Let's make BLUETSPUR in 5e!

I love the act structure. It makes it easy to visualize and adapt the adventures. Ever since I read about this domain I had the image in my mind of the final boss battle happening on top of the God Brain, with it's mind powers and brain-tentacles being enviromental hazards.

When I first read about Bluetspur I somehow completely missed Lovecraft being the literary basis. I instead imagined a D&D version of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, and am envisioning running a Bluetspur survival/exploration game that plays like an old-school Metroid game, descending through underground zones and caverns, ever closer to the mad Elder Brain final boss

the ending ideas really got me good! I'm currently running out of the abyss and these sort of mind games I will absolutely take inspiration from, thanks for doing these man!

I've run this a few times, and it has been a bit every single time. Huge thanks for your work putting this resource together. Some endings I had fun with -wake up, and you're in baldurs gate, but it's actually a Ren faire, PC freaks out, people start recording on their phones. -wake up, in a wagon in the forest, across from you someone says "hey you, you're finally awake"

I love that background music, DUN DUN, DUN DUN.

I'm quite new to DnD, and was thinking, 'how the hell does one run an adventure set in Bluetspur?!'. Then I watched this video! Great work, thank you.

Really great resource for my Bluetspur adventures, thanks a ton for the inspiration! Any chance you can do a similar video for the other Domains of Dread in the 5e Ravenloft book, like Hazlan or Kalakeri or I’Cath or Har’Akir? I’m definitely subscribing now!

Your videos are like a good book. I watch them the first time and get inspired. Each subsequent watch always gives me more and more. Context, inspiration, ideas. Always look forward to videos from you.

I'm running a CoS campaign and I've added a contrivance that has the PCs going on ambiguously real dream journeys to other Domains of Dread as they sleep. Sometimes the return with useful knowledge or even items. Right now, their dreaming selves are trapped in Bluetspur. Subjective time has been weeks. I'm telling the story in the bits and pieces they will recall later, so there are plenty of gaps, but a general narrative can be inferred. One party member was taken prisoner early and is being experimented on while the rest met up with a stranded member of the Order of the Feather. It's fun to run a stripped down story where the scenes aren't fully connected and every scene they recall is either a decision point or an opportunity for character development. One PC is having scenes of abduction medical horror while the rest are trying to hide and scrounge resources on a deeply alien and inhospitable world. Soon the threads will rejoin, and they'll get their chance to escape (waking up to cheery Barovia). I feel like Bluetspur is best used as a mixer for a different flavor of horror campaign, like a stopover in the mists or an incursion into another Domain of Dread. You can only play with memory for so long at a stretch before it gets old, but brief, intense periods of cosmic horror really freshen up other horrors.

Great video man this deserves way more people looking at the videos

This was really cool. I didn't know about Bluetspur. I loved the surrealism in this. Adds a fun psychological element which i don't think a lot of dnd games get into. I would probably make the pods more organic than machine. Might use it to add some body horror when they awake and find some living things attached to their minds, feeding them a simulation. Funnily enough, i'm curious as to how some of the players in our group would react to the moments in "ontario." i have a few friends who get a little fantasy purist on me sometimes. XD

I quite like this one. Bluetspur is a domain that I felt didn't change much between 5e and before, though as you mentioned the book thoughts of darkness is good for helping to flesh out details. I would probably have more scenes in Bluetspur over the mental areas. experience the torture and experments of the Ilithids in all their alien weirdness. I will say that the part where you had the real world made me think of a number of alice in wonderlands/down the rabbit hole stories where there is a part where Alice is in Wonderland but also a part where she is in a mental asylum. Good video.

Brilliant! I'd totally play this!

This is great, I'll definitely incorporate this into my campaign. Thanks for the inspiration

Now that I had seen the Rime of Dark Sun, I seeing all the Ravenloft videos. Like always, a unique content, also love the way you talk and explain, really like a professor and it's pretty easy to follow. Thanks and keep making this kinda of content. Hoping to see a Sithicus adventure

I feel like Mia-go and other stuff from Sandypetersen Cthuhlu for 5e would be great for this.

Fantastic. I just started running a Saltmarsh game, and am really chomping at the bit to rewrite the cosmic horror second half to include this. Just found your channel not even a week ago, and this one has burrowed into my head like a tick since seeing it. Just wonderful stuff.

Found your channel throught this adventure, and this this is 10/10

This is realy cool, I am definetly going to take this as inspiration. Thank you

So, I ran a version of Bluetspur tonight. But in my adventure, they need the God-Brain as an ally. When they arrive, they found themselves in a therapy session and I began to refer to the players by their IRL names. However, I had two therapists (good cop/bad cop). The good cop was willing to indulge their D&D fantasy ie play the role of the DM. So, he would say, “Would you like to roll one of your ‘investigation checks’?” etc. And physically hand them a d20. The other therapist would ask them questions about their “fantasies”. The God-Brain was trying to discern their intent toward it and decide whether or not to help them. It was very fun.