Refreshing my grasp of the lore in preparation to running a 4th Edition campaign. Good times.

Wow…dragon guy

Can Dragonborn and some other races cross breed it was a curious question I had about how love/romance works in this ttrpg 😉

Seems like they need to do more work on Limbo.

So many stupid retcons. Focusing everything on Bob Salvatore (whose writings have been getting worse for a long time and went even further downhill starting with Neverwinter books; I like to compare that to George Lucas and Star Wars with some of the Prequels being clearly marked by George being high on his own fumes when in the past he had to listen to critique and accept help [re-cuts. others directing etc.]) was a mistake. My Realms will stick to the lore of the AD&D 2nd edition "Drow of the Underdark" by Ed Greenwood and take many elements of stuff up to Silence of Lolth. No Lisa Smedman, very few things from newer Bob Slavatore, no retcons.

Vecna should resurrect himself and be like the anime: I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Now I'm curious if the lich from adventure time was influenced by this guy

It’s that easy to make a good final adventure for 5E just add some stuff to make player choice matter more and reprint the whole module I wouldn’t give the sword of Kas to Kas cuz it left him and probs wouldn’t return but it could easily find its way into the hands of someone who works for lolth and the power of the sword is how she’s winning so you can support lolth or Kas and earn different rewards depending on what you pick or you can mostly support one side and betray them at the end after getting what you need and a little more that you can steal on the way out but now you got one or two super powerful beings that’ll be after you from then on then go beat Vecna and have multiple possible endings based on previous choices like a good choice option is if they may run into strahd but he’s not evil yet so they try to peacefully make it so he never would’ve fallen being domain of dread it won’t have long term effects but perhaps an echo of the good strahd could be permitted to help in the final fight as a thank you both from strahd from giving him a glimpse of the man he could’ve been but also the dark powers cuz you gave them a new tool to torture Strahd by reminding him of of his failure to reach his potential

I think need a Starter Deck of Many Things, which is much less dangerous with things like, Fight a Goblin, 100 Gp Tab at a nearby bar, Free wardog, +1 HP, lose a personal item, piss off a hobo. etc etc.

One of the rods parts is being used as a drum stick by Rick Allen, drummer of Def Leppard

It would have been cool if the Deck of Many Things were like the Tarot's Major Arcana, representing potentially big, wild effects but then you drew one of the numbered pip cards (the numbered cards) as a kind of roll that determines the strength of the card effect. It would also have been cool to see face cards (Page, Knight, King, Queen) featuring some of D&D's divine pantheon. Drawing those cards could represent that god intervening in some way (perhaps also determined by drawing a numbered pip card).

Quit an Adventure. Verna sis classic with the eye and hand. I hope he finds some rest

I’m watching this 7 years in the future.. I hope you played baulder’s Gate, I also hope you played bg3

Idk if u grew up in an abusive household or where the cops came looking for someone but that door banging audio clip just sent my adrenaline spiking

Call me crazy, but in the Rime if you interact with the obelisk and teleport they all are destroyed, no?

NGL This was the one book that was hard for me. I built a 1-20 campaign that hits every adventure that has its own book. So not including compendiums or the starter kits. Though I have added one or two in as needed just for fun. But the question from the beginning I had is "why are the forgotten realms so under threat every few years?" Unless this is just the norm they can't be facing world ending threats every year or so for a decade when even one of them happening will have significant consequences. It made me think that perhaps there was a grand designer behind the decade of unrest. In my game thus far I had it be Tiamat. The first adventure which would be both first and last in my campaign. Everything was all masterminded by ancient chromatic dragons seeking to please her in some sort of contest to see who could undo the realms the most during the grand plot to free her. It also explained why unifying people against the cult was so difficult and why they kept doing round about things. I think maybe if I want to include this I will have to make Vecna the ultimate mastermind. Or maybe the reason why Tiamat did the thing was because she was trying to beat him to the punch.

You forgot to mention that the slaves Mulan are descended from are from Earth. Not Oerth or anything like that but actual Earth like the place we live

Didn't some Eldritch being pass by and accidentally creat aboleths which then had something to do with primordials? I'm probably wrong I just feel like I heard that somewhere

I have 3 unplayed wotc 5e adventure books left and at this point instead of throwing them away since they cost a lot of money or playing them in the abysmal 5e system i`ll just retool them to a system like pf2 or DCC. No way in hell will my money be used to buy more wotc crap, but at least i`ll give the books I already have a try but in a far better "D&D" system than the trash that is WOTC's flavor of D&D (5e or upcoming 6e)

Now that we know grey hawk is the official setting, will we get some content on it?

When you're a Dwarf and a Genie goes dao on you

Needs MORE Vecna

I DO live in the future!

Ah man! I want one of those. Where can I get one?

The MCU ruined a lifetime of me loving comics...

He’ll kyuss you out!

I never thought Archeron could be even worse off a place to be in than the Abyss and Nine Hells.

Mirrors... LOL good stuff

love the prehistoric idea. great video!

Extremely useful for my first dive into the Feywild! What are your favorite resources for the Feywild and where can I find more?

I wish I could get hard copies of the Doomed Forgotten Realms books, but last I checked there was no POD option for the Gazeteer book or the doomed Vecna adventure...

Whoever is wearing attaching the hand of fact should always do the following use. They're no dominant hand sacrifice that and then you know he was the DM whichever hand that is, let's say left because statistics at least this world commonly dominant hand so you you gotta have the person missing their left hand and then like a different flesh tone kind of like a palate. I guess which like and the opposite one is gonna be on there. So the hand of vacna is a right hand in my mind. And the person who sacrifices their own hand gives up their left hand so they now have 2 right hand and that's both distur. Not not stupid or maybe it really is I don't know but I like it

Great video& fix

8:03 never trust a cleanly rounded number

What's DND Next? The precursor to 5e?

So are the Spelljammer and Planescape reboots not canon?

Youll probably see me liking all your lore videos. I was gifted a bunch of D&D books having never played but didnt know where to start 😅 🙌 great videos 🙌

Y's typically make an i sound so it would be "isgard"

Not saying I like it but I get how the Aevendrow living under a glacier, or the Lorendrow living in a deep, dark, mysterious jungle could of both gone relatively unknown of until now.

SUPER helpful playlist! Thanks!

Well you can't expect much from WotC nowadays other than mid products and Pinkertons.

please do a storymode of the campaign you guys have been playing if all players are cool with that <3

I have a homebrew I've been working on for years, using doomed DnD and other ideas. I just wanna say thanks! I've been a fan for a minute, and your hype with Vecna has inspired me to create my own ideas. I just wanna share some of my thoughts You're exactly right, Vecna is so powerful he should have already won on some level. I personally feel like a ritual of remaking the multiverse should need to happen at the center, Sigil. So Vecna ultimately works to get to Sigil, but he's currently hiding in his personal demiplane across the Cruel Gate. He works to leave his demiplane without getting attention from various gods. I made it so Vecna is also The Caller(a part of him) and the Caller has been sowing chaos and stealing secrets in the Domains of Dread. Long story short Vecna has control over the domains and works to absorb the Dark Powers with a Ritual of Unmaking, giving him power to then take over the whole Shadowfell, then use the obelisks to get to Sigil, which has been closed by the Lady of Pain. Kas is swayed by the Dark Powers because they are afraid of Vecna's plan. Vecna secretly whispers to Kas with the Dark Powers, swaying him to free Miska. Vecna needs the blood of a chaotic evil being to complete the Ritual. (Seems crazy there's absolutely no components as written)

I am rewriting Vecna's overall plan to use the obelisks to reassemble the first world. Rewinding key worlds all the way back into the first world that has been mentioned in other previous books. Where the other worlds and realities branched off from. And still keeping the Rod of Seven Parts to reverse Vecna's plan after it happens.

i would really love a storytime video about the campaign... <3

If you do ever get the DND book club off the ground, may I recommend the “Blade of the Flame” trilogy for Ebberon? It’s not very long or complex, but it’s a great intro to the setting, introducing the themes of the setting (religious diversity and ambiguity, blurring the alignments, and setting elements like the Dragonshards and dragonmarks) without being as confusing as dropping the readers into Sharon might be. It was also just a fun trilogy with likeable characters.

Love it! Wizards - Hire this guy!

In Ravenloft I’m a Tiefling Warlock and I do all my shady business from my brothel the Black Rose

honestly glad you started the whole thing just suggesting people try other stuff instead of fixing this one unless they were set on it. WotC has just done nothing of late that makes me want to support their stuff.

That was very fun and got me excited again for Vecna Eve of Ruin. I need to buy Dooned Forgotten Realms and check it out…