How to Let Your DnD Game Run Itself | The Billiards Effect

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@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Check out Chris McDowall's stuff: Electric Bastionland (Free Version PDF): tinyurl.com/yxsntd2f Electric Bastionland (Full Version PDF): tinyurl.com/yc55nsr6 Into the Odd (PDF): tinyurl.com/2nwj94fk Other resources I like and use: Old School Essentials Player's Tome: tinyurl.com/yc6d9756 Old School Essentials Referee's Tome : tinyurl.com/2mzhybku The Monster Overhaul: tinyurl.com/yknhbf2m Worlds Without Number FREE PDF: tinyurl.com/43nxtwna Worlds Without Number Deluxe PDF/Print: tinyurl.com/4rye49jw Tome of Adventure Design: tinyurl.com/2p2vbpr7 Mythic GM Emulator 2nd Edition: tinyurl.com/4b7smeur

@justinblocker730 26 дней назад

Pool table sounds more accurate than sandbox, the party can go anywhere and do whatever they want, but the "impacts" will likely come back to them in some way.

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Its definitely an analogy that's stuck with me, so I thought I'd share it!

@coldstream11 26 дней назад

Sand boxes work that way too though

@colbyboucher6391 25 дней назад

I think the term "sandbox" has been forever marred by GMs misunderstanding what that means in practice and just not putting any work in.

@mrnixon2287 21 день назад

@@colbyboucher6391 agree! also railroading misunderstood and misused by players and DMs.imo all DMs use some mechanisms to drive the story forward. clues or rumours could be considered railroading by some but they are merely a mechanism to steer the party in a certain direction. They can choose to ignore rumours and this will have a cause and effect also.

@DragonsinGenesisPodcast 15 дней назад

That’s the definition of a sandbox campaign, which is players interacting with the contents of the sandbox and their actions having lingering consequences.

@GhettoFabulousLorch 26 дней назад

That is a cornerstone of my GMing style. It takes a bit to get the ball rolling but once the campaign is in motion you only need to prod it a little here and there and it keeps rolling. Cause and effect, but/ therefore goes a long way.

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Well said!

@angelalewis3645 24 дня назад

I feel like I’ve learned all I can from Matt Colville, but I still needed something - and this is it! Best TTRPG advice video I’ve seen in 2024!

@Earthmote 24 дня назад

Thank you!

@Zirbip 25 дней назад

I love the billiards analogy. It makes a lot of sense for RPGs.

@macoppy6571 26 дней назад

Know your table. 3rd order effects are over the heads of my players.

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Simpler is generally better!

@ken.droid-the-unique 26 дней назад

The issue for understanding the effects is for the DM to understand - players can be completely oblivious! Could make for some exciting role playing opportunities when the PCs are confronted by an NPC who lays out the consequences of their actions.

@seanfsmith 24 дня назад

For me, it's not so much about whether the players will notice, but that it makes my prep simpler!

@uwo7130 26 дней назад

Props for bring up ICI and Chris McDowall!

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

He does aawesome work!

@Smittumi 26 дней назад

Great video. I do need to sit down and think about what the PCs did last session and what the impacts are. Sheeeit, I do it right now!

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Thank you! Happy gaming

@tombratcher6938 24 дня назад

Billiards sounds about right: I spend 1/2 hour achieving nothing except maybe knocking over a couple of pegs (NPCs)

@BLKCLVR 24 дня назад

I love this as a mental framework. Useful for thinking about second and third order impacts. I would caution against having the setting neatly racked up when the players bump into it though, best to have a world that's "already in motion," so to speak.

@yomammabe1 24 дня назад

In a call of Cthulhu game I'm running, I started the campaign 'post-break'. The events had been in motion for a good year before anything happened to them to draw them into the story.

@Earthmote 24 дня назад

Well said!

@fatherfletch 23 дня назад

You might Google "Event Clocks" and "Powered by the Apocalypse". It has you divide a circle into 4 - 8 sectors that get filled in as events transpire in the game world. Maybe using the Bad Baron example from the video after his death you fill in a segment for every game month that passes where the characters DON'T try to hunt down the eldritch relic. After all the segments are full some new thing intrudes on the game.

@yomammabe1 23 дня назад

@@fatherfletch coincidentally the system I'm using is a Cthulhu hack of Powered by the Apocalypse called Mythos World.

@christophel.1333 26 дней назад

Brilliant analogy the billiard effect!

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Thanks!

@DragonSlayerRob 24 дня назад

Great info, communicated it super well! Makes me really eager to dm a campaign soon

@Earthmote 24 дня назад

Thank you! Best of luck with you games

@patrickmullen9485 26 дней назад

Another fantastic video, Randall. It’s all about consequences and faction play at the end of the day. I agree that tertiary effects are the last thing you should consider. Anything deeper lies the way of madness. I subscribe to your sub stack, but I’d like to reach out to someplace. I am running a fairly robust blog going into the nitty-gritty of sandbox but using Twilight 2000 as an example. Plenty of fantasy examples, but I think something out of the usual genre that people play a sandbox and might be quite valuable. It’s fairly easy to understand from a lore perspective. Let’s see if we can touch base with each other. I would post the link here, but it would just get marked as spam.

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Thanks Patrick! Check out my about section on my RU-vid Channel page, should be a way to contact me there.

@patrickmullen9485 26 дней назад

@@Earthmote Email sent, subject line "Making Sandbox Contact!" Check your spam possibly if not in your inbox. Take Care!

@matthewmcguigan4293 26 дней назад

Inspired some new ideas. Thanks for sharing advice about running TTRPGS.

@fnvtyjkusg 24 дня назад

Nice video, really makes me want to start getting back into billiards

@Earthmote 24 дня назад

Thank you!

@onetruetroy 26 дней назад

I like this video and the information. Kudos for borrowing from Bastionland. I’ve always liked a sandbox world, but not just any sandbox: Schrödinger’s Sandbox. I don’t like having to generate all the choices and consequences too far in advance. I prefer to introduce the players to the world with events and knowledge based on what they are interested and what their characters’ interests could be, too. Even I don’t know what is going to happen until the characters look, ask or investigate. Based on the players’ moods and expectations, I’ll improvise. I would rather take notes about what is happening to the characters in the moment instead of referring to notes I’ve written hours or days in advance. I have a great time because I’m saying “yes, and…” They create the world, too, and I thank them for their ideas and collaboration. Another benefit is that the players can more easily recall what happened last session and start to plan their next move.

@isaacmarx6277 26 дней назад

Very insightful

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Thank you!

@Tristan-fw4yr 26 дней назад

Your content so amazing and I wish it had more eyes on it. Try to get in contact with a larger channel for a collaboration! I'm sure they'd be glad to!

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

Thank you, that's very kind!

@christopherd.winnan8701 26 дней назад

That is great artwork on the thumb! Reminds me of Fafhrd and the Mouser scaling Stardock! Do you have any more like this?

@Earthmote 26 дней назад

I apologize I forgot to put the art credit in the details! The artist is Matthew Sellers, he has a deviant art, with a lot of cool pieces like that one: www.deviantart.com/matthewsellers/gallery

@christopherd.winnan8701 26 дней назад

@@Earthmote - Thank you, That is great.

@lexington476 26 дней назад

5:59 and if that dark ritual was on the 6th floor of the building, does that make him the Dark Lord of the 6th 😀😃😄? Thank you thank you I'm here all week, be sure to tip your waitress 😊.

@fatherfletch 23 дня назад

Great stuff! Got a subscribe from me!

@Earthmote 23 дня назад

Thanks!

@potterfanz6780 25 дней назад

Hey, just a comment about the editing: I was distracted by all the cuts when you were displaying popular media examples. Just one clip would be better than two or three, like at 5:56. similarly, when you had text on the screen underpinning your points, I'd prefer a hard cut, instead of having the text from the first point and the second point fading overtop each other. For example, I prefer 8:18 over 4:58. Enjoyed the content though, thanks for the ideas!

@samfowler2073 25 дней назад

6:57 was that A Freudian slip?

@torinmccabe 26 дней назад

This reminds me of the "replace 'and then' with 'but and therefore'" storytelling rule from the creators of South Park. Your storytelling beats should not just happen. They should be caused by the previous storytelling beats

@bigbiggoblin2873 19 дней назад

Noice

@tomohiro1399 26 дней назад

Information: Be honest and open about situations to give players choices Bro i cant tell you how frustrating it is to be im a campaign with secret villains/motives. You cant do anything meaningful

@lewisnelken1966 26 дней назад

Mearth ote

@Feroand 25 дней назад

For some reason, it iritates me when people talk about TTRPG, but labeled their product as "DnD"

@rocksalt636 11 дней назад

Billiards is competitive though, and rpgs are not. If the players all want the same goal then there's no meaningful impact they can make. At best they'll taunt each other for missed shots and proceed to complete the game with no fanfare. At worst they'll die of boredom.

@antieverything1 24 дня назад

ICI is essentially what you'd come up with if you sat down and attempted to come up with the least novel and least innovative RPG concept you possibly could.