YouTubing "Savage Tide"

[MerricB]

Ok, I'm not quite sure what I was thinking, but I recorded part of my "Savage Tide" session last night, and I've now put it up onto YouTube.

It's an incomplete segment of the players talking with a dragon turtle (trying to persuade him to accept tribute to let the ships of Farshore past). For those wondering how it ended, Martin rolled a natural 20 for his Diplomacy check, which when added to the good roleplaying of the players gave an acceptable result.

Visible players in the clip are Bradford, Peggy and Martin. I'm the invisible (but heard) DM. Rich and Craig are present but silent - they come in for the action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kUMkPcb5b0

So, if you've wondered how my group roleplays down in Australia, or just wanted to hear what I sound like, here's your chance to find out! (I sound very odd to my ears. )

Cheers!

 

[Festivus]

Excellent song selection with "Puff the Magic Dragon". That encounter is the next one I am running, was fun to see how your group handled it. I am thinking my group won't be nearly as fortunate in their dealings, given the "faceman" of the group won't be rejoining until post-superbowl.

 

[MerricB]

This is an odd group. Bradford is normally the face-man of the team, but this time he's playing a Cha 10 character... and it's not working that well. Martin isn't bad, but he's playing a Wizard, so for those times when you actually need ranks in Diplomacy... eek!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

It's not exactly Dungeon Majesty...

 

[Clavis]

I especially liked the DM's side remark about not knowing what Gygax was thinking...

 

[buzz]

Merric, this is cool. Next time, though, you need to be in the shot as well.

 

[Squire James]

Unfortunately, I couldn't even convince my players to start talking to him. They did long-term buffs (including Protection From Fire and Stoneskin) for defense, had a barbarian with greataxe who critted 3 times for nearly 90 damage each for offense, and a gluttonous dragon turtle who was unable to roll anything better than a 4. The barbarian almost died anyway (since the 4 was often good enough), but all in all it was a disappointingly easy CR 16 critter.

The 3 regular dragon turtles I put in its lair proved more effective for some reason...

 

[MerricB]

Merric, this is cool. Next time, though, you need to be in the shot as well.

I'll see what I can do.

Cheers!

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

I think your microphone needs replacing. All I could hear was

"mrrmlll mrrr mrrlllmmrrr mrlll cast a spell mrrr....mrrrll mrml...etc."

edit: I got to the part with the actual dragon turtle. This character, is he based on Jeremy Irons as Profion in the D&D movie?

 

[+5 Keyboard!]

I laughed and laughed . I thought it was great! Thanks, Merric.
(I started thinking of Who's Line Is It, Anyway? when the clip first started )