Running Dragon of Icespire Peak, the D&D Essentials Kit Adventure

139K views • 6 years ago • 59:24 In this video Mike talks about his experiences running three of the quests in the D&D Essentials Kit adventure, Dragon of Icespire Peak. Click "Show More" for more info. Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter https://slyflourish.com/subscribe/ Support Sly Flourish on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/slyflourish Buy Sly Flourish Books: https://shop.slyflourish.com/ D&D Duet https://dndduet.com/ Liveplay D&D: Dragon of Icespire Peak with Mike and Enrique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtO8qLtsJ6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9GKOX-rww Video Contents 00:00 Intro 02:00 One-on-one D&D 02:25 https://dndduet.com 03:52 Adventure length and short word counts 08:00 The job board 11:27 Too difficult for 1st level characters 13:55 Guidelines for 1st level encounters 16:23 Umbrage Hill 19:55 Dwarven Excavation 20:30 Gnomengarde 27:03 Mountain's Toe Gold Mine 28:11 Cat attack! 35:46 Running hardback adventures one-on-one 38:16 The feeling of one-on-one play 40:24 The character focus of one-on-one play 41:28 Running companion characters 45:25 Sidekicks above level 5 47:25 Scaling combat for one-on-one play 52:25 One-on-one versus Tiamat 54:24 One-on-one versus save-or-suck effects 57:05 Playing D&D one-on-one with nothing but your phone