Noob D&D Dad - Giant Spider Battle! - Gross!
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- Noob D&D Dad - Giant Spider Battle! - Gross! My son's D&D game has found itself stuck inside of a big castle called Axeholm. I accidentally let them choose this quest even though they were not ready for it.
One spider death I forgot to mention in the video was when my son Ray of Frosted a spider for the killing blow and it was backing up to get away and it's whole body froze solid but it still had the backward momentum and so it fell down and shattered all over the place. My friend picked up a piece of it to investigate and I had him roll a d100. He got like a 45 so I just had it be a frozen spider chunk. I was thinking if he rolled a 100 I would randomly have a gem stuck in it for no reason at all :)
I would LOVE to hear any and all comments, feedback, suggestions, your stories, and guidance! THANKS FOR WATCHING!
This is a bit of a recap, largely from session number 9, of my son's d&d campaign in the Axeholm quest from The Dragon of Icespire Peak in the D&D Essentials kit. I do recap a little bit of session 6,7,8, to get the context of where they are. My intent is to recap in further detail the earlier sessions if there is a demand to hear them. (speak up if you'd like that! Thanks!).
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All magic party! Thats wild, but I can see it being really fun as a magic duo. I also did the sling thing with my Ranger in my wife's campaign--I was very proud of that. Kinda wanted a grizzled Trench-running sapper veteran and was like, no way is she gonna let go of that crossbow to work, she'd have it on a sling! Going into a place that's a bit above your level can be tricky for both players and DM. Getting a +1 Crossbow with silvered ammo is a great treasure find, especially for mages who can't rely on a fighter or paladin to get between them and the bad guys.
The all magic has been fun. They also have some melee npcs with them currently. Thanks for all your comments!
The story of the spider battle is quite funny for me, because the last campaign I ran, the party came across an old ruined tower. They were determined that it must have been a wizard's tower and there would be good treasure in there. This was session 1! They're level 1!
They enter the tower and are attacked by 2 giant spiders! Party of 6 almost died! They retreat when I say there are more in the ruined tower coming! They take a short rest and recover then go BACK!? This time there are 3 giant spiders, multiple characters went down, one of them was dragged back into the tower! The remaining party had to quickly recover and try to rescue him! They defeated the last wounded spider and saved him, but it was a crazy day. Specially when a spider crit biting him and the poison would have killed him, then we realized that he had poison resistance and was only down. Not dead.
That story is awesome! Reading got my heart going, not gonna lie. Thanks for sharing!
I love the energy and excitement! I’ve been playing since 1985 and I remember that newness so well!
When I played this one as a gnome wizard we encountered the dragon right off at level one. We got it the first roll. 😂
1985! That's amazing. I was around for part of 1985😁. I appreciate your comments and insights. I'm glad you're here.
Its such an amazing hobby and nice that you are using the art of improvisation with your players. I am loving your videos, keep it up! ❤
Thank you so much! I improved a unique wall compartment in my game last night. Everyone's comments have been so great. Thank you for all yours! I'm glad you're here.
It’s so cool to hear about the ways you and your players adapt and improvise and I think I’m gonna use something similar to the dwarf skeleton in my campaign. Thanks for the good time
Yes! Thank you! I hope your players also get a kick out of the old body plopping out the door!
I enjoy so much the joy you are getting from Dming. so great to see the fun you are having. The way I play crossbows is if you want to load and fire a crossbow up to light is you use your move to load. So yes you can fire each turn you just can not move. With Heavy crossbow because In the real world you need a crank. Fire miss a turn reloading then fire again. Hand crossbow.. Rule of cool, your can move and fire BUT dex check to see if you can load it! Crit fail make it a really cool mess up ..mahahaha
Great suggestions! Thank you! Also thank you for the support. It is very motivating to make me continue
Magic item dispersal is entirely up to you, how powerful you want to see your players. As a player its always fun to get a magic item, but if every other session they get something super powerful then they wont appreciate what they already have; i personally run light on magic items, they will show up occasionally, but when they do, they're usually very fancy and have narratives attached along with cool names. I ran a campaign that was level 6 when we finished. I only gave them 2 magic items the whole playthrough, but it was "The Blade of Wrath" a blue green scimitar that could call lightning or compel duels, along with like 3 other spells (limited charges) and "The Staff of the Cosmos" a staff that granted the wielder abilities like moonbeam, invisibility or even conjuring some otherworldly beings. Point is, do what you think will make the game the most fun. But I think more powerful less often is the way to go.
I usually go the opposite direction as this advice. I find common and uncommon magic items that will encourage creativity. The immovable rod is fun for creative players and doesn't break the game at low levels. And ever burning torch or some other eternal light source makes light a bit easier for my non dark vision guys. Simple things like that.
But in a game winning lots of magic I'll make sure the martial find magic weapons. And those are usually something cool and epic and level with the martials.
@Gmorktron very reasonable. Boy oh boy did my face light up when I got an immovable rod. Thing is so much fun.
@jeremiahpohl3596 my hooligans used it as an e-brake on a pirate ship. They had been locked in their cabin and held hostage. No one thought to take their stuff. So they bored a hole into the frame of the ship and wedged the thing in. I told them it would only work to slow the ship a moment as the ships force was over the weight. They said ok and 1 guy keep spamming the switch every round bringing the ship to a halt, while the rest were fighting for their lives. Such a fun toy.
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I love seeing the excitement of items found! Like they accomplished something for real. Truly cathartic.
Sounds like you're enjoying running the game and your players are having fun as well. Keep it up, it's a great hobby! Glad you're doing things like using Bob Worldbuilders map making technique, those kinds of things make the game so much fun for the players.
I really am enjoying it so much! I love that anything can happen! Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching! It encourages me!
👏👏 Doing well Noob D&D Dad, even with the few mistakes you know you've made and adjusted for it.
Always be wary of a TPK, it can happen and it's going to happen, sometime.
Don't be too soft. If your players believe they are invincible they will do silly things more often.
If you do happen to incapacitate a character down to 0 hit points here's what I do instead of the unconscious death save rule. On the characters turn they can crawl up to 10 ft, say a few words but that's it no actions, no abilities and then they make a death saving throw and if they succeed, as well as marking down a success, they stay semi conscious till their next turn, if they fail they pass into unconsciousness as well as marking down a fail. With this at least for one round they still can have some small input.
As for the crossbow question instead of getting them a repeating crossbow you could change the rule that for the light and hand crossbow it costs a bonus action to load, but the heavy crossbow remains a full round action to load.
Now that they are 4 level they have access to their first feats instead of the +2 ability upgrade, and in the feats there is Crossbow Expert which grants anyone proficient with crossbows free loading.
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. As for magic don't be too free with magic items.
A potion every now and again is always exciting to get and especially easy to plant if they are requiring a certain type ie. Healing. But since they are all at level 4 they should be acquiring plus one weapons or armour of some kind.
Keep up the good work looking forward to seeing more.
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All good advice! I actually had your comment in mind during my session last night and it affected what I planted in a unique area in the wall I invented.
LOADING RULES. you can load and fire once every turn. If you take the attack action this includes loading and firing. At level 5 some classes can make two weapon attacks with their Attack Action. This is where the restriction comes in.
E.g. A level 5 ranger with a long sword takes the attack action and can make two sword attack rolls. If the same ranger is using a crossbow they can only make one attack roll.
The feat Crossbow Expert allows a character with extra attack to ignore the loading time so they can fire twice with their attack action. (As well as having other benefits)
Now ballistas are large mechanical crossbows (siege weapons) which may take an action to load and a separate action to fire. If so this can only be fired every other turn or requires a second person to use their action to load it.
Yes! Thank you!
i want to play in your group! dispersal of magic items used to be part of the stat block for creatures. i prefer to keep it organic to the situation: the spiders have likely killed other adventurers and magic items would be found among their desiccated corpses. but a wandering monster would not have as many as would be found in its lair.
email me! Also thanks for sharing the info about magic items!
At lower levels, single/limited use magic items are great. But if you don't give enough, though, they hoard them for really dire situations! So if you want to give scrolls and potions and actually see them used, be a bit liberal.
I also like to make sure that around lvl 5 to 7, each player gets one permanent magic item that directly relates to their "shtick".
If you want a bit more, starting at lvl 3, trickle some other weird/utility magic items in to see what they do with them! For example, cape of the montebanc (or something like that) is only one misty step per long rest, but it oozes style!
I love you sharing this with us, thanks! ❤
Outstanding advice! Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting. See you on the next one!
I am new to dming. But i am running second edition. It is really fun to create stuff for the game. I suck with improvising but hopefully i can het over that through many games of dming.
Hey! A fellow Noob DM! Good luck! We're in this together! Keep me updated on how it is going for you. How much prep time do you need per session?
Not sure but I believe if you are proficient in the crossbow you don’t have to load it. But if you’re not you do. Not sure though. As for the magic items, I’d say let the pace of the campaign and encounters delegate. Like you are now.
That makes a ton of sense about being proficient! Thank you. And thanks for the magic item advice.
2 more months and you will have to rename the chanel to Veteran DM Dad.
Hehe! Yeah!
From a female DM:
Shout out to your wife. She's awesome. ^_^
Aw, thanks! I told her you said that ;)
It’s great to see a DM embracing the art of crafting encounters and improvisation. These imaginary moments will become core memories that your son will carry with him throughout his life. Even though it’s pretend, they’re formative.
Really enjoying these video updates man! Keep them coming!
Great! Thank you for the encouragement! I am really enjoying making things up that they see in the environment on the fly! I made up an odd little compartment in the wall in my son's campaign last night. I'll be talking about it in a video.
about your spider encounter, I wanted to tell you about a book called "The Monsters Know What They're Doing"", by Keith Ammann. It's a compendium of a lot of DnD monsters that talks about their ecology, and how they'd act in and outside combat in relation to that ecology. It helped me a lot making it so hat each creature feels distinct and behaves in a unique way, making it so that you can even have NPC's or quests give information about how these creatures behave, kinda like in The Witcher 3, where you gotta prepare and gather information before goin against powerful monsters.
Once again, tons of love for you
That book sounds awesome, thanks for the recommendation! Thanks for watching and commenting and all the support, I really appreciate it and it motivates me to keep making videos!
I believe you are correct on the Crossbows, there is an ability/feat called 'Crossbow Expert' that reduces it to a bonus action (I think)... but honestly, it comes down to what is fun for your group, in my groups "Rule of cool" usually outweighs "rules as written"...
Loving this journey, and as a veteran Dungeon Master, I am following these adventures with great interest and joy!
Thank you for the clarification and thank you for your interest! It motivates me to want to make more❤️
Session sounded fantastic; as far as Crossbows are concerned, I believe itmust be reloaded (it can only be fired once a round even if you have multiple attacks) the feat crossbow expert lets you reload faster though for sure.
Yes! Thank you for clarifying.
i love your videos your enthusiasm and love for the game dude so great you're playing with your son
Thank you! I hope to get my 2 daughters in on it too! I just need to simplify it for them
Hey so you don't need to spend an action to load a crossbow. Some classes will get a feature called 'Extra Attack' which means they can attack an extra time when using the Attack action. 'Loading' just means that you can only ever get one attack per action/bonus action/reaction, regardless of whether you have something like Extra Attack.
Perfect! Thank you
If you wanted to give them an upgraded crossbow that ignores the loading property you could give them a chance to revisit gnomengarde and have one of the Artificers there create a repeating shot infusion (a feature of the player class Artificer from the sourcebook: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything).
Nice thank you