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Great kit, I have made something similar just with paper miniatures and card stock tiles, I found out that they are both cheaper and more practical to use than actual props since even if you lose them or damage them (and lets face it, if its a portable kit, one of those two is going to happen at some point) you can easily replace them for cheap.
I actually got to use it to its full extent last week in a camping trip. My daughters and niece wanted to play some DnD cause my Niece never tried it before so im like "I have everything we need for this here today" . This reminds me! I need to do an update video. I made a portable mini DM screen that fits in the kit too. thats gonna be fun to record later
I love those monster stat cards, where did you get them? Did you make them yourself? I am doing a trip soon where we will hopefully get a game in, so I am researching a few things that way. I normally write my own adventures, and then grab the stat blocks I need and put them in a PDF to print, but this seems helpful and more reusable than what I am doing now, so maybe I need to look into it more. I also designed a smaller character sheet for use with the Sidekick rules from Tasha's and the Essentials kit, and I put that up on DM's guild, if it is of interest to you. You can also use it as a character sheet, but it only gives you space for up to 5th level spells. Great video, thank you!
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed. Right now I'm figuring out ways to improve my portable kit. I think I got them from here: www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/205572 It's been a couple years. I'll look at my hard drive at home after work and double check
@@evilzombie Awesome, thank you! I have a few things that I have designed for travel as well. If you have a 3D printer available, I designed some stands for paper minis. Much easier to pack around than full plastic minis, even though they might not be as nice. I also really love your idea for using laminate for a battle grid.
Where did you get the Screen Sheets? I'd love to have something like that handy. I tend to get my stuff laminated and those sheets would be super helpful
Im looking for where I got them now, its been a year or so since ive done the search but it was through lots of DM screen image searches to find ones that had the info I wanted. I checked and they dont have creator names on them at all, but if you email me I can just send you the files.
Zombie what can you tell me as dm how to be a decent dm in dnd I’m running a game that’s a beginner starter kit named or called dragon of icespire peak
Hey, I can give a bit of advice from experience. First, remember that if your players are having fun then you are being a good DM. Also they dont know whats writtin in the adventure, only you do. So you dont always need to have every part memorized. To remember NPC names and sounds sometimes it helps when you can pick out one annoying or wierd feature that each of them have. I have one shopkeep in a game thats basically like luna lovegood, she gets whimsical randomly and spaces out while thinking of the town guard mid conversation. Or a half orc that is hideously disfigured but thinks hes a perfect 10/10 and really condescends to everyone else for not being as great as him. A big thing that helps with the flow of the game overall is to try and memorize what checks you are asking the players to roll for. They want to listen to hear if there is anyone nearby, perception check. They want to look around a desk for a key, investigation check. They want to backflip off of a trolls face while slashing at him with a sword? Athletics check, followed by an attack roll if they succeed. And for DC(difficulty class). Ballparking it is perfectly fine as long as no numbers are fudged. 1-10 is pretty easy for a DC on a task. 15 is medium difficulty like a barbarian using an athletics roll to push a rock. 20 and above is difficult like the same barbarian trying to carefully pick a lock to a vault. And going away from the adventure is pretty much a sure thing that will happen. I learned that bullet point adventures are much easier to run over time. Have the general main parts of the quest that the players know are happening in their area and make the NPC's react to those events. But just wing it most of the time and have as much fun as your players.
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Thank you man this actually will help me thanks
Great kit, I have made something similar just with paper miniatures and card stock tiles, I found out that they are both cheaper and more practical to use than actual props since even if you lose them or damage them (and lets face it, if its a portable kit, one of those two is going to happen at some point) you can easily replace them for cheap.
Nice and simple.
Really nice travel kit. I use the pocket mods for my premade gens and have a few blanks on hand.
This video is gold. Thank you for sharing it
Thanks man, happy you enjoyed it
Pretty nifty go bag
I actually got to use it to its full extent last week in a camping trip. My daughters and niece wanted to play some DnD cause my Niece never tried it before so im like "I have everything we need for this here today" .
This reminds me! I need to do an update video. I made a portable mini DM screen that fits in the kit too. thats gonna be fun to record later
that dice type cheat sheet is super clever
Love those dungeon tiles! That’s an awesome idea. :D
Some great ideas 💡
I'd like to actually see this kit in action. Got a link to that video?
I love those monster stat cards, where did you get them? Did you make them yourself? I am doing a trip soon where we will hopefully get a game in, so I am researching a few things that way. I normally write my own adventures, and then grab the stat blocks I need and put them in a PDF to print, but this seems helpful and more reusable than what I am doing now, so maybe I need to look into it more. I also designed a smaller character sheet for use with the Sidekick rules from Tasha's and the Essentials kit, and I put that up on DM's guild, if it is of interest to you. You can also use it as a character sheet, but it only gives you space for up to 5th level spells. Great video, thank you!
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed. Right now I'm figuring out ways to improve my portable kit. I think I got them from here:
www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/205572
It's been a couple years. I'll look at my hard drive at home after work and double check
@@evilzombie Awesome, thank you! I have a few things that I have designed for travel as well. If you have a 3D printer available, I designed some stands for paper minis. Much easier to pack around than full plastic minis, even though they might not be as nice. I also really love your idea for using laminate for a battle grid.
i would have used the basic set and filled it up with everything you need.
Where did you get the Screen Sheets? I'd love to have something like that handy. I tend to get my stuff laminated and those sheets would be super helpful
Im looking for where I got them now, its been a year or so since ive done the search but it was through lots of DM screen image searches to find ones that had the info I wanted. I checked and they dont have creator names on them at all, but if you email me I can just send you the files.
I wonder what the dimensions of the case are...
Zombie what can you tell me as dm how to be a decent dm in dnd I’m running a game that’s a beginner starter kit named or called dragon of icespire peak
Hey, I can give a bit of advice from experience. First, remember that if your players are having fun then you are being a good DM. Also they dont know whats writtin in the adventure, only you do. So you dont always need to have every part memorized. To remember NPC names and sounds sometimes it helps when you can pick out one annoying or wierd feature that each of them have. I have one shopkeep in a game thats basically like luna lovegood, she gets whimsical randomly and spaces out while thinking of the town guard mid conversation. Or a half orc that is hideously disfigured but thinks hes a perfect 10/10 and really condescends to everyone else for not being as great as him.
A big thing that helps with the flow of the game overall is to try and memorize what checks you are asking the players to roll for. They want to listen to hear if there is anyone nearby, perception check. They want to look around a desk for a key, investigation check. They want to backflip off of a trolls face while slashing at him with a sword? Athletics check, followed by an attack roll if they succeed. And for DC(difficulty class). Ballparking it is perfectly fine as long as no numbers are fudged. 1-10 is pretty easy for a DC on a task. 15 is medium difficulty like a barbarian using an athletics roll to push a rock. 20 and above is difficult like the same barbarian trying to carefully pick a lock to a vault.
And going away from the adventure is pretty much a sure thing that will happen. I learned that bullet point adventures are much easier to run over time. Have the general main parts of the quest that the players know are happening in their area and make the NPC's react to those events. But just wing it most of the time and have as much fun as your players.