From the comments, I glean LRR gained some Dice Friends viewers from Bylaw & Order. Welcome! If you're curious about this setting, Burning Bright, a previous adventure led by Cam, is set in the same world.
This story is absolutely riveting! Cam is amazing at setting the mood, conjuring a feeling of wonder and foreboding at once. All the characters seem too be very interesting and have diverse reactions to the situations thrown at them. I'm looking forward to get to know them and watch them discover themselves. With regards to that, I'm really curious what the questions where that the Auger asked them. To compile the answers: 1. Sword: everything, Hella: myself, Bo: anything I knew Petr: myself 2. Sword: a monster, Hella: unknown, Bo: directionless, Petr: incapable 3. Sword: my sword, Hella: don't know, Bo: what I am, Petr: my ability to question things My suggestions: 1. What do you seek? The anwers seemed most ambiguous but at the same time the question is the easiest to figure out, because they all lost they identity and the need to reclaim that is reflected in all answers. 2. What are you? This im less sure about. It is certainly some sort of question of how they view themselves, as reflected in Sword's and Petr's answer, but both of those might all point into the what they fear they are, as I think that Petr has so much self confidence that he wouldn't call 'incapable' his defining feature. 3. What do you treasure most? Sword's and Petr's anwers fit in neatly with that. I'm not certain about Boleznena's answer though, because identity is something they lost in the first place. Then again, maybe that makes it all the more valuable to him. On another note, I think it would be super cool for Hella get some handaxes. That way, she can throw them and get sneak attack damage as well as stay true to her dwarven heritage. All in all, I'm looking forward to more mystery and intrigue around what happened to our heroes, living spells, mythical cities and everything in between.
between the instar terminology, the wasp imagery, and the hive metaphor in the description of the city, i'm starting to think i should look up some entomology facts. yellowjacket nests are designed to only last one season, but in mild enough climates, they can persist through winter, continuing to expand and often hosting multiple egg-laying queens. how neat, and also terrifying!
I love Cam's DMing style. I feel like it's a really open-ended world, and that there were a lot of other things our heroes could have done had they made different choices. I love how this campaign isn't a fight a minute but more of a creepy mystery adventure. And I wonder what was on those sheets of paper at the beginning.
I loved and rode a horse named Horse. He was a buckskin Quarter Horse cross, he started his life as a western trained horse but he was abused, and his new owner trained him to English and didn't want to call him by the name he'd been abused under, so he called him Horse. I adore watching Dice Friends - Bylaw & Order was my first.
I love how different this is to Bylaw & Order (which was my first Dice Friends). This is really the best way to do mystery in tabletop. Ominous without being over the top spoopy.
only half an hour in and I'm laughing like a maniac at Adam's character essentially being in a sort of "personal hell" amidst tormentors who employ indifference as a weapon.
I think it goes as follows Sword: Paladin, this one is fairly obvious Hella: Rogue, once again, obvious (sneak attack) Boleznena: Bard, used inspiration maybe? Petr: Sorcerer? Seems to be very charismatic but not good with a sword
oh wait. Idyll. Crystalline projections into the material plane, inhabited by things from the astral plane. Magic being rare and powerful. This is Etin's prehistory, isn't it?
@@havcola6983 as i understand it burning bright took place during the fall of the epistemic empire and the adamantium age collapse, which took place later in the same timeline as etin, because a couple of the pcs in that campaign were agents of said empire
This is great to watch as always, but hold the phone - I have never heard anyone say that any dinosaur has two brains but google tells me this was a common myth and now I feel like I wasn't lied to enough during my childhood.
You might not be old enough? I remember this distinctly. The idea was that dinosaurs OBVIOUSLY were so large that the nerve signals couldn't travel from the tail and legs all the way to the brain and back in time, so they had a secondary brain to take care of "lower half stuff". Basically.
I'm watching Bylaw & Order as this comes out, and the contrast between Kathleen's style and Cameron's is very apparent. I personally enjoy watching Cam more (sorry Kathleen), but I feel I'd be more effective doing a style similar to Kathleen's both being me and being in the group I am. Thoughts?
Each DM has different flavors which is great because we get to experience many different styles. I love cam too because his a scifi nerd like me but i wouldn’t wanna see only content from him.
Kathleen prefers to lampoon fairly standard DnD in a manner pretty much identical to Aquisitions Inc, one of the first and most successful DnD podcasts that is still going and includes the Penny Arcade guys and a few of the Wizard of the Coast game designers. And if you've played enough DnD you've probably had sessions or campaigns that ended up a bit "Pratchetty" either by accident or design. So her type of adventure, world-building and her DM "voice" is well-trodden ground, which makes it feel familiar and easy to digest. Which in turn makes the players comfortable and able to act out, since they feel like they have an intuitive grip on the world and how it functions. By contrast Cam has some stories he wants to tell where pen-and-paper gets to act as the medium, but it seems like it's only DnD or Call of Cuthulhu or whatever because, well, the framework is there, he knows it and no other system would be a perfect fit either. Since he home brews a lot of the cosmology and chooses to reinterpret how abilities and classes function (for example, Paladins) the players are immediately a bit on the back foot and need to reevaluate some preconceptions. Which is cool and gives a very mystical feeling, but you can also tell that the players often are kind of in a "Well, ok, where is Cam going with this?" mode where they're a little hesitant to really act out. He doesn't railroad them, but they don't want to derail him either. :) Between the two styles I think that Kathleen's is better suited for long play since you can basically just drop any DnD adventure into it, maybe give it a humorous twist and hey presto. And conversely, Cam's is great for very evocative one-shots that lets him and the players explore an idea for a while, then move on to a different game.
Yep. They don't mention it during the play session, but they mention it during the stream before the game starts, as well Wyrmwood sponsors all of their board game streams.
Cori = rogue (sneak attack) Serge = Paladin ("insight" being divine sense, lay on hands) Ian = Bard (Used bardic inspiration, albeit wrong. Rolled upon bestowing rather than having Serge roll when using.) Adam = ? We know he has arcana, but that could be from background. He has high charisma, doesn't have proficiency with a longsword. He has something he can do in the darkness, but none of the classes give anything for that at level 1, possibly from starting feat. He has a 10 passive perception, so no wis mod. My guess is sorcerer for him, possibly with a custom subclass.
@@ammo1317 Yeah, I agree with this. Not so sure about Ian but that makes sense, and I think Adam can be explained by amnesia setting all of them back to level one (maybe?).
It's a real shame because I love listening to Cameron, except for the difficulty in doing so. He's almost always got such fascinating things to say, and he tends to say things in interesting ways.
Alex isn't gone, he still works on various things for LRR (he does graphics for them and still appears on LRL and some of their streams). I'm sorry this channel isn't as of interest to you because one of their members wanted to spend more time on something he loves.
Dudeman9339 I think that would make Alex sad, he spent many years of his life building the brand and working with the team. You’re throwing all his hard work away.
As others have already replied, Alex isn't gone at all-he's just doing fewer things, by his own request. I don't know where you got this impression. He could even be on a future Dice Friends.
While I disagree with the whole of your sentiment, I must admit the overall shift in content produced over the last two years or so has pushed me farther and farther away from enjoying LRR’s content, especially as of late. Super glad TTSF is still around and Dice Friends is back though. Plus The Panalysts is back and with some luck Qwerpline will return as well. Still miss The Crapshoot though, between that being gone and the change in Loading Times there’s basically no insight into LRR’s writing process anymore and that’s what brought me into their stuff so strongly to begin with all those year ago
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I always like seeing Cam run a game because his DM style is so unique and dark.
From the comments, I glean LRR gained some Dice Friends viewers from Bylaw & Order. Welcome! If you're curious about this setting, Burning Bright, a previous adventure led by Cam, is set in the same world.
This story is absolutely riveting! Cam is amazing at setting the mood, conjuring a feeling of wonder and foreboding at once.
All the characters seem too be very interesting and have diverse reactions to the situations thrown at them. I'm looking forward to get to know them and watch them discover themselves.
With regards to that, I'm really curious what the questions where that the Auger asked them.
To compile the answers:
1. Sword: everything, Hella: myself, Bo: anything I knew Petr: myself
2. Sword: a monster, Hella: unknown, Bo: directionless, Petr: incapable
3. Sword: my sword, Hella: don't know, Bo: what I am, Petr: my ability to question things
My suggestions:
1. What do you seek? The anwers seemed most ambiguous but at the same time the question is the easiest to figure out, because they all lost they identity and the need to reclaim that is reflected in all answers.
2. What are you? This im less sure about. It is certainly some sort of question of how they view themselves, as reflected in Sword's and Petr's answer, but both of those might all point into the what they fear they are, as I think that Petr has so much self confidence that he wouldn't call 'incapable' his defining feature.
3. What do you treasure most? Sword's and Petr's anwers fit in neatly with that. I'm not certain about Boleznena's answer though, because identity is something they lost in the first place. Then again, maybe that makes it all the more valuable to him.
On another note, I think it would be super cool for Hella get some handaxes. That way, she can throw them and get sneak attack damage as well as stay true to her dwarven heritage.
All in all, I'm looking forward to more mystery and intrigue around what happened to our heroes, living spells, mythical cities and everything in between.
i figured that the second question is "what do you fear being/becoming?" or something like that and the third was like "what is the thing you trust"
between the instar terminology, the wasp imagery, and the hive metaphor in the description of the city, i'm starting to think i should look up some entomology facts.
yellowjacket nests are designed to only last one season, but in mild enough climates, they can persist through winter, continuing to expand and often hosting multiple egg-laying queens. how neat, and also terrifying!
Love Cam’s world building. Love Adam’s energy.
Cam: You see a pair of eyes reflected in the fire light.
Serge: I flex.
Cam: You flexed away a mountain lion.
*A conversation only had in D&D*
As Adam said in the last episode: "weird flex, but okay."
@@Winterpandacookies He also said it in this one about buying all the food.
The dice friends music is always SOOOOOOOOO good
I love the dynamic between Cam and Adam.
Absolutely! Adam is perfect for this; his flailing in the midst of all the calm around the table is delightful.
I love Cam's DMing style. I feel like it's a really open-ended world, and that there were a lot of other things our heroes could have done had they made different choices. I love how this campaign isn't a fight a minute but more of a creepy mystery adventure. And I wonder what was on those sheets of paper at the beginning.
Cam's perfect D&D world inn line was excellent.
So happy to see this tonight! Made my night all that much better.
I loved and rode a horse named Horse. He was a buckskin Quarter Horse cross, he started his life as a western trained horse but he was abused, and his new owner trained him to English and didn't want to call him by the name he'd been abused under, so he called him Horse. I adore watching Dice Friends - Bylaw & Order was my first.
Ruth Evers what is the difference between western and English training for a horse.
I love how different this is to Bylaw & Order (which was my first Dice Friends). This is really the best way to do mystery in tabletop. Ominous without being over the top spoopy.
If you haven't, you should check Music of the Spheres, the Cam-run Call of Cthulu adventure. It's very... eerie.
this is the first dice friends i've tried . . . intriguing story
only half an hour in and I'm laughing like a maniac at Adam's character essentially being in a sort of "personal hell" amidst tormentors who employ indifference as a weapon.
This is great, looking forward to more
Holy crap. "The story with the happiest ending is told, and then the world ends" is an incredibly poignant concept.
Okay, the mishearing of "just a wee bit" as "Just weeb it!" has got me dying 🤣
So, I study distributive justice, which often concerns fairness. One day I asked, "What is fair?" and everyone just looked at me in bewilderment...
I think it goes as follows
Sword: Paladin, this one is fairly obvious
Hella: Rogue, once again, obvious (sneak attack)
Boleznena: Bard, used inspiration maybe?
Petr: Sorcerer? Seems to be very charismatic but not good with a sword
oh wait. Idyll. Crystalline projections into the material plane, inhabited by things from the astral plane. Magic being rare and powerful.
This is Etin's prehistory, isn't it?
IIRC, this takes place many years after the campaign cam first dm'd in Etin
@@mariambarnes4023 Many years after Burning Bright, certainly. I don't remember hearing it stated that this is connected to Etin at all?
@@havcola6983 Kinda late, but I am almost 100% certain this campaign happens a couple hundrer years after Burning Bright
@@havcola6983 as i understand it burning bright took place during the fall of the epistemic empire and the adamantium age collapse, which took place later in the same timeline as etin, because a couple of the pcs in that campaign were agents of said empire
1:57:15 A ruined tower in a sickly forest, with a malevolent presence. So it's Dol Guldur in Mirkwood. Gotcha.
This is great to watch as always, but hold the phone - I have never heard anyone say that any dinosaur has two brains but google tells me this was a common myth and now I feel like I wasn't lied to enough during my childhood.
You might not be old enough? I remember this distinctly. The idea was that dinosaurs OBVIOUSLY were so large that the nerve signals couldn't travel from the tail and legs all the way to the brain and back in time, so they had a secondary brain to take care of "lower half stuff". Basically.
I'm watching Bylaw & Order as this comes out, and the contrast between Kathleen's style and Cameron's is very apparent. I personally enjoy watching Cam more (sorry Kathleen), but I feel I'd be more effective doing a style similar to Kathleen's both being me and being in the group I am.
Thoughts?
Each DM has different flavors which is great because we get to experience many different styles. I love cam too because his a scifi nerd like me but i wouldn’t wanna see only content from him.
I think I’d rather play in Kathleen’s world, but I love listening to Cam’s.
Kathleen prefers to lampoon fairly standard DnD in a manner pretty much identical to Aquisitions Inc, one of the first and most successful DnD podcasts that is still going and includes the Penny Arcade guys and a few of the Wizard of the Coast game designers. And if you've played enough DnD you've probably had sessions or campaigns that ended up a bit "Pratchetty" either by accident or design. So her type of adventure, world-building and her DM "voice" is well-trodden ground, which makes it feel familiar and easy to digest. Which in turn makes the players comfortable and able to act out, since they feel like they have an intuitive grip on the world and how it functions.
By contrast Cam has some stories he wants to tell where pen-and-paper gets to act as the medium, but it seems like it's only DnD or Call of Cuthulhu or whatever because, well, the framework is there, he knows it and no other system would be a perfect fit either. Since he home brews a lot of the cosmology and chooses to reinterpret how abilities and classes function (for example, Paladins) the players are immediately a bit on the back foot and need to reevaluate some preconceptions. Which is cool and gives a very mystical feeling, but you can also tell that the players often are kind of in a "Well, ok, where is Cam going with this?" mode where they're a little hesitant to really act out. He doesn't railroad them, but they don't want to derail him either. :)
Between the two styles I think that Kathleen's is better suited for long play since you can basically just drop any DnD adventure into it, maybe give it a humorous twist and hey presto. And conversely, Cam's is great for very evocative one-shots that lets him and the players explore an idea for a while, then move on to a different game.
Petr continues to ask good questions while everyone else is WAY too chill about everything.
Question -- is Wyrmwood Gaming still a sponsor? I see their stuff in use, but they haven't been mentioned.
Yep. They don't mention it during the play session, but they mention it during the stream before the game starts, as well Wyrmwood sponsors all of their board game streams.
Bones of Trees and Skins of Beasts!
I'm super curious about everyone's class. Like I can guess some of them through their actions quite easily, but some are so vague.
Cori = rogue (sneak attack)
Serge = Paladin ("insight" being divine sense, lay on hands)
Ian = Bard (Used bardic inspiration, albeit wrong. Rolled upon bestowing rather than having Serge roll when using.)
Adam = ? We know he has arcana, but that could be from background. He has high charisma, doesn't have proficiency with a longsword. He has something he can do in the darkness, but none of the classes give anything for that at level 1, possibly from starting feat. He has a 10 passive perception, so no wis mod. My guess is sorcerer for him, possibly with a custom subclass.
@@ammo1317 Yeah, I agree with this. Not so sure about Ian but that makes sense, and I think Adam can be explained by amnesia setting all of them back to level one (maybe?).
Perhaps Ian is a druid, ranger, or nature cleric, I get a very nature-y vibe from him and he has a fairly high wisdom
I'm loving the game but the sound calibration is awful.
I have to crank it up to hear Cameron and then Adam blows my poor ears out.
Seriously. It HURTS when Adam shouts.
That's anything with Cam. Apparently he isn't picked up by microphones well, especially when he lowers his voice to give something a bit of gravitas.
It's a real shame because I love listening to Cameron, except for the difficulty in doing so. He's almost always got such fascinating things to say, and he tends to say things in interesting ways.
Dogdam
I've stopped watching anything you put out now that Alex is gone... way to let your best slip away
Alex isn't gone, he still works on various things for LRR (he does graphics for them and still appears on LRL and some of their streams). I'm sorry this channel isn't as of interest to you because one of their members wanted to spend more time on something he loves.
Dudeman9339 I think that would make Alex sad, he spent many years of his life building the brand and working with the team. You’re throwing all his hard work away.
As others have already replied, Alex isn't gone at all-he's just doing fewer things, by his own request. I don't know where you got this impression. He could even be on a future Dice Friends.
Weird flex.
While I disagree with the whole of your sentiment, I must admit the overall shift in content produced over the last two years or so has pushed me farther and farther away from enjoying LRR’s content, especially as of late.
Super glad TTSF is still around and Dice Friends is back though. Plus The Panalysts is back and with some luck Qwerpline will return as well. Still miss The Crapshoot though, between that being gone and the change in Loading Times there’s basically no insight into LRR’s writing process anymore and that’s what brought me into their stuff so strongly to begin with all those year ago