The Sunderdome can be used as a second chance after a TPK Just temporary make their levels synced to the ones in the Sunderdome and if they win, they come back alive with no consequences
I might just buy questonomicon to do just this. I ended last session on a cliffhanger and the party is most likely headed for a TPK as they have challenged something they should have not (was quite heavily telegraphed, still they decided to go for it instead of talking their way out). Its my first ever campaign im DMing and i kinda don't want to kill them all after almost a year :D
@@kawiianimekitty74728:09 the Tears of the Kingdom trailer music starts and a couple seconds later Jacob mentions you start with no items and shows a picture of link at the beginning of Breath of the Wild with no armor. A lot of the background music you hear after that is Zelda OSTs 8:18 - Horse Stable (Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom) 8:42 - Talus Battle (BotW/TotK) 9:46 - Dark World theme (Link to the Past - Smash Bros Arrangement) 11:33 - Hateno Village (BotW/TotK) 11:59 - Mount Hylia (BotW/TotK) Fron about 12:06~13:30 I'm not entirely certain but I think they're some sort of ambient music from BotW/TotK like Mount Hylia. I could be wrong tho so if anyone else knows better correct me.
My DM did a 36 player, Hunger Games inspired PvP Battle Royale. Before the game started we were allowed to message each other and form groups. HP was tripled since PCs deal a lot of damage in general. The map was a huge island with tons of roaming bosses and points of interest. The first session was the Cornucopia fight, and with 36 players it took almost 2 hours to get through a round. From then on each group or individual would schedule a session with the DM and play it like a hex crawl adventure until there was a chance to run into another group or player. Then if it turns out they would encounter each other, a session with both groups would be made and they would fight until death or escape. There were sponsor points you would earn for killing bosses and players or doing something cool, these could be spent to obtain items from sponsor drops (1 point= 1gp basically). Near the end of the game a giant lava dragon emerged and started roaming the map, forcing us into more conflicts. When we got down to the last 4 we decided to team up, kill the lava dragon, and escape the arena. We ended up taking down the organizers of the event who turned out Yuan-Ti. They were using the souls of the contestants to make a god. We killed their god, toppled their empire, and resurrected all the fallen contestants. It took 20 months of weekly games and was horribly stressful. But it made for a great story.
yo hubiera dejado que crearan al dios y preguntado si podriamos ser sus primeros apostoles o seguidores, ya que tener las bendiciones divinas de un nuevo gran dios podria ser muy beneficioso mas si alguno se vuelve su paladin o sacerdote principal, siendo que consumieron almas de grandes y valientes guerreros en esta batalla seguro fue un ser poderoso, por otr olado tengo la duda, que nivel eran en el battleroyale, empezaron desde el nivel 1 o empezaron en niveles medianamente avanzados?
@@jamesmcdonald9313 tenia mis dudas sobre ese aspecto de la nivelacion, ya que un battleroyale siempre deberia poder llegar hasta el nivel 20 al menos por lo potente que seria una final entre niveles altos, aunque aun debe haber situaciones donde uno pueda multiclasear no?
@@jamesmcdonald9313 cuantos llegaron a nivel "40" por decirlo de algun modo de tener nivel 20 en sus 2 clases, o mas, no sabria decir cuan posible es en un battleroyale tener multi en mas de 2 clases
I actually did this for an "arena" battle. I had to come up with an automate feature that actually worked quite well. I did have an excel sheet to help me track stimulus and stuff. It was complicated, but it worked. My players didn't realize all the work I was doing behind the scenes.
We had a friend running Sunderdome for us and it was really fun... I was a tortoise bard that played the bagpipe and had a barbarian friend that was the drummer for our "band" and we got to the Sunderdome by mistake, thinking that it was summerdome, a music festival 😅😅😅
I offered to run this to some of my friends and just do a series of One Shots from this book. We started off with Night In Midhallow and they got so invested into it they just wanted to run campaign out of it. So now I'm writing a whole faction intirgue story out of it. Thanks so much for the inspiration Xp to Level 3 team!
My group periodically takes a break and plays a battle royale. It's super fun and there's so many ways to play it. Sometimes we DM as a group, sometimes there's one DM, sometimes we do a gladiator style tournament. We also do a "bring your two strongest builds" and just straight up duke it out haha. Highly recommend and it gives you a chance to try things out that you may not be able to otherwise.
@@skell6134 well, for that you would have to clarify the capabilities of Gilgamesh into a stat sheet and then specify what kind of party he fights against
@@derkaffeenator9172 Something of like... welp,lets just say i come up with quite random party of Level 20 Fiend tomelock Level 20 Chronurgy wizard Level 20 Redemption paladin and also probably Level 20 Circle of Stars Druid For Gilgamesh stats i would say you come up with them cause i didnt watch Fate really,lol . -.
@Negative Bear Totem- Resistance to all damage that isn't psychic. Note it doesn't say damage types except psychic. Unless the damage has the psychic damage type, a bearbarian gas resistance to it- even if it has no damage type.
@@negative6442 I mean, we don't know for sure. Since it doesn't deal damage as is, all we can is theorycraft. Bear totem idea above doesn't care though
I had an idea for an afterlife system where instead of going to an afterlife based on your alignment, you go to an afterlife based on the way you died. Powerful people who died in combat are sent to an afterlife similar to this, where they're randomly grouped together in small teams in a constantly-shifting environment filled with structures and items and creatures. Once there's only one team left standing, the environment shifts around again like puzzle pieces realigning, and everyone's revived and shuffled into new teams. The person who killed you one cycle might be someone you have to rely on for a victory the next. Of course, in my campaign, the party would accidentally get sent there before they died in combat. So the threat of death would be very real for them.
es interesante, que pasa si un nigromante es metido al campo de batalla? no son amos de la muerte y los no muertos? podria impedir que vayas a la vida futura luego de matarte y volverte un no muerto que lucha por el o como crees que pasaria?
@@alejo1003ful ¡Oh, ese es un buen punto! No había pensado en eso. ¿Quizás los nigromantes puedan manipular tu cuerpo hasta la próxima pelea, cuando tu alma regrese a tu cuerpo y estés completamente revivido? Esa es una muy buena pregunta. Además, perdón por los errores. Soy terrible en español y tuve que usar un traductor durante la mayor parte.
@@cojec no te preocupes, es comprensible, y como soy amante de la nigromancia, tenia la duda pues, es complicado comprender en su totalidad las limitaciones que podrian haber en un plano como ese para las clases capaces de manipular la vida y la muerte, tambien deberia ocurrir algun problema para clases sagradas capaces de usar resurreccion o similares, ya que implica que podrian impedir el paso a la vida futura de algun modo, y quizas el plano similar al valhalla este aun vigilado por dioses a los que adoran, a menos que los dioses se desentiendan una vez quedan atrapados en el otro plano, en cuyo caso todas las clases sagradas se volverian completamente inutiles, pero las clases de tipo brujos o pactos donde uno ponga su alma en juego a un ser superior de tipo maligno, aun podria ser util, ya que el ser superior podria querer verte sufrir por la eternidad para cumplir tu pacto con este, en cuyo caso serias castigado eternamente en una especie de infierno de combate eterno, donde incluso si ganas aun te verias forzado a seguir luchando en rondas infinitas para el disfrute del demonio o ser superior al que pactaste... de hecho el plano battle royale, solo podria ser justo para clases sagradas si tienes un pacto con un dios de la guerra, porque cualquier clase sagrada no belica que se preste a esta clase de evento solo podria ser llevada por un dios muy maligno, sino, seria dificil creerse que un dios santo mande a sus creyentes a este tipo de eventos sanguinarios e impuros
We did this in our DND pub crawl, it was hilarious. It’s a lighthearted campaign of 20 one shots, where the idea is to drink the beer that gets you to the next pub, until the last one at level 20.
I love the quest-o! I've pulled it out a few times to quickly set up one shots when my normal game sessions fall thru! It's well written and easily adjusted for many level ranges. I love that the stat blocks have quotes too!! Really nice touch.
I ran The Sunderdome today, and it was pretty fun. My players landed in the badlands and came across Hilmar, though they had already looted a resupply tower and dominated Hilmar because Zorra was already dead and Hilmar only had 3 HP. After that, they just camped in the middle of the dome the whole game until the other parties came to them.
When it comes to TTRPG battle royales, I prefer something similar to Hunt: Showdown as opposed to Fortnite. The party is provided a bounty for a creature they need to kill, but the reward is so high that bounty hunters also tracking the monster try to kill the party and steal their bounty while the players just try to escape. The free-for-all actually has an objective besides just "survive"
This was the best ad for the Quest-O-Nomicon you could have done - I barely made it halfway through the video before I had the store open in another tab. I have so many people say they want to try D&D, and this seems like a great way to cater to any new group!
This is pretty awesome, but it also makes me wonder if a play-by-post D&D Battle Royale with 50-100 people would work. Just, tracking player positions and treating the other players like encounters in between action choices. Maybe put a kind of Blood on the Clocktower spin on it where some players really think it's a BR, some are trying to kill the other players, some know it's a huge ritual to have their struggle serve to empower the lesser chaos deity presiding over it and claim them as champions to control and trying to break that and defeat the 'host', and others being straight up minions of the host trying to make sure everything stays chaotic. Secret objective is actually to level up enough to face the host as the BBEG, with however many people you manage to band together with and convince to your side. Or 'win' and become the deity's chosen champions.
My party once got enrolled in an adventuring competition and there where arena battles with unique twists. Honestly the most fun I’ve had in a dnd game so far
Sounds exactly like what I was looking for/going to homebrew myself. Definitely going to look into getting this and running it with some of the players across our two campaigns!
6:20 I prefer the idea that you take a level of exhaustion at the start of every turn you spend outside of the playable area. That way, it's not an instant death if a player zones out a bit, and it creates a lot more of a risk reward scenario for trying to be cheeky with the playable area rather than removing that option entirely. It also prevents players from easily exploiting it because exhaustion requires higher level magic and consumable materials to get rid of. It's way more dangerous than just damage.
once thought of doing a battle royal kinda thing in shadowrun 4, though it was a custom setting, all post-apocalyptic so when the players get caught by a strong group of bandits they basically get tossed into the arena and wake up there (since they prolly got knocked unconscious) they get to be the underdogs because most of the other participants already know the arena as it is used as a form of entertainment even thought of the announcer (yes, there is an arena announcer) deciding to give additional rewards for the winners if they kill the party and then the party for surviving the hunt, just in case the party is openly showing their skills (since they most likely are the best fighers in the arena) the ring was planned to do damage over time, since healing in SR is quite a bit harder, though damage taken increases over time as normal and distracts (extra modifier) while doing stuff in it none the less, i got some really good additional ideas from your explanation now, so thank you for providing some good content as always!
That's sounds awesome, I've seen that idea in Goldbergs with jock vs. nerds duking out in D&D, game modes like this remind me of how DND Shorts made COD zombies in D&D as well
This is one of the coolest one shots I've seen in a while. Normally when I thought of running a battle royale style adventure I would always run it as just the players vs themselves. PVP. Seeing how you have changed it to actually fit the battle royale genre makes this awesome. I love the different arena biomes and traps and monsters that were described. I love the ability to easily modify the adventure for higher levels. This is a true work of art.
A few months ago I runned 'The Treasure of the Obsidian Cove' from start to finish for some of my friends. They ended up loving the adventures and seafaring because of how well you all wrote it, so we continued it as a campaign. Now I'm picking up stuff from here and there, Ghosts of Saltmarsh (lizardfolk and sahuagin storyline only) but it has nothing to do with Saltmarsh (Larson's Landing > Saltmarsh). Thanks to you and all your work a group of adeventurers are sailing through the Trackless Sea not knowing that they're about to be entangled in a war between Luskan, Ruathym and the Lords' Alliance, all part of the schemes of the Kraken Society and its founder, the kraken Slarkrethel (BBEG) and his subacuatic empire. Love what you guys are doing, you are great!
love this idea a lot since i first saw mike krahulik run a acquisitions incorporated spinnoff like that, he even allowed the players to pay him in real money for better equipment
Sharing actual content from Questonomicon is what made me purchase it. You have some excellent material, sorry that I waited for this video to make my purchase. Keep up the good work!
Rather than have the wall be instant death or deal X amount of damage. You could run it like automatic death save failure. Meaning you get 3 turns in there before you're dead. (maybe they reset each day or maybe they never reset)
I like this idea. You could have intertwined play effects of the players doing know when/if they are getting their death saves reset. You might even have them only reset at a tower.
Right now I'm running a campaign where it's a battle royale crossed with a race. All the teams start in the same area, and then there are six objectives they have to complete across the continent. There are side quests they can do for items, fans they can meet, and they can even get sponsors. It's a giant ridiculous mess, and has been the most fun I've had DMing in a long time.
My group did something similar to this concept with another D&D party our DM was in. Essentially we were in a enclosed arena with free for all rules and magic items scattered throughout the arena. Whichever group survived got a magic item in their campaign. Lorewise this was essentially a multiversal tournament that plucked adventuring parties from their realms to prove there worth and provide entertainment to the Gods. While we lost, as I was playing a Warforge Tempest Cleric, I had a cool showdown with the opposing party's Zealot Barbarian who had lightning flavor...It was awesome, as it was a no hold brawl with no healing in general and my Warforge being juiced by a Frost Giant's Strength Potion.
I remember when Ac. Inc. did this in 2018. Mike had greatly simplified the mechanics for brevity (and loaded his Encounter Deck with Dexterity checks to punish Jerry/Omin). That was a fun time.
I did basically this exact same thing for a DND 4th campaign I ran in like 2011. It was like a "yearly competition where teams enter and you collect 5 orbs." you can attack other teams but dont have too, you can even pay other teams for for their orbs. killing is allowed but frowned upon. different terrines, puzzles, traps. it was super fun
We have a regular twice a week structured battle royal, it’s awesome. We have 4 different maps, each one with its own unique rules and environmental special abilities. Two teams are dropped off on random locations on the map, we have 3 days to find the other team and beat them…all the while we are all doing whatever we can to survive the elements/environment. Love it.
We once had a weekend Special Battle Royale. 2 Groups but 3 DM's. Each group had their DM wich was in contact with the Head-DM who organized all the NPC groups, map events and made sure both DM's always had the same knowledge of everyones positions. It was really amazing for all players. Only the Head-DM being alone in a room only talking to the dm's over walkie talkie said it was fun once but he wouldn't do it again.
there was a ruleset for Pathfinder, called Conflict PVP that allowed for just this sort of thing. the DM took on more of a judge role, and the players submit their movements every round to them, so when actions are taken on turns, the DM can confirm that it was premeditated and not meta. this also allows for the players to move in fog of war without risking meta knowledge. in addition, a set came with maps, and obstacles/traps that can be set up to make the terrain more interesting.
Kickstarter backer here! I got the book a few months ago and can confirm it is awesome! I haven't run Sunderdome yet, but had plans for it in June. This vid is perfect timing! Great job on the book Jacob & Crew! If you make a sequel, i will totally buy it!
Love your work, Jacob. This has given me a strike of inspiration for a MOBA-inspired game. I know it's not the same as a Battle Royale, but it's adjacent.
I'm interested. I established my world (before I got into D&D) to have a MOBA-like sports in one region and was looking into translating such experience into my table.
Quest-O-Nomicon Kickstarter backer here! Love the Quest-O, and love that you're following up on a single adventure idea like this as a value-added bonus. For any current or prospective DM who missed the Kickstarter campaign, absolutely give the Quest-O-Nomicon a look. You won't be disappointed!
This just sounds like a really fun add in to any campaign. I’m getting the itch to DM again, and this sounds like something I want to run. Very cool idea.
My friend came up with a idea similar to that to me, and I was like: Bro that sounds kinda stupid, but cool. And to see the idea more detailed and conceptualized like that is somewhat cathartic ngl
I love how Jacob's equipment is sometimes like "ok video's over" and he's like "nah it's fine i still have more things to say" lmao XD love the video and was very skeptical about a battle royale dnd but you may have actually done it right lmao
I’m actually going to be running “The Heist “ from your book with some adjustments as a lead into Descent into Avernus. Honestly a heist to steal soul contracts for friends and family is an awesome set up.
I think it mainly works best as players vs npcs. There's no way to adjudicate 16 players across 4 teams in a way that doesn't leave people bored for literally hours at a time as they wait for another fight to finish so it's their turn. Maybe it could work if you had like 4 DMs that ran each party's general interactions before checking in at the end of each movement phase to see if they're was crossing paths of player teams.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 actually might work nicely in a play by post format setting up a certain amount of encounters per day and wall shrink. With a play by post format it would be a lot more manageable could probably run it by yourself or with just 1 partner dm
We did one of those in pvp it was so fun. We had random drop zones and treasure locations We each made 3 level 10s and randomly selected one each. Whoever made the character would coach the player on how to play it.
"1 Shots". Man ran Haldraxis hunt... lets just say it took almost a year, with some creative changes... Made him a green dragon but kept the fire and the lava cave. The lore behind it is that he was an experiment. When killed he melted into a heart like black opal, magic stone.
I saw this done in Riptide by JRWI, where it was a 'tournament' which was just a coliseum and prob like 10 or less teams, a specific goal, and then they could choose who to fight and how to achieve the specific goal.
I did a one shot like this except it was a massive free for all set in Waterdeep where twelve champions are called up in secret to come to Waterdeep and eliminate the other contestants without alerting the guards. The contestants are told the prize is a wish, but the truth is that this is all the machinations of a lich who is using the contest to trap the souls of the losers and resurrect himself.
I love battle royale campaigns! My first successful was kind of one, but more based on the Hunter X Hunter “Hunter exam”, but still making NPC’s that reoccur and having the party try to survive as it gets more dangerous is so much fun!
This is a really cool adventure and I'm considering getting the book and integrating it into my setting. That Divine retribution guy really fits my themes as well.
In one of my campaigns in which all my players are a part of a royal house's royal guard, in a city where there are a dozen houses all which have their own royal guards, I had a yearly festival in the mega-city that was a contest between the houses and it was a battle royale in a massive arena. Underrated concept, to be honest. Kind of perfect for a TTRPG if done right.
The bit at 6:49 about people hiding inside of the wall is exactly what happened with the original MW2 battle royale. I loved that game but it had a lot of issues with that. The wall in that game was a gas cloud and you could get masks that allowed you to stay inside of it without dying. The issue came when people started stacking masks and whoever had the most at the end of the game when the circle completely closed won simply because they had the longest to live. Super lame. The new MW2 BR has a limit of 1 mask for this reason, but I still feel like even that feels too cheesy sometimes.
Please do this type of video for all of the questonomicon. Holy cow moly please for the love of content make more of these. Easy to follow guides and hearing how excited you get about these one shots make it so much more worthwhile to try out the various options in the book. P.S. I got the book and love it
This would be a really good idea for a Secret wars style story, where a Divine Entity is trying to find a team of adventurers to show whether good or evil is stronger, or a CW Crisis story where an entity is trying to find adventurers that can help with a coming global crisis
This sounds really cool. I'm planning on doing a campaign with Lasers and Liches and this would be a great way of spending an day to good off at an "Arcade" in game.
The sunderdome sounds fun. I think I'll use it and kinda make some of my own arenas to run a fun mini campaign. Also will have to look into buying that PDF.
this is insanely good timing because my dm is running a battle royale session as a spin-off of our main campaign on sunday haha - we’re doing 1-on-1 encounters and my rogue/warlock (intensely built for rp) is gonna be the underdog
I played a session with battle Royale style fight. The circle was done via a big horde of zombies. Npcs and our team competed to be last standing. Prior to knowing we were doing this, some players chose joke spells like wardrobe malfunction l, oil slip (I chose that) or that whispering mouth one. Little did we know what horror would happen. For the battle Royale, The dm made it so everyone had these necklaces that teleport you out on ko. Remember,Two players invested in thief skills and wardrobe malfunction. First, They used web to trap other contestants. Then, stole necklaces and left both npcs and some of us other players to zombie horde. Next, they used magic mouth to guide zombies around areas without sight lines to reach other enemies. At one point they even considered placing necklaces on zombies, sending them back to cause chaos, and taking not only the prize, but killing the crowd and looting the entire arena. Suffice to say dm stopped that before it could escalate too far. As for me, I used oil to slide team across bridges and avoid a giant octopus at bridge… it worked, but I myself slid right into a flaming spear of opponent who was on other end. Then ignited, then later fell off three story ledge. But at least I had my necklace more than I can say for a few others.
:O I love the idea of using this as a TPK recovery option. The whole team is dead and about to be recruited into the armies facing one another in a battle of celestials and demons? Probably, BUT there is the possibility they can prevail and be found worthy of returning to their mortal form, probably with some alteration to their bodies.
I feel the way I'd want to run this (mainly because I'm not super big on Random tables, I guess, but maybe other people might prefer having a second option/idea for how to set this kind of thing up.) Rather then RNG for where all the teams land, and just having them be an element in the table which could be encountered, I feel I personally would build a time table for each group. Knowing where they land, and on a time interval script what happens to each group, like every 30 minutes, what do the NPC groups do, where are they heading based off their current position, etc, and just leave it flexible. For example, if a group is marked at 2 hours to reach a supply landmark and clear it out, if the party is also heading there, but will show up 30 minutes late, you have the choice to just delay the NPC group so they're at the landmark when the players show up, or explain how they just left and could be easy to track if they wanted to pursuit I feel I'd prefer this style since you could basically make a time table for all the areas where the players have no influence, and have groups be eliminated in the background, or have some more natural story telling happening as the players can later stumble into areas that the NPC teams have been, and you have a clear reference for what happened there. I also think if you want to be a bit more subtle about the fortnite inspiration, another option rather then an instant kill circle is you could have this arena as a floating landmass somewhere, and break each of the biomes into a few smaller regions, every X hours, one of the regions in each biome collapses shrinking the playable space down until just one region is left, and then chip away more and more at that one as the finale. Just some ideas. \o/ Do whatever works best for you of course, but I think its always nice to provide options or different points of view when it comes to design.
You selld me right away! I will now go enjoy my book, believe everybody at my table will enjoy new Ideas and games we gonna have, I really look forward on running battle royale games, Found out that favourite things for my party is sharing loot, going to shops to prepare for adventure and fighting. This looks like perfect setting for us. Maybe I will add my own bad guys and mechanic to reward players making spectacular staff, like for the show. Maybe whole Sunder Dome is the show made by covenant of Beholders, each finding he's own team of champions to win title of greatest Beholder 😂 if he's team will win and he will then eat he's own champiy
Hey man, I just ran the Heist from the Questonomicon last week and I just wanted to say that it was a really fun western adventure! I would have appreciated a guide to include fire arms because, I gave the players the ones I found in dnd beyond and they were even better than the magic item on the quest.. but real fun either way!
i did this exact thing like 2 weeks ago it works out so well we did it as a school club. went on for about 3 hours with different tittles to be one, last to die, least death, most damage , most kills, i ended up takng first winning multiple magic items for our campaighn
Alright, I've been putting off buying the QON for a while now, but gosh darn it, this video convinced me to purchase it. I can't believe I didn't get it sooner! Thanks Jacob, and all the lovely people who contributed to its creation! You definitely put in the work, and it serves as an inspiration to other gamemasters who want to create their own adventures.
something cool that I wanted to try before starting my next BGDIA adventure is to do this one-shot before the adventure starts and replace one of the villains with Zariel who has the task of choosing her new generals. so the party will find themselves facing their old characters played in the one-shot as villains.
So one thing I really like about this is that there are no long rests. Getting a short rest is gonna be difficult but doable. I think a situation like this places casters and martials on a more even ground. In the final hour the martials have almost all of their capabilities that they started with and the casters are probably running low. It's also cool because if you don't give a wizard a spell focus then they may be very limited since many are craftable in the wild but many probably aren't. My initial prediction is that shillelagh and wild shape druids are probably very very strong in this quest.
The Sunderdome can be used as a second chance after a TPK
Just temporary make their levels synced to the ones in the Sunderdome and if they win, they come back alive with no consequences
Thats smart
Medieval Gulag be like...
The actual Esekai
I might just buy questonomicon to do just this. I ended last session on a cliffhanger and the party is most likely headed for a TPK as they have challenged something they should have not (was quite heavily telegraphed, still they decided to go for it instead of talking their way out).
Its my first ever campaign im DMing and i kinda don't want to kill them all after almost a year :D
Great idea!
I like How you can spot the exact moment in the video editing process that Zelda was released
yeah lol
So true
When? I didn't notice
@@kawiianimekitty74728:09 the Tears of the Kingdom trailer music starts and a couple seconds later Jacob mentions you start with no items and shows a picture of link at the beginning of Breath of the Wild with no armor.
A lot of the background music you hear after that is Zelda OSTs
8:18 - Horse Stable (Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom)
8:42 - Talus Battle (BotW/TotK)
9:46 - Dark World theme (Link to the Past - Smash Bros Arrangement)
11:33 - Hateno Village (BotW/TotK)
11:59 - Mount Hylia (BotW/TotK)
Fron about 12:06~13:30 I'm not entirely certain but I think they're some sort of ambient music from BotW/TotK like Mount Hylia. I could be wrong tho so if anyone else knows better correct me.
@@joeguy9817 the music at 8:42 is actually the Talus theme from BOTW/TOTK
My DM did a 36 player, Hunger Games inspired PvP Battle Royale. Before the game started we were allowed to message each other and form groups. HP was tripled since PCs deal a lot of damage in general. The map was a huge island with tons of roaming bosses and points of interest. The first session was the Cornucopia fight, and with 36 players it took almost 2 hours to get through a round. From then on each group or individual would schedule a session with the DM and play it like a hex crawl adventure until there was a chance to run into another group or player. Then if it turns out they would encounter each other, a session with both groups would be made and they would fight until death or escape. There were sponsor points you would earn for killing bosses and players or doing something cool, these could be spent to obtain items from sponsor drops (1 point= 1gp basically). Near the end of the game a giant lava dragon emerged and started roaming the map, forcing us into more conflicts.
When we got down to the last 4 we decided to team up, kill the lava dragon, and escape the arena. We ended up taking down the organizers of the event who turned out Yuan-Ti. They were using the souls of the contestants to make a god. We killed their god, toppled their empire, and resurrected all the fallen contestants. It took 20 months of weekly games and was horribly stressful. But it made for a great story.
yo hubiera dejado que crearan al dios y preguntado si podriamos ser sus primeros apostoles o seguidores, ya que tener las bendiciones divinas de un nuevo gran dios podria ser muy beneficioso mas si alguno se vuelve su paladin o sacerdote principal, siendo que consumieron almas de grandes y valientes guerreros en esta batalla seguro fue un ser poderoso, por otr olado tengo la duda, que nivel eran en el battleroyale, empezaron desde el nivel 1 o empezaron en niveles medianamente avanzados?
@@alejo1003ful we started at level 5 and it went on to level 20 plus several boons.
@@jamesmcdonald9313 tenia mis dudas sobre ese aspecto de la nivelacion, ya que un battleroyale siempre deberia poder llegar hasta el nivel 20 al menos por lo potente que seria una final entre niveles altos, aunque aun debe haber situaciones donde uno pueda multiclasear no?
@@alejo1003ful yeah most of us were multiclassed
@@jamesmcdonald9313 cuantos llegaron a nivel "40" por decirlo de algun modo de tener nivel 20 en sus 2 clases, o mas, no sabria decir cuan posible es en un battleroyale tener multi en mas de 2 clases
I actually did this for an "arena" battle. I had to come up with an automate feature that actually worked quite well. I did have an excel sheet to help me track stimulus and stuff. It was complicated, but it worked. My players didn't realize all the work I was doing behind the scenes.
If you still have the sheet, id love to look into it
Me too
Me too same x3
Me too x4 lol
Me too
We had a friend running Sunderdome for us and it was really fun... I was a tortoise bard that played the bagpipe and had a barbarian friend that was the drummer for our "band" and we got to the Sunderdome by mistake, thinking that it was summerdome, a music festival 😅😅😅
That is absolutely hilarious, I love that idea
*the party 2 hours in* sooo… it’s not a mosh pit?
I love that mixup! really creative, love the idea of a band going through a fighting arena
LMAOOO
I offered to run this to some of my friends and just do a series of One Shots from this book. We started off with Night In Midhallow and they got so invested into it they just wanted to run campaign out of it. So now I'm writing a whole faction intirgue story out of it. Thanks so much for the inspiration Xp to Level 3 team!
That sounds interesting!! Which villain did you choose??
@@yvoltall We ran with the Circus villain, but did take some elements from the Cult villain later in the story
My group periodically takes a break and plays a battle royale. It's super fun and there's so many ways to play it. Sometimes we DM as a group, sometimes there's one DM, sometimes we do a gladiator style tournament. We also do a "bring your two strongest builds" and just straight up duke it out haha. Highly recommend and it gives you a chance to try things out that you may not be able to otherwise.
I can confirm that the Sunderdome was a great way to trick my Dark and Darker-deprived friends into playing D&D and it was quite fun to run.
I feel like you could make this like a Fate sort of deal, where the players are fighting over an artifact
Holy grail war in dnd
Put Gilgamesh there. Because of fucking course, Gil would be there.
@@mitchellenderson7194 How much chance level 20 D&D party have against Gilgamesh tho ?
@@skell6134 well, for that you would have to clarify the capabilities of Gilgamesh into a stat sheet and then specify what kind of party he fights against
@@derkaffeenator9172 Something of like... welp,lets just say i come up with quite random party of Level 20 Fiend tomelock
Level 20 Chronurgy wizard
Level 20 Redemption paladin and also probably
Level 20 Circle of Stars Druid
For Gilgamesh stats i would say you come up with them cause i didnt watch Fate really,lol . -.
I can only imagine if the wall killed via damage and you have Zealot Barbs dragging people into it.
Wall: deals fire damage
Tieflings-druids with healing spirit: allow me to introduce myself
@@jazzfawke1407 Nah son, untyped damage. Good luck getting resistance to that
@Negative Bear Totem- Resistance to all damage that isn't psychic.
Note it doesn't say damage types except psychic. Unless the damage has the psychic damage type, a bearbarian gas resistance to it- even if it has no damage type.
@@negative6442 I mean, we don't know for sure. Since it doesn't deal damage as is, all we can is theorycraft. Bear totem idea above doesn't care though
Work smarter, not harder
*aggressively takes notes for my “multi-shot” arena campaign*
I had an idea for an afterlife system where instead of going to an afterlife based on your alignment, you go to an afterlife based on the way you died. Powerful people who died in combat are sent to an afterlife similar to this, where they're randomly grouped together in small teams in a constantly-shifting environment filled with structures and items and creatures. Once there's only one team left standing, the environment shifts around again like puzzle pieces realigning, and everyone's revived and shuffled into new teams. The person who killed you one cycle might be someone you have to rely on for a victory the next.
Of course, in my campaign, the party would accidentally get sent there before they died in combat. So the threat of death would be very real for them.
So, Valhalla?
@@sourwitch2340 ...yes. Valhalla. I don't know why I didn't make that connection sooner.
es interesante, que pasa si un nigromante es metido al campo de batalla? no son amos de la muerte y los no muertos? podria impedir que vayas a la vida futura luego de matarte y volverte un no muerto que lucha por el o como crees que pasaria?
@@alejo1003ful ¡Oh, ese es un buen punto! No había pensado en eso. ¿Quizás los nigromantes puedan manipular tu cuerpo hasta la próxima pelea, cuando tu alma regrese a tu cuerpo y estés completamente revivido? Esa es una muy buena pregunta.
Además, perdón por los errores. Soy terrible en español y tuve que usar un traductor durante la mayor parte.
@@cojec no te preocupes, es comprensible, y como soy amante de la nigromancia, tenia la duda pues, es complicado comprender en su totalidad las limitaciones que podrian haber en un plano como ese para las clases capaces de manipular la vida y la muerte, tambien deberia ocurrir algun problema para clases sagradas capaces de usar resurreccion o similares, ya que implica que podrian impedir el paso a la vida futura de algun modo, y quizas el plano similar al valhalla este aun vigilado por dioses a los que adoran, a menos que los dioses se desentiendan una vez quedan atrapados en el otro plano, en cuyo caso todas las clases sagradas se volverian completamente inutiles, pero las clases de tipo brujos o pactos donde uno ponga su alma en juego a un ser superior de tipo maligno, aun podria ser util, ya que el ser superior podria querer verte sufrir por la eternidad para cumplir tu pacto con este, en cuyo caso serias castigado eternamente en una especie de infierno de combate eterno, donde incluso si ganas aun te verias forzado a seguir luchando en rondas infinitas para el disfrute del demonio o ser superior al que pactaste... de hecho el plano battle royale, solo podria ser justo para clases sagradas si tienes un pacto con un dios de la guerra, porque cualquier clase sagrada no belica que se preste a esta clase de evento solo podria ser llevada por un dios muy maligno, sino, seria dificil creerse que un dios santo mande a sus creyentes a este tipo de eventos sanguinarios e impuros
We did this in our DND pub crawl, it was hilarious. It’s a lighthearted campaign of 20 one shots, where the idea is to drink the beer that gets you to the next pub, until the last one at level 20.
So like the World’s End but D&D ? Sounds amazing.
@@narcozero8410 that movie was the inspiration for this campaign haha.
I love the quest-o! I've pulled it out a few times to quickly set up one shots when my normal game sessions fall thru! It's well written and easily adjusted for many level ranges. I love that the stat blocks have quotes too!! Really nice touch.
Dungeons and Daddies had a section where they were in a Battle Royal called Four Knights. It was hillarious.
That whole hold person and shot gun blast to the drow in the head was metal as fuck 😂 (traumatizing for the kid though)
I ran The Sunderdome today, and it was pretty fun. My players landed in the badlands and came across Hilmar, though they had already looted a resupply tower and dominated Hilmar because Zorra was already dead and Hilmar only had 3 HP. After that, they just camped in the middle of the dome the whole game until the other parties came to them.
When it comes to TTRPG battle royales, I prefer something similar to Hunt: Showdown as opposed to Fortnite.
The party is provided a bounty for a creature they need to kill, but the reward is so high that bounty hunters also tracking the monster try to kill the party and steal their bounty while the players just try to escape. The free-for-all actually has an objective besides just "survive"
This was the best ad for the Quest-O-Nomicon you could have done - I barely made it halfway through the video before I had the store open in another tab. I have so many people say they want to try D&D, and this seems like a great way to cater to any new group!
This is pretty awesome, but it also makes me wonder if a play-by-post D&D Battle Royale with 50-100 people would work. Just, tracking player positions and treating the other players like encounters in between action choices. Maybe put a kind of Blood on the Clocktower spin on it where some players really think it's a BR, some are trying to kill the other players, some know it's a huge ritual to have their struggle serve to empower the lesser chaos deity presiding over it and claim them as champions to control and trying to break that and defeat the 'host', and others being straight up minions of the host trying to make sure everything stays chaotic. Secret objective is actually to level up enough to face the host as the BBEG, with however many people you manage to band together with and convince to your side. Or 'win' and become the deity's chosen champions.
That sounds a bit like _Survival of the Fittest,_ and online play-by-post Battle Royale.
@@MalloonTarka Basically, yeah!
I am giving inspiration if my players emote on the bodies of fallen opponent teams.
My party once got enrolled in an adventuring competition and there where arena battles with unique twists. Honestly the most fun I’ve had in a dnd game so far
Sounds exactly like what I was looking for/going to homebrew myself. Definitely going to look into getting this and running it with some of the players across our two campaigns!
mad respect for the zelda music
6:20 I prefer the idea that you take a level of exhaustion at the start of every turn you spend outside of the playable area. That way, it's not an instant death if a player zones out a bit, and it creates a lot more of a risk reward scenario for trying to be cheeky with the playable area rather than removing that option entirely.
It also prevents players from easily exploiting it because exhaustion requires higher level magic and consumable materials to get rid of. It's way more dangerous than just damage.
once thought of doing a battle royal kinda thing in shadowrun 4, though it was a custom setting, all post-apocalyptic
so when the players get caught by a strong group of bandits they basically get tossed into the arena and wake up there (since they prolly got knocked unconscious)
they get to be the underdogs because most of the other participants already know the arena as it is used as a form of entertainment
even thought of the announcer (yes, there is an arena announcer) deciding to give additional rewards for the winners if they kill the party and then the party for surviving the hunt, just in case the party is openly showing their skills (since they most likely are the best fighers in the arena)
the ring was planned to do damage over time, since healing in SR is quite a bit harder, though damage taken increases over time as normal and distracts (extra modifier) while doing stuff in it
none the less, i got some really good additional ideas from your explanation now, so thank you for providing some good content as always!
You could use this as like a tournament survival arc for a campaign, not just a one-shot
Anime tournament arc
That's sounds awesome, I've seen that idea in Goldbergs with jock vs. nerds duking out in D&D, game modes like this remind me of how DND Shorts made COD zombies in D&D as well
This is a BRILLIANT concept! I now wanna try my hand at making a few alternate maps & optional villains to throw in to the Sunderdome!
This is one of the coolest one shots I've seen in a while. Normally when I thought of running a battle royale style adventure I would always run it as just the players vs themselves. PVP. Seeing how you have changed it to actually fit the battle royale genre makes this awesome. I love the different arena biomes and traps and monsters that were described. I love the ability to easily modify the adventure for higher levels. This is a true work of art.
The campaign I am currently playing in has lasted just over 2 years...
It started as a one shot
This is, by far, the most fun I've ever had listening to a sales pitch lol
Oh this is a video about the Quest O Nomicon. I just thought this was just a really long ad read for a minute. Good video though.
This could even be a whole long term campaign, with alternating adventures in the dome and then plot sections outside of it.
I'm so going to use this concept as a trial that a deity will put their followers through to select a champion
A few months ago I runned 'The Treasure of the Obsidian Cove' from start to finish for some of my friends. They ended up loving the adventures and seafaring because of how well you all wrote it, so we continued it as a campaign. Now I'm picking up stuff from here and there, Ghosts of Saltmarsh (lizardfolk and sahuagin storyline only) but it has nothing to do with Saltmarsh (Larson's Landing > Saltmarsh). Thanks to you and all your work a group of adeventurers are sailing through the Trackless Sea not knowing that they're about to be entangled in a war between Luskan, Ruathym and the Lords' Alliance, all part of the schemes of the Kraken Society and its founder, the kraken Slarkrethel (BBEG) and his subacuatic empire. Love what you guys are doing, you are great!
love this idea a lot since i first saw mike krahulik run a acquisitions incorporated spinnoff like that, he even allowed the players to pay him in real money for better equipment
You can tell Jacob let his inner Zelda fan shine through in this vid
Sharing actual content from Questonomicon is what made me purchase it. You have some excellent material, sorry that I waited for this video to make my purchase. Keep up the good work!
Rather than have the wall be instant death or deal X amount of damage. You could run it like automatic death save failure. Meaning you get 3 turns in there before you're dead. (maybe they reset each day or maybe they never reset)
I like this idea. You could have intertwined play effects of the players doing know when/if they are getting their death saves reset. You might even have them only reset at a tower.
Right now I'm running a campaign where it's a battle royale crossed with a race. All the teams start in the same area, and then there are six objectives they have to complete across the continent. There are side quests they can do for items, fans they can meet, and they can even get sponsors. It's a giant ridiculous mess, and has been the most fun I've had DMing in a long time.
I just wrote a spell to do this, 9th level Illusion Phantasm spell.
Jacob explaining the quadrants: "Yeah it's basically the safest one _except_-"
8:20 I can only picture a wheelchair-bound adventurer dying almost instantly because they can't outrun the death wall. ☠
My group did something similar to this concept with another D&D party our DM was in. Essentially we were in a enclosed arena with free for all rules and magic items scattered throughout the arena. Whichever group survived got a magic item in their campaign. Lorewise this was essentially a multiversal tournament that plucked adventuring parties from their realms to prove there worth and provide entertainment to the Gods. While we lost, as I was playing a Warforge Tempest Cleric, I had a cool showdown with the opposing party's Zealot Barbarian who had lightning flavor...It was awesome, as it was a no hold brawl with no healing in general and my Warforge being juiced by a Frost Giant's Strength Potion.
I remember when Ac. Inc. did this in 2018. Mike had greatly simplified the mechanics for brevity (and loaded his Encounter Deck with Dexterity checks to punish Jerry/Omin). That was a fun time.
loved Wizard Unknown's oneshot
I did basically this exact same thing for a DND 4th campaign I ran in like 2011. It was like a "yearly competition where teams enter and you collect 5 orbs." you can attack other teams but dont have too, you can even pay other teams for for their orbs. killing is allowed but frowned upon. different terrines, puzzles, traps. it was super fun
We have a regular twice a week structured battle royal, it’s awesome.
We have 4 different maps, each one with its own unique rules and environmental special abilities.
Two teams are dropped off on random locations on the map, we have 3 days to find the other team and beat them…all the while we are all doing whatever we can to survive the elements/environment.
Love it.
We once had a weekend Special Battle Royale. 2 Groups but 3 DM's. Each group had their DM wich was in contact with the Head-DM who organized all the NPC groups, map events and made sure both DM's always had the same knowledge of everyones positions. It was really amazing for all players. Only the Head-DM being alone in a room only talking to the dm's over walkie talkie said it was fun once but he wouldn't do it again.
there was a ruleset for Pathfinder, called Conflict PVP that allowed for just this sort of thing. the DM took on more of a judge role, and the players submit their movements every round to them, so when actions are taken on turns, the DM can confirm that it was premeditated and not meta. this also allows for the players to move in fog of war without risking meta knowledge. in addition, a set came with maps, and obstacles/traps that can be set up to make the terrain more interesting.
I wish I could like videos more than once. Every time you make a solid point, I go to tap the button, but I've already tapped it.
This sounds so cool omg. Now I want a standalone board game that's a Battle Royale, that would be so cool!
Kickstarter backer here!
I got the book a few months ago and can confirm it is awesome! I haven't run Sunderdome yet, but had plans for it in June. This vid is perfect timing!
Great job on the book Jacob & Crew! If you make a sequel, i will totally buy it!
yoooo I actually homebrewed and ran something like this and it was a great success! I'm glad others are looking for ways to make it work too!
Dude I love how you set this up. Thank you!
Love your work, Jacob. This has given me a strike of inspiration for a MOBA-inspired game. I know it's not the same as a Battle Royale, but it's adjacent.
I'm interested. I established my world (before I got into D&D) to have a MOBA-like sports in one region and was looking into translating such experience into my table.
Quest-O-Nomicon Kickstarter backer here! Love the Quest-O, and love that you're following up on a single adventure idea like this as a value-added bonus.
For any current or prospective DM who missed the Kickstarter campaign, absolutely give the Quest-O-Nomicon a look. You won't be disappointed!
Man, WIld Wild Wilderness was a fun time(and yes, it did take 7 sessions), the Questonomicon was a fun time, Go Buy it
To be fair most of that extra time was our own fault
YES YES I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!!!! ❤❤❤❤
I've already run a slightly modified Sunderdome (jacked it up for higher levels) and it is, indeed, really really rad.
This just sounds like a really fun add in to any campaign. I’m getting the itch to DM again, and this sounds like something I want to run.
Very cool idea.
My friend came up with a idea similar to that to me, and I was like: Bro that sounds kinda stupid, but cool.
And to see the idea more detailed and conceptualized like that is somewhat cathartic ngl
so I really enjoy this video and I want to thank you, many good ideas to play with here
I think it adds a unique element to have players choose from a small list of starting items, to give them more room to strategize.
It has been so cool watching you grow as a content creator. You are so cool!
Love this!! You should do more overviews of adventures in the quest-o-nomicon like this.
I love how Jacob's equipment is sometimes like "ok video's over" and he's like "nah it's fine i still have more things to say" lmao XD love the video and was very skeptical about a battle royale dnd but you may have actually done it right lmao
I’m actually going to be running “The Heist “ from your book with some adjustments as a lead into Descent into Avernus. Honestly a heist to steal soul contracts for friends and family is an awesome set up.
This sounds really cool. If I had 16 or so friend who wanted to play D&D there could be 4 parties of 4. And the players could fight each other.
I think it mainly works best as players vs npcs. There's no way to adjudicate 16 players across 4 teams in a way that doesn't leave people bored for literally hours at a time as they wait for another fight to finish so it's their turn. Maybe it could work if you had like 4 DMs that ran each party's general interactions before checking in at the end of each movement phase to see if they're was crossing paths of player teams.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 That's an interesting idea.
Imagine having 16 friends
@@hamsterfromabove8905 actually might work nicely in a play by post format setting up a certain amount of encounters per day and wall shrink. With a play by post format it would be a lot more manageable could probably run it by yourself or with just 1 partner dm
@@FacelessProdigys Or with convention/gamestore play.
I've rewatched sunder 4 times now in the last couple years and the dis arena is one of my favorite parts
Duuuude! I gotta pick up the book now!
We did one of those in pvp it was so fun. We had random drop zones and treasure locations
We each made 3 level 10s and randomly selected one each. Whoever made the character would coach the player on how to play it.
This looks awesome!! I might run this for my birthday or a special occasion because I’m dming tyranny of dragons and it’s going to take awhile…
"1 Shots". Man ran Haldraxis hunt... lets just say it took almost a year, with some creative changes... Made him a green dragon but kept the fire and the lava cave. The lore behind it is that he was an experiment. When killed he melted into a heart like black opal, magic stone.
I saw this done in Riptide by JRWI, where it was a 'tournament' which was just a coliseum and prob like 10 or less teams, a specific goal, and then they could choose who to fight and how to achieve the specific goal.
I did a one shot like this except it was a massive free for all set in Waterdeep where twelve champions are called up in secret to come to Waterdeep and eliminate the other contestants without alerting the guards. The contestants are told the prize is a wish, but the truth is that this is all the machinations of a lich who is using the contest to trap the souls of the losers and resurrect himself.
Minor note, if your one shots keep running to six hours, just plan it as two sessions and don't pretend you can do eight hours of gameplay in four
I love battle royale campaigns! My first successful was kind of one, but more based on the Hunter X Hunter “Hunter exam”, but still making NPC’s that reoccur and having the party try to survive as it gets more dangerous is so much fun!
this sounds really cool, id love to see the arcane arcade cast play through a one-shot like this!
This is a really cool adventure and I'm considering getting the book and integrating it into my setting. That Divine retribution guy really fits my themes as well.
In one of my campaigns in which all my players are a part of a royal house's royal guard, in a city where there are a dozen houses all which have their own royal guards, I had a yearly festival in the mega-city that was a contest between the houses and it was a battle royale in a massive arena. Underrated concept, to be honest. Kind of perfect for a TTRPG if done right.
The bit at 6:49 about people hiding inside of the wall is exactly what happened with the original MW2 battle royale. I loved that game but it had a lot of issues with that. The wall in that game was a gas cloud and you could get masks that allowed you to stay inside of it without dying. The issue came when people started stacking masks and whoever had the most at the end of the game when the circle completely closed won simply because they had the longest to live. Super lame.
The new MW2 BR has a limit of 1 mask for this reason, but I still feel like even that feels too cheesy sometimes.
Please do this type of video for all of the questonomicon. Holy cow moly please for the love of content make more of these. Easy to follow guides and hearing how excited you get about these one shots make it so much more worthwhile to try out the various options in the book. P.S. I got the book and love it
This would be a really good idea for a Secret wars style story, where a Divine Entity is trying to find a team of adventurers to show whether good or evil is stronger, or a CW Crisis story where an entity is trying to find adventurers that can help with a coming global crisis
This sounds really cool. I'm planning on doing a campaign with Lasers and Liches and this would be a great way of spending an day to good off at an "Arcade" in game.
The sunderdome sounds fun. I think I'll use it and kinda make some of my own arenas to run a fun mini campaign. Also will have to look into buying that PDF.
this is insanely good timing because my dm is running a battle royale session as a spin-off of our main campaign on sunday haha - we’re doing 1-on-1 encounters and my rogue/warlock (intensely built for rp) is gonna be the underdog
I played a session with battle Royale style fight. The circle was done via a big horde of zombies. Npcs and our team competed to be last standing. Prior to knowing we were doing this, some players chose joke spells like wardrobe malfunction l, oil slip (I chose that) or that whispering mouth one. Little did we know what horror would happen.
For the battle Royale, The dm made it so everyone had these necklaces that teleport you out on ko. Remember,Two players invested in thief skills and wardrobe malfunction. First, They used web to trap other contestants. Then, stole necklaces and left both npcs and some of us other players to zombie horde. Next, they used magic mouth to guide zombies around areas without sight lines to reach other enemies. At one point they even considered placing necklaces on zombies, sending them back to cause chaos, and taking not only the prize, but killing the crowd and looting the entire arena. Suffice to say dm stopped that before it could escalate too far.
As for me, I used oil to slide team across bridges and avoid a giant octopus at bridge… it worked, but I myself slid right into a flaming spear of opponent who was on other end. Then ignited, then later fell off three story ledge. But at least I had my necklace more than I can say for a few others.
:O I love the idea of using this as a TPK recovery option. The whole team is dead and about to be recruited into the armies facing one another in a battle of celestials and demons? Probably, BUT there is the possibility they can prevail and be found worthy of returning to their mortal form, probably with some alteration to their bodies.
I feel the way I'd want to run this (mainly because I'm not super big on Random tables, I guess, but maybe other people might prefer having a second option/idea for how to set this kind of thing up.)
Rather then RNG for where all the teams land, and just having them be an element in the table which could be encountered, I feel I personally would build a time table for each group. Knowing where they land, and on a time interval script what happens to each group, like every 30 minutes, what do the NPC groups do, where are they heading based off their current position, etc, and just leave it flexible. For example, if a group is marked at 2 hours to reach a supply landmark and clear it out, if the party is also heading there, but will show up 30 minutes late, you have the choice to just delay the NPC group so they're at the landmark when the players show up, or explain how they just left and could be easy to track if they wanted to pursuit
I feel I'd prefer this style since you could basically make a time table for all the areas where the players have no influence, and have groups be eliminated in the background, or have some more natural story telling happening as the players can later stumble into areas that the NPC teams have been, and you have a clear reference for what happened there.
I also think if you want to be a bit more subtle about the fortnite inspiration, another option rather then an instant kill circle is you could have this arena as a floating landmass somewhere, and break each of the biomes into a few smaller regions, every X hours, one of the regions in each biome collapses shrinking the playable space down until just one region is left, and then chip away more and more at that one as the finale.
Just some ideas. \o/ Do whatever works best for you of course, but I think its always nice to provide options or different points of view when it comes to design.
Y'know, I never had the idea of doing a Battle Royale but now I'm going to yoink this concept and pluck it into my Starfinder game. Thank you!
This is a really cool idea, i like it :D
I've unironically been thinking about this for the past 2 weeks.
This is amazing! Been thinking about making a team arena competition myself for my campaign, but this makes it so much easier. Thanks a lot!
You selld me right away! I will now go enjoy my book, believe everybody at my table will enjoy new Ideas and games we gonna have, I really look forward on running battle royale games, Found out that favourite things for my party is sharing loot, going to shops to prepare for adventure and fighting. This looks like perfect setting for us. Maybe I will add my own bad guys and mechanic to reward players making spectacular staff, like for the show. Maybe whole Sunder Dome is the show made by covenant of Beholders, each finding he's own team of champions to win title of greatest Beholder 😂 if he's team will win and he will then eat he's own champiy
Hey man, I just ran the Heist from the Questonomicon last week and I just wanted to say that it was a really fun western adventure!
I would have appreciated a guide to include fire arms because, I gave the players the ones I found in dnd beyond and they were even better than the magic item on the quest.. but real fun either way!
i did this exact thing like 2 weeks ago it works out so well
we did it as a school club. went on for about 3 hours with different tittles to be one, last to die, least death, most damage , most kills, i ended up takng first winning multiple magic items for our campaighn
“You could have it be that anyone wins gets a wish-“
(Distant Kamen Rider Geats theme)
Alright, I've been putting off buying the QON for a while now, but gosh darn it, this video convinced me to purchase it. I can't believe I didn't get it sooner! Thanks Jacob, and all the lovely people who contributed to its creation! You definitely put in the work, and it serves as an inspiration to other gamemasters who want to create their own adventures.
something cool that I wanted to try before starting my next BGDIA adventure is to do this one-shot before the adventure starts and replace one of the villains with Zariel who has the task of choosing her new generals. so the party will find themselves facing their old characters played in the one-shot as villains.
So one thing I really like about this is that there are no long rests. Getting a short rest is gonna be difficult but doable. I think a situation like this places casters and martials on a more even ground. In the final hour the martials have almost all of their capabilities that they started with and the casters are probably running low. It's also cool because if you don't give a wizard a spell focus then they may be very limited since many are craftable in the wild but many probably aren't. My initial prediction is that shillelagh and wild shape druids are probably very very strong in this quest.