The Best Vacation Locations in D&D

[@clericofchaos1]

See just like in the real world, you're perfect vacation depends on the person, but do you actually wanna know the best way to spend a vacation in dnd? Have all the characters gather around a table in one of their mom's basement and play dnd. This serves two purposes. One, it eliminates any possibility of getting into trouble. Especially if you've got some wizards and artificers in the party since they ain't goin anywhere while dnd is a possibility. Two, it completely cuts out the dm. He's in charge of keeping the "real" world operating. So if your characters start playing dnd, one of the players now becomes a dm and the real dm is just sits twiddling his thumbs until the vacation is over. Which is mean, but also funny in a twisted sort of way.

[@Digiarcstudio]

It's also a perfect opportunity for the DM (the actual DM, not the player DMing) to have their own downtime to plot the imminent demise of the players once they stop playing DnD in DnD :D

[@Nat-ri3ip]

@@Digiarcstudio You mean you wouldn't use a npc to play ?

[@yotuel9064]

@@Nat-ri3ip Nah, you just roll in your catrastophe table and tell your players how a meterite just hit their current location, they are all dead and they have to roll new characters.

[@ellisworcester2568]

If the DM controls the game world, that means they control the dice rolls the entire game

[@clericofchaos1]

@@ellisworcester2568 not quite. The dm doesn't decide how the dice fall when you play dragon dice in the game. Besides, i expect he'll take the time to either have a break of his own or just let em do their thing. That level of inception goofiness is bound to be fun to watch.

[@dew-it8744]

Another nice vacation spot is the river styx, I went there and forgot all my problems.

[@tomvandalen2212]

Think that's the river Lethe

[@alitaher003]

@@tomvandalen2212 don’t be too hard on him. He forgot what it was called.

[@savnet_sinn]

@@tomvandalen2212 In Greek mythology, yes. In D&D, it's Styx.

[@Midwinter_Snow]

Ah that final picture of The Lady of Pain. We got to witness first hand those people who lovingly stepped into her shadow last session. I think my character, an ex-solider, fainted.

[@MisterSmith00]

Brightwater was a setting on the celestial planes that caught my immediate attention…it instantly reminded me a place somewhere between Las Vegas & New Orleans. It was a realm of the “good” deities of joy, festivals, revelry, pleasure, gambling & commerce…if there ever was a place for adventurers to take a “vacation”; it would be there.

[@remyfate3005]

I did 1 session beach party, and it was a change of pace, after throwing them into a swamp, it explains itself it's a god damn swamp.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Was it session 7? In anime it's apparently supposed to be episode 7. Or 9. Anywho. Bikinis!

[@viktord2025]

In Mystara there's literally a kingdom that has turned tourism into the main source of income. They have a volcanic island that you can't go to but you can watch, they have an entertainment island, they have an island where they host mock adventures with real monsters and dungeons without the perma death. Oh yeah and they also have an annual contest for the position of the nation's ruler. A red dragon partook in it once, but he only got second place. Shame

[@Puddingskin01]

So, are the monsters like, unionized or have some sort of agreement to not murder the adventurers?

[@viktord2025]

@@Puddingskin01 They get paid. A lot

[@djartyom1243]

The flying city is another famous mystara vacation spot it comes to you! Just mind the gnomes food it's not mde to non gnomish taste

[@viktord2025]

@@djartyom1243 Serraine has some very spicy bread if I recall

[@azathoththeprimalchaos2289]

That dragon only getting 2nd place is actually hilarious to me.

[@brotarkus8158]

A nice vacation is all you need after the horrid trauma of a four session dungeon.

[@ASquared544]

This is actually helpful for my plane jumping campaign setting. Thanks!

[@vyxxer]

Cool thing about that lady is that she hates being worshiped and will kill anyone who tries.

[@bradondykes2276]

The idea of a campaign set in Sigil where the city was the hub world for a group of planes hopping mercenaries that just hop in one of the city’s planar gates to do a job, then hop back for drinks and downtime sound crazy and amazing to me.

[@MisterSmith00]

The City of Brass is a fascinating location…efreeti are, by nature, conquering slavers…but their fascination with art & splendor creates this weird balance where you’re just as likely to be a successful artisan in the City of Brass as you are a source of cheap labor.

[@F0KZ]

The Astral Plane is said to be quite lovely this time of year, I'll book my stay there right away

[@elresponsibleadult2100]

I enjoy that Runesmith and XP to Level 3 have synchronised their videos.

[@zacharyhutter9085]

The content you make and the manner in which you present it hasn't proven to match my personal taste. However, from the replies in your comments section (which I occasionally browse on whim), the success of your kickstarter endeavors, and the growing statistics of your channel, I can see that what you and how you do it is valuable to the audience it attracts. It's a notable work that tracks an essence so pointedly it would seem to have no value to someone not along for the ride. Good shit, Runesmith. I hope you and your audience prosper along your dimension

[@aaronwilliams8887]

My party I DM keeps requesting a Beach episodes for our campaign, they even forced one even with an immediate threat looming. Now I can one up them and give an even better thing then a beach.

[@orangemonkey959]

4:01 ignore the UNDERGROROUND crime syndicates Logan if I have anything growing 'round my unders I'm not ignoring it

[@yashasgupta1]

Thank you so much! Starting a campaign with Sigil as the base location. Everytime the party walks through a door, there is a 1% chance of being teleported into a random plane. Gonna be hilarious ehen the first level party walks into a tavern and finds themselves in Limbo. 🤣🤣

[@TheClericCorner]

Now I need a planar cruise ship run by the Giff with timeshares

[@brucemaximus3797]

That "you got a loicence for those psionics" bit cracked me up. ...I really want official support for psionics, but in the meantime, WebDM Weird Wastelands is gonna tide me over! A good companion piece to your Seeker's Guide, I'm hoping. If not, I'll homebrew it so! MUHAHAHA!

[@Ditidos]

I mean, just give variant spell-points to the sorcerer, fuse it with their sorcery points and make a psionic spell list for it. Maybe change it's spellcasting stat if you feel psions should use Inteligence and that's it. Mechanically, it would be psionics, aka a spell-point system where you can modify the spells. Plus, it would make for a nice simetry of spellcaster using stats since there would be two full Charisma casters and one half caster, two full Wisdom casters and one half caster and tow full Inteligence casters and one half caster.

[@brucemaximus3797]

@@Ditidos I hear ya', but the flavor just isn't quite right. I rather liked the variable size psionic die that was in UA a while back, that was neat. Wish they had kept refining that system; but since they didn't, I'm doing it for a future game I'm running. So far as symmetry goes, not as important to my sensibilities. I think Bards should be Wisdom-based casters and Clerics should be Intelligence-based.

[@Ditidos]

@@brucemaximus3797 Yeah, the variable size psionic die was cool, that would have been a fun way to diferenciate psionic mechanically. Flavor is your stuff, specially as a GM, you can rename a spell inside the new psionic spell list and put (work as X), I do it all the time for the spell list I made for my Starfinder game (I wanted to have a space-inspired spell list). Subclases are the more iffy thing, but the Draconic could be an elementalist, and the aberrant mind could be the other option you allow (maybe the storm one could be focused on electrokinesis). Yeah, the simetry isn't that important, it's just a plus. I also feel bards should be Wisdom (but I think they should be a prestige class more than a full class, or non-spellcasters and being Charisma focus), albeit cleric being Inteligence puzzles me, it would make their spellcasting diferent from druid for sure and it could make interesting cultists, however, I feel cultists would be wizards, not clerics.

[@KillerBot5100]

I actually played a really fun spin off where me and my group of players decided to take a break from our main campaign and run a two-off (two session spin off) so we had our characters sit and play A&A (Alchemists and Aboleths, our bootleg in game version of D&D). The DM had an avatar of himself come down to the characters in universe and declare himself as creator of the universe while they were setting up and ask to play, so someone else could DM the two-off and the DM could play. After the two-off was finished, the DM avatar wiped the minds of all the characters, but two of our six players (including me) passed their saves so now we’ve actually multiclassed into cleric and paladin, servicing this God that no one else believes exist, but we are spurred on by divine faith. My rogue started a redemption arc and became a rogue-paladin (and now I’m a DPS god) while our druid now reveres the DM avatar as the creator of all nature and became a Druid-Cleric. Pretty awesome RP opportunity that came from basically nothing, a religion of two. I’m actually planning with the Druid-Cleric and another player who wants to DM to plan another (smaller) campaign set 100s of years in the future and rooting out heretics in the church that our two characters formed.

[@arendey4446]

The creators of the Planescape setting Intended the City's name to be pronounced "siggle" with a hard "g" they even make a reference in the setting manual about a Gunver talking to a few primes that pronouncing it "Sijil" and not "Sigil" is inexcusable (or something along those lines, haven't read that campaign setting in a while)

[@talonus202]

I think it is actual lore that if you pronounce the name wrong in the actual city of Sigil, the guard will sh*t-stomp you and throw you in jail for a not insubstantial amount of time.

[@laestrpath2983]

"We can excuse the fact that you slaughtered two yugoloths before you realized where you were, outsider. But you pronounced the name of our city 'Sijil,' not 'Sigil.' And there can be no excuse for that!" - Her honor Rastina Tollin of the Guvners.

[@roboticjanitor3332]

Reminds me of when the creator of the .gif format said he intended it to be pronounced jif. Because they're both wrong.

[@Dyundu]

Thank you for pointing this out so I don’t have to.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@roboticjanitor3332 Sigil with a hard g is still way better than bloody jif Maybe its just cuz I see hard g and my Afrikaans brain is like: oh! Gravel time But I will die on this hill

[@DimaJeydar]

Oh no! Runesmith has been brutally murdered for mispronouncing Sigil. Too bad, he seemed like a nice guy :(

[@TalonSilvercloud]

Between adventures, I make a solid point of including lots of downtime, and I aim to have something fun to see or do in any settlement the players find themselves in. Festivals, holidays, excitement! Hot springs, beaches, feasts of plenty. Plan out things like street food, the more exotic and bizarre the better. Even something somber like a funeral to attend, or something more serious like a wedding. Could also spend time training and studying. I got my players coming up on some downtime, and they'll be in a port town to charter a boat. Boats take a few days to get loaded with supplies and reassemble the crew after their shore leave. And they do have friends in this town, so they'll hit the beach. Go fishing, catch crabs, eat seafood, do a beach barbeque. I got mini-games all lined up and everything.

[@varyingcontent1836]

I always thought that Thanatos seemed like a nice holiday location.

[@turtleman9468]

Your videos make me so happy and remind me of how much I truly enjoy D&D. I hope the future brings you nothing but good fortune my friend

[@HeavyTopspin]

Wow, how has nobody corrected your pronunciation of Sigil yet? People spent years hounding Matt Mercer on that point. Oh, and don't look for gate towns at the bottom of the spire. They're not there, actually almost a thousands miles away from it... but the domain of the mind flayer god Ilsensine is.

[@dreddbolt]

I could use a vacation which feels like an adventure, instead of being camped out in front of a computer monitor in a hoodie for several hours.

[@natezabinski5615]

I used to be a big Sigil fan until I read up on Ravnica. So many planeswalkers have visited there, it's basically the same hub, only with more memorable factions.

[@marcsimo]

May I suggest fusing the two? In my campaign (where cosmology is a bit different than the wheel) Sigil is the size of a plane, and has the factions of Ravnica, acting as the neutral market of the multiverse in the same way Mechanus acts as a tribunal to all existance. Obviously with the Lady of Pain acting as the supreme ruler, equivalent to Primus and living Guildpact

[@bradwillis7415]

@@marcsimo Groovy

[@fizzledimglow3523]

Necronomicon looks fun. I'll have to check it out-- Also, interesting vacation spots are always a delight.

[@حَسن-م3ه9ظ]

It's Quest-o-Nomicon

[@fizzledimglow3523]

@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ Shhhh... my bad.

[@dylandarnell3657]

_All_ these vacations sound like adventures.

[@yanivrubin4166]

Dude I love flying on planes! Get it? Because vacation? I'll see myself out

[@Asfragged]

Logan I love that you used a picture of USAF trainees for your guards at 6:20 lol

[@ShankMugen]

I would LOVE to have an official Planes Guide Book, or just Sigil, it mys second "Most Wanted Official 5e Content" right after SpellJammer

[@lorihacking]

Dnd video idea: Oath of the Watchers paladin. It’s one of my favorite oaths simply because of its unique style and roleplay ability.

[@O4C209]

The group I DM for, just went to Waterdeep for some R&R. They went to the Yawning Portal and naturally went into the Mega Dungeon that I absolutely was not prepared for... but... we're here now.

[@makomankanshoku6106]

I needed this.

[@Stormer13]

"After my players got slurped by two bags of holding meeting each other (on two separate occasions), I had them explore Sigil and they had a blast! Nevermind that one of the players nearly died by glancing at the guards the wrong way and almost insulting their Lady. 5/5, would recommend if you're still alive!" -A DM who wonders why his players continue to buy bags of holding when they know what's going to happen

[@MythicMachina]

Okay, so if you wanna give your players a vacation, consider giving them a Rod of Security. It's an item that transports them to a safe demiplane of their design for a little bit. It also lets them recover health easier. It's a neat item that most people don't know about. Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion also works, but I like the rod more.

[@whiteroomentertainmenttv8371]

Finally a new runesmith vid ima have fun today

[@ApocRNG]

There's also a spa resort just in the upper dark near Riatavin. The Duergar there are incredibly pissed off at any who come to visit and you are not allowed to enter their hot springs.

[@ditlimb8631]

This is such a creative video idea Keep it up!

[@jayWWWW253]

My favor is Poor Larry's. It's also fun how poor Larry's has been around since before the book came out

[@muddlewait8844]

Best title of a D&D vid I’ve seen in a long time.

[@OneOfMystic]

*gasp* 10 seconds, quick be funny even though you haven’t watched the video yet!

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

Ah yes, Sharn The city where me and the rest of my party got arrested three separate times, accidentally started a zombie outbreak, fought some things that came out of a portal, and left never to be seen again because the campaign fizzled out

[@mittri1990]

About to run a sort of D&D version of hitch hikers guide to the galaxy where party is starting at lvl 5 after MOP chased by demons so this video was a huge HUGE help for ideas and inspirations without giving way to much information =P

[@zachjones8085]

well.... waterdeep isn't exactly a paradise of a vacation rn in my world,,, waterdeep dragon heist kinda maybe ended with a bloody civil war so, probably not goona be jumping through the portal or enjoying the splendors anytime soon. but the other places will go great in the following interdimensional campaign coming soon. (seeker's guide and the nomicon are going to take part in this for set building quests and locations for new dimensions, mixed in with my own. thank you for creating these things can't wait till I get em) also I forgot sigil was a thing THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@IAmOnFyre]

The warlock in my game just got Plane Shift, so this video came at a great time

[@ashleycrow8867]

Isn't Sigil like true neutural? I heard demons and angels come there to discuss truces cause everyone starting a fight there will be thrown out immediately or something

[@GRAGH57]

I really like the negative energy realm really a nice place to just relax with some beings that could level kingdoms really nice

[@dinobarney9131]

Great video as always

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Idea: Beach episode on an obsidian coastal resort... on the sea of fire... (great video btw)

[@MrWerwoolf]

Nice, have vacation in october, would be glad to some Sygil travel.

[@evilsquirrel0573]

Have a nice little excursion to bytopia and take a balloon ride or go to some other place that nobody EVER goes to otherwise, even though they’re really nifty

[@yowgert_9424]

What are those images and where u get em from, i wanna use the concet art looking ones theyre really nice is theres a link?

[@EpicGalaxyDragon]

When he mentions Sharn but not Stormhome, the literal resort island of Eberron. *sad House Lyrandar noises*

[@DarkRonnie]

heh gives me cool ideas, like an actual planar tourist bureau, gotta cost mountains of gold X)

[@Zilegil]

Sigil isn’t an artificial Nexus. It’s most likely the true neutral plane of the great wheel cosmology

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

Lego Yoda death scream instantly earns my like

[@josephtaylor4115]

Was anyone going to tell me Waterdeep has a griffin mounted police force or was I just supposed to learn it from a fake vacation ad for d&d myself?

[@antongunther3977]

Good lord, I am kind of done with Sharn after farming it for gear in DDO. Its a crying shame that its got the best gear for like lvl 15-21/29. Yes DDO still exists, who would have guessed?

[@Omegasutoraiki]

How did I know this was a Runesmith video just by the title? BTW we have the same name have a good day.

[@Grinnar]

Sigil has a whole heck of a lot of pollution and poverty. But it's such a cool city.

[@Klint_Izwudd]

Finally get that sigil episode.

[@tibboocelot9272]

The Yoda death sound is my notification noise so the guy falling off the ledge really startled me...

[@jamescanjuggle]

thank you magical travel agent now i know where to take me and my cat next summer

[@blairbird8022]

If you're in Sigil and not using Thaumaturgy to make the Inception bass drop, then what's the point?

[@crimsonnikos6821]

NEW RUNESMITH JUST DROPPED. LESSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[@rubber_mace8707]

Man the first one is the coolest, I bet my dwarf druid would accidentally insult one of the monks trying to talk about beer and then get kicked out/kicked to death.

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

Anyone wanna talk about how Ysgard is literally just Dark/Demon Souls?

[@Pseudoaquanaut]

Boy, I wish I wasn’t banned for life and presumed dead in Waterdeep, it sounds fun.

[@Doomroar]

What about space tho? what if i want to just hop on a spacejammer and sail the void, what's out there to check out?

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I might want to vacation in T.A.H.I.T.I. - It's a magical place.

[@MythicMachina]

Players: "Can we just have a beach episode for once?!?" DM:" haha, yeah sure" (The players were then placed on Omaha Beach.)

[@Jupiter-el2mp]

"The city of brass looks like buttplugs" I was 100% hoping for a chess joke here

[@mistergiraffe9425]

There's also Shandelavri, Malcanthet , Demonlord of Succubus's layer of the abyss. It's got wonderful marble pillars, green hills, sandy beaches, crystal waters, and a permanent sunset. It's so nice that it'll make you wanna stay there... forever... while the Succubi and Incubi abuse you and eventually kill you so your soul can be used to empower Malchanthet Oh but forget about that last part! It's got wonderful sites and is still worth a try

[@markuskeler758]

Thank you. I haven’t found Malcanthet‘s layer before but I want her in my homebrew world

[@reach268]

Surprised Rod of Security didn't make the list.

[@duke9152]

This is related to my college tourism course right?

[@dk2k1]

In Sigil, just watch out for a guy covered in scars who can’t remember diddly squat.

[@milomateer6565]

You got me at bulk beef jerky at wholesale value

[@aleksandrasmiksenas317]

Still waiting for an official sourcebook for planes and Sigil.. SiGil. Runesmith. No J.

[@wafflesarelove5801]

My favorite part is that the City of Brass is a Magic: The Gathering card and in one of there UnSanctioned sets theycreprinted it to be called City of Ass and made the tops of the city look like butts.

[@hazbinhotelsuperfan3383]

Does anyone know what the safest layer of the abyss is? Trying to find a safe place for my players to rest in the abyss.

[@InquisitorThomas]

I mean this probably isn’t relevant now, but I’d probably say Graz’zt’s realm (unless the party has pissed him off), he’s more of the tempting you with wild dark indulgence kind of evil as opposed to the rip your face off kind, plus Graz’zt has always been one of the more lawfully inclined and diplomatic demon princes.

[@hazbinhotelsuperfan3383]

@@InquisitorThomas Thanks

[@ionceateapinecone]

Runesmith: the beach episode

[@christianmunz2103]

If the Feywild isn't in this video, I'm going to riot.

[@zalanmarkus4939]

I'll get the pitchforks

[@christianmunz2103]

@@zalanmarkus4939 Aight, that's it. Hand me one of those pitchforks. I'm mad now.

[@Ditidos]

@@zalanmarkus4939 I have torches. Do you mind if we do an interchange?

[@jtjames79]

I would rather buy the book on vacation spots. Just saying.

[@DrewconicSorceress]

Gods damnit I was gonna make a video about this exact concept

[@xaosbob]

HARD G, LIKE IN LOGAN!

[@zandervonmarko]

Why did you and Jacob post a video on the same day

[@mke3053]

Planescape rules!!!

[@2MeterLP]

Ok, those are all very nice cities, but I live in a city, I dont need another city to vacation in. How about infinite paragliding on the plane of air? Scubadiving in the plane of water? Camping in the beastlands?

[@bezretmet]

if the best place in the abyss to go on vacation isn't Azzagrad and Zelatar I'll riot!

[@moop8996]

Can you pleeease do "Basically Path of the beast barbarians." I will give you a cheese-it if you do it :)

[@camblycreeper7999]

You have my Upvote

[@windsylphid]

Isn't the plane of air's capital called the Citadel of Ice and Steel?

[@That80sGuy1972]

You didn't mention the Abyssal plane dominated by Succubi/Incubi. Even though it's in the Abyss, it's pretty nice and almost *seems* heavenly. Well, until the seductive demonesses/demons drain you of your life.

[@NStripleseven]

Sigil is the best plane to have your players go if you want to have them go to a plane for something

[@enakm1]

Like “A GODDAMN BEACH EPISODE!!!! FOR FIREBALL!!!!!!”

[@Infinitebrandon]

Idk wtf wizards of the coast did to faerun but I would choose evereska or luiren

[@fireguardianx]

literally running an outlands campaign right now....

[@justabreadguy7688]

Cool

[@avionrenmar2767]

You forgot to mention the most important rule of Sigil: "Thou shalt not f*&k with the Lady of Pain."