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Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dawgstar posted:

After episode three I rewatched The Sunken Tomb and they all make Reflex saves and it's all fun when Laura rolled a 1! Sam jokes about instant death!
Then it was less fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AuHfXwTY1M

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Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
The not-a-beholder was super cool. The way its tentacles kept going off at extreme angles and its unblinking stare were A+

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dameius posted:

Tiberius going around up the chain of command buffooning his way to the top to get the teleport sigil ("Hello, I'm Tiberius Stormwind of Draconia" x25) would have been funny to animate. :colbert:

But also, gently caress him and all the baggage that would have added.

only having read about it way after the fact when CR was already super popular it feels like that dude executed one of the biggest bag-fumblings ever

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dameius posted:

I remember that was the consensus back when the briarwood arc was still originally airing and he had only been gone for a few episodes officially. The stream from pretty early on, I'd say maybe around mid Briarwood to possibly where S2 kicked off felt like they had captured lightning in a bottle and it was just wild growth week to week in either raw numbers, awareness, or both.

yeah I was reading some of the old recaps on the wiki and they were like "oh wow we've got 3,000 subscribers! special prize for No. 3100!" and then they uhhhh stop doing that in such small intervals pretty quickly

it really is incredible. The guy got in on the ground floor of a media empire which involved him *playing D&D for work* and blew it.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

The Pete Best of the digital era

big ooof

and even then like, apparently his character was p. popular back in the day so it'd be like if the Beatles power rankings were Lennon/McCartney, Best, Harrison/Starr

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dameius posted:

In the plot, which all happened before S1 kicks off so I won't spoiler it, they take a spell circle to a new location, like a large organization's library I think? (I honestly forget the context to them landing there) and he basically just walks up to the first person and does his introduction and word vomits at the guy trying to get what he wants. Gets redirected to be Someone Else's Problem™ up the food chain and he repeats the same act. This cycle repeats like 6-8 times in game before VM gets what they want.

that sounds legit funny

also his absence leaves ... not a narrative hole but for a group that leans into D&D tropes so hard it's weird not to have a pure spellcaster

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

ninjahedgehog posted:

I won't be satisfied until WotC makes Warlord a base class again. gently caress healing with the power of the gods, or nature, or arcane music, I want to bring my comrades back from the brink of death by yelling at him to stop being such a baby and rub some dirt on it :black101:

this and give me weapon specialist subclasses

lemme make a whip or a blowgun or a sling and do cool poo poo with them

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
this song rocks and they should make a full version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqVZytvlJo

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

CuwiKhons posted:

The main notes they have left to hit for the CC arc for next season are Ank'harel/Glintshore and the aftermath thereof, Draconia and Yenk vs Vorugal, possibly splitting the party to hit the fire plane for Pike's vestige and Fort Daxio at the same time, but tbh Fort Daxio is skippable, then the fight against Thordak, and then Raishan.

do they even bother with Draconia considering all the baggage?

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dragonstoned posted:

Orion made a big deal about owning the copywrite for his character "Tiberous Stormwind" at the time but he doesn't own the concept of the "dragonborn race"

Him being all "ITS MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER! DO NOT STEAL!" is one of the main reasons he's purged from VM history and why he will never make an appearance in LoVM

I've said it before but: the dude fumbled the bag to a degree that puts all other bag-fumblings to shame

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
yeah the problem with translating a high-level actual play campaign to TV is that deaths are constant, often not a big deal, and don't come at narratively appropriate moments

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Detective Eyestorm posted:

Keyleth has gotten two How Do You Wanna Do This moments, one per season. She gets some flashy stuff for trash mobs, but she only Saves The Episode With A Big Spell twice: the Season 2 episode explicitly about her character arc and backstory, and Sylas in Season 1 as the culmination of a multi-episode subplot about the Sun Tree.

Every other big victory is some other character: In Season 1, Grog gets Brimscythe (though it was really a team kill), Percy gets Stonefell and Anders and Delilah. In Season 2, Vax gets the not-beholder, Scanlan wounds the sphinx and finishes Umbrasyl, Grog gets Kevdak, and Vex gets Syldor.

Keyleth is just a hate magnet for weirdos.

goon media literacy has always been ahhhhhh not great

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Dawgstar posted:

There's a very interesting bit I noticed re-watching the first campaign at one point when Orion was going full Orion and was trying to be funny you could see Sam shake his head a little and say just audibly something like "don't do it" so Sam knows what lines not to cross.

still the biggest bag-fumbling in recent memory. that dude coulda been set for life

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
https://twitter.com/SamRiegelsFlask/status/1461550551536123905

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Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
imagine paying attention to Twitch chat as anyone older than like, 12

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