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This is your video so I will only say great job with these guys. But if you feel like knowing the small diffrent pick I have then press "read more" otherwise overall I think these are super cool. Bulbasaur: Instead of Moonbeam there is actully a spell called Sunbeam so you could use that instead. Charmander: It´s line should have had a claw attack instead of tackle cuz doesn´t know Tackle. Squirtle: It´s first form, pack tactics and high charisma cuz we all know why 😎😉and for Blastoise I would just make his AC 20 and replace Tackle with Slam cuz Blastoise always sumo each other for turf. Plus slamming just sound more heavy then just tackle.

Also for me as a player it has also worked not fast traveling but having events during the travel. Just make them tie down into the city world building. For example, that someone robs you. But also let it have more things to do than fight. Give hints to the player that violence is not mandatory. For example, the robber seems shaky and nervous. Or maybe he looks in a hurry. Then whatever happens tie it down to the city. For example, if he is still alive, make finding him later on in the quest as the safe breaker in a heist. Or being your average Joe running an alchemy shop and let your players be like 'Youuuuuu! -_-' Or if he is dead do another event where a family is mourning the husband and father. And give them a quest just to realize he was the burglar. It is more work, but trust me, it's worth it. I remember that on one random event I found a cult of strongmen and joined in by magically buffing on fake muscles xD It was extra funny :p

We never had nor needed a session zero back in the day. We just got together and played the game.

loved the video! i agree, session 0 is one of the most important things!

Hi DM Smith, thanks for this helpfull video. And a late thank you for the shadow isles video and the Villemaw SB. I've been thinking about a society that would be coexisting with dragons and I thought that maybe you would like to make How to train your dragon stats blocks. I've never seen them done and I would love to see your attempt at it. Keep the good work, love the variety you're starting to make in your videos

I appreciate the videos. I was literally shouting "NOOOO" because I was like HOW DID I NOT REALISE THIS. I hope to see another video soon. Shabooya!

Good stuff! Session 0 is especially important for new players and players who have never played together before.

really really good tips here, I never would have thought about having players build their characters collaboratively, but it makes complete sense and streamlines things for the DM.

While I agree that these points need to be discussed, I feel like I must add: That should all happen before you sit down at the table together! The exception, for me, is character making. Here, I find the best solution to just hand-out character sheets that leave some blanks for the players to fill in as we go (name, gender, maybe proficiencies), but are mostly premade. The "fluff" part of character-making, which is the bigger part, will happen during the game anyway. It is perfectly okay to ask your elves if they are related when they are already on the road! If you start the game with an impromptu group therapy (even though noone is a qualified psychologist), the players will, at best, not return for the next session.

Dude you were super on point, I was literally saying out loud "YEESSS" when you brought up making characters all together, because I've experienced exactly as you've said in those conditions, it's really fun! I find it silly how when people are alone, they tend to follow those tropes of creation for mechanic purposes usually, rather than finding ways to combine together. It's fun to find good content creators when they're still small, it's like getting to be there for the parts of the beginning :)

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great video

King will need more than just a throne room. They're greedy, kings

This is great! You should definitely make more of these general worldbuilding/dm advice videos!

Solid advice, great video with novel but familiar ideas

I love the concept of Keys & Locks, and the three tiers : "easy" , "poking around" and "Locked" very good concepts, easily reusable base mechanics

Decent advice overall, though I would add a few caveats. 1. Do describe the characters walking through the city, but do so sparingly. Good moments to do so are: when they first enter the city, when they go to a new district, when the mood of the town changes, when something big starts happening. Of course, you shouldn't go too granular, but describe the overall feel the characters have and what they notice. This description can also hint at story threads. 2. There should be multiple possible key locations for any one story or location lock. Don't just limit the knowledge to a single NPC/method, otherwise the players will stall looking for it. 3. Depending on the size of the city, it will have a lot of the same establishment. These were usually grouped together along streets. This helps a lot with populating the city if the players like to ask about contents of buildings.

Bad form with the jump scare at about 6:05.

I usually expect videos with this little amount of views to have poor quality or be badly edited, but you surprised me so much. Not only did was this video genuinely awsome, but it made me worldbuild a few cities myself (in a time where i am having some worldbuilders block). Keep up the good work my guy, you are a legend

This is mostly good advice, but there are definitely going to be scenarios where following this advice results in frustration where the DM is waiting for the players to get a clue and the players are waiting for the DM to drop a hint. There needs to be some flexibility in where to find the keys, or else the players are inevitably going to pick a fight with someone they should have been schmoozing, or ignore an area they figure is cleared out of story threads. You gotta offer up some keys extemporaneously or else the gameplay is going to turn into players cycling through every area over and over until the plot cries uncle, which is predictable and boring.

Really nice video, gonna remind myself of these tips next time my players visit a new city. One tip though, the lock and key idea is nice, but keep the key location or the keys in general vague, for example, maybe the players will not talk to the paperboy, just let some other npc tell them what they need to know if they talk to them.

This is rad, I’m definitely gonna use this. Nice channel too.

the ai generated images are making me want to kill myself

No way you came up with that fighting ring plot off the dome, it’s way to epic I don’t believe it

Thanks for the tips. I seriously appreciate this video.

Strength: Power Dexterity: Space Constitution: Soul Intelligence: Mind Wisdom: Time Charisma: Reality

DEX should be at least 1. Any stat of 0 in D&D means a monster is dead

This is incredibly bad

Dragonborn, Sorcerer, Radiant, D2, Blue.

Elf necrotic wizard d20 gold. 😢

Made it all the way to the last question, but don’t know any of the chromatic dragons, I’m counting it as a tie

half ORC, DRUID, ACID, thanks man, A D12, RED oh yes OH YEAH I JUST BEAT YOU DM SMITH I HAVE SURPASSED YOU

Yeah so I litterally beat you, I’m too good at this dang game

Thanks a lot for this video, I've been waiting for it since you talked about it. I'll make great use of your stats blocks for my campaign inspirations

i love your videos man!!! keep posting

You only find Ratata and Pidgey in route 1. Caterpie and Weedle are further north

Cool. Actually cool. Thanks for posting!

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Dwarf, Warlock, Piercing, D10, Black. lost on the last one

Yuan-Ti, Mystic, Psychic D4, *"What flavors do they come in again?"*

Aaracocra, Cleric, Piercing, D8, Black. Lost on the last one.

human fighter piercing d20 red dragon. I gave most generic answers and got through

This is the first video where it’s actually notable of what isn’t there. Maybe you should’ve saved the Vulpe line for a different video and included all the babies and later evolutions in later generations.

12:07 why is that strength and not wisdom?

7:48 you have a tendency of giving decent intelligence to lot of Pokémon, but this is actually Pokémon that does have higher intelligence than you stated. Actually has higher mental stats then stand at all.

7:14 In Pokémon tail whip does not do damage, what it actually should do is reduce the AC to a maximum of 5.

5:15 you have tendency of giving decent intelligence to Pokémon that do not have that level of intelligence, so I’m actually quite surprised that it took you this long to give a Pokémon any language.

4:37 It’s good to see that you didn’t make these mons large size because according to the Pokédex they are not, if I’m remembering correctly they are actually like 4 foot 6. Their art makes them look bigger than they actually are.

2:29 this is a very simple error a 10 in a stat doesn’t give you a +1, it gives you a +0.

Why did you make it so that the poison point ability has no chance of actually inflecting the poison statistics condition?