I can't be the only one who would actually love to see the Mystara license in Mr Welch's hands, anybody got a sturdy crowbar to pry it out of WOTC/Hasbro's Cryptkeeper-esque Claws?

@theemperorofmemekind4777

Жыл бұрын

Literally all of the classic D&D settings would be better off out of WotC's hands and into the care of those who actually appreciate these settings. After seeing what they did with Spelljammer for 5E, that may as well have been the biggest scam to come out of 5E to date. I dread to imagine what they'll do with Planescape since that's coming out later this year.

@Vasious8128

Жыл бұрын

I put it in the Feedback for the OGL stuff

@S810_Jr

Жыл бұрын

@@theemperorofmemekind4777 I love to imagine what they'll do with Planescape, since that involves not buying any of their shit ever again.

I once played a Magus from Pathfinder 1st edition where I decided to get into resource management between gold, gems, and monster parts, as one of the main spells I used required me to have a piece of that specific monster in order to turn into it. The DM even gave me a go-ahead to just say I already had the parts in the component pouch, but I was adamant to stick to that particular requirement as it meant I had to go hunting for that monster or hire someone else to do it form me and I might of ended up getting some NPC hunters into the stomach of a troll or two. Heck, spellbook management was rather fun as well. The look of shock on my DMs face when I told him I was buying another spellbook as I had to tell him the waterproof travelers spellbook I had had less room than a standard one even telling him just how many pages each spell was actually taking in one book and when that campaign ended the second book was near full as well.

@chillyavian7718

5 ай бұрын

Restriction brings required creativity. No threat, no thrill.

"You will casually pick up clues as you walk by like they were quarters on the floor because of the passive perception rules." this is easily the most misunderstood rule in 5e. Rules as written, the only thing passive perception actually does is provide a DC for opposing stealth checks. It's even given counter-examples advocating that players should have to actually look somewhere to see something

PSA: Leomund's Tiny Hut can be dispelled. I played in a game where the players are taking part in a war to retake a city from goblins & orcs, but we had another problem to deal with: a former PC, now NPC, was turned into a vampire. Said vampire wanted his old friends to join him in undeath, and the master vampire that turned him seemed to agree. During one play session, we had just reclaimed part of the city from the orcs & 'blins only to realize the sun was getting low. My wizard character had Leomund's Tiny Hut so I cast it & figured we'd be safe. When night fell, we got a nasty surprise when the vampires came around & one of them cast dispel magic on the hut. We only barely survived because we had a paladin in the group & my character had one of the two wizard spells that deal radiant damage. Unfortunately, I don't have anything to counter goodberry, it should just be a higher level spell. Just keep in mind that if the players can do it, the bad guys should be able to do it too.

@samuelbroad11

Жыл бұрын

yep, we've had the hut dispelled and things burrow under.

10:37 my father is a Vietnam veteran, and he stayed in the National Guard after the war... When I was a kid we went to a military wax museum, don't remember where... A bunch of the wax figures head on dress uniforms... And my dad is going from statue to statue going like yeah those medals are right those medals are right those medals are wrong.. and the wax mannequin for General Eisenhower had the medals in the wrong order 🙂. That was probably 35 years ago and I still remember it.

In the Post-OGL Scandal time-line, the only relevant TTRPG content is game design and lore. The secret sauce is making it relevant for tonight's game session. Mr. Welch delivers in spades ♠️

"that should've been caught during playtest" incredibly generous of you to assume WotC playtest literally anything they release

Interesting ideas. I remember one of my first games in 4E, my best friend's Wizard used Tiny Hut all the time for us, and he had an invisible golem that could carry all the loot for us and run back and forth to town to tell it for us and bring back the gold (we rationalized it as the golem holding up a sign to the vendor when we realized a silent, invisible gopher might face some logistics problems). No worries there! My thoughts on fixing the Ranger (if your game needs harder survival rules) is to borrow from Jacob from XP to Level 3. Rule that the Ranger's "spells" aren't magic; they're just applications of the Ranger's wilderness and survival training. That means the Ranger isn't conjuring food with "Good Berry;" they're just doing a better job foraging or preparing rations. That means the DM can nerf it by saying the party is in a bad foraging location (say a desert or the arctic) and/or low on rations. Personally, I prefer that because it gives the DM a mental slider to use depending on the situation and it makes the Ranger cool without resorting to magic (to that I have problems with magical characters or magical subclasses for combat characters, but I do have to ask why EVERY Ranger has magic).

I think Forbidden Lands does resource management well for food, water and arrows. It's a resource die from D6 all the way up to D12 and if you roll a 1 or 2 you downgrade that resource die. No need to keep track of each individual ration or water.

@nonya9120

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, not familiar with that ruleset. Sounds grand, I shall play about with it.

@jmcscore

Жыл бұрын

I was about to suggest that or the recent edition of Twilight 2000. Both are by Free League Publishing, interestly enough.

@nonya9120

Жыл бұрын

@@jmcscore Twilight was a all time great one. Setting up the still in eastern Europe to fuel our tanks. Gooooooood times. Game on.

@jmcscore

Жыл бұрын

@@nonya9120 Did you try the new edition?

@nonya9120

Жыл бұрын

@@jmcscore Never got the chance. Life got in the way there for a while. Lol

Finding Winona Rider in your videos is a game for me now.

Blink Honey Badgers!?!? Oh yeah! THAT'S gonna' happen.

@chillyavian7718

5 ай бұрын

Blink chimps, for when the players need to die and there are no rocks around to fall.

I remember that Twilight Zone episode. Turns out he wasn't in heaven or hell. He was on an aeroplane!

There's something better at running exploration than the ranger, the outlander background straight up negates the need to search for food and water (as long as you aren't in a straight up completely dead desert) and they don't even get lost as long as they have been to a place before

I can't help but wonder sadly if 4th edition didn't pave the way for 5e's nerfing of exploration. Whilst there were no immediate anti-exploration spells like Tiny Hut in 4e to my admittedly somewhat shaky memories, it did give us such rituals as Traveler's Feast (creates enough food for a party of 5, but anything not eaten or drunk immediately disappears), Create Campsight (creates a campsight and tries to disguise it from outside view), Purify Water (self-explanatory) and Explorer's Fire (creates a campfire that can't be seen unless you're really close)...

@nidhoggstrike

Жыл бұрын

4th was not based on the three pillars at all, it was one pillar and put everything else into the skill challenges (which I don't actually think is a bad way to do things, I still use it when running 5e and I will use it when I start my OSR campaign too). So I think 4e put those in deliberately, as a big, blinking neon sign saying "Death From Starvation Is Not Part of This Anymore!" 4e was many things, many of them bad, but it knew what it wanted to achieve and what it wanted to ignore, something I don't think we can say about 5e.

Gary Oldman is sooo underused its criminal, him and Jeremy Irons.

Yeah no kidding. Mr Welch, you are doing GOD'S WORK here...

This are all really cool tip for a problem I never run into in my games. I basically play in a death world like setting where the world is trying to kill you all the time.

@TheGenericavatar

Жыл бұрын

Fantasy Australia!

There is a downside to using a ranger to negate exploration difficulties: You have to take 5e ranger levels.

I remember in 2nd and 3rd Edition, your character dying was par for the course. For instance in Tomb of Horrors you were pretty much guaranteed to have to make another character. Don't get too attached.

@bigblue344

Жыл бұрын

Too be fair resurrection was more common but was more reserved for higher level hero's which is why there is a lot of traps or magic that just outright destroys the body or even soul.

@ronaldinglehart2172

Жыл бұрын

More in 2nd edition than in 3rd edition, going by my memories. But, you're right. Even if you don't think a high mortality game is ideal, the game gains something from character death being a realistic possibility.

@TKFKU

Жыл бұрын

If you run this with 2 or 3e, get attached all you want. Hell 3e wasn't even D&D anymore and with that -10 bs and all the skills and feats? Stay attached, unless you are unlucky or witless you will do fine. Run through this using the BECMI/AD&D system, the system it was made for. Come with multiple characters ready and the first three are for practice.

@MagicalMaster

Жыл бұрын

Oh my dude, original Tomb of Horrors you didn't walk in with one character you came in with a stack of poor bastards that you were NOT getting attached to. The only questions were if you had enough and if you did, how far down the stack you were going.

I have a simple fix for passive perception. Treat it for what it is. Passive. It's like, passive perception lets you notice something but you have to make an active perception check to find it. Have you ever been actively searching for something but couldn't find it even when it was right on the coffee table? For some reason you had a mental blindspot and the item was all but invisible to you. When I DM, passive perception means alerting the player to something amiss in the environment. Something significant. After they know there is something to look for they have to roll perception actively to get a better idea of where it is. If they pass then I let then I make them roll investigation to actually find it. I also have them tell me where there looking and how they are searching for it.

Wizards may not thank you, but I do. I cccertainly do, a concise list of expressive factors that are required for a good experience shall be used. By the true darkness of All story masters we shall prevail !

Well, this was, again, a very interesting and realistic video. Whenever you fix something in D&D5e it is an obvious problem and a well-thought-out, useful solution. Good job! The thing that bugs me a bit is that quite often I know of other systems which already have those mechanics or limitations etc. This always makes me think of the foolishness of having system-specific settings. Stuff like Mystara is great and if it were more system-agnostic it would widen the customer base...

I can't wait for more, thanks Mr. Welch

I'll keep this video in mind for next campaign! Thanks!

@Mr_Welch I got a kick out of the pompadour bear. Thanks! :D :D Also, good video on the subject. Q: Can the druid turn into a cow that you can milk for liquid refreshment as a water substitute in the desert?

@Impossible_Emporium

Жыл бұрын

Is the druid pregnant?

there's an easy solution to goodberry: a strict reading of the spell's RAW. the spell specifies that it can feed a creature for A DAY the RAI is that you can eat it every day for food, you just need to say screw RAI, this is my game, and you will starve with a full stomach eating goodberries.

Excellent advice Mr Welch

One observation, when you mention that this should have been caught during play testing I paused that it did and that this was by design. I've seen more than a few articles and interviews where they seem to make it clear that they were trying to make it more of a collaborative storytelling effort, Allah critical role, than anything else

@EvilDoresh

Жыл бұрын

And there's a good chance they didn't actually care all that much about _this_ particular part of D&D

A useful video even when taken entirely out of the context of D&D. Well done.

I’d love for you to make a video or 2 on running Mystara with Shadowdark. The system seems to be a good potential fit with the setting. Way better than 5e in my opinion

Mr. Welch isn't allowed Bolt Cutters, even though the Blood Ravens steal every thing that isn't bolted down.

Romans you go home!!! 14karat advice!!! enjoyed all the videos watch this far but this one really taught me some new ground

Bill Hicks outta nowhere! 😂

Okay, so *not* Twilight 2000.

I would rule that your body can't sustain itself on Goodberries and magical water alone for more days than your CON modifier (minimum 1)

Good Berry shouldn't include water, also should require bushes that make berrys.

Where is that Ranger picture from. My god, I need that for a character.

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

The one with the bear? I have no idea. I typed in something like fantasy sexy Ranger that came up. I didn't need any more contact the picture is perfect

So my solution for making players actual track spell components without grinding minutia? The caster figures out the gold cost of all of their known spells in components. Then they take an index card or something and when the party is shopping before heading out on an adventure the caster "buys" however many casts worth of each spell they want in components. For basic stuff like "a stick" or "a small, round stone" you can safely ignore it, but say a bit of sulfur or a small piece of quartz? Maybe set the price as 1g per spell level or something like that. As they cast the spell they mark a use off, when they run out they have to assemble the components the old fashioned way by hand or go shopping again. It's bookkeeping, but power has a price....often in multiple installments. It's never much, but when the wizard realizes he's spending more gold overall on components than the fighter is on magic gear to even stay relevant, you're gonna see the party screaming for downtime to ply a trade and earn some grocery money.

All of this is why I run Castles & Crusades now instead of D&D.

I'm stealing all of this.

I have a player who's character has comprehend languages. Actually uses it to.

Bit off topic but thought Id just drop this here given the numerous reference's in your list. Will you be reviewing the Transformers RPG from Renegade studios? Best regards

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

If I can get a copy

I support payment by Mystara license!

what about changing Goodberry to create only sustenance for 1 not 10, small gold amount and limit to only once per day or 1 days ration for 5 only cast able 1 once a week with gold cost. ., you have a 6 member party you are still rationing, the food will spoil if not taken care of or prepared properly, Just my thoughts.

Why fix 5E? wotc doesn't want you in the hobby anymore according to their second in command. Honestly id say its time the community says good bye to wotc and rightly so.

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

I try and identify the rules problems in all systems. 5E just happens to have more than its fair share.

I only run 5e for my show becomes for a show it is streamlined. I have to find creative ways to make it challenging without bogging down. For my home games, I run 2e.

@Mr. Welch, I'm curious if you think there's any way to house rule away the excesses and weird limitations of magic in DND5E, without switching gaming systems altogether? My preference is low magic settings, where wizards are rare and powerful, magic items are both rare and extremely powerful, and people can't just cast spells to solve every problem they have... but the counter to that is that spells like Hold Person or Stinking Cloud are nearly useless now in 5E, even while they've become more commonplace.

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

And keep it resembling 5e? Not easily. You're going to be carving out a lot of rules. How much can you remove and it remain the same game system?

@cycloneranger7927

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Welch Dunno... that's the challenge. 5E does a lot of things right that I thought were annoying about BECMI and ADND 1E and 2E (I didn't like 3E or 4E). It would almost be easier to start with BECMI and add the things that 5E does right than the other way around, from my perspective.

@cycloneranger7927

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Welch My main issue with 5E is that combat takes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long... and the risk of death is reduced significantly. But the mechanics for combat are fundamentally different from BECMI or AD&D... so I don't know how you'd even start with that.

@keithlawton1417

3 ай бұрын

Just switch to Shadowdark. By the sound of your campaign style that’s what you are looking for and where you will end up anyway. Shadowdark has similar to 5E mechanics but magic is rare and dangerous. It has for me a very Fighting Fantasy books from the 80s feel, which I love, plus kickass art. I was DMing normal 5E until last year, party hit 6th level and just starts annihilating everything. We have switched to Shadowdark and have not looked back. 5E adventures need some work to convert but it is a similar system. It is gritty, more simple and more dangerous, trust me as that sounds like what you are looking for anyway. Plus you must manage finite resources as per Mr Welch’s fine video without too much bookkeeping. Another great video that reminds again how bad 5E becomes as PC’s level up to Marvel superheroes at 6th level…..

Mr. Welch, do you believe that Mystara cannot be separated from D&D?

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

Not commercially. You can use any game rules to play in it. But for new content you need money. That requires books in shelves so to speak

1:20 -- I don't recognize this Winona Ryder role. A little help plz?

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

The head banging scene? Raging bull

So, with Passive Perception, I think something that a lot of people miss is that only part of the problem with a trap or hidden door is finding it. Just because you notice that trap door in the floor doesn't mean you've disarmed it so that you can pass over it safely. If they rig up some way to cross like a rope bridge, give it a 1:6 chance of failure or something. Just like finding a secret message is only the first part of uncovering the plot, the same is true of secret doors and traps. As for goodberry and all of that? Banned at my table since 3.5 days. I hate magical food, water, etc. Maybe I'll allow a magic item to do it, but not one they can buy, only find or make

woot

I wanna note that people keep misusing passive perception. As it's only meant to be used as a DC for other' to roll against, not a magical I win button. The game however does not make this clear enough.

I have a suggestion for the goodberry bit. It sustains the body, but your characters are still utterly miserable because there's nothing in their gut. They still feel the pain of starvation and hunger even though they're fed. Make sense? Then you can use that logic to apply penalties to the characters for just using Goodberry. Say... every day after the first of using Goodberry to eat you have to save a flat roll VS exhaustion as your mind and body are at war. The body is sustained, but it's telling the brain we're dying and the brain is going into OH SHIT mode.

I dont like 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons because its so easy and bare that it has to be Homebrewed to expand on every concept. Everyone will disagree on what should be changed? Im a powergamer and Its fun to solve problems so "No Challenges Equals No Satisfaction". Its boring how characters gets things so easy in 5e, sort of like being in a plastic/rubber ball pit. I learned to avoid going to any D&D5e groups because I upfront ask them to change things to be more like 1st-3rd edition. Give enemies stronger spells. Make spellcasters prepare individual spell slots. Raise the number of magic items and force players to manage them all.

Geezer here... Yep, no real risk makes rewards meaningless. Exploration? The issues your talking about has always been around. The solution is truly simple in my experience. But then again, my experience for 5e is only a few dozen sessions. Hated every bit of it. No offense to anyone that cares for it. Exploration can be a great time. Evidently 5e has made it worthless. Gaming on.

But I don't like spam.

Ban Goodberry!

@nathanparis3573

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe make the party make Con saves as they eat real food for the first time in forever. Goodberry magically sustains you; but is there any downsides to not eating real food? Did you lose muscle mass? Remember, It's only a 1st level spell; it's not like it is a 9th level spell cast by one of the best spellcasters in the known world... If you run out of food, sure it will keep you alive for a short period. But to only survive off of it completely, time for some penalties.

@EvilDoresh

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanparis3573 I would copy from Kevin Crawford's d20 treatments, particularly _System Strain_ , which he, among other things, uses to limit magical healing. Basically if you pour too much magic healing into someone their body will sooner or later hit a limit and stop benefitting from further healing until it has time to _actually_ rest. So if you include Goodberries into this, it would kinda go like this: - You have a maximum System Strain equal to your CON modifier (minimum 1) - Goodberries (and similar spells) replace a daily ration, but increase your System Strain by 1 - If your System Strain is maxed out you can no longer get nourishment out of Goodberries - System Strain drops by 1 for each day you could rest and had _actual_ rations Basically instead of replacing normal food, you can have your rations effectively last up to twice as long by alternating between regular food and Goodberries.

@nathanparis3573

Жыл бұрын

@@EvilDoresh sounds good. Thanks

Forget perception checks. Forget rolling. You describe the room or area, hopefully with a map or visual aid, and then let the players tell you what they want to investigate, and how. Whether or not someone finds a vital clue should never depend on a check. If a DM wants to use checks for everything, he should just roll up 4 or 5 characters, and play by himself. That's essentially what he's doing anyway.

I feel like when you pointed to 1E resources you almost said the right thing, which is just... don't bother with 5E. Play 1E instead. Fixing 5E is a waste of effort because most groups won't accept your fixes. Just play the edition that isn't broken in this regard. I know it's kind of a jerk answer but you walked right past it without acknowledging it. On playtesting, I'm sure these issues were sent in and ignored during the initial 5E playtest because it's not like anyone at WotC read anything sent in by players during all the rounds of playtesting and all the questionaires they made live on their site.

If you need to get rid of magic to make your D&D games "balanced", you are a weak DM. Spellcasters have always been in D&D and yes, they usually have a set of tools much better fitted for exploration than the one-trick pony martial classes built solely for combat. It's up to the Dungeon Master, as the simulator and architect of the narrative, to provide their players with challenges during exploration that won't be solved by the same five essential cantrips. A player seeking quality of life with a quick and effective source of food and shelter isn't trying to cheat at your game, they're just trying to make exploration more bearable to the rest of the party.

I'm disappointed that you've chosen to support WoTC after everything. D&D doesn't need to be fixed, it needs to be abandoned, for all our sake.

@Mr_Welch

Жыл бұрын

D&D will be back. It survived the collapse of TSR, 4th edition and it will rise from the OGL debacle. Probably with new management and new writers, but it will get better. Eventually. Hopefully they will listen to the players and the people actually interested this time.

@JamesW6179

Жыл бұрын

Let people play what they want to play. I'm tired of these bullying attempts to force "boycotts". If you want to play GURPS, knock your socks off. I know you probably got off on that short period where everyone agreed with you, and it was intoxicating, but D&D isn't going anywhere. The majority of people just don't care about this issue. Yes, on Reddit boards or KZread enthusiasts' comment sections there are people who are talking inside baseball. This does not represent the majority of roleplayers though. You're going to be very lucky to find three or five other people who are all going to agree to throw away their books, and learned a new system. Should we all just quit gaming in protest, leave our friend groups, because people like you are having online tantrums? This pretty much goes for all the people having it a cry about that wizard video game too. Let people play what they want to play.

@dane3038

Жыл бұрын

D&D did not survive WoTC. D&D is a brand. Don't you find it funny that so many different games have been #1 through the years with the one thing in common of having the legal right to call itself "D&D"? That's the power of a name ( Just ask Augustus ). Most of us, including you, I'm quite sure, understand this on an intellectual level, but less so on an emotional and practical level. I understand your investment in that brand both emotional, social and business wise and I'm not "cancelling" you. But as a fan, I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you my feelings about this choice.

@cycloneranger7927

Жыл бұрын

It's sad to watch binary thinkers like you, who think things must either be your way or dead. If you don't like DnD5E, play something else. Leave Mr Welch alone and let him play whatever he wants. The reality is that no matter how performative you choose to be, every luxury or toy you have in your life exists due to somebody else's hardship, misery, or death. The food you eat (meat or veggies), the phone/computer you use, the books you read... not one of them made its way to you without the suffering of another human at some place or some time. You're not better than anybody else just because you have a pet peeve about WOTC.