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Making Diseases in D&D More Fun!
I've always hated that when I've tried to introduce disease and affliction mechanics into my D&D campaigns they've never gotten the traction I was hoping for, so I sat down to think about the causes for that and come up with a better solution.
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Welcome to the info paragraph, this is a place to feed the great algorithm, and if you've made it here you have probably scrolled too far! Icarus Games is dedicated to helping TTRPG players and game masters improve their experience in roleplaying games. For RPG players, there are videos on learning games rules, as well as on character building, roleplaying, and optimization. For Game Masters, there are videos on making maps, improving your worldbuilding for your RPGs, and for creating homebrew TTRPG content.
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5 More One Shot Ideas to Steal
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I love running One Shot adventures even during my long term D&D campaigns, and today I want to tell you about five more of my favourite one shots that I've run in the last few years. Check out today's sponsor, Czepeku Maps: bit.ly/40tuGwt Get A Night of Advenutre Vol. 1: bit.ly/3DzRyla 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FREE Sample Issue: bit.ly/34FHwjT 🔹Back issues ...
I Made My Own Custom GM Screen (Everything Went Wrong)
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This week I was inspired to make my own custom GM screen from scratch and everything that could go wrong, did. Come along for the ride. Check out today's sponsor, DC20: kck.st/4auFMFU @JPCoovert video that inspired me: ua-cam.com/video/zAWxhFm_w8M/v-deo.htmlsi=YR1NLenuyaHJahQ8 My DM Screen Inserts: bit.ly/3DhYlyY 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FREE Sample Issue: ...
The Next D&D Killer? DC20 First Impressions Review
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Since the OGL fiasco in early 2023 there have been a slew of "D&D Killers" emerge onto the scene, and today we're taking a look at one of the most promising ones - DC20 from the Dungeon Coach. Check out today's sponsor, Czepeku Maps: bit.ly/40tuGwt Get the DC20 alpha: bit.ly/4awXtVp Sign up for the DC20 Kickstarter: kck.st/4auFMFU 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the F...
WotC Confirm SRD for New D&D Rulebooks
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Following the OGL controversy, Wizards of the Coast promised the 2024 edition of Dungeons and Dragons would get an SRD version released under the creative commons, but ever since then things have been pretty quite. But today WotC reconfirmed that pledge and gave us some more details on the timeline for this new SRD. Check out the full article: www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1717-2024-core-rulebooks-to...
Fixing D&D's Magic Item Pricing
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D&D 5e's magic item pricing has always annoyed me, so I thought it was finally time to do something to fix it! Check out today's sponsor, Domille's Wondrous Works: bit.ly/3x0tln6 Grab a free sample pack of DWW maps here: mab.to/t/byu7ZmjH4WX/us2 Get all the magic item pricing tables in issue 33 of SIDEQUEST: www.patreon.com/posts/103085773 Check out the blog post where I talk about leaving PF2 ...
What's in my GM Bag? What I Take to My RPG Sessions
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This week I'm showing you what I keep in my GM bag for running D&D and other tabletop RPGs in person. Thanks to this videos sponsor, Czepeku! Get more than 4,000 high quality hand drawn maps by checking out their patreon: bit.ly/40tuGwt 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 DM Screen Inserts: www.icarus-games.co.uk/product-page/dm-screen-inserts Messenger bag (UK): amzn.to/3TOsOML (US): amzn.to/3vKeUmS Dungeon Mayh...
Inkarnate 2.0 Beta First Impressions
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I've been waiting for the Inkarnate 2.0 beta for what feels like a hundred years, but it's finally here and in today's video I'm taking a look at some of the new stuff added to the app and how it performs. Check out today's sponsor, Domille's Wondrous Works: bit.ly/3x0tln6 Grab a free sample pack of DWW maps here: bit.ly/3vaLMFj 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FRE...
Making A New Region for My Homebrew Campaign
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My players will soon be heading to a new region in my homebrew world and I need to do some worldbuilding for it while making it feel distinct and different to everything else in my setting! Check out SIDEQUEST magazine and get a FREE sample issue here: bit.ly/34FHwjT 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Back issues on DrivethruRPG: bit.ly/IcarusDTRPG FIND ME ACROSS THE INTERNE...
The 5e Book I've Been Waiting For?
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I finally got my hands on the Book of Many Things and it's time to find out whether it was worth the wait and lives up to the hype as the book I've been waiting for since I first started playing 5e. Thanks to Czepeku for sponsoring today's video. Check out their patreon to get access to thousands of incredible battle maps, including animated maps at the higher tiers: bit.ly/40tuGwt 🔻CLICK FOR M...
My 5 Favourite Locations in My Homebrew D&D Setting
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I asked what kind of videos you folks wanted to see and plenty of you said you wanted more stuff talking about my homebrew world so in today's video we're taking a look at some of my favourite random locations in the Jewel Cities of Talavaar setting. Check out this video's sponsor, Czepeku Scenes: bit.ly/3SChYKP 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FREE Sample Issue: b...
2023 Nearly Killed Me
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So 2023 was a really rough year to make TTRPG content, but I didn't expect it to nearly kill me 😂 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FREE Sample Issue: bit.ly/34FHwjT 🔹Back issues on DrivethruRPG: bit.ly/IcarusDTRPG FIND ME ACROSS THE INTERNET: linktr.ee/icarus_games For business inquires and sponsorship options please email info@icarus-games.co.uk Welcome to the inf...
Let's Talk About Potions in 5e!
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I recently asked y'all about bonus action potions on the community tab and you had OPINIONS, so let's talk about it! Check out today's sponsor, Czepeku Scenes: bit.ly/3SChYKP 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - The Monthly RPG Magazine 🔹Get the FREE Sample Issue: bit.ly/34FHwjT 🔹Back issues on DrivethruRPG: bit.ly/IcarusDTRPG FIND ME ACROSS THE INTERNET: linktr.ee/icarus_games For business inquires an...
Pathfinder 2e Remaster First Impressions
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The Pathfinder 2e Remaster is finally here and in this video I'm giving you my first impressions of the player core book and talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of this refresh to the system. Check out today's sponsor, Czepeku Scenes: bit.ly/3SChYKP The Pathfinder Remaster Core Preview: paizo.com/pathfinder/corepreview Archives of Nethys: 2e.aonprd.com/ 🔻CLICK FOR MORE🔻 SIDEQUEST - Th...
How I Organize My TTRPG Notes | GM Journal Tour
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How I Organize My TTRPG Notes | GM Journal Tour
Making Globe Maps For Your Homebrew D&D Worlds
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Making Globe Maps For Your Homebrew D&D Worlds
I'm Not Dead
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I'm Not Dead
Infinite Dungeons For You Foundry VTT Games
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Infinite Dungeons For You Foundry VTT Games
How I Organize My TTRPG Campaigns in LegendKeeper
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How I Organize My TTRPG Campaigns in LegendKeeper
Making More Engaging RPG Encounter Maps
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Making More Engaging RPG Encounter Maps
SIDEQUEST Annual 2 Flipthrough
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SIDEQUEST Annual 2 Flipthrough
My Favorite Way To Start TTRPG Campaigns
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My Favorite Way To Start TTRPG Campaigns
SIDEQUEST Annual 1 Flipthrough
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SIDEQUEST Annual 1 Flipthrough
How to Get Started as a Game Master
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How to Get Started as a Game Master
Is this the best free VTT? Owlbear Rodeo Overview
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Is this the best free VTT? Owlbear Rodeo Overview
The Ranger Finally Done Right? D&D 5e Vs Pathfinder 2e
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The Ranger Finally Done Right? D&D 5e Vs Pathfinder 2e
My New Favorite RPG Minis
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My New Favorite RPG Minis
Why I Stopped Using Wonderdraft | Inkarnate Review
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Why I Stopped Using Wonderdraft | Inkarnate Review
Making Encounters in Pathfinder 2e is Easy
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Making Encounters in Pathfinder 2e is Easy
How I Make RPG Products with Affinity Publisher
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How I Make RPG Products with Affinity Publisher

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @lugialover09
    @lugialover09 День тому

    So this is super amazing, but I do have one question. How exactly do you plan out what's going to happen within the session? I see a general summary, but I don't see a list of encounters or narrative progression. Or is this a set of notes for a published adventure that you're just following? Because I'm trying to write GM notes, but I don't know what I should be doing. I'm just writing down things as bullet points (e.g. if the players go to this area, this encounter will happen. if they are nice to the NPCs in that encounter, this will happen. If not, this happens instead.). It might be getting too granular, but I'm not sure how else to write notes. If I didn't have them that way, I would be floundering the entire time because I don't know how to just think of things on the spot.

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames День тому

      I run a totally homebrew world, so not a prewritten adventure, and how I structure my session planning notes specifically will depend on what we're doing that week, but I rely on a lot of improvisation. Before we started our campaign I spent 6-8 months building out the world in livestreams so I know a lot of contextual information about the world and can use that to help my improv feel like it was planned all along. If the players arrive in a location run by a specific faction, I'll have most of the important information for that faction stored in my head (or in my campaign notes in Legendkeeper) so I use that knowledge to make choices about how the NPCs act, what their goals are etc. If there's a really important bit of info I need to remember, I'll write it in the critical info box but otherwise I rely on a lot of informed improv.

    • @lugialover09
      @lugialover09 День тому

      @@IcarusGames Okay, wow. That's impressive. I struggle to even describe or portray stuff that I already have specifically detailed in my notes.

  • @echonation3964
    @echonation3964 2 дні тому

    Just found you today! I am wanting to make a setting of a large city with different districts so I will attempt to use some of this in that.

  • @bobturpin7611
    @bobturpin7611 4 дні тому

    For me, I use a different method of curing disease... I do not like that these can be cured with a simple spell. It may well do... but in RL you need to know what you are curing... The cleric or paladin needs to identify the disease first, then use the minor variant (spell is the same but now is focusing on a single issue) which focuses the healing of that disease. I think of it that the lesser restoration in this is similar to that of a panacea. If may still cure the disease, but has a 5% chance of working (if the disease is not id'd).... Instead they need to identify the disease, considering that i do not tell them what it is, just what the symptoms are. Once the disease is identified then the restoration spell is 'adjusted' to cure the disease. giving a 95% chance of curing, and potentially still a chance for relapse.... (yes i'm evil) I also sometimes for the rarer diseases require supplements (herbal or magical) to assist, meaning the curing is delayed further if these are required, and need to be obtained. I also do the same for poisons, considering that you typically need the antivenom. I do like the ideas of the elements of this, making disease seem benign, but gradually get worse, so i will be taking this and adding it to my version...mwahahaha

  • @helix3955
    @helix3955 4 дні тому

    Very interesting idea! I like that it rewards the players initially

  • @andrewwahba5006
    @andrewwahba5006 4 дні тому

    I'm running an ancient egyptian-themed game and i have been looking for a similar solution to the classic tomb curses and mummy diseases. Theres a cleric on the party so obviously everything gets cured either same day or the next morning. I guess i never considered treating them like pf2e mutagens! This is a good idea!

  • @MrFinchx
    @MrFinchx 4 дні тому

    Oh my God! Rip

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 4 дні тому

      George was also infected. . .

    • @MrFinchx
      @MrFinchx 4 дні тому

      @@IcarusGames yeah you said 😅

    • @MrFinchx
      @MrFinchx 4 дні тому

      I would have deffo try to get rid asap

  • @travelwell8098
    @travelwell8098 4 дні тому

    Great story!!! Love the plot twist!

  • @mchisolm0
    @mchisolm0 4 дні тому

    I really like that players still get to choose. Thanks, Anto!

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 4 дні тому

      Absolutely! I wanted a reason for the *players* to roll the dice and risk further stages and more drama even if it meant potentially negative stuff for their characters down the road, but at least they are getting something positive and interesting *now*.

  • @Phleanix
    @Phleanix 4 дні тому

    Superb! I love your content, Anto!

  • @sammwich4160
    @sammwich4160 6 днів тому

    I've been looking for a decent worldbuilding system for so long because my campaign is so in-depth and every single one I've found has either been paid, has essential things paid, or just doesn't have what I need. I'm so glad I finally found what I was looking for, thank you so much

  • @miked.9364
    @miked.9364 6 днів тому

    NO. Just another Fantasy Heartbreaker. "Look fellas I made D&D, but better!" smh.

  • @alexanderespinosa3875
    @alexanderespinosa3875 6 днів тому

    So, as i understand it, 5e says “don’t do that” and 2e says “I mean I wouldn’t but you can certainly try, just don’t get your hopes up” which is a similar but fundamentally different message

  • @evenfrank5223
    @evenfrank5223 7 днів тому

    thanks for the video Icarus. i hate to be that guy but have you seen a doctor lately? the left side of you mouth doesnt seem to match the right side, droop on the left side of the face is a sign of stroke.

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 7 днів тому

      I appreciate the concern (really!) but I've always had that lopsided, Elvis-style raise to the right side of my mouth that makes the left look a bit droopy. I have been back and forth to the Drs lately for other stuff so I'll mention it next time I see them as there's no harm in being double safe!

  • @charlykuhnast31
    @charlykuhnast31 7 днів тому

    Where can i find these written adventures? Are theynin the Issues of Sidequest?

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 7 днів тому

      Dam, That's Nasty is available in Issue 34 of SIDEQUEST: www.patreon.com/posts/sidequest-issue-105325856 The Armor of Ezanos can be found in A Night of Adventure Volume 1: bit.ly/3DzRyla The other 3 one shots mentioned in this video have no written version right now and are just ones I've run for my home games.

    • @charlykuhnast31
      @charlykuhnast31 7 днів тому

      @@IcarusGames Thank you for this really fast answer.

  • @Jeffs40K
    @Jeffs40K 8 днів тому

    My DM kit, a backpack with laptop, cables, extra dice, notebook & Pens/Pencils for quick jotting info down, and I carry a portable 27" touch-screen monitor that lays in the center of the table.... my Lapotop has all the books on PDF if needed, I use Owlbearrodeo VTT for the mapping with Fog of War, and I use Owlbear's Post it Notes for (Red) Monster stats, (Blue) Room Descriptions, and (Green) for Traps, (Yellow) is Loot which is Handy I just expose it so they can copy the info down easy. ... Plus I have all the monsters & Player tokens already in place with their built-in life tracker, condition markers, spell templates, as well as Initiative app if you want to use it and even digital dice I use for rolls I want players to see like my monster attacks, (and use real dice for Hidden Detect traps and etc.) plus it has Draw and typing options if wan tot write info or Draw on the map ... also in the note book are handouts. ... Plus Owlbear can be done from my main PC at home online, so the laptop just sits in the backpack till game night (Every Sunday, face to face with 7 players) ... with Touch Screen players can move there tokens, on the Touch Screen so it can be a more Tactical battle. Theator of the moind is great butI've had to many times when the Ranger was hit but hes out of run range but DM didnt know or Once I told DM I went left, got attacked and im like we ust came from that way, he said no you came from Right, well thats because he is facing me and my Left is his Right, This is why I use N< S< E< W in my games. .... Oh yeh Edit ... I also have Digital DM Screen (Token) I place under my Owlbear maps as well la sa Map that is a Town notice board, where I have tokens of Square Wanted posters, Jobs and etc I can change as done.

  • @40yearoldninja61
    @40yearoldninja61 8 днів тому

    Some cool ideas. I am ending a 2 year camapign and started peppering in one shots towards the end, that dealt with other groups, or behind the scenes stuff, and I wished I did that from the beginning. It was cool that have the one shots be cannon story arcs where the players got to be somone else for a day.

  • @burritoornot856
    @burritoornot856 9 днів тому

    Argh, i got my level 14 character murdered by shadows

  • @nitehood108
    @nitehood108 9 днів тому

    What kind of tape did you use to connect the panels?

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 9 днів тому

      I used blue painters tape ☺️

    • @nitehood108
      @nitehood108 8 днів тому

      @@IcarusGames Huh, isn't painters tape really weak? I'd be worried it would rip or peel. Is there a reason to use that kind of tape over something more durable, like gaffer tape or bookbinding tape?

    • @IcarusGames
      @IcarusGames 8 днів тому

      @@nitehood108 the painters tape is all I had on hand. If I was buying tape especially I'd get something stronger for sure, but I added plenty to the hinges and it seems to be holding up fine so far.

  • @hal9713
    @hal9713 9 днів тому

    as a pc playing a rakshasi armorer-artificer who likes getting her employment contracts in writing, very helpful thank you!

  • @MelanieVick
    @MelanieVick 9 днів тому

    Any chance you'll make the finished character sheets from the end available for others to use?