Homemade DM Screens || Too Easily Distracted
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Hi. I'm Dael Kingsmill. And I get distracted too easily. Lately, it's been by Dungeon Master prep for a game of Dungeons & Dragons.
The highly requested Build-A-Baddie table: bit.ly/2gEmmnd
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For anyone seeking the Build-A-Baddie table or other information I referenced from my screens, you can check my blog, here: bit.ly/2gEmmnd
The Build-A-Baddie is up there already and it's the best bet for where I'll be uploading further content along those lines. :)
MonarchsFactory I have my own DM screen PDF if you're interested.
I also write encounter articles for Nerdarchy.com called "Out of The Box Encounters". All free.
First series has 50 encounters.
Second series is up to 18.
There's also a free starting adventure.
At 3:25 you talk about ball clips to track initiative. What are ball clips and were do I buy them? TY. :)
+Damnationization
It's bull clips, as in bull dog clips. Get coloured ones of those. You should be able to get them from any general supermarket
TY. I didn't realize they are called bull dog clips. I got some and put some colored stick paper on them. So I can use them for initiative. TY. For the info. :)
Excellent! Enjoy!
I consider GM screens to be a singular form of art. I collect them, and create them for games that don't exist. I love how you knew right off that the "official" DM screen was not gonna have the stuff you wanted. I also really liked that you made one for combat, and one for campaign stuff. Awesome sauce.
Build-a-Baddie is the greatest thing ever! It might not seem like a lot to you now, but it'll blow you players' minds when all of a sudden Nameless Baddie #124 has a unique ability they haven't seen before.
That brings me so much comfort and joy (appropriate for the season), thank you!
I bought a cyberpunk 2020 rulebook while back and it has similiar feature built in
From a DM who started playing in 1981, I know you'll be a great DM with your background in storytelling and raw enthusiasm. I'm certain your players will love what you have planned for them. That's really the point after all. Friends getting together and having fun!
At some point you should do a TED video presented like a serious TED talk just to confuse people. "I am here to talk about a very serious issue: how cool are tortoises?"
AHAHA! Brilliant! I love that idea!
I've wondered what to do with several of the Loot Crate boxes. Some I just toss out of course. This is a great idea. Thanks Dael!
They do tend to hang around for a good while before I ever get up the energy to go through them and chuck them in the recycling. Glad to be of service! * salutes *
Dec 2016, it's been so long. Still good content from my perspective as a wannabe DM. Would love to see the modern buildabaddie tables.
Easily distracted by new dnd books. I finally got my Godsfall Worldbook and now I have the Ravnica book.
So much reading to do.
If you don’t have loot crate a great way to make your own DM screen is to use one of the cardboard poster stand-ups kids use for Science Fairs and stuff. You can get 2-3 screens out of a single one, they’re very sturdy and usually only cost like $2 for the poster board.
Can I just say, this made me really happy. A lot of really good ideas here. From one DM to another, let's hope the party doesn't run off somewhere!
Haha, I suppose if they DO run off on me, they at least made me make a map so I might know where they're going?
I have to say, the build-a-baddie table is absolute genius! Such a simple but great idea. Now I just have to convert it over to 5e... I had to look up what Will, Fort, and Ref were supposed to be referencing. I can see a few other things that may need to be tweaked, (if anyone already has a 5e conversion typed out a link would be MOST welcome) but it's such a great idea, thank you for sharing this!
Matthew Mercer beware! Here comes Kingsmill, the next monarch of the art of DMing! :)
They need to meet .
She would also have to get past Chris Perkins.
I got close at the G&S/Nerdist Comic-Con party last year! By which I mean I didn't want to interrupt his dancing so I didn't wind up introducing myself...
MonarchsFactory I'm sure he would be delighted to meet you. But no worries, Mercer will meet you soon enough, when YOU DOMINATE THE D&D MULTİVERSE WITH YOUR ABSOLUTE DM'ING POWERS!!!!!! (:evil laughter:)
MonarchsFactory OMG she replied ! My life is now complete, I can die happy .
I also get on planning binges for our D&D campaign. "oh no, I need more maps!"
Good luck to you, DMDael. Looking forward to hearing about the campaign as it progresses! :)
This is the best sponsored content I've ever seen :')
I'm so excited for you and your gaming group! My group's campaign just wrapped up a few weeks ago, and we're already creating characters for the next one (which should start in about a month or so).
Nice job on your DM screens (especially that map), and good luck with your campaign!
Oh holy freaking WOW!! I can't wait to see some DM videos from you. Please please please do this!
seconded!
Lately, I've been distracted by vids about making terrain for Warhammer 40k and D&D.
Don't... TEMPT me Frodo!
That reminds me. There's also a Lord of the Rings miniatures game. Probably a decade old, if not older.
I think I'm tangentially familiar with it, a few of my relatives got into it for a little while back in the day.
I probably shouldn't drop a link like this as a reply...
ruclips.net/video/hbw226IPoec/видео.html
You. You've distracted me. I just found this channel and now anytime I see your thumbnails on my feed I just haaaaaaave to click. Damnit.
interestingly enough, I've been distracted by creating my villains back story for a d&d campaign I'm running with some friends. You might have seen them, but Matt Mercer's DM tips on geek and sundry have been useful as I only started a couple months ago.
Matt Colville's got a great youtube series called Running the Game that you might find useful too. It's been helpful for me.
awesome screens! they'll be a lot more useful than the shop bought ones which tend to have very little on them i find. you're gonna be a great DM, you've got actual skills and knowledge that will come in handy when world-building, and you're already anticipating the first hurdle, improvising! no story survives intact for long, don't fear changing things up so that plot flows naturally rather than railroaded, save whatever you don't use for later.
Thanks for the pointers! Now let's just hope my improvising isn't totally off-base. THIS is what my years of acting were preparing me for...
one of the best things to remember is from Gary Gygax himself; "The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules". I don't need to tell you how to tell a story, but it definitely doesn't involve lengthy rules debates.
The only DM screen I have had is homemade, and I paste clear plastic folder sleeves an pockets to the inside of the cardboard where I can swap out pages of info for ddifferent campaigns, arcs, etc.
“It’s like build a bear... (dramatic pause) but for baddies!” LMFAO 🤣
It was the presentation that got me.
Made my own for call of Cthulhu. Just 3 pieces of black cardboard, some black tape and some printouts oft he official screen (came as PDF when I purchased the books): works like a charm.
Gonna be honest, wasn't too sure of ya. Matt Colville mentioned you and I was like, "I'll check it out." As soon as you did the Build a baddie thing, boom, done. Keep up the good work and having fun doing it. Thanks for the entertainment.
I have not done much role playing at all, but in the short amount I have played I learned that I am great at rolling ones. The DM basically had to start getting creative just to not kill me all the time. At least we had fun, even though I threw fireballs on other party members and fell down stairs and things like that.
Haha, oh no! Sounds to me like you need a new dice!
I'd love any and all DnD videos you make about the campaign and stuff
I am using binders as a dm screen. Got some old school 2E screens in front and all info I need on my side.
"What have you been easily distracted by recently?"
I'm supposed to be cleaning. Like, right now.
I made my own out of some 1x10" and 1x6" boards and a couple hinges. Put the 10 inch tall boards on either side and a long 6 inch tall board in the center so you can see the map easier. I also table-sawed a slot along the top so you can insert tabs with names to display the order of initiative. The baddie chart is a cool idea.
Pretty face, awesome accent, and clearly as easily distracted as I am... I think you're now on my list of distractions. Currently I'm also distracted by the potential of Hirst Arts molds -- I really want to buy all the molds and build All The Things! Unfortunately I have no players and no discretionary income right now, so... I'm torn between wanting to do it anyway and trying to talk myself into being more rational. Thanks for the distraction from that! Like everyone else, I dig your Build-a-Baddie idea. Thanks for posting it on your blog. Happy distractions to you.
Map looks awesome. Well done. Ive been GMing for a pathfinder game and got the screen because of those notes...that I dont use... Thanks for the video
Wish I could play in one of your games! You've got to be a great GM with all that planning ahead and detail!
Congrats on being a DM! Don't worry too much about the details of the game, try to focus more on the story that you tell for your players. Get them involved and the game will run itself (kind of,...mostly 😉).
Half tempted to link this to Colville or Matt
To show Corville how to do a short video and pause between words?
Jay 1066 blasphemy
at least his vids I don't need to watch on 1.25 or 1.5 xD
it would be great if you record the game session
That's a great idea. Even if you don't want to upload it, just record your first game for future generations.
This, one day you might want to remember it (and maybe cringe a little like most of us in our first session) but if you don't mind i would like watch it too
YES! I was thinking this too. Dael please record your game.
I'd love to watch something like that
I really just don't have the equipment to record anything for that length of time, sadly, but I've been thinking about making blog posts or Matt Colville style campaign diaries to share with people if they're interested. We'll see how we go.
Please tell us more about your D&d adventures. I'm sure whatever story you come up with will be amazing.
YES! I'd love campaign diaries so we can follow along!
Yeah, I'm considering doing something Matt Colville style! But we'll just have to see.
Easily distracted by Monarchs videos
PLEASE tell me we're going to get campaign vlogs (like, keeping us updted about what goes down).
Also that "Build-a-Baddie" table is genius!
I really want to! I'll definitely try to do blog posts or videos or something, especially since there's always that post-game buzz where you just want to tell everyone you pass in the street about what happened.
"..But for baddies."
I am embarrassed by just how *hard* I laughed about that, lololol. Anyway, I just had to download the table. It looks incredibly useful for those random encounters (instead of just having dozens of sheets ready and throwing them together. Lets face it.. you only need a *few* stats to be known (concretely) in combat.
Anyway, the table should be a fantastic addition to the DM screen "sheets" I'm putting together for my temp solution.. at least until I make myself a more permanent one from wood and brass. Thanks for sharing!
I've been subscribing to this channel for ages due to the awesome mythology stories, and never realised Dael was a RPG'r. Of course I've been playing D&D for years, ever since my first gaming group back in Berkeley (NSW not California) as a teenager. Matthew Mercer never gave advice like that loot crate idea - which is handy because I have the Magic crate. Unfortunately I didn't remember Dael's code when I ordered the south park crate last week. My fail.
DAEL - Why the smeg don't you have a Patreon page? - I'd gladly donate for more vids
That's some effective channeling of your distraction into productivity! One day, I hope the products of my distraction are so useful :P
Yes!! Post your DMing prowess please.
This is so cool and the build-a-baddie and you made a map holy crap, this is one of those TED videos that i'd love to get an hours-long deep dive version.
I've been too easily distracted by Pokémon Moon. By which i mean i've barely done anything else.
Haha, I think an hours long deep dive would just reveal more how I have no idea what I'm doing and have probably messed up the game balance in some huge way before even having our first session.
It would be so entertaining though! BTW, on a completely unrelated topic, one of Matt's latest DM Tips was about dealing with player character deaths :P
Oh my god Dael, I love you! You literally just came up with an unintentional ad on the spot. Brainstorm and everything
I am SO jealous of your players. You are going to be an epic DM!
Fingers crossed I do alright, haha :) Thanks Charles!
0:50 The most Australian BOOM I’ve ever heard!
I glued binder sheet protectors on the inside of my DM screen, that way I can slide sheets in and out (upgraded content and maps etc..).
I share those same middle names! You are not alone!
Eyyyy a TED vid, very nice. a great idea, and I totally want to hear about your dming shenanigans!
Wow, her accent is so bizzarely amazing!
great fun hanging with you Dael! i am distracted by supermoons.
Your first steps were great! A belated welcome to the DMing club!
Dungeon Coach gave a shout out 'bout yur Build-a-baddy chart. Very cool!
Awesome DM screens! I've been thinking of ways to make some custom ones myself too.
In responses to this very video someone pointed me to The Angry GM and in this one post he sorted out half the issues I had with putting the screens together, so maybe it'll save you some trouble: theangrygm.com/marvelous-mechanical-miscellany/
About to start DM'ing a campaign for the first time (done a couple of one shots but this is my first time doing an actual campaign), it's Hoard of the Dragon Queen so I have the benefit of it being a module but I'm planning to add my own stuff to it to really try and flesh it out a bit.
Definitely been getting easily distracted by all the supplements I've gotten off of DM's Guild 😂😂
I use my laptop, but if I have time and inspiration at some point I want to make something with little wing flaps for it. Probably just a cheat-sheet for conditions and maybe a list for of generic NPC names or something.
Inspirational! My desire is to call Cathulu.
You are wonderful, please keep making these videos
Could I have a copy of that Build-A-Baddie chart? I've just gotten started DMing and that sounds like the best idea.
I'll try to put a copy up on my blog for people to look at ASAP :)
It's up now! You can find it on my blog here: bit.ly/2gEmmnd
OMG YOU'R THE BEST
Badass. I'm prepping to start GMing a game and found this vid from another comparing the original 5E GM guide and "Reincarnated," but this seems like such a better idea! Love the Build a Baddy as well!
Listen to her. Build your own and make sure you print out your rule blind spots. For me, grappling rules in pathfinder always slow things down. A list of male and female names for when PCs meet someone I hadn’t planned. Etc.
That's freaking awesome Dael! Way to not waste your resource sand recycle.
Build-an-Owlbear?
Better bet: Build-a-Bugbear!
I just want to watch a game you do because I too am making my first steps into the role of dungeon master and I'm not quite sure how I'll manage
I use the same thing I tell my customers (I just realized if you switch the first two vowels in that words it becomes costumers), which is a customizable screen. It is a trifold screen (like the usual), but it has Windows that you can slide a page into (think like your 3-Ring Binders for school). That way I can control both the outside and the inside.
For the last few months of my campaign that recently ended, I used both sides to show the map of the continent (it was a continent broken into 3 parts (Northern, Soutern, and Middle). They never actually made it to the Southern Country, but I never throw away my maps. I like all my campaigns to be part of one large world. So in the next campaign I run, they might return to this place, and then I'll have the maps ready.
I plan on getting some more technical stuff on the DM side, but for the most part I'm pretty good with the improv of it all. I'm a pantser sort of writer anyway. I have an idea of where I'm going, but most of the writing is from the seam of my pants. Which is good, because of the first piece of advice I give to all DMs. NO content survives contact with players. Sometimes they'll run in the opposite direction, sometimes they'll kill your big bad boss in the first encounter (which I would've been fine with... but they killed him by shoving a spear up his butt).
The other piece of advice I always give (which I find to be much more important) is to think of Pirates of the Carribean when thinking of the rules. *does awesome pirate voice* They're more like Guidelines. It is up to you to have the game keep moving. Don't let it get bogged down with the rules. They are just there to help guide you where you want, not to be walls in the way.
I wanted to try and make a customisable screen initially, they look so good and useful!! Haha, "more like guidelines anyway", I'll remember that.
They are useful. But I do admit, if you are making your own it is definitely harder to make a customizable one.
Great video thanks for sharing. Very entertaining and useful
Is that a crochet charmander in the background? nice.
missed the opportunity of making the magic box your magic items/mundane shops :P
ah, the gaping chasm of tabletop rpg planning, I'm all too familiar with it all.
I myself have several such games that I have planned for the future (at some point). Currently on the immediate list is; viking semi-historical saga, dieselpunk pulp adventure, flintlock-fantasy adventure, WWII commandos, contract monster slayers, swashbuckling intrigue, gothic apocalypse, amongst others. Some are a lot more developed then others, but I mostly hop from one to the other.
I feel that I'm closer to an actual playable session with the dieselpunk game, mainly as I'm thinking of using the FAE system; but it is just a little matter of scheduling a good time for everyone and myself... which is no easy task.
I can only imagine the kind of gorgeous art that would come out of your world-building creations! And it is SO. HARD. to schedule people! I have soooo much more appreciation for the work of Jenni, Sarah and April wrangling the G&S vloggers now. I'm only trying to organise 5 people and me, and they had like 20+. Much respect.
Drawing and designing really helps a lot with planning stuff out. I've also found that writing flash fiction helps as well. Both do wonders to internalise and externalise thoughts.
Nice idea
Those look pretty handy. You should totally stream your game sessions.
You could maybe stream it via Twitch to bypass the microphone memory issues.
good luck with the session!
Thank you!
which program do you use for creating those world maps ?
I'd like to know as well.
Hey, I love watching your videos and I've taken a lot of great tips from you. With the combat DM screen that you shared in this video, I was hoping you could post a screen shot of what you have on it. It was hard to see in the video. Cheers!
But did you put the randomized name generator? That's where Ched and Nacheddar came from. Still the most memorable NPC's I've created... hated, but memorable.
I've been distracted by the internet mostly. I should spend less time online and more time reading. I want to finish The Tale of Tales so I can start on a new Krampus book I agreed to review (which I should really review before the end of the holidays because it's a holiday themed book), but it's always too tempting to watch RUclips and read tweets.
I know that feeling all too well!
That is exactly how I have been sine I started DMing a few months ago!
It gets under your skin in the best way, doesn't it!
build a baddie is a great idea
I'm now subbed. I've watch several videos in full so that's why :) a lot of plugs though
What did you use to make your map? It looks great!
Oh my god I want the maps. (Also, what program did you use to draw them?!)
I did that terrible person thing where I drew it by hand and then used that as a draft to draw it in photoshop. I am sorry.
You're just.... awesome.
You look a lot like Rey from star wars :P Awesome tutorial!
How do you add new players to a pre-existing campaign?
That makes me wonder what one of my brother's regular games is like. In fact that makes me wonder if he is able to get to regular games right now, because he's been struggling to get back on his proverbial feet after suffering from an infected insect bite on his leg that had him off work for a while and he got behind on rent, and trips to have his leg checked after he got out of hospital were like $50 because he lives up in Woy Woy and has to go to Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney.
But you know what my distraction has been - Gawain and the Green Knight - which I did add extra on my dA post about the Ragnelle marriage story. But that has also kinda sent me into looking for slash fanfic options that aren't in my previous favourite fandoms - definitely not in the mood for Dragon Age slash (most of it is swamped by Dorian/Inquisitor or Dorian/Iron Bull), can't even touch Harry Potter slash, and most of Hobbit slash is swamped with bloody Thranduil and I hate him about as much as I hate Solas (bloody arrogant Elves, my Silmaril would burn both if she could get away with it), so I went and looked up Stucky (Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes).
I really want to get back into the Sims 3 again, but even there I'll be distracted, because I have three characters in set-up stage across three savegames, and my Istilnan game (a custom world that is an "Elven" town) is still stalled with the Basement of the Silmarils' house unfinished (I kept having the game crash when I'd done a pile of work without saving).
I also some time need to go over my Nightlands file about High Elves because I have thought up a tad more. And that loops back to RP as Nightlands is a world idea that I would love to build into a workable RP setting.
Great videos, really fantastic, just one thing- there's a battletoad dressed as Batman in the background, and I just can't take my eyes off of it.
Share some stories of the epic feats from campaign ^^
Weird, I never took you for an RPG gamer. I have no idea why because it fits with the mythology stuff. Anyway, great video! I can't wait to see you do more stuff on gaming.
Darryl Mott, columnist for EN World
Thanks! I look forward to MAKING more stuff about gaming! :)
Wonder if I can find some old loot crate boxes near me. XD
Would you, by chance, happen to be a monarchist? They are rare, but I'm curious because I have a lot of respect for people smart enough to defend the ideology.
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Ugh. I need to make a DM screen because I need to keep a bunch of stuff secret in my next game but I'm too lazy
Hey, Idk if you see these, but whats your favorite Race in 5e. Im not saying just vanilla, just about anything.
Dael have you ever looked at Runequest I used to run dnd back in the 80;s but now my children are growing up I have run dnd for them but Runequest has given them a feeling of less constraint due to the class as they choose a profession or character then develop the skills they want for example my nephew has chosen to be an ogre which I wouldn't normally allow but I only see him once or maybe twice a year so I have time to run two campaigns and he still remembers that he has to pretend to be a big boned human when in human settlements but over the hill ogres are running the show and sometimes causing trouble to the human merchants trying to cross their territory.As a thinking DM you should look into it I have modified the rules somewhat but it fits my needs better than the restrictive class system I inherited from dnd
That is an awesome map you drew, very impressive! If you love to craft stuff for your gaming sessions like terrain, I will give you some links to some awesome crafters. :)
Ooo, does this mean we might get a future video about something that happened in your game that made you Too Easily Distracted as well?
I'd say there's a decent chance ;)
Great one Dael. Could you maybe share your build a baddie table with us? Sounds really cool.
Also would definitely be interested in campaign diaries 😀
Check and check! I'll maybe upload the build-a-baddie to my blog for people to look at :) Although, it should be remembered it's tailored for a level 1 party and that I have zero idea what I'm doing.
Here it is! bit.ly/2gEmmnd
MonarchsFactory Thank for sharing Dael. You're awesome! The table looks really cool, will def use it!
I'm starting a 5e D&D run, and I'm setting it in Golarion too. No biggie ;) Just adjust the lore where needed to fit the mechanics -- but it's not hard!
so hows the D&D going? really wanna hear about the kind of shenanigans you're enabling. also, i've been trying a system Dungeon World out and it has a tool for creating bad guys exactly like your build a baddie thing which is super helpful when you arent sure how to balance a new system.
You are fun! Guess your games are awesome!