Thanks!

Thanks!

@@donovan5656 the empire empire

@@bbd121 it’s coming

@TheMythkeeper Bless you, good sir. And great job as always. <3

@@archaeopteryxish thank you so much for the feedback and support

It was a great source for contextually appropriate imagery for this video and for my TX overview video

Its Hwanggot and I'll get there eventually. ;-)

Because she had the right name 😆

@@TheMythkeeper I sent it before finishing the whole sentence, but yes, you hit the nail on the head.

@@israelmorales4249 Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi 🤣🤣🤣

@@TheMythkeeper 🤣🤣🤣 indeed!

Yes I will. I believe that video is due out in January some time.

@@10KTakeda awesome!

Awesome glad to here it! I think more people are running TX games than you might think. These videos have proved pretty popular.

@@TheMythkeeper I can't speak for everyone, but it felt like a breath of fresh air to me. Its very different from what you might think of as "standard Pathfinder adventures", plus its a very cool continent so that helps heaps. So I'm glad more people are learning about it and potentially playing in it!

My pleasure! Thanks for watching so quickly after the drop!

Haha! Thank you much appreciated sir!

Yeah Molthune feels like an afterthought, existing mainly to serve as foil for Nirmathas. Not as evil as Cheliax but not far behind. It'll be interesting to see if 2E does something a little more interesting with this region.

@TheMythkeeper *IMO* Cheliax is just more open about their intentions. Molthune uses a form of subterfuge and guile to justify a very similar political approach.

@@DustyLeeSledge I think you're absolutely right. Red-eyed devils vs weak-eyed devils.

@@goldenbrigain7031 awesome this sounds like a great concept

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!

No sorry, but feel free to join my MK discord server linked in the channel links.

You're very welcome!

Very soon!

Yeah - River Kingdoms - one of my earlier videos.

It's in the video description 😅

Thank you kindly!

Thanks for the comment!

World's greatest spy 🤣

I am probably 1 or 2 sessions away from finishing Book 5. Should wrap the whole campaign by end of January or maybe early February.

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Thanks!

I discuss the town of Wolf's Ear in a fair bit of detail in my Varisia and new Thassilon Part 2 video!

More character backstory stuff is coming, don't fear ;-)

I think you've mentioned this game in the comments before. Honestly, an all-Kobold Kingmaker game is so *specific* a version of that AP that you're already integrating backstories just by supporting this choice. Presumably they intend to lead a Kobold kingdom, so those kobolds must come from somewhere. The Windswept Wastes? The Darklands? Or do these kobolds plan to rule over a human kingdom? And if so how do they plan to keep the humans inline?

@TheMythkeeper Thank you, that's already helping. The closer I get to running this AP, the more do my nerves get the better of me. I GMed before, but those games always flickered out before I could really implement anything from their backstories in any meaningful way, or are Starter stories, to introduce Players to a system.

Thank you! ❤ And tell Paizo! Maybe get me a recording gig. 😄

Yeah that's a great topic for a future vid 🙂

2 dragon videos and I've still left a ton of stuff on the cutting room 😆

That fight was more intense than was probably reflected in the video. Turns out capturing how intense the combat encounters actually are is quite difficult.

@@dmeep thank you!

Thanks as always for watching and commenting! ❤️

Thank you kindly!

Moivas would have maybe been a better choice in the end because of the spider thing. I chose Caldrana because I knew they were going to take a mine, and I thought the house that would most value a mine rich in iron and silver was Caldrana.

Copy/paste error on my part that was never corrected. I think I overlaid that text on my previous episode when discussing the wyvern on the bridge incident, and somehow that ended up here on this episode. Sorry!

This may or may not come as a surprise but as a GM I stopped playing with the classic D&D alignment system as far back as the early 2000s. Marius doesn't have a specific alignment. Many watching have ascribed LG to him, but I think that's just because he's earnest and tries to do the right thing. Marius is a pretty ambitious social climber (as we've seen by his desire to own property and be recognized as a gentleman) and this has caused him to turn a blind eye to certain inequities (like when he didn't say anything to Diyanah for making the halfling carry the tapestry in Season 1). Conversations like this have caused Marius to really think about his worldview and what causes he supports. Not everyone will agree with his choices. He (and all the characters) each have a morality of their own making - and I found my players more open to this once I dispensed with alignment. Just my own experience.

How do you handle effects the are based on alignment like Smite Evil, Detect Evil, Smite Chaos, etc? Pathfinder has a lot of rules based off of alignment, after all.

@@raptordaraptor7861 Detect Evil and Detect Chaos are replaced by a general ability called Detect Supernatural that identifies creatures of the Undead, Outsider, Fey and Aberration types. Detect alignment is rarer but it when it crops up from time to time I generally replace it with Detect Thoughts at a higher DC. Smite Evil is Smite Supernatural. You typically can't smite a mortal, but I do make an exception if they're a cleric (or other divine class) tied to a deity the paladin's deity is opposed.

I honestly don't know how long it takes to make one of these videos all in. Its a multi-stage process. First I have to write the script, and I generally don't write these one episode at a time, I write these a whole season at a time. So when I embarked on this effort, before I recorded a single word, I wrote the whole script for Season 1 (the first 5 episodes, 1.1 - 1.5). I did this any time I had free time. I had a vacation to see family in that period and I wrote a lot whenever we weren't out and about and people were resting. I did this initially to see if I could actually write a season (I didn't want to start something and give up halfway through) and then as I began working on Season 2 I realized it was useful to be able to edit earlier episodes to emphasize things that were going to get a callback. Second I have to record everything. Just like with my lore videos, this is significant effort. The room I record in is not very well sound-proofed and I live in a big city with plenty of street noise so there's a ton of cutting out street sounds that I have to do. I also don't record just one episode at a time. When I have quiet day (usually a Sunday) to myself, I'll try to record as much as possible. That's also why sometimes my voice is deeper than at other times. In the morning my voice runs a little deeper, but by late afternoon my voice softens. Then I have to edit the videos themselves, and the time that takes varies pretty considerably. Any episode with a battlemap and a complicated movement of PCs and NPCs takes much longer to animate than a mostly RP session. In total, I'm not sure how much any individual episode takes but I suspect generally its somewhere around 10x the length of the video itself in production time.

@ ok, that sounds like serious work but I for one appreciate it. How long does the actual table top prep take you? The kingmaker path prep, the changes and such? I should’ve said that better before but I didn’t want to write too much since I don’t comment on anything very often but I DM so I was trying to see the time it takes to make an adventure path work as well as you seem to. Thanks for reading and responding.

@@faethlyss This takes far less time for me than making the videos does. I've been GMing some version of this game since I was in high school (so like 25+ years now) so I know the rules system pretty intimately. I'm pretty comfortable with a fairly high level of improv at the game table if I have had that much time to prep. If I know I'll need some specific monsters for an upcoming game, I'll print a cheat sheet before the game with all the monsters I'll need handy in one place to help with the game. For story planning, I do most of that well in advance. I read all the books before I start a campaign for any story adjustments I want to make. I keep a loose notebook. I also print a bunch of character cards for each of the major NPCs to hand out as I've described in one of these videos. That takes a bit of time, but honestly its fun easy work. It is WAY easier/faster to run an AP than it is to create your own story. If you have a busy life, I strongly recommend this.

@@TheMythkeeperthank you. I’ve been DMing on and off since I was 16, so 30+ years and I usually just improv details with a loose frame of the over arching story but I always like reading the APs and wondered if it was rewarding to run as a DM. Seems so. Thank you for the feedback. Keep up the awesome entertainment, I for one, really appreciate the work that goes into it.