OH DUDE. That is so cool to hear! I am happy to help, and cannot express how much I needed to hear this today. Keep up the good work behind the screen, man!

Happy to be of service! You don’t have to watch all the videos they are attached to (unless you want to), but you can find more Animatronic stats under each of my FNAF guides. I’ve covered up to the fourth game with Sister Location probably dropping sometime next week. Happy Gaming ;)

!@#$%^%$#@!@# NO WAY. You're telling me the same animatronic that I've heard that could easily toss a 165 lbs arcade machine across the room is ALSO capable of winning the Olympic Gold!?! O_o Yeah, you know what? Next time someone asks why my bots are "weaker" than what they expect, I am just gonna tell them it was to give their players a chance. XD

Hehehe - Please tell me you allowed them some sort of joint team attack/ability, so they could 'jam session' their foes into submission? Also the older this video gets, the more surprised I am how many DMs have brought the bots into their games (with or without my help). I legitimately thought making this guide was a bit of a stretch last year. XD Boy, was I wrong. Out of curiosity, was their big bad also FNAF inspired? Or did you go with someone more ironic like Charles E Chez, the ratfolk Master Wizard? Personally, I've always wanted to run a campaign to defeat the evil King Of Burgerland & his devious court jester, Donald McGronald.

@Flintworth As for a jam session, they had something like that. They got bardic inspirations or pluses to rolls (depending on how creative they were) whenever they all cast bard spells at the same time. The bbeg was a lich named "Lord Afton of House Cannith". He built the Glamrock model of Warforged to entertain children and then descretly murder them violently and collect their souls. During his assention rituale, he allowed the angry souls of 7 children to tear him apart and guarantee his transformation would be successful. After the ritual, the Glamrocks awoke with no memories and went their seperate ways. After ten-ish years, they discovered that they were all being hunted for their parts by a mysterious human known only as Gregory, and a thrall of Afton with split personalities named Vanessa, so they began to seek each other out. Foxxy had already lost a hand and gained a hook by the time they reunited. Sir Fredrick was an Eloquence bard with Mark of Hospitality. He became an inn keeper after seperating. Lady Roxanne was College of Swords/Mark of Shadow bard who became nobility by somewhat dubious means. Montgomery was a Spirits bard with Mark of Detection and was constantly haunted by the spirit of a rabbit-like warforged. Bonnie drove Monty mad until he became a swamp hermit. Lady Chika was a Whispers bard with Mark of Passage. She posed as a castle chef and sold state secrets on the side. The Dread Pirate Foxxy was a Valor bard with Mark of Storms. He took over a pirate ship after throwing the captain overboard. THEY WERE ALL OP AF! They were taking on CRs a bit beyond what a normal level 10 should have been, but they had a lot of fun being OP. My players were all serious console gamers who knew nothing about FNaF and considered it a kids' game. So I tried to play to that. I kept things moving and made them feel like they couldn't lose. I didn't even tell them that it was FNaF until one of them figured it out. After they got invested, I ramped up the difficulty and gave them a real challenge. They went from 10 to 15 before three of my millitary players were deployed. Sorry for rambling, but this was one of the best campaigns I've ever run, and I'm mad about the DMs curse. I made a campaign that I'll probably never get to be a PC in, and it hurts my soul.

No please, PLEASE ramble. I love reading about other people's stories and hearing how passionate they were about their experiences! (Love that you made Gregory into a villain BTW - it's a great use of the inspiration) Otherwise major accolades to you for pulling off a game with just bards! I am always bringing up in my videos and streams to not get caught up with ensuring a meta or status quo is met - like requiring a party to have a tank, healer, etc. I think it opens the game to be more tailored to what interests the table. I've never ran a game with all bards before, but I can imagine it would go about as wild as your's did. I hope you all are able to pick up where you left off when your buddies get back from deployment! :D

Haha! I am just getting started, my friend. ;) I have plans to cover more killers and monsters throughout the year, while also trickling in characters from other genres every now and then. Like the one on Spider-Man that I just dropped yesterday. I really want to do my part to help inspire other Game Masters, and show them how easy it is to take their favorite characters and spin them off into their own brilliant creations!

You are most welcome! 😃Glad to hear I could help you out. Let us know how it goes!

@@Flintworth I did the first session two days ago, it went really well! It's challenging due to the resistances and its fun because of the mechanics I made. They finished night two and Freddy is about to enter the picture. Thanks again!

Dude, sweet! What kind of mechanics did you employ? Best of luck to them with Freddy on the way.

@@Flintworth I put them in a room with two doors and windows from side to side and i made a camera system with portals that can looking to other portals. Everyone rolls initiative and then the animatronics roll a d10 to see what camera they end up in, if they end up next to a door the next player character has to roll to shut the door. If not then a temporary new initiative is rolled and they fight the animatronic. once that's done they return to normal initiative. Also, during the fight when the round ends, all other animatronics will roll to see if they end up near the office. If so, they join in the fight. There are also two rounds in every hour.

Dude, that's freaking clever! Especially with breaking down the entire night into rounds to keep it nice and streamlined. Love that you kept it only to two per every hour. Can't imagine going through the WHOLE night via the classic text book six second per a round... O_O Your players must adore you!

I am glad! 😀 Let me know how it goes. Love hearing game stories.

Haha, if that makes you wince, you’re going to love it when I mispronounce Ennard later on. 😅 I always play the games from start to finish, and try put in the time to grab research from the wikis. But as you can see, a few mistakes do sneak through. I think the one that always kills me the most from this first one is that I had the GALL to forget about Golden Freddy when I list off the different types of Freddy. Lol Either way, thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it, mistakes and all!

@@Flintworth The work you put into the content is more important than names lol

Daw, thanks!

I love that this ends with, "that's it for now." I can just imagine your devious grin at the possible new horrors you intended to gradually send your player's way...

That’s awesome! Happy I could help. 😃You’ll have to let me know how it goes!

@@Flintworth gonna do It tommorow, please remind me at like 9:00! :)

SO. 👀 How’d it go?

@@Flintworth gonna do It soon...

@@Flintworth They were detectives who went pizzeria to pizzeria, and killed the BBEG by luring him into a trash compactor!

Those were from the “Batman: Shadow of the Bat” Kickstarter board game by IDW. It’s a pretty solid title in itself with an intuitive co-op mechanism. I can’t recall if ALL the tiles I use are in the main box, but I would recommend giving it a look if you are curious: www.miniaturemarket.com/idw01932.html

Well, if it does, you are certainly are in luck! I am planning to tackle the remaining games over this summer. Should give you plenty of inspiration for all the horrors you will be putting your players through. ;P

@@Flintworth Thanks as this will also be my first DnD campaign! Also good luck!

Likewise, my new friend. :)

Okay, you don’t mind if I use all of this for my next episode? 😜 KIDDING. I am kidding. But seriously, though HOLY CRAP. I love the ingenuity you have here. I didn’t even think of combining Security Breach with Dead Rising, that’s a freaking really sweet idea! I was personally going to suggest playing up the stealth route (maybe like Metal Gear Solid, perhaps?) But I don’t want to go too much into that now, because I want to save it for the video. What I WILL share is that you’ve pretty much nailed the head on how I would nail the main animatronics. Such big stars like them DESERVE to have their own boss fights. ESPECIALLY Music Man in my opinion - I felt like his segment was the most under developed in the game (he should have had a bigger presence!) Either way, I am holding off finalizing any of my thoughts until after I play through Ruin. I really want to honor Steel Wool’s ENTIRE story all in one go. You know? As for you, keep up this level of creativity, man! You definitely have the right mindset to be a great DM.

@@Flintworth hey use any of it i was just spit balling i'm just happy you like it and i've been meaning to DM last time i tired everyone was in a rish and i didn't get to set up the world and it kinda derailed everything... i was really hyped being m first time it was a horror weird west campaign that was supposed to be our DND characters being sent to fight a cult but the cult leader pulls a Aku and sends us into the dark and gory wild west and we where supposed to help stem the tides of the dead and fight whatever horrors are in this new era and get to grips with the new weapons an everything an find away back so we could stop the BBEG who went back in time to steal some cursed evil tome from a ancestor of theres in the past because they where guarding the complete one and all they had from the future was pages an fragments to plunge the world into the terrors and plagues of undeath. Sadly all of that got so derailed there was no fixing it i had characters and everything it was October my birth month i was hyped it kinda knocked the wind out of me but i really need to try again.

No, YOU'RE perfect!

That’s so awesome to hear! One of the reasons I started this series was to help people to do just that: bridge hobbies. Hope you and your kid have an excellent time! (Would love to hear how it goes later.)

Ooo, this is a fun question I’ve never been asked before. But long story short, to give you a bench mark, a party of four 5th-Level characters would find fighting JUST my Master Animatronic a ‘worthy challenge, but not a difficult one.’ Short story long, balancing in DND is namely done using the Challenge Rating number listed on every monster stat block (it’s essentially their level). In the case of my bots, The Stalker is ‘Level 2’ The Runner is ‘Level 3’ The Master is ‘Level 5’ According to the Monster Manual, “an appropriately equipped and well rested party of four adventurers should be able to defeat a monster that has a [level] equal to the groups’ level without suffering any deaths.” So a group of level 2s could take on a Stalker, Level 3s my Runner, etc. From experience, where things get a little difficult for new DMs is when they want to run more than one monster at a time. Fortunately Challenge Rating can help you out here as well, which you figure out by adding all your Monsters’ levels together. For instance, a group made up of three of my Stalkers (remember are each Level 2) would have a combined challenge rating/level of 6. Which a party of level 6 adventurers could totally take on! Obviously, there are a variety of other factors that could come into effect with balancing an encounter. Things like hit points, remaining spell slots, and the number of fights in between long rests could all affect how things will go down. To which I would offer the first piece of advice: If you’re worried about going to hard on them. Don’t be afraid to change some things around on the fly if it helps your table have a better time! There have been numerous occasions where I’ve ignored a monster’s health pool or conveniently ‘forgot’ to use an ability. After all, none of them should be able to see your monster’s stats (at least in theory anyway) so they will never know if you are bending the rules to help them out! Oooooon the flip side, if you’re concerned about keeping things legitimately scary? Don’t let the party play anything higher than level 2. I’ve found most heroes start to find their strength when they reach level 3 and beyond. And nothing kills a tense game of cat and mouse more than your monsters getting curb stomped by your party unleashing all their abilities on them. Hope this helps, Woof! Please feel free to hit me up if you have any other questions. 😃👍

First of all, opinion or not, always love feedback. I am always of the mindset, “there’s always room for improvement.” Second of all. I see where you coming from on weight. I’ve actually never given any consideration to the bots’ weight class in any of the videos I’ve made. Choosing instead to base my stats on their demonstrated abilities. Which in this case not being strong enough, not even as a group, to rip down down the metal doors. Hence why I focused on stats that would play up their stealth and charisma. To help encourage more cat and mouse gameplay! That all said, I think playing them more like juggernauts has a lot of game potential as well. 😃 Especially if you DO have players who could potentially wrestle them to the ground. That would be so much fun to run. Thanks again for sharing your input.

@Flintworth totally understandable on that part. I just think the strength of these machines need a little more light. And in the books of fnaf "such as the silver eyes" Foxy could throw Arcade machines like golf balls. And hes the smallest in the group. Taking that into consideration theses robots I think would definitely be able to man handle a grown man. Also taking into consideration that they have enough brute force to shove the human body into a Freddy Fazbear suit which would take alot of strength showing theses guys can shove hard enough to break bone which in some cases can be just as strong as steel. But im completely fine with how youre taking the route of theses guys

@Flintworth I also see why breaking down the metal door would be a vaild statment but from the statments we have on these robots strength they could easily break down thoses doors but cant in fnaf 1 due to the doors being the core aspect in protecting yourself. But I just wanted to shed light on how these animatronic can be just as much of a brute as a stealthly killing machine

@@Weehee123 Man, I really should get on top of finally reading Silver Eyes and the other Graphic Novels based on everything fans like you have said. Maybe I should make a vid covering just the comic book versions? I will say, I have big plans for the guide I am working on for Security Breach. The sheets I have in mind for the Glam bots are going to be STRONG

Hah! Glad to hear it. If/when you do run anything. Let me know how it goes. Love hearing about people’s games. 😀

@@Flintworth idk if we will currently we're working on a one piece styled dnd campaign but if we do make one based off FNAF I'll let ya know

😅 I know, I know. I pronounced it wrong. People have not let me forget since this came out. (I am ashamed to admit I STILL struggle to get it right to this day…) 🤣

@@Flintworth 😅

Good question! For me, it honestly depends on my priorities from the get go: to run a one-shot or a campaign? If the former, totally would make it one encounter. I’d probably even give my players options to fight the bots to the death if they so choose. But the important part would be to throw EVERYTHING at them at once. Go straight to Night 5 or 6, if you know what I mean. If going for a campaign, I would probably make each session have one or two nights - because you could easily pace it out that way to steadily introduce new bots and/or different places they have to stand their ground in. All the while sprinkling fun little set pieces during the day to build up the world lore. Either way, I could not see someone running encounters with JUST the original gang for very long. Sooner or later they will get taken out, or the party will TPK. And trying to stretch an ENTIRE year long campaign around them would be overkill and ruin the novelty of the situation in my opinion. Much better to either keep their story short and sweet, while (if you want more FNAF) moving on to play out the other games in the series.

Cheers, I appreciate hearing that!

HAH. You are not only correct, but also the first to call me out on it. I totally glossed over Goldy during the recording and I didn't catch it until I was editing the video later on. (I tried to make up for it by slyly sneaking him in on the bottom right as I am reading off the Freddy list). Nice catch. XD