Portraits for dnd

 Time 7:23 a wizard https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zj7Vwfp4ChQ&t=443s

Time 15:34 has some orc or something types . Halforc maybe. 

17:20 has spuke knight. 

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5:50 on this has an undead in coffin. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQaixVcAj8&t=358s

10:48, hero types. 

14:44 bad guys, rogue looking or bandits. 

16:19 quickling ish. 

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4:10 on this has nice old wizard https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RqO04Ylzsk&t=252s

5:26 has wild women catlike or elves… one human guy. 

6:25 is troll eh. 

12:30 Has lizarfos. Chameleon lizardmen. 

16:30 dwarves  

24:20 has a weird sprite with snake eyes  … creepy fairy thing  

Aboriginal ppl 1976s

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeyGDOrcF-o&t=851s

Awesome ppl practicing ancient customs and techniques  

Incredible ideas for DnD. 

• How cook a big animal
• Scarification- scars on chest and upper arms (see first 3 minutes)
• Using giant bark for beds, food wrap, tent. 
• Cave paintings time 18:30. 
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This Old Video - excellent nature documentaries

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIzdG4Fe2M&t=313s Is Carribean… volcanoes etc. 

But most are about animals. All super good. 

LARP and Muay Thai Muay Beran guy

 Larp style movie  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wcIvPNwMVHY

A million kickboxing styles, exolains old Muay Beran the Tony Jaa stuff , cool https://m.youtube.com/shorts/k8v1Lquu5j8

Make dungeon using Gemini ayy eye?

 Hmm. 

That yt guy … ex teacher, made the exaggerated giant axe barbarian game. Used

“Make a 10 room isometric dungeon” using Gemini ai. Too cartoony, but decent. 

Also easy to auto gen random characters. 

Tenkar - isle of dread, other classic modules

Isle of Dread  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_onwGtVh_v4&t=206s

• Comments on yt  here are gold. 
• Talking about needing to be higher lvl than stated. 
• Clerics using purify water, create food… more than healbots in older days. 

NIGHTS DARK TERROR

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvvpBcOBniI

TOMB OF HORROS 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JIv0cadadMo

And https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYSAl-aJNc

B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl2v9zrgq4g

Tenkar analysis of White Plume Mtn, plus list of modules

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_G_4hOhAE&pp=0gcJCRsMAYcqIYzv&ra=m

List of good ones (higher level) from the AD&D era:

• White Plume Mountain
• Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
• Dungeon Mag's "Mud Sorcerer's Tomb"
• Dwellers of the Forbidden City
• Expedition to the Barrier Peaks <<-- nope, can't do the space lasers in D&D.
•  D1-Q1, but D3 is the difficult Drow city of Erelhai-Cinlu, so I think go get the Greyhawk grognard's version... same for Q1 replacement. 
• Beyond the Crystal Caves, Dungeonland/Through the Magic Mirror, Phaoroh, Palace of the Silver Princess, Ghost Tower of Inverness, Isle of Dread, To Find a King, The Tree of Life, Castle Amber, various early Dragon Mag modules, etc

Commenter KDA Fan writes - 

BEST. MODULE. EVER. Hands down. IMO, anyway. . . . "Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan" and Dungeon Mag's "Mud Sorcerer's Tomb" come close, but not close enough. Lagging a bit behind them, for a tie at third, are "Dwellers of the Forbidden City", "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks", and D1-Q1 (an epic arc of adventures, but which require a lot of heavy lifting in additions by the DM: especially Erelhai-Cinlu in D3 and the worlds reached in Q1). Tomb of Horrors is Tomb of Horrors: more an endgame/test. Various other good games (Beyond the Crystal Caves, Dungeonland/Through the Magic Mirror, Phaoroh, Palace of the Silver Princess, Ghost Tower of Inverness, Isle of Dread, To Find a King, The Tree of Life, Castle Amber, various early Dragon Mag modules, etc) are great, but not quite top flight. . . . A cleric along w/light solves a LOT of logistics problems in WPM, especially as they can AUTOMATICALLY have CONTINUAL Light, so long as they select it (a commonly chosen spell, due to it having multiple uses) as the module is 5th-10th. I always felt Light and Continual Light should be higher level spells, due to ubiquitous usefulness including defensive and offensive potential (CL on eyes is blindness: NASTY!) Always felt the anti-turn amulets were a really cheap-out move, but evil clerics could theoretically make them, I suppose, tho no standard spell allowed it. Can't remember if the amulets were recoverable, but by GAWDS they should have been worth a fortune, if they were. Sir Bluto, the endgame threat of a trap/trick setup involving aquatic vehicles, always unfortunately made me think of Popeye. Did ANYONE EVER trust Quesnef? Theoretically, if the DM allowed the party to be 10ths across the board, a lot of this was pretty easy. BIG difference between a party averaging 7 or 8, and a line of straight 10s. Even Nix and Nox shouldn't be that big a deal (IIRC, didn't the module allow for adding 2 more Efreeti if the party made light work of things? I no longer have it, as nearly everything I had was stolen early this year, so can't check anymore).

Osr common house rule

 A way to cast a few spells at level 1 for magic user (instead of the 1 only). They said using "spell points" instead of a single spell slot was common.  

15:45 time on Old School Rules, Judges Guild Y https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

Ancient Gauls - Cult of the Severed head

 Time. 6:24  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

The real historical ones put several heads on poles, carried them around on horses. The harder the foe, the more they wanted the head (and eventually turned into a skull). Pretty insane. 

Osr trap escape, monster avoid ideas

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copt1OL-BC8&t=1376s

Old school rules yt with azmountaineer. Time 22:55, pg. 36 of “the escaping of monsters & traps” from Judges Guild: Installment Y  

• Caltrops to outrun monsters 
• Dropped food, monsters non intelligent will be distracted 
• One or Two men jumping on (grabbing) a bad magic user to slow him down. 
• Hinged pit trap 
• Staggering short lines of players to get to the one fallen player
• Gaseous form to seep thru cracks
• Telekinesis spell to open it
• If only have a teleport self, other player use shrink potion then u can teleport two or three for one or something. 
• When can afford, hire dwarves to spot traps and elves to spot secret doors   … those two walk in front. Elf hireling also great in woods. 
• Shorter PCs in front lines, allows fighting from behind (??)
• Sombies and skeletons can be foiled by dispel magic spell. Or protection from evil spell. 
• Trick players or vice versa - 
• Cast continual light on a nonmagic ring
• Carve runes in a nonmagic oak staff
• Large gem in end of metal rod
• …
• Make classes dress like another class

Higher LEVEL TRICKS

• Wish spell - in the wvent of a death, whole party transported out of the dungeon alive and well! 
• Coat items in mithril to protect from fire n acid
• Hire a Sage, who specializes in monsters 
• Hire ppl and make armories to protect loot from thugs and jealous adventurers 
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Conan Red Nails = tsr The Lost City

1. Conanin Red Nails  

 Really?! I don’t recall the multiple factions living underground in the Conan book… gotta reread. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqL0xYYwYx0

Lichhouse says Moldvay (of B/X fame) wrote The tsr “The Lost City”… you know the one w the golden mask priest-mage(?) and purple cover. 

2. Conan story of “The slithering Shadow” aka “Xuthal of the Dusk”. Also ties into the module “the lost city”. 

Ray H stop motion - art of monster faces

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgUk5QIB-ug

The Thumbnail I want. 

And to practice drawing. 

Notice the attention to the nose and mouth regarding the attitude and vibe. 

Medusa the sneer. 

The cyclops has a large nose, distinctive. 

The Kraken, a small nose but that big almost beaklike upper lip… sort of lije a kappa maybe. 

Griffe = Claw, Griffin must get its name from that

If griffe means claw in French, then it sure seems like griffin comes from that. 

 From Wordsmith:

griffonage

PRONUNCIATION:

(grif-uh-NAHZH)

 

MEANING:

noun: Careless or illegible handwriting; scrawl.

 

ETYMOLOGY:

From French griffonner (to scribble or scrawl), from griffe (claw). Earliest documented use: 1832.

 

NOTES:

English calls an indecipherable scrawl chicken scratch, and French clearly agrees: griffonage comes from griffe (claw). Medical schools probably require doctors to take a solemn oath to maintain a prescribed level of griffonage on every prescription.