Pinkertons paid him a visit.

The elaborations flower - rare flower blood - found in slugman palace broken window - in palace, found after blood cigarette - smoked by mysterious figure footprints - lead into woods, same ones found leading into higher level dungeo half truth - told by victim girl -related to the blood poison - given to victim, some was left at scene saphire sphere - missing, slugman wants it back weapon - kept hidden from some of the ratmen spies unexpected person involved -newtman river - where figure meets newtman abandoned stone tower ancient coin - from deep in dungeon ancient threat - related to weapon fish people - coming onto land more frequently mushrooms -the hex mycelium hidden grove - host to paimon

Thanks! I appreciate the kind words, and I'm glad the videos have been helpful to you.

​@@gfcsdnd205I hope you make more soon!

Check out Old-School Essentials by Necrotic Gnome! It's a great place to start, and welcome and I hope you have fun on your journey through the OSR!

@@gfcsdnd205 I’m very excited. I started out on dnd 3rd and pathfinder. Played some cool D6 systems, some 40K roleplay, lot5r, a bunch of stuff. But I really love the vibe and mechanical feel of old school. It feels more about story and less about stacking character mechanics

It would help if i watched the rest of the video before commenting... 🤦‍♂️

@@lexj4747 happens to the best of us :)

Thank you!

No problem!

Steal!!! From books, movies, video games, myths, dreams, your favorite modules, steal steal steal!!!

You're going to love OSR!

It's great fun!

I always keep strict time records! I think my video on "how to run your first dungeon" goes over it, but basically in my notes I make a box with a cross in it to signify an hour passing (one stroke per turn, takes six strokes total) and roll for random encounters as prescribed in B/X.

@@gfcsdnd205 Ok, cool. I guess I was confused by you calling wandering monsters a frustrating solution here, since wandering monsters are one of the typical consequences of the passage of time. I guess you were talking specifically in the context of traps? Like... "don't make bad traps and then use wandering monsters to push your players through them."

@@user__214 Correct; wandering monster rolls on their own are not frustrating, but combined with randomly placed traps can lead to this scenario: players spend every turn carefully inspecting each flagstone in the hallway, tapping everything with their 10' pole, moving at a totally glacial pace so as to avoid falling in the spiked pits that they know are *somewhere* in this huge labyrinth. This can be excruciatingly boring, so to encourage players to move faster, more monsters show up the longer you spend in the dungeon. Now the players are forced to abandon that carefulness... and promptly blunder into traps that they just didn't have time to check for. At the end of the day you've robbed your players of tactical choice and agency: either the solution is obvious - it makes sense to check every inch of the dungeon - and therefore requires no tactics on the players' part, or the solution is RNG - we have time to check two or three sections of the dungeon, just pick some at random and hope it's a trap.* Either way the players aren't making meaningful decisions. With the way I've proposed, the players are encouraged to explore and interact with the fiction of the world. Instead of rolling 1d6 to check for traps because that's just what you do, they carefully inspect the brilliantly brown copper statue in the room because the rest of this room is dank and untouched for years, why is there no oxidization on this copper statue? Shouldn't it be green? Something's amiss with it. & c. * Now there's definitely ways to mitigate this RNG, e.g. treasure rooms and faction leader lairs are more likely to be trapped, sure. But that still leaves the pernicious problem of the odd hallway trap or "trap room" - and even in the case of the treasure room, how will the referee decide *what* is trapped in the room? A random chest has a poisoned needle in the lock? Okay... but what about rolling 2/4/2 (weight difference, poison or water, juts or recedes) and coming up with a balcony overlooking a sea of gold coins that comes up to just about a foot under where they stand, undulating and pulsing in the torchlight? The seasoned crawler might key in on the word "undulating" and ask exactly what I mean by that - the coins are rolling like waves before their very eyes? But the foolhardy player might leap from the balcony into the sea of coins - and find that it is, in fact, a literal pool of water with a thin layer of fake coins on top. Too late, though, as his chain armor has already dragged him down to the bottom of the pool, where his bones will lay with the real coins and gems until the party finds a way to drain the water and access the treasure and corpses of other former unfortunates. But that's just how I like to play!!!

@@gfcsdnd205 Makes total sense now. Thank you!

I'd never admit it out loud but I do have a soft spot for 3.X, especially when playing with Epic 6 rules...

Unfortunately as it's been out of print for a long, long time, I think you'll have to Sail the High Seas nudge nudge wink wink

@@gfcsdnd205 could you possibly advice some good alternatives?