Make sure to check out A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/splatteredink/a-time-travelers-guide-to-dinosaur-hunting?ref=2o5axt
This one reeks of AI imagery. I'd prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for campaign settings or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with cool twists, go for Dr. Dhrolins Dictionary of Dinosaurs.
This kickstarter product reeks with AI Imagery, I prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for a campaign setting and all of it is not AI or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with a cool twist, I suggest Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Paleogames
For those on the fence about "kitchen sink" or too deep into a low fantasy world building to find a way out? Just make an event that brings them around. Like a reverse asteroid that BRINGS dinosaurs. Precedent in Witcher for "Conjunction of Spheres" or Berserk's "Eclipse" bringing about fantasy monsters and magic in a blink. You can always choose the version of your setting that you want over the version that's "acceptable?"
Even Half-Life starts out with a science project going wrong and opening a portal to another dimension that brings the monsters/aliens. Stranger things starts off with a similar premise as well. Fortnite used that rift thing to add different things each season and the weapons/"tech" progressed each season to incorporate the rift gems more intricately. Like, you start by just using a gem/fragment to get a boost, and later you're using rift grenades and such (feels funny to use Fortnite as an example for world building). There's also always gods, which have the power to just make new things happen. Especially if there's a war of the gods or an evil deity causing havoc and making new creatures or something.
I read a novel not too long where the protagonist is a writer and teaches creative writing classes. One of the things he told his students was "Read like Dracula, write like Frankenstein" and that really helped my creative process.
Do you think myyy partner will let me get emotional support rats? 🤔 I really love your use of "different types of glue" - I'm also a fan of gonzo-style worldbuilding!
Pathfinder’s Golarion is one of my favorite fantasy settings because it has a bit of everything with the gothic horrors of Ustalav or fledgling democracy of Andoran even more unique realms like the wild west inspired Alkenstar or the techno barbarians of Numeria each nation has it’s own flavor of fantasy that can provide a whole campaign or a adventure of the week style where the players are traveling the world having wildly varying experiences in each nation.
Thank you once again, made DMing in the long-term far more exciting, 3 months into running my first campaign on a small island kingdom next campaign in a month or so will be overseas on a completely different continent, looking forward to seeing how the all in one world approach works and has gotten me enthusiastic about expanding my world whilst playing dnd weekly
Made a kitchen sink homebrew. Between my ideas + rolling on tables = this place has room for anything. Got a mountain valley the size of Colorado where it's a real wild west frontier vibe, though it's still in the medievalish fantasyland. Never been to DisneyWorld, but as I understand they have everything and just chunk it up into distinct districts. ALSO, THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING "OVERARCHING" CORRECTLY, the entire world has forgotten how except like 3 of us.
I had a Shakespeare professor tell me that every story theme is found somewhere in Shakespeare's writings. I still have not been able to prove him wrong.
I've been gming and world building for 17 or so years-- starting in my early teens When I started, I felt free to take inspiration from anywhere, more or less In the majority of the middle years though I felt that it was "best" to ignore lots of ideas and be very selective about what goes into different worlds Now, I create wild high fantasy and love world building as I play, finding new inspirations and putting them right into my worlds This is an excellent reminder of how fun that is. My younger self could've really used the advice. I love all of your videos
Again Daði saves my Monday blues with yet another amazing video. You guys are doing such an amazing work and it’s been awesome to have been a part of this journey with you.
More validation for what I've been doing with my setting for the last decade. I really appreciate making videos on that subject matter because I came to a lot of these conclusions because I have a passion for writing and storytelling (despite the lack of skills and focus), and talked to my buddy about world building for years when we started playing. I'd love to see more and how some of these concepts can be taken further!
Great vid, loving how you use examples from your own setting and games, hopefully we’ll one day get a world tour? The light behind you started peeking over your shoulder around 8:50, might want to lower it a bit
I legit added STAT from Regretavator as an NPC in the Campaign we're currently doing and everyone loved it. Also Nekomata from ZZZ seems like a fun Character to play as so I'm literally stealing that as my next Character. The first Campaign is mainly about the Fey while the second Campaign is about taking down the Star Spawn for context.
Good advice. My RPG background before D&D was World of Warcraft which has basically everything at some point or some place. That freedom has served me well so far.
I would love to see a video on how to run a classic dungeon crawl, with winding corridors, multiple directions to go, etc. I've always been confused on how to best do this between theater of the mind, player maps, DM maps, and how to pull it all together so that the players actually feel like they're exploring an actual dungeon. Instead of the normal five room straight line dungeon
Man, every time I watch one of your videos I feel like we’re so on the same page when it comes to how to prep/play D&D. It’s a real shame we live so far apart. I just got done with a Wererat focused homebrew campaign that borrows HEAVILY from the Skaven and, what’s more, the music from Fury Road that you happen to put in this video was their theme music. Brothers in arms; Tied at the tail. Long Live the Rat King. If you’re interested I can send you all my notes on it and you can steal what you want from it!
This is legit how i make my stuff lol This is my totally not Noxus with my own spin somewhat influenced by their Pantheon of gods that are capable of interfering in matters, which is why they haven't been simply wiped out of the world by enemies since they are an expansive conquesting empire. At the same time, on another continent there is a whole steam/magicpunk region where the greatest invertors and many concepts we would consider were born, such as big ships that were made by the first ever Pirate that made his ship so he could flee the continent with his riches, settling on an island that ended up becoming another independent continent ruled by criminal syndicates. It just keeps devolving and evolving into more and more, but remaining connected.
Loving the videos, I’m a new dm and watching all the videos is helping lots, I’ve found my players have enjoyed playing more and I’ve enjoyed dm ing, I’m subbed to the Patreon and can’t wait for alllll the exclusive content, keep up the good work, love ya
Kitchen-sink world building is my favourite. Smashing genres together is the whole point. I love the idea of how cosmic forces shape the world, and how the common man is forced to deal with the fallout. The uprising of janky tech, dangerous and unpredictable, and how the magical populace deal with it. How industry is impacted by any of these things. Don't allow what you feel you "should" include get in the way of what you "want" to include. "Put the cool stuff you like in your games" - Matt Colville Also I feel like this video was a convenient excuse to talk about your love of dinosaurs and skaven, but I'll allow it :D
But were you wearing shorts this time? I recently stole the idea of a Hive City from Warhammer, I made the government be the Arcanist Inquisition which I took from Ghostfire Gaming and then decided to have this city be built deep underneath the polar ice as an Ark which I based on Frostpunk, because some magical rift allowed the world to be completely covered by an otherworldly corrosive mist which I took from somebody's homebrew setting called Aarden.
I've been developing a campaign setting and struggling with the idea of how I'm having to do it sans players given unavailability, and this video helped me realize it's okay because I've been working towards three themes of my own this whole time. Thanks for that!
Diving into each location and making it unique as you discover it dovetails wonderfully with Obsidian and note based knowledge management. All hail the screaming mass
The last D&D game I ran, my party was a Neko with magic cancer, Pixie trying to grow an army of mushrooms, a dimension hopping Doppelganger, and a blind dwarf with a shotgun and an itchy trigger finger. The party had a Plushie Beholder named Poof as their mount and it would carry them places, at night the Beholder would dream and cause random effects to happen the next day. Together they were up against the Space Pirates from Metroid who I homebrewed into the world, who are cultivating an outer god that causes biological creatures to fuse together upon coming into contact with each other, but the real enemies who were using the Space Pirates were these corporate bad guys that are taking over the economies of nearby cities by selling normal products at 5% of the cost, running every other store out of business. My players motivations were to steal rare organs from magical creatures to create an army of flesh abominations in order to take over the world, it was a wild ride.
Awesome video. You've tacked a fun topic that can be challenging to articulate. GMs should feel empowered to play with all the toys at once! Just have fun! Thanks.
Skaven, yes-yes! One of the first dungeons I put my pirate party through turned out to be a skaven den with warp lightning cannons and Gatling guns, it was the most epic near TPK 🤣 🐀
I really needed this video 🤪 I am currently creating a world to first-time DM, and I am falling into all the classic pitfalls (overcreating, too much detail that probably wont come up etc. pp.) - and this is no different 😅 Its going to be a pirate themed nautical campaign with underwater elements and deep sea horror and potentially Dagon at the end. Bur oh, also Vampires because cool! And mindflayers! But wait, gotta have a dragon or a couple. And the elemental plane of water could play a role, maybe even air! And there will be a volcano, so maybe even fire. And the feywild sounds cool, lets work that in somehow! Maybe a hagcoven or something. In my head I am justifying that I just want to give the players themes so they can just follow what they like, but in reality I am just over-exited for all the possibilites and scared I wont be able to improvise something cool when needed, so I try to overprepare. But your videos help! 😅
it's so funny you should mention the Skaven! Just setting up to run my first campaign, and at least for the early to mid levels The primary antagonists are a race similar to but legally distinct from the Skaven. One of the first plot hooks in the game is going to be finding missing children. Three guesses to what the rats are taking children for :-) Set the tone early right?
I think people should not be scared of using any cool ideas they have immediately, be it setting or plot stuff. Use 'em or lose 'em, I say. Also, I did enjoy the sound recording bouncing back and for the with the jump cuts! 😅
@Whyzerowl lol I just did this in a game im running. Players made their way to an unknown (until now) island. Where bbeg has made his operations and I was just going thru the MM to find interesting monsters to throw at them until they found him.....and then i came across dinosaurs and I was like YUP.
For the last few months I was writing a campaign in custom setting based on legends of king Arthur and knights of round table. BUT! a) King Arthur is actually a king from cartoon King Arthur and Knights of justice. b) whole world is covered in invisible metallic dust of magical nature that make time run differently in different places and change relativity. So, for example, theres a Bedlam which is actually 500+ years younger then King arthur "in reality". So when early medieval fantasy characters go in, they may find themselves in Victorian England for a short time. Have you seen recent batman movies? You know, in old comics they dont have cellphones and Gotham looks like its 30s. In recent Gotham is still art deco heavy, but they got modern technology sometimes.
That's awesome! Tbh I struggle with having a central "theme" for my world because they're very general Mainly being the "Struggle to survive in a hostile world" and "finding kindness, beauty, and purpose amidst tragedy" I have 3 main "big" factions (technically 4) and each and very wildly different One being traditionalists that believe their god hasn't abandoned them, that they still have a connection and that the current plight that's ravaging civilization is a test of faith Another is an elf centric faction that utilizes the "gifts of arcanum" to survive. They use arcane magic (which supposedly didn't exist before) as well as metals and crystals (which didn't exist in the time of gods) And the third are a steampunk faction living in and around a volcano, utilizing remnants of their old god to survive as well as the world's new bounties. The traditionalists clash with the other two as they see the arcane, metals, and crystals to be taboo While the other two work together due to their mutual usage of these new powers, though they each do so very differently
I have been known to steal ideas wholesale for Monster of the Week adventures. I ran an adventure a few months ago that had my players descend into the sewers of a large city, wherein they confronted a band of four tortle monks named after Renaissance artists and the evil Master Skelf (an old Scottish word for 'splinter'), a wererat. Very silly and a lot of fun. I'm currently working on an adventure that bears more than a passing similarity to Scooby Doo cartoons, because why not? Aside from my silly adventures, I do love to steal little bits here and there from fantasy works that I'm fond of. After all, what is a good fantasy world without Rodents of Unusual Size? Love the channel, thanks for the great videos from the magical land of Oz, also known as XXXX because the locals can't spell 'Oz'.
i *DO* want to have the Tomb Kings fight the Capital of Stormwind, south of Skyrim with Tiny mechas! The kitchen sink is awesome, but putting it all together is a tricky mess, I feel like it requires a specific mindset to make it all work. While it is true the biggest thing keeping Guns out of Brettonia is stubbornness, it is also a worldbuilding thing, and worldbuilding is worse the more I look into it.
I love this video. I recently started building my own world and immediately added some bits and bobs from Star Wars, especially two religious groups opposed to each other and a dark lord pulling strings on an orchestrated war between two human factions. Can‘t wait to add lightsabers.
The current campaign im running is in the WH fantasy universe it all! Especially love the grimdark deadlyness. And the characters have already come acros some of these creatures and themes haha
well even Forgotten Realms is considered a "kitchen sink" setting and it is perhaps the most well developed setting there is. THE MAIN STAGE of DND ...is a kitchen sink.
I cut out a Rifts reference last minute! I thought that only the grognards would get it... I forgot who my audience was! We'll get it next time! - Daði
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhem- how are you doing, Dadhi and Out Of Frame Arm? (Fun fact: I am adding skaven to my campaign for the local kids ^^ can't wait to see their face when the goofy ratmen start becoming scary!)
Im wanting to add Blood Hunters to my setting but i still want to find that connective thread to make sure im happy with them in my world... but my mind just keeps coming back to Bloodborne themes
When you brought up the Skaven, I was quite surprised. To my recollection, I haven't seen you mention anything Warhammer-related in your videos. Guess I shouldn't be too surprised though, you seem to know your way around a variety of TTGs. Do you run WHFB/AoS games? Have you ever run WH40k games, like Black Crusade? Edit: nvm, you answered my question... next time I'll watch the whole video before commenting 😂😂😅
Love the content! Always what i seemingly need at just the right time and for that i thank you. Random question....what size or how many miles are each of the hexes on your world map?
This kickstarter product that youve pinned is reeked with AI Imagery, I prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for a campaign setting and all of it is not AI or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with a cool twist, I suggest Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Paleogames
Your serious thumbnail face was waaay more compelling, than your typical youtube thumbnail face. I think most of your viewers are not so easily exited 11 years old children. Otherwise - good topic, good delivery. Bashing toys in kitchen sink, heh.
Wait so there are other ways to create a world other than mix everything you Love with a secret sauce of Whole Lot of Love? 🤯 Loved the video. You always make my day a little bit better, Dadi. Thank you for that. Much love, take care and bye. 😃🥰😇
I steal liberally for my games. Hell, I'm starting a game that blends SMT, Power Rangers, and Touhou. I just finished one that took the plot of FF10 and filed the numbers and most of the characters off. And before that, I just used one of my friends old player characters (from a completely different universe) as the basis of the final villain. A good writer is able to take their sources and make them their own.
Thank you for your content I really enjoyed the video! I think your approach to kitchensinks and havin fun is totally right and brands like Marvel, Warhammer and MtGshow that as well. However I I'm intrested what you think about the term "fortnitefication" in recent years I have the feeling that a lot of nerd brands sacrificed their own tone& identity on the altar of customer aquisition so that there are only big kitchensinks. While I think your approach is right at the moment I try to restrict tone and theme of my campaigns to offer something different and I have only an audience of 4 players who really enjoy my world which will be elevated for them since I stuck to my theme... At least this is my hope
I think there's no wrong way to play, I'm often strict about tone in adventures. The one I'm prepping live with an audience came with requirements for the PCs. I just make sure it doesn't stifle my creativity, which I guess is what the video is about. - Daði
I’ve had multiple big Kitchen Sink worlds, but I find I can’t keep them going. I feel too boxed in by my own writing or the events of a campaign. Do you keep everything that happens in a campaign as canon? I sometimes want to run the same adventure more than once, but that would mean rewriting another campaign for a new group right?
Make sure to check out A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/splatteredink/a-time-travelers-guide-to-dinosaur-hunting?ref=2o5axt
This one reeks of AI imagery. I'd prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for campaign settings or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with cool twists, go for Dr. Dhrolins Dictionary of Dinosaurs.
This kickstarter product reeks with AI Imagery, I prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for a campaign setting and all of it is not AI or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with a cool twist, I suggest Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Paleogames
"Different factions answering the same question" is perhaps the best writing advice for maintaining a theme I've received this year.
For those on the fence about "kitchen sink" or too deep into a low fantasy world building to find a way out?
Just make an event that brings them around. Like a reverse asteroid that BRINGS dinosaurs.
Precedent in Witcher for "Conjunction of Spheres" or Berserk's "Eclipse" bringing about fantasy monsters and magic in a blink. You can always choose the version of your setting that you want over the version that's "acceptable?"
Yeah, you can always add! Introduce a cultist baddie who's going to "redefine what it means to be mortal." and then something WHACK happens.
Palladium's RIFTS springs to mind.
Even Half-Life starts out with a science project going wrong and opening a portal to another dimension that brings the monsters/aliens. Stranger things starts off with a similar premise as well.
Fortnite used that rift thing to add different things each season and the weapons/"tech" progressed each season to incorporate the rift gems more intricately. Like, you start by just using a gem/fragment to get a boost, and later you're using rift grenades and such (feels funny to use Fortnite as an example for world building).
There's also always gods, which have the power to just make new things happen. Especially if there's a war of the gods or an evil deity causing havoc and making new creatures or something.
Hell yeah. Theme isn't the gatekeeper, it's the glue which sticks all the jank together.
Excellently put. That should've been in the video!
Daði got a hug. AB was giving that from all of us
Unscripted, but appreciated! - Daði
Everybody needs a hug :D
The hug at the end. (*Chef's kiss*) Cherry on top of this awesome video
Started as an adrenaline rush of a channel, quickly became an excellent source of well thought out methods in a clearly explained format. Ty sir!
I read a novel not too long where the protagonist is a writer and teaches creative writing classes. One of the things he told his students was "Read like Dracula, write like Frankenstein" and that really helped my creative process.
He’s finally starting to make some real D&D thumbnails! Remember, the more insane and inane, the better!
Guess the only way to go from here is crazier!
😳😱😲🤯👉➡️ 🎯 ⬅️👈😲😱🙀
You and Bandit's Keep are the two best DnD tubers. Your sub count is criminally low for your content quality.
Do you think myyy partner will let me get emotional support rats? 🤔 I really love your use of "different types of glue" - I'm also a fan of gonzo-style worldbuilding!
Would your partner be so cruel as to deny you the emotional support you really need? - Daði
Pathfinder’s Golarion is one of my favorite fantasy settings because it has a bit of everything with the gothic horrors of Ustalav or fledgling democracy of Andoran even more unique realms like the wild west inspired Alkenstar or the techno barbarians of Numeria each nation has it’s own flavor of fantasy that can provide a whole campaign or a adventure of the week style where the players are traveling the world having wildly varying experiences in each nation.
Thank you once again, made DMing in the long-term far more exciting, 3 months into running my first campaign on a small island kingdom next campaign in a month or so will be overseas on a completely different continent, looking forward to seeing how the all in one world approach works and has gotten me enthusiastic about expanding my world whilst playing dnd weekly
Made a kitchen sink homebrew. Between my ideas + rolling on tables = this place has room for anything. Got a mountain valley the size of Colorado where it's a real wild west frontier vibe, though it's still in the medievalish fantasyland. Never been to DisneyWorld, but as I understand they have everything and just chunk it up into distinct districts. ALSO, THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING "OVERARCHING" CORRECTLY, the entire world has forgotten how except like 3 of us.
I had a Shakespeare professor tell me that every story theme is found somewhere in Shakespeare's writings. I still have not been able to prove him wrong.
The proper term in D&D for this is Gonzo.
I learned it from Bandit's Keep
I've been gming and world building for 17 or so years-- starting in my early teens
When I started, I felt free to take inspiration from anywhere, more or less
In the majority of the middle years though I felt that it was "best" to ignore lots of ideas and be very selective about what goes into different worlds
Now, I create wild high fantasy and love world building as I play, finding new inspirations and putting them right into my worlds
This is an excellent reminder of how fun that is. My younger self could've really used the advice.
I love all of your videos
Again Daði saves my Monday blues with yet another amazing video. You guys are doing such an amazing work and it’s been awesome to have been a part of this journey with you.
More validation for what I've been doing with my setting for the last decade. I really appreciate making videos on that subject matter because I came to a lot of these conclusions because I have a passion for writing and storytelling (despite the lack of skills and focus), and talked to my buddy about world building for years when we started playing. I'd love to see more and how some of these concepts can be taken further!
Great vid, loving how you use examples from your own setting and games, hopefully we’ll one day get a world tour?
The light behind you started peeking over your shoulder around 8:50, might want to lower it a bit
One of these days we'll figure out our lighting set-up...
Dutifully engaging for channel boost... ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM.
Dude, this and a 5-room dungeon design just spits ideas and creativity out, I love this!
I legit added STAT from Regretavator as an NPC in the Campaign we're currently doing and everyone loved it.
Also Nekomata from ZZZ seems like a fun Character to play as so I'm literally stealing that as my next Character.
The first Campaign is mainly about the Fey while the second Campaign is about taking down the Star Spawn for context.
Good advice. My RPG background before D&D was World of Warcraft which has basically everything at some point or some place. That freedom has served me well so far.
Too many people dunk on WoW but forget how actually good it was
I would love to see a video on how to run a classic dungeon crawl, with winding corridors, multiple directions to go, etc. I've always been confused on how to best do this between theater of the mind, player maps, DM maps, and how to pull it all together so that the players actually feel like they're exploring an actual dungeon. Instead of the normal five room straight line dungeon
Man, every time I watch one of your videos I feel like we’re so on the same page when it comes to how to prep/play D&D. It’s a real shame we live so far apart. I just got done with a Wererat focused homebrew campaign that borrows HEAVILY from the Skaven and, what’s more, the music from Fury Road that you happen to put in this video was their theme music. Brothers in arms; Tied at the tail. Long Live the Rat King. If you’re interested I can send you all my notes on it and you can steal what you want from it!
This is legit how i make my stuff lol
This is my totally not Noxus with my own spin somewhat influenced by their Pantheon of gods that are capable of interfering in matters, which is why they haven't been simply wiped out of the world by enemies since they are an expansive conquesting empire.
At the same time, on another continent there is a whole steam/magicpunk region where the greatest invertors and many concepts we would consider were born, such as big ships that were made by the first ever Pirate that made his ship so he could flee the continent with his riches, settling on an island that ended up becoming another independent continent ruled by criminal syndicates.
It just keeps devolving and evolving into more and more, but remaining connected.
Loving the videos, I’m a new dm and watching all the videos is helping lots, I’ve found my players have enjoyed playing more and I’ve enjoyed dm ing, I’m subbed to the Patreon and can’t wait for alllll the exclusive content, keep up the good work, love ya
Thanks so much!
Cant wait to argue with my players abt why my fantasy dinosaurs arent feathered
Bound to come up, tbh!
Kitchen-sink world building is my favourite. Smashing genres together is the whole point. I love the idea of how cosmic forces shape the world, and how the common man is forced to deal with the fallout. The uprising of janky tech, dangerous and unpredictable, and how the magical populace deal with it. How industry is impacted by any of these things. Don't allow what you feel you "should" include get in the way of what you "want" to include.
"Put the cool stuff you like in your games" - Matt Colville
Also I feel like this video was a convenient excuse to talk about your love of dinosaurs and skaven, but I'll allow it :D
I mean, it was!
But were you wearing shorts this time?
I recently stole the idea of a Hive City from Warhammer, I made the government be the Arcanist Inquisition which I took from Ghostfire Gaming and then decided to have this city be built deep underneath the polar ice as an Ark which I based on Frostpunk, because some magical rift allowed the world to be completely covered by an otherworldly corrosive mist which I took from somebody's homebrew setting called Aarden.
Actually jeans, annoyingly. This video would've been better in shorts... - Daði
Love to see it, that's exactly how I run the game. It's all a hodgepodge.
@@Mystic-Arts-DMyou're welcome to join us sometime!
I've been developing a campaign setting and struggling with the idea of how I'm having to do it sans players given unavailability, and this video helped me realize it's okay because I've been working towards three themes of my own this whole time. Thanks for that!
More stellar content from Daði and co!
I am a simple man, I see Grom the Paunch, I click on the video
Anything from Grom!
Diving into each location and making it unique as you discover it dovetails wonderfully with Obsidian and note based knowledge management.
All hail the screaming mass
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I feel called out, I've "borrowed" SO much Warhammer themes / styles / characters. Good-Good Video man-thing!
I adore kitchen sinks, that's why I love Planescape more than any other setting
The last D&D game I ran, my party was a Neko with magic cancer, Pixie trying to grow an army of mushrooms, a dimension hopping Doppelganger, and a blind dwarf with a shotgun and an itchy trigger finger. The party had a Plushie Beholder named Poof as their mount and it would carry them places, at night the Beholder would dream and cause random effects to happen the next day.
Together they were up against the Space Pirates from Metroid who I homebrewed into the world, who are cultivating an outer god that causes biological creatures to fuse together upon coming into contact with each other, but the real enemies who were using the Space Pirates were these corporate bad guys that are taking over the economies of nearby cities by selling normal products at 5% of the cost, running every other store out of business.
My players motivations were to steal rare organs from magical creatures to create an army of flesh abominations in order to take over the world, it was a wild ride.
Awesome video. You've tacked a fun topic that can be challenging to articulate. GMs should feel empowered to play with all the toys at once! Just have fun! Thanks.
Absolutely!
Great video as always!
Skaven, yes-yes!
One of the first dungeons I put my pirate party through turned out to be a skaven den with warp lightning cannons and Gatling guns, it was the most epic near TPK 🤣 🐀
I really needed this video 🤪
I am currently creating a world to first-time DM, and I am falling into all the classic pitfalls (overcreating, too much detail that probably wont come up etc. pp.) - and this is no different 😅 Its going to be a pirate themed nautical campaign with underwater elements and deep sea horror and potentially Dagon at the end. Bur oh, also Vampires because cool! And mindflayers! But wait, gotta have a dragon or a couple. And the elemental plane of water could play a role, maybe even air! And there will be a volcano, so maybe even fire. And the feywild sounds cool, lets work that in somehow! Maybe a hagcoven or something.
In my head I am justifying that I just want to give the players themes so they can just follow what they like, but in reality I am just over-exited for all the possibilites and scared I wont be able to improvise something cool when needed, so I try to overprepare.
But your videos help! 😅
Let yourself be excited! You can restrict yourself each game night, but in between you DREAM! - Daði
If you like "Kitchen Sink" style settings, you should check out Rifts either Palladium or Savage Worlds version... Rifts is awesome at this...
I will always have equal fondness for the detail and cohesion of Middle-Earth as I do for the worlds of Dragon Ball and Samurai Jack.
it's so funny you should mention the Skaven! Just setting up to run my first campaign, and at least for the early to mid levels The primary antagonists are a race similar to but legally distinct from the Skaven. One of the first plot hooks in the game is going to be finding missing children. Three guesses to what the rats are taking children for :-)
Set the tone early right?
I think people should not be scared of using any cool ideas they have immediately, be it setting or plot stuff. Use 'em or lose 'em, I say.
Also, I did enjoy the sound recording bouncing back and for the with the jump cuts! 😅
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You do not know how much I rely on your emoji comment for every video. 🫡 - Daði
DINOSAURS, ALWAYS MORE DINOSAURS
@Whyzerowl lol I just did this in a game im running. Players made their way to an unknown (until now) island. Where bbeg has made his operations and I was just going thru the MM to find interesting monsters to throw at them until they found him.....and then i came across dinosaurs and I was like YUP.
IT'S DINO TIME!
@@kaicrutcher1313 depending on what you're playing...there's a Monster Hunter module for 5e that's friggin sweet for stuff like that!
For the last few months I was writing a campaign in custom setting based on legends of king Arthur and knights of round table. BUT! a) King Arthur is actually a king from cartoon King Arthur and Knights of justice. b) whole world is covered in invisible metallic dust of magical nature that make time run differently in different places and change relativity. So, for example, theres a Bedlam which is actually 500+ years younger then King arthur "in reality". So when early medieval fantasy characters go in, they may find themselves in Victorian England for a short time.
Have you seen recent batman movies? You know, in old comics they dont have cellphones and Gotham looks like its 30s. In recent Gotham is still art deco heavy, but they got modern technology sometimes.
That's awesome!
Tbh I struggle with having a central "theme" for my world because they're very general
Mainly being the "Struggle to survive in a hostile world" and "finding kindness, beauty, and purpose amidst tragedy"
I have 3 main "big" factions (technically 4) and each and very wildly different
One being traditionalists that believe their god hasn't abandoned them, that they still have a connection and that the current plight that's ravaging civilization is a test of faith
Another is an elf centric faction that utilizes the "gifts of arcanum" to survive. They use arcane magic (which supposedly didn't exist before) as well as metals and crystals (which didn't exist in the time of gods)
And the third are a steampunk faction living in and around a volcano, utilizing remnants of their old god to survive as well as the world's new bounties.
The traditionalists clash with the other two as they see the arcane, metals, and crystals to be taboo
While the other two work together due to their mutual usage of these new powers, though they each do so very differently
Enjoying the channel a lot. Any chance we get a video about puzzles?
I have been known to steal ideas wholesale for Monster of the Week adventures. I ran an adventure a few months ago that had my players descend into the sewers of a large city, wherein they confronted a band of four tortle monks named after Renaissance artists and the evil Master Skelf (an old Scottish word for 'splinter'), a wererat. Very silly and a lot of fun. I'm currently working on an adventure that bears more than a passing similarity to Scooby Doo cartoons, because why not?
Aside from my silly adventures, I do love to steal little bits here and there from fantasy works that I'm fond of. After all, what is a good fantasy world without Rodents of Unusual Size?
Love the channel, thanks for the great videos from the magical land of Oz, also known as XXXX because the locals can't spell 'Oz'.
i *DO* want to have the Tomb Kings fight the Capital of Stormwind, south of Skyrim with Tiny mechas! The kitchen sink is awesome, but putting it all together is a tricky mess, I feel like it requires a specific mindset to make it all work. While it is true the biggest thing keeping Guns out of Brettonia is stubbornness, it is also a worldbuilding thing, and worldbuilding is worse the more I look into it.
i love the idea of suspending disbelief, the only thing a dm has to do, is be consistent, not make any sense
oh man would i love to have the skaven in my campaign, but they're too cool for me - i wouldn't do them justice.
I love this video. I recently started building my own world and immediately added some bits and bobs from Star Wars, especially two religious groups opposed to each other and a dark lord pulling strings on an orchestrated war between two human factions. Can‘t wait to add lightsabers.
The current campaign im running is in the WH fantasy universe it all! Especially love the grimdark deadlyness. And the characters have already come acros some of these creatures and themes haha
Because I know too little about themes and D&D lore, I’m not limited by this 😃
More know more better, I say. I'll buy any setting books from any game and steal like a mad man! - Daði
Just a FYI, your videos are normally on the top of my feed, but I had to scroll a decent amount before I found your video 😢
I just finished it, it was amazing! 😊
That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
Great stuff! Any consideration of recording and releasing some of your live-play sessions? I'd love to see you in action.
well even Forgotten Realms is considered a "kitchen sink" setting and it is perhaps the most well developed setting there is. THE MAIN STAGE of DND ...is a kitchen sink.
Great video!
Thanks!
Shit yes! This is all the validation I needed to pit my lvl4 party against a lvl8 Thomas the Tank Engine. Thank you Mystic!
Rifts rpg from the 80s and 90s was just this.
I cut out a Rifts reference last minute! I thought that only the grognards would get it... I forgot who my audience was! We'll get it next time! - Daði
So envious of your players lol. Your campaign sounds like a very cool settings.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhem- how are you doing, Dadhi and Out Of Frame Arm?
(Fun fact: I am adding skaven to my campaign for the local kids ^^ can't wait to see their face when the goofy ratmen start becoming scary!)
In frame hug this time around!
YES! Another way to financially reimburse you for the great advice! Keep up the excellent work.
Im wanting to add Blood Hunters to my setting but i still want to find that connective thread to make sure im happy with them in my world... but my mind just keeps coming back to Bloodborne themes
When you brought up the Skaven, I was quite surprised. To my recollection, I haven't seen you mention anything Warhammer-related in your videos. Guess I shouldn't be too surprised though, you seem to know your way around a variety of TTGs.
Do you run WHFB/AoS games? Have you ever run WH40k games, like Black Crusade?
Edit: nvm, you answered my question... next time I'll watch the whole video before commenting 😂😂😅
Nothing is impossible in an infinite universe, just very very very improbable.
Thank you!
Did you change the thumbnail? Because whatever thumbnail you have now got me while the one I saw at first did not
For the algorithm!
I'm doing a ghibli 5e heist one shot soon
With a Centaur, a hydra, and hello kitty as players
Love the content! Always what i seemingly need at just the right time and for that i thank you. Random question....what size or how many miles are each of the hexes on your world map?
24 miles hexes!
I heard a WAAAGH! I came as fast as I could.
WAAAGH!
My GF disliked my idea of using dinosaurs in my pf2e game so I’m happy you got my back on this very important topic
I gotchu!
This kickstarter product that youve pinned is reeked with AI Imagery, I prefer to recommend Star Shaman Song of Planegea for a campaign setting and all of it is not AI or if you want scientific accurate dinosaurs with a cool twist, I suggest Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Paleogames
Came for the laughs, staying for insight!
Your serious thumbnail face was waaay more compelling, than your typical youtube thumbnail face. I think most of your viewers are not so easily exited 11 years old children.
Otherwise - good topic, good delivery.
Bashing toys in kitchen sink, heh.
Algorithm likes the crazy thumbnails, though, there's no way it's not prioritizing them.
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Wait so there are other ways to create a world other than mix everything you Love with a secret sauce of Whole Lot of Love? 🤯
Loved the video. You always make my day a little bit better, Dadi. Thank you for that. Much love, take care and bye. 😃🥰😇
yeah you convinced me to add dinosaurs to my upcoming campaign
I would love to see a video only about you world! New dm here looking to STEAL your things😄
You sound just like my favorite podcast host, Roman Mars. Check out 99% invisible sometime
They've gone and done it againagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagain
Last time I was this early I... actually I have never been this early.
See you here next time at 15:00 GMT sharp.
An Atroxian (closeted) wizard casting "Hail of Bullets"!
"Summon Steamtank"
That was a glorious game to pick. Total Warhammer series has got me at about 2.1k hrs so far 😂
I dare not look at my playtime in that thing. - Daði
@Mystic-Arts-DM what's worse with mine is that is probably 1.7k hrs with the same faction (summon the Elector Counts)
@@xxTerraPrimexx I AM PRINCE AND EMPEROR!
Brilliant concept!
The "Earth mixes genres" bit made me stop and think for a long time.
I steal liberally for my games. Hell, I'm starting a game that blends SMT, Power Rangers, and Touhou. I just finished one that took the plot of FF10 and filed the numbers and most of the characters off. And before that, I just used one of my friends old player characters (from a completely different universe) as the basis of the final villain.
A good writer is able to take their sources and make them their own.
Question.
Dadi, what do you think the over-arching theme is in the Forgotten Realms?
Great DMs steal relentlessly
This is the elden ring approach
Thank you for your content I really enjoyed the video! I think your approach to kitchensinks and havin fun is totally right and brands like Marvel, Warhammer and MtGshow that as well. However I I'm intrested what you think about the term "fortnitefication" in recent years I have the feeling that a lot of nerd brands sacrificed their own tone& identity on the altar of customer aquisition so that there are only big kitchensinks.
While I think your approach is right at the moment I try to restrict tone and theme of my campaigns to offer something different and I have only an audience of 4 players who really enjoy my world which will be elevated for them since I stuck to my theme... At least this is my hope
I think there's no wrong way to play, I'm often strict about tone in adventures. The one I'm prepping live with an audience came with requirements for the PCs. I just make sure it doesn't stifle my creativity, which I guess is what the video is about. - Daði
Great advice!
I’ve had multiple big Kitchen Sink worlds, but I find I can’t keep them going. I feel too boxed in by my own writing or the events of a campaign. Do you keep everything that happens in a campaign as canon? I sometimes want to run the same adventure more than once, but that would mean rewriting another campaign for a new group right?
do good work
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Skaven do not exist-be, manthing!
That is a myth, yes-yeeees.