Tailored Goals and Rewards to Motivate Players🕵 D&D 5e #DMRoundtable

What do YOU think about giving players secret missions and goals? #DND #DND5e I'm joined by these DM specimens to discuss our thoughts and experiences with imparting special tasks to players: 🎩Fred from How to D&D: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowtoDD 🛅Wally DM: https://www.youtube.com/c/WallyDM 🎒Josh from Dungeoneer's Pack: https://www.youtube.com/c/DungeoneersPack Want more DM roundtable discussions? Check out this list of our collaborators' videos! https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/dmroundtable ⏰Time Stamps: 00:00​ Have we used secret missions as DMs? 00:42 Considering group dynamics 01:09 Building trust, knowing your players 02:41 Introducing friction for character development 03:11 Rewards and secret missions 04:05 Realigning the plot without railroading 05:04 Inspiration from board games to have fun 06:48 Randomized rewards 07:22 Modules that use secret missions 08:17 Caveats to succeed with secret missions 09:56 Players love being given missions 10:31 Are rewards problematic and divisive? 11:07 Players making their own secret goals 11:46 Example from Critical Role Joe Manganiello 12:38 Missions open to players, but secret to characters 13:46 The fun of keeping missions secret 14:22 Might accidentally stall the game 15:06 Free-to-play player retention gimmicks 15:25 What are YOUR experiences with secret missions? --------- 🎈 Shop our loot on Redbubble: flutesloot.redbubble.com 🎈 Cast Friendship on Flutes Loot: 👔Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flutesloot 📱Twitter: https://twitter.com/Flutes_Loot​​​​ 📘Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flutesloot​​​​ 📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flutesloot​​​​ 📌Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/flutesloot​​​​ 👀Read more articles: https://www.flutesloot.com​​​​?utm_source=youtube Affiliate Links (a portion of sales provide gold to our coffers)! 💰 • 📔Players Handbook (D&D 5e): https://amzn.to/2PAeJW7 • 😈Monster Manual (D&D 5e): https://amzn.to/2PWuLJI • 👑Dungeon Master's Guide (D&D 5e): https://amzn.to/3fFnIzY • 🎁D&D 5e Rules Expansion Gift Set: https://amzn.to/3zPWQ6P • 🐠Xanathar's Guide to Everything: https://amzn.to/3fDfbxH • 🐸Tasha's Cauldron of Everything: https://amzn.to/3sRX7DB • 💀Curse of Strahd: https://amzn.to/3dxAI8n • 💀Curse of Strahd reVamped (get it?): https://amzn.to/2PUaiWf • 💀Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: https://amzn.to/39Ke5MC • 🐙Volo's Guide to Monsters: https://amzn.to/31NKe1q • 🎓Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos: https://amzn.to/3kF1KiD • 🐇The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure: https://amzn.to/3AJcSkk • 🐉Fizban's Treasury of Dragons: https://amzn.to/3zHexpd • 🖊dScryb (finely crafted boxed text) https://dscryb.com/?aff=213 ---------- Flutes Loot Theme by the incredibly talented Max Wardle: http://maxwmusic.com/​​​​ 🎧 🎼 🎹 Star assets derivative of FreePik.com asset.⭐️ -------------- ©2021, Flutes Loot is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy and is not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Use, modification, and distribution of Wizards of the Coast's content is under the Open Game License v 1.0a Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.