Matt Colville Videos

It would be great to see a video that details how to take your player's backstories and use them in your game.

After many sessions, the party has reached the heart of the dungeon. They round the corner and are confronted by....the boss! Time to roll for initiative. We've heard how you would run Vecna. Kalrel the Vile has his summoning gate. I'd like to...

I hate when my players want to go shopping! It's like every time we make it to town, the party splits and everyone has aillion things they want to buy. I never feel prepared enough for all the people they might interact with or the things that...

Having pointers or guidelines for making an organization like a knightly order, church, thief's guild, secret society.

To keep things fresh I like to have parallel smaller stories/adventures. Do you have any tips on how to run "side adventures" without derailing from the main campaign arc you are going for without directly entwining the stories. An example would...

Backgrounds is a big choice in character creation but I would love to know more about how to tie the stuff players choose to the planning I'm doing for the adventure we are playing.

D&D is a game about fighting bad guys and getting treasure at its roots. But, as we focus more and more on interesting story beats, roleplaying and so forth, it gets harder to find ways to legitimize having someone find 500 gold pieces next to...

Just a video on tips of how to create a unique setting for your campaign. From creating a world that feels lived in, to giving the different races a unique feel to them. Could even use community feedback to help design the world.

No one makes videos on how to make "good" player characters, and I don't mean in regards to Alignment. There are alot of videos on mechanics, but i think alot of people accidentally make edgelord and lone-wolf characters, or don't know where to...

what to do when you've written yourself into a corner. Is it ok to retcon things?, if so do you try and mask it and incorporate it or do you just admit it and move on? If it's something small can you just move on and forget it, tell the players...

Thinking about doing a cold weather campaign and want the environment itself to feel hostile, mostly due to climate. If you're interested, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts!

Once players get access to high level spells it becomes much harder to challenge them. How do you keep the pressure on players who can bend reality to their will?

As a dungeon master with a few years experience my most recent struggle is having something ready for when One of our games falls through for one reason or another. One shots are the go to answer but the flow is either always rushed or lethargic....

You've always said you run a tactical game. I'd love to see a series of videos that talks about just that, i.e. combat tactics that you as a DM use against the PCs, as well as examples of PC combat tactics to use against monsters.

It'd be great to see you go all the way to 5e

As a player, and a dungeon master, I LOVE the economic aspect of the game world. How can I get the players interested in interacting with the economy without derailing the whole game into capitalism simulator?

"Why do so many fantasy worlds show the past as more advanced (magically, technologically than the present?" (Dead Empires, Running the Game #61)

Some spells are challenging to deal with. Tiny Hut and Magnificent Mansion, Teleport, Wish, and others. How do you circumvent these abilities to keep your story and session on track?

I'm constantly afraid of railroading my players, so I try to provide a variety of plot hooks and options for the players to move forward on, letting them make the choice. But what I've found is that no matter how many or what type of hooks they're...

I know your focus is more about DMing, but think this is informative to the DM experience in a way. What can you do as a player to help the DM, the other players and generally make the total experience better for everyone involved? What are some...

I would like to hear your process for creative level appropriate special mechanics for PCs like making Sir Razalax the Knight Exorcist or making a player a vampire.

To avoid using current curses, insults and slang that are very common do you create your own or modify some existing phrases to accomodate your setting and its regions?

What are some best practices for creating puzzles for an RPG group that both rely on the character's skillsets whilst also not just being solved by a die roll?

I would love to see your process of making homebrew items and how to integrate them in the game. Also to see some of the homebrew that you have put in your own games.

More of Matt's favorite Published Adventures, why he loves them, changes he has made to the them and why we should be using them them!

Like, if I create a level 10 sorcerer with x spells, how to I know what CR to give it (or XP to award)?