Creating A Level 1 Encounter For Dungeons and Dragons 5E - w/ Giant Rats!
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Published 2020-06-13
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All Comments (21)
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Giant rats with poisoned bites. Giant kind rats with intelligence and language and a secret civilization inside the walls. Giant meat eating intelligent rats with bibs and forks. Giant vampire rats. Giant invisible rats. Giant flying rats. Giant illusionary rats.
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What the hell is this?! Why so few subscribers? This is great!
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Why is this so good and why isn't it more popular?
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Please keep it this way, I like the idea of using the monsters to teach the players the mechanics of the game.
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This sounds like a fantastic first encounter for getting people into the game
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We need more videos like this. This is too amazing not to share
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my favourite version of this, a rat infestation has frightened the tavern cat so the innkeep decides to ask the party to help her tame a bigger cat ( a giant lynx or some other terrain appropriate "bigger cat to deal with the rat problem, the party then needs to subdue the big cat in som appropriate way, rangers and druids can show offf their animal handling skills, while that speak with animals spell can be utilised in multiple ways
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5:36 I'd imagine that as the rat leaping it's fangs into the wizard's neck, killer rabbit style
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"Rodents of unusual size? I doubt they exis-" "SKREEEEE!"
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Instructions aren't clear, now I have rats in my flat.
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This has been the best video I have seen so far. Love the way you detailed everything. Hope to see some more content!
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This video was so great, thank you so much for the ideas! I specially like how you created nice background ideas while explaining why this challenge is good for new players. Hope you get tons of subscribers!
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You should do more encounter builds like this, at common levels or common monster types. Great job!
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I've needed this video for years.
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Best dming instruction on youtube. I needed this video, and up untill I found it I had to watch stupid videos of random dm's who think they're comedians. They were not funny and their videos were not useful at all. this. this is the video that people should watch.
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This is really well thought out and exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
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Starting my first campaign ever next week and this has been invaluable, thank you so much!
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This is a great vid!
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Fantastic little guide, props to you. You should have more subs for this quality of content.
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This is such a good video, it deserves way more views ):
