We wrap up the campaign.
Our next episode is the recap & review, here: https://ggnorecast.com/53.
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (aff link): get it on Amazon
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We continue to explore the observatory.
A comedy of errors.
Situations grotesque, risible, & fantastical—all for you.
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Bickering and exploring. Mostly bickering.
A quick note here from Daniel re: module design: don’t have multilevel treasure tables for generating finite treasures. If there are going to be XdY treasures of properties that you need to generate by rolling yet further, save the DM the trouble and pre-generate the most interesting ones. You’ll see what I’m talking about in this episode. I could have pre-rolled them, but why not save the end-user some work?
Update: our confusion over “Sense Nearby” was just cleared up by the writer of Into the Odd. The character starting package doesn’t indicate that you can “sense nearby” (whatever that means) and also get an Arcanum. “Arcana” should be read as the object of the sensing: “sense nearby Arcana,” like detect magic. I (Daniel) hadn’t looked at the entry until now, but I see that its being split up over two lines is what caused the confusion for us.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
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We enter the observatory and behold its wonders.
Follow dungeon SOP, achieve expected results.
This didn’t go as planned or desired at all, but ya gotta kill yer darlins. Or have them exploded.
Thank you, bone magnet.
Also, I (Daniel) am not sure at all that I ruled correctly re: the climactic moment here. I think I was interpreting metaphorical language in the text too literally. But it was a magical anatomy judgment made the heat of the moment. Perhaps Patrick can find it in his heart to forgive me.
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At last, the Observatory. Our pointcrawl concludes, and we experience the moment of eponymony.
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This episode is an example of what can happen when you follow your random encounter procedures to the bitter, bitter end—and don’t flinch at the dice.
It’s great!
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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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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:
Dam pic Prisma’d from a pic of Glen Canyon dam on Wikipedia by Adbar.
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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.
we must all improve
Out of Context D&D
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Big lungfish illustration is public domain.
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.
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.
not me, but could be you
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gg no re 
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