Scott Buckley - 'The Old Ones' Good luck with your games!

@@Encounter6 thanks

That's the plan!

Thanks! Good luck with your games!

It is a lot of work and we prefer playing other TTRPGs. Maybe in the future!

Yes!

@@Encounter6 Cool, ik ook! Waar hebben jullie gespeeld? En speel je nog weleens?

Brabant/Limburg. Ja we spelen nogsteeds elke week maar we nemen het niet meer op.

Thanks! Good luck with your games!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Thanks! Its just a lot of work...we generally do not play D&D, mostly other or our own TTRPG's. I do want to do it again in the future but there are no plans to do it anytime soon. Maybe some DM-tips video's (already made some but never posted them).

@@Encounter6 I would love to see those DM-tips video if you ever get around to posting them.

Haha, good luck with your games!

You could play anything you want. However, the game comes with some basic options and limited spells because this will be easier for the players but also easier for the DM. If players are familiar with other classes/races it might be fun for them to allow to play it if you also feel comfortable with it as a DM. However I think it is totally fine to tell players to stick with the basic Characters for the first few games because you are a new DM and do not want it to be too complicated. Good luck!

I tried to have the dragon appear several times during the campaign and give it more backstory. Making the players hate the dragon and want to kill it does give some motivation to all these random side quests. Good luck with your games!

Thanks!

Haha this combat encounter from the book is too complicated for me to do TotM so I made it smaller.

Thanks! Good luck with your own games!

@@Encounter6 running my own kids through the adventure currently and have started setting up the dragon visiting Phandalin. I quickly introduced an experienced dragon party that was hired to rid of cryovain..... cryovain will not be pleased lol

Awesome. I am starting this campaign next week. Great ideas. We are a Mix of vet and new players and my first run ass DM

Good luck with your campaign!

Yes true. As far as I know it is not common to tell players the hit points of monsters. There is a condition called bloodied from an older dnd edition I believe. This means that it has half of its hit points left. Sometimes I tell players that it looks injured or weak and then they know it is past half its hit points. We mostly play other ttrpgs without hitpoints so I dont try to change too much when playing dnd especially if it is recorded and other new DMs might use it as an example. You could look up the bloodied condition but it is not official 5e material I believe. Good luck with your games!

Good luck with your games! Yes we don't use maps any more. We find that exploring every room takes too long for us so we prefer doing it this way. For most dungeons/buildings I try to put all the rooms into 3-4 rooms so it is easy to remember/navigate for the players and the rooms will be more interesting because there is more in there and less empty rooms. Gnomengarde was different. I made it feel like it was huge with many many rooms and hallways so the players would not try to visit everything and not expect it to be necessary. I made a small list with important rooms players might visit like kitchen, dining room etc. This might be more difficult to do as a new Dungeon Master however. I hope that answers your question!

@Encounter 6 Ah okay, perfect thanks for the quick reply! I'm gonna be a first time dm for a homebrew campaign. So seeing your videos gets me even more inspired.

I would also love to know this information

@@RPGrandPaTabletop Probably the only stream that comes close to critical roles stream and that is saying a lot about these guys/gals.

@@Encounter6 WOW more than I could have hoped for. I appreciate it. I am sure I'll be modeling my set up off of yours and oh btw so far I am LOVING this playlist. Ill be watching yours that you're currently on after this. well done guys and thank you so much for the info.

@@Encounter6 mattress toppers as in actual bed mattress toppers? This was your soudproofing for the room? hmm my room has bookshelves all around full of D&D books and novels haha so probably cannot do the toppers for mine. it would actually be really neat to see a photo of the room just to see it. Doesnt matter if it is not "pretty" haha The top of our hardwood table has a rubber Matt that fits exactly to the top of the table. Kind of dampens dice rolls and such. As for your microphones, I was speaking with a tech guy yesterday about my idea for a setup and he was saying the same thing . . . a single omni-directional microphone. I was worried that the sound would not be clear for everyone with just a single microphone. You use only one microphone with your streamed games? I assume yours is a USB microphone? Thats crazy though, your sound is really good and that is coming from just a single omni mic? As for my background, I plan to go with greenscreen which I can then make black similar to yours, I like the black background, it gives the video a more comfortable feel. My room also is not overly LARGE but its big enough for a large rectangular table so I have 2 players on each side with me at the end. This will allow me to do my cameras for us. I figure it will take 2 webcams for each players side, 1 for me and 1 for the battlemap on the table. I have a new PC that I just bought just for this purpose. I have a lifetime subscriptipn to xsplit for streaming. I went with a 3070 graphics card with my stream machine for easy 1080p streams. I also have Sony Vegas so I can go back and edit my videos before uploading them so I can add ambience and such for viewers enjoyment. I also will not live stream, I will do local recordings and edit them afterwords then upload to a playlist. To much can go wrong live where as local recordings you can edit to fix issues. As far as the transititions go, I can do all that inside Xsplit as needed. I am not familiar with cakewalk but will for sure look into it. So . . . you use cellphones for video recordings instead of webcams? I will probably go with webcams myself but the phones is an interesting idea haha I never thought of that. I'll have to research how you do your audio. I am not sure if I use ambience music during gameplay or add it in when I edit the game sessions after. What you have right now is really good, well done sir. I will be watching your games :)

@@Encounter6 So this single omni mic you have above the table, I assume in the center of all of you to equally pic up everyones voice? How much editing do you have to do from the original recording of audio to get your currently sound? The audio will be my biggest challenge I think.

@@Encounter6 Have episode 1 loaded and eagerly await your reply :)

One day

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@@Encounter6 so you won't finish the new starter set?

@@Encounter6 Main reason is to use own characters that goes on this 3 part starter kit adventure. It might be chewing over too much but also kinda epic. Another reason is for cohesivness sake. But still thanks for your input, advices! I could still make it so each of them have 3 different groups of adventurers with the same players, so they can experiment with classes /races etc. Character creation is the fun part and Im getting the hang of it to guide my siblings through it. I asked them their top 3 choices of combinations so theres that

@@Encounter6 okay thank you for pointing that out to me. I'm learning heaps from watching your DND thank you.

@@Encounter6 Ah very creative, thanks for replying!