The tavern scene where Gertz met his grandfather was my favourite part of the stream. I maybe could have guessed that you were "making it all up" (but I mean that's D&D) but in my opinion, improv is good, and that was well done improv. It felt natural to me, and it was great development for Gertz's character.
You mentioned again that every DnD campaign takes place after the fall of a more powerful civilization, but I quite like the idea of it being during the rise of the most powerful empire. Where new magics are being discovered, magic users are reaching heights never before dreamed, and the PCs are smack dab in the middle of it. Are they mages striving to be the strongest in the world? Are they mortals resisting this dangerous new territory? I think it could create a world that most players wouldn't have even considered, and could possibly make for their most memorable campaign setting they've ever played.
It works better for certain editions. 3rd Edition I always kind of baseline presumed that. Because the rules of 3rd edition presumed it. I mean not explicitly... but things included as rules and guidelines. Like the idea that there is magic commonly available in every single settlement. That you can at a relatively small town just find a shop where they're setting dozens of potions of healing and spell scrolls, partially drained magical wands, maybe even +1 magic weapons and armor. To me, a setting like that isn't the post apocalypse. Having to go to lost, dangerous places to hope to find these things while risking your life is. Going down to the local apothecary and literally handing over a sack of coins for an instant curative potion is not. But that's also kind of me. I play different editions of D&D based on the stories I want to tell. The subtle, or major, changes between editions kind of shifting the focus here and there. Like if I want a real gritty, sort of low magic world where even just running into a Magic User in general is an unusual event, much less people actually having something like a +2 Orcsbane Longsword... I go back to Basic Edition. If I want something where the heroes from the very get go feel like skilled (if not powerful, but at least competent at what they're supposed to do) heroes who can pull off amazing feats with luck and determination? I play 4th edition. And if I want that rising empire, pre-fall? 3rd is the wheelhouse edition. I think it's funny that sort of the marquee setting WotC had for 3rd edition, their new big addition to D&D, was exactly that. Eberron. Where while they tried to play lip service to the post apocalyptic idea of the Dragons and the Giant Empire and such... it's a world in ascendancy. With new wonders like the Lightning Rails and Warforged. New discoveries. The power brokers not being Kings and Lords but freemen, guilds really.
And 4 years after this we get the engaging your players video. A lot of the seeds for it are here. I really enjoyed going back and watching the one on one with Gertz, and seeing the reflection has affirmed the lessons from it.
I rationalize the writing down of story information (as Gurtz did and the CR players do) as my character having a naturally better memory than I do. Just because I have a crap memory for names doesn't mean my character has to! ;)
There's also the fact that your characters are living the campaign, and only the campaign, moment to moment instead of week to week. You might not remember that Lord's name you heard last Thursday after a week of work and IRL drama, but your character may remember that Lord's name she heard last night at that feast that was the biggest thing she was doing that week. Hi from two years from now, by the way.
Edric is awesome, I did really like him. I also really liked the way you tied in what was happening in Orlain! It was a really good piece of improvised storytelling and I think it went well.
Yeah, Dark Sun was 2e and 4e. I love both. I first purchased the Dark Sun boxed set at a yard sale in the late 1990s. The set came with a little short story entitled "A Little Knowledge". That short story was amazing and after reading it I was sold. :))
On the surface of it, watching these Q&As for an hour and watching recaps of your D&D sessions should not be all that interesting. Somehow though, I end up completely entranced in what you are talking about. I watched about an hour and a half of your stream and probably could have watched more, but convinced myself that i was stupid if I was going to watch for five hours.
I've just been given a very important question for Matt.....Everyone stop what you're doing and listen! Mr. Colville: When you first started your group in Bedegar, [sic?] what scenario did you begin with? What town did you start them in? What hook did you use? A different one for each character? How long did they play before your first video of them in the cave going after the Orcs, adapted from the "Night Below" campaign? Thanks for being you.
Thanks again for this. Watching these videos has caused me to reflect on my own successes and failures as a DM. It really helps me be more confident in the stories I run when I can more easily recognize what is good and what is bad.
Lesson learned my friend, the ending can be just as important as the beginning! You are great Matt, keep on kicking ass and sharing your brain with us!
Can't believe Matt opened with this song from Electric Dreams. I thought no one else on this planet had seen that movie, not to mention heard that song.
It was like the day after the Orlando shooting and #loveislove was trending in support of gay rights and this was my little tribute. Also, love that stupid movie. :D
I just discover you channel last week, and Matt, I gotta say you are AMAZING man (maybe Matthew is the name of great people, you, mercer, me since my is a brazilian version of our name LOL XD, anyway). I am watching all your videos, I started just because of the the Running the Game tips, but you are such an incredeble person that I decided watche every video you've posted. I didn't comment before, because these are old videos so I think you mayy not even read it, but if you do, I want to say thank you, because your videos are great and I believe they are going to improve me a lot as a DM. And also, I am commeting in here to also say I loved the As Above So Below session. Edric is already one of my favorite NP Characters, if not my favorite, from all RPG Streams I've watched so far (he is such a nice guy, I'm probably ripping him off to use in my current fantasy world game =D). And even if didn't think, or like it, the last part of the session when we discover Gertz's grandfather was alive, for me, that was astonishing, really a touching and dramatic moment, specially when he hug Gertz and call him son. For a moment I though you already knew that, but didn't wrote on the notes to be a surprise for us to, after like, 10 minutes I started think "wait... what if he didn't knew it and just improvised all of that", I was so involved in that story, I didn't realize you were improving until minutes later lol. Anyway, long comment, doesn't help you to take a momentt to read since you have a life lol, but if you do red, thank you again, for all the tips, the great ideas, the all the entertainment you gave me with that first recorded session!
Loved As above so Below, watched it Sunday. Loved this video, some good stuff in there. 2 things I do as A DM that you might find helpful, useful etc. 1) The Magician's Force - In the second book of Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Adventure series, Aahz explains to Skeeve the concept of the Magician's Force. It is a way to give someone a choice, without really giving them one. Lets say you have 2 cards on the table and you want to reveal the card on the left. You tell the other participant or viewer to point to one. You don't tell them what you are doing with it, just tell them to point to one. If they point to the one on the right You say "Okay, we'll get rid of this one!" making them feel that they made that card go away. If they pick the left card You say "Okay, we'll keep this one and get rid of the other one" Then you flip over the left card and they feel like they were the reason that the correct card was turned over. This concept has tons of application in Dungeons and Dragons. Your scenario with going left or right in the corridor is just such case. maybe you set up a dungeon that has an underground crypt for a session, and you give the players a mission to go examine a graveyard, but they still have this other desire to check out this old creepy dude's house. They will never know that the crypt they ended up in would have been in either place. Just make sure that you prep something different for the road not taken for the next session. 2)Notes - I love when my players take notes. At the end of every session, I ask my players if I may read the notes they took. If they say no, no big deal, I drop it right there. If they do let me read them it gives me some excellent feedback. One - I look for things that they wrote down that they thought were interesting or important that aren't in my own notes. Maybe I said something when I was improvising that they liked, thought was important, or thought was interesting. I will write down a list of these things in my notes with a huge question mark next to them, so that I can think about them and maybe revisit them for the players. Two - I look to see if they wrote down the things that I wanted them to get from the session. If they got the important stuff I laid out great. If they didn't write down something that I really wanted/needed them to get, I will put a star by it in my notes, and usually something like "you failed to get this information across to them dumbass!" If they missed an important plot point or character or detail, it is my fault for not making it clear, not theirs. I hope these things help you or someone else. Love what you are doing, keeping doing what you do.
WastelandRadio yeah it's called "presenting a hard choice" in Dungeon World and is one of the GM's options. I kind of love the mixing of gaming vernacular into tabletop roleplay without pausing the scene to "hash it out." Just say "you can chase the villain and she'll know you're coming but you won't lose her OR you can follow her and possibly ambush her later but also possibly lose her trail. She's getting farther away every second. What do you do?" I'm not trying to produce a stage drama, we're playing a game.
Matt consider doing a regimented "Questions, Comments, Concerns." at the end of your sessions. As a decompression/debriefing of players this makes it easy to determine how well a session went; particularly sticky and slow points. Since I started using it in my games it has given me many ideas on what to plan for future sessions, what NPC's are important in the PC's eyes, and they allow me to set my players minds on a topic for consideration if they ask about it. Of course i stole the idea from watching a youtube series called Threshold run by the D6mafia.
Really enjoyed the dissemination of the game, it's interesting going through the thought process behind some of the decisions. I look forward to watching the next session.
Hey! Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge with us plebeians. I one day hope that we can be as good as you. I know, I know it takes practice. Thanks again!
I thought you making up his grand father was a great moment. Sure it wasn't in your notes but I feel that moment was awesome story telling that Vorrikus found his grandfather. Theres also so many story aspects you can do with that later.
Half an hour in, and you said you were only answering questions, instead of summarizing the session like the first six videos of this campaign... Now I have to decide if I like this great story enough to watch 5-hour videos...
Matt, in my opinion, you should go back to your old video framing. When the camera is closer to you, there is less dead compositional space. It's a better look. It's your channel, so I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds. Also, there was no re-release of Dark Sun for third edition. There was a 4th edition Dark Sun.
While I enjoyed the entire session, I think I liked the Orlane segment the best. I have typically glossed over "town stuff" in the past, but now I see that I skipped over a lot of cool roleplaying opportunities. Between this and the Collabras project, I'm looking forward to building up my campaign world. Thanks so much!
0:00 My number 1 favorite movie of all times, First english speeking movie I ever saw and first english songs was in that movies, never see any one talk about that great film :D (You made myday) I need to rewatch it.
Hey Matt, what can I do to see you reading your books on audible some day? Because I think I speak for many of us when I say that would be AWESOME! Also, Have you considered running a kick-starter for your books? It would allow you to batch sales of the physical copies (possibly reducing costs on your end) and generating those numbers might help you get a deal with a major publisher (if that is something you might still be interested in). I imagine other people have already suggested this sort of stuff, but I thought I'd mention it either way. Anywho, I love what you are doing, Please keep up the good work. Peace! Out!!!
I think he mentioned in a previous stream that the costs for how he'd want his hard boiled styled novel to be made into an audiobook would be too expensive. It requires renting studio time, paying actors for multiple hours in the studio. Paying someone to work the studio. then paying someone for the 40+ hours spent mixing and then paying for mastering. it ends up become an easily 50,000-60,000 cost if not more. He just doesn't feel it is feasible at this time or financially viable
+Keith Parker At 16 thousand subs he would need everyone to done roughly 3-4 dollars. If half of his subscribe base all donated an average of ten dollars he would be able to afford it most likely but that's also being generous saying that half of his sub base would donate and sadly average subs don't always have ten dollars to give. Then Kickstarter takes a hefty cut. It would be cool but he seems to have something against it because like I said last stream he just didn't seem to answer fully, besides financial barring, on why he doesn't want it
Hi! Thank you for doing these videos. I have been roleplaying and gamemastering for years, but even though I've never even tried D&D, your videos are really helpful and inspiring. It's nice to find people with the same interests and a similiar gamemastering style that I can kind of seek advice from with my own campaigns. I feel like I have improved a lot, thanks to you. Sociology of D&D is one of my favourites, and I hope to write some academical texts about that sort of things in the future. I also have a question. Lately, my boyfriend and I have started running games for my little sister and brother, and those games kind of dragged me from the scifi-worlds I love back to middle-ageish-fantasy. And now I find myself in the situation of wanting to try D&D, even though I've always kind of been avoiding it. So. What books should I get to start a campaign? I will probably get the 5th edition, but there are just so many books: players guide, DMs guide, starter kits, monster manuals and a lot more. I am lost, this is waaaay too much to choose from :'D
Vorakis (or however you spell it) is 6' 2", if he had 10 feet of rope then he could climb all the way down the rope and there would be a four foot gap between his feet and the ground, that's what the damage should be based on when you did the fall. I know this all happened three years ago and it doesn't matter too much either way but for anyone reading this, take character height into account.
"I thought it would be obvious to you and Gertz that I was winging it, that I was making it up." Nah man. Any time I watch D&D, all DMs are Schrödinger's DM. You are simultaneously both winging it and not winging it 😂 since every DM days you'll spend most of your time improvising and making up for the unexpected.
I've watched several of the videos related to this campaign (and enjoyed them tremendously, thank you very much) and you have indicated multiple times that this game is human-centric, but I haven't run into a moment where you have gone into any details about why you chose to make it specifically human-centric (perhaps I've missed that). I'd be curious to hear details on that decision if you were interested in sharing that.
Matt, can you add a short summary like you did in your Running the game videos? I'd rather not go through 5h worth of video to get the plot update. Without a bit of a plot update, a lot of the things your refer to in this video are without context.
Hi Matt, just stumble across your canal randomly.. Absolutely loving it keep up the good work, now excuse me while i go break out my kindle and read this book that you might be intimately familiar with :p
hey so question about aasimar's what are you doing for them in your campaign politically? (If they are even in there idk) I ask because I can't think of anything more creative than that they are the d and d version of the preachers kid. Same issue with teiflings but opposite so. Just looking for inspiration.
How to convince my friend that a "Sexuality roll" is a horrible idea. Backstory maybe two years ago my friend wanted to GM and one of the things he wanted to implement was you rolled on a chart to determine your character's sexuality. At the time I do remember talking him out of this. Though he has finally found a group to game with. Through previous conversations he tends to want to recycle ideas which are bad or just slightly annoying to players. I want to get a decent argument why he shouldn't do this. Being a long while ago I forgot the argument I had used previously other then the fact it would be annoying to be forced to roleplay something about the character that I had no real control over. I often don't think about my characters sexuality and just let it appear in a natural way or making it convenient. This goes for NPC as well mainly because my worlds don't give a copper piece if your homosexual or not.
loved watching the session but I wonder if it would not have gone better if you and Gertz had not discussed his back story with his grandfather if things had not gone smoother.
also, I think I found a few typos in Priest. ot says to contact and let you know about that in the beginning of the book. What I didn't see was how you would prefer me to contact you about that. should I send you a message on Facebook, or perhaps email you? I'm Keith Michael Parker on Facebook or you can email me at keithparkerart@gmail.
Hey Matt, so I was just watching "As Above, So Below Episode 02: The Mul" And the description of the gole posts, the one they use for travel, reminded me of the standing stones from the book series "The Assassin's Apprentice. And I was just wondering if that's where you got that Idea from? Also the way you describe the transition walking from the stone to a new area, and the way the walk in the caves from above to below sound like the way the people from 9 princes of amber used their ability to go to different worlds.
Nope! Have not read The Assassin's Apprentice or Nine Princes In Amber. The Gol stones are just markers. The actual 'roads' are Elven Wayroads that the elves use. The Gol just figured out how to use them and used the stones to mark the 'entrances and exits' as well as write instructions on them for when they can be used.
It makes sence for me to not be maneckle not only for story porpuse but labor , you can't digg that much XD but still i can image a duergar giving the key to the slave so that he can free himself only to help the duergar himself. I hope some one understands that.
Are your books going to come to kobo or an ePub so I can put it on my kobo. I do not want to to buy a kindle just so I can read them. I really like the way you DM it is really cool and laid back.
I enjoyed this video, but I'm sad that you seem to have abandoned the old "Running the Game" format. I have a limited amount of time that I can work with my daughter on her DMing, and we were watching your videos and talking about them. With this new format, we can't do that because 1) we don't have time to watch your game together AND watch a Q&A video, and 2) these videos are less subject-oriented, so they're less useful to her as a beginning DM. We were watching your "teaching" videos and your "recap" videos, and she was asking a lot of good questions and learning... this one couldn't hold her attention because it wasn't as focused. I hope you will consider at least keeping your "Running the Game" videos in their old format.
Look this is my honest take on Gertz, he is a follower. I honestly think he would be most happy playing a squire to a powerful knight, literally subordinate to another player. *shrugs*
Teagan, the watchman you meet in Book One, is a "mare." Heden frowned. “He’s a what?” Domnal sat back in his chair, his grin turning into a smile. “Fancies men,” Domnal said. Heden’s face went blank for a moment as he absorbed this. “Hm.” He shrugged to himself. “Well he’s that good in a fight, he can do what he wants with his prick." That is literally the only reaction it gets. Heden is notoriously clueless about stuff. In book two you see Teagan and his partner being domestic. Then, book three...FIGHTER.
The tavern scene where Gertz met his grandfather was my favourite part of the stream. I maybe could have guessed that you were "making it all up" (but I mean that's D&D) but in my opinion, improv is good, and that was well done improv. It felt natural to me, and it was great development for Gertz's character.
It was my favorite part too. It literally had me tearing up!
Yeah mine too. It was very well done improv.
Somebody take care of that impostor who did that video! There was no "Peace. Out." at the end so it's CLEARLY a doppelganger! #FreeMattColville
Also he planned for the stream to go on about an hour and it went on about an hour!
You mentioned again that every DnD campaign takes place after the fall of a more powerful civilization, but I quite like the idea of it being during the rise of the most powerful empire. Where new magics are being discovered, magic users are reaching heights never before dreamed, and the PCs are smack dab in the middle of it. Are they mages striving to be the strongest in the world? Are they mortals resisting this dangerous new territory? I think it could create a world that most players wouldn't have even considered, and could possibly make for their most memorable campaign setting they've ever played.
It works better for certain editions. 3rd Edition I always kind of baseline presumed that. Because the rules of 3rd edition presumed it. I mean not explicitly... but things included as rules and guidelines. Like the idea that there is magic commonly available in every single settlement. That you can at a relatively small town just find a shop where they're setting dozens of potions of healing and spell scrolls, partially drained magical wands, maybe even +1 magic weapons and armor.
To me, a setting like that isn't the post apocalypse. Having to go to lost, dangerous places to hope to find these things while risking your life is. Going down to the local apothecary and literally handing over a sack of coins for an instant curative potion is not.
But that's also kind of me. I play different editions of D&D based on the stories I want to tell. The subtle, or major, changes between editions kind of shifting the focus here and there. Like if I want a real gritty, sort of low magic world where even just running into a Magic User in general is an unusual event, much less people actually having something like a +2 Orcsbane Longsword... I go back to Basic Edition. If I want something where the heroes from the very get go feel like skilled (if not powerful, but at least competent at what they're supposed to do) heroes who can pull off amazing feats with luck and determination? I play 4th edition.
And if I want that rising empire, pre-fall? 3rd is the wheelhouse edition. I think it's funny that sort of the marquee setting WotC had for 3rd edition, their new big addition to D&D, was exactly that. Eberron. Where while they tried to play lip service to the post apocalyptic idea of the Dragons and the Giant Empire and such... it's a world in ascendancy. With new wonders like the Lightning Rails and Warforged. New discoveries. The power brokers not being Kings and Lords but freemen, guilds really.
I loved the grandfather part, it was actually nice and touching.
And 4 years after this we get the engaging your players video. A lot of the seeds for it are here. I really enjoyed going back and watching the one on one with Gertz, and seeing the reflection has affirmed the lessons from it.
I rationalize the writing down of story information (as Gurtz did and the CR players do) as my character having a naturally better memory than I do. Just because I have a crap memory for names doesn't mean my character has to! ;)
There's also the fact that your characters are living the campaign, and only the campaign, moment to moment instead of week to week.
You might not remember that Lord's name you heard last Thursday after a week of work and IRL drama, but your character may remember that Lord's name she heard last night at that feast that was the biggest thing she was doing that week.
Hi from two years from now, by the way.
@@MrSilvUr Solid point! Hello and goodbye after five months from your answer!
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Edric is awesome, I did really like him. I also really liked the way you tied in what was happening in Orlain! It was a really good piece of improvised storytelling and I think it went well.
"I wouldn't let you play a character from Gundam." Matt knows Gundam! That's awesome!
Love these videos Matt! You are a true inspiration.
Thanks for doing these, I appreciate the look behind the DM screen, your organization and on the spot roleplaying is inspiring.
Yeah, Dark Sun was 2e and 4e. I love both. I first purchased the Dark Sun boxed set at a yard sale in the late 1990s. The set came with a little short story entitled "A Little Knowledge". That short story was amazing and after reading it I was sold. :))
On the surface of it, watching these Q&As for an hour and watching recaps of your D&D sessions should not be all that interesting. Somehow though, I end up completely entranced in what you are talking about. I watched about an hour and a half of your stream and probably could have watched more, but convinced myself that i was stupid if I was going to watch for five hours.
ProYagu I watched it for 5 hours. Really liked it
I took it in pieces, but it was worth 5 hours. . .
I've just been given a very important question for Matt.....Everyone stop what you're doing and listen!
Mr. Colville: When you first started your group in Bedegar, [sic?] what scenario did you begin with? What town did you start them in? What hook did you use? A different one for each character? How long did they play before your first video of them in the cave going after the Orcs, adapted from the "Night Below" campaign?
Thanks for being you.
Thanks again for this. Watching these videos has caused me to reflect on my own successes and failures as a DM. It really helps me be more confident in the stories I run when I can more easily recognize what is good and what is bad.
Lesson learned my friend, the ending can be just as important as the beginning! You are great Matt, keep on kicking ass and sharing your brain with us!
Can't believe Matt opened with this song from Electric Dreams. I thought no one else on this planet had seen that movie, not to mention heard that song.
It was like the day after the Orlando shooting and #loveislove was trending in support of gay rights and this was my little tribute.
Also, love that stupid movie. :D
Ah, that explains the song coming up.
And yeah, that is a stupid, unrealistic movie, but maybe that's why I love it.
it was some good improv. i didn't have the notes on me and the tale end of the story flowed nicely to my untrained eye.
Merry Christmas Matt!! Love to hear you singing!
I just discover you channel last week, and Matt, I gotta say you are AMAZING man (maybe Matthew is the name of great people, you, mercer, me since my is a brazilian version of our name LOL XD, anyway). I am watching all your videos, I started just because of the the Running the Game tips, but you are such an incredeble person that I decided watche every video you've posted. I didn't comment before, because these are old videos so I think you mayy not even read it, but if you do, I want to say thank you, because your videos are great and I believe they are going to improve me a lot as a DM.
And also, I am commeting in here to also say I loved the As Above So Below session. Edric is already one of my favorite NP Characters, if not my favorite, from all RPG Streams I've watched so far (he is such a nice guy, I'm probably ripping him off to use in my current fantasy world game =D). And even if didn't think, or like it, the last part of the session when we discover Gertz's grandfather was alive, for me, that was astonishing, really a touching and dramatic moment, specially when he hug Gertz and call him son. For a moment I though you already knew that, but didn't wrote on the notes to be a surprise for us to, after like, 10 minutes I started think "wait... what if he didn't knew it and just improvised all of that", I was so involved in that story, I didn't realize you were improving until minutes later lol.
Anyway, long comment, doesn't help you to take a momentt to read since you have a life lol, but if you do red, thank you again, for all the tips, the great ideas, the all the entertainment you gave me with that first recorded session!
I watched the whole 1 on 1 session over the course of a few days, it was fun. Love your channel!
Loved As above so Below, watched it Sunday. Loved this video, some good stuff in there. 2 things I do as A DM that you might find helpful, useful etc.
1) The Magician's Force - In the second book of Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Adventure series, Aahz explains to Skeeve the concept of the Magician's Force. It is a way to give someone a choice, without really giving them one. Lets say you have 2 cards on the table and you want to reveal the card on the left. You tell the other participant or viewer to point to one. You don't tell them what you are doing with it, just tell them to point to one. If they point to the one on the right You say "Okay, we'll get rid of this one!" making them feel that they made that card go away. If they pick the left card You say "Okay, we'll keep this one and get rid of the other one" Then you flip over the left card and they feel like they were the reason that the correct card was turned over. This concept has tons of application in Dungeons and Dragons. Your scenario with going left or right in the corridor is just such case. maybe you set up a dungeon that has an underground crypt for a session, and you give the players a mission to go examine a graveyard, but they still have this other desire to check out this old creepy dude's house. They will never know that the crypt they ended up in would have been in either place. Just make sure that you prep something different for the road not taken for the next session.
2)Notes - I love when my players take notes. At the end of every session, I ask my players if I may read the notes they took. If they say no, no big deal, I drop it right there. If they do let me read them it gives me some excellent feedback. One - I look for things that they wrote down that they thought were interesting or important that aren't in my own notes. Maybe I said something when I was improvising that they liked, thought was important, or thought was interesting. I will write down a list of these things in my notes with a huge question mark next to them, so that I can think about them and maybe revisit them for the players. Two - I look to see if they wrote down the things that I wanted them to get from the session. If they got the important stuff I laid out great. If they didn't write down something that I really wanted/needed them to get, I will put a star by it in my notes, and usually something like "you failed to get this information across to them dumbass!" If they missed an important plot point or character or detail, it is my fault for not making it clear, not theirs.
I hope these things help you or someone else. Love what you are doing, keeping doing what you do.
Pfft.
Dwarf attempting to understand Duergar UnderDwarvish ~= Spaniard attempting to understand Portugese and/or Englishman attempting to understand Middle English.
Or someone knowing Latin and listening to Romance language any other language.
Thumbs up for the Gundam name drop. I'm currently home-brewing a mech based space opera RPG.
Eloi vs Morlocks? does that mean you eat the second floor employees?
We did until we ran outta Eloi.
Don't really have time to watch the stream, but really enjoy watching them here :)
Announcing the failure condition is pretty standard in recent RPGs (Burning Wheel being one example).
WastelandRadio yeah it's called "presenting a hard choice" in Dungeon World and is one of the GM's options. I kind of love the mixing of gaming vernacular into tabletop roleplay without pausing the scene to "hash it out." Just say "you can chase the villain and she'll know you're coming but you won't lose her OR you can follow her and possibly ambush her later but also possibly lose her trail. She's getting farther away every second. What do you do?" I'm not trying to produce a stage drama, we're playing a game.
Matt consider doing a regimented "Questions, Comments, Concerns." at the end of your sessions. As a decompression/debriefing of players this makes it easy to determine how well a session went; particularly sticky and slow points. Since I started using it in my games it has given me many ideas on what to plan for future sessions, what NPC's are important in the PC's eyes, and they allow me to set my players minds on a topic for consideration if they ask about it. Of course i stole the idea from watching a youtube series called Threshold run by the D6mafia.
Matt, Thanks for the great content. I particularly enjoy your decomposition of the adventure.
Really enjoyed the dissemination of the game, it's interesting going through the thought process behind some of the decisions. I look forward to watching the next session.
Hey! Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge with us plebeians. I one day hope that we can be as good as you.
I know, I know it takes practice. Thanks again!
I watched Krupp immediately after finishing your session 0 with GIrtz... amazing stuff thank you !
I thought you making up his grand father was a great moment. Sure it wasn't in your notes but I feel that moment was awesome story telling that Vorrikus found his grandfather. Theres also so many story aspects you can do with that later.
I started watching the stream, got about half an hour in, but I just can't set aside the time to watch the whole thing. That's why I am here.
Half an hour in, and you said you were only answering questions, instead of summarizing the session like the first six videos of this campaign... Now I have to decide if I like this great story enough to watch 5-hour videos...
Matt, in my opinion, you should go back to your old video framing. When the camera is closer to you, there is less dead compositional space. It's a better look. It's your channel, so I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds.
Also, there was no re-release of Dark Sun for third edition. There was a 4th edition Dark Sun.
The streams use a different camera.
There were a couple of articles in Dragon and Dungeon Magazines that updated the setting to 3.5
While I enjoyed the entire session, I think I liked the Orlane segment the best. I have typically glossed over "town stuff" in the past, but now I see that I skipped over a lot of cool roleplaying opportunities. Between this and the Collabras project, I'm looking forward to building up my campaign world. Thanks so much!
"The mirror of something else" should be it's actual name. Sorry I'm late just trying to catch up
0:00 My number 1 favorite movie of all times, First english speeking movie I ever saw and first english songs was in that movies, never see any one talk about that great film :D (You made myday) I need to rewatch it.
Love the videos! Thank you! I would have wanted to see more of the chat window that you're dialoging with.
Hey Matt, what can I do to see you reading your books on audible some day? Because I think I speak for many of us when I say that would be AWESOME! Also, Have you considered running a kick-starter for your books? It would allow you to batch sales of the physical copies (possibly reducing costs on your end) and generating those numbers might help you get a deal with a major publisher (if that is something you might still be interested in). I imagine other people have already suggested this sort of stuff, but I thought I'd mention it either way. Anywho, I love what you are doing, Please keep up the good work. Peace! Out!!!
I think he mentioned in a previous stream that the costs for how he'd want his hard boiled styled novel to be made into an audiobook would be too expensive. It requires renting studio time, paying actors for multiple hours in the studio. Paying someone to work the studio. then paying someone for the 40+ hours spent mixing and then paying for mastering. it ends up become an easily 50,000-60,000 cost if not more. He just doesn't feel it is feasible at this time or financially viable
Maybe so. I still think the kick-started angle might work.
+Keith Parker At 16 thousand subs he would need everyone to done roughly 3-4 dollars. If half of his subscribe base all donated an average of ten dollars he would be able to afford it most likely but that's also being generous saying that half of his sub base would donate and sadly average subs don't always have ten dollars to give. Then Kickstarter takes a hefty cut. It would be cool but he seems to have something against it because like I said last stream he just didn't seem to answer fully, besides financial barring, on why he doesn't want it
Maybe so. But I think that is a fairly limited way of looking at it.
I'm just sitting here hoping that someone makes a compilation of your singing moments.
Hi!
Thank you for doing these videos. I have been roleplaying and gamemastering for years, but even though I've never even tried D&D, your videos are really helpful and inspiring. It's nice to find people with the same interests and a similiar gamemastering style that I can kind of seek advice from with my own campaigns. I feel like I have improved a lot, thanks to you. Sociology of D&D is one of my favourites, and I hope to write some academical texts about that sort of things in the future.
I also have a question. Lately, my boyfriend and I have started running games for my little sister and brother, and those games kind of dragged me from the scifi-worlds I love back to middle-ageish-fantasy. And now I find myself in the situation of wanting to try D&D, even though I've always kind of been avoiding it.
So. What books should I get to start a campaign? I will probably get the 5th edition, but there are just so many books: players guide, DMs guide, starter kits, monster manuals and a lot more. I am lost, this is waaaay too much to choose from :'D
I really liked the scenes when they got to Orlaine.
Vorakis (or however you spell it) is 6' 2", if he had 10 feet of rope then he could climb all the way down the rope and there would be a four foot gap between his feet and the ground, that's what the damage should be based on when you did the fall. I know this all happened three years ago and it doesn't matter too much either way but for anyone reading this, take character height into account.
"I thought it would be obvious to you and Gertz that I was winging it, that I was making it up." Nah man. Any time I watch D&D, all DMs are Schrödinger's DM. You are simultaneously both winging it and not winging it 😂 since every DM days you'll spend most of your time improvising and making up for the unexpected.
Thank you, I did not think of that.
I've watched several of the videos related to this campaign (and enjoyed them tremendously, thank you very much) and you have indicated multiple times that this game is human-centric, but I haven't run into a moment where you have gone into any details about why you chose to make it specifically human-centric (perhaps I've missed that). I'd be curious to hear details on that decision if you were interested in sharing that.
It was a great 1on1 session, i also got to see parte of it cause i was up in the middle of the night
Matt, can you add a short summary like you did in your Running the game videos? I'd rather not go through 5h worth of video to get the plot update. Without a bit of a plot update, a lot of the things your refer to in this video are without context.
Hi Matt, just stumble across your canal randomly.. Absolutely loving it keep up the good work, now excuse me while i go break out my kindle and read this book that you might be intimately familiar with :p
hey so question about aasimar's what are you doing for them in your campaign politically? (If they are even in there idk) I ask because I can't think of anything more creative than that they are the d and d version of the preachers kid. Same issue with teiflings but opposite so. Just looking for inspiration.
When someone follows you stop and like do a look that kills to your other monitor is hilarious
How to convince my friend that a "Sexuality roll" is a horrible idea.
Backstory maybe two years ago my friend wanted to GM and one of the things he wanted to implement was you rolled on a chart to determine your character's sexuality.
At the time I do remember talking him out of this. Though he has finally found a group to game with. Through previous conversations he tends to want to recycle ideas which are bad or just slightly annoying to players.
I want to get a decent argument why he shouldn't do this. Being a long while ago I forgot the argument I had used previously other then the fact it would be annoying to be forced to roleplay something about the character that I had no real control over.
I often don't think about my characters sexuality and just let it appear in a natural way or making it convenient. This goes for NPC as well mainly because my worlds don't give a copper piece if your homosexual or not.
loved watching the session but I wonder if it would not have gone better if you and Gertz had not discussed his back story with his grandfather if things had not gone smoother.
i have watched a lot of your videos and just wanted to say thanks they have been a lot of help im trying to learn to dm a game
yaaaaaay I got that Time Traveller reference. my creative writing degree wasn't for nothing *fist pump*
also, I think I found a few typos in Priest. ot says to contact and let you know about that in the beginning of the book. What I didn't see was how you would prefer me to contact you about that. should I send you a message on Facebook, or perhaps email you? I'm Keith Michael Parker on Facebook or you can email me at keithparkerart@gmail.
Hey Matt, so I was just watching "As Above, So Below Episode 02: The Mul" And the description of the gole posts, the one they use for travel, reminded me of the standing stones from the book series "The Assassin's Apprentice. And I was just wondering if that's where you got that Idea from?
Also the way you describe the transition walking from the stone to a new area, and the way the walk in the caves from above to below sound like the way the people from 9 princes of amber used their ability to go to different worlds.
Nope! Have not read The Assassin's Apprentice or Nine Princes In Amber.
The Gol stones are just markers. The actual 'roads' are Elven Wayroads that the elves use. The Gol just figured out how to use them and used the stones to mark the 'entrances and exits' as well as write instructions on them for when they can be used.
you should check out those two series :)
DM:ed my first session last Sunday after only being a player for probably two years. I feel like it went really well. Thanks for all the advice!
That's another way of skirting any licensing fees for intro music ^_^
I thought the Orlain thing was a good idea! I thought you played that well!
Extemporaneously. As soon as I find out what that means I'm totally stealing it lol.
Matt did you give away the Hexographer already? I haven't caught up on the videos after this yet so I wasn't sure.
It makes sence for me to not be maneckle not only for story porpuse but labor , you can't digg that much XD but still i can image a duergar giving the key to the slave so that he can free himself only to help the duergar himself.
I hope some one understands that.
Electric Dreams....loved that movie. Bet it doesn't age well though!
With 2+ players you could just have one moderate twitch. With one that divides attention too much, but with a few you could do that.
Are your books going to come to kobo or an ePub so I can put it on my kobo. I do not want to to buy a kindle just so I can read them. I really like the way you DM it is really cool and laid back.
try the kindle app.
No "Peace out"? I think he is under the influence of a domination potion!
Was Matt singing the epic monk drinking song in this video, if so does anyone know when?
Aw, so I will have to decide weather to watch Dice Camera Action! or your stream? Difficult decisions.
34:00 that was funny as hell
I would prefer if you uploaded any future streams in 30-40 min youtube videos. Maybe upload one a day if it's 5 hours long.
the stream is just sent to RUclips after he streams. just watch it in 5 separate spots. RUclips doesn't demand one session of watching lol
The least fun games of my life are with "gotcha" GMs. They are the reason so many players feel RPGs have to be an adversarial experience.
WAIT!!!!!
Deep Speech is telepathic?
Conduit!
I enjoyed this video, but I'm sad that you seem to have abandoned the old "Running the Game" format. I have a limited amount of time that I can work with my daughter on her DMing, and we were watching your videos and talking about them. With this new format, we can't do that because 1) we don't have time to watch your game together AND watch a Q&A video, and 2) these videos are less subject-oriented, so they're less useful to her as a beginning DM. We were watching your "teaching" videos and your "recap" videos, and she was asking a lot of good questions and learning... this one couldn't hold her attention because it wasn't as focused. I hope you will consider at least keeping your "Running the Game" videos in their old format.
Look this is my honest take on Gertz, he is a follower. I honestly think he would be most happy playing a squire to a powerful knight, literally subordinate to another player. *shrugs*
What is the subreddit?
woops i was searching "only in dndnext" in the search thing
Oh god, Matt loves Pacific Rim. I can't handle this revelation :O
Which one of the books has a gay main character again? Because, now I'm interested.
Teagan, the watchman you meet in Book One, is a "mare."
Heden frowned. “He’s a what?”
Domnal sat back in his chair, his grin turning into a smile.
“Fancies men,” Domnal said.
Heden’s face went blank for a moment as he absorbed this. “Hm.” He shrugged to himself. “Well he’s that good in a fight, he can do what he wants with his prick."
That is literally the only reaction it gets. Heden is notoriously clueless about stuff.
In book two you see Teagan and his partner being domestic. Then, book three...FIGHTER.