AndrewGould

I would have thought that everyone would be more accustomed to the process of making up characters, given how often they tended to die in previous campaigns. I don't expect perfect knowledge, but "4d6, drop the lowest" is the first mantra any D&D player ought to learn. Yeah, yeah, shut the fuck up Wolli. I really liked Hug Denning as a character. I hope Ken gets lots of play out of this one - though as an illusionist with 1hp at first level I'm kinda in doubt about his future. Glad to see someone's playing a rogue finally, even if she was KOed in the first round. Hope that doesn't become a signature. Finally, Brian really ought to have done a bit more research on the Australian vernacular before naming a character "Dag"...

Agreed. There's a lot of Mildred in there.

I think Sark deserves a big round of applause for this campaign and for giving us the honour and delight of witnessing this epic story.

What the others said. It's well worth listening to the whole thing. I would not recommend skipping ahead, no matter how tempted you are.

Polymorph Self was fixed (more or less) in later editions of the game.

They wouldn't have been able to rescue the caged rats anyway until it was too late.

It's "EmEraldArcher".

You assholes, I was eating breakfast!

Those can be some of the best games.

I haven't quite finished listening to this episode yet, but I did want to stop and say something. This podcast is funny. It's fun, and I laugh a lot when I'm listening to it. But today, it was a good thing that I was alone, because the amount I laughed at Bleyn's Muenster Manual joke was, quite frankly, embarrassing. The usual laughs I get from this show are your regular belly-laugh, chuckle and occasional hearty groan. But today they were all put to shame. This joke would register on seismometers, and cause the NSA to go into shutdown. The amount I laughed would have turned heads from here to Kuala Lumpur. It was a joke for the ages.

This was the Nerd Poker equivalent of the Red Wedding.

True, but Blackie's used Magic Missile to set things on fire before, so there's precedent.

Did anyone catch Brian Posehn's incredible performance in Knights of Badassdom? He had about three minutes in the Ryan Kwanten Gets Dumped scene at the beginning. Still. It was a bit.

OMG That's beautiful!

I really want to see Blackie Tony-Hawking a dead dwarf. I really want to see that.

Damn I hate Paladins.

What are the rules for hurling barbarians? Is that a ranged touch attack?

*applause*

I used to listen to Role Playing Public Radio years ago, but I don't know if they still exist.

I nominate the four Drunk Sir Richard episodes.

Drunk Sir Richard was the best thing ever.

Huh. Only three? Who can get away with bringing only three sets of dice to a game?

The character creation process in Traveller involved randomly generating a character history, in order to develop the skills and abilities the character possessed when they started adventuring. On paper, this was an excellent idea. In practice, some branches of the military involved seeing active combat, with the commensurate risk of being killed. So you start generating a military character, only to have them die in their third tour of duty because you wanted to try for another rank and therefore a higher income after retirement.

Okay, another question for Sark. Just listened to #53, and I have to ask - do you creep yourself out coming up with these stories? I mean the planet of corpses was bad enough, but you're really pulling all the stops out now. I GMed a game once that involved my players trying to rescue a boy from a religious cult who considered him their Savior. They found out that the boy was going to be sacrificed and his blood used to anoint the conception of the next Savior. The twist - the boy knew what was going to happen and didn't want to be rescued. I felt like I needed to scrub my brain clean after thinking that up. Do you feel that way after these darker episodes?

I think I need a shower.