You Can't Go Home Again - BECMI D&D Recap - The Honeywood Campaign

[@macoppy6571]

😅 Telling a Cave Bear to walk on by and "ignore us." 🍖 Stealing a ham, just because.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

That's my boys!

[@JamesEck9095]

I needed a trip into Honeywood this morning.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Welcome, weary traveller!

[@mykediemart]

Getting the loot home is an adventure in its' self. Thank you as always for sharing your adventures

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Indeed, it's like the old trap of taking so much candy from the jar that you can't get your hand out! And you're welcome!

[@fatemastercesium7756]

Loved the "Family Ties" nod with Ubu.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Heh!

[@grumpyoldslan]

I have to say, you have some of the best magic and magic adjacent items in this campaign -- the unicorn flowers, the bough, the goblin war wagons, the nail of restoration and so many others.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thank you!

[@TheOGGMsAdventures]

thanks for leting me talk to you on monday. You can go home again but the journey will have changed you so home won't feel like home anymore. thats going all the way back to the heroic journey or for the LotR fans. Fredo went back to the shire, but he had been so changed by the adventure it never felt like home again for him,

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Indeed, that's the meaning of the saying. That, and when you return your home may have changed as well...as the Heroes of Honeywood are about to find out!

[@TheOGGMsAdventures]

@@TheDungeonMinister Dun, dun, Dunnnnnnnnnn

[@hungarthestarvarian6910]

Good morning Father Aaron

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Gooooood morning, Hungar!

[@TESLogan]

Always happy to see another installment in the Honeywood Campaign, loving this series. But I wanted to ask about your hex map. What size are your hexes and do you use any specific travel procedures, like navigation, or do you more so use it for referencing distances?

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! When the party strikes out into territory they don't know, I use a really simple die roll mechanic to see if they stay on their intended course. I tend to be generous about this because pre-industrial cultures are generally pretty familiar with sun position and stars, and so wouldn't be as easily lost. The scale...it's entirely based on our first adventure, for which I really didn't pay a lot of attention because I didn't know how deeply into the game the boys would get! I had established that the PCs could walk from Honeywood to the first adventure site in 6 hours, and that's been the template. I sort of eyeball distances from that. I did work out km per hex at one point, but I don't recall what it was.

[@Robovski]

Always happy to see a new chapter! Thank you!

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Always happy to see you in the comments! You're welcome!

[@williammoore9794]

I'm glad to see you continuing a long tradition of using some kind of British accent to voice the Goblinoids. 😉😁👍

[@TheDungeonMinister]

It's such an odd choice, but seems near universal!

[@williammoore9794]

@@TheDungeonMinister I think it probably comes from Tolkien and the way he wrote the orcs speaking to each other, but Games Workshop's influence can't be underestimated. Peter Jackson famously used a stadium full of boozy England cricket fans to voice the Uruk-Hai army at the Battle of Helm's Deep. They're not called the Barmy Army for nothing!

[@PaintMinisLive]

And so the story continues, excellent as always! Can't wait for the next one.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! Neither can I!

[@Decado1628]

A stealth mission! That’s a good call on the open hatch. The details of how the characters go about a stealth mission are important.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Indeed! These little details do matter! Interestingly, they seemed to want to keep anyone from knowing they'd been there even AFTER they were done and gone...which wasn't really required, but added some interest. And thanks!

[@Decado1628]

@@TheDungeonMinister From the GM side of the screen I always find it very interesting what the players fixate on. It is often not at all what I expected.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

@@Decado1628 Thing is, I recently ran an adventure for my FLGS group that DID require nobody know what they had done. But that was after this session, and I'm sure I didn't let that vibe bleed over. They just got used to sneaking!

[@Fnordathoth]

I never get tired of these videos 😁

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thank you! I don't get tired of making them!

[@TheBattlinBarrowGaming]

For an unplanned session this sounded great fun.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

It went pretty well, and I was really just happy that they steered themselves south!

[@Sageofthedustypage]

Very relaxing to listen to the recap.

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

Oh, it's a long way, Intercalary ... Travel can be tricky to run, especially when you've youngsters at the table and viewers on the 'net who need to stay interested. You're good at this, mate.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! Really, travel is just a really long dungeon corridor.

[@bobhastings6464]

Hello Father Aaron “Sit Ubu Sit” haven’t heard that in awhile! Loved the update and the humour, thanks for sharing. Instead of kneeling in front of the Tree Lord perhaps they should have “ boughed”? Cheers Bob

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Boughed. *smacks head* Why didn't I think of that! Thanks, Bob, for the kind words AND the laugh!

[@chiefstewart]

Oh that is one of the best so far in the series. Great Job Fr. Aaron

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thank you, kind sir!

[@rickeymariu1]

Huzzah!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Love your style, man! I'm getting hooked on your videos

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! And I on yours!

[@nordicmaelstrom4714]

Well create a tavern called Cheers and have the party and wizard go there where everybody knows their names!

[@TheDungeonMinister]

And thus the wizard was named...Norm! 🍻

[@nordicmaelstrom4714]

@@TheDungeonMinister Norm the wizard is the second cousin of Tim the Enchanter.

[@lexington476]

7:44 I got this, we rob the wizard and then head east 😎.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Heh! The DM never knows what the players might just try!

[@ianlamont9434]

Thanks Father Aaron for another great episode. What did Touchberry do with the ham, even for a halfling it's a big challenge to scoff a whole one one his own? Goblins are British eh? Hmmm 🇬🇧

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Blast! Nobody was supposed to tell you about the Goblin thing! Re: the ham...He gnawed on it. Shared it around. He'd already eaten quite a bit. And thanks!

[@jaybakata5566]

A turkey named Larry? In turkey chapter, is that a new cult? Are you the head of the club, err cult, father? Where is that wizard face from? Is it from BECMI? I know I have seen it before however, I don't recall from where. Wait a minute, your son is a thief? I thought your wife was the thief of the group. Told you D&D was evil. I hope you have a talk with him outside of the game about how stealing is wrong. As soon as you said, "Near the coast as you get closer" I knew there would be a cliff (on the coast) hanger. I love every The Dungeon Minister videos.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

I order the turkey cult sandwich all the time, and I'm not even a member. I don't know how I get away with it. 😁

[@jaybakata5566]

@@TheDungeonMinister Very clever, I love it!

[@TheDungeonMinister]

The wizard's face is, indeed, from BECMI. The Companion book, I think. Yeah, Touchberry just wanted to use his stealth, having employed it so successfully at the Goblin camp. The ham was almost secondary. Almost!

[@Lightmane]

Just call him Bob

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Jim Bob.

[@Lightmane]

​@@TheDungeonMinisterjust don't call him Bob Johnny, cause 2 Bob Johnny's would just be confusing.

[@joshmccloskey570]

When will the Ice Dwarves ally themselves with the Jendae?

[@TheDungeonMinister]

I don't think they even know about one another, but that would be a good alliance.

[@calvincasaday7690]

Great story as always. One quick question. What is the scale of your map? How big are the hexes?

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! I actually just answered that in another comment...travel video! It's sort of eyeballed.

[@michaelmertig2897]

Hello Father Aaron. Ah! the Ole frail Wizard who is secretly powerfull, and only talks in jokes and riddles trick . lol Great Fun Father. The term you used for a Chapter not moving the story along is new to me. Would that apply to any Book or Novel?

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Thanks! My only actual encounter with the term intercalary chapters is Grapes of Wrath, but yes it applies across anything with chapters. Intercalary days are days inserted into the calendar to make them harmonize (February 29th, for instance) which is peculiar since those specifically DO affect the larger whole.