Dungeon Master's Guidance 2: Gods and Goddesses

[bengalifan]

My least favorite aspect of fantasy roleplaying.

[YuriPRIMEpoland]

Bane for the win! :P

[HeathbrookBadhwar]

Great work Esper, as always, I'm an old DM from 2e and 3.5 and just getting into 4e now, and these videos are really refreshing, and inspiring. Keep it up :)

[TheGeneralBurn]

Thumbs up for religious arguments!

[OrneryOcelot]

Hey so i have this idea to introduce an element of randomness to D&D by adding some sort of luck skill. Basically i want there to be something that a player can roll to see if they fall through the rickety old rope bridge, or if the ice they are standing on is just a little to thin etc. I was wondering if you had any ideas. Also i was thinking that it could be used as an encounter power which they could use to try and aid something in their turn. And, what about rolling on natural 1s and 20s?

[repsesper]

@OrneryOcelot Well, luck is already kind of in everything, as rolling a d20 is the game's random element. Luck effects, as you can observe in luck-themed powers, often deal with re-rolling.

[MrVoodooyoudo]

you should do one for the evil gods as well :)

[jaknife99]

I'm sorry a god is immortal.

It can be banished, imprisoned, asleep, changed, but not dead.

[OverBlackSands]

@jaknife99 Not if he is in his mortal form in the earthly realm

[dannomagic]

@jaknife99 Ah... but in the Forgotten Realms books, there were many god deaths. They're "dead powers" now.

[KrisRiduh]

@dannomagic Exactly, this only works in that setting because there is the completely immortal and untouchable god "Ao" that intervenes in their actions like how the powers intervene with mortals.

[DenzaMan]

Corellon sounds like a god made for elves and mages, is this how/why you came up with her?

[repsesper]

@DenzaMan Corellon is not mine. He has been in D&D for some time. My deities were in blue font.  And yes, elves/eladrin and mages do revere him quite a bit.

[ookpaia]

My problem is, not the theory or dming, rather the basics like saving throws, dice rolls, the general game engine and how it should be run. Ive gotten some books and i have friends and we dont know how to play, and im finding it really hard to learn without the experience of another dm. Great videos, love the passion. I just need to somehow learn the rules, the books are overwhelming.

[Blair32]

ok so I whant to start a game being the dm but it;s way over my head could you make a video teaching people how to play as a dm and a normal player

[jonatron5]

Hey im planing an adveture for a party of 2 a cleric and a mage both in the beggining stage so i decided what better then a undead adventure into a necromancers lair. I have never been dm before i was thinking a couple encounters of like 15 zombies skelletons etc is this acceptable any tips?

[repsesper]

@jonatron5 Check the Dungeon Master's Guide to make sure you are not building too overwhelming of encounters. A 2 person party is more vulnerable than a 4 or 5 person.

[Azanhour]

Fantastic! You are gifted. I wish players, other than the cleric pc, gave more thought to how their "religion" effects the way their character acts and reacts in different situations.

[23penguins32]

Often unused or misused, in a slighted manner, the divine in RPGs. I've found gods, religion, cosmogony and cosmology always essential in any game. Thanks for sharing this. From some of the comments herein, looks like you've inspired some to the great heights. That is surely a blessed wind. Cheers

[randombeing95]

epic just epic

[MageforSpades]

In one of my campaigns I played in a while ago we were trying to find out the true teachings of Tharizudun ( not sure how you spell that) since they are unknown.

[EldritchThing]

I'm currently running an evil campaign of D&D 4E, the primary plot revolving around a (Un)Holy War between Orcus and another demon prince long forgotten by the civilised world. Evil deities are incredibly fun to write, and roleplay.

On that note: Do you count Demon Princes or the Lords of the Nine Hells as fully fledged deities?

[repsesper]

@EldritchThing No. Demon Lords (princes) and Archdevils are not gods, nor are Archfey, Primordials, Aberrant Lords or ancient dragons. Though incredibly powerful, they have different origins and different places in the cosmology.

[EldritchThing]

@repsesper Thank you, this has helped clear up a few doubts of mine :)

[SMGxSeshaBeowulf]

Amazing video! Inspired me as a DM to incorporate the Gods more. You should do more Vids like this for us Noob Dm's.

Thankyou!

[jimeronimo]

Incredible insight. You've spent an amazing amount of time developing this.

[qarionswatching]

good thing about d&d, and other rpgs in general, is that these kind of efforts coming from the gamers themselves keep the whole alive, the community contributions to the collective perception of the game dynamics. thanks a lot esper for keeping us so inspired =)

[GMCiaramella]

Really well done... did you write all that? If so, double props!

[repsesper]

@GMCiaramella Yes, I did. I guess I should have made that more obvious.

[gr00ms1]

you kick ass dude.

[XxXShadowViperXxX]

13 views and only 2 likes(one of them mine) come on guys, it's not that hard to click the like button. Thank you Esper for these great informative and interesting videos.

[JKTCGMV13]

Nice video. I never thought this much about the gods, and my PCs would just toss in any god that fit their class/race.