Top Tips for Storm Kings Thunder

[@jamesscrivener4054]

im about to run storm kings thunder and i just want to say this was actually helpful

[@Lxxseven]

Same. Thanks for the video. I'll be running this with my buddies from Alaska to NY City... so on Roll20.

[@WilliamSlayer]

Really enjoyed this overview of the adventure. Too many reviews are First Impressions and "first read-throughs" of the adventure merely restating or summarizing what it is about. This is a true review of the game with your experiences added in and I really appreciate that!

[@ashjotunthor5550]

Why aren't more people subscribed to you? Seriously, your Zakhara information helped me build an entire campaign and I'm honestly all of this to be priceless as well.

[@DungeonSmith]

Thanks! The main obstacle for me to grow my channel at the moment is time. I work full time and find it hard to balance my time so I cant release videos as often as I would like. But I dont plan on stopping anytime soon,.

[@SacredVonsai]

This man right ere is a time saver and a amazing dude. I never expected to learn so much in a span of 15 minutes

[@blueberreez]

Right? Dude is brilliant

[@DungeonSmith]

Thank you

[@KoiPondDreams]

Wish I would have found this when I first started running this. I'm on chapter 4 right now and I've been having a super hard time with all the information the module throws at me. My group is also less than easy to run for as this is my first ever campaign. Thank you for the tips, let's see if I can shoe horn it all in at some point!

[@DungeonSmith]

Don't worry, theres a lot of campaign still left to go.

[@MattieSheldonTheYoutuber]

My players have just finished chapter one, and this video has been fantastic in deciding how to run the rest of the campaign. Thank you! 🙏

[@DungeonSmith]

Glad I could help!

[@TDGCmote]

Just started to comb through the campaign book. This is super helpful and this campaign is really fun. Love the way your video is very straightforward.

[@SarkenHS]

Thanks for the video! I'll make sure to look up your main chain about it. One big problem (or should I say, giant problem! ... okay sorry) about the campaign, is that even if even the autor say you shouldn't be afray as a GM to make the players loose a fight, etc., the camping is written as if they were winning everytime (cf one of the first big fight against giants, withing one of the three city you can choose where to guide your players). Of course, now I took in more experience as a GM (about this campain in particuliar) and I can adapt more easily, but that really didn't help about how to take it at first. Also, what doesn't help, is that funny enough, the danger aren't the Giants most of the time, but most simple monsters in DnD5E. While I was confused at first and a bit afraid to touch the monster's sheet, now I understand that I have to tweak almost every single monster because 99% of them have the capacity to oneshot any player in one turn, specially in the first level. I don't mind confronting my players to difficult monster, but as long as they can one shot someone, no amount of strategy will help them, even though they're against a bunch of weakened orcs and such. To spice things up, I combined my campaign, by opening it in a more "open realm", with the Adventure's League Scenarii. They really help giving ideas about what the players can do when they arrived in Chapter 3, where they can explore wherere they want. They also give a few firm objectives to the players instead of just letting out in the wild and ask them "now what do you wanna do?" (tho the campaign does offer some ideas of what they can have as objectifs to help them, like pursuiving The Weevil, or meeting SEER). Also, it gives more opportunities to discover the teleportation circles around the north. Finally, as to give the players a big need of confronting the giants, I'm intending to "give" them Khundrukar (from the same book as Against the Giants), the big dward fortress wich is actually at the ideal place to confront a giant invasion: up in the north, a bit up of Mirabbar. They already cleaned it fully and I'm preparing a few stuff, but giving the players more responsability will surely make they more motivated to fight the giants, and not just fighting them "because we're the good guys in the story" or "fame and fortune". Well, it's all in preparation and it'll need some testing, but I do hope it'll spice things up. Making them work for a fortress to hold will also give them the "hope to fight against giant", that will be a key point to the situation where they're running from them to it's time to put up a fight.

[@Tygenja]

Thanks, very helpful, starting first session of this campaign today

[@adriantait3525]

Thanks for all the great info! As I prepare for SKT, these insights will help make the story and my prep even better.

[@DungeonSmith]

Glad it was helpful!

[@psbormann]

Great stuff, lots of actually useful tips. Thanks for the work!

[@adrianjones142]

This is an extremely useful video, appreciate you sharing your knowledge and insights.

[@DungeonSmith]

Thanks, always nice to hear that one of my videos was helpfull.

[@Drennis]

Very informative!

[@Petrillion]

Srsly the best Video about SKT in my opinion! There are much longer videos out there that are not even half as useful as yours!

[@apocalypticcheerio]

I really enjoyed this video! I'd like if in future videos you would say the tips when they appear on screen. This video is mostly focused on audio so I wasn't watching the screen the whole time.

[@DungeonSmith]

Thanks. I will keep that in mind

[@carly110698]

Very helpful video, thank you!

[@Keaggan]

Great series I love more details about storm King's thunder I hope you put on more videos you! I'm now going to check out some of your other stuff. Keep up the good and hard work 🙂

[@DungeonSmith]

Thanks. I would love to cover each of the campaigns released so far to 5th edition in a similar fashion.

[@kevinkastle612]

Awesome. You and I have many of the same ideas.

[@S3rial85]

Holy cow so to play this module correctly i not only have to own the PH the DMG and the Monsters Manual but also have to have read about 5 other books from the last 3 editions? Urm do i even need the campain book or do i just pluck it together from other stuff? I am really confused here on how to even approach this. We had plans to run this module after we completed Phandalver and i was really looking forward to DMign it but now i feel that i have to be some kind of D&D historian to give my players some kind of satisfying experience.

[@DungeonSmith]

It definitely helps being a D&D historian, but you can definitely run it just with the information from the adventure book. Your campaign is after all your own story, so in the end it wont matter if you contradict something from a different book neither you nor your players owns. The materials I talk about from previous editions can help to expand on and flesh out the story, but are not 100% essential to run it.

[@imjordanhanzon]

This was super helpful. Thank you. :)

[@rupin]

GREAT VIDEO

[@Tirreg88]

5:00 great idea!

[@mike1010100]

Good content, keep it up!

[@davidfranci7278]

3 years of work and then your players fuck it up in roughly 10 minutes

[@Clanjade22]

Any chance you have some of that research and tips and hooks and stuff in a google doc? Thanks for the tips here, about to transition out of mines.

[@DungeonSmith]

I added a link to the Wyrms of the North articles that I found online. Must have either accidentally deleted the link or forgotten to add it. Most of my notes when I ran STK where written in a physical notepad, but If there is any specific thing you wanted to know more about, I could let you know.

[@luckmaker6250]

Don't see the sources in the description, would love to read them if you have them

[@WilliamSlayer]

Agreed! Do there happened to be any links that you could give us that we could use?

[@stephenclements6158]

I liked the video, but shouldn't the acronym be SKT (Storm King's Thunder) instead of STK (Storm Thunder King?)?

[@DungeonSmith]

Your absolutely right, a bit of a slip of the tongue there on my part

[@stephenclements6158]

@@DungeonSmith but please don't be discouraged! I am loving your videos and think you have great insights. You already inspired me to run Curse of Strahd with your tips video. :)

[@redblack9618]

"STK" instead of "SKT" bothered me so much. >.>

[@PingkomMes]

thanks!

[@DungeonSmith]

No problem!

[@Tosolo-dh2co]

As he hasn't released any more videos about STK I feel somewhat disappointed

[@DungeonSmith]

Sorry to hear that. I had originally intended to make more videos in my series on Storm Kings Thunder but I had to move on to other things at the time. It's been a few years now since I ran SKT so It is not exactly fresh in my memory but there have been others who have suggested that I return and make more videos on the campaign. I have other plans in the immediate future, but it could still happen someday.

[@Tosolo-dh2co]

@@DungeonSmith I'll be looking forward to it! And just to clarify. I'm only disappointed in the way you might feel disappointed when your favourite Netflix series is cancelled. I really enjoyed this series and found it rather useful when running my own game.

[@DrAndrewJBlack]

👍🏻

[@sonder_ua]

Better read Giantcraft than rely on Bestiary...

[@trently89]

appreciate the video and information and all that, and it may have been just me, but DAMN this dude smacks his lips ALOT!

[@danielhyman4201]

Very helpful video, thank you sir!

[@DungeonSmith]

Glad it was helpful!