What Indy's Dungeon Master Did Right!
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- How did Indiana Jones' Dungeon Master create such an amazing adventure? What lessons can DMs learn from Raiders of the Lost Ark about how to run better Dungeons and Dragons games?
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I often use the scene from 3rd movie with Sean and the Seagulls to explain to new players about using the environment, imaginative solutions , playing in character and instances that might earn someone inspiration or advantage rolls for the moment
Perfection!
This was awesome. Could you do a video on how Spielberg used traps to ratchet up the tension? I feel like players end up disliking traps because they are placed inappropriately and don't add to the tension of the story.
That's some of the better advice I've heard; making sure your players feel epic and look cool. I do love your idea of dragging a random NPC that isn't strong or much of anything, to heighten their feeling of being awesome. Good ideas, as always!
Raiders is my go-to for how almost any TTRPG session should be run. Possibly one of the greatest adventure movies of all time (if not the best, imo) - and an incredible outline any GM can look to for adventure. Especially for single player games. Great video. A+
For sure in my top 5 movies of all time. And making this video, cutting it frame by frame, actually made me appreciate it more!!
*DM brain busily taking notes*
Same here! 😂 Me too!
I've never seen Indiana Jones like DnD and you're totally right !
Thank you !
Want another fun one? Try thinking of Star Wars as a DnD game too!
Zipperon Disney Han’s player roles a 1 to bluff trying to convince stormtroopers not to come investigate the blaster fire in the Deathstar detention are and Chewie rolled a 1 giving into the bait from the Ewok’s trap.
I think the best known MacGuffin in western culture is the Holy Grail from the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table. In many ways these stories are the prototype for the D&D fetch quest. You must brave dangers to attain the Grail and in so doing you prove your worth as a knight. However I'm not sure if the Grail counts as a McGuffin or not in the Indian Jones franchise. For most of the film the specific attributes of the grail don't matter except that its existence drives conflict but later the Grail morphs into a plot coupon when it becomes the means of saving Sean Connery's life.
Oh yeah, the Grail is probably the epitome of a McGuffin in lit. In some ways, I'd say the grail diary is the bigger McGuffin in the movie. Thanks for the insightful comment!
Enjoyed the commentary. I've always viewed the opening scene in Raiders as a model template for a short/ single session adventure. As a DM, I tended to lean more toward using traps and tricks which rely on cleverness to circumnavigate, rather than a lot of combat which can become repetitive and "grindy".
they add texture!
A lot of very useful information in this video. I had to pause it several times to take notes. Thanks, it was very well done!
Awesome, thank you! Have you seen the 'Make your combat flow' vid? I've heard of folks taking notes on that one too :P
@@ZipperonDisney not yet, this is the first of your videos I've come across. But I'll subscribe and check it out!
Wow great examination of the film and tying it to RPGs. I've modeled several campaigns over the years on this movie, but you articulated why it works so well. Now I understand why I keep coming back to the "Raiders" model of campaign over and over again. Thanks again!
This one is going to go gangbusters :) Great job man!
We'll see...Thanks!
I think I've used some ideas from those movies.
It's hard sometimes to get ideas and movies and books help.
Good tips
Glad you liked it! I think it's all about *how* you rip off ideas :)
I appreciate the storytelling analysis. Well done! Helps me think about and affirm my own decisions as a storyteller. Joined your patreon.
Awesome! Thank you soooooo much :) What do you have going on?
@@ZipperonDisney I have four players, each with their own over-arching goal. A nemesis, once a trusted NPC, has stolen their MacGuffin /coupon they were transporting. Now they're chasing the both. The MacGuffin is nebulous enough that it (will eventually) seem to lend itself to each players goal as well as the party's goal. Hoping to develop it so that the Nemesis can be turned and the players will experience some drama because they each want the MacGuffin for their own reasons.
First time visitor. Excellent video! Well thought out and composed. Keep up the good work 👍
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Very good work. Good use of movie language to make your point in RPG's. I liked the 3 dimensions of combat video too (3 something of combat). Please keep going. I'd like to see a real play of a one shot and see if I like your storytelling style and the players you have. Then if you get good feedback- start the campaign!
There are a few one shot streams on the channel, and a bunch more on my patreon. If you watched Arcane or Avatar I vids about those in this same style
Fantastic analysis and comparison to D&d.
Thanks man, your work is appreciated.
Much appreciated! Glad you liked it!
Really enjoyed this. Not enough DM's see the link between a well constructed story such as a movie and good D&D session.
I think I kinda' want to do a whole series like this!
@@ZipperonDisney Please do! I think the narrative is the most important part of any RPG.
Good info, thanks. Movies are a great source of material for plots, player engagement and other aspects useable in games.
Glad you liked it :)
Semper Fi, brother. 👍
Yut!
Cool analysis, dude. Subbed.
Welcome aboard! This is my first video essay style vid - stay tuned for more!
This would work very well with Torg -- "Roleplayer the Possibility Wars" or "Eternity" -- games where such cinematic action and drama built right into the rules (especially in The Nile Empire, where Indy would be right at home).
@jared blackburn Or even mousegaurd - have you ever played that one? Do you think it's mechanic would work?
Great vid, 100% on making PCs badass rather than inept! Too often I see DMs have PCs fail at stuff they should be able to do with their eyes closed as the prime mover, but D&D is in part a power fantasy-game!
Glad you liked it!
THIS SHOULD BE A SERIES: DO JURASSIC PARK NEXT!
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Semper Fi, first time watcher.
@@UC989NZvNOvDCp3aBYvobEJQ Glad you found the channel! Yut!
Do you post your campaigns online? I would love to see/hear some of these ideas played out in real time
@@UCEy8mJ6jMpu2unGnqhGy2TQ there is some posted on this channel, but most of my streams are on my $1 Patreon :)
I know it might sound weird, but I have been wondering a bit about Outlaw Star and D&D. Hear me out for a bit. Outlaw Star has magic in its universe, one of the main protagonists even has a special firearm designed to shoot spells that have been stored in special firearm cartridges. But pretty much the entire main cast is actually more technical and physically oriented, of course, the smartest person among the cast is a literal child but that kid also happens to be incredibly practical and usually an often ignored voice of reason, most of the main cast are more combat-oriented. But the thing about Outlaw Star as a series, in my opinion, is just how much of sense of fun the adventure seems to have with moments of importance and seriousness punctuating personal moments for the characters, story beats that the person running the adventure really wants to drive home, or both. Since the series short, running only 26 episodes, we don't really get to see much with character development but we do get to see plenty of aspects that help you see the defined personalities of the characters, there's even some moments in the later episodes where we see unseen personality traits in several of the characters that seem to conflict with their prior personality traits but upon closer inspection are actually surprisingly complementary to their prior defined traits.
So, just where does Outlaw Star, an anime from the late 1990s (the dubbed version first aired on Toonami in 1998), stand as a D&D campaign?
no idea! Never seen the show. What do you think it would look like?
@@ZipperonDisney A more science fiction flair to things, so not too far off from what you would find with Spelljammer or Starfinder. You can watch the entire series on Funimation's website now. Also, the opening song is pretty fun, in my opinion. The first 3 episodes set up a few different interlocking hooks for what would be the players, a mystery, treasure hunt, space pirates, and the like, the first episode also gives us a quick peek of what to expect when it comes to combat and grappler ships before jumping back in time to the before they even started the treasure hunt for the ship. There's also some more interesting, and possibly fun, space battle scenes with the Grappler ships, a type of spaceship only found in the Outlaw Star universe currently that are equipped with mechanized arms so they can manipulate their environment. One of the later episodes even gives a display of how the grappler arms can be used in a non-combat manner. For such a short series, only 26 episodes, it is jampacked with lore and ideas that really make the universe feel lived in and fun to witness. Almost all the episodes have a bit exposition before the start of show proper to fill in bits of info for the audience to make use of, such as the material that is used to make faster than light jumps and or tidbits about other lore related things. Honestly, you really should check out the series, it's a fun ride. Outlaw Star has bit of Fantasy and Western genre sprinkled into its science fiction setting. The main antagonists of the series use magic, in particular, they use Asiatic magic that usually requires the chanting of a specific phrase. But none of the main cast are magic users, even though the primary protagonist has a gun that literally shoots spells, one of the main cast has mystery surrounding her and seemingly magic-like abilities. So, it would be pretty easy to drop psionics into the setting wholly unique to magic.
With the definition of a MacGuffin, I'm not fond of Hitchcock's exact wording. I'd reword it as "An object that influences the plot primarily by being wanted, rather than by its properties directly". Unobtainium from Avatar is a good semi-example: its properties are shown, but they're never relevant. What is relevant is that the RDA wants it badly. Incidentally, the name "Unobtanium" is actually an engineering term from the 50's meaning "the hypothetical material that has the properties we need for our thing to work". In other words, it's a nod to its macguffin-y nature.
Interestingly, money is actually a MacGuffin in real life: it has almost no useful properties, except for the fact that other people want it.
I've always wanted a briefcase made of unobtanium filled with the Holy Grail, the maltese falcon and the pink panther ;P
Awesome!
Very good review.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love it!
Thanks!!
I enjoyed this video.
Yay, thank you!
Yes
I just realized I started out my campaign I’m DMing wayyyy out of wack 😬 good thing I’m playing with new players? 😅
I love this video, but I have to quibble with your "best-known MacGuffin"; the titular Maltese Falcon is the all-time greatest MacGuffin.
It got a shout out though!! Have you seen Adam from Mythbusters video on the Maltese Falcon? Amazing!
Up your audio levels please
Wtf is a wand of orcus?
A powerful and evil artifact, a rod topped with the skull of a human hero once slain by Orcus, the demon prince of undeath.
Zipperon Disney awesome thanks!!!
"...relying on the audiences outside knowledge" If only Hollywood did more of this today. So tired of cringey expositions that explain every little detail because the audience can't be trusted to know anything.
I think at least in part this is because modern Hollywood movies have to appeal to international, multi-cultural audiences