#hhdm

[highhopeslowrolls]

I always love learning about other GMs' homebrew settings and creations. What aspect of your world are you most proud of, got the most interest from the group, or are the most excited to introduce (be as cryptic as you like! GMs gotta keep les secrets!)

It’s taken me a really long time to decide what I’m most proud of, and after all this time I think the answer is the bad guys. I try really hard to give all the locations in our world the smattering of small details that really pull them together but truly I think the people that fill our world are it’s most interesting aspect. Most recently the players have been having to deal with The Sovereign Hunters, a band of assassins that have plagued them for a while now. Each of the Sovereign Hunters has something about them that means that they function as an interesting character on their own but have a dynamic together that makes them truly scary (that and they hit really hard).

Most of everything else is spoilers, both for you the audience, and for the players, but I’m excited for you to see the next episode of HHLR and see the world we’ve been building!

[highhopeslowrolls]

I ran into your DnD group when I came across ABDillustrates. Loved the art and began to follow, it appears many people on here know the characters/ your tales and I was wondering if you guys did a podcast or something where I could learn more on your campaign?

Thank you for the love and support kind person :D check out the first episode of our animatic!

As we publish more of the story, we’ll be able to talk about it more here but at the moment the best place to see more of our campaign is either here, or by searching High Hopes Low Rolls on Youtube. Our cannon is not very vast at the moment, but as I type we’re working on it - keep an eye out!

[highhopeslowrolls]

Which dnd board game do you play? Like the 5th E or smth?

Yep! We’re playing a Homebrew 5E campaign.

[highhopeslowrolls]

do you guys use things like XGTE or the SCAG? my group just uses the core rulebooks and its p boring :/

We’ve had Volo’s Guide to Monsters for a while now, and more recently we got Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, but for the majority of our campaign we’ve just had the core rules. We’ve never found it to be boring - the rules are like the bowl you put your spaghetti in right? A plain bowl doesn’t mean the spaghetti isn’t delicious. Stop me if I’m being an asshole but I would suggest that if you’re finding the game boring then maybe your spaghetti recipe is lacking?

[highhopeslowrolls]

I saw you said y’all used to live together but don’t anymore, what was it like transitioning from playing together in person to playing online??? Also rly excited for all the content to come :))))

We never really made the transition to playing online - we have played a couple of one-shots together, but there are so many of us with such varied internet connections… We never really gelled with it and decided to keep our main campaign for the real world. I think I speak for all of us when I say we miss each other.

[highhopeslowrolls]

I’m going to be joining a new D&D group soon and I’ve never played but I really want to use a character voice, the only problem is that I don’t think anyone else uses one in the campaign. I don’t want to seem weird if I use one but I think it makes my character better. What do I do?

I’d say go for it! Even if you are the only person that puts on a voice, you’ll make it easier for the other players to role play and then they’ll probably join in too!

Talk to them! Communication is the key to all relationships. Have you asked if anyone else uses a voice? And how they’d feel about it? I’m sure they’d be fine with it but the only way to know is to talk to them. You might find that they had considered it and were too embarassed.

[highhopeslowrolls]

Is brio not following the average goblin age thingy

According to Volo’s Guide to Monsters, Goblins usually live until they’re about 60. Brio’s not even thirty yet - not really fair to call her middle aged.

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I think you mentioned reading the fanfic out there, but would you guys ever comment??

All my years on the internet has taught me that fanfiction tends to be written by the community for the community - people don’t really like it when the cannon actively engages with fanfiction, so whilst we’ve read some stuff we’re taking a read-don’t-tell stance unless otherwise directed by the author/s (Unless that work is damaging or harmful in some way - you can’t write fiction with our characters designed to hurt or harass people, for example and you’ll hear from us in those cases, should they ever arise - though I highly doubt they will!).