DRAGON HEIST || REVIEW

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[@starwall8755]

*whispering seductively* "These are taxes and fees"

[@madsandersen7863]

Let the fanfic begin

[@russsorvi4181]

Daddy IRS

[@ProdByAngus]

@@russsorvi4181 💀

[@ghostbreath7791]

"No thousands of pages u need to read" Looks at storm kings thunder, cowering in the corner 👀

[@XPtoLevel3]

basically....

[@icooley7391]

OMG, you are NOT kidding!!

[@murtamp9828]

Im gm-ing storm kings thunder after i run dragon heist

[@juliangines6764]

fucking STRAHD.

[@rene280195]

Shout outs to my dm of SKT that allowed my group to go in a side quest to get the Skysplitter and Thunders Hammer to deal with the giant issue.

[@ryankelsay5984]

“Where’s the monster manual?” *opens Starfinder*

[@stebles219]

Lmao, the ghost in the tavern be like “Oooooooh I’m a spooky ghost, clean this shit up” *smashes cup*

[@mcgoo721]

For this adventure, I liked the npcs at the start. This adventure has so much investigation and social encounters so if the party misses some information or dont know where to go, the npcs can help out. I had them pick their friend just based on the photo and quote given, and then made a very quick connection. For example my urban bounty hunter player knows Yagra. She's a zhent mercenary that he's paid off for information. If they can't figure out what really happened with say the fireball incident, she might provide a lead. There are so many clues that are easily missed in this. It's nice giving them a couple of resources to fall back on.

[@guibin]

I'm going to make "Knights of the Old Republic" as an actual homebrew faction now lol

[@aviantheassassin9103]

gui bin I would go on DnD Beyond just for that

[@JosephSmith-lm4ri]

-when I'm watching this and planning to purchase the book just so I can make a sw5e conversion of the module-

[@josephg3462]

Waterdeep Dragon Heist = The better version of Dragon Age 2.

[@reyavispa1472]

Cool avatar!

[@hipsterbrigadier9428]

Ooooh……sold, I liked what dragon age 2 at least tried to do

[@serserendipity6333]

I found the Yawning Portal NPC’s very helpful, but mostly because everyone in my party was extremely thirsty for Yagra and so when the Zhentarim jumped her they got FURIOUS, which was a great emotion to bring out so early in the campaign.

[@mossstrange682]

"hey no, get down. Get down." *Meow* "Don't- no, don't wine at me"

[@MatthewNope]

Possibly the best review I've seen for this book. Actually pointing out specifics that you like/dislike AND WHY. Loved it, thanks!

[@crowfee2910]

I'm DMing for the first time in a couple weeks and this is gonna be my first campaign module to run, so this has been a lot of help in creating notes and such. Also, if my party get to the end and they want to continue D&D, I've decided to create a very smooth transition into Curse of Strahd, so hopefully, that goes well (I've also considered doing some homebrew and rewriting Berovia to be a painting-style demiplane)

[@SauceyNoodle]

Thanos Villain Thanos Villain

[@stupidhead_2812]

I love that Manshoon is drawn like budget Thanos

[@2ndHokageSol]

Then you see what he really looks like inside and he's gorgeous

[@spikegilfer1997]

Where's that god damn Jarlaxle stat-block? I need to know how they dealt with his Batman levels of "I have a magic item for that" with the 5E attunement rules.

[@kachiechan]

They nerfed him hard. The Jaraxle in this book isnt' really the same one as from the Drizzt novels I found. PC's still probably can't defeat him but at least his pockets don't contain every magic item in the DMG.

[@spikegilfer1997]

@@kachiechan I've basically just seen his stat scores and his rather considerable AC. I figure for 5E the realms are getting toned down a bit. We'll see how well that prediction fairs when they stat out Elminster though, won't we? Though, if what I've heard about Laerel is true they did tone down Chosen status quite a bit.

[@mcgoo721]

He does have a work around for the attuned magic item cap that's probably a nod to that. I'll pull up the info for you in the morning! Hurricane life leaves me without a good light to see and I'm not getting out of bed,

[@spikegilfer1997]

@@mcgoo721 Well then, thank you kindly. Also stay safe and snug, good fellow.

[@mcgoo721]

Here it is; "Master Attuner. Jarlaxle can attune to up to five magic items, and he can attune to magic items that normally require attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard." Thanks for the well wishes. All is well. Plenty of food, water, and little damage done to property. Just won't have power for a while. Thank Moradin for intermittent cell signal to use for youtube.

[@lynds5815]

I'm a teen librarian and this convinced me to run Dragon Heist for our first d&d campaign. 90% of the kids in my group have never played, and I think they're gonna have a lot of fun. Or chaos. Probably both.

[@Ryo_Hakuron]

I did really enjoy the NPC bonds section. Bonnie in particular ended up being a big part of my character's backstory and ended up really helping the party quite a few times both in the vault and in the showdown with the Cassalanters. (I think the fact that the keys to enter the vault are customizable were really great too. Having "a shapechanger" as a option was great. That's probably why the NPC bonds were there, to kinda give access to some of the key options or ways into some of the factions.) Durnan also has really been helpful since we went straight into Mad Mage from this campaign.

[@Ahrenji]

I bought this book almost entirely for the map. I've ran a bunch of one shots in Waterdeep and a huge visual guide helped me and my players get immersed so much.

[@ezekielharris7443]

Jacob looks so... refined. It’s strange. Also, love the jacket.

[@SlowpokeSteve]

Jacob, I enjoy so much how you explain things. Extra fun, entertaining, informative, and relatable. I always enjoy seeing videos of you just doing that. Keep it up

[@MotleyNerd]

Knights of the Old Republic I love all the little references

[@FergieFergx0]

New to dnd, currently dming the starter kit for some friends! Been loving your videos!! Really clear and funny tutorials!

[@madisonb8163]

So it's basically Six of Crows, but with D&D races... I'm cool with that 👌

[@cameronpearce5943]

Oh, ohhhh, that first dungeon wrecked our party so bad, We made it out by the skin of out dice and by the grace of our DM. We also did a pre-adventure so we got 1 freebe resurrection which I had to cash in after during in to goblin paste. So freaking fun though. Loving this modal

[@SlatePunchgroin]

Ran this for two brand new players to any table top games and they had a blast. Did the Cassalanters with some modifications I found from slyflourish and it was a ton of fun.

[@henri7120]

Those edits got me. Keep it up man. But take your time. Don’t wanna get burnt out

[@volosguidetomonsters3440]

Imagine if the wizard was on watch when the fireball went off and the DM let him start with a counterspell spell scroll for backstory reasons

[@wafflesop6546]

I fucking died when he said Knights of the Old Republic. I’ve found my new favorite channel.

[@Boom-fs2ny]

So they have what the Unexpectables have in the bar. Neat

[@gamegraves]

I would love to see some more module breakdowns from you, very cool

[@arturbb]

this is literally the best book review I've ever watched

[@someidiotfromover7yearsago]

I love those tavern characters. Not for giving everyone a bond, oh gosh no. But they make really fun npcs to throw in if you need em. Players tryin to hire a barmaid for their tavern? Bam. Bonnie the Barmaid. Shes got a neat little secret and everything. Players need a priest? Party looking for leads at a shady bar? You wanna shoehorn in that Ogre sidequest you homebrewed? Make it look like it was part of the adventure all along with these detailed lookin npcs.

[@Ryo_Hakuron]

Bonnie ended up being a huge part of my character's backstory and helped us tons throughout the whole adventure. Love that bitch so much. Ended up giving her a cut of the gold for being a great friend.

[@celebiRULES555]

2:57 I'm a simple Belgian. I hear the national anthem, I press like

[@sarahdale9968]

My group is going through W:DH right now and we are having a blast! We know the GM will be homebrewing stuff through it, and we will probably be continuing after the end of the prewritten adventure. Also, playing through this adventure as a bunch of arcane primary caster(Except for our Arcane Domain Cleric. Because reasons) is just hilarious.

[@alsokai]

Thank you, just about to run it and you have reassured me.

[@Alien.404]

So i doubt anyone will actually see this but... Matt Mercer is in the Yawning Portal as one of the people you can know......

[@h4xx0rren3]

I'm planning to run this for three new players, and this really has helped!

[@theblazingcrusader6322]

While I am a player, I want to try Dm like my dad so I'm gonna watch this cause I'm gonna Dm this.

[@dynamiczero]

7:48 currently about to run Princes of the Apocalypse for my players and this is so accurate

[@KingAm0]

If you haven’t answered this in the review, which villain is the best (or what the pros and cons are for each of them)? I love all of them. Xanathar’s strangeness, Manshoon’s wizardry and dungeon and character, Jarlaxle’s character (it’s so good), and the Cassalanters I haven’t actually read about yet.

[@Neuthung]

KingAmo As a DM the Cassalanters are the only ones that interest me. I’d put money down that they’re one of the villains Mercer was a consultant for.

[@Deathven1482]

Mr Sakana honestly wouldn’t be surprised lol

[@Ahrenji]

I'd imagine Jarlaxle is pretty cool. He's a very interesting character featured in a bunch of the Drizz't novels.

[@chillinon3263]

@@Neuthung Yeah, they got this interesting dynamic where I feel like they know they're pretty awful people and continue down that path for the prosperity it's gotten them, but they do everything they can to be good parents to their remaining children as a way of alleviating some of their guilt.

[@mcgoo721]

Im running the Cassalanters because a few of my players have kids and I know their story will get them motivated. Also they're easy to work in as a plot twist; they stay pretty quiet compared to the other villains. My old school players will hopefully suspect the other three bigger names and not think the charitable nobles in the background the whole time are the real baddies

[@DoctorLazers]

I think this is the most fun module I've ever run. It was great. Really open to customize and slot in your own shit. I reskinned it all to my homebrew setting and it worked perfectly.

[@thehouseof-l4066]

something that I added during the adventure was in the mansion I put a crazy specter who is friends with the characters and in the purple shop the coveted purple rain dagger that when it's used sings purple rain, so the rouge is assassinating people to the tune of purple rain.

[@ArtemisSkyeB]

My players adopted a Kenku named Bill. He’s now a fourth level assassin rogue with an 18 charisma.

[@SoulSaber98]

Hey Jacob and the rest of y'all I love your critical role analysis series and I'm super interested and seeing what you have to say about my favorite DND stream/cast The Unexpectables

[@nualahalpin6119]

Seeing you in true need joy over the grumpy ghost who wants his upgrade is the best ever.

[@maartenb2000]

Its easy to run ??? Me crying whilst preparing dragon season.

[@kalathan5712]

Easy to run, streamlined and without a ton of NPCs. Wait what ? Am I prepping the wrong Waterdeep Dragon Heist ?

[@johnnyferaud8538]

Your hair looks very nice in this video. Also? That's a good review. Might try to convince some of my family to play this.

[@OuterHeavenNET]

Running this campaign right now. First chapter finished and was pretty fun.

[@MysticalApple]

I'm about to DM this adventure for the first time and from what I can tell, Waterdeep seems a lot like a dndified Novigrad.

[@meidozwz5911]

Thanks for the review as a new dm I'd love to run it and as per your tips I'll definitely use dndbeyond! (I hope that's enough to get you their sponsor)

[@johnrichardnulph391]

not every day you llok a video someone makes from 4 years ago and are like "ha this is both still useful and funny." Good shit stay up. Quality from the beginning

[@maxtufer9475]

5:10 Jacob teaches us how to use a book

[@ives5377]

Jacob: It’s so easy to run Me with my party: *Laughs in Pain*

[@nicktan9739]

Jacob, I love this Channel. It's both helpful and funny. I'm a brand new DM and I'm about to run this for my group of friends and I'm a little nervous as this is my first pre written Adventure I'm running. Any advice? (other then what's already in this video)

[@jackwriter1908]

So... A City with Deathsentence for Criminal Acts... That's definetly the right place for my Con-Man Bard.

[@Seetherfever555]

I did not investigate if you had more premade reviews. But would you be able to make a playlist of your reviewing all the premades you’ve gone over so far?

[@5MARTIST]

Happy Belated Birthday Jacob

[@5-Volt]

I love this book and I am preparing to run it with my friends but I do have 1 kinda big gripe about it.. The fact that each season is only totally different for the last chapter.. I was really hoping that it could be run multiple times for each season.. Ah well. At least is has a lot of info about my favorite city in Faerun.

[@JazzyBassy]

I think it's not meant to be replayable for the same group of players, but to encourage the DM to run it for different groups.

[@Ryo_Hakuron]

Super late reply, but one thing our DM did was, since we transitioned into Mad Mage right after, he recycled some of the other villain's hideouts for little side adventures to break up the dungeon. (Dumb Xanathar broke into the tavern to kidnap back our goblin waiters we recruited from his gang back in the first dungeon and we had to go rescue him)

[@hrenaud8561]

Just picked up this book and curse of strahd today! Can’t wait to run this by my group instead of making a story because high school is painful 😅

[@thesparrow1116]

Should I get Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes or Waterdeep? Im short on cash as well

[@Debriefgames]

If you're running home brew you have zero need for dragon heist.

[@DamascoGamer]

Tome of Foes, if youre DM and needs more creatures to use in your adventures.

[@taothor]

Are you a DM or a Player?

[@staticHam]

I got Mordenkainen's when it came out and really enjoy the lore it gives on the various planner entities like devils, demons, and gith as well as lore for elves, dwarves, haflings, and gnomes. And the monsters that it comes with are the weird and creepy of the universe. I'm using all the demons given (plus the lore) to make a campaign for my players. So, I would say that if you want to have material to create a campaign, Mordenkainen's is a great tool. Dragon Heist is a campaign book for with everything explained for the DM. In the end it depends on how you want to run your games.

[@LordOfDarkness8296]

Depends on your needs. If you need the new tiefling and elf player options for your players and more DM material then grab MToF. If you need a prewritten adventure than grab Waterdeep. Also if you're running a game that has a player using Matthew Mercer's Gunslinger Martial Archetype for Fighters and need rules for gunpowder than grab Waterdeep because it has rules on this magical substitution for gunpowder called smokepowder. You can easily reflavor it as gunpowder by just removing the magical properties of it. If you're running a game in the Forgotten Realm than no need to reflavor it. Gunpowder doesn't work on Toril

[@AlwaysDecent]

Review the new creature codex for 5th edition its the same size as the tome of beasts book they created. Both of them are double the size of the monster manual

[@chaselofundist8727]

Please do asmr DM notes

[@omgzpeanutbutter9482]

I've never enjoyed watching patron shoutouts before

[@davetronred11]

Good job patreon dudes for keeping our buddies XP to Level 3 alive

[@xyagold6990]

ngl the taxes and fees asmr wasn't half bad

[@Cassapphic]

Honestly as somneone who will soon run this, my only gripe with the book as written is that by forcing you to pick one villain and the others becoming background characters, you lose quite a bit of the faction war that makes the story interesting and exciting to me, so to integrate more you either need to homebrew some stuff or rely on the supplemental things others have written such as the alexandrian remix, which itself changes some things that I'm not super huge a fan of.

[@EmuFH]

any advice on witch villian to choose? I'm kinda stuck between Xanathar and the Casalanters

[@fayezatufa765]

What’s the best DnD 5e module outside of Phandelver. I’m dming a relatively experienced group and our homebrews are garbage

[@kachiechan]

Curse of Strahd for experienced players, for sure.

[@jackdizzy123]

If it's not too late, I'd say Icespire Peak

[@MementoMorrigan]

5:10 That’s the bit you’re looking for

[@MintFinkeldove]

Might run this for my kids. Awesome review, even though I am 2 years late watching this lol.

[@boaboy8052]

Module spoilers wow...it is a great thing. Thanks for the great content ✌️ Cheers plus D&D ASMR😂😂😂

[@nickrogers3111]

Yo just FYI the drow faction began de earthe or whatever is from RA Salvatore stuff. mayb from Homeland

[@craptastiko6513]

pronunciation table in th front! somebody was thinkin'

[@tylerbarnick8750]

10/10 needs more Gauntlet.

[@daniellewis2609]

Do you need to have battle maps for this or can you do it with just your imagination

[@dappercharmer9176]

I remember when I played this campaign and we got given the tavern. I immediately wanted to renovate and tried making friends with the ghost XD

[@tshelle8580]

Alright this is all well and good but quick question is this campaign full of dungeon crawls or more role-play heavy?

[@Ragejaw]

Been looking to run this for my group recently. But looking to reskin it to being set in the new Magic The Gathering of New Capenna and making the 5 factions into the 5 families.

[@TWYOP]

I'm currently in the middle of this Campaign. Idk if it's because this is my first time DMing, or if my overthinking got the best of me or what but I definitely had a rough time introducing those faction missions to my players. My players seemed to enjoy themselves (at some parts) but some of the missions felt a bit boring to me. Hopefully the next time I get a chance to run this, I'll be able to make it go smoother. Edit: Honestly, I probably should've found this review first. Would've helped me focus a bit more on how I wanted things to go

[@Neumonics429]

I hope if you get a chance you review the Spelljammer adventures. I was pretty disappointed with Saltmarsh and hoping that it does it better.

[@bbqman101]

started playing a game of dragon heist and the first thing one of the other players did was as a city watchmen is he began to assault a couple of pc clerics right in front of his commander

[@pedrocenturion7599]

Oh the holy book. Book followed must be. Hur-mur. XD

[@CARLOS-it7tc]

Jacob, you were even more of a meme than you usually are. lol

[@sanddry738]

Oh wow force grey is still operating? I thought after the brutal ass kicking via Matt Mercer and Tomb of Annihilation they would go on vacation xD As for the new adventure, I had my reserves about such a low level adventure because we already have a lot of those but Undermountain will solve that. And overall I guess it’s a really fun adventure for those who just want a zany time and some good ol’ heists. Because player plans NEVER go wrong!

[@ruzzfeASMR]

I feel like the npc thing they added gives the players an NPC they can turn to if they are stumped on where to go, this happened to my players when I was running chapter one.

[@hauntofharper]

Biggest con of the first chapter is my players won't stop asking where Floon is. They already saved him. They almost found the half million gold. Still don't know where Floon is XD

[@maxpowell9079]

love the content

[@PikaRam-fw4hn]

Dice camera action characters are in the yawning portal to

[@thedisappointedoptimist6916]

It's weird going back and watching your older videos where you didn't look like a DND player

[@jameswait5340]

one of my players spilt a drink on the map in the third session and it is now held together by tape :'(

[@user-ft6ym2ik2r]

Alexandrian's remix makes this adventure maybe 10 times better

[@DasKatze500]

You sound wonderfully like Jonah Hill. (Great review)

[@kyanchambers260]

I want to play this but my group plays pathfinder. do you think this would be easy to convert or just use as is?

[@kachiechan]

5e material is very easy to convert to Pathfinder (and vice versa) for me. You may need to do some extra work with the stat blocks for the monsters but that's pretty much it.

[@kyanchambers260]

@@kachiechan thanks I'll keep this module in mind

[@robertmoorhead2406]

Fun fact: the Maps were done by all around good guy Dyson Logos, who posts free maps on his blog pretty much all the time. Check him out: rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/

[@moonwalkingmyers8749]

My players want to play a module what's better curse of straud or waterdeep

[@Dingy-doodles]

I'm just getting into dnd and because of this heist I'm praying I don't become the forever dm

[@hobbesfield1082]

20 minutes of ASMR when?

[@andrewgosnell7793]

Who else is a DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PURIST WHO DOESN’T USE COMPUTERS, BECAUSE WE USE PAPER?

[@MrLung1991]

Andrew Gosnell what is this Paper you speak of ?

[@Nunyeahbusiness]

ah, a man of the future I see

[@teigantheisen2549]

FOR THE PAPER!

[@TheKingOfJordan1]

Using computers while playing dnd just feels.....wrong.

[@234edog]

I like a good mix between them.

[@johnmcelhone7574]

Is it possible to do this an 80s setting or am i going over my head?

[@raccoon0413]

Oh, where did you get the waterdeep map?

[@PieMasterBob]

I have it, waiting to finish Curse of Strahd first.

[@CharalamposKoundourakis]

Same! So