A great video - but Intelligence has nothing to do with whether or not an enemy will fight to the death or not. An animal will run away and not fight to the death - it has 2 intelligence, but it has instincts. Just like a deer will run away from a lion, so will a bear most likely run away if it gets 3 arrows stuck in its belly.

Haha... The merry go round trap is a trap is taken from the Saw movies.

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Knob LOL

Wow I just stumbled across this video and went to subscribe and saw it was the last video you ever made. Sorry to see that. This was really enjoyable

what about 'Dodge gives Ad on Dex saves against sources you can see'? :) I have never seen it used.

Would the good guy perhaps have been backstabbed. They are both wounded they will both likely have defensive wounds. Perhaps the good guy has a body wound because they were sucker punched first?

Why are the players doing the puzzle ?

This assumes that every single encounter you come across is exactly 1 enemy. Mutli-enemy encounters have a higher *Adjusted XP* than their Actual XP

I really just wanna create a bard that entertains the characters along the way sort of a comedic relief I don’t want them taking control from my actual players

Throughout the dungeon, the PCs find several small shapes carved from cinnabar. There's a cube, a rectangle, a cylinder, a triangle, a semicircle, and a shape that looks like a rectangle with a semicircular cutout. Later, they encounter a large, round, white marble door with nooks matching the shapes and sizes of the carvings. Seems simple, but there's a twist you won't believe...

I saw a miniature of a berserker in a wheelchair who was dual-wielding. How can you move your chair if you’re dual-wielding axes?!

Love the last one

There's a difference between a DMPC and just a NPC right? I think I was heavily confusing the two for a moment

Genuine Curiosity. Where is it referenced that elves can't magically be aged, I know its a nit pick but I have a campaign where things have to change if my players find out about this.

I have just discovered your channel and wow! These are just amazing! Thank you a lot, you're so creative. ❤❤❤

Any mount try to make it a fighter sidekick

In the Dungeon you see a small wall mounted fountain Demon/Gargoyle head on the wall from its mouth a yellow liquid that fills a bowl , beneath it is another bowl that has carved into it "Fill to move on", there is a large shiny brass lever to the side with pull to tip, there are several skeletons holding brass mugs on the floor and the floor and wall is covered in dry blood and is pitted with acid burns, in blood on the wall is written "do not Drink" - you ask the players what are you going to do if you Guess they all drink the acid and died you would be right if you think i ran the adventure again, had the players find the melted remains of their last Characters and ask the players "what are you going to do" and almost did it again, except the NPC i sent with them this time told them to pull the lever, which tipped the acid into the bowl that opened the door and on they went, and then they went and they berated me for making the trap to Hard 🤔🤔🤔

Quality advice.

My favorite puzzles i steal wholesale from older video games. Some pokemon gyms for example

From my experience over the years, DM PCs are no problem IF you treat them as a normal PC (play honestly, don't cheat), but leave them out of most of the story focus, playing them as a supporter of sorts. I did this in Pathfinder (which is DnD pretty much), if I did not have enough players (since you need 4-5, or you have to do a LOT of balancing, which is way more annoying and risky). I agree with one of your points whole-heartedly: THE CHARACTER HAS TO BE LIKEABLE! Not a superhero, not a shining knight, not the focus, just a swell and useful person to have around to fill up the dynamic in personality and skills (maybe the group is lacking an arcane or religious expert, which is also a good way of dumping lore in a group of low-INT-adventurers). For these characters I HIGHLY recommend NOT to min-max them, just build a fluffy and sympathetic character that can help in certain ways, but their stats are not so good or perfectly placed. A great example would be Louie from the Anime "Rune Soldier", who is learning to be a mage, but is really bad at it, though for some kind of way is pretty good with his fists (a mage with high STR, CON and CHA, but low INT and DEX and average WIS, which might be fun. Just give him enough INT to at least cast level 1 spells). Again... the character has to be LIKEABLE!

I'm binging through so many of these puzzle videos. I'm very sad that this channel seems dead, because so many of these puzzles are very good!

Be a Thri-Kreen and build dex unarmored will give you 13 AC plus the dex. Dual wield to get a AC plus 1. You can dual wield with a shield since you got four hands.

Nice vid bro

Hey i play Rogues i don't do that. Much only to bad people.😊

And this is why i like to play and run High powered epic level games. I had a murder hobo once in my game which in away i don't really mind too much because i have a morally gray dark fantasy. However this muder hobo was making very hard to get the game started after i warned him many times. Now i had a choice i could use one of 6 of my most powerful characters i was playing for a long time and the lowest level was 87 lvl with a Divine rank of 60 but i decided to give that job to one of my friends that was playing. Her old characters lvl 117 with a Divine rank of 90 a paladin of justice/ Cleric. Makoto was her name yes Asian setting. Her god came to her and said hunt this problem characters down bring him in alive if you can but if you can't just kill him and be done with it. Well you know what happened next. After that was done i took her old characters back and carried o. With the game. The other player i had smitted go mad and said i couldn't do that. And i said i am DM i am the Over Deity, the Elder Goddess, the creator of all thing's, the mother and creator of all the gods, I am the beginning and the end. No one has power over me and my world. Put simply i can do what i want. I give people a lot of leeway, And i think I'm pretty fare with a lot of things. Sure was what i did a little over kill maybe but i wanted to show if you try to derail my game I'll destroy you 😊 So let this be a lesson and i resurrected him back and said remember don't derail my game i can be a murder hobo to 😊

I give it credit it is new, they are trying I guess. This isn't an existing IP they are wrecking.

I have a dm pc and my two players love him. I don't get all the hate. He is exactly the same level, so no problem there. My players didn't even want to control him in a fight. We swap the DM role, so he sometimes is in the background, but not so much when one of the others is DM. Of course he does not know more or have super-powers.

The Pointless Lever should be the Trickster's Level or something to that effect. Place it in a dungeon where things aren't always as they seem and they'll catch on pretty quick and will think it's clever xD

The dmpc I have in my game was introduced 1 level higher than the rest of the party, and actually had forgone a level up the next time to sync up with the party. he was introduced at first mainly because my three players could use an extra ally in combat, and i actually did give the players the choice to have him as their ally, and thats what the party chose. i have been giving him a bit off a bigger part when the party has been showing more interest and love for said character, and even then he doesn't try to speak over them in decision making, usually just going along with the party. im hoping that i did in fact do it right, and it definitely seems like i have. i do honestly think it really helps that it was the partys choice to bring him along, rather than try to shove him in

I am running a Fallout 5e conversion where a DM PC saves the group after they crashed in a foreign land in the middle of the "Big Bads" that they weren't supposed to meet yet. She- an Assaultron- saved them and got them to the main friendly factions before falling into a supporting party member. We are a 4 man group with a healer, a Bard-Leader type support for buffs, a Ranger type and a Fighter melee type. A critical role for her becomes the Tank; filling that missing Frontline that's an important aspect. She also becomes their trainer that- after that opening fight that they got their asses handed to them, she trains them to become just as powerful as she at level 3- where they were level 1. She became a very welcome and beloved addition to the group as she never took the spotlight from anyone since she didn't engage in conversation unless asked specifically for her input- her own story was something that tied into their objectives as well as an intrigue for the rest of the players (With one being another Robot in a Protectron- he was interested in her alot due to the lack of other robots in the area and a sort of familiar tie). She also serves as a Natural way for me as the DM to guide (Not railroad) the party to potential missions or locations when they don't know. They ask her for what she thinks and I give them a reasonable response that makes sense for her knowledge of the area but at the same time letting them gauge their options. "I am aware of possible locations for the raiders- but I am not certain. A most probable location for them to hide is within previous building encampment. I know of three places that are probable- as well as a location I have not explored before where they could be." Gives the players 4 new POIs that I have prepared that they could explore based on their own options- my PC just simply provided it in a natural way instead of me just saying it to them. This has worked really well! And the group found themselves growing relationships with her and each other as they all grew together. It was fantastic.

suggestion: riddle-door yields to a paradox. No complements, no interaction, ego is irrelevant; if met with a paradox-riddle, it merely implodes.

2nd level of dex paladin (16dex) 12AC from studded leather +3AC from dex + 2AC from shield + 1AC defensive style on 2nd level. also you can take defensive duelist feat, so with reaction that will allow you to use reaction once per turn, so your AC on 2nd level is 18(with reaction in melee 20) and on 17 lvl it skyrockets to its maximum of 20AC+6ACfor melee reaction Am i wrong here?)

Who plays DMPC's the ways you mention at the beginning? They just should be NPC's with some extra stats at best. What am I missing do people really do this?

I pull the pointless level at least once with all my parties. it turned into a game un-to itself. the fastest it was solved was 30 seconds because one player saw Zee's vid on it. however the longest it took was a good 3 hours 46 minutes. half that party quit on me after that. XD

I run a dmpc with my kids campaign. Old grizzled dwarf who hates everyone. Same lvl as the PCs but he basically does nothing because he is pissed at moradin. This far he has only cast two healing spells. And griped alot

The Pouch of Chance reminds me of the Robe of Useful Items. I made a variant of this once called the Robe of Spell Effects. It had patches representing low-level spells, each good for one use. I love homebrewing magic items.

Even tho i like your videos you aditionally have a voice and a speakingstile siuted perfectly for having you video as a backgroundnoise ^^

Yay the first one i found who is using actual math <3

Tightening Rack: yes, my players love a puzzle that can be solved with a fireball. 😂

DEX is just better than STR in 5e. simple as is

I’m so using the pointless lever 😂😂😂 brilliant

My DMpcs don't go on quests with the group, if they do they serve as support such as buffers and healing. Mostly they are the quest givers who use scrying to spy, track the pcs while they are in the field. In the past I had a dmpc, I realized my mistake rather quickly and had the character get abducted and taken away for a time. My quest giver dmpc drow arch-mage only ever joined combat once with the pcs and that was against a demon lord. His part wasn't the combat itself but the spell he was casting. The imprisonment spell. If I had a wizard pc I would've instructed them to cast it but my two players were a rouge and monk.

Thanks for the video

Your players aren’t my players. They want to get the whole world to follow them, and would be perfectly happy if they went the entire game without ever rolling an attack dice if they were allowed to recruit powerful NPC’s to do everything for them.

No, my friend the video did not reach me (a beginner) as advertised. Thanks for speaking "at me" in the video, but with no base knowledge I couldn't follow you. Recommendation, flashing some text steps or verbally expressing an order of operations list first, would have been helpful for me.

nice stuff maaaaaan

I just want to add a character (around the level of players or even lower) that makes it so when i accidentally put something overpowered he can just make it so the actual pc can survive I don't care if it dies i just want to avoid pk'ing anybody As an inexpirienced DM of course (I forgot to add) is this a good way of doing it?

You can wear plate armour without having high strength. Your speed is just reduced by 10 feet

So I've joined this new group online with my friends and it's the first time I've really used online D&D but the DM has two DM pc's one a barbarian and one a rogue and the Rogue always does death threats and belittles the characters which i the ranger of the party had tried to stop but the Rogue and Barbarian are working together in this Mafia thing and they're supposed to get Kinder further into the campaign but I don't know when? It kind of sucks I've been in this for 3 weeks now and I'm only in it for my friends. The DM has made the two DM PCS the main characters of the story is there any way I can figure out a way to enjoy this further with my friends it kinda chips away at me.