The adventure that everyone dreams of playing - until they actually play it
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
It does seem a bit rough by the end. Lots of death traps and destroying/removing items. Definitely think the meat grinder playstyle the module recommends in the intro is a good mind set to have, especially for the final dungeon.
@XpVersusVista Жыл бұрын
@@GreenDM personally I'd massively shorten the tomb. I love everything before the tomb. Great flavor, fun and interesting sandbox, vibrant world. But the endless dungeon crawl ruins the adventure by the end. You'll end up with players asking "how long until we're done and can play something else?". Seriously, use everything EXCEPT the tomb stuff, come up with a new campaign premise and make a small, Tomb-Of-Annihilation-inspired dungeon/forgotten city that houses your endgame.
@BeautifulMidniteRose6 ай бұрын
My group just finished ToA tonight, I was a player, not the GM. Our GM really cut things back, as we are more story driven rather than dungeon dwellers. After listening to your recap, I'm very glad with how our GM used this as the backbone for our story but added a bunch of his own ideas as well as things that related to our characters.
@Gaming48712 ай бұрын
Basically: Make 5 extra characters cuz you will die a loot.
@anthonyniemiec94092 жыл бұрын
Your channel is criminally underrated. Your content is funny, concise, and the production quality is above channels with 1mil subscribers
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ThisAintAStupidName2 жыл бұрын
I mean, I kinda love this adventure. For one, it's basically D&D goes Indiana Jones. Lost cities, jungles, racing other factions... it's a very fun thing to pitch to players :) Second, I love how it leans into the inherent silliness that D&D sometimes rails against. Dinosaur races? Hell yeah. Goblin battle stacks? No doubt. All the weird shit in the tomb? Why not, let's go! Been prepping to run this for a group, and it's been a delight to read.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Pitching this to players as Indiana Jones dnd is a great idea!
@willgonyea2 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about getting ToA. Everything has aligned perfectly.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Not too perfectly I hope. Don't want to get teleported to Victorian London 😆
@seandonnellan59802 жыл бұрын
I played it as high elf evocation wizard. Best campaign of my life. Nearly died numerous times and even managed to take Vorn for my own control
@O4C2092 жыл бұрын
I just noticed Port Nyanzaru is in the shape of a dinosaur. That's adorable.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
WHAT! I did not notice this.
@ThatOtherPerson5 ай бұрын
How have I never seen this!!!
@natezabinski56152 жыл бұрын
Oh, this is a pick-me-up after a terrible day at work
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Work suck, dino racing good!
@benjaminliang19982 жыл бұрын
This guy deserves so many more subscribers.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
If I made videos more than once every two months, perhaps KZbin recommendations would agree 😅
@penitentestudios14922 жыл бұрын
@@GreenDM what campaign are you reading us next?
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
@@penitentestudios1492 Decent into Avernus
@penitentestudios14922 жыл бұрын
@@GreenDM interesting, can't wait
@stevegee77712 жыл бұрын
This is such an underrated channel, wish you to be blessed by the algorithm
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Curse of Strahd got to 40k views, so I think these blessings are working!
@JohnSmith-nd5yc2 жыл бұрын
Nice, actually running this for my group now. Accurate as always lol
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Hope it goes well. Especially the zombie dinosaur fights!
@roxycurless6102 Жыл бұрын
5:47 😂 I have never laughed this hard at a well-done echo effect and I'm instantly hooked. Helps that I'm planning a similar adventure and already interested but I sing your praises! 🎉 Well done 👍
@Gympie57 ай бұрын
I call the Soul Monger a vacuum cleaner because it's easy to explain it like that. :D
@paradox58662 жыл бұрын
Dude I just decided to run this yesterday - are you a mind flayer who has been reading my mind to maximize my loyalty as a subscriber?
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps...random question what is your Intelligence saving throw modifier? Just for academic purposes of course. And do you have enough HP to survive a 10d10 piercing damage attack? Again, purely academic.
@wh3nderson952 жыл бұрын
I remember running this game and the players didn't give a flying f*@k about the Death Curse and I had to make up a new plot hook. It devolved into Monster Hunter: Chult Edition. 1 player got a Chocobo for her race animal. (Which costed 2K gold) 1 player got a Yoshi-saurus. (A rare breed that requires combing the jungle) 1 player got a telepathic talking triceratops. (Basically donkey from Shrek). 1 player got Blue from Jerassic World. My players loved the level 1 to 5 short adventure. I decided to retcon the Death Curse from happening. The villain of the game was essentially the Undead IRS whom the Warlocke and Sorcerer made a pact with a Lich whom resided in the jungle. I changed it to Azalin Rex because I couldn't pronounce the module's official Lich character for a few months. So on a side note, the players became wealthy individuals and took their mounts with them back to the Sword Coast. The "Jurassic Battle Swingers" made a name for themselves... or JBS. The players named themselves that because they wanted to avoid a zombie Horde and the Fighter suggested using dangling vines I muttered as filler description. Then had a chance sequence of a giant murder pterodactyl which I ripped off the giant eagle from Curse of Strahd. After that, the table made 'swingers' jokes and I had an NPC joked about their actions. Then I find out a week later the Bard proudly repeat the name in public. "We'll swing there, and everywhere. Got a old lady who needs help, we'll swing over there." - Bard. After killing me with their humor. College life was about to ramp up. So I wrote a final badass race which had 3 players knocked out the race. To which the Bard was the one to win for the team. The players loved it, I got to read the end of the adventure. And we'll return to these characters once most of them graduate. Chult is one hell of an awesome location.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Yooo! You made dino racing THE ADVENTURE?!?! Legend!
@TalesArcane2 жыл бұрын
Really hope you've got more content on the way, mate, I love this channel! Watching your "So you want to run..." videos on repeat: the editing, the comedy - they're just such good quality 💪
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Editing decent into Avernus right now!
@theweathereddragon16682 жыл бұрын
Great video! Insanely entertaining!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@starbomber2 жыл бұрын
2:47 OMG its an old style power hammer! Not as quick as the pneumatic ones we have today but its still a powerhammer!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
POOOOWER!
@novvak1682 жыл бұрын
Hi. I recently saw your videos. And I think they are really really good and even getting better over time. I like the newer ones even more. I can understand if you are getting tiered of KZbin. And that making them takes a lot of your time. But I just want to say, that I, and a lot of other people had a great time watching. And I really hope you continue. I wish you all the best
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@s413ddk424 күн бұрын
Thanks to this video, i finally have a chance to know what this adventure is, because our dm literally ran from us after playing this pice of dnd for 6 irl month. As it seems, we did everything besides main plot. We were cooking pancakes for architect. Stealing watermelons for our warlock's patron, met the Raven Queen and accidentally trapped artus into the interdimensional prison, but still, not even close to finish.
@lemonicity48342 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal rundown vid!
@mitsuntsun1716 Жыл бұрын
The "Let the body hit the floor" jokes crackt me up. I need to watch the videos more than one time because english is not my mothertongue, so I don´t understand everything at the first time in that speed.But I really enjoy it :D I love the small gags (same with "Downtown" in out of the abyss). Cool video and funny explanation!
@GreenDM Жыл бұрын
Watching videos in a second language must be really hard! Glad you liked it!
@mitsuntsun1716 Жыл бұрын
@@GreenDM it helps, that I learned English at school and consume more and more English videos. But I missed a lot of jokes because of my lack with vocabulary. And what is grammar?! XD But yeah, Enjoy your seria for the campaigns, so thank you for the videos! :)
@Im.A1ex2 жыл бұрын
Being a DM currently running this module makes the video even funnier
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
This adventure is WILD! Hope you and your table enjoy it!
@CJ-14132 жыл бұрын
Yo these are awesome, please do Storm King’s Thunder next!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Actually reading that one now! In the middle of editing a Descent into Avenues one though 😅
@CJ-14132 жыл бұрын
@@GreenDM honestly, these are all dope. Can’t wait for the next one!
@federicopalacios7439 Жыл бұрын
Sounds super fun up until the actual tomb.
@soldier660 Жыл бұрын
Green DM: Evil cat people but the weaker Version: Me: Oh thank god !!!
@mangochip37522 жыл бұрын
This makes me wanna buy the module and run it- I know my players would hate it but in a good way
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Do it! Lure them in with dinosaurs races, then send them into the jungle!
@romanabanin22169 күн бұрын
Now I can DM it without needles reading. Thank you man
@Saegonite2 жыл бұрын
This channel needs more subs wtf
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
If I made more videos, maybe the algorithm would agree!
@eatgreencrayons10 ай бұрын
This is probably really entertaining for people who've actually played the campaign.
@exceliosnoctis7512 Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the Jungle, we have Fun and Games ... and Dinosaur Races
@simonbanzhaf23522 жыл бұрын
I love these so much. Super helpful for my 1498DR campaign. Any chance we get SKT?
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Always a chance! Just got to make these faster than Wotc releases modules and I might get through the backlog of campaigns.
@randomsleepyness2 жыл бұрын
3:04 lmao!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
😄
@W0lfMan26 Жыл бұрын
We got to floor 5 of the dungeon. We booked it and barely detoured and I think the wizard contractor was still very very close to being dead. We did almost nothing in town except rent npcs. That tomb was just too wild.
@GreenDM Жыл бұрын
Floor 5 is deep! It does get pretty wild in there.
@W0lfMan26 Жыл бұрын
@GreenDM yeah, we ran through like 8 characters through the campaign. Floor 5 was the final tpk. Back on topic, though, that timer sucks. Even sprinting, we nearly ran out of time.
@politenonparticipant48594 ай бұрын
@@W0lfMan26 It'd be awesome to have like another 40-60 days, so you have a little wiggle room to do side quests for expedition funds and maybe pursue one or two red herrings before finding the right path to Omu.
@Destructivepurpose2 жыл бұрын
Ay these videos are pretty funny
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@the_chosen_one56422 жыл бұрын
ALGORITHM LETS GOOOOO
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Algorithm power HHHAAAAAAAAAA!
@herosshade2247 Жыл бұрын
That 8 minutes felt like an hour
@politenonparticipant48594 ай бұрын
Win or lose due to it, racing dinosaurs is never a waste of time.
@GreenDMАй бұрын
So true. dino racing is cool. wish the adventure had more about it.
@jamesmacinnes83972 жыл бұрын
great video
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Great comment!
@loganduncan4315 Жыл бұрын
We made it to the door, We killed each other.
@loganduncan4315 Жыл бұрын
Also of all the encounters deaf remember catapulting a village.
@MrChrispington Жыл бұрын
A basement full of lobsters give me dark souls flashbacks
@jjmurph8762 жыл бұрын
Finally a new one 👍
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
It's been so long!
@muhdewsah82412 жыл бұрын
I wish I could like this 100 times! THANK YOU Green DM! 😊
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Comments are worth 100 likes!
@joedan53662 жыл бұрын
Another one
@simounobrien90962 жыл бұрын
6:03 Tsuyu Asui!!!!!!!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Frog!
@liamereiam Жыл бұрын
But…. Racing dinosaurs!
@RichardDuryea2 жыл бұрын
I want to play this
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
It has some really fun locations! Problem with playing it is getting through the Schedule of Annihilation that happens before every DnD campaign.
@Metalisalearning77 Жыл бұрын
This was the 1st ever game I played in D&D..... & HOO-BOY! what a mistake that was! *11 sessions in, a player playing a Homebrew sorceress w. Main Character Syndrome murders my character (a Monk with a Homebrew class) at Nangnangs temple then tries to pass off to the Yuan-Ti as an ally & get the team to surrender..... which fails spectacularly! Made to sit out the game but now in a 2nd session in a Homebrew campaign
@GreenDM Жыл бұрын
Hope the new campaign goes better!
@ani2nice732 Жыл бұрын
I played in this module as a cleric... and there was not a whole lot of obvious direction to the story that I noticed... or perhaps the DM didn't say much of it? I don't know I got distracted a lot by our guide being an utterly useless pos and never having enough cleric spells to keep people conscious.
@CCCeramics2 жыл бұрын
Idk maybe I'll play this module some day so I shouldn't watch it because of the spoilers. Watches it anyway. Yeah I don't think watching this video gives you a leg up...
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Yeah 8 minutes isnt gunna spoil much. At least not spoil much in a way that makes perfect sense!
@hilence96552 жыл бұрын
hahahha amazing video!
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Cynidecia Жыл бұрын
Why not play tomb of horrors?
@JackTheBunnyYTАй бұрын
6 sessions in, two of my characters are dead, one to a random encounter and the other to not being able to make 4 strength roles with a 8 in strength, one player got their character aged up to near death, irreversibly and 4 players left and i just quit, very fun campaign…not
@GreenDMАй бұрын
Oh lord. Yay tomb of annihilation has a lot of old school traps and design in there that kill characters quick. Definitely need to have in the campaign assumptions this is a high lethality adventure (which it doesnt explain well) or have a DM that changes some of the encounters to be less surprise kill boxes.
@heathcousins70022 жыл бұрын
Deez are getting good
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Trying to add new effects and editing techniques everytime.
@droleted872 жыл бұрын
I bought this to start running as a game in between games. In case someone can't make our typical session so players don't miss out on our current story. I was going to just fill them in on the previous 2 chapters of ToA and start them on chapter 3. They're currently level 5, very close to level 6 PCs. Looking for feedback here. Any thoughts?
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
I think just starting with the hex crawl part and transitioning into the big dungeon seems like a good idea to me. That is the most interesting part of the adventure to me, unless your players REALLY like dino racing lol. Just make sure the characters have purpose for doing the hex crawl and make sure the players want to do the hex crawl and a really big dangerous dungeon. With that you should be at least good to start!
@droleted872 жыл бұрын
Ha! I'm sure at least a couple will enjoy the dino racing. I'll check out the hex crawl section. Thanks!
@LoneWolf-rc4go2 жыл бұрын
I have to admit that our current run through of Tomb is really throwing up issues. The difficulty curve is all over the place and we haven't really come across anything that has really been a stand out 'wow' event. The whole experience is traipsing through the jungle getting random combat encounter after random combat encounter. The GM actually faced a player rebellion over the complete lack of magic items as well. I don't know if it's intentional but we hit level 6 with a bag of holding, a cloak of resistance and a +1 shield. I did discuss this with the GM as it felt impossible that we'd missed all of these cool locations loaded with awesome magic items and he pretty much said 'there's nothing to find in the locations you've visited'. When I was sold the campaign it sounded like Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones but it's been so weirdly random. We meet characters and they sound like they might be important to the plot then we never see them again. We go to places that seem like they'll be epic, there's a couple of combat encounters and nothing in the way of reward, just another dozen or so combat encounters to get to the next location. Maybe we've missed stuff (I keep telling myself that every week) and that's why the whole experience just feels a bit disconnected. In some essence the campaign has been reduced to a slog through a jungle as we just hack our way towards the Tomb, hoping to get the experience over as soon as we can do.
@GreenDM2 жыл бұрын
It is unfortunate that this book has a lot of combat encounters for the hex crawl and dungeons, and leaves a lot of the social and wonderous exploration for the DM to fill in. Seems like they put a lot of effort into the final dungeon, but did not think of how to make the lead up to it as exciting and interesting as possible. Also that final dungeon wishes for your death so bad lol.
@supersmily5811 Жыл бұрын
Yeaaah... this module sucks. It's one thing to make a punishing dungeon full of bad game design (some people want that so chef don't judge) but then it has the GALL to give you 0 loot for your efforts unless the DM goes out of their way to take the "option" the book clearly doesn't want you to take of letting them keep the god items. Which aren't great anyway!
@AncientRylanor692 ай бұрын
🦓🦓
@Urg4nm0m Жыл бұрын
5e Tomb of annihilation is garbage
@linked2dio26 Жыл бұрын
Damn cool concept, but this campaign towards the latter half fucking *SUCKS*