Matt Colville Videos

You’ve mentioned several times reviving dead characters, turning them into vampires, etc. it would also be a cool time to touch on spells that bring people back from the dead and how you make that work. If a character is dead, has to make a new...

Just curios how Matt will go about creating a character at higher levels. What kind of gear to give a character so it's not overpowered or under powered.

This doesn't directly relate to D&D, but I'd be curious to hear Matt talk about his professional background, how he became a game designer, and what a typical day in the job is like. We've received a lot of videos and updates since he started...

What are the different types of player/character rewards in D&D, and how can you deploy each of them to make your campaign experience better?

Way to ensure that things feel believable, from an authentic village (and how it can survive without adventurers in a world where orcs and goblins seem all too common) to downtime and injury. In a world where players are back at full health every...

A couple of times you’ve mentioned you have some house rules that reinforce the niche of certain classes. If I’m remembering correctly, one makes overland traveling easier if there a ranger in the party and another allows the party’s...

Modern settings you've enjoyed that are not necessarily widely known. Could possibly be discussed with angles that inform DMing (what's engaging about the setting, its history, or the plots within).

You've previously brought up the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever series. It would be awesome to have a video dedicated to the series, giving your thoughts on its importance and impact, and analysis of story and themes. Not necessarily...

Often players would like to do things that are actually impossible or impossibly difficult or dangerous. Or they completely misread an ability or spell description and they are convinced they would be able to do something they actually can't do,...

Higher level characters give you a lot of room for your backstory to have adventure, excitement, and conflict, but level 1 characters are supposed to have very little in the way of worldly experience. What are some good tips for making a...

How to run mind altering effects such as Suggestion and Charm spells or drugs on PCs? Especially outside of combat. How to not hurt player agency? If effect should be not known to PC should player know? Is there at good way for it?

so how would you make sure that players with conflicting interests don't split or even worse start fighting (in game fighting).

A bit mundane, but for me at least it would be really helpful. I struggle with actually getting through encounters with my usual groups. We often get distracted and muck about OOC. We're still having fun, maybe thats just the type of group we...

I wanna know to plan a town and make it intresting through out a campaign which is played only in that town

I have a player who plans to multiclass into warlock a couple levels from now. I'm wondering what good advice there is for not just introducing Warlock Pacts in an interesting way, but also how to make the specifics and responsibilities of the...

Talking about the RPG, your experiences with it, and other related pieces within a similar vein (Thundarr the Barbarian, Adventure Time, Wizards, etc.) I will keep asking for this until it happens because I know you really wanna talk about it...

I would love to hear your thoughts on running a cyberpunk setting with D&D! What themes, special character archetypes, and missions do you think would be interesting for players to explore and encounter in a cyberpunk D&D setting? What do you...

I have a module that has Doppelganger's and I am unsure how to utilize them effectively without them just seeming to be the single Race/gender NPC that they appear to be.

I have seen many examples of people, when they create a character, sticking to the aesthetic and theme of their class, and in some cases, derided people who want to move away from that particular concept (such as a bard who doesn't perform, or a...

I'm a really tactically oriented player, but I'm currently in a campaign with a DM who doesn't like grids and minis. I find there's actually a lot of advantages to this style of play. For instance, contrary to what I had thought, I actually find...

I have ran a few games before, but those were my first ones. Once a guy who wanted to play before started act weird. He tried to derail the story by killing main NPC's or steal from them and I was really upset about it, but I could do nothing....

I’m new to D&D and don’t really understand the concept of multiclassing. I’ve watched Critical Role and I kind of understand that doing sonaows you to dip into another class but why do that? How is it useful and how does it work? Could you...

Right now, I’m running my first game as a DM. I love Magic: the Gathering, and I thought it would be cool to have one of the places in my world be a sprawling cityscape similar to the plane of Ravnica. I didn’t realize how much work it would...

I have trouble preparinng the wrong things for sessions. For a while, I mapped sessions out with rising and falling actions, but I'm starting to think this is flawed. What do you prepare, and more importantly, what do you NOT prepare? For example,...

"A group of young new potential adventures band together to attempt to play this cool sounding D&D thing . The new initiates wrestle, tackle and otherwise struggle with their new expansive character sheets as the new, recently elected, shiny eyed...

The Deck of Many Things is one of my favorite items in the history of D&D. I'm a big fan of Chaos, and randomness. (the Wild Magic Sorcerer is my favorite subclass.) I'd like to see a video on this, and perhaps the randomness of D&D as a whole....

A short film about making a calendar for your world, five day vs seven day vs ten day weeks, plotting out months, festivals, etc. Also handling downtime etc

A video in which Matt tackles this re-occurring issue in many RPGs so we can help keep our parties balanced

What are some good ways to connect the heroes (all, few, or one) to the villain so that the conflict is more personal and not just "Hey, here is a bad guy you should go beat". Given the choice between defeating bad guy X and Y the hero might...