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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Aug 12, 2015 10:27:33 GMT
I love this episode. It was a lot of fun to record, and it has come out pretty well in my opinion. I feel like we're really getting to know the characters a bit now (and there will be more of that in the next couple of episodes too).
I'd love to hear what you guys thought of it.
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freeney
Travelling Wordsmith
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Post by freeney on Aug 13, 2015 13:34:40 GMT
Sasha/Lydia's reactions to the goings on of Other London are always priceless, a great bit of roleplaying. As much as I love James' humour, it was interesting to have him take more of a back seat role for a while and for you, Bryn, to take more of a central role in negotiations since Hamid is such an atypical not-quite-heroic hero. Overall, a fantastic episode and the fun you guys have playing really comes across.
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Post by Alex Newall on Aug 16, 2015 5:49:55 GMT
Cheers freeny. I think this is my favourite episode to date. I really loved how dirty I felt after voicing Barret. I just freakin' love voicing horrible people. Yeah, the story is built so that in these early weeks we should get each of the party getting some time in the limelight and in the next few session we get some really great RPing in. I admit that the early episodes suffer from what I call "American TV syndrome". The story has to move so fast establishing world, main characters and plot as quickly as possible so there is not really much space for the story to breathe. Its from this point that things slow down get a bit richer as a result.
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Post by Oneiros on Aug 20, 2015 9:24:32 GMT
Loved the Barret voice! Although the 'noble villain in a den of iniquity' is a trope, I think it really works here and I definitely look forward to seeing how it plays out.
Serious applause for the RP in this episode, I think we get a really good handle on both Sasha and Hamid. From a DM's perspective that fight was both exactly the sort of thing you want to see and not. Yes for being able to catch the PCs and do some villain exposition and no because it's the kind of thing that demoralises starting characters.
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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Aug 20, 2015 9:37:19 GMT
Tropes are not badYeah, the fight was a bit demoralising, but we kinda address that IC, and you'll see how the next few episodes play out too.
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Post by Alex Newall on Aug 21, 2015 2:32:13 GMT
I would say I have never and will never set up an unwinnable fight. There will always be a method of winning even if it is off the beaten track. That said, if the party insists on rolling so rubbishy there's not a lot I can do.
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Post by dangerfield on Jan 18, 2018 11:28:46 GMT
I've started listening from the beginning again and you know what, there is so much more in this episode than any of us could have understood the first time. I would strongly encourage anyone who hasn't listened to this episode since the beginning to go and listen to it again, and then come back here and wildly theorise with me.
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