WHY Is NO ONE Talking About THIS SECTION Of The DMG?!?!?!?! (DM Tips)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Why is there a secret chapter in the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th Edition that NO ONE seems to be talking about?! I'm changing that this week!
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"Free Pies, Free beds" is an awesome tool in the right campaign. Not only is it a reward to the players, but for low level sanboxy type campaigns providing a home or base to the characters sets up all sort of narrative hooks and NPC relationships that can be played with down the line.
Cool tip, thanks!
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Wow I just watched Ginny Di's video on loot and she talks about this section. Deja vu lol
People don't talk about it because they don't use it.
Very experienced and/or imaginative DMs on the level of Matt Mercer do similar things on their own without guidance. That's what some of the DMs I've known do. These types of rewards are woven into the story and planned out well in advance.
Less experienced and/or imagiginative DMs should use this section as it is a great tool, but it probably doesn't occur to them to do things like this until it comes naturally after DMing for awhile (could be months or years). And then they don't have questions about how and therefore don't look in the DMHB and just figure it out on their own.
Most DMs probably don't read or even skim all the sections but instead only read those sections that apply to things they have questions about.
And, to my recollection, previous editions of the DMHB don't talk in detail about such things. One of the things I like about 5e is that they tried to keep in mind both experienced players & DMs as well as new ones.
I'm glad that you found this section and have put a highlight on it.
The DMG is a really underappreciated book.
The Epic Boons are also good to use for the effects of potent one-off in-world things like magic pools, blessings, etc and can be handed out to low-level players in a limited fashion. Such as a pool that blesses a weapon with that +20 bonus to a hit for one strike. Or magic resistence until X occurs.
In one game I made a non-magical elixir that was pulled from each player's background that had minor in-game effects and handed them out on laminated cards.
The Living Arcanis setting by Paradigm Concepts uses these kinds of rewards all the time. Always enjoy them more.
Great song, dude.
I've honestly been underwhelmed by the DM's guide and completely missed this section - thanks for the heads up. Now I've got your chorus stuck in my head!
Beautiful song. And a good vid on those extras instead of treasure. I've done this for a long time, favors to help found a town, earn an old keep that needs rebuilding or help fill in spell books. I like that Shadowdark has that built into the system under the Carousing benifits.
I actually use this sort of thing pretty regularly... well, at least the token thing. I tend to award them for exciting/meaningful decisions the characters make that have an impact on the game world. Stuff like Garmin pointed out about the characters saving the tavern from spiders, but I'd only give that IF the players made the choice on their own to engage with that option, not if it was the main goal of the session as determined by me.
That is cool. The DM guide has all sorts of tidbits. One cool part is towards the end of the book. There is a section dealing with rules. There is some flexibility on how the DM uses the rules and how faithful they want to be to the RAW. There is a section on dice. There is a part that gives the option to ignore dice. I think that part is cool. I don't know if anybody talks about this. The standard DND has dice rolls for combat and for out-of-combat skill checks. However that can change. Randomness is heavily dependent on personal preference. The DM can actually adjust that. It is there in the book. Some DMs like randomness. They have dice rolling a lot. They can even roll on tables to create randomly generated content. There is a lot of tables like that in the book. Some DMs, like me, don't like randomness as much. So we limit the dice rolling to combat, and that is it. That part of DND is interesting. I don't hear of anybody talking about that on RUclips. Randomness is a double edged sword. Good luck can be thrilling, but bad luck can be frustrating. Personally I prefer to be less random . I get to focus more on skill and strategy, which I enjoy. I save myself a lot of frustration.
Yeah….too short….I had to watch it 4 times. :P This is great! THank you.
Mercer does it. At least in campaign 1. Castle Greyskull. They helped the city and got a cool base as reward.
I use other rewards regularly. I had a campaign where the PC group were dungeon explorers and part of a larger guild. The first city/arc was a dungeon crawl that almost lead to a TPK, but they barely survived…. At the completion of the arc the local lord became their patron and they were gifted an abandoned building as a guild hall as a base of operations and a training ground. By the end of the campaign they each had earned an epic boon of some kind through roll play.
A rogue got the epic boon of invulnerability since she was closest to death the most and the healers kept bringing her back.
We revisit the setting for one shots now when we want a break from the regular campaign.
No, I had never read that part of the DMG. Thank you for spotlighting it for us. I really like how you use it in your campaigns.
Story is crafting!🎉
I have recently started going through my DMG again for inspiration. I'll give that section a read next. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and nice song. Has a Hayden vibe.
Good plan, to reward players with memory prompts. I particularly like your "story awards"
That song. Seriously. It hits home, in the best ways 💓
Agreed! I use this for inspiration for our magic items and for boons in our Monsters of Feyland 2 book.
Great song! You've a really good voice. Also thanks for reminding me I still need to read the DMG 😅
We used this section alot in our high lvl play. Thank you for the video, reminding me to use this in low lvl play also.
Love the awards! Cool idea :)
So you're a Bard?
Nice song. At some points I wonder if it's the dog's perspective or the human's which is kind of neat.
I don't give out 'rewards' much in my games as most are pretty task driven and objective focused. But it might be fun to stir things up.
Baja blast for the win!
I love other rewards I use gifts alot.
I notice max 22 con there... power creep much? 18 used to be the max. 5e is like playing in DC comics?
You're right to point out obscure sections everyone skips, the 1979 DMG had so much info in it that many parts of it were unknown by many players.
I like it!
Interesting.... we use these rewards in our campaign. My own current main character has the boon of spell recall, granted to her by a grateful demigod we released from bondage to an arch demon. I don't recall Mulligan or Mercer using these rewards, but they are far from unknown. I would guess that they are usually reserved for characters of very high level, and most televised RPGs don't reach the highest level tiers.
Cool
I thought you were going to cover simplified skills (prof. in whole ability rather than exact skills) or rules for skill point to be dice (you have proficiency? roll 1d20 + 1d4 and add modifier). These are things people never talk bout. I have tried to implement it once, and players opted out from that really quick "We want experience real dnd, not simplified shit"
Video starts at 2:26 after some perfectly unrelated discussion
DMG is a hidden treasure. It sits on my shelf for years and I've never read it. Flipped through it shortly when I first got it and said "good idea" a few times and forgot about it.
Bump
Chris perkins does talk about this chapter in great detail. So you saying nobody talks about it is false.
I will see if i csn find that video and post it here:
2 minutes to get to the jist. Argh.