Wizards should hire you to do the movie. Caves of Carnage single-handedly enticed me back to old D&D and the potential inherent in those modules. Reviled Society shows what can be done and I know Lost City will be more entertaining than many a Hollywood attempt!
Since last summer I’ve been in a D&D funk where I just had no desire to run games. I have binge-watched your caves of carnage and reviled society games lately, and the way you run your games has inspired me to run games again! I rounded up some friends and we’ll be playing our first session on Friday. Thank you for this channel!
An engaging plot, non-trivial setup and some genuinely challenging adventuring. 5 stars for creativity. The fantastic visuals with figures and scenery really bring the story to life. It also inspired me for some adventures of my own. I'm particularly inspired by not requiring investigation or charisma rolls. When my group started up, every 3rd or 4th session had a mystery theme. We reduced their frequency after one particularly miserable evening. A run of 4 badly failed checks left us clueless, wandering at random. Players frustrated, GM frustrated (he was relatively new, and had not anticipated all the failed checks). Looking back, so many instances of "You meet an NPC - make an insight check" seems like shortcuts that miss opportunities for genuine drama. Pass:- Go to fight with the perpetrator. Fail:- Wait ..... for the next NPC off the rank. If Scooby and Shaggy don't do insight checks, neither should my characters.
As he's mentioned before, he uses the Old World from WFRP as his setting. It's Warpstone which comes from the Chaos moon Morrslieb. Hence the thinly disguised 'moonstone' and 'ratmen' instead of Skaven.
"Hey, kid, moonstone may be "as rad as heck"; but you pay for it in the long run." This has been a PSA on behalf of the Mordheim Chamber of Commerce in Exile.
I'm only a minute into the vid but, between stuff you've written that I've used over the years, and that hook "low-fantasy urban combat" I can already guarantee I'm gonna love/steal it. Thanks for everything you do.
Beautifully done! I really appreciate the super -cut. And the teaser for The Lost City!!!! I'm sooooo eager to see this! Thank you for all your work to keep us entertained
I love all the content for the reviled society. Seeing all the miniatures set the scene makes it so cool. Some of the best miniatures I’ve seen. Keep up the good work!
The Lost City?! So enticing, so mysterious! I can't wait to see what that's all about! Thanks professor! Always enjoy hearing how different DMs prep and what the players do. Fantastic idea with the mini-notebooks for the players! Totally going to be stealing that little gem! 😁
Thank you for this. Now I can stop jumping from video to video for my Reviled Society fix. :) Love the way you tell the tale. I can imagine just how much fun it was in the moment.
Here from today's vid. I'll watch any content u make prof, but the mini painting and crafting ones will always be special to me. they got both me and my wife into the hobby!
I can't watch other people play. But I always enjoy listening to DMs and players recount their adventures. This is one of the best adventure retellings I have ever heard. The DM advice really adds another level!
I love how personal the stakes are: one woman and her daughter, the crime in a city - no interdimensional portals, army of demons, or colossal dragons required.
Started my campaign at a peace celebration of a great war of the past, where all factions and races are present and a team of X players gets choosen to work together. Their job was to find 3 Items in the city and show how good they work together to celebrate said peace and obviously something happens and disturbs the festival. Idk if that's much better, but it gives new players a clear goal for first session and veterans something more interesting then "meet at tavern". Also love your Free adventure Professor! Thank you for sharing this.
Love this kind of content. This is such a great method for teaching adventure design, all the information is clearly laid out, and because it's in video form, the effect comes across all the more strongly.
This is one of your best videos! The mention of a player notebook really got my brain going. I have one player assigned to notetaking but your way seems way more interactive and exciting for the DM. I vote you do a video on how players can contribute to the storyline and session prep. Thank you!
I’m glad this is climbing in views. I use the the time limit and three clues in my world. It creates tension that forces the PC’s to make decisions quickly! Players are pretty indecisive and positioning them into moral quandaries, battles, and chases based on clues and time has improved my games immensely! Thanks!
This was an awesome video. I’ve been running rpgs for several years, but your videos always show me new and efficient ways to do things. Thanks so much
Awesome, you’re doing the lost city! I’m wrapping up Veiled Society. I’m blending 5e with old BECMI modules and ideas set firmly in Mystara. I added the kidnapping of Maria Vorloi into the plot since the murder of Lucia was kind of a botched kidnapping. Bargle makes an appearance in the riots as a chaos agent to heighten the confusion with a wall of fire splitting the duke’s horsemen before turning invisible and flying away.
Thank you, professor, for taking the time to produce this! Very well done, with tons of helpful information on preparing, structuring, and running the game.
I wish I knew how to simplify it like you do. You tell so much story without taking all the time most us do these days. I find that pre-written adventures are expected to take one session of 4 hours or less and have so much details it takes longer to read the adventure then to run it. I want to sub to your patreon so bad but just cannot at the moment. Thanks for at least providing free material where possible as well. You are one of the two 3 creators I follow that I respect fully.
Watched every part before when you first posted them but was still really excited. You could split this into parts again and I'll gladly watch it all over. Really great job. Very exciting and full of helpful tips.
Thank you for another outstanding video. I don’t know how you do it, but your output is endlessly valuable and entertaining (in equal measure). So rad!
The Reviled Society is a classic! I really enjoy how it is driven by human interactions and not just mindless monster slaying (not to speak ill of mindless monster slaying of course...). Can't wait for The Lost City this year!! Bring on...say it with me, Deathbringer...more Dungeoncraft!
Wow. This was awesome! I know how much love and effort you put into these and they are SO worth it. I've been in a DM funk but I'm inspired again. Great stuff!
I like the start by rolling initiative. My favorite start involves the characters travelling back from a celebration at night, in the rain. Where and why the celebration occured is up to the players. They can figure out the details before play starts or after. It is raining fairly heavy and they come to an open square. To their left, on a bridge leaving the square, the characters hear a low scream and see the outlines of two bodies, one standing over the other laying on the ground. Roll for initiative. The specifics of the encounter and how it relates to the rest of the adventure can be determined later. The key is to plop them down in conflict with a bit of mystery and go. The structure is relatively easy to modify so that later starts do not ressemble the previous start.
Thank you for watching this video. These are my favorites. Check out The Lost City if you haven't already. Just finished a new one--the Demon Tailor--for Patreon but it turned out so well I might put it on RU-vid.
I was very intrigued when you kept mentioning the urban fantasy video. I laughed pretty hard when I started watching it because I literally just watched the original three videos later last week! I’m glad now that you placed them all in the same video. I’ll definitely be stealing some of this stuff for a Baldur’s Gate game I’m wanting to run. Keep up the great work! And may all your videos be twenties…
