Giving your D&D players Rivals!

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Жыл бұрын

*anime rival voice*: smell ya later! Every time i've run longform campaigns in D&D I have given my players a rival team to befriend/befoe/belove. How do you go about doing that in DnD, and why?
Check out the rival team creation guide HERE!
docs.google.com/document/d/1r...
Video Editing by the amazing Bia: / bnazf
Writing, Illustration, and Narration by me: / antodemico

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@pointyhatstudios Жыл бұрын

What if we had a ship-teasing, thinly-veiled-ridden swordfight duel at midnight over the roofs of the city? haha just kidding Unless? 👀

@rochellerodriguez6431 Жыл бұрын

Sir you are writing the kinds of campaigns I long to be in ಥ_ಥ. Btw used your phantom rogue character idea for Belinda as my PC in Icewind Dale. I kept the cinnamon role aspect but amped up the creepy cute factor (think Sadako from The Ring but super friendly lol). She's been so fun to play!

@recognizablebrandname Жыл бұрын

this... is filled with tumblr energy.

@lucasoliveira-kg4nq Жыл бұрын

Place and time ??

@pLanetstarBerry Жыл бұрын

You laugh, but I introunced a narrative foil for my warlock and now he dreams of kissing the guy under the moonlight.

@Fobiwa Жыл бұрын

My first reaction to end of this video was gonna be "you forgot the most crucial part of rivals..... ROMANCE".... but then you post this banger of a response and now im beat 👀

@coolgreenbug7551 Жыл бұрын

I like the idea of the cleric/healer that doesn't have a rival in the rival team, and when the parties fight the two clerics just sit on the same rock healing their party while complaining to the other about all the stupid stuff they had to fix.

@Feu_Ghost Жыл бұрын

Better yet... They are lover

@invisibleaccount9284 Жыл бұрын

That’s a fun interaction, I love it

@andrewgilman887 Жыл бұрын

Hardly a fortnight ago, the orc sired moron drank a bottle of alchemists fire Thinking it was ale. By the gods, it would be easier to train a displacer beast to use a litter box...

@bekahreece2018 Жыл бұрын

In our Call of the Netherdeep campaign, the pre-made cleric ended up becoming a solo version of that. Our PC party was oddly-numbered and perfectly paired off with the rest of the pre-mades EXCEPT for their cleric, who had no foil on our side. So every time we interacted, their cleric ended up playing the third wheel / beleaguered parent chasing after both parties to mitigate the gas-fire the rest of us would inevitably become. It honestly made the odd-man-out cleric somehow a foil of the whole of the rest of us, and made the rivalry interactions that much more entertaining. That experience and watching this video is making me want to deliberately add odd-man-out characters for the rival party in future games of my own.

@FedEx867 Жыл бұрын

I Love this.

@theminism Жыл бұрын

i literally met my party's rival team in a session today so this is perfect timing... i hate them so much and it's so good ♥

@ultrainstinctboi9995 Жыл бұрын

I'm a dm in the process of planning the rival team for my party so I couldn't agree more

@germen2631 Жыл бұрын

Can't believe this, I was building the rivals and planned to introduce them in 4 or 5 sessions, I'm adapting them to appear sonner now I had material to work with.

@a-logicofficial6864 Жыл бұрын

Ha same! Just made the conceptd of the rivals today 😂

@tennoyamamoto1800 Жыл бұрын

Another cool idea is to have a conflict triangle involving the hero(es), the villain(s) and the rival(s), bonus points for having the "enemy of my enemy" moment, give your players one or two chances to temporarily join forces with their rivals to defeat the villain, depending on how the players treat their rivals have the rivals join the Villain or the Heroes

@rzgaming5678 Жыл бұрын

Yo.. you just saved me from trying to think up this plot hook, holy hell man ty

@Frostbite08 Жыл бұрын

Came to the comment section to say exactly this. The "this one time..." moment can be so good.

@wcs9582 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking even in this video, using the example characters, that the villain team could be like: Cyrilla's personal villain is an eldritch knight/warlock who used his force of will (and some backroom deals) to bind the other Dwarven nobles to his ambition, and is so corrupt that he allows his nobles to wreak havoc on the kingdom - the same kind of havoc as her father. Alois' personal villain could be the right hand of this tyrant, a knight whose sense of honor has him do everything the king demands to the letter, even if it's fucked up; He never refuses an order, and has made himself a loyal ally. Turmeric's could be an assassin who, like Turmeric, never knew his parents and was born in a gutter, but the Usurper saw potential in him and raised him as his own son like an adoptive father. He now serves the Usurper loyally, feeling like he owes him his life for raising him from poverty. Uses the same model as Pointy Hat proposed (an opposite, a mirror, and a mix) but they're just straight up villains that the rival party would *also* have a reason to hate. Alois and Fornata would hate the deeds that the right hand of the Usuper would do because they'd be so fucked up, Cyrilla and Dario would hate the Usurper because, in Cyrilla's mind, he'd be destroying her father's legacy, but in Dario's mind, he'd be another tyrant but worse. For Turmeric and Moira, Turmeric would hate that the Assassin got the opportunity that he never had, to have a parent, and Moira would hate that the Assassin just *listened to* and *obeyed* their parents and would be confused by the sense of duty that he feels to the Usurper. Also @Pointy Hat, followup video about creating good villains? I liked this one a lot.

@woodlefoof2 Жыл бұрын

I think another triangle that could be fun is like the Pokémon rival method. You have one you counter, one that counters you. Maybe a more antagonistic force and a more friendly competition. Like one team will buy you a drink and swap stories with you. After a successful dungeon crawl, challenging you to drinking competitions, or “which team can catch the most bounties, winner gets half the losers earnings” The other might be like Gary muddafuggin oak and challenge you to duels right after a dungeon. Then call you a “edit for KZfaq” for losing.

@RinaaaYa Жыл бұрын

Oh totally. Even had the rivals become a lot stronger during a period of time the party was missing or they were far away on an adventure. When my party went to the feywild, they returned only to hear how strong they became, and they tried to challenge the Campaign villain, and one member of them died and their leader lost an arm. Later on during another Villain's arc, that villain encountered the rivals, and that gave time the players to escape the scene with the npc they were trying to rescue from a public execution, and my players stopped halfway through and said; "wait. We still don't want to leave. We want to know what happens, and who wins!" I will never forget that session, they were truly hooks and for many sessions, I left the mystery of who won that fight and my players were trying to investigate what happened

@palehunter6711 Жыл бұрын

I thought of a funny rival being a necromancer wizard who is jealous that one of the PC's has such a large group of friends so the necromancer summons and takes control over undead to have their own friends. The further you progress in the game the more powerful undead they have like at the start they have a skeleton or zombie for each PC -1their idle. Then they slowly turn some them into stronger undead such as wights, ghouls and vampires.

@domczixyt707 Жыл бұрын

👍

@manticorephoenix Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@xandostres Жыл бұрын

Maybe a more interesting twist on this could be the Necromancer literally wanting the PC's friends. So they kill them and then raise them! Yippy!!

@Victor-um9ce Жыл бұрын

You mean wraiths, right?

@palehunter6711 Жыл бұрын

@@Victor-um9ce I mean the necromancer could also control wraiths but my typo was meant to be Wights as in the undead that can have 12 zombie servants.

@oldmanofthemountains3388 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite rival teams was the first I created. It was entirely to prevent a TPK in a low-level dungeon. The PCs were pretty deep in the dungeon and after a few bad rolls they were ALL making death saves as the monsters loomed over them. Then another adventuring party showed up at full health (because most of the dungeon was already cleared!). The players HATED that they had to be rescued so THEY made this adventuring party their rivals!

@alexcothren5103 Жыл бұрын

Thats an awesome idea!

@lechking941 Жыл бұрын

ya know thats amusing that things went THAT way as it is but in a world were adventuring is completive as can be i can see this happening

@Zaprozhan Жыл бұрын

Sometimes the players do the work for you. USE IT SHAMELESSLY!

@lechking941 Жыл бұрын

@@Zaprozhan indeed infact sometimes theres just in party rivals who will GUTTERISE eachother into problems and then if it gets the entire party into a mess they will have to unfuck the situation

@BrendanKOD 11 ай бұрын

This is one of the options created by the existance of a Rival team, a "Don't kill the party move" that offers more roleplaying options going forward, as long as not overused. But if these sort of things are creating too much vitrol in the party, one opposite trick would be an adventure hook in the form of a half dead Rival team member stumbling up to the party and after some back and forth swallowing their pride to ask for help because the rest of their team were taken prisoner and the PC's are the best chance they can see to save them.

@O4C209 Жыл бұрын

Remember, you don't have to make rivals for the group ahead of time. You can turn an npc that a player has interacted with into a rival. This way you can see what basic premise the players respond to, then build from there.

@MatiasBenavides Жыл бұрын

I think this is a very good approach, as the players start to remember them and have personal grudge.

@jackiecozzie4803 Жыл бұрын

I think it would be cool to mark off a few NPCs as potential rivals, and have those who the players seemed most interested in show up again as rivals

@BrendanKOD 11 ай бұрын

Especially in a new champaign where you haven't gotten a handle on how the PC's will be running their character. If you find that one of your NPC's is making sparks fly with one PC, that's a good foundation, to expand from.

@sanserof7 8 ай бұрын

Yeah that's probably a better way of doing it, naturally there's gonna be NPC's the players dislike and it's fun to make the players hate those NPC's even more.

@oliverdown6287 Жыл бұрын

Antonio, you’re so creative and hard-working, it blows my mind. I’m so happy that you make videos for people to tune into to enhance their roleplaying experiences. You should be so proud of yourself

@broomhandel3960 Жыл бұрын

Right? It’s insane that this level of content is free!

@michaelrigg3623 Жыл бұрын

I feel called out by the Wizard Apos'Trophee Hyphen-Name, and I am here for it. I need a Wheel of Goals for villains to let the players spin for what is happening.

@jasonreed7522 Жыл бұрын

Maybe use a different wheel, that wheel had 1 "WW3 analogy" and the rest were "destroy the world".

@vodar1114 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love how both Moira and Turmeric have round animal companions

@EssentialNPC Жыл бұрын

and Adaine

@hastyhawkeye Жыл бұрын

Vodar nice profile picture

@Strix182 9 ай бұрын

Turmeric's little buddy came part and parcel with their Urchin background. Moira's familiar? Purchased from a pet store for the aesthetic.

@GunnarClovis Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that Dwarven girl's beard quite a lot

@octo448 Жыл бұрын

This! I almost teared up. More dwarven women with beards!

@vukkulvar9769 Жыл бұрын

I assumed it was a joke like she's played by a guy.

@Xanderqwerty123 Жыл бұрын

Dwarf goatees are very underated 👌

@greysonjones5429 Жыл бұрын

@@vukkulvar9769 Naw dude, classic tolkien. Dwarven Women have beards, which is why people think that dwarves emerge from stone. From the Hobbit.

@maxmuller445 Жыл бұрын

@@greysonjones5429 Except of course that Amazon fucked that up

@yonatanevron2428 Жыл бұрын

I gave my players a Cambion Rival, he fought them 1v5 at like level 2 (he had no armor) with no magic items. Quite close, and they won. He escaped with his superior flying speed. They met him a few times after, mainly doing his own thing. Any he made his own little party that is doing many quests the party ignores, they even worked together once. To keep up with the party, he also gained levels at Barberian (his AC is made from DEX+CON+CHA ;)) He mainly focuses on gainning political influence and getting in with the important tribe leaders

@davididiart5934 Жыл бұрын

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, inspires more murderous hatred in my players than me trying to set up a rival team for them to face. Like, I don't know why they always jump straight to "we must slit their throats in the night" mode... but they do. Always. It's kinda frustrating....

@QuietAsHeimdal Жыл бұрын

Aww :( Have you tried leaning into that expectation and used the rivals to bait your party?

@blingwraith6951 Жыл бұрын

Maybe you could have the local authorities get mad at the party for straight up murdering other adventurers? That might make your players calm down

@davidjennings2179 Жыл бұрын

Some DMs adopt the rival team so much that they switch to a DM Vs player mindset, backing the rivals over the development of story (together, not the DM alone). I'm not saying it's what you're doing but perhaps consider it. If players who play for freedom feel like they're being restrained they'll often lash out as murder hobos.

@KalonOrdona2 Жыл бұрын

The villain has been observing this behavior and sets up a team of assassins to cosplay as a foil party

@Dyneamaeus Жыл бұрын

Rival players can be very dangerous narratively, as their very existence questions protagonists in ways not every player wants to deal with. For example, the player behind the dwarven princess in the video may not have any desire to explore what her rival brings to the table, opting instead to just goad them into combat and kill the perceived 'disruption' to their character's planned arc. It's a good idea to let rivals occur naturally, or at least broach the subject with a player before trying to give them one.

@DanielGalllego Жыл бұрын

one very important thing, a "devil is in the details" kind of thing, is that it is VERY important thing actually know your players characters before even considering a rival. i'll say to give your characters a session, or two, or half the campaing ok maybe not that much, to get to know yout players, what they actually do what they actually think how do the actually react, it's never easy to get any of that on the character sheet the first time without some experience precisely because characters are always iterating upong themselfs while playing. your paladin may have syad that he is the shining face of honor and piaty but maybe the player themself isn't actually aware of sayd details and missed an oportunity to help someone or an insult to the crown simply flew over their head whem they heard it idk, a very important and specific detail that informs that a rival atacking sayd desire may not be able to fully succed in their objective but a ruval constructed in other direction upon the same character might have a bigger impact. but still, rivals are their own people even if the narrative role they have isn't "as strong" as it can be, and it can also be worked arround in the same self iteration and improvement the character they are reflecting is going throw. be careful and have fun, after all that's always the goal

@greysonjones5429 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that you've given the dwarven princess a beard. It's a travesty what they did not giving dwarven women beards in rings of power

@jonttopia Жыл бұрын

Of all the things to cry about

@lexcentrique2554 10 ай бұрын

@@jonttopia Of all the things to cry about this is by far the greatest offense.

@intergalactic92 6 ай бұрын

Not actually confirmed in any Tolkien work. Only implied as a joke in the Jackson films, which itself was possibly based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld books in which (as part of the satire of Tolkien) all dwarves do indeed have beards. No really, it’s an assumption based on a parody of the original work. I used to get this wrong too.

@greysonjones5429 6 ай бұрын

@@intergalactic92 Appendix A: "Indeed this strangeness they have that no Man nor Elf has ever seen a beardless Dwarf - unless he were shaven in mockery, and would then be more like to die of shame than of many other hurts that to us would seem more deadly. For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls."

@zachary3367 5 ай бұрын

@@jonttopiait was something unique to their race that a lot of people apparently liked, in a fantasy setting people tend to like the things that edge more towards fantasy rather than just normal humans, it added a sense of humor or intrigue to the dwarves that was stripped away. I dont personally care, im just saying i understand why some do, I mean it was the 1st female dwarf pictured on screen and they willingly chose to subvert everyones expectation without replacing it or justifying it. I mean we could all just pretend she does in fact have a beard comparable to malw dwarves its just not on her face to preserve the humor at least.

@kmg9763 Жыл бұрын

What if, hear me out, what if we had a Wizard Hat tier list? I honestly believe humanity needs it.

@calliclassic Жыл бұрын

the little chibi illustrations of the party are SO good!!! I love it

@Elipus22 Жыл бұрын

I ran a rival group delving into the Underdark alongside my party once. At first, tensions were very high. They travelled together for the majority of the time, but they weren't as high levelled. Instead, I built them to be perfectly working together while the party still had a few issues with communication. Instead, they were proactive and had strong opinions, as the rival teams were all basic copycats of the party, with classes switched. The rogue-sorcerer became the bard, both being the heart. The Coffeelock became a cleric. The cleric and bard had a small fling, where as the Coffeelock and rogue-sorcerer were an active thing. They spoke about relationship stuff during downtime. The ranger became the... ranger... Different subclass. Planeswalker to horizon Walker, and from skeleton to aasimar. Lastly, our cleric, which became the eldritch Knight. Firbolg to Goliath. They had similar backstories to the party, but they were all based around a prominent location the party was exploring, where an elder Evil had touched the earth and permanently scarred the land. Had a lot of fun making new aberations for Y'chak. Anyways, the party had a lot of fun bouncing off these NPCs, and without prodding, they gravitated to their counterpart, as well as the party's leader, the dwarf cleric. When they had to split up, I swapped a character out for a doppleganger, and that doppleganger was caught within minutes. The problem was the doppelganger was hunting the party and had his own group of baddies actively hunting the party down for main plot reasons. Long story. However, because they got caught early, the rest of the enemy party wasn't ready, leading to a 7 v 2 against a monk and hexblade. The monk and hexblade where higher leveled than the party. Level 14 to the party's level 9, and the rivals' level 7. With the numbers advantage, the doppelganger monk fled, covered by the revenant hexblade, who perished for the 4th time. Suicides, killing the rival ranger. One revivify later, and the only question was what happened to the eldritch Knight.... He was killed hours before, body lost in a river. He was revived via clever use of a homebrew item that summoned a Coatl to aid the party, and brought back to life later by the party's cleric, his foil.

@momiji_number1daughterwife 7 ай бұрын

god damn ur pfp goes so hard

@GuilhermeSales09 Жыл бұрын

Zuko and Aang is a fantastic example of god tier rivals

@bwanamatata Жыл бұрын

Gosh Darn It, you constantly impress me. Rivals, Angels, and pop singers (burlesque bards with fan blades). I'm not surprised that your views are getting close to the 100k, because every aspect impresses me: Animation (Love your aviator btw), voice (made for voice over - figure you either L.A. or Miami), and number one...your creativity. Gosh, that's where it gets hard to quantify. Creativity. You have it and your whole production shows it in spades. Keep up the great work, your steady growth in subscribes, shows that you've got "it". Now, get sponsors.

@kylestillwell7031 Жыл бұрын

HI! I LIKE SHORTS! THEY'RE COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR!

@kittymowmow12 Жыл бұрын

I'm going to introduce a rival to my party's warlock: and it's his older brother. This video gave me everything I need to make this rivalry dynamic and fun!

@surutaeyaisutsu9904 Жыл бұрын

ooh that’s cool i’m using a warlock and i want to ask my dungeon master if my character can meet his older brother which is a paladin it would be really cool because my character is kind of a demonic version of a paladin!👍 also my character grew up in a rich family of monster hunters and he is the only one that is weak and have no special powers and his goal is to somehow defeat lots of monsters and prove his worth to his family and his big brother is an extremely talented and powerful paladin i definetely think that he would be in the middle of the spectrum.

@invisibleaccount9284 Жыл бұрын

I’ve got a character whose main flaw is he’s overprotective and doesn’t really believe others can take care of themselves. He constantly worries about everyone, even one of his siblings who’s got a really safe job as a baker. A sibling just existing in another party would be a great rival

@anoaktree Жыл бұрын

Had a tough day and this really cheered me up. Thanks pointy hat. Love the vids.

@dacenmarus1618 Жыл бұрын

Your content is excellent. Thank you. I would love to see how you portray "Pointy Hat" as: an NPC, a Monster, and a magical item.

@ProjectEchoshadow 10 ай бұрын

I personally have always been an item and a person

@TheGoblinoid Жыл бұрын

I adore your art on this episode. Top notch. Also, I used your Hag and Tiefling ideas on my campaign and it's great, you, my dude, are a genius.

@lupodash1091 Жыл бұрын

I dm’d a campaign with two parties in the same storyline, one week party 1 had a session, the next week party 2 had a session and one week, both parties came and it turns out I collected party 2 to be rivals, so it was team vs team, and the parties loved it.

@Gaston-Melchiori Жыл бұрын

Dude, you are awesome, the editing, the drawings, the references, the jokes... You deserve every single subscriber and like

@willn9568 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding content. This series might be even awesomer than your DnD with a twist. They’re both great, actionable, and entertaining. Thank you!

@bigbean1627 Жыл бұрын

It’s cool to see that I’ve had the same idea of giving my characters rivals! I’m going to play a warforged bard who decided to abandon his life of violence to pursue his newfound passion: music. But his foil is his former commander who zealously believes it’s the purpose of a warforged to live and die as a soldier (and begins hunting his former comrade because in his eyes “you serve no purpose”).

@wacky518thetoastmage8 Жыл бұрын

Based Pointy Hat with a pro public transportation message

@affsteak3530 Жыл бұрын

Rivals are so fun if you have players that get invested in that sort of thing.

@IsaSaien 9 ай бұрын

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite dnd creators. You are amazingly creative ane put so much love into your work. Your energy and passion is honestly contagious, thank you for your work.

@crowposting Жыл бұрын

I always get excited whenever I see a new pointy hat video. Seriously, I love all of the stuff you make!

@_grumpytoad Жыл бұрын

This was fantastic! Thank you so much. I can't wait to try this out in the campaign I just started running for my friends. Love you, Antonio!

@Hasan-cb2vw Жыл бұрын

You deserve the success you’ve gotten recently look forward to your new videos

@pringlebread4913 Жыл бұрын

I’m always so excited when I see a new video from you pop up on my feed. You have quickly become one of my favorite creators on the platform. Thank you for all the amazing work and free dnd content you make.

@daydam Жыл бұрын

This is INCREDIBLE material. I'd honestly never thought of non-villain antagonists in D&D, and I absolutely love this concept and how you approached it. Thanks for this video!

@1pageadventures Жыл бұрын

I love your videos so much! It's not just the very interesting content, but also your edgy humor & superb editing skills.

@Wence42 Жыл бұрын

All of your videos are amazing. Rival parties are one of my favorite things in games and media, and it makes me happy to see it described and explained so well. I love that you provide specific examples in existing fiction and also provide insight on how to craft new ones custom-made for player characters. Keep up the good work!

@ruben_odd 7 ай бұрын

You are so darn great!! Honestly, the fact that you have so many Docs to read is a great way to help, at least, me memorize these. Also love your analogies that help with figuring these stuff out.

@germen2631 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I cannot believe your timing. I was preparing a rival team (with a really silly name gimmick) but was having trouble figuring out their personalities. Now I have a good source to do so, I'll probably play that card a little earlier than I had planned, to give my gang more time to expend with them. Big thank you, great material as always. pd: I'm also using the Dragontouched idea, plan to have my gang taking part in their revolution. Huge thanks for that too.

@brennanalleyne8895 Жыл бұрын

The Premanger reference earned my subscription. Marvellous taste.

@christopherbgsted4749 Жыл бұрын

What a generous, entertaining and entirely charismatic content creator I have stumbled upon. Thank you for the tips and guidance, you're certainly helping a new DM!

@zoade5178 Жыл бұрын

This video is great! I was reading Eberron rising from the last war and there was a bit about "creating an enemy that the player meets a lot" and hearing you explaining your point of view really helped!

@frantexmor8681 Жыл бұрын

3:30 I love how all the options are "Destroy the world" except the "WWIII allegory"

@pointyhatstudios Жыл бұрын

that's it, those are all the options

@pedropages6111 Жыл бұрын

In my own personal Exandria game, I made a 'mirror' team of rivals that reflects a lot to my players' characters. Just making them was so fun, thinking of arcs to intertwine with theirs and personalities to 'mirror' them. I absolutely love what you made and love within this video of what are rivals, how to use them and how to make them in ones own game. We are going to celebrate hard when we reach 100K and rightfully deserved for the amazing content ya make. The characters and rivals you made, GOD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AND THE ART IS ADORABLE! I relate so hard to the Royal Knight and Blacksmith Revolutionary, also just an absolute sucker for a run away rich Pirate gal! Mi pana eres el mejor! Y mucho suerte con todo! 💛

@intergalactic92 6 ай бұрын

My favourite kinds of foils are the mirror foils. There’s something incredibly cool about seeing all the cool tricks of your hero in the hands of someone he who may not share your protagonist’s morality.

@Charles-dg2gk 4 ай бұрын

Not me at the edge of my seat for how the hunt competition turns out only to have my hopes dashed as the video ends

@lizzyrose6494 Жыл бұрын

I'm am so happy your Dwarven princess has facial hair ❤️❤️❤️

@TheDigitalWatcher Жыл бұрын

This is one of the few acceptable ways for a DMPC to exist.

@torpete0993 Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe your channel has grown so much! I’m so happy for you and I love your content

@dest2118 Жыл бұрын

this is so cool! Thank you for your ideas! Your videos are always so informative and I love the illustrations you do for them! Good luck on 100k!

@jdmajor_gaming6432 Жыл бұрын

Always love your video hat man. I've put some of your stuff in my games!

@hipnuts9180 Жыл бұрын

ive been doing this and it is honestly so much fun. when in need of inspiration, anime is v helpful!

@thecaremelkid Жыл бұрын

I never make comments on videos but I was extremely impressed by the quality of this video and decided I HAD to leave a comment. I was already impressed by the first half of the video, then came the stunningly illustrated example characters and I was blown away. Bravo!!

@tawahel Жыл бұрын

Dude, i cannot tell you how much I enjoy your vids. This is amazing in every way. Keep up the good work!!!

@jgr7487 Жыл бұрын

the problem with the Rival system is that PCs die. will that make the rival just keep living & declare victory? will the DM have to make another NPC to rival the new PC?

@LupineShadowOmega Жыл бұрын

The Rivals have their own lives and struggles. So if a PC dies, maybe their Rival dies as well. Maybe they're crippled and have to find a replacement for themselves in the group. The same thing your party has to do, their party also has to do. They aren't magically better than you with infinite resources, they have to work like you have to work. In fact if a PC dies, maybe their new character could be their rival and so they have a complete history for their new character, including leaving the Rival Group to join the PCs.

@seasnaill2589 Жыл бұрын

@@LupineShadowOmega I think it'd be good if the rival PC left the rival group, opening up a spot for the rival of the new PC. That way you still have the old rival you can keep in your back pocket for later. Just because they aren't a rival anymore doesn't mean they won't pop back in eventually! Hell, if you do it right you could tug at some heart strings as the characters are reminded of their fallen comrade whenever they show up.

@LupineShadowOmega Жыл бұрын

@@seasnaill2589 Also an option. In fact you could have it both ways and have the rival leave to join the PCs in tribute to their fallen rival. Maybe they say yes, maybe they say no. It could lead to a bad end for them, or it might be a point of contention with said character later. The possibilities are as endless as the group's imagination. Which is why I feel like worrying about if someone dies is sort of missing the point. Because sometimes someone dying is just another story to be told.

@macaroni586 Жыл бұрын

@burneraccount LMAO

@Xplora213 Жыл бұрын

The rivals don’t have to be a direct 1 to 1 mirror. It might be an idea to kill a couple of rivals in advance to show that PC death is possible. You have limitless power as the DM. Use it.

@lucianoorciani9797 Жыл бұрын

pointy hat you are overthinking, sometimes the most mundane things are the strongest rivalry points, for example, what goes first, milk or cereal

@Lavalink23 3 ай бұрын

I love your videos and I'm definitely going to work on this in the future. I never even thought about it. Thank you for all you do to help with better DnD games and discourse! 😊

@seant1579 Жыл бұрын

You're an amazing content creator. Please continue to be as generous and respectable as you have been. I love your content and look forward to implementing your ideas into my future projects. Thank you.

@CristataArt Жыл бұрын

I adore all of these characters you made so much!!! Their designs are so good, especially Darios, Cerella (not sure how to spell those names XD), and Turmeric. I especially appreciate Cerella having a small beard and Turmeric being non-binary and how naturally those things are presented. The names are great too, my favorites being Cerella sounding almost like a condensed version of Cinderella and Turmeric just straight up being a spice and presumably a name they chose themself.

@mr.funnyman9765 10 ай бұрын

Being non binary actually makes sense in DnD because it's all pretend

@tulliusexmisc2191 9 ай бұрын

I love them too. It felt a bit weird when you described the PCs, because they sounded like the adventuring party in Hidden Fortress.

@YourBoyNobody530 Жыл бұрын

I tend to make the rivals strong counters to certain party members while being neutral, and weak to others to create an interesting dynamic in combat.

@ivanespinosa2216 8 ай бұрын

From an overachiever to another. This is an amazing channel. It’s refreshing and nothing like other channels. Congrats on that! You are very inspiring!

@floraphore Жыл бұрын

I'm always so excited to see your videos!! Such a treat every time ☺️

@johnmobley9369 Жыл бұрын

He explained how much I love frozen unironucalky because of how its two mcs are antagonist to each other. (plus idina & Kristen) I like it a lot when I look back at it.

@bessieburnet9816 Жыл бұрын

Yes. It is perfect to highlight the difference between an antagonist and a villain. Hans is the villain, but he never gets in Anna's way until the very end.

@ericjome7284 Жыл бұрын

How do you reveal this very complex and detailed volume of information to the players? Will they sit still for pages of boxed text?

@Lilith_Harbinger Жыл бұрын

That's exactly what i thought. The players don't know anything about their destined rivals, they don't have their backstories and it doesn't really make sense for those self proclaimed rivals to just show up, monologue and know everything about the heroes. Basically i am asking the same question, how do you integrate them organically? how do you get to the point where the players know about the rivals and vice versa?

@pointyhatstudios Жыл бұрын

As I said, the rivals are not a one off encounter. Ideally, the players should be seeing these rivals pretty regularly. There are many occasions to convey the gist of a character in one or several of those.

@rzgaming5678 Жыл бұрын

Have them working behind the scenes, perhaps doing quests that the party dont do? Or maybe as a group that is trying to earn fame in ways your party isnt whether its fame or deeds. Or even, the bbeg hires them on without revealing himself, using manipulation or a vast network of contacts to basically paint the pc’s as “not as good as they act” so they have conflict throughout the game.?

@marinusbrask8186 Жыл бұрын

This was a incredibly interesting watch! Your videos are both informative AND funny at the same time. Its remarkable! Its inspired me to start working on a rival team for my own players :D

@bluedecember8926 10 ай бұрын

I discovered this channel quite recently and I absolutely LOVE your content! As a DM (who also loves drawing my own art) I feel really inspired after every video I watch. Keep going, and thanks for all the free downloads aswell!

@NotThatGui Жыл бұрын

Seeing Serena joy is weird to me, I see her as a straight up villian not an antagonist. Unless I'm missing something new from the new couple episodes

@alipennington3764 Жыл бұрын

Nope, you're still right.

@teathesilkwing7616 6 ай бұрын

A villain is almost always an antagonist. It’s just that not all antagonists are villains. An antagonist is just someone opposing the protagonist/main characters, so they’re usually villains

@Zlixlriffs Жыл бұрын

I love that the party is she/her, they/them and cool -definitely not pointy- hat

@pccreep9624 Жыл бұрын

I had questions about how you actually set up rivals but this man explained everything in detail, even with examples to help out. This video will help out so many of us, thank you for making it❤

@zibbitybibbitybop Жыл бұрын

This video is an absolute goddamn gold mine of DMing advice. You, sir, are awesome and you should feel awesome. I inadvertently already came up with a rival character for one of the players in my upcoming campaign before I watched this, now I'ma make up one for everybody else.

@HumanAki Жыл бұрын

Brilliant writing theory. First video I've seen on your channel. Already subbed. Thank you for the PDF, that's a gift. 🙏

@horusemerald97 Жыл бұрын

Pointy hat, thank you so much for this video. There's some great advice for storytelling too, but this is the first video I've seen that talks about the narrative of rivalries specifically for DnD. I've just started DMing a campaign where my players form one of several teams that will be in (indirect) competition to solve tasks and earn merit, and although I knew I wanted one of the other teams in particular to become their rivals and grow with them, I had some doubts as to how exactly design their characters. So glad you made this, thank you again

@nabilamiah3814 Жыл бұрын

I can't express how good of a video this is. Your ideas are immaculate

@SlothLinn 7 ай бұрын

Probably the best video on DnD tips I've seen! Or storytelling in general tbh

@Dr_Bille Жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely spoiling us with this banger content. Funny and interesting as always, and some really solid general writing advice to boot!

@routerguy1288 Жыл бұрын

First video I’ve ever watched of you and I was surprise how good it was keep up the content.

@jjthesecond2801 Жыл бұрын

Never seen your channel before today, but this video was so awesome, helpful, and genuinely entertaining it made me want to pick up DMing again. Needless to say, you've earned yourself a subscriber this day and I can't wait to see what else you have in store going forward.

@Monk9619 Жыл бұрын

ok by now I just created a playlist called hats amazing ideas because your content is insane every second video I am like: "this will perfectly fit into my campaign" Thank you a lot for the effort you put into these videos and to many more !

@zelithfang2365 Жыл бұрын

A NEW video? Oh heck yes. Sadly gotta go to work soon, but I know what I'ma listen to when there! Keep up the good work man. Can't wait to listen.

@DeKuKong Жыл бұрын

This is an awesome mini guide! Just launched my first campaign yesterday with some family/friends so looking forward to using this approach

@GoblinLord Жыл бұрын

I'm really happy your channel is blowing up and that you have such good content, good work, Pointy Hat! (Also your series names are unreasonably well made, "Tip of the Hat" is just a good name)

@phillipsybrandy8475 Жыл бұрын

This is really well done, I love your channel man!

@alexworrall3303 Жыл бұрын

POINTY HAT UPLOAD LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!!! :) I actually love your videos and have watched all of them.

@thedeaderer8791 Жыл бұрын

Yes more pointy hat lol I love it. Bro 100k is around the corner and u deserve it

@mediumjimmy Жыл бұрын

Hello! You just showed up in my suggested videos which is perfect timing because I’ve been running my first campaign the past two months ish after being a player for several years 👀 finally being in the DM chair is so intimidating but it’s been a lot of fun and gone better than I expected :) I have some rival characters for my players already but this has been helpful in giving me ideas to flesh them out more 💜

@camisp2090 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations Antonio! Your videos are awesome and help alot! Thank you very much.

@sinistertwister686 Жыл бұрын

Goddamnit, I like your character's designs so much! While your advice is great and inspiring, your art is just something else!

@5hakeZZpeare Жыл бұрын

Hey Pointyhat! I watched this months ago, and I finally wrote rivals for my campaign’s party members. And I’ve gotta say, they have become some of my favorite creations ever! It really does open up so many story possibilities when you have foils to your protagonists. Thank you for the idea!

@Zathurious Жыл бұрын

Hilarious as always. Especially the wheel to determine the villain's motivation. Stay you man, I love ya. You are good at this.

@abirdnamedwill Жыл бұрын

A new video in less than 2 weeks?? I'm blessed.

@alliedn5266 Жыл бұрын

MAN you're a goldmine 🤩 you always give me excellent ideas

@RCK-lp1hh Жыл бұрын

These are so amazing I cant wait for what you do next

@hiigguys7395 Жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic idea! I am two sessions into a new campaign and I must use this. I am going to use your doc right now. I'm so excited.

@CommaanderTaaco Жыл бұрын

This was wonderful concept and I love the video style. I look forward to seeing the rest of your contact

@bereft0fdev278 Жыл бұрын

My guy, my dude, my dome piece I found your channel today and literally watched I think everything you've made with 1 or 2 exceptions and downloaded all the pdfs I could. Theyve been hilarious, entertaining and informative, and I think I'll be incorporating many of your ideas and showing my players these new options. I'll be following your channel with great interest, keep it up. I had no idea I needed a cowboy ranger and a girl boss coven of hags covering every major emotion till today. NO MORE WILL WE DABBLE IN BASIC 🚫

@yarion4774 Жыл бұрын

I don't know why it's so cathartic to see these dynamics. Probably because I love character creation that is based on simple conceot but grows complex due to relationships and their dynamics. Good stuff

@sharkrancher282 Жыл бұрын

I love this concept so much! Absolutely using this. Thank you!

@ethanhorn6093 Жыл бұрын

The best part of this channel is everytime I pause it to screeeeeee about something you said, I stop and then click to continue and I mean LITERALLY the next second you cover the exact thing I was about ScreeEEeeEEeeEEeeeeeee about.