The Lore Behind "Princes of the Apocalypse" Dungeons & Dragons

Today we discuss the Lore behind the WotC adventure "Princes of the Apocalypse!"
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[@mikeet207]

I’ve been running Princes for over a year and have had a great time with it. It does have a classic feel of good vs. evil. My players lean to evil side so it’s been a difficult road keeping them motivated...greed works! The elemental weapons are powerful so they are loving those. The side treks were fun and I used a lot of home brew material for back story quests which you can just drop in anywhere in any of the surrounding landscapes of the Dessarin Valley. This adventure takes players up to level 15 so I recommend expanding it to level 20 if the players want to. I’m changing the ending so the last prince and elder eye have to be fought on one of the elemental planes. You need all the weapons to open a portal to such a plane.

[@Jorphdan]

Nice :D Sounds epic!

[@mikeet207]

Thanks Jorphdan! It’s been a fun campaign. Great job on your video. I’d like to add for anyone considering this adventure to make recommendations to their players to pick certain races like dwarves (because the Belsilmer lore is so prevalent) and the genasi. Also I’d recommend a good wizard who can really take advantage of all the cool elemental spell scrolls that can be found throughout the adventure.

[@theeye8276]

The elder eye is a multiverse level threat if freed. How did you run it?

[@iansharp1543]

I've been running this for over a year and we're about halfway through it (we only play every other week). Excited to watch this!

[@Babidi111]

- Im still really bummed that my group I was doing that one with fell apart. I was rolling a simic hybrid rune fighter based around an unarmed grappling style of fighting. I was having a lot of fun with it, I liked all the cool elemental themed cults and was having a great time focusing on grappling.

[@danielfaubert1903]

Would love to hear an update, I'm looking at running this for my next campaign

[@iansharp1543]

@@danielfaubert1903 Wrapped it up about a year ago. Definitely watch any KZbin videos you can find with advice before starting it. IMO it takes the same, if not more, work to run this as written than it would be to homebrew, so be prepared to do a bunch of homebrewing on top of it. In a way, it's kind of D&D Boot Camp because while it doesn't hold your hand very much, it does force you to develop DM skills to fill in the gaps this leaves behind.

[@danielfaubert1903]

@@iansharp1543 good to know, I just finished rime of the frostmaiden with my group and it was a similar thing. I like the gaps though because it makes it possible to tailor the module to the group and their backstories. Any suggestions on who to check out? My initial search didn't result in a lot of helpful information

[@iansharp1543]

@@danielfaubert1903 It's not a super popular module so there may not be many, but I would for sure check out what KZbinrs say about on videos where they rank all of the modules. It's usually pretty low on the list. It's been a year since I've thought about it so hard to say for sure of any specific to links to check out.

[@tjneill3123]

I’ve been running this for some friends for quite a while. I definitely recommend the whole “locked doors” idea in the temples, and I’ve actually been running mine with a similar mechanic

[@benbattersby2837]

Give them acess to a wizard with divination spells or a scroll of divination that hints on the right order. Make it a really easy riddle so they still feel like they earned it.

[@Altorin]

indeed it does - our group ended Phandelver with a fight against a white dragon on the Sword Mountains to the south of the Wyvern Tor - a Feature which is literally on the Dessarin Valley Map. So If you have players running one, then the other, it's very easy for them to end up approaching Red Larch from the north.

[@sikuku5957]

This was so helpful, gave me so much insight in the module in just 15minutes! You saved me a ton of time of first pass reading to get the gist of what is going on in this book. Thank you very much. If I am totally serious I don't even think I would have considered picking up this book without your video. I look forward to your other module videos.

[@alconnery9301]

Good summary in the video which was the hardest thing to get my head round when I bought the module. I've been GMing PoTA once a fortnight for 8 months and we are all enjoying it but it needed a fair bit of effort from me to pull some of the vagueness together. Also an index in the book would have really helped! Flirted with the idea of magical locks but in the end let the players go where they wanted which has had some epic results. Where the discrepancy in appropriate levels is on the high side, as in 5th level characters heading towards an area meant of 9th level characters I just made it a bit harder to get there; the extra effort hopefully suggesting a tougher ride at the end. The trouble I found with the milestone XP method is where players clear out half a dungeon and go somewhere else to do the same so I find I'm actually keeping track of all XP to give an idea of when they should level but trying to tie in with progress at the various locations.

[@karlcorporan9064]

I love this series. I already ran this module and I want to run it again for another group so this is very useful. About the lvl 1-3 part, I found it very useful in order to get my players working together and getting somewhat of a base of operations.

[@LarkManEXE]

I just started playing this campaign with a few friends. On our way to Lordrock, we encountered a Horned Horror that just stared at us. I asked it nicely if we could pass and rolled a Nat20 on Persuasion, so now it's my FOLLOWER!

[@BreakingStarGames]

The locks worked out well to force the players from just ending up in a TPK.

[@Nr4747]

I think it's also fine to borderline break immersion for a moment and straight-up tell the players: "You suddenly have a feeling of dread as you approach the gate, it seems there might be something much more menacing down there than you feel able to handle."

[@iainpaul9177]

Vizeran DeVir is a arch mage in the Oota campaign, directly interacting with the party, help them eradicate the demon lords. My party agreed to DeVir’s quest, gathering components to create the Dark Heart. This ritual would take some time to find quite challenging components. Well Graz’zt offered one of the party members to be one of his viceroys, he accepted. This was in from of DeVir, so he seeing a little kobold, grow wings, horns, and shift his scale color darkened crimson attacked him immediately. The kobold was alone with DeVir, and combat begins. I gave the kobold a bunch of buffs (why not, I like my players to seem powerful). The remaining party is not entirely sure what is happening, on reflects murder DeVir. Begin question the kobold, they party agrees that he is on thin ice and one mistake, we all will take your life. Searching through DeVir’s tower of vengeance, they stumble upon an old tome. The tome mentions He Who Waits and has a mirrored symbol of an inverted Y within a equilateral triangle pointing down. Hand written notes by DeVir are on small pieces of paper throughout the tome. Mentioning his creation of the four elemental weapons he had created, where he left them, and why he created them.

[@ZombieNikuchan]

I wish you would continue this series for all the modules.

[@dennism.2976]

Have been playing it irregular for 1,5 years now and I absolutely love it (and so do my players!). It's a bit work at times, but also a great way to grow as a GM. We had a super dramatic event, where half the group threw the other from feathergale spire, well knowing the aarakocra would catch them, just to retaliate and take the tower for themselves.

[@mikeet207]

Mathew D. Joe this adventure really stretched my DM skills and made me a better DM overall.

[@shrapnelsponge]

I had PotC in my homebrew campaign as a side arc while they were dealing with the BBEG, happy to get more in-depth info ;)

[@EmethMatthew]

This is basically what I'm doing...

[@jacquez64]

Same I have been running it for a year. I have fit in many of my player back stories into this campaign. They have been up and down the valley delving into there back stories and leveling up after exploration into there back story’s. I made one of our players Mother’s be apart of the Mirabar delegation she ended up getting captured and tortured by Marlo’s and the earth cultist in the ambush. motivation to defeat the cultists and the party to get his mother back. Myself and my party are having so much fun with this campaign.

[@EsterlineJ]

Excellent summary Jorphdan. This is the first 5e adventure that I chose, and still running for my players and about halfway through, albeit heavily modded. The setting is good, but I found for my group that shifting focus from the Elemental Prophets to on the Elder Elemental Eye/Tharizdun's growing power (impending release) through the Elemental Cults performing rituals, local conquest and chaos, as well as blood sacrifice upon those captured really helps drive the Moral Imperative to your players. Though it starts out as a sandbox, the designers intend for you to run it in a specific fashion, so rather than worry about that, just let your players choose and adjust accordingly. My experience is that their expectation and encounter design is built strictly off the CR system which any average player is just going to walk through without much effort. Additionally, If your players or even the DM aren't into being dungeon heavy, this is still a good campaign, just recommend utilizing most if not all of the prophets early and often, terrorizing towns and villages, and allowing the party to get opportunities to defeat at least one of them topside before pushing into whichever dwarven city / temple to delve.

[@2flyingsquirrel]

i just told my players that it's an open world and they might find paces that will kill them immediately. They (lvl 6) just sneaked and lied their way to Vanifer, killed her and now the fire Genasi is on the way to become the next fire cult leader xD. I think the sandbox aspect gives the DM and the PCs the power to influence the story in their own way.

[@darklightuk2]

Your faction videos certainly helped my group when I ran this campaign

[@Pialtesia]

I started this campaign recently with a small group of friends, two of them are experienced and the other is still getting the gig of it and all of them decided to play with the minimum level which lead to begin the campaign with a deep exploration in red larch and despite their deep curiosity i managed to led them to the main missions so they can level up and gain more abailities and work out their team strategy. We are also using the factions lore to play this game and even the genasi class that comes with it (one of them is an Earth Genasi). Hopefully they stay on the righteous path and don't kill the npcs as they have done previously. Also good resume on it!

[@samtheactualkenku6205]

The companion pdf for this adventure also released the Goliath and Aaracokra races, not just the Genasi. Yes this adventure came out before Volo's Guide to Monsters

[@orlandodiciccio2748]

I've been running this for over one year, and at the beginning the sandbox is quite challenging for a DM, since you have to basically know the whole environment beforehand in order to not be surprised or even lost when the player take decisions that are not linear. The upside is that the players REALLY feel like they have total freedom, that they are not forced into the story, but they actively shape it without any pressure from the storyteller. If you can manage the first part (cultist outposts), and get them into the temples, you are going to have invested players that will be absolutely involved in this epic quest to save world from a shadow threat. Also create NPC that they will get attached to and put them in danger, or even let them die (I used Bruldenthar, Timmy the crippled boy from Beliard, the Tarnlars and constable Harbruk from Red Larch); my players were completely horrified when Aerisi tossed Bruldenthar off the pinnacle, after having spent months of game play with the party. Now they want to get her just to make her pay for her cruelty... Overall it's a great adventure, it's epic, but like every adventure, it's ultimately the DM's responsibility to make everything more involving. For sure this adventure (that i would not suggest a beginner to run) has so much to offer, if improvising is a style you like to play. Thumbs up for me!

[@danielkurghinyan6342]

Speaking of "Book of One-Shots", will you review the "Tales from the Yawning Portal" next?

[@Jorphdan]

I haven't decided yet. Maybe I'll review Tomb of Horrors and White Plum Mountain as they were my favorite.

[@voryndagothDL]

OMG Torhild died fighting a low-res Hill Giant that's crazy

[@gabrielrussell5531]

7:28 Once again; the blanket term for Gods, Archdevils, Demon lords, Archfey, and Achromentals/Primordials is "Powers".

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I've always seen gods and devils as work your way up through the planar tiers. This plane is midway to heaven and hell

[@triluve]

this one has a nice story. also, I think most adventure sets should work as some kind of sandbox anyways

[@Bryon1187]

I agree, using milestones is the way to go with this one. If I were to run it again I'd use it.

[@screamingblue7]

I am one of those GMs who disassembled the dungeons into separate locations, with encounters between giving clues where to locate the next dungeon. I've found some of the Adventure League supplemental adventures to be useful. I've been running it as a total tribute to the original Temple of Elemental Evil, including lore of the previous adventuring party of the Silver Horn shutting down Tharzidan's plans some 500 years prior drawing from the original module.

[@Cybrwulf1201]

Nice review! I tried to run this module as a sort of west-marches-style adventure, with the characters returning to Red Larch after every dungeon excursion. That plan worked for a bit, but eventually the game fell by the wayside because my regular players just weren't invested in an adventure that's mostly dungeon crawls 😅

[@paulnicholsonjr662]

You’re videos are incredibly valuable. Thank you for the time and effort you put into research and producing your videos.

[@BoogalooBear810]

Love your page I use your videos all the time!

[@idunnygiveafock7640]

I just want you to know i only call you Jorfdan, because no man tells me which ph is silent.

[@geoffreyswann624]

This is actually my next acquisition on my list to buy so it’s great to get some lore on it. Also on a non d&d note, you are totally rocking a Mark Hamill vibe with the beard 😊

[@Jorphdan]

haha thanks :)

[@garrettwhite3922]

I... I've never seen his face. I'm shook.

[@udasu]

I've modded WG4 - The evil mad god theme is pretty awesome. Even better if you add it to the T1-4 dynamic.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

My favorite part where you can get screwed up is in the weeping colossus part where you have to find that hidden opening lol.

[@anmimc]

This adventure is not recommended for new DMs. I played under a new DM and he often had to ask me for advise and to decrypt some of the story beats. This reads to me more as a setting than an adventure. I think running a different adventure with this storyline as a background would work very well.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

You got that right, you have to learn how to be creative first lol

[@EmethMatthew]

Getting to this video late, but thank you so much for doing these! *Grabs pencil and notpad to prepare for video*

[@EmethMatthew]

So I've been running my party through a homebrew early levels adventure and they just got to level 3, so that's why I was excited to see your announcement because now is the time for me to decide if I'm running this book or something different... Because I've really been trying to read the book, but it keeps losing my interest and I've been having a hard time finding where the story is to tie one thing to another, which is what was worrying me for trying to use it because I'm concerned my players will just be bored out of their minds if I'm bored reading it. So my idea was maybe to just steal pieces of it like the temples and such and work then into all the homebrew concepts I'd come up with just getting them to level 3, and now you've provided validation for that. So I will be checking out the links for further inspiration, but I think peppering in encounters with the cults and using the dungeons by tying them into a dragons-of-the-Chamber-based storyline in Eberron, similar to their "other settings" suggestions in the back of the book, might work better for having a more compelling storyline, but making use of the cool elemental themed dungeons in PotA. Thanks again!

[@swaderable]

This was the first campaign I ran at an adventures league back before it was ruined... We got in wayyy too deep but then accidentally killed a big bad that we 100% had no business encountering much less defeating and I snagged myself Windvane which remains to this day my favorite item in all of DnD. Good times

[@Nindrhu]

6:19 Oh my god, I just realized Joey *Wheeler* from Yugioh was actually a Captain Planet reference easter egg this whole time. Mind blown.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Ya I recommend doing this as a second adventure in the path or doing the starter adventure first

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Ya I was doing the work of a weather forecaster and calling down all these terrible storms based off the names of the elementals lol

[@snoochieboochies2011]

there is a retreat mechanic it's chase.

[@frznsnake14]

PotA is my first campaign AND first time DMing. In hindsight, it was not a good choice for a beginner. I have heavily homebrewed it to make more sense and to have more gravitas. The prophets, rather than hide waiting to be murdered, can be seen or rumored from time to time. They behave like supervillains.

[@Jorphdan]

Sounds cool 👍

[@petemcsorley]

I have a group that is about to finish Lost Mine of Phandelver, I was either leading them to PoA or SKT? (But first they are going through Dragon on the Mount) Thanks for making this video, I believe that they will get to experience this one now after watching this. Looking forward to your take on Out of the Abyss. [awesome video, sound quality is great, thumb selection is great as always, I like the new intro music, very informative]

[@Jorphdan]

I think SKT would be more fun as I believe it to be a better adventure. But any game can be super fun with the right people :) Let me know how Dragon on the Mount goes, I hope you have fun :D

[@Peteman]

Here we are. Born to destroy. We're the Princes of the Apocalypse. Here we belong, fighting to ruin. In a world we're the darkest powers. Heh. And here we are, we're the Princes of the Apocalypse Here we belong, fighting to ruin We're come to be the tyrants of you all. I am immortal, I feast upon the blood of kings, yeah, yeah I have no rival, no mortal can be my equal Take me to the planes of you all.

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

i know his name..

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

Thanks for the video. I'm currently trying to figure out a way to merge PotA with the original TToEE in a way that will feel like TToEE but with a more "elemental" feel. Last time I ran TToEE was in '91, and the players got bored with the dungeon crawl so I skipped a bunch of stuff and just had them fight the summoned elementals and Zuggtmoy. In the end they felt like they had achieved something but at the same time we skipped a bunch of the actual dungeon.

[@Nackeroo]

Good stuff

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I love this module... you have to defeat all 4 of the elemental evils, I like the names, a few years back I got rid of all my emotional junk.. my favorites are the earth elemental the tyrant and mountain of doom, and the weeping anguish water elemental.

[@Logandroid]

Great video as always. I played a bit of this campaign (up to the first four cult fortresses) and honestly I hated it so much that I stopped playing it! I think the very basis of the adventure, the missing delegation, is flawed as you have no reason to care about these random people and nothing comes from finding them. The dungeons were also a massive boring slog because they were so combat heavy instead of exploration based. It doesn't help that you're given no real good reason to massacre these cults other than "cult bad." For anyone planning on running this I highly recommend putting some sort of MacGuffin in every single cult lair or making the stakes very clear right off the bat so the players actually know why they're doing what they're doing.

[@Jorphdan]

Good advice :)

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Air, vanity, water, emotion, earth, strength, and then fire desire. This is the order for the elemental and in which to deal with the orders of the elemental temples

[@gabrielrussell5531]

My main grievance with the adventure is the same as my grievance with Tales from the Yawning Portal; it shoehorns in Greyhawk content into the realms. It should either be setting-agnostic, or in Greyhawk.

[@iamnotoleska]

Can you do a video on alignment, particularly on playing against type. You get so many instances in the forgotten realms of races being played against type, it'd be interesting to hear on the difficulties faced when playing characters like these.

[@Jorphdan]

Sure I'll add it to my list and see what I can come up with :)

[@Kyle-cg3je]

Loved this video! Could you make one about Storm King's Thunder?

[@Jorphdan]

Yep that's the plan to do all of them. I'll get there soon!

[@Kyle-cg3je]

@@Jorphdan Awesome! Looking forward to it!

[@RyanVonAegir]

Legit not heard of them! Thanks for dropping this video and letting me know! Now gimme Barovia and Strahd. I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!

[@Jorphdan]

Out of the Abyss is next, working on it now. Then Barovia, which I feel will be a big one O.o

[@aubreylayne9969]

5:29 goodd

[@KJ-ud9uf]

Yes! Modules being explained!!!

[@AJGames1220]

Are you planning to do a video on the new factions introduced in water deep dragon heist?

[@Jorphdan]

No immediate plans. In fact I haven't red Dragon Heist so I was unaware of these.

[@AJGames1220]

@@Jorphdan it's an awsome modual I recommend you look into it. I heard someone describe it as a who's who of the forgotten realms, since its absolutely filled with famous characters from the forgotten realms. They added two factions at least for players. They added the Force Grey, and the Bregan D'aerthe. And while I don't think you can join them Xanathars guild is also involved in the adventure a lot.

[@Ben_Carter.]

Thanks for doing this! I'm running it as my first game but also heavily homebrewed story-wise cause a lot of the connections just aren't there. Struggling to get it moving though as I dropped the wrong hints too early and now the players are more focused on the Crushing Wave cult (to go with 1 of the PCs back stories) and ready to go free some slaves, when I haven't even introduced Black Earth or any of the others... *sigh* I love the whole theme of this adventure though.

[@EmethMatthew]

Did you do the sinkhole hook in Red Larch? Because if you haven't yet because you skipped the low level "side stuff" I'd suggest that might get them refocused on Earth first... Giant sinkhole opens in the main town and reveals a secret set of tunnels with floating stones that move on their own? That's honestly the most compelling story hook in the book to me...

[@Ben_Carter.]

@@EmethMatthew not yet, that would be coming up soon. Although I'm more inclined to introduce them to Stannor first (who I've changed and added a background) who will act as a sort of undercover agent and let them know not everything is as it seems. Then either get them to find the entrance or then do the sinkhole if say they go to take a rest. I've spent many sessions focusing on the haunted tomb (which they prolonged by insisting they relocate the ghost and his master due to encroaching civilization... Yup. That took a few..) and the necromancer's lair, which I added a lot to, cause I thought they were fascinating and let me introduce other aspects of my homebrew world. So currently they are just about to leave Lance Rock. I kind of keep adding things lol.... I've also added more aspects the the Tomb of Floating Stones to make it more interesting and the cult sound more sinister.

[@EmethMatthew]

@@Ben_Carter. Oh I've added a whole mage's tower and a tomb of an old order of dragon slayers, so you're still closer to canon than my crew. 😋 Yours sounds like necessary additions to flesh out the relatively sparse material in the book, whereas I just went crazy. 😁🙃

[@Ben_Carter.]

@@EmethMatthew haha nice! Yeah I'm honestly really fascinated by everything that they're trying to show in this book, so I want to make it work. And it fit quite nicely into some lore that I was already thinking about. I have half a mind to turn the clock back 1000 years though and focus on where it all began, with an ancient order that guarded the valley (again with a heavily homebrewed history)

[@AJDeLaRosa]

I had no interest in this module until now. Thank you, Jorphdan!

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Avatar the last airbender with hell

[@Fallenmonkd20]

Of course it's a sandbox, it has an earth prince in it as well I had to sorry

[@stephenclements6158]

I enjoyed the video, but having played in PotA, I hated the game. Biggest problem was that at no point was my party shown why we should care, let alone go in and massacre all these cults. For instance, I felt like taking out the earth cult really was just us going in and murdering a bunch of people who wanted to be left alone. The book didn't get across the gravity of the situation, and the endless dungeon crawling was tedious.

[@mikeet207]

Stephen Clements did you use the Cult Retaliations much? I drove that home anytime they lacked motivation.

[@stephenclements6158]

I didn't run it, but the cults did terrorize towns after our raids. The way it was presented seemed at random to me, and that also didn't motivate me, because I had no reason to care about the townsfolk in the first place. They all seemed like apathetics or jerks when I met them. I read the details you posted about your campaign, and that seems like a definite improvement.

[@wearingspacesuits]

This sounds more a failure of you as a DM not to give them motivation and give them reasons to care, tbh

[@stephenclements6158]

@@wearingspacesuits kinda sounds like you should work on your reading comprehension, to be honest, because I wasn't the DM. I was in the party.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

It is a sandbox adventure.. play with the toy dungeons however you like. Just do missions on the quest board in town to get 3 to 5 levels higher

[@dacsmore]

Where did you get that map of Faerun from? I would like to buy one like that.

[@Jorphdan]

The file is on Wizard of the Coast's website, and I printed it out on a large printer at my local library.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I like to go t1 PM plane, t2 feywild or shadowfell, t3 elemental chaos, t4 hell or heaven. Or just all 4 tiers on prime material plane

[@benbattersby2837]

This is great PLEASE do Storm King's Thunder!!!

[@Jorphdan]

It's on the list 😀

[@misomiso8228]

I didn't particularly like this adventure; it's ok, but 5e really hit it's stride with the next set that WotC released. Curse of Strahd is still the best overall in 5e, Tomb of Annihilation is also great along with Storm Kings thunder. Out of the Abyss isn't very well structured but is incredibly creative so that saves it imo. Will be interested to see further reviews!

[@DesertBumJerry]

Sounds like a good Hyrule adventure

[@matteoboldizzoni9870]

Ad campaign, needs a lot of work by DM to make it make some sense.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

The 4 cults r like the chaos gods in warhammer and warhammer 40,000

[@osirisgem]

Your eyes are amazingly singular. Wonderfully unique.

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks :)

[@KnicKnac]

This book sounds like a fun pick up

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I like it jorph

[@godthatfailed8308]

Please so an episode on silverymoon

[@WaterCursed]

My friend is a GM and he told me that I might have a nack for this (i did a homebrew one shot just to 'be a gm for a day' and they loved it) We're a group of 4 and we agreed that I should do this as my first campaign (as the GM) Reason why this is the first full campaign - 17 years ago, when I was a kid, I got the ''temple of elemental evil'' video game. I didn't know what D&D was at the time, I never completed the game, but I had a blast creating characters and playing until spiders killed my party. For some reason I believed that a guy in grey robes and a pointy hat was good with a crossbow (Didn't know english all that well at the time.) So - I'm looking for advice from all of you that are MUCH MORE experienced than I am. how do I not screw this up? :D

[@ipossopi]

Hi! Did you run the campaign? How did it go? :D

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I got to admit jorphadin I'm liking you better and better.. I didnt think that much of you at first

[@BENJAMIN366]

I´ve been running this for a while and one of my players "killed" another pc by accident, now this "dead" pc is creating a new cult called cult of the illuminatig night to get revenge on the other player. I had to make a side campaign for just one player to star to make his own cult and get the moonblade. Btw none of the other players know about this, but they can discover the effects of this new cult and find other hounted keep

[@casters_and_co]

I'm kind of already DMing a campaign similar to Princes of the Apocalypse since I'm DMing an old-timey JRPG campaign akin to Final Fantasy. Treasures of the elements. uwu

[@nightstrider15]

I volunteer to play with you!

[@ebridge100]

I always watch your videos

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks :D

[@erikmartin4996]

Any chance of you doing campaign reviews of your DCC play? 10 minute recap of what happened during play? Actually watching people play D&D is really boring to me but listening to the DMs recap is usually pretty entertaining

[@Jorphdan]

That's kind of what I do on the Saturday Morning D&D Show. Towards the end of the show we recap our games and I end up talking about DCC. But if there's interest I can probably release some campaign diaries again.

[@erikmartin4996]

Jorphdan cool thanks I’ll check out the Saturday show

[@Jorphdan]

@@erikmartin4996 I understand it can be difficult to find exactly when I start talking about games. Hour long show and it's usually the last 15 minutes or so. But here's the link to the youtube channel. kzbin.info/door/gK09rx0qzZ8GPPFOltlFTg

[@rambukid3256]

The thumbnail though 😂😂

[@Jorphdan]

😀👍

[@jchawley4654]

Where are his eyebrows?

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Ya over the realms.. my elemental sword has power to conjure things from the elemental planes and then to crushem and humiliate em to show humanity is better than elemental planes of chaos

[@simorote]

Is that Prince in the thumbnail? XD

[@Jorphdan]

the artist formally known as... ;P

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I just bought princes of the apocolypse

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Ya. Love elemental spells. Everybody likes foreballs

[@aubreylayne9969]

Ok

[@sarahb4270]

This is my first time DMing an adventure, and let me tell you it's not an easy one. HAHA

[@Jorphdan]

You got this! good luck :D

[@michaelknabl]

Same, how were your adventures? any small tips?

[@tommcd5943]

Do you have any lore videos on ravenloft?

[@Jorphdan]

Yep! kzbin.info/www/bejne/raucdaSwpdFgmqM

[@Rock4everNRoll]

I've been dm'ing this adventure. I have to say, I am really disappointed. When all those things happen, no body, I mean no body tries to help the party. There is an archoelemental on lose in freaking deserian valley and what does waterdeep do? What does summit hall do ? nothing. Once they get "necklace of prayer beads" in air node, the travel becomes childs play. The module is not vivid. Nothing is explained. I had to do a TON of work in order to make sense of the current world's issues and why big names are not helping out. Overall I do not recommend it at all.

[@aquaimperium8]

I just used a time excuse, that it was simply to far away to practically help and occasionally threw in a simply envoy from Waterdeep later on to show that they actually care but it's just impractical to send anyone

[@danielramsey6141]

@@aquaimperium8 Wow, Thanks Waterdeep :D lol

[@magnusprime27]

Ummm.wrong. tyranny of dragons two book hirde of the dragon queen and rise of tiamat came out first

[@HowtoRPG]

I like your video lore and information. I have played and DMed party of PotA, it sucks (my opinion).

[@sirloin869]

lik most things its betr not know'n wut they realy look lik, youtube... stil wait'n on the zombi-pokolypse

[@danielramsey6141]

I suggest Reading up on the Bosses, Most of them do some really Evil S**t, TPK Style! You may need to tone them down or invent a new method on how to defeat them.

[@jctxcboy36]

Sorry, Love the video but disagree with Milestone leveling. But to each his own. I prefer to award players for good role playing, saving a character from a horrible death, thinking outside the box. I know that some prefer Milestone, but I feel that it does not encourage pc's to think on their own. All they have to do is survive a chapter and they get a level. Awarding individuals for exceptional game play encourages them to get out of their comfort zones and enjoy the session....they get really creative if they know there is a reward for doing so.

[@youcantbeatk7006]

It takes 3 freaking minutes for the lore to begin.

[@pirateking56128]

Where are your eyebrows my dude?

[@Jorphdan]

they're very light, thanks for pointing it out!

[@pirateking56128]

@@Jorphdan Sorry. I really wasn't expecting a live cam video. I' so used to you as a bodiless voice of lore.

[@Jorphdan]

@@pirateking56128 Mother always said I had a good face for radio.

[@pirateking56128]

@@Jorphdan Thats so mean D:

[@Jorphdan]

@@pirateking56128 ;)