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The players encounter a small child in the road crying over the body of his dead dog. As the party deals with this, the boy suddenly transforms into a giant spider. FIGHT! During the fight, another spider appears from behind the party. AMBUSH! Once the fight is over they notice the dog is still alive. Wait... it's not an injured dog! It's a shapeshifted druid who was trying to ambush the party to rob their dead bodies. It really sets up expectations that the DM is a devious SOB

I have entire villages dedicated to growing the plants & herbs used to make the potions. In that village are also the ritual casters who imbue the potion with the healing magic. These are extremely important villages. As such they are all walled, house a powerful garrison, have a prominent lord over the village. The farms that are nearby are required to be foritified manors, stone curing sheds, etc. THey must maintain suitable quarters for the light cavalry that checks on them regularly. The first piece of my major campaign has the players investigating why a farm went silent and the last patrol also vanished. One of the encounters sets a huge plot hook that keeps the players engaged.

I tie my players to being part of an adventurer's guild. That gives them accountability if they go murderhobo. The Grandmaster and his council are all Clvl 19 & 20. If the players ever want to have their own place, they can start up a new chapter in a new town. That in and of itself is an entire half year campaign

I stole this entire mystery for my next session. I changed a lot of stuff to fit my campaign and created a major twist (no werewolf!), plus I'm going to try to roleplay the investigation instead of relying on the dice. But the basic structure is yours. Thanks!

If I play a Warlock: Hexblade, do I get the Hexblade Expanded Spell List or the Raven Queen's one or both? Same for other levels, do I get the effects stated by the Hexblade like Shadow Hound or the ones by the Raven Queen like Soul of the Raven or both?

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In my tavern, the characters meet their idols and they sort of team up every time their idols come up they can describe what their idols are, and since the idols are local in town, they can easily find their house and overall this would be a great tavern

Thank you SO much for this video! For some reason, guilds have never made much sense to me, but this helped LOADS.

My favourite parts of fantasy fiction, from Tolkien, to Moorcock, to Howard, to Le Guin are when the protagonists visit a store and the author spends a chapter describing the shopping process. Thanks goodness D&D accommodates this vital element and can provide this classic element to allow the players to really live out the epic fantasy experience.

Ok what if I wanted Mephala to be my patron

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Good topic.

I love to sacrifice my character. 😅😂

I cannot overstate how many times i watched this video and the rest on your channel, your videos are so to the point and direct and nice to look at and easy to understand, really wish you would come back to continue this channel T.T

I didn't know about this. Thank you for the video

Running the tortle package they went up against geonids at level 1. An hour of hellish combat later I resolved to never trust cr again

Neat idea, but not something my crew would like. We all hate time constraints. Thank you for the video

I would separate intellect devourers between feral and domestic Feral want to attack smart PC because they taste and or feed the ID more Tamed ID raised by mindflayers attack less smart characters to steal bodies

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Gah thank you for this. Almost wish they had organized the monsters by rating its overwhelming to sort through

Well in d&d adventuring would be common, so of course it would help adventurers. I prefer to have a blacksmith as the weapon and armor shop. Keeping things in the back was unnecessary, people don’t even get to see it yet, it’s so undecorative, and for plot relevance makes stealing easier, but regardless a clerk for shopkeeping and explanations is needed.

5:00 im so glad that for my campaign I am planning a more open world and massive continent style campaign, walking from city to city takes a month in itself and there is no real limiting time constraints that will make that time such a problem. Traveling is on a hexcrawl and they are 1 hex = 1 week so traveling isn't annoying or tedious, and even if it doesn't become tedious they can simply ttavel on a caravan which will have at most 1 encounter per 4 hexes traveled, and they can even opt to just be non-combatants which just means I roll a dice heavily in their favor and on a success they don't have to step into whatever fight happens. I say 4 hexes instead of 4 months because caravans will travel faster as they are always special carages with specially trained horses and armed guards, these trips can be expensive so it will more than likely be a later game used thing. But this gives a huge amount of time for my crafting system which I will probably have to make since I find base dnd crafting a little lackluster.

Ok I tried the inn generator. First result: "The cup and cock" inn. 😂

Here's my idea; gathering free and mundane components for one-time-use spells can be tedious. You could have a sidequest to get some bat fur, and then never need to do it again, but what I'm thinking is that for lesser spell components like that, the process of preparation includes gathering and using the components. But then this gives me another idea, if the spell is prepared beforehand, why bother with material components? Perhaps components are only used when a spell is cast without preparation, allowing magic users some extra spell castings.

As an Alchemist Artificer, a player can take the “healer” feat to get proficiency with the herbalism kit. Along with Alchemist’s supplies, creating healing potions could be much easier to do.

i actually really like the idea of pointing being like wine that needs to age. you could end up with a much better balance between time spent and the actual payoff if there’s some kind of fermentation process that takes the same amount of time regardless of what quantity of potion you’re brewing. but that 1000 day brewing time suddenly makes a lot more sense if you can get an entire barrel out of it (maybe with periodic skill checks required to make sure the process has no ill effects or accidents) rather than just one measly potion. i could see it leading to some interesting narrative stuff too, since it would encourage the players to set up a home base and return to it regularly to check on their potion still :D

Timed combat = no role playing in combat. I will no longer describe my spells, summons and maneuvers. I will tell you numbers and only numbers.

you know who else would be more likely to write on vellum than on paper? elves. dnd elves live for over 700 years; what’s the point of keeping a journal of your adventures on paper, for example, if it’ll be dust by the time you’re in old age and want to revisit it to tell your elf grandkids cool stories about that time you fought a lich. maybe this is even part of why wizard spell books cost so much to transcribe - maybe *weird* shit happens if the paper a spell is written on decays but the spell itself remains; so spellbooks have to be made of special materials that resist decay, to avoid every wizard library potentially turning into a wild magic anomaly if they fall too far behind on repairing those old tomes

If we're talking about a tomb, housing the remains of an ancient emperor and his treasure, I can understand traps. The design is meant to protect the remains and loot and ensure it stays where it is. However, if it is a lair or base of operations, traps make less sense as it would also hamper the movements of those within. Also, bad guys are always arrogant and narcissistic enough to believe themselves unbeatable to begin with and their troops are good enough to defend. If it's just a cave system with some beasts and maybe primitive humanoids, who built the traps and why haven't they been triggered by the animals who would not understand traps to begin with so would not know to avoid them. Logic and reason are real buzzkills in fantasy gaming.

I always laugh at the idea of a general store in a medieval setting. Such things didn't exist. Most people had to make what they needed themselves, as "money" was not in wide-spread use. What they couldn't make themselves they usually bartered for. The whole "general store" thing is more a thing of the old American West. Store (as such) that did exist in medieval times were far more specialized.

A Ph.D. in medieval history isn't going to do much for you if you're not on earth or in a different timeline.

Nah. Not a fan of this rule. Sometimes things can change drastically just before a players turn. And when decoding what to do, you often need to ask the DM how they would rule a certain ability or spell being used in a specific way. These situations take time to work out. Also why even call it the 1:10 rule? Why not just call it the “minute rule”?

I play games like Banished a lot. They are great for D&D town creation.

I always have class levels for NPCs, so that colors my general stores a bit. My general stores typically have a variety of rural neccecities, but they also have material components for cantrips and first level spells. They have preservable foods often found in rations and a variety of the non-weapon, non-magical equipment found in level 1 equipment when you create your character. Some things are excluded and must be found at the local temple, blacksmith, or specialty stores if they exist. The idea is that rural communities are often secluded from helping hands and must be prepared to handle the more common problems associated with a Swords & Sorcery setting. A band of 3-6 level 1 villagers might try to handle pests, goblins, ect. On their own. Also, level 1 spell components are typically simple items, but also there might be villagers that dabble in the most basic of magic (Magic Initiate Feat) for their own convenience. I use the background feats optional rule, and NPCs can get those too. Usually it's stuff like the Chef or Tough feats. But it can be any feats really.

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Intelect devourer are cr 3, not 2. And gibberish mouthed are cr *5* .

I'm starting up a campaign in a homebrew setting. The start of the campaign has the party working for the local Adventurer's Guild to clear out a small dungeon. Things are going to go wrong, and the party will have to escape the Underdark to return to their guild and make their report, including the events of their travels down below the surface. How the guild works is rather fun. Given the city is known as the City of Adventure, it shouldn't be surprising to hear the Guild Master acts as an almost head of state. Through annual elections, the Guild Master is decided, however there is a downside. A Guild Master cannot adventure, leading to self smear campaigns so would-be guild masters can avoid spending a year confined to the halls of the Guild. It's only a year, meaning the time one has to hold power is limited, and once the term is up, you do not get another chance. Term limit of one. If the party takes too long to resurface, then the Guild Master may not be the same man that sent them out.

I had an idea for a dwarf cliff spa. Baths, rooms, mud face treatments and expert stylists on hand for you beards and other parts Don't do the accounting. Is that a challenge? So I the medieval times there was a number of beers or ales. A table beer for children has little to zero alchoul, cordials are a great way to keep fruit usable for a long time and apple cider in the time period was half the price of beer.

Solution: Lighter system

Funny story-I was in a party and whenever we went to a new town, we would always introduce ourselves with the same line: “We are the Strange Six, you may have heard of us”, and our DM started to have people hear of us the higher level we became. It really is awesome

I do things pretty old school, in the "describe and draw" model you describe. I have plenty of graph paper, which I hand out to players if they wish--they never *need* to map if they don't want to, they just probably *should*--and encourage them to ask plenty of questions if something's not clicking.

I'm going to use electrum but it's going to be for scamming people. Like the dnd equivalent of like company scrip or paying for stuff in only pennies like sure technically it's legal but no one's going to like you for it.

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I like to use 2.5 feet squares. Allows for the crowded atmosphere and realistic table / chair quantity per square foot. In combat large sized tokens can be used when not squeezing in a paniced crowd.

My Fiend Warlock character was forced by her mother to make the pact.

I just made the calculations and meat is dirt cheap. Goat meat would cost 2,5 copper pieces per pound plus the butchering fee.

Bro variant human rogue goes insane with that rule

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