Weekender XLBS: D&D 5th Edition First Impressions & Scooby Doo!
September 14, 2014 by dracs
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Vids not working yet, but that’s ok cos I’m out of coffee and need to pop out and grab some quick.
its fine here 😀
yay- coffee done
armchair done
lets rock ! happy sunday!
Great show guys, I have to agree with Sam, D&D 5th edition is wonderful. I’ve bene playing Pathfinder for years, but 5E has me sorely tempted to jump ship.
Another interesting show. 🙂
Personally i’ve always thought that maps and figures should just be used as a visual aid for role playing games so that you can keep track of the who-what-where.
Wizards of the coast forgot this and turned it into the be all and end all of DnD 4th edition and totally missed the point of a roll playing game.
It’s good to see that they’ve realised their mistake and gone back to being more like Advanced DnD 2nd which was always the best itteration of the game for me.
Fair enough. In terms of my D&D “career” Maybe 5% of that was with Red Box, 25% on AD&D, 45% 3 / 3.5, 20% 4e and 5% on 5th edition. The combat in 3/3.5 was leaning strongly towards miniature use, but combat itself did not appear to be the focus of the system as a whole because there were *so* many splat books with so many new rules on them that you could cobble together a version of D&D that focussed on one thing you really liked using just the (official) rules. In 4e there is no arguing that the… Read more »
I’ve played 3.5 and 4th edition. I remember 3.5 as a convoluted journey through modifier hell. Sure, it had some fun and original moments, but on many occassions it took about half an hour to come up with the result of a certain action. 4th edition is indeed more combat focused. But what you can do is clear from the start. And our DM often presented the events as interesting combat puzzles. Beside just using our printed abilities there was always room to get ‘original’. One particular example was when I used magic paint to draw a ballista, then drew… Read more »
Happy Sunday!!!
Wife an daughter making breakfast an i am watching xlbs in bed….. Life is good
The perfect accompaniment to assembling some DZC starter set minis 🙂
Video not working. It says server, network down or format not supported. Hope its sorted soon.
Man I have been on a bender here and caught this early sunday usa time. I have only been a member of xlbs for a few days but I watch this all the time now. as far as race is concerned I am latino is america and can tell you that part of the reason is that all these types of games are geared to at least in america to the middle class regardless of race. wargames tend to be in america to the outcast. I do not know how wargames are viewed overseas, but here in america it is… Read more »
Aw, it won’t load for me :'(
Video not working for me either. It’s almost 3am here so I dunno if that has something to do with it lol.
Not working for me either.
Working here on an iPhone
It may have been an issue with amazon cloudfront
Please remember to list what you are watching on so we can spot a more specific issue 🙂
It works on my iphone though not on my laptop.
I’m using Firefox on my laptop.
same here
Never works in Firefox for me either but is runs fine on… IE! *gasp*
Mornin all still an issue for me on PC running Linux using firefox browser, error is
Video not working. It says server, network down or format not supported
Im watching on a windows computer, with a high speed connection in Sweden. And its still not working.
I’m on Firefox on a mac laptop and it isn’t currently working.
It could be the browser…when I changed from firefox to Chrome it started to work
Changed browser and it works as well for me.
Ok I suspect there is a mime type issue (Firefox is very picky about that – @dignity may have forgot to set it properly)
I advise using chrome until I can get hold of one of the guys to change/fix it.
I wound up watching it on my iphone and I’m hoping you can clear something up. Were you all far away, or just really small…
I see what you did there !
FIREFOX ISSUE SHOULD BE FIXED NOW
Happy Sunday
We had a great LOTOW campaign a few years ago, not only did we develop characters, every session we would also bring along a new papercraft town house or shop to add to the terrain, so as our characters grew so did the town.
We fought over control of the town and all the buildings gave a bonus to the gang if you controlled it, was great fun.
Waren. How old is Savanna? I play a simplified version of DreadBall and KoW with my 4.5 year old boy. He’s still not happy about losing (which, rather embarrassingly for me is not often!) but seems to understand the dice concept etc.
Start them early!
I couldn’t agree with you more @applemak. I got my son to start playing when he was 5 with a few space marines. We too played a simplified version of 40k in which we still use today all be it more advanced.
Again start them early, it’s the only way to keep our hobby evolving
She’s just over 3.5. At the moment we are still role playing (with dice and decisions and now modifiers) rather than war gaming per se.
But over the next few week myself and ‘uncie @lloyd‘ have a grand plan for that 🙂
I thought it was a weakness of the Warhammer Historical line that so many of the games were saddled with a system that didn’t suit what they trying to do. The gladiator game was worse again. Blackwater Gulch and Dead Man’s Hand both do Old West with systems that are designed from the ground up to suit it.
Hmm I’m still getting a format not supported message, odd, never had a problem before.
Not working for me on Firefox but appears to be fine through Chrome.
Scenario suggestion: An evil wizzard has something like a dungeon arena for adventurers. Youncan win an awful lot of gold if you survice the dungeon by eaching the exit before all the traps and monsters in there will kill you. Some decadent society members have fun watching the game and placing their bets on the most promising member of the group. Most of the time, the evil wizzard finds enough volunteers, but sometimes, when there are note enough of them or if the party is looking for something special, some visitors of the town get hijacked and teleported to the… Read more »