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Sebbaa's Dungeon
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Приєднався 30 тра 2018
Hi, I'm Sebbaa. Long-time nerd, dungeon master and writer of fantastic stories. On this channel I talk about tabletop RPGs such as D&D, Mörk Borg or Call of Cthulhu. I do system and adventure reviews, advice for game masters and sometimes talk about books, games or movies.
How To Run Tense Spaceship Combat
Some inspiration and advice on running space combat that's not just a boring slugfest. I use Coriolis The Third Horizon as an example, but this works equally well in Death in Space, Traveler, or Star Trek.
Here is the link to my houserules: docs.google.com/document/d/1oK_hKhqiCanlzIUxhad0XLgbsOjFJwx5xqCibeBqnuE/edit?usp=sharing
Here are affiliate links to all the good Coriolis stuff. Follow them, and I get a small percentage of each purchase, which I will put towards more RPG stuff:
bit.ly/CoriolisQuickstart
bit.ly/CorioliseCoreRules
bit.ly/CorioliseCombatOverhaul
bit.ly/CommunityAtlas
bit.ly/CoriolisCalendar
bit.ly/CoriolisTalents
bit.ly/EmessaryLost
bit.ly/TheLastCyclade
bit.ly/WakeOfTheIcons
Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memories, available on Amazon Kindle and print on demand.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
www.amazon.de/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
Or some my own adventures. Find them on drivethroughrpg:
bit.ly/CurseBeUponThem
bit.ly/EldritchMatter
bit.ly/UnheimlicheDunkleMaterie
bit.ly/EndoftheRoadAdventure
Here is the link to my houserules: docs.google.com/document/d/1oK_hKhqiCanlzIUxhad0XLgbsOjFJwx5xqCibeBqnuE/edit?usp=sharing
Here are affiliate links to all the good Coriolis stuff. Follow them, and I get a small percentage of each purchase, which I will put towards more RPG stuff:
bit.ly/CoriolisQuickstart
bit.ly/CorioliseCoreRules
bit.ly/CorioliseCombatOverhaul
bit.ly/CommunityAtlas
bit.ly/CoriolisCalendar
bit.ly/CoriolisTalents
bit.ly/EmessaryLost
bit.ly/TheLastCyclade
bit.ly/WakeOfTheIcons
Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memories, available on Amazon Kindle and print on demand.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
www.amazon.de/dp/B0CTX6NTVX
Or some my own adventures. Find them on drivethroughrpg:
bit.ly/CurseBeUponThem
bit.ly/EldritchMatter
bit.ly/UnheimlicheDunkleMaterie
bit.ly/EndoftheRoadAdventure
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Perilous Kickstarter
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The Kickstarter campaign for the Perilous Void by Penny Lantern just started. It's the space version of one of my favorite wilderness RPG supplements, The Perilous Wilds. And it's System Agnostic. So it will work with Mothership, and Death and Space, and Starfinder, and Traveler, and Stars Without Number, and Alien, and Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica, and Coriolis, and whatever Sci-Fi RPG ...
Dungeon Crawl Classics: A GM's Perspective
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Let me tell you why Dungeon Crawl Classics is my favorite Fantasy RPG and version of the D20 / D&D rules. You can find DCC here on drivethrough. If you watch this the day the video was released, there is a DCC sale going on. bit.ly/DungeonCrawlClassics Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memories, available o...
How to Run Stealth Infiltration and Heists
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I once had a player tell me, that stealth is useless, because as soon as anyone fails a roll, you have to fight anyhow. That got me thinking, of how to approach stealth, infiltration and heist scenarios, so that stealth not only becomes a viable option, but to make these kind of games great fun! Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at m...
Coriolis the Third Horizon Tutorial: Combat (Coriolis Reloaded: Combat Overhaul)
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In this tutorial for Coriolis: The Third Horizon, I show you how the combat rules work, using the Coriolis Reloaded Combat Overhaul . Find the combat overhaul here: bit.ly/CorioliseCombatOverhaul Find Olinone's character sheets here: www.reddit.com/r/CoriolisRPG/comments/g9kk2k/revised_character_spaceship_npc_mission_and/ Here are affiliate links to all the books I mentioned in the video. Follo...
Coriolis the Third Horizon Tutorial: Character Creation
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In this tutorial for Coriolis: The Third Horizon, I show you how to create a character. Find Olinone's character sheet here: www.reddit.com/r/CoriolisRPG/comments/g9kk2k/revised_character_spaceship_npc_mission_and/ Here are affiliate links to all the books I mentioned in the video. Follow them, and I get a small percentage of each purchase, which I will put towards more RPG stuff: bit.ly/Coriol...
Kickstarter Mushsmen
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The Kickstarter campaign for The Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh Raiding the Obsidian Keep by the Merry Mushmen has just started. These two adventures set out to hit the same sweetspot as A Nightmare over Ragged Hollow, and I expect great things. Find the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/an-adventure-double-feature-by-the-merry-mushmen/description Furthermore, if you en...
Coriolis The Third Horizon: A GM's Perspective
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Coriolis the Third Horizon is a sci-fi RPG unlike any other. A blend of sci-fi concepts and middle-eastern folklore. You could compare it to Firefly, if you replace the western elements with eastern elements. Now that I finally got my regular group to play it, it's time to give you my Game Master's perspective on it. Here are affiliate links to all the books I mentioned in the video. Follow the...
The Trick to AI to expedite your writing (for RPGs like D&D)
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After using ChatGPT for about half a year to write adventures and blogposts and everything, I thought I'd share what I've learned. In the process of making this video, I happend to write an entire RPG supplement with over 30 pages. It's called "End of the Road" Find it here: bit.ly/EndoftheRoadAdventure I also mentioned the backrgound world Ondaris. Find the pay-what-you-want travelers guide to...
House Rule to Get More Roleplaying From Your D&D Players (or other RPGs)
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How do you incentivize your players to do some actual roleplaying? You could give out inspiration or luck tokens, or use these universal rules I found in Seventh Sea second edition. Works just as well in D&D, Dragonbane, or Coriolis. Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memories, available on Amazon for Kindle...
Coriolis: The Great Dark: A GM's Perspective
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"Coriolis: The Great Dark" shapes up to become very different from "The Third Horizon". But what makes this game tick? Let's take a good look at the Quickstart rules, that just came out for the Kickstarter. Find the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/... Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memorie...
Coriolis The Great Dark Kickstarter
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Just when my gaming group finally agreed to play the old Coriolis the third Horizon, Free League announced a new edition of the game. This looks like a promising kickstarter. Find the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/coriolis-the-great-dark-rpg-explore-a-lost-horizon Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my la...
Stargazing Hill Final Part
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Let me tell you of the Wurd, a forest where the borders between worlds are thin. Where wizards travel to other worlds to learn the secret of the stars. The final part of the audiobook of "Stargazing Hill" by S. R. Martin That's right, written and performed by yours truly. Set in my own “Metatheosis” universe. If you are a fan of fantasy horror, sword and sorcery, and especially Elden Ring, this...
Dragonbane Bestiary: A GM's Perspective
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Let's find out what the Bestiary for the Dragonbane RPG by Free League is all about. Find the pdf of the bestiary here: Follow my affiliate link, and I get a small percentage of your purchases, that I will put towards more RPG stuff. bit.ly/DragonbaneBestiary Furthermore, if you enjoy reading sci-fi and want to help support my creative work, please look at my latest book, Phantom Memories, avai...
Stargazing Hill Part 3
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Let me tell you of the Wurd, a forest where the borders between worlds are thin. Where wizards travel to other worlds to learn the secret of the stars. Part 3 of the audiobook of "Stargazing Hill" by S. R. Martin That's right, written and performed by yours truly. Set in my own “Metatheosis” universe. If you are a fan of fantasy horror, sword and sorcery, and especially Elden Ring, this is for ...
The Book the Algorithm does not want you to read
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The Book the Algorithm does not want you to read
Symbaroum Throne of Thorns Campaign A GM's Perspective
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Symbaroum Throne of Thorns Campaign A GM's Perspective
The Eldritch Properties of Dark Matter: Halloween 23 Adventure
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The Eldritch Properties of Dark Matter: Halloween 23 Adventure
Thx for this information, really strong culture design of the game designers!
Thx for this information, really strong culture design of the game designers!
Thx for this information, really strong culture design of the game designers!
Many thanks for ur thoughts about the Game and is a wonderful one indeed!
So you cant Evade arrows right? Only if you have i sheild and parry?
This was cool and explained a lot. Thank you!
Thanks for the info on this. It'll be perfect for my 5 Parsecs game. also, you have a wonderful voice ❤️
Would this setting be a good choice for something like the Black Sword Hack? Seems like the corruption theme would fit.
One of the fun things for the Black Sword Hack is making your own setting. But I can see running Symbaroum with it. There is a definate S&S vibe to the setting.
I had just listened to you review of the Black Sword Hack and when you were mentioning the shortcomings of the game system for Symbaroum I was thinking it seemed like a possible good fit. I've played too much 5e to be excited about the 5e version
@@Big_Trouble You must have played a lot of 5E! Know what? Try doing a Shadowdark,, Forbidden Lands or Dragonbane hack for Symbaroum to fit your GM style. (that's what I'm been thinking about.) I feel there is potential there. Sorry, I can't give to concrete an answer, it very much depends on where you put you focus when GMing. Shadowdark for Rules-Light Dungeon Crawling, Forbidden Lands for Hexcrawling Dragonbane if you are looking for more of an all-round alternative to 5E. I suspect Free Leauge will release a 2E of Symbaroum at some point as well.
@@Sebbaasdungeon Yes, plenty of 5E at cons, local game store, and with a home group. I don't think 5E is terrible but it doesn't appeal to me as much as when it first came out. I do think most of the WOTC supplements have declined in quality though. Thanks for the suggestions. I've been reading Shadowdark and I think it looks good. I played Forbidden Lands at a con and really enjoyed that one. Don't have any experience with Dragonbane though.
I love this video. Thank you ❤️
Thanls for letting us know!
This is a great kickstarter
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Rudeneck.
Mercurial magic is excellent. This game makes every class very cool to play.
Great review! Very precise and comprehensive, as the setting requires. And deeply poetic, as it deserves.
Tack!
hey, love your style! I am a solo player and so far BSh is one of the 3 ttrpgs I've played the most this year and it gained a special place in my digital bookshelf! it's a very very good game and it allows for so much creativity in many aspects like narrative, world building, and monster creation. the rules are so light and tight its a perfect canvas to create on top of it, using the many aids provided in it with its random tables and evocative art. cheers from Uruguay!
I've really enjoyed reading through "Sky ov Crimson Flame" and have run most of it (sans the final few encounters). It and the follow up (Blights ov the Eastern Forest) are very cool and thematic
Dungeon Crawl Classics is a fantastic game! It has the best magic system ever! Thank you for this video!
I can't support Goodman Games anymore. They're very anti-white. They apologized for putting together an RPG panel that was "too white" because they picked relevant people from the industry. The apology panel they put together afterward was an embarrassment. They had to pull in people from marketing and people who had never published anything to fill out the DEI quota. They also donate generously to organizations like NAACP and BLM that stoke racial animosity for money. It's gross.
Very nice Vid about the special magic of DCC 👍 I completely agree.
Thx DCC day was awesome!
Are your hands huge or is that a small book?
Combination of both. The book is digest or A5 sized. I want to compare my bicep to Runehammer one day. 😉 Who earns the title of "biggest" RPG youtuber? 😁
Sounds great. I've got my copy on order.
I really like the setting but the rule that you have to roll under your stat is meh to me.
Roll-under is a very basic rules concept though. I take it you don't like Call of Cthulhu, or anything else based on Runequest either? I personally like it, because it is very easy to calculate your chances of success for any roll. Often you don't have to calculate at all.
@@Sebbaasdungeon I just find it wired that it makes no difference to hit every enemie with the same chance. That is my major gripe with it. I really like a lot of things about Dragonbane and Free League is my fvorite RPG maker of them all. I just prefere the rules of Forbidden Lands. I still like the setting of Dragonbane a lot. And the art is beautiful.
Nice video. A few questions. Why did the wizard go before the goblin archer? It had a 7 while he swapped for a 9? And shouldn’t the parry have flipped the goblin fighters card as he used his action to parry?
Well spoted. This was the third take I believe, and I still made some mistakes. 😅
@@Sebbaasdungeon Oh man. I hope I didn’t come off rude. I’m learning the system as well and was just trying to clarify things. I really did enjoy your video!
@@angelg9070 No worries. You should watch my Coriolis combat video. That was like the 4th take in the course of 1 week, and I still got lot of stuff wrong, because I had a fever. 😅
Great voice. Clear concise content.
Who needs larger text? Me! Now go away.
ng+4 on my main and doing a new char now and I never figured how to get that item,now I do lol
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Great ideas, bro. Thanks for the input. I'll definitely be using them
I like this a lot. I am reminded of the system in black sword hack from the adventure in the book. Particularly the amount of failures for stealth before the guards come based on the lowest Dex stat of the party.
Thank you for sharing. These are all reasonable tips and work-arounds. I know it's not popular it give it praise, but D&D 4th edition had the system for skill challenges where players got to contribute by using the things they were good at to try and help the whole group through the encounter. With some slight modification, it can easily be adapted to other game systems that also use skill checks.
Dear Sebbaa and of course dear friends, i'd like to share my point of view and how my group solved the group roll problem. As most of us (i'd guess) we (my group), started rolling everything for everyone. every guard, every player, every terrain blah blah. it took hours upon hours just to conclude a fight on a castle staircase for example. What we did, and especially on the stealth rolls, we rolled as Group. Let me try to explain : If we were a mixed group, then we had a Save of 10. The base one. Normal Guards? 10 save as well. pretty average, pretty fair. If we had a Rogue with us, we would add his Stealth bonus/2. lets say he had a Stealth of +4, it would be a Group save of 12. The idea behind it, someone trained would give pointers to a group. making it safer to move stealthier. Now if the guards had Binoculars, dogs, horses etc we would Subtract. Dogs can smell a group of sweaty adventurers, -3. so we are at 9. etc etc If the group was not mixed, 1 Rogue with 4 Paladins lets say, then we would still reduce the Check. you can of course add the penalty and divide, but its better to do it on the fly imho. Same thing with information gather in cities, the expert would give pointers and the group would spend time asking around. Again, you ask a peasant about the " Hanging yesterday in the square", you are at an advantage. you ask the high Inquisitor, you just made an enemy. Of course this makes sense if you play as group. if you send in just a Rogue, then the group Rolls would be for the Guards e.g. Sebbaa raises a very good point in this video, dont let rolls ruin the experience. keep every fail as a new situation to fix. And believe me i am a big fan of gritty play. As for the heist, i have to say the Token solution is something i have never used. so i will be trying that :D thanks for the videos Dungeon Master. mach's gut
This is an excellent comparison. I never knew there were so many parallels between these two genres. Excellent writing, excellent work!
Just heard about this video, Sebbaa. This is Chubby Funster. Very happy to see that you enjoyed ShadowSun!
Get some plastic sleeves for those character sheets and use dry erase markers for changing HP/ MP ! Thanks for the overview. Running my first combat tonight with standard rules so excited to see how it goes ? TPK ? Too easy ? Who knows !? 🍻
Im really hoping they update the Swedish version aswell!
Where did you get tat trauma table? And are there any house rules you didn't mention here that could be useful for my new starting round?
That's out of the Coriolis: The Great Dark quickstart. Where the table references conditions, I wrote in what those conditions actually mean with a pencil.
@@Sebbaasdungeon Ah okay, I will take a look. Thanks. Will take over the table nearly 1:1, just have made a few adjustments to the weight of the more severe entries. Any further house rule tipps?
@@MasterZelgadis I like the additional talents you can find in Extended Horizons. Gives the players something to put XP into, if you plan a long campaign. I would also change what to give XP for to fit with your campaign and your group's playstyle. I started my campaign with the "Dark Flowers" adventure from the quickstart as a oneshot with the pregenerated characters. This allowed everyone to get a glimpse of the setting and rules. (make sure all PCs go onto the station, and don't stay back on the ship. A radio blackout might be useful) Than we created characters and talked over the houserules in a session 0. And in session one, I kicked the campaign of with "The Last Voyage of the Gazali" which is a kickass adventure. Much better than the one from the quickstart, or the core rules. I'm sure I'll come up with more house rules, as I make the videos for ship creation and spaceship combat. Making these videos is a great way for me to familiarize myself with the rules.
@@Sebbaasdungeon Thanks, looking forward to the videos. I will also start with the Ghazali, even from reading the book it seems like a perfect start to kick off the icons campaign
I thought it was so funny that distribution rights were the reason for Shadowrun being so much more popular in Germany than almost anywhere else 😝.
I know the German editing team is doing a lot of German exclusive stuff, like erratas worked into the translations, extra chapters, whole books. What about that distribution deal?
@Sebbaasdungeon , apparently in the 80s, D&D didn't have any distribution rights for Germany, possibly because they didn't feel like it was an important market? (It may not have been Germany specifically, but maybe all of Europe) 🤷♂️ I don't know what their actual reasoning was. BUT, FASA (the company that owned Shadowrun) DID pursue distribution in Europe. So, for some extended period of time, Shadowrun was the only big tabletop game available. At least that's my understanding of how it happened.
@@chthulu27 I know the D&D story. The big German Board Game producer Schmidt Spiele tried to get the license for D&D from TSR. At that point in time, Schmidt was by far the bigger company. Apparently TSR tried for a price way above what Schmidt was willing to pay. The director of Schmidt was so angry, that he hired some German authors from the fledgling German role playing scene, that write an entirely new game in a matter of a few month. The first edition is honestly a mess, rules wise. But they got the setting and general feel of the game right, and continued to support it with a shitton of adventures, novels etc. And D&D had a really hard time finding players in Germany until the popularity of 5E.
I also did some digging on the Shadowrun front: From what I hear, the game hit a nerve with the big German punk culture at the time. Also the German publisher put out their own supplements, like the Germany sourcebook Deutschland in den Schatten, or Asphalkrieger. Greatly expanding the Allianz Deutscher Länder in the 6th world. Man, the ADL is crazy, full of megacorps, pirates, dragons, readioactive wastelands and so on and so forth. They put every idea from the entire Shadowrun world just into Germany.
@@Sebbaasdungeon , that's pretty crazy! Sometimes I think Shadowrun gets a lot more love in Germany than it does here in the states.
My group played this using Shadowdark and it worked _great!_
Mm interesting. I think some of it comes down to personnallety. I like a lot of the details that you dislike. I rather have it there then not. Because I needed it, you don't... but if you take it away - I loos something, but if we keep it as is you dislike it and you don't need it... but it doesn't take anything away from you. You can only ignore it and do exactly what you are doing and adapt it to your stile. Conclution... most of your critic is invalid... from my point of view 😅 but hey, we are all different...
Great stuff. Our group primarily did 5e, but loved our intro Symbaroum ToDD game, so we did the 5e version for the first ToT adventure. I really agree that the rest system was good addition. Unfortunately, this conversion had a lot of flaws for us. The casting was off for corruption math (way too many free of corruption spells). A lot of unbalanced or not well developed classes, and feats and items that were really lacking. I want to come back to this for another game down the line, but will have to do a bunch of reworks.
CY_BORG rules
Fascinating game; very much looking forward to some more.
Nice! I'm pretty much looking forward to play these adventures 🎉
Brilliant stuff. I really appreciate the overview.
@Seeba I'd love to see you review this game again now that you've done so many others. If you are using the combat system from Conan or D&D its kind of hard to understand why bother with a mashup of Lemuria given that it neither adds advancement nor interesting character generation as far as I can tell from the review.
This is such a useful video for a new DB GM! Thank you so much!
This is perfect! Thank you for a well made video.
Role playing a middle eastern future setting. Here in Oslo, Norway can do that in real life and right now. 😁
What do you mean by this.
@@wolborg105 He means that mass uncontrolled immigration has transformed his city (and most of EU) into a similar setting.