Giant Bomb Unplugged: Pathfinder: Part 03

Loving' this stuff. Probably ties with Load Our Last Souls for my second favorite feature.
First being Unprofessional Fridays. But this is great. It's all great.
Money well spent.

The fellowship will soon turn on itself. It has already begun. He will try to take the gem from you. You know of who i speak...

Dude, spoilers!

Really though, this feature is great, especially now that Brad, Drew and Vinny are getting more comfortable with the rules and everything.

QFT

@rorie Maybe this is more trouble than it's worth, but is there any way for the players to covertly take actions without the rest of the party knowing? It seems tough to act like your character doesn't know something that you've heard said across the table, and I'm wondering what the reactions would've been like if nobody knew what Brad's character was up to...

I don't care if you continue with Pathfinder or go on to another game, but whatever you do, please don't make a chat character. It won't work well, it would take forever and it would definitely just get annoying pretty damn fast.

A community made campaign would be okay, though.

Amazing video guys. Love the chat idea, just make it so someone makes 3-5 different/funny reactions in the poll and people pick one, just to keep it fast and simple. I think it would be better if it was a new Character, preferably a foreigner (not canadian). A silent weird guy, who only responds and reacts through dumb stuff from the chat's polls. I think it wouldn't be that slow. Please keep this up, whichever scenario or game. The open community campaign idea is also great. I trustgiantbomb members to create neat stuff, they always do, as do you guys too! Thank you Mr. Rorie for all your hard work!

Other than Parks and Rec, I'm in the same boat. Giant Bomb even replaced Netflix.

Features like this help bring to fruition my dream of Giant Bomb being less a video game website and more just a general awesome factory.

YES. The in person interactions ABSOLUTELY make this thing one of the best pieces of content GB has. As much as I like audience interaction, we're here for the most part because watching Vinny, Dave, Drew, Ian, Brad, and Rorie interact in person in this context is delightful, and not so much (and maybe this is presumptuous) to see the actual "quest" play out. I feel like creating a character whose choices are inherently limited because they need to be pre-determined before any choice even gets made, and who has no in person presence, wouldn't do anything but slow it down.

In short, the fun here comes from the constant attempts at subverting the rules by Vinny and Dave, from Brad's ridiculous conniving and Drew's huffing disdain for it, and I think it's strongest if kept that way. And again, this is by far one of the best things Giant-Bomb has made thus far, so thank you guys for putting out so much superbly entertaining content. I don't know how I'd get any work done without it.

I wonder, though, if you wanted to have the community interact in some way, you could add in certain events that could be determined by poll. Not so large a decision as a Choose Your Own Adventure type thing, but little choices that affect the adventure without slowing down the combat with a ChatMonster or ChatHero.

I really hope that they do Gamma World at some point. It could lead to some wonderfully ridiculous shit.

i LOVE having dave back.

that is all

@sil3n7: @rorie: Haha yeah that kind of stuff dont bother me, its all in good fun. What your not seeing is me giving them shit off camera on a constant basis.

Thats good.

Chat player is a bad idea. Maybe if chat was a single monster in the dungeon that could work.

@rorie: people who want to, should remake a lvl2 character using more interesting classes for the next quest. Also, detect magic doesn't tell you what an item does. Drew was right, you need to do a knowledge check for that

Aside from that great content, keep going.

I recommend not having a chat character. The chat isn't funny, you guys are. I think you should take a serious look at Gamma World, you would love the mutations.

this is one of the best features you guys have done, please keep doing it forever. :P

As fun as this is to watch, the botched rules adjudication for skills and whatnot is painful. . .

When Ian did his Shocking Hands spell on the water and Brad was in it, wouldn't that have activated the gem he stole from Dave? It was lightning damage iirc...

I wish I could animate, because this deserves a movie.

This is never not great, though I wouldn't mind if they started getting into the core rulebook with some of the other classes. VBomb seems like he should be a barbarian instead of just a vanilla fighter.

@edmundus: post-it notes. Not perfect, but the lowest tech subterfuge you can manage in a pinch.

Detroit Jones the kleptomaniac jerk for best character.

This is the best thing ever!

Also, D3 is

1-2=1

3-4=2

5-6=3

I hold the pen and pencil the same way Rorie does. My 2nd grade teacher went ape shit trying to get me to hold the pencil correctly, even called my mother over it. My mother told her to stop bitching over something stupid. Teacher never liked me since... =/

That's a pretty good idea that would be pretty simple to implement. I'll think about it!

My group cancelled our session today, so I'll just watch this instead! :D

"V-Bomb Keyser Soze!"

Slain.

Never been a D&D fan, but this has rapidly become one of my favorite features on the site. V-Bomb is the best.

Dissension is growing amongst the ranks! will they be able to keep it together for the boss fight?

With Pathfinder and Load Our Last Souls, it's become increasingly clear Matt and Ian aren't each other's favorite people.

These videos are loads of fun to watch/listen to! Keep them up!

I second this! Send the Last Canadians to Hero School in Hollywood

Add me to the list of people that think this is the best thing that Giant Bomb has ever done.

Also, poor Brad.

I will need to be added to that list.

I guess it all depends on what you're going for. Combat can be fine if that's what the group enjoys, but I find that both as a player and a DM, combat can end up being very boring, very tedious and overall just detracting from the experience. Killing two goblins takes over thirty minutes and that's ridiculous. It's just not my idea of fun.

In most of my Dark Heresy(which maybe Vinny would be interested in checking out?) games I've just completely removed most combat rolls. You can wing it through narrative and still make it interesting for those involved without checking all sorts of modifiers and ranges and blah blah blah

The more I watch this, the more I wonder if 4e might be better suited for this group.

I've seen and read enough of Pathfinder to realize it is not for me or the group I play with. If we had started with Pathfinder/3.5, it might have been a different story. But I have come to appreciate what WOTC tried to do with 4e and I think it works pretty well for a casual roleplaying experience.

This is, without a doubt, the best thing you guys do for Premium Members. Please, PLEASE, keep up the great work. It's such a blast to watch you guys do this, and I've never played a DnD game in my life.

Strength modifier gets added on to melee damage, guys. 1.5 strength modifier for two-handing a weapon.

VBomb should be doing a lot more damage each time he hits.

I wonder if anyone remembers this; it's an oldie but a goodie:

I'd say it's pretty close to what the Giant Bomb guys are doing. And boy are they lucky Rorie doesn't DM like this guy.

but the real question is, will you?

I love watching this. I wonder why Jeff doesn't get involved though?

drew seems to be losing interest

Love this stuff guys. Look forward to each and every episode.

I don't think he is losing interest, it's just he is a quite dude.

@artelinarose: If it takes your group 30 minutes to kill two goblins, you're doing something wrong.

I always found the combat in DH to be very fast and easy to understand since it's just a single roll to hit or miss. If you're playing DH without combat, why even use the system? Use Dogs in the Vineyard or some other narrative system.

Thanks for letting me know I'm playing the things that say "ignore the rules if you have more fun" wrong.

@artelinarose: I don't think combat has been that bad for this show at all. The first combat was kind of long because they were all learning how to do it.

@rorie Might I ask... what's the name of that cider you're drinking? I can't quite get a good look at the label.