dm-discussion

[left skiff]

I mean that’s an option but I meant like… wanting to run a full campaign but it just never working out.

[crimson carbon]

There's some players that come to DnD that I consider All-Stars. They play their flaws amazingly, keep track of their story and how they can expand upon it, but also give time for others to enjoy the spotlight. I've been lucky enough to set my Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday campaign up with groups who are all about those values.

Takes a lot of interviews and a lot of people saying they'll murder your family but you'll find 'em!

[zinc osprey]

A reasonable one, yes use your judgement, and again I'll stress player action: see how they walk in, and adjust accordingly. Which one of these will it be?
"It's a lovely day in Barovia! So nice to be out for a walk. La la la"
or
"Dunno, this looks off. I'm going to keep an eye out for trouble"
If the former, let them walk right into it by keeping DCs high
If the latter, give them more of a chance, including perhaps with Passive

[gritty trout]

I remember describing something as being made of birch, and due to the fact I only knew birch as a type of lighter wood from underground, indie game Minecraft—I didn’t consider or know that it was a harder type of wood.

[crimson carbon]

o.o

[mystic lotus]

I appreciate your advice

[gritty trout]

*harder

[frank mountain]

Is there a general rule of thumb or understanding of what makes a magic item uncommon vs rare vs very rare, etc.?

[left skiff]

How cool is it /hj

[crimson carbon]

One of my players is smarter than anybody I've met. Whenever she goes on a tangent about something regarding the world she came from, I just sit in awe lol.

[gritty trout]

So a player nailed me down when an enemy shouldn’t have bursted through a thinner birch wall as I described because I thought birch was more brittle.

And I was like, “Yeaaah, ffuuu—okay, rewind.”

[gloomy verge]

There's a few metrics you can use, including the level of magic it's comparable to.

Or how many charges it has.

[crimson carbon]

Yeah sometimes I take my blows in those situations and just say "It happened. We gotta move on instead of arguing wood density."

[gloomy verge]

The rules for creating magic items in the DMG should give you some idea of 'power levels'.

And just comparing existing magic items.

[crimson carbon]

But I take things like that into account for future sessions and reward them if it comes up later.

[radiant canopy]

Hello everyone, I’m looking for all the help I can get. I’m new to D&D but playing DM for my kids. I try to keep things simple for them (I don’t get too in the weeds about things like armor and weapons perks) and stick to mostly the dice and moving the story forward. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I can give you a synopsis of our campaign of you like

[gritty trout]

Mhm, I try to focus more on making sure the game runs smoothly.

[gritty trout]

World? As in a previous campaign or like, different country/place?

[frank mountain]

It almost feels that way haha.

[north sonnet]

Hello dear thread had anyone here ran CoS?

[true shale]

#1029833015423143957

[crimson carbon]

So my campaign setting is kindof like the final frontier against a multiverse devouring entity known as The Entity. My players world was devoured by that and some people survived and are trying to resurrect it. She is aware of her world and is trying to figure out a way to restore it.

So yeah different place entirely.

[zinc osprey]

It has its own section in the #1029833015423143957 section

[frank mountain]

I don't quite see a place for rules in terms of power levels, but definitely see all the items and can do some comparing 😄

[left skiff]

How old are they? My first idea was finding a character sheet that’s the bare essentials of character creation, but if they’re older, it might be a little patronizing to dumb it down like that.

[gritty trout]

I remember the time I made my entire party laugh/groan/groan-laugh when I used the term “hacienda” to describe this isolated estate because most of them came from Spanish classes and began to mimic their professors and correct my pronunciation.

“Impossiblé!”

[gritty trout]

Ohhh, awesome!

[radiant canopy]

8 and 10. I downloaded character sheets and D&D beyond and used the quick build feature to build characters and filled out the sheets based off of that

[left skiff]

There are also custom character sheets that make things a bit easier if you wanna do paper and pencil!

[dry drift]

im on my 4th run

[gloomy verge]

Pg 58 of the DMG 24 has stuff like "Max Spell Level / Bonus: Common [1] +0, Uncommon [3] +1, Rare [5] +2, Very Rare [8] +3, Legendary [9] +4"

For creating magic items.

[north sonnet]

I'm not sure if we can discuss it here, @zinc osprey do u know?

[high bone]

Definitely go paper and pencil, it is the old way, and still the best

[gloomy verge]

Additionally, things that need attunement vs not can be stronger or weaker.

Or things that need charges, or have 'x per day' type use.

[dry drift]

post your questions here https://discord.com/channels/516367331358801950/1029842470810439810

[zinc osprey]

If its module specific content, best to post there, or here - plenty of people have run CoS its the most popular module, but just use the spoiler tag as appropriate

[acoustic adder]

What sort of creatures do you think would make excellent enthralled minions for a mad Mind Flayer Arcanist? Already have her aligned with an Ettin Cerebromorph that calls her “sister”

[frank mountain]

Thank you so much!

[radiant canopy]

I just googled it and found a pretty comprehensive character sheet. We have 2 lvl 1 fighters (human and Dragonborn respectively) and a lvl 1 dwarf Druid (NPC at this point but every party needs a healer)

[left skiff]

Tbh I just think it’s up to personal preference

[zinc osprey]

No no, for that real OG flavour, stylus and papyri

And take notes in hieroglyphics

[radiant canopy]

wouldn't that just be living life irl at that point?

[feral matrix]

tonight's session was a huge success! I've got the post-game buzz you get when you run a killer session

they all said it was a great one

[left skiff]

There are pros and cons to P&P and Digital, and I think they both have their places to shine.

[high bone]

Fine, whatever, use your new fangled technology if you prefer, I still say kids would find chucking dice more satisfying than clicking a mouse, but that's aside the point of assisting Drelandar here with his question

[zinc osprey]

Rolling actual dice is satisfying, no doubt

[radiant canopy]

Personally, I found it super helpful to use the character builder feature on the app. It gave me a lot of good information about the modifiers that would have taken me ages to research on my own. There were also links to additional information about spells and cantrips and how spellcasting works that enabled me to better undersand the perks and limitations of magic

that being said, I did get myself and each one of my kids their own set of dice, we are rolling actual dice when we play. Also, did not realize how much like a normal ball a D100 was lol. That thing will roll if you let it!

[high bone]

Oh, no doubt, even an old grump like me uses modern tools like that for character building. I'm traditionalist, not stupid

[high bone]

the traditional way of doing d100 rolls is by using 2 d10s

[left skiff]

I will also say, lean into the fun and goofy aspects of D&D! Do silly voices for characters, use the Rule of Cool when you need to, and let them tame every animal they come across for the eventual army of party pets!

[zinc osprey]

I've always found those giant d100 beach balls a bit odd

maybe thats just me

[high bone]

they are not reliable

[left skiff]

I’ve always done a percentile and D10 lol

[radiant canopy]

So you just add them together?

[high bone]

one is 10s, the other 1s

so a roll of 8 and a roll of 7 is 87

[flat kelp]

When making npcs like kings do you make a stateblock just incase

[zinc osprey]

Depends on the king

Stat block just in case is often not a bad idea tho

[high bone]

you can do the same with a d6 and a d10 to make d20, but that's a bit more complicated (and less useful since we have d20s now)

[zinc osprey]

You never know what can happen...

[left skiff]

I’d say just make custom statblocks for any important NPCs and find one that works if the party is attacking a regular NPC

[flat kelp]

that what I was thinking

Also, when making a full campaign, where does one start after the basic world premise

[zinc osprey]

Create encounters

[radiant canopy]

Got interested in this listening to Legends of Avantris. Now I'm wondering why I waited so long. I've been doing D&D without actually playing D&D for pretty much my whole life...

[high bone]

most people do, it's just playing pretend with some rules

me and my brother had some sort of proto rules using d6 before we stumbled upon BASIC

[left skiff]

You can always repurpose statblocks too, I think a Bandit Captain could work for a king, maybe you could even add some flair to it like an ability to call in guards as allies!

[zinc osprey]

d6 can do a lot of work

[flat kelp]

hmm how would one go about that

[north sonnet]

aren't there rules in the DMG about that

[radiant canopy]

At any rate, my campaign looks something like this. Short and sweet since they are still little. Players come together in a tavern in a town. Take a job escorting a supply caravan to another town nearby. Get attacked by bandits on the way, defeat bandits enter next town. Realized badit leader has a bounty and decide to go after bandit leader. Attack bandit hideout, kill bandit leader, loot treasure, end of campaign. Short and sweet

[gloomy verge]

Usually I tell people to start from the inside out for campaigns.

Spend the most time in the place the players are in, and paint a blurry horizon.

As the players start to move towards it, you color in more of it

[north sonnet]

If you're completely lost just straight up ask your players what their goals are

[gloomy verge]

Building from the beginning of the universe forward is more of a passion project thing.

[high bone]

Sounds great. Keep it simple. Keep the characters memorable. Chew the scenery a bit. Make the bad guys bad, but cool, too (think darth vader)

[flat kelp]

Maybe idk cant remember

[slow flax]

I started with planar structure.

[radiant canopy]

Bandit leader's name is "Noxion the Vile" who specializes in poison attacks.

[gloomy verge]

Gnomeragan? >_>

[zinc osprey]

Yes

[north sonnet]

me personally I read chapter 5 of the 5.5 dmg then used koboldfightclub for encounter balancing even though it can be wrong

[radiant canopy]

Thats one thing I'm a little ignorant on. How to calculate the damage due to things like poison or bleeding and what not.

[high bone]

I'd suggest letting Noxion make a dastardly escape at the end, so as to encourage continued play. Or perhaps he had an apprentice, or a son

[zinc osprey]

Wait no, Maraudon

[gloomy verge]

Oh ya

[zinc osprey]

Stealing WoW bosses is a perfectly viable strategy imo (at least thematically)

[gloomy verge]

Steal WoW dungeons too. They come complete with themed bosses, rooms, mechanics, loot and a theme song

Oh, and maps. Lol.

[high bone]

Tropes are your friend, because they are young they won't have seen so many of them, so they work fabulously

[flat kelp]

Another question, what you guys use to make maps or your world map? I've always found that difficult

[gloomy verge]

Don't steal WoW quests though. It's no fun trying to actually rationalize in character why your NPC needs 9 beaver snouts

[north sonnet]

used to be dungeonscrawl now i use inkarnate

[slow flax]

For world map: Azgaar's

[flat kelp]

Can you import maps, like base maps you have as i got like the base shape of the island I want to use

[slow flax]

For cities: fantasytowngenerator

For combat: DungeonScrawl or DungeonDraft

[radiant canopy]

Something I've been really curious about, how does the distance thing work. I've noticed that many maps have grid squares. Does each square have a value? and do you place the characters on the squares to simulate proximity? Just trying to rationalize the walking speed assigned to the characters

[north sonnet]

since you're having a tough time making a campaign you could always find premade maps and make quests around them, i remember one of my best quests being based off of a cze and peku map

[high holly]

Shit, just run a game in Azeroth.

[gloomy verge]

Suqare can have whatever value you want. You can use standard squares (5 ft) or they can be 500 ft or a mile or a 1,000 miles.

[zinc osprey]

Yes, typically 10 feet square. Sometimes 5.
Outdoor hexagonal maps, regional maps, have a scale in miles that varies considerably

[gloomy verge]

I have run Azeroth like 4 times now >_>

Also ran Eorzea twice. And Morrowind once.

[radiant canopy]

Thought I was buying the players handbook on amazon, ended up getting the D&D Fearun book instead.

[zinc osprey]

Oops

That's what we call a sourcebook

[radiant canopy]

got the actual handbook on the way lol

When I saw Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale I was like "whoa memories!"

[high holly]

Are you returning it or keeping? They'd almost certainly take it back.

[radiant canopy]

nope keeping that for usre

sure*

[high holly]

Nice.

[high bone]

Next campaign set in Faerun

[radiant canopy]

I'm not sure if the current one is and I just expand it into Fearun

[high bone]

sure, you can totally do that !

[left skiff]

Faerûn is basically the base D&D setting for 5e! It can be added onto most games because it’s just a pretty simple High Fantasy setting.

[high holly]

If you get deep into the lore it gets so weird. In a cool way, but also a weird way.

[high bone]

Forgotten realms are the best mix of cool and weird

[radiant canopy]

The book I got came with a huge map that is incredibly detailed. towns, cities, ruins, seas, rivers, main roads, tracks, and much more.

[high holly]

Fun Faerun Fact: The literal egyptian gods from the literal real world live like barely 100 miles to the east of most maps of the main continent. They just live there. Ra and Set and all them. Or their grandkids, depending on current lore.

[left skiff]

Yep, it’s awesome!

[high bone]

Also, ONE of the Norse gods is there. Just the one though

[true shale]

The sperm whale returns

[mystic lotus]

Wait what? Really?

[true shale]

I cannot escape the whale. Why does my druid love the whale

[high holly]

Mulhorand. Look it up.

[high bone]

never could figure out why Tyr was the only one

[left skiff]

Ominous

[true shale]

The tyrannical whale returns

[acoustic adder]

Only one without scheduling conflicts lol

[high holly]

Its the water giant ape.

[high bone]

I guess, he is sort of the most boring one of the Norse pantheon, now that I think about it

[acoustic adder]

Sounds like you’re having a whale of a time

[zinc osprey]

oof

[left skiff]

A very fun campaign setting in Faerûn is Chult, it’s essentially fantasy Turok lmao

[radiant canopy]

animal friendship?

[hushed lake]

I hope to run Tomb of Annihilation eventually

[high holly]

Tyr hanging out with Bahamut: Do I ever miss home? Hmm.
The rest of the norse gods at ragnarok: dying horribly forever
Tyr: No, can't say I do.

[true shale]

its their wildshape

[radiant canopy]

oh...

[high holly]

Using the newer books to enhance Tomb of Annihilation would be pretty dope. I adored that campaign.

[high bone]

I mean yeah, he is destined to basically be torn apart by a giant dog, so there's avoiding that

[mystic lotus]

Wild

[high bone]

But by that logic, Thor should be eager to run off too

[mystic lotus]

So is earth in the forgotten realms multiverse?

[left skiff]

Tbh I don’t like running most of the premade adventures, tbh my main complaint is that people (and sometimes WOTC) market them as being easier than homebrew when they’re really not, sometimes they’re even harder than homebrew lol.

[high holly]

TSR only had so much budget back in the day. They could only offer one contract. 🤣

[acoustic adder]

Look, Thor technically wins his fight with Jormungandr; he’s just destined to die shortly after

[high bone]

mmm, yeah, and the Norse would probably have charged a fortune, he is pretty much their only defense

[high bone]

yeah, but it's the way he's destined to die that's the crux, no fun dieing from poisoning by Jormungandr, I imagine

[hushed lake]

It's infinite and contains any and all created D&D worlds, so I imagine not only is it, but also quite a few iterations of it

[high holly]

I agree to not liking most published. But Tomb is really a stand-out among them imo. Even if you ditch the death curse main questline and just use the maps and content of the island. It has so much content, it'd be a shame not to use even if you don't like the plot.

[hushed lake]

Strangely this is the second time I've commented on the multiverse today, hours apart

[left skiff]

It’s just my personal opinion lol but you’re allowed to like and run whatever you want, I’m not the D&D messiah

[acoustic adder]

Always has been; believe canonically Ed Greenwood was in communication with Elminster

[hushed lake]

Tomb of Annihilation is next on my list after Strahd

[left skiff]

I do really like Tomb tho

[high bone]

blasphemy !

[high holly]

Yes. Canonically some version of earth has directly interacted with Faerun, in a few different instances.

[mystic lotus]

That’s the jungle one, right?

[mystic lotus]

Oh the dnd cartoon

[high bone]

oh dear no, not the cartoon...

[hushed lake]

Yep! Chult was mentioned above

[high holly]

Also yes lol.

[left skiff]

Yep, like I said earlier, Fantasy Turok

[mystic lotus]

Uni the unicorn…

[high bone]

that's it, Im out !

[mystic lotus]

(Worst name ever)

[high holly]

Yeah Tomb/Chult, same thing, the undead jungle dinosaur island. Great place. Great book.

[zinc osprey]

Tomb of Annihilation is a remix of Tomb of Horrors

[high holly]

It's a whole entire adventure before that.

[left skiff]

I like to imagine a group of executives sitting in a board room and they’re like “we have almost everything, all we need is the name of this unicorn!” and then one guy in the back is like “I got an idea…”

[left skiff]

DO NOT SPEAK IT’S NAME.

[high holly]

But yeah, the titular tomb at the end is indeed a new (better but still meh) take on ToH.

I think the Tomb is the worst part of ToA.

[hushed lake]

Ohter published adventures... I'd consider running Frostmaiden and Dragon Heist based on hype alone, and I haven't heard the greatest things about it but Out of the Abyss's concept seems intriguing

[mystic lotus]

I think I’d want to run frostmaiden after Strahd.

But… I might be done with horror by then

[high holly]

It's lightears better than ToH, but still I didn't have a grand time in it as a player.

[zinc osprey]

Strahd is a remix of Ravenloft
Everything is a remix of something 🤷‍♂️

[hushed lake]

2 Frostmaiden comments in a row lol

[left skiff]

CoS is cool when you take out all of the things that make it terrible to both run and play

Base CoS is torture I don’t wish on anyone

[mystic lotus]

Oh? Like what?

[hushed lake]

I'm currently running Strahd as-written intentionally for my first go. I'm feeling pretty good about it really

[zinc osprey]

Ravenloft (1984): 40 pages
CoS (2016) 256 pages

[left skiff]

The balancing is god awful in my experience and the story just doesn’t work most of the time, super unsatisfying characters and just some really weird and uncomfortable decisions.

[mystic lotus]

I feel like this is 90% of first party adventures

[keen dew]

do u let players run different actions simultaneously or keep them together so its not boring for the rest?

[true shale]

what?

[mystic lotus]

I have my players take turns individually

[keen dew]

i mean that they are on completely different pathes. for example someone is in a dungeon while the other is fighting drunk guys in a tavern ?

[true shale]

i switch back and forth when nessecary

[zinc osprey]

Everyone gets a turn, in essence. It's your job as DM to facilitate that.

[keen dew]

i have the concern that other people will be maybe distracted or zone out when they are not involved

[zinc osprey]

Always a risk

[mystic lotus]

I would ask why one person is in a dungeon and the other is in a tavern.

[keen dew]

maybe they are on the same greater mission

[zinc osprey]

Yes, this is one reason why you prefer not to split the party, but it can happen, and sometimes its justified - for brief spurts - in which case you tennis match back and forth

[keen dew]

but split because they need to save time

[zinc osprey]

And meanwhile, in the Dungeon of Doom, I believe we left off with Bob dangling over a lava pit

Looks like Bob didn't make it. Oh well. Back to the rest of the party at the inn. What are you all doing?

[high bone]

Never split up the party!

sorry, had to do it

[zinc osprey]

Players forutunately have their own reasons for sticking together, sometimes, you may wish to remind them of said dangers

of splitting themselves up

[high holly]

Juggling a split party is a skill like any other, you can get good at it if you try. But it is good advise to just not do so intentionally as much as possible.

[zinc osprey]

Yea, juggling is exactly the right analogy

[hushed meadow]

I just tried something today. I downloaded a map from the /dndmaps subreddit to my phone, took it to Walmart, and got it printed into a 16"x20". Turned out beautiful! Custom printed map for $14.50!

[high holly]

For the chult game I was a player in, I got a full version of the map laminated for use at the table planning excursions and routes with dry erase. I think I got mine done at office depot, similar price, but this was years and years ago.

[radiant canopy]

is there software/app for building custom maps?

[mystic lotus]

Inkarnate is decent

[high holly]

I use Wonderdraft for regions, Inkarnate for settlements, Dungeonfog for dungeons, personally.

[mystic lotus]

I’ll be honest, I rarely make my own maps

I’m too much of a perfectionist

[high holly]

Inkarnate is workable at all scales, but I think it thrives at the town level.

[minor nova]

Under settings, if I uncheck "Players can access and interact with monster tokens", can the players still move their OWN characters?

[true shale]

yes

[minor nova]

Thanks

[true shale]

Theyre not monster tokens

[minor nova]

And Inkarnate is incredible. Use it.

[high holly]

You might have to custom set for pets, familiars,etc. But yeah.

[minor nova]

ty

Key thing is just to keep them from mucking up my town

[minor nova]

Dungeondraft, Inkarnate, Bastions & Guildhalls (Czepeku, it's in beta right now), Tiny Glade (Steam), Canvas of Kings (Steam)

But you can also get really far just buying a Czepeku sub and a Tom Cartos sub. That's like 4,000 maps at your fingertips. I only make custom maps these days for my big set piece events and then I use prebuilts for the rest.

[north sonnet]

dungeonscraw is free and all u actually need, the others mentioned are really pretty tho

[alpine fossil]

I’ll shout canvas of kings, used it for every single battle map I’ve ever made and it’s pretty great

[high holly]

huge shout out to the 'draw rectangle' tool on roll20.

[thorn bison]

Dungeondraft and Dungeon Alchemist are what I use

They're both good, but Dungeon Alchemist is a hardware devouring titan

[high holly]

The number of times I've suddenly needed a random cabin in the woods and just hurriedly scrawl out the most MS-Paint jank to keep things moving. 🤣

[thorn bison]

I have Czepeku maps as well

I make sure there's no such thing as theater of the mind.

[tribal grotto]

I have just discovered a function on roll20 that I need help figuring out

[thorn bison]

#third-party would be best

Or the roll20 discord

[tribal grotto]

super helpful ty

[high bone]

But, but....Totm is my everything

[thorn bison]

I cast, map collection!

[high bone]

ach, hss, it burns us, precious!

[thorn bison]

Nah I respect totm people. Idk how they handle it.

The information overload gets to me.

[zinc osprey]

Dunno. Practice? Early exposure?

[high bone]

dain bramage ?

[zinc osprey]

Understanding its limitations, working within them?

[thorn bison]

Working within them is probably where I fail

I try to keep the theatre in my mind always accurate so I don't get lost.

[minor nova]

People need what they need. There are many different tools depending upon how creative you want to get. No sense knocking everything else out there simply because you have a tool that you enjoy. It's one of many on the available list, that is all.

[high bone]

what do you mean, limitations ? The mind is infinite, I tell you, infinite !

[north sonnet]

sorry didn't realize i was offending anyone

[zinc osprey]

It's how I originally played, how many of us did, so for me its kinda second nature - despite me playing on a VTT and using battle maps, I still use ToTM situationally

[high bone]

Yeah I guess its kinda like growing up reading the subtitles on english tv shows, after a while you dont even notice youre doing it

[thorn bison]

I tried but it eventually led to my ruin.

[zinc osprey]

Could I run 5e in pure ToTM? Probably, but I'd have to dial down the combat for sure, which would be a bummer, I like complex combats

[thorn bison]

I get irrationally upset by repeating myself and Totm is defined by repeating yourself.

[dry drift]

you can do complicated combat with theater of the mind, you just gotta get it clear in your mind and be able to tell folks how many feet apart everything is

[high bone]

aha, maybe that's it, I can't get enough of hearing my own voice...

[minor nova]

Absolutely wonderful until you hit an ADHD player

[slow flax]

I'd still need to run combat on a grid.

[zinc osprey]

Sometimes, yea, its only natural to forget whose who, what's what sometimes

[slow flax]

Even if it was just a blank white surface.

[thorn bison]

Totm for exploration, social great perfect, combat? Not real combat. For me angway

[high bone]

scrap paper my friend, scrap.....paper

[thorn bison]

If it's like a bar fight for fun, it's gonna be totm narrative. Not actual combat.

Tho I might have a map anyway cause I have bar maps I'd wanna use.

[high bone]

whoa now, don't get me wrong, I use maps in combat

I just draw them myself

[north sonnet]

TBF i didn't knock anything out i just meant that dungeonscrawl is all u need to visualise things and that the rest is mostly an aesthetic improvement

[high holly]

There always comes a time in one of those bar fights where it escaltes to the point where I break out the map. "Wait you cast what, where?"

[high bone]

unless it's something really simple like wilderness encounters

[thorn bison]

Depending on the magic it is becoming a real combat yeah

[high holly]

But in these cases, it's not gonna be some bespoke thing. I'm drawing rectcangles and circles.

[high bone]

I can draw those....sort of

[mystic lotus]

Conjure animals (2024 version) sounds nearly impossible to manage in TotM

[high holly]

almost every vtt and drawing tool just has a tool to drag one. Gods no don't try actually drawing a circle.

If you succeed I think the world ends.

[high bone]

that's what a compass is for !

think that's what its called in english...

[thorn bison]

Tbf in that situation. I ain't keeping track of it, you forget where it is and where those goblins are? Well I doubt you'll complain if I say they got ran over

Whenever it gets to totm vs maps I remember this one segment video Brennan Lee Mulligan did a few years ago.

[zinc osprey]

And what was his take

[thorn bison]

The segment was basically "guest picks topic, Brennan picks the reverse"

[zinc osprey]

Right, they debate hot topics, for funsies

[high bone]

link please ? Now I've gotta see

[thorn bison]

Guest picked Totm so Brennan was battlemaps. It's a pretty funny video I watch if I need a laugh

Here's the link to it.
https://youtu.be/zr92SdjbdgM?si=0aQnlMgsEGG2QMVQ

The railroad vs sandbox one is fun as well.

[high bone]

Thank you, much obliged. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be afk for a bit

[zinc osprey]

The one about Milestone vs XP, Mercer vs. Mulligan is pretty good

[thorn bison]

Yeah that's a good one too.

[mystic lotus]

This is great. Thank you so much

[zinc osprey]

https://youtu.be/QbgYM39j8Mc
And here's that one if interested

[cinder mango]

hey! ive seen these! nice

[high bone]

Ah man. That was great. So technically I suppose not even I am Totm when playing DnD, I need my scribbled pencil maps to keep track of where stuff is

[hushed meadow]

What the others have said plus the /dndmaps subreddit has a ton already made.

[mystic lotus]

something to finish while i finish my macroeconomics midterm