating very architecturally and mechanically driven games! Don’t stop making these awesome videos and keep up the good work!
Once again, you've done it. Mind=BLOWN! I'm going to have to sit down and really process the exquisite perspective you are dropping down, and steal away some time with this book and my DM journal. New depths of gameplay are on the horizon! Thanks a million!
Also.. how fast and simple it is to draw an instance on graph paper vs. crafting 3D terrains is insane. I can't come home and tell my wife.. I'm going to spend 6 hours for the next 3 months doing arts and crafts in the garage and I guess we can hang out on the weekends. graph paper let's you draw/color/shade what you need to create a multi session instance in
I've just finished my first game as a DM, and I had characters climbing on crates for advantage, characters dragging others to safety and even using the environment in combat. I think everythings better with a hint of, well if you take the strength check why wouldn't you do something like that. Carry the halfling like a backpack. Thanks for getting me back into the hobby and giving me loads of awesome badass ideas.
Powell's Books is the best, man. Grew up in portland, spent many an evening lost in that Librarinth. So that, plus the Aristotle references makes video rock! No one gives The Philosopher the love he deserves these days.
First TH-cam comment ever. Hankerin,' Don't question yourself man. DM Scotty might be great. But, the stuff you put on this channel is original and well put together. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoy your crazy antics. Don't change a thing. The pace is fine when the content is this high quality. Strength, honor and Beer.
Gotta say, dig your videos big time. Enjoy the crafting stuff you put out but more than that love the key mechanics and room design series. This is where I come to enhance my game. Thanks for all the great content.
Thank you for continuing your work on these videos, I really do appreciate the in depth analysis on how to eat and sleep DM'ing. I love the crafting and humor, but I want to say that your unique strength is to teach that DM'ing requires an arsenal of lore and skills. I feel like I just finished a DM Lecture, and thats awesome.
Great video on how to balance your craft vs adventure planing. I think videos like this are what you bring to the youtube community, also by god you are very entertaining and hilarious. Lots of other DMing channels just feel like you are in lecture hall taking notes from a professor. Keep it up almost 4k subs you are doing something other channels arn't.
I've watched these other DM's that you mentioned. They are great. Your style and vision of what DM'ing is by far is the most unique and informative one out there. I prefer to plan and design for a few months before my campaign gets started which is where I believe we differ but don't stop your channel. This is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.. Like Coors.
Bravo! I raise my glass to you sir! To make an architect there needs to be balance between the artist and the mechanic. When these come together a Renaissance man is born!
it is truly amazing what you can come up with when you have even a few crafted pieces,and when you create next weeks pieces youll have even more versatility.(mechanically as well)
Of all the materials I've looked at for encounter design, this video alone really has to be just about the best not needlessly complicated explanation I've seen of how to decide just where things should go in your stereotypical dungeon room or forest clearing.
Woo oh I love that book shot out to the architects in the crowd. I am currently in architecture school as well as a DnD player i love you hear to talk about both
You might like the books. "Steal like an artist" and " Show your work ". Not so much for the D&D side, but more for the making of vids and crafting ect.
i know its not a competition. and DM Scotty is a boss but if jm to be honest ive learned more in your videos and look forward to them more. just wanted you to know so you have no reason to be discouraged. your your worst critic. most people tend go be unconstructive in their own criticism. im guilty of that as well. keep up the good work! tate the time you need and dont pressure yourself into ultimately giving up.
I love Lair go Knowledge!!!! It's my favorite show on the Drunkens & Dragons net...I think that "mechanics" applies better to the game design by the DM than how the players use that mechanical environment. Could we say that "mechanical exploitation" by players already has a word -- "tactics"? When you get on top of the hill and then attack the people at the bottom from the high ground, that's a tactic. When you use the thin passage to prevent a small group from getting surrounded and overwhelmed by a numerical superior opponent, that's a tactic. When you wear a giant tube on your head to make it look like you are not threatening when you are really a badass, that's a tactic. Or something....Now you don't have to hate "mechanical exploiter" players because they are really just "brilliant tacticians." :) PS...I say keep doing the channel because it is fun and isn't that what is most important? It's like I said a long time ago, you make it cool to be a geek in a way that people like Bill Gates fail...
+Violet Deliriums aha! I rebuke that analysis! TACTICS are applicable to any setup or scenario..they are principles of application of force. Mechanics are using the actual, specific, available elements of a PARTICULAR scenario.
nice video. your work here has great value. I started back in 1st edition using graph paper. made this huge map and of course the problem always arises..As a DM you have things in mind for your group to go left but freedom of their choice they'd go in a completely different direction and then your stuck cuz you only set up certain variables. then you're left looking like a stooge. I'd rather not improvise on the fly. the 2.5 2.6 look is.an incredible way to keep your party contained giving you the buffer needed not to have to think randomly.
I don't get something. I get whats fun in character art, but does it serve a functional part in helping you build your world? I think it helps a lot by giving you a feel of that character or object you created, but the way you talk about it sounds like it helps you more than that. Love to hear your thoughts!
+Shachaf Tal Yeh, i think visuals on monsters are critical for the limbic reaction from players..same with some form of world/landmarks...2d or 3d no matter, just something
You should set up an amazon affiliate page for all the good books you recommend. I want to give you money, but I'm not going to, you know, just give you money. :) Fantastic Channel!
Wow... this was an eye opener for me! I suffer from arbitrary architecture, and I kind of new it but didn't understand what the issue was. Great vid!! I'll be Googling that book too. One question: Who is this Pillepow (or how do you spell it so I can Google it??!!) Google keeps wanting to take me to PayPal! LOL!
Who is this PillyPally you speak of ol' sage? Tell me of be cast into the pit of doom! Esoteric philosophy of the story weave. +1 Hankerin. Oh, I am glad I had my lager in hand.
Do you have vids on totally winging a game of D&D? Thx! Hey, Hank - my world exists in a condominium. So space is limited. I love crafting, but it looks like I will have a paper world. Got the Index Card RPG stuff which is cool. And I have paper figures. Looks like I will be exploring a paper world or simply an imagined existence which is fine, too. I am working on "less is more" - because I tend to over prepare and get too attached to my own (wonderfully sexy and cool) ideas.
Thx! I picked up this book "Play Unsafe" by Graham Walmsley which is very brief, but covers improv for RPG games. I just started reading it today. About 75 pages long. I might do a review.
+FirstRoundFireball Well Hankerin says "Pilly Pal" and I start searching YT every whichaway: pilly pal, pilly pow, pille pal, pillie pow...That was never gonna work. So I searched for "craft terrain" and "dungeon terrain" Hmmm... no pillie palowl, but this Black Magic Craft is new...subscribe. Hey, what's FirstRoundFireball...subscribe.
ok who is this pilly pal guy?? and shut up! you totally should have a channel. their stuff is great but your terrain has a raw artistry and a sense of space and drama that the other dudes (or dudettes) can't touch. just looking at one of your terrain boards is an experience. so enough with the self doubt, keep on being awesome!!
I watch DMScotty to learn learn 'how to craft.' Hankerin, part of why I watch you is because you give me the 'why do I craft' and the 'what do I do with what I craft.' It's the difference in making the most beautiful game pieces and knowing how to play the game beautifully.
+MWepex This sums it up perfectly!
AAAAAAAAAGH! Fan girl moment!
You legit just made my wife think I was crazy as I started yelling and waving my arms at my laptop, while watching this with headphones.
Anyway to discuss the points brought to the table! This was a great thought session. I'm glad to see you define the two types of DM so well, because this is a concept I've been struggling with but didn't understand or know how to verbalize. I'm definitely the crafty DM. That part is easy for me, it's the mechanical part I struggle with as a new player/dm, but I think the mechanical part is what makes the crafts really shine so I'm working' on it.
While the crafting parts of your vids are where I stole my craft aesthetic (and honestly your stuff was what made me pick up the foam and glue gun, not Scotty or DMG), the craft isn't the main reason I keep coming back for more. It's your DM philosophy, your thought process, your inspiration to achieve the most dynamic game situations possible!
I love that your vids are %20 craft %80 talking, thats what makes your channel stand out. And the crazy amount of game ideas you can come up with using 5 pieces of scatter blows my friggin' mind!
/love letter
+Black Magic Craft Daaamn...thanks for the props my man!
+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass No prob man, you're my youtube hero.
Can ya do me and all your watchers a solid and drop an annotation or something with my channel name in yer vid? All these fools searching Pilly Pal in youtube, commin' up cold!
so funny. yep will tag you. PILLY POW
couldnt agree more
Black Magic Craft lol, first thing I did was search Pilly Pal. Then I went to comments to see if I could figure it out. Makes sense it’d be you. Just built a set of your stackers today.
Sweet Jesus, this channel is underrated. Can't believe I'm only now finding out about this. Keep up the great work, man!
Very eloquently stated man! You have a great way of keeping deep concepts entertaining as well as accessible.
agreed
24:30 Never stop doing what you do!! As a few of the other comments have said. You are that voice that answers the question "what do i do with all this awesome stuff i crafted?"
It may be true that some of the other crafting DMs do it better. But you actually show/give us awesome and practical knowledge of what to do with it! Not just "check out this cool thing" but "here are the principles that makes this thing so cool, and how YOU can make it awesome in your game."
+Dustin Gonzales Oh... also your videos are way more entertaining than most. You always make me laugh out loud at least once. And i love you for that!
Hank, it would be cool if you posted links to the channels you mentioned.
Only D&D channel I watch you can't stop! I am a new DM but I come for your mechanics over your crafting tbh, nothing against your crafting I just don't have time as a physics major in college! So many creative ideas. And of course you're just downright entertaining! that's the best part!
I've been DM'ing for twenty years and I like to think I have my 'style' pretty well down by now, from the finite points of rules I tweak because they don't really feel consistent with the result of the game through to the encounter dynamics but I have to say your EXTREMELY well put ideas, and especially incorporating complex ideas behind literature and the audience experience (I want to guess a literature or philosophy major maybe? Ive seen you talk about fairly obscure bits of chem as well but I know its a broad discipline over there vs our focused model in the UK) have really change how I think about my games. I can't say if the PLAYERS notice a dramatic difference in THEIR enjoyment, but I damn sure do in mine. And fuel to keep the fire burning is what really matters when your campaign runs longer than two dozen sessions.
Hail! Yep, Philosophy/anthropology degrees here... i love the classics!
You continue to amaze and impress. I consider you to be the "crafter laureate" that gives voice to the soul of crafting in roleplaying games.
Love your vids! I’m a young DM in high school and I love your take on creating very architecturally and mechanically driven games! Don’t stop making these awesome videos and keep up the good work!
As a DM myself, I feel this is your best video yet!
+Christian Oliver !!!
Once again, you've done it. Mind=BLOWN! I'm going to have to sit down and really process the exquisite perspective you are dropping down, and steal away some time with this book and my DM journal. New depths of gameplay are on the horizon! Thanks a million!
Also.. how fast and simple it is to draw an instance on graph paper vs. crafting 3D terrains is insane. I can't come home and tell my wife.. I'm going to spend 6 hours for the next 3 months doing arts and crafts in the garage and I guess we can hang out on the weekends.
graph paper let's you draw/color/shade what you need to create a multi session instance in
I've just finished my first game as a DM, and I had characters climbing on crates for advantage, characters dragging others to safety and even using the environment in combat. I think everythings better with a hint of, well if you take the strength check why wouldn't you do something like that. Carry the halfling like a backpack. Thanks for getting me back into the hobby and giving me loads of awesome badass ideas.
Powell's Books is the best, man. Grew up in portland, spent many an evening lost in that Librarinth. So that, plus the Aristotle references makes video rock! No one gives The Philosopher the love he deserves these days.
First TH-cam comment ever. Hankerin,' Don't question yourself man. DM Scotty might be great. But, the stuff you put on this channel is original and well put together. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoy your crazy antics. Don't change a thing. The pace is fine when the content is this high quality.
Strength, honor and Beer.
Gotta say, dig your videos big time. Enjoy the crafting stuff you put out but more than that love the key mechanics and room design series. This is where I come to enhance my game. Thanks for all the great content.
Thank you for continuing your work on these videos, I really do appreciate the in depth analysis on how to eat and sleep DM'ing. I love the crafting and humor, but I want to say that your unique strength is to teach that DM'ing requires an arsenal of lore and skills. I feel like I just finished a DM Lecture, and thats awesome.
Great video on how to balance your craft vs adventure planing. I think videos like this are what you bring to the youtube community, also by god you are very entertaining and hilarious. Lots of other DMing channels just feel like you are in lecture hall taking notes from a professor. Keep it up almost 4k subs you are doing something other channels arn't.
I've watched these other DM's that you mentioned. They are great. Your style and vision of what DM'ing is by far is the most unique and informative one out there. I prefer to plan and design for a few months before my campaign gets started which is where I believe we differ but don't stop your channel. This is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.. Like Coors.
Bravo! I raise my glass to you sir!
To make an architect there needs to be balance between the artist and the mechanic. When these come together a Renaissance man is born!
it is truly amazing what you can come up with when you have even a few crafted pieces,and when you create next weeks pieces youll have even more versatility.(mechanically as well)
Of all the materials I've looked at for encounter design, this video alone really has to be just about the best not needlessly complicated explanation I've seen of how to decide just where things should go in your stereotypical dungeon room or forest clearing.
Kraken, one of my favorite Rums, I love you even more now.
PILLEEE POWW! lol it's the chant my next pack of disposable cultists will be repeating in the shadows.
Is this someone on TH-cam? I can't find them... @.@"
@@ThomasGiles same
This is about as deep as I've seen of Hank's videos!
Very cool 😎
Thanks for uploading it B.
You should lead an army, your charisma stat is like 20 man.
I keep coming back to this lair of knowledge. This is amazing content. Generous, honest, genuine, brilliant. Thanks for putting it for all to see
Best one yet. Love the trips to the Lair of Knowledge!
Woo oh I love that book shot out to the architects in the crowd. I am currently in architecture school as well as a DnD player i love you hear to talk about both
Great application of Aristotle. I've always been a fan of working philosophy into my games.
Hankerin, the videos are a huge inspiration. Keep it up!
best video ever
This was extra useful and equally entertaining. You're my new hero! (and now I want some Kraken)
You might like the books. "Steal like an artist" and " Show your work ". Not so much for the D&D side, but more for the making of vids and crafting ect.
This is a thing of great beauty.
i know its not a competition. and DM Scotty is a boss but if jm to be honest ive learned more in your videos and look forward to them more. just wanted you to know so you have no reason to be discouraged. your your worst critic. most people tend go be unconstructive in their own criticism. im guilty of that as well. keep up the good work! tate the time you need and dont pressure yourself into ultimately giving up.
going* take* #canttype
+Kevin Deleon :D
I love Lair go Knowledge!!!! It's my favorite show on the Drunkens & Dragons net...I think that "mechanics" applies better to the game design by the DM than how the players use that mechanical environment. Could we say that "mechanical exploitation" by players already has a word -- "tactics"? When you get on top of the hill and then attack the people at the bottom from the high ground, that's a tactic. When you use the thin passage to prevent a small group from getting surrounded and overwhelmed by a numerical superior opponent, that's a tactic. When you wear a giant tube on your head to make it look like you are not threatening when you are really a badass, that's a tactic. Or something....Now you don't have to hate "mechanical exploiter" players because they are really just "brilliant tacticians." :) PS...I say keep doing the channel because it is fun and isn't that what is most important? It's like I said a long time ago, you make it cool to be a geek in a way that people like Bill Gates fail...
+Violet Deliriums aha! I rebuke that analysis! TACTICS are applicable to any setup or scenario..they are principles of application of force. Mechanics are using the actual, specific, available elements of a PARTICULAR scenario.
+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass I rebuke your rebuke 1000 times! Do I win?
yes. yes you do. yes you doo wop.
"the power of rebuke is not to be played with...", said the guy with one of your crazy voices
haha well played sir
Murder Hoboism!! That was excellent useage of the preferred Wiegelistic nomenclature.
The gigantic bookstore you mentioned in Portland is likely Powell's.
3 videos in a week?! I must be dreaming
+Dylan Dressel what ya havta poop, ya havta poop.
Crafting makes you a way better dm gives me almost all my ideas for my campaign make something random and fit it in to the story
Well thought through! Fantastic cognitive wanderings.
yo dude u are awesome :) do u ever go live so we can askk u some questions?
Every other saturday I do a stream, yep
I started drinking because of Hankerin. was alcohol free. half a beer I'm toasted
Have beer, now watch Hankerin
nice video. your work here has great value. I started back in 1st edition using graph paper. made this huge map and of course the problem always arises..As a DM you have things in mind for your group to go left but freedom of their choice they'd go in a completely different direction and then your stuck cuz you only set up certain variables. then you're left looking like a stooge. I'd rather not improvise on the fly. the 2.5 2.6 look is.an incredible way to keep your party contained giving you the buffer needed not to have to think randomly.
I don't get something.
I get whats fun in character art, but does it serve a functional part in helping you build your world?
I think it helps a lot by giving you a feel of that character or object you created, but the way you talk about it sounds like it helps you more than that.
Love to hear your thoughts!
+Shachaf Tal Yeh, i think visuals on monsters are critical for the limbic reaction from players..same with some form of world/landmarks...2d or 3d no matter, just something
I love you Hank
Your videos make my wife wanna game with me and my group
You should set up an amazon affiliate page for all the good books you recommend. I want to give you money, but I'm not going to, you know, just give you money. :) Fantastic Channel!
Snorks drink Kracken? Makes sense. :)
Excellent.
Wow... this was an eye opener for me! I suffer from arbitrary architecture, and I kind of new it but didn't understand what the issue was. Great vid!! I'll be Googling that book too.
One question: Who is this Pillepow (or how do you spell it so I can Google it??!!) Google keeps wanting to take me to PayPal! LOL!
his channel is BLACK MAGIC CRAFT
Release the KRAKEN!! Badass dark rum ... yum yum yum!!
Hey is it possible to have the link to that pilly pal or whatnot dude?
+Addramyr Palinor Black Magic Craft over in my 'Channels I love' column
Just got the book
Who is this PillyPally you speak of ol' sage? Tell me of be cast into the pit of doom!
Esoteric philosophy of the story weave. +1 Hankerin. Oh, I am glad I had my lager in hand.
Or* be cast...damn technogoblins
+Drunken Hobgoblin ME :D Just started a new channel.
So totally subscribed! Like totally!
Do you have vids on totally winging a game of D&D? Thx!
Hey, Hank - my world exists in a condominium. So space is limited. I love crafting, but it looks like I will have a paper world. Got the Index Card RPG stuff which is cool. And I have paper figures. Looks like I will be exploring a paper world or simply an imagined existence which is fine, too. I am working on "less is more" - because I tend to over prepare and get too attached to my own (wonderfully sexy and cool) ideas.
yeh less is more! subtraction is beauty! as for improv video...no I can;t say I'm qualified to make such a video... I'm a prepper
Thx! I picked up this book "Play Unsafe" by Graham Walmsley which is very brief, but covers improv for RPG games. I just started reading it today. About 75 pages long. I might do a review.
Portland? ME? Or Washington?
OR
+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass same
If you're going to moot, might as well entmoot. Lol
There's a free .pdf of 101 things available online.
bespokedbymark.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/101-things-i-learned-at-architecture-school.pdf
Who is Pillypal?
+FirstRoundFireball ME :D....on the DMScotty fb I post as myself, Jeremy Pillipow.
+Black Magic Craft Right on! I was on the hunt for the mysterious pillypow
+FirstRoundFireball I sure get a kick outta hearing people try and guess how to say my last name.
+FirstRoundFireball
Well Hankerin says "Pilly Pal" and I start searching YT every whichaway: pilly pal, pilly pow, pille pal, pillie pow...That was never gonna work. So I searched for "craft terrain" and "dungeon terrain" Hmmm... no pillie palowl, but this Black Magic Craft is new...subscribe. Hey, what's FirstRoundFireball...subscribe.
Hotdog the Barbarian Awesome....ya Hankerin', you'd done us all a favour if you used my channel name :P
The delivery on the Argos humor came across a little stoney.
DAMMMM are u an architec? Man...just folowing those steps myself. o//
an architect OF DOOM! lol
AUSHUASHAUHSUASUASUAHHS
ok who is this pilly pal guy?? and shut up! you totally should have a channel. their stuff is great but your terrain has a raw artistry and a sense of space and drama that the other dudes (or dudettes) can't touch. just looking at one of your terrain boards is an experience. so enough with the self doubt, keep on being awesome!!
+Sgt. Channelclicker ME :D Just started a new channel.
Cha'alt!
Who is this Pilly Pal?
+Al C ME :D Just started a new channel.
So....it's you?
Yea, my name is Jeremy Pillipow, Black Magic Craft is my channel.
Worth a sub I guess.
+Black Magic Craft Good deal. Already subbed. Solid stuff, dude.
what are you drinking on?
all
That's a klein bottle hat, ain't it?
+JustOneAsbesto its a sleeve from my arming jacket. yep.
+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass I thought you were working on your Snorks cosplay.
fish