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Yay was hoping you would make a halloween themed video! 🎃 As always very concrete with why and how to do things 👻

So many ideas! I can't wait to include them! I especially like the idea of hands grabbing and dragging away a member of the party. Thank you, as ever, for a brilliant video.

Very nice breakdown. Thanks for sharing!

Tried using ambience instead of background music this time and kinda liked it. What do you think? Also, the ghost personal ghost story as promised: A few years ago I was at a reunion weekend for former students at a kinda boarding school I went to in 2018. The school is housed in a building that goes back to the early 20th century and which spent about 50 years as a sanatorium for tuberculosis. As such, a lot of people came to the place and never left, and in the attic you can see signatures on the rafters by people who knew they were dying. When you're up there, at first you only spot one or two of the signatures, but then your eyes adjust to the thin pencil scribbles and the names start swarming all over the ceiling. Needless to say, the building has a lot of ghost stories attached to it, perhaps most prominent of which is the sighting of a woman looking out of the windows of the second floor, even at times when no one has any business being up there. So at this weekend, I went up to the assembly room on the second floor alone to play a bit on the grand piano up there. It was about midday and the sun was out and there was the sound of distant conversations. No reason for anything spooky to happen. But as I was playing, I suddenly felt like I was being watched, and out of the corner of my eyes I could sense some kind of figure in the corner of the room. I thought it looked like a woman, because of the shape of long hair and a long dress, but when I looked, there was nothing to see. I went on with playing, but only a few minutes later, the feeling came back, and this time I sensed the same shape, only now it was just behind the front row of chairs facing the piano. Again I looked, but still nothing to see. At this point I was a little spooked, but figured if it was something, maybe they were here for the music. So I played on, but when I saw the shape again, it was right in front of me, beyond the piano, moving fast towards me. My head jolted up, but there was nothing, only the lingering feeling of unease and being in the presence of someone. So I quickly packed up my music sheets and hurried downstairs to find someone to hang with. Regardless if it was something real or just a result of spooky mind, it scared me enough to flee the room, so... happy halloween!🎃

So helpful and informative, as always, thank you. I really do find the way you explain things so easy to understand.

Love how much you explain everything so well step by step 😊 I’m so tired of “top 10 tips” videos that almost doesn’t explain anything

Thank you so much for this wonderful info. Pat 1 was actually very informative and I'll be referencing it for a couple of dungeons in the future. I am still a fairly fresh DM about 10-12 sessions into my campaign. So I am trying to find all the really precise and helpful videos (which has been a problem with others being a bit more vague in tips/help). But as for videos I'd love to get more info about: - Monster Creation (both minion or Big Bad, rebranded stat blocks and completely new creations) - methods of organizing DM notes - building side quests (Urban or Regional, Mundane or Plot driven) - using a module but player attention is elsewhere (how to get them back on track or at least interested again) - how to spookify areas that are interesting enough to come back but were planned for a higher adventure for my party Excited to see what videos you produce in the upcoming months :)

Somewhere in this video is a sound effect I made myself, and I laughed way more than I should at it while editing. Can you guess which?^_^ Also this and the last video were really heavy on the backstage work, so I'll take it a bit easy and the next will come out in late september or early october. Let's talk about horror in TTRPGs then :) Also also thanks to everyone who's subscribed! Kinda wild you guys wanna come back for more of my monotone droning^^

Always love how structured your videos are, makes it very easy to understand and the steps are filled with great tips 😄✨✨

Hope you're not tired of my wonky homemade lofi in the background for half the video^^ Turns out making lofi isn't a craft you master in a week! Who knew?

It's always a good day when you've uploaded! I trapped my husband in a town (force field, could get in, but not out) and followed your advice on puzzles to give him the best session I'd done for him! So you can bet I'll be relying on you/this video when I drag him around a dungeon 😀

Great video! What do you think about using the dungeons factions as a starting point for design?

I completely forgot to mention the must-use-at-least-once option of putting a trap in a trap^^ A pitfall in the bottom of a pitfall? A booby trapped bear trap?

You’re not just making videos - you’re making excellent videos! Another brilliant one! Thank you 😊

Just headed back here for a refresher, since my husband has decided to ignore all normal paths and head overland towards the spot clearly marked 'Abandoned Town'...honestly I thought I'd have more time, because he's usually more sensible than that! He thinks it'll be haunted, but it's actually a trap, intended originally to safeguard the occupants but accidentally activated centuries after it was abandoned - now people who walk over the threshold find themselves unable to leave, cared for by (reskinned) modrons, My husband will have to figure out who designed this security feature, find out where they lived &where they were buried to gather information and materials in order to switch it off and dismantle it. So! Great! Now I have to design it!!

I've been giving my players time gems that when crushed revert time one round. So far it's been very manageable. I also have a good group that is invested in making the whole experience fun and aren't looking for ways to break the game. Your mileage may vary.

What are the best travel experiences you've had in a TTRPG game? One of mine was a short segment in a Call of Cthulhu game, where the party split up, some driving in the car, the others taking the bus. By various shenanigans and dice rolls, the car ended up pushing the bus off the road, delaying the other half of the party without them knowing who did it^^

One of the best things I learned here, is making sure the players know that they need a certain something to do a certain something - focusing on your example of needing a password to get through a door. It can be easy to accidentally make something like that which is too hard for the players to realize, but to you, the creator, it seems obvious. Another great think I learned is to think of the property of the objects you are using (your water example). Thanks for posting this. As for input to the video itself - I don't have any critiques. Sound, music, visuals and pacing were all good.

I forgot that I hadn't left a commentI Another great video. I kind of loath time travel in stories, it's so rarely done well, and I prefer the hypothesis that if you went back in time then your effects are already a part of history, so you can't change history. But you have some brilliant ideas that threw me for a loop, and I definitely want to use the time loop one (this is why I didn't comment immediately - I didn't want to tip my hat to my husband!) I wish I knew lots of people so that I could encourage them to this channel - you deserve to do so well!

huh, i would have never considered doing any kind of timey wimey shenanigans, but you make it sound really doable 🤔 ill have to gather some experience running simple stuff first tho haha im getting ahead of myself

Have you done a time travel story in a TTRPG before? Also, if my voice sounds strange, it's because I'm experimenting and working on it atm^^ It's a work in progress!💖

I love the way you approach this topic! I've watched quite a view videos on this topic, because I really struggle with fascilitating interesting combat (and so do the other people you ocacionally DM for me ^^). I realized I never Ambush my players, the fight always ends in all the enemies being dead and I maybe once escalted a fight. Well, I now know what to work on!

I got tremendously lucky by being recommended this channel, I love your style of sharing information! You did an incredible job with this video, and I wish you nothing but the best in your future creative endeavours.

Fishing as a combat encounter is sheer genius! Thank you so much, I'm a new DM, I love the way you analyse things - this has been really helpful in getting me to think three...four?...dimensionally....if that's the coreect term. I have never considered having the enemy surrender and saddling the players with duty of care either.

Great tips all around! And nicely structured! :) My players will never see it coming (Well, one of them might). Oh, and btw. Whoever those actors are for the fighting shots, they clearly have futures in Hollywood. Amazing! ;)

It's here! Got a little delayed because I was prepping D&D^_^ While editing I discoveres Multiband Compression, so the audio should be slightly better, but I also had a cold while recording, so the two probably cancel each other out :) Anyway enjoy!💖💖

Thank you for this. Puzzles are hard, but you made them easier.

Great video, I was really impressed how seemingly quick and easy you designed these puzzles, and I am inspired to try myhand at this :D

Thank you, that was really well explained! 😊👍

In the time it took to watch this video, I came up with very different variations of both of these puzzles that I, someone who doesn't normally like puzzles, think are really cool and want to use next time I GM. 1. The illusion puzzle is now a room full of identical statues. Each holds a tray with an item on it (my two ideas so far are weapons, armor, adventuring gear from the PHB or figurines of different types of monsters). One stands next to the doorway with an empty tray. The solution is to create an illusion of the item that is missing on the empty tray (e.g. the statues have each type of Metallic Dragon , each type of Giant , each type of Elemental etc., but only have four of the five Chromatic Dragons so that's the set you have to complete). Doing so opens the door. 2. For the water puzzle, A. I replaced the board with a miniature boat to make the solution a bit more obvious and B. at the bottom of the pit, there's a monster that doesn't float, like a Stone Golem, so if you try to climb down, you're probably in for a tough fight.

Great stuff, thank you!

Thank you. This was a really informative and inspiring, addressing stuff that I have been struggling with when designing adventures. The working backwards approach and breaking it down into simple questions really makes sense and helps to ground the puzzle in the he world. Since you asked for feedback: for my taste the information density could have been a little bit higher - just trimming off a few sentences and repitions here and there and making the whole vid a bit tighter and shorter - but really on only slightly so. I also think the approach of demonstraiting the method with an in-depth example and then applying it to a second shorter example worked really well as a teaching technique.

holy moly this is exactly what i needed for the thing im prepping right now, thank you kindly for this well timed and very thorough breakdown <3<3<3<3<3<3

I really like this video. You have such a pleasant voice, very soothing and clear to listen to. And you gave loads of great tips and ideas on a topic that I as a baby GM struggle with alot, thank you for that! I haven't got a clue about video making and editing, so I can't really give any advice on that, but to me this feels pretty professional. If you hadn't written in the comments that this is your first video, I really wouldn't have noticed. Kinda bummed out right now that there isn't more to watch from you, haha. No pressure - thank you for your work, I'm looking forward to seeing more of you!

This has been the most helpful, instructional video I've come across on this subject, thank you. I'm not qualified to give advice on video making - I'm sure there's advice to give - curiously as someone who uses subtitles to supplement listening, the autogenerated ones didn't struggle nearly as much with you as they do with some - including (or even especially) with American English, at some point proper subtitles would be most appreciated, but it is by no means a priority. Oh! A script! I don't think you used a script (judging by your lapse in memory about lightning damage etc. although I loved that moment and felt it) and I've noticed other RUclipsrs saying how using a script rather than bullet points really upped their game - I don't know, just putting it out there.

This video is not only helpful but also really well made. Keep it up, i think youtube suits you really well

Nice work. Good information, and pleasing to watch (soothing voice, nice clean background, good sound and vid quality, well organized thoughts). Can't wait to see more!

Hello. I really enjoyed the video and it got my brain bubbling away with cool ideas to design my own puzzles. Thank-you! Suggestion: consider using the ‘chapters feature’ on youtube. I can see the video being a great reference for me in the future and having chapters for skipping around to the different sections would be a boon. Looking forward to your next one. Cheers.

Didnt realize this was the first video till I clicked on your account to see more haha. Great vid cant wait to see more

So much great info! Loved the way you explained everything so it was easy to understand :3 ✨ This is also nice for players to know how the mechanics might work 😄

This is my first video of this kind, so feel free to give feedback on anything from the thumbnail, audio, background music structure etc. Any feedback is helpful💖