Xanathathar: *they want my stuff* Laurel: *I want my Husband back* Castelanters: *we want our kids back* Jarlaxel: *I want my kingdom free* Manshoon: Why are you all touching *MY STUFF*

@flyinhigh7681

3 жыл бұрын

Xanathathar

@xekon14

3 жыл бұрын

Shell knight Karen took the damn kids

@orestesbastos

3 жыл бұрын

Laeral can use the money to get her husband back?

@dragonrenver

3 жыл бұрын

@@orestesbastos No, it is a case, when money cannot solve anything. I mean, she is a daughter of Mystra, god of magic, and her husband was chosen of said god. If he can be resurrected, Laeral then ressurrected him long ago before his staff gone through a long list of new Blackstaffs, including their own son (current Blackstaff is his former lover, so from Laeral perspective, Vajra kinda steals her family from her).

@maaax5092

3 жыл бұрын

fake Xanathathar btw

I'm amazed how nobody ever points out how Xanithar is the only recorded Beholder to ever show genuine love for any being other than itself.

@theodorehoag2524

3 жыл бұрын

laughing luigi would like a word

@jeremytewari3346

3 жыл бұрын

@@theodorehoag2524 I do believe you mean LARGE Luigi

@thebaron2277

3 жыл бұрын

He really really loves His fish. and if you do anything to his fish he will have you disintegrated and turned into a pile of dust

@MasterZebulin

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebaron2277 But what if the fish dies of natural causes? Which it will.

@misterart7298

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasterZebulin it did! multiple too time if i not mistaken but the worker keep secertly replenish a new one everytime

I wanted to suggest "Basically Gnolls" since theres just no love for my angery hyenena bois. But in lieu of that, maybe a video on Underrated D&D monsters?

@jacobfromohio5347

3 жыл бұрын

I'd watch a whole series by Runesmith on underrated/unused monsters

@legendswarble2845

3 жыл бұрын

I love gnolls. I often model them after real life hyenas when I have them in my games, for flavor.

@daeksaeks5204

3 жыл бұрын

I was literally just thinking about that too (the gnolls not the other thing) I love gnolls and they’re very under used for how cool they are

@studioqueen4902

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree! I know it’s totally dumb but I actually use the basically videos to guide some of my campaigns

@user-qd8yy9lc4g

3 жыл бұрын

A video on underrated monsters will require a hour of video time and a month of research. Ever heard of neh-thalggu? Kopru? Psurlons? Nightmare beasts? Immoths? Parai? Wemics? Diaboli (and not for a second mistake them for devils or tieflings!)? Spyder fiends? Yeah, a real shame. Would be amazing to hear about all of the interesting ones! As for gnolls, heh. Overtly-demonic nature is a 5e innovation, and looking at how fast its content progresses, we won't have enough for a while. One could instead regale the original gnoll creation myth, in which gnolls were made by a lazy god and subsequently abandoned him for lacking attention, though. Or that gnolls are a hybrid of trolls and gnomes, if you are willing to take that seriously.

I honestly don't see Silverhand as a villain (because, well, she is actually not a villain in the book). While she may be worried bout Blackstaff, she is trying to keep her city together while dealing with the shit storm Neverwinter left her.

@TheMightyBattleSquid

3 жыл бұрын

He said antagonist, not villain.

@mjr8888

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMightyBattleSquid yet when moving on, he counted her as part of the list. Still, I can kind of agree on antagonist.

@user-kx6vj4fg7l

3 жыл бұрын

@@mjr8888 I wouldn’t really agree. She’s exactly who you want to give the money to if you want to keep it out of the wrong hands, and I’d say we can safely assume that’s what most parties will want. Still, she could technically be an antagonist if you wanna keep the whole cache for yourself...

@Rohnon

3 жыл бұрын

I *know* my players would keep the money for themselves!

@MinnehahaSybyl

3 жыл бұрын

Plus she didn't really want to be the Open Lord.

"History is just different Kids fighting over different Toys." - Logan the Runesmith After you're done with The Stand read Swan Song, it has a cool take on the effects of Nuclear Radiation.

Jarlaxle, is the a legend. In the books he is a champ

@ihil4620

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he's probably my favourite character, even when he talks to the glazbru and other powerful enemies

@JanusHoW

3 жыл бұрын

Having read a few books starring him, yes he is absolutely a champ. I also like how he's basically the only major drow on Toril that's not Drizzt Do'Urden or a member of Eilistraee's church who ISN'T necessarily out there for the glory of Lolth. He's also a potential ally in _Out of the Abyss_ - assuming your party doesn't try to have a certain ritual play out in Menzoberranzan...

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

Жыл бұрын

He and Artemis Entreri are my OTP.

"History is just different kids fighting over different toys." I can almost hear every history and literature professor I ever had scream in the distance.

@sarahmellinger8125

3 жыл бұрын

Ya they know that's just war the is much more like trading toys for other ones

The Stand is actually just a story about Purple Haze going rogue So it is about stands

@ditlevbjerregaard571

3 жыл бұрын

does steven king also write the villain out of the plot, like with fugo

@dantenatale6556

3 жыл бұрын

Stands in JoJo are actually created by a virus that is found within the meteorite that the arrows were made from. That's why some people die when they are hit by it and others don't

@prrfgoul7507

3 жыл бұрын

Purple Haze Requiem

@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456

3 жыл бұрын

I thought of the same thing

@t.h.mcelroy6597

3 жыл бұрын

Damn... tru

I love how in depth each villain is. I like how they have Jaraxle from the Drizzit books as one of the big players of this city of crime. The villains is what makes dragon heist shines and I'm glad Runesmith made a great video that these characters deserve

With Tasha's Cauldron of Everything coming out, a video on the characters that spells are named after would be cool. Tasha, Bigby, Aganazzar, Snilloc, Otto, Mordenkainen, Tenser, Melf, Nystul, Otiluke, Leomund, Evard, Rary, Drawmij, Maximillian, and Abi-Dalzim. Could do Agathys and Hadar too even though they aren't people.

Just wanted to click to help with algorythm. Am currently 3/4ths (ish) the way through this as a player (according to my dm) and while im not good at mystery and such ..i am having an enjoyable time. A lot of it is being tweaked and added onto by my awesome dm. Has been a great journey so far.

@ConstantChaos1

3 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to give you some sage advice, feel free to try any edition you want, but seriously 4th edition isn't worth it, its all weird and doesn't mesh well and a bunch was completely changed for no reason (like the cannon was screwed with needlessly)

@koala5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@ConstantChaos1 the only editions id reccomend for a good (fantasy) experience are 5e, 3.5e, and pathfinder, but thats just me personally

@ConstantChaos1

3 жыл бұрын

@@koala5390 id definitely say those are my suggested ones but nothing is as junky as 4 Oh I also might suggest eberon which is kinda half in half out of it all

I just want a Heist about a group of Kobolds who got their Baby Dragon egg stolen. And now they need to venture across the known realms to find their Bebe boi.

Waterdeep is such a good game If players stop playing CoS >_> I really want to play and run this

@SangoProductions213

3 жыл бұрын

The board game is pretty good too.

@pandorawolf8239

3 жыл бұрын

Waterdeep is great! if you do manage to run it at some point. I would recommend looking at the Alexadrian waterdeep as well as Blue alley. It allows for allot more intrigue and blue alley is a great little dungeon to get away from the big city for 1 or 2 sessions.

@twitchswitchvideos

3 жыл бұрын

I took the advice from XP to level 3 and am running Dragon Heist and CoS back to back

@prtwriter4660

3 жыл бұрын

Before this gets any bigger. Currently running tyranny of dragons with a co-Dm (If you dont know its Horde of the Dragon Queen + Tiamat.) I might switch to Dragon Heist or Frostmaiden after the campaige finishes. For as long as I've played 5e....It has been Curse of Strahd campaigns everywhere I look. I don't hate CoS, just sick of playing it. Its a great book to start a group with. Just sick of it being the default for 5e. I want to play Dragon Heist, Descent into Avernus (2/3 finished before covid-19 ruined the game), Frostmaiden, Lost Mines, Icespire Peak. But, always Strahd

@hellfire286

3 жыл бұрын

@Nicholas Brown literally doing this right now

One interesting way to run this campaign would be to use three of the four villains. Start with the Cassalanters, but have them approach the party and spin a sob story about their children to form an alliance. Obviously, they won't mention the part about the mass human sacrifice, that's a fun surprise for later. Once the party forms an alliance, to secure the gold, they'll have to skirmish with either Xanathar or Manshoon. After the Cassalanters have the gold and the party thinks they've saved the day, Jarlaxle shows up at the tavern to tell them the truth about what is going to happen at the party. Cue a team up with Jarlaxle.

I can relate to Jarlaxl in a way, and I guess that's part of why I was willing to work for him when my first A.L. group played the module. I feel that you could literally change the surrounding area, and some names, making it one of the best campaigns to help establish a world you made!

*Everyone minding their own Business* Manshoon: *Bippity Boppity your stuffs my Property*

I’d love to see another Basically Subclass video

The city of Waterdeep is one of my absolute favorite D&D locations, and stuff like these characters is exactly why. It feels a lot like D&D Mos Eisley, really.

Yeah, this man convinced me to buy this book.

@kittykatt1648

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same ^^

The book has Jarlaxle as one of the main players that automatically makes it best. Check mate, Curse of Strahd. Strahd WISHES he had that level of style.

Great video but one question. How do they show these personally traits to the players in game? I understand creating well rounded characters but how they represent it is just as important.

@FictionRaider007

3 жыл бұрын

Well, most of them such as the Cassalanters, Silverhand and Jarlaxle (and perhaps Xanathar if the party tries to ally with him as the video points out is possible but perhaps not wise) will directly meet the party several times over the course of the adventure, either as a figure necessary in an investigation or to provide the players with various threats or offers. It then falls on the DM to get the roleplay right with the notes provided in the book. They're all very different too, Silverhand will assert her authority if she feels she's being undermined, Jarlaxle will use numerous disguises so the party don't always know they're even speaking to him, and the Cassalanters might straight up admit to the party they need the gold to save their children so they'll agree to work with them but sneakily omit telling them about the part where they need to kill a bunch of people too. I'd say Xanathar and Manshoon's personalities come through via their reputations whispered about all throughout Waterdeep and their many minions who the party will encounter throughout the game. Because what the minions are, what they're like, how they act, and how they feel about their boss can really inform players about those two before they even meet them. Their lairs are also really tell the players a lot about the anxious, greedy and/or paranoid personalities they're dealing with. Additionally, the adventure as-written is meant for players levelled 1-5 which means all these antagonists would wipe the floor with the heroes if they tried to start something directly, it's clear these antagonists aren't necessarily meant to be killed and a lower level party need to roleplay, outrun and outwit their enemies rather than just being able to kill the villain in their first encounter with them.

@hellfire286

3 жыл бұрын

Jarlaxle is very well expressed in my opinion especially since any drow characters may have a chance to join Bregan D’aerthe during the campaign and meet him face to face

That's probably the most aptly accurate description of Jarlaxle Baenre I've ever seen. Thank you. As much as I'm a sucker for Drizzt, I've always had a relatability to Jarlaxle. It's created this juxtaposition duality. And I suppose that was what Bob eventually tried to do with the new direction he has steered his characters. One abides by morality to guide his evergrowing experiences, while the other lets his experiences shape his morality. And somehow, they work very well together.

Excellent video. I've run DH 3 times now (2 still in progress 20 and 40 sessions in) it's my forever module. I add plenty and tweak the setting, but it's these villains and the power plays they attempt, which make the world absolutely hum, that keep me coming back.

guess you could say your in deep with these villains

I just finished a year long campaign of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, but my personal favorite part about my campaign was how directly its events can be traced back to the Ruining of Neverwinter among other awesome events of R.A. Salvatore's Gauntlgrym. (which you can read for free with Runesmith's audible plug haha) It really made the events of the campaign feel like they belonged in the world, and the fact that the events of the campaign were so historically precedented really made me, at least as a dungeon master, feel like I was really running a campaign in the very same Faerûn I've read so much about. The campaign was great, the only one I've finished as well, and although we started it in-game Summer, Xanathar ended up being the big bad of the campaign, and Jarlaxle ended up being the party's on again off again frenemy. It was especially good because the rouge of the party was actually a Xanathar guild member, that really upped the ante and provided me with a way of introducing Xanathar himself to the group before the time actually came to try and kill him, he's truly one of, if not the best villain of all Faerûn.

I still love the extra version of the adventure that WotC put out on the DMs guild...multi-villain pile up. Only thing that annoyed me is that the Dragon Heist AL season was ruined by their insistence on excising the majority of the treasure rules, which made it very odd to be trying a heist when you know, from the beginning, there wouldn't be anything from it.

I just started setting this up and I’m hyped. It looks awesome.

My group has just arrived in Waterdeep in my homebrew campaign and man, I'm loving the setting. So much stuff, so many characters, so much lore. If I ever get to DM again, I'll probably run Dragon Heist.

+15 to initiative for gettin here this early haha

@Dehalove

3 жыл бұрын

Why does this have upvotes?

@chemnitzcubing4771

3 жыл бұрын

-15 for giving away your position.

@joedude202

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dehalove aw man how’s it bother you buddy

"History is just different kids fighting over different toys" never before has the thing I want to study for a living been summed up in such a brief and accurate way. that I've seen at least. also this video makes me want to run something similar to Dragon Heist but in Gloomwrought. Good 4e supplement definitely recommend.

@idontno6d105

3 жыл бұрын

@Lúzia A Morta well, a lot of history revolves around war and conflict, usually caused by the desire or need for resources. Now, that doesn't encompass all of history, there are plenty of events or periods you can point to where there isn't a conflict going on. But, there are many events or periods in history that can be described as such, and the periods of peace are often surrounded by periods of conflict. So while it is a generalization, I would not say it is 'gross' or that it has no basis in truth.

I'd enjoy seeing a segment about the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and how it can be used as inspiration.

The hardest part of this campaign was getting my players to really understand why their characters wanted the money beyond blind greed. Also my players loved the tavern management part more than actual combat.

@superojama3225

3 жыл бұрын

I feel you there

Reading the Drizzt books and immediately recognizing Jarlaxl from dragon heist instantly made me very happy because that means I’ve officially sold my soul to gygax

Logan you always present things in such a great manner which inspires me to write characters in my own stories, thank you man.

This has been arguably my favourite of your videos (the 3 examples of villains being the other one). I never thought to use Laurel as a villain to be honest, and in my homebrew remix of this module that I'm currently running, that might make it tricky. But it also makes it WAY more robust and exciting. So I've basically combined Laurel with an adult silver dragon, who also acts a bit like Miv Nizzet from Ravnica. Honestly, your videos in general are some of the best on KZread. They are quick, funny, insightful, and make me want to rewatch them. Which is saying a lot because I have the same short attention span that everyone who watches KZread has. I look forward to more of these deeper videos my dude!

Wait Xanathar has a pet goldfish And hes after gold So his goal(d) is to go(ld) and get words with gold in their name. Then he'll be golden (that's slang for good incase you didn't know)

This is such a good round up of the story as well as the villains

I decided to go with the Cassalanters as the villains for my group and it was amazing! Something that took it to the next level is one of my players took the Waterdhavian Noble background and when I introduced them (I made them much more present by being investors in the party’s tavern) he asked if he knew them, I told him to roll Cha, and he got a Nat 20. That made us incorporate them into his backstory and it was amazing when the twist came that they were the villains

What, we aren’t talking about that dude who’s life you ruined because he tried to sabotage your bar?

@readthebones4147

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@colinnelson4080

3 жыл бұрын

@@readthebones4147 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIuitK9qobGxnag.html

Dragon Heist is so much fun, I’ve been running it for about a year now, I added some stuff but the bones are so compelling it keeps you going

Running it in a few weeks. Hyped and nervous.

"It's the British and therefore correct spelling of grey and I will fight anyone who disagrees" Runesmith is the Chosen One.

honestly i didn't even realize there was villains i was just trying to run a tavern and get cash

Watching this as I'm waiting for the book to arrive. Any day now it's being delivered!!

Waterdeep is an amazing setting for a campaign! There are a couple of great novels set in Waterdeep as well

I'm running this now, it's my first time DMing and it's freaking dope.

Dragon heist has been my favorite module to run, I'd love to play through it some time!

I’ve ran it twice and love it. Both times continued on after the books content for months because there is so much to lean off of. If you can get a hold of ADnD forgotten realms City of Slendor, there is over 100 pages of lore to glean off. My brother was a player for both runs and he enjoyed the second run through because it can be sooo different based on villian and pc choice. By far my favorite book

as someone who knew nothing about waterdeep before this video i was really hoping the fish was xanathar

Literally just finished my Dragon Heist campaign today. One of my favourite campaigns to run so far

I played in a Dragon Heist game. We got to skip the villan encounter because we got the stone away from the Asmodeus worshippers when the devils were summoned. Calithildir, my Drow Light Cleric, was able to shoot down the devil carrying the Stone of Golorr off with Guiding Bolt, which bought enough time for the party to do a rooftop and sideroad chase to catch up to the devils.

Waterdeep was my first time diving into the DM pool - I had a blast, and so did my group. Since it was my first time, and I'm also a relatively new and don't know all the older lore in general, I cut a bunch of stuff out of the book and focused on the Cassalanters - I had Jarlaxle around as a backup baddie and as a potential friend, but the Cassalanters and their train dilemma were my favorite plot hook in the book - especially once one of my players picked a poor pickpocket from the Field Ward as their character - some of her friends were going to be at the ball! I absolutely LOVE what they did in the end though - when they discovered what was happening, and foiled the Cassalanters' plot, they didn't want to doom the children either still, so instead of switching the train tracks, they laid down a new path - they promised Asmodeus a favor, with the children's souls still as collateral. He bargained for 5 years time to cash in the favor. If they refuse, the children are his. But, if he doesn't cash it in, or if they fulfill the favor, the children are free from any devils for the rest of their lives. Funny enough though, they managed to piss off Jarlaxle when said poor pickpocket tried to... well, pickpocket Jarlaxle! He pledged to get them back for taking the treasure that he wanted for his goals. And then the party made the super smart move to use their new wealth to buy a boat and GTFO of Waterdeep. Yes, let's leave on a ship when the most famous pirate ever is now your sworn enemy.... Good plan guys! ;)

@SydneyLawton

3 жыл бұрын

@sum body it was definitely a lot - I probably read the book about 3 full times, then took lots of notes XD. It was so fun though!

Dragon Heist is such a great campaign book and really works as a scenario set-up if you don't want to follow the path laid out. The premise is just so damn compelling as a starting point and can be really open ended. My group got into a situation where all four of the villains have a big part to play, but their biggest rivalry has been with the mindflayer Nihiloor (who I keep calling Nilihoor but it doesn't matter cause THEY just call him squidward).

This is great! This has motivated me to buy the book and perhaps try at a campaign with my friends!

I'd love to see your opinions on Homebrew races in standard modules

ah yes good ol' reliable Jarlaxle. my primary dps in idle champions. anyhoo, nice vid as usual. doubt that ill ever get to play a game of dnd but i appreciate these lore videos of yours and other creators as it helps me enjoy idle champions more

I was like "1 more Videos before i sit down and prep for the next group to play waterdeep" and then i see this. Lord Logan must've heard my prayers

Super fun to run into this right after DMing this exact story for my players tonight.

Hard agree. We just finished this, after a very long time and a lot of missed sessions, a couple months ago. We're heading down into the Dungeon of the Mad Mage now after having this glorious module to figure our characters out. It's nice to hit a more combat-heavy book with PCs who really feel like a team.

Im running 4 games of this simultaneously (for each season) with 4 different groups and I wish I knew this before one of them finished!!! I didnt use some villains because I didn't understand them, and I also played Silverhand way too nice to my force grey players. Love the video! Will adjust accordingly to my next games

i friend finished playing this and he played manshoon as "medieval dr doom"

I accidentally went down the rabbit hole with the Cassalanters in one of the sandbox campaigns I DM. Took a quest from a list I found of 100 ideas which was that there was a costume party where everyone became what they were dressed up as. Picked a noble villa randomly and it happened to be the Cassalanter's, so I did some research on them and decided to stage it as their younger children being kidnapped by devils sent by a different archdevil (don't remember which), a few weeks before their 9th birthday (when they were scheduled to be taken by Asmodeus). I've got a few crazy stories from that one, which ended up taking around 5 sessions to finish the mission since they couldn't figure out who the real devils were. Would have been a LOT shorter if the paladin realized she could use divine sense to locate them. 🤣

You convinced me. I just ordered it!

The first time I ever played at Adventurers League, it was when the Waterdeep adventures had just come out and we played Dragon Heist and Dungeon of the Mad Mage back to back. My DM was a genius, our table's villain for the season was Jarlaxle, but he integrated some of the other villains into the adventure as minor antagonists in really fun ways. Laeral Silverhand was working with both us and Jarlaxle, but presided over our criminal trial at the very end of the game when Jarlaxle framed us for the embezzlement and money laundering; the Cassalanters were reskinned into these old film detectives and we decided to do a heist on their house because they sent a Nimblewright to kill us; we were constantly being ambushed by Zhentarim thugs; and everybody wanted the Stone of Golorr for their own purposes, passing from hand to hand (but we ended up being the ones to get and accidentally use it). I think at the end, Jarlaxle ended up siding with us at the trial because he got what he wanted and didn't really want us dead. The only villain we never encountered was Manshoon, but I think we had such a complex web of intrigue and danger that I never minded. It's a campaign I'll never forget!

Dragon hesit was really fun to run, but I found that for certain play groups, it's hard to get them to care about the villains motives

I literally just opened this to start reading it to run for my new group!!

@jimsquire-chestnuts8381

3 жыл бұрын

Pro tip: choose your season at th beginning of the game. That way you can cut out irrelevant distractions. First time I DM this we had cassalanters as villains but early on you encounter a Xanathar's Guild mindflayer... Plays we're obsessed with mindflayer and never saw it again. Now when I run this I tailor almost every encounter to be related to the main villain. Also: you can describe the city better if you know the season at the start

@abidoesnerdstuff

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsquire-chestnuts8381 should I ask my players? How would you go about selecting the season without losing player agency?

@jimsquire-chestnuts8381

3 жыл бұрын

@@abidoesnerdstuff up to you... If there is a villain you favour: pick the season accordingly. First time I ran it was at home in Beijing and we played Summer (Cassalanters) because it was summer. Then I ran it for my friends in South Africa during winter so I ran it winter. If you let your players decide, let them choose the season but not the villain. Keep the big bad a secret. In the summer campaign they ran into Jarlaxle and burnt one of his ships to the sea floor after confusion regarding the nimblewright. He wasn't the big bad, but they encountered him.

@jimsquire-chestnuts8381

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this campaign is so fantastic any way you play it that it doesn't matter too much. The second or third time you run it is amazing though because it is SO DIFFERENT

I'd really like a video on how to make environments more interesting! I feel like people are always talking about dungeon designs or overland travel, but I've never seen anyone talk about how you can make that random hut in the forest memorable without combat or anything

The very first time I played through this was in AL, it ended in a near TPK because two of our players were drunk, but we still technically won, getting the Stone to the right people in the hopes they would be able to succeed where we failed

The Alexandrian Remix is a must for this module.

just casually doesn't mention manshoon leads the zhents 🤣🤣

There was a separate adventures league created villain, a mix between a mindful layer and a doppelganger, that wanted to rule water deep from the shadows using intellect devourers, subterfuge, and general evil stuff. I think he had a complex involving his identity.

maybe make a video about slaads in general, they are rarely used monsters in D&D but have really unique and interesting lore, not to mention they can be extremely lethal even if they die kind of easy. Getting infected by one will put the party on a race against time to get the eggs out or permanently lose one member of their party. Really high stakes.

Oh shit, ideas for next video.. uh.. could do more basically videos? I used the Genie and Lycanthrope videos you did recently, but it'd be interesting to learn about things like the Deities. It's really daunting to have to go researvh every single deity when you're looking for one for a specific aspect, and your videos make them into easily understandable, bite size tidbits of information rather than 30 sources and walls of text.

I'd love to see "Basically oath of treachery" It's gotta be my favorite paladin subclass

„It probably still is...I hate it here“ No worries buddy, you can come to Europe, where you can draw a ton of inspiration from batshit crazy folktales.

@mgtowmister

3 жыл бұрын

Please take him, America doesn't need anymore feminist soy-boys.

@tiberseptim8434

3 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowmister“MGTOW mister“😂😂😂😂😂😂

Excellent video! I'm allergic to buying prewritten campaigns, but I may pick Dragon Heist up just for villains to loot. On the topic of what to base future videos on: any chance of you looking into what settings could be officially brought back for 5e? I'm champing at the bit at the possibility of seeing Spelljammer come back. I'm also curious to see what other subclass videos you do next.

Yay for our British way of speeding and saying things! 😂🙌🏻

I'm so excited to show this world to my players! We are very slow so I hope we stick with it such an amazing story (though the faction missions are a bit lacking in my opinion)

I'm really curious about the elemental planes, the cities/people there, and how you might run an adventure with them

We love your fish too

So, our game of Dragon Heist went well of the rails, to the point that the only villain not involved was Manshoon, because aside from some stuff he was doing in the background he was too intimidated by the fluster cluck of the situation that he more or less decided to sit out and try and steal the gold from the victor. One highlight of the game was that the party ended up in a legal battle with a pit fiend regarding the Cassalnter contract, and after a fight we convinced them to let us kill them since their contract ensured them a "long life". We also cut a deal with Jarlaxel to take credit for finding the gold to strengthen relationships between Waterdeep and Luscan, since in out game's timeline it was becoming a hub for Drow refugees on the surface (and to get the heat off of out back, since now he has to deal with Manshoon). So we saved the kids and got their brother's soul freed, but now they're orphans and their family is broke, so we're going to have to deal with the fallout of that at some point. Another highlight was our DM had Jarlaxel babysitting Drizzt and Cattie-Brie's kid after they stowed away on his ship, with them blowing his cover during our initial meeting with him. That was adorable

I just wrapped up the Dragon Heist campaign with my group. Xanathar was the enemy. We had a Drow player that teamed up with Jarlaxle to steal the money, give that money to Silverhand. Because the money was given, she gave Jarlaxle a position as a Hidden Lord of Waterdeep and made the PC a top officer in his Bregan D'aerthe. But because Jarlaxle now needs to remain in Waterdeep he gave the party a mission to quash the unrest in Luskin, thus keeping his power in that region too. That's where we left off. Oh yea, the party opened the dungeon, investigated it and then convinced the Dragon to give up the treasure to Renaer Neverember, the now rightful owner of the treasure, after his father died (a convincing lie).

Laeral Silverhand is like a lvl 20 Wizard - Chosen of Mystra. She is as powerful as it gets, being an immortal demigod and all...

Anyone who's run this campaign or interested in running it should look up the Alexandrian Remix for it. Works around some continuity issues and modifies the campaign to have more than one villain. Turns it into more of a Westeros Free-For-All and makes it less linear. Great campaign either way.

Great video 👍

completely unrelated but i love that Laurel replaces Xanathars fish whenever it dies. Thats an actual thing she does, and it makes me love her

I loved the video it's nice to know you read the comments, can you make more adventure module related content please.

Was about to start watching, but then remembered that our party is about to enter Waterdeep, so I guess I'll see you in like six months.

I've played through this module and I thought we did all of the side quests, but we apparently missed a lot

You know what kind of video I would like more of? Tall Tales!

Leave it to Runesmith to release a video on Waterdeep right as Im about to start the main plot of Waterdeep as a DM. I don’t know how you always do this

I have a big problem as a DM that is about to start the campaign - I really want to use Castelanters as main villains, but I can't! 4 of 5 players were in my previous campaign, and one of their personal enemies was noble family of van Tassels, that tried to sacrifice one of the PCs as a child, in similar manner to Castelanters, to Grazz't.

Dragon Heist, the campaign where my players fight over the ownership of a tavern.

I highly suggest reading Mechanical Failure on Audible

Convince Xanathar and Jarlaxel to both work together with the party and you win

ok ok, lets take a moment to look at Manshoon's name _what a fucking great name, its a good villain name, i want it_

I would love a video about YOUR favorite story tropes and why.

Bruh the only villain I ever remember even coming close to in my playthrough of dragon heist was xanathar and i guess the cassalanters when we broke into their house. Still a great adventure though, my party generated enough conflict among ourselves honestly

"History is just different kids fighting over different toys." Runesmith obviously watched the last Airbender.

I'm kind of interested in this just to see how they write up the characters, to give me guidelines for writing up the NPCs in my own campaign. Is there anything similar to look at online and accessible that anyone can point me to?