D&D Encounters Sessions up on Youtube

[ghaladen]

Hey everyone, much like our Pathfinder YouTube channel, we also have a D&D channel where we're recording our sessions here at local game stores in Houston, and put them up for your viewing pleasure. Right now we're doing Encounters Season 4: March of the Phantom Brigade, and tonight's session (videos #25-34 in the playlist) is up and live. Anyway, I'll try to get better at announcing on the forums when new videos are up. Please subscribe and comment if you like what you see, or if you hate it and want to tell us what for.

Thanks

Houston D&D - March of the Phantom Brigade

 

[Baron Von Mandrick]

I just subscribed to your thread and I'm watching it now. It looks really cool and like a lot of fun. I'll try and catch up and try and keep up with it as much as possible.

 

[Noctos]

As Lucasode hovers the wind tearing at this cloak while his hands and arms start to radiate a brown glow. " Honba Woagevi Diomajs Aosinse" The dirt floor of the plains below crack and shift at his words. " Retosa wazvetr Jeudype Tassunoe Sivea" The cracking ground begins to extend above normal ground level. Small clumps drop off as it continues to increase height. After over thirty feet tall and twenty round it starts to smooth and take shape. It's growth continues not slowed until over sixty feet in height and its the shape of a arm and hand. With large stone fingers over ten feet in length and a palm over fifteen attached to a massive arm with the elbow at ground level. The earth hand forms a fist and descends towards the bubble. A loud pounding of thunder filled the air while the ground shakes. The fist pounds over and over in to the bubble with each blow sending out thunderous sounds

 

[ghaladen]

This week's session is now up. Get it at the usual place.

D&D Encounters Season 4 - March of the Phantom Brigade.

 

[Samurai]

Hey everyone, much like our Pathfinder YouTube channel, we also have a D&D channel where we're recording our sessions here at local game stores in Houston, and put them up for your viewing pleasure. Right now we're doing Encounters Season 4: March of the Phantom Brigade, and tonight's session (videos #25-34 in the playlist) is up and live. Anyway, I'll try to get better at announcing on the forums when new videos are up. Please subscribe and comment if you like what you see, or if you hate it and want to tell us what for.

Thanks

Houston D&D - March of the Phantom Brigade

Your game is extremely different from the local Encounters game... you spent an entire hour or more on in-character introductions, roleplaying, drinking from the flagon, on the road, etc! The players in my game tend to say "I'll play the rogue", "I'll play the wizard", and seldom if ever refer to a character's name, much less a background, family details, and unique personality...

 

[ghaladen]

Yeah, that does seem to be a recurring problem in systems like 4th edition. Mostly that that has nothing to do with the system itself, but instead the culture that surrounds it, as is the case with a lot of 4e players I've gamed with. I grew up with AD&D 2e, and rp heavy games (background stories, heavy conversation, actually solving problems with wit instead of skill checks) are something that's heavily ingrained in me, so I tend to not stick around games that are all dice rolls.

My theory behind it is since World of Warcraft is the icon of fantasy gaming these days, and WoW is from what I can tell mostly mechanics and little story, I guess people tend to approach D&D with that angle. Mind you there's nothing wrong with that, I just don't enjoy combat heavy games. Which is also why I tend to drift more towards Pathfinder. The reason is mainly because the Pathfinder players (at least the ones I've seen) tend to be more story driven over combat. Mind you there's always exceptions to the rule, as there are some Pathfinder players who are power gamers, and in the case of our Encounters game our DM and a few of us are big on story, but these guys I play with here are a diamond in the rough.

 

[Magil]

My theory behind it is since World of Warcraft is the icon of fantasy gaming these days, and WoW is from what I can tell mostly mechanics and little story, I guess people tend to approach D&D with that angle. Mind you there's nothing wrong with that, I just don't enjoy combat heavy games. Which is also why I tend to drift more towards Pathfinder. The reason is mainly because the Pathfinder players (at least the ones I've seen) tend to be more story driven over combat. Mind you there's always exceptions to the rule, as there are some Pathfinder players who are power gamers, and in the case of our Encounters game our DM and a few of us are big on story, but these guys I play with here are a diamond in the rough.

I don't think World of Warcraft is really lacking in story, it's just most people skip reading the quest text and head right to the objectives, so they ignore the story.

At the very least, it's gotten better over the years about involving plot.