Yeah, my older cousin introduced me to D&D in 3rd grade. I had no idea how to GM and was terrible at it for years, but we had fun anyway. To be fair to my younger self, a fair number of the professionally published modules were kind of terrible back then too, and the whole hobby was in its infancy so there wasn't a lot to guide me.
I believe that was my thread. A plan to create a post-by-post campaign on here, but have not had the time/energy to plan it out yet.
Back in the 80's Chaosium made it easy for people to publish settings using their Basic Roleplaying system, so there were Thieves' World supplements, some stuff from Midkemia Press (the gaming group that created the world where Raymond Feist set his Riftwar novels) and others that I'm forgetting. It was often some of the better stuff available at the time.
Very true, that.
So much this!
The podcast is Critical Role. Vox Machina is the name of the group of characters played in campaign 1. Followed by the Mighty Nein in campaign 2 and Bells Hells in campaign 3.
One of my closest training brothers live in sac. He is the director of veterans resource center. pm me contact info. He might be close enough to come check out your class. He is one that moved away from humboldt but trained and gamed with us for many years.
It’s on the first page of the phb. The DM is the final arbiter…
Yes that is correct! Thank you for that clarification. I thought it was really quite good in both iterations, and I look forward to more Vox Machina. The title of which seems to be a play on words.
That's rule zero. Which is itself a reference (I think) to Asimov's Robot series, in which his Three Laws of Robotics eventually evolved to include a Zeroeth Law. My favorite unwritten rule is the Rule of Cool. If what a character wants to do would be funny/cool/awesome/entertaining without breaking the game, let them do it.
The Critical Role people did a Kickstarter to raise money to produce an animater short. That ended up raising so much that they changed gears and started working on a series based on their entire campaign.
I have been waiting for this kind of thing for 40 years. As a child I always fantasized how we could turn our campaign into a watchable film.
I was utterly unaware of this. It looks great, I can’t wait!
I think it looks amazing. The other attempts have fallen flat, mostly (I think) because the actors were mediocre at best, and the special effects budgets were about $1.75.
This looks terrific. I’m looking forward to seeing it with a very large group of nerds.
The battle axe came from a website years ago, Hbforge.com, if I remember correctly. I made the hickory handle for it.
