Giant rats with poisoned bites. Giant kind rats with intelligence and language and a secret civilization inside the walls. Giant meat eating intelligent rats with bibs and forks. Giant vampire rats. Giant invisible rats. Giant flying rats. Giant illusionary rats.
@@knotkool1 probably not promoted much or subscribed to because there is no content really. But on the other hand three of us have commented on the video that's a year-old within the last 24 hours.
my favourite version of this, a rat infestation has frightened the tavern cat so the innkeep decides to ask the party to help her tame a bigger cat ( a giant lynx or some other terrain appropriate "bigger cat to deal with the rat problem, the party then needs to subdue the big cat in som appropriate way, rangers and druids can show offf their animal handling skills, while that speak with animals spell can be utilised in multiple ways
This video was so great, thank you so much for the ideas! I specially like how you created nice background ideas while explaining why this challenge is good for new players. Hope you get tons of subscribers!
I would probably use a mix of giant rats and normal rats. Two giant rats might seem kinda scary but a fighter would take them on, but high roll could take him down in one turn. More intimidating would feel 6 rats attacking him every turn and missing because of feeling of being overwhelmed, but with less rng because they only deal 1 damage. You could also attack other characters without fear of a one shot. Remeber to use 1 damage npc and 1d4-1 npc for fights, it's a godsent for those lvl 1-2 fights.
Best dming instruction on youtube. I needed this video, and up untill I found it I had to watch stupid videos of random dm's who think they're comedians. They were not funny and their videos were not useful at all. this. this is the video that people should watch.
This is such a good idea for a video! I think the goals section should be at the front of the video and having some kind of twist always makes things a bit more interesting.
Thank you very much for this. I plan a level 1 session with rats and cellars. So very similar, but you provided some very good ideas to round my session.
I think the brief quest with a simple monster integrated with conditions and rules (stealth, darkvision, etc.) for the sake of introduction to players has been very helpful to me. I tried something similar with the exhaustion condition, and my players were not fans. This was a very interesting encounter, it being dynamic and three dimensional so to speak. There's a lot of information and play style wrapped into one short adventure, that I think most players would be receptive to. I wish I would have found this channel much earlier. Please do more like with with other conditions and rules....I would love to see how you would introduce exhaustion. ;-) Thanks.
My players: oh the place is on fire? That'll kill the rats. Our job is done here. Show me the money. Not burning the tavern down was not in the agreement.
Good video, nice format. I think rats would probably have gnawed the leather satchel & armour to a point of making it useless. And the corpse/ skeleton would probably not be in one piece
Thing is about darkvision, it’s not as good as you think, in the end the players if you play darkvision right, will still want a torch cause of color vision, you take for granted the ability to deceern between colors until everything looks gray like rock. If it stands still, you might not see it even if your looking. And darkvision only reaches 60ft if there’s a torch, so naturally there’s too many benefits to having a torch which make my players take one just so that they don’t have to make perception checks on every rock that looks suspiciously like an animal. 3:26 since you brought it up. Darkvision has made it easy to make my players paranoid over simple things.
That is the point. At five rats (on the map) we have a 'simple' 50xp encounter. This is a medium encounter. Being in favorable terrain I would even up their difficulty by one (hard, 75xp). To quote hard encounters from DMG; "a hard encounter could go badly for the adventures. Weaker characters might get taken out of the fight, and there's a slim chance that one or more die" End quote. If the players are unwilling to make lighting and fight in the dark that is their problem. If a simple cantrip, such as light, could turn the battle but goes unused the battle should definitely be harder; like an ice mage not casting ice magic at a red dragon. You want fights like this; you want to force the party to think. Use insight checks to provide hints. This is not encounter 1 on the way to level 2; this is a fully grounded encounter with stakes that the PCs will remember.
You are welcome! Thank you for letting me know that the link is dead, there is a new one up. I changed the name recently and have been making maps, each one has a free release too, so no need to sub!
Keep doing more 1st level encounters and more encounters (2,3,4, lvl etc.. ) this is interesting instead of you see 4 goblins.. fight. 1st level should be more then an introduction to new players.. experienced players are often lower level. When they start a new campaign.. its a good niche to explore.
Appreciate the feedback, haven't made a video in a long time but i did pick up a new mic a few days ago. Hopefully when I get around to it the audio will be louder and clearer!
@@darksigns3966 good good! I hope ya continue with vids like this. Just random cool little example encounters and tactics for monsters. Its a unique idea.
