139 – re:play Dungeon Academy 1

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

This starts our play of Dungeon Academy, Daniel’s homebrew campaign framework in which you play students in dungeon-school, D&D Hogwarts with the serial numbers filed off. In this episode, we see what a Sunday morning at the academy looks like.

The players are new to this as well; so you’ll be learning the game as they do. There’s live game design, and you can see the process by which some of the mechanics are refined in play.

Be sure to check out our new players page to see who (most of) these voices belong to.

We don’t have pictures for all the PCs yet, but here’s what we do have so far:

Saggitarius (Tim)

Pluto (John)

Luciana (Mason)

And here’s what the custom trifold character sheets look like:

Group Facing

Player Facing

Player Facing Expanded

And, last, here’s the turn-planning sheet that the players were putting their minis on in order to let the ref know what they intend to do on the upcoming turn:

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138 – R A T T L E D (part 4)

November 5, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We conclude our play of R A T T L E D, a campaign framework Daniel is making for playing reverse D&D with skeletons. No Prep, All Calcium.

The rules are here.

In this episode, bring the SKELETON WAR to the first location, expand the dungeon, and give concluding thoughts on the framework. (And, shhhh, maybe talk a bit about game design post-outro.)

Music: Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) – Extended Mix by The Living Tombstones

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137 – R A T T L E D (part 3)

November 1, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We continue our play of R A T T L E D, a campaign framework Daniel is making for playing reverse D&D with skeletons. No Prep, All Calcium.

The rules are here.

In this episode, we continue downtime with some flashback actions, engage in some skeleton jam band distractions, and go to bring the SKELETON WAR to the first location.

Music: Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) – Extended Mix by The Living Tombstones

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136 – R A T T L E D (part 2)

October 21, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We continue our play of R A T T L E D, a campaign framework Daniel is making for playing reverse D&D with skeletons. No Prep, All Calcium. Will be releasing the rules for how to play this yourself as Halloween approaches. In this episode, we start the downtime phase, complete an encounter, and ARISE, KILL, & EAT.

Intro: Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) – Extended Mix by The Living Tombstones

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135 – R A T T L E D (part 1)

October 16, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We start our play of R A T T L E D, a campaign framework Daniel is making for playing reverse D&D with skeletons. No Prep, All Calcium. Will be releasing the rules for how to play this yourself as Halloween approaches.

Intro: Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) – Extended Mix by The Living Tombstones

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134 – Roll Tide or Naw?

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 / gg no re / 4 Comments

It’s the fabled Roll Tide or Naw? episode! We have a topic and then give what we think about it.

Here are the topics discussed in this ep:

Tieflings
Dragonborn
Light cantrip
Halflings
Elves
Half-elves
Dwarves
Forgotten Realms
Tiamat
Megadungeons
Small dungeons
Exploring a town like a dungeon
Clerics
Bards
Mixed systems
4e
Monks
Counterspell
“Decrement your torches”
Making maps
Adventure Paths
Spelljammer
Dark Sun
Gnomes
Drow

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133 – Interview with a Level 1 Player

September 22, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

In our first ever gg no re interview, we talk to Montrail, a player new to tabletop RPGs whom we randomly met at Dragon Con. We learn about how he came to find out about D&D and RPGs in general, what his experience of organized play was like, and muse about what this might mean for the hobby more broadly.

Links

Momocon: https://www.momocon.com
Dragon Con: http://www.dragoncon.org/
D&D Adventurers League: http://dnd.wizards.com/playevents/organized-play

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132 – Dragon Con 2018

September 18, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We talk about our experience at Dragon Con 2018: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sublime.

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131 – re:view Pathfinder 2 Playtest

August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 / gg no re / 1 Comment

We review the Pathfinder 2 playtest.

Check below for a ready-to-run version of the first playtest adventure, with annotations that make it mostly a system neutral one page dungeon.

Here’s an affiliate link to Beyond the Wall, the vv interesting OSR game discussed in the episode.

Things We Liked

The daily/long rest thing. No more resting in dungeons. When you take a sleep, you get to prepare your daily spells and such, and you get back some hp based on level. After a really long rest, like a week, you do a reset.

Magic weapons do extra damage dice. Pretty magical.

Action economy. It’s aesthetically pleasing and less confusing to explain to newbies than 5e’s economy.

Things We Didn’t

Well, pretty much everything else, but here are a couple zingers.

Rules for walking and talking at the same time:

Insane rules written by and for robots from another dimension:

Printer Friendly One Page Dungeon Version of The Adventure

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130 – re:play Pathfinder 2 Playtest

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018 / gg no re / 2 Comments

We actually play Mathfinder. After all the trash talk, we finally see what it’s really all about. You’ll see the new 2e playtest mechanics in action (at least the ones that Daniel can remember), and hear us wail in acute existential despair! Review coming next ep.

Check below for a ready-to-run version of the first playtest adventure, with annotations that make it mostly a system neutral one page dungeon.

Things We Liked

Magic weapons do extra damage dice. Pretty magical.

Action economy. It’s aesthetically pleasing and less confusing to explain to newbies than 5e’s economy.

Things We Didn’t

Well, pretty much everything else, but here are a couple zingers.

Rules for walking and talking at the same time:

Insane rules written by and for robots from another dimension:

Printer Friendly One Page Dungeon Version of The Adventure

You’re welcome.