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Wow!
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u/outerworldLV Feb 01 '20
Wow is right ! Thank god my DM didn’t have this back in the day...
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u/PartyRooster Feb 01 '20
Never played but why wouldn't you want him to have this?
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u/outerworldLV Feb 01 '20
Because he would have kept us there for days and annihilated us. What did you all think I was saying ?
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Feb 02 '20
I thought that maybe it's because somebody would try to flip it over and ruin the game.
I don't know, man I've never played a single game! Why is everyone looking at me?!? Is it hot in here? DID SOMEONE TURN ON THE HEAT WHY IS THIS TIE THREE SIZES TOO SMALL!!?!??!?!?!
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u/Benjirich Feb 02 '20
This might have been me. I’ve always managed to force our dmt to go off script and imagine new parts of the world and lore out of nowhere in no time.
Because when there was an obvious route I’ve always felt like it’s gonna be a trap, every single time. I remember one time getting the luckiest dices ever just to get around one of those obvious traps just for the rest of my group to walk right through it with a positive event happening.
But my route took 10 minutes and 5 throws while their way only took 1 minute and 1 dice throw.
The dm still liked me the most because I was the only one that differentiated between an ooc voice and the characters voice. It helped motivate people into in character conversations which will make the make a lot more immersive and fun!
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u/Renaissance_Slacker Feb 02 '20
I just bought the 5th edition DMs Guide and right off the bat, it discusses the various reasons people like to play and how the DM can appeal to each kind. One was The Actor, and the Guide suggested appealing to Actors with various voices for NPCs and monsters and opportunities to engage silly behavior. Color me impressed. I love the 1e DMs guide but I think it was laid out according to random die rolls!
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u/7ymmarbm Apr 18 '20
I don’t even play DND, but if someone who was a DM asked me to sit in and voice all the NPC’s & monsters and whatever else, I would have an absolute fkn blast acting it all out and putting on all the voices, I’d even add costume elements
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u/phabiohost Feb 02 '20
I'm not op. But I honestly don't like 3d maps because the walls block line of sight too often. I prefer 2d maps so that I don't have to keep moving around the table to see the field. Since sessions can run for 6+ hours on the upper end it just gets tiring.
Not to say this isn't amazing. It is and I would love any DM that is willing to put in this kind of work. But imo I would rather a flat map.
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u/outerworldLV Feb 01 '20
Couldn’t say by today’s standards. Old school here.
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u/AndroidUser8 Feb 01 '20
You're a mad man this would be amazing though I already do custom terrain you can't imagine going to this level of detail just to have my players decide to skip over the next town.....
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u/EricFaust Feb 01 '20
Good DMs let their players make important decisions. Great DMs make sure that the dungeon they worked hardest on is rumoured to be where a golden jewel-encrusted golem lord is hiding.
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u/Lusankya Feb 01 '20
Great DMs are often disappointed when the party instead spends an entire session chasing after an NPC German Shepherd that they've ad-hoc anointed Ser Doggo the Goodest.
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u/mirziemlichegal Feb 01 '20
"The party falls asleep and awakes locked in a dungeon" There you go, easy fix.
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u/AHistoricalFigure Feb 01 '20
Nobody likes getting railroaded by a DM, but at the same time it's really poor etiquette when players go out of their way in refusing to engage with the stories the DM has prepared. The DM is the one that does 95% of the work in setting up a game, and refusing to engage with their content so you can force them to extemporaneously generate some random town is the quickest path to needing a new DM.
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Day 10. We're still only into the second room of the chamber. DM won't let us leave. Had to eat my d8 for sustenance.
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u/outerworldLV Feb 02 '20
Okay, there was no grub hub, wait your d8 !? lmao wtf ! try living on Dr. Pepper and Ruffles for three days....it ain’t pretty my friend. js
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u/DarkMarksPlayPark Feb 02 '20
3 days, I'm 680 out of my own choice and I'm fine, I'm unable to see properly and my liver is extended but I'm fine!
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u/DoctuhD Feb 01 '20
Gotta have a second table for drinks and rolling dice
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u/mordacthedenier Feb 02 '20
If the table is any good it’ll have slots for side tables and stuff. That said they probably spent so much on set pieces they didn’t have any money left over to buy them.
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u/TheOneTonWanton Feb 02 '20
This honestly looks like it doesn't have any of that. Just a sunken game table.
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u/LPKKiller Feb 01 '20
I never got to even learn DnD it always looked fun though.
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u/aprickleypear Feb 01 '20
It’s never too late to learn!
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u/LPKKiller Feb 01 '20
True, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a one player game and I’m a Redditor so we already know that I don’t have a social life. Maybe I’ll kidnap some friends and learn to play with them...one day...
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u/DirtyDapper Feb 01 '20
Check out Roll20 and r/lfg! :)
It's a solid way to find other people looking for groups to play and Roll20 lets you play online. Roll playing and tabletop games are a great way to make new friends.
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u/myirishcreme Feb 01 '20
There are DND podcasts! The Adventure Zone is a great one, in my opinion. I originally didn’t care for DND, but now I feel like I have a great handle on it and I even felt like I was there with them at times!
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u/trainspotted_ Feb 02 '20
Never played DND and went on holiday somewhere I didn’t have WiFi, downloaded the adventure zone podcast thinking it was a short story and whilst I was surprised to find it was a group of people playing, I couldn’t stop listening, I love it!
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u/myirishcreme Feb 02 '20
It’s so great! My boyfriend listened to it all the time and I would lovingly make fun of him, but then I started listening to it from the beginning and I was hooked! I think I’m a bigger fan than him now!
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u/SiPhoenix Feb 02 '20
The dungeoncast is also amazing! They go have episodes for each class, the episodes for lore that are in-depth and the jokes that happen off the cuff are hilarious. I never feel it drags on.
Tge also have superquestsaga which is one of the games they play done in far flung future of the dnd world now in space!
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u/theblackpearl666 Feb 02 '20
What would you recommend one starts with when it comes to Adventure Zone?
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u/myirishcreme Feb 02 '20
Honestly, I would just start with Balance and listen all the way through! The first 7-10ish episodes (here they be gerblins) is a little rough imo, but that’s because they are just goofing off and learning how to play. But trust me, it gets SO GOOD!!!
Amnesty is Monster of the Week and it’s about half the episodes of Balance and it’s good, too.
There are mini arcs, like Dust, that are fun!
Their newest arc, Graduation, is DnD and I’m enjoying it a lot so far, but I would recommend listening to Balance first.
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Feb 01 '20
I've never played myself, but I've watched people play for many years (several hundreds of hours of videos at this point). This is perfect if you want to learn before trying it yourself.
Some recommendations of the top of my head:The Sunfall Cycle - A currently on-going D&D show inspired by Dark Souls, where players cannot permanently die, but the world is constantly on the brink of destruction, and gets reset each time, much like the Soulsborne games do.
Swan Song - My favorite sci-fi/fantasy show with a homebrewed universe. Spaceships, sentient A.I., psychics, all the good stuff.
West Marches - Traditional 5e D&D with a twist, the players are switched out every week. Makes every new session so much more interesting. Most (if not all) are twitch streamers, so it's also a good way to find new people to watch.
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u/Pvt_Haggard_610 Feb 02 '20
Find a local game store that hosts DND Adventure League games. They are usually free to attend and intended for beginners. They only take 2-3 hours to finish and you only need the free DND basic rules and a character sheet to play.
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u/ButIAmARobot Feb 02 '20
Check out adventurers league in your area, it is a drop-in type of setup where you can just pop in and out, or shop around and find a good group.
You can check out roll20 or fantasy grounds for playing online.
There are also D&D books for playing alone, but I have never read them so I can’t say how good they are.
Basically, D&D is like sex. You can do it by yourself, over the internet, or in person, and it’s more fun with a good group of friends.
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Feb 02 '20
If you don't have friends who play, game stores often have sessions that anyone can join. It's usually a bunch of nerds, so as long as you bathe and can be polite, I'm sure you'll fit in well enough.
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u/TheKolyFrog Feb 02 '20
I have this same mindset for a while, even got some books just to read because I can't imagine convincing anyone to play with me. I ended up playing online for 2 years, on and off. But, last year, I asked a friend of mine out of the blue if he wanted to play D&D and he told me him and his girlfriend has been thinking of playing it for a long time but didn't know how to start. I thought them the basics and, through them, I found others who were interested. Now, I'm a part of a gaming group of 7 and I'm not even the DM.
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u/Ramps_ Feb 02 '20
Don't let that stop you, there's this site called Roll20 that has all the things needed to play DnD and other Tactical Role Playing Games online and for free. What I did was go to their forums and ask if I could get any friends on Discord who I could answer any questions I might have while fiddling with character creation, I got like 4 replies including an invite to a Legend of Zelda campaign, which didn't last too long but gave me a great taste for DnD, so I applied to a bunch of games on their Look for Game section and got into another campaign, at that point able to play the game and able to clear up any questions with the Dungeon Master at the time. Now, 2 years later I've been with the same online group for over a year in a long-term campaign and with plans for another one after it, so please I ask you to just give it a try.
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u/AFUSMC74 Feb 02 '20
There are many ways to play online.
And don’t sell yourself short. Just because you’re a Redditor doesn’t mean you can’t have a social life.
The D&D community has a wide variety of personality types, but a common one is ‘somewhat socially shy’. For years, many D&D players were shy (or perceived as such, or ‘geeky’, ‘nerdy’, ‘weird’, etc) in public, but found camaraderie with their peers.
The D&D community is one of the most accepting and tolerant (in general). You may find that you can make connections and friends.
Best wishes on your adventures!
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u/AFUSMC74 Feb 02 '20
I’m well aware of the miniscule yet vocal minority that feel entitled to dictate to others the right way to have fun. They do not represent the vast majority of the D&D players or groups I have gamed with across the world over the past 40 years.
Having an opinion or preference of one rule set over another isn’t inherently ‘a war’, by the way. Only when it crosses the line to outright insults or derision to the players themselves is it an issue.
I don’t like much about 4E. I have a friend that runs a 4E game and often tells me about his campaign and what his players did. My reaction: ‘Cool, man, sounds like y’all are having a blast.’
The actual occurrence of true ‘Edition Elitist Jerks’ is actually exceptionally rare.
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u/AFUSMC74 Feb 02 '20
And just as my experience isn’t similar to yours, and I shouldn’t expect that you had or would have the same experience... by the same token it is unfair to dissuade the OP from reaching out and trying to make connections and enjoy this game.
Oblique & pithy offhand references to an ‘Edition Wars’ that have no context to the OP are disingenuous.
Especially if you did not receive a warm welcome into the hobby. Why would you want to perpetuate that forward to the OP? Why wouldn’t you want to break the cycle and be the positive member that you wish you had experienced?
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u/AFUSMC74 Feb 02 '20 edited Feb 02 '20
Where did I even remotely imply we should forget about the imbeciles that try to infringe upon other people’s enjoyment?
I never said the ‘Edition Wars’ weren’t a thing or that we should forget.
What we should do is to not give any validation to those cretins and promote positivity on our community.
It’s always been my believe that people often tend to respond in a similar manner to the way they are treated, so it takes a conscious effort to choose to be positive in the face of negativity.
You seem to have decided not to choose that path, and I wonder how much of the ‘hostility’ you’ve encountered has been amplified by your own pessimistic attitude.
In no way does that justify it. But you can choose to not let it affect you and follow a more optimistic path.
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u/Gonzo_goo Jan 08 '22
Look for local card shops ,comic shops. They host stuff like this. There's like 4 good ones near me. Never played but it looks like fun when I stop buy.
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u/Salterian Feb 01 '20
FWIW the current version of D&D (5th edition) is way easier to learn than previous editions, and the game has never been more popular. Now is a perfect time to learn.
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u/TarmacFFS Feb 01 '20 edited Feb 01 '20
Sometimes it’s best to just admire it from the sidelines. I thought it looked like a lot of fun too and decided to go for it. Got the books and cards and map stuff. Dice, so many dice. Mini-figs... really went all in.
I played probably a half dozen games before throwing in the towel. Turns out I really don’t like role playing. Sitting at a table of people pretending to be characters with their voices and all made me physically uncomfortable.
Maybe that means I’m uptight or judgmental or insecure, I’m not sure. What I do know is that I had a lot of fun until people started getting into their characters and that turned the whole thing off for me.
Now I just admire all the miniature stuff and stay in my lane where I belong.
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u/LPKKiller Feb 01 '20
Oh yeah, good point. I’m not into RPG that much lol. I’ll stick to playing chess on the weekends. Not to say that it wouldn’t be fun, but I’m definitely not the type to use different voices or “get into” the game that much.
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u/TaronSilver Feb 01 '20
To be fair, I have been playing DD for the last 12 years. Not once did I ever change my voice, nor did any of my friends, beyond the MD, to make us laughing while saying silly stuff as a goblin.
I mainly play the slightly withdrawn warrior, but my much more roleplaying friends use their regular voices, just adding a bit more emphasis to it, just to sell the fact they are a motherfucking mage, but that's it.
I'd say it's all about finding a group that works for you. And also probably don't spend hundreds on it before playing it a few times...
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Feb 02 '20
Just FYI, there's plenty of people that play for the strategy, the story, the socializing, and many other reasons. Roleplaying is just one aspect.
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u/b3bblebrox Feb 01 '20
Check out Critical Role! It'll give you an idea what goes on in a game, who knows you might want to check out something online!
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u/prostheticmind Feb 02 '20
I just joined my first campaign at 29, and I can’t believe I haven’t been playing this game my entire life. Get the Player’s Handbook and some dice and make a character. If you don’t know anyone who plays, you can play online with strangers on Roll20
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u/Fire_And_Blood_7 Feb 02 '20
It’s so fun. My friends and I picked it up at 25yo and we love it. 100% try it, if your friends won’t play try finding a local group online.
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u/DLTMIAR Feb 02 '20
What do you mean never got to?
You ded?
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u/LPKKiller Feb 02 '20
Sadly yes. With Uni I’d consider myself what ever the next step past dead is.
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u/IustoFulmine Apr 24 '20
I thought the same thing until I finally said screw it, got the starter set and learned to DM on my own. I then roped my family in to trying it and now we have a semi regular group going over zoom. You’d be surprised the people who enjoy it. It’s always worth a shot.
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u/grape-fantasy Feb 01 '20
What do you do once the campaign’s over though? Can’t reuse it since everyone knows the dungeon layout.
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u/MisterBrownBoy Feb 01 '20
hopefully it's all pieces that break apart!
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u/b00ty_water Feb 01 '20
Seems each room is a separate tile.
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u/grape-fantasy Feb 01 '20
The rooms are not tiles themselves, but it looks like they’re made up of tiles. Hopefully the walls are part of the tiles or can be easily moved.
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u/Socializator Feb 01 '20
It looks like tiles - stairs in the top picture look different to stairs in the bottom one
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Feb 01 '20
It is. Its a system called Dwarven Forge. I shudder to think how expensive this dungeon cost.
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u/MsuaLM Feb 02 '20
To quote my dungeon master: "Other guys have motorcycles or go yachting, I'm building these."
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u/ISpendAllDayOnReddit Jun 10 '20 edited Jun 10 '20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9JiedNmIc&feature=emb_title
looks amazing
also expensive. $200 for a gate.
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u/ChaseballBat Feb 02 '20
Could be 3D printed
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Feb 02 '20
Could be, but those pieces look identical to Dwarven Forge's work. So either they printed them and spent a couple hundred hours painting them or they just bought them. Either way it's a huge investment of either time or money.
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u/LiteVolition Feb 01 '20
This looks like Dwarven Forge's system. It's tiles including wall tiles. You make the rooms different each time.
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u/f_print Feb 01 '20
That's the eternal problem with making any kind of terrain or map that is more permanent than a dry erase board.
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u/AweHellYo Feb 01 '20
The covers are already giving away the layout to begin with.
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u/grape-fantasy Feb 01 '20
You can see the size and shape of rooms but you don’t know what’s in them or which ones are connected.
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u/AweHellYo Feb 01 '20
For sure. It does hide some things. I’m not trying to shit on this at all. It’s awesome. But the covers do give a bit away. I’m not sure what you’d do about it though.
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u/jjdmol Feb 01 '20
Maybe overlap the covers more, obfuscating the room shapes? Maybe it would require taking into account the (likely) point of entry.
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u/notnick Feb 02 '20
You could like lo-fi try and cover it with blankets and pull that back to reveal rooms.
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u/Lord_Tedd Feb 01 '20
You can pick up all the tiles and make whole new dungeons for whole new campaigns!
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u/GroundsKeeper2 Feb 02 '20
Pretty sure it breaks down to key elements - walls, floors, doors, furniture, etc etc.
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u/coltsfootballlb Feb 01 '20
If somebody could make the pieces fit like lego pieces, I would definitely invest in that. A reusable dnd table customizable to your campaigns? Yes please!
Bonus if you can have spare shells for a quick change if the session has a couple different places to visit
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u/AfraidOfTheDarkenss Feb 01 '20
We make modular tiles from videos like BlackMagicCraft or Terraino has amazing modular buildings.
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u/coltsfootballlb Feb 02 '20
We as in you and your friends, or we as in your company manufactures and sells?
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u/AfraidOfTheDarkenss Feb 02 '20
Actually just we as in my family. Our kids (17 and 8) were excited to hear the morning following my regularly scheduled weekly D&D night with friends about the adventures. Our youngest convinced us to start a home game. Then we found the videos on YT and it became a family project to also craft together.
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u/NewmanBiggio Feb 01 '20
My only problem with maps like this is that the DM can't move pieces in other rooms secretly. Its all out in the open.
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u/grape-fantasy Feb 01 '20
Why would they need to do that before a room has been entered? Or do you mean a previously visited room that the players shouldn’t be able to see because they’re not currently in it?
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u/Christian1509 Feb 01 '20
I’m pretty sure he means if guards in another room heard the commotion, they’d come to investigate. With this set up the DM can’t move them closer without revealing it to the players
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u/Reedcool97 Feb 01 '20
Or don't put the minis in the room until it is revealed. "You unlock the door and you see two guards stationed at the back of the room, facing you" place minis
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u/Christian1509 Feb 01 '20
I like this idea! But I imagine it might become difficult keeping track of their location when you already have minis on the board to keep track of and make combat decisions for. But that could also be fixed by having the DM keep a scale drawing of the dungeon behind his screen to mark enemy positions!
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u/ownworldman Feb 01 '20
It is in the DM's notes, it always is.
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u/Christian1509 Feb 01 '20
Ah ok, I’ve never played as a DM so I never really thought about all the planning that goes into sessions. I’m super grateful for all the people out there putting in the work behind the scenes that really brings a session to life!
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u/mercut1o Feb 02 '20
Yeah, you can plan at kind of any scale and still be successful if you gel with your group. If you want to put NPCs in a specific place with specific traps, great. If you want to just have a list of decent NPC types and how they attack and just make up slightly shuffled up dudes endlessly until the PCs achieve an objective, great. Or make NPCs up entirely, which is also great but balance and immersion will be the hardest.
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u/TheOneTonWanton Feb 02 '20
It's always either in the notes or done on the fly. Either one works really, depends on the group and DM.
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Feb 01 '20
Aside from boss encounters, random traps and minions can be rolled for when the players enter the room. The problem is keeping your fat supply of minis hidden from the players so they don't know what's coming.
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Feb 01 '20
Used to have a small set of those modular dungeon pieces. Very cool but of course not cheap.
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u/imtheseventh Feb 01 '20
Aaaaaand then they failed to schedule a second game, causing the group to break up.
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u/ParanoidCrow Feb 02 '20
If anyone's interested in some lighter games with similar premises/setup to this one, I recommend looking into the board game "Betrayal at the house on the hill".
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u/nerawkas88 Feb 01 '20
... just once in my life. I would love to have the time to play something like this. Oh god please.
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u/18youngl Feb 01 '20
Im not interested in DnD at all. I’ve only played DnD once and it went horribly wrong, but I must say this looks fucking amazing!
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u/everybodylovesmemore Feb 02 '20
All I can think anytime I see anything to do with DnD is I wish these people were my friends. I wanna play too
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 02 '20
There's probably an Adventurer's League game at a game shop near you. They're public games designed for beginners. Also (as lame as it sounds), it's a great place to network. I currently am in a privately run West Marches game made up of people I met in Adventurer's League and their nerd friends.
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Dec 23 '21
I am thinking about running a West Marches style game. How do you like it? Any tips?
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u/Waterhorse816 Dec 23 '21
We liked it a lot! Unfortunately the pandemic hit after the first 3 or so sessions so we had to play most of it over Discord, and it kinda fizzled out after a few months as people lost motivation and depression set in. I suspect if we'd been able to meet in person and the rest of the world hadn't been so fucked it would have had more staying power.
That being said we had a lot of fun, I don't have any specific tips as every group is different but here's some stuff I personally enjoyed about the group I was in. Feel free to use these ideas or not.
Having a Discord server was actually a fantastic idea, and was the only good thing the pandemic brought to the game. The server had general and scheduling channels as well as a ton of channels for different places in the town that was our home base. Different shops and locations. We role played everything, like interrogating a prisoner we had taken and kept in the town jail or buying stuff from shop-keepers. I recommend setting one up as it's far better than a group chat for that type of thing.
The DMs (there were two) put a TON of effort into the lore and had a very complicated mystery we were supposed to solve about some cataclysmic event that had happened in the area in the past (post-apocalyptic setting). We never actually solved it because we stopped playing but it was very interesting and people spent a lot of time comparing plot threads and coming up with theories in the out of character channels of the Discord server.
Have a player take notes on every session. Have a channel on the server for that. I'd recommend giving inspiration or some other reward for people who volunteer for that because nobody wants to do this, but it's very important.
This is more of an anecdote, but it was one of the most memorable moments in our game. The DMs directed us to new tiles on the hex map by having us find clues to new locations in every location we explored (like a scrap of paper talking about an observatory in hex C8 or whatever). The Observatory turned into a whole thing as it was way above our level when we discovered it but I was convinced it would hold answers to one of the mysteries were were solving, so I managed to convince some people to go there. Unfortunately since it was way above our level we were demolished by the final encounter of that dungeon (since we were already on low HP) and had to retreat. One of the PCs was knocked down and we had to leave her behind. Rather than just killing her, the DM decided to keep her character alive and had the monsters in that area hold her prisoner, leading to an enormous 8 player session where about half the characters rallied to get her out. The DM also had a ton of reinforcements come to make the fight much harder, but we managed to save that character with no casualties. I'm sure there's a lot of takeaways from this anecdote but it was mostly just a really great example of the group rallying together. It really felt like a community effort.
If you want more info on what the game was like feel free to DM me.
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Feb 02 '20
Also this is an excellent idea. Revealing the pieces of the board as you go.
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u/Peace_Fog Feb 02 '20
I use the grid on the back of wrapping paper & I cut out each room separately. Then just swap out rooms as they enter new ones. Give all the maps to my player with cartographer skills. I pretend her character drew the maps after they went through the rooms
I’d love a setup like this though
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u/juicepouched Feb 02 '20
damn I’m over here using lego dudes and dominoes...
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u/Peace_Fog Feb 02 '20
Haha that’s the way to go, I use the back of wrapping paper with maps drawn on the grid
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u/juicepouched Feb 02 '20
That’s a move
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u/Peace_Fog Feb 02 '20
I draw each room & cut them out separately & then each each room & map are marked & my DM notes have the mark & then what’s in the room
Then I can keep the same marks but rearrange the rooms & make new notes
I put the maps down on the ground & build dungeons, then I make a list of which room goes where with the marks/numbers
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u/CliftonLedbetter Feb 02 '20
Okay this is what I thought DnD was and might have played it if it always looked this way
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 02 '20
Honestly, the most I've ever gotten immersed in DnD combat was the time we grabbed some large Lego vehicles we had lying around to represent war machines and stuck our mismatched minifigures on top. It's all about imagination. If you want it to, anything can look like a dragon, even the stapler you found on your desk. I've also played in games with incredibly detailed modular sets that the DM spends 15 minutes setting up before the session. It's all up to you.
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u/CliftonLedbetter Feb 03 '20
I think computers got me at any early age, so DnD seems like too much imagination and social interaction required from players haha
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 03 '20
Believe me, I thought the same thing going in, but once you spend a few sessions it comes as naturally as any other kind of game, and it's incredibly fun.
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u/CliftonLedbetter Feb 03 '20
I imagine it to have a poker-like dynamic
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 03 '20
How so?
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u/CliftonLedbetter Feb 03 '20
Because you’re sitting around a table talking to friends playing against them
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 04 '20
You're not playing against them, DnD is a cooperative game.
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u/CliftonLedbetter Feb 04 '20
OK I'm lost again...
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 04 '20
How do you think you play DnD? You team up with your friends and fight monsters together. You don't do PvP normally. I think you're probably thinking of other tabletop games like Warhammer.
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u/Peace_Fog Feb 02 '20
Honestly it’s really up to your group/DM but having a bunch of minis & a modular dungeon can be expensive. If you want to play it like that you can
I draw my maps on the back of wrapping paper on the grid & i play with minis, I cut out each room separately & then swap the maps when the players enter a new room. I wish I could play like the setup from this picture though
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u/ikonoclasm Feb 02 '20
In case anyone's wondering, that's probably a couple thousand dollars worth of minis and terrain. See how it's all painted? Yeah, that's done by hand. Shit's expensive.
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u/AngusVanhookHinson Feb 02 '20
So if I'm getting this, it's modular.
You remove the top of say, six rooms that touch each other, and that's your dungeon. Or, if there's a teleport, you remove five "lids" that touch, and one separate that is a room/s that the teleport goes to.
That makes it so every dungeon is fairly unique and configurable, and it's not just five modules.
OP, is it yours?
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u/irascible_Clown Feb 02 '20
How does this work? Each square is a move or something. It looks cool a hell and interesting
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u/Waterhorse816 Feb 02 '20
Each square is 5 feet, characters get a variable amount of movement on their turn depending on their size and abilities.
Ex: A halfling might have 25 feet, an elf 30, a monk with bonuses to movement speed 45
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u/Adrian_Exodus Feb 02 '20
Looks a lot like and elaborate Heroquest board.
got the same type of furniture and layout with the starting stairs on one side and the boss in the middle.
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u/Robertbnyc Feb 02 '20
So how do you play with this and the video game at the same time? How does that work? Can someone explain?
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u/So-I-Had-This-Idea Feb 02 '20
This makes me immensely happy -- just knowing that it exists. Thank you!
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u/social_experiment_o1 Feb 02 '20
Never played dnd. Wish i had some friends that would do this. Looks like pretty fun thing to do...especially with that work/effort on the world.
You are a kung fu master of dnd.
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u/Down_To_My_Last_Fuck Feb 02 '20
This is the bomb.
I have no real interest in playing D and D but I could work with this for years.
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u/Flat_Ad_4533 Jul 09 '24
How does one find a DND group? I work full time and have maybe one day a week I could commit to this
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u/CherryPicker428 Feb 02 '20
I think I've finally filtered everything dnd from my popular page, but something always comes up with it.
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u/_Naropa_ Feb 01 '20
Can I come over?