The Final Steps - Dungeon Design Pt. 2

[@zoyonara]

Somewhere in this video is a sound effect I made myself, and I laughed way more than I should at it while editing. Can you guess which?^_^ Also this and the last video were really heavy on the backstage work, so I'll take it a bit easy and the next will come out in late september or early october. Let's talk about horror in TTRPGs then :) Also also thanks to everyone who's subscribed! Kinda wild you guys wanna come back for more of my monotone droning^^

[@sarahbettany7546]

So helpful and informative, as always, thank you. I really do find the way you explain things so easy to understand.

[@PandaMuki]

Love how much you explain everything so well step by step 😊 I’m so tired of “top 10 tips” videos that almost doesn’t explain anything

[@zoyonara]

Thanks^_^ it warms my heart that there's an audience for longer form DnD content like this:)

[@Floral_Lion]

Thank you so much for this wonderful info. Pat 1 was actually very informative and I'll be referencing it for a couple of dungeons in the future. I am still a fairly fresh DM about 10-12 sessions into my campaign. So I am trying to find all the really precise and helpful videos (which has been a problem with others being a bit more vague in tips/help). But as for videos I'd love to get more info about: - Monster Creation (both minion or Big Bad, rebranded stat blocks and completely new creations) - methods of organizing DM notes - building side quests (Urban or Regional, Mundane or Plot driven) - using a module but player attention is elsewhere (how to get them back on track or at least interested again) - how to spookify areas that are interesting enough to come back but were planned for a higher adventure for my party Excited to see what videos you produce in the upcoming months :)

[@zoyonara]

I'm really happy you find the videos useful^_^ I was a bit nerveous when I started if there was an audience for more in depth videos:) And thank you for your suggestions! I think they are all going on the list:) If you have the time, I'd love a bit of elaboration on the last suggestion, because it sounds like it could fit into the next video, but I want to be sure I understand what you mean exactly^^

[@Floral_Lion]

@@zoyonara For the last suggestion, I have a party of 3 (Rogue, Barbarian, Druid) all level 4 currently, but are about to level up. However, the area one of my PCs is wanting to go (rogue's hometown) I had a feeling they would be ready for that encounter around level 12-13. I am not ready for a TPK so early in the campaign. I just need tips/advice on how to persuade them from not venturing too far, i.e. the village is a ghost town because of a wipe out over a decade ago. Venturing to the village for information is "important" enough to go there now but not necessary. But the lingering threat from over a decade ago still remains nearby burrowed up in a cave system it carved out. This is a homebrew monster I am still trying to figure out the quirks and stat block. The most I know is it was summoned by a Hag (that's a whole other plot line), The beast is great at camouflage, it has a face shapeshifting ability with a voice mimicry to better lure its prey in, it is a Huge size category Monstrosity more than likely I'll have it come from the Abyssal plane. It will hunt medium sized creatures for fun so I can't imagine it having minions to litter about in the burrow.

[@zoyonara]

@@Floral_Lion Okay I think this could be touched upon in the next video. For now though, you could let the players go to the town accompanied by some NPCs which they know are fairly powerful, and then have the NPCs be the redshirts and die horribly to the monstrosity, which the PCs barely even get a proper glimpse of, hopefully showing them that something is up, but they need to return when they are better prepared. The risk is that the players won't back down, but maybe an NPCs dying words urging them to save themselves could give them a hint?^^

[@Floral_Lion]

@@zoyonara mmm honestly I don’t think they’d let them have a stranger tag along. But I could have someone following them without their knowledge unless they rolled very high perception. (And make it make sense story wise) That does help as an avenue I could take as a just in case. Thank you for the idea!