I love this channel. I can’t wait for you to have a giant backlog of videos so I can binge them over and over.

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@idrisabdullah3492

Ай бұрын

I feel the same way. This channel could easily be the primary go-to sandbox ttrpg advice channel

The Oaken Bucket of Muldaina: other artifacts pail in comparison!

I've liberally stolen from historical events (weird history in particular) to frame my adventure plots. Two of my favorites by far were the dancing plague of Strasbourg in the 1500s where hundreds of people mysteriously danced for weeks, and the sleeping epidemic that took place in the 1920s which caused victims to fall comatose, sometimes for years. By the way, Bologna is pronounced "bo-lo-nya."

@zatchbell5678

Ай бұрын

Buhloany

I had to Google this one: just discussing it at all is entertaining. Lol Re the Great Molasses Caper (LOL) maybe it really was a "mundane" event, as in, it was really molasses and there wasn't really anything else magical to it, BUT the characters are part of the team that must investigate and bring "the culprit" to justice. What happens when the pc investigators tell the mayor that all that really happened was the tank was poorly designed/not properly maintained. A more "Prof DM" approach: the PCs were dealing with something completely unrelated to molasses (perhaps a Veiled Society style investigation, end this is a show down with bad guys. Whatever). A big fight breaks out between the PCs and the Bad Guys. The combat just happens to be in the immediate vicinity of this giant tank. The people involved might not even be aware of it. One thing leads to the next, fire breaks out, an explosion happens, and whoosh! Maybe the PCs were merely watching from the next building, but they were there: "35 people died, sire. Here are your molasses killers". This could be usedvin so many creative ways.

I love this channel. Such good guidance with specific examples of how to prime your imagination and games.

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent topic! I had a world I worked on and my friend remarked the political backstory between the nations felt very realistic. I had been watching a lot of European medieval history videos and Baron de Ropp videos, so it came together that way 😂 my struggle has always been retaining a fantastical feel to inspire-by-real-life aspects… too much IRL and my game is negatively impacted, too grounded and “gritty”. Love the advice presented here

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Best of luck with your games

thank you

This video spurred my imagination like few ever do. Kepp it up!

At my table, the PCs greatest call to action centers around the local brothel: the Shivering Monk Inn.

@johnstuartkeller5244

Ай бұрын

In our setting, t'is the Smurven Hammer. On the mantel behind the bar, on a tiny case, is a miniscule hammer that radiates blue light and strong magic ... though no one knows what it does.

Thanks for posting, this is inspiring content!

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks for this video. Always a pleasure to watch them!

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

The molasses reminds me of Todd Kendrick's gelatinous cube with 60 move and can dash.

@CooperAATE

Ай бұрын

That's a terrifying quick cube!

Great video! Overly Sarcastic Productions, www.youtube.com/@OverlySarcasticProductions, is one of my favorite channels that details weird historical and mythical hijinks I can add to D&D games!

my personal favorite history to mine is france during the age of revolution

"Bologna" is pronounced "Bol-on-ya."

Great content, and great approach. But I find this to be the least helpful video, because you missed the first step in this process - finding a historical event to convert. How the heck do you even stumble across something like the War of the Bucket to begin with? This assumes a lot of knowledge of history, which is great for people with a historian background, but for average people, I think a process for locating these gems in history would have been very valuable. That said, I do love the Fall of Civilizations podcast and have drawn events from there for my campaign, but I think this particular advice on hooks is missing that first step of locating a historical event to adapt.

@Earthmote

Ай бұрын

Fair enough! I honestly just use Google and while AI can be controversial, it seems like a fine question to ask a ChatGPT or other model. Just validate the results its giving you with other sources. Or not! Doesn't have to be a mandatory step if you're adapting them for fiction anyways.

@Lanessar8008

Ай бұрын

@@Earthmote That would be an awesome first step! I hadn't thought to use GPT for that.

I love using real world in D&D; the religious lore in D&D is convoluted and lame - so I threw Christianity in and suddenly, all religious lore can be tied together. Astral plane with "dead gods?" Thats because they arent the alpha and omega, duh! EZ Lore

@danielcrafter9349

Ай бұрын

First off... it already exists in D&D. That's what "AO" is Second... it's a bad 2ay of handling it to say the "Christian" God is a deity above others; it's really problematic. That's why D&D adds AO, a "version"

@michaellebert8907

Ай бұрын

@@danielcrafter9349 go cry more about "problematic christians"