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41 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 2) – A Murder of Crow

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We start off with an undeleted deleted scene where we talk about MCU, whether anyone actually likes Superman, and get confused about Highlander 1. Then we start the meat of the module a few minutes in (5:10).

This episode presents us with our first look at the Crows, the “rival adventuring party” trope that’s been DCOd as much as the landscape.

But, with some quick thinking by Tim and quick shooting by Jim’s character Bird, the party gets a leg up at the very start.

Then I spend a really long time reading them the indulgent backstory of all the loot they find.

Of the peaks and valleys of the campaign so far, this episode has them pretty near the top.

This week, remember Bird’s words: reload first, loot later.

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“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Portrait of Ghar Zaghouan by Scrap Princess.

Photo of 1913 Dayton flood rescue is public domain.

40 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 1) – Carrowmore

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The misery begins.

Deep Carbon Observatory opens with a unique procedure for presenting the chaos of a desperate town in the middle of a cataclysmic flood.

That’s what this session covers. Our PCs try to save some people, kill others, and set their eyes down the valley on the looming dam.

Characters

  • Daniel: the ref, technically responsible for henchman Oxford Comma
  • Jim: Bird Sawyer
  • Tim: Saw Smith
  • Asa: Jargon Wit Backhand

Out of Context D&D

  • Don’t drop Oxford Comma!
  • NO BACKSTORY
  • First things first: let’s split up.
  • We ain’t about second place!
  • That’s not your wife!
  • Perhaps . . . I overreacted.
  • I wanna go engage that pedophile.
  • Jim: Bird shudders. He knows that heroes are the first ones to die.
    Asa (shrugging): Should have chopped a kid in half.
  • Immediately after I killed the kid, a thought went through my head: oh, so that’s how this day’s gonna go.

Links

Get the module, Deep Carbon Observatory: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/131801/Deep-Carbon-Observatory.

Get the system, Into the Odd: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/145536/Into-the-Odd.

Get a Deep Carbon Observatory tshirt. Money goes to Scrap, who drew the stuff.

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“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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39 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 0) – Chargen

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We kick off season 3 of the show by making Into the Odd characters for our actual/let’s play of Deep Carbon Observatory.

If you want to get right down to the play, head to episode 40, the first proper episode of the new season.

But here we talk about who made the the system and the module, what’s cool about them, what’s different than standard D&D or Lamentations of the Flame Princess, and there’s lots of affected southern accents.

Links

Get the module, Deep Carbon Observatory: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/131801/Deep-Carbon-Observatory.

Get the system, Into the Odd: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/145536/Into-the-Odd.

Get a Deep Carbon Observatory tshirt. Money goes to Scrap, who drew the stuff.

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not me, but could be you

season 3 logo

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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38 – DragonCon 2016

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This is our DragonCon (Party Capital of the World™) 2016 recap episode. We had a much better experience than we did the previous year, and we talk about why.

We go over a lot of stuff in this episode, including:

Our Costumes

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Tim as Joel from The Last of Us Remastered

 

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Tim as Joel from The Last of Us, with Starbuck

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Daniel as Bloodborne hunter with top hat

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Daniel as Bloodborne hunter with tricorn

People Who Are Not Us

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This guy’s Littlefinger is perfect.

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Praise it

Pretty sweet, eh? Find many more pics at https://www.facebook.com/ggnorecast/.

s2e9: Out of the Abyss Review

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Although this is the last episode of season 2 proper, we have a lot more material from the season that we’re not going to release right now. This episode just skips to the end of the campaign because, to be honest, we were done with it.

And not just with this module, but with WotC’s big modules in general.

So, in season 3, as we’ve already hinted in our last post, we’re going to do things differently. Continue reading →

Season 3 Preview

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Tonight we’re going to kick off our next season.

We’re not going to do just one campaign, and we’re specifically steering clear of modules from Wizards of the Coast. So no official D&D products.

Our first sessions are going to taking on +Patrick Stuart‘s nightmare module Deep Carbon Observatory (art by +Scrap Princess) using +Chris McDowall‘s elegant Into the Odd.

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Patrick Stuart’s blog: http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/

Scrap’s blog: http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com/

Chris McDowall’s blog: http://soogagames.blogspot.com/

s2e7: Gently Slapped by a Baby

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We continue hexcrawling in the under-Underdark, and all’s well. Everything is fine, really, and the campaign takes a wacky turn into romantic comedy!

Out of Context D&D: 

  • “Thub-nub is my slave name.”
  • “Objectively, it subjectively went fine.”
  • “They don’t like being gently slapped by a baby.”
  • “Jim: You’re gonna have to do a lot of drinking on a lot of lonely nights to get rid of this imagery. Asa: I’m doing that anyway.”
  • “You remind me of a winter treat.”
  • “Dungeon Snap!”
  • “Let’s hold hands and run.”
  • “I love weird magic stuff. At least I know what I’m dealing with when I’m dealing with unknown magic stuff.”
  • “For our listeners: Tim is explaining a trashbag.”

We reference Kung Fury at some point. If you haven’t seen it: http://www.kungfury.com/.

“Pixelland”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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