just came across this and your Out of the Abyss review, this are fantastic the best DnD reviews I've seen on here, such a good narrator, pacing, and genuine good review information, i love it.

Very useful video man, thanks for sharing

Currently running the campaign. I am having to do a lot of work on it. 20/20 hindsight I should have ran a different campaign and used this as a backdrop.

@BudsRPGreview

5 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong.

Another great review, would be really cool to see you do Tyranny of Dragons!

@BudsRPGreview

6 жыл бұрын

I have one part of it (Hoard of the Dragon Queen) on my list, but there are about five or six books ahead of it.

Great review, I've just finished watching all of your D&D adventure reviews and while I didn't watch them in the order of the playlist I still watched this one last. I just didn't feel compelled to listen to another praising of Chris Perkins' and WotC's genius, thus I was happily surprised to have found and actual review and not a sales pitch. Mind you, I own this book myself and while I haven't run it as a campaign skimming through it fills me with a sense of bafflement. There are great ideas in this book, the trouble is that they render each other redundant. 1. Two of the three "save a town from a giant incursion" scenarios are already optional, which makes sense considering that you are asked to do repeatedly what amounts to be the same task, with a little environmental variation thrown in. 2. Optaining one of the giant artefacts leads to more scavanger hunting with the subsequent capture of a Conch of teleportation, which pretty much squares the superfluousness of the already disposable nature of the giant artefacts. 3. The introductory adventure, surrounding the events in Nightstone, in chapter 1, feels tagged on, as the Nightstone itself is at best a red herring and the people the PCs meet there are of no further significants. Unsurprisingly it's stated in the adventure's introduction that you don't need to go through chapter 1 and instead can start with the PCs at level 5 in one of the three scenarios presented in chapter 2. At this point you might think this isn't a big deal, but keep in mind that this is a level 1 to 10 campaign, wherein chapter 1 serves the sole purpose of getting the PCs to level 5, which will be accomplished in a single play session of 2 to 4 hours. The book further suggests - or rather assumes - that you use the milestone advancement method to ensure that the PCs get to Level 5. Hence, in actuality this is an adventure for a group of 5th level PCs, that will take them to level 10, offering differing routes to the finish line. What I would do here is to merge Tyranny of Dragons and Storm King's Thunder into a single campaign, wherein Hoard of the Dragon Queen serves as the first chapter. Let that sink in, the first half of The Tyranny of Dragons campaign does - PC progressionwise - what the first 20 pages of this book are supposed to do.

@BudsRPGreview

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that's a lot to digest! Thanks for giving me your thoughts on the scenario. I just ultimately believe it could have just been a lot better. I made the promise to myself when I started this channel that I would always be honest, even at the risk of leaving people disgruntled because otherwise, what's the point? More D&D to come in the next few weeks, including one I could only find a single review of on all of KZread, so don't forget to sub etc.

@Ryan_Winter

4 жыл бұрын

@@BudsRPGreview No worries, I already subbed. You are the only one on youtube who has actually reviewed The Night Below, (The) City of Skulls, Dragon Kings, Iuz the Evil and Vecna Lives!. And I have to say, it is highly appreciated.

@BudsRPGreview

4 жыл бұрын

I tend to try and review things that have zero or at most one or two reviews. Plenty more D&D in all flavours to come.

Gee, your friend Stuart must be a TOP bloke.

@BudsRPGreview

7 жыл бұрын

Do you know him? 😉

I've just started running Storms King Thunder and it'd a real slog. I haven't had a chance to read the whole book and are two chapters ahead of the players. I also run a Tomb of Annihilation campaign and with both these going it can hard work to do prep and having to work at the same time. I find WOTC need to put more effort and better design into their material. I run other RPGs and they require so little prep compared to WOTCs premade adventures. I also find I'm jumping around the book to find something cause its not highlighted. Better planning on their part should make it easier for the DM and not harder.