Phandalin & Dwarven Excavation | Dragon of Icespire Peak | D&D Essentials Kit

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0:00 Character Introductions
2:43 Campaign Introduction
6:52 Phandalin
1:22:55 Dwarven Excavation
Character art by @R3dlnk (playing Willow)
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[@new-du1nm]

The DM is amazing

[@JeffStAndre]

With these live plays, first impressions mean a lot, and you guys really have your style down from the get go. Tech squared away, personable players, excellent presentation.

[@JeffStAndre]

Once i finish swindlers den phandelver live play imma watch yalls icespire live play.

[@Kasino80]

What a great choice to have Cryovain appear like that. It totally sets the tone and hooks the players immediately.

[@Encounter6]

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!

[@invidia9222]

This is fantastic. I have fond memories of this adventure as it was my DM debut in D&D 5ed.

[@iTzRhythm1]

What a great quality!! Can't wait for the other episodes!!

[@Zirbip]

That was a fantastic introduction to Cryovain. I am totally stealing it the next time I run this module.

[@mannypenton2977]

One of the best intros to this campaign I have seen online. Cryovain initial visit of Phandalin is pure genius!! The theatre of the mind work here is elite. Well done, DM!!

[@Encounter6]

Thanks! Good luck with your own games!

[@mannypenton2977]

@@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

[@trailzilla5934]

Wow…you had me hooked in 15 minutes. Love the gritty twist on Phandalin so far. The players have crafted some amazing characters that I am already invested in. Can’t wait to find out what Mag did at Mage school.

[@svenpeterson6822]

Please make more!

[@Morowww]

Very nice. I can safely say this is the best VOD of DoIP on KZbin. Keep going

[@niklasvanneyghem9498]

I can only second that ! I watched 4-5 other before and either fell asleep or it got too weird. I was in your story from the start ! Great work ❤️

[@LeeGray929]

Thanks

[@Encounter6]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@traveler9917]

This is really good

[@edathompson2]

Good job. I'll spread the word. Fun to watch.

[@holandecito3136]

Looking forward to next episode!!🐉

[@bbedeschi]

cool

[@Encounter6]

Thanks!

[@nevermind3657]

I literally love this so much! 😱

[@Kasino80]

Just gonna keep writing here: A-Mazing narrative after 30 minutes. Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic!

[@konradgabriel5262]

Did it. I was a dm in my first game. Thanks to great crew like encounter 6 everybody was happy in my game.

[@stephaniebarnes9584]

Well done this is great!

[@Tropicoboy]

The production quality is super high good stuff

[@jegames7138]

Looks good jack, keep it going!✅

[@itsyoboyk]

This is amazing! Quality work done right here. This channel has large potential. Good luck guys! I'd love to see Lost Mines of Phandelver playthrough in the future. Because for first timers like me DOIP and LMOP are go to kits to start from.

[@itsyoboyk]

@@Encounter6 True🙏 Good luck!

[@niklasvanneyghem9498]

This really helps for first time DMs ! Thank you. Would you be open to sharing your scripts and material? They differ quite a bite (in a great way) from the set

[@LunarFerns]

I love how you changed mood of the DoIP to mush more dark and add tension to the story. Probably will borrow some details if my players would like a bit darker DoIP

[@LunarFerns]

@@Encounter6 That would be wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing your experience!

[@Kasino80]

Yeah, having Cryovain appear in some form is a really good idea. Thinking about making him appear on the road to Phandalin.

[@Kasino80]

I know you're from the Netherlands, but your accents, especially for the dwarves, sounds like the vikings from 13th Warrior. Now I want to watch that.

[@Encounter6]

Thanks!

[@charlessantista5063]

Amazing work guys, one doubt: I will be DM for the first time (and also never played this game before), I am working a lot on printing maps but I am struggling on having maps that does not show the secret doors, I watched the Gnomengarde episode and I noticed that you don't show any maps at all for the players, the maps for the players are or not needed? Thx!

[@Encounter6]

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!

[@konradgabriel5262]

Where are subscribes for that lovely crew. Thanks for helping be master my compain

[@odinulveson9101]

Subbed! Hope you do the Mines of Phandolin the first starter adventure too. Im a rookie DnD player which at the same time want to step into d.m role for my siblings after getting the Stormwreck isle kit. My plan is combining the starter/ essential kits. Stormwreck level up to 3 max -> Phandalin level up to 5 max -> Icespire level up to 6 max. Is this viable?

[@odinulveson9101]

@@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

[@Teuhcatl]

I’ve just gotten this campaign and I am a brand new player. We are planning to play it as a family, things, to neverwinter on the PlayStation kids know about different characters would they be able to choose one that is not a human dwarf halfling elf or does this campaign require you to be one of those to be able to play and not hinder your ability to enjoy the game?

[@Encounter6]

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!

[@James-bn6lj]

Would very much like to know what your audio/video setup is. Its very clear and crisp and since I am building my own stream setup I would love to hear how you did yours.

[@RPGrandPaTabletop]

I would also love to know this information

[@James-bn6lj]

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

[@James-bn6lj]

@@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.

[@James-bn6lj]

@@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 :)

[@James-bn6lj]

@@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.

[@stephaniebarnes9584]

Well done this is great!