Writing the first D&D session in a new campaign

I just wanted to let you know that I'm an aspiring first time DM, and your videos have come to answer my questions exactly as they came up. Not only is your timing impeccable, but your advice is so genuinely helpful. I love your content and can't wait for each video, short or long form.

As a YouTuber, you have so much potential! Keep up the great work. It really is awesome! And I like how you talk like a “normal person”. What I mean is most YouTubers think it’s necessary to have a “speaker voice” but I like your style which sounds like a normal guy having a normal conversation.

This is great, I particularly like the combat start as it works well with other points of interest in an area (like a fountain, or a ferry crossing)

HiHi! a am a module Dm, So i dont needed any of this! but man! you are smart! you aced everything. loved the vid! New campaigns new pl, around the table. is always! fun.

This is extremely helpful. It is my first time DM'ing just for my wife and son at first. I've just been doing a lot of reading the books, but I want to start planning, and this had great directional info. Thank you!

Really great how you started by giving the players some limited lore, building their goals and back stories into the basic plot before you even started playing. Smart having players back stories with blank spaces you can just fill in. Excellent advice all around, thank you! 👍 Hoping to see the kitty cat sometime 😃, even if it doesn't jump in your lap but is napping at your feet.

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This is all really good advice for first sessions. Not just for new DMs. My current campaign almost started with a TPK, the party choose to attack a spider nest, turns out there were 5 giant spiders, too much for 6 level 1s! Luckily, they were able to escape and come back for round 2!

That sound like a very interesting quest tbh. Great video. I like the off the cuff videos like this alot. Feel alot more personal which I like

I'm loving this relaxed content and the ideas it is sparking.

This video is so helpful! Thank you! I finally see a path forward in how to get a new campaign up and running in a way that goes smoothly for both me and the players.

Lets go! Love these videos that are valuable for starting DMs but also a new perspective for experienced ones!

I really hope you become a bigger TTRPG Youtuber! You're so sympathic and your voice is calming and awesome! The Vids are informative and fun to watch :) Keep it up

This came at the perfect time! I am running my first campaign ever next week and have been feeling a little overwhelmed. This video helped a ton!

OG D&D player and DM, since 1rst edition. I really enjoy your videos. Well done and thank you.

Amazing work fella. Just signed up to your patreon (first time for that) and it's definitely the best money I've spent on ttrpg content for a while. Love all this stuff and you clearly have a genuine passion for it which shines through. Thank you. Love the idea of the clockwork zombie. Just written a tavern opening for my campaign (it's for the kids starting at lvl 1.) And I've had them outside in the rain and written them being cold and hungry looking for warmth. Think I've done pretty well at conveying the pass from the cold outside to a warm and friendly place inside. No one even has any quests although their are basic shops, they get a map and an introduction to some basic characters. Then an old guy bursts in on the edge of death screaming about goblins and asking any heroes to save the village. I wanted to introduce the kids to some classic tropes without making it too obvious, but it seems to work nicely.

I literally opened youtube to find music as I wrote up my first session, and this video popped up! So happy <3

Love how simple and chill this format is. Not even editing out the drinks. 😂 It feels way more conversational and relaxed, and your other videos already feel that way. Another idea I had during your explanation of the tavern scene, which I'm not a huge fan of for the reasons you mentioned, but will still put here. How common are people like your players in the world? The tavernkeeper could look up after everyone has arrived and say "not too often a group of dangerous looking strangers like all of you show up at my bar." Could even add him saying "even less often that they all come in separate and pretend not to know each other." That might help break the tension a little bit, as well as adding a little bit of information about the world, in that people as dangerous as player characters aren't commonly found in civilized places. Even though this might not get the party to speak with each other, it could be an icebreaker before a bigger event happens to bring the party together.

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Great video🔥! I am currently writing my first first session of the campaign so these tips wil be very useful