I honestly don't understand how this guy doesn't have 10x more subscribers.

@LJ-gu2dj

2 жыл бұрын

Not everyone can be a Big Old Bad Ass!

@punishedwhispers1218

6 ай бұрын

5e players are allergic to good game design (hence the reason they play 5e)

1:30 2 dividends: 1.simplified concept 2.clear choice-points and consequences

This is why I an a patreon. People like Hank need to do this fulltime.

"Good God... Is this gonna end?! I was hoping not... that was an interesting debate!

I knew I should have waited to watch this in the morning and not before I went to bed. Now I’m up in my bed planning a map just to see what I come up with. Sometimes it’s hard being a creative...

There is a lot that works in my games, but Sir, YOU, your book and this video are the antidote to fix what is wack in my shit. Gods bless you.

This is also a good idea for maps because unless a kingdom has a lot of time and experienced cartographers, maps would probably look very much like this. It also solves a headache of trying to figure out how the distance between every point is measured which maybe one wants to leave open ended.

Hey, Hankerin, not a Patron yet, but I plan to be soon. I picked up ICRPG in November, and I liked it so much that I bought a copy for every member of my regular gaming group for Christmas. In my first play test of it I managed to get players through a densely populated and trap-riddled 15 room dungeon in less than an hour and a half. And thanks to the 3 Ts, every encounter had the players on edge. Putting a lot more game in a lot less time is my top priority these days. And no one lays it out easier than you do. I am hoping that this concept, and a few others you've been laying down might end up in something like an ICRPG Campaign Engineering Tome of Doom.

For some reason I haven't seen this video recommended on my home page until a month after its release. Hitting that bell icon to never miss one again! This is pure brain food! Yum :) Update: I think I got it. I subscribed 3 weeks ago, after watching "Lore Stones", and this video is 4 weeks old. Perhaps, that's the reason I didn't see it.

And I totally agree with your philosophy on focusing on what is playable

That's the first phrase of yours that i found worthy of a book! Where heroes don't go, bad things happens!

Just bought 5e hardcore mode. I love you man

Hi Hank

I like this shorter format, but the deep dives are rad too.

Can we have a video of just those 2 town guards bickering over lever technique?

Another good source of this kinda idea is the concept of the pointcrawl

Lolol the cavern guards throwback killed me 🤣

Quantum ogre done good, with consequences, loved the concepts discussed here.

Man, I love the condensed format of these vids. Much easier for me to watch. So happy they are around the 15-30 min mark.

This is by far the best d&d channel imho. Love your stuff

This video was excellent. I agree with your desire to cut things down to more palatable sizes. The content you talk about is really helpful, and some of the previous long videos definitely pushed me away from consuming content. Keep up the really great work!

Please make more of those goblin conversations. I might use that during a session. Hope that's okay. 😂😂

Omg! It just hit me: Dark Sun... MARIO STYLE!!!

I really like this new format. Lot's of great ideas from this series so far!

Much prefer this version of video!

Hank's "lost mind" is the best mind :)

I want more workdbuilding! More cool ideas, more you talking about your encounters.

Loved this. I like the shorter format but if you're gonna do that, please make them frequent! We watch you religiously and we need our Runehammer fix!!

The wildest man in DnD nailing it yet again. Always raw like meat and just as satisfying.

Hahah... never change, Hank. Or, rather, continue on your journey of continual growth as evolving D&D bad ass. :)

Definitely enjoy the shorter style of videos

See a new Hankerin video, click like. Always solid!

Brilliantly simple! I’m gonna add this to my game for sure.

This is so helpful Hank. I was starting to tie myself in knots developing my current adventure. Thank you!

This video sticks out from your usual crop of awesome by being really, really awesome.

I love the idea of the Skull SwitchTM

14:37 was one of the best guard skits ever! That reminded me of Guy over at HowToBeAGreatGM Please do more end skits like that!

I thoroughly enjoy these last few videos! Reminds me of your early videos in 2016. Where is the crazy alcohol cocktails though? X)

This is so simple. So genius.

i like this short video format. you give some ideas and let us take it from there

Perfect timing for me on this video! My players are at a spot where a binary choice is going to come up, but I really only prepared for one outcome. This reminded me that I should write a few notes for the other choice before the session this weekend.

“But I don’t want to be a lizard. I want to be frog... father?”

Yes! This is what I am currently doing in my games. Using the old school video game RPG's for inspiration in my game. Love this!!

Solid gold! Ultimate effort!

Every week you slay it!

The cat gave up on you Hank. Great video. Thanks for the great ideas!

Awesome, thank you! First of all: the new Room-Design Format is great: focused, but free minded. And this video especially, is so essential for me as a GM. It really helps to not get lost in details and unnecessary complex thinking. And also: keep healthy everybody, take care of you and your loved ones! ...these two guards have to come back at some point - I love them^^

Thanks brother! Keep the love alive ✨

Thanks for the upload, Hankerin.

Mario style. I. Love. This.

Good stuff. Working out some similar stuff for my current John Carter game. GIve the players agency, see if they figure out what is going on behind the scenes of their one-shots.

I absolutely love your ideas! I am hunkered down in Mongomery county, everything is getting shut down so I guess ill have more time to prepare for my next session! Keep safe bud!

Great intro and video! Very helpful suggestions! Stay awesome! Thanks dude!

Bloody awesome! Great vid and the guards at the end are superb!

Great video. I love your take. I watch a lot of Matt Colville, who goes super deep so I feel I have to go that deep into it. You come in with that practical application to give it balance.

This was well thought out, I like the idea of individual "levels" with choices and their consequences and giving the players more agency

I like to think that I use some of these techniques in my Alfheim campaign. As mentioned before, I started the group in Khett. They were tribesmen that eventually got exiled from the tribe. They decided to head to port sand. There I gave them two adventure hooks...get involved with a cult who opposes the Khettish tribes or search for the inventor Jadzaro. They picked searching for Jadzaro. As a consequence, should the cult grow in power? Should they advance there plans to eliminate the 3 khettish tribes? Maybe they’ll raise a fang of yeenoghu and the tribes will turn into a hord of gnolls. 😈

@ddesouz6

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone who adds a picture of Easy-E hitting switches gets extra brownie points in my book

You're awesome Hank!

This reminds me of an older video - it may have been a DM's Notebook Revealed, during which you extolled the virtues of side-scrolling platformer dungeon design. I wonder whether you still do that at all?

Hank is a legend ... a legend I tell ye Great stuff Hank keep it a comin

Really digging this format. Thanks for sharing this hank!

I loved it! I'm gonna so Mario next

Great suggestions, and such a great attitude on life. Thanks for doing what you do... 😊

You're making some damn good videos, Hank. I'm not surprised more people are hoppin on the Patron train. I'll be there once I get my finances figured out. And videos like this are giving me my DM fix while life's getting temporarily too busy to play myself. Thanks!

Very well expressed!

Such a great piece of content. I always get anxiety running my game that I won't be able to create on the fly or know enough about the Shadowrun world. P.S. Whatever that was at the end hand me ROLLING! XD Happy to be a new patron.

Great video! I am taking notes! The ending of your videos almost always make me smile. Thank you!

Such a great video. Love the format. Thanks

Just great! Always a pleasure to listen and/or watch, though I very much do appreciate your longer videos as well!

I would watch a video series of NPC bickering for sure

Thanks for the upload, very interesting way to go about world building!

Wooooo!!! World building in 3d! If you know what I mean...

Big fan of Thesis Mode. Good video my dude

Love your stuff, man! So unique! My very favorite session of last year was an ICRPG one-shot I ran for my friends on my birthday.

Sometimes I need to go for the whole continent. My brain gets too power hungry and needs to eat. The players get the leftovers... a big ol' city with mobsters, sewers with different ecosystems, the Underdark, and interdimensional shortcuts.

Your cat was staying so still in the background that I had to skip ahead a bunch of times to see if it moved just to make sure that it was a real cat.

And now, you can add some parts of the loved ones of the party when they encounter a meat box, to make the decision sting that much more. >:)

Amazingly Inspiring, as always! Blessed job, Hank!

Hankerin! Glad to see you back on the internet, doing what you do! My copy of Index RPG arrives in a couple of days, can't wait to crack open that sucker. Meanwhile... what happened to your dog? He appears to have turned into a cat!

You could do a one man stage show about Guards.

God speed little doodle.

I like it, thank you.

wow, i had time to watch all of it... Good job!

LOVE IT! thanks for the awesome content!

I love your hour long videos. I like content with some real meat, rather than the ephemeral tidbits everyone seems to be gobbling up these days.

Just ordered ICRPG (hard cover, baby), can't wait to get started

This is a lot like my sandy train station method: The players have a choice of which railroad to go on, but they ride those rails until the quest is complete or they jump off the track and go back to the depot to choose a different track. It allows plenty of player choice, but also allows the DM to run pre-planned encounters without needing to ad-lib everything.

U saving me dude thank you

My god! is there any end to the good ideas in dat brain ❤️

good one Dude!

Sounds like the D&D arcade game by Capcom.

Your last voice, turning down the cockney just a bit, and putting in a bit more sagely, wise, old man, would be a great Radagast. That dude is so cool, man, except for that stuff running down the side of his head. That's sh_t's just too far out for me:)) Enjoyed the video. Keep your stick on the ice and your head on a swivel on Broad Street.

Haha this is great stuff. Cheers me up these videos so they do. :)

Hahaha, that ending

Tilly rocks!! But you lost her at 6:17 better step it up next time!

Love it. Also I can’t believe one binary choice was ‘sink your teeth into the meat box.’...and they didn’t take it.

Hey Hank I had a idea that I wanted to pitch to ya. What do you think about making players having level up milestones be the campaign and have your players explain their own goals during session zero. That a task must be done before you earn your level. At a table of 4 people you would have 6 adventures in just for one tier of play and as you grown in tier it gets harder and harder to complete.

@Runehammer1

4 жыл бұрын

sure. a lot of games do that design!

This is awesome practical advice. You’re using “pointcrawls”-see both Zork (an old-school IF game) and these articles: hillcantons.blogspot.com/2014/11/pointcrawl-series-index.html?m=1 Food for thought: Tolkien did not create the whole of Arda/Middle Earth before writing - he created as he wrote and wrote as he created. Great approach!

Good stuff as always! ... BTW speaking of stuff, where's all your stuff? Armor, paintings, props?

@jesternario

4 жыл бұрын

He moved. It just hasn’t been put up yet.

Hey where's Cooper?

@Runehammer1

4 жыл бұрын

The runehounds are still in runehammeria for now! My apartment is too tiny for giant wolf beasts!