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So, watched the third video. I've been spacing these out because, even though they are only @ 10minutes a piece, I do feel appreciable SAN loss from these viewings.
In this one he goes full Tom Hanks.
Notable quotes:
"I'm here to call you to a higher state of being"
"You have to understand what Dungeons & Dragons is. If you think Dungeons & Dragons is a game - get out! You ain't here, you're not on the list, alright? You are not being quested, alright? I am interested in doing this, and I am doing the run-up to my first OSR gamemaster rescue, because I believe Dungeons & Dragons is a Life Path. I don't believe for one second that Dungeons & Dragons is a game. Dungeons & Dragons has utterly transformed my life."
"I know that when Fizzband's uh Treasury of Dragons hits the shelves man I'm gonna...you know there's so many moments right? I'm gonna go up and I'm just gonna hold it in my hands, I'm gonna look at it right. you know, and I'm gonna resist rubbing it on my face in the FLGS"
"So if you are where I am and you are changed in spirit, mind. and heart - if your life has been transformed by Dungeons & Dragons and it is painful for you to think that there are dungeon masters who can...who are perfectly positioned, perfectly capable, perfectly...you know, um, "resourced" to bring dozens or hundreds or thousands of new people into that transformation, then we need to pull them off of these sucky, myopic, y'know, combat-focused games and bring them into the Real World where their talents can really matter and really shine. Then you are a candidate, If you dungeoned...5e dungeon master for three years. You know you're good at it. Your life has been transformed by Dungeons and Dragons. If those three things are true of you, you are a candidate to be a quested champion to go pull these OSR game masters out of the desiccated shriveled wasteland they live in and bring them into the light! Bring them into the glade where things are growing and things matter, and where it's rich black fertile soil ready to sprout a thousand transformed lives"
Well... a lot of games do stop when that happens. It's more of a bitchfest about "WHY'D YOU KILL MY CHARACTER, YOU MONSTER!" than a memorial, but I guess it could be taken that way.His latest impassioned plea, as to why any good DM should stop the game immediately whenever a player character dies, and devote the rest of the game session to a memorial/reminiscence of that character, has really turned me around on how I plan to run Call of Cthulhu games in the future.
FATE Eye For The Trad GuyI just wish we could rescue all the people playing those outdated, obsolete, and culturally irrelevant traditional RPGs and get them all to play FATE.
He's polygamerousWell that was a loss of d% SAN points. I keep wondering how he fell in love with D&D back in 1980 - it wasn't 5th ed then so how by his logic can that work?
I'd guess that he fell in love with AD&D 1st edition or Basic DnD and just said it badly and was a fan from that point onward. Or did he actually say 5ed DnD in the video? I watched the 1st and 2nd video and then cut myself off because I just couldn't listen to him anymore and I don't recall him saying it but again after a while your mind starts to go into a state of fugue at what's coming out of his mouth. lol.Well that was a loss of d% SAN points. I keep wondering how he fell in love with D&D back in 1980 - it wasn't 5th ed then so how by his logic can that work?
Oh, god, I am going to annoy the players in my Paranoia game SO much with this idea.His latest impassioned plea, as to why any good DM should stop the game immediately whenever a player character dies, and devote the rest of the game session to a memorial/reminiscence of that character, has really turned me around on how I plan to run Call of Cthulhu games in the future.
Let us know how that went...and how long before the first eulogy consisting of "he made good cannon fodder"!Oh, god, I am going to annoy the players in my Paranoia game SO much with this idea.
I'm going to make them give a eulogy every time a clone dies, without repeating any previous points from eulogies.
Thanks random YouTube guy!
So, watched the third video. I've been spacing these out because, even though they are only @ 10minutes a piece, I do feel appreciable SAN loss from these viewings.
In this one he goes full Tom Hanks.
Notable quotes:
"I'm here to call you to a higher state of being"
"You have to understand what Dungeons & Dragons is. If you think Dungeons & Dragons is a game - get out! You ain't here, you're not on the list, alright? You are not being quested, alright? I am interested in doing this, and I am doing the run-up to my first OSR gamemaster rescue, because I believe Dungeons & Dragons is a Life Path. I don't believe for one second that Dungeons & Dragons is a game. Dungeons & Dragons has utterly transformed my life."
"I know that when Fizzband's uh Treasury of Dragons hits the shelves man I'm gonna...you know there's so many moments right? I'm gonna go up and I'm just gonna hold it in my hands, I'm gonna look at it right. you know, and I'm gonna resist rubbing it on my face in the FLGS"
"So if you are where I am and you are changed in spirit, mind. and heart - if your life has been transformed by Dungeons & Dragons and it is painful for you to think that there are dungeon masters who can...who are perfectly positioned, perfectly capable, perfectly...you know, um, "resourced" to bring dozens or hundreds or thousands of new people into that transformation, then we need to pull them off of these sucky, myopic, y'know, combat-focused games and bring them into the Real World where their talents can really matter and really shine. Then you are a candidate, If you dungeoned...5e dungeon master for three years. You know you're good at it. Your life has been transformed by Dungeons and Dragons. If those three things are true of you, you are a candidate to be a quested champion to go pull these OSR game masters out of the desiccated shriveled wasteland they live in and bring them into the light! Bring them into the glade where things are growing and things matter, and where it's rich black fertile soil ready to sprout a thousand transformed lives"
Yeah, my thoughts exactly!Are we talking the same game?
Yeah, that too - except I've studied on D&D history as a general part of studying the history of the hobby (and because of discussions with Chirine ba Kal and Old Geezer/Gronan, and because I feel the OSR has some good ideas about Refereeing, it's just the general "core ruleset" that sucks).I need all of those things, but despite that failing I shall continue to stand as a game-master of my BRP-powered medieval fantasy game. When I was in high school the first edition of Chivalry and Sorcery appeared in a local store and from that point forward, I didn't care a fig for D&D, its history, its company or any of the rest of it.
If this clown showed up at my table waving a 5th edition DMG and talking about rescue, I would set the dog on him. I don't happen to have a dog at the moment, but I would definitely go borrow one for the occasion.
That's a quick slide into the Dark Side!A new video dropped, but unfortunately he's started including politics in his rants, meaning he's now just the same as all those hundreds of thousands of other car rant videos on Youtube. So...there goes my interest.
I guess you're going to run Mythras for the other 49-% slot, but what takes the other 2+%? Delta Green? Faserip?His latest impassioned plea, as to why any good DM should stop the game immediately whenever a player character dies, and devote the rest of the game session to a memorial/reminiscence of that character, has really turned me around on how I plan to run Call of Cthulhu games in the future.
That is, if I can still bear to play Call of Cthulhu, (only up to 49%, OF COURSE) since there's no Power Acquisition or Cultural Impact from running that game.
Cut the guy some slack*, people! It's entirely possible he was faithful to the brand and not the rules, is it not?I'd guess that he fell in love with AD&D 1st edition or Basic DnD and just said it badly and was a fan from that point onward. Or did he actually say 5ed DnD in the video? I watched the 1st and 2nd video and then cut myself off because I just couldn't listen to him anymore and I don't recall him saying it but again after a while your mind starts to go into a state of fugue at what's coming out of his mouth. lol.
I guess you're going to run Mythras for the other 49-% slot, but what takes the other 2+%? Delta Green? Faserip?
I think you’re on to something here. It’s the only way to explain this obsession.I'd guess that he fell in love with AD&D 1st edition or Basic DnD and just said it badly and was a fan from that point onward. Or did he actually say 5ed DnD in the video?
Well at least in my fantasy games, and being in my personal life a avid reader of things ancient Eyptian, death is just the beginning. The dead character, if not revived quickly, then needs to navigate the after life. (I'm pretty kind about access to..not free by nay means..raise dead magic if one has not pissed off everyone).His latest impassioned plea, as to why any good DM should stop the game immediately whenever a player character dies, and devote the rest of the game session to a memorial/reminiscence of that character, has really turned me around on how I plan to run Call of Cthulhu games in the future.
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Man once you have had mimeograph, no other smell will do. Been jonesing since 1979You resisted?
Edit: Greater love has no one than this: to rub one's face in a game book in the FLGS.
Yeah looking at the most recent video where he says Dungeons and Dragons starting in 1974 looked set to "knock down intellectual limitations" and other hyperbolic stuff, it seems like he really sees it in a pseudo-religious manner. But if you look at the comments on some of the videos he's not the only one, I wonder is this part of some sphere online you've just punctured the surface of.
Yeah looking at the most recent video where he says Dungeons and Dragons starting in 1974 looked set to "knock down intellectual limitations" and other hyperbolic stuff, it seems like he really sees it in a pseudo-religious manner. But if you look at the comments on some of the videos he's not the only one, I wonder is this part of some sphere online you've just punctured the surface of.
The last I checked out of curiosity it was back online but it’s a diminished form now with its most well known member in self-imposed exile.Is the Gaming Den still a thing? I recall we used to get some really weird fellows from there dropping by the Site back in the day that had some...unique...views on D&D
The last I checked out of curiosity it was back online but it’s a diminished form now with its most well known member in self-imposed exile.
It is still there but not as active (just saw Endless above say the same thing). The videos have some specific slang that the people in the comments recognise but I don't, which makes me think it's all part of some "conversation" online that we're only seeing a part of...Is the Gaming Den still a thing? I recall we used to get some really weird fellows from there dropping by the Site back in the day that had some...unique...views on D&D
...and something like this seems to be it, i.e. having D&D taken seriously, but I'm only guessing at it.I remember back in the 90's, in the comicbook community, there was always this one group who were obsessed with comicbooks being accepted by society as a "legitimate art form"
Trollman.who was it's most well-known member?
Yes. Yes, it does.Frank Trollman? Ah, OK, that explains a lot
...and something like this seems to be it, i.e. having D&D taken seriously, but I'm only guessing at it.
Yeah agreed. Just an example of this sort of stuff:Yeah, I don't like speculating too much about the mental status of people just based on their online presence. Ultimately, this guy ha a steady job and owns his own home (more than I can say), so whatever else is a functioning adult, which is really all that matters regardless of how his rants come across. I've long since discounted the idea of "normalcy" as largely an invention of television sitcoms.
Yeah looking at the most recent video where he says Dungeons and Dragons starting in 1974 looked set to "knock down intellectual limitations" and other hyperbolic stuff, it seems like he really sees it in a pseudo-religious manner. But if you look at the comments on some of the videos he's not the only one, I wonder is this part of some sphere online you've just punctured the surface of.
It's actually kinda messed up, apparently someone who objected to his OSR videos threatened harm to members of his family