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i actually really like the idea of pointing being like wine that needs to age. you could end up with a much better balance between time spent and the actual payoff if there’s some kind of fermentation process that takes the same amount of time regardless of what quantity of potion you’re brewing. but that 1000 day brewing time suddenly makes a lot more sense if you can get an entire barrel out of it (maybe with periodic skill checks required to make sure the process has no ill effects or accidents) rather than just one measly potion. i could see it leading to some interesting narrative stuff too, since it would encourage the players to set up a home base and return to it regularly to check on their potion still :D

Timed combat = no role playing in combat. I will no longer describe my spells, summons and maneuvers. I will tell you numbers and only numbers.

you know who else would be more likely to write on vellum than on paper? elves. dnd elves live for over 700 years; what’s the point of keeping a journal of your adventures on paper, for example, if it’ll be dust by the time you’re in old age and want to revisit it to tell your elf grandkids cool stories about that time you fought a lich. maybe this is even part of why wizard spell books cost so much to transcribe - maybe *weird* shit happens if the paper a spell is written on decays but the spell itself remains; so spellbooks have to be made of special materials that resist decay, to avoid every wizard library potentially turning into a wild magic anomaly if they fall too far behind on repairing those old tomes

If we're talking about a tomb, housing the remains of an ancient emperor and his treasure, I can understand traps. The design is meant to protect the remains and loot and ensure it stays where it is. However, if it is a lair or base of operations, traps make less sense as it would also hamper the movements of those within. Also, bad guys are always arrogant and narcissistic enough to believe themselves unbeatable to begin with and their troops are good enough to defend. If it's just a cave system with some beasts and maybe primitive humanoids, who built the traps and why haven't they been triggered by the animals who would not understand traps to begin with so would not know to avoid them. Logic and reason are real buzzkills in fantasy gaming.

I always laugh at the idea of a general store in a medieval setting. Such things didn't exist. Most people had to make what they needed themselves, as "money" was not in wide-spread use. What they couldn't make themselves they usually bartered for. The whole "general store" thing is more a thing of the old American West. Store (as such) that did exist in medieval times were far more specialized.

A Ph.D. in medieval history isn't going to do much for you if you're not on earth or in a different timeline.

Nah. Not a fan of this rule. Sometimes things can change drastically just before a players turn. And when decoding what to do, you often need to ask the DM how they would rule a certain ability or spell being used in a specific way. These situations take time to work out. Also why even call it the 1:10 rule? Why not just call it the “minute rule”?

I play games like Banished a lot. They are great for D&D town creation.

I always have class levels for NPCs, so that colors my general stores a bit. My general stores typically have a variety of rural neccecities, but they also have material components for cantrips and first level spells. They have preservable foods often found in rations and a variety of the non-weapon, non-magical equipment found in level 1 equipment when you create your character. Some things are excluded and must be found at the local temple, blacksmith, or specialty stores if they exist. The idea is that rural communities are often secluded from helping hands and must be prepared to handle the more common problems associated with a Swords & Sorcery setting. A band of 3-6 level 1 villagers might try to handle pests, goblins, ect. On their own. Also, level 1 spell components are typically simple items, but also there might be villagers that dabble in the most basic of magic (Magic Initiate Feat) for their own convenience. I use the background feats optional rule, and NPCs can get those too. Usually it's stuff like the Chef or Tough feats. But it can be any feats really.

I can relate!!

Intelect devourer are cr 3, not 2. And gibberish mouthed are cr *5* .

I'm starting up a campaign in a homebrew setting. The start of the campaign has the party working for the local Adventurer's Guild to clear out a small dungeon. Things are going to go wrong, and the party will have to escape the Underdark to return to their guild and make their report, including the events of their travels down below the surface. How the guild works is rather fun. Given the city is known as the City of Adventure, it shouldn't be surprising to hear the Guild Master acts as an almost head of state. Through annual elections, the Guild Master is decided, however there is a downside. A Guild Master cannot adventure, leading to self smear campaigns so would-be guild masters can avoid spending a year confined to the halls of the Guild. It's only a year, meaning the time one has to hold power is limited, and once the term is up, you do not get another chance. Term limit of one. If the party takes too long to resurface, then the Guild Master may not be the same man that sent them out.

I had an idea for a dwarf cliff spa. Baths, rooms, mud face treatments and expert stylists on hand for you beards and other parts Don't do the accounting. Is that a challenge? So I the medieval times there was a number of beers or ales. A table beer for children has little to zero alchoul, cordials are a great way to keep fruit usable for a long time and apple cider in the time period was half the price of beer.

Solution: Lighter system

Funny story-I was in a party and whenever we went to a new town, we would always introduce ourselves with the same line: “We are the Strange Six, you may have heard of us”, and our DM started to have people hear of us the higher level we became. It really is awesome

I do things pretty old school, in the "describe and draw" model you describe. I have plenty of graph paper, which I hand out to players if they wish--they never *need* to map if they don't want to, they just probably *should*--and encourage them to ask plenty of questions if something's not clicking.

I'm going to use electrum but it's going to be for scamming people. Like the dnd equivalent of like company scrip or paying for stuff in only pennies like sure technically it's legal but no one's going to like you for it.

The movie references in this video are terrific!

I like to use 2.5 feet squares. Allows for the crowded atmosphere and realistic table / chair quantity per square foot. In combat large sized tokens can be used when not squeezing in a paniced crowd.

My Fiend Warlock character was forced by her mother to make the pact.

I just made the calculations and meat is dirt cheap. Goat meat would cost 2,5 copper pieces per pound plus the butchering fee.

Bro variant human rogue goes insane with that rule

This is awesome 👊🏾😎 thank you

Good advice.

its basically the same principle I have with map making. where I always have to tell a story in every room. so that the player can piece together what happened.

Trail's End Tavern and Inn. "Do come again and remember! We're just at the end of the trail." The end of the trail. All trails. Including life.

I was recently playing as a goose warlock who's patron was the "Rage of Prey". A time old spiritual being born of the collective fear and anger of all creatures of the lower food chain. The Rage of Prey's goals were to upset the balance of the circle of life/food chain. The pact required the daily slaying of at least one predator (Wolf, Bear, people, ect) and the defense of all prey animals (except hostile ones like rats) in danger within sight (including markets, wild encounters, ect).

My uh… my player accidentally sold his soul to his deep patron… now I gotta figure out how to work this out lol

This is so good!

Great video thank you 😊

Chases don't deserve special mechanics. Chases are just autoscrolling battles.

I wanna try a session of 1:1 and see what happens lol

I really enjoy your content and how you look at and run things in D & D. I hope you keep making more content.

I'm remembering when I was running for an artificer, I basically gave them a rough guide on how much their abomination against the laws of psychics would cost, and the time frame, with making them do multiple rolls for various things. What this basically amounted to was it was rolls to save money and to save time, with the standard timeframe and cost I give them being the costs from screwing up as well, so if they rolled well, they saved money and time, because they didn't end up messing up something and needing it replaced. It is also, (entirely related) how I normally run artificers and crafting of items in general. Which is that I give a base cost, and time frame and then work from that.

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I spit out my coffee when I saw "Tavern the Game"

Can I make a D&Dollar general

these are some great resources, thank you! perfect timing…my first session zero (as a DM) is in 2 weeks

Excellent, thank you

Great video thank you 😊

My take. You must have a medicine stat to 15 or above it. Time for crafting is set to max 30 minutes. common potions have a higher success then the others. So hence the risk to waste valuable resources.

Im the dm and a goblin rolled a nat 20 for its morale (higher the better) so he fought to the death. He died very quickly afterwards

A Horse Sized Duck. Getting ready to play Curse of the Ganshoggr. Plenty of big ducks/geese in that one. They always say getting nibbled to death by ducks is tedious. I'd give the Giant Duck maybe an AC 8 The Duck can buffet you with the wings d 2-8 . save versus constitution or stunned for the next round. 100 duck sized horses you sweep with burning hands potentially. Cast and perhaps 10-20 of the little buggers the first round and likely panic a proportion of the rest. Second round maybe another ten as the bravest left try to swarm you. More flee. The third round some of the horses get close to you. Maybe your battle mage gets another spell off or a stomp and hack with a dagger as you leap , retreat out of range. The mop up will take a while but the little buggers are going to have a hard time hitting you and will get less and less interested in the pursuit to do their 1 or two points of hoof damage? Bite damage? A fighter I would definitely let cut through the horse ducks with their sword. So if they roll up 10 damage I keep cutting horse ducks until they run out of hit points, Maybe 2 1/2 horse ducks per successful swing? The Fighter loses their sword maybe there is a problem, But a swarm of these little fellows may get 6 attacks? 8 attacks? and what can the little hoofs really do. These are going to be quarter hit dice creatures. Probably a reach to hit say an AC 4(16) fighter. They will need a 20. I sense a Lilliputian stomping of the horse ducks.

I'm planning to use electrum pieces as a kind of commemorative coin with more collectible value instead of being used as actual currency. Kinda like when you collect state quarters. It can be valuable for someone but is not really that useful

Very very very helpful. Its so nice to have an example and an actual scenario that you could compare to your own story

This logic also applies to the concept of a door. Instead of an actual door, you can abstract it to the concept of an obstacle. Some obstacles cost time, like fighting a hoard of weak mobs as you watch your torches slowly snuff out; others might require you to guide an NPC through the dungeon so they can build a magical bridge over an impassable ravine.

When someone crits, I don't even make them roll for damage, they just instantly deal max damage

My party's warlock is both generic and really original... He's a old one pact warlock that has as a patron a forgotten, eldrich dream godess who is also his "girlfriend" (wow, wierd patron warlock relationship, how original) Except... It's not just that... (All stuff I'll say was his idea, and only mentioning the things I allowed) He can only comunicate with her through visions in dreams, but she thinks that he's just a product of her imagination, as she's lost most lf her powers. He sometimes gets dreams revealing ancient knowlege, so old, not even most gods, archdemons or archfeys know about. He also doesn't age or is affected by any existing illness or sickness while asleep, and he could sleep for an unlimited ammount of time. He could also use telepathy (subclass skill) while asleep, but with greater power. Also, his character's objective was to bring back the cult of his patron, to then fall asleep to spend eternity with his beloved.

Meh. CoC Chase > D&D Chase. Exhaustion could be a good bonus but add barriers and hazard tables

That's a really good advice but my solution is another system, I quit dnd combat without consequences and normally only doing the same thing every time.