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In this episode, I pontificate on three aspects of RPG creativity you just can't do without.
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@SigilWizardClassic Год назад

32:38 "They're never gonna go to RU-vid." He lied. I am so happy they did go to RU-vid. :D These are so good to have, Hankerin. I'm glad you're gracing us with this wisdom you've imparted so long ago.

@Runehammer1 Год назад

yep.. tbh I wasnt sure I'd be around this long!

@metallsnubben Год назад

I gotta agree: _doing stuff feels good_ and it truly does not matter what the goal is. Straight up the ol' quest log brain hack.

@MrRocketDad Год назад

The Monolith as Eldritch Abomination - I love it! It reminds me from the novel 2001 how the first ape the monolith contacted died from the communication!

@allthingsforgood Год назад

The captions at the beginning of the video say, "Greetings programs, it's Anchor Inferno..." which is either 1) an awesome third alter-ego, or 2) a VDS expansion pack. Lol

@pallenda Год назад

I liked this description of the difference between Int and Wis. Book smart vs Street smart

@NemoOhd20 Год назад

I miss the energy of the Drunkens and Dragons playing D&D like a big old badass flavor. But some Ingrid is better than none.

@CODEFORTYTWO Год назад

I love the idea of a confidant, I've found that whenever I talked about the ideas rattling around in my noggin with my co-workers or whatever, even if they don't play dnd, I was able to develop and evolve them more than I ever could by myself. Especially if you choose one person, they can become familiar with your world and give you more and more meaningful feedback, especially if they're one to ask questions upon questions. Basically have a brain geared towards gm prep, the kind of habits DM philosophers like yourself and others try to get us into

@midwesternspectre Год назад

I ended up spending time fleshing out what, exactly, magic is in my homebrew for the sole purpose of hashing out the WIS vs. INT thing lol. I ended up landing on the idea that INT magic consists of learned techniques that revolve around bending the principal elemental forces of that make up the world (think bending from Avatar) whereas WIS magic is more like inherent powers that aid in the manipulation of the physical/mental energy present in living creatures or oneself. This has led to me to make most offensive magic INT and most healing and buff/debuff magic WIS.

@phaedruslive Год назад

If I was the guy with the warlock, I'd probably go for Nyarlathotep and do a yellow robe or something. Constantly working pacts and sacrifices to earn entrance to forbidden Carcosa and gain knowledge outside the mortal lexicon.

@yogapantsyogurtpants3365 Год назад

The second part of this presentation is known as "Systems over Goals" which was laid out very well by Scott Adams in the awesome book "How to fail at everything and still win big/succeed"

@metajock Год назад

Thanks for making the point on the confidant. I lost mine a few years ago and it was honestly a huge hit to my gaming as a whole. The only ones I have are my current gaming group. I need to press outside of my current bubble. As for Int vs Wis: We've always put it as "Intelligence says it's a Mac truck. Wisdom says get out of the way." I think I really see the difference because I've been around so many high-functioning autistics, (math, o-chem, programmers and engineers) who are unbelievably brilliant but just barely get human interaction. Think Sheldon from Big Bang, sky high Int but scraping the bottom of the barrel for Wis. (This is also why I'm glad Kelsey changed Clerics to Char instead of Wis, makes way more sense to me.) Love what you do, dude. Thanks.

@WikiSnapper Год назад

I love when I have a confidant! I really appreciate this view. Thank you!

@JALDR Год назад

I've been planning a campaign in an alternate history of Earth around the time of the first crusade (~1095CE) and finding it to be really fun and effortless - what "mythology" is more colorful and easy to pull from than human history? And then the players bring their own goals and feelings to the world too, they're anchored in a way that doesn't happen in fantasy settings

@mojotikian2172 Год назад

He's dropping some serious knowledge bombs here! When it comes to implicit worlds, man, it's like diving into a campaign set in a beloved movie universe. All that rich lore and epic moments already there? It saves brainpower so we can focus on role-playing like true heroes.

@heterodoxic Год назад

Ha ha, love the mailbag song, that was great 😂

@Mirgart Год назад

Thank you for your honesty, brother!

@-John-Doe- Год назад

Bloodborne is Lovecraftian. FromSoftware’s games tend to be cryptic so it’s not blatantly obvious to someone who doesn’t know the story. 1. The common trope is to have an Academic/Scholar/Scientist _(modern reason & sensibilities)_ chasing some frontier of knowledge, unwittingly engaging with the elder gods. 2. An entire campaign can be written approaching whatever it is - That’s what makes it lovecraftian writing and cosmic horror. If you’re going to have a character based on that mythos & genre, it has to be a mystery - If your character knew the entire story, it wouldn’t be lovecraftian or cosmic horror.

@MatthewBrpg Год назад

RE Wisdom: My homebrew uses Brawn, Finesse, Brains, and Charm, then you mix and match with skills. The stat represents your approach to the problem while the skill represents relevant experience. Confidantes: My friend and I have what we call DM Fight Club where we brainstorm for the games we aren't playing together - ironically, it's almost entirely positive feedback, almost no fighting. Implicit Settings: Shortcuts in every sense are a good thing IF they get you where you want to go. If they lead you astray then they are by definition not shortcuts but wrong turns. Don't be afraid to use outside references. My space setting is a Cowboy Beebop/Firefly/Expanse combo - if you know those you could play right now. If you don't, 3 quick google searches, or streaming a few episodes of TV would fully immerse you.

@NegatveSpace Год назад

That into reminds me a lot of the original Diablo sound track. Some full length songs like that would be totally awesome.

@grahamcharters1638 Год назад

I totally get what you're saying about implicit worlds. I usually run campaigns, but for 1-shots I totally do this. One of the most memorable sessions I ran was a classic Agatha Christie murder mystery. Another one was the Phantom of the Opera set in the Muppet Theatre. It works. Try it!

@richardreumerman5449 Год назад

The Alien universe is certainly flavourful, and the rpg set in it is phenomenal ❤

@kylemckiernan1445 Год назад

32:36 You sure about that? 😂

@mookiewilson4166 Год назад

Holy Lord! You’ve always been one of my absolute favourite long-form rpg youtube creators, but this new topical mainframe series is you at your absolute best as far as I’m concerned! I just binged nearly every episode on a stoned dog walk across the Canadian Prairie. Fuckin’ A, bud!

@yvindheilo229 Год назад

Thank you for these videos!

@NegatveSpace Год назад

Maybe for ideas of powerful elder or outsider beings they could be metaphysical. For example everyone thinks this elder god has tentacles but it really has no body and lives in the minds of those who worship it or it takes over like a parasite but with one consciousness that spans all of the beings its inhabiting and the tentacles represent it reaching out and influencing all these minds it is occupying or sharing.

@alexanderdangelo3559 Год назад

3-pages of free writing daily, totally unedited, to just let the creativity flowing is in a similar vein of thought as setting intentions to start a positive stimuli loop. Forget who or where this is from, but done for 30 min first thing in the morning leads to some very interesting results.

@JinbaHGS Год назад

Karl Ruprecht Kroenen. Amazing creepshow character!

@quickanddirtyroleplaying Год назад

This was a great video. On the topic of implicit worlds (which are actually explicit, because it's obvious to the group the setting they're playing in), not only is there the advantage of cultural familiarity that saves a lot of world-building work for you, it provides the opportunity to take an established popular setting and do things differently (sometimes vastly different). It can be anything from replacing the established main cast with the PCs to having the main cast die off prematurely, have events play out, and THEN insert the PCs to deal with the new state of affairs. On the topic of intention...this is something I struggle with a lot. I often find myself powering through a project, only to run out of steam as I question my motivations and doubt myself. Being at zero is a tremendous uphill battle, especially when sights are set sky-high.

@eastvanisfun Год назад

thanks hank

@lauramumma2360 Год назад

I find my RPG DM batteries get recharged getting to be a PC. My DM confidant is going to be a player in the game I am working up, so I am bit stuck right now on that process. Implicit detail does help a lot because everyone is on the same page as to what the world is like. Small purposeful Intention tip is great. Thank you for sharing this.

@cadenceclearwater4340 Год назад

_"Look Ma, I caught a fwaggle!!!"_

@beardyben7848 Год назад

Hey there, I want to let you know I found what you said in this video to be inspiring, particularly about intention. I'm embarking on creative pursuits seriously for the first time, and I found myself occasionally using that concept. It seems like I'll do it a little more now. My trick for keeping the inspiration rolling has been finding three to five little projects and switching between them. This works because I always feel excited about at least one of them. A few of them have deadlines, and the others don't. Some let me dig in and wander around a little bit without worrying about outcomes, and the others are there for when I can focus in and really go after deadlines. I'm going to check out your other stuff.

@dlarso11 Год назад

Nice first video to find your channel

@1pageadventures Год назад

I do paid games in a Studio Ghibli inspired world and can only attest to the value of the implicit world (inspired by the valley of the wind, princess mononoke and howls moving castle). If everyone agrees on the implicit world then the character backstories and vibes become much more cohesive. As a result the immersion is just a little bit better then usual.

@wbbartlett Год назад

If At the Mountains of Madness is a "lesser known" Lovecraft then what are the more famous ones?!

@zachhaas1075 Год назад

call of cthulu the thing the mythos is named after?

@drunkenhobgoblin417 Год назад

Jebus, Fraggle Rock is my next setting…

@patricklee2606 Год назад

Best channel

@tjmorrisiv Год назад

Play Demon Lord, he did with 4 stats what DnD needed 6 to accomplish

@RoadDeerGames Год назад

So based on ur answer about less stats being mono-magic wizard build. Is that why charisma seems so important or overpowered. Should there be a positive charisma and negative charisma. Like love vs hate

@HereComeMrCee-Jay Год назад

In real life, wisdom and intelligence are definitely different things. They may be correlated, but I would venture to say the correlation is weaker than might be commonly assumed. Actually intelligence can really get in the way of humility, and it's hard to be wise if what is unable/unwilling to be humble. DCC squashes wisdom and charisma together ("personality") to make room for luck ad the sixth ability.

@donc7664 Год назад

"The fun thing about elder gods is not that they have tentacles".....tell that to my ex wife 😒

@bbblackwell Год назад

It's really evident how psychologically and emotionally dysfunctional we are as a society when you see prevalence of table behavior questions and the variety of answers. We've been a social animal for hundreds of thousands of years; we should know how to do this by now. And we would, if there weren't a concerted effort to hamstring us at every turn.

@Runehammer1 Год назад

'we' is an awfully big generalization!

@bbblackwell Год назад

@@Runehammer1 You're right, the "we" is broad, but we're all carrying around baggage from our traumatic upbringing in this culture of manipulation, exploitation, compulsory education, governmental oppression, etc. Such an abusive environment leaves no man unscathed. That damaged psychology is expressed in all we do, and our scars can rub awkwardly with those of others, even under the best of circumstances (like a gaming get-together with the expressed purpose of cooperative fun and leisure).

@Joshuazx Год назад

Gurps and Fallout and other games have no stat for judgment, common sense or intuition while still having a perception stat.

@nathanstogner5332 Год назад

I'm looking for a video where he uses a rolling table to generate a labyrinth does anyone know which video that is

@trioofone8911 Год назад

How do you decide between conflicting interests?

@-John-Doe- Год назад

Do you mean between your player’s gameplay interests _(wargaming vs roleplaying vs puzzles)_ Or do you mean their in-game characters having competing interests for role play / story?

@-John-Doe- Год назад

If you’re looking for a drama system: _Hillfolk_ & _Blood on the Snow (a drama system)_

@Runehammer1 Год назад

@toddrohrer8680 Год назад

How come you you don’t show your face

@Runehammer1 Год назад

thesse are podcasts from Patreon a few years ago

@RichardSekmistrz Год назад

Wisdom: Edith from All in the Family Intelligence: Elon Musk from Tesla, Twitter, Space-X

@rynowatcher Год назад

"This advice will not go on youtube..." huh. In a creative dry spot or just recycling content?

@Runehammer1 Год назад

all the mainframes have, until now, been patreon-only

@rynowatcher Год назад

@@Runehammer1 you promise that this one will never be on RU-vid. Not very genuin feeling when the last line is a blatant lie. I feel you would have edited it if you cared...

@GenuineMattyC 8 месяцев назад

@@rynowatcher I admit it is amusing and ironic to hear the statement that "it will never be on RU-vid" as we listen to this on RU-vid, but it is not cool to imply that Hank is a disingenuous liar by posting this on RU-vid. Hank is such a genuine caring person; this is clear to anyone who engages in his content. He creatively bares his soul to us with tales of his journeys and lessons learned (both in gaming and in life). I am grateful that he has decided to share these podcasts (from years ago) with the greater community here on RU-vid. Stop being so toxically hypercritical, judgmental, and selfish.

@rynowatcher 8 месяцев назад

@@GenuineMattyC I am not implying anything; I am pointing out he did lie. I felt I was very direct about it. You can think whatever you want about him personally, but you cannot say he was being truthful in this regard. This was the video that made up my mind to quit watching Hank's videos and buying his books because it became appearant he did not care what he said or if it was honest. Honestly, the quality of the writing and game design was dropping in further publications (art was good line work and he has really clean layouts; I will give him that). I am not unfair, but I am also not toxicly positive; lie and I quit listening. Not really interested in debating the point as I am no longer a part of this community and happier for it. I had not thought about him since he reposted this video, and the fact it is still up means he still does not care; so why should I?