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You have no idea what you are talking about!!! Reality TV is nothing but conflict! It's conflict without purpose, by flat and shallow characters, but conflict none the less!

I am beyond curious to see where the story takes these three! Another great episode!

Fantastic story

been looking forward to the next one, glad i could catch it early. keep up the hard work :)

no offence but this video really annoys me, you bother to go into plate tectonics giving a really scientific feel to your world but them completely missundertand how that works. rivirs never fork out towards the sea other than in deltas so it feels stupid to think about plate tectknics if you dont even consider basic rules of nature.

Its still super useful considering that dms dont force you to make perception checks for stuff you can obviously see. "Make a perception check to see if you can notice that this room is chock full of zombies waiting for any idiot to walk in rhe room with a blindfold on"

Might be a bit late, but you spoke of 10-20 sessions. How long do you typically play per session?

In your video about overcoming death, you promised in the comments to post your maiming table. I couldn't find it in that video. Think you could post it here?

STOP WRITING STORIES The story of a D&D session or campaign should be a POST HOC explanation of what happened Let your players do what they want and use the tables in the back of the book to roll with the punches If you dont have tables in the back of your books for procedural generation then you're playing a non-game, get something else

4:00 Gods sitting on their clouds. "Awwww you need help? That's cute!"

When I went about making my current homebrew world one of the foundational ideas I built from was that the gods were real living things. Each Divine is a massive beastial thing that lives somewhere in the world. They each have their own personality and desire. Each of my player characters worships a unique Divine that defines their heritage and alignment. Many cultures in my world have a Divine that they revolve around. For example the Human Emperor is a bull-like Divine and the Goblins rally around this Divine that is a massive sentient cloud of blood. Since the Divine are physically in the world they can, and have, been killed. Usually this happens at the hands of other Divine, but there are other ways to kill them as well. So for all those that wish to embrace gods I say do it! Let the pantheon you create define the cultures of your gameworld and the story that plays out in it.

Dude your channel is one of the best I've found, thank you so much for all the easily digestable learnings!

Great job applying The Hero's Journey to D&D!

Where did you make your avatar at

I leave the thing in the thing!

The absolute FIRST thing you need to understand is how plate tectonics work in your world. Are they moving towards, or away from each other. This tells you how/why there are mountains. Mountain ranges are caused by plates smashing together, like the Alps, Himalayas, Rockies etc. Once you know where the mountains are, what land is high and low, then you can make rivers. Rivers flow from high to low. Lakes are created when the water can't reach the ocean because of flattening land or obstacles. What latitude are things? This affects what grows there (pines vs deciduous trees etc), lush vs desert... Once you have rivers you can make cities. Almost every city in the real world needs fresh water and trade. So, cities are almost always on rivers, either deltas, or on rivers inland. That's the boring bit. Once you know this, the world will be believable, now for the story. What is the purpose of a city/town? A place where farmers bring their goods for distribution, buy feed, eat and drink, socialise, trade livestock, buy tools or weapons from a blacksmith etc. Maybe is an administrative centre for collecting taxes, dispensing justice etc. Maybe there is an important source of raw materials or a mine nearby. It must have a purpose. In a fantasy story it may be a place of worship, pilgrimage, learning and sorcery. Ruins and other places may be military forts, castles, manor houses etc. Bottomline is there must be a reason for things. Just dumping random shit on a map never works.

at that point just try a script

A displacer tree sounds like a lumberjacks nightmare

Can this idea be used to write a book?

Really glad I got this recommended. I'm starting my second campaign soon, and for the first one I just used Lost Mine as a starting point. Designing levels 1-5 will be all new to me.

I’m not even finished with the video yet and I feel so much more confident in beginning my campaign!! Thank you so muchhhh!!💛💛💛

Honestly I just say that $1USD = 1 Copper for my DnD world and then price everything accordingly / alter the prices in the books if it doesn't make sense lol.

This sounds appealing, but from past attempts I find that ttrpgs are inherently at odds with the idea of the pcs as "main characters." A nasty crit makes things go different REALLY fast, and a hesitation to kill someones pc leads to a lot of *fudge* and a lot of cheesing. As well as that I find it massively complicates prep, leading to burnout, especially if they do something you didnt account for that fundamentally alters how the plot has to play out.

I really appreciate that there's a discussion on mechanics in this topic. Every other video I see goes into politics and how awful they think the concept of religion is, ignoring what we came here for: mechanics. Thank you!

Because 5e has high magic completely baked into the rules, and no other systems I looked at were any closer of a match to what I wanted to run, I ended up hombrewing... everything. Completely redesigned races/classes/ backgrounds, completely redesigned spellcasting system, and a heap of other reworked mechanics. Don't be like me.

In longer campaigns, maybe let players enjoy the world a bit before some huge problem appears and threatens to kill everybody. Otherwise why would they care about a city being destroyed?

The US military designed MREs to be eaten at a rate of three per day (total of roughly 3600 calories) and this is expected to sustain a servicemember in active operations doing military things all day. This is a result of over a century of research into military nutrition, so it's probably a good baseline, keeping in mind that today's American soldiers are a lot beefier (so have a higher BMR) that knights of old. The Romans had daily rations of white flour (approx. 3500 calories/kg) and olive oil (approx. 8400 calories/kg), so if you're targeting 2lbs you can use some proportion of these as your main calorie source (IIRC the Legionaires were supposed to cook it themselves, mostly as flatbread or some kind of porridge) maybe in the form of bread, and fill the rest with protein and sugar. A 1kg loaf of bread does sound about right in terms of raw energy, but unless it's fresh that's gonna be a chore to eat if you have literally nothing to go with it. That cooking bit bears mentioning, because unless you're force marching literally all day, it's much easier and a lot more pleasant to cook something. I have a k. und k. regulation military cookbook on my shelf and the mainstays it relies on include a lot of things like soups and stews cooked in a cauldron, which makes meat (even dried meat) go a lot further and adds some flavour, and makes even normally inedible things edible. If you don't want to literally just eat trail mix, your rations could include dried vegetables, legumes and such that you can make into a soup, and perhaps thicken it with flour or hardtack or make dumplings. Also when foraging it's a lot easier to find things that can be thrown in a soup and eaten than things that are immediately edible (e.g. mushrooms).

It's very sad the giveaway is just on Instagram.

I had my characters rescue a god fallen to the earth in a cosmic event. Extremely compelling right until they actually met her. Since then I've felt like all I can do is back peddle because, no surprise, she didn't arrive with all her powers and even has forgotten most of what happened to her. This is all very sixth element I know....but the problem now is she's either unbelievably weak and no longer worth 'believing in' or she's at risk for taking the spotlight from the players. It's a lot to work around and my players generally act more interested in other story elements. I liked having them rescue her, but I should've just had her leave right away. Also...roleplaying a god in a compelling way? It's a lot of work...

You are fantastic. I've been waiting for videos about this style of DMing

Your style matches my DM style exactly and I am super stoked to finally see a D&D video about a movie-type campaign and not a freeform sandbox. Loved it!

I see it this way: gods should rarely interact directly with the world in a perceptible way, especially if they're lesser deities. However, they should interact with it all the time in invisible ways. After all, they embody certain natural phenomena and concepts that play essential roles. When they show up directly, it should be for a significant plot point that necessitates their intervention. Besides that, I can conceive of occasions where a god communicating with one of his or her followers might be a thing under specific circumstances, primarily if those followers are meant to go on a mission for their god, but rarely in person. Instead, they should usually communicate through dreams, visions, signs, and maybe prophets.

just ask why is the prisoner from death cells in the miniature

My next campaign's act 1 was already mostly plotted out, but this really helped flesh out the connections between points. Thanks so much. I appreciate the super in-depth example, that's a rare resource. Great editing, too.

This guy has the prisoner from Dead Cells as his mascot, awesome sauce.

I've already created the maps in my head, down to the square mileage, and wrote them down on paper, but does anyone know a good link where I can actually build it online?

Unrelated but not really: What footage is used at 1:13?

Just found a game specifically using the word "scene" to describe what is narrated by the group, and making the game look like a kind of theater. And now I found your video while preparing a campaign for said game ? Perfect ! (btw, the game I am talking about is Fabula Ultima)

15:57 theres the little goober also, idk if this is a coincidence but the plot youve been describing in these two videos are almost the exact same as the campaign im running rn lol

4:00 Displacer kitten Acquired. I find god characters more interesting if they do one of two things: 1- Their a hyper-specific god, or have some severe limitation to keep them from becoming a deus ex machina. Think, "God of Wine" or "Goddess of the Rainbow" - The title alone implies severe limitation which doesn't let them become a cure-all, while also giving the opportunity to let them use their limiting powers in a creative way to solve whatever problems they can. (Think Dionysus from the Hades serries) 2- They are only a god in name, myth, and legend- but are never shown or interacted with. Bonus points if your players even question if this god is 'real' in the setting, or if their followers are simply crazy. Otherwise (In my experience, at least) they seem to be a boring deus ex machina that kind of invalidates the players existence in the story. why are the players needed if the god is just ridiculously powerful? (Unfortunately, I don't think "god-slayers" helps either issue)

Wish I could sit down with someone like you and chat to shoot ideas and learn from. Anyone know any discord servers or something?

>realistic >fantasy Which one is it then? Realism is a spook and in my own story I am using a flipped upsidedown map of europe.

3:43 I think this was an inside joke between the GMs, who each were quoting "Avatar: The Last Airbender" opening. Aabria and Matt opened with "Water. Earth." before that in there campaigns.

I find this video so interesting and well thought out, every minute you make a solid point, so that my ADHD just absolutely side tracks the train of thought with that new exciting information, and I have to rewind this video 4 minutes back every 5 minutes.

A nice little tip for ground textures is to play around with rotation of the textures before putting them down. It makes the pattern blend into itself much better and makes the seams less noticeable.

I’m here, I love d&d, but I am an author and I’m plotting a book, not a campaign

Indonnot think she's a great dm. Not for dnd. Good storyteller, but needs A narrative based game. Ahe runs dnd POORLY