How is the Humblewood Adventure REALLY? - REVIEW DnD 5e 

I'm loving the adventure in the Humblewood setting book that the Deck of Many put out! I have a Humblewood playlist, including an unboxing of everything that comes in the box set here: ru-vid.com/group/PLg6OY3wCE5jRB-BGCuiovPiink6nSB6uj Hope you've enjoyed this video and comment below if you would play this adventure or not! I'd love to hear from you....

Thanks for the review! Been thinking about buying the book and running this adventure for a few friends, and your thoughts at the end helped me convince a friend who's not into the "typical" DnD but thought this setting was super cute and unique.

My wife just grabbed the book for me. I enjoyed your video the most out of the reviews on it. I’m excited to dive in! Subscribed and looking forward to watching your other content!

Glad to hear you're enjoying the setting. I've been running Humblewood with a full group of 5 players now for 13 sessions of about 3 hours each. TBH, It's been a love hate relationship for me as the DM. Love the setting and races. Hate that I've had to homebrew soooo much when it came to the cities. Ultimately, I've managed to really embellish and flesh out a lot of the world but it's been a tone of work. I particularly had to put a ton of effort into Alderheart. The two pages of mostly picture just didn't provide enough detail. Winnowing Reach, I felt was executed much better. The group is just finishing section 3 right now. I'm looking at the Avium and dreading the amount of work to do (maps, shops, magic classes,...).

I really want to run this with my son and his friends! I can’t wait to get started!

This is so helpful for me who wants to research for dnd while doing other things thank you! ❤

You have a great charisma and your "public speaking" skills make your videos enjoyable to watch. Subbed! Also just ordered Humblewood. The campaign sounds very interesting and still relatable (as in: not daunting).

I've been looking to run a campaign in this setting for some time, thanks for the insight

So, with my players, I started the campaign a bit different. I didn't tell them the setting, only to create their characters however they wanted, and for them to tell a quick story of how they were about to die. As the first session started and they explained what was happening to them, I described how there was a flash of light, then darkness, to which they found themselves in a dark void, and after some time, see a table with chairs in front of them. (My friends have a great deal of trust in me, otherwise I likely would not have attempted this with other groups) As they sit down, they see cloaked figure in dark green sitting at the end smiling, only being able to see his mouth. (though they don't know this, and they think it's me, a.k.a the DM, it's Artagan, who has grown rather board of late, and wants to stir up some chaos. He explains that he wants to have a bit of fun, and that everyone here is now bound to each other by fate in some way. As the players start asking some questions he says "I'm afraid there's no time for that, as you have a boat to catch." at which point the players find themselves on a ship during a raging storm in a small room. As the players leave and explore the deck of the ship, I tell them to roll a percentile dice, feign disbelief over the number, at which point I describe things as a wakewyrm bursts out of the sea next to the boat, asking for a DEX save, before the boat is smashed in two. The players then wake up on the southwestern shore, near one of the rivers. They decided to head northwest along the river, and after a day of travel make it to the hills just before the mountains on the western side of the map. I then had them find a large cave, in which were 12 or so pedestals, each with a different weapon on them. After some time, they took a weapon that they liked the most, then tried to take another one, but found that the other weapons turned to dust, and that their weapons were stuck to their hands. I don't give them much time to think at this moment as they are starting to worry, I go into describing how their bodies start changing. Based on their classes they had chosen, I had picked a Humblewood race that I felt corresponded with their choice. So now they are trying to get their old bodies back in addition to everything else that's going on. The weapons they got also have hidden abilities that they will unlock as they progress in their adventure. As the players left the cave, a map of Humblewood blown by the wind, smacks one of them in the face, as I reveal the campaign setting as they had not heard of Humblewood before. Side note, I also gave them all a wooden coaster with a figure or emblem of what race they would be changed into before we started, but didn't tell them what it meant (I'm a props DM, and like to use as many physical things as I can.). They were changed into a Strig(paladin), Corvum(warlock), and a Luma(cleric). Otherwise we just finished the bandit raid on Alderheart. I'm also using the mana point system instead of spell slots, and it has allowed for a wider range of game play so far, for both DM and players.

Hi Just to say I love your presentations and videos having been a 25 years of playing RPGs and writing games and involved in system writing since school I have been getting bored with traditional RPGs settings . You have inspired me to try a new setting . I just hope I can convince my gaming group .

I'm planning on getting this to run a game for my two kids and wife, ( they have never played D&D before.) I wish I had heard about this sooner, but just recently learned about it from watching Critical Role when they talked about it last year. Everyone seems really excited to get started playing this setting.

Thanks for the video! I'm excited to play it!

Thanks for doing this review! Would you say this is simple enough for 6 year olds to understand? I have already reworked the rules to be easier for my littles, now doing a setting.