Professor DM presents the classic TSR module The Lost City with special guests Bob World Builder, Baron DeRopp, DM Scotty, and Trevor Duvall! Episode #346
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Many, MANY thanks to Scotty, Trevor, Bob, Baron, Kira and all my patrons for their support.
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Holy crap, Professor!
This vid is a masterpiece
I love all the collaborations
Great, great Episode!!! Loved every second of it and wish it was twice as long. Thanks to your collaborators on joining this epic video. When can we expect the next one?
I wonder now; would it better to play this using AD&D / 2nd edition rules, or to play it using 5e rules. So far, my group of friends have played through a bunch of old modules using either D&D 3.5, 4e (briefly), Pathfinder 1e, and D&D 5e. My impression thus far has been that different rule sets kind of have an impact on the playing experience of these old modules.
Fantastic video! Makes me want to play this adventure
Great video & narrative! One of your best, yet, Prof DM. Kudos
I got to start my kids in this last month.
The girls promptly hated the brotherhood while the boys joined.
Already into covert faction play 🙂
Mystara is rad.
What an awesome job. Love the campaign.
Reading your group and adjusting for how long they want the campaign to last is very good advice. So the adults with busy lives wanted it short and sweet, but your younger players like to take their time. Makes sense.
My party would have looted the coffers and murdered the warrior maidens.
This is surely my type of d&d content. No idea why videos about WotC self-destruction get more views. :T
Well damn. 41 years in this hobby and I just found out we've been doing it wrong. It's a race. We never knew that. A race to get to the finish line as fast as possible. I'm just gonna make up a list of monsters that would be cool to kill before my next session. When everyone sits down I'm gonna say. Hey I've decided you've gone through the Caves of Chaos. You killed ( ill refer to my list) and you found this treasure. You are all 5th level. Whole module completed in 10 minutes. We win yeah.
I understand not wanting to "skill lock" key plot points of an adventure, but to just not roll Charisma or perception checks can really just invalidate some character builds. If whether the party is attacked by the wizards or not is based on your roll of 2d6 and not the actions of the party, or the "just roll play it out" instead of a charisma check, it may leave a bard player thinking their class choice was a waste of time. If a rogue who invested in Investigation gets told, "hey, we just let you find secret doors if you look in the right place, no roll required", then what was the point? If you're upfront with this before character creation, that's better, but it still just takes entire characters off the table as just having pointless abilities.
It is much closer to "old-school" play, and I appreciate that, but players that cut their teeth on 5e are going to be frustrated.
Epic Hell that made me cheer lol. I played The Lost City back in the day we never made it to the Lost City but had a lot of fun. Now I'll have to revisit The lost city.
One of my favorite modules ever. Moldvay's pulp trilogy is a high point of the old school modules.
I'll wear my 35 years old Golden Mask to watch this <3
DId you preserve the "This faction will welcome X, Y, and Thieves to join"?
Always sounded weird to me.
I understand dwarfs or women to be included or excluded, but why thieves amongst other random classes, unless it's a faction devoted to steal (which would make sense if it's theives only)?
Zargon be praised!
Well, that was awesome!
Love the miniatures and story. Very evocative! I'm not a fan of abstract combat for my fantasy games… I'm more of a "The Fantasy Trip" player with its excellent, fast play tactical combat. That being said, if I were to hand-wave the hex movement I would take an approach similar to yours.
This was wonderful. Thanks to you and your contributors.
Great fun! You mentioned stingbats – were you using ShadowDark? From the commentary I know you had at least some Deathbringer mechanics.
I really like the format of having commentary from your peer youtubers. Good to know players are the same everywhere and skip your prepared content.
AWESOME video and excellent cast!
This was fantastic thank you!
What system(s), rules were used for this campaign? Excellent video btw, PDM. Very enjoyable!
Classic Professor DM with great production values. Gotta love old school D&D.
My only wish on this is that Hankrin would have shown up to explain the 3 Ts
That was AWESOME! Loved the cameos by the other YouTubers in my feed. Thank you.
Interesting format for your video. I liked it.
I think my players made it to the third tier. It was a total slog, we lost interest, after playing several successful adventures prior. Your take is great. We used BECMI rules, and it was around 2012.
This is one of your best videos yet!!! As a DM myself for over 40 years, this video brought me nostalgia because I have run this module multiple times. (One group actually defeated Zargon). It brought me inspiration because of your incredible story telling. Also your videos always bring me a feeling of validation because I run a very similar old school game that you describe in your videos. I always look forward to your exceptional content every week. Thank you!!!
Absolutely amazing video fun to watch and to listen to your players are very different than mine but I always hear good stuff from you that I can modify and use
One of your best videos yet, Professor! Entertaining and full of great ideas. Thanks!
WoW!I love the whole thing. You need to do a full tutorial video of Deathbringer!
never made it to the lost city.
What a masterpiece. Well done