Giant Bomb Unplugged: Pathfinder: Part 02

I LOVE THIS!

That was weird. When they were trying to think of the Oz character's name, I was too. Literally came to the tip of my tongue milliseconds before they said it.

Great fun, can't wait for next show!

Karen is pretty much the best person.

Peeing in the fountain. Who would do such a thing? Right @samstrife

yea but she can get quite loud sometimes though....

This is just so great!

Matt "King Fat Mouth" Rorie!

edit: ROBOGOBLIN! do it!

THE BEST KIND OF LOUD, RIIIIIIIIIIGHT?????

Good video ya'll

Vbomb is a Kleptomaniac who wants to just take everything.

@rorie: You should give some exp bonus to specific players for feats like the arm dropping kill from the first episode and for getting the gem. Not huge amounts of exp, just enough to encourage creative play. Great DMing, keep up the good work.

pffff. @rorie is doing great!

I like Sark on Nerd Poker but he does that 'player leave the room if your character isn't there' and loves to have long painful player kills. Works with that group but would be awful here.

I actually REALLY love Spencer on Harmontown. He's been great at running a bunch of people who never played and or read a D&D book.

Giantbomb Unplugged or The V-Bomb show.

GO V-BOMB GO

I love Vinny so much

Man, it's good to be seeing more of Dave. I've missed having that duder on the site. And this, besides being the best thing on the site at the moment, completely plays into his strengths --- D&D cred and riffing with Vinny.

For someone who has never DM'ed before, let alone played with this system, he is doing a very good job.

I think he's doing a great job too! Sark is just incredibly creative and knowledgeable - he's been DMing forever it sounds like. No fault of Rorie's! Good job Rorie! Love you!

Not a fan of pen and paper rpg's - I guess i don't have the imagination required and I guess I'd still worry about the 'social implications' (which I shouldn't, I know, but hey) ; in saying that, this is some entertaining stuff.

Never played D&D so this might be an integral part of the game, but as a viewer, a thing that would make this better to watch, would be to cut out the preemptive math. I mean, just roll to see if you even hit the guy, then do the subsequent math for damage and so on. I think that would give this a way better flow.

Other than that, I'm really loving this feature!

What happened to all the plaid??? :(

I assume calculating possible outcomes of an attack is needed so they can choose which ability to use. More experienced players can probably do this much faster and in their head. But since most of them are doing this for the first time, it's understandable.

Sure, that makes sense.

Heh. I'd consider myself as pretty open minded and somewhat geared into towards "nerdy" stuff - but I don't think I could get into table top stuff. I really respect people who do because there's a lot of imagination and creativity that's needed to be had to enjoy it properly - I think I just need some level of constraint to enjoy myself.

Just wanted to add my support for this series. Love it!

This is currently my favorite thing on Giant Bomb.

Maybe I just miss him saying it everytime, but what Pathfinder/DnD game is Dave talking about playing on his PC?

Best feature on the site, I feel bad for non subscribers who have no clue what they're missing out on. Rorie doing a great job DMing imo, it makes it more entertaining that they don't know all the rules and aren't being all anal about them so we get stuff like Vbomb's statue arm drops and disturbing troll king torture scenes :) Plus Rorie's incredulous laughs at Vinny's plans are infectious.

The game Rorie recommended was :http://www.gog.com/game/the_temple_of_elemental_evil

And the game Dave said he was playing was: http://www.gog.com/game/icewind_dale_complete

Best thing on Giant Bomb. Hands down.

KAREN AT THE END. OMG SHE'S THE BEST.
We.. we need her as an extra character in Pathfinder. Man she's so naturally hilarious.

I love these d&d vids. ty guys! :)

Just want to echo everyone's sentiment that this is downright amazing. All the guys mesh together to form a great group, but the biggest reason for the success of this crazy feature is Vinny and his ability to completely suck the potential negativity out of any situation. He's just an unbelievably positive and charismatic showman who makes this and the Dark Souls stuff way more entertaining than they should be.

Jeff should be the evil dungeon end boss.

I think I heard the idea of substituting different die rolls a couple times but that's a bad idea. Don't let anyone do it @rorie!

Explanation:

When you roll a d6 it has an equal probability of landing on each side, so it has an equal chance of landing on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. So over the course of many rolls you would expect a d6 to land on each side roughly an equal number of times.

Over an infinite number of rolls, you would expect the number of times each die landed on each value to be the same. So if you were to calculate the average value of a d6 roll over an infinite number of rolls it would be (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 3.5, which is called the expected value.

If we rolled 2d6 we would expect 2x3.5 = 7, but if we rolled 3d4 we would expect 3x[ (1+2+3+4)/4 = 2.5 ] = 7.5, which is better on average.

Say we look at that d6 again. It could land equally on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, but what would 2d6 result in? For a total of 2 both dice must land on 1, but for a total of 3 there are two possible ways the dice can land: one on 1 and the other on 2 and vice versa, so two possible ways. If we go on in this fashion and add up all the possible ways one can reach each number we'd find that the values 7 and 8 have the most number of combinations with the number of combinations decreasing as the values increase and decrease away from 7 and 8 ending in one possible combination for 1 and 12. Hence when you roll 2d6, you're far more likely to have a value somewhere close to the expected value of 7.5 than you are a roll of 1 or 12.

If you plotted the number of combinations for each possible value you'd end up with a bell shape curve centered on 7.5, which is called a Gaussian curve and shows up in all kinds of statistics.

So when you use different dice with a matching maximum value, not only do the minimums not match, but also the expected value and distribution of resulting values differ.

Other uses:

Guys this is gold. Keep doing these. Love it!

Loving this so far! Jeff needs to make a cameo and yell "Nerds!" though.

This is amazing. Vinny being Vinny is the best thing.

Definitely looking forward to even more of this.

I love how into his character Vinny gets, I think it really takes this game to the next level.

Gotta love V-Bomb but Drewcifer is my favorite character name of all of them.

The Last Canadians don't give a f*** about the Geneva Convention.

I wouldn't surface the rules so much as a DM. Just decide how well role-played/probable a player action is and then come up with a roll and just inform the players about the outcome of the situation. Makes the whole process more natural.

Goblin King is suddenly the most sympathetic character. You guys fucked up his hands!

Oh man, Karen mocking them for using pencils was pretty hilarious. Like, "Pssssssh, pencils? This must be math".

true but you could also argue that surfacing the rules so much helps people understand them better and so they will make better decisions (well, in theory. Vinny is very unique after all). It's helping me understand at least.

Vinny is showing me just how creative you can be in games like these. It makes the prospect of playing one much more exciting.

Also, Karen!

This is why Vinny is great, just so entertaining. I wish he was in more videos outside of quick looks.