Divine Contention DM Guide | Dragon of Icespire Peak

[@BobWorldBuilder]

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[@BobWorldBuilder]

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[@1996allah]

Rerunning ice spire peak with the several expansion packs and Bob your analysis was awesome. I always use the modules as roadmaps that can be tweaked, and you always make great suggestions for how to handle some of the issues that will come up. Keep up the amazing work!

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[@Andy-qu4fj]

I’m constantly referencing your channel for info and tips as I’m running this campaign. Thank you!

[@DekarNL]

Great DM guides for DoIP. Invaluable advice for new DMs like me. Any plans of making a new series?

[@teachergeoff9833]

Thanks again Bob! These have been so helpful! As a first-time DM I have found myself making up a whole bunch of stuff to fill in the gaps left in some of all of these adventures. I took your advice/tip from a previous video and made Cryovane a mother. The Myrkul cultists were then tied in by wanting to get the dragon egg in hopes of having a vessel for Ebondeath.

[@IamsTokiWartooth]

And it has been helpful to me, a DM of 40 years, but new to 5E

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Fantastic! I'm happy you've been enjoying this series :)

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[@Romanus7867]

Just wanted to say that I just started DMing on Fantasy Grounds and I'm using a lot of your suggestions in mashing up Lost Mines of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak. I'm also tying in these sequels and eventually Storm King's Thunder. Your advice and suggestions have been invaluable. Keep up the great work!

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I'm finding your content really useful Bob, thank you!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

That's fantastic! You're welcome :)

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Congrats on your job re-starting! :D

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Thank you!! 😊 Full disclosure, it's been a real challenge re-adjusting to having a full time job alongside YT, but I'm very excited to see how the stable income will help me grow the channel going forward!

[@mikeyjofalviton5046]

Love the channel, content and Bob’s explanations. Completely unrelated; I think the channel Awaken Insight is either Bob LARPing a monk class or uploads from his future self.

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Thanks! And I’ll have to check that out for insight from my future self lol

[@woutthielemans5073]

There is an entire series of modules on DM's Guild about Leilon and they are all PWYW. Of course they do not match up with what's in these three official modules, but they can be mined for extra encounters or alternatives (for instance, Thalivar's tower has its top levels floating above the rest and is inhabited by a totally different iconic D&D monster). In these modules, there are also dead and living dragons and spirits, and the cult behind lots of nefariousness is... The Cult Of The Dragon! Which makes a lot of sense seeing they trying to resurrect dead dragons, and ties everything together quite nicely. And you could then spin off into either the later parts of Tyranny of Dragons or try to add on the 5e conversion of the classic Red Hand of Doom module which has a similar plot but is done much, much better.

[@louistetrault6729]

Sweet! Thanks for that video, men!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Glad you liked it! :D

[@rosshowie4868]

I'm running DOIP now. One of my players decided he didn't want to play his Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer after a couple of sessions (this was his first game ever) so I tweaked it so that he was actually playing host to the weakened spirit of Ebondeath and had it burn itself out of him and leave him without magic (I let him change the character in to a Barbarian and played it so that the dragon spirit had been suppressing his physicality). I staged a whole chase and challenge encounter around it and had the other PCs see the fiery spirit in the shape of a dragon burst out of him. I also had the players take some mysterious fire damage which did not leave a burn mark but will EVENTUALLY turn in to a mark of Myrkul. This was just after they'd finished the 3rd intro quest and were on the way back to Phandalin. Also took the suggestion for Tower of Storms for the party to find a letter from Uluran Mortus. So 5 sessions in, unbeknownst to the party, the 2 big bads of the campaign are set up. This series has been so useful in my long term planning for my campaign. Thanks Bob!

[@daviddobbs6296]

Jarlaxle?! Awesome! Can’t wait to get there now!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Yeah! idk much about him yet (besides that he's also in Dragon Heist) but our party also just met him in Grace's Out of the Abyss campaign, so that was a surprise!

[@costanzafaust]

@@BobWorldBuilder He's one of the best characters from the Drizzt books, worth reading as a source of much of the drow lore in the FR.

[@lukedixon2747]

Love all your content dude! I would love to see you cover some more modules the same way as you did with the essentials kit, especially the starter set and curse of strahd I'm having a tough time running the latter!

[@melissaharris3389]

Icingdeath and Twinkle are the names if Drizz'ts swords. Jarlaxel named the ships after his wifu?!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Haha I suppose so!

[@cojoMan]

hey, nice vid and thanks ! Where did you pull the Dagult Neverember token picture from ?

[@benhawley7125]

Hey Bob. First thing first, thank you for the channel and the content you put out. DoIP was my fist time DMing and all your vids helped massively! I'm now running this trilogy (with some changes as some of it didn't flow well in my campaign). The one thing I'm struggling with is why the two different cult leaders what the Ruinstone. I've read the modules a few time and I'm either missing their main motivation, or it's not clearly in there. Is it just for power, or is there something else underlying I've missed? Any ideas from your point of view?

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Hey Ben, happy to help! I'm pretty sure there's a single line about Ularan Mortus's motive to get the stone because I was just talking about this with a patron who was able to cite something brief, but idk which adventure it was in. As for Fherelai Stormsworn, I really don't recall. The good news is this leaves some room for you to bring in your own evil plans for them!

[@AnimeMemesDaily]

great video

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Thanks for your support! :)

[@angelsonlascuna484]

Finally!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Yep, haha it's been a long time coming!

[@King_of_Clovers]

Remeber Ebodeath dispite being CR 4 has 225 hp. This is likely because he is actrally just an edited ghost statblock.

[@jacobporter4615]

Does this mean that this is the last DoIP? I'm so excited for the giveaway tho!

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Nope! I have a few other Phandalin-related videos in mind 😊

[@jacobporter4615]

Sweet!

[@avery7270]

Where did you find that art of the ruinstone? I could really use it actually

[@Joellivin]

One of the main things these add on adventures lacks is a big bad, sure there are bad guys that are pulling the strings and eventually they encounter, but in my opinion it would hook them more to have one or two main bad guys they encounter early and are the main driving force of evil. Instead it's just vauge cult leaders.

[@BobWorldBuilder]

That's a great point. There are some lieutenant cult characters but they don't appear until the second adventure. It would be a better move to introduce them in the first, and make sure they stick around until at least the second if not the third

[@Joellivin]

@@BobWorldBuilder agreed, I as the dm, didn't quite read ahead far enough to make these adjustments, however cryovain will for sure make a comeback as an undead dragon and I'll build off of that going forward after the adventures. They took his scull, and hung it on the wall of the tavern... But it was mysteriously stolen last time they were there. Haha

[@karpmageddon4155]

Ebondeath can easily be made into the BBEG of the whole campaign from start to finish if you choose to make them such using my tweaks. Turning the various cults into pawns of their grand plan to be reborn and once again cast their dark shadow across the Sword Coast. And the best part, they are only released because of the grave robbing players. So there is a lesson to be learned if the players manage to survive the final encounter.

[@Joellivin]

@@karpmageddon4155 for sure, I've read some of your comments before and agree completely, I'm in the middle of storm lord's wraith and trying to write in ebondeath now so they start to see that as the big bad and then I'll write my own stuff after the add ons are done to get my players to level 20, hopefully culminating in a battle with a giant undead dragon and his minions

[@IamsTokiWartooth]

I always just make my own Bigbad in every adventure I run. Sometimes I'll make one for each night, and it might not even make an appearance, but is there egging on some kind of mischief. Like I Made one redbrand in the sleeping giant a LT (veteran) and when she got beat down she called the others off. All then went to the jail and were questioned. Now the players had a choice of having to leave someone to guard them !

[@tnttiger3079]

I actually calculated Ebondeath's CR, and the modifications made mean it's effective CR is actually 16...

[@shadowolfnara4749]

I never know there was more to DoISP had 3 extras are they in book format i have them on Dndbeyond but i prefer books

[@BobWorldBuilder]

As far as I know, D&D Beyond only :/

[@prtwriter4660]

Karp 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Yeah, he definitely deserved a special shout out after so many helpful comments!

[@karpmageddon4155]

Thanks! 😁

[@prtwriter4660]

Probably still will not run DoISP...Some how I just cant get into it.

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Haha, no worries. But maybe some day! It does goes well with Tyranny of Dragons!

[@prtwriter4660]

@@BobWorldBuilder possibly if you build the party up as Dragon Hunters.

[@danbuccini5659]

I think is is set up to launch many of the other books or to launch a homebrew. It has many open ended branches. I do not think it needs to be run strictly by the book(s)