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62 – ggnore:play ~ Army of the Damned (Part 8)

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BEWARE: the audio quality of this episode is garbage because of a technical issue. Future episodes will not sound like this.

We continue our playthrough of Army of the Damned with the siege of Shadowgrange.

This episode is the first of the “rebranded” ggnore:plays, which are very lightly edited actual play episodes. It’s just us playing with a mic in the middle of the table.

If you don’t want to listen to what’s essentially raw audio, we’ll have a ggnore:cap episode later in the week (should be Friday) that summarizes and discusses what happened in that week’s actual play.

Hosts

DM

Players

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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44 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 5 ) – Slide to the Bacterial Mat

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We prepare to enter the ruined dam.

Out of Context D&D: “Do you want his face so that we can open the grate?”

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Our manes on the map of the dam
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d20 for scale

Links

Featured image Bacterial Rainbows by Nate Eagleson on Flickr, cropped to 16:9: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27734890@N07/4745228274/

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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43 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 4) – Does It Have Bones?

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We talk about our experience playing LotFP at DragonCon 2016 in more detail before getting to the actual play. Oh, and also before the actual play, we chat about video games (Doom, Grim Dawn, Dark Souls 3) and other media. Our lovely tour through the ruins of the valley continues, and we wind up at the foot of the broken dam. AP starts at 17:07.

You’ll hear this in the episode, but here are our protips for running LoTFP at cons:

  1. Use the summon spell generator
  2. Start in medias res
  3. NEVER LET PEOPLE SHOP AT A CON

Dam pic Prisma’d from a pic of Glen Canyon dam on Wikipedia by Adbar.

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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42 – Let’s Play Deep Carbon Observatory (Part 3) – A Wet Bag Thrown by a Fool

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We make our way up the flood valley. Knife-fighting wizards, carrion, and more.

[excuse the tapping, we figured it out (a shock mount) in an episode or two.]

Daniel’s not sure he ran the valley properly—or effectively, rather. It’s essentially a pointcrawl, but without distances (that we could find) between the points, and without instructions on how to present the points. Probably Daniel didn’t even stick to his own method and just went with what felt right at the time.

So that’s a thing we’d recommend for a Deep Carbon Observatory second edition.

The writing in the module is captivating, and the art is striking, but Daniel wishes he knew exactly how, in the moment, the author wanted these points/nodes/locations/situations presented to the players, verbally.

Not flavor text, but flavor technique. 

That’s something we’d like to see in modules more generally. Let’s make things better.

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we must all improve

Out of Context D&D

  • We should ask the copse for help.
  • You should dissect one of them with your bone thing. Meanwhile, I will shoot one of them with a poison.
  • Can we just WATCH the wizard duel? // I don’t think this is a spectator sport.
  • I’m lusting after his arcanum.
  • Starving children are bobbing past you on what looks like a chunk of grey wood. // Do they look happy? // They do not look happy.
  • What? Wizards knife fighting!? This is even better than I thought. Let’s watch.
  • LEAVE THE DUTCH ALONE
  • I explain what I’m doing to him to make his eye not weird.
  • I lost 20 pounds, didn’t even notice. Roll Tide.
  • I’m a get me a wife. I’m a get me a houseful of mistresses.
  • Think if *you* were a crab.
  • We haven’t tried the meat and poo. . . . Just try the meat and poo one.

“Lewis and Dekalb” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Illustration of child-sized scavenging lungfish by Scrap Princess.

Big lungfish illustration is public domain.

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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Portrait of Ghar Zaghouan by Scrap Princess.

Photo of 1913 Dayton flood rescue is public domain.

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

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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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