The players are all excellent role-players, including one who can sometimes come across as disinterested and distracted until you gradually realize that’s just how his character interacts with the world and the people around them.
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That element of having a theme that runs through the game regardless of what adventure they are pursuing is also something I really like about this game, and it gives me some great ideas for how to approach running my own games when I’m behind the DM screen. Even though the characters eventually escape Barovia, that sense of sadness and melancholy never quite leaves them, and regardless of their efforts, they always find themselves drawn into some dark shadow that is sometimes terrifying and sometimes heartbreaking for the characters. The Curse of Strahd is supposed to be a bit of a spooky adventure, and the land of Barovia is filled with a sadness and sense of hopelessness that permeates everyone and everything that lives there. But DCA clings to the darkness of Barovia where the characters first grew their roots. Acquisitions Incorporated is a slapstick laugh riot, filled with fart and poop jokes that are every bit as silly-and funny-as you can imagine.
This show also has a much different tone than the other show that features Perkins as DM.
He constantly allows his players to take the story in directions the written adventure never explores and he liberally bends or breaks the rules if doing so serves to tell a better story than could be told by the constraints of the exact rule as written. Chris Perkins seems to go out of his way to demonstrate how the rules and stories as written in official game publications are more like guidelines than gospel. NetworkĪs an official game from Wizards of the Coast, DCA is accessible through the Podcast Hub page on the D&D web site, and live sessions are played weekly on on Tuesday afternoons in the Pacific time zone. And that same character from DCA also makes an appearance in the main Acquisitions Incorporated game, which is the other show I reviewed where Chris Perkins is the DM. I will review that show in my next post in this series. This setting is important because at least one of the main characters from DCA makes an appearance in a game that is related to the main Acquisitions Incorporated game ( Acquisitions Incorporated, The “C” Team). SettingĪs an official podcast from the publishers of D&D running stories from the published adventures, the show is based in the Forgotten Realms, which is the first of the classic D&D game worlds to be fleshed out and explored in the 5th Edition publications. As Wizards of the Coast released subsequent hardback adventures, the party found themselves fighting the giants from Storm King’s Thunder and then battling the death curse from the Tomb of Annihilation before landing in Waterdeep to be caught up in the gang war between the Zhentarim and the Xanathar Guild. This resulted in a fun way to see an adventure unfold in real time with the lead designer in the role of DM. Chris Perkins, who was the Lead Designer for the Curse of Strahd adventure, started running his cast of four players through the new adventure from the beginning. natural 20! He's up! End of session.DCA started in March of 2016 at the same time that D&D released the Curse of Strahd hardback adventure for purchase and for Adventurer’s League organized play. Strix polymorphs a zombie into an axebeak. The heroes start hacking into the zombies. She slices it open with Treebane and Dragonbait falls out. rex and does a measly 4 damage, but It only had 2 left! It's dead and topples over. Dragonbait's in there, too.ĭiath attacks the t. Wumba throws his last will and testament at Diath, does a shadow of the colossus climb and tries to hack into the t. rex is 30 feet tall.Įvelyn does a pile of damage and the t. Strix casts enlarge on Evelyn, so she can have a kaiju battle with the undead dinosaur. rex pursues Chumba and hits him, doing 24 points of damage. Chumba disengages and flees, abandoning his brother. Wumba takes a selfie with his scrying orb, even though he's invisible. He hits it, and it turns back into the t. The goblin muscles him out of the way.Ĭhumba attacks the axebeak, but misses. He doesn't know that hitting it will turn it back into its original form.ĭiath tries to stop him, but poor Jared rolls bad.
Polymorph lasts for 1 hour.Ĭhumba wants to go swing at the polymorphed dinosaur. In this case, the bottom of the two goblins is invisible.Ī zombie tyrannosaurus rex enters their camp and roars. Chumba and Wumba have formed a battle stack, a batiri goblin tactic where they ride on each others shoulders and attack as one entity. Waffles runs on the shore, following along. The group travels for 3 days down a river. ( Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander Summary Episode 65: Bait and Twitch The Party
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