That's rad! Who is your brother?

His name is Mike... I think it's credited to Mike J (but am not sure until I get my book on the 15th)

Ryan Jordan i dont see a mike j. i see a mike schley.

@@kayzach4108 I believe Mike Schley is a D&D cartographer, and one of the better ones at that. I believe he did the 5e Sword Coast map and other official overland maps. He probably was involved in the rough regional mapping of the underdark.

@@sk8rdman thats cool and all but i wrote this comment 3 years ago

+Mini Terrain Domain Thanks Jake!

+Bondanalloy Same here. I'm glad they're coming every couple of months, so it makes them easy to afford.

+Bondanalloy are you playing this edition??

Yesyes. My players are all around lv 5 right now.

Just wondering if you have stayed caught up all theae years later?

@@jlwtv565 welll.... i haven't bought the setting books cause i don't like 'em... but otherwise yes!

I can see so many parallels between this campaign and the Alice in Wonderland story, but I have to wonder... who's the Mad Hatter in this campaign?

My party was bragging about how easy of a time theyd have and how I was over exaggerating the difficulty. When two of them nearly died before escaping Velkynelve they quickly changed their tunes lmao.

@Bungee Just the concept of the campaign in general and the way it starts. Trapped as prisoners/slaves by the Drow miles underground in a pitch black cave with demons being unleashed all over the place. It's just rough. I tend to be a little too lenient & merciful on my players though, which doesn't really do this adventure justice.

+DravenSwiftbow Looking forward to watching yours too, brother! Just saw it in my feed :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKyhlcydv5iwcps.html

Thanks. I haven't had a chance to read mine as much since I got it yesterday. I will be doing a more comprehensive review once I've had a chance to really sit down and read. I have some Vacation days next week.

Great can't wait to see the review. Feel free to post the link here when you do. :)

Thanks much!

Cool!

+HypnoticPhantom Cool! Thanks for watching and commenting. Good luck to you as you get started, and perhaps our paths will cross at some point.

:D

+Ambrose Brown If you want the story to be like that do it! (unless you're not the DM).. the adventure is just a guideline, not a "read and do exactly this"

+gargoyles1977 I didn't notice any. While Princes of the Apocalypse had a lot of spells, new races, etc. (mostly via the free PDF players' companion) this one sticks pretty closely to what they've already released elsewhere. I haven't seen any kind of free PDF that includes new stuff for this one, but anyone feel free to correct me if I just missed it.

+WASD20 Thanks!

+Mike Thepiper Yeah, I think it actually takes MORE work sometimes to run a module. I started running Rise of the Runelords last year (Pathfinder) and while I really enjoyed it, it was a fair amount of prep work making sure I knew it really well.

+WASD20 Agree completely. I put off creating my own world for the longest time because I though it would be more work to run. After running modules, coming up with my own stuff (occasionally on the fly) seems so much easier. I much prefer adventures like The Lost Mine of Phandelver or older modules like Keep on the Borderlands that are 15-35 pages long. These new campaign-length adventures are great for idea-mining, though.

I just bought this and I’m disappointed, once again, at how Hasbro makes modules so difficult to run. I feel like the second half of the book is not finished. Some encounters don’t even have maps. I also think a lack of text blocks is just lazy.

There are some crazy Drizzt haters out there. We fans need to stick together. :)

+CRAZY6256 Throw new players in the Underdark. That's what i'm going to do.

And I have the group going but I don't have the book. FeelsBadMan

Been lucky enough to have a weekly grp of 6 to play with. We gonna try this out soon

Hi there. Great question. This book is definitely NOT a great one to be your first D&D book. I would recommend the Starter Set or the Player's Handbook before this. More info on why in my Buyer's Guide over here: www.wasd20.net/dd-buyers-guide/ Also, check out How to Play D&D if you are wanting to get a feel for how the game works: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLpjebWrqrCooGw.html

WASD20 Thanks a lot for the info ! BTW, great overview.

I believe you have the option of starting at level 1 and the adventure can take characters up to level 15.

thank you

+Nicola Ricottone Nope. Princes of the Apocalypse had that but this one does not. A lot of what's in here is very Forgotten Realms specific. Not that you couldn't make it work in another setting. I do plan on incorporating some of this stuff into my homebrew world.

+WASD20 i am a greyhawk fun, so I had hoped there was an appedix like princes of the apocalypse. very bad. i just hate the FR and i will not buy this book.

I have a desk clamp mic boom. My snowball mic is in the end angled toward me and my webcam clamps to the middle of the mic boom arm. Sometimes a rubber band helps hold it where I want it.

No need for a sanity stat. It works more like exhaustion does in 5e (only doesn't just go away with rest). There are different levels of madness and the effects get worse the higher that level.

Terrific, thanks.

+Mitchell Tyner Nope. Nothing that I could see. I think it would have been in the appendix if they did. I agree that Duergar might have been a cool addition.

+thiago pereira WoTC has not released PDFs of any of their books for 5th edition.

I need the PDF too. Tried to download it from some 2nd-3rd page-websites of the search results on google... Ended up downloading a SHIT ton of viruses and having to get my computer to how it used to be when I last updated it. I hope they release OotA's PDFs soon.

www.google.com/amp/s/technoskald.me/2017/10/27/free-dd-adventures-from-wizards-of-the-coast/amp/

It’s nothing personal. I just don’t really run modules.

No biggie man I’m just giving you a hard time. Thanks for being a good teacher!

+anzelak It's tempting! Some day I'll have time to run an online campaign.

😂

+Otter The Cat I'm not sure I'd recommend that, there are other books I'd recommend first. Especially the Starter Set. Check out my buyer's guide over here: www.wasd20.net/dd-buyers-guide/

WASD20 Thanks I will check that video out :D

WASD20 Awesome video, I have one small question? 1. How long would the starter set last ?

+Otter The Cat Not sure, actually. Maybe ten sessions? Just a wild guess. Anyone else know?

+WASD20 Depending I suspect it would be around 3-5 sessions. I ran a group through the first two sections of the adventure (The Goblin Hideout and the Red Brand Lair) in a single session.

+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) Sounds like a fun experiment.

WASD20 Also make sure to record it for our viewing pleasure.

Don't let them use those plans in character, meta gaming is a no no

+Zeke Zukowski Gotcha

+Ryan Smith But the thing is that the enemy's tactic was to know their plans and act accordingly. I can't just let the monster magically know everything just because I do

+swagtolomeo I have tried a few others. I've played Shadowrun, 13th Age, and a couple others, but I'm pretty into D&D and don't have major plans to branch out beyond that at the moment. If I do try another system it will likely be Fate so I can go a little more sci-fi or modern. Exalted looks interesting. I've heard of it, but didn't know anything about it. Anyway, thanks for stopping by and leaving a suggestion. Happy gaming!

+WASD20 Your welcome and thanks for the great content. Oh and if you ever want to play a scifi role-playing game there's a Firefly roleplaying game that uses the DnD system. I've never played that one, but I've heard some really good things about it. Oh and I use to play 4th edition DnD until I came across exalted and I stopped playing DnD because I didn't really like 4th edition. Your videos on DnD 5th edition got me to go to my local gaming shop and try it out. It's alot better than 4th edition and it's nice to get back into this great hobby. Thanks for getting me into 5th edition I've been having such a fun time with it. I'm even trying to get into DMing and your videos are helping me out alot. Again thanks for all the great content a I can't wait to see what you've got coming next.

swagtolomeo Sounds great! Thanks again.

I read a lot of fantasy growing up and even played some DnD computer games. Just never played the actual tabletop rpg.

Thanks so much for the feedback. :)