Thank you for making a no nonsense straight to the point review about this book. I was more hard pressed than you'd imagine to find a review in this style. Thanks again!

Great review, really helped me get my head around the story before reading and delving into the details. Thanks!

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

No problem, I'm glad it helped

Nice review. As a player who went through STK I found it overall very enjoyable. However I found it difficult to follow the plot of the story and was confused at times on why we went on certain quests and which NPCs were important and which were not. Sometimes these long quest campaigns can be confusing as there are many facts & characters to keep track of and it’s not always easy to figure what’s relevant to the overall quest goal. Sometimes sandbox campaigns can be that way.

Thanks for brightening the day :)

Im taking my party through this soon... so THANK YOU from almost 2 years in the future!

@DravenSwiftbow

6 жыл бұрын

Your welcome, I am glad Past Me was helpful

@CryptoJitsu

4 жыл бұрын

@vitali Mizrachi ha! bruh, SKT is awesome!

Very straight forward. Thank you!

Excellent job. Thanks for making this.

I bought this book for the Faerun info mostly. We started with the area featured in the Essentials kit, and then I picked up Princes of the Apocalypse because it features the area directly east of that. Now, this book fleshes out a lot more of the area. I think I am a fan of mixing gazetteer and adventure information together. Its costing me more money, but is less dry to read. Thanks for the review.

Actually there is a very good reason why the cult of the dragon had an air ship that is identical to the one used by acquisition Inc. That was actually revealed on an episode of dice camera action, which you may not have seen as you've mentioned you don't like rust does as much. If you notice the red dragon behind this cult is actually the same dragon that acquisition Inc met up with once and avoid have to deal with by tossing large sums of treasure of their airship. The dragon was so impressed by that (the treasure gifting airship) that he commissioned an identical airship be made for him.

@DravenSwiftbow

6 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool. I've tried to watch Dice Camera Action, but the Paladin annoyed me way too much. I was honestly hoping that each season would involve new characters, since I think the players are decent (I am a fan of Projared) but I didn't really like some of the characters. I might have to give it another attempt, Strix really grew on me after seeing her in Acquisitions Incorporated

@sakisaotome6753

6 жыл бұрын

DravenSwiftbow to be honest I whole sale skipped the entire first season of it. For reasons unknown to me I was somewhat put off by the cos module, so I just skipped to storms king thunder. I will say that my feelings have abated some because I think I want to like but something about it just raised my heckles. It may be the suggestion I saw somewhere that it be a primarily human setting. In any case, even though you life cos, you should try doing what I did and jump to season 2. I'm not saying it will in fact be better, you still may not like it, however by jumping to season 2 you'll allow the players to really grow into their characters by this point they are now in season 3 in chult doing the tomb of annihilation (and I believe they are essentially starting it at near or at the highest level range for the adventure. That is too say I've seen strix cast cone of cold so they are at least level 9) so perhaps whatever you disliked about Evelyn's character or the way that she was portrayed may have been smoothed over. Or perhaps just seeing it with fresh eyes may be enough to change your opinion But if not it's okay regardless. There is still AI or perhaps even the C team. I have found watching others play DND can be very eye opening especially from a DMs perspective as you can see the way different DMs approach things. I personally love dark elves and the underdark so naturally I would have gravitated towards out of the abyss. I have seen some around 10 different play throughs and despite having seen the velkinvelve section of the module (which is the least the minimum length I've seen of all the shows they are almost all weirdly different with some very odd commonalities. Such as the fact that all but 1 play through that I've seen have all gone to the kuatoa village first. Or perhaps not. watching DND may not be for everyone. But in any case thanks for replying and for having forum this far off this crazy long comment.

I'm about to run this for my group. I took them through the Lost Mines of Phandelver first. Felt like a perfect match. Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

@DravenSwiftbow

6 жыл бұрын

I'm starting up a new game with a new group and am actually doing the same thing. I started running Lost MInes of Phandelver and plan to move on to Storm Kings Thunder. I agree that they do go very well together, one of the better fits to follow after the Starter Set

@Lallander

6 жыл бұрын

They ignored an earlier hook with an Orc threat. Considering the history of the region I decided to play that up. Made a custom harder encounter. So now they are headed to Triboar to make an alliance with the leader there to deal with the Orcs. Ostensibly anyway.

@chrisbirchfield7313

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Lallander! I'm wanting to run this combination and I was wondering how long (weeks, months, a year) running these two campaigns took. I want to run it with my friends at college and am hoping we can finish out before the school year ends.

@Lallander

3 жыл бұрын

It took us about a year and a half total. I then took them on for a few more months with planar shenanigans.

@chrisbirchfield7313

3 жыл бұрын

@@DravenSwiftbow Hey man, assuming you were able to run both of these campaigns together, how long did it take you to run through everything? I'm just hoping it's enough time to finish within a school year

As usual awesome review!

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, there were a lot of problems with the recording. I'm glad it wasn't horrible in the end

I'm taking my party through this soon, it's going to be our first 5e session

Amazing video ! As a beginner DM it helped at lot :)

This is a really great review. I'm a new DM running running 5th edition for new players. So far I have only run lost mines of phandelver for them and I've really been struggling to decide on the next campaign to run for them and this video has helped a lot. For me, it's really down to this or princes of the apocalypse, but this campaign seems much better structured for an inexperienced DM. My question for you is this: Does the fact that so much of the content is 'optional' make this a shorter campaign than the others? We only get to play for 3 hours a week, so a campaign that is slightly shorter really appeals to me. Thanks again for the helpful review.

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

It does make for a shorter potential game, the main story runs from levels 5-10. The players may decide to go after some of the other Giant Chieftains, but they don't need to. It is a great follow up to Lost Mines if you wanted to use the same characters.

Great review

really great video !

@DravenSwiftbow

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thankyou sir. Did you happen to do Rage of Demons or Princes of Evil??

@DravenSwiftbow

5 жыл бұрын

I did a review of Princes of the Apocalypse and a first impressions of Out of the Abyss. I keep meaning to go back and give a proper review of Abyss but something always seems to come up and get in the way.

Good review i got the book myself however my copy says that the blue dragon Imreth is female not male.

@DravenSwiftbow

6 жыл бұрын

Imreth is female, that was an error on my part. Damn pro-nonus

Thanks

and 4 years later my group will start playing this campain :) any tips what to do after this?

@Petrillion

3 жыл бұрын

@@gumed85 Thanks a lot for that link!

@siegmund0078

3 жыл бұрын

The other Giantlords. We fought three bevor going to maelstorm.So much fun.

I found a prologue Pdf adventure for "Storm Giant" sets up the campaign if you do not wish to use Mines of Phandelver or Rise of Tiamat.

@DravenSwiftbow

6 жыл бұрын

Is it the same one from the book, where the PC's come across a town that was recently attacked by Giants and the townsfolk after fleeing were captured by Goblins?

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Pwr 2 the "wee pepoles", bruh...

Great review as always. Hope you don't mind I gave you a shout out on my channel and borrowed your intro for it. Check it out and let me know if it's okay. Thanks again for your awesome reviews and support of my channel.

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

That;s totally fine. I was actually going to ask you if you were okay with me mentioning your channel in an upcoming video. You do great work, better than what I do. I'd like to see you exceed me for subscribers

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

I did. I always find it hard to believe anyone would find what I do to be of value. I guess I tend to undersell myself.

First.

@DravenSwiftbow

7 жыл бұрын

In more ways than one. No one has ever commented "First" on any of my videos before

@Ratstail91

7 жыл бұрын

DravenSwiftbow I feel so special.