For anyone who is interested in the reference cards I made for both my party and myself, here is a link to my patreon where you can find them. I've also gone through the make them Print and Play, so you can quickly get these ready for your party! I hope you find these helpful, and will continue to share any tools and reference cards I've made for any of my reviews! But please make sure you also show your support for Loot Tavern and the other amazing creators that worked on this book, as none of this would have been possible without them! www.patreon.com/posts/helianas-guide-97668670
Heya! We shared your video with the rest of the team, and everyone is delighted to hear your kind words :) its this kind of stuff that makes it all worth it in the end! If you think the tracking encounters weren't enough, page 27 should have a QR code with a bunch of extra encounters for you to enjoy! The book was already 600+ pages thick so we couldn't fit them inside anymore! XD
I'm so glad you all enjoyed it! It was an absolute pleasure to read through all this amazing new content. And yes! I did check out the QR code bonus content, and boy is it good! From the pictures I've seen of the book I don't blame you for having to use QR codes, it's a chonky beast for sure!
Im almost shocked to see so few or nonexistent reviews of helianas out there. I adore this book to absolute bits, the hunts, the player options, the crafting. Im currently playing as a biomancy wizard and is having an absolute blast with it and the mycellian have become a mainstay race in my games as the players fell ehad over heels with the story potential of it.
I was also surprised that there are so few reviews for how well this book did as a Kickstarter and how amazing the content inside is! And ooh!! Nice nice, what's been your most memorable moment with the biomancy wizard? And yeah!! The Mycellian have such an interesting lore about them, that it can really open up your story to so many different possibilities.
@@keyydarkfoundry thank you for asking. I think it was when we wanted to cross a shallow part of the river but that had very rapid streams and we wanted to get our wagon filled with mimics (we were delivering them so it was important to ensure their safety) and our donkey over. I had picked the trimorphism surgery of the day so he could enlarge himself without concentration. After a little discussion if it could stack or not since it technically wasnt a spell like this i was allowed to cast enlarge normally on top of it to become huge and carry the wagon and the donkey over the river. Which is normally i would never be able to do as a wizard of all things. Like this is barbarian or runeknight fighter territory it was kinda hilarious that it was the partys wizard who did the musclework and did it well. Biomancer in general if you use the biomancy spells in Helianas make for a very interesting mid range buffing support and very tanky espicially if you lean in with high con (this wizard had a 20 con believe it or not)and even emergency healer since the biomancy spells heal a bit of hp if used.
Of course! I love hearing fun DnD stories and seeing what wacky plans others can concoct. And oh, very interesting cargo you had. Were you supplying Dungeons-r-Us or something, haha? But that's actually a pretty cool and clever interaction. I'm glad you were able to break the mold and outshine those muscle heads! Show em the power of being smaht! And I totally agree with you, the biomancy spells are all so cool and unique. I like that they allow you to kinda perform other roles and really open up your utility by a lot. Though some are very situationally specific, I think they all have a decent place and use case.
What a wonderful video! I only wish there had been excerpts from the PDF to illustrate everything you were saying! You should contact the LT team next time, they might be able to give you some art assets for the video. Also I believe there is a QR code in the Tracking chapter that links to a PDF with another 40 or so random encounters!
Thanks! I'm currently working on another video centered around the Tamer and the different hunts in Heliana's so I'll try reaching out once I'm done with my script to see what art assets would be good!
I'm unfamiliar with gurps 4e personally, but I imagine the tracking, harvesting and crafting systems should translate well enough. In terms of the tracking system, the only thing I see being different is the DC or roll required to be considered a success. For harvesting and crafting you would just exclude the concept or need to gather and use essence to craft items and the food recipes. In heliana's they have many tables that go into detail about all the necessary materials to craft items. You could easily use this as a skeleton or framework for the materials present in your GURPs 4e game. Crafting mundane/nonmagical items are also present in the book! Depending on how nonmagical your campaign is, I can see issues with trying to use the new races and subclasses. But I think the new tamer class could be reflavored or tweaked easily enough to fit a nonmagic setting. Instead of capturing them in a magical device, you just tame them normally and have a menagerie of creatures following you. I hope this answers your question!
Hey man, great video! Can you share the references you gave your players explaining the crafting and harvesting rules?? I just got the book and I'm looking for some easily digestible material. Thanks!
For anyone who is interested in the reference cards I made for both my party and myself, here is a link to my patreon where you can find them. I've also gone through the make them Print and Play, so you can quickly get these ready for your party! I hope you find these helpful, and will continue to share any tools and reference cards I've made for any of my reviews! But please make sure you also show your support for Loot Tavern and the other amazing creators that worked on this book, as none of this would have been possible without them!
www.patreon.com/posts/helianas-guide-97668670
Heya! We shared your video with the rest of the team, and everyone is delighted to hear your kind words :) its this kind of stuff that makes it all worth it in the end!
If you think the tracking encounters weren't enough, page 27 should have a QR code with a bunch of extra encounters for you to enjoy! The book was already 600+ pages thick so we couldn't fit them inside anymore! XD
I'm so glad you all enjoyed it! It was an absolute pleasure to read through all this amazing new content.
And yes! I did check out the QR code bonus content, and boy is it good! From the pictures I've seen of the book I don't blame you for having to use QR codes, it's a chonky beast for sure!
FYI, I think you've confused "objective" with "subjective"
Haha, no no I meant objective. It's supposed to be a bit of a joke/sarcasm.
Im almost shocked to see so few or nonexistent reviews of helianas out there. I adore this book to absolute bits, the hunts, the player options, the crafting. Im currently playing as a biomancy wizard and is having an absolute blast with it and the mycellian have become a mainstay race in my games as the players fell ehad over heels with the story potential of it.
I was also surprised that there are so few reviews for how well this book did as a Kickstarter and how amazing the content inside is!
And ooh!! Nice nice, what's been your most memorable moment with the biomancy wizard? And yeah!! The Mycellian have such an interesting lore about them, that it can really open up your story to so many different possibilities.
@@keyydarkfoundry thank you for asking. I think it was when we wanted to cross a shallow part of the river but that had very rapid streams and we wanted to get our wagon filled with mimics (we were delivering them so it was important to ensure their safety) and our donkey over. I had picked the trimorphism surgery of the day so he could enlarge himself without concentration. After a little discussion if it could stack or not since it technically wasnt a spell like this i was allowed to cast enlarge normally on top of it to become huge and carry the wagon and the donkey over the river. Which is normally i would never be able to do as a wizard of all things. Like this is barbarian or runeknight fighter territory it was kinda hilarious that it was the partys wizard who did the musclework and did it well.
Biomancer in general if you use the biomancy spells in Helianas make for a very interesting mid range buffing support and very tanky espicially if you lean in with high con (this wizard had a 20 con believe it or not)and even emergency healer since the biomancy spells heal a bit of hp if used.
Of course! I love hearing fun DnD stories and seeing what wacky plans others can concoct.
And oh, very interesting cargo you had. Were you supplying Dungeons-r-Us or something, haha? But that's actually a pretty cool and clever interaction. I'm glad you were able to break the mold and outshine those muscle heads! Show em the power of being smaht!
And I totally agree with you, the biomancy spells are all so cool and unique. I like that they allow you to kinda perform other roles and really open up your utility by a lot. Though some are very situationally specific, I think they all have a decent place and use case.
What a wonderful video! I only wish there had been excerpts from the PDF to illustrate everything you were saying! You should contact the LT team next time, they might be able to give you some art assets for the video.
Also I believe there is a QR code in the Tracking chapter that links to a PDF with another 40 or so random encounters!
Thanks! I'm currently working on another video centered around the Tamer and the different hunts in Heliana's so I'll try reaching out once I'm done with my script to see what art assets would be good!
Will this work without magic and gurps 4e?
I'm unfamiliar with gurps 4e personally, but I imagine the tracking, harvesting and crafting systems should translate well enough.
In terms of the tracking system, the only thing I see being different is the DC or roll required to be considered a success.
For harvesting and crafting you would just exclude the concept or need to gather and use essence to craft items and the food recipes.
In heliana's they have many tables that go into detail about all the necessary materials to craft items. You could easily use this as a skeleton or framework for the materials present in your GURPs 4e game. Crafting mundane/nonmagical items are also present in the book!
Depending on how nonmagical your campaign is, I can see issues with trying to use the new races and subclasses. But I think the new tamer class could be reflavored or tweaked easily enough to fit a nonmagic setting. Instead of capturing them in a magical device, you just tame them normally and have a menagerie of creatures following you.
I hope this answers your question!
Great information. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Hey man, great video! Can you share the references you gave your players explaining the crafting and harvesting rules?? I just got the book and I'm looking for some easily digestible material. Thanks!
Of course! Let me compile it into a cleaner format and I'll pin a link to it under this video and ping ya too!
@@keyydarkfoundry Many thanks!!
@@alexm1376 Howdy, I finished polishing up the reference cards and have gone ahead and pinned a link to where you can get them yourself!