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I love the pre-campaign questionnaires, so helpful to keep from running in the wrong direction.

I totally dig the Lovecraftian angle! This is great inspiration. And thanks so much for the shoutout!

For those that want to take the step to start gming and are worried you won't make the cut, just remember that you if have other GMs or really experienced player at the table you can ask for something like taking care of initiative and thus lessen your mental overload. If another one is a note taker, ask for a copy and thus you won't also be doing the note taking. Those little tricks can help a lot for your first session. And remember, all GMs went through their first session, so we know what it felt like, all great at first and then you find yourself trying to stop it from derailing. And here's another tip, let it derail, learn to use the prepared material to improvise new things and later on rail it again.

Thank you for the feywild page! It sparked so many new ideas for me

I made a goblin warlock for an upcoming campaign, whose patron is a genius loci, but his pact is actually just the genius loci's domination. So his only real requirement is to protect the genius loci, and all other details of his pact form over time from his own beliefs.

You deserve more subscribers. This video is great! I love your ideas.

Thanks! You are an amazing person and an excellent communicator, with perfect comic timing. I look forward to your content!

I did this with my first long form campaign. I gave them a choice of three scenerios: shipwrecked on a tropical island, little village on the edge of a dark forest, or crossing a vast desert. All three scenarios would have the possibility of establishing a home base, start local, and work up to more dangerous quests. They chose shipwrecked, so I adapted an old AD&D module called the Isle of Dread. In the original adventure, the party has to navigate a tropical island that has DINOSAURS, Lizardfolk, Catpeople, and other tribes to get to the top of a mesa in the middle of the map. Some of the creatures were original to the older edition, so I swapped out modern versions (tabaxi for catpeople, ettercap for spiderpeople) and added more areas to explore. The Dinosaurs and the green dragon stayed in their original locales, but I moved other tribes and encounters to better fit my map. I didn't change the land features (swamps, volcanoes, mountains, etc), just the locations of the planned encounters. I added some dwarven miners (looking for a hidden gold mine), the ruins of an ancient civilization (so I could have an underground crypt with a mummy), a wizard's tower (to give them some magical items as loot and later access to a potion maker), and an alhoon BBG (magic-using mind flayer) who was trying to create his own Elder Brain 🧠 to increase his own personal power. Such a thing would be unnatural to his people, and such ideas would have led to his banishment. Once he had his own Elder Brain, he could create more mind flayers and use the Brain to keep them under HIS control. Of course, the party will get there before his plan is completed. But giving him extended mind control was a great way to keep the party from going to that mesa before they were ready. I even used an adult green dragon to scare them into avoiding that area. How? The dragon was afraid of the area and hired the party to kill whatever was controlling everyone on that mesa. Man, that was fun. Along the way, I threw classic D&D monsters at them as random and planned encounters. Displacer beast, manticore, cockatrices, gelatinous cube, owlbear, wyverns, mimic, umber hulk, peryton, sylph, pixies, an elven ghost, and an army of hobgoblins planned an invasion. Now they didn't complete everything, they chose not to help the pixies against the ettercaps and giant spiders. But they did help the tabaxi against their ancient enemy, the lizardfolk and ended up at a temple with a giant statue with huge ruby eyes. Yes, that's right, I used the cover of the first edition PHB and had them rescue a tabaxi maiden from lizardfolk in that temple. I was very proud of that encounter. All in all, I wanted to give them a wide range of roleplaying experiences, which I feel I did. We went from level 1 to level 8 before defeating the mindflayer and turning off the storm machine. (I stole from Shakespeare and his Tempest and made it so they couldn't leave until they destroyed or turned off an ancient device that creates a ring of magical storms around the islands and was the reason for their initial shipwreck).

Vampires dont actually reproduce by biting someone. If that was the case, humanity would be wiped out in less than 3 weeks, lol. (assuming each vampire feeds once per day, basically doubling the population every day) at that point its basically a zombie apocalypse

I'm subscribed to Runesmith which is where I first came upon Kraken week and since then I've had random videos pop up this week (like yours). Is there an actual playlist somewhere? I'm subscribed to Ginny and Bob the World Builder so I've watched theirs. As it is I actually have two spots of underwater adventure: one with a sunken ship though patrolled by a giant shark and in order to find part of the main quest travel leagues under the sea to reach a sunken city. However there will be merfolk to give them aid.

It seems the Session 0 System Kickstarter is over and all products pulled from their site. Where can I get a copy?

You know i find to be the most challenging part of Kraken Week??? I already have 3 campaigns and my god has this made me want to run 6 more.... haha SO much inspiration. and new channels!

Some parts of the video, near the end, sounded like the microphone was cutting out while you were talking. I think I mentioned this over on Ginny Di's video, but I'll put it here, I'm actually working on a setting that's a drowned world with a twist; I've been working on it on and off for a bit longer than I'm will to admit with a large portion of stagnation. Maybe I'll have it complete enough by this time next year and try using some aspects and elements of it for Kraken week next year, hopefully.

Love your video and will try to see if I can get a group together to do a one shot! Also, I don’t know if it was pointed out or not yet, but there are a couple of spots of missing sound clips starting at 17:47 and till the end of the

Playing other systems is great advice!

Embrace the suck 😂😂😂 that's what they told us in the army

This channel is awesome!!

Sharks are every where 😂❤

Genuinely Loved all of these! These are Such great ideas 🤩 (Oh mah gosh thank you for the shout out! 😭) Soooo loved that you took inspiration from Our Flag Means Death! Cannot believe I never thought of this :O You should be super proud of this video 😤 iz banger! >:3

Dig the variety of these hooks. - love the kuo toa deity garbage flow

Great vid! Thanks for the tips!

As another brand-new DM (I just finished my third-ever session!), the only additional advice I have for people thinking about running a campaign is to START. You; yes, you, can create a great time for you and your players.

We love some aquatic plot hooks. Also shouts out the kuo-toa I really like the concept of a half/malformed god who is in the process of being born into reality by the fish guys.

You immediately honed in on discussing with your players what kind of game they wanted to play. For me, I have played DnD as a player for nearly 10 years and what kind of game we wanted to play had never been asked of the table. It was groundbreaking when I discovered it after about 3 months of running my first homebrew campaign, so I'm super glad you mentioned it right away cause it does SO much for everyone's enjoyment. I'm looking forward to the rest of your advice, you're already ahead of me lol

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I played as a Hobgoblin fully committed to the god Mask in a heroic group, and it was the peak of my roleplaying and led to a great character arc.

I've found another great channel thanks to Kraken Week! You've got some great ideas here, with a PDF of them to boot. The threading-in of other creators is not only inspired but wholesome.

I will definitely try to convince one of my players in the new D&D campaign to play as a goblin now!

Best advice is, only you know what you had planned.

This also doubles as a "guide to kraken week" video and I'm here for it! Great vid! Also, you had me at hot Genasi summer 😂

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the koi ears wobble so well

Some great ideas there. good job!

Session 0 is a great idea, even if you are just starting a new campaign with your existing group. Before the Session 0 the best way for me to gauge what the players like is to a Google form and the Linear scale type of questions so that you can find out on a scale of say 1-5 how much they like different things. For example: Fantasy Level: 1 Low Fantasy (Gritty and realistic) 5 High Fantasy (Magical and epic).

I enjoyed it!

Too much echo. I'm not a sound guy so I can only present the problem ( sorry ). Maybe a better pop filter or turn down the Gain a bit. The good news is that you have a clear path to level up as a UA-camr.

For me world building within an existing setting like Faerun made it a lot easier. You can fall back on maps, pantheon, countries, etc. if the customized stuff you are building is outgrown. My second campaign is in a new and unique world, and I let the progress of the game build the world. To be honest, ChatGPT saves me in sticky situations. "What are the names of the 8 provinces of this Empire? *rapid typing* Aldoria, Tyria, Noxara... I actually find I have lots of time as the players are trying to decide what to do to generate things like this. I rarely use straight up what I get from AI, but use it as more of an arrow to point me in a direction.

The only one excited about crafting in either of my weekly games was me the DM. 😅 I quickly gave up offering options, and will only revisit if a player asks. If I was a player I would be trying to craft something ever session!

Great video, I will likely be stealing a few of these ideas! BTW You are missing a couple of audio clips, after you mention the otter king (perhaps he took them as tribute?): 17:47, then again at 18:03 and 18:12

I did not expect to be called out like that in the first minute lmao

Kraken week!

I am trying to balance encouraging my players to roleplay more, and not make them feel like they are doing it badly. 😅

Great ideas! My imagination is running wild right now. For the first hook, I'm thinking if my party have a Cleric or other faith based PC, maybe the Kuo-Toa's abominations are twisted versions of the deity the PC worship/follows. Maybe the first abominations are imperfect copies but, as the mystery unfolds, the party meet a perfect copy of the PC's deity (maybe one without a fully developed mind, that keeps repeating psalms or humming religious hymns). With the right players it could lead to interesting questions about their faith (was my deity made by Kuo-Toas? are they trying to understand my belief? am I causing this?) and to more personal horror than just "big fight" - not that there's anything wrong with big fights, I love big fights.

These are all great points. I never played, just straight into DMing, and now I run 2 games a week! 😅 I am getting a new campaign ready, and trying to find a balance of asking the players what they want, and not overwhelming them, and maintaining some of the secrets I want to keep in this campaign.

I got a super creepy/horror inspiration from this video thank you! Little scuttling crab type things that scurry away from the light, but when they finally amass enough numbers they attack a fishing village. The specific scene I look forward to sharing with my table is how one of the villages is running towards them in terror, one of the crab things leaps onto their back knocking them foreword onto the ground on their hands and knees. The party watches as the claws plunge into the villager's back, suddenly they jerk upright, as tentacles and claws burst out of their hands and feet, mouth and eyes. Then this new hybrid creature runs towards the players with an Eldritch screech. 😆

The algorithm brought me to your videos, probably because I Subscribe to all of these other D&D and TTRPG content creators. I'm working my way through watching every single one of your videos and liking and Commenting to hopefully help get you more viewers! I like your takes on things, and I already got a couple of great inspirations I will be taking to my own D&D table. Keep up the hard work!

I feel sorry for mentioning land sharks on my last comment to you now! Great video awesome ideas will definitely be getting the pdf when I’m back at my pc. It did make me think about an idea I’d had some time ago around using the idea of diving bell spiders in a giant spider/drow sense of making an underwater city from spider silk and just massively upscaling pond critters as monsters

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