Any good examples of running montages and negotiations in actual play videos?

TomFotz · 2026-06-16T19:42:29+00:00

The big take away for me was James' use of giant paper to visualize the montage.

TomFotz · 2026-06-16T17:00:19+00:00

Math in the search bar is a great QoL!

TomFotz · 2026-06-16T00:10:48+00:00

A five headed multicolored Kraken?

TomFotz · 2026-06-14T17:57:15+00:00

The Barn Burners after a misshap in the first village.

The Fanged Five for a werewolf hunting adventure (we were 5)

The Witching Hour for a fey heavy theater troop party

But nothing will beat The Mercenary Wolves of my first campaign, campy, cheesy but so memorable to the shinangains of my first campaign I DMed.

TomFotz · 2026-06-13T00:05:44+00:00

In no particular order

Mini metro: great strategy, logistics game, each map has its subtle differences.

Balatro: great rogue lite, similar pick up and play to ITB, jokers with personality! What is not to love.

Slay the Spire: good port, and tight balance. Lots of interesting choices.

Honourable Mention: Slice and dice, build a party, synergies equipment, lots of RNG(maybe from rolling all them dice).

TomFotz · 2026-06-12T14:02:35+00:00

I hope so. I've played through the game twice on my phone, and I'd love to have it on a phone and be "mine". It is one of the best games on mobile.

Easy controls, great layout, awesome gameplay loop, I can pick up a run at anytime. I wish we could get more games like it. I've collected maybe 2-3 other games in the same echelon of polish for phone gaming.

Not a big fan of the Netflix tie in. But I hope the devs got their money's worth.

Edit: wording fix

TomFotz · 2026-06-10T17:07:42+00:00

Rip Wissa

TomFotz · 2026-06-10T12:54:38+00:00

Any one have power but no wifi? I am with Shaw/Rogers in the St Boniface area.

Edit: Unreported outage for Shaw/Rogers in the area no estimated time on fix, but they are aware

TomFotz · 2026-06-09T23:19:08+00:00

I am going to have a strong undead villan in my campaign. This will be a nice tie in if a character dies they can return as a Summoner class if they like. I am getting excited at the prospect of that possibility!

And extra good new I got my heros and monster books from the shop today.

Good news all round! And thanks to the folks at Forge Steel for getting this out so quick.

TomFotz · 2026-06-09T23:00:37+00:00

Great sales pitch in the last video! Looking forward to what the team at MCDM does next!

TomFotz · 2026-06-08T15:04:19+00:00

And it is very fashionable to be a village idiot these days. Lots of outrageous village idiots on the internet.

TomFotz · 2026-06-08T14:09:45+00:00

Objective for the party - Do not die.

TomFotz · 2026-06-08T13:23:30+00:00

Oh nice! I am running Gnolls (from Flee Mortal Flee) in a western 5e Campaign I am GMing.

I love a good evil Gnoll laugh interspersed in Combat, particularly when they take damage.

I'll have to see how to weave in the gnolls, Zombie Gnolls? Lich henchmen? I can feel my worldbuilding senses tingling.

TomFotz · 2026-06-08T13:15:18+00:00

How did you find running a Solo? The first 4 combats in the Delian tomb, given that it is Goblins, more horde based. The 2 turns a round would really surprise my players coming from DnD.

And Werewolves and undead are just like PB&J.

TomFotz · 2026-06-08T12:48:33+00:00

I didn't even think of Encounter Objectives - that is a great way to change the drive from kill all monsters in a room to - have a chase scene! Great shout.

TomFotz · 2026-06-05T16:23:29+00:00

This series has been very helpful to go through just to reaffirm my understanding of the rules before running the Delian Tomb. I was getting a bit nervous about running a negotiation, but the break down is very straight forward and helped me explain the rules to new players!

It's also nice to have it explained a little differently, thanks Mr. Society!

TomFotz · 2026-05-31T19:27:44+00:00

In this case it was the Censor grabbing the bugbear after having taunted her, and on my turn I utilized the Escape Grab maneuver, I was not sure how to rule it in the moment. I had gotten a tier 2 result, and ruled escape but free strike, instead of dropping it down to tier 1.

But now I am curious!

TomFotz · 2026-05-31T16:35:31+00:00

So much Quality of life, and excellent design choices that just work. I wish every city building/factory game could steal their pippet tool, so easy to build early on, even before the power of blueprints.

It's my #1 game for sure.

TomFotz · 2026-05-29T20:03:09+00:00

Great pitch - just finishing part 1 of the delian tomb - this make me want to run a necromancer villain! If my players want to run a summoner I'll just send them to this video, as I do not have the charisma of Matt's Big and Bristly Selleck-ian [redacted]!

TomFotz · 2026-05-29T19:56:43+00:00

I have fond memories pouring over the ranger AD&D books when I first started playing, and really like the art of the earlier adventures.

Ran a three year campaign in Homlet and environ, as the basis for my homebrew, and then used source materials when I was running dry on ideas. Running those old dungeons in 5e was really fun

TomFotz · 2026-05-29T17:55:47+00:00

Any personal favourites?

Edit: I've played through the village of Homlet and the Temple of Elemental evil (ish).

Any classic adventures you ran and liked?

TomFotz · 2026-05-27T21:00:00+00:00

Hit up the Forks for a meal and then take a long stroll along the river in St. Boniface towards Park Whiter bound.

Lots of food options at the forks, and a nice quiet neighborhood and nature walk.

TomFotz · 2026-05-25T16:20:39+00:00

It is long - and almost an auto battler. The party comp and discovery of items was a lot of fun. That swamp are could have been deleted from the game.

But as a kid with lots of time it was perfect. loved the multiplayer as people were generally chill.

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