Campaign Diary 002: Soldier Take Warning
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2019
- In which the Chain of Acheron meet the crew of the Rosso Cielo.
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I'm enjoying these campaign diaries a lot more than I thought I would. They're like Running the Game episodes, but with in-game examples
"Actually Running the Game"
I believe that was his goal with the Stream from the get-go. Or at least the purpose behind showing us his game initially.
A lot of the times when he would talk about the game, Id think to myself "man i wish i could have seen that whole thing in full context" or he'd give a specific example from a part of the campaign, and then leave it at that and itd be like "wait! but i wanna know what happens next!!" Its nice to be able to have the condensed in game examples, AND also have the live stream to see the full context as well as the conclusion.
"Take the things you love, and put it in your game."
This is some of the best and simplest advice I've seen in a long time.
One word: Dinosaurs!
@@Yora21 With lasers!
@@toby7161 That's how you get Dino Riders...and I would totally do that.
"Oh there's no need for violence. Ajax knows you are not responsible for the events at the cathedral. Besides we could use men like you smart, tough. your commander is dead, he paid for his sins."
That was a great line!
yet also a very curious, since Ajax is literally hounding the Chain with demons, orc regiments, floating wizards, dragonflies, and a damned multidimensional pirate ship. Someone has a pretty big grudge to for someone 'who knows you aren't responsible'.
@@GuardianCitadel well, just because it's a good line doesn't mean that it has to be truthful.
Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning
So it occurred to me, that Anna's retainer "Two-Shoes" is short for "Goody Two-Shoes" because Two-Shoes is a Lawful Good Paladin... I see what you did there Anna.
Wow.... I totally didn't get that until you said it. That's an amazing name :)
I wonder how a Paladin of Asmodeus attracts an LG Paladin
Lawful good/lawful evil... Two sides of the same coin
@@LucidLivingYT
My understanding is that Anna intends to emphasise the "Lawful" over the "Evil" part of Judge's alignment. It's not like people fang around wearing alignment t-shirts or anything. Anna's already specifically stated that Judge doesn't openly wear any iconography that would reveal his allegiance to Asmodeus.
People who interact with Judge probably know him as a loyal, honest and reliable person. As long as you're on _Judge's side,_ it would probably be very difficult to notice that he's "Evil".
It's kind of a thing with LE characters: they're smart enough to not _appear_ to be evil.
@@LucidLivingYT by being so lawful he refuses to take orders from his dying commander. i bet that's every LG paladin's wet dream
My favorite line in the session was "Ha! I'm the commander now! I order you to surrender." I already miss our ground commander
Really loved that moment with the whale in the wave when I saw it. That's the kind of stuff I want to work into my DMing more, just moments of pure storytelling that have little or no impact on the "story" of the campaign, but make the players feel like they are part of this living, breathing world.
I was the guy who suggested minions on Twitter. :) I was pumped to see you use them, and then I went and used them in my own session to great effect! Gotta love stolen 4E/13th Age mechanics. :-)
In your experience, do you feel that a spell like Magic Missile make minions worse when mixing 4e and 5e?
@@MrAverusi don't see magic missile making minions worse, magic missile existed in 4e and would do the same thing it does now. Plus the minions have done their job if you use magic missiles on them, they expended a resource from the party. Sure if you use it at first level you've taken down 3 minions, but you are out of a spell slot and that's 3d4+3 damage you didn't do to the boss. And you lose more damage on the boss and stronger spell slots if you up the magic missiles spell level. So I think minions vs magic missile is fine. :)
@@MrAverus I think minions are more about psychology than math. Sure, some strategies are more efficient against them, and others less so, but if they managed to make your players feel outnumbered but not outmatched, they did what they had to do!
Also, you can "tweak" minions on the fly; I use something called "super minions" in my encounter design. I want eight orcs on the battlefield, but I want to send twenty orcs against the party. I'll have the first couple of orcs drop after two hits, and the last orc officially dies when the players deal the 20th blow against them.
I never do this without having a brute to distract the strikers.
I loved the motto that the crew of the rosso cielo chanted before entering the maelstrom
In! Through! Beyond! Matt forgot to mention the best part in the Campaign Diary.
It’s a reference to The Black Hole. :)
Man, that whale moment was wonderful.
I was so scared of it being a giant squid attacking them
Much like your dragonborn accent, I really get a sense of the "orc" when you talk as the Groundcommander.
Oh, the impression I got when the ship's lieutenant piped up about the Rosso Cielo 'also sailing the planes of quintessence' and the crew hushed him, was that he unwittingly said something impossible to try to relate to Judge. It seemed like the people who hushed him knew that the area they would have to 'sail' through is a mountain or whatever, so there was nothing to ask after other than just embarrassing the guy for giggles. Maybe that's the impression the players got...?
Thanks for including the spoiler talk. I think watching and listening to you plan something, predict what you think will happen, and then seeing it carried out is a lot more useful and gives us more insight into your thought process than even a lot of the Running The Game episodes since here we have the complete context. There isn't really a substitute for experience gained at the table and learned through play, but you're doing a pretty good job at providing a close secondary with this type of content.
I wouldn't have thought to ask how Vordakov knew those things either honestly, because it seemed pretty obvious to me: Kenway's agents were fed counterintelligence. The whole Mortum-at-the-Cathedral scenario was baked.
Yeah, a baked TRAP! Matt seems like the storyteller that would execute traps among his NPCs. Why wouldn't a mastermind, who's trying to galvanize control and order over a land, attempt to trap and eliminate his opponents? But his opponents decided to hire mercenaries anticipating such a tactic.
Or something like that.
don't get shorter, we love hearing your thought process
The Chain of Acheron, drawing back a red arrow and letting it fly, the ranger's aim straight and true.
I assume we'll be meeting 3 witches very shortly?
I missed the live stream! I swear it won't happen again! Y'all are killing it.
Love from the Midwest
Thom is getting Gary Mitchelled.
Yeah, my brain gears jolted a little and my tongue slurred out "Hey, that's from an early episode of the original series!"
Didn't catch the cast but even the recap was amazing. Was honestly wondering... "what do you mean they hear a whale, what does that have to do with anything?" fast forward a minute "That was a beautifully profound moment he set up"
That's why we play the game 😀😀
Don't take this the wrong way Matt but I think I enjoy watching you talk about the session in this diaries more than the sessions themselves. This happens to me too with Critical Role incidentally: I like hearing the recaps but watching the full vods or the live show makes it hard for me to follow along. This never is a problem in my own games btw but it is sort of a different dynamic to be playing than to be spectating only.
The experience is the same, here it is just condensed to a more palatable size.
I don't think Matt would take it any way you might call wrong, Matt knew, from last time, that some people respond better to the recaps and others prefer the live stuff.
Concur
And then there's some of us that consume all of it xD
Yeah, I don't get the impression tabletop roleplays are really a spectator sport, so to speak.
I literally just thought to check your TH-cam channel and found this video waiting for me within a minute of being uploaded! Love that you're making so much content again now that the stream is online.
gods, I adored the moment with the whale + judge. I want to draw it SO BAD. I WILL.
*eyes art to-do calendar*
SOME DAY.
did you?
Another great session and recap Matt!
So Far, no TPK, Indeed it was a good episode!
I used minions in my first game , so many goblins. My players were terrified and they loved it. Made for lots of tension but also made the party feel really badass!
Thank you Matt. This livestream has reinvigorated me to start DMing again. I really enjoy all of your videos and seeing the things you talk about implemented in your game is fantastic.
When I was watching the stream VOD it took me a while to realize why you called that episode "Soldier Take Warning". I was expecting there to be a moment the following morning where the sky lit up red as the sun rose......... And then I realized that the Rosso Cielo was the red sky in question. Clever!
Red sky at night, soldier's delight.
every times he says Cielo he pronounces it wrong, it's very frustrating
@@mattmark94 he also uses the wrong order for the adjectives. Using any Latin based language, it should be name and then adjective (i.e. Cielo Rosso).
It's Matt's own idiosyncratic way of world building, I enjoy it regardless.
@@DarkDjim To be fair, in italian we have looser sentence composition, and altough it sounds weird in this particular instance, it is quite common to switch Noun-adjective order for different shades of meaning (E.G: "Vecchio amico" (Friend of old) vs Amico vecchio (A friend who happens to be of old age)). Rosso Cielo sounds a lot like a Pokemon Gym Leader tho.
@@mattmark94 Remember, the ship's name isn't Italian - it's Riojan.
THE CAMPAIGN IS AWESOME!!!!... khm.. now that that is out of the way keep it up, loving the campaign. :D
Love to have these with the actual episodes back to back so after I’m done watching your players play and your DM skills... I can see what is going through your head in these videos and that makes it easier for me to understand the DM roll for a future game that I’ll be running
I loved the way you voiced that character. That was awesome. Moments with that are one of the great reasons i enjoy watching your streams.
I realized why recent videos are a more pleasurable watch than classic 'Matt in Room' videos: the lights. Instead of awkwardly staring at Matt, I can become transfixed by the changing hues in the right corner. It helps me stay focused. Hopefully Matt stays with this style.
I really enjoyed the episode a lot.
Vordikoff was easily my favorite of your NPCs so far. It is great to see compelling characters that don't need the "crutch" of an accent to stand out.
Oh how I've missed consistent campaign diaries, these are awesome! Love the longer runtime on these too, I watch em all but campaign diaries have always been my favorite
"If the data on my returning probe ship matches my computerized calculations, I will travel where no man has dared to go."
"Into the Black Hole?"
IN
THROUGH
*BEYOND*
I was wondering if that was where I knew that line from.
. . . I really liked that movie, a few snags notwithstanding, there was so much good stuff in it. (Maximillian, for instance.)
OMFG! The behind the scenes spoiler is AMAZING and one of the reasons I'm so glad you're doing this. I thoroughly look forward to seeing how it all plays out. Good job team :)
Thanks for the video, Matt! I really like the idea of those direct questions of 'what do strangers notice when they see you' and I feel that's something I have needed in my sessions for a long time. This is a new idea to me and I think it's really creative and clever! I feel like my players will take to it well.
Hey just wanted to say I really appreciate the Campaign Diaries, watching D&D live is too much for me but you do an outstanding job telling the story and condensing it into an entertaining hour. Thanks for all your work!
I like these long, in depth campaign diaries! They are as entertaining as the actual campaign itself and it's interesting hearing the DM's side of things. It also helps me connect things I missed since I typically will have to listen to the show in the background as I am working on other things.
Thanks for making these! I love your content and currently these are the most useful videos on the internet (in my opinion). Congrats on all you've accomplished. You are deserving.
The moment with the whale and Judge was awesome. I learned a lot in that moment about great story-telling. I'm really enjoying noticing and (hopefully) learning from your skills as a writer coming through DMing.
I got actual chills when the crew did their storm call-and-response thing. captain Massingham shouted "IN" and Godesto shouted "THROUGH" and the whole crew responded "BEYOND". Seriously. That part was so fucking cool.
I love the idea of minions as a combat mechanic.
I'm not able to watch it live but even watching it later I love the fact that you include the chat :) I really enjoy watching you DM, seeing how for example you forgot the wild magic roll, but it's not a big deal! It teaches us to not freak out when we don't get everything right ^^ The best thing of the episode (apart from the amazing end) was actually the start, when the orc asked the party to join them. I loved that!
"Club not name! Club job!" *swings club*
"You will find people online that say that the flattened math of 5th edition means you don't have to use minions"
They're wrong. It's the opposite in fact. A 20th level fighter can only be expected to deal about 5 times the damage that a 1st level fighter does, but spread across 4 attacks (so each attack deals ~25% more damage). That's still not enough to kill anything more than a goblin/kobold in a single hit.
And anyways, if something in 5e approximates a minion based on the power level, then using minions will only speed up combat, as players won't bother rolling damage, and you don't have to bother tracking hp.
I was thinking the same thing when this was said. The flattened math only makes lower level creatures an actual threat much later into the game than they used to be. It's the opposite of a good reason to not use minions.
These are great! I can only watch sometimes and forget a lot of things. So to have the campaign diary to refresh memory before the next episode helps
You are amazing! I can't wait to see how this goes!
I cannot wait to see where this campaign goes.
Keep up the awesome work and have fun, friends!
Nothing more for me to say but thank you for all the work and effort you've done. Also hoo yah to your navy fam, im 10 years into my career in the navy.
This is so cool... love when the DM include the PCs in the story to make the PC something bigger/grander influence then expected!
I'm so glad you're doing campaign diaries still. I know lots of people love watching live DnD, but i've never been a huge fan and this is a great way to keep up with your game :D
I found great insight from 15:45 - 16:00 It's a refreshing take on flexing the creative muscles: tailor the known spells to suit your level of challenge, then figure out who that creature would be within the game's world. What kind of orc shaman prefers Hypnotic Pattern and Hold Person? Probably one working for a military officer tasked with capturing the party. An Azorius Orc Lawspeaker. Maybe a fungus-eating loony spirit singer (aka Dokk Dead Heddin). Good stuff, these campaign diaries make good advertising to come watch the actual campaign.
Suuuuper glad I watch both the game and the campaign diaries
Loving this. Please keep them coming!
To the point near the end about not being sure if other DMs online have let the viewers in on the secret stuff before, I've seen it done a lot by a streamer. Not all the secrets are out in the open, but he does a lot of his GM prep on public streams, and on about half of his shows the stream is done from his roll20 window so chat knows what's about to happen before the players do very often. I find it pretty compelling as a viewer, and haven't noticed it backfiring.
Not your fault, but this suggestion did not age well :-( I never heard of him before and now I wish I never had 🤦♂️
@@PhilBoswell ooohg yeah damn. I'm... gonna make an edit.
I love those campaign diaries. They contain almost as much tips and insight on being a DM as the "running the game" video. That is, if you're paying attention and willing to process and sort all the information contained in the video.
In Regime Diabolique (a Ubiquity system), the PC's minions are run by other PC's. Kind of cool. Loving your recaps! Love the idea of audience participation!
Thumbs up to the whole thing and all the parts!
I love matt’s roleplay, it’s super immersive. I (since deciding to commit to in-character voices despite my lack of skill in this area) often talk nonsense while walking the dog in voices of upcoming characters. Wandered around my town growling like the big bad dragon I have planned for the end of my campaign the other night. It really adds to your confidence, which is all you really need to carry off voices in the end.
It was a nice adventure on the ship - you remind me of my old DM, who'd give players little hidden side quests that would pit them against the rest of the party for drama. It takes a devious mind... We had some epic cinematic showdowns, though - and I think the situation with Nails should deliver :)
The whale interaction actually inspired me to add a new piece to my current character's backstory.
Never stop Matt, we love your vids!
I love these detailed synopsis videos!
OOOOOOO THAT IS THE SINGLE MOST AWESOME IDEA I HAVE SEEN FOR A D&D, Matt you are A S++ ++ ++ Creator and salutes for Tom being an awesome New player!!!
The Idea at the end is super dope and I am looking forward to it.
Oh I'm watching this tho i already saw the stream, but i love seeing matt's point of view on the session :)
The seer is a pinball wizard.
Even tho I watch the stream live, it still nice watching the campaign diary to get your perspective on how the session went. :)
Hello there
I didn't think I'd have a reason to watch these afterthoughts of the sessions, since I don't even watch the campaign
But for some reason, it's good to listen to these, gives a lot of ideas and are perfect to do so for when doing something
I'm feeling like I'm missing a lot in not watching the sessions. For now though, I'm considering it
Also, that whale part you was chilling to hear, incredible!
As a DM who runs weekly and watches your campaign, I find these videos super helpful. Especially when you talked about the commander warbreed and his motivations.
Can't wait to hear Matt's thoughts on episode two!
Magic missiles, the anti-minion machine gun.
even though I have watched the session twice now, I am struck by the notion that neither I nor the players asked about Hrathi's pinball acumen.
I almost love these more than the games themselves, because we get the DM tips along the way!
I watch the campaign diaries three times a year. It's so cool
That bit at the end there was so neat. Can’t wait to see what happens...
These are awesome
I'm trying to be more cinematic with my characters like you do in your games.
i enjoy both this campaign diary and the VOD itself
What a wonderful episode
Enjoying the campaign so far. Both as entertainment and as a DM picking up tidbits.
Silver eyes and godlike power. Nice nod to "Where No Man Has Gone Before". I tip my hat to you, sir.
I'm a sucker for one liners and memorable phrases in my fiction, so I really enjoyed almost rallying cry of " In. Through. BEYOND!" from the ships crew. Makes the crew a little more interesting on my mind. Hope there's more to come
Holy shit, that idea is so cool and appropriate for a Wild Magic Sorcerer. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
One of my characters is afflicted with vampyrism (with custom traits) and I'm so glad I watched this vid. I've already made sure there's an end result of the affliction, but now I'm going to actively think of solutions and other possible outcomes
I love the inside look at the end. No spoilers but it sounds awesome and I can't wait.
Great game and post-mortum.
Tom has an encounter power, minions all over - fourth edition was awesome and totally worth stealing from as much as possible. Loving the game Matt!
this is that episode of startrek! I knew that this is what it was going to be as soon as i heard nails woke up with silver eyes during the session! :)
This, especially the ending, was amazing.
LAWFUL-evil and lawful-EVIL just cracked me up so much.
Gah damn, thats fuckin dope, Matt. I cant wait to see what happens.
Does anyone else hear Chris Perkins in Matt's Vordikov voice?
Not so much Perkins' actual voice, but he sounds like a Perkins NPC.
Non-Perkins Character
And now i finally understand the list of "deaf, dumb and blind" that describes the Pinnball Wizard... (39:31)
The whale thing also happened to Garion on his trip to Cherek in the Belgaraid. Always thought it was cool.
Having "missed" 4th edition, I really feel like I missed out. So many cool ideas come from that system
Tried it as a player, did not like it one bit.
But some DM stuff does seem very cool, like minions and skill challenges. Easily transferred, luckily.
If 4e was released as a stand-alone fantasy RPG, it would have been hailed as a "new classic" of the genre.
Calling it D&D while removing certain "legacy features" (saving throws, differing class mechanics etc.) seems to have been it's downfall. It's really quite odd that 3e could make objectively greater fundamental changes to the game (via the introduction of the d20 system) and be welcomed with open arms, while 4e could make changes that _seemed_ to be either minor (ie. replacing saving throws with passive defences) or widely called for (ie. giving Martial characters "powers" of similar scale as other types of characters).
IMHO, most of the more sweeping criticisms made of 4e (like, "They've removed the roleplay!" and, "They've turned it into an MMO!") were outright falsehoods spouted in order to avoid admitting just how minor the things that made it feel like "not D&D" really were.
@@nickwilliams8302 There are definitely problems within 4e. Especially in that it made your characters far more generic.
@@Gokuderakun
Except it actually didn't. If anything, it _increased_ a player's ability to customise their character.
What it _did_ do was give every class a balanced set of abilities. A 6th-level PC would have two at-will powers, two encounter powers, two daily powers and two utility powers.
This resulted in the classes _feeling_ very "samey" despite all the variety actually on offer. There wasn't that _thing_ a particular class could do that made it stand apart from the others.
@@nickwilliams8302 I think the whole "4E removed roleplaying" is mainly a failure of people to articulate themselves properly. What 4E actually did was to emphasize the tactical combat portion of the game and compared to 3E it was more gamey and less simulationist. The issue was probably people who liked roleplaying, but didn't like tactical combat nearly as much finding themselves playing a game in which tactical combat was even more highly prominent than in other editions of D&D.
I love watching the game, then watching Matt’s view of it.
The thing with Nails is UNBELIEVABLY cool! I literally gasped
I love how your mouth is open i all of your thumbnails. Keeps me occupied for a moment.
Phandelver!
Hey Matt, I was searching something for phandelver in google and wrote "Phandelvers" and google translated it from Hindi to spanish (Phandelvers = Arañas = Spiders) (I'm chilean). I just wanted to tell you because in one of your videos you mentioned that it was a weird name... well it is from there. I didn't know so I wanted to share it.
Thanks for your videos. Have a nice day.