In battle anime, "training arcs" are a fun series of stories about developing power and learning new special moves. So, I allow "Training" as an option during Downtime. Now I try to not let this be about raw XP, but instead a way for Martial Classes to get homebrew content. For example, a Fighter could take homebrewed maneuvers based on their theming and powers from D&D 4E. If this is super strong, maybe it can only be used once per encounter or required using multiple attacks for this single maneuver. These special maneuvers allowed every fighter to feel unique in concept and sometimes even sped up gameplay since fewer attack rolls were made. This made Martial Classes feel more epic and had fun stories behind them when seeking masters and completing trials alone. This added new utility powers to martial classes. This added spicier power to martial classes to even things out with the extreme exponential growth of casters. One can argue they don't like adding new features or permanents during Downtime, but mechanically and thematically it's not really that different from getting a magic item, it just makes it so the power comes from the character and not their stuff. Sorry for the long comment! Amazing video!
Jordan Nguyen no no no I love the comment!!! I feel like we run. Dry similar games!!! I LOVE giving players custom abilities that make sense for them that they EARN! Good stuff!
I already had the Trainer NPCs prepared specifically for something like this, but I wasn't cognizant about "training arcs." Thank you very much for supplying me with a focus! It should be pretty easy. The players supply rich thematic material and they're *all* anime protagonists without meaning to be. I've got a DEX Barbarian (Tiger) who is the perfect snow elf and survivalist economist, a Psi Warrior perfect orc unlocking lucid dream powers thanks to her mentor (another player's old PC), a Ranger/Celestial Warlock who is the perfect human being and who will probably *train others,* and a Psi Warrior/Artificer *badass* with a split-personality that makes her combat form seriously edgy, while her Artificer form is entirely focused on learning new skills and inventing great things.
Man Treantmonk was right, subscribed. One of my players in my Eberron campaign has a Mark of Death and both the character and the player (new to D&D) think it's an aberrant dragonmark and are deathly afraid of anyone finding out about it. Lots of downtime is devoted to reading about Dragonmarks and Eberron's Cosmology and some homebrewed exercises using the mark. Can't wait until they discover there's a 13th dragonmark. >:)
As a 30+ year current GM in Rolemaster, I want to say I find many of your videos useful. Including this one. Thank you for the time you take to make them, your time is appreciated.
Loving the Strongholds and Followers shout-out. Currently a PC in a friend's campaign, we recently cleared out and got the deed to a mansion and I pulled this book out and showed it to the DM, came in super handy.
Dude, I love the “complications” part! That can make down time even more meaningful and give the rest of the party purpose to unite with the one in danger. Very cool video!
Yes this is awesome, downtime might feel like "let's just get a bunch of free level ups" but if there are possible consequences that's so much more interesting!!
There is so much potential here! I love the idea of making a home base and creating a business or something to make you money while you are off adventuring. Definitely using this!!
Actually planned downtime for my players and accidentally did lots of the stuff you mentioned!! Helped a whole lot for you to put it all out into words so I can clearly see what works and interests me, thanks as always!
In my current campaign we've had: -Four characters settle down and start families (until something happened to drag them away for "one last adventure") -Three character start a thieves guild -Two characters become tribal leaders -One character reconnect with her estranged father, who happened to be a king, before accepting her position as a princess -Two character become diplomats attempting to diffuse a war -One character start a church It's worth noting that every player in my game has at least two characters that get traded out occasionally as the story demands. My wife and I take turns behind the screen, and it's her turn right now, so her character is raising her son. Two of my characters are the tribal leaders, and they're both ensuring the continued prosperity of their tribes while I play my third character.
Another great video my man. You are knocking out of the park! As a DM nearly two years into his homebrew campaign I find your work extremely helpful and it helps me improve. Kudos to you sir, keep doing what you're doing.
Played a campaign where the GM asked what your player did over the weekend at the beginning of each session. You could make up anything. Like fighter joined a fight club and won every fight, except now GM has the player being beat down constantly by booky muscle until you return all of your winnings because they think you cheated. Or you could spend weeks after weeks pefecting a homebrew spell and GM gives you a way over powered spell. You learned real quick to be humble with what you did on your weekend.
Love the complications section: this is how you make the world seem REAL to the players. Because real life is really one complication after another; it never turns out how we expected but that's what makes it interesting.
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Love all your videos! I recommend using some of that downtime at the table an opportunity for some RP. It can establish your party as heroes that are respected (or vigilantes that are viewed with suspicion, or even fear) as they navigate around the city/region/world. Lots of possibilities there.
I chat with players throughout the week. We play by text for individual stuff. My Gm and I started doing in in Vampire back in 2002. I did so much mastermind type stuff behind the scenes while looking like a strong buffoon at the table.
@@TheDungeonCoach When the new edition stuff came out he ran a Gehenna game then I let folks know. I still do it in games after a conflict. If any pc has some "real life" stuff and I think of it I want to let someone know right then. One DM wanted me to save it for the table but most were okay with gaming while not at the table. This also lets other people do stuff during the session and I don't have to hog any time.
I say " Let me work on that after the session." for some things because it is the end of the night and thinking a day on it is better than giving them a turd of an answer on the spot. I do some good stuff on the fly but that is usually when nobody expects it.
My current group is in a module where, after the first arc, the party has a freaking year of downtime! That won't happen for a bit, but I'm interested to see what they will come up with!
DJ Widget dude you’ll be surprised what AWESOME things can happen. I’d get your played brains going with sparking their creativity of what’s possible, and then you let the bad guys plot develop during that time too!
Another great video! I have been a huge proponent of downtime for years! I always hated the ideas that characters went from 1st to 10th level in a month lol. Right now I'm running the Tomb of Annihilation and one of the things I HATE is that hardly any time has passed and the only "downtime" has been them travelling for weeks in the jungles. Sure, some time has passed, but in 8 months they've gone from 1st to 11th level! Just bugs me, lol. For the past number of years and homebrew campaigns I've run, I always include some aspect of downtime to make sure time flows. But your ideas have really sparked some great ideas! Love the complications idea. Again, as I mentioned elsewhere, all your videos are making me pumped to run another campaign, even just a short one. Cant wait to finish of ToA to get the next one going!
Great video! Thanks. I'm playing my second campaign (so still a newbie) and having my first major portion of downtime. This really helped me get some ideas for what my player should do during that time, and how to make it fun (I love the idea of complications too).
For city-based games and the like, I like to hack in the Faction rules from Stars Without Number. As the players get a bit of notoriety, I like to have various factions reach out to individual players who may be sympathetic to their causes. This gives the player the opportunity to go on a solo adventure or pass along the info to the rest of the party to do something about it if they weren't quite as sympathetic as the faction thought...
2 years later and this is still helpful. In a third campaign where everything will be a bit slower especially leveling up. Currently we are investigating a murder but not all pieces fit together, my character has a kobold butler who is being sent out to do some basic sight seeing so my player has a few locations to visit as he wants to do some self growth aka try to gain some new skills and feats. All the while trying to get money to hire street urchins to be his spies to become an info broker xD
@@TheDungeonCoach Sharing your channel with my two other D&D friends that also do DMing in our circle. I co-opted your rest rules with a minor tweak and tweaked your sentinel alteration just a hair. On creatures up to one size larger it still stops their movement speed entirely but on creatures larger than that it decreases their speed by 15 feet and you may follow up to half your movement speed as a part of this reaction. Anyways loving your stuff. Giving me multiple inspirations as a DM, and I have been DMing since 3.5. So really appreciate fresh thoughts and fun personality. Bet you are a blast to game with. Anyways looking forward to more of your content. Still have plenty to watch, but only so much free time per day. :)
Benjamin Frost wow! Thank you so much for that, that’s exactly what I want people to do with my rule systems, tweak them as much as they want to fit their table! Appreciate it man, I’ll keep em comin! Doin backstories today 👌🏼
I'm a PC bugbear fighter I have some major and minor personal goals. We have 1 month downtime coming up next session. Thanks for the 💡 as I now have a direction to go in. Thinking I'll do some fighting to earn gold working toward one of my major goasl off rebuilding my childhood friends brothel.
I let my Four Winds players level up during downtimes that last at least two weeks, since they all have cool activities and things to explore and people to talk to. I also let them attempt skill challenges to gain Expertise in a skill, or to learn a new Feat, provided they're proficient in whatever it is they're attempting to train. Now that they *all* have preferred downtime activities (one is unlocking lucid dream powers as a Psi Warrior), and the players are asking for another level up, I think they deserve a training arc. Thanks to *Jordan Nguyen* and to you, *Dungeon Coach!* EDIT: I forgot to mention that I've also supplied the party with NPCs they must keep alive in order to train Improved Grappler and Improved Alchemy, among a few others. If the Four Winds can shepherd these Fey "green" hogoblins through a few more days of dangerous riverboating in extremely hostile territory, they'll have acces to them during their level-up downtime in civilization. Also, the Four Winds level up by milestones, and they've only gone from lvl 6 to 7 after incredible feats against overwhelming odds (and even that happened sooner than I anticipated because they accidentally *made themselves the Four Winds).*
Another thing that players can do is write books. The Ranger is making a Bestiary of the creatures and monsters that the group has fought. The Bard is writing an epic tale about the adventures of the group. The Cleric has written down his visions and the events that transpired from them. The Fighter is writing a book of martial fighting techniques to teach the next generation. The Monk has collected wise saying and is putting a collection of them together.
I Remeber during some down time when my party and I were on a boat for a few weeks. My character a warlock gets zapped into a Demi plane where I can meet my patron 1 on 1 (for context I couldn’t make it one day and that was the reason my character was gone so I brought it back up) we leveled up and I had multi classed into a fighter so my character was training in this Demi plane to explain his multi class
You've got some great energy and I dig your background. You should think about bringing up the light on your set a little and seeing if you can get less distortion in your mike.
Michael Wolf I actually just did some stuff with my lighting yesterday (so check it out in 3 videos from now lol) But how could I fix distortion on my mic?? I’m not the best with audio
@@TheDungeonCoach Most audio software will have an equalization adjustment to modulate your voice, a lot of them have automatic modulation to keep your voice from sounding too sharp. I'd play around with those settings a bit and record yourself to see if you can get better sound.
Hey Dungeon Coach! Video is solid as usual. This is unrelated but thought I'd try and ask, maybe for a future video??? Flanking is really getting me down lately. It's lame how it works RAW for 5e. I'm sure you have some genius fix for this cause that's just what you do...Are you planning on ever doing a video about this?? What's some quick rules you use? I'm looking at some alternate rules that gives a +1 or +2 instead of advantage with some other rules mixed in there. Jut wondering if you'd share your brilliant thoughts on this! Thanks dood! You the best!
Chris Merrick thanks for the high praise man! Check out my combat rules video and I talk about flanking there! But here it is basically! Like you said funny enough lol +2 for flanking creature And if a creature is flanked they can’t Vet opportunity attacks vs the targets they aren’t facing And if a creature is “overwhelmed” (flanked by 2 or more beyond the one they are facing) I make it a +5 to the roll! But some of the other stuff depends on if you use “facing” rules or not! ALSO some creatures CANT become overwhelmed because that’s part of their “special abilities”
My group has no definite idea what they want to do or where to go and I have no idea how to fulfill both their goals and introduce the big bad of my campaign. Until we all figure it out, our entire campaign is basically in sandbox downtime mode. And it's still pure chaos. 😂
One more activity, going to school! I have a Knowledge Cleric NPC who is running a Night School for adventures, giving them the opportunity to learn languages and some limited skill during down time, if they have the tuition!
I have a question maybe even a vid idea, I'm trying to think of a way, to use the actual players abilities in the game. For ex. maybe a players knows how to play the guitar and is playing a bard. Sometimes, ( dm gets to choose ) you can tell the player to play a song on the guitar instead of rolling the dice, depending on whatever criteria you wanna use, he succeeds or not. I feel like rolling the dice always can take a bit away of the game, wanna spice it up, homebrew something knew, but I have only been mastering for 1 year, could you help out in some way?
Hey new daddy, congratulations! Hope everyone is well! I will tell you there's anything more satisfying than being a daddy. It is hard though. We love your stuff!
Just catching this video but just wanted to say it is such a great one! And wow, that accent/little bit at 8:05 is great! Really caught me off guard, well done!
Tim currently I have no capabilities to do that! Haha I need a PC that could handle streaming and I’d want to have things at a certain quality before I took that on! So right now it is one of the community unlocks on my Patreon to have a game with them that I broadcast!
two LATE hahah thanks man! I only put an amount of days restriction on it so I know if this is a passion the community wants to see or they don’t care quite as much? Just trying to see what y’all wanna see! I always hope it does good lol 💜
Gonna be honest: not a huge fan of the fast-talk hand movements punchy style of info delivery. Not sure if that's a thing that's been there from the start? I don't think so since I've seen most of your videos, but it's a bit... eh. Just some feedback. Also, I am greatly interested to see that series you mentioned creating on sentient magic items.
Hannah Pilkey I appreciate the feedback! I’m gonna be trying something a bit different on my Homebrew rules video the end of this month, so let me know how that one goes! (I already have the next two videos filmed)
Idk what my traumatised elf fighter should do. We've been given a year since we killed a lich. I feel like after all she's been through, she needs therapy.
Hien Nguyen honesty as far as I know there isn’t a limit, just the act of commenting is enough, but if there was I’d assume 3 words? But that’s just a guess, Interesting question... I’m intrigued now!!
Admiral Stoic Rum I just got a new mic stand to get a longer arm so it’s as close as I can! So not next weeks video but the one after, let me know if that’s better! Audio is always something I want to work on, I feel better about the lighting, but audio needs work! Keep that feedback commin!
In battle anime, "training arcs" are a fun series of stories about developing power and learning new special moves. So, I allow "Training" as an option during Downtime. Now I try to not let this be about raw XP, but instead a way for Martial Classes to get homebrew content.
For example, a Fighter could take homebrewed maneuvers based on their theming and powers from D&D 4E. If this is super strong, maybe it can only be used once per encounter or required using multiple attacks for this single maneuver.
These special maneuvers allowed every fighter to feel unique in concept and sometimes even sped up gameplay since fewer attack rolls were made.
This made Martial Classes feel more epic and had fun stories behind them when seeking masters and completing trials alone.
This added new utility powers to martial classes.
This added spicier power to martial classes to even things out with the extreme exponential growth of casters.
One can argue they don't like adding new features or permanents during Downtime, but mechanically and thematically it's not really that different from getting a magic item, it just makes it so the power comes from the character and not their stuff.
Sorry for the long comment! Amazing video!
Jordan Nguyen no no no I love the comment!!! I feel like we run. Dry similar games!!! I LOVE giving players custom abilities that make sense for them that they EARN! Good stuff!
I already had the Trainer NPCs prepared specifically for something like this, but I wasn't cognizant about "training arcs." Thank you very much for supplying me with a focus!
It should be pretty easy. The players supply rich thematic material and they're *all* anime protagonists without meaning to be. I've got a DEX Barbarian (Tiger) who is the perfect snow elf and survivalist economist, a Psi Warrior perfect orc unlocking lucid dream powers thanks to her mentor (another player's old PC), a Ranger/Celestial Warlock who is the perfect human being and who will probably *train others,* and a Psi Warrior/Artificer *badass* with a split-personality that makes her combat form seriously edgy, while her Artificer form is entirely focused on learning new skills and inventing great things.
ur gonna love my new custom 1st level spell that can't be resisted and makes all hitpoints of enemies go to 0. that speeds up combat tremendously
This video is great - Down time is something that I feel is commonly overlooked and can make the campaign story feel exhausting if neglected. 11/10!
11??? WE BROKE THE SCALE lol, thanks man!
Man Treantmonk was right, subscribed.
One of my players in my Eberron campaign has a Mark of Death and both the character and the player (new to D&D) think it's an aberrant dragonmark and are deathly afraid of anyone finding out about it. Lots of downtime is devoted to reading about Dragonmarks and Eberron's Cosmology and some homebrewed exercises using the mark. Can't wait until they discover there's a 13th dragonmark. >:)
AHHHHH YOu are a SICK DM! That’s so cool! What a great way to HOOK and inspire them to learn more! Great work sir!
Thats awesome! I'm planning to do that with one of my players too, with the Mark of Death!
This is coming out just in time for me to use the info for my Saturday night game, because my players are about to have downtime!
Haha! YES perfect timing! I tried to make the best Downtime video on UA-cam! I hope it sets you up good!
As a 30+ year current GM in Rolemaster, I want to say I find many of your videos useful. Including this one. Thank you for the time you take to make them, your time is appreciated.
Tim wow thank you! Thank you for taking the time to leave this comment! THAT is appreciated!
Loving the Strongholds and Followers shout-out.
Currently a PC in a friend's campaign, we recently cleared out and got the deed to a mansion and I pulled this book out and showed it to the DM, came in super handy.
O its a great resource for sure, definitly read it through for some nice ideas/ money thoughts
Dude, I love the “complications” part! That can make down time even more meaningful and give the rest of the party purpose to unite with the one in danger. Very cool video!
Paul Cave YES! Rush to their aid! Exactly, give them the individual time, then bring em back together! ASSEMBLEEEEE!!’
Yes this is awesome, downtime might feel like "let's just get a bunch of free level ups" but if there are possible consequences that's so much more interesting!!
Mark MacPherson is love to make a huge story arch spark from a PC screwing something up!
Great topic! Can’t wait to use some of these tips for my upcoming campaign :)
Bob World Builder glad I could get a spark goin for ya bro!
There is so much potential here! I love the idea of making a home base and creating a business or something to make you money while you are off adventuring. Definitely using this!!
Mark MacPherson I had a player make an entire trade network and then used it for combat purposes later in the campaign, surprised me for sure
Actually planned downtime for my players and accidentally did lots of the stuff you mentioned!! Helped a whole lot for you to put it all out into words so I can clearly see what works and interests me, thanks as always!
James Echevarria were synced up dude! Yea it’s nice to have some structure to our crazy DM imagination sometimes lol
Down time is always a fun part of our games. Leads to so many fun RP moments. Heck I have had to run 1 on 1's because of down time craziness.
Craig Stueber id do the same thing!! Some of the coolest thing happen during down time!!
In my current campaign we've had:
-Four characters settle down and start families (until something happened to drag them away for "one last adventure")
-Three character start a thieves guild
-Two characters become tribal leaders
-One character reconnect with her estranged father, who happened to be a king, before accepting her position as a princess
-Two character become diplomats attempting to diffuse a war
-One character start a church
It's worth noting that every player in my game has at least two characters that get traded out occasionally as the story demands. My wife and I take turns behind the screen, and it's her turn right now, so her character is raising her son. Two of my characters are the tribal leaders, and they're both ensuring the continued prosperity of their tribes while I play my third character.
CrownRock1 thats AWESOME to see how big of a role downtime plays at your table!
@@TheDungeonCoach to be fair, it has been four years! (In real time
Sign me up for discovering an item, my wizards needs me a construct familiar!
Treantmonk's Temple hahaha hey buddy! That would be a great downtime side quest! Find pieces for a familiar!!
A Shield Guardian, maybe?
DJ Widget oooo YES
Another great video my man. You are knocking out of the park! As a DM nearly two years into his homebrew campaign I find your work extremely helpful and it helps me improve. Kudos to you sir, keep doing what you're doing.
Conor Stringer that’s seriously so awesome to hear! Comments like that get me even more fired up! Thank you!!
"even have a baby" When I saw that onsey for a baby of "oops, I think I crit myself" 🤣🤣🤣Got a laugh from my wife and roommate!
Played a campaign where the GM asked what your player did over the weekend at the beginning of each session. You could make up anything. Like fighter joined a fight club and won every fight, except now GM has the player being beat down constantly by booky muscle until you return all of your winnings because they think you cheated. Or you could spend weeks after weeks pefecting a homebrew spell and GM gives you a way over powered spell. You learned real quick to be humble with what you did on your weekend.
Love the complications section: this is how you make the world seem REAL to the players. Because real life is really one complication after another; it never turns out how we expected but that's what makes it interesting.
D&D Homebrew I have a LOT of failures happen early on in campaigns too so once they level up they start to feel like competent adventurers lol
Great job, Coach. Excellent ideas for using downtime. Keep up the good work.
Glad you like them! Gotta keep grindin!
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Your channel is just so insanely useful! Excellent stuff.
Outer Panda wow man! Thanks for the high praise! I appreciate it brother!!
Love all your videos! I recommend using some of that downtime at the table an opportunity for some RP. It can establish your party as heroes that are respected (or vigilantes that are viewed with suspicion, or even fear) as they navigate around the city/region/world. Lots of possibilities there.
Gerry VanBooven I love weaving in/ challenging my players with RP! I’m totally with ya there!!
Your dedication is awesome, thanks for the inspiration!
Antonio Moreschi I’m in it for the long haul!
I chat with players throughout the week. We play by text for individual stuff. My Gm and I started doing in in Vampire back in 2002. I did so much mastermind type stuff behind the scenes while looking like a strong buffoon at the table.
kestrel1234 ooommmggg that’s so epic! Did they ever find out!!??
@@TheDungeonCoach When the new edition stuff came out he ran a Gehenna game then I let folks know. I still do it in games after a conflict. If any pc has some "real life" stuff and I think of it I want to let someone know right then. One DM wanted me to save it for the table but most were okay with gaming while not at the table. This also lets other people do stuff during the session and I don't have to hog any time.
kestrel1234 exactly! Some people want to be more involved than others, and this helps that!
I say " Let me work on that after the session." for some things because it is the end of the night and thinking a day on it is better than giving them a turd of an answer on the spot.
I do some good stuff on the fly but that is usually when nobody expects it.
kestrel1234 hahahah “turd of an answer” I love that!
My current group is in a module where, after the first arc, the party has a freaking year of downtime! That won't happen for a bit, but I'm interested to see what they will come up with!
DJ Widget dude you’ll be surprised what AWESOME things can happen. I’d get your played brains going with sparking their creativity of what’s possible, and then you let the bad guys plot develop during that time too!
Another great video! I have been a huge proponent of downtime for years! I always hated the ideas that characters went from 1st to 10th level in a month lol. Right now I'm running the Tomb of Annihilation and one of the things I HATE is that hardly any time has passed and the only "downtime" has been them travelling for weeks in the jungles. Sure, some time has passed, but in 8 months they've gone from 1st to 11th level! Just bugs me, lol. For the past number of years and homebrew campaigns I've run, I always include some aspect of downtime to make sure time flows. But your ideas have really sparked some great ideas! Love the complications idea. Again, as I mentioned elsewhere, all your videos are making me pumped to run another campaign, even just a short one. Cant wait to finish of ToA to get the next one going!
Great video! Thanks. I'm playing my second campaign (so still a newbie) and having my first major portion of downtime. This really helped me get some ideas for what my player should do during that time, and how to make it fun (I love the idea of complications too).
Perfect!! Just needed a fresh take on this topic! :)
Glad it was helpful!
For city-based games and the like, I like to hack in the Faction rules from Stars Without Number. As the players get a bit of notoriety, I like to have various factions reach out to individual players who may be sympathetic to their causes. This gives the player the opportunity to go on a solo adventure or pass along the info to the rest of the party to do something about it if they weren't quite as sympathetic as the faction thought...
1ntelligentDiscourse ooooo that’s a GREAT thing to implement into downtime! At first they are nobodies and then become heroes! Love it!
2 years later and this is still helpful. In a third campaign where everything will be a bit slower especially leveling up. Currently we are investigating a murder but not all pieces fit together, my character has a kobold butler who is being sent out to do some basic sight seeing so my player has a few locations to visit as he wants to do some self growth aka try to gain some new skills and feats.
All the while trying to get money to hire street urchins to be his spies to become an info broker xD
Late to the show but loving your content, thank you.
Hey thank you! Glad to have ya here, no matter now late 💜
@@TheDungeonCoach Sharing your channel with my two other D&D friends that also do DMing in our circle. I co-opted your rest rules with a minor tweak and tweaked your sentinel alteration just a hair. On creatures up to one size larger it still stops their movement speed entirely but on creatures larger than that it decreases their speed by 15 feet and you may follow up to half your movement speed as a part of this reaction.
Anyways loving your stuff. Giving me multiple inspirations as a DM, and I have been DMing since 3.5. So really appreciate fresh thoughts and fun personality. Bet you are a blast to game with. Anyways looking forward to more of your content. Still have plenty to watch, but only so much free time per day. :)
Benjamin Frost wow! Thank you so much for that, that’s exactly what I want people to do with my rule systems, tweak them as much as they want to fit their table! Appreciate it man, I’ll keep em comin! Doin backstories today 👌🏼
I'm a PC bugbear fighter I have some major and minor personal goals. We have 1 month downtime coming up next session. Thanks for the 💡 as I now have a direction to go in. Thinking I'll do some fighting to earn gold working toward one of my major goasl off rebuilding my childhood friends brothel.
Love all your videos, dude. There're a big help with tons of useful info
I let my Four Winds players level up during downtimes that last at least two weeks, since they all have cool activities and things to explore and people to talk to. I also let them attempt skill challenges to gain Expertise in a skill, or to learn a new Feat, provided they're proficient in whatever it is they're attempting to train. Now that they *all* have preferred downtime activities (one is unlocking lucid dream powers as a Psi Warrior), and the players are asking for another level up, I think they deserve a training arc. Thanks to *Jordan Nguyen* and to you, *Dungeon Coach!*
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I've also supplied the party with NPCs they must keep alive in order to train Improved Grappler and Improved Alchemy, among a few others. If the Four Winds can shepherd these Fey "green" hogoblins through a few more days of dangerous riverboating in extremely hostile territory, they'll have acces to them during their level-up downtime in civilization. Also, the Four Winds level up by milestones, and they've only gone from lvl 6 to 7 after incredible feats against overwhelming odds (and even that happened sooner than I anticipated because they accidentally *made themselves the Four Winds).*
Seriously Man, congrates, you are awesome, keep up the vids cuz they r beast
Thanks Jozco! I got big plans for my next few!!
Killer vid once again dude
jamyle garmon I’m tryin my hardest over here lol!
Really brilliant content and presentation mate, keep it up :)
Thank you so much for that haha, been working on delivery recently!
Another thing that players can do is write books.
The Ranger is making a Bestiary of the creatures and monsters that the group has fought.
The Bard is writing an epic tale about the adventures of the group.
The Cleric has written down his visions and the events that transpired from them.
The Fighter is writing a book of martial fighting techniques to teach the next generation.
The Monk has collected wise saying and is putting a collection of them together.
Joseph Hartline oooooo I got research and read books... but WRITE them! That’s great!
I Remeber during some down time when my party and I were on a boat for a few weeks. My character a warlock gets zapped into a Demi plane where I can meet my patron 1 on 1 (for context I couldn’t make it one day and that was the reason my character was gone so I brought it back up) we leveled up and I had multi classed into a fighter so my character was training in this Demi plane to explain his multi class
This is awesome!
Intrepid Adventuring thanks man!
Just found your channel and I love it. Thanks.
Chris Frame welcome to the Dungeon!!! Haha glad to have ya! Hope I help ya!
The Dungeon Coach you sure are. Trying to build up the confidence to run my own games.
Chris Frame I got you covered then! I have a two part DM series!
You've got some great energy and I dig your background. You should think about bringing up the light on your set a little and seeing if you can get less distortion in your mike.
Michael Wolf I actually just did some stuff with my lighting yesterday (so check it out in 3 videos from now lol)
But how could I fix distortion on my mic?? I’m not the best with audio
@@TheDungeonCoach Most audio software will have an equalization adjustment to modulate your voice, a lot of them have automatic modulation to keep your voice from sounding too sharp. I'd play around with those settings a bit and record yourself to see if you can get better sound.
Michael Wolf I use Luma Fusion so I’ll play around with it next time too!!
I would say creating a spell sounds like a Wizard thing. Maybe a druid,cleric, or bard thing as well. other than that i agree with your list.
I dk if commenting this late helps but I'm commenting anyways. Really like all your different homebrew ideas.
Great video Coach!
deaf strike WOOP!! Thanks bro
@@TheDungeonCoach I really liked the 1 on 1 adventures
deaf strike I’ve done that a LOT always a fun time!
@@TheDungeonCoach sounds like a lot of fun Coach
You remind me of my 7th grade PE teacher... he was awesome 😂
Hey Dungeon Coach! Video is solid as usual. This is unrelated but thought I'd try and ask, maybe for a future video??? Flanking is really getting me down lately. It's lame how it works RAW for 5e. I'm sure you have some genius fix for this cause that's just what you do...Are you planning on ever doing a video about this?? What's some quick rules you use? I'm looking at some alternate rules that gives a +1 or +2 instead of advantage with some other rules mixed in there. Jut wondering if you'd share your brilliant thoughts on this! Thanks dood! You the best!
Chris Merrick thanks for the high praise man!
Check out my combat rules video and I talk about flanking there!
But here it is basically!
Like you said funny enough lol
+2 for flanking creature
And if a creature is flanked they can’t Vet opportunity attacks vs the targets they aren’t facing
And if a creature is “overwhelmed” (flanked by 2 or more beyond the one they are facing) I make it a +5 to the roll!
But some of the other stuff depends on if you use “facing” rules or not!
ALSO some creatures CANT become overwhelmed because that’s part of their “special abilities”
@@TheDungeonCoach Thanks dood! You the best!
My group has no definite idea what they want to do or where to go and I have no idea how to fulfill both their goals and introduce the big bad of my campaign. Until we all figure it out, our entire campaign is basically in sandbox downtime mode. And it's still pure chaos. 😂
It’s hilarious when he does voices during his videos
One more activity, going to school! I have a Knowledge Cleric NPC who is running a Night School for adventures, giving them the opportunity to learn languages and some limited skill during down time, if they have the tuition!
Brett Majeske AHHHHHH YOU GOT ME! Good one! Going to school, adding that to the list!
@@TheDungeonCoach I designed a mechanic for learning Skills, that no one was using, so I put up in game fliers(handouts) advertising the new options.
Brett Majeske DUDE!!! I implemented an entire system of learning skills that flopped HARD LOL I feel ya there!
Absolutely inspired 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I have a question maybe even a vid idea, I'm trying to think of a way, to use the actual players abilities in the game. For ex. maybe a players knows how to play the guitar and is playing a bard. Sometimes, ( dm gets to choose ) you can tell the player to play a song on the guitar instead of rolling the dice, depending on whatever criteria you wanna use, he succeeds or not. I feel like rolling the dice always can take a bit away of the game, wanna spice it up, homebrew something knew, but I have only been mastering for 1 year, could you help out in some way?
Xanathars Ceremony spell allows you to officiate weddings... LOL
Steve Von Doom Ooooo YES! Make money baby lol
Hey new daddy, congratulations! Hope everyone is well! I will tell you there's anything more satisfying than being a daddy. It is hard though. We love your stuff!
JC CraftMage thanks man! It’s so cool to see my community care so much about my son being born! It’s a wild ride for sure!! I’ll keep it commin!
Awesome!!
FJDII YEEEAAAA Thanks man!
you're videos are great
402 likes! Looking forward to Part 2!
Devin Sloane WOOP!! You’re right! That’s awesome! Yall did it!! 💜
Just catching this video but just wanted to say it is such a great one! And wow, that accent/little bit at 8:05 is great! Really caught me off guard, well done!
6:37 downtime list starts
Thank you
what is that Legend of Drizzt book behind you?
do you have any good rules on Downtime, and characters learning extra feats or skills?
I'd love to see you stream a game, do you do that?
Tim currently I have no capabilities to do that! Haha I need a PC that could handle streaming and I’d want to have things at a certain quality before I took that on!
So right now it is one of the community unlocks on my Patreon to have a game with them that I broadcast!
i keep mocking ur voice to make it sound like a "dude" voice XD i luv ur vids
please add more days, we need to know HOW you run downtime
two LATE hahah thanks man! I only put an amount of days restriction on it so I know if this is a passion the community wants to see or they don’t care quite as much? Just trying to see what y’all wanna see!
I always hope it does good lol 💜
Gonna be honest: not a huge fan of the fast-talk hand movements punchy style of info delivery. Not sure if that's a thing that's been there from the start? I don't think so since I've seen most of your videos, but it's a bit... eh. Just some feedback.
Also, I am greatly interested to see that series you mentioned creating on sentient magic items.
Hannah Pilkey I appreciate the feedback! I’m gonna be trying something a bit different on my Homebrew rules video the end of this month, so let me know how that one goes!
(I already have the next two videos filmed)
Idk what my traumatised elf fighter should do. We've been given a year since we killed a lich. I feel like after all she's been through, she needs therapy.
Who
How
Are these the same word but rearranged?
Yes !! Downtime !!!
Its the best!!!
- Not a fight club
Genius!
How many words do I need to type into a comment to fulfill the UA-cam algorithm thing? Asking for a friend.
Hien Nguyen honesty as far as I know there isn’t a limit, just the act of commenting is enough, but if there was I’d assume 3 words? But that’s just a guess, Interesting question... I’m intrigued now!!
@@TheDungeonCoach I read somewhere it's 10 words, but I couldn't find a confirmation.
Hien Nguyen that is very interesting, never knew that!
No one did a Gamora joke. I'm so disappointed...
Tiago Monteiro Gamora? For what?!
@@TheDungeonCoach your intro reminded me of the Why Gamora? pun from the Avengers ;)
Tiago Monteiro oooooo my god your so right!! That’s exactly it! I never realized!
woo
kslidzorous I can feel the hype in the air!
Could you get a better mic? It sounds like you're too far from it...
Admiral Stoic Rum I just got a new mic stand to get a longer arm so it’s as close as I can! So not next weeks video but the one after, let me know if that’s better! Audio is always something I want to work on, I feel better about the lighting, but audio needs work! Keep that feedback commin!
My word, you are attractive!