Acquisitions Inc. D&D Podcast Season 1 - Episode 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ย. 2024
- Chris Perkins as the Dungeon Master
Jerry Holkins as Omin Dran
Mike Krahulik as Jim Darkmagic
Scott Kurtz as Binwin Bronzebottom
Season 1 Playlist
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"Alright well I wanna play the Wizard..." - Mike
The first words of this podcast are words that would change Dungeons and Dragons forever.
RUdigitized Indeed. This is a truth of the universe. The world is forever changed once entered by that scion of the New Hampshire Darkmagics ...
RUdigitized From such simple words, a tale of epic arcane power is woven into being by the will of the most prodigious wizard of our time. To quote another powerful wizard, "That's how it always starts, from something very small."
TheWIBoiler
+Exhausted Elox That quote sounds incredibly familiar, but I can't for the life of me figure out/remember which wizard..
DevilJinKazama It was the last line by Egg Shen in the prologue for "Big Trouble in Little China". I thought it was fitting after Perkins made "Green Flame" a thing at one of the live shows.
2023 and still rewatching. Makes me emotional hearing this all over again. I love you guys!
This is the only rp podcast I enjoyed listening to (one of the few podcasts at all).
Just something about the laid back atmosphere, Chris Perkins memorizing descriptions and voice, Jerry Mike and Jerry still figuring most of the stuff out.
@UC0ifWhT48Fh8duHfmvvtVfA It's so good. I'm very frustrated with what it has turned into today. Generic, cookie cutter, too safe, over production. Alas...
This, this is the historic place where Jim Darkmagic was born. I come here every year on pilgrimage to pay my respects to the ultimate magician.
Have a magical day!
Doves appear!
Jim Darkmagic, of the New Hampshire Darkmagics
For the last decade I’ve been stealing that name for nearly every mage I’ve ever had in video games or anything else it’s too good lol
Its so neat hearing them work out their characters and such, especially knowing how big Acquisitions inc. becomes
They had no idea
Though I love shows like Critical Role, these old Acq Inc. episodes really strike a cord with me in how the table actually plays. The way they argue and joke and shit-talk with one another is way more like my own group
Chris is also a really casual DM. He doesn't write big descriptions or dramatically acy his character (not that he couldn't), he just sits back and tells it like it is
"Jim Darkmagic"
"Oh, come on!"
funniest bit ever
I love how poetic and legit Chris is being, meanwhile...
"Jim Darkmagic"
"I wanted to get Butt in there somewhere"
"Well i want to be the Wizard" 7 words that started on of the greatest D&D experiences I've ever seen. It's been a good journey, and hopefully it keeps going for a while longer
The Magician +++ dito! P
they say that you can make a woman fall in love with you with only seven words
@@johngaete2413 I have lots and lots of money?
The pit of acid was introduced within the first 30 minutes, What a wonderful foreshadowing.
I've gotten myself caught up on a critical role and I've come back here to my roots to listen to the first D&D podcast to get me started listening to D&D before I was even a player.
Check out Greetings Adventures!
tbh, after being so used to ac inc and their comedic focus I wasnt really able to get into critical role. however I only gave it a shot once and didnt have the patience to get into something new at the time. for me the fun component was kinda missing but it couldve very easily been that I just caught an episode that was very plot heavy so the players took it more seriously. would you recommend giving it another shot ?
@@frankie9373 100% recommend it. It is much more serious, but they get up to some less serious stuff like Grog the barbarian talking to his sentient evil sword in a porta potty and trying to play it off as talking to the dump he's taking when one of his party members overhears him in there. Lol. They aren't too far into the third campaign now so it would be the one to get into if you want to watch it when it comes out every week. But my favorite by far was their first campaign. The second campaign was good but it was very political and didn't feel like it really got good to me until about the midway point of the entire campaign after they got out of the foreign country where all the politics were.
@@duttdits aight, I'll give them another try. thanks for the tips.
Here for the third time. Always great to come back to the series that got me into D&D.
These guys got me into dungeons and dragons years ago. Coming back to these videos brings such good memories. It's like a really good book with hundreds of hours of content.
It's great to go back and see where it all started
When they're joking about fell-dark-ominous joke names, you can hear Jerry whisper "Omin..." to himself, like he's gotten a bolt of divine inspiration.
I’m pretty sure he came up with "Omin" because Scott Kurtz said the word "ominous" teo seconds earlier 😀
@@Idziemel1 uh yes.
Havin a bit of a whirlwind of a time and coming back to this just felt like what I needed today, love these guys and so happy its coming back again.
27:30 "High rolls are always good."
*triggers flashbacks to the airship battle*
+samouflage99 just audio
... flash forward!
AD&D had it the other way around for certain rolls...
Knowing how Chris goes back to the older adventures to draw on plot points I would love to see Acq. Inc. come up against a rival company; 'Kill and Gold Incorporated' run by CEO 'Ominous Darkfell' in a future adventure, it would make me very happy in my nerd pants.
+Rifleman Moore
2016 PAX season coming up...we can only hope.
Rifleman Moore oh my god yes
12:10 Chris saying 'Acquire' FOR SURE put 'Acquisitions' into Jerry's head to name the team
I first experienced Acquisitions Inc. through a youtube video of their live game at PAX. Never played DnD. But i watched it and was hooked. Great people with entertaining chemistry. Now years later I was reminded of them, searched on TH-cam and have begun my journey here at the beginning.
We all have James Darkmagic III to thank for AI's success with his first ever roll being a 19 modified to 20.
That truly is...some dark magic.
Now go back and read that like a news anchor/announcer and the last part will always sound the same. iT TRUly IS, some DArk MAGIC.
Chris Perkins is a really delightful DM :)
It must be harder for Chris because he has a 2 hr. time crunch for the live events. DM's dont usually have to cut down the game to make time slots.
The smile I got, going back to watch this episode and hear Chris talk about the names. Sounds like something that may end up in a d&d book some day. Decade later AI has its own book published.
This is where all the legends of Acquisitions INC begin.
Holy shit, hearing the beginnings of everything is super interesting. So like, Mike just made up the name Jim Darkmagic on the fly? Omin Dran being a CEO was a joke at first? I wonder if they ever knew how big this would get.
Its my understanding that Jerry had meetings with the WotC guys and had alot of say in the overall flavor of the campaign. The WotC guys handed out pregens with empty slots for the character names/backgrounds but had everything else made before hand and Mike was basically being bribed to even sit down to play.
RUdigitized I don't mean to be rude, but where did you hear that?
PAtv Season 4 Ep 09. They talk about everything behind the scenes Aquisitons Inc. Also it shows footage of Jerry discussing the direction of the 'show' with the Wotc guys. Concerning the pregens, you can hear them talking about it at the beginning of the first podcast itself. Here: www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/acq.-inc
I don't understand why it would make you sad! They were approached by wotc to make something fun!
Well that was 5 years ago. Jerry had been trying to get him to play for years but he really had no desire to play dnd at all. Now he's a fully fledged dungeon master with a several year-long campaign and is designing his own tabletop system.
This is where I got hooked on D&D
It’s like listening to a origin story, so glad I found this.
"You did not tell me this involved math", this is priceless
So I stepped away from dnd during college back when 4e was the current version. I come back to it after making a new friend group that loves dnd, and nobody has a clue what I'm talking about when I bring up AI and Chris Perkins. So I just keep raving about the legendary Jim Darkmagic of the New Hampshire Darkmagics.
I think it's neat to listen to these guys actually getting together for the first time and finding out what it was like there during the creation of the characters like Jim Darkmagic when it sounded so silly then, but now it's practically a household name! ;) Also, acquisitions inc.
Chris Perkins is my absolute hero. I want to grow up to be a DM just like him someday. :3
Same
Man, that line about Binwin Bronzebottom being in a D&D product some day sure turned out to be prophetic, didn't it?
too bad he ruined it by trying to go solo.
IT IS 2020 AND I GET THIS JOKE!
@@companyoflosers what happened?
@@marcoboscarol2420 the binwin player left the group with the comment, “Why should I spend my time building someone else’s brand when I could be out here building my own?”
…and failed miserably at building his own brand.
@@TheOdditee
Ah... pity he left since I found him funny and thanks for the answer
Revisting the creation of some of my personal player/character heros. Looking forward to re-listening through the whole campaign again!
"That's the type of name that might end up in, oh, say, a D&D product one day."
I do believe that 5th edition lists "Binwin" as one of the possible choices for a dwarf character's name.
I'm also pretty sure that *SPOILER* it is canon that Omin Dran is one of the Masked Lords of Waterdeep. As in, in the novels set in the Forgotten Realms, Omin is spoken of as a Lord of Waterdeep.
The great thing about this series of videos is that they are enjoyable to listen to multiple times.
+cavalier973 it's actually Bruenor Battlehammer that is in the d&d 5e players handbook though binwin is based on Bruenor (I think) (and if you dont know who that is it is one of the Companions of the Hall from the Drizzt Do'Urden books. If you have not read those books I would highly recommend them they are written by R.A Salvatore)
Acquisitions Incorporated got me into D&D. It was right around the time 5e arrived. I'm glad I was introduced to this awesome game. Thank you for all the laughs and inspiration.
Today is the day I~m starting to watch the whole of Acq Inc from first episode...
I really really loved listening to these when I first found them. I had so much fun following these adventures.
Thank you for putting this up. I couldn't find it anywhere else. So glad to hear the beginning of it all.
Stuck in the house in quarantine in 2020, may as well listen to them all again!
Starting from the very beginning again, and just going to listen to this until i have fully caught up
"a slide with a pit of acid at the bottom" chris has this weird obsession with pits of acid
Oh my I've missed this so much glad I found it again. Saved for binge watching 2021 updated MEGA PLAYLIST!!!!!!! Long live Acquisitions Inc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn I wish I could play with Perkins as the DM some day
+Absurge Don't we all?
+Marian Moss Because anything that happens in game counts as cannon or as dnd world facts
He does have mastery of the DM arts. I wish he would run a DM workshop. I am good but I know I could learn some tips and tricks from him.
So glad that i found this, as soon as i heard chris perkins i got super excited.
"Do I need a first AND last name?"
"It's up to you"
"If you put one name on there it's like you're mysterious"
"Like Cher"
I have no idea who these men are but I have already decided to love them.
Awesome stuff huh?
The full ride to today is incredible. Take that ride my friend
Thanks for uploading these. Was having a hard time finding them, and my copies are like in an old ipod in my parent's storage unit back in my hometown. This is much more convenient.
Still glad he stuck to his wands and didn't get swayed to Chet Awesomelaser.
I've experienced multiple live shows at PAX South, etc. . but never gone back to the beginning. It's time to correct a grievous error.
My cousin made a dwarf fighter named Billy "Stinky" Bloodbound. His best friend made a human/werewolf ranger named simply Lonestar. Literally every time anybody said his name they did their best Rick Moranis Dark Helmet impersonation.
Kur Norock
ROLE playing at its finest
Worked my way backwards to this. So cool to hear the characters being made and the game being explained
Thank you for these, good sir. A friend linked me the PAX 2013 video earlier this week and I've been watching backwards in time with much enjoyment. Listening to these now from the start in the background over TH-cam is very convenient. :)
I never realized that Omin was a Half-Elf! OOOUUAAHHHHHH!
I have been listening to these guys play for hours... Almost feel like a part of the company. Now if I could only find players my age (48) who remember the "Glory Days" of D&D and would enjoy getting together for some adventuring... Back in 1983, we used to play D&D in the abandoned Atlas F missile silos around my home in Roswell NM... We aptly named our silo "Moria" for obvious reasons... Good times!
there's a website called Meetup.org where you can probably find fellow gamers
+Kat K right on, thanks for the info!
:) the internet makes being a nerd easier than ever :) I remember the days when I had to rely on luck to find fellow gamers. so much easier online
+Kat K this is true! Unfortunately in my backwards town, computers are misunderstood luxuries, the Internet is something they fish with and D&D is a movie about Jim Carrey... It's tough being me in this one horse town!
Yuck, I'm sorry. Small towns are the worst for people like us. At least internet is a thing now, though. Hang in there.
And on that day, legends were born.
back again to go through the full adventure
This makes me really happy to start back in my 3.5 campaign which is on hiatus. We've been playing for several years. There are 8 pc's but not all of them show up on any given game day. We around 9th or 10th level.
Sometimes its just nice to go back and listen to how it all began
Acquisitions Incorporated is such an awesome name for an adventuring party... I kind of want to copy it for my DnD sessions, but it's sort of already taken by people more famous than me....
Mercer and Perkins are both amazing DMs in the same way, Matt is really good at getting you immersed into a story but can sometimes fail at making me ask question, Perkins always has me on edge but sometimes fails to totally get me immersed. I love them (also cool how the first roll of this campaign was a twenty and the last roll of Critical Role was a 20)
I've listened to all their podcasts from the very beginning of Acq Inc. It's a lot of fun to hear them go from not knowing what they are doing to being basically pros at it. Always good for a laugh too.
OMG, this video should be retitled "Acquisitions Inc: The Birth of Jim Darkmagic"
It also foreshadows the hamburger nominators!
BaSH PROMPT Actually quite a few honor the character and in fact this entire party. They have grown to such a degree that many reference them in passing. As in "We couldn't get the wonderful party of Acquisitions Inc. so we had to hire you." Or even someone might say "He is no Jim Darkmagic, but he will do."
It is a form of respect to them that others use them in at least a phrase, and of course it is a good way to let your players know what world or timeline you are currently playing in.
And on another note, I understand this is the internet and you can easily hide behind your keyboard, but I do have one question "Why do you have to be so rude?"
Well, either it be such harsh criticism or some friendly advice, everyone is welcomed to come view the videos being posted on my channel. Check out the new table top RPG called #Shantup
BaSH PROMPT To much rage. You need to step away from the table in mom's basement and go outside more.
ShantupWOG There is always one troll like Bash on the post's. Slay , use fire and he won't regen and come back. And on a side note all you said is true but to use Jim Darkmagic and Acquisitions Inc. also just add's some laugh's and a light note to any world or campaign. But remember if Jim is used to describe him correctly...because we all know Jim is 7 feet tall and sharts lightning bolt's out his arse!!!!!!!!!
This is like reading an Origin Story.
Was a big fan of Dice Camera Action and was curious to try this series out. So far its really interesting seeing how naturally this all came about.
Anyone else realize that it may have been Scott that inspired the name Omin?
I like the name "Chet Awesomelazer"
And it's really nice to find one of these that doesn't start in the middle.
I’ve never heard any of these original podcasts, I only ever saw a couple of the live show videos and just thought they were cool. This should be fun to see where things started!
Mike: "This reads very much like a tactics game, doesn't it?"
Had 4th edition been called something like "D&D Tactics" instead of "Fourth Edition", then it might have avoided much of the hate-rage.
It would have made for a decent one-person-controls-a-party RPG game, like the Baldur's Gate series. But then again, most of the mods for Baldur's Gate 3 are focused on making the game as much like DnD 5e as possible, so **shrug**
I'll always love this episode. It was the thing that got me into D&D.
31:10 Will Wheaton should have paid attention! Chris foreshadowed that fateful day all the way in the beginning!
*Wil
If you listen through all the AI podcasts there are alot of situations in games that are foreshadowed in previous campaigns. I'm convinced that Chris re-listens to these and picks out one or two things that were said and builds on or around them
joey gautreau
The best DMs are the most evil hobbitses
joey gautreau Do you think the grey-haired man in the tavern who is talking to the commander and raises his glass to the party in 2014 is Nathan Fairingray?
Hmmm idk, it's possible I guess, the only problem with that theory is the party switched from grey-hawk to faerun. If his 2015 campaign is any hint, then the grey - haired man could be anyone from Elminster to Isteval
Scott tried to get bonus hp forBinwin right off the bat and Chris shut it down.. HAAH!
"Can I be an atheist cleric?" That question hurt my brain.
It's actually a Interesting concept, especially for a comedy character
You actually can do that. Instead of adhering to a deity, you follow a concept, like good or chaos.
Riplee86 I would make the atheist cleric adhere to the magic-user style of magic, having to read spell books and use material components since there's no deity to grant the powers.
Considering that there is atheist clergy in the real world. Why not?
Sure....no spells though
If Mike ever joins the Star Wars games as a player rather than DM, he needs to play as Chet Awesomelaser.
Man, all this 4e talk is oddly nostalgic.
Thanks you, Christopher Perkins for improving my DMing. Your forever in my that debt.
DND is practically free form jazz in the sense that (from a DM stand point) you have to be ready for ANYTHING the players think of, that you have to play along with in a seamless fashion. Making sound as if *as dm* it was planned all along. Which makes for an amazing game session
I wanna hear more about Chet Awesomelaser!
avbsvideo i wanna know how he got that name!
Menard Shortypants as his trusty side-kick.
16:48 and the ultimate adventuring business endeavor, is formed.
First time listening to this series. Hope I'll enjoy the ride :)
I hope you found it that way.
was it good?
Here to get ready for the series.
This helps because when you listen to podcasts in iTunes it downloads mp3's to you computer which can take up space. Might not matter to a lot of people these days. But something of note. It's fun going back to here their first time naming him Jim Darkmagic :
I love how they tried to convince him not to take the name Jim Darkmagic. I mean.... its JIM -------- F****ING ------- DARKMAGIC!!!!!
I've seen the later stuff and loved it so I had to come back to the beginning. Its amazing how this company comes to be... they are so much more decisive than my group. Gotta Love Jerry Holkins Leadership, Jim Darkmagic is as cocky as balls, and Scott Kurtz as Binwin Bronzebottom is a freakish comedic genius (though they all really are). I'd pay money to play with Chris Perkins as my DM.
And thus, a legend was born.
I'm patiently awaiting the last Acq Inc. (v1.0) adventure from PAX Unplugged that just happened this last weekend. I had to go back to the beginning and drink deep of their awesome launch that has launched a franchise that was my companion podcast through so much bs of my life over the last decade plus. I love this group, I love this brand, I love PA and I love AI. I even bought merch that other people had to ask "what the hell is that?" Jerry, Mike, Scott, Chris... thank you.
the short "darkmagic is just your name, that doesnt mean people would suspect you of using dark magic" convo gave strong "cannibal named hannibal" vibes
Having discovered AI by watching later episodes at PAX, I am finding the very first podcast and game ever played thoroughly entertaining! These guys have come a long way.
Listening to this made me a little emotional. They don't know how big this will be.
i watched most of this like 6 years ago
doesnt show which episode i was on so time to rewatch them all
I've never gone back to watch the 1st sessions, but here we go!
7:02 and thus a legend was born...
I love watching Jim aka Mike rolling his first 20 sided. to dm ing a game.
At 16:43 the first time Acquisitions Incorporated is named And So It Begins
Wow, I’m the first comment in about 3 years! Crazy!
It’s great hearing the start of the huge phenomenon that it’ll turn out to be. It’s great to tune into the earlier episodes to gain that kind of perspective. You’ve gotta love that about the internet: the way it historically catalogues information that might turn out to be really important later on. It’s wonderful stuff!
"This is my first roll"
"It's important to roll well or you will curse the dice forever."
*rolls a basically perfect roll*
Thus Ac Inc was destined to flourish
Jim winks.
Holy shit the foreshadowing with the pit of acid.
From "How do you throw a rope in a hole?" to making out with a lich clone of himself so that he can blow up its head with a magic tower he grows out of a pebble. Jim Darkmagic has come a long way.
I've really enjoyed the PAX D&D sessions, and this is watching (listening) to their old home movies. Here is the origin story of Acquisitions Inc., has Mike's first d20 roll ever, and Chris reveals a penchant for pools of acid.
Am I the only one who Googled "rat king" because there is a wikipage. XD
I thought you were talking about a dnd monster but after I heard them talk about it I had to google it too. Cray
And so it begins...
and here we are , 5 years later - and a new game Clank! Legacy will come up soon, based on this epic DnD Podcast :D Excellent ;)
Thank you.
Dear Acq Inq, please roleplay in the parallell universe where Mike named his wizard "Chat Awesomelaser", or make a scenario in which Jim Darkmagic is confronted by his bizarro alter self, "Chet Awesomelaser". :D
Lovely found the beginning of this troup of.. wanderers.