Twitch Builds A D&D World, Collabris #2
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- Let's build a world! This is the first of probably 2 or 3 sessions in which we collectively create a world from scratch. Pretty successful stream, I thought.
Here's the Hexographer file!
www.mcdmproduc...
Watch on twitch to see the chat: / mcdm
I like the idea of Basharix being an ancient Copper, that greened over the eons. Also could be a native of the Feywild, hence the effect on elves.
Another thought was that the Druid Lich was actually an elf of The Veil, who attained lichdom looking for a way to escape dependency on the mist.
+Redlius1 Call it a Verdigris Dragon
+Redlius1 Hold that thought for next Twitch session!
+NordicDragon89 I will! hoping that he sees it here though. Getting spotted in that Twitch chat is pretty hit or miss, with how busy it is. Not that that is a bad thing, as there were some AMAZING ideas that I saw in there!!
+Redlius1 I'm so down for all this.
+Redlius1 One thing that struck me watching this vid, (had to work could not be there for the stream) is that everyone seemed hung up on that fact that Green dragons, chromatic dragons are evil. They are only evil because the monstrous manual says so. This is a home brew world folks! Dragons can be whatever we make them, hell you can go a step further and say that not only are dragons super rare but they are all different, no two dragons are the same at all. This way you get evil fire breathing dragons who want that maiden sacrifice, gold oh and ale but also a variety of other dragons. So in short the next time you see a dragon, don`t judge it by the color of its scales.
Watching "Matt learns twitch" is actually pretty amusing in itself even before the world building starts xD
"Accidental pyramids are the worst kind of pyramids." -- Matthew Colville, 2016
Did my own worldbuilding with this in the background. Encouraged some cool stuff.
1:54:18 As I understand it, deserts aren't caused by a lack of rivers but rather a lack of rainfall.
So a better way of explaining why this desert is here would be that the winds that carry rain come from the west. Then mountains block the rain clouds, forcing them to dump all their rain on the western side, preventing the eastern side from getting any rain. Thus, you get one side that's heavily forested and another that's barren.
This effect is called a rain shadow and is how you get places like the Atacama desert in Chile: one of the driest places in the world, which is right next an ocean and only one mountain range away from the Amazon rainforest.
I would kill to see Matt bring us another series like this
Here is a cool idea: Half elves are not the product of humans and elves. They are Elves who are born outside the forest and are thus immune to the effects of the fog so are not 'full elves'. They are born mortal and outside the bargain the elves made to gain immortality.
Years later (2019) I'm listening to this in the background at work, while I develop my homebrew campaign, and I just happen to be creating Dwarven story parts. This was wonderful for inspiring names and places, LOL!
Are we Snakemen?
Or are we Thri-Kreen?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
Love the "The Killers - Human" reference.
And I'm in the chat, looking for the answer.
So I made my world in Inkarnate while watching. your musings and and the help from the chat finally got me to get off my lazy ass and give my players something official to look at. Love the videos, they remind me to pay attention to the little things, and are a great help to someone who has been doing this for a few years now.
While I love the emerging world and your enthusiasm, I think my favorite part of this video was watching in real time as you started to learn how to corral and steer twitch chat.
Just a quick two cents on the volcano. Just discovered the channel and definitely wanting to DM now. Love the channel!
K, I feel like something awesome would have been to have an ancient Korim Titan construct as the heart of this volcano. Trapped by some sort of powerful magic during the Civil War amongst the dwarves and forgotten. Or even, perhaps a secret Titan construct that was being developed by the Broken Spine as a counter to the Korim titans. Incomplete and forgotten due to the downfall of the Dwarven king of the Broken Spine. Secret project or some such. The steppe people of Ban Tuur now worship a volcano that contains a powerful secret that they know nothing about. Just an idea I might run with in a specific campaign if I ever play this one.
Everything is great here! Super motivated! Cheers!
Great Stream and Video Matt, even got my daughter asking questions about what D&D is and how you play it
+Joshua Gertz Haha. Awesome! Never too late to start!
I absolutely love this stream - i missed the second part because of plans- and I am so grateful that you uploaded it to RUclips. Seeing you and everyone else build a setting together is so intriguing.
"Dwayne Durok Johnson"
This is all so helpful for beginner world builders/DMs! I really don't mind the unedited versions. I don't see the need to edit unless it really bothers others. I like seeing the process and how long it can take. Very, very helpful! Thank you!
This was really helpful, I'm trying to get into D&D, and I'm going to be the DM. So this taught me a lot about world building.
I have zero time on Sundays, fortunately (that is the job of a DM... :P), so I'm SO glad you put this on youtube.
I really like how the map is going. A refreshing way and a different look on doing what we all already do, in one way or another. Looking forward to the rest of it!
Man, I wish I was in chat for this. Personally, I would have liked the Veil to be an enchanted forest made to seem serene and peaceful through illusion, but is cursed with some sinister evil at its heart. The elves who live there are cursed (enslaved?) as well and it's the Ban Tuur who keep these elves in check from taking the volcano forge and moving up into the Northern Sanction. (That volcano idea... pure gold!)
Really loving this video. It's giving me an itch to create a world of my own.
Don't rivers need to drain into a body of water? I mean, a body of water other than a forest.
Watching this is incredibly helpful and inspiring. I've been meaning to start working on a 5e campaign, and this has been the final push.
I think I'd make the magic mists of the forest the result of a love relationship between the volcano god and a goddess of the sea. The mists of the forest represent their love, and the elves of the Vale are their "spiritual children" / adoptive children.
I have to tell you that at 44 minutes in, you have me totally jazzed about building a new world and starting a new champaign. Keep on rocking it!
@@MichaelSeeds-j4o I did, but we are only playing every other week. Just got started last month.
I love FTL! Thank you for introducing me to these mapping tools! I had seen them before but never took the time to learn about them.
This is so good. Well done crew. Not only was the King of Kickstarter on point, but the chat crowd were on it.
This was really amazing! Tried to watch it live, but other things came up. Thanks for helping me get my creative DM juices flowing!
I know this is long past, but I couldn't help myself. The magic of the fog is powered by magic seeping through thin spots in the "veil" between this plane and the fey wild. The heart of the dead titan powers the Basalt Throne. The magic from the fey wild and the power of the heart have combined in a unique way that results in the immortality.
Thanks for uploading the full uncut stream! I had to leave halfway through and I'm glad I'll be able to watch the rest
This video is the direct reason my world now has The First Divine Empire. Thanks Uncle Matt.
Man seeing that makes me want to roll an Elf Wizard from V'ael who learned some forbidden knowledge (maybe about the dragon and the elders were trying to keep it quiet) but since you cannot die in V'ael I would be outcast instead and forced to fend for myself, and without the comfort of immortality. Man this stuff really gets the thoughts and ideas flowing, for DMs and players alike. I think a good side effect of Matt's work is that not only do we get more and better DMs, we also get players who are empathetic and wise to the work that comes with even the simplest of world building.
The volcano worshiping Horse lords are probably my favorite part of this map. Sooooo glad i caught the stream!
"if it's perfectly split down the middle, I have put bad options in front of you guys"
Sounds like our elections.
"People didn't like that I was swearing...motherfuckers" that made me chuckle
Matt, I found your youtube channel last week and am loving it! I am totally stealing the deserrt dragonborn with the cities of glass.
I must admit that I expected this to be a bit boring, but it was actually _super_ interesting. Nice job, Matt and Twitch chat!
''Accidental pyramids are the worst kind of pyramids'' shall be added to my list of favorite sentences.
1. When you first mentioned the Volcano. I was thinking Teiflings connected to the mountain. They are fire resistant and having a connection to the fire and lava makes sense.
2. Also the Island could be home to a Druid Circle. It is a circle shaped Island.
3. Regarding the pass between the mountains. On the Humans side you could have a much larger battlement like LOTR Helms Deep as a last resort if the tower guarding the southern pass fails.
Fantastic video i really enjoyed it and i hope to catch the next one live. None the less it helped inspire me as i am creating my own map and world taking from other maps and just adding bits and bobs and such. some of the ideas in here i thought where really cool and i cant wait to see what else comes of this.
I would have suggest the Dragonborn of the Desert have a "silk road" overland trade route with the dutchies of the north, especially Cardus.
That stream was great, by the way. The whole collaboration of it was amazing.
So I had some crazy ideas (which I'm totally gonna use in my setting), it's centered aroud Basharix being a Grey Dragon, here it goes:
Bhasharix is an Ancient Grey Dragon, a long forgotten race of smoke dragons that wandered far before the age of men. Their smoke was capable of challenging any mortal creature imaginable, but as their power rose, so did their vile greed. As a counter measure, the gods imposed a curse upon them, which caused their dencendants to assume a specific color and had their powers limited to a single element, and that's how chromatic and metalic dragons were born, and how the mighty grey dragons were, eventually, no longer present.
I cannot believe how happy i felt when you said Arabic Dragon men 1:33:00 I am arabic and have never even attempted to think of dragons as being related to arabic culture.
Hey Matt! Love the work you and the stream got done. I'm sorry I wasn't there to take part in the fun. To put in my two cents for this setting and solidify the concept of the Basalt Throne/Tuur being right next to The Veil, I would say it makes sense The Father of Fire and his "Ban" (children) wage war against the Vael elves setting fire and laying waste to the forest. Also, is the power of Tuur seasonal? More powerful in the summer? Anyways, the magic from the mist and/or the elves themselves keep the raging forest fires at bay. So, there is this back and forth of destruction and regrowth over vast swaths of land creating a unique, highly fertile geography (sounds desirable to men in the North?). What does death and regrowth sound like in fantasy? A Phoenix! Perhaps there can be a small area wedged in between The Veil and Tuur whose theme is based around a phoenix. The area can even be one hex wide, just acting as a border between the two lands. This phenomena could be the origin story to the original phoenix, or this could be the only phoenix in existence. Of course, Twitch chat can name this new area and/or phoenix. Lastly, I would say the only name that struck me as half-assed was the Ash Wind. Personally, I think the name should be revisited but I don't want to overstep my bounds. There are a variety of names for a grouping of horses (e.g. harras, rag). I think either of those can be used to create a interesting title for these feared riders. First names that come to mind are The Ashen Harras, or The Ghastly Rag (ghastly because the ash war paint turns their skin white like a legion of ghosts). A rag also refers to an all colts group of horses. This might fit with an all male regiment of troops. Are the Ban Tuur sexist/patriarchal? I also like the idea that the ash war paint is supposed to make the riders look like corpses that have no blood to spill. To rip off George R.R. Martin, "What is dead may never die!" All in all, great work so far! Not only this stream but with ALL the work you have put into the channel. You have given me great advise and something tells me you have much to teach me in the days to come and pass down to my generation of DM's (I'm 18). Not all of it I use, but you have exposed me to different ways of looking at the game table and the players around the table. Thank you!
Awesome video Matt! I loved watching the process. I want to play a campaign with this setting now!
What I learn from this is have answers that raise more questions
Sadly I couldn't catch the steam live, but I had an idea watching the video and figured it was worth sharing. The peninsula that Tuur is on looks to me like it was formed by the eruptions of the volcano, and considering its size the volcano must have been active for a long time to produce that much landmass. The nomads of Ban Tuur have built their culture around this volcano: it's lava, eruptions, the basalt throne, etc. So what happens when Tuur starts going.. extinct? The volcano is getting cooler, the magma does not rise as high, it's general activities are diminished. This begs the question; what effect would this have upon the Ban Tuur people? In my head, this would cause them to become deeply afraid within their society as they grow more concerned about their prime deity that seems to be dying only to leave the corpse of a caldera. Maybe they are keeping it secret from the other peoples in the setting, and the other civilizations are growing disconcerted, or even threatened by the changing behavior of the nomads as trade and diplomatic patterns change. Perhaps the nomads grow more violent, seeking to rekindle the flames of Tuur through war? Perhaps there are prophets arising, creating various prophecies about things like the end of times, the waning of their people, or that perhaps their God has moved, or is showing favor to some other culture as a result of some sort of impropriety on the part of the nomads?
Anyway, hopefully someone reads this and likes the idea. I GM a game myself in an already existing setting, so at least this way I can get the idea out there!
“Gnomes are kinda redundant” absolutely agree!
This was a rad stream to watch (and contribute to -- Loch/Lich jokes, hehe), and I think it could make a great weekly series. Worldbuilding!
THE PIPE!!!!
I'm going to keep an eye out for it if I ever watch your streams.
The only thing that frustrates me is that I now wanna make a new world in this way, for a new campaign XD
Awesome Stream, please let's all work on it further, in the future :)
That was great, Matt. I love the Volcano which the Horse People worship. Maybe it's secretly a red Dragon controlling them?
I'm gonna steal this map btw for the campaign I'm starting in a couple of weeks :)
This was a fun stream, and something I could see becoming a recurring segment!
My one suggestion would be to err on the side of 'too loud' for the sound, since people can always turn it down but I found even with my volume turned to 100% (usual is
Thanks for doing the Twitch stuff, dude. It is neat to see you live. I will admit that chat was a bit overwhelming. I can't imagine being you. I had to full screen for a bit just to settle my brain and focus on you. I am sure you need more advice as much as you need a third armpit, but one the sound: If it is too soft there is little the end user can do. If it is too loud... that is what the volume button is for. LOL peace man
Ugh. Wish I'd seen this live. When you were naming the mountains I was almost yelling at the screen "Teeth of Tarhoon"!
This was a blast, Looking forward to next stream!
As a viewer who loves your edited videos, this was difficult for me to watch. I love how on point you are with your descriptions of the nature of running a game that watching you try to manage that monstrous chat was frankly pretty exhausting. You looked like you could have used a goblin assistant to stare at streaming comments and pitch you useful ones and good names from off camera.
+Linsel Greene I recommend watching the version on twitch. That way you get to read the chat!
You know brainstorming names and background stories is just amazing. I wish i could do that too.
gods! i'm watching this after work and i'm shouting ideas at the screen hoping that they travel backwards in time.
YAY love it! 3rd time rewatching this :D
Thomas Covenant? Hells yeah! I... need to reread that series. Been over twenty years. :)
Bee pollen is the pollen ball that has been packed by worker honeybees into pellets.
The dwarves made warforged to do their fighting, including all the variants. Always love an in for my favorite race....
What a lovely video! Will see if I can catch the stream next week :-)
Matthew, if you like FTL i just found this game called Duskers which is FTL with a CLI. instead of people on your ship battling other ships, you have a set of salvage drones and you are bording derelict ships which are falling apart, and have certain nefarious creatures aboard. its still realtime, but the game is more about subterfuge and using everything at hand to your advantage, even things that seem like they are bad for you. its really good, and dont let the CLI scare you. the commands are quite simple and the game does a great job of explaining it to you. that said, if you like you can do some more advanced things like make an ALIAS file.
edit, oh wow. i just noticed my clock is in sync with yours in this video except 11 hours behind.
Whats FTL?
look it up on steam. you're in for a treat
I'll admit, when I put Caladris into chat for a name suggestion for the world and you said you liked it I had a bit of a fan girl moment
Thri-Kreeeen! Game industry is a small place, have you met Paul Reiche,
Matt? He's studio head over at Toys For Bob (of Skylanders and Star Control fame). Anyways, he created those bad boys. I've had the honor to work with him. Super chill guy.
I have not, but Thri-kreen are a classic bad guy, that dude is immortalized!
Nice work, Mr. Colville et al. I will tune in for the next one to see how the world develops but it's hard to make suggestions when the chat zooms past.
i dunno if im way too late to the party, since this is almost a year old, but the pass in the center should be called "Titan's fall pass"
Thanks for doing this today, you rock.
Can you guys imagine being in a library, trying to study, while Matt was typing a short story next to you?
I for one like Matt swearing.
Doesn't matter when you started or how infrequently... also this inspired me to put a Dragonborn city in a desert called Dimaryp and the whole city is made of glass.
I had to just look it up, but the 24 miles fit pretty well with the 40km as a days travel that I fund out. neat.
The veil like the Vale of Arryn
You get a INSPIRATION
Ah dude, The elves of V'ael were asked by an ancient goddess to protect some powerful artifact and, in return, she'd offer them immortality. BUT it turned out to be sort of a curse because they only get immortality as long as they remain in the forest, forever protecting the goddess's ancient artifact, never allowed to leave.
Slight nitpick: Don't put more than one river as an outlet from a lake. Water's going to find the lowest path to follow, and even if extraordinary circumstances conspire to give it more than one outlet, those circumstances will only last for a little while before one of the outlets ends up preferred and the other/others dry up.
Is it likely that dwarves would seek industrial growth? It seemed to me that the steppe could've been forest and the dwarves had cut most of it down by the time the elves came and found the mist. Conflict with the elves could be seen as a good time to start the civil war.
A straight path to open sea could be useful, though perhaps not to dwarves. If they gave the northern lands to humans, they would've probably been pretty close.
Whoever's occupying the mountains now, they're likely to be cut off from the way they came. Surrounded from all sides by different factions, they probably shouldn't be able to hold their position for too long. I'd imagine it should be a desirable, fortified area to control, but you can't get all essential resources just in the mountains themselves. Perhaps they won't fall in the timespan of the campaign, but some aggression would be expected. They probably come down quite often to pillage the countryside.
Is that how mountain areas work or did I miss something crucial?
Anyways, that was interesting. Didn't even expect to watch the whole thing, not to mention making some notes at 3am
interesting that my filling in of the map would have been completely different :) definetly going to 'lend' some of these ideas though :p
Saying if it's split is bad due to anecdotal evidence seems like a bad idea. It's pretty plausible that two candidates are liked by two different parties that are fairly even.
Out of all the possible ways to smoke, that is definitely the coolest
I must politely disagree that Halflings and Gnomes are redundant. in my opinion Halflings tend to be much more pastoral, lo tech farmers, whereas I see Gnomes as much more commonly urban, less centralized, and much more technologically minded. I see Gnomes as the "steampunks" of the D&D universe, where your normal hobbit would get a bit flustered by all of the noise and filth.
I also think that it is quite reasonable to have a region where Halflings settle, and to Not have a region for Gnomes, but say that they can be found where ever civilization can be found, both individually and in small communities.
just my opinion,
be well
This! Good lord, I know it's just fantasy fiction, but good lord what Matt said is a bit ignorant. I prefer playing Gnome characters myself and would take serious offense at being called a Halfling.
I agree; Gnomes and Halflings are not the same thing. Gnomes are to Halflings as Elves are to Humans, with regard to inherent magic. Halflings talk to everyone; Gnomes play with everyone's language. Halflings value community; Gnomes value the self, perhaps more than any other inherently good race. There are no Gnome collectivists, except those that are as a matter of curiosity.
Favorite names for any Gnomes I've played/planned are "Bazzlekat Parflubian-Rex" and "Palindromere Aya Eremondrilap." Neither would work at all for a Halfling, but they're wonderful for Gnomes. :)
Matt missed the chance to make the people who lives on the plains gnomes. Get it? They’d be a gnomeadic tribe. Like nomadic? I’m a riot. And a good idea to me. XD
Broken Spine??? AKA Broke back Mt.???
Sounds better than Broken Spine.
Yikes...
The War of Broke Back Mountain. Sounds like an epic title! Would be a cool name for a book.
An idea for the kingdom of Zir would be to borrow/steal whatever an idea from Darksun. That is that the kingdom itself is ruled by Dragon born Sorcerer Kings, would be gods over their realms, who live as gods above their brethren. (I am picturing a gold dragon born Sorcerer King standing high above his common folk looking down over them from one of his/her many palace gardens, while the common folk live in squalor building great wonders in the hopes that they would gain acceptance into ... dragon born heaven? or something like that.
"People don't like that I was swearing... motherfuckers..."
41:42 When you look closer at the lists for random encounters and the suggested organization of settlements from the older Gamemaster guides, the default assumption for D&D worlds is really post-apocalyptic.
Yuan-Ti don't feel entirely right to me. What if you took a small step back and used lizardfolk? Are lizardfolk too similar to dragonborn?
Wish I could have actually been at the stream, but alas! I might use these ideas for a future campaign though. I love the idea of the elves of the Veil. Also, I really want to know what's up with that large island in the middle of the absolutely massive eastern lake.
+Daracaex the Dragon born could see the lizard folk as an abomination off shot to the race, inpure even. I could see that.
I will be running this probably in my campaign.
This is an amazing video! A though on the "druid lich", what if it was the druid who, to protect the forest from the dessert, created the lake? The strain of raising the lake might have been to big, so they became a lich to survive, or something like that?
1:13:00 Benevolent spirit of the forest is a lich. That's settled. :)
great example of how authenticity works in naming things - on top of a hill in northern england there is a location named The Cow and Calf - why? It's one huge rock with a smaller rock nearby. always ask yourself - what are you naming, and who named it? Anthro/zoomorphising geographical features is something humans have done globally since the beginning of spoken language.
I am a year late - but I am totally stealing some of this. Thumbs up!
So I'm months off the upload date (I've only recently discovered this channel) and I haven't watched everything about Collabris yet so it may already be determined, but I've been looking about that grey region swallowed by The Broken Spire and The Scale Hills. For some reason, I imagine the body of the Titan Raxis being buried there, and the land around him just refuses to grow. It would give reason for the nearby Yuan-ti to worship him.
the forest in the south hides within an abandoned civilisation that was destroyed by the volcano, the survivors became the nomads.
in local legend:
the god was unhappy with the human civilisation that he/she/it destroyed it.
as a comming of age the young would-be warriors go on a trile up the volcano to collect ash. once the ash is returned to the tribe it is made into warpaint and a new warrior is born.
Emerald dragon!
I love the idea of Yuan-Ti worshiping a Titan (Still sad it's not Thri-Kreen). You going to use the old Greek style of titan with the snake legs a la Porphyrion?
this is extremely cool
I loved this...Question: Why can't the kingdoms of the Northern Sanction access the sea to the west of the drow at that sea access? In other words, why is it more dangerous to go southwest than it is to go through the broken spine pass? Great work overall. I am so stealing this for my new 5e game.
I been there for the first 30 minutes and it seems like I missed so much cool stuff :(
EDIT: I JUST GOT TO THE THRI-KREEN PART AHHHH!!!!
My first character was a freaking thri-kreen, they are my favorite race.
Something I thought was cool I placed a settlement of galvanizers in my world they can engineer weapons with magic properties buy smithing them with there blood witch is made of metal can also craft golems and lots of other cool stuff great for an artisans guild or crafters settlement for ur. Players if they have the proper coin
Duergars are civilized in an extent. They have their own reasons for slavery and etc (in pathfinder setting) Droskar rewards them for enduring toil etc, and whilst the dwarves abandoned the underdark and ancient dwarf culture the grey dwarves stayed and did what they had to for survival, protection of their kin or even potentially guarding artifacts. Duergar are evil in motivation when it comes to "The above" for jealousy sake and a sense of vengeance.
Duergar are civilized however there societies have roles, and they aren't as evil as say hobgoblins (not the half human ones you make :D) I personally play as a good duergar long story on that but i feel as a DM i shouldn't always have clear cut typings, while cliches, archetypes and that are good for numerous numerous reasons i always enjoy switching it up a bit, because at the end of the day Good and Evil are just a matter of opinion.
Edit woops should've finished watching before commenting.
Broken Spine roughly translates to Brokeback mountains XD