@Michael Espinos open it on your smartphone and put the headphones on and enjoy. If you want to put it in your car MP3 player or other stuff, you can use one of the many RUclips to MP3 converters
I really feel for all the players and Mike - obviously painfully aware of the lag and consequent over-talking but powerless to prevent it. Saw the D&D Beyond response that it got better after some tweaks in the 2nd ep - will persevere. If it was frustrating for us to watch it must have been even more frustrating for people who were actually invested in it. Takes a lot of patience. Good group of interesting characters and a really good DM. Thanks to the whole group!
Todd did not disappoint with the background that is forever appropriate for a warlock. And before watching the whole thing I'd like to point out how much I loved TJ's reactions on Critical Role, and I expect no less here ;) Edit: The music from NWN had me weeping with nostalgia immediately!
Card Captors! A mystic adventure. Card Captors! A quest for all time. Each card possesses a power all its own. We've got to find them to bring the power home!
Adam should make voices for characters in isometric RPGs. "I stand ready." "I'm always ready." "Aye." I wasn't sure how I'd feel about that show before but now I think the campaign idea, if I got it right, is *amazing*
One of my favorite things about this podcast is that these guys keep the language to a minimum. As a dad with little ears around, I very much appreciate this.
I LOVE THIS I started playing D&D for the first time with my friends, watching this its brought me a lot of insight on how to play the game. I wish I found this sooner lol
Well played D&D beyond using a campaign we can see the character sheets. Eldricht Knight, Circle of Land (Forest), Cavalier, Light Domain, Hexblade, and Beast Master. Interesting build with 2 fighters, and 3 people with a heavily invested interest in creatures (rider, druid, and companion) Really this party is heavily damage based which will be interesting.
Crit Role does the same amount. Cast will just have to work on letting others have moments to shine, but being the first episode everyone was doing their best to stand out. Hopefully will improve given time.
@@Everythingistheworst I think they mean it's too many players who aren't in the same room. Critical Role is played in person. Online, even with the best internet there's a 1/4 second delay that causes people to talk over each other ... because when they started talking they couldn't see that anyone else was
I agree, it's 2 more than what I would usually feel is workable. It's fine if everyone is mindful of who's talking and etc but can get crazy if not. I tend to find for Virtual games it's always better to shoot for 3 -4 player max (3 is honestly better), to avoid that issue.
I like that TJ guy really like the way he role plays.... And Penelope, huh, another overly friendly halfling (I'm guilty of this too, my last one was kleptomaniac thief who's dream was to touch a dragon). I think it high time we had a grumpy Halfling.....running to DnDBeyond to make my own
A good start. I agree that the in-house format where all participants are together is easier to manage. That being said i will give it 5 episodes to see how the chemistry and flow of the players developes. Im not sure how you will manage it, but visual props for encounters are very helpful to us as viewers to follow and appreciate combat encounters so i would encourage you to try and introduce that moving forward.
I want this to be changed to a podcast. I wish it could be added to the podcast area on the google music area with dragon talk. this would be amazing! This is amazing the description of what they are doing make me so happy. Great story telling everyone.
So...... “ Card Captors! A mythic adventure! Card captors a quest for all time! Each card possesses a power of it’s own we’ve got to catch them to bring the power home!” Just saying. But aside from something to do and owing him for their freedom why are they doing this? Because it’s cool? I mean the whole thing does seem needlessly dangerous... are they getting other rewards I missed. It’s a cool concept but... I like more motivation... still great concept! Great so far. Also; keen is my favourite so far but they are all nice! Keep it up!
This is so good. We need more of DND shows after critical role. It would be better once it's not on a video call, you interrupt each other more awkwardly than casually. But yeah! go heroes of the Vale.
This is such a contrast from Dice, Camera & Action's show, here the players all start talking or don't even wait for the finalizing descriptions, whereas in DCA no one talks unless called upon sometimes lmao
Wow, solid start, and very awesome group! Mike Mearls, you are an incredible DM and storyteller. I hope to have the opportunity to play in one of your games one day!
I swear to god, just about a month ago I started a campaign where one of the main goals is to collect the deck of many things. *STOP STEALING MY IDEAS FAMOUS GAME DESIGN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ME!!!*
@@MikeMearls If you're the real Mike Mearls, you should: 1-Request that blue thingie that tells people you're the real one. 2-Make a 5e Spelljammer sourcebook.
Hmmmm.... not sure if I like the game play done from different locations like this. It seems like a good mix of people. I am looking forward to seeing more though. So, I am in!
As has been said, 6 players in different locations can create some real problems with interuppting and talking over eachother. With that said it looks to be a cool group of people and I will give it a couple of episodes to see if it catches me like some other DnD shows I watch.
That'd be nice, but it ups the expense and difficulty quite a bit. A setup like Critical Role needs permanent studio space, a crew (probably two or three people working the switcher and soundboard, plus a few others) and all the players have to get into the same place every week. Webcams are just easier and cheaper. But I totally feel you. I've looked at a few streams and not liked them because they're too hard to follow. I'm about 30 minutes into this one, and I might not finish it.
As an Irish person, I'm not sure how to feel about Penelope's accent. It's like a weird mix of Leprechaun, occasionally slipping into south-east English
I spied a lot of language relating to the Deck of Many things in here that may not have been obvious: the Comet over the town causing the curse to fall into Ruin (also the name of the bad guy). Binding the target into a card similar to the Donjon. Etc.
So just guessing the classes from top left to right and bottom left to right: Sorcerer, Druid, Fighter Cleric (as told by Lauren), Warlock (as told by Todd), Ranger (as told by Shelly)
We were aware going into the first episode this was likely going to be the biggest problem. It's the first time we're all playing together. It does look like it got better as the episode went along, and we'll be making tweaks as we go along to try to mitigate it as much as possible. We'll definitely reduce that as we play together more. Thanks for the feedback - we're aware and will do all we can to make it better!
@@Chief592 Briv worked as a guard for a slaver until he fell in love with one of the slaves and tried to hatch an escape plan. It failed and Briv became a slave himself. He eventually succeeded, but his love was lost in the attempt. He's now convinced that his lover was actually Avandra in disguise, and he's chasing her to find her again. More will be shared for sure, but we'll let that be revealed during play!
I don't wanna get my hopes up BUT, Mike's been working a lot with Nentir Vale (which he says is for his homebrew game) and next year we're getting a new setting book (not from MtG but a d&d setting) and I want to be correct that it is Nentir Vale. Let's cross our fingers!
@@Saruva_Eduardo I DM my own setting but I would be all for that release. I really enjoyed the Fell's Five comic and the trilogy of novels that were set in the Nentir Vale.
So is this the start of this group playing together as there characters? I know there's been several series and I started watching on a later series but I wanted to get the backstory of these guys
I'm sick. I haven't enjoyed a RUclips version of tabletop rpg since Green Ronin dragon age and TITANSGRAVE. But you guys are alright. Not perfect, but exactly the lighthearted group I needed.
Cool :D do not listen to the haters. Continue with a game. Did you you thought about some kind of software to run combat? It's hard for the people watching just imagine all of that
Great story, great acting and interesting characters! However, it would make the listening easier with a push-to-talk kind of button, so that there won't be as much cross talk! But still, this is a very good show! Oh! And adding the spells description is genius!
Has Mike released how he converted 4e to 5? I've seen a useless one (WoTC's) and one that's fairly simple but doesn't have a way to determine its CR. (I'm seriously missing the 4e monster level system, it was perfect!)
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The perfect warlock, you say?
Well, you've got his weapons and supplies
But you need a place to track your stuff
'cause you're so disorganized
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doot. DND beyoooond!
You click open your webpage,
You heard about a critical role,
And now you’re ready to kick some butt in a mindshaft full of gnoooooools
Tyler Rolling ITS DNDDDDD YEAH DNDBEYOND ITS DNDDDDD YEAH DNDBEYOND
@@Deathven1482 You've got your stats, you got your sword, and you got your invisible waaaaand!
@@117Jorn ITS DNDDDD, D. N. D dndbeyooooood! (beat sounds)!
Is that a duck Aaracokra! Yes finally, my duck fighter quackenbert is lore friendly!
As an old gamer, I was having RuneQuest flashbacks, personally.
@@ebony1442 I also immedately thought about Runequest. Btw if you love that lore, play "King of Dragon Pass" its a fun little game.
Looks like "Howard the Duck.
We've solved a latency issue after episode 1 that dramatically reduced crosstalk during future episodes.
@Michael Espinos open it on your smartphone and put the headphones on and enjoy. If you want to put it in your car MP3 player or other stuff, you can use one of the many RUclips to MP3 converters
I find it also annoying, the cross talking!! DM could put a stop.
Todd looking like he's secretly the villain of this adventure.
Keith S How would that work out as a DM I wonder how interesting that would be to do...
You've got your perfect warlock~
HIS WEAPONS AND SUPPLIES
But you need a place to keep track of your stuff because you’re SOOO DISORGANIIIIZED!
You click open a webpage, you've heard about Critical Role. Now you're ready to kick some butt in the mineshaft full of gnolls!!!
IT'S D&D!!!! D&D BEYOND!
you got your stats, you got your swords,, and you got your invisible waaaaaaand
I really feel for all the players and Mike - obviously painfully aware of the lag and consequent over-talking but powerless to prevent it. Saw the D&D Beyond response that it got better after some tweaks in the 2nd ep - will persevere. If it was frustrating for us to watch it must have been even more frustrating for people who were actually invested in it. Takes a lot of patience. Good group of interesting characters and a really good DM. Thanks to the whole group!
I thought Todd's video was a professional photo until he blinked. That lighting and bokeh! :)
Todd did not disappoint with the background that is forever appropriate for a warlock. And before watching the whole thing I'd like to point out how much I loved TJ's reactions on Critical Role, and I expect no less here ;)
Edit: The music from NWN had me weeping with nostalgia immediately!
I agree NWN has me very nastalgic
Really cool story concept Mike. Love the way the deck is being used as a reassembly quest.
That's actually pretty darn cool. Recapturing all the essences of the Deck of Many Things? I love it.
Card Captors! A mystic adventure. Card Captors! A quest for all time. Each card possesses a power all its own. We've got to find them to bring the power home!
RakabooEntertainment 😂 Brilliant! I miss that show!
I love how immersed TJ is in the game. Looking up when the DM describes the wooden ceiling 20 feet above.
Adam should make voices for characters in isometric RPGs.
"I stand ready."
"I'm always ready."
"Aye."
I wasn't sure how I'd feel about that show before but now I think the campaign idea, if I got it right, is *amazing*
Dammit the Warcraft III human theme and the image of footmen are now stuck in my head
One of my favorite things about this podcast is that these guys keep the language to a minimum. As a dad with little ears around, I very much appreciate this.
"The Perfect Warlock" I see what you did there Todd
The plot is basically Deck of Many meets Sakura Card Captor, and I couldn't be more excited for it! Can't wait for next week's episode!
I LOVE THIS I started playing D&D for the first time with my friends, watching this its brought me a lot of insight on how to play the game. I wish I found this sooner lol
This is amazing, I feel like I’m enjoying it as much as all the lovely happy PCs! I’m smiling so often throughout this
Who did the art for the character portraits? I love the style.
They look alot like the art in “out of the abyss “ maybe you can find more info there
as MisterNiuf says, it looks like Richard Whitters' style
Can confirm Richard Whitters!
They look like from DnD Beyond character avatars
Watching TJ's facial expressions throughout the entire video just cracks me up
i love everyone in this game, but TJ was super fantastic. I cant wait to watch more episodes of this now!
All these characters with great voices, and its the sarcastic warlock who kills me every time.
Well played D&D beyond using a campaign we can see the character sheets. Eldricht Knight, Circle of Land (Forest), Cavalier, Light Domain, Hexblade, and Beast Master. Interesting build with 2 fighters, and 3 people with a heavily invested interest in creatures (rider, druid, and companion) Really this party is heavily damage based which will be interesting.
I couldn't watch the live stream but the VOD doesn't have the plugin. Is there a link to the campaign?
@@robertoalejandroorozco3503 Character information has been added to the episode description!
So great to hear the original Neverwinter Nights soundtrack. Love that vintage Jeremy Soule.
Too many players to not have sitting together. Over talking is going to be an issue. But I really hope this works out.
Crit Role does the same amount. Cast will just have to work on letting others have moments to shine, but being the first episode everyone was doing their best to stand out. Hopefully will improve given time.
@@Everythingistheworst I think they mean it's too many players who aren't in the same room. Critical Role is played in person. Online, even with the best internet there's a 1/4 second delay that causes people to talk over each other ... because when they started talking they couldn't see that anyone else was
I agree, it's 2 more than what I would usually feel is workable. It's fine if everyone is mindful of who's talking and etc but can get crazy if not. I tend to find for Virtual games it's always better to shoot for 3 -4 player max (3 is honestly better), to avoid that issue.
Agreed, it's completely killed it for me within the first 10 mins. Too annoying and distracting.
Matt Ott it gets better as the episode goes on, I think. That streaming delay is rough though. Tough to sit through.
OMG I'm loving this so much!! Keep it up guys, it's so fun to experience your adventures.
I like that TJ guy really like the way he role plays....
And Penelope, huh, another overly friendly halfling (I'm guilty of this too, my last one was kleptomaniac thief who's dream was to touch a dragon). I think it high time we had a grumpy Halfling.....running to DnDBeyond to make my own
I started watching with beyond heroes, it's so weird seeing the beginning and realizing how much they changed.
Buddy Right? I’m interested to watch the rest of this. Even though this series is old. ^^
I got 13 episodes into Beyond Heroes before I realized Heroes of the Vale came before it. Weird to see Avren the PC after watching Avren the NPC...
A good start. I agree that the in-house format where all participants are together is easier to manage. That being said i will give it 5 episodes to see how the chemistry and flow of the players developes. Im not sure how you will manage it, but visual props for encounters are very helpful to us as viewers to follow and appreciate combat encounters so i would encourage you to try and introduce that moving forward.
Ohhh how exciting what an ingenious plotline. Love the idea ^^ Go go and catch them all.
I want this to be changed to a podcast. I wish it could be added to the podcast area on the google music area with dragon talk. this would be amazing! This is amazing the description of what they are doing make me so happy. Great story telling everyone.
We plan to release every episode in podcast form as well - stay tuned for more details on that.
I've been waiting for this!
I can't help but love the look of excitement and joy on Adam's face :)
I am so excited about this series, hell yeah great premise
"I would seek to give you wisdom"
It's funny because almost everyone in the party has little to no WIS (except Cleric and Ranger).
So...... “ Card Captors! A mythic adventure! Card captors a quest for all time! Each card possesses a power of it’s own we’ve got to catch them to bring the power home!”
Just saying. But aside from something to do and owing him for their freedom why are they doing this? Because it’s cool? I mean the whole thing does seem needlessly dangerous... are they getting other rewards I missed. It’s a cool concept but... I like more motivation... still great concept! Great so far. Also; keen is my favourite so far but they are all nice! Keep it up!
27:52
“Hah hah”
Best moment
This is so good. We need more of DND shows after critical role. It would be better once it's not on a video call, you interrupt each other more awkwardly than casually. But yeah! go heroes of the Vale.
It has only taken me 20 minutes and I’ve fallen in love with Penelope “Half-Pint”
Oh, man. I love that TJ both looks like and sounds like (with this character’s voice, anyway) Thunder from Fable...
This is cool, I love the characters and the adventure!
This is such a contrast from Dice, Camera & Action's show, here the players all start talking or don't even wait for the finalizing descriptions, whereas in DCA no one talks unless called upon sometimes lmao
“The light on the third story window” *everyone looks up*
Is this an interface we can expect to have available from DND Beyond at some point?
Experiencing this after 3 years, it's just as great as when I watched it the first time.
Wow, solid start, and very awesome group! Mike Mearls, you are an incredible DM and storyteller. I hope to have the opportunity to play in one of your games one day!
I swear to god, just about a month ago I started a campaign where one of the main goals is to collect the deck of many things. *STOP STEALING MY IDEAS FAMOUS GAME DESIGN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ME!!!*
Do one better. Make the game about dismantling the deck of many things.
All that time sneaking into gamers' houses has to pay off somehow.
@@MikeMearls If you're the real Mike Mearls, you should:
1-Request that blue thingie that tells people you're the real one.
2-Make a 5e Spelljammer sourcebook.
I just found out this existed. I'm not really into Forgotten Realms. But PoL is my favorite setting.
Twenty minutes in and I already love Keen and Avren!!
Hmmmm.... not sure if I like the game play done from different locations like this. It seems like a good mix of people. I am looking forward to seeing more though. So, I am in!
As has been said, 6 players in different locations can create some real problems with interuppting and talking over eachother. With that said it looks to be a cool group of people and I will give it a couple of episodes to see if it catches me like some other DnD shows I watch.
this is good, thanks. it would help a lot for immersion if you can up the audio quality. maybe buy everyone the same setup?
Love this new series! Hope you guys publish a campaign setting book for the Nentir Vale in the future! :)
I love this campaign idea.
Just have everyone at the same place, and then you'll have a good show. Webcam shows are so hard to follow and get into.
That'd be nice, but it ups the expense and difficulty quite a bit. A setup like Critical Role needs permanent studio space, a crew (probably two or three people working the switcher and soundboard, plus a few others) and all the players have to get into the same place every week.
Webcams are just easier and cheaper. But I totally feel you. I've looked at a few streams and not liked them because they're too hard to follow. I'm about 30 minutes into this one, and I might not finish it.
I cut my teeth on 4e and have a soft spot for the Vale in my heart.
Love Todd’s gold growing prank.
Also I'm loving the cast
Combat descriptions on point!
hi lauren just wondering if I could have orkira's stats as i need a npc for my campaign thanks
KeenXPenelope=OTP. ^^
First D&D PC was named Brian Halfpint, a hobbit fighter/thief (1e), Penelope's great [nth] grand pa... maybe ?
Great series
Damn you Mearls! You are so good! - The players are pretty good too. :-)
As an Irish person, I'm not sure how to feel about Penelope's accent. It's like a weird mix of Leprechaun, occasionally slipping into south-east English
I spied a lot of language relating to the Deck of Many things in here that may not have been obvious: the Comet over the town causing the curse to fall into Ruin (also the name of the bad guy). Binding the target into a card similar to the Donjon. Etc.
I wonder if there'll be a guide to Nentir Vale for 5e
That would be cool, not yet though.. ha, ha
So just guessing the classes from top left to right and bottom left to right:
Sorcerer, Druid, Fighter
Cleric (as told by Lauren), Warlock (as told by Todd), Ranger (as told by Shelly)
I have yet to see them in combat but I feel like Briv might be a paladin
Yes, I would like some clarification on this matter.
Full character details and links to digital character sheets have been added to the description.
@@BadEye thank you
An eldritch Knight and a cavalier in the same party!? Two classes I’ve been looking at
Enjoying the game, but there is an awful amount of cross talking going on.
Yea, from what I've seen & experienced everyone being in the same place cuts down on that, not all the time... Also not always possible.
It's a new and larger group so that's kinda expected. In time everyone will each others rhythm.
We were aware going into the first episode this was likely going to be the biggest problem. It's the first time we're all playing together. It does look like it got better as the episode went along, and we'll be making tweaks as we go along to try to mitigate it as much as possible. We'll definitely reduce that as we play together more. Thanks for the feedback - we're aware and will do all we can to make it better!
@@BadEye hey I like your character Briv could you tell us a little bit more about his backstory and who he is as a character and fighter?
@@Chief592 Briv worked as a guard for a slaver until he fell in love with one of the slaves and tried to hatch an escape plan. It failed and Briv became a slave himself. He eventually succeeded, but his love was lost in the attempt. He's now convinced that his lover was actually Avandra in disguise, and he's chasing her to find her again. More will be shared for sure, but we'll let that be revealed during play!
Loved this!
Time stamp for myself: 39:16
Nentir Vale 5E books when? Also, can we have the Nentir Vale comic series Fell’s Five back please?
Nicholas Squires that was such a great comic series!
I don't wanna get my hopes up BUT, Mike's been working a lot with Nentir Vale (which he says is for his homebrew game) and next year we're getting a new setting book (not from MtG but a d&d setting) and I want to be correct that it is Nentir Vale. Let's cross our fingers!
@@Saruva_Eduardo I DM my own setting but I would be all for that release. I really enjoyed the Fell's Five comic and the trilogy of novels that were set in the Nentir Vale.
Whoa! A 5th Edition game in a 4th Edition world. This is something I'd like to see more of.
What program did you use to set up the video? To have all those split screens, and then add art work!
What level are the characters starting out?
Overtalking is going to be a problem, but I am really loving this!
So is this the start of this group playing together as there characters? I know there's been several series and I started watching on a later series but I wanted to get the backstory of these guys
Wait a second....what level are they starting at? Taking 16 dmg and not going down, this doesn't seem like level 1 stuff eh?
Wait, Keen’s Greenflame Blade got bonus damage on the primary target, but Briv only got one attack? What level is the party?
I'm sick. I haven't enjoyed a RUclips version of tabletop rpg since Green Ronin dragon age and TITANSGRAVE.
But you guys are alright. Not perfect, but exactly the lighthearted group I needed.
What level are all the characters???
Cool :D do not listen to the haters. Continue with a game. Did you you thought about some kind of software to run combat? It's hard for the people watching just imagine all of that
yay briv😇😇😇
Where’s the song
Which race is flapper?
shes an aaracocra, from the elemental evil players companion
Bookmark for later 46:00
What level are they starting at?
I know we have a druid, a cleric, a warlock, and a ranger. What are the other two? Just a pair of fighters? Or is the one on the top left a sorcerer?
I believe an eldtritch knight and cavelier, druid is circle of the shepard, warlock is hexblade, and ranger is beastmaster
Great story, great acting and interesting characters! However, it would make the listening easier with a push-to-talk kind of button, so that there won't be as much cross talk! But still, this is a very good show! Oh! And adding the spells description is genius!
what level are the characters
How come they don’t have a podcast ?
This looks epic!
I wonder; on their dndbeyond character pages, how did add those borders around their avatars?
Has Mike released how he converted 4e to 5? I've seen a useless one (WoTC's) and one that's fairly simple but doesn't have a way to determine its CR. (I'm seriously missing the 4e monster level system, it was perfect!)
I made a warlock a couple months ago on dnd beyond called Avren 🤔
Wasn't Acq. Inc. originally from Fallcrest?? Their old HQ was down at the Silver Unicorn... I think it's an In-and-Out Burger, now....
I'm guessing TJ is an Arcane Archer, just a guess but he seemed curious about getting a long bow.
is there a podcast form of this available?
oh god dammit I missed the stream I was so looking forward to this
I so want to love this but I will have a hard time with cross talking floating heads.