Your D&D Worldbuilding SUCKS. This is why.
55K views · Sep 5, 2025 · Education
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@DeficientMaster · 1 year ago · pinned
Support a great TTRPG team & me by backing the Scorched Basin! <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homieandthedude/scorched-basin?ref=blit4q">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homieandthedude/scorched-basin?ref=blit4q</a><br><br><br><br>...so who's here because SUCKS was in the title?
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@theastralwanderer · 1 year ago
The players don't care about how your evil god was cursed long ago or what his cultists do in the middle of the night. However, they do care when the cursed knives this dark god's cultists carry leave wounds that never heal no matter what.<br><br>All of a sudden, that lore becomes highly relevant.
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@chimmichunker3955 · 1 year ago
As I watch through this video I'm realizing more and more how lucky I am to have the players I do, they're all genuinely interested in investigative gameplay and seek out extra details about the world I made, it feels good.
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@Blizzic · 1 year ago
Yeah as soon as I heard about Mythic Bastionland, I was like “okay that’s now the ONLY way I’m going to structure sandbox campaigns from now on”
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@TheADHDM · 1 year ago
The Dadi cameo sent me
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@AndrewJHayford · 1 year ago
I somehow knew the "Pathfinder fixes this" would make it in.
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@4saken404 · 1 year ago
I can't even begin to express how much joy it fills me with to see all these dungeon tubers collaborating and doing little cameos in each other's videos. 😍<br><br>I might have to back that Kickstarter just based on principle alone!
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@r.0.b.429 · 1 year ago
The ritual worked! The stars were aligned and the snacks were set oh so right! He has awakened to shatter our minds with the wisdom of the ages!
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@Minotaur-of-Malice · 1 year ago
Awesome vid! I’d love some more “[D&D Advice] 202” content. I feel most advice is surface level without getting too into anything. Many times without giving specific recommendations! <br><br>That’s why I’ve loved your content from the beginning. See you in the next one, Deficient!
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@izanagiuzumaki7325 · 1 year ago
The hands are so expressive in this one. Like every vid is amazing and he does an astounding job conveying emotion with just hands and arms, but idk they just go so hard in this one. the part where he goes "🤛👈☝🤏👍" really spoke to me.
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@Dadi-MysticArts · 1 year ago
Did you mention a green dragon?
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@spike315 · 1 year ago
This reminds me about how F.E.A.R. enemies were smart, but the best design decision they made was to have the NPCs fully shout out exactly what they were doing <br><br>There are plenty of intelligently-behaving NPCs in video games now, but you will still hear that "to this day, FEAR enemy AI is unmatched" — it's purely because the NPCs showed their hand to the players
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