Let's Kill Chult And Take It's Stuff: Character Selection

So, it seems  we'll be off to the lands of Chult, to cause audience-defined levels of mayhem. In the interest of making the setup process have the 'personal' touch, Sand and I have each put together 5 character concepts, which we're presenting to you as options for the resulting merry band. So, who's in the running?

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms!

So, After looking at the Voting... Sci and I have decided that we're going to go with Neverwinter Nights 2 for our Combo-Platter Let's Play.  I've scrounged about a bit, and have managed to put together a list of three possible campaigns for us to try out.
Sci - Oh boy NVN2. The biiiig advantage here is it uses the 3.5 ruleset, which is may favorite iteration of D&D mainly because I know how to build practically aaanything with it. By adding a few mods to fill the game with new classes and prestige classes, we get a TON of character options to play around with.



1) Storm of Zehir
-The Second Expansion for Neverwinter Nights 2.  One of the Better Expansions for NWN 2, the campaign is mainly set in Chult, a rarely seen part of Faerun.  The Campign focuses a lot more on exploration than the other options here, and has the unique option of allowing us to use *4* player characters, Two for Each LPer.
Sci - This is the option with the most flexibility, since we can mess around with the system and the scenario the most. We'll be able to open up character suggestions to you the viewers, letting you help us create a party of brave fools lost in Chult. Also, since its an official scenario, it might be less buggy.

2) Pool of Radiance
-This is a import of the legendary Pool of Radiance adventure into Neverwinter Nights 2.  I'm not quite sure what to expect, other than it will have some good old fashioned Dungeon Crawling.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NWN2ModulesEnglish.Detail&id=63
Sci - Ah, a classic dungeon crawl. Possibly the least open to suggestions, since dungeons tend not to be fountains of moral or tactical options, but also the simplest option, good for spectacle.

3) The Last of the Dana'an / The Dana'an Unvanquished
-A Two part Campaign in a low magic world, that is focused around more tactical and organic world.  It has a mix of Linear and Free-Form stuff, and Actions will effect how the story goes a lot more than words.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NWN2ModulesEnglish.Detail&id=370
Sci - I've always been wary of attempts to make 3.5 'low-magic', because the result is usually ill-balanced, but with only the two of us to worry about, it's hardly going to hurt too badly if we snap the game over our knees (or get snapped). A slightly more hardcore, Witcher-y experience might be the most indepth of the given options, but would require more care.


So, Which one would you prefer to see?

Double Double Trouble

Okay, so, turns out? We're inspiring each other before we've even really begun with this idea of a collective of LPing. The co-op LP that Sand and I will be doing has brought on the possibility of myself and Raven doing one as well, though in his case, his superior recording technology allows for the experience to be captured on video, instead of the usual hundreds of screenshots, and host them on his existing youtube channel. So, interesting possibilities abound. How might we use such an oppurtunity? Hmm.....

The Best LPs have two guys, this is known.

So, in the interest of explaining my madness, I should elaborate on what occured after my last attempt at getting feedback. Basically, Sand and Rabe were inspired by my call for ideas, and pitched their own ideas seperately. You've already seen Rabes contribution, but Sand has a different approach. He'd like to help me with my second LP....By being the co-participant. Yes, the concept of a two-person LP is what's being waved around, which means a very different look at the options on the table.

Vincent Goes Trucking - Episode 1: How It Started

Hello everybody, BSRaven here. Much appreciative of the sciencey one letting me do this gig on his space, and for putting up with me being confusing a lot of the time. This is going to be fairly silly, so buckle up, bring your beer and pretzels, and enjoy. Also, language warning, the lead character is prone to profanity.

Introducing My Co-contributors

In a move that I've had in discussion for a while now, I'm adding two of my fellows as authors on the blog. The first is Sandwitches, my online GM and fellow mad shark plotter, who plans to work with me on my next LP. The other is BSRaven, another online pal from merry old england, who's been making Youtube videos for some time now, and would like the chance to work on the type of LP I do here, to the mutual benefit of the whole endeavour.

Give them a big hand, ladies and gentlemen, as we go to the next stage of.....whatever it is we're doing.

Options for a potential second LP

Are you satisfied with the continuing antics of one teen girl with few manners but many stealthy bullets? Well, perhaps you're not, and you'd like to see something different on the channel, either as a followup once New Vegas is finished, or running alongside? Well, if you are, then this might be the thread for you. Here, you can suggest more possibilities for me to play unprofessionally, for your amusement.

Let's Play Fallout New Vegas, part 18: The Ownership Cycle

So, its been 6 months since I last did anything with this LP. I'm not sure I can attribute the lack of updating to anything but my own laziness. I kept finding different things to distract me, whether it be AAA games, online chat, or silly Gameboy Advance games I'd completed before and wanted to replay for nostalgia or something. In the meantime, playing more of a fallout game I'd completed once and didn't have the scope of Skyrim seemed an odd thought, even though the guilt gnawed at me on many an occassion.

But, I think I've finally come full circle, and decided to try this whole thing again. I hope you'll still stick with me, and see if we can make this thing go anywhere.

New Vegas, Part 17: A classy lady with unclassy problem solving techniques.

Welcome back, friends, as I embark once more on an adventure in the story of Latooni Subota, a young woman who's fancy on the outside, but ugly on the inside. I apologise once more for taking several months out to do the exact same thing in the prequel to this game, it just seemed like the thing to do.

What I've been doing instead of my LP

Mainly? Playing Fallout 3 again, this time with two mods: Fallout Wanderers Edition to up the damage of weapons, add the need to sleep and eat, make healing harder, add a bunch of new items, and generally make the game a grittier and more involving experience; and Martigens Mutant Mod, which adds a bunch of new monsters, adds variety to the existing monsters, and delevels the spawns so you can be fighting Super Mutant Behemoths and Deathclaws by level 5. Its like playing a new game at times, and I'm taking the oppurtunity to explore the Capitol Wasteland in depth, going to every location to experience the game without the pressures of the main storyline or the other quests. I only do quests to get loot or challenge myself, I don't feel pressured to do them just because (and frankly with the mods? Sometimes wandering the wastes can be even more challenging than the scripted layout of most of the quest locations.).

Other than that? Playing another Super Robot Wars game, this time only with a menu translation so 90% of the text is just gibberish and I just have to guess at whats happening from the icons flying around the map. It was one of the harder and more frustrating ones, so it took longer to play through despite its small stage count, but it was strangely satisfiying to work with these under-powered units against the enemy.

I'll get back to New Vegas soon. One more super mutant camp....One more abandoned vault....