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ResourcesThe Complete Hippo (self.DnDBehindTheScreen)

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I've seen people saying for people to look at my submission history. I've submitted a lot of posts, so I thought I'd put this up instead.

I've not included any Official, Meta, or Event posts.

Get Comfy

City Building/Discussion

This is a collection of posts pulled from the main list, below. Skip down for the entire listing.

Construction

Discussion

Food

Locations

Rogues

General Posts

Atlas of the Planes

Campaign Logs

Dungeons

D&D Fiction/Flavor

More can be found at /r/TalesFromDrexlor

Let's Build

Mechanics/Rules

Modules

Monster Ecologies

Monsters/NPCs

Opinion/Discussion

Plot/Story

Resources

Tables

Treasure/Magic

Worldbuilding

What Started It All

You can now find a pdf compliation of a lot of these posts here!

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[–]TuesdayTasticOnly On Tuesdays 37ポイント38ポイント  (5子コメント)

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! I will no longer have a life as I binge read these.

Are you thinking about updating this with any new posts you might have?

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 9ポイント10ポイント  (4子コメント)

I'll update until the thread self-locks. so, six months.

[–]supremecraftersSeer of Sirrokan 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

You can still edit archived posts, iirc. You just cannot comment on them.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I stand corrected

[–]mr_abomination 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I just tried, you indeed can do this.

[–]OrkishBladeNot-So-Punctual Necromancer 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seriously?!?! How did I not know this!? This makes me happy.

[–]rderekp 21ポイント22ポイント  (7子コメント)

I was hoping for an Ecology of the Hippo article.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 12ポイント13ポイント  (6子コメント)

Hippogriff the closest you are gonna get :(

[–]Mathemagics15 10ポイント11ポイント  (5子コメント)

Clearly D&D lacks hippos in the monster manual.

[–]OrkishBladeNot-So-Punctual Necromancer 15ポイント16ポイント  (4子コメント)

Hippopotamus stats (5E):

  1. Start with a war horse.
  2. Cut the speed to 40 ft.
  3. Give it a swim speed of 20 ft. 40 ft.
  4. Rename "Hooves" attack as "Even-Toed Webbed Foot."

Hippopotamus stats (5E), variant:

  1. Start with an old DM.
  2. Make a pun or two.
  3. See if he gets angry at the puns. If so, you have a hippo.

[–]CleaveItToBeaver 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

Uh, I think you might wanna make it a bit more dangerous, considering the reputation of the hippo. Also, regarding the swim speed.

[–]OrkishBladeNot-So-Punctual Necromancer 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

dangerous

Try a pun on him.

Noted, and corrected.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

death to smoochy all puns

[–]PivotSsQuasi-Stratum 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

What about baby hippos

[–]ladyathena59808Twister of Dragons 8ポイント9ポイント  (3子コメント)

The Life of a 25-Year Campaign - In Pictures

I enjoyed seeing this.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 9ポイント10ポイント  (2子コメント)

its the whole reason this sub exists. I got bombarded with questions and I couldn't keep up

[–]Spark_SJH 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I thought this sub existed because you wanted to confer with other DMs instead of just having it be you like on r/famoushippopotamus ?

Either way, thanks for this post. Sometimes I don't see if you've made a new thread.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

that too

[–]Maxzor13 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

Wow, the sheer amount of work you put into this is amazing! Thanks for everything, Hippo!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 12ポイント13ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yeah I pretty much can't shut up.

My hands are aching too.

[–]WereTeddy 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I was going to comment on that yesterday on the city post. Not only is everything incredibly well written and useful, you write multiple posts of that quality a day. I barely put together a few coherent sentences and I feel like you've got three posts up, haha. It's amazing. Keep it up.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

I go in bursts. right now I'm fairly manic.

[–]WereTeddy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can understand that. I'm ADD so I'm focused on one project and then I get distracted by something new and I'm focused on that project for a while, and it sort works in cycles.

[–]Donnewithvegetables 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

Thank you so much I love you

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

at least buy me dinner first

[–]Kami1996The Corpse Groom 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

And you said I was the two-timing one.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

don't be mad baby. it meant nothing! I swear!

[–]Mahanirvana 4ポイント5ポイント  (22子コメント)

You should compile everything into a PDF and put it on the Dungeon Master's Guild, your content is amazing and very helpful and I'd spare a bit as a donation :o)

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

How does this look - this is just a sample of one post

[–]Mahanirvana 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

oh man, that's amazing!

You really take everything you do to the next level, I was just hoping it would all be consolidated into one place as is basically.

I feel like it's a really good mix of your own vibe and delivery method and the traditional PHB style. It's looking quite good.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

it'll all be one giant pdf. only 114 more posts to format lol

[–]Mahanirvana 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Thanks for putting all your materials together, all this information is super helpful for us noob DMs : )

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

happy to help. you ever want to chat one-on-one, PM me. I have a Discord Chat server set up.

[–]Mahanirvana 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh, thanks for the offer! I may take you up on that at some point just so I won't have to risk my sneaky players trying to pick up on any plot :P

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

anytime

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (13子コメント)

might do that. thanks!

[–]Nerd_By_DesignDwarven Ale Aficianado 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I have a feeling this will involve me :P

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

whistles

[–]JacKaL_37 0ポイント1ポイント  (10子コメント)

I don't know if you have your own layout / publishing system, but consider trying the homebrewery. It converts simple text into a really well-polished handbook layout using markdown. Looking forward to trying it myself!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (9子コメント)

I looked at it, but you can't save the docs

[–]Nowomanleftbehind 0ポイント1ポイント  (8子コメント)

Can you do print view and save from there?

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (7子コメント)

i dont think so. there's a note about being able to print the final documents, but nothing about saving or exporting as a pdf. Which is a damn shame. I could be wrong, but I didn't see anything about being able to save offline.

[–]Nowomanleftbehind 0ポイント1ポイント  (6子コメント)

Interesting. I'm on mobile currently, but I'll see if there's a way to make it work.

I know for the pepakura program there's another program you download that, when "printed" to, it creates a PDF instead. There has to be something like that for this.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

that would pretty much save my ass

[–]Nowomanleftbehind 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Try this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl?hl=en-US

Here's my thought process: import your stuff to be all there -> click print view -> now all of it is in one long but all together -> screen grab all of it in its entirety -> save as PDF

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

i found out that all you have to do is go into print view and print from the browser and choose "Save as PDF". Easy. No extension needed.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

once I get home I'll try it. thanks a bunch for this.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

link is now up for pdf on main page

[–]Mackelsaur 2ポイント3ポイント  (8子コメント)

This really is a great anthology of your stuff, which I hope you'll consider backing up/compiling somewhere. The title of this post fills me with nostalgia for those beautiful 3.5 books and studying your Sandbox starter guides when I was first starting out as a DM about a year ago, even exchanging replies with you now and then about sandboxes.

Thank you for all the guidance, my players seemingly live to see another glimpse of my world and it's a joy I can now share with the good company on this subreddit thanks to you as well! So thanks for everything Hippo, you've been especially productive lately.

I must confess I have a bit of a request for you, as I now have a well (but not completely) developed sandbox continent setting with towns and factions interacting. Upon seeing your posts laid out and catalogued like this, I wonder what comments and advice (or even just insightful stories) you could offer on mid-worldbuilding, mid-campaign sandboxes, beyond the foundational advice you gave in the past posts you list here regarding sandboxes. Once you've hit your stride, what's next?

Keep up the great work!

Edit: /u/Mahanirvana had a great suggestion regarding the DM's Guild. I would happily spare $10+ for a compilation of what's above.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

just out of curiosity, what exactly would you like to see in the compilation. surely not all of it?

[–]rws247 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well, a PHB is generally over 300 pages. There might even be a little room for more :)

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

cheeky monkey.

i wont include the campaign logs and a few other question posts. but the rest i can do.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'd be happy to help. but not tonight. if you are around this time tomorrow minus an hour we could chat on Discord?

[–]Mackelsaur 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Oh! I didn't mean personal pointed questions or anything, just a sort of different angle on the sandbox environment in your trademark /r/DnDBehindTheScreen style.

I'm not one to creatively direct someone with their own content, but you could simply dump all of it in a bin and sell it to me and others, or invest some more resources into it in ebook or pdf with the kind of visual appeal over at /r/UnearthedArcana and perhaps tie together the content above with commentary or examples from within your own games or even hire out artwork to go alongside your content.

The sky is the limit with the amount of quality content you have to work with, it's just a question of how much effort/time/money you want to put in. Personally, just having a collected offline version of your compiled posts here would be enough for me to chip in a few dollars to support the content I like to see.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

you're on. give me some time.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

compilation has started. Sticky comment at top is an example.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

link for pdf is now up on main page

[–]FunkMast3r 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sweet jesus, I think I just orgasmed.

Like seriously.

YES!

[–]Dustfinger_ 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

And this isn't even his final form!

[–]Nerd_By_DesignDwarven Ale Aficianado 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

We need to get a gofundme going to buy you a scanner.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (7子コメント)

thanks but I couldn't accept that.

[–]Nerd_By_DesignDwarven Ale Aficianado 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

Just an FYI I have this scanner and it works great. You have so much awesome history to preserve.

[–]MasterYogurt 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

An auto-feed scanner is stupidly efficient. Heck you could buy it from Amazon, finish your scanning and return it...

The one in my office can do 80 pages per minute.

Flatbeds might be 2 pages per minute. Hippo would be scanning for years.

[–]Nerd_By_DesignDwarven Ale Aficianado 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You'd need to dismantle the notebooks and such for that though, I figured he'd want to keep it all intact.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

got a birthday coming up at the end of April. I'll see what I can do.

[–]Nerd_By_DesignDwarven Ale Aficianado 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh do you? Hmm.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

me and Ulysses S. Grant and Sheena Easton. Now that's a threesome worth exploring

[–]halbaradkenafin 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

There goes the rest of my day/week and just when I was thinking of scouring this sub for some resources for a city campaign I'm planning.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

hahaha. get a pillow and some snacks.

[–]pedropenguin 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is amazing, hell you could write a book and people would buy it! Fantastic work and thanks from a budding new dm!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm actually working on compiling all this. stay tuned.

[–]Addor-Greihunt 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Wow... This is awesome. I love how welcoming everyone is to the gaming community and how they continue to supporting both the growth of the community and enjoyment of others.

You've put a ton of work into this and I wanted to say thank you. It isn't much, but it is heart felt.

I will read these all, and more than once I am sure!

Edit: typo

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

enjoy

[–]maladroitthiefHalf a Hippo 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I prefer half

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

you would

[–]WereTeddy 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

So, I have questions for you that are tangentially related to the post. Do you write all of this specifically for the subreddit or is a lot of it stuff you've already written down for your campaign? Also, how do you keep all the stuff you've written for your campaign organized?

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

its nearly all for here. 95%.

campaign I just use a notebook. nothing fancy.

[–]Extreme_Rice 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Wow. I knew you were somewhat prolific, but this is... well, quite a resource. As always, thanks for sharing with us.

I look forward to bringing the density back into my setting with the help of your tools and advice. Cheers.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

luck

[–]ContraMann 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Maximum Hippo.

Thanks for going through the effort to organize this. Really streamlines finding your posts for me. As always you're a great help.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Maximum Hippo. That is such a cooler user name. Dammit.

[–]HyenabreederDark Delver 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This...this is huge!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah I knew it was a lot, but not this much. add in the stuff I've left out and its double.

[–]n1ghtstalker 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is superbly kind of you! Many thanks!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Welcome

[–]Aendoril 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is F'in amazing! Thanks for this, Hippo! <3

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Very welcome

[–]armadvark 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I would like to personally thank you for all of your posts, they've taught me quite a lot about DMing, and I'm sure many others have learned from them too.

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

you are very welcome. if you ever want some one-on-one, PM me. I have a Discord Chat server set up. (that goes for anyone who sees this)

[–]PaladinofDoge 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Sweet baby jeesus, I have found my new reading list. Thank you based god.

P.S. : I will love you forever if you make that PDF...

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

working on it. gonna take me a few weeks.

[–]RoboSpinoza 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a newbie DM I can only say: thank you so much dude. If I only knew half of this as a DM in 25 years time I would consider that a huge accomplishment.

[–]DnDFehlberg 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is absolutely amazing

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

thanks. hope you get some use from it.

[–]Level5Goblin 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

50 plot hooks links to 50 more plot hooks, and 50 more links to the first 50 xD

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I noticed that today. I'll fix it. That's a plot hook right there.

edit: fixed

[–]OrkishBladeNot-So-Punctual Necromancer 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Groundhog Day?

Tarrasque Day?

(Every day like the one before. When you wake up, so does the tarrasque.)

[–]Waterknight94 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Can this be stickied?

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

we reserve those for official posts. I'll link it on the sidebar.

[–]Waterknight94 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Awesome!

[–]famoushippopotamusThe Hill Giants Have Eyes[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

sidebarred.