Haha thanks so much for watching my videos!!! You always seem to be there when I put one out! It was quite a journey to make this one so now, I'm catching up on some much needed sleep
Came here from Reddit expecting campy editing and poor microphone quality, but found a goldmine of presentation, delivering voice, and my now canonical pronunciation of hadozee. You sir earned a sub, I look forward to refreshing UA-cam in the days after the next module releases. o7
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Haha, it took a bit of time getting used to recording and editing videos so I'm glad you enjoyed how this turned out. Welcome to the channel and hope you enjoy the future contents!
A few mispronunciations aside, wonderful job! I've added you to my sub list and will be playing your video over and over a few times before I run the adventure for my crew to keep all the big plot points fresh in my memory. Thanks for taking the time to do this so well!
Haha, I get that a lot! Pronunciation is certainly difficult for me and I try my best to look up ones that I am unsure of. Even then, I get them wrong and I encourage my viewers to correct me! It helps the others as well as myself learn as technically, English is not my first language. I'm glad you enjoy it and I hope you have a blast running the adventure!
I'm glad you enjoy the content! Perhaps so! My main goals currently are to finish up the official D&D books but once I can catch up with their releases, I definitely want to cover other adventures as well. A while back, someone requested the Pathfinder adventures so hopefully, I can get to that. Once I get to that point, I'd love to cover Dungeons of Drakkenheim! I wouldn't hold your breath, however, since there's still quite a bit of D&D left for me to cover and man, I honestly don't see a future where I can catch up to the current releases. I'll do my best though and add it to the list!
I love this. Thank you for giving me a rundown of the whole adventure! One thing bothers me, though... Why are the elves siphoning energy from planets to empower their star? Why wouldn't they siphon energy from other stars? There was an old adventure trilogy by Bruce R Cordell involving mind flayers who did just that. The series started with A Darkness Gathering and ended with Masters of Eternal Night. The overall badguy plot in Light of Xaryxis sounds very similar, but makes less sense. Don't get me wrong, though, Light of Xaryxis sounds like an awesome adventure with all its encounters, locations, and NPCs!
I'm DMing Dragons of Stormwreck Isle for my group and the next adventure will be Stars over Stormwreck, which connects DoSI to Light of Xaryxis! So, this video was very helpful, thank you! 🙏 Could you please make a video about Stars over Stormwreck?? 😁
You know I now see the weakness in this adventure that I did not see while reading it... you are facing astral elves but never in the astral sea... in fact no encounters at all in the astral sea. Why even have the astral sea in the first place if 5e gives you no info on how to run encounters in it. The other main flaw in the adventure is that you must be captured most likely at the cost of your ship for the story to progress. Really hard to run this if you are already running a spelljammer game when the players have their own ship.
@@thundererodinson1668 That has nothing to do with my points. The point was no astral sea encounters in the adventure and the adventure forces you to loose your ship so you cannot drop it in to an existing spelljammer campaign where the party has their own ship.
I have to say, what is Fel's point of existence? she seems to only apear in the short scene where she wants money and then disapear from thin air independly of if she is hired or not
@@DnDWalkthrough i got that, but even so, she apears, the book makes a point that the hippo thinks she has an heart of gold hidden..and then she is never metioned again and the book just gives you a free spelljammer either way, that has some proper role..did the writer responsable for her just quit or something? cause the way it is she could just have been a random tiefling stealing the ship and results be the same. Other point, whats your opinion on the constant clinf hangers that go nowhere, all chapters seem to end with "and then this enemy apears..but not realy"
Yeah, she didn't have much of a role, I agree. She could've been cut but hey, at least it was interesting to see Krux's kind heart being displayed. The cliffhanger thing was certainly odd but I enjoyed it from a reading standpoint! Made reading it a bit more unique compared to the other adventures! I'm not sure how it'd play out when being run, though. It seems a bit disappointing to the players if they end their session on a cliffhanger, only to find out on the cliffhanger didn't really mean much of anything. Like, I could only imagine waiting days for the next session only to find the cliffhanger being resolved so anti-climatically. Still, perhaps it could work? Idk, I'd have to try running it one day for myself and see how the cliffhanger aspect of it goes!
@@DnDWalkthrough I think after the third cliffhanger the players will catch up to the gag. Best case scenario, it still gives the characters a last reaction, worst case, both character and player just acts bored or ignores it
You're right! That's exactly what it says for the description of Mislead but in the adventure, that's specifically states that's what Xedalli does. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong but it may be an error on the writer's part!
No you read it right, but you two aren't thinking in terms of rp and are taking the steps too literal. They're explaining what happened in a whole. She used the illusion to drop the ring while addressing the party. Moved back to her body and then sent message. While they don't specifically state that, they also don't specifically state she sent the message while under the effect of her previous spell.
@@SANETheLegacy760 Ah, I see, thank you for the clarification. The explanation would make things fit much more in-line with the way Mislead would work! I didn't really consider the events too deeply because the way the steps were portrayed in the book still made narrative sense so I just went with it. I gotta pay a bit more attention to these things next time!
Yes! I plan on hopping on that one soon along with Tales From the Yawning Portal. The plan is to split up the chapters into individual videos because doing the whole book is a lot of work in one sitting.
I thought about it but, if I recall correctly, the book states this is a very difficult encounter and seemed as though you were meant to lose it. Plus, the speech afterwards seemed too fun in my eyes to pass up!
@@DnDWalkthrough I just find it odd that the zodar would just collapse unless it was reduced to 1 hp, even if it fulfilled its purpose. It’s too strong for something like that It also feels a lot like ex machina if the party didn’t EARN being restored like that.
My one complaint about this campaign is that if your players don't care about the destruction of their home planet, there's very little incentive to fight the Astral Elves.
I had it be a cycle, sort of deal. One planet would keep the star stable for one year, but then after that, it would need to eat another planet. And then another. And then another. And so on.
I missed the part about the clones when I skimmed through the adventure. Good to know. I didn’t like the ending really. I didn’t think destroying a whole lot of astral elves was a good choice at the end. But I guess DM could change the ending in some way. 🤔
Yes, I agree!! The ending was 100% the weakest part of the adventure. I personally believe the outcome of making Xedalli the emperor would've been much better since her betrayal would give the players a somewhat viable reason to blow up the entire civilization. Unfortunately, the way the module is set up makes it so that the players most likely wont encounter that betrayal
That was my first thought as I skimmed through the adventure! All of these millions of miles traveled but the only choice is either doom your world or doom the entire xaryxispace. There must be a third option!
@@DnDWalkthrough Based on the experience of running Tomb of Annihilation, I think the easiest way to fix this is to change "Xendalli's Favor" to grant 20 temporary hitpoints per round, instead of just once.
Sure! I actually want to start covering the older adventures but that one was reprinted in Tales of the Yawning Portal! Unsure if I should just cover it as the reprinted version or if I should do separate videos on the older books as their own standing adventures.
My only problem is that Xeleth doesn't try n stop u...dude has a solar dragon. N still has loyal soldiers..loolz. doesn't make sense he was would be an extremist the whole time just to but like "I'm not even gonna stop them..imma jut die..". Lool
As a DM with ADHD and a love for prewritten adventures, you are a GOD SEND!
I'm glad I am able to help! I, too, love the prewritten adventures and am estatic to hear that the videos can help you digest the cotents!
I’ll second that
ADHD&DMs Unite! Form of a hastily improved encounter!
Wow so there is a lot of us adhdms huh? We need a support group lol.
Or a discord server.
Someone give this man a medal!
I appreciate the effort you make to put this videos out asap!
Haha thanks so much for watching my videos!!! You always seem to be there when I put one out! It was quite a journey to make this one so now, I'm catching up on some much needed sleep
OMGosh, as a busy DM this was sooo helpful. I agree w/ Noah, your video helped me absorb the story and focus for the duration.
I'm glad to help out any busy DM! Hopefully you enjoy a wonderful adventure if you decide to run it!
You got this out quick! What an absolute Mad lad!!
Yes, I worked pretty hard to put this one out quickly! I'm hoping the early vid can help any dm that wishes to run this soon!
Came here from Reddit expecting campy editing and poor microphone quality, but found a goldmine of presentation, delivering voice, and my now canonical pronunciation of hadozee. You sir earned a sub, I look forward to refreshing UA-cam in the days after the next module releases. o7
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Haha, it took a bit of time getting used to recording and editing videos so I'm glad you enjoyed how this turned out. Welcome to the channel and hope you enjoy the future contents!
A few mispronunciations aside, wonderful job! I've added you to my sub list and will be playing your video over and over a few times before I run the adventure for my crew to keep all the big plot points fresh in my memory. Thanks for taking the time to do this so well!
Haha, I get that a lot! Pronunciation is certainly difficult for me and I try my best to look up ones that I am unsure of. Even then, I get them wrong and I encourage my viewers to correct me! It helps the others as well as myself learn as technically, English is not my first language.
I'm glad you enjoy it and I hope you have a blast running the adventure!
@@DnDWalkthrough i would have never guessed english wasn't your first language!
A well made description of the adventure, admittedly this modules looks a super rail road.
Liked and subscribed! This is just what I needed!
Thanks for the like and subscribe! Glad it helped!
I am preparing to run this adventure soon, and I have listened to your video quite a few times to get prepared.
thanks for my life! THIS IS SO WELL MADE!!!!
i'll be running this maybe next year for my friends ^^
the story sounds so exciting!
I'm glad you like it!! Good luck running it and I wish you the best when you do!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for doing this!!!
Anytime!! Thanks so much for watching my many videos!
Awesome! I'm happy to find such a helpful resource for my dm'ing.
I'm happy you find it helpful!! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic summary. Many thanks!
Thanks for reading it, i needed to know how to say the names properly
Anytime! Thank you for watching and hope it helped you pronounce the names!
Fantastic reading here really enjoyed it. Is there any other spell jammer stories out there that you could cover even if they’re from second edition?
Tell me more about the Near-boy Asteroids. Very helpful walkthrough. Thank you.
This was my first game in dnd, I had a great time in this story~ Some cool moments and some funny too~!
Just discovered your channel and love it! I know it's not an official D&D book, but could you Dungeons of Drakenheim?
I'm glad you enjoy the content!
Perhaps so! My main goals currently are to finish up the official D&D books but once I can catch up with their releases, I definitely want to cover other adventures as well. A while back, someone requested the Pathfinder adventures so hopefully, I can get to that. Once I get to that point, I'd love to cover Dungeons of Drakkenheim!
I wouldn't hold your breath, however, since there's still quite a bit of D&D left for me to cover and man, I honestly don't see a future where I can catch up to the current releases.
I'll do my best though and add it to the list!
I love this. Thank you for giving me a rundown of the whole adventure!
One thing bothers me, though... Why are the elves siphoning energy from planets to empower their star? Why wouldn't they siphon energy from other stars? There was an old adventure trilogy by Bruce R Cordell involving mind flayers who did just that. The series started with A Darkness Gathering and ended with Masters of Eternal Night. The overall badguy plot in Light of Xaryxis sounds very similar, but makes less sense. Don't get me wrong, though, Light of Xaryxis sounds like an awesome adventure with all its encounters, locations, and NPCs!
Man i love your videos so much
Amazing video. Amazing channel.
I'm DMing Dragons of Stormwreck Isle for my group and the next adventure will be Stars over Stormwreck, which connects DoSI to Light of Xaryxis! So, this video was very helpful, thank you! 🙏
Could you please make a video about Stars over Stormwreck?? 😁
You know I now see the weakness in this adventure that I did not see while reading it... you are facing astral elves but never in the astral sea... in fact no encounters at all in the astral sea. Why even have the astral sea in the first place if 5e gives you no info on how to run encounters in it. The other main flaw in the adventure is that you must be captured most likely at the cost of your ship for the story to progress. Really hard to run this if you are already running a spelljammer game when the players have their own ship.
When u buy the spelljammer it comes with a DM screen that has all that juicy stuff. Encounters of all types. From creature to ships.
@@thundererodinson1668 That has nothing to do with my points. The point was no astral sea encounters in the adventure and the adventure forces you to loose your ship so you cannot drop it in to an existing spelljammer campaign where the party has their own ship.
Dope Christmas music lol
I have to say, what is Fel's point of existence? she seems to only apear in the short scene where she wants money and then disapear from thin air independly of if she is hired or not
I think she's just an easy spelljammer to hire for the party? That's my best guess for her role!
@@DnDWalkthrough i got that, but even so, she apears, the book makes a point that the hippo thinks she has an heart of gold hidden..and then she is never metioned again and the book just gives you a free spelljammer either way, that has some proper role..did the writer responsable for her just quit or something? cause the way it is she could just have been a random tiefling stealing the ship and results be the same. Other point, whats your opinion on the constant clinf hangers that go nowhere, all chapters seem to end with "and then this enemy apears..but not realy"
Yeah, she didn't have much of a role, I agree. She could've been cut but hey, at least it was interesting to see Krux's kind heart being displayed.
The cliffhanger thing was certainly odd but I enjoyed it from a reading standpoint! Made reading it a bit more unique compared to the other adventures! I'm not sure how it'd play out when being run, though. It seems a bit disappointing to the players if they end their session on a cliffhanger, only to find out on the cliffhanger didn't really mean much of anything. Like, I could only imagine waiting days for the next session only to find the cliffhanger being resolved so anti-climatically.
Still, perhaps it could work? Idk, I'd have to try running it one day for myself and see how the cliffhanger aspect of it goes!
@@DnDWalkthrough I think after the third cliffhanger the players will catch up to the gag. Best case scenario, it still gives the characters a last reaction, worst case, both character and player just acts bored or ignores it
I wish I had found this before I started DMing light of Xaryxis.
Great job!
Thanks!!
Great to fall asleep to also. I love this, keep up the good work!!!
Haha, I do the same thing with other youtube videos! I'm glad you like it and I'll do my best!
Lol, I didn't noticed until now that Mordenkainen looks as Ming the merciless.
Chains of Asmodeus next please.
40:00 but Mislead's invisibility ends when you cast a spell.. Would this actually work?
You're right! That's exactly what it says for the description of Mislead but in the adventure, that's specifically states that's what Xedalli does.
Perhaps I'm reading it wrong but it may be an error on the writer's part!
No you read it right, but you two aren't thinking in terms of rp and are taking the steps too literal. They're explaining what happened in a whole. She used the illusion to drop the ring while addressing the party. Moved back to her body and then sent message. While they don't specifically state that, they also don't specifically state she sent the message while under the effect of her previous spell.
@@SANETheLegacy760 Ah, I see, thank you for the clarification. The explanation would make things fit much more in-line with the way Mislead would work!
I didn't really consider the events too deeply because the way the steps were portrayed in the book still made narrative sense so I just went with it. I gotta pay a bit more attention to these things next time!
Are you planning on finishing Candlekeep?
Yes! I plan on hopping on that one soon along with Tales From the Yawning Portal. The plan is to split up the chapters into individual videos because doing the whole book is a lot of work in one sitting.
Figured you would’ve gone with the party winning against the Zodar.
I thought about it but, if I recall correctly, the book states this is a very difficult encounter and seemed as though you were meant to lose it.
Plus, the speech afterwards seemed too fun in my eyes to pass up!
@@DnDWalkthrough I just find it odd that the zodar would just collapse unless it was reduced to 1 hp, even if it fulfilled its purpose. It’s too strong for something like that
It also feels a lot like ex machina if the party didn’t EARN being restored like that.
My one complaint about this campaign is that if your players don't care about the destruction of their home planet, there's very little incentive to fight the Astral Elves.
I had it be a cycle, sort of deal. One planet would keep the star stable for one year, but then after that, it would need to eat another planet. And then another. And then another. And so on.
Is that “we three kings” in the background lol
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I missed the part about the clones when I skimmed through the adventure. Good to know. I didn’t like the ending really. I didn’t think destroying a whole lot of astral elves was a good choice at the end. But I guess DM could change the ending in some way. 🤔
Yes, I agree!! The ending was 100% the weakest part of the adventure.
I personally believe the outcome of making Xedalli the emperor would've been much better since her betrayal would give the players a somewhat viable reason to blow up the entire civilization.
Unfortunately, the way the module is set up makes it so that the players most likely wont encounter that betrayal
@@DnDWalkthrough I might reimagine it as a kind of Man in the Iron Mask storyline. Hmm 🤔
That was my first thought as I skimmed through the adventure! All of these millions of miles traveled but the only choice is either doom your world or doom the entire xaryxispace. There must be a third option!
@@DnDWalkthrough Based on the experience of running Tomb of Annihilation, I think the easiest way to fix this is to change "Xendalli's Favor" to grant 20 temporary hitpoints per round, instead of just once.
May a suggest the adventure book:
THE FORGE OF FURY
😁👍
Sure! I actually want to start covering the older adventures but that one was reprinted in Tales of the Yawning Portal! Unsure if I should just cover it as the reprinted version or if I should do separate videos on the older books as their own standing adventures.
My only problem is that Xeleth doesn't try n stop u...dude has a solar dragon. N still has loyal soldiers..loolz. doesn't make sense he was would be an extremist the whole time just to but like "I'm not even gonna stop them..imma jut die..". Lool
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The christmas music really throws me off, just saying.
TEEF-ling
Ahh, you're right! I grew up calling it tyf-ling but I shall do my best to correct the mispronunciation.
Please....I love this video, I LOVE it, but it's not "tie-fil-ing." It's "teef-ling."
Thanks i was having trouble with pronunciations of the pronouns.
Haha, I always have the same issue too.
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