It's so weird to play in an adventure you've read. During the camp we were attacked by 2 bodaks, of all things! In this session, we fought some zombies, traveled through the jungle, fought a winter wolf in an icy section of forest and made camp. I loved it and tried to use whatever they gave me in a fun way so they felt like it was worth it. We got a ton of these things in the show, and I got hit with a lot. It was hilarious and it completely changed the game in a good way. I love this idea, because you can interact with the viewers and you can ham it up with them, trying to get them to give you things, or shaking your fist at them when they saddle you with some awful condition. You have to roll on a chart, one of which requires a d10,000! Viewers can pay to throw things in the game - curses, boons, all sorts of stuff. Here's the thing that really popped out at me. I think I could have seen it, but I'm not sure how that works and it probably would have been one too many things for me to do. I couldn't see the chat, as I just used the roll20 and zoom screens. This was live on Twitch, so there were many people in the chat watching the show live. Again, there's a bit of lag that really tears at your soul when you're wobbly at this to begin with. You can also type in a little chat box to roll dice. There's a bit of lag in Roll20 between when you click and when it shows up, and on a live show it is a bit unnerving. To roll dice in Roll20, you click on the skill, stat, attack or whatever right on your sheet and the dice roller pop up and does its thing. Then I added in my character sheet into Roll20, which didn't take long. The DM came online with me prior to the game and helped me iron out the one issue - you have to turn the video and audio off in Roll20 in order for Zoom to work right. I have had a few people show me Roll20, and it was cool but seemed very complicated on the DM side of things. Zoom is quite like Skype, and Roll20 is a very popular site that you can use to play D&D online. Here is what I was really interested in: What happens before the show starts and after the show ends? What programs do they use to do this? Are there any tricks of the trade? The DM had some ideas and we put it all together. Sid is an ex-con who has tried to become a good guy in the past few years, but he's not very good at it. I like being the "glue" that keeps it together and dishes out support when needed. Generally, it seems like nobody wants to make a cleric, but I love it. I do bad-good voices, in that they are so bad, they're good (to me, anyway). They seemed really fun and I liked that the game was a bit laid back. It looked like they were going to do the whole Executioner's Run thing, where they are tossed into a pit with dinosaurs in it.
I watched half of the 4th episode, where the group actually met Volo, which was very cool.
To prepare, I watched some of their show ( Tomb of Annihilation). They appear on the D&D channel and the guy who runs it, Will, does a million shows. I was a guest on Encounter Roleplay, a streaming D&D show that has partnered up with Wizards of the Coast. Click here to check out the Encounter Roleplay Patreon.