December Q&A!
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Shut Up & Sit Down!
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Rick Beato
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The first half of this is good content, including channel recommendations. But for folx who just want the Q&A:
18:41 - The Monthly Q&A
19:00 - Do you have any goals for 2019?
20:00 - How would you help a PC become a neutral/good aligned lich?
20:57 - What criticism about S&F has impacted your approach to future products?
22:18 - Will you ever play 4e on the stream?
23:24 - How many books long will Ratcatchers be?
24:29 - Will you incorporate elements of 4e into the stream?
24:28 - Do you think there was value in 2e restrictions on race/class combos?
26:22 - How do you feel about Wheel of Time?
26:55 - What was your favourite weird Christmas gift?
28:30 - What would be the best part of having an extra arm and hand?
28:46 - Should I start reading Dune?
31:06 - What do you do to get past writer's block?
32:30 - Are you still planning on making more history videos?
33:24 - Do you ever think you'll mass produce S&F minis?
Thanks m8
Comments like these are a service to mankind.
"31:06 - What do you do to get past writer's block?" section my be the best creative advice anybody could get. Writing, DMing, whatever.
A "table of contents" timeline like this is AMAZING (apparently Matt's favorite adjective :) ) It would be great to see for all his video's, especially Q&A's. Thanks for doing this
Be suspicious of a dude who refers to women as "females" but in my defense I was trying to conjugate "feminine" and "femininity" to make sure the line scanned.
Female. :-P
Yeah when guys say "female" it just sounds so alien and detached.
Me and my ex partner when we'd hate-read stuff with women referred to as 'females,' we'd always read it in a Ferengi voice because it reminded us so much of Quark.
In my experience, guys like that don't just call them 'females'. They call them 'feeee-males', presumably because they want you to notice their choice of language.
I refer to other people as "Humans", but mostly when I am talking to my cats and raccoons. As in, "hey, be careful around those Humans, they might be sketchy."
"...just because I'm old..." That's no way to talk for an immortal. You've got a long way to go before you're old, young man.
"...I may just start doing world building streams, especially over the next week while I am on break..."
Keyword: Break.
Go to the beach Matt. You deserve it. :)
@trequor Nonsense! Perfect place to make snowangels :-)
trequor Come to the Southern Hemisphere! Plenty of sun down here in December haha
Yeah. And the money is cheap. If coming to Brazil, I strongly suggest Fernando de Noronha
Going to the beach in December, signs you’re either from SoCal or Florida
Sorry to bring up an outside topic Lord Coleville, however way too excited not to say this. I finally started reading Strongholds & Followers rather than just being meserized by the artwork...... anyway I realized I was reading it in your voice, and it fit perfectly. I burst out laughing, and frightened the dog. 🤣
While painting a lot of minis today, I’ve been listening to various Colville vids, then whamo! new content, how cool! I’m thinking that, though the content is always solid and the production values are great, what really sets Matt apart is he really has our backs, and always acts as a friend to us, even though he doesn’t know us individually. He really is a river to his people!
Oh my lord. Matt, I watch your videos for many reasons. You introduced me to my now favorite hobby. You helped me DM for my family and friends. You gave me two amazing novels, with a level of anticipation for the sequels that I haven't felt since I picked up Game of Thrones, or before that, Harry Potter. You reintroduced me to modular synthesis, my love for writing and reading, and my deep love of music. You showed me what Nethack was ,and that sticks out as a major accomplishment on your part. No one of my age would have ever heard of it if it weren't for you. From the Playing the Game videos to your analysis of 2001 I have enjoyed every second of your content.
There are several reason I watch your videos, but this. This one right here. It is nearly everything I want from you. The Main Squeeze is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing everything you do, and I can't wait for what's next.
Yay, more campaign diaries! I’ve learned a ton from your running the campaign series but I also have learned a lot from your diaries. And they’re so entertaining!! Great stories! Just started getting into the world building vids (thanks for spending the time to edit them down). I’ve been building a new world for several weeks and think these will help me cover some things I haven’t covered. Thank you for being a river!
Oh, shout out to Shut Up and Sit Down. I started watching them way back, I think 2012? Got me into some very interesting board games. Made me enviously want to participate in a GD Mega-Game. I've slacked off on watching them recently, maybe because I can't responsibly afford any more board games lately and I've gotten back into regularly playing D&D so I do that when I might otherwise play a board game. But still fantastic videos and reviews.
Oh my god, my lord Matthew is a follower of our lady Natalie *swoon*
Excuse me, that's our *majesty* Natalie.
Should we start shipping Matt with Nat and Olly?
Your channel is freaking awesome. It enriches TH-cam and it's the kind of content people should strive to create. Thanks so much! I play your videos while I'm working on work projects in the wee hours of the morning. Helps me get my bearings straight.
So excited to hear that you’re doing more videos! These are some of my favorites on all of TH-cam!
Lovely Q&A and you know I love it when you share stuff with us that isn't strictly D&D related. It is funny how half those channel I knew about already though (seriously, The Main Squeeze is fucking dope) but I'm definitely checking out the others RIGHT NOW. Keep up the great work Matt and Co.
Two points; one - I instantly respect anybody a little more when they say they love Contrapoints.
two - hot DAMN that link to The Main Squeeze is an experience and a half!! Thanks for sharing that, I'll be checking out more of their stuff for sure, it's incredible.
The reason you're having trouble floating the magnet is you're treating it like a small moon. Obviously that's no moon. It's a space station.
Been watching your old Running the Game episodes and am loving it. I have run D&D since the mid 80's and you touch on a lot of things I have talked to new players and DMs about over the years. Subscribed and will be directing some friends who are dipping their toes into running games to your videos.
I'm running my first 5e D&D game the second week of Jan. with some of my co-workers. Your World building streams are ridiculously useful.
Thank you Matt for S&F!
I knew it was for 5th edition, but I've decided to buy it anyway. You have amazing advice to share with us so I wanted to support you. By reading the book, I was surprised how easy I could modify the content to fit the edition we are still playing. It really means something for me and my friends, who really love 4th edition, to hear you saying it was great, despite all the negativity it got.
Started watching that Rick Beato video... totally diving deep into that rabbit hole! Thanks!
You often give me plenty of food for thought in your videos but this time I really have to thank you particularly for the pointer to Contrapoints. Discovering her channel is like falling into a whirlpool of intellectual honey. I have never come across anything quite like this before. It's quite addictive!
I REALLY enjoy the world building streams. Please don't get discouraged by the views and quit doing them. They're incredibly helpful and inspiring. I didn't realize what you meant by central tension until I watched the world building videos. They always give me ideas and help me with the world i'm building for my DnD campaign. I've put conflict between the noble houses and the rising guilds in a city in my world as well and the idea of the dead lady has inspired an antagonist for later on in my game. My game wouldn't be as good without you. Thanks a million
You have increased my respect for you tenfold Mr. Colville. From your twitter I've learned how much you despise the Wheel of Time series, but the acknowledgement you made in this video that that sort of negativity isn't what you want to have or what we need to have here on your TH-cam channel was very respectful and separates you from many other content creators on this platform. Thank you very much for your poise and candor.
P.S, running the Sildarian Ruins was my first ever actual playing of D&D and I now have over a dozen games both run and played under my belt. Thank you very much for giving me the confidence to be able to do that.
The recommendations for other channels is hilarious to me because I was already following half of them! :D Rick Beato and Shut up and sit down specifically I enjoy
Great stuff, Matt! Looking forward to that One-on-one video. I ran a 1o1 game for a while with a friend when all other party-RSVP's ended up not playing with us. We still wanted a combat centric game though, so he was, in the Pathfinder RPG, mythic tristalt, my bullshit triple gestalt alternate-alternate rule. That game was funky for the 5 or so sessions it lasted!
He played a Paladin//Oracle//Warlord [Path of War, DSP], and with all the XP for himself, he reached 3rd level quite quickly!
Whoo, that is a lot of stuff in 2019. Good luck Matt. I hope it all goes really well and I look forward to the stream.
The video drought is over and we are showered with a bountiful harvest sowed by the seeds of the Kickstarter!
Happy Christmas Matt, looking forward to next year, still looking through your back catalogue, I love your style, content and advice , cannot wait to see your games streams .
I'm so excited for campaign diaries! I was sad when you stopped those a couple years back. Thanks for what you do!
Just got done with a massive SU&SD binge. I've never nodded along so much, they're the Top Gear of board games.
Thanks for answering my question about writers block, Matt! I've been struggling with fleshing out my home brew campaign in a few different areas and haven't really known where to go or what to do. Though, it just so happens I've been influenced by some games I've been playing lately and have some more road to go on. Your advice of consuming content is absolutely sound, and this helped me realize!
what a cool crossover on your channel to have dungeons & dragons and content about music. I'm a musician too and as soon as you started talking about it, I couldn't wait to tell you about one of my very favorite channels: Rick Beato. but of course you already knew about him because he is totally awesome! However you didn't mention one of my other favorite music channels which is Polyphonic. I hope you try it out and enjoy it.
Here we come 2019! Cant wait to see how the next year goes! I am more excited to watch the live stream here than I was for campaign 2 of Critical Role!
10:50 "They played this game!" *Points to empty corner of screen*
Me: Is a link gonna pop up? Or ....
Brain: *DING!*
Me: Ooooohhhhh he's pointing to the background!
Man. It's so refreshing to watch someone talk about something he loves.
Yay campaign diaries! I watch nearly all your content, and enjoy nearly all of it. When you said you'd be continuing a campaign diary I nearly yelled in my break room. I don't have time to sit and watch streams even though I enjoy them.
Now people gonna start eating their Cats in nethack for nothing. Poor Cats
If you don't, your cat will eventually polymorph into a greater demon and eat you.
I love the D&D stuff, but I like that you have a bit of variety. I like getting someone else's take on things that I enjoy. I love the streams you do on twitch, keep doing what you're doing.
About 2 years ago, we got back into MERP. I am using so much of the material in your TH-cam videos as catalyst material for the campaign I am writing! Thank you!
You are actually right. The Capital creation streams are great for general ideas. Event though I run a much lower fantasy setting than you do, I still steal some of your good ideas from there.
YES! Shut Up & Sit Down is great! I just recently found them out and I happily encourage people to subscribe too!
I also had heard before about ContraPoints, but not in so much detail. Gonna go give their videos a try.
Thanks for the answer/non-answer anyway Matt! And I completely understand the whole bit about "Mean spirited" and I appreciate it.
It's funny you mention the Main Squeeze. I found them recently too and love that same cover! They really nail the feeling of the song while doing their own thing.
Holy hell Matt, a Q&A in December, IN DECEMBER! Good work!
I would be so happy to see a Dr. Jackson Crawford interview! I found his channel from yours and now have watched dozens of his videos!!! It's so cool and not to mention I've used his videos as a resource for modelling some of my own worldbuilding, which I also use for D&D! It all comes full circle.
Shut Up and Sit Down is great, if you watch their videos you can see how their style and videos evolves over time. Also they just seem like lovely men.
Looking forward to the Dune dive! Will it just be the original six or will you look at the new stuff as well?
natalie is a genius
YES! Congrats on 250K Matt. You and the whole gang deserve it.
I don't watch the Worldbuilding streams because i don't want any spoilers for the campaign.
I'm so excited!!!
Holy smokes, 'Have a Cigar' is my favorite PF song and their version was amazing. You were not kidding about that guitar solo either. I watched the entire thing a few times in a row, hehe.
Holy shit, Modular Synths? Fucking awesome!! :D
I actually can't wait to see that video, and I **REALLY** wanna hear your music!
Hell yeah! Rick Beato and Matt Colville all in one! Dreams do come true. Now all you gotta do is get Rick and Dr. Cowboy Viking to join you for a livestream.
Something Matt can't figure out?! This may be a New Years video but,really, its a Christmas gift! ;o) Happy New Year, Matt!
Hi Matt, I found really interesting what you said about approaching a book, a piece of art.
I'm actually trying to develop a way of looking at art as a relation between an artistic object and every singular spectator of it.
Every piece of art has to be confronted with our way of looking at it in order for us to actually consider it art. Art only exist in our eye, but our eye is always changing. I'm now considering art something that I didn't 1 year ago.
Dune, that I didn't read, might be a good exemple about this.
You might try to read Dune and don't like it because it doesn't speak to your “self”. It is not that your way of reading is wrong, but there's simply nothing interesting that sparks in the relation between you and the book.
Accepting the necessity to “Come to its own terms” doesn't actually change the situation. What is different is your “self” once you incorporate this notion.
We can't really come to its own terms, cause we'll always be ourselves, what we can do is modulate our way of reading it in order to concentrate on different parameters instead of those to whom we were used to.
Like every other relationship, we can't be exactly what the other wants us to be, but we can meet in the middle. The book itself has to do the same, and accept that we'll build our relationship with him on details that we are the ones to choose. For someone it will be the dialogues, someone else the rhythm, someone else the descriptions, someone else the language used.
I know that my way of thinking and explaining is still a little caothic (and that my english is not good enough for this kind of endavour. I'm actually an italian thinking in french and trying to write in english..), but is there something interesting, in your opinion, about this idea of art as relationship?
You're old, but a child at heart Matt, that's the important bit. Your rant on SU&SD was a perfect example of your excitement getting the better of you. :)
Sound is top notch in this video - you nail it!
Omg, did Matt just reference Lindsay Ellis? This is too wonderful :3
I really appreciate that you don't bash things you don't like on here. Not often people stick to the message of their project like you are.
Firstly Id love to see a 4e game. Its may fav edition.
Secondly Iv just been thinking about running a fresh 4e game, but thought 'Man, Iv just got S&F, maybe I should run a 5e game so I can use it...' so Matt saying its basically a 4e book gives me warm fuzzy feelings.
Wheel of Time > Dune. Change my mind. :) Congratulations on 250k followers! Keep up the stellar work! Love the channel.
The question of "where does power come from" is such an interesting one and is the biggest strength of Tyranny. It's why I love that game.
Great, beloved Colville! I was surprised by the love you show 4e in this video. I recently watched the "5e roundtable" video from RollPlay (just over a year old, with Mercer, Mearls, Koebel and you). In that video you say (lightly paraphrased) "you abandoned 4th edition because it didn't support the kind of game you wanted to run". And here you are saying you'd love to go back to 4e, that you loved to run it, etc. Are you more interested in the "4e kind of game" now, than you were back in the day when you ran it; or is there some other interesting explanation behind this?
I stopped before I got to the Q&A to check out a couple of the suggested channels and have to say OH MY GODDDDDDD The Main Squeeze guitarist melted face!!!!!!!!
I tried reading Dune a couple times and just couldn't understand the hype. Finally, with nothing else to listen too, I picked it up on Audible and listened to it while I did other things and was finally able to see the light. I love it now!
Man, I just Bought Strongholds and Followers, and I really enjoy it, though there is a bit of annoyance with it..... I cannot stop reading it in your voice in my head :D It's soooo weird! Anyways, great work with the books and videos, love am and will keep getting them!!! I write it as a fellow middle class white dude who regularly runs D&D games since 1994 ;) Take Care !
MATT! I love your content, happy New Year. I'm running a one on one campaign soon and I need all the help I can get! I would love to see that video as soon as possible!
Thanks, Jai.
Matt Colville and contrapoints collaboration please please please!!!!!! I love this so much Matt thank you so much for making the end of my year!!!
I think it's great that you mentioned why you don't want to review board games while making them (same with reviewing modern day products) but I think one of the main things that the general public always brings up is "well if you're constantly reviewing them why don't you try making one!". I think it's great that you have the reverse going on, but I truthfully would not mind your opinion on some modern products. This is just one guy's opinion of course, but if your criticism over something like Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica or Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron, which are definitely products a little different than our usual (crossbrand/digital WIP). Or even 3rd party products like the various settings and monster books. I think you have such a good, persistent tone that even if you're biased, as long as your consistent, people will appreciate what you have to say and take it in earnest.
Diggin' these monthly Q&A's.
I also have been getting into modular synthesis and it seems like we have similar musical interests in Nick Drake. Awesome video.
This might be one of the best thumbnails I have seen of Matt yet.
I have to say, in my opinion, if you were to release minis (which i think is cool btw) if you kept UK & EU in mind distribution-wise you would have great success. All we have over here is Reaper Bones, which is ok, but all the GF9 & Wizkids line of minis (many of which *seem* very good) are all like hens' teeth over here - or sold for scalping prices on ebay.
Just some trivia i thought i should share. Keep up the good work and can't wait for more content! Game on!
Oh shit, really looking forward to that Dune video! I will always be grateful to the guy who got me to read it in high school.
I'm not that much of a grognard, but I remember dark days. Seeing one of the biggest names in D&D give a glowing recommendation of Contrapoints is extremely heartening.
@Obsid2h: Agreed!
Rick Beato's channel is great. Incredibly knowledgeable man on the subject of music.
The December Q&A is in December Matt you're on a roll
Firstly, thank you for your content and insights, sir. Secondly, I wanted to ask you about flying PC's in your game. There seem to be very few resources for handling flying PC's in a positive way, but a preponderance of dm's on forums asking how to stop flyers ruining their games. I was hoping you might be able to reframe the situation so that flying is seen as a boon rather than a game breaker.
I found SU&SD just about two days before this video funnily enough.
Fire upon the deep is sooooo good, I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Though why I'm happy that a man I've never met before has enjoyed a book I didn't write i'm not sure, but i'm glad none the less. :)
Keep up the good work, sir. We appreciate it.
I've loved SU&SD for about a month now, and I'm similarly digging through their back catalog and have a shopping list a mile long because of them!
ooh yeah and contrapoints as well!
Have a Cigar is an AMAZING Floyd song! Thanks for sharing!
Clearly Matt can shake hands with everyone at a con and not get sick because he's taken his 3rd level in Paladin and has become immune to disease (including Mummy Rot).
Have a good new year, Matt; this train just keeps picking up steam.
Also as a side note I think the way to make humans more played is to make humans better and not put restrictions or limitations on elves and dwarves and whatnot; maybe make it so they can just take a 1st level class feature from a class they don't have with no downsides; play a barbarian with the paladin's smite for example.
Just finished Priest, feel like I need some time to process that ending but damn good book man, Damn good.
That was the best Pink Floyd cover I've ever heard. That guitar gave me a sustained multiple eargasm.
Speaking of dune, I just checked it out of my local library off your reccomendation! Thanks man!
Loved priest also, by the way!
Whaaaaaaat! Wheel of Time is fantastic. Well...I only really came to that conclusion when I realized how much I actually gave a shit about the characters. Their habits and way they were written often annoyed me or I was like "oh come on". But i never directed that at the book only the characters. So to make me actually feel that way about the characters, like I feel about real people and their habits, is super impressive and I came to really love the books.
Hey Matt, thanks for everything. Happy Holidays.
I think Matt had a not so small part in the continuing resurgance of dnd
Only reason Im a DM is because of him
I'm all in for the Matt Colville podcast, lol.
glad to hear about the upcoming Dune video!
Rick Beato is a genius. Thanks for introducing me to him.
So glad to see all the Contrapoints love here :D
Plot twist, Matt wakes up with a cold tomorrow
Tyler Reed tempting the fates never works out for anybody.
Matt, somehow we have been watching the same stuff. I watched the entire What Makes This Song Great series in a few days about a month ago and am in the middle of digesting the Main Squeeze’s catalog. Absolutely fantastic stuff.
Shut up and Sit down are great people! Thanks for the shout out!
Yay! I asked the question that he's going to make a video on! Ahhh! That's so awesome! I was legit sad that he didn't answer me and now all I have to do is wait!
personal thank you :) Its an awesome question I didn't even know I wanted him to answer
Yes!! Another video. Keep up the great work!
Edit - Yes, I love shut up and sit down.
I think that your forgetting that we would just carry an extra hand of groceries and still not have enough hands to open the door.
Matt Colville + Jackson Crawford = MIND B L O W N
Guess I have to buy your book now, because I want so much for this to happen.
I think I once read a blog or something on the WotC website back in the 3.5e days addressing what a good aligned lich would be. Basically, they decided that a creature might be granted 'eternal' life by a god if they swore to uphold some oath for the whole time. Sort of an 'as un-selfish as you get, but still resulting in immortality' sort of thing.
Contra Points shoutout!!! Yay!