Feast of Goblyns: Welcome to the World of Ravenloft | D&D Walkthroughs
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 жов 2023
- After a long delay, our newest video is finally out! This video is coming out at an appropriately spooky time however as it focuses on Ravenloft. We talked about the first two Ravenloft modules but now we're discussing the entire setting that was created based on the original story. We're also discussing the first adventure to be created for this new setting: Feast of Goblyns. It's often considered one of the best Ravenloft adventures but is it deserving of the hype?
Chapters:
00:00: Intro
10:36: Part 1 - Kartakass
19:51: Part 2 - Feast of Goblyns
27:29: Part 3 - The Darklords
38:20: Part 4 - Crown of Souls
45:42: Part 5 - Final Thoughts
Original Module: Bruce Nesmith, Andria Hayday, Blake Mobley
UA-cam Game Clips: Altered Beast Mega Drive (Arcade GameClips), Castlevania 64 (Alex Korotkov), Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Murmilio), Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Shirrako), Castlevania: Simon's Quest (Stocke), Clock Tower SNES (scissormon), Dark Souls 3 (Bandai Namco), Demon's Souls (Fightincowboy), Donkey Kong Country (Carls493), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde NES (Nintendo Complete), Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, Friday the 13th Games (Gaming Since Birth), Killer Instinct 1994 (Kombat Kronicles), Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Now Toons), Mortal Kombat 3 (Crazy Glitch), Mortal Kombat 4 (MKSecrets.Net), Neverwinter 2013 (Playstation, FNHUSA57), Phantasmagoria (Sierra Chest), Ravenloft: Strahd's Posession (Kikoskia), Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (Darkhan), Resident Evil Remake (Sourcespy91), Scooby-Doo Unmasked (WishingTikal), Shadowgate NES (MrWhitman), Solasta: Crown of the Magister (Eltimar Gaming, Silent Buh), Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (TombRaiderCutscenes), The Order 1886 (Apex), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Zanar Aesthetics, Shirrako)
Website Game Clips: 7 Days to Die (nexusmods.com - jschu3), Baldurs Gate, Bloodborne, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (fandom.com), Dark Souls (gamerant.com), Dragon Age 2 (gamersdecide.com), Pool of Radiance DOS (myabandonware.com), D&D Online (massivelyop.com), Talespire (talestavern.com - Acretis), Outlast (watchmojo.com), Pokemon Red Game Boy (bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net), Resident Evil 4 Remake (mp1st.com), Waxwork DOS (advgamer.blogspot.com), Prison Architect (pluggedin.com) Valheim (Reddit - gurisuboy), World of Warcraft (wowclassicdb.com)
Ravenloft Images: I6, Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill, Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten, Champions of the Mist, Gothic Earth Gazeteer, House of Strahd, Realm of Terror, Roots of Evil, Red Box, Domains of Dread, The Evil Eye, The Forgotten Terror, The Nightmare Lands, Thoughts of Darkness, Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, Gazeteer, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Curse of Strahd, Heart of Darkness, Death of a Darklord,
RPG Images: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, Al-Qadim: Arabian Adventures, Dragon Magazine, Forgotten Realms Campaign Set, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Monster Manual , Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Call of Cthulu (Chaosium), Chill: Adventures Into The Unknown, Blood Moon Rising (Pacesetter)
Misc Images: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Monopoly (Hasbro), Creativerse (steamcommunity - Trebet), Dragonlance: Dragons of Flame and Dragons of Spring Dawning, Horrified Board Game, Illustrated Police News, Keystone Cops (wikipedia.org), Oblivion (Reddit - VeganGeek), Orlice tvrz prevet (commons.wikimedia.org), Mystery Tales, Spidey Super Stories (spiderfan.org), Latex Ghoul Hands (orientaltrading.com), Stonekeep, Tales of Suspense - Captain America, The Simpsons, Uncanny X-Men, Vlad the Impaler, , View-Master: Little Red Riding Hood (grayflannelsuit.net), L.A. Noire (knowyourmeme.com)
Misc Videos: The Terror 1963, The Screaming Skull (Public Domain Films), Dragonstrike VHS (Joey Lam), Vampire Accidentally Eats Garlic Bread (ProZD) - Ігри
Any adventure that contains the phrase "the Second Decoy Bedroom" is on another level
Indeed 😊
Gygaxian is the adjective that comes to mind.
I personally don’t know if that other level is good. One decoy room is already really goofy and over the top, two is just too much.
This channel is the epitome of Quality over Quantity
When the world needed him most, he came back! Love these videos so much.
It's nice he is labeling the creative content he is using as filler-shots in the videos, but I bet you this is still stealing other people's work for one's own financial benefit. He needs to write ALL the people he is stealing from and get their written permission to use their content. I like the videos too but I hate this culture of blatant stealing on YT..
@@KS-nm6rt you have one of the most self absorbed and self righteous opinions I have ever seen. Imagine! I'd have to contact Stan Lee from across the grave everytime I wanted to make a presentation using one of his comic books! Or call Nail Gaiman everytime I wished to talk about the plot of American Gods or Sandman.
Do yoy not understand how bothersome that would be for everyone incolved? Do you think the authors of a 30 yo dnd adventure want you to call them to talk about your adventure in your video?
@@KS-nm6rt What? Is fair use no longer a thing or something?
I'm doing a documentary on New Zealand. It's for profit and it will be published to the public. I will use a lot of footage from LotR cause it's also from New Zealand. Is that fair use? Can I just use everything I want for my docu that I aim to make money from? What about music? As long as I credit people it's all good? @@viktord2025 It's not I can tell you.. If you are doing a review on LotR you can use footage from LotR. It's really quite simple..
@@KS-nm6rt You don't understand fair use. This is absolutely a transformative video and the content he uses is completely fair game legally and ethically. This is not a replacement for any of the products used, at all, therefore transformative... Therefore, fair use.
Read the Copyright Act of 1976, section 107. He is ticking several boxes of what is considered fair use, this is a unique and transformative take on all of the content used within the video. He honestly doesn't even have to source a lot of what he does, it's just a courtesy. Legally and ethically, this is super okay.
"Press X to doubt the modules main hook"
great video
Glad to see a new video! Anyone else catch that the text describes the bone bridges at 22:24 as “wet with moisture”. This gives strong vibes of trying to reach the required word count in a middle school essay.
There were some real classics like that in boxed text, I miss it so much.
Tbf specifying the liquid is kind of important in context, since the bridge is made of bones, so something like "wet with blood" could also make sense, but would give very different implications. Always better to clarify.
Moisture is not a specific type of liquid. Something covered with blood is also wet with moisture.
@@jonahsalyers5979 that's what he said. what are you going on about?
Is moisture wetter than water, or blood? Truth matters! ;-)
I ran this adventure in the 90s when I was a teenager. TPK at the end 😂 it was very fun though.
What a surprise on a beautiful Sunday morning. Welcome back sir.
When I found this channel I loved binging all the episodes, but now having to wait. It is like getting a gift every time a new video goes up.
Good to see another video from you. I look forward to your against the Giants review. I will recommend again that you do a review on Castle Greyhawk for the first edition AD&D. Especially since Castle Zagyg is now being released. And it would be nice to see the first attempt to publish Castle Greyhawk. Even if it wasn't that great.
More of these please! So many box sets & modules for Ravenloft 2nd edition that need detailed and discussion!
I was not expecting to hear the name Bruce Nesmith as I keep seeing interviews about his time at Bethesda. This sounds like a cool module.
I fucking love this channel. I recommend to everybody who will listen, keep up the good work!
Love this. I started with 2E, and Ravenloft has ALWAYS been my favorite campaign. I lost all of my originals in a house fire, so seeing this made me amazingly nostalgic.
Well presented, and much appreciated!
Fantastic! I love these deep dives into TSR modules and adventures
The Demilich’s curse is probably the coolest trap I’ve ever heard of.
Ah my favorite channel that I continuously forget that I'm subscribed to.
I was just lamenting last night about how you haven't uploaded in a while then I woke up to this pleasant surprise. Thank you!
So happy to see a new video from you, man. This has truly brightened my day
I just started rewatching all your old content. Welcome back!
Great to see you back!!!
I'm so glad you're back. Missed your uploads
Missed you DM! Hope all has been well and thank you for the video.
I thought this channel died! Glad to see you're still going, love the videos!
Automatic like and comment, missed your uploads!
YES, I have missed y'all so much. One of the only channels on youtube where I will rewatch endlessly.
Dude, love your channel. Can't wait to see what you cover next. Hope you eventually do Castle Amber. Would love to see a walkthrough of that. Or maybe, also, something from the Bloodstone pass saga. Specifically H4 The Throne of Bloodstone. Oh, also The Ruins of Undermountain. Lol! Man, there's a ton of content at your disposal!
Another quality upload but I am very excited for the next one to come
The three absolute truths of D&D:
Elminster knows more than he lets on. You don't mess with the Lady of Pain. Nobody and NOBODY escapes Ravenloft.
Didn't Lord Soth get out?
@@warriorjubei Did Soth want to get out? Get to comfy in your domain and the dark powers will jank the chain.
Vecna got out. And he almost beat the Lady of Pain.
In a fantasy story, an absolute truth only exists until a writer can think of a fun way to subvert it.
@@shagohad3 Vecna did this in a module where the sole intent from WotC is to at least TPK the party, and at most end your campaign world, for a clean slate with a rewritten Greyhawk(and other settings) going into 3e. Same with The Apocalypse Stone. When the new company selling a game is trying to hit the reset button, it's not surprising when they ignore the rules and laws set in place for that game.
Small correction, but Dominiana *does* appear in the 5th edition iteration of the setting, under the list of minor domains.
I love Ravenloft, it's my favorite setting.
AWESOME
Hell yeah, new DM it all upload
1) d&d class analysis: The Bard. From nigh-unattainable requirements to a fan favorite, this class has changed quite a bit since its inception.
2) Death of the Editions. A discussion about what killed off each version of the game.
3) Tales from the Infinite Staircase adventure walkthrough: an introduction to Anthology Adventures, as well as the Planescape campaign setting.
4) Dwarves, Cavaliers and Warlords, Oh My! Classes lost to the ages.
5) Expedition to the Barrier Peaks adventure walkthrough: Aliens in D&D!
6) The Dragon: About D&D's most prolific magazine.
7) New series idea: Campaign Setting Overview. Discuss Dark Sun, Greyhawk, Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, and more.
GRAAAAAAAH New DM It All video!!!! I am Strahd's strongest soldier! Good job as always!!
You know it's gonna be a good day when you wake up to a new DM it All video, love your work!
Best channel on d&dyoutube. Even if it drops twice a year.
Man, I haven't even started watching and you get rhe "Like" just for the nostalgia feels. Loved the early Ravenloft setting adventures and the accompanying Van Richten's guides.
Now to watch the video.
The way this channel presents these modules is inspiring! As a DM, I thank you!
The return of the king
So great to have another of your wonderfully crafted videos. DM It All was one of the channels that got me through the Pandemic; and motivated to start running games myself. Thank you, and always looking forward to the next one.
Woohoo!!! A new video. Thank you for this. Always get so much enjoyment out of these documentaries =D
Fantastic video!
A lot of the AD&D Ravenloft catalogue is pretty much like this. Great to scavenge ideas, maps, and encounters, but horrible to run as they are.
Adam's Wrath is another good one for that. Awful railroady mess of an adventure, but provides a couple of useful tools for a campaign set in Lamordia.
A contingency plan if the party gets wiped (assuming they won't get eaten by the killers). The corpses of the party someway will make their way to Mordenheims lab, who will procede to resurrect them as Flesh Golems, and will promise to clone them bodies similar to their original ones, if they do a favor for him.
The concept of "Adam's Children", a tight-knit community of flesh golems, made by Adam himself, who eventually turned rogue and abandoned their creator, and created their own family in an abandoned monastery.
Detailed maps of a few critical locations. Adam's Icy lair on the Isle of Agony. Mordenheims Manor and laboratory. The monastery of Adam's Children. Schloss von Aubreker, the manor of the ruling political elite of Lamordia (currently infested by Madness Fleas).
Yay your back! Really enjoy your videos, often rewatch your old ones!
Missed your work! And for the first module I ever ran.
Your channel rocks. Thanks for these deep dives.
Googling the mysterious Blake Mobely turns up an intriguing character indeed.
new content 😁👍👍👍
I have Feast of Goblyns and tried to prep to DM it a few times. It has so many interesting ideas and great style, but ultimately it should be cannibalized for parts - which is why I've kept it. Thanks for the review! I'm inspired to sneak some of these elements into games again!
Was wondering about you last month.
Appreciate what must be a lot of editing effort to make these videos.
I brought this back in the day, I remember the poster folded up that came with the module, hung it up in my room ( bad idea since I had night terrors lol)
It's always a treat getting a video from DMitall!
Always happy to see another video here! Great work!
So happy to see a new video from you. Heres to more in the next year! And maybe a look at some 13th age and other non dnd adventures too!
In the 90s this was the first ravenloft game I ran for my group
how did it go?
@@666lupine666 they got to the inn in skald tpk. Back ups got to the cave graveyard and stopped. Never made it to the hag. It’s something I point to about how hard 2nd was. But I’m wanting to run 2nd again.
Glad to see your comeback, I had this adventure, but I never played it, not looked at it, now that you explained it, I can alter it to play it in my campaign out of Ravenloft.
Always a fantastic day when you upload. Shame UA-cam gobbles this video up and only got around to it.
Ravenloft has always been my favorite part of Dungeons and Dragons. I just turned 50 a few days ago and I started playing Dungeons and Dragons when I was about 7.
We were waiting for another video a long time, and finally it's here. Great video as always and welcome back!
Hello, i wanted to comment that I adore these videos and the video editing format, style, and narration. I hope that someday we can have more frequent uploads. I'm not asking for anything weekly, but maybe something every few months? That would be delightful. Take your time for sure, but please keep making stuff. Thank you.
😮 SKELETON CHAIR 😮
Nice! I'm always happy to see a new video from you guys, and this is perfect for Halloween. Thanks for sharing this here.
Ravenloft. The love letter to Classic Horror. That's why I love it.
I'm a big fan of TSR business strategy lol
This horror adventure is amazing.
My birthday was this week so this counts as a birthday present!
One of my first adventures i ran as a dm, was a bit of a mess as i recall but love this overview!
Wake up babe it's one of the 2 yearly episodes!
Hitchcock, who popularized the term 'McGuffin', also coined the term 'icebox scene'. Icebox scenes are scenes that appear convincing during the movie but are logically implausible/impossible, but that implausibility can only be discerned after the emotional impact of the situation has ebbed, i.e. when you're at the fridge indulging in a midnight snack.
Hitchcock's position wasn't than these were tools to be used as a last resort to fix plots, but were in fact the very soul of the psychological drama. And he saw his own virtuosity in using them as one of his principle skills as a filmmaker.
The challenge for reviewing modules is trying to determine how easy it is for DMs to make the implausible/illogical seem logical at the moment. The Ravenloft setting assists in this by providing a setting that's already off-kilter with a crush of backstory with onion skins of motivation and plot developments. The player never learns everything, so the mystery is never fully solved. I think the DM with a strong personality with cooperative players wouldn't find it difficult to subtly (or not so subtly) lead characters though the adventure with them feeling railroaded. This was my experience in my one experience DMing the Ravenloft world.
Adding, I love this series for trying to put classic modules in a historical context, and avoiding many of the tropes of fandom which is wrecking much contemporary creative output. But acknowledging reception® along with a serious attempt at reappraisal.
I'm running a bunch of the Ravenloft mods that I converted to Pathfinder, this is one of them
Now I want to run this for my home group using the old rules!
That box set was great
Great Video!
Yeah, I bought this along with the first boxed set. It looks gorgeous and the details are amazing. But you'd definitely need to do some rewriting to make it playable as is.
Oh, and the cover is basically a Ravenloft DM screen and includes a Ravenloft character sheet.
Great in time for Halloween. That helmet though...oof....Gothic trap indeed
Played it in the 90s as part of my first D&D campaign, but the party broke up; then years later the group reformed with different characters, and finished the journey.
We lost it when the skeletons swung by their feet to attack us, had to pause for the night; hilarious.
The Ending was vague for our 18yo GM - just show up at the event, fight random evil-looking baddies, and then a "you get swallowed by lava, jk, you're alive and back home" 2e Ravenloft ending. Remember feeling it needed to be reworked, but still: we completed the adventure! Still, I think the problem is the linear adventure with no guidance at the end. McGuffin crown is toxic evil, which is unusable as it makes a character into an NPC. Could use a Remix by The Alexandrian or another GM, you know?
The Inn map is legendary, especially given the description in the intro; we didn't do it, but I was inspired to do descriptions like suggested here, to create atmosphere - even if there's no werewolf!
As for the giant skeleton - my group had played through menzobaranzan first, so my fighter "Conan" had a +4 broadsword and the bracers of blinding strike, doubling his attacks every round. He was 8th level iirc, so 4 attacks per round, I did 48 damage to the skeleton. My GM "created" an attack to break his sword as a result (still bugs me, but we were kids; I suggest talking to the players first!), but oh well, good fun.
The "wolfweres" always bothered me; I'd have just made them werewolves, as getting my head around animals in human form never feels right, or adds up to "lets dress up and run a pub". Plus The Howling was fun, so why not!
The Ravenloft Setting domains make no sense. Akriel shouldn't have been aware, as it's not the same as ruling territory in a setting. Unlike Castle Ravenloft, the domains were not dungeons with "rules" for defeating the darklord. This is probably why the adventures kind of don't work, imo, as you don't really engage with Ravenloft so much as wandering around scenery on a railroad.
Can you imagine that emotional bright ray of light once your medieval sorcerer/paladin/mage/fighter is able to use the unfiltered joyful convenience of using a toilet?
I'm about to run this adventure and I'm going to have to modify the hell out of it as our Ravenloft campaign isn't quite so combat focused as this module demands. Thanks for this, as it helps with my difficulty focusing on reading every page of the adventure in PDF form. Damn brain.
Best video I ever saw on Ravenloft so I subbed and saved it. I can enjoy this more than once. What's crazy for ME is I never got into Ravenloft in the day. In the early 80s my group was ultra focused on our Wonderland (yes the one with Alice) campaign we were so stoked on. I was not and still really am not much into Vampires though. I got Curse of Strahd really cheap. And I'm cheap so I made my own Torakka cards just by writing on cheap standard playing cards. I've always liked doing lots of little homebrew type stuff period. Anyway...I've been very happy enjoying Curse of Strahd. All the Vampire shenanigans I could/would want all in one whack.
This video was great...lots of history on the creation and lore. I think it's tons of fun to dabble or dive into this stuff of Strahd. Thanks!!
Love your content and look forward to the next video. Have a Happy New Year out there. Cheers from South Texas!
IT’S BACK
My dad's favorite ravenloft adventure
Guest starring Lazlo Cravensworth as Dominiani, Regular Human Doctor
Welcome back :)
Thanks for another great video!
The return
Love your channel. Always grateful.
YESSSS NEW DMITALL
Late Responds but I have to say, I love the D&D Walkthroughs. They just give an insight on a diffrent philosophy of stories and honestly gives me quite new ideas!
Also I do wonder if Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is on the list of Walkthroughts? Fingers crossed here
I still have PTSD decades after TPK'ing during this goddamn module as a 12 year old. If you're riding high after just completing the Avatar Trilogy modules, there's nothing quite like a trip to Ravenloft to turn you into vampires, zombies and kill everyone in the party. Great times.
the goat is back
"this is an excellnt introduction to the world of Ravenloft"
Hello newie level 4 dopes, enjoy a DEMILICH!
I'd love to hear your take on the Hyskosa Hexad, since this module is 1 of 6.
Yo DM it all. If you can, please do a video about the history of Fred Funk, from what I understand he was a policeman who was an original tester of DnD, he would host these big games that were in the newspaper with his own crazy huge DnD world. This one guy called Jon’s DnD vlog used to have a super cool video about him, but he’s a weird conservative guy and said that the libs were coming for him and took it down (only exaggerating slightly). I am too busy making my own dnd world to make an informational essay about this guy but his tabletop work was insanely cool from what I’ve seen of it, I think he’s a homebrew hercules we ought to remember. Hopefully these leads have been good, thanks for reading!
Great review. I tried running this game when it first came out, and it 's a railroady mess. I agree that there are some really nice aspects to this game. The best way to "run" this game is probably to break it up into smaller, tighter games that aren't connected.
WOOO! LET'S FUCKIN' GO!
Always great to see you!
Would love to see your take on the "Treasure Hunt" 1st ed module one of these days...
Feast of the Gob-lines.
I wanted to like this module more but it was somewhat haphazardly put togther. It felt like bits were missing thats needed for the narrative. I dunno Has a lot to offer but the DM has a lot of work to do.
Please do Against the Giants and Into the Depths of the Earth. Those would be awesome series to do.