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D&D Strongholds & Followers Review (Part I: Followers vs Sidekicks)
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2018
- Matt Colville's Strongholds and Followers just came out for D&D 5e and it is packed with great home brew content! So of course the Home Brew Crew is here to review and see how this great Dungeons and Dragons supplement measures up. In part one we go over the followers section, and answer the question is it better than the new Sidekicks UA?
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Great video! :D Of course I would say that....
We updated the retainer rules in version 1.01 so they save against spells differently (much harder to wipe them out with one spell) and the language for how they use skills is clarified. And Trackers get Pass Without Trace instead of Find Traps.
Wow Matt! thanks for the kind words, those sound like great updates to your rule set we can't wait to see them in action. We really are enjoying Strongholds & Followers, come January we should be live streaming some of our weekly home brew sessions and would love to have S&F be part of those sessions as well (with your permission of course.) We are really trying to get as many home brew authors known with our channel as possible because there is so much great stuff out there to try out. If there's one thing we've learned it's that D&D takes on a mind of its own when you don't limit the creativity of what can be done. Once again thanks for all you do with the community, we honestly wouldn't have even started playing if it weren't for your videos. - Tony Home Brew Crew
The way I read the healing, you can heal them with spells and they gain 1 health level per die of healing. So Cure Wounds from a 1st level spell slot would heal one health level.
I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly though.
I like how constructive your review and criticisms are. So much stuff on the internet is either "This is terrible and if you like it ur dumb" or "This is great, and if you don't like it ur dumb". This is a much more honest pros and cons approach, esp. the way you compare it to WOTC stuff.
The Sidekicks Unearthed Arcana is really good for giving DMs simple tools to quickly generate and "level up" Nemesis NPCs that hold grudges against specific members of the party. Long term middle tier enemies that can come back over and over again throughout a campaign to harass and challenge their opposites/mirrors. All the DM needs to add to ensure they always escape from the party is a Ring of Spell Storing with Planeshift or Greater Teleport or whatever.
For Order of the Stick fans the sidekick UA rules are perfect for helping the DM recast the Linear Guild without going through the parry roster and creating full "PC" builds to mirror the actual players.
Sent here via Matt's twitter. Awesome channel, guys!
Thank you so much! We'll be ready to bring you more content very soon!
-Sean
You guys are about to be floated by a MCDM tidal wave.
And the wave cometh. Thanks for the comment!
-Sean
nice review and comparison between Retainers and Followers, I found the Companion System by Chris Ramsley (on DM's Guild) also very interesting to compare with the other two.
Hi there, Klaas!
Thanks for the comment, and we might just check that out. We've been surfing through DM's Guild and we're always looking for new things to review. We'll keep it on our radar.
-Sean
Nice work guys. Looking forward to more.
We've got you covered; we've got more videos coming in these next few weeks. Stay tuned!
-Sean
Just finished watching the video cause Matt sent me here. I love the channel already. I have big hopes for you both.
Golden Sekona, We really appreciate the sub and are really glad you like the channel. We hope to live up to expectations and keep putting out more home brew content as soon as the holiday is over.
If you have anything you’d like reviewed or even play tested, feel free to email us. We’d love to take a look. -Tony
Home Brew Crew that is a kind and pretty dope offer. Though, I don’t think as of rn, I’d have content to play test lol.
Enjoying your guys content so far. The gentleman with the glasses makes eye contact more with the actual camera. Enjoy you both but for some reason that makes it easier for me to concentrate with what you're saying.
Just found your channel! Awesome discussion
Thanks.
The Sidekick is not a retainer, they are just a friend who adventures with you. So I don't think they are supposed to be used in the same way. You don't want to be a high level adventurer and have your 7th level retainer with you. They would die for sure. But I agree that this is a good rule set for out of sight out of mind management of a stronghold. You definitely don't need dozens of sidekick types around you to keep up with.
Evil Matt send me here, great video guys!
How evil could a guy be that sends over 100 people to our channel in the matter of seconds and makes our day? Lol. Welcome Gabriel we hope you enjoy all the home brew crew videos coming down the pike. :). -Tony
Hi. Great video. New subscriber thanks to Matt Colville. I suspect I’m one of many you’ll get from his referral.
Thanks! Yes, the response has been overwhelming all things considered.
We're definitely not complaining, though!
-Sean
9:30 It is cool to like third edition. Nice show guys.
We think so too! Thanks for the love!
-Sean
Have you guys looked at HarnManor? It seems to have a LOT of very useful overlap with this! Especially if you want to add a bit more of medieval realism to your game.
Almost 100 subscribers. Congratulations in advance. Do you guys have anything special planned?
Hey Brock!
Thanks for that! We're actually thinking of something we can do. At the very least, expect more content coming in the next couple of days!
-Sean
Over 200 now!
300 on the horizon. We are legion for we are many.
Here comes the mcdm fellowship to subscribe to you guys
And they have been coming for sure! Let the wave come! Thanks everyone!
So sad about your shirt button, but great review!
Damn someone noticed... I have an extra one but couldn’t find a needle and thread before the shoot. Love that shirt too little skulls printed on it and the buttons look like the eye of Sauron. Lol
Are there animal retainers?
Un-earthed Arcana? what's that?
Unearthed Arcana is the name for the open release playtesting of design done by the official D&D Wizard team. You can find it by going to the official D&D site and looking under 'articles'. All they've ever done is available, but they're sorted by newest, and they only accept playtest feedback from the newest article; so for example 'Sidekicks' is the newest so you can get it, and give feedback on it. You can also get the article from last month 'Ships and the Sea' but you cannot give feedback any more.
It's how WotC get feedback and adapt new design to the desire of the community, and also gauge interest in particular topics. Some of it, if it does well and has interest, goes on to be updated and published in the books; for example Centaurs and Minotaurs were in the UA a couple of months before the release of the Ravnica book, which had them updated and officially in it. Likewise, over a year ago they did a bunch of UA articles for a bunch of subclasses, many of which like the Hexblade and Samurai ended up in Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Not everything makes its way into books, like they did Mass combat rules TWICE a LONG time ago, but there is (currently) no sign of any such thing making it into any book.
@@AthanUntapped Actually I was questioning the guy on the right's strange pronunciation. I know what Unearthed Arcana is, but not what Un-earthed Arcana is. By the way it is an old AD&D book which introduced new classes and spells, as well. Sorry to trick you.
@@nathankelley1466 oh, alright. I thought you just didnt know and wrote it like that because that's how he pronounced it.
And yeah, I'm aware of the history of the title, but that's irrelevant in reference to what they mentioned here in the video.
@@AthanUntapped was just being silly
Matt sent me. Instant sub
Thanks a ton!
-Sean
Here is my one and only though at 2:25
Get to the F-ing point!
My advice is that
1. Use a script, and
2. Turn your phones off when filming