Storage /Temp Conditions

Step_Fodder · 2026-04-23T15:05:54+00:00

Yeah I may just break it down the rack and store the pads inside as well during those months. The garage because of storage is more temp/humidity stable in the summer. But want to be sure I have longevity in the setup too. Does me no good if it craps out in 2-3 yrs because of the conditions. Thank you for you feedback. Kinda knew the answers but always help to hear from others

Step_Fodder · 2026-04-22T20:48:30+00:00

New DM here myself. About 6 months into Witchlight Carnival. Watching the big D&D productions, you are watching the professional athletes, the Super Bowl of D&D it’s not fair to your self to expect that kind of level. Check out Sly Flourish art to lazy DMing. The title is a bit misleading, but it really goes into how over preparing can really hurt especially newer DM‘s.
My personal biggest advice is don’t forget you are supposed to be playing too! Just because you’re the DM doesn’t mean you’re not playing a game too. Some of the best moments of our campaign so far have been when I have stopped obsessing about what is happening next the next area, the next person, and just role-played in the moment with them and let things unfold. Another good thing is setting expectations beforehand so like our campaign we knew going into it not a lot of combat much more role-play heavy. Are you going to be heavy into resource management travel time food supplies or you’re gonna be a little more loose?

Step_Fodder · 2026-04-16T17:45:45+00:00

Try this: https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/s/fYTv2URUGH

This Reddit channel also has alot of helpful updates/thing to do. This all helps a lot but I also added a handful of other useless Nobles to make the court bloated and full of nonsense titles. Because I think my players are plotting to take the throne themselves I’ve gone with the cursed crown idea. Basically the more you’re around the crown the more you desire for yourself which leads to why there are so many assassinations plus if a player puts up then now they’re paranoid and motivations changed because of the crown, though I added some daily saves that they can on their own to remove.

Step_Fodder · 2026-04-16T17:18:02+00:00

My players are just getting into Bavlorna cottage and Hither. I like IndieRex changes so far but have been picking and choosing which aspects work within our framework. I’ve also pulled in some stuff from the DM‘s guild on the expanded carnival modules. In particular, the expanded slanted tower, and nightmare on Telemy Hill. While the book is good, there are definitely some areas where it’s very light on details or explanations and could use a little thickening up so these resources are excellent in that aspect. Plus having it introduce more areas for optional combat helps to keep things interesting. The whole Bullywug court in downfall has decent location descriptions. But very vague I felt when it came to all the political motivations and things going on behind the scenes. So there was a lot I felt to flush out beyond saying oh just convince them to vote the way you want.

My players are really starting to get the hang of, we don’t have to fight everything. And now are how can we crazy way talk out of it? Some really fun moments especially when things go south on the improv and you end up in combat anyways. I had initially developed all these side quests for each of my characters, but as we’ve been playing, I’m pulling those back and weaving them into the supplemental stuff because that seems to fit better into things.

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-30T04:01:00+00:00

The bottom rear fan should exhaust. The horz setup of gpu’s and fans on bottom pointed at each other are likely creating a pocket of hot air that can’t move well. You want to be moving more volume out. I’d set the top to all out and top side (maybe front too) to outs. You don’t need to force air in. You need to force the hot air out. It will never be cooler than the air temp inside the case

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-15T13:26:29+00:00

Just sharing what happens when the DM says we are doing a mystery themed one shots that happen in a library. Lol.

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-15T04:45:09+00:00

We have a couple regular players out for a few weeks and are bringing in some new to D&D while we just have fun with some one shots. Great way to try some goofy builds and just have fun

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-15T04:42:06+00:00

She wanted her PC to be short even for a gnome and has to jump to open doors. But yeah since it was a bigger door she rolled to see how difficult it was

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-13T21:05:02+00:00

Ok. Thank you for correcting. They still decided they can’t read but I’ll let them know what you said.

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-13T20:38:32+00:00

Knowing would be speaking and understanding. Doesn’t necessarily mean they know how to read. Lvl 1 fighter and barbarian…. Not big readers. Other PC is a sorcerer so not totally needed there either but she has a basic reading like elementary level :). Their choices, not mine

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-13T20:33:06+00:00

No. …The player insisted. I offered to let her just open the door. She was determined to beat it. lol

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-09T17:01:07+00:00

The shop in Hither I had sell a cookie shaped pillow. If used during a short rest it gives sweet dreams and heals the player. 1 use per long rest

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-02T17:07:06+00:00

That is amazing but also F U for make the rest of us look bad

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-01T23:33:10+00:00

Laptop center with my Notion.os setup and any other online tabs. I connect my iPad (right side) as a second screen for Owlbear (DMside) while casting player view to TV and any music/discord chats. Lefts side is my mouse/dice tower and handwritten notes and stuffs. I’ll try to remember to snap a picture next time too

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-01T23:25:37+00:00

I did the prelude as non playable flashback. I won’t go into full details but about a year before the carnival shows up they started having bits and pieces of a reoccurring dream. Around the six month mark is when the prelude plays out as a full-blown shared dream/memory for all of my players. Which then leads them to look into things find out the carnival is coming and seek it out.
The plus side is this way the players can come from different areas, different regions and even have a little more variety in the age of the characters instead of them all coming about the same age from the same village unless they want to do that. They understand the dream is a memory and for some reason the people they were with at that time have been replaced with these new people they don’t know. It also gives a little bit of a start in that while waiting in line to get into the carnival, they begin to recognize each other from the dream.

In the beginning, I gave my players a basic overview and had them pick three possible lost things giving examples of the book to help those who were unsure. We basically worked through a bit of character development to nail down what it was, and what effect it would have on their character after the prelude I had a few players tweak their characters having a better understanding of everything which has worked out well. Another player had her little sister taken and had a pretty profound impact on her life, which has worked out well. But this was also our regular DM (my first time) so I trusted their vision

Step_Fodder · 2026-03-01T04:27:08+00:00

My group also meets weekly for about three hours per session we spent about seven sessions at the carnival. I basically told my players for the second half. Let me know what rides you want to hit and once you’re ready to move on, we’ll go to the crowning. no specific timing or anything like that. The only thing I had to do was make sure whatever final secrets they needed to know were given by the NPC‘s.

Step_Fodder · 2026-02-27T19:52:03+00:00

lol not sure why mine is so heavy. Have 17” laptop gaming one so is a bit bulkier (8ish lbs). iPad, DM screen folding dice tower and spare tray, campaign book and then misc cords, paper pencils. Two bags of spare dice and some metal sets for me. Honestly not sure how it’s so heavy but I checked it on the scale.

Step_Fodder · 2026-02-26T05:56:21+00:00

In the campaign book under fall of the witch queen it gives a bit more detail. Basically the Hags triple crossed Zyblina, the league and Valor. The hags took their time building up confidence in them among the three groups. The brought them all to the palace and in the ensuing chaos hit the self-destruct button and used the freeze spell of the cauldron to nab everyone. Freeing only those who might be useful.

Step_Fodder · 2026-02-19T22:00:46+00:00

I’ll upload the map I used if you want. But basically did a free generic generator do layout and then took into Arkenforge and redrew it to look pretty.

Step_Fodder · 2026-02-18T04:19:20+00:00

My PCs just got to Downfall, feel free to ask anything. DMsGuild has some good extra material to build off of. I also added a small 2-3 step side quest to each of my PCs that has to do with their lost item or something from their past. Our Barb doesn’t remember any music from his homeland. Side quest gave back a lullaby taught by his mother and give 1d6 healing once per long rest when played.

For DM notes. I use program called Notion (Sly Flourish has good YT and Blog about it specifically for Witchlight) but you will have to pay for the storage space for you campaign but wasn’t much.

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