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This is the second of your videos I’ve watched, and I’ve gotta say you seem to have a unique set of mannerisms you use to communicate. You’re incredibly animated with your gestures and facial expressions. It comes off in a sort of exciting way. Your speech patterns are relatively easy to follow and seem to be varied enough to keep interest during the entire video. Your combined tones, variance in volume, and physical mannerisms make it seem like you communicate firmly, yet softly at the same time which is hard to describe. This isnt even including the solid content you put together for your videos. It seems easy to see how these skills may easily translate into running a great game. Keep up the good work.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Bobby Baker wow! Thank you so much for that! That was the most detailed... analytic... and accurate description of my body language that anyone has ever said. I really do appreciate that, a lot of times people can mix it up as this in genuine or fake, but I am genuinely excited about what I’m trying to share with people! I am a math teacher and coach by trade, so maybe it comes from the math classroom with trying to get high school kids to pay attention to math lol This made my night, thank you!

Hey, I want to also say thanks to every single patron to the channel. Not only does it help out the coach, but it allows things to keep going for those who can't afford to help out. So Thanks to the elite crew for being awesome and generous.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

broke_AF_ Games wow that’s so awesome of you to thank them, this comment of yours means a lot to me, thank you for that! I read the name AFTER reading your comment too lol

That sports horn for ending timeout gave me high school nostalgia that I did not expect today. Regarding downtime, I echo your thoughts. I love the idea of allowing characters to actually accomplish things during downtime, especially outside of a session when the party is together.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Flutes Loot hahaha I know right! Your comment made me do the same! Thanks!

Wow, man you are the gold standard for me for dnd youtube. So good. Trying to get you more subscribes.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Haha wow thank you so much for that! Sharing is the #1 thing 💜💜💜

Ok the “future time-out” had the exact info and examples I was thinking woulda been nice when you gave the first example. Lol Glad you came back in time to add those! Lol Thanks, Coach!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

That makes me so glad to know! I watch ALL my videos back through before I post em and I was like... mmmmmm NAH needs more!

I like your channel. You have NATURAL charisma. I don't like to trash other youtubers, but a good amount of the RPG community really makes way too much with jokes and "funny" stuff in their videos between the information that people clicked the video for. And your videos are useful as fuck. Thanks.

I fell in love with skill challenges back in 4E and still use them today. Glad to see a fellow skill challenge enthusiast!

Black powder! Now it's stuck in my head!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Rustam BLACK POWDAAA!!!

For the "Roll Trios" thing, I personally run it more like a skill challenge - make one check per day, and you have to get X successes before Y failures (typically 5 and 3, but can change depending on the length of the task). DC 15 is one success (and standard one days' progress), DC 20 is two successes (you worked extra hard), DC 25 is three successes (you found some crazy inspiration, or luck happened upon you). If you roll under 15, that days' work is wasted for some reason (maybe you make a mistake and have to backtrack, or you find out the parts you were using don't fit, etc.). Once you fail a certain number of times, you have to start all over and buy new parts. This way they can make progress through whatever downtime they have, and they don't have to do it all at once. If you only have one day of downtime, you can spend that day working and keep it for later. If you're on the road, you can spend an hour each night working on your project.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Soule this... would 100% be in the video!! I LOVE it, it falls right in line with how I run my games too and feels like something I would 100% do and have lroabanly done subtle variations of, but it’s BRILLIANT!!

@nathanielsoule8067

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach Thank you, man! I really appreciate your responses within your community, I think it helps bring up a lot of healthy discussion.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Soule I wouldn’t be as inspired as I am without y’all and comments like yours! Lol

I'm just commenting to help add to that algorithm. Hope it helps somehow. Great content. Definitely my favorite DM tips and tricks channel

Maybe a Tri-Roll?

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Andy Fagant ooooo that’s the best one so far!!

I do the side micro adventure for my players (this campaign) and everyone loved the hell out of it. It also amazed me how quiet everyone was, respecting and listening to eachother' stories. It's fantastic.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

broke_AF_ Games micro adventures are a great name for them! And YES some of the best moments come from those!

We love your stuff, Coach! Thank you for these Saturday videos! I look froward to them every week

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Dylan Cox they are about to switch over to Sunday’s!! Just a heads up 💜 (I have to work on Saturday now sadly) But thanks a lot man!!

@dylancox631

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach I'll be there!

Bro, hitting me in the feels at the end there. Thank you so much for the continued content. Your channel has helped me improve my craft tenfold. Thank you sir, you deserve every good bit coming your way. I joined the Patreon! Looking forward to delving into the DC resources. Thanks again

You cram sooo much into a single video, I have to watch it a few times! I'm still struggling with when to make my players roll. Still learning, so thanks!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

James A Olsen thanks man I try to, that’s the goal! This topic was a question I’ve got a lot of times, so I’m glad I was finally able to do a full video on it 👍🏼

OMG THE BARBARIAN ARMOR I DID THAT CRAP..... So what happened was I was playing an Orc Barbarian in Pathfinder, where we started every combat with Rage, and then the casters casting Enlarge and Bull Strength on my so I was an unstoppable tank. Now we bought a baby backpack for me to wear so when I did all this our Cleric, a little female Trident I am not sure what the race was but she did a fish person, would climb in and be protected by me and she would spam healing spells into me, our flank was always guarded by the Fighter and Monk to keep her alive

Thanks so much for the videos! They have been a huge help as I start my first homebrew campaign. Our DM quit and I had to create a new campaign and learn to DM in 2 weeks and these videos made it possible!

I know this is older but I tend to do downtime between sessions and do 1 on 1 sessions that I design around the characters and if necessary do a little info dump. I have a barbarian who wants to be a chef so she I designed a cooking contest by a guild that is a front for a secret society that monitors for extra-planar incursions. Another is a nature cleric who is going to have a conversation with her deity without necessarily knowing it is them. Another is an artificer using his resources at his guild to research strange objects they found. This allows them all to have something to tell each other after and actually give them different information to put those puzzle pieces together.

Downtime is so much fun and the RP has saved our DM so much stress for prepping new things

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Fables heck yes! And that RP leads to so many cool new connections too! And can definitely get out of hand haha!

@FablesD20

3 жыл бұрын

The Dungeon Coach ya our last game, our ranger learned that our treant cleric player drinks tea, he wanted to know what kind, it was a long process leading to making dirt tea and the treant discovering that adding cinnamon makes it taste fancy lol

Future time out! Another great use of the time out. Also I loved the joke about Tik Tok. Good luck with it 👍🏻

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

You’ll be familiar with the power of Time Outs soon enough!!

I dig your stuff. Lots of good ideas in these videos. Keep it up and thanks for your help, Coach!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Will do Paul!! I love hearing that! Thank you, it really hypes me up!!

Sorry in advance for the long post. But I was excited to see that one again ideas that you inspired brought me to thoughts and results adjacent to a future video. I know this is why you do this so I thought I would take the time to share. Working on your previous videos of skill challenge and downtime activities I spent most of last week working on something for both my campaigns set in my home brews world. Essentially, the party came together as hired security for a trade caravan sent out to find a lost trade mission and retrieve the goods and personnel. In the background there are several factions that do this type of work, independents, a popular and well known group from the area, and those hired by a Noble making moves to gain a foothold in this new territory. for the upcoming Down Time the party has the opportunity to hire on with one of the aforementioned groups. I don't want to role play at the table every single trade job, but I want to give a sense of accomplishment. so I have set up a chart with the number of jobs they could do (die roll) adjusted by skill challenge (# of successes - failures added to the die roll. I also broke the chart down by season to reflect the change in conditions that can and will occur. The chart operates like a Downtime random encounter chart listing the types of situations,, and rewards for given missions. (% chances for weather events, beast attacks, beast attacks, bandit attacks, supernatural monster attacks, and campaign specific events. I even listed when these should be broken out of down time activities and be Role-played at the table as individual encounters.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Akashambatwa Miller O...M... G... THIS is exactly why I make these videos! You have taken two systems and homebrews them into one that is custom fit for your table... WOW! Thank you so much for sharing that, and that sounds like SOOO much fun! And a GREAT way to run that off!!

I think I'd call the Roll a latter Roll. You do well you go up or maybe you do bad and go down a step. I also really enjoyed the 3 month down time story. "Buried in self interest"

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

David Couturier thanks for that, your the first person to comment on that! 💜

Great video! Love these ideas! Thank you!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Piqipeg thank YOU!! I appreciate that!

Hey man Love the content u rly deserve some recognition keep it up

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

ivan gabestro thanks for that! I’m trying hard to keep every video getting better and better! Glad to see people are noticing!

Great video. I'm personally geeked for being in the first 50 👍. Come on guys, let's get those 600. Enjoy the new toys.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Kaschafsky hahaha used em all in the live stream! So crazy!

looking forward to that random encounter video! big wildlands segment coming up, so I'll be consulting my own ones a bunch.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Luigi with an L should be a ways away 😆 so you’ll have to wait and see lol 💜

Great stuff here. I need to walk away and unpack it then come back with questions and other comments. 👍

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

David Rose hahaha I do the same when I watch videos! I’ll be here!

This is perfect! I’m doing downtime right now! lol

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Kaiseraihn I knew it! So I made this video for you!! 💜

Triple-check? Great timing on this video! Next session is a two month downtime for the first time in this campaign level 1 to7. And there are lots of things going on with plots and subplots and side plots. Thanks DC!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Jason P o sweet! Make sure you see my other one too then! And... OMG Tripoli Checks!!! THATS IT! Done!

@jasonp9508

3 жыл бұрын

The Dungeon Coach Absolutely, man. I’ve watched ‘em all!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Jason P hahah what a beast! You rock dude! Thank you so much for that kind of support

Man love seeing the channel grow and be supportive like this. U never disappoint, so keep the vids coming and helping out the new dms in the world. Ps do you have any good tips for a 2 player campaign? Some things that I should do?

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Jozco Foz thanks man! I’ll keep em commin! lol I don’t have a video on this but side kicks are cool, and maybe look into gestalt leveling (they get to be 2 classes at once!!! So bad ass)

@jozcofoz8560

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach Well that is super interesting. I'm definatly gonna check that out and maybe if you get some writers block for videos you could talk a bit more about 2 or 3 player campaigns. Have an awesome week bro 💪

A good DM is a master of adventure story telling. A great DM is a master of downtime game play. Adding a sense of comfort and slice of life and relative security to the characters and their campaign make the horror, danger and action and adventure all the more exhilarating when it happens. I'm really focusing on learning and writing sandbox downtime activities for the players. Ones where the greatest danger would be a bar fight or getting pickpocketed. One where they can make friends, get a regulation, get into artesian crafts, gamboling, farming, blacksmithing, masonry, civil magic, or whatever. I'd love to find TTRPG's with rule sets I could borrow from to make this happen in DND. Like medieval sim city type game on table top. Anyone have a direction they could point me in?

amazing video,helped me verry mush Coach!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

deaf strike your a champion man! Always see you in every video!!

@deafstrike1796

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach Thanks Coach!

I love your stuff

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

po panda thanks Po! I try and be as helpful as possible!

Hey nice shoutout to dungeoncast

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

C H they are awesome! Love their lore stuff too!

@SeeAche

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach yea for sure

always quality

Sounds like a 3 step skill test. I don't hate Roll Trio though. :P

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

John Pickering hahahahaha I love that you said you hate it!! I’m with ya!! Favorite so far has been “Triple Check” 👌🏼

Hah, notification squad has arrived

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Wyatt Wear Hahahah there’s my man!! Thanks buddy

Pressing some buttons to write a comment :)

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Miguel Rebollo I pressed some buttons to like and love and comment back! Woah!! 💜

I use individual discord channels with each of my players and just RP with them to do basically what they want. They steer the DT flow and perform the activities they want to, interact with npcs. It's a good opportunity to introduce character hooks and NPCs unique to each player also.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Sean Boyll Ooooooo that’s awesome! They could go to the same channel if they do downtime together and their own if they are on their own! Coooool!

@seanboyll7968

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach It's pretty fun, IMO. And for me it's alot easier to be extra descriptive and RP your NPCs when you can take a minute or two to consider your responses.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Sean Boyll I definitely know what you mean and I gather your thoughts lol

@The dungeon Coach Hearing about some of the things that happen in your campaigns really makes me want to watch them. Do you have any plans to livestream a new campaign that we could actually watch?

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Arekkusu666 I am TRYING to get things set to where I could do that, but there is just no time with work and a new kid and KZread, Sooooo it’s a goal of mine 100%!! 👍🏼

I just experienced downtime for the first time. I don't think the DM was very well prepared so he went along with our drunken romp about town.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Anthony Lyon hahaha send him this video! lol But hey that sounds like fun too!

My Group is actually using our Discord Channel for Downtime RP in between games now as well. It helps out with making sure that the Game can start quicker as well.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Andy Fagant ooooo Yea, get there early and sort things out. Or use the text chats for that during the week! I never used discord before starting KZread so I will be doing that from now on!

Now I’m really waiting for that crafting video you mentioned

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Dastern I’m in the scripting process’s now!! 👍🏼👍🏼

@danielcruz4960

3 жыл бұрын

The Dungeon Coach awesome I’ve always loved crafting I was disappointed the 5e didn’t had a system for it

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Dastern THAT was crazy to me!! Such a big deal!!

@danielcruz4960

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach well on the bright side, they didn´t make a bad system, which means homebrew is the official system for it

The vegetable this is in my case true. Which is stange considering i am a butcher and DM. XD BUT my mum made them realy nice, often stir them in a pan or fry them in an oil bath. Nothing is more boring then cooked vegies that have a consistency of some creme and taste like paper.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

DonFranke Hahahaha I love that you ran with the vegetable line!!

'Roll Triad' maybe?

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

sillymonger ooooo triad, sounds ominous! Nice!!

Awesome video! Maybe I overlooked it, but is there a link to the dungeon cast table that was referenced?

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Genius3e8 omg there isn’t!! I will go get my laptop and add it!!

Finally caught up! Ever since you were on the Saturday Morning D&D Show I've been slowly grinding through all of your content. I'm a big fan of your homebrew ideas and ways of flavoring the game. Keep up the great work Coach!

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Danimal Galloway o wow hey! Thank you! That was really fun to do with them, and I’m glad my stuff speaks to you!

@danimaldm1739

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach yeah, it was a real bummer the connection wasn't great on that episode, but you held my intrigue to come check you out. Already using skill challenges in my Mad Mage game. I've been using it to see how easy and safe my PCs can travel between Waterdeep and the level they are currently on. Speeds up the descent and escape and makes the PCs feel like they have more control rather than complete randomness of random encounter rolls I often used in the past.

I would call #2 a Triad of Trials

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Joseph .Micallef Triad is a bad ass word!!

I am instantly distracted by your shirt lol

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

D Nonn haha I had to watch it again to see what shirt!! Yea I’m just a commoner👌🏼😆

Last time We ran downtime, my firbolg druid perma died from falling rocks in a destroyed mage tower... not doing downtime again

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

TheOldAdventure WHAT??? That’s crazy!! I’d be scared too 😱

VICTOR!!!!!!

I'm normally too busy to leave a comment, but wanted to anyway just to help ya out. Any recommendations and or tips for first sessions btw? I'm still a relatively new DM and mostly improvise as we go along.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

red250reiven hey thank you, I appreciate that! I have two videos on a DM Guide that I would say have EVERYTHING in two videos jam packed the best I could! They are older though but the quality is the same And I have a video on 7 ways to start a campaign Those would be my tips and comment there if you have questions further’ 👍🏼👍🏼

@red250reiven

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach Would like to give a big thanks and an update At first I was gonna go with the typical meet in a tavern setting, but after watching your recommendations- I instead started them off with them falling asleep on a travelling carriage down a forest path that ended up with them getting acquainted with their coachman, rescuing her from a bandit attack that turned out to be cultists, and ending it with a mini boss fight before arriving to their destination where the coachman lives. They really enjoyed it, so thanks again for the advice/ideas and videos :D

There was no such thing as a general store in the Middle Ages. There were no stores at all. A town held a market once a week in the town square.

How about a Trisc? A Three Round Independent Skill Challenge.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Stephen Harris hahaha what a great acronym! Reminds me of a triscut!!

We missed 600

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Gerbrand Steyn it’s a lofty goal!!

Is it me or does he look like the Great Value version of the guy who plays Shazam

Where's your Discord Channel?

Looking for a DM

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

screamteam come join discord! We have channels for that!

Every time you use the word *"literally"* wrong you *figuratively* lose a level

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

Nis Gaarde Hahahah I read this comment right before filming next weeks video and caught myself saying “literally” wrong again So literally... thank you!

@NisGaarde

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDungeonCoach ;) You're welcome. And sorry. It's just a pet peeve of mine. Great content btw.

Guy really likes swinging his index fingers around. He has good advice, but his elocution and overall intonation and voicing is repetitive and really makes listening to what he has to say tedious and at times painful. It's like watching a really really bad infomercial.

@TheDungeonCoach

3 жыл бұрын

tmcdon I hear your feedback man and can definitely take away from it to try and shake out of repetitive body motions. I’ve caught myself leaning forward at the end of sentences a lot and fixed that. Duly noted 👌🏼