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1 gold piece in AD&D weighs 45.35 grams. The current spot price of gold. It indicates that 1 gold piece is worth $3986.16. A long sword in AD&D would cost you $59792.50 in today's United States. The measurement of the units of gold pieces in medieval Europe was nowhere near 45 grams. The reason money was so heavy in AD&D. This was because it was the problem of dragging it all out of the dungeon. If you couldn't drag it all out in one trip. It would mysteriously vanish.

Hi, from the other side of the pond; Royal Mail here gets a lot of stick however they are very good at what they do, and I alway worry when good are not transported by them, and so far ( years and years ) have had no problem with them. I am currently looking at victrix early republican romans (4 bags will do for a historical army complete)... Also Lion Rampant is a regular game for me and in addition to a good game (easy and quick to learn) the force are small (40-60 models) with different troop types per 6 or 12 models making painting quick and varied. Furthermore I used to get the 'doll' syndrome from my family years ago, it stopped after I sold about half of my collection to buy my first car outright for cash..... waiting to see some finished normans and saxons setting too!

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So, I do tend to take a 'start from a world map' approach, rather than the more typical "start small"approach to worldbuilding. Part of that is just... experience, I've been DMing and making custom settings of various scales for various games and purposes that I *can* start wherever I need to for the thing I'm making, and end up at something that is coherent enough to run at the table; but mostly I end up defaulting to dealing with the large-scale issues first because I have spent an excessive amount of time reading about history, geography, anthropology, sociology, etc., and usually when it's time to make a new area the first things *I* need to know to design for it are: What is the climate and geography like. & What is the culture of the people who live here like. Because if those aren't figured out early, you often end up with worlds where the whole world is western europe or maybe has 3 or 4 cultural regions [usually they are: Generic Western Europe, Generic Middle East, Generic East Asia, And a generic "Tropical" that mixes tropical amrican, tropical asian, indian, and tropical african cultures all into one overwhelmingly bland mess of sterotypes.] If you want to do cultures in a way that is more interesting than filing the serial numbers off a real-world culture, you really need to start with "Okaym what is around them, what environment did this culture develop in, what are some of the major concerns and day-to-day challenges this culture has to navigate to survive here, what materials do they have access to loclly, what do they need to import?" etc. and build from there; which means starting big, filling out the cultural and geographic information, and then going to "Okay, now what does it look like when this culture builds a city? or temple? or elaborate deathtrap to lure adventurers as part of the local tourism industry?" That said -- I don't start large and do an incremental zoom. I start large, get the very broad strokes, then add just like -- A few major cities, two or three major historical events, one or two major local-scale points of interest, just a couple things I can grab and drop in a campaign easily, for each major region, then skip down to the scale of "what matters for the game immediately?" and fill in cities, dungeons, NPCs and grow from there, and hop between scales as-needed to keep everything coherent and make adustments, full in details [like names -- I often don't name things until like 5 minutes before I say the name at the table] Which is -- admittedly -- not a process I can advise new GMs try, because it leans heavily on both a solid understanding of several academic subjects, very good note-taking, and a lot of work. But it's also lead to most of my players saying they've liked the games in my settings better than any other they've played in, and being actually attached to the setting in-game and asking questions about it out-of-game; I've even had a few ask if they can use my settings for their own games because they don't like the official ones and don't want to build their own, lol.

I started back in the 80s with greyhawk/BECMI and expanded from there. 40+ years later it’s the same world and you can still find remnants of greyhawk and the known world in there.

The best example is Frodo from LOTR. Even when elrond healed Frodo, the wound still remained, eventually took it's toll and claimed his life. It's often said Frodo was already walking dead after his encounter with the Nazguul on weathertop.

Honestly, the best D&D story is probably the Dragonlance series.

An army of Beholders XD . If that isn't railroading, Idk what is.

I do my own homebrewed version of AD&D. Hard to explain within a comment but it's been ironed out over the course of 40+ years by myself and my uncle. We use a "critical hit chart" when you roll a nat 20. You roll % dice to determine what happens. Very very rarely, if you roll 99%-100%, you can instant kill the target, among many other things that happen within the other percentiles. It is amazing fun and I highly recommend it. There is also a chart for rolling a nat 1, which is a fumble. If you roll 95-100% on the fumble, you critical hit yourself or a friend nearby.

That's why I throw a wraith at my players when they are level 6. " We aren't equipped for this man. " Me: " Exactly. That's what heroes do. "

GREAT topic guys! When it comes to homebrew worlds, there's two ways to go: global to local or local to global. I love doing both, but practically speaking my group tends to enjoy it most when we go local to global. Start with a small area with a town/city and a dungeon or two, and let the world grow with the adventures. Drop hints about the wider world, and as the party decides to pick up on individual ideas you can flesh out that specific aspect of the world. I've found that we all get the most out of the game by developing the world with this method.

About the question of how we worldbuild for ttrpgs. In my case it depends on case by case, although I tend to go from the general into the specifics. Points I will mention aren't necessarily developed in that order. they are things I like to keep in account. What's the overall genre of the campaign about? generic fantasy, epic, swords and sorcery, gothic horror, greek heroism, etc. That will define a lot in what kind of world and pcs and npcs will emerge. Ecology and Geography can be a good starting point, depending on what type of ecology the world, or the starting point is may define basically everything. Best example I can think of is the setting of dark sun. The ecology of that place will permeate everything in that setting. Or now that Dune is more popular, the spice, that resource will shape a lot how the societies works and what may interest most npcs. For a particular campaign setting I am working on it's around a underwater campaign setting, where the different ecological zones, the different zones defined by light and depth will shape the type of societies in that game (and a excuse to use John Murra theories). Game system. It's the mechanics, it will inevitably affect how the pcs interact with the world. it's something I have in mind when building. In some campaigns having a direct historical example as inspiration may be important. Not always, but it can be a starting point. Some like to start with the very beginning: gods. Unless they are critical to the world, I don't think they are a good starting point. but that's me. Yeah, I think I tend to start with defining more or less what will be the setting of the world I am building: theme, genre, main culture, or at least starting culture, ecology and geography if relevant. Once I have that defined, as I said more or less, I go for the small scale, as for me having these things defined help in the improvising aspect. and from there I suppose I can use the videogame term fog of war, a nebula of uncertainty. there are a bunch of stuff that exist and don't exist at the same time, and it's the pc interaction that make these stuff existing. Oh, also. situation becomes very different if one starts with a established campaign setting. Settings in that sense are great to be not overwhelmed with starting, and to draw ideas, same as modules.

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Hey here's an idea for a topic: you guys could talk about the many ways of creating a character from scratch, either by the book or with different houserules. OR talk in detail about one particular adventure or adventure location in your world and discuss how you came up with it or fleshed it out. I'd love to hear more of your perspective on either of those.

Have you guys looked into the Kevin Crawford games? He did Stars Without Number, Worlds Without Number, etc. They're highly praised for their world building tools. There's free versions (see drivethrurpg) with about 90% of the content.

I'm surprised The Old Warlock didn't get up and go on an adventure during that intro.

Great advice. Working on building my main permanent campaign world with taking lessons I learned from the first 3.

You know, from the time I started playing D&D, it was probably 6 years before any DM showed us a large area map of any sort. Otherwise it was only a small map of the area that we were going into.

I love world building more than my players like exploring.

Started my world with the Outdoor Sirvival map. I have barrowmaze on the map of course, but also another city, village, and other modules droppped in. Its been going for about 3 months now. Looking forward to more.

Subscribed. I like your take on things. Makes a lot of sense to me.

I began my world building career 8 years ago. What started as a small island is now a full blown continent xD

Potential Topic Idea; Do you have any experience or advice running hexcrawl or West Marches style campaigns?

Cool video as I am starting my own homebrew world. I am personally starting at the global level as I am taking into account for the effects of tectonic plates upon the geography of the map. I am also shaping the map with an eye towards geography and how it effects the politics of the many societies in the world. The UA-camr Barron De Ropp got me thinking about geopolitics in a fantasy setting. His videos on the subject are very interesting. Anyways, thanks for the video. Have a good one guys.

my fav part of these vids is the facial expressions by dad when the corny intro happens... lmfao

I'd like to see a video discussing a procedure for creating the minimum a D&D-esque setting needs to tell players the general premise and what they need to know being people from that world and for session 1 to start spiraling into a full setting, that is, to make a substantial but very limited amount of macro, then going to micro and prep to the first session, after which gaps would be progressively filled as sessions go. The best would be to take into account the method for open world sandbox from "GFC'S DND"'s video on it. Basically it's to always ask the group what they'll do next session, in such a way they cannot do something that'd betray your prep (like going to the Frigid Isle when they said previous they'd be going to Bezoar Town). Since in the 1st session you have nothing to inform your prep, you pidgeonhole the players into one place and overall activity (delving into a dungeon, hunting a killer in ), opening up the world in session 2 onwards.

You two put out great videos and I've always learned something from what you post. That's why I keep coming back video after video. When you talk about a cool new tables book you found or some need nugget in the old RPG magazines it is a benefit to me personally and I am sure to your 4.2k followers of good taste. As a DM, when you talk about the craft of running a game, that is personally what I'm most interested in. Elaborating on your process is something I'd be very interested in. Start from one point and work your way out? Cool, how does that look on paper? Your binder? Your computer? Why do you choose to organize and track everything the way you do currently? Why are you not trying other methods? Oh here is great question... You are moving a to a new city and you only know 2 things. 1.) where you're moving you already have a group of 5 people wanting to be in your game. 2.) you only have the three AD&D core rule books. So, how do you start? What to you buy? What do you read? How do you go from nothing to a world that will grow and evolve week after week?

I don't think your UA-cam videos are terrible. Maybe there was one where the sound was hard to hear? That's the thing that bothers me the most on other UA-cam channels.

I would like to come up with some adventures or an rpg related to the Bone Wars in paleontology. There are a few major players from that time period, but unfortunately not everyone made quarry maps back then...

I'd like to play rather than DM/GM, BUT I'd also like to design my own rpg...

Jim is so clearly disgusted with Alex's convoluted intro...

I started large, full map.. for me. I start my characters in Hammond’s Ford. More is revealed as they explore. Lands are never fully defined until they venture “over the next hill”.

Oh yah. Time for some drunk blogging the new stream. Yah, I'll probably regret it, but it is fun. Since I just finished Graham Hancock's season 2 of Ancient Apocalypse, I am sure Alex has been juicing the Ayahuasca. World building indeed shaman Alex. Let's go. Jim is right, killing zee monsters. LOL Don't ask me what was over the hill, I haven't figured that out yet. Fast thinking Old Warlock, Witchy World indeed. Awesome! DM'ing/GM'ing is an art form to make the world interesting. Alex is starting to sound like an actual Dungeon Master, oh my. Is he less blood thirsty than Jim? TPK. Hmmm, all this talk of world building has made me do a bit of dungeon musing. What are your thoughts on the new D&D 5e release? Has Jim poked his nose into it? I've watched some streams about the player's guide and the just released DM's guide. Could there be a video in the future about the various editions of AD&D and D&D? Does the Old Warlock have a favorite edition or maybe does he merge Pathfinder or GRUPS concepts into his games? Curious minds want to know. OK, mostly just me. Nothing like a good bar brawl and sailing the high seas matey. Just blow them back on the beach, so blood thirsty. The wall always wins, jeez. Great video guys.

No comments yet? Hell yeah, another Old Warlock video to veg out to. Thanks for another cool topic, dudes

Looks like a good time to find the "Well of Many Worlds". A bridge through time and space, taking you to strange lands with fantastic BOOM Sticks!

Never had too much trouble with having too much magic around. Other than some weapons and armor, most of which is given to hirelings, henchmen and the like, it tends to get used up or destroyed. Yes destroyed! Because magic items have to make saving throws on occasion. Things like wands, potion bottles, cloth and paper are very prone to breakage. Fall down...save for all those potion bottles. Fail a save versus Dragon Breath... save for all those exposed items including that +3 armor. We encountered a Black Dragon and 3 of us failed our saving throws. The amount of magic items destroyed in that one encounter was staggering!

Hoping for another special this year! Just recently found your guys' channel and been bingeing, keep up the great videos!

Monster groups that outnumber the party are just bad for 1st level parties

Monsters that get multiple attacks are just bad for 1st level parties

Level draining undead are just bad at any level

Spiders and snakes that save or die ae just bad for 1st level gameplay

Low level module save2 or die encounters good or bad

1st ed ad@d is a death trap for 1st level char, I’d like to see play through of various modules or specific encounters from modules to encourage roll play, or at least options besides murder-hobo, and playing and tactics parties should adopt

2 attacks per round for a fighter level 13?

Uh 7th level fighters in 1st ead@d get 3/2 attacks

Hi im a new dm to 3.5 i play advanced dungeons and dragons with my dad and two other players. I was wondering how i should handle energy drain for my players in 3.5 that have only played 5e.

You're description of Gamma World makes me want to run a game. It sounds so much fun! Great job, guys.

Love the idea of folk magic, reminds me a bit of Runequest

I like those random generators. They are good for ideas and the prophecy generator could be used for cryptic things written wherever. Being that I played a thief character, one of my favorite things was to just pass notes to the DM. It might be a simple note about something or...it might just be a blank piece of paper or it would say Hi, need another beer, break time in 10 minutes or any number of nothings just to put the other players on edge. But my favorite, make the players groan saying was "I've got a plan, trust me".