Hey everyone! I thought I'd have a crack at writing a little submission for the contest as an example. Later I'll do a livestream where I write whole 'nother idea, so you can see how I approach this stuff. This one is based off the dice prompt with the priest in robes.
If you need a refresher about the one-page adventure contest, check this out: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43324016
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2020-11-06 03:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! This is a little adventure I'm prepping for my friends for Halloween. It's also a pretty solid look into how much detail I put into my one-shots. This is loosey goosey, mostly relying on everyone around the table having a solid understanding of cheesy horror tropes and riffing off each other. The only things I would add to this prep-wise is thinking of specific kinds of fun scares from movies, just so I could provide suggestions to the players if necessary. (Which means watching...
2020-10-17 02:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Rather than share this on Friday, I figure I should post these now since they're related to this week's video. In fact, I should have posted these yesterday! But here we are :)
King Grol's stat block here reflects his role as a commander, so he's more about buffing and enabling his allies rather than being a warrior himself. If you're running this stat block, you might have to adjust the balance of the encounter depending on the state of your party when they encounte...
2020-10-07 03:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I'm posting this week's Patreon thing today rather than on Friday so it lines up with the Redbrand video. Next week we'll have an episode of the Pea Pod where I chat with our mate Zipperon Disney.
Here we've got a stat block to enhance the Nothic and give it some lair actions (because why not?) and a handout to help orientate the players to the campaign's plot after they deal with Glass Staff. Also: location cards, because they're sometimes useful for organising your...
2020-09-21 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI've always said: every dollar coming into the channel goes back into the channel. The channel has paid for my camera, my mic, every D&D book I own — everything. Maybe one day I'll be paying rent with this stuff [pause for laughter] but for now I'm just stoked it's all self-sustainable and I'm not out-of-pocket anymore.
There's a general social stigma around talking about money which I wholly reject, I think it's absolute malarky. So I want to break down some of the channel's cost...
2020-09-11 02:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's video is all about the Triboar Trail and the sidequests therein, within, about and around. And also beside.
This includes a little cheat sheet for how I would turn the encounter with Agatha the Banshee into a skill challenge, and how I would transform that combat with eight zombies at Old Owl Well into a fight against the Necromancer and a single Zombie Gundam.
I'm learning something about my workflow with this series, I tells ya — it's not good! There is no wi...
2020-09-08 15:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo!
Hope you're all enjoying this Starter Set series. This upcoming video next week is all about Phandalin locations and NPCs, but we're adding a little something special where the Black Spider jumps in to help the party in a tricky moment. So in that spirit, we've got to adjust her stats to give her a little survivability. And legendary actions. We've given her legendary actions, because we're cruel.
And just in case it's helpful for tracking the party through Phandalin, here a...
2020-08-21 07:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! These are the handouts for our next Lost Mines guide which takes us through the Cragmaw Hideout. PDFs attached.
Rather than clutter the feed with separate posts, I think it's easier to collate this stuff to session-centric collections. So if you're running the Cragmaw Hideout and following my guide, this is everything you need all in one spot.
Companion wolf guide
If the players try to befriend the wolves and succeed, it can be fun t...
2020-08-07 04:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The Sleep Paralysis Demon exists in simultaneously in the ethereal plane and its victim's mind. When viewed from the ethereal plane, it appears as a tall, slender shadow, looming at the foot of its victim's bed. Imagine an Enderman from Minecraft. In its victim's subconscious, it assumes the form of its victim, but with pointed teeth and piercing, lidless eyes.
When you have an absent player you might consider subjecting your party to this mon...
2020-06-28 04:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This is something I ran years ago and it was really fun! The party had a MASSIVELY overpowered wand that saved the day. We faced a basilisk in a stone garden at the end, but it could go a few ways.
The Moneylender is an avid hunter and recently slew a truly great creature. The Taxidermist is a chronic gambler, indebted to The Moneylender. To alleviate the debt, The Taxidermist undertook a grand task for The Moneylender: to taxidermise the Guardian of the Forest. But T... 2020-06-18 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an adventure outline featuring one of our custom monsters, the Meat Mimic! This isn't immediately playable content, but it's the kind of outline I would draft up to plan an adventure. Crafting personalities for the NPCs, balancing the encounters, creating the maps — those are all things which would be unique to your style and your table, but these story beats should help along the way.
When we get a...
2020-05-29 17:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This game is more complicated than you'd think! To help when you're onboarding new friends, I made this combat cheat sheet to highlight what the players can do on their turn and remind them which dice are which. This isn't a mechanically crunchy handout, so there's still onus on the Dungeon Master and more experienced players to bring the number-knowledge, but this will sti... 2020-05-22 06:30:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The animal rears and unstitches like a gruesome doll. The creature’s ribs audibly pop and snap, opening to form an impossible, vertical maw, tongue dragging on the ground, so its spittle sizzles where it lands. The false head of its animal form lolls to the side, and its false animal mouth dislocates to make way for a monstrous goat-pupiled eye which darts between party members. From this amorphous blob, this gore elemental, this Meat Mimic, several bloody tentacles dive into t... 2020-05-15 14:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post