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it's very obvious

Funny, clear and concise. Good job man, you have a new subscriber.

Yes! I love using food in games

I love your advice! so tangible!

Great piece of advice. Food is a relatable experience to everyone, no matter where you are from. I'm currently running Curse of Strahd. The RAW module comments on the importance of wine in the valley, but with a chef character in the party and me intent to expand on the worldbuilding, I've really highlighted how limited and stunted agriculture is in Barovia.

My personal favorite catchphrase was from an older edition artwork that I stole for my character. A wizard who resented magic users who didn't study for their power. "Sorcery is a lot like cutting wood with a lightning bolt. Big, loud, and flashy. But you don't have much to show for it at the end of the day."

*CHA'ALT*

Good information and well presented sadly the link t the cheat sheet does not work. Is there another source? Helen and Katarin Juska-Law with Stella Jorgensson. (UK Eastern Femlamds)

Welp stepping outside in. a Tshirt in canada isn't freezing......found the poser.

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I love this take! I'm running a live stream these days, and the party is gonna have to go out and do some overland travel here soon as a major part of the story, so this is fantastic! Do you have any tips on when to use it and when not to (as you mentioned, it could drag out gameplay and be cumbersome to everyone)?

Another fun thing to do is build some of these around character abilities to let them shine. For example, a Ranger in the group has swamps as favored terrain? Awesome, they quick realize they need to follow that character through this trick section. There's a dense low lying fog giving the dwarves, gnomes, etc DIS on perception? Find a way to hoist them up? The single track trail is heavily overgrown and causing larger characters to bend over awkwardly while the gnome suffers no penalty? Guess who's on point?

So what if they fail all their checks and suffocate in the quicksand? Would be a rather....unsatisfying end of the story, I'd say, depending on the story, of course. It's definitely a choice you can make as a DM, and it depends how story-based your campaign is, but I'd avoid sudden death traps unless it would be interesting.

I like this a lot but would love to see how you apply it to more settings like you did for the swamp! Like in a forest, a city, a dungeon, a desert etc. I'm currently running my friends through a forest and I feel like I'm missing a lot of fun stuff but can't figure it out!

Mmmm. Tasty gruel. Stews. Thin soups consisting mostly of broth. Oats, barley, wheat, corn, maybe rooty tubers if they're lucky. Food in the real middle ages was pretty mopey for peasants.

This is actually very good advice! *Food* for thought and good ideas to sprinkle in the storytelling!

I love learning about real medieval food, along with clothing, buildings, lighting, and other details of daily life. And for me, this has always been part of my enjoyment of FRPGs.

I like this, going to add it in next time I DM

Great advice! I like to think that dwarves are really into spicy food because they are resistant to poisons and most other races would consider their food dangerous!

I love using food to remind the players that our campaigns don't take place in Kansas. ;) And this is a great channel for unusual and historical foods: ua-cam.com/video/mXm8qRT4IcI/v-deo.html

When i am world building, what the farmers grow and the ranchers raise influences the culture of the area and the food choices. The climate, of course, influences what will grow and that influences clothing, buildings, crops, leisure activities, and more. Look at cultures around the world and barrow heavily.

ok, glad I'm not the only weird one that cares about food in a setting/campagin 😅

your advice is genuinely invaluable. I love all these different videos to help us create memorable experiences with our friends while scratching a creative itch. It's very comforting to have these tools to rely on. Thank you!😁

Man, you are completely right! Everybody understands what food is. And making some weird foods really gives players understanding - that's another world. It sets the tone!

This is such awesome advice!!! I'd put some thought into things like "luxury foods" and other things like that, but I rarely describe the food in the context of setting the scene. Even though I write a fair amount of these details in my notes, I often forget to include these kinds of things in our sessions. I will soon be starting my group on a new campaign (some folks needed to take a break due to health issues), so I will be keeping this in mind.

Some of the best roleplay moments in my games have revolved around the flavors and culture of the food/drink. This is an underrated aspect of immersion for sure.

Oh this is a great point! I also love making a point of having wealthy characters offer the heroes incredible meals or fine wines just to showcase their wealth and power!

I love using food as a worldbuilding tool. A 'dungeon', or any area of your world has a local ecosystem that most food will be made from. What will farmers grow in a forest or underground? What beasts or monsters are pests for those things in that area? What larger thing eats those pests? It really helps worlds feel lived in, and your combat encounters don't feel random either. Running into wolves in a forest makes sense. That wolf pack that you rolled up for that underground encounter, not so much.

This exact reason made a Dungeon Chef class for both Dragonbane and Shaowdark die. I even had a play-play on my live stream channel. Absolute blast. Especially with people who love food. Fun vid! @erikfrankhousepresents

Good tips!

I have a trick that can be really fun for an in person session. Actually RECREATE the environment. Like I got those multicolor lights hooked up to my phone and when its night in the game, i dim them, when its a cloudless day, they are bright, etc. When its cold, they shift blue, etc etc. But heres one you can use sparingly that can really be fun if used only once or twice. One time my players found themselves in a massive storm at sea while sailing, and i turned up a bunch of fans to max, had the lights flickering with blue every once and a while for lighting, but a storm sound effect thing going. There was so much wind that their hair was blowing everywhere and they were holding down papers, and when they roleplay spoke to eachother they actually had to speak over the "storm" to hear. DEFINATELY dont do this every storm, but it is a fun little experience if done just once, maybe twice.

I like this. I will be using it.

Very cool, dynamic environment making travel actually matter. I really do not like the hand wave method, or the "It is too much trouble to track resources." Approach. I don't think all fights should be balanced encounters either, but that is a complaint for another time. But, I do think that if you are in a fair/ balanced fight, then you showed up to the wrong fight! This goes for the monsters, too.

Is there a reason why you didn’t supply the alchemist lines for artificers? I kinda get not making any for blood hunters because it’s not an official class, but this genuinely puzzles me.

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I'm gonna be the black sheep: I don't like this method at all. Specifically, this is destined to already bored players I guess? But for a standard party, unless you are specifically playing horror, sometimes it's good to 'take a break' and have some calm and meaningless interactions. If every leaf, every pond, every branch is an enemy, you're gonna make your players either sedentary or a bunch of psychotic always-on-alert kill-on-sight murderhobos. That is some OSR shit, and I prefer to embrace different approaches. Dnd could take a hint form the One Ring system for travels for example. In that system every journey needs a map because the party has to actively decide which routes to take, and you need to cover roles for the trip such as guide, explorer, etc. I think it is more fair amd realistic and engages your players perfectly without punishing every movement.

TLDR: Use Traps ahead of the BBEG's room for a more dynamic playing experience.

Turn the environment into an encounter - brilliant!

Paladin- "My oath is my honor, and my honor is my armor; come and break yourself against me."

Great advice keep up the good work sir!

What sort of environmental interactions would you consider for a desert/badlands/canyons campaign?

Really appreciate that your opinion and methodology isn't half explained through 27 minute of unedited footage but actually respect people's time and took the effort to synthetise it clearly inn less than 5 minute, thanks!

Emergent GM? If you are pre-planning adventures how is your playstyle emergent? Emergent play means everything emerges during play, not before hand. Why not just make it up as you go? There is no difference between writing it down prior to a session, or making it up on the spot, you are still just making shit up. You should really check out what Emergent Play really is...

I think #6 contradicts "having tacks" as outlined in #1...!?

This is something you do sparingly, or when you want to add another dimension to certain combat encounters. Punishing some players by tying it to a single stat across the board, is never going to be viewed well, as it will make players seem as though it is showing favoritism to certain classes, as it puts others at a severe disadvantage. Instead make it a skill type challenge, where each player has to think of a clever way to use their characters predominant skill/s to over come it. Also to make your world not seem static you need to constantly put different and interesting scenarios in front of them all the time, not having moving parts is what makes it seem static. If you describe things with no life than your world is lifeless. So fill it up with scenarios , and they do not have to all be encounters, just interesting things happening that the players are witness to. There is never nothing happening, even when there is nothing happening.

Awesome 😎

Travel and weather are a huge part of all my campaigns and actually effects my players choices in characters, feats, etc.