I used a variant of this encounter with my own homecrafted foam terrain and miniatures. My pcs, though, did not start out on the rocky elevated terrain. The premise for this encounter was that they were fleeing a horde of mystically spellbound wolves under the control of a barghest shaman, and needed to light a beacon on one of the hills flanking the entrance to a canyon sacred to melora in order to summon the watcher‘s help (an old forest gnome druid of incredible power). So I had my heroes start out at the same edge of the map that the wolves would arrive from, and rolled a d4 to determine how many rounds they had before the wolves would catch up to them. Regular Wolves I handled as „tough minions“, which in my homebrew d&d 4e game means that they need to be hit twice before they go down. One hit, and they are bloodied. Two and they are dead. Dead wolves immediately „respawned“ as newly arriving wolves at the edge of the map. Dire Wolves I handled as brutes ( easy to hit, hard to take down due to many hp). Once the beacon was lit, another d4 determined how quickly help would arrive. Blocking the narrow canyon entrance with an avalanche of loosened rocks bought them time and killed a particularly ferocious dire wolf in hot pursuit of their bloodied rogue. Thanks for the inspiration, Hankerin! My players loved the tense action!

Hahaha oh man, "that wont put hair on your chest, that'll put hair on your soul" i am totally using that one

Excellent!...love this series.

Helm: A link to the Past.

had the almost exact situation last session to introduce a new player. Group barely survived.

Great vids. New Sub. Probably just my gross immaturity, but every time you took a sip of the wyrmwood nearly pissed myself laughing.

love the sideways tiles for the fort. you really have a way with playpiece utilization. keep on malortin!

Love this so much!! Stealing this one for my first attempt at putting my toe into the homebrew world. Been running a preprinted adventure but my party is just not digging it. They want to play skyrim rather than Pathfinder, and I think after a weeks worth of watching these vids I have enough gas in the tank to pull it off. Its not rocket surgery after all. It's just playing pathfinder like a big ol' baddass.

a gnome home lmao. You highlight important information whilst hiding tokens of humor. Youre great, keep up the good work

this Marine salutes you ! absolute badass

Fanfrigintastc, as is your apparent default setting. I'm absolutely using your Gauntlet-esque spawner idea for the campaign I'm starting next month with a spider encounter. The suspense dice idea is clutch, as well.

I am invested in the story now, I hope there is a part 5!

Fuuug, mang, I could watch this shit forever.

Awesomely awesome with a flaming spear of awesome!.

Hankerin, I find these encounter videos way more entertaining and informative than watching session videos, which are dull. This is the way to present D&D like a big ol' badass! Getting the annual Yuletide/Xmas eve adventure together for the kids, and I may borrow/steal some thematic elements from this encounter. I've also started calling my daughter's Druid "Twiggs," as a nickname.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunken Hobgoblin As druid names go, it's tough to beat

@drunkenhobgoblin417

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass The gnome druidess, Ella Minipine, the Squirrel Whisper seems to be ok with the nickname for now. But she's 9 going on to a necrotic 14... And you gained 40 subs in the last hour! Dwarven ales all around!

The combination of your 3d and 2d tiles is great. the wooden tiles to improv a barbarian fortress, I would have thought to make new props but that would have been a waste.

This has been fantastic!

You’re brilliant dude

We care not for hags and wizards hiding in swamps!

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass hey! i like my swamp hags!

@jonathanbrouwer8795

8 жыл бұрын

+Violet Deliriums Do you live in Louisiana?

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Brouwer no.

@jonathanbrouwer8795

8 жыл бұрын

Louisiana sure seems like the kind of place you'd run into swamp hags : D

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Brouwer possibly....

Aw yea.... Absinthe! i have some every Christmas Eve for some reason, and at no other time... 3:57 I thought you would say "loyalty, self-sacrifice and beer" or something... Oooh, the White Waste -- I am reading Fafhrd & Mouser now for the first time, that's a good twist with alliteration and being German I like that. :) ... 7:50 Let's do the badass way? Can we do the badass way? YAAY! The Drunkens and Dragons guy said we could... 9:00 Here's a DM trick: the d4 Suspense Dice, "Read it, know it, live it"...One thing I like about Zeimer, he's smart...I really like the badass way... totally not boring, they have to use their wits or DIIIIIIEEEE and now you have all these new things to potentially investigate...Plus, that tree is awesome so I would not burn it and I would try to prevent that one guy in the every party that wants to burn everything.... 19:04 Did I mention I love Zeimer?...In the end, I hope that Gray Elk has homeowners insurance... 23:50 "They are NPCs, their destiny is to make the player characters look cool..."...I do voices & stuff like that in my car too, by the way...It makes me laugh...Can't wait to go to Frogwood! I just got three Green Hags, a cauldron and some Giant Frog minis so I can DM a simple game for a family with young kids, and maybe I will have the hags turning people into frogs... :)

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Violet Deliriums hahah u crazy, even for a german. and btw...wormwood and absinthe..SO not the same! wormwood crazier than u!

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass Woah...That is more KOOKOO than Absinthe? The first time I had that, I woke up with a new Ronco 3 AM commercial in mind: "Why have a samwich, when you can have a BA-ZAMWICH!!???" I would be a good marketer maybe...

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

same. last time I had Absinthe we wound up lost in that bizarre 'govt district' in prague. still, wormwood is weirder...weirder even than prague.

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass nutzo...thank you for the advice Drunkens and Dragons guy...

more campaign encounters!

What i would do in the end is have something important be done with the warrior character from the past (forgot names) where his past story thing is important. In the fight with garret he is sent back in time, knowing he has to do something, which will in turn be incredibly helpful to the group. Say they find another statue of himself, and enraged they break it or you entice them to touch it because its cracked, and inside it is a scroll or something, where it says something important about garret or something. The warrior, sent back in time, will inturn place the statues with the scroll in it.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Grant bill. and. ted.

When I hear Wolves of the North , I think ware-winter wolves.

Wormwood! ;)

22:49 K go here before Campaign Encounters 5 to refresh... Plus it is informative... especially the history of the barbarians... haha!

@VioletDeliriums

8 жыл бұрын

Here is a good tip from the 5e DM Guide (p. 71): "Let the world's history be evident in the present situation. Instead of dealing with what happened in the past, an adventure should focus on describing the present situation." Just like the Drunkens and Dragons guy shows when he pretends to be the players going oh my god as the DM pretends to be the guy telling the story of the Northmen. "Fly north, Koosra. Fly north."

Suggestion: For the second encounter, give the "alpha" wolves a bonus action with recharge 5-6 that summons 1d4 wolves. The assault continues until all alphas are killed.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+the3rdgray oh shit! awesome!

My subscribtion somehow didn't register. Here I was thinking "he hasn't uploaded a video in MONTHS. wtf". So, that happens now..

Zeimer is rather old.

I like your description of the suspense dice, there are other ways also. And what do you think of minutes rather than rounds (to prepare)? Rounds forces the combat, of course - minutes would really make running seem more possible - any ideas for running them down?

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Bardic College Stream in my games 'minutes' basically means the entire encounter. running them down? ya, do sequential boards...i guess i need to do a chase video

@bardiccollege3971

8 жыл бұрын

I tried using the chase cards from Pizo - it was disappointing. I look forward to your ideas and chase video

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

on it!

I see Burning Wheel on your shelf; clearly a man of taste and discernment. Have you managed to play it yet? This viewer requests a review.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Questing Beast yep we did 2 nights...ew

@asaskald

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass I'm torn over Burning Wheel. I'd really love a review as well.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

it shall be done!

Seeing you doing these mass spawning enemies brings to mind a question, something a new DM like myslef is often perplexed by. How does Hankerin' deal with initiative with so many enemies, especially if they keep spawning? Do you just have an init roll as the DM and carry out each action for each creature during "your" turn? Do you roll init for each creature as it enters? Inquiring minds want to know.... Seriously can you please do a key mechanics type vid just going over initiative? This is something I really struggle with, trying to find a way that is fair, but keeps the game engaging for the players who obviously have more fun on their turns than the DM's.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeremy Pillipow all as one!

@CamperCarl00

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeremy Pillipow Lumping all of the "evil" npc's initiative together helps a lot in terms of keeping the game from becoming too convoluted and bogged down with trying to keep track of a constantly changing turn order.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

take it further! we just roll to see who wins. they go first. CLOCKWISE. boom

Hello! Could you show me or let me know how you made those bushes?

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+Porco Dragão foam base, toothpicks, MOSS

In a social encounter, how do you keep track of turns? I basically let my players roll initiative when a combat (is about to) happen(s), so how do you apply your 1d4 suspense die during a social encounter?

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

defintly...socializing with no time limit os boring. a turn = one basic thing to say/get across/do...

@TheRealProfwalrus

8 жыл бұрын

So you use turns also inside social encounters? Interesting

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

yep..or at least an hourglass timer....all depends on teh tone of the moment!

How do you not slaughter your party with that many enemies?? I'd love to throw these awesome swarms at my PC's but when a couple of wolves start attacking with advantage my PC's start getting shredded

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+tomacze44 Good question! sounds like your players need to get scrappy! I've seen my group tactic/heal/kite/maneuver their way out of HUGE swarms. Start em off with really weak enemies in large numbers....but always ride the difference between challenge and unfun!

@tomacze44

8 жыл бұрын

Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass I'm a fairly fresh DM and so i'm still finding it hard to judge whats awesome fun and what's going to turn into a slaughter/unfun experience. Thanks!

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

Always err on deadly I say...the game has so much more gravity, speed, and screaming when it's razors edge

@tomacze44

8 жыл бұрын

I want to do that but i'd half expect the party to pull a last stand instead of running. Maybe they'll learn then :P

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

Let it happen! Drop them, but don't finish them off. Ride that edge, and in time they'll become scrappy fighters.

What's the material used for the base? Some type of foam?

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

+crusaderad yep, 2" blue fro mlowe's

@crusaderad

8 жыл бұрын

+Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass Thank you sir, badass channel btw. Devouring the content. Badass content = all the marketing you'll ever need. I send everyone your way.

@Runehammer1

8 жыл бұрын

SKOL!

So what happened to the next part?? D:

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Liosvart D. Mendoza almost done

what is that stuff hes drinking?

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

burr

Did he ever make part 5?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

not yet...

@IonVen

4 жыл бұрын

Runehammer please tell us how it ends!!!