D&D 5e - The False Hydra Part 2
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- The Party has discovered a false hydra living in the town of Fogmire. They have learned that if they deafen themselves, they are able to see the beast. With plugged ears, the party decends into the well at the towns center in pursuit of the monster!
This is part 2 of 2.
MAJOR SPOILERS for for the Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign.
Part 1: • D&D 5e - The False Hyd...
Credit: www.FesliyanSt... Background Music
Never tried dnd don't even know the rules just saw a video explaining what the false hydra is and wanted to watch people play it. It was great thx
Wow. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawk that ending! Like, I've got no connection to the story or your party, but even I felt super bummed and emotionally invested when the twist dropped. I'd always been interested in the FH, read a few things here and there, and literally watched a 30 minute essay about the thing a couple hours ago. This was the only vid(s) I could find with a FH in actual play and both parts were really fun to watch. Sucks to see that you don't really upload much, because honestly, I really enjoyed watching your group play. Thanks a ton for the cool adventure and giving us a taste of what the FH can be like in a play setting.
That's so kind of you to say! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
You my friend just jumpstart me to DM again after along hiatus of playing. incorporating the false hydra memory wipe into my player's journey by droping a hint along their joruneyis gonna be a thing. So thankyou a lot dude
Happy to help! It was a great time trying to figure out, "How do I made it feel like there really IS a person-sized hole in their memories?" I'm glad you're feeling inspired :)
That was an amazing encounter and the buildup was next to none. I am very much 'borrowing' ideas from this, thank you so much for putting this out.
Please do! Most of my ideas were borrowed and just combined to make something coherent. By all means take what you like and leave the rest
This proves dms are a next level of evil
it was a lot of fun watching this, the ending was great
Thanks for watching!
"I whack" Spoken Like a true warrior.
Just Barbarian things
amazing ...
man my heart broke by the ending! love how you did it!!! Im planning on using the false hydra on my players, any advice on how to do it?
Thank you! I appreciate it!
My advice would be to plan ahead. I started this campaign knowing that I would use a false hydra later, so I was able to drop small clues here and there of what would have been Oksana helping the party. So they found healing potions during desperate times in odd places or everyone was healed by unseen magic after a challenging fight. I really wanted to give the players the sense that they had someone ripped from their memories, as opposed to just their characters memories, which meant the "memory re-write" needed to start early to have substantial impact for my purposes.
I saw a video on someone's TikTok of using the artist's portrait to convey a missing party member and absolutely fell in love with the idea. I knew an artist who was a mutual friend of all of the players so it wasn't strange when they joined the call on discord to present their art, and that's when the penny dropped. The whole series turned out so much better than I could have hoped
btw can i ask for the maps that you used for this campaign?
The vast majority of maps I used I pulled from posts in the r/battlemaps subreddit. If I recall correctly someone there shared a link to a google drive that had custom versions of most of the maps in the Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign
@@FigNewton7 thank you so much, hope this session goes as well as i imagine it to be in my mind lol
17:32 - Considering the party is wearing earmuffs, what ability did the Hydra use on this party member?
It used Dominate Person, which does not require the target to hear you like some other spells like Vicious Mockery
In the last video the animals saw the hydra. How do the animals see the hydra? I thought as long as the hydra is signing you cannot see it. This thing could be inches away from you singing an you will not see it. I thought the only time it stops signing is when its feasting or fighting.
As far as i know, scared animal or no presence of animal is one of the sign that there are false hydra around
I gave the hydra the mechanic that its song only effects creatures with an INT higher than 4, so most regular animals would hear the song and see the False Hydra. Just another way to drop a hint to the party
that fight was close