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@Michael-ji3gw 21 сағат бұрын
You sort of already have the ranger thing in the house rules by giving them less chance to be surprised in the wilderness. I would contend that it needs to be even less of a chance. I think you did 1 less but it should be more.
@Joethelawyer 21 сағат бұрын
I’ll check it out
@Grimlore82 23 сағат бұрын
I bet you've stumbled across some awesome fishing spots.
@Joethelawyer 23 сағат бұрын
Not a lot of water up there actually.
@Joethelawyer 23 сағат бұрын
But I hope to expand the hikes in the fall. To different spots. Trying to get in some level of shape now so I don’t keel over and die lol
@Grimlore82 23 сағат бұрын
Looks good Joe!
@Joethelawyer 23 сағат бұрын
Thanks man!
@dandeschene273 23 сағат бұрын
I agree with you on everything and on every level. The more detail you provide the better and easier the choices can be made. Towards this end I went so far as to build my dungeons (and a bunch of the old school ones as well) on my Minecraft server in great detail so my players could actually walk around IN the dungeon at full size and scale instead of looking down on a paper map or vtt.👍
@Joethelawyer 23 сағат бұрын
Oh that’s very cool man. I never got into Minecraft but that sounds like a neat hack!
@EruditeDM Күн бұрын
Nice view up there Joe. And Tim isn’t up there to try to kill you with traps and surprises 😂
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
Thanks! Yeah he’s not here but he sent his death crows from the komor forest. Check out the pics I posted in the community area of the channel
@OffGridGamer2077 Күн бұрын
These field-trip videos are cool. A series of shorts for your channel called "Wilderness Survival Guide" would be fun.
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
That’s a decent idea. I like it man. First I have to learn to survive lol
@freddaniel5099 Күн бұрын
I think that I saw bigfoot behind that tree... Cheers!
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
Haha. Thanks man!
@DMRaptorJesus Күн бұрын
Pretty amazing sight up there
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
The views make the pain worth it
@DMRaptorJesus Күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer Nature vids always do well for me, people love nature especially if they don't get to experience it being in the big city. You should make it a thing where you talk about improve your D&D game through your experiences in nature or something.
@Grimlore82 23 сағат бұрын
@@DMRaptorJesus grand idea!😊
@DoctorTurdmidget Күн бұрын
Dungeons and Dragons and Defecation If orcs crapping isn't part of the game, I don't need to know where they crap. If orc crap can be used as a spell component or potion ingredient, or finding an orc mid-crap means automatic surprise, then I need to know when and where they crap, as well as how much. But I've never had a player ask about orc crap, or try to find the toilets in the dungeon. Maybe I'll start hiding treasure in piles of orc crap to get the players more interested in it.
@400KrispyKremes Күн бұрын
I think fantasy should hold to a similar property that applies to Science Fiction. That being you should change only one thing from reality in Science Fiction stories, but leave everything else intact so it's believable. Like the in film Alien there are aliens added, but everything else is exactly the same only set in the future. Now lets take an example from a Fantasy Science Fiction film, Star Wars. Now in this fantasy setting you can actually change everything if you want because they have The Force which allows for the story to even break the very laws of physics. This is also, if not especially true of D&D because the Gods, and use of magic in general. If you can bend reality there is no need to hold to anything that one would assume to be "normal" in the first place. Hell if you want you can say that orcs don't even need to go to the bathroom at all, and you know why because it doesn't matter? Mabey their God Maglubiyet granted the gift of "benevolent eating" and now they don't ever have to crap again. That being said it might be easier to just throw in a couple of latrines and call it a day. Hell why not?
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
I figure there always a cave on the side or something that they throw their bones from dinner in and take a crap in
@AuthoritativeNewsNetwork Күн бұрын
The zombies aren't killed off, because hapless adventures keep raiding the place at the slightest promise of plunder. 😉
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
lol nice
@FlintFireforge Күн бұрын
Great video! Now, where do kobolds go pee?
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
Haha. In their pants?
@mildsoup8978 2 күн бұрын
Orcs, dragons, toothfairies, Santa Claus none of these creatures poop.
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
Explains why Santa is so fat!
@yogapantsyogurtpants3365 2 күн бұрын
I have no doubt Gary changed his mind for the most part by the end of his life as he was playing other games. They were on the cutting edge of something new. Confronted with problems no one noodled on before.
@Tysto 2 күн бұрын
My experience was very similar to yours. The party went on whatever adventure i prepared, but it was a mutual agreement about what they wanted to do.
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
Yup! As long as I know ahead of time where they’re going I can prep. It they can go where they want to go
@michaelmullenfiddler 2 күн бұрын
Pink mist! Lol
@Joethelawyer Күн бұрын
😂
@NemoOhd20 2 күн бұрын
I hate illogical dungeons. How can players make logical choices in illogical places?
@Joethelawyer 2 күн бұрын
Exactly!
@ericdubert5983 3 күн бұрын
I agree with you to about 90%. There is an argument to be made for how much is too much with the rules. A bit off topic for the main thrust of the video, but it was raised tangentially. You really don't even need dice. The DM paints a picture, you narrate your reaction, then another player and so forth, on and on... So why not? DM bias. Rules create player protection. Bad DMs will violate it, but they reveal themselves faster and time will be saved. DMs should reflect the nature of the world by narration and according to the limits of the rules, not the whims of an irritable god that presides over it. My preference remains 3.5 with significant changes and an eye toward playability. Shakey beginning, but a strong finish!
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Thanks man! Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment. 😎
@Iceican 3 күн бұрын
they hold it in duh it's why they get so big
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
lol. Which begs the question that if they get stabbed in the stomach, is there a shit explosion out of the gut onto the pc’s?
@Iceican 2 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer yes and they have to con save
@Joethelawyer 2 күн бұрын
lol. Or else puke uncontrollably
@thesonofdormammu5475 3 күн бұрын
So let's say you have a room full of rats. A lot of rats. Then some dude comes along who happens to have a bag full of copper pieces. He enters the room with the rats, they swarm, he freaks, hits his head on the door as he was trying to run away, the rats eat him, and about 10 years later a group of adventurers finds the room, which at that point is filthy. The adventurers kill the rats and IF THEY WANT they could pick through the rat feces, bones, decaying matter, etc they would find themselves 2000 cp richer. I don't know the particular module you are discussing, but as a DM I could find 1000 reasons there would be 2000 cp in that rat room.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Sure there are a billions reasons you can make up. Not much makes real sense. But the real reason it was out there according to the author was because the dmg random loot tables said so.
@thesonofdormammu5475 6 сағат бұрын
@@Joethelawyer I get it, and one of the main drives behind giving out loot back in AD&D was for xp gains, which is where those tables originally came from. However, it's not like they used AI to create those tables and then assigned those treasure types to creatures based on random die rolls. The DMG gives a description of how to handle treasure found in the lair of unintelligent creatures. If the DM of the encounter you described literally said there was a stack of silver just sitting there in the rat room, he specifically went against how that is supposed to be handled. In unintelligent creature lairs, treasure will be wherever that particular creature keeps its trash (different types of animals handle the remnants of meals, old nest material, etc in different ways, I'm sure you knew that though). I happen to know that rats aren't exactly picky about keeping their homes tidy, so all of those coins would have been mixed in with bones, poop, old nest material, and anything else they have been chewing on and discarded. It would have taken your character HOURS to pick through the poop to find those coins. That seems more of a mistake on the DMs part, not the actual game rules. In my campaigns, my players may or may not sift through a creatures lair/refuse pile to look for treasure, it depends on their characters. For example, during our last campaign one player had the "noble" kit from the Complete Fighter's Handbook, he would never in a million years sift thought animal refuse to find treasure, even if he didn't have s single bent copper to his name at the time. Same player a couple of campaigns back played a dwarf that would try to convince the party to look through everything for any treasure they could find (he was trying to save up to build a bar for his clan). It sounds like this was a very formative experience for you, which is unfortunate because it sounds like it left a bad taste in your mouth about treasure/encounters/etc.
@Joethelawyer 6 сағат бұрын
@@thesonofdormammu5475 thanks for the response. It wasn’t formative, in that I’d been playing for like 30 years already. It was just that my post on it went wayyyyy viral. And it was for a dungeon designed by an OSR luminary. And I get what you say about the dm adapting it. We made a post to run the game as written. To give it an actual playtest. Rather than modify it.
@thesonofdormammu5475 6 сағат бұрын
@@Joethelawyer thanks for the explanation,!!I completely misunderstood the situation 🙂
@biffstrong1079 3 күн бұрын
Yes I have spend too much time adding in latrines in my cave complexes and fortresses. Building a city and among other things I've added a Temple of Cloaca which is basically a collection inside a marble hall of 100 pay toilets. I've got a sewer in this city that thieves and monsters are travelling through so I need toilets. Everybody Poops. Gygax was coming from a wargaming background which covers specific battles not the before and after. He was there for the fights. I think. Love your images. I like random encounter tables in the wilderness and usually try to work them into a story. Castle Gygax was terrible. I am a big fae fan and I run a high magic game. I ran the Gygax Alice in Wonderland modules, and they were a load of fun. Ah yes Abduction as opposed to deduction. Sherlock Holmes was big at Abduction. I do like the game to be full of puzzles that aren't LOST mystery boxes but actual information they can use to figure out what's going on. I do want my players to be able to figure out what's going on. Lot of old school monsters were built just to fool characters. Information they had gathered was invalidated when the new monster was basically the inverse of the old. We ran into a lot of Brown Mold but we didn't know what it was and what it did and what its weakness was. We just avoided it.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Thanks for the comment man!
@biffstrong1079 3 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer no worries . Interesting topic.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
@@biffstrong1079 thanks! Pls ease share it around!
@ronniabati 3 күн бұрын
I think there should be difference between combat realism (complex simulation rules) and setting realism (socioeconomics, geography, politics, etc).
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
I think it’s all the same thing. But to each their own
@FraterMerovius 3 күн бұрын
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Attempting to reduce the complexity of human morality to a few distinct quantized categories is beyond simplistic; it results in cardboard cutouts instead of living breathing characters. Most people who commit acts that are widely considered evil don't consider themselves to be evil, nor have they somehow dedicated themselves to evil as a cause. Likewise with chaos, which, when it comes down to it, is merely unrealized potential in its rawest iteration. Law for its own sake is a nightmare, and what constitutes the good depends a great deal on who is making that judgement - never mind the broader categories of good, such as good for the individual, good for the society, good for the regime, Good for the deity/religion, etc. Life is a series of conflicts to be resolved, compromises to be negotiated, and decisions to be made, and often enough there is no clear and noble path through it all. History is replete with examples of people who carried out acts of vile cruelty in the name of what they believed to be a good and noble, or even holy cause. We also have no difficulty imagining what if situations where a difficult choice must be made, with each possibility resulting in death, destruction, or misfortune for one or another individual, group, or class. We have an entire class of inquiry dedicated to examining such choices, the philosophy of ethics.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Agreed!
@kontrarien5721 3 күн бұрын
Gygax seems on one hand like a pretty cool guy that would be fun and interesting to hang out with and on the other hand like he'd be insufferable.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
lol. Still, I’d love to be able to say that I played in a game he DM’d. Just once
@meatballwanger 3 күн бұрын
This is the best thing I ever saw.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Thanks man! Share it around buddy! Trying to be a KZbin billionaire 😂
@cavalcojj 3 күн бұрын
So I will say this. The ecology of an area can absolutely support a dragon in a multitude of ways. One of the ways is that, in your example, The orcs would worship the dragon as dragons are known to be creatures that enjoy reverence. If you did not watch your orcs to be worshipers and followers of said dragon you could have and indeed probably still do have megafauna and megaflora for the dragon to eat. As it so happens I have just started running an Isle of Dread game, and that both supports multiple dragons as well as mega Flora megafauna and all the smaller things as well. If you are going to put dragons into your game you just need to make sure that you have an ecology that supports it. You talk about verisimilitude and that is one of The aspects of that. The world is made up but as long as it makes logical sense and you as the dungeon master put in a bit of the work and it's not a lot of work just a little bit of the work in order to ensure The immersiveness and ecology is there to support whatever larger creatures there are should be fine. I always believed that the Temple of elemental evil did have running water did have Flora and fauna such as rats mushrooms other small animals small cave animalsb and that is how that college worked they also went out and raided. That's kind of the other part of the temple of elemental evil is that the towns folk are dealing with raids. At least that was my assumption.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
If it worked for you and your group that’s awesome. I just needed it to be spelled out and it based on assumptions. If it’s discoverable and spelled out then I as a player can make use of that info to my advantage
@panzerkettentraeume 3 күн бұрын
Where do chess pieces crap?
@kontrarien5721 3 күн бұрын
On the black squares, of course. Woe to the white bishops.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
lol!
@mildsoup8978 2 күн бұрын
Exactly, this is a player with a funny idea that kept talking about it until he ruined the game for everyone.
@WargameCulture 3 күн бұрын
The vtt is going to do great, with a very specific segment of the so-called gaming community. You know who they are, they're all over Twitter complaining about this and that, and totally disrespecting everything you talked about here: creativity, tradition, and striving for excellence.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Agreed. Then it will flop because those folks don’t have any money or jobs. They won’t be able to afford the purple armor kit for ten bucks that wotc is counting on
@TheLordUrban 3 күн бұрын
Well in Warhammer Fantasy orcs their dung to build idols of Gork and or Mork.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Mork from ork? 😂😂. I just dated myself haha
@sirguy6678 3 күн бұрын
The answer to all of “these types of questions “ is always FM. (F@cking Magic) Narrative players don’t care- adding “reality “ only slogs it down- “where does an Orc crap in the dungeon? It doesn’t-it’s FM. “
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
That’s a game I leave and never go back to.
@Tysto 3 күн бұрын
I don’t like most early D&D dungeons because of this. But then my “logical” dungeons are small & adhere too closely to the basic theme. I struggle to include the wilder monsters. If i use a medusa, it's pretty much the only major monster in the ancient ruined temple. I need to loosen up.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
I get that. You can get into the logical layout a bit much and then it becomes boring with none of the fantastical. It’s a hard balance to achieve
@Dragonette666 Күн бұрын
logical castles and temples would be quickly overran with magic. I've always maintained that fantasy castles should look more like ww2 German bunker complexes rather than real world medieval castles, which could easily be attacked from the air. The old maps have weird dead passages. To me those are to hamper people trying to teleport in. They will find themselves lost or in solid rock.
@rxmoutonmouton5595 3 күн бұрын
I have always explained to the players that the dungeon maps are just a representation. Rooms that are not relevant have not been mapped and included,. ie. kitchens, closets, garbage dumps and yes, bathrooms. The rooms are there, just not represented.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
I can’t go there in my games. Why have a map at all?
@Michael-ji3gw 3 күн бұрын
I rarely have wandering monsters in dungeons. Instead, I think through the dungeon and take monsters or other NPC's that exist already in the dungeon and sometimes have them walking in a hallway to go somewhere instead of the room that the module says they're in.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
That’s the best way. Logical wandering encounters rather than random crap
@Grimlore82 3 күн бұрын
The wandering monsters in dungeons is what inspired the creation of my most favorite setting... Ravenloft.
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
How so?
@robintowers3223 2 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer The reason why Tracey and Laura Hickman wrote the original Castle Ravenloft module was because they saw vampire listed on a wondering monsters table and questioned why a creature like a vampire would just be randomly wondering a dungeon so created a Castle and surrounding land where a vampire with a full backstory was the centrepiece of the land with his own motivations that lead him to be an active agent during the party's time there. The popularity of that module would eventually lead to the Ravenloft setting being spun out from it.
@Joethelawyer 2 күн бұрын
@robintowers3223 that’s a very cool story man. I never heard that before. 😎😊😊
@EruditeDM 3 күн бұрын
Good to see the old-style B/W artwork, Joe. And, this is one of your best videos yet. Solid, thought-provoking game subject. I prefer plausible reality in my world setting, be it city, dungeon, or wilderness. 👍🏼
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
Thanks very much buddy! 😊😊😊
@VicSicily 3 күн бұрын
Thsnks Joe!
@Joethelawyer 3 күн бұрын
@@VicSicily any time! 😊
@VicSicily 3 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer Going to try to check out that Arbiter of Worlds book.
@amenditman 4 күн бұрын
Shepas Joe, you need to hire sherpas.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
@@amenditman lol true. Im gonna try it again this Saturday. Maybe I’ll live stream from the top if I can figure out how to do it lol
@rf-cattleprod6207 4 күн бұрын
My wife and I play a lot of RPG's and having logical reasons why a thing is there is one of the thing we have long conversations about. Why does a wild animal have treasure? It wouldn't.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
Exactly! Not intentionally. If they dragged the corpse back to the cave and it had a bag of coins that’s one thing. But it doesn’t board them
@thesonofdormammu5475 3 күн бұрын
But the things that it killed and ate WOULD have had treasure. Or the things that lived in that cave BEFORE it found it empty and started living there. Or maybe someone stashed some treasure there but got killed before they could come back to claim it. There are a TON of reasons why you would find treasure with a wild/unintelligent animal.
@rf-cattleprod6207 2 күн бұрын
@@thesonofdormammu5475 As long as there is a reason for the item to be there this is acceptable. I have had encounters like this be the Mcguffin for a bigger story. "Found item by accident in strange location, uncover story about the item." Bethesda does this a lot in their games. Easter eggs, etc.
@thesonofdormammu5475 7 сағат бұрын
@@rf-cattleprod6207 I'm talking about basic treasure. There's a reason there is a % for each category of treasure in each treasure type. It's up to the DM to make it make sense if the dice come up with treasure. And ultimately, if it doesn't make sense, don't put the treasure there. In my campaigns if the characters encounter something that literally wouldn't carry its treasure around with it, (for example, a pack of rats as they are exploring a city's sewer system) they will spend some time looking for its lair or cave or whatever. They don't just kill some rats and I say "ope, the rats were carrying a bag filled with 2000 silver pieces". They don't always find it, and they don't always have time to look.
@rf-cattleprod6207 6 сағат бұрын
@@thesonofdormammu5475 Rats like shiny things. I had one of those nests!!! The PC's had to give some of their food to the rat in exchange for random treasure. They never figured it out. Missed out on some cool loot.
@someguywithacoconut9895 4 күн бұрын
In the thumbnail, that’s honestly how I imagine an orc latrine would look. And poor lad who’s gotta clean it, if they ever even.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
@@someguywithacoconut9895 yeah I found the nastiest toilet pic I could get lol
@codychavez9839 4 күн бұрын
As we know wizards of the Coast does not respect what came before, if you didn’t hear the interview they did on D&D‘s anniversary. They crapped all over Gary and David. Outright calling the creators, bigots and racists
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
Yeah it’s ridiculous. Assholes. I wonder if anyone who works there actually plays dnd. Or even owns dice
@DMRaptorJesus 4 күн бұрын
Made some modular tiles and one of the interior inserts was the dungeon bathroom, its always bothered me there's a dungeon full of bandits and where do they shit? Do they sneak into town, do they just piss and shit where ever, they poo in a portal of annihilation? These are obviously disgusting questions, but it can matter, especially for patrols and such. I also like to use the guild mandated 10 minute rest every 50 minutes of dungeoneering, because now there is a question of where are they resting in the dungeon? Do you lower random encounters because the PCs are holding it and not peeing on the walls as they explore, do you then give them kidney stones?
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
You know that’s a good point. Where do the pc’s crap and piss, and can the enemies use that stuff to track and hunt them down? Lol 😂
@DMRaptorJesus 4 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer Woe be upon you if you forget to flush. Nothing more embarrassing than the drow tracking your party down by the piece of TP stuck to the bottom of your boot 😅
@CScott-wh5yk 4 күн бұрын
I always assumed orcs ate their own feces for lunch
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
lol I would not be surprised. My old dog used to do that haha
@russellharrell2747 Күн бұрын
But what do they eat for second breakfast?
@darthtc23 4 күн бұрын
Master rule: XP for gold.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
@@darthtc23 yup! It really helps shape the kind of game you want to run
@Acmegamer 4 күн бұрын
As a old school player & GM, even back in the old days (at least in Southern California in the 1977-1983 before I joined the military and went to Europe for a decade) we actually prefered rules that were standardized. So that we could always focus on the game play. So while rulings happen as we played, we tended to jot down rules we'd decided where D&D/AD&D 1st edition didn't cover. Those were our house rules and it saved debates and agreements which kept the game moving. I've played and ran games across the US and in Europe from 1977 to 2000 before taking a ten year break because I foolishly thought ttrpg were dying as a hobby, I was wrong on that. Anyhow I really actually have grown to dislike the whole labeling of "old school", "new school" and everything in between. I doesn't feel productive in the end and it doesn't feel like it improves the hobby. That's just this old grognards opinion, whatta I know. Luck on the contest!
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
@@Acmegamer thanks man! Thanks for taking the time to comment! 😎
@glacier68 4 күн бұрын
Asking the hard-hitting questions...
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
Always! Lol
@glacier68 4 күн бұрын
Yes to used books. I picked up a used copy of a travelogue by Iain Banks (A favorite Scottish SF writer) after his death some years ago. Probably <$10 thru online market. Opened it up to find it autographed with a personal message, probably from some book-signing event. A wonderful surprise and cherished artifact.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
That’s the best isn’t it!?
@WayneBraack 5 күн бұрын
Modern DnD knows nothing about the mythology. Has no concept of history. My bet is most modern DM's have never read anything other than the rule books. By this I mean those who don't come from the older original versions. The rulebooks are the least important tool as a DM. Most 5e I see is modernity with a thin costume. Larping if you will. Not an actual quasi medieval world reflection at all. So the feel is lost. the grit is lost, and you end up believing stupid things such as Orcs represent black people. Only a complete dumbass who knows nothing and doesn't want to or cannot think could possibly believe this
@Robofussin23 5 күн бұрын
The thing is it’s hard for me to concentrate and read a pdf of a game book or anything really. When I sit down with a book, it forces me into the moment. And yes, I also love just having the books and games that I run. It’s a great feeling to look through your shelf and get ideas from just the covers and just randomly picking one out to flip through.
@Joethelawyer 5 күн бұрын
@@Robofussin23 I couldn’t agree more buddy
@rnelson9880 4 күн бұрын
"The thing is it’s hard for me to concentrate and read a pdf of a game book or anything really. " HIGHLY relatable.
@daelusraine2989 4 күн бұрын
I print my PDFs at Office Max so I can have them as books lol
@Robofussin23 4 күн бұрын
@@daelusraine2989 dude, I need to try that.
@daelusraine2989 4 күн бұрын
@@Robofussin23I recommend it highly. If you do the spiral bound printing, make certain that your front and back cover protectors are the clear plastic ones. The card stock ones fall off after a couple months.
@someguywithacoconut9895 5 күн бұрын
I got into TTRPGs through DnD 5e (I was like 15 at the time) and was and still am enjoying the hobby. I’ve enjoyed my time with that system overall up to now, but as of about a year ago I’ve been shifting philosophies on how I see this type of gaming. I found out about the OSR only about 5 months ago, but have been enraptured by it and the “old school” kind of play, since it’s been very tiring and oddly restrictive with modern ideologies of “have a bunch of rules, systems, character builds, storylines, and plot arcs to go and be the awsomest awesome that ever awsome’d”. I’m EXTREMELY young in comparison to you and most of the people watching this channel, likely (recently 21), but I’ve been enjoying the stuff you and other people in the OSR community have to say about this kind of play style and game. I got Swords and Wizardry, read it cover to cover and am dying to get a group going, mainly thanks to watching your stuff and others like it. Sorry for the long message, just wanted to say this.
@daelusraine2989 4 күн бұрын
I was a player in 2nd ed games for years but I cut my DMing teeth on 3.5. Now I run Shadowdark which is (in my opinion) the best way to introduce 5e players to an OSR mindset.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
Welcome aboard! And thanks for taking the time to comment buddy. 😎
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
Interesting. Why is that?
@daelusraine2989 4 күн бұрын
@@Joethelawyer for shadowdark being a good entry point? Because it's the skeleton of 5e so it's easier to get them ported over. For me, I just keep BECMI nearby while I run SD and stuff its 5e skeleton with Old School goodness. I'm considering running ACKS2 as well.
@Joethelawyer 4 күн бұрын
@@daelusraine2989 ah. You said shadowdark but I read it as shadow run lol. My fault for reading and commenting before coffee lol