You are by far the best d&d channel out there. Good work.

Came back here 7 years later to tell again how inspiring this video was to me, thx Hankrin!

I'm a huge fan of the way you solved the maze problem with nothing but creativity and a d6. I'd been stuck on that for a while.

Great stuff Hankerin! Things I will definitely use from this: the map-less maze D6 generation The mutation stone concept The way you set up running Molok with spells and blink circles with the random teleports. Makes running the boss battle much more enjoyable for every one!!! Keep killing it!

I'm just stopping by your latest video to tell you how much I love you, Hank. In the last month I've been rabidly linking your videos in the 5e Facebook group because man, those guys need guidance big time and every time I rewatch the one I link, I remember how much I love you. No homo man, real brother love. I adore what you do and how you deliver it. Never stop being awesome!

your enthusiasm is inspiring!

I actually used the maze mechanic, for my solo dungeon crawler... but I used a d8 instead to add a couple more extra nasties. But thanks for being the best DnD channel, I have got a lot of inspiration for my one shots or mini campaigns.

Wow the mutation stone is like the coolest thing ever!

Dude, just have to say I'm blown away! You are da bomb!

That's diabolical!!!! love it, you sir inspire me to no end.

I am totally ripping that 1d6 maze idea! When last we left my PC's, they had decided that in the morning they were to visit, after an unnerving encounter with a corrupted wizard, the site where his old tower once stood before it disappeared a decade ago. The tower gone and a large void left where it once stood, I think they'll find an old backdoor somewhere that leads to the maze! Thanks for the inspiration Hankerin!

The video is an absolute blast. The d6 in Molok's lair, like so many ideas across the videos, is such a huge gift. Thanks a lot Hankerin!

This was an awesome mini campaign! Thanks for sharing your ideas

Awesomeness... Delivered.

Nice! More room, monster and environment designs are what I'm here for.

Awesome video, as always! Thanks, man!

Great! MORE D&D! The manual echo is *HILARIOUS* after some beers.

Wish I could Like this more than once.

Incredible stuff mang!

Whaat.. no drink? Great show, and awesome series of encounters. I'll be trying this setup out for a new group of players. My favourite part is still the start.. no gear and a slow progression. Survival fantasy!

Maze is an amazing idea, going to be using it for a dungeon I have in the works for my existing campaign.

Only the finest content. Well done sir, well done.

Man! If you make that maze mechanic more random (like change the roll that cuts off by rolling one yourself, the DM, after one cutoff happens) and deadly, it is an awesome DCC funnel encounter. Your videos always spring ideas right up. Keep up the good work and get us more index card RPG volumes, man!

This is also mildly entertaining. Good Work!

I’ve done this before, using the old 2e dmg dungeon generator (you know, before PC personal computers)...I didn’t have the players split up, but if they went north, they ran into a River, if they went south they ran into the boss mob/Minotaur, if they made it west they got out...it works!

finally I found a great idea to build (or let my players build!) a maze for my adventure! thank you very much! :)

Good stuff! The mutation stone and the mapless maze are especially cool. I also laughed way too long at the offhand comment about the box being full of dog hair.

Thank you Hankerin. I recently started DMing because of guys on the internet like you.

Molok is a classic boss fight. Epic awesomeness. 😎

Awesome!

Amazing!!!

Good Kord my man, that's a map of Great Beauty.

Nice Tom Hanks reference.

I'm really sad the map wasn't in the shape of an 'M'! Overall amazing video! I'm running this for some friends in a couple days.

This video has a classic Drunkens feels that hasn't been seen in a while. ..I was watching it and thought it was an old video that I had missed. Thanks for the great content hank.

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

war never changes

Ermahgerd, my berfday was yesterday (18th) so perfect timming to post a new video Hank, Thank you! Skol!

Loving the shirt ❤

Im definately using your maze mechanics to simulate cutting through thick jungle

Bad ass indeed!

New subscriber love your pathfinder/d&d content for DMs thanks

top share Hank

Fecking rad maze

dat sound lol...flutestep

Runehammer rules!

Epic!!

Molok is such a brilliant campaign. So much evil wizard fun! 😎

really useful !!!! keep doing awesome vids never been this easy to be a dm !!!!!!!!!

Nicely done. But if he is trying to defeat the drawl, I think my players would be like: "Need some help?""

Love it!!!!!!1!

Love your videos. They inspire and put wicked thoughts in motion....my players will love/hate you ;)

I did for my last campaign

Used the PoMolok encounter to start my Underdark campaign, but didn't mention Molok. Instead they were caught by Dark Dwarves led by a Mind Flayer. Fun Chap

I ran Molak!

Amazing! Thanks for all the good stuff! Is there anyone who has written this adventure out for theatre of the mind play? Would love to get my hands on that!

@Runehammer1

7 ай бұрын

isn't everything TOTM compatible?

@DMRDAD

7 ай бұрын

@@Runehammer1 it sure is! Thanks for all the effort! What I meant was written out like a module so I can have that handy for reference. Do you know if that exists?

Hankerin, I absolutely love all your stuff and you have inspired me to go full-3d with mechanical gameplay for my group. I've been putting my own spin on some of your puzzles and they dig the hell out of it! I gotta ask though, what are the dimensions of your play-box? I'm trying to build one 'cause our 1.5x3 ft coffee table isn't quite enough for playin D&D like a big 'ol badass... Keep on doin your thing, dude! Stuff of legend.

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

build your box 24 x 36, then use a nice big brick of styrene to "float" it over your table...or even 2x4's...another method is to make an even bigger piece of ply for beneath it as a player shelf for sheets, die rolls and the like. Also, if you have dogs liek me, dont use black felt lol.... use something more cotton blend...

Had my family do this. My daughter was the ranger with just a shitty bow and no arrows. After some time, she asked "Are there bones on the floor of the prison?" I answered yes. She immediately said "I want to use the bones like arrows." I know you can't actually use bones as arrows, but the idea was so brilliant and original, that I just gave them to her. Here we are 2 or so months later, and one of her character quirks is that she debones dead creatures to make special arrows out of them. I'm a proud dad.

Could you please somehow mark your videos according to which "series" (like prisoners of Molok, the burning, and the pass) from the first encounters?

I want to go to there

Would love to play D&D with you. Your story's are very well planned and I can never find a DM with your kind of love for the game. When I play D&D I only DM now a days

Im going to Dm a few players (also noobs) for the first time and I absolutely love this! Great work! How would you let players take long or short rests to regain hp and spells. Would they camp in like a hallway? Sorry for my ignorance. Once again I love the videos, they are super helpful.

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

no rest. the term rest is a misnomer.. if you sub in teh word SAFETY, you'll get a better sense of when it can really happen

Dr. Monroe has left the island and has taken up residence in a dungeon and is now calling himself Molok

So what would Molok do, If his memory got too full? He'd find the power source And then he'd pick which plugs to pull...

Way better mic, but I wound up with warm, round MONO lol... next time...

@ChrisGeisel5000

6 жыл бұрын

Have you done a video about the awesome art work in the background of your game table? Because that's something I'd like to learn/replicate/steal/etc.

your maze system is a cut down version of the generator in advanced hero quest

the maze idea is amazing !!! I have a question though, how do you avoid players getting trapped ? (e.g. they roll a 6 and then the trapped player rolls another 6, is there a "dupes" clause for situations like these ? I'd be grateful is someone who tried the maze can elaborate on the nitty gritty

Bad ASS!

i have a questions regarding the characters leveling through out this arc, i plan to run this starting friday, with the prisoners of molok, but am unsure where to grant the characters some levels

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

end of each session?

Yo Hankerin! As you know I love your stuff. I had one tiny concern about the labyrinth design though, isn't it possible for the players to roll all dead ends and lock themselves into a no win scenario?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

The Bearded Goblin best part

Hey which video is room 3? The marauder room? The room where they hose the skeleton and it comes to life.

@Runehammer1

5 жыл бұрын

MACHINES OF MOLOK by Tabletop Terrors

What is the size of your little felt table that the tiles are siting on????

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

24 36 i think

I could also make a maze in Excel, and gradually reveal said maze in front of the players. I know some maze generators, and in _Super Smash Bros Brawl_ I made an ice maze. If I can retrieve it, I could share it if people want. Also, I was thinking I can use moon sand and/or Play-Doh to make temporary statues & other doodads.

Hank, your videos make me wanna drink :D Are you planning on releasing more mechanics videos?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

yep..they take time

"Ride my bicycle"??? I hope that means "DRINK A FREAKIN' PINT!!!"?? :-D

mutants are the best. my campaign is based in alchemical chimera mutants running around trying to resurrect a fallen hero gone bad. simple, horrifying, and allows for whatever creative or straight from the book creatures u want on a whim! Thus the Godzilla/King Kong crossover stuff I can work in at any point. 😃

Can you provide the link the the third Molok encounter on the table top terrors channel? I'm having a hard time finding.

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

its called channel invasion

@alasdairhall5906

7 жыл бұрын

Found it thanks, I was looking on their channel, but it is on yours haha.

So i started the campaign, first area came out awesome. Took about 2.5 hours to go through, had to beef up the monsters that were in the area so it was more challenging. Overall was awesome, but definitely fucked up when i was trying to run the maze part, that ended up being a flook. Going to have to learn how to do that a little better, awesome shit so far though.

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

great! yeh remember simple is king when things get weird

@branmanica2743

7 жыл бұрын

Going to have to agree with that. I was planning on doing it like the video went, but they wanted to keep playing after room 1 so I looked in my notes and realized I only wrote down half of the dice rolls. What kinds of things do you things do you find worth noting while you play. Do you recommend calling it a night on a situation like that when in your head you clearly have nothing, or would you just pull it out of thin air

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Call it a night. The table can stay alive with talk with the action frozen in time. I know some DM's are pretty good at improv, but I've been playing a lot more lately and you can always feel that odd sensation you're in blank space....

@branmanica2743

7 жыл бұрын

I was completely blank, after the maze I was at a complete loss

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just be open with your gang! "guys, that's all i have for tonight...the music fades, the room goes quiet"

Hey Hankerin I made a play box based on measurements taken by me eyeballing your soggy DM proportions (don't be offended - I call it like I see it) as against your play box - I am sorry to report either you are thinner and weedier than I thought or my eyes are a mess! (which means I can't call it as I see it). Still compared to me its ...uge and not as hairy! Its very useful - many thanks! Glad you are back in the groove. Bree yark!

Make it a d8 and add up & down.

Is this a home brew dungeon? If not where can I find it? Thanks Drunken Master!

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

yep

so what level should the PCs be by the time they reach Molok

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Gino Barillas any really... 5 ish

Amazing video man, i'm strugle with a new archy on my campaing, The players have just joined a company of heroes, about to embark on a first mission, simple, they appended they will watch over a building that is an abandoned fort built as a bridge between two cliff finders. In the fort they found an ancient enemy, a druid who abducts children in the region, I am sure they will invade the fortress behind her, but I can not think what they will have to face inside. If they are overcome, this fortress will remain for them. Any tips?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Itauã Pedro Conceição let them face the gag druids! Maybe there's some giant frog god they worship deep in the cliffs...

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

lol HAG druids

@itauapedroconceicao1846

7 жыл бұрын

This particular druid is trying to open the door to an ancient dungeon, the door is sealed with ancient and extremely powerful magic. She has made sacrifices of children in front of the door to corrupt and weaken the magic of protection and to enter the dungeon (nobody knows why yet). Then I thought of a kind of prison, this fort would be the retreat of the druid, where she does her research and takes part of her victims. The players are still lvl 2, so I'm kind of confused with what I play against them.BUT MAN...THEY WILL SUFFER AUSHDIAUSHDIAUDHAIUD

hey! just curious, would the players level up at any point in this dungeon? or would they be level one the whole way through?

@Runehammer1

4 жыл бұрын

i only allow leveling when rest/safety occurs... so up to that

@samtobiasjohn

4 жыл бұрын

@@Runehammer1 Rad! Cheers!

Molok, mo' problems. Also mo' lok. That's what I've always said.

Hard to make this connection about the horse shoe... Most groups I play with will finish this whole segment in about 2 sessions max. Hell my current one we played for 7 hours and finished 2 dungeons about this size in that time.

Did he ever get around to telling us the hidden cost of using the mutation stone in a different video?

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

you are subject to MOLOK's control!!!!

Do the party get to rest between rooms at all?

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

never!

@willjohnstone9255

6 жыл бұрын

Runehammer your a hero!

Moloch

How does a player resolve a dead end if they have been separated from the group and they roll a 4? Should they re-roll?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

Trapped! Smash or phase your way out...

@electron281

7 жыл бұрын

I play tested this and ran into the same issue with dead ends. How about changing dead ends to 10' foot pits with a 5' ledge on the other side? It keeps the maze flowing but makes it a bit of a challenge to get across. Also if you keep maze at a width of 5' it keeps the group linear and tight.

@lightninglouis

7 жыл бұрын

That a cool idea. I'll try that out too. Thanks for the suggestion

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

i think the dead ends are the best part... thats when players really need to think on their feet.... but yes, great mod!

how do you handle running NPCs in the party? the original paladin captive from room 1 survived with some badass 20 rolls in my players campaign, his name is Falk and the players have grown to like him.

@alasdairhall5906

7 жыл бұрын

Drunkens & Dragons: Play D&D Like a Badass message received, Falk is about to be on the receiving end of back-to-back crits... may he rest in peace.

Do you video your game sessions?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

nope..it weird!

@that1guy535

7 жыл бұрын

Cool just wanted to see how you handle players choice if it isn't congruent to the session. I've been DM-ing one shots so my DM can get a chance to play too and I'm just trying to figure out how to guide without railroading. Since I'm not doing campaigns it seems to be easily sandboxed. I just found your channel. Do you have videos discussing guiding without railroading?

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

as a genral topic yeah... never going too far...huge topic with no easy answers

B... Buff Idubbbz?

Um. What was the drawback to the mutation that he wasn't going to mention.....

@Runehammer1

7 жыл бұрын

He who is mutated by the stone will someday serve the dark power that resides there!

Am I first? I hope this will be a great video

@davidm6387

7 жыл бұрын

Blink circles are pizzas. True fact.

I made a captain I run that it starts in priseners of mollock but a goblin takes them the the on the campaign you made a burning in Newhaven and they save the girl from the fire then guy pulls them into an ally way and says the king is under a dark spell from mollock plz help us so they fight molcok when he's weak he goes troung a portal and says I'll be back then the heris go on a mission to get a roral night ring that's worth lots of gold one of the mpc party members eats purple fungus and goes crazy that attacks the party they make it to the cave were the ring is and they fight an umberhulk then they go trouh a puzzle then get to the ring but it's a trap the cofinns in the room open and zommbies come out in the roral cofin they find THE DECK OF MANY THINGS and that do more misions and they have to travel to molocks cassle of the undead fight an undead army and they fight molock and his dragon but I'm going to sabatoge the deck of many things so they draw flame the devil burns down new have that have to fight him and the rest I have to plan PLZ DONT STELL THIS IDIE PIN THIS ON ONE OF YOUR VIDS PLZ

Joing the party a little late, but well... I like your encounter style, but balancing seems way off, imho. In one video you said, this was a dungeon for lvl1 characters, underequipped lvl1 on top of that. There's no way even a veteran group of players will make it through there with low level chars. Lvl 4 and above, maybe. Maybe maybe. For example.... The spider generator that spawns this number of creatures each round is simply too much, or you'd have to underpower the spiders, which makes the encounter kinda useless. The GelCube on top of that, pressing the players even more is great, but d.e.a.d.l.y. Even if destroying a cube takes only one round, which is not very realistic assuming each has like 10 HP, they will not even attempt that before the second wave has spawned, realizing what''s going on. That's up to 20 creatures right there in round 2 of the encounter. Even if each of the spiders only does like 1-2 points of damage, they are Toast. Add the confined space, which will easily make spellcasters fail their concentration checks, reduce tactical movement etc. It's a death trap. One I will certainly use in une of my dungeons, but not for low level chars. So do you have a realistic experience with that dungeon ? What's the level of the players you played it with, how did you manag to guide them through ?

@Runehammer1

5 жыл бұрын

Yehp, this room and far worse ones have seen a lot of play. In ICRPG, there is a core difference from a lot of D&d, which is that 'the world is not made for you to destroy it.' so YES there is NO WAY to beat a spider fountain. Your chances of critting a cube to finish it fast enough are tiny! Our sessions have been so crazy fun these past two years, because there is a lot more flight, more diverting, more all around CRAZY to battle these odds.