Why One Piece is a great D&D Campaign | Kraken Week 

@@AlexT7916 I was literally coming here to mention rustage lmao

@@AlexT7916 Who?

​@@EdBurke37 Rustage is a youtuber, usually he makes rap songs inspired by anime but on his second channel he also runs anime-inpired D&D campaign with a bunch of other anime youtubers. He's got two campaigns, one called "One Piece D&D", and the other "Isekai D&D"

@@Trekiros yeah, he also now has one piece marines dnd which is basically a sequel to his one piece dnd with new characters but the same players

I looked so hard for a clip that would make that joke in the first few seconds work, and this would have been so perfect. How did I only come to learn about this thing's existence now t_t

I'll bet money that's the One Piece

Also: I've been looking forward to your video since Kraken Week started. Did not disappoint!

A lazy GM would say one d4 points the way 👉🔺️

Oooh thank you for the kind words! 🙌

Ayyy cool to see my favorite dm in the comments of my favorite dnd channel

Agreed! I binged and it was amazing! ~_~

Yup, absolutely. That is something I kind of forgot to mention in the video but that's also how I use the faction quests. For example, after coming back from the dungeon in the plane of air, my players retrieved the mythallar of a flying city, and were given a choice: use it to build a new flying city, or use it to crash a mountain into the headquarters of their enemies, Age of Ultron style. They chose to create a new flying city, so they got a pretty sick home base, but in exchange those enemies got to show up later in the campaign, in a completely different quest, to cause some more havoc.

Yesss I'm so glad. Ginny & Antonio didn't know about every youtuber, so I invited a bunch myself like the Grungeon Master and CinderblockSally, because I knew they would make great stuff. And woah did they deliver

@Trekiros Omg Trekiros my GOAT, you don't miss haha :D

Technically with how the Grand Line and navigation works, even having all four coordinates and knowing the exact lat/long of the treasure wouldn't help you actually reach it, so there's definitely an extra catch waiting for them to actually reach it.

Can Bishardramon the Bishardramon evolve/digivolve into a Digimon version of Kingambit?

@@Staklihen Nah, the player doesn't really like Kingambit but he came up with his own Digimon evolutions of his character.

No physical tool, just Excalidraw which is a free website

Poor Franky didn't speak to Luffy for like 4 years at one point 😄

I have! It started after I had already started running this campaign so it didn't even cross my mind to bring devil fruits/haki into 5e at the time, but I stole a few NPCs here and there :p

​@@Trekiroswhich ones?

This is just to say that if you want to make an enjoyable One Piece campaign that makes in universe time sense you need much more downtime

What you're describing is what I call a "Mercer-style campaign" - a campaign without a premise, where players show up with characters they've made in quasi-isolation from one another, and it's up to the GM to tie it all together. So generally, we end up doing character-specific stuff until level 15, and then we save the world or something. And that's perfectly valid - my first campaign was like this. But a different approach which is also perfectly valid, is to agree on a campaign premise with the players in session 0, and then the players make characters who will want to engage with that premise. So here, since the premise is "it's a treasure hunt campaign", yes, the PCs will want to hunt the treasure - because if they don't, we tell the player to make a different character. This is how pretty much every single adventure book ever published works - if someone shows up to a Curse of Strahd campaign with a character whose goal is "I want to go to Waterdeep to kill the noble who stole my family's land", you tell that player okay, cool character, but keep it for a later campaign because it's not compatible with CoS' premise. So if millions of people have been having fun in that exact way for basically as long as I've been alive, I'd say they... might have been onto something? And yes, it is possible to do that second formula "wrong", by leaving zero space for character choices. You'll notice this isn't the case here - the whole point of setting up urgency in bursts was to make it possible for players to justify doing things other than the "main plot". ...But it's also very much possible to do the first formula wrong. If you don't find a good way to tie the different PC backstories together, or if the players aren't theater kids and they have no sense of how to write a backstory that will get their characters to be active and push the plot forwards, then that style of campaign tends to break down just as hard, if not harder.