D&D 5E (2024) Teos talks about using the hero’s of the Borderlands Starter Box to run games.

[darjr]

Teos has had the Starter box for a while now, I think he ran events or saw them ran at GenCon and he talks about his experience using it at PAX.

He begins with a quick unboxing. He does show some pages.

The new Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set for Dungeons & Dragons is in premiere stores and soon available everywhere! Here is my review walking through the box contents and sharing experiences watching this set run at the PAX West convention dozens of times each day!

Contents:
00:00 Intro
02:28 Be the DM or the Player?
02:55 Play Guide
04:45 3 Adventure Booklets
05:18 Class Boards
09:18 How Equipment Works
14:52 What I Wish Was Better
16:43 Cool Maps
19:28 Monster and Play Tokens
21:15 Clever Storage Bags
22:10 Combat Tracker
22:33 Awesome Cards!
26:36 New Monster Cards
28:12 Thoughts on Value

 

[Alphastream]

Thanks! I oversaw the running of D&D events at PAX West, which used the Starter Set for all the Demo and Learn-to-Play events. The same events were previously run at Gen Con, but I did not attend Gen Con. I did speak to folks there and they said it was equally positive to my experiences at PAX.

If anyone has questions about the starter set, I'm glad to answer them. My next video is an overview of the adventures. I may also do a "how to run" for each adventure, as I think that would be useful for new DMs. I do love new DMs!

 

[darjr]

Thanks! I oversaw the running of D&D events at PAX West, which used the Starter Set for all the Demo and Learn-to-Play events. The same events were previously run at Gen Con, but I did not attend Gen Con. I did speak to folks there and they said it was equally positive to my experiences at PAX.

If anyone has questions about the starter set, I'm glad to answer them. My next video is an overview of the adventures. I may also do a "how to run" for each adventure, as I think that would be useful for new DMs. I do love new DMs!

Were there any groups less than four that played? If so how’d that go?

Also would character be a decent dmsguild thing? Any third party sheets?

 

[Alphastream]

Were there any groups less than four that played? If so how’d that go?

Also would character be a decent dmsguild thing? Any third party sheets?

Yes! We ran tables for even one player (though we tried hard to prevent seating just one person) and often for 2-3. Our DMs are typically very experienced and we pick our Demo/LtP DMs carefully so they can handle very new players or unusual table sizes. When running for one player, we don't run as written. It's conversational and instructional and just showing the player the basics with minimal threats.

The set does include scaling information and I think does as good a job with scaling as can be hoped for from such a product. That's hard to do, so this is a major plus. Really, everything about the product suggests a great deal of care and planning.

Adding additional character boards is an interesting concept. I would guess you could do that through the DMsGuild, or even with your own format (unique board configuration) outside of the DMsGuild. (The DMsGuild isn't a great place to publish these days for most creators, but that's it's own topic.) Someone could likely create their own board using the SRD and publish that using the CC license. But, I'm not a lawyer!

 

[Parmandur]

My next video is an overview of the adventures.

Most curious about that, personally, and how it compares to B2.