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Join me, Baron de Ropp, as I interview Trevor from @MeMyselfandDieRPG at GenCon this year. Trevor told me he was making a new RPG for a style of gaming I wasn't too familiar with. For those who want more realism in their games and think things like arbitrary hit points and levels break your immersion, you'll absolutely love hearing this interview.
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Join us for the Shadowdark Weird Tales Game Jam live finale, celebrating Shadowdark's incredible success at GenCon 2024! Creators have crafted eerie, Weird Tales-inspired adventures that push the boundaries of Shadowdark RPG. Our expert panel will judge the top finalists and crown the ultimate champion. Prizes include a $50 Amazon gift card and a choice of the Shadowdark Core Rules or Cursed Scroll Zines. Plus, weβre raising funds for Develop Africa during the stream. Donβt miss out!
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Join me as I create a brand new TTRPG Campaign setting using SKRYM!
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Join me, Baron de Ropp, as we delve into what makes Shadowdark the RPG so beloved by both players and critics. After its clean sweep at the 2024 ENNIE Awards, everyone is talking about its old-school charm and modern accessibility. In this video, we'll explore the game's streamlined mechanics, concise rules, and unique features like the torch timer. Plus, don't miss the announcement of the 2024 Weird Tales Shadowdark Game Jam, where you can design your own adventures and win exciting prizes. Links to Shadowdark and the game jam are in the description. Enjoy and happy adventuring!
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Ever wondered how a kraken would impact a fantasy city's fishing and trade routes? What parallels can we draw between kraken attacks and the Allied response to German U-Boats in WWII? Could convoys, naval escorts, and enchanted ballista be enough to counter such a monstrous threat? How might coastal economies adapt and survive in the face of such terror? Join Baron de Ropp as he delves into the Geopolitics of the Kraken and explores the potential strategies and repercussions of confronting a kraken.
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"So You Want To Be A Game Master" might be the best dungeon mastering advice book to be published ever. And rightly so. @TheAlexandrian has been a game designer and writer of some of the best TTRPG content and blogging since the early 2000s. Even I was greatly influenced by his earlier works. Join me as I talk to Justin about some of the novel ideas in his book, his thought process on game development, and what lead him to bring this book to bear.
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Good evening, dungeon masters. Does your worldbuilding fail to captivate your players' imagination? This illuminating video shall demonstrate how to intricately entwine your lore into adventures that enthral. Learn to avoid tedious factual recitations. Utilize environmental clues and personalized backstories to intrigue. With contextual encounters and tangible artifacts, transform your world into a living, breathing realm of mystery. Guide your players to uncover its rich tapestry, threaded through compelling narratives. Employ these refined techniques, and bid adieu to bewildered players. Together, we shall turn worldbuilding from a tiresome ordeal into an endeavor that transports. Your campaign awaits. Let us begin.
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Will Baldur's Gate 3 outmatch D&D's Virtual Tabletop? How will BG3's immersive gameplay teach 5e rules better than Wizards of the Coast? Can BG3 modding communities provide a smoother experience than the official VTT? Is D&D's confusing 5.5E/6E rollout driving players to mod BG3 instead? With D&D sales slumping, is the BG3 and VTT rivalry a red flag for Hasbro? This video analyzes whether Baldur's Gate 3 could disrupt Wizards of the Coast's VTT plans and D&D's future under Hasbro management.
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Join Baron de Ropp as he tackles some uncomfortable truths that all DMs must face. He discusses the inherent conflict of interest in running games for friends, the impossibility of pleasing every player, respecting player autonomy in telling the story, and why improv is more important than prep. Learn how to balance your friendships with the needs of the game, focus on the players who engage the most, guide the story without railroading, and prepare just enough to improvise the rest. Whether you're a new DM or experienced expert, this video offers thought-provoking insights to improve your D&D games.
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Join Baron de Ropp of Dungeon Masterpiece and David from dScryb for a special "First Look" at the Dolmenwood Tabletop RPG Kickstarter! In this live stream, we'll be poring through the campaign page and preview materials for this new fantasy RPG inspired by British folklore. We'll discuss the setting, rules system, gorgeous art, and extras like adventures, maps, a soundtrack, and minis. Whether you're a veteran roleplayer or new to the hobby, don't miss our initial impressions and commentary on bringing the eerie fairy tales of Dolmenwood to your game table!
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Is treasure in 5E D&D epic enough for epic fantasy? This video argues coinage becomes useless at higher levels, non-magical loot like gems lacks narrative purpose, and magic items lack the power to enable legendary quests. It proposes we rethink how treasures are rewarded to better drive the fantasy epic adventures 5E is designed for.
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Need a starting town fast? This guide shares the key elements DMs need when prepping a new campaign's first settlement. We cover quick ways to establish unique religions, factions in conflict, memorable taverns and shops, iconic landmarks, and adventure hooks to get the party into the action right away. With these tips, you'll have a fully functional town ready for your players to begin their quest without wasting time on unnecessary details. Everything you need to kickoff a campaign and start playing as soon as possible.
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Discover how to create an entire D&D campaign area in just 12 hours with Knave 2e! Join me as I demonstrates using world-building tools and random tables from @QuestingBeast 's Knave 2e to an adventure featuring an ancient Gnoll dungeon, a faction-filled village, and diverse wilderness encounters.
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How can you construct your campaign setting so that the whole world tightly packed with adventure and extremely cohesive? Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the video game with a master class in campaign design.
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Wizards of the Coast is failing to support their core audience: casual gamers who became interested in the game during the last five years thanks to Stranger Things, Big Bang Theory, and various other sitcoms featuring the game. Using surveys to gain feedback for future changes to the game doesn't capture the opinion of these new gamers, and will cause the game's popularity to falter.
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Balancing encounters is one of the most difficult things new Dungeon Masters struggle with. It doesn't help that the 5e Dungeon Master's Guide offers little actionable guidance on the subject either. But do older editions of the game hold the solution?
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Have you always wondered what you can do to make your D&D or Pathfinder mechanics more interesting? Too often we line our monsters up against the party like we are engaged in some kind of Final Fantasy Firefight. But this just isn't very interesting! By exploring Halo: Combat Evolved's Blood Gulch Multiplayer map, we can turn encounters of mixed types into thoughtful and engaging combats, very quickly!
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Mausritter by Isaac Williams:
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Mothership by Sean McCoy:
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Tiny D6 Series by Alan Bahr:
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Star Wars RPG by West End Publishing:
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Burning Wheel by Luke Crane:
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Vampire: The Masquerade:
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Index Card RPG by Runehammer:
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So, you have started constructing your D&D world, but are struggling to understand how it all connects together. With this primer on the three Rs of Geopolitics: Routes, Resources, and Relationships, you'll be able to quickly map out how all your Dungeons and Dragons factions interrelate with the world they exist in, and have a springboard for all manner of quest hooks for your players to chose from!
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What makes a horror adventure in Dungeons and Dragons is so elusive that few seldom do so correctly. However, once you've finished watching this video, you'll be able to spin up entire adventures all with horror themes! Move over, Halloween!
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Eberron's continent of Khorvaire is on the brink of military conflict. While the Treaty of Thronehold might have ended the Last War, this is likely an armistice till a disenfranchised Karrnath or a Belligerent Thrane becomes the continent's aggressor.
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Fast Traveling in video games might seem like an attractive thing to mimic when random encounters or overland travel systems become too cumbersome, but there are a lot of geopolitical ramifications we can stack on top of overland travel without getting too far into tedium that will keep our game sessions interesting and ripe for quest hooking!
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Here is HexFriend:
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Tomb of the Serpent Kings B/X D&D:
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TotSK in 5e:
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Traveler RPG:
mongoosepublishing.com/collections/traveller-rpgs
Shadowdark:
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Dungeon Crawl Classics:
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Have you ever struggled to imagine how the various factions of your D&D game world would interact in a realistic way? With this system, you'll be able to manage as many as a dozen factions, quickly and painlessly!
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Ben Robbin's Blog Articles about his West Marches Campaign:
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Scheduling Conflicts? Not anymore! Get 20 of your friends together for some fantastic D&D Shenanigans in a campaign style focused on running bite size adventures in the wilderness!
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Are you sick of throwing random monsters at your Dungeons and Dragons players for no reason? By adjusting your random encounter tables to help tell your story, instead of adding dog-piling meaningless attrition, your random encounters will serve a purpose other than utter distraction from the game world!