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Lol! :D

RIP Mitch Hedburg :P

sonan333 lol

Lol

found this comment late but well stated :)

You and me both dude 😂😂

​@@nosleep6239 count me in also

@@sybrenkruijf8570 No I'm Spartacus

Wait till I tell you in the future, this video is 7 years old and still just as good

my 7th time, at least.

And ya know what? We're gonna give that bugbear some goblin buddies. Everyone needs a friend.

....you Said something about Goblins?........

Thalassicus01 I'm thinking up a Thri Kreen adventure right now, no idea who the boss is. I was thinking that they came across the party while they were resting and waited at the campfire until the party awoke, then they'd comment on how sleep is for the weak haha then they'd tell us about a problem they've been having in one of their ore mines. Turns out to be an Umber Hulk at the end but I can't figure out how to justify it being there...

Now I totally wish someone make a youtube-series a la 'Bob Ross: The Joy of Dungeons' :D

Hoots I feel for ya, no one got the Goblin Slayer reference

I actually couldn't tell that he was hardcore until I saw it.

I onestly can t understand what you could be talking abOOOOOOOOH that s hardcore, fuck

I would have liked but it had 69 likes and I couldn't disturb the peace

@@panstan8499 *shudders*

*Oh*

Haha as soon as he said that I was like “Well I gotta hit that subscribe button now!”

That killed me too! lolol

Jeremy Amo Not a bad thing, but WOW is his style an homage to Zefrank, to the point where homage might be too lenient a word.

@@holographicbunny3297 I think if you watch all his videos you’re seeing the real person, or a shockingly good actor.

I think he may be a gnome. Beard, talks really fast, +2 to Int

Reason 3: His voice is amazing.

Yeah but, unlike Khan Academy, Matt tells you how to do stuff.

@@josephmort4039 And tells you to not necessarily do what he says.

The Blacksmith needs to come back for revenge at some point. Also, how do you “talk down” someone who’s child you basically just killed?

edcellwarrior critical

That's a fantastic start! It really sets the tone for the party, and it sounds like you'll do wonderfully.

@@edcellwarrior maybe by lying about what happened. "I'm so sorry, we arrived too late! We did everything we could but unfortunately the goblins had already completed their dark work."

Sounds like it was a good time. But I would suggest that you create scenarios without an always constant "Option B" where they can just agree with the bad guys, unless behind the screen you are tallying up their obvious but negative alliances and then decide they are now considered bad guys in league with disruptive and destructive/disruptive powers.

Your players may really enjoy planning. If so, LET THEM! dont be upset if you're players take a bit longer than what is expected. If they have fun, you'll have fun!

Unfortunately its hard for us to play for more than 3-4 hours. We're lucky if we get 2 combats in one session.

I thought this as well, but after rewatching this video a year later I see that he mentions encounters including puzzles etc., not just combats. That sounds more about right for my party at least.

Remember, encounters include anything they interact with, not just combat. A puzzle counts as an encounter, a particular NPC that is more than just 1 or 2 lines counts as an encounter.

Same here, unless you count conversations with NPCs and planning as encounters.

This may be a bit late, but if you don't have friends locally, you can use Roll20 to play online! It's not a perfect simulation or solution, but it works. If you all want to get a bit more crafty and have better computers/internet connections, I've heard that Tabletop Simulator works well as well. If you don't have friends PERIOD, then you should check out your local game stores and see which ones have Adventurer's League, and when they host those games. If that's too nerve-wracking, or you don't have a way to get to your LGS, OR you don't HAVE an LGS close enough, you can always look online! There's a LFG subreddit (/lfg), Roll20 even has a feature for this, or you could use meetup dot com (not sure on youtube's censoring rules, I never post comments)! There's other sources too, but those are just the one that I know of- so, hopefully by now you've found some friends or found some of this out yourself; if you haven't, well, go forth and adventure! :) Edit: Also, I know this was probably a joke post, but I couldn't resist posting some helpful info that MIGHT help someone else too.

@@stef4981 Most of my friends IRL aren't into tabletops so I just use a discord server and there's games that they run on there

@@ragnarokgaming7802 I've done many Theatre of Imagination games over discord that have been successful! Unfortunately I don't know a good way to specifically find DnD groups on Discord and I know -I'm- pretty lazy and want things as convenient as possible so I tend to just suggest things that give that kind of "all in one" experience but that really is a good and 100% viable solution as well. The thing that gets tricky with TOI for me is combat; I have a hard time keeping track of everything and prefer a real-time interaction with the map (and it can make your gm's job waaaay easier depending on the gm- it definitely does for me, at least)

@@stef4981 Fair enough, I'll try a game on role twenty and see if I like it then

@@ragnarokgaming7802 if you're DMing and setting up a game, I suggest looking up a guide and learning about it. If you're joining one, I'd still look up a list of useful tools on it :p

Wait I'm confused. What are those things? I don't think he mentioned a bean method, dice method or rice method. I feel I've missed a part of the video.

@@writershard5065 These are things from other guides that aren't on Matt's channel. The bean method is something that people use to generate an area map, by pouring dry beans out onto a piece of paper, and shifting them around to shape their landmasses, then tracing around them. I cant remember what the dice method is or the rice method, but I'm fairly certain they're similar ideas for similar purposes.

Well the dice metod is probably using the random dungeon generation table in the DMG.

@@algotkristoffersson15 Nope! Well, at least that is *one* way to do it, but I have seen a number of videos of people dropping dice onto a piece of paper, with each dice having different attributes tied to them, and then (similar to the beans dude mentioned above) grouping close groups of dice together and letting the random chaos of where the dice land tell a story.

As a fellow human with aphantasia I understand the struggles 😅

You nailed it; make the failure fun and it will become a legendary intro to a deeply bonded future crew

Roll20 has a lot of players looking for DMs. If you want to run in person I recommend mingling at the comic book store.

Wolf Blaze 22x If your a gamer you can run a game on Table Top simulator, get people online or in the steam community to play with you. Also you could always play with our group.

Just put more points in charisma

Walk into the local game store with swagger and simply shout,"I AM A DM!" Instant friends.

that sad

+Dylan Rushbury Well now you know a lot!

Like 3 times...

Give us an update!

@@MegaTroubleII Well, I haven't heard anything since so I'm assuming things didn't end up working out :(

@@fearjunkie unfortunate!

What was the dice system (if you remember) that you used to make the random dungeon? Or was it the system in the DMG?

@@tearstoneactual9773 you can find it in the 5th edition DMG, page 290, under "Random Dungeons"

@@chloestorer1235 - I'm aware of that toolset. However, the OP may have a different methodology. Something they either found or came up with on their own. I find the random generation system in the DMG to be... sub-optimal and generally not very believable. A 'dungeon' should have certain bits of design logic to it. (Unless designed by a complete lunatic with too much money/time/resources.) This is going to sound snarky, but I promise it's not - Were you there when Leo Nielson rolled their dungeons up, or help them do so? - If 'no', then how would you know what they did or did not do, did or did not use? I appreciate the input, but only people who were there can answer the question. (Unless you actually were. In that case, great! Thank you! ^_^) I'm also interested because, as much as the DMG is a great toolbox, I would like to find something that is more useful. I'm considering determining the number of chambers and their details before dealing with passages, and arranging them where I want then making the connecting passages. You actually see this in dungeon generators like with DonJon, but I'm afraid I don't particularly like how those are made. I can almost always tell when someone has used DonJon to make a dungeon map as soon as I see the first few bits. The other idea is using a scatter/splatter mapping process. Much like has been developed for making a map of an area or region. (Take a bunch of dice and drop them on 1 inch grid paper, say three feet by three feet. Each die type represents terrain, and the number indicates certain things about it.) This might work for a dungeon, with some tweaking. And then from there it's a simple matter of connecting the 'rooms' or spaces and making sure they are populated. There are a few other systems out there as well. So, I'm always curious to see what people do for generating dungeons with dice. Do you have a particular method, or do you use the DMG random gen? (Which is still quite a useful tool, especially for doing stuff underground.)

@@tearstoneactual9773 oh, right haha I didn't think that you were asking for their system - and no i don't particularly know what system they used. I haven't designed many dungeons in my time, the first two i did by hand without anything being randomly generate, the most recent one i've used the DMG, and i gotta say it looks a lot better, but that's probably because of the scale that its drawn at, at least at a glance. I don't tend to use them all too much because my players don't have minis (and neither do i for that matter ^^;)

@@chloestorer1235 - Understood. I might see about drawing out a new dungeon with the DMG random gen tables, maybe in DungeonFog or something, or Roll20. I can do it in Photoshop as well, but it tend sot bog down when things get too big. Wish there was a way to start a thread on RU-vid so we could show off dungeon designs.

Ghost I too, have not yet played d&d, but have thought up at least half a dozen characters. Or ideas for characters, at least. I reckon I’m gonna have so much fun when I find a group I can play with, cos some of the stories I’ve heard (wild surge! Oh no!) are hilarious. Like a lvl 6 party who accidentally woke a tarrasque.

Thanks for watching!

+BeABetterGameMaster aye Dice what brings you to these parts

+Sub Norman A.K.A. Shade Learnin' da ways, bro. Learnin' da ways. :-)

Barker your videos are sick too. If you made them..... BURN!

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!

I know!!! I subscribed after watching halfway through this video!!! (actually, this is my second time through the playlist looking for anything I may have missed) I love this guy's presentation!

+Jeremy Curry You really don't need to do *any* worldbuilding! Gary and the guys in 1974 played a lot before they had anything resembling a "world." We'll talk about that in another episode!

Matthew Colville I appreciate the reassurance. Watching Matt run Critical Role is awe-inspiring when he mentions the many towns and cities that he's fleshed out. I'm still very interested in your advice for worldbuilding, but I'll certainly try to think on a smaller-scale!

+Jeremy Curry you inspire me to make a new video! Sure, Mercer has lots of detail, he's been running that campaign setting for years! Add a little detail every week, it adds up!

Jeremy Curry it's DM

Dungeon Master

XD

Yeah, I wish I had known this before I got in too deep :

Goblin Reformation

It's a monthly subscription service, from some shady place called "real-world.scary"

Mathias Jönsson alternatively, they come on special sometimes from Sears, you just need to do some assembly yourself. Although nowhere near so much as when you buy them from IKEA, which requires a bit more work.

Level 1 mage spell

Based on the icon showing in the top left it appears to be adobe photoshop elements version 14

ALLxISxLOST Claymore J Flapdoodle

That's what I was thinking, but maybe his goblins aren't clever enough for a trap. If it didn't work where it was, I would have put it directly after the secret door.

The trap seems too complicated for goblin squatters, it probably makes more sense to be built in "Why else would it weight sensitive for them to bypass it?" It might be old and kind of stuck with time, needing a higher weight to trigger. Or maybe the knights had it set up so that they could only get in the last room without any weapon or armor for religious reasons and the goblin just happened not to trigger the trap, never really noticing it but equipped players would (unless halfling). There are so many ways to tell that story (if you get the chance and one of your player has the correct proficiency xD)

that's an absolutely atrocious pace. you must have 1. a lot of goofing around. 2. very slow playing players. or 3. absurdly long encounters. I've gotten through 15 encounters in a 6 hour session before. with fairly heavy RP as we.

At our worst we can spend an hour on one round of combat. People figuring out what they want to do, looking up all the rules around it, and then repeating the process for the second half of their turn after waiting to see the results of what they've already done. Times four.

+ShadowKick oh good God. there's no way on earth I could begin to be around that. I'm glad it works for you guys though. tabletop needs all kinda.

Well, it doesn't work for us so much as we like hanging out enough to deal with it. We aren't sure why we can't get things moving faster.

It sounds a lot like the games I've had where I, the DM, and maybe one other person had actually read even half the rules. For the books for the other people's characters.

Kingpin1880, absolutely. One-on-one D&D games happen all the time. They have the benefit of being fast-paced, since you don't have to wait for a lot of players to make up their minds about actions, and you can really custom-make it just the way you and your friend like. I've been a DM for over 25 years, and that's very often how I'll start a new campaign: I'll do a one-shot adventure or two with one friend, then we'll get other people to join in. Sometimes, too, if you have a group - but for whatever reason everyone else can't make it to game night that week - you can do a solo side quest with that one person who was able to make it.

actually, you can. especially if you want to make things really cool, you can do a campaign in the same world, but with different friends/family members at different times. for example, I could do a campaign with my brother in a world called zakhara. then, a day later I could do a campaign with my other brother in the same world (zakhara) and then, a day later, I could bring them together and do a campaign where they meet each other. you could also just do a campaign with one friend and you could use NPCs. NPCs can be super helpful when you only have one friend, because, lets say you wanted your friend to fight two bandits, but you knew they were to powerful for one person, you could use NPCs, or you could just level up your character more. having several NPCs to play at the same time can be hard, but even a single NPC can help. D&D can be whatever you want it to be. Dont think you cant play if you only have one friend.

hope this helped!

sans the skeleton we can do it together if you want. Also you can find other people out there

sans the skeleton Roll20 is browser D&D, very good stuff

I'll be your friend anon

trust me, roll20 is your answer, it was mine, and I DM there.