This video effectively covers the range of like 6 hours of Matt Colvillian videos in seven minutes.

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

Woah that's high praise! Thank you for watching

@tylerford5720

11 ай бұрын

That’s ADHD with effective communication during a hyperfixations for ya

@Nosmo90

9 ай бұрын

Now I want this same service performed using the content of other TTRPG KZreadrs, so that their advice is more easily digestible for me! 😅

For anyone like myself who wants to put Maim, Claim or Fame in their game, I've written it up into a one page handout (with a bit of my own spin): After your third failed death saving throw or instant death, you decide how you die: working with the DM, you have a dramatic death and last words. SLAIN: You die Rules As Written, meaning that you can be revivified etc. You have last words. If your body is not revived, your allies may go on a journey to find a way to resurrect you. MAIM: You survive death, but are maimed. You suffer 4 levels of exhaustion, and are maimed in a way fitting to how you died (or the DM rolls a d4 on the DMG Lingering Injuries table). You can be maimed a number of times equal to your constitution modifier, minimum of one. You and your allies may need to journey to find regeneration or a magical or mechanical prosthetic. AIM: You forfeit magical resurrection, and cannot return to life without True Resurrection or Wish. As you die, in the place of a dramatic final attack, spell, or burst of lifeforce, you deal massive damage to them, spending your dying moments trying to save your allies. You choose an enemy you can see, dealing (5% of enemy Max HP x your character level) in a single blow. Creatures with legendary actions automatically take half of that. What are your last words? FAME: You forfeit magical resurrection, and cannot return to life without True Resurrection or Wish. As you die, you utter last words and face your fate so heroically that your allies are empowered to do impossible & valiant deeds in your memory. The party now has a Fame dice pool (1d6 x your character level). Any party member may spend one or more of these dice on any d20 roll for the next hour, whether skills, saves, or attack rolls. Thanks so much for this video, it's full of such good ideas!

It is genuinely impressive that only six of the 117 deaths came from the tomb of horrors

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Alas, it was 5E Tomb of Horrors, which has been severely nerfed.

Your "Three ways to go out" is beautiful. D&D gives us all a way to confront death & consequences in a safe environment and being able to "choose how you wanna go out" is a really empowering way to take the sting out of a botched endeavor. Loved this video, great work!

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Seeing people get actually excited about dying in D&D is one of my favorite DM experiences (I promise I'm not killing PCs on purpose)

I remember when a friend of mine (already a DM) was teaching me about running combat encounters in 2E AD&D. He rolled up a bunch of "characters" , and had me run a few monsters from a random encounter chart against them. I say "characters", because these were not the fleshed-out, fully detailed, 'I've-got-a-home-somewhere' characters that people make nowadays- no, these were character sheets on note book paper with ability scores, weapons and gear, spells (for wizards and priests), and a name at the top of the page. They were also all level 1. I learned that the most deadly encounter for any PC, regardless of race, class or high ability score, was a pair of giant crayfish: those things destroyed almost twenty characters in under twenty minutes. Adventuring in such a world is a grim business, where personality is a luxury you can afford only by living long enough to reach 2nd level, and your name is less important than your role in the group, because the roles will always need to be filled, and the names will inevitably change all too soon.

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing the horrors of the giant crayfish!! Shadowdark RPG is capturing some of that old school lethality, Mike Shea Sly Flourish has a video up of the session zero meat grinder where everyone rolls up a few characters, and the ones they end up playing are the ones that survive

This is an extremely under-rated channel!

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

Hey thanks! That kind of feedback keeps me going.

I like to rule death as such: I have pre-banned all ressurrection spells but True Ressurrection. I appropriately lower the lethality so that everyone isnt perma-dying all the time, but it also means that for most parties, there is no way back from death. This means that death very final, which is good dramatically because the players aren't thinking of the best way to ressurrect their friend, and are instead in the moment of the death knowing this character is forever gone. Then, I give the pc one last action or bonus action, and their full movement. Any attacks they make are at advantage and any saving throws against their effects are at disadvantage. The only restriction is that they themselves can no longer be healed. This last action lets a PC, in any fight, go out with a bang and raises the chance of them succeeding on it by a lot. It gives them a moment for their character to shine and bring someone down with them, heal a friend, or otherwise protect the party, and then they die forever and roll up a new character.

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

This is really cool! A last effort action is my kinda ending. Thank you for sharing, and for watching!

Just found this channel. As an ADHD person, and a fledgling DM in training, I appreciate these videos a lot. Thanks!

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for watching, I'm glad this could be of some help!

I'm getting ready to reveal to my players how my hags had been growing clones of the 3 PCs who had died since entering the Tomb of the Nine Gods. They can be brought back to full strength, but only by feeding them the essence of another soul!

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I love a good horrible bargain Thank you for watching

Brilliant! One of my favorite ends for a character was Maim- she prevailed agains tthe horror that had destroyed her hone town and killed her family, thay she and the battle nuns who had raised her had carefully repressed and nearly erased. But doing so shattered her, and she retired back to the convent, alive and available as an ally in certain casea, but never again to go adventuring. (It's also good to check in if anyone seems like they want to change out characters, I know I've been done with one of mine and all too eager to go out bravely protecting others so I can bring in the new hotness to try out.)

@TheADHDM

19 күн бұрын

Yeah I totally get you on checking if someone just wants to reroll and jaunt towards an epic death. I've had that happen a few times

Did you notice that the Daggerheart RPG has similar death rules to your Maim / Claim rules? You beat them to it!

@TheADHDM

2 ай бұрын

A while back, one of my discord mods dropped me a link to the description, I was so stoked! The Daggerheart death rules are way more elegant, but that's to be expected haha

I never was interested in high-lethality games (unless it's "pull a random character from a phile" sort of game; it just feels like loosing in a table top game for me when they die, which weirdly enough never frustrated me), and I guess I still am not, but one of the most memorable moment I had playing ttrpg was my character dying to save her country (which wasn't possible, because real-life history, but she believed she did). Probably it was because getting there was a result of our decisions (not GM pushing us and not random), and also because it was epic (playing that last fight in combat rounds would be just annoying).

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

That kind of heroic ending is so cool!! Thank you for watching

Your maim, claim, or fame rules sound a lot like Daggerheart's death rules, the new RPG from Darrington Press. It's a great concept and implementing it will make me more willing to kill characters, because in DND5e and PF2e, as written, dying just kinda blows, and you either make death unimmpactful or frustrating.

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

I was so excited when one of my discord mods shared that with me! It gets me WAY more pumped up about Daggerheart

@enterchannelname8981

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheADHDM I'm pumped too, so many of the mechanics seem like they fit what I want to happen with little fiddling (I haven't seen the full rules but based on what I've seen so far) A last gasp as you die to save your allies is a lot better than rolling a 2 and doing nothing for your last turns It's also sweet that armor makes you a bulwark who can take many hits and being quick makes you harder to hit, instead of both of them doing the exact same thing (if I remember correctly) Sign me up!

5:07 Merry doing his best Gandalf while he thinks Gandalf isn't watching. 🤣❤️

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

LMAO that got me Thank you for watching

@mikeyfox2299

10 ай бұрын

@@TheADHDM I actually have hours clocked doing similar impressions of Sir Ian's voice, as one of my recurring D&D characters is basically him (Dragonborn Bard/Sorcerer). So I appreciate seeing more of it around.

I jave the opposite problem, I am too nice and all the NPCs are very helpful and friendly.

@TheADHDM

19 күн бұрын

sounds like a nice place to live at least lol

Can we get some Death House stories of those unfortunate 32 souls that died before reaching lv3 in CoS?

@TheADHDM

9 ай бұрын

I'll make some in memoriam shorts for some of the PCs who went out in the wildest ways. Thank you for watching!

I really like this. Im definitely going to use this in my game!

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

That's awesome! RIP to your PCs

Loved the new editing style and look of the video!

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

Thankya!

5:21 ok THAT one got me 🤣👏👏

You is that you making that voice 5 minutes in!? Nice!

@TheADHDM

8 ай бұрын

Yep, Gandalf is one of the three voices I have down, my players are probably sick of it at this point

@TheUglyGoblin

7 ай бұрын

@@TheADHDM it's mighty impressive though haha

I love the thumbnail and title hahaha

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

Well clearly you have great taste

Such a great channel, thank you. Great guides that I’ve found very useful as a DM with ADHD. One quick question, generally do you personally find it’s easier to run homebrew campaigns or prewritten adventures?

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Hey thank you so much for watching!! >easier to run homebrew campaigns or prewritten adventures If we're talking WOTC adventures, homebrew is so much easier. But there are other publishers like The Arcane Library that I can literally run with zero prep. The cowardly answer is that no matter what I end up doing a hybrid of both. I grab encounters and dungeons I like from published campaigns and make up the rest.

@Engelbertvan

10 ай бұрын

@@TheADHDM thanks for such a thoughtful response! I will definitely check over the Arcane library, I’ve really enjoyed the world building vids you have so I will try and put them to good use 👍

As DM, I haven't killed any PCs. They got themselves killed.

@TheADHDM

3 ай бұрын

That's the spirit! Thank you for watching

So I see your most recent video is going viral. I just want to leave a note on *this* video to remind you that it's *NOT* the topic that's blowing up. It's your presentation style (aka. "voice") that's blowing up. I mean that literally. The bots sort based on colours and sounds, not by subject.

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight!!! And thank you for watching

You've read wot with that year a day line lol

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

1:28 How do you want to do this? Nope that's seven... and that's basically the polar opposite phrase to what the actual answer was. lol

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

"how do you want to (perish)"

I have killed 0....

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

that's pretty common! Especially 4E and onward. I think for a lot of folks that's the ideal game type, too

Very helpful!!! I was wondering if you could suggest some thing for me I am new to running games and I don’t really know anyone in person to ask. I do use D&D Beyond, so if you don’t use it, you probably can’t help me. I’m trying to create NPC‘s. They were going to fight with the party but the party actually invited them to join them right now they’re created as monsters so they make the party look like they’re going to fight a bunch of people when they’re not really going to do that, so how would you do this? Do you use D&D Beyond? Is it even worth it and maybe I didn’t explain this well. I want my NPC’s to have names and characters. Even the bad guys. I think it helps him connect better to do that and to remember who each one is I’m trying to create them in the D&D Beyond monster homebrew section or should I just make them all characters and add them to the campaign. It seems like it’s getting super complicated.

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

What aspects of D&D beyond are you using? Are you wanting them as individual entries in the encounter builder? Are these NPCs stronger than commoners? Do they have unique abilities?

@cynsue1618

11 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you so much for taking the time to help. I am using the home brew monster creator and the encounter generator. I have been working on five specific npc’s. Four goblins each with a name and class, Druid, barbarian, wizard and rogue. One elf rogue with specific spells. I had named them in the monster creator. The party encountered the goblins and instead of fighting them or leaving them on the road they decided to ask them to join them. So my first problem is that because they are monsters when I make the encounter in dnd beyond and add them into the equation it totally throws of the encounter difficulty. My Elf rogue who is working for my big baddy I created as a character instead of making her monster, then I tried making her in the monster home brew creator, there wasn’t an elf rogue template so I had to create one from scratch and that was extremely difficult for me. I tried to keep the rollable code useable, but must have made a mistake when inputting the information because none of it worked. So my question to an experienced dm I guess is how would you specifically handle this scenario? Do you build monsters as characters with character sheets? Because this also throws the encounter builder off in dnd beyond. Or now that the goblins have joined the party do I make characters for each of them in dnd beyond add them to the party temporarily and creat the elf rogue as a monster? At this point I’m wondering if all the work to tweak dnd beyond into building this encounter is the best way to do this. How would you handle this, would you even use dnd beyond, or would you do it old school. Maybe my basic problem is making a stat block from a character sheet which isn’t supported on dnd beyond atm. Any advice you have would be great! I hope this is clear.

@TheADHDM

11 ай бұрын

@@cynsue1618 at that point I would choose very low CR templates to use in dndbeyond. If you have Volo's Guide to Monsters there are a ton of NPC statblocks, and don't be afraid to use generic statblocks like Guard, Bandit, Cultist, etc. and just reflavor them at the table

@cynsue1618

11 ай бұрын

thank you! Steep learning curve!@@TheADHDM

I have killed 5 pcs total since i got started

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!! Were they all in one campaign?

@giftofgabby

10 ай бұрын

Its between two games two different curse of strahd games @@TheADHDM

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

@@giftofgabby That'll do it! Any of them come back as revenants, vampire spawn, etc?

Question if you see this coment. If P1 needs to take a criminal to a prison to collect a bunty and acts with the athority of the Polis Captain (having a badge), and askes that any of the 3 other Ps come with them to help with the escort, they say no to P1 and they get to set out on their own and since no one else with a badge can vouch for P1 the polis force (corupt) kills P1 and takes the bounty for them self. Then P2, P3, P4, and the DM said it was stupid to go alone, P1 says they asked someone to come with them but the others claims it didn't happen. Tell me, is this fair? This did happen to me and the DM refused to retcon it

@TheADHDM

10 ай бұрын

That sounds really frustrating! I can't audit the DM's decision there, but I do know how upsetting it can be to lose a character in such a distressing way. I hope you get a chance for justice!

@theprinceofawesomeness

10 ай бұрын

@@TheADHDM well i did't really get justice, it's also to late. the scenario i found my self in happened in the Baldurs Gate part of Decent in to Avernus. the DM understod my frustration but he didn't want to undo a death, however he worked with me to have a resurection in Candle Keep, the other players hated the idea because they hate resurection...? later on before we got to a decision crossroad, a Narzugon killed a party member with soul Coins, everyone was "greafing" while i just wanted to secure the Soul Coins. the Barbarien whom was constantly fighting me for a leader position and everyone else in the party wanted to be the leader acused me of theft and went on killing my character. (the barbarien was the only original member since the other 2 players died around 5 times during baldurs gate, mostly thair own foult like having a building explode and having a roof colaps over them). i'm not sure why the Barbarien wanted me dead but i belive the player hates me, they all seem to hate other people playing as monster/exotic racess. after the death from the barbarien i justcursed them all out and left. i later found out that the Barbarien was given everything that i (player and character) could wish for as a reward (their own fiefdom) which the Barbarien (player and character) didn't care for. i'm currently playing Dungon of the Mad Mage with the same group (Barbarien is DM) and i feel singled out but nothing like it was in Avernus. i'm curently thinking of leaving that game since we have made negative progress since we die every other level and the DM confirmed to us that the adventure expects us to have at least 1 Legendary item per character, we're at layer 22 and can only aford a rare item from starting equipments, the DM is trying his best but refuses to break any rule or add any new items to the game becouse "5e is balanced", on top of that, any item on characters that die and stay dead in the Dungon goes to the Mad Wizard as he can use them against us in the final Battle. due to the shere amount of characters that died for me (i only like to play a hand full of characters that i play as in all games) and the fact it is supose to be imposible for us to compleate have made me jaded to a point of apathy. i do like to play with the group and we already know the next game to play after the Mad Mage but they don't seem to like playing with me, and i have come to hate 5e becouse i feel i have reach the limit of what's possible to do within the games rules