The Lethal Company D&D Adventure

[@kenobi2125]

I've been writing a video essay on how Lethal Company is a very good translation of what 1st Edition D&D would look like in video game format. The biggest difference is the setting. That's it. The core gameplay is remarkably similar. This video only furthers my stance on the matter. I've also working on a port of Lethal into D&D, so I'll be checking out your work. Great vid bro!

[@justjoking5252]

Fascinating concept, I have to say

[@victorwagner2423]

Yeah, listening to the intro i realized that this is a loop as this a dungeon for contemporary DnD edition based on a game based on the old school DnD experience. Jaquayed dungeon. Lethat combat that should be avoided whenever possible. Progress based mostly on the value of treasure you managed to bring back with strict carry limits. Same way that modern Tomb Raiders is a heavily inspired spin on Uncharted series, which is just succesful attempt at modernizing core gameplay of old Tomb Raider games.

[@justdamon25]

I've made some light conversion notes for the DCC system. Don't know if I'll ever get to play it, but hey I got it if I need it!

[@admiralfluffy42]

“Or have no intention to ever play it” This is my KZbin watch history about games in a nutshell

[@mhurgle]

*_"You are our greatest assets to the Scavenger's Guild."_*

[@localpieceofcheese]

Asset-

[@pixelname4899]

great- great asset-

[@ZpEB2741]

7:43 an ad played right here for me, pefectly cut jumpscare lol

[@caveychip7]

You could definitely bring in some extra references, like a bees nest in the forests or a gian appearing if they spend to much time on the island

[@Kotiri]

Might be fun to make them an ant nest but the ants make their ant hills out of valuable metalic sand and the giant could be an evil small creature that during the day they stalk the party and setting up traps and stuff but near evening/night they get a free grow self feature and starts chasing the party in giant form

[@yamato9753]

Or a nearby church of a random god, where PCs can find a bunch of armless angel statues that look like they're crying.

[@Kotiri]

@@yamato9753 could make them Gargoyle versions of weaping angels too

[@yamato9753]

@@Kotiri Yeah, but keep them armless to reference the coilheads.

[@Kotiri]

@@yamato9753 oh true

[@pungoblin9377]

I never considered how lethal company would work for a high fantasy setting. I figured using Call of Cthulu would be more effective, but this is a really interesting spin on the general premise of Lethal Company!

[@nicolasventurin8410]

So, as soon as I saw this posted I hit up my group and played it Sooo spoilers on the mechanichs and stuff here's how it went: I died laughing at the fact that they took 35 minutes outside because they were afraid after reading the sign in the entrance, then instantly initiated combat with the loot bugs. They barely avoided the sharkfined horror and made their way to the reactor by using the floating disk spell to move boxes to use for cover against the turret, as well as locking the horror in the outside hallway. Disconnected the reactor while being hunted by the stalker, the power went out and the horror got free and absolutely destroyed one of the party members. The rest managed to barely escape the stalker by using several sources of light and almost got caught by the dogs. Overall 10/10 experience, and everyone got their fun by solving the puzzles their own way

[@macoppy6571]

"Balanced for Four Level 4 Characters" See also: Four players run 4, 1st level PCs each through the Lethal Company as a Funnel.

[@vincenthaynes3603]

for round 2, add the Jester as the "Living Box"

[@calvinwilliams9977]

Imagine the party artificer getting ahold of some uranium cores and building a nuke

[@hollowdan3751]

I'm going to recommend my Dm this one shot specifically for this reason

[@leonardhollsten8145]

Tell me how an artificer could do that? They aren't built for it.

[@calvinwilliams9977]

@@leonardhollsten8145 the artificer rolls high enough, there are some funny videos you can find of dms adding uranium to DND then watching the artificer build a nuke because the artificer rolled a nat 20

[@leonardhollsten8145]

@@calvinwilliams9977 That doesn't explain how an artificer can build a nuke. They are magical craftspeople. Any class could build a nuke by that logic.

[@calvinwilliams9977]

@@leonardhollsten8145 but the whole reason why artificers have magic in the first place is because they became good at math and engineering. This it the basics for learning nuclear physics faster than other classes and because the artificer class is all about creating things and artificers know how to creat magical objects from there ability to know how phisics work. But DND is a subjective game and it would probably be based more around how you play a artificer than wether or not you play artificer at all. For instance, a artificer who learned how to cast magic by getting really good at math would probably be able to make a nuke much easier than an artificer who found themselves to be good at making magical objects and went adventuring to get better at making magic objects.

[@cosmic497]

My group is going to love this. I’m an upcoming DM so this one-shot is great for my DM debut thank you so much Blaine

[@startourzdcs]

That looks awesome. I love D&D, and lethal company. Thanks for introducing me to this!

[@yamato9753]

I would play a ranger just so I can get my favorite companion: YIPPIE

[@mewxtherealitygod4706]

Imagine the other monsters. Like coil heads and jesters being invincible monsters of pure destruction

[@Skypatrol-zh6qp]

12:50 Fun fact: The bag is full of 10 rouble coins

[@spacebearcadet746]

Could you make a module for the Rend Mansion? Even if you don't, doing conversations and stats for the other monsters would be nice.

[@Frickity_]

Putting this one shot in the back pocket, thank you Blaine!

[@timwoods2852]

Looks fun. Wish we could have seen the playthrough.

[@beastwarsFTW]

I've been working on a Deep Rock Galactic game in 5e. Instead of space it's on the ocean. This is not a promotion I just wanted to share. I like your idea to make Lethal Company fit BTW Basically a dwarf clan lord built a bunch of ships and floating what are basicly oil platforms to mine the underdark places under the ocean called the underdepth. Thanks to his inventions like the deep dive pod and the foamcrete solution it's possible to dive down to the underdepth without flooding the caverns most of the time and thanks to magical prospecting they know where to find treasurer. Not only is their metals and gems down there but lost artifacts both old (some civilizations failed to live in that area) and new (the company isn't reasonable for lost equipment and they don't even give you any tools when you start other then a standard pick and a candle) but beware that the bugs that call the caves their home aren't friendly. The company will hire anyone but dwarves and kobolds are preferred do to their mining skills. I also created three new dwarf suptypes (Volcano, Arctic, and Deep Rock) and I'm trying to think of a 4th to round out the hole seven dwarves thing.

[@submari1129]

It’d be funny to add the apparatus clip as a spell

[@henriquemedranosilva7142]

I tried doing a lethal company one-shot, but man yours is so much better

[@indiana47]

This makes me want to do this for a Doom map.

[@WrittenCross6]

I’m writing a campaign right now, thanks for the side quest!

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

Great adventure concept! 👍👍

[@SirQuackington_IV]

thx for the oneshot idea

[@Jasonwolf1495]

Original d&d was/is the most blue collar fantasy game ever. You were all working a job to make money so you could eat and afford a house.

[@spudowandme7868]

In case anyone would like to run this and reads this comment, I'm pretty sure the loot bugs are CR 1 creatures, not CR 2. In general, I think the Challenge Ratings for the creatures (except the Blind Hounds) are a little off. Just thought I should try and be helpful!

[@monke7914]

THANK YOU I was thinking of making something similar to this. Saved me hours thank you lol

[@michaelmurphy19]

Definitely need mote adventures! This was amazing

[@Laurender]

Otherwise great, but instead of radiation, I would have gone with something like a necromancer lived here ages ago and turned the backround magic of the area necrotic. The battery could be a mana crystal or something like that.

[@bluedolphin5435]

Honestly that sounds like a better idea than what I would come up with. Theres something that puzzles me with the vanilla module: blain says that it's supposed to be for a high fantasy world, even though the facility looks like it's straight out of yesterday

[@Akalim]

I was literally just talking about making this a sidequest in my campaign

[@etele8179]

Dude, that's great. My university friend group wants to try DnD and I needed a one-shot that could get their attention and this is exactly that! It's amazing!

[@Tempo_The_Cat]

Can’t wait to give the lootbug my hither thither staff

[@windup1999]

Heyyy I was about to run a lethal company dnd style thing, this will help

[@fafflytailslogisonicuite104]

'' The monsters are terrifying '' me with all the anime moe mods and THICCify mods to make everything absurdly hillarious chubby for no reason at all aside from a chuckle here and there while going through near death situations against Brackens, Thumpers and Coilladyheads.

[@Arboriculture_bros]

Id let shadow stalker hit

[@KittyKat-vr5vm]

The one issue I see is with flying characters. Oh my god flying characters.

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

isn't Lethal company basically just Acquisitions Incorporated?

[@CrowePerch]

I'm still glad I survived after this one (Kameron didn't 😏)

[@Ofxzh]

Can you lure the loot bugs over to the turret with loot?

[@Nemnar7]

I can see why uou would have to keep the party at level 4, fireball would solve some of the monster problems.

[@Amia_the_Smol]

"I didn't ask how big the room was, I said I cast fireball."

[@michaelmurphy19]

This is amazing! Well done. How did you make the maps?

[@goforitpainting]

Happy Year of the Dragon 🐉

[@user-bn9re6zg6j]

Kind of reminds me of one DND campaign I always want to run but never have time

[@logg3161]

I quickly discovered that i could just steal my players' itens with the lootbug and drop them in the radiation

[@CDblade]

could also try old school revival games as well. allot of them are easier then you think to learn.

[@bluedolphin5435]

I’m getting the feeling that this adventure was made for a modern/futuristic setting, if you want to drop this into more of a fantasy setting, try making the facility look more like a keep, use a little less science lingo, swap the radiation out for some sort of poison, cram a LOT more magic into the place, and finally, p r a y. Your welcome.

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

Sickening Radiance is basically radiation, so no need for poison. Also, YIKES, the pigeonhole patrol is out.

[@bluedolphin5435]

@@SodaPopBarbecue Elaborate on how is this is a "pigeonhole" please?

[@RenoKyrie]

LIMBUS COMPANY

[@connorjohnson1373]

How may the Shadowstalker carry a party member away from combat?

[@JetLaggedWeeb]

Fun in concept but I feel like the setting would be a bit jarring for your typical DnD setting unless it was part of something like ebberon?

[@bluedolphin5435]

I concur

[@dualitydisorder]

My only complaint is the lamp powered by divination magic, that doesnt make sense to me. Other than that this is really cool!

[@MegaMegajennifer]

dont plant monsters need sunlight?

[@Cats_on_fire]

Jeez the reactor thier running in here is definitely not to standard

[@sam-s6o]

this is apretty fun idea

[@StarY0hezq]

What is the intended level for players when doing this oneshot?

[@name82843]

sup

[@KameronTV]

bane symbol

[@KameronTV]

im gonna get you

[@somerandoinaknightsarmor9938]

Could you do a video on porting Fear & Hunger to D&D?

[@EL_M0SC0]

Wait. Did he said "free"? Does that applyes for the Silver's Book too?

[@ViolentBadgerVODS]

no

[@Crimsonshell]

4:57 why radiation,

[@mhurgle]

"Radiation" can be anything - f.e; Positive Energy Plane in its purest form, causes cancerous growths - much like Radiation can. vice versa - Negative Energy Plane in its strongest form, causes cellular decay, which like Radiation can do. All in all semantic, it's a filler word - you the DM, decides if it's former or latter - or decide that magic = science = magic and some scholars typed the energy planes as sources of Radiation.

[@miniwhiffy3465]

WHAT?

[@Popirby]

I know next to nothing about dnd and isn't heir a class artificer who makes gadgets I though why not play as artificer and Frankenstein all the monsters imagine after the party kills a group a goblins and u stitch them into one amalgamation to fight for u

[@froolsy]

Can

[@Slowmint-xs1fq]

first 5 mins pog

[@Breadcutter]

Hey, I really liked the content and how you conveyed it, very engaging and immersive, but if I could add one thing maybe try to avoid drawing out the vowels of words while you speak. maybe its just me but it made some parts of the video hard to watch. Keep up the good work will definitely run this!

[@PsychedelicScrafty]

Hey your newsletter that you required me to aggreged to had no issues sending me spam but the Lethal company adventure never was sent, plus your link constantly says there is an issue.. kinda sus ngl

[@anotherdnb]

Can we just make a separate TTRPG system for Lethal Company i think that would be nice

[@ShinoSarna]

Yeah but why would you play it in DND instead of like... literally any horror system? Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green, Liminal Horror, Surviving Horror - or hell, even Paranoia sounds like it could fit the dark humor backstabbing tone of the game (replace secret orders from Corporation with secret orders from the Company).

[@cannedcan9059]

very under ratted youtuber, gave us a whole free dungeon.

[@Cats_on_fire]

You'll love pointy hat😊

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Why rat him though?

[@cannedcan9059]

yeah I do he is a good youtuber, I watch his content also,@@Cats_on_fire

[@cannedcan9059]

I'm not I'm just saying he doesn't have as many subs as he deserves, that's all.@@Aaa-vp6ug