Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk -- Review 

Would love to see your campaign video combining those adventures together.

I've really enjoyed your campaign crafting content, so seeing how you're going to weave this with other adventures would be great. Especially if you're going to use Inkarnate to make a map...would love to see you make it!

Thanks for that great video! I really dig the title. My mon who is 76 years old viciously mocked Klarg to death just six days ago. We really had a blast, but the more I get to know about the new model the more I'm inclined to head for SKT after LMoP/DoIP with my family. Maybe my CoS group off Call of Cthulhu veterans would like to go for the Shattered Obelisk one day after they defeated Strahd (or died trying). Glad I've found your channel. Like your style quite a lot.

Sweet video ! I would love to know how you build up your campain around these modules. I only DM'd Sunless Citadell in my sandbox campain so that would be super usefull to me ! Cheers to your channel !

Very interested in hearing about your planned sandbox!

I would also enjoy seeing your take on the fitting together of them all.

You should do a video on building that campaign.

Would Love to see how you mix them all!

Thank you. Now i am sure i have to DM this!!

Great review, I’d be interested in the bigger campaign

I would be interested in how you are going to tie them all together.

I have a act 4 combat encounter planned where the wolf they save from Kragmaw hideout (Act 1) Comes back being chased by their old pack of wolves, now deformed and changed. I thought this would be a great (we are gonna leave the town but wtf) encounter

Rn I'm in the middle of running a Planescape campaign that started out as LMoP. I have plans to run more adventures in and around Phandalin - once my players PCs make it back to The Forgotten Realms/The Sword Coast - so I'd definitely be interested in seeing how other DMs add content to LMoP, since I'll soon use the adventure as a base for my own homebrewed stuff.

That sandbox campaign sounds pretty cool. I'd love to see your take on it.

Nice review. I already ran LMoP for my group of players so likely I would run DoiP first to level them up to 5th and then run the Phandelver sequel. I’m looking forward to seeing the official images for the main NPCs from LMoP and also the new maps for Wyvern Tor, Angela’s lair and Old Owl Well. I too thought of running Sunless Citadel as I think it fits good with Phandalin.

I've played or DM'd those 4 campaigns (minus the shattered obelisk part) and think they should work great as a sandbox. I look forward to hearing how you will do it. If I had a group that never played those, I would consider it.

I thought Phandelin or Phandelver or whatever was a great starter adventure. Had trouble the first few times keeping track of all the npcs while the PCs sand-boxed around once they got to town. Pretty done with wizards on the cheap but sounds cool. Thanks for the review.

I was also thinking about adding forge of fury. I am wondering how you are going to add it in. I was planning on exchanging one of the missions for it or perhaps just adding it.

Please, definitely do a video in the campaign.

Great write up. Is Nezznar still a CR2 in this as he seemed very weak to be a main villain in the starter quest and could do with beefing up

2:20 but it isnt at all. It IS the starter set. almost 1:1 with another completely unrelated adventure added on

3:30 you missed how they massively increased the difficulty of the first level. The whole cragmaw hideout is now a series of deadly encounters with multiple CR1 goblin bosses added, more wolves and increased trap damage. Overall I'm not sure how a party of begginer players is not supposed to wipe in there, if they don't realise how deadly a fight vs 2 goblin bosses and 5 regular goblins is at lvl 1.

You're selling me in this.

Purchasing? Nope. I might still give it a try, though, the content at least seems interesting

So from your thumbnail note, this video is for the 9 or 10 year old dnd players whose moms had them st around the time of 5e's start. Okay, great. Good to know! 👍!

So the PC game of Baldurs Gate 3 is all about Mine Flayers, and stopping the spread. They even tie in the Netherese Obolisks that are found throughout other dnd games. It feels very cross promotional with a new product and the pc game.

First line "Dungeons & Dragons flirts with" and you were doing great. But the answer is "owlbear, drow and mind flayers" because they can actually trademark those. They are going to continue to push this hard in their "monetize one, monetize them all" plan.

it's incredibly hard to get the players to care about Phandelver the NPCs give loaded tasks that underpay for what the actual difficulty was don't be surprised when players feel cheated and start resenting the town I think the number one thing that pissed them of was when they had loads of prisoners Phandelver has no prison so they had to take all of the prisoners to Neverwinter

Another way to deeply root your players after chapter 4, is to reestablish a new Phandelver Pact with the gnomes and dwarves in the region and let them create a homebase in Tresendar Manor. Then you can slowly endanger everything they've built once the corruption is taking place. **evil laugh** I let Nezznar send a doppelganger to the village who transformed into a few of the more important NPC's (Sildar, Harbin,...) to keep an eye on the Redbrands and the village, but uses them later on to spy on the PC's. At later chapters he realizes the party will be in his way so he pays them a surprise visit himself (with Disguise or Alter Self) to send some threats and convince them to back off. In this way the PC's have seen and talked to him at least, but are still too low level to deal with him. Before going into Wave Echo cave, he sends Drow assassins after them. I changed Nezznar's reason wanting to cure his wife who was turned into a Drider and wanted to create an item (needed for the ritual) with the Forge of Spells. This way the characters can strike a deal or promise to cure his wife and this is more interesting than an evil moustache twirling villain they only see once at the end. If both would still be alive, I could use them as NPC's in the underdark dungeons. Now his wife could be mutated by these far realm powers? How would you connect (one of) the 3 mind flayer bosses to Nezznar? Or just let it be its own separate thing as I described above?

Giving the inherintly psionic and psychic Gem dragons from the Fizban source book and get them in T.S Obelisk campaign would be very fitting! They hunt abberations and players could help out! I would homebrew them in somewhere..Anyway.. Will buy the book, but only physical. Also will support my nordic neighbours ttrpg creators of Dragonbane ( Drakar Och Demonar )and Vae ( ae=æ)sen tons more, not least homebrew in BG3 and PF mechanics into D&D where it struggles Hasbro brought self harm to the D&D franchise. Its suit lead mrCox would see dnd beyond die so pure digital dnd and a.i will win ahead so we better put our money where worth it be it other TTRpg and only physical stuff from WotC make hasbro not get their wish!

Im much more interested in the Sunless Citadel, Forge of Fury and Ice Spire. No real interest in paying $60 to Hasbros for 4 chapters of crystal goblins and mind flayers.

So you’re doing voluntary, uncompansated work for WotC. Got it.

Wtf is body horror?

Girl boss is why they gender swapped. SMH