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Welcome to the halls of WasabiBurger! I primarily cover Tabletop RPG content but also sometimes dabble in other nerd hobbies.
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Shadowdark For Kids! | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #5
I talk about my first time running games for kids and what the experience was like.
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Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen Review!
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I talk about The Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, a DCC Level 0 Adventure! Subscribe to Blerdy: www.youtube.com/@UCWlPZ_fepFRWxjwZWQIQcEQ Store Page: goodman-games.com/store/product/dungeon-crawl-classics-101-the-veiled-vault-of-the-onyx-queen-print-pdf/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! ...
Book of Challenges Review!
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I review the Book of Challenges, a 3e book full of advice, puzzles, traps and dungeon rooms! Store Page: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3736/book-of-challenges-dungeon-rooms-puzzles-and-traps-3e Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join the...
The Book of Gaub Review!
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I review the book of Gaub, a creepy little book full of dark magic, dangerous monsters and many more unnerving pieces. Store Page: www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/the-book-of-gaub-pdf Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join the Discord: di...
Cult of the Cave Crickets First Impressions! | DCC RPG
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I talk about my initial thoughts looking at the Lovecraft inspired Level 2 DCC Adventure, Cult of the Cave Crickets! Kickstarter Page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkstaradventures/cult-of-the-cave-crickets-an-adventure-for-dandd-5e-and-dcc?ref=bcosot Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! w...
Shadowdark First Impressions! | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #4
Просмотров 4322 месяца назад
I ramble about my experience with Shadowdark while alienating people who like THAC0, Mork Borg and other content. Shadowdark Quickstart: www.thearcanelibrary.com/products/shadowdark-rpg-quickstart-set-pdf Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ Join the Discord: discord.gg/ksyzdkEuK5 Sharing ...
Why You Should Play Trophy Dark!
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.3 месяца назад
I talk about why you should play Trophy Dark, a fantastic narrative dark fantasy rules light system that has brought me a huge amount of fun. Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: trophyrpg.com/ Trophy Dark Resources: Roller: roll.trophyrpg.com/ui/ Character Keeper: arktosaur.us/keepers/trophydark Trophy Dark AP w/ Jason Cordova: ruclips.net/video/UuHUh1Nbdwc/видео.html Follow On Tw...
How to Deal with RPG Micro Fatigue | RPG Advice
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I talk about a specific kind of fatigue I have found both myself and others in this hobby experience. Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join the Discord: discord.gg/ksyzdkEuK5 Sharing and commenting really helps out the show so let us kno...
Why You Should Play Shadow of the Demon Lord!
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I talk about why you should play Shadow of the Demon Lord, a great game for telling stories and making awesome builds. Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/155572/Shadow-of-the-Demon-Lord Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join ...
Winter's Daughter Review! | OSE, D&D 5e, OSR
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While snowed in I decided to review my favorite Necrotic Gnome adventure, Winter's Daughter! Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/winters-daughter-revised-edition preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/270795/Winters-Daughter Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/...
Dyson's Book of Swords Review! | D&D, OSR, DCC
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I review Dyson's Book of Swords, a book containing the description and art for 50 magical swords. Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: Physical: www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/dysons-book-of-swords PDF: preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/393906/Dysons-Book-of-Swords Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburge...
Ranking DCC Adventures 2023 Edition!
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I'm back with another yearly rankings video ranking every made-for DCC adventure I have played! Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join the Discord: discord.gg/ksyzdkEuK5 Sharing and commenting really helps out the show so let us know what...
Unholy Nights in Lankhmar Review! | DCC, OSR
Просмотров 7038 месяцев назад
I review the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Holiday Adventure, Unholy Nights In Lankhmar! A creepy, horror investigation game in the land of Nehwon! Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: goodman-games.com/UKStore/product/dcc-lankhmar-10-unholy-nights-in-lankhmar-print-pdf/ Spoiler Page Video "A Krampus Carol": ruclips.net/video/9p1JYvV178E/видео.html Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv...
Why You Should Play One Shots (And Shorter Campaigns!) | RPG Advice
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I talk about why people who regularly only play longform campaigns should give one shots and shorter games a try! Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Play Podcast and Bun & Games Podcast! wasabiburger.podbean.com/ bunandgames.podbean.com/ Join the Discord: discord.gg/ksyzdkEuK5 Sharing and commenting really helps out the show s...
Harnworld Hardcover Review!
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I review the fantastic and all encompassing Harnworld Hardcover from Columbia Games that covers everything from a peasant to a planet. HW & HD Are Disappointing Video: ruclips.net/video/ybBycFbUleM/видео.html Patreon: www.patreon.com/WasabiBurger Store Page: columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/harn/cfg/single.cfg?product_id=5001HC Follow On Twitch! www.twitch.tv/wasabiburger Check out the Actual Pl...
Trophy Dark Actual Play | A Warm And Pleasant Hum
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Trophy Dark Actual Play | A Warm And Pleasant Hum
A "Quick" Cities Without Number Breakdown!
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A "Quick" Cities Without Number Breakdown!
Shadow of the Weird Wizard First Impressions!
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Shadow of the Weird Wizard First Impressions!
Martial Cult of Blood Knight Gaius Review! | D&D, Knave, OSR
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Martial Cult of Blood Knight Gaius Review! | D&D, Knave, OSR
Cities Without Number - Generating Cyberpunk Gangs! (And Fixers!)
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Cities Without Number - Generating Cyberpunk Gangs! (And Fixers!)
Aberrant Reflections Review! | OSR, OSE, D&D
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Aberrant Reflections Review! | OSR, OSE, D&D
Cities Without Number - Generating Cyberpunk Megacorporations!
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Cities Without Number - Generating Cyberpunk Megacorporations!
Doom of the Savage Kings | DCC Actual Play | 1k Subscriber Special!
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Doom of the Savage Kings | DCC Actual Play | 1k Subscriber Special!
Cities Without Number - Creating A Character!
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Cities Without Number - Creating A Character!
Evlyn Moreau Interview! | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #3
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Evlyn Moreau Interview! | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #3
The Monster Overhaul Review! | OSR, OSE, D&D
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The Monster Overhaul Review! | OSR, OSE, D&D
ATTI Controversy & Trophy Dark | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #2
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ATTI Controversy & Trophy Dark | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #2
Crypt of the Devil Lich Post Mortem! | DCC RPG
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Crypt of the Devil Lich Post Mortem! | DCC RPG
The Technomancer of Candy Mountain! | Stefan Surratt Interview
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The Technomancer of Candy Mountain! | Stefan Surratt Interview
Elfland Beyond The Fields We Know Review! | DCC RPG
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Elfland Beyond The Fields We Know Review! | DCC RPG
Where did you find the rules for healing that you use?
It's been a while but I believe I used the DCC Lankhmar healing rules but I may have modified them a bit, I can't fully remember.
Once your child adopts a TTRPG they can never know love again.
Yeah, I play DCC with my kids and have adopted the Shadowdark turn ordering to help make sure I get something from everyone. Also, with respect to the "evil" stuff, from my experience girls can hang there in general. When my oldest was 7 all she really played with were dolls and animals, doing the stereotypical girl stuff. But one day she asked to play with my Warhammer 40k army, which were Orks. I said sure and she took the biggest one, and had him start shooting and impaling all the other ones, then putting them in one of my battlewagons. I asked her what he was doing and she said "collecting dead people". Alrighty then.
lmaooo
Super cool channel. I have just subscribed. Why the name Wasabi? You are located in Japan by chancee?
My friends and I have been messing with a short campaign using the weird wizard playtest. if it makes you feel any better, priests do get quite a bit stronger later on and fit quite well into a hybrid caster/fighter role. My priest is probably one of my favorite characters I've ever played. Mages get WAY stronger but also get almost no health or defense as they level, making them extremely fragile glass cannons. if your mage doesn't have at least one other party member looking out for their welfare somehow they're going to go down real quick.
Yeah I was also looking at the later works of the book and it did just feel like the version of the playtest I had had somewhat incomplete or missing info because comparing the book priest to the playtest priest felt like the playtest priest got kind of shafted.
Agreed on mechanics, story layout and everything you said. Excellent video. I subscribed.
Well done!! I'm one of the player's on the Dungeon Musings channel and always appreciate your letting us know when you have a stream. We haven't played DCC on the channel, but I'm a huge fan and have most of the official DCC products plus many of the 3rd-party ones. This is a great video for giving folks a quick overview about what makes the game fun and easier than they might think. Kudos!
Interesting, it sounds a lot mechanically like Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsey.
That is what it is based off of!
Thanks so much for this, I'm circling running a regular game soon and getting this advice really helps bolster my confidence!
I'm really glad to hear that! I bet if you get it off the ground, the games will be great!
I dont necessarily think you are wrong about the virgin queen trope. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth the 1st was considered to be a great monarch, and yet she never married and likely died a virgin. So...
When I ran this module, my group gathered around the closed sarcophagus to collectively beat the strength DC to reveal the wraith. The wraith won the initiative with its cursed sword. Its first strike was enough to kill a player, giving the sword an extra attack. The die was vengeful, & the the players were cut down all around the sarcophagus till none were left. The remaining survivors fled down the hallway & eventually defeating the wraith to attain its sword. Creeping down the hall, an enemy surprise attacked the players as they were huddled together killing one of them. Next to attack was the one with the wraith sword. He cut down the enemy with one hit, which the sword required an extra attack as the player was huddled with his friends. He had to swing again, cutting down & killing two of his comrades. It was a rough night, full of sorrow & tears. It was fkn EPIC! The 4 survivors are awaiting their level 1 adventure.
That's fantastic! What a great course of events
17:40 when you started talking about the Virgin Queen, I totally vibed with. I read through the scenario (3 times now not including the video) and I always wondered why they needed to mention that. I might just change it a bit to remove that extra purity nonsense. And happy for the shout out. Greatly appreciated. I plan to run The Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen soon actually so this came out at the right time. I do wish their was monster variety as you mentioned. I might ask the dcc reddit or discord for advice there too!
I would love to hear how it ends up going for you, buddy!
I pretty much agree with all of your takes, besides the lethality of the adventure, although two of the players were being very haphazard. I actually felt like it was fair, not too deadly, not a cake walk. I had 5 players with 3 characters each and I want to say about 8 or 9 died. One player lost all of his characters and then 2 replacements. Other than that, I totally agree about the puzzles. The only one that took them a while was the paintings on the walls, and I want to say the answer was book, so they had to touch the book in one of the paintings. Overall most of the combat was dealt with relatively easily, the hardest fight was the boss. They dealt with Yoros pretty easily, but the mobs from the tomb area just before the boss split the party, and they took a while figuring out they had to destroy the braziers. All-in-all everyone had a really good time. Like your group mine only had a single lawful character left by the time they found the shield and magical weapon (sword?). That character ended up sacrificing themself during the boss fight, so the group came away with almost zero treasure.
Yeah that is always the weird thing with funnels, the swing from cake walk to complete annihilation is not too far away haha. I truly rolled completely abysmally that session for the enemy npcs lol
Oh cool! I ran this adventure and really liked it, excited to see what your opinion is.
I mean, you mentioned it so you knew someone was going to comment... 😂 Classic adventure and fantasy stories have female characters who are paragons of purity, beauty, kindness etc because these are common feminine virtues held by most cultures, and definitely be western European derived cultures to be aspirational. I rarely hear people complain that male characters are expected to be brave, selfless, skillful and protective, which are traditional masculine virtues in the same vein. These archetypes exist in many cultures because they are useful virtues to aim towards for a multitude of reasons, sometimes social and sometimes biological. The BBEG queen and her pact with an infernal being in exchange for unnatural life is a counterpoint for the purity of the entombed queen. That whatever dark being she has her pact with is thirsting for her soul, and that he will inevitably have it, could be read as an illustration of the end of such impurity. In any case, good review, and I'll definitely pick this one up!
You know I LOVE DCC- layouts are absolute trash though
I just ran this recently and the module felt deadly enough to us. I suppose like you said, DCC can be swingy like that. 4 players, killed half of them overall even with the replacements and in the final fight the players began to seriously vocalize the fear of a TPK. They were really sweatin bullets lol. Parsing 700 words to find info for how to run a room is def annoying, the DCC module tax. I enjoyed the funnel over all, I think it's solid and worth running.
Running OSR adventures with the superior layout, but using DCC rules feels like the best of both worlds. Thank you so much for these recaps / DCC adventure reports!
Question for you, I agree with what you're saying about some of the DCC adventure layouts, but they are still some of the slimmest adventures I have found in any system. Do you have some favorites (adventures) that are even more concise or lack a bunch of flowery / superfluous text?
In terms of DCC or just adventures in general? For adventures in general, I love the layout that Necrotic Gnome does such as for Winter's Daughter. Aberrant Reflections by Direct Sun also has an amazing layout. Both take advantage of just quick, concise descriptions, information laid out in bullet points, bolded words for important aspects and in the case of Aberrant Reflections, even color coding. I found that style makes it easy to run at the table and gave me enough information to take it from there for describing the locations to players. I did reviews on both of those if you want to check them out :)
@@wasabiburger3047 awesome, I definitely will. I've been on the hunt for more concise adventures. My brain just works much better with short descriptions or bullet point style rooms and stuff. And any system works. I'm more interested in ideas than stat blocks and don't mind converting.
"All pure and shit" has to be my favorite quote from this.
Looking forward to when you put out 'Hot 'n Heavy Halls of the Slut Lords' But for real, less puritanical ideas of virtue in fantasy are long overdue.
Love your Lankhmar stuff! I've been converting DCC Lankhmar into 5e instead of trying to get my mostly casual crew into a new system... However!: What would you think of: Portal under the stars funnel into > masks heist "meet" with whatever PCs survive?
I think that totally works! :) Could even play it as them not having seen each other in a while since the events of PuTS and meeting all again at the beginning of the Mask heist from separate jobs/tips and could be fun to roleplay catching up while fighting off the guards.
I feel like it would be cool to play this in the Darkest Dungeon universe.
I think you're 100% correct. Which is funny because there is a really great DD documentary that shows the creators talking about that they made DD because the premise was them showing how awful it would actually be to be a D&D adventurer. Dealing with disease, monsters, madness, paranoia, dark magic, etc. That it wouldn't be this fun adventure but a horror story with swords and shields so Trophy Dark would emulate that perfectly.
@@wasabiburger3047 That’s a very good point! I remember seeing a 5e hack that turned D&D into darkest dungeon, and while it was a cool project, it still didn’t feel like Darkest Dungeon because it’s still trying to play a very different style of game at the end of the day.
This is probably my favorite RPG for the speed and diversity allowed to players and GMs alike. My first campaign was with 2 players, and was happening between sessions of another game with serious scheduling issues. We ran the Dark Deeds in Last Hope module as the intro, which I highly recommend for new players and GMs alike, and it ended badly due to player action and inaction. From there they brought the survivors to a new town (and lost most of them to a giant pig attack) and spent their novice levels making a name for themselves. Another group of refugees arrived after and the town was a bit over filled with people, but the refugee mayor offered the players work in retrieving his signet ring from the old town, leading to the players favorite quest. They got 1 horse and were chased by wolves most of the way there. The horse was killed shortly before arrival by a dire wolf, which then chased them into town and trapped them in a house, mocking them and toying with them before setting it on fire and forcing them out. They had to run through the abandoned streets in the dark with a torch to fight off that one and another that was hanging out in the town, which they did through some pretty excellent innate synergy between rogues and priests. Surviving the fight, they decided to book it through the mansion, get the ring, and get it. Mansion is of course haunted, with the shadows attacking them and the rogue getting a mark of darkness and taking a quirk to have fear of the dark. Through a combination of candles, torches, and ripping off every window curtain they could, they made their way through the mansion wounded but alive and acquired the ring, a pistol, and a randomly generated magic item (a drum that could vanish and reappear with a word), and began the nerve wracking trip home on foot, hiding from wolves and beastmen alike. This was all session 4.
That's awesome!
I’ve used a lot of the things in this book over the years
So is it as combat focused as D&D? How does it handle social interactions?
I would say it's almost as combat focused as D&D. I look at it a bit like an alternate timeline 5e where it isn't weighed down by all the baggage that 5e has so that it can just focus on what it is good at which is creating engaging stories and fun, snappy combats with meaningful character arcs whereas 5e tries to do everything. As for social interactions it feels more like a lot of OSR games where it leaves it pretty open for you to run them how you want. There are no insight/intimidation/persuasion/deception skills, it pushes you more towards just actually RPing and maybe a check here or there if your GM rules it a certain way and not giving you skills to fall back on instead of engaging. Though there are abilities and spells that can affect social interactions for extra options for creativity. Honestly, the short answer is if you like some of what D&D is trying to do you just wish it was done well, SotDL is the way to go. If you hate every last thing about 5e and want to run for the hills and play Into the Odd or Mork Borg or something super lean, you might still like SotDL but it may just not be for you.
@@wasabiburger3047 As years passed and I learned other systems I grew tired of how heavy D&D leans on the combat simulation and how it fights you to do anything else with more depth. Then I started to really enjoy VtM because it gives you tools for deep roleplay even having sessions with almost no rolls if the group chooses to. But we reached a point in the game where in a combat scenario we need sometimes 5 rolls to resolve a single action, I thought I could take but it's cumbersome. Then came the Cypher System, it was love at first table. Rules light base with all the knobs to make it more crunchy if you want to, full of tools to inspire creativity and improvisation, and to encourage the players to make almost any character they want. The system doesn't fight you, it gives you a flexible workbench. Now that said CS stands on a different paradigm from most other games I played. So I still like to look at more conventional options. SotDL seems to be in that vein. I would maybe make it a little less deadly for a campaign because I like to develop character arcs. And for social interactions, while I am personally OK with leaving it all up to roleplay I also understand it makes harder for players with a less outgoing personality let's say.
Been running a “serious” (non-gonzo) campaign on the official Goodman Twitch stream for a few years now (with occasional pauses). The system works really well for pretty much any style. Ours is a science-fantasy lost colony campaign about future humanity stuck on a medieval-magical frontier world. It’s called Pretenders to the Throne.
3rd edition was great. When 4th edition came out, I went back to 3rd because I did not want to play a paper MMORPG. When 5th came out, I played it until I realized the system was broken and went back to third. Now I'm somewhere in between BECMI and 3rd
For those who don't know, there's a new game from the same set of rules named Shadow of the Weird Wizard, which is less grimmdark, more tactic and slightly more heroic. If you think this game is a bit too dark and deadly, that's your game.
Yep and I'll be doing another video on it once it fully releases. Interested to see how it compares!
I think the core of Shadowdark is really fantastic. I play mostly DCC but if I were to heavily homebrew a D20 system I would start with Shadowdark as the base.
I own that book from back in the 3.5 days. It was a lot of fun to use in my home brew campaign way back when.
Conversion is pretty easy to 5e. All checks go from base 10 to 8, and you can easily swap out the 3e creature stat blocks with 5e.
Crazy awesome beholder house party should in its own right should be an adventure. And I run old school games, this is definitely impressive. I could use that beholder room in some of my old school games like MORK BORG or DCC!
The reason it gets ignored right now is the really good stuff has been redone well already, and the rest of d20 faff was mostly shovelware.
The official WotC 3/.5 books always had solid practical game-running tips
I must have been grumpy when I wrote the first comment; 3.5 had some good stuff and shouldn’t be entirely hand waved away; I guess my problem is one of having lived through the uncertainty of the future of D&D in the late 90’s to the explosion of “hey we CAN use d20 for free so we should” garbage cash-grab products on the shelves. Then to the collapse of the bubble with 4e… the recent behavior (last few years) of Hasbro has really been one loogie into the eye of customer after another. Done with them (and 6e) until they can demonstrate that they’re not awful chuds.
Same! I am off WotC, I just grabbed these cuz they were cheap and seemed like they could be fun to look at. But I think the last time I bought a modern D&D product was in 2019. Even if I liked their stuff, they are just awfully exploitative
@@wasabiburger3047 dude and good picks to be sure. Honestly, the official material is good. For most of it. My problems with WotC 3/.5 years were the pace and volume of thinner & more expensive book drops… and as the system was older some of it felt like repackaging presented as new & shiny. Good redux of them and keep on, don’t let grumpy grognards like me stop the content, there are many many 3x players aging into heavy nostalgia cravings. Take it from someone who went through it ~10 years back with the 2e bloatware I drooled over at the bookstore… 😈
3/3.5 was my intro to the hobby a way back when. I like seeing this content as it's fun nostalgia.
I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this. ^ ^ I always love books that are some kind of collection of content you can easily pick up and drop in .
Better than Grimtooth's? ;) In all seriousness, I always love seeing challenge ideas that aren't just combat or social. Thanks for sharing.
As @PetesDracolich mentioned, the Goodman Games content from this era is pretty cool. Worth taking a look for sure.
Beholder House Party is a band I would listen to.
The 3.0, 3.5 era is sick! The third party really came through in 3.5. 3.0 being the first edition from Wizards after acquiring TSR. I think 3.0, 3.5 is most similar to 5E making it highly relevant for today's TTRPG player. I love bringing out the old stuff for new players in game because most likely, they never seen it before. Also Goodman Games old 3.5 modules are awesome. It reminds me of today’s kids rockin Jordan’s but never actually saw him play. 2 to 3.0 is the Jordan era of gaming. Oddly Jordan played for the Washington Wizards after TSR was acquired by Wizards. Pardon my analogy. You rock Wasabi!
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised! Looking forward to seeing what other content I find from this era!
@@wasabiburger3047 I have a few worthy recommendations in my community posts, stop by & check it out. I love to chat about games, get pointers & share experiences on the stuff I’ve ran. Peace!
@@wasabiburger3047I have a few recommendations in my community posts. Stop by & check it out, I love to chat about games, get pointers & share experiences on stuff I’ve ran. Peace Wasabi!
@@PetesDracolich I have to disagree with it being similar to 5e, unless you are talking about what it did for RPG gaming as a hobby and pushing it toward Mainstream. 3/.5 was the first time i saw “non-nerds” display interest in the game at all. 3 primed the pump but 5e kinda got it flowing it again, but better - 5e is so much more approachable and teachable than 3/.5 (IMHO).
@@KrooTon 5E is definitely more approachable than 3.5. I've been on a binge lately since I've found 3.5 easiest to convert over to 5E play. Most 5E players can easily google search almost any 5E material, so I've been going 3.5 for my table & converting it over to 5E to keep the element of surprise on my side, also theres so much great third party 3.5 material, its absolutely great. I like 5E play over 3.5, but my 5E tables gotta be hardcore mode.
3./5 is such a great supported edition.
There were a bunch of great books for 3/.5 era that could reasonably be lifted for other systems as long as you’re not trying to be to faithful to the crunch of the math for monsters, subclasses, etc.
Are there any books you would recommend?
@@ThrowAway9001 red hand of doom is a great adventure, highly recommend
The art is all I need to know it's worthy every penny.
And the art still looks great on the PDF since it isn't just a straight scan.
No skills?
Is this it's own rpg, or is this a system agnostic supplement?? Asking because I haven't heard of it before
system agnostic supplement
It is also related to the agnostic spell casting system used in Lost Pages’s other works but can be adapted to pretty much any d20-type system easily
As a Call of Cthulhu Veteran that one plot line you mentioned around 6:20 is 100% a plot I could see. You'd definitely see it in Pulp Cthulhu for sure. I could see myself picking this up for a dcc horror one shot too. I definitely will put this on my list of books to look into.
It would work great in Pulp Cthulu, the spell flavor texts are purposefully written in a vaguely 1880-1920 type time.
I still prefer 2e D&D. DCC is fun, for sure. Better than 5e in my opinion. I think 5e is too clunky. Ocean's Eleven? The original Brat Pack version or the Clooney/Pitt version?
I, sadly, cannot recommend this book. There are a couple of cool spells, sure. But way too often it's just flavor, and no substance. And they have a weird policy where they don't allow you to buy PDF only version if you are in Europe, which feels very cashgrabby. And I'm saying this from perspective of someone who was looking for "scary, dangerous, costly magic" system for my into the odd hack
Wow that PDF thing sounds super weird. What a weird choice.
@@wasabiburger3047 yeah, it's odd. And the contents are definitely more interesting for DMs than players, as most spells that are consistently useful essentially deal damage, but do so with some fucked up flavor. And I love that flavor, but mechanically it's not that interesting, or too niche. I'm still looking for a magic system and spellbook that's REALLY interesting to play with.
It is a purposefully vibe heavy over mechanics in the vein of Lost Page's other works i.e. Wonders and Wickedness. The PDF thing I'm pretty certain is related to some weird VATs thing but I know Paolo Greco has worked with people on this to try meet folks in the middle on these. Regardless I'm sorry it did not fit your table and I hope you do find something that you enjoy!
Hi, we now sell PDFs to the EU. We did not in the past because tax compliance with EU Digital Service regulations is complicated and expensive. Now that we sell PDFs to the EU we are overall losing money from EU PDF sales because of compliance expenses. Regarding the "flavour, no substance": writing a system agnostic book has its challenges. But all the spells have a very specific effect. It is not numeric, but it is concrete, even if it "merely" changes the narrative.
@@Tsojcanth wow, thanks! I did not expect reply from anyone involved. I will say - I think the spells are difficult to use in game (as in - they're very niche, most of them anyways). The items and monsters I found to be the coolest part personally.