I'm loving the adventure in the Humblewood setting book that the Deck of Many put out! I have a Humblewood playlist, including an unboxing of everything that comes in the box set here: ua-cam.com/play/PLg6OY3wCE5jRB-BGCuiovPiink6nSB6uj.html Hope you've enjoyed this video and comment below if you would play this adventure or not! I'd love to hear from you....
Thanks for the review! Been thinking about buying the book and running this adventure for a few friends, and your thoughts at the end helped me convince a friend who's not into the "typical" DnD but thought this setting was super cute and unique.
We are really enjoying the story line and the bird and animal character options are so fun! You and your friends will really enjoy it I think! Thanks for watching and be sure to let me know how it goes! :D
My wife just grabbed the book for me. I enjoyed your video the most out of the reviews on it. I’m excited to dive in! Subscribed and looking forward to watching your other content!
Glad to hear you're enjoying the setting. I've been running Humblewood with a full group of 5 players now for 13 sessions of about 3 hours each. TBH, It's been a love hate relationship for me as the DM. Love the setting and races. Hate that I've had to homebrew soooo much when it came to the cities. Ultimately, I've managed to really embellish and flesh out a lot of the world but it's been a tone of work. I particularly had to put a ton of effort into Alderheart. The two pages of mostly picture just didn't provide enough detail. Winnowing Reach, I felt was executed much better. The group is just finishing section 3 right now. I'm looking at the Avium and dreading the amount of work to do (maps, shops, magic classes,...).
I do agree with you on this point! I have noticed that there's not a lot of detail on shops and NPC in the city. So far I've let them shop and just said "yes you found a shop that sells that" (make up a name of the shop on the fly) and try to voice a shop owner that's fun. This might be a good follow up product for them or someone to make on Drive Through RPG? I try not to let this lack of info stress me out while we play (trust me it's not always possible lol). I'll have to look ahead to the Avium and see if it needs me to come up with some notes for ideas. We are planning to play Part 3 next weekend! Do you think you will make any further adventures in Humblewood with homebrew? It is a great setting although I don't usually write homebrew, so I'm curious what you think.... Thanks for watching! Kristen
@@KristensEpicAdventures My players would like to continue adventuring in Humblewood beyond the published campaign content. I've been having to lay the ground work early on in order to make that happen. Once you've finished the campaign, the party will have largely mitigated many of the sources of humblewood monsters to fight (bandits, scorched grove monsters,... etc) There's a tiny bit of content with the Wakewyrm and Saltar's Port but it's really not much to work with. I've been combing through fey wild setting books in order to enrich the potential monster pool. I've also had to invent some newer bbegs/problems for later content. ... It's gonna be a lot of work.
@@davidwiggins569 there was a supplemental adventure released for Free RPG day called the Wakewyrm's Fury that is a 5th level 1-shot. Maybe you could play that as well? Possibly scale it up if your players are higher than 5th level? Oh i know - tell one of the players its their turn to DM and hand over the Humblewood handbook? ;) LOL I feel your stress/pain....
You have a great charisma and your "public speaking" skills make your videos enjoyable to watch. Subbed! Also just ordered Humblewood. The campaign sounds very interesting and still relatable (as in: not daunting).
Awww thanks so much! I do attribute being comfortable on camera to having to take speech class in college 😜 Glad to hear that you ordered Humblewood!! It's pretty cool 😎
@@KristensEpicAdventures uuugh, not yet. Scheduling for kids is just as difficult for adults. My son’s decided to be a Jerbeen Warlock of the Predator, though.
So, with my players, I started the campaign a bit different. I didn't tell them the setting, only to create their characters however they wanted, and for them to tell a quick story of how they were about to die. As the first session started and they explained what was happening to them, I described how there was a flash of light, then darkness, to which they found themselves in a dark void, and after some time, see a table with chairs in front of them. (My friends have a great deal of trust in me, otherwise I likely would not have attempted this with other groups) As they sit down, they see cloaked figure in dark green sitting at the end smiling, only being able to see his mouth. (though they don't know this, and they think it's me, a.k.a the DM, it's Artagan, who has grown rather board of late, and wants to stir up some chaos. He explains that he wants to have a bit of fun, and that everyone here is now bound to each other by fate in some way. As the players start asking some questions he says "I'm afraid there's no time for that, as you have a boat to catch." at which point the players find themselves on a ship during a raging storm in a small room. As the players leave and explore the deck of the ship, I tell them to roll a percentile dice, feign disbelief over the number, at which point I describe things as a wakewyrm bursts out of the sea next to the boat, asking for a DEX save, before the boat is smashed in two. The players then wake up on the southwestern shore, near one of the rivers. They decided to head northwest along the river, and after a day of travel make it to the hills just before the mountains on the western side of the map. I then had them find a large cave, in which were 12 or so pedestals, each with a different weapon on them. After some time, they took a weapon that they liked the most, then tried to take another one, but found that the other weapons turned to dust, and that their weapons were stuck to their hands. I don't give them much time to think at this moment as they are starting to worry, I go into describing how their bodies start changing. Based on their classes they had chosen, I had picked a Humblewood race that I felt corresponded with their choice. So now they are trying to get their old bodies back in addition to everything else that's going on. The weapons they got also have hidden abilities that they will unlock as they progress in their adventure. As the players left the cave, a map of Humblewood blown by the wind, smacks one of them in the face, as I reveal the campaign setting as they had not heard of Humblewood before. Side note, I also gave them all a wooden coaster with a figure or emblem of what race they would be changed into before we started, but didn't tell them what it meant (I'm a props DM, and like to use as many physical things as I can.). They were changed into a Strig(paladin), Corvum(warlock), and a Luma(cleric). Otherwise we just finished the bandit raid on Alderheart. I'm also using the mana point system instead of spell slots, and it has allowed for a wider range of game play so far, for both DM and players.
Hi Just to say I love your presentations and videos having been a 25 years of playing RPGs and writing games and involved in system writing since school I have been getting bored with traditional RPGs settings . You have inspired me to try a new setting . I just hope I can convince my gaming group .
Awww thanks so much for the kind words! My group LOVED playing Humblewood - it's really different playing humanoid-sized animals and the adventure in the book is great - I highly recommend it! Let me know if you decide to start playing it, I'd love to hear what you think - thanks so much for watching! 🤓
I'm planning on getting this to run a game for my two kids and wife, ( they have never played D&D before.) I wish I had heard about this sooner, but just recently learned about it from watching Critical Role when they talked about it last year. Everyone seems really excited to get started playing this setting.
That's great! I think they'll really enjoy it! I'm also a big Critical Role fan 😊 Let me know what races/classes they decide to be! The races are so different from the typical D&D races and that's what made my non-D&D friends become D&D fans 🎲 LOL
@@KristensEpicAdventures It took some time for the box set to get shipped but it finally arrived this past Friday. The race/class combinations they chose are Jarbeen rogue, Raptor wizard and Strig druid. They just need to finish the final touches to their back stories. That will give me time this week to start fleshing out the first part of the adventure to start this Sunday.
Those characters sound awesome!! I don't know why but I always struggle with backstories LOL I did discover that you can make up a pretty good one with some tables in Xanathar's Guide - shhhhhhhh 🤔
@@KristensEpicAdventures we just finished our third session yesterday afternoon, I've changed the story a bit to fit the characters and make it a bit easier (so I thought, just a few great rolls and at least one was unconscious lol). They also just hit level 2 and are progressing well through the campaign from the book.
Oh my goodness I *FINALLY* finished the module! It took so long to start it, but we got going a couple months ago after it sitting on my shelf for years. It was super fun and I highly recommend this module for younger groups. (Even for older groups it's still great!!! ) Having all the NPCs as animals is so unique and fun. I'm excited to play the Humblewood sequel!!!
Thanks for doing this review! Would you say this is simple enough for 6 year olds to understand? I have already reworked the rules to be easier for my littles, now doing a setting.
The great thing about Dungeons & Dragons is that you can modify anything to make it your own! The theme of the campaign is figuring out why the wood is burning and stop it. There are NPC's that may die, foes that will die, some foes may be scary but all can be modified and you know your child best to anticipate what they find scary or not. A player's character may die too but you can always make adjustments so they don't if needed. The theme of the campaign can be as light or as dark as you want for the audience playing so I think a six year old would enjoy it but maybe with modifications. Also keep in mind their attention span and how long they can play and maybe have shorter sessions which will make the game go on longer. So far we have played 4 times and they were 4 to 5 hr sessions and we are about 1/2 way through. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
I'm about to run a campaign in a few weeks for my daughter's 7th birthday and I'm going to be busily adjusting the rules (ie: there's no death, just characters running away) because she plays with as little conflict as possible. She likes to solve problems by making friends and that requires a bit of flexibility.
I'm loving the adventure in the Humblewood setting book that the Deck of Many put out!
I have a Humblewood playlist, including an unboxing of everything that comes in the box set here:
ua-cam.com/play/PLg6OY3wCE5jRB-BGCuiovPiink6nSB6uj.html
Hope you've enjoyed this video and comment below if you would play this adventure or not! I'd love to hear from you....
Thanks for the review! Been thinking about buying the book and running this adventure for a few friends, and your thoughts at the end helped me convince a friend who's not into the "typical" DnD but thought this setting was super cute and unique.
We are really enjoying the story line and the bird and animal character options are so fun! You and your friends will really enjoy it I think! Thanks for watching and be sure to let me know how it goes! :D
My wife just grabbed the book for me. I enjoyed your video the most out of the reviews on it. I’m excited to dive in! Subscribed and looking forward to watching your other content!
Isn't it a great book? Did you start playing yet? My group LOVED it so much we were sad to see it end. Thanks so much for watching 🤓
Glad to hear you're enjoying the setting.
I've been running Humblewood with a full group of 5 players now for 13 sessions of about 3 hours each.
TBH, It's been a love hate relationship for me as the DM. Love the setting and races. Hate that I've had to homebrew soooo much when it came to the cities.
Ultimately, I've managed to really embellish and flesh out a lot of the world but it's been a tone of work.
I particularly had to put a ton of effort into Alderheart. The two pages of mostly picture just didn't provide enough detail.
Winnowing Reach, I felt was executed much better.
The group is just finishing section 3 right now. I'm looking at the Avium and dreading the amount of work to do (maps, shops, magic classes,...).
I do agree with you on this point! I have noticed that there's not a lot of detail on shops and NPC in the city. So far I've let them shop and just said "yes you found a shop that sells that" (make up a name of the shop on the fly) and try to voice a shop owner that's fun. This might be a good follow up product for them or someone to make on Drive Through RPG?
I try not to let this lack of info stress me out while we play (trust me it's not always possible lol). I'll have to look ahead to the Avium and see if it needs me to come up with some notes for ideas. We are planning to play Part 3 next weekend!
Do you think you will make any further adventures in Humblewood with homebrew? It is a great setting although I don't usually write homebrew, so I'm curious what you think....
Thanks for watching!
Kristen
@@KristensEpicAdventures My players would like to continue adventuring in Humblewood beyond the published campaign content.
I've been having to lay the ground work early on in order to make that happen.
Once you've finished the campaign, the party will have largely mitigated many of the sources of humblewood monsters to fight (bandits, scorched grove monsters,... etc)
There's a tiny bit of content with the Wakewyrm and Saltar's Port but it's really not much to work with.
I've been combing through fey wild setting books in order to enrich the potential monster pool.
I've also had to invent some newer bbegs/problems for later content.
... It's gonna be a lot of work.
@@davidwiggins569 there was a supplemental adventure released for Free RPG day called the Wakewyrm's Fury that is a 5th level 1-shot. Maybe you could play that as well? Possibly scale it up if your players are higher than 5th level? Oh i know - tell one of the players its their turn to DM and hand over the Humblewood handbook? ;) LOL I feel your stress/pain....
This is so helpful for me who wants to research for dnd while doing other things thank you! ❤
I'm glad it was helpful!! Thanks for watching 🤓
You have a great charisma and your "public speaking" skills make your videos enjoyable to watch.
Subbed!
Also just ordered Humblewood. The campaign sounds very interesting and still relatable (as in: not daunting).
Awww thanks so much! I do attribute being comfortable on camera to having to take speech class in college 😜
Glad to hear that you ordered Humblewood!! It's pretty cool 😎
I really want to run this with my son and his friends! I can’t wait to get started!
It was a great adventure! Did you start playing yet? Thanks so much for watching 🤓
@@KristensEpicAdventures uuugh, not yet. Scheduling for kids is just as difficult for adults. My son’s decided to be a Jerbeen Warlock of the Predator, though.
I've been looking to run a campaign in this setting for some time, thanks for the insight
Glad I could help and thanks for watching! Hopefully I'll be able to post another review of the next part soon..... :) What do you like most about it?
So, with my players, I started the campaign a bit different. I didn't tell them the setting, only to create their characters however they wanted, and for them to tell a quick story of how they were about to die. As the first session started and they explained what was happening to them, I described how there was a flash of light, then darkness, to which they found themselves in a dark void, and after some time, see a table with chairs in front of them. (My friends have a great deal of trust in me, otherwise I likely would not have attempted this with other groups)
As they sit down, they see cloaked figure in dark green sitting at the end smiling, only being able to see his mouth. (though they don't know this, and they think it's me, a.k.a the DM, it's Artagan, who has grown rather board of late, and wants to stir up some chaos. He explains that he wants to have a bit of fun, and that everyone here is now bound to each other by fate in some way. As the players start asking some questions he says "I'm afraid there's no time for that, as you have a boat to catch." at which point the players find themselves on a ship during a raging storm in a small room.
As the players leave and explore the deck of the ship, I tell them to roll a percentile dice, feign disbelief over the number, at which point I describe things as a wakewyrm bursts out of the sea next to the boat, asking for a DEX save, before the boat is smashed in two. The players then wake up on the southwestern shore, near one of the rivers. They decided to head northwest along the river, and after a day of travel make it to the hills just before the mountains on the western side of the map.
I then had them find a large cave, in which were 12 or so pedestals, each with a different weapon on them. After some time, they took a weapon that they liked the most, then tried to take another one, but found that the other weapons turned to dust, and that their weapons were stuck to their hands. I don't give them much time to think at this moment as they are starting to worry, I go into describing how their bodies start changing. Based on their classes they had chosen, I had picked a Humblewood race that I felt corresponded with their choice. So now they are trying to get their old bodies back in addition to everything else that's going on. The weapons they got also have hidden abilities that they will unlock as they progress in their adventure. As the players left the cave, a map of Humblewood blown by the wind, smacks one of them in the face, as I reveal the campaign setting as they had not heard of Humblewood before.
Side note, I also gave them all a wooden coaster with a figure or emblem of what race they would be changed into before we started, but didn't tell them what it meant (I'm a props DM, and like to use as many physical things as I can.). They were changed into a Strig(paladin), Corvum(warlock), and a Luma(cleric). Otherwise we just finished the bandit raid on Alderheart. I'm also using the mana point system instead of spell slots, and it has allowed for a wider range of game play so far, for both DM and players.
That's a really neat idea! Good luck with your campaign - it's a really great story! Thanks for watching!
Hi Just to say I love your presentations and videos having been a 25 years of playing RPGs and writing games and involved in system writing since school I have been getting bored with traditional RPGs settings . You have inspired me to try a new setting . I just hope I can convince my gaming group .
Awww thanks so much for the kind words! My group LOVED playing Humblewood - it's really different playing humanoid-sized animals and the adventure in the book is great - I highly recommend it! Let me know if you decide to start playing it, I'd love to hear what you think - thanks so much for watching! 🤓
I'm planning on getting this to run a game for my two kids and wife, ( they have never played D&D before.) I wish I had heard about this sooner, but just recently learned about it from watching Critical Role when they talked about it last year. Everyone seems really excited to get started playing this setting.
That's great! I think they'll really enjoy it! I'm also a big Critical Role fan 😊
Let me know what races/classes they decide to be! The races are so different from the typical D&D races and that's what made my non-D&D friends become D&D fans 🎲 LOL
@@KristensEpicAdventures It took some time for the box set to get shipped but it finally arrived this past Friday. The race/class combinations they chose are Jarbeen rogue, Raptor wizard and Strig druid. They just need to finish the final touches to their back stories. That will give me time this week to start fleshing out the first part of the adventure to start this Sunday.
Those characters sound awesome!! I don't know why but I always struggle with backstories LOL I did discover that you can make up a pretty good one with some tables in Xanathar's Guide - shhhhhhhh 🤔
@@KristensEpicAdventures we just finished our third session yesterday afternoon, I've changed the story a bit to fit the characters and make it a bit easier (so I thought, just a few great rolls and at least one was unconscious lol). They also just hit level 2 and are progressing well through the campaign from the book.
@@Istan9 We just played this weekend too! We are almost done part 4 at the magic college - it's such a fun story!
Thanks for the video! I'm excited to play it!
My group just finished the campaign from the book! It was so good! I'm excited for you to play it too - keep me posted how it goes 🤓
Oh my goodness I *FINALLY* finished the module! It took so long to start it, but we got going a couple months ago after it sitting on my shelf for years.
It was super fun and I highly recommend this module for younger groups. (Even for older groups it's still great!!! )
Having all the NPCs as animals is so unique and fun.
I'm excited to play the Humblewood sequel!!!
Thanks for doing this review! Would you say this is simple enough for 6 year olds to understand? I have already reworked the rules to be easier for my littles, now doing a setting.
The great thing about Dungeons & Dragons is that you can modify anything to make it your own! The theme of the campaign is figuring out why the wood is burning and stop it. There are NPC's that may die, foes that will die, some foes may be scary but all can be modified and you know your child best to anticipate what they find scary or not. A player's character may die too but you can always make adjustments so they don't if needed.
The theme of the campaign can be as light or as dark as you want for the audience playing so I think a six year old would enjoy it but maybe with modifications. Also keep in mind their attention span and how long they can play and maybe have shorter sessions which will make the game go on longer. So far we have played 4 times and they were 4 to 5 hr sessions and we are about 1/2 way through.
Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
I'm about to run a campaign in a few weeks for my daughter's 7th birthday and I'm going to be busily adjusting the rules (ie: there's no death, just characters running away) because she plays with as little conflict as possible. She likes to solve problems by making friends and that requires a bit of flexibility.