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1 hour ago, How The Cloud Stole Christ said:

Anyone still playing Apex Legends? It's one of the few BRs I like and now that I have a good PC that can run it I'd like to play again. Of course, I have to get EA to unban me first, but...

I've never played, but I've been considering downloading it and giving it a try

So I've recently begun working on scripts for some YouTube videos talking about Dungeons and Dragons. Aside from campaign diaries or stories about previous games, is there anything you guys think would be interesting to see someone talk about related to D&D or Table Top RPG's as a whole? I have a decent amount of experience with D&D and not much else, but I'm down to pick up other games if people think that kind of stuff would be interesting

13 hours ago, Chris the Human said:

What's the premise? I ran a super involved, low fantasy, high-RP game set in an East Asian setting last year that ran for eighteen months. It was a blast and a really nice change from swords & sorcery, but damned if it wasn't a lot of work to run.

That sounds interesting as hell. I don't want to give away too many details on my game, cuz a couple people on the board are playing in it, but the basic premise is that the PC's are the Senior Officers of an army for hire/mercenary guild during a contract to kill the personal Artificer of a tyrant who is slowly conquering the world. I've always wanted to run a mercenary centric campaign, with the main characters being in charge of essentially a large army, where they can delegate out other contracts for lower ranking members, and MCDM's The Chain stream gave me a lot of inspiration to work it into it's own narrative.

The most interesting part of the game is probably that I'm actually running 2 versions of it simultaneously. It's likely gonna be starting sometime mid to late January, but I'm running one version for a few offline friends who are relatively new to D&D, and then I'm running it for some EWB peeps and a couple friends I have that are more experienced at the game. I'm gonna run the same game, with the same challenges and combats, and make YouTube campaign diaries discussing the differences. I'm planning on letting the campaigns gradually change based on the different decisions of the two parties, which I think will lead to two very different experiences.

So in a couple weeks or so, I'm going to be embarking on what is definitely my most ambitious campaign to date. As a DM, it's been a lot of crazy work, but I'm thinking almost everything can be reasonably reused for a different group. I just have some long term ideas that I really hope we play long enough to have come to fruition

You performed your job of being big and intimidating perfectly, though. I couldn't even come up with a reason for an enemy to attack someone else until the @Toe's bard almost killed the Bugbear

On 26/08/2020 at 12:00, Hajjhowe said:

https://discord.gg/pyQKb4

My bad. I'm not what you'd call 'traditionally smart'. But yes, link above!

Is the link invalid or is it just my computer being stupid?

I'd be down. I already agreed to basically run 2 campaigns once we get settled in at our new place, so I probably wouldn't be able to DM. But I would be willing to play a character if someone else wants to run

So I got a DLC through something[I think it might have been a Humble Bundle] for a game on Steam called Darkest Dungeon, the Shieldbreaker DLC in particular. If anyone wants it, let me know

@Mr. Meacon Moneybags and @Mx. Canadian Destroyer- just because you're the ones talking about D&D. I have been playing for about 15 years and am thoroughly addicted to Dungeons and Dragons. If either of you have any questions or want to play in a game(I can DM if no one else is willing), I'd be more than happy to oblige. I likely couldn't run until after a move that I'm planning for sometime in the next month, but I have specific plans to set up a room for running D&D online and recording D&D related content for YouTube.

13 hours ago, How The Cloud Stole Christ said:

I bought the Java Edition last week, so I'd be for a Realms server as well. Though, Rocky's post is from 2018...

So what you're saying is I shouldn't respond to posts while drunk? Well that's no fun

But if people are actually interested, I do legitimately have a Realms server that isn't currently being used too much

On 08/09/2018 at 20:12, Rocky said:

Any interest in a member server? I have a realms server not being used atm so wondered if anyone wanted to play. 

I can set up a new world etc. With it being a Realm it is pure vanilla and also updated automatically. Clientside mods should work fine if the correct version is used. 

The server is only usable for java versions of the game, so no console/win10 cross-over available. 

I would 100% be interested in something like this. I currently have a realms server that is basically only played on by me and 1 other friend

So over the last couple weeks, my partner has been running some 5e over Zoom for some friends and I. And while I honestly enjoy playing a character, I really miss DMing. So I've set up a one shot this Sunday for some coworkers and random online folks we know through Zoom. I know a lot of people complain about being "the DM friend" but I can't be the only one who prefers running games to playing in them, right?

My girlfriend has been running her first 5e game for me and a couple friends. She's just running the Starter Set, which has been a ton of fun. I've been running a Swashbuckler Rogue, and we've got a Grave Cleric, a College of Glamour Bard, and a Totem Warrior Barbarian running around. It's really nice to play again, but I'm slowly coming to the realization that I might prefer DMing, as I can't wait for this campaign to be over so I can run the homebrew I'm working on haha.

I'm in this really weird but probably common place creatively where I have a ton of ideas I want to workshop/talk over with other players and DMs, but I'm pretty much the only DM that I know. As a result, all of the people I could talk ideas over with are either players in my group, or players with little to no experience and so don't really know/understand the behind the screen mechanics necessary to make game worlds work. I love/hate the challenges of trying to build a game world from scratch. I want to have at least a base layer set before I have a world building session with my players, but I get really excited about what I'm working on and just want to tell them every idea I have lol.

4 hours ago, lanky316 said:

Due to timezones and so on, might it be an idea to do something pbp down in the Cube? Obviously the downside is that we don't have any form of rolling software programmed into the board but some heads can get together and come up with something. I don't really have the time or patience to DM right now unfortunately and I certainly can't be staying up until the early hours of the morning with the stateside members of the board!

I think that's a good idea, I just have absolutely zero clues as to how to even attempt to make something like that work

1 hour ago, Paton said:

 

Yes and yes.

I mean, if people are interested then I'm willing to set up a discord channel for it and all that

Hey, I'm not sure if this has been brought up as an idea, but would anyone be interested in getting a (semi) consistent group going? Most likely through Discord, since that's a program I'm pretty comfortable with. I'm willing to DM although I'm a fairly new DM. 

19 minutes ago, The Banshee Fork said:

Your realm is at the top of your character select screen.

Ahh, My realm is Dalaran, then

16 hours ago, The Banshee Fork said:

Ewww. You wish to serve the Boy King. Ptooie!

Sorry, had to play my role there. I have an Alliance Warrior on one server I think but I haven't played him really. I created him to see the other side of the war and the story but I just haven't had time as I want to focus on progression and I don't have the time for multiple characters until I have one that I feel comfortable with in Dungeons and Raids which will hopefully be my new Undead Warlock. I'm mainly a ranged player so any of my Melee toons tend to take a back seat unless I want to try something different.

What Realm are you on?

So when I first started playing, I was an all Horde player. Tauren are actually my favorite race in the game. But I stopped playing for a while, and when I got back into it a few years ago, I had some friends who were Alliance so I made all Alliance characters. And then I kinda just did a hard reset of all my characters when I restarted recently. I actually started a Tauren Druid last night because I forgot how much I had liked being Horde. As for my Realm, I have absolutely no idea how to check that

I've just started back up in this game after about 5 years. Cleared my old characters and basically started all over. In a couple weeks I only have a lvl 30 ish pandaren monk, but I'm alliance with all my characters haha

So I saw that crusader kings was free, so I picked it up. Ran through the first part of the learning scenario and am probably more confused than when I booted it up. Gonna chalk this one up to being crazy tired and give it another go tomorrow. Seems like a lot of fun once you figure everything out

Some friends and I have been organizing semi regular board game nights to intersperse into or D&D nights,  and some of the games have been spectacular. We've got this card game called Sushi Go that's a huge hit at the table, and a couple nights ago we tried out something called Forgotten Island, which is a little complicated but a huge amount of fun. Up to 6 player co-op where you're working to get all the treasures and get off the island. It's good fun.

There's a harder version called Forbidden Desert that we're gonna break out once we get more comfortable with the Island version. 

9 hours ago, Toe said:

Anyone thought of setting up a EWB game through Roll20? Just a thought...

I would be down as hell. I've got a Tiefling Warlock I've been dying to play

As for Starfinder, I've only played a session or two in the system, but it's tons of fun. Played a 3 foot tall genetically modified mouse with a computer in his brain that let him hack things from a distance. And that's just core rulebook stuff haha

Tomb of Annihilation is a hell of a meat grinder, but I really enjoyed the setting. I'm in the weird spot of consistently DMing a single group, but my other DM who I am usually a player for just keeps jumping around. We've started Curse of Strahd 4 times with different groups, Tomb twice, and the Starter Set a couple times too.

I'm actually talking with my current group about starting a podcast/YouTube series based around a homebrew world I've been working on for a while. This particular game is only my 2nd time being DM, and the first time it was not great. I'm running them through Lost Mines of Phandelver[the starter set] because our most experienced player besides me has been playing just under a year now. I have 2 completely new players[one of whom has watched Critical Role, so has a basic grasp], my GF who is the aforementioned player with a years experience, and my mom, who hasn't played D&D in 35 years, when she was playing 1st edition. It's been crazy fun

Ah, what the hell. I'll join in late. I'll take Sapphire