Just pointing out that more granular is nice, but it's also more straightforward to switch to a system that is similar. How about 3.5e? Or even Pathfinder which is based on that anyhow.

I like to imagine the Luminous Being residing in the Seventh Heaven of Mt. Celestia. He is an all-good, all-powerful, all-present, and all-knowing entity. One that exists outside of space and time. I do this because I take a Christian approach to DND cosmology.

You should play Cartograph: atlas edition!

I'm running a Northern-flavored campaign. A resource I use is an old Northern Realms Gazetteer. Terrific stuff! (Traditional gods.)

In this scenario it seems your players made selfish apathetic characters. Wouldn’t they continue to profiteer off of any situation you think up and never engage the plot no matter what you do? It seems to me that the players were taking the Gm for granted and forgetting that a GM is playing and wants to have fun too. Your suggestion is a good one for open ended stories, improv options etc… but your actions in the example game are also a good tool to meet your players were they’re at and make a motivation for their unexpected character direction. If it were me, and even after I adapted my game for them they still felt unengaged with the story, I wouldn’t GM for that group anymore. Part of the collaboration of DnD is that your players give a crap about the adventure you’re making together.

This will work great for my underdark orc kingdom adventure

Yra this is the video I needed on world building. My search is done.

Ngl harvestians vs forestians goes hella hard.

I wanna run this as a one shot but reveal the the lord os a vampire

If I run this, it's absolutley ending with the party fighting the demon and/or an undead version of the warlord

"I have a cunning plan" - Baldrick the PC

This makes so much sense! Thank you for sharing ❤

This was very entertaining! I would totally watch more of your one-shots. I especially enjoyed the grannie's voice and personality.

As Veteran DM been playing since AD&D. I found this extremely useful. Thanks for your time and energy. Been trying to streamline a few things and get the chaos of game night more lawful Evil and less Chaotic Evil. ✌🏽

For anyone else who struggle to retain without a list - here you go: 1. Call to adventure by the Quest Giver 2. Challenge that must be overcome to get to the main challenge 3. Larger combat or encounter that may be the main challenge 4.Twist! Something is revealed that the players didnt know before that recontextualizes what they thought they knew.

AWESOME!

Dude is a PIMP

To all those people who say that this system is too complex, look into earlier edition magic item crafting.

Though a character I made is friends with a Lawful Neutral Blue Dragon but plans to prepare to kill a Red Dragon that is responsible for a family member’s demise but must find out who allied with the Red Dragon

Not to mention that BG3 has a theme of unreliable narrators. You are lied to by so many seemingly trustworthy characters.

I disagree about the creation myth bit. Cosmogeny has always been a subject of interest to humans due to our extremely high intelligence and ability to understand the life cycle. If records of the dominant creation myth disappeared in some calamity, one or more new ones would begin to circulate pretty soon after. Of course, you don’t have to put much effort into it (just find the list of creation myths on Wikipedia and scroll until you see one you like), but it would be weird if there just wasn’t one

I'm a new ttrpg dm and start with dnd, homebrewing my own world and setting but I have history with dming text based rps, they just start differently and I have time to just wing it but I want my friends to have a good experience fingers crossed 🤞 I don't fuck this up!

Came here after watching an AI video about multiple Real Housewives franchises in fantasy settings and I play with majority straight guys or gays that don’t know Housewives, shit started writing itself. Evil Wizard (Andy Cohen) gets a large coven of witches, splits them into groups to divide multiple realms (based on the franchise locations) but the groups begin to fight amongst themselves and it’s up to the hero’s going realm-by-realm fighting witches based on housewives 😂

WOW that tip of testing the combat solo to practice the combat system is such a banger. So obvious but I never woulda thought of it. Amazing.

what is #4? I watched this twice and must have missed it

I'm oing to run a one shot Humblewood adventure, and these tips are great! The 3 acts and the modular content are definitely things I want to apply. Thanks!

For the multiple rolls thing, I usually use a system where i let a max of two people roll on any given check, or let one player roll at advantage. These are also only on checks where multiple people could be involved and the help action could come into play.

I like the idea of giving bonuses to persuasion and deception checks when speaking with people from a faction you have gained a reputation with. It could even go both ways if your not careful, piss off the wrong faction and you might find it more difficult to speak with them in the future. Though as a DM you might have already thought to just raise or lower the DC when speaking with people from certain factions but giving them a +1 or -1 depending on the faction their speaking to instead might make them want to try and raise their rep with that faction. Just a thought.

I think I’m a hag

Alwats hated the lack of vampire types and the lack of higher CR vampires

Thank you. This is a very helpful approach, as it supports a living world that can have multiple campaign arcs. When one campaign story is over, you're still free to start another one slowly, with world building already present to continue from.

1.20.45 dude I have to know what happened later. Did they somehow win? Is Maker still alive? Or is it an endless search and destroy mission or something? I watched it for more than 1 hour and I didn't get an ultimate *no pun intended* ending for the Maker himself.

Seven gods, seven factions. Nice and not too big. Three active armies. Sides to choose between or play against

i loved this. thank you so much. one thing i would have appreciated is repeating the steps at the end or in the notes. not a biggie: i know how to rewind.

the game kinda interests me, but the art puts me off. all the girls either have such fat thighs or or just plain fat🤮

Interesting times is my current favorite but it always changes 😂

Tumble is seriously overlooked, it’s so useful.

Awesome!

Nice! Can you make a video going into how you world build without getting lost in the minutae? It's sometimes hard to tell what's important and what's not important, and when to build what.

As an aspiring DM, thank you, sir

There's also "overrun" which is the same as tumble but with strength checks instead.

Can they interact as people like do they only lose control when hunting or?

Brilliant! And horrifying. 😂

SpongeBob has some explaining to do

I see you use inkarnate! I like the maps shown, I also noticed that you also use the grid to show elevation and passable terrain. For example in one of the city maps everything you could walk on is under the grid while all the roofs and obstacles are above it. You don't see that style very often.

That looks sick! I love setting exploring more early-modern time periods.

Congratulations on making Rivals Of Aether DND

Sounds cool - reminded me of Flintloque

Count on me, Malcolm. I look forward to playing it.❤