Behind the Screen: Our DM Set Up for Dungeons and Dragons 5e! 

cleaning your house nice and clean is so special to you that it needs a compliment? :O

@@GiblixStudio It's something nice they did for us; just wanted to call out a "thank you".

It is always more pleasing to view a pic or video when the backdrop is clean and organized!

Kelly... where did you get that specific dice tray? Cause I kind of need one the split of it and it’s aesthetically nice too. Also Monty I love the template you were using does it come preset with most of those items?

My only gripe is that pile of miniatures' boxes under the table, they look like they'd be in the way of everyone's feet.

This is where I would put my game room *IF I HAD ONE!*

Are you talking about my grandson

Dinkleburgggg

Is that why sometimes dice in a set come in different colors

That's... A really good idea! I've never thought about that but I'm totally going to start doing this! Thanks Mat :D

I Cast Fireball Welcome! It’s definitely made dice rolling on my side of things (DM) move a lot faster. :)

Great idea!

Doesn't work when your DM is colorblind and you have to sort his dice for him

Teenagers Rod's makes calls for initative rolls at the most inappropriate moments.

@Brothers Forged that looks awesome! Want one. What about adding something to mark conditions on the rod?

No one: Not a soul: Not even the click clack of someone's dice: That one bard: Want to see my rod of initiative

@Brothers Forged nice 👍

@notlaughingmybacksideoff

There's also the flipside : just cause you're using many descriptive words, doesn't mean you're telling a better story, you have to gauge what's needed to describe vs being a windbag DM.

@@mikebytheway says the guy who described the DM as a “windbag...”🧐😁

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yes plz

Is this a thing I can get as well?

yes yes ys?

Ples can we have this lol

i need it!!

was thinking the exact same thing. I'd like to see a video that shows what they bring when they are playing in a campaign and not being a DM.

was thinking the exact same thing for the entire video

I know this was made 2 years ago, but where did you get those awesome cupholders & your gaming table, please?

Something I've been doing for 20+ years is buying 1 or 2 minis every now and then. You'll amass a pretty good selection in no time. Maybe even save a dollar here and there and after a few months buy a larger, more expensive mini. After a few years of this, you'll have a hoard of minis.

Pathfinder Pawns!

Use Lego minifigers

I have just used coins or pieces of paper before. A friend of mine prints his minis on card stock and has little wooden dowels he has cut up and cut lines into that at as minis

@@Taven03 the dowel idea is actually pretty sweet. You could use dowels of different width for small, medium, large creatures and so on.

Thanks, I was wondering 😀

Jesus Christ I think I’ll stay away

Mmm to track initiative, not too bad compared to a notebook I can use for free 😃

Lmao seriously?

bruh i can make it for 50 max

@Miles Duffus if you play D&D the probability of that is 10,000 to 1

@@wisconsinwintergreen6296 me and a friend started to play as dms for our kids that came out of our wives xD

@@wisconsinwintergreen6296 me and my girlfriend play DnD with 2 of our couples friends. They do exist. Don't settle! If you wanna play DnD and she dont. She ain't the one for you

I would love those description aids.

I came here to ask the same thing.

Second that

This! Would be great if you could export it in some fashion we could pull in and then edit/tweak to meet our needs. Would absolutely help as I prefer digital myself and am soon to embark on my first attempt at DMing.

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The coins are also a wonderful way of keeping track of each player’s gold amount.

That is what I need the most. I love Scrivener for keeping track of everything but my organizing is less than optimal. I would love to see how to set it up like Monty's.

That would be a fantastic video!

i like this idea.

3 months later, still no scrivener video !

Please dear god yes. I've been trying to reconstruct your Scrivener template based on screen captures, but it is crazy time consuming.

Seconded!

Thirded

Yes please. That looks so immensely helpful!

Trying to find out that myself.

I would like more info on the npc things he has. those rock and I need lots of help in that direction.

I have been using One Note for my DM'ing, but seeing the references for describing etc has given me some inspiration. For initiative I have a monster database where I copy over the monster stats and move them around that way, the players cannot see it though, but I queue them up so they are prepared for their turn. I'd like to expand it more and create something like Monty has, with ways to describe as thats a really good idea. I've created tables etc for druid summon animals etc, but not for random encounters and the like. Need to up my game. Scrivener is the program used by Monty as well? I couldn't get what he was saying, thought it was scriber or something like that.

Raging Teapot Yes, it is Scrivener. It is a wonderful tool for writing. I haven’t used One Note for DMing but I have read that a lot of people use it and the main benefits are quite like Scrivener : you can keep all your notes organized in a single project and access all of them as needed. Right now I am working on specific setups for different moments: prepping, running the game (exploration/social/combat), and postgame. It has been MUCH MORE effective as I used to jumble through notes and couldn’t find them. It is a work in progress, and probably will be for years to come as you could see Monty’s references to his notes amassed throughout the years. It seems, however, that it is a good path to try to follow.

ah, and that is why they made cardboard and foam, so peasants like us could recreate such terrain on a dollar store budget.

Buy a piece or two a time trust me a few months you'll have a shit ton by a year or two you'll look back and go wow my friend just got into dnd 5 months ago and already has like 60 he buys like 3 or 4 at a time a paycheck

@@jonathancasais6491 lol. I've been playing since 1e. I buy things from time to time. Miniatures are the hardest to come by because I've taken to building my own dungeon sets

I got all of my minis from the D&D Adventure System Board Games series. Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, Legend of Drizzt, Temple of Elemental Evil, Tomb of Ahnnihalation, and Dungeon of the Mad Mage. True, they're unpainted, but my group and i just wanted minis to use. Plus they come with map tiles that helped set up terrain for the most part.

A 3d printer means tons of cheap minis

Great to hear!