166 – Essentials Kit Hype

June 25, 2019July 8, 2019 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We talk about the upcoming Essentials Kit for D&D 5, the actual play of which will be our next episode. We also touch on how we created characters, both mechanically and dramatically, and discussed more broadly the issue of suiting PCs to settings, especially when you don’t know what kind of themes will be present in the setting or module.

Make a Search Check

patreon: https://patreon.com/ggnore
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNIRjq48x60-bTW-bY0dQA
podcast: gg no re @ itunes
twitter: https://twitter.com/ggnorecast
anchor: https://anchor.fm/ggnore

165 – Inferno 2

June 11, 2019June 10, 2019 / gg no re / Leave a comment

Daniel got it into his head to run a Dante’s Inferno tactical D&D war/storygame. Unfortunately, Roll20 doesn’t let you export entire campaigns; so we’re dumping all the assets out there for you to use if you want—or at least for you to get an idea of the kind of assets that would be involved were you to want to do something similar.

Here’s all the public domain image assets (mostly from Gustave Doré) Daniel used to do this in Roll20: https://imgur.com/a/uenONOl.

Here’s the translation of the Inferno he used: Esolen (2003) (aff)

Here’s the sequence of scenes he used:

Here’s a GDoc of all the flavor text, plus monster stats. Most of it is composed of quotations from Inferno (Cantos I-III), with some transitional prose by a lesser author.

In the episode, Daniel talks about the process for creating such a campaign and how you might go about doing your own literary homage-campaign.

Make a Search Check

164 – re:play Dungeon Academy 10

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 / gg no re / Leave a comment

The party continues into a labyrinth of the kobold lair, has to navigate using verbal description only, and gets into a dicey fight. Later that night, back in the real world, Saggitarius witnesses something that will have serious implications in the future.\

Check our Patreon to hear the AFTER DARK episode, in which we discuss what happens and talk about what we’re going to be doing next.