I've just watched all three new episodes of Wil's new show, which features performers and writers playing an exhilarating RPG campaign with Wil as DM, set in a lavishly illustrated techno-primitive society.
Back in the 1980s, there was a legendary D&D game in Austin, with Bruce Sterling as dungeon master, where regular players included Steve Jackson and designers from his studio, Mike "Godwin's Law" Godwin, and many of Austin's sf/f writers. I've always wished that I could have watched that one.
Titansgrave, while different, is no less exciting. Between the expert storytelling and role-playing, the art (which is ably supplemented by fan-art from the show's viewers), and the audio-editing and foley effects, it's completely captivating.
While Titansgrave is something of a masterclass in participating in and running an RPG, the show assumes no knowledge of RPGs or games in general. There's a huge trove of background videos, as well. The cast includes Vlogbrothers' Hank Green, Big Hero 6's Yuri Lowenthal, Attack of the Show's Alison Haislip, and Laura Bailey from Avengers Assemble.
The campaign is the first ever staged in AGE, an RPG system from Seattle's Green Ronin Publishing.
For years, Keith Ammann has maintained his blog, The Monsters Know What They're Doing, in which he carefully laid out the logical tactics that the monsters of Dungeons and Dragons would use in combat, based on their alignment, stats, and habitats, creating sophisticated advice for Dungeon Masters hoping to move their combat encounters from rote stab-stab-kill affairs into distinctive, memorable strategy-and-tactics affairs that created not just variety and challenges for players, but also depth and verisimilitude. Now, Ammann's work has been collected in the first of two planned volumes: The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters is one of the most interesting, thoughtful, smart RPG sourcebooks I've ever read.
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