The best FREE D&D starter Adventures and how to set them in Blackmarsh.
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2024
- So you want to get started running games for free and you don't know what to run? Here are just a few amazing adventures that could be plugged into this amazing setting with very few changes. And I know Stonehell isn't free but it's so cheap for what you get I've thrown it in as a bonus.
In this video, I'll show you how to seed these adventures in Blackmarsh: Morgansfort, Caves of Chaos, Blackapple Brugh, Stonehell, The Sepulchre of Seven, and more! Whether you fancy a classic dungeon crawl, a mysterious forest, or haunted ruins, you can plug almost anything into Blackmarsh so have fun.
I'd love to see your suggestions in the comments as well.
Morgansfort, Chaves of Chaos, Blackapple Brugh, and Saga of the Giants can all be found on the basic fantasy site for free www.basicfanta... or Amazon in print.
Stonehell can be found on Lulu, its not free but it might as well be for what you get. www.lulu.com/s...
The Sepulchre of Seven is on Drivethru preview.drivet...
You can get Blackmarsh for free here preview.drivet...
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Thanks for all the kind words about those Basic Fantasy RPG modules! We always appreciate the support.
Thank you and that BFRPG community for enriching our hobby! I've got every single release on my shelf and they've given me some great mileage at the table.
I love your flexible idea of free. Under $5 is pretty close to free and supporting our writers is important.
100% I think if you can get a huge amount of game play out of something for relatively little outlay that's really important. Especially in todays world.
I love the micro-setting approach, where you take adventures and kingdom sized locations to seed them through a larger map.
I'm super lazy and when you have a setting that isn't overly dense it gives you the room to tie almost anything into it.
My last fantasy campaign started with a village map and a rumor table of adventures just like this. As the party chose rumors to follow, the map expanded and cities and ruins added.
Surprised to see this topic! I've been running Stonehell set in Blackmarsh for around 5 months now.
That's really cool! How is it going?
Brugh: Bruh - same meaning as borough or broch. A small town.
Sepulchre: Sep-ul-ker - a tomb cut into rock where dead are stored. :)
Great video btw
Thank you!
@@fumbletable You said "Brugh" as the author intended; wbbartlett is incorrect in this case. Indeed, there's a pronunciation guide in the module.
Never heard of shoe leather before, it's a great piece of advice, thanks Professor!
I have run Tomb of the Serpent King several times now. Love that module.
It's a perfect intro to old school dungeon crawling. I wish there were more small dungeon modules out there of the same quality.
Thanks for spreading the good word. Will have to check out your other recommendations.
It's amazing. Even from a GM learning about dungeon design. We started creating a list of cool free adventures on the forum. Maybe you can find something there. osreign.com/viewtopic.php?t=14
I've run it twice. So much fun. One group saw the B****** and survived.
Some solid recommendations. I've run several of those Basic Fantasy adventures with my regular group, as well as Tomb of the Serpent King. Good stuff.
I love tomb of the serpent king. It's probably the best learner module I've ever seen. I think I'd like create a video for it at some point
@@fumbletable It was the first module I ran for my current group. At the time, I was returning to the hobby after a 20 year hiatus, and used Basic Fantasy as the core rules. Sadly, the party never completed the Tomb of the Serpent King. They actually bailed on the dungeon and went back to town after suffering a couple of setbacks. I should mention that none of my players had ANY prior rpg experience. I had to bury the dungeon in an earthquake and do a soft relaunch of the campaign. :)
Yeah, with BFRPG and iits modules Chris has been loath to define a kind of 'defaults setting' for the RPG by publishing a specific one - leaving everything open as a resource framework. I love the idea of placing these and other free modules from other places, into Blackmarsh - it's an amazing and flexible base to build from and fill out - a complete campaign can be created with them.
I wanted this series to make it as easy as possible for people to just start playing games. I think the flexibility of Blackmarsh let's you stick almost anything there without too much work.
Love the video. Great ideas. I am currently running my iron falcon campaign in blackmarsh. I'm also using points of light 1 and have it connected to blackmarsh.
@@richardguinn8756 Thank you.
@@richardguinn8756 Hey, I'm curious. What published adventures have you used? Asking about both "official" IF adventures as well as any from other sources. I hear very little from fans of Iron Falcon, and I'd love to hear what you've done with it!
The free adventures on Dragonsfoot are worth a look. Something like ZA1: The Temple of Chaos for levels 2 - 4 could be placed in the Dragonbone Peaks. Also their free Footprints magazines have adventures.
I haven't read that one but I'll stick it on my list. Thanks for the suggestion
great video, much appreciated in these financially tight times.
Glad to help!
This is really incredible stuff! This series is awesome, and your channel is underrated! Will definitely be recommending your videos to some of my friends :)
Thank you so much. I'm shocked at the response to them and I'll do my best to improve them while I'm figuring out what the hell I'm doing!
@@fumbletable I'm not sure how much it will help, but I did a community post recommending your channel!
The videos are super helpful, and I think will make entry into the hobby a lot more accessible. They're also presented very well. Also, don't worry about it, I think most of us still don't know what the hell we're doing :D
Love this series. I will still some ideas for sure. Please keep it going :)
I've had some request for videos that I might do next, why do plan to keep coming back to this series. I think there's a load of resources out there that I haven't explored yet. So as people suggest things hopefully the playlist will grow.
Worth mentioning that the first level of Stonehell is very sparse for treasure so it might not be a good starting point unless you bump up the treasure values
100% Very thin. I plan on going more in depth in a future video.
Maybe add in Palace of the Vampire Queen too.
I've never run it but I've had a good things. We're starting to put a resource together on the forum for free Adventures that you might find interesting osreign.com/viewtopic.php?t=14
This is excellent, thanks
Oi, there are One Page Dungeon Contest Compendiums (like year 2022 one) for free on dms guild, and I believe you can easily tweak any of them to fit this both chamber and broad setting. This should be the true free endgame adventure-setting combo for GM and players to enjoy!
Some of them are fantastic, I'm hoping to cover some of them maybe in shorts
They're definitely not the same value proportionally as the other items on your list, but the OSE adventures like Winter's Daughter, Hole in the Oak and Incandescent Grottos can be had for $7.50 and are very very cool
Love those modules, especially the layout for running a game. If I was running Black Apple I'd place them in the Greywood as absolutely fit that vibe.
I enjoyed your vid
Thank you!
Try saying it "Sepple ker" and you'll be closer :)
Nice, I'll try and keep it in mind but can't promise I won't butcher it again
Sepulchre is pronounced like "sepulker".
My brain now knows that but I have a feeling my mouth still won't cooperate!
I did post some suggestions but it seems my comment was removed 🤔
I tried again but the same thing happened and the comment disappeared. I give up. Great video though 👍
Hey Paul. No comments have been deleted but you're not alone. Someone else has been having the same problems. I have no idea why but I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.
@@fumbletable Unfortunately, it's probably just UA-cam. Whenever I've posted links in comments in the past, the comment almost always gets automatically removed, unless you are the creator of the video.
@@Chaoclypse that is really useful to know. I was thinking I had unknowingly done something wrong.
Good to know but I didn’t post links so not sure what happened 🤷🏻♂️
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TotSK is terrible. Do not recommend it for beginners or anyone. It's not a beginners module.
That's the great thing about our hobby, opinions differ. I've had a blast running it. And particularly players that have moved across from 5E. I found it's a great way to reframe what they've learned.