I Hit It With My Axe: Episode 33: The Dogs of War

Zak Sabbath

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Episode 33: The Dogs of War

The fur flies as the party unleashes the dogs of war against the gnolls.

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KEM10

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CAPTAIN CANUCK!!!

It's cool, I'm from Wisconsin. It's like Canada but without the healthcare or the French.
 

dex-dex

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The captain canuck shirt is fantastic!
and i agree it would be weird looking like a tourist in your hometown.
my brother has known the hate of the Quebecquois and province wise we are like neighbours! really really hateful neighbours.
 

Mumorpuger

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Zak... "I don't hate you, but I represent people who hate you" is probably the best phrase I've heard in a long while. Awesome.
 

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"So I'm going to WA-BAH and just like..BAAH!....BAAH!! That made me laugh. Infact I laughed through the whole thing. Everybody was on top form in todays episode. Nice one gang!
 

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Mumorpuger said:
Zak... "I don't hate you, but I represent people who hate you" is probably the best phrase I've heard in a long while. Awesome.
Agreed, I laughed out loud at that one.

Pets/Minions are so useful! I think I'll buy a bunch of dogs in the next game I play. Thank you, Kimberly. :)
 

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Oh my goodness! Mandy has such cute knees! Of course only one knee is showing so not sure about the other, but the one that's showing is soooo cute!!! :)

And she has a cute knose, cute hair and well pretty much everything now that I think about it :) but the knee is particularly pretty darn cute :)

Everyone one is pretty darn cute, even Zak especialy when he makes up those dreams!:)
 

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Wow! That was an intense installment! What will be next?

Zak...you are the bomb. That's it about that.

Trooper6 MVP for this episode? KK, no doubt. Raging and attacking a gnoll with her dying war dog? The look on her face? Great RPing there.
 

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Once again, another very cool session segment. I have to say, Zak, that by watching you I'm getting a good idea of how a good DM should run a game. I've only dabbled in D&D over the course of my life: I played one or two 1st ed. games, got familiar with 2nd ed. when TSR used it for their Buck Rogers: Century XXVc game, and played one or two brief games using the 3.5 rules. However, with Wizards of the Coast's relaunching of Gamma World, I'm looking to get into that big time with DM'ing and starting some campaigns. So as someone looking to stick his toe in the water of DM'ing, I find myself watching this show and your own style for pointers.

BTW, what's your opinion of the new Gamma World? I don't know if you've had time to check it out since it only came out last week. I bought it and looked over the rulebook, and it seems to me both very cool and accessible. It's based off of the 4th ed. rules, though. So I don't know how you feel about that.

One last bit: even though Frankie is gone and she'll be sorely missed, I vote Bobbi to be a permanent player! Not only is she beautiful, but she's smart, she seems to have a very good feel for the game and how to play it, and it looks like she fits in very well with the rest of the group. I should also hasten to add that I've never heard of her, Kimberly or Mandy before I started watching this show. So I know them more as being D&D players than anything else.
 

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I liked the bit with the cameraman. Must be hard for someone to be around D&D all the time and not able to participate. Frustrating.

Those poor, poor dogs*.


*In my CoC game yesterday one of my players bought a small dog to experiment on. It barfed up all it's organs and became zombified. What is it with player characters and violence against dogs?
 

Zak Sabbath

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Ian S said:
BTW, what's your opinion of the new Gamma World?...It's based off of the 4th ed. rules, though. So I don't know how you feel about that.
I haven't seen the new Gamma World but I use elements from the old one in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Mutant Future mash-up game that we play.

As for 4 E it looks like we'll be playing for the first time during Satine's celeb D&D charity event:
http://sexfoodandcomicbooks.com/blog/2010/10/26/dungeons-and-dragons-charity-event.html
if there's anything we like about it, we'll let you know.
 

FarSpace

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Ian S said:
Once again, another very cool session segment. I have to say, Zak, that by watching you I'm getting a good idea of how a good DM should run a game. I've only dabbled in D&D over the course of my life: I played one or two 1st ed. games, got familiar with 2nd ed. when TSR used it for their Buck Rogers: Century XXVc game, and played one or two brief games using the 3.5 rules. However, with Wizards of the Coast's relaunching of Gamma World, I'm looking to get into that big time with DM'ing and starting some campaigns. So as someone looking to stick his toe in the water of DM'ing, I find myself watching this show and your own style for pointers.

BTW, what's your opinion of the new Gamma World? I don't know if you've had time to check it out since it only came out last week. I bought it and looked over the rulebook, and it seems to me both very cool and accessible. It's based off of the 4th ed. rules, though. So I don't know how you feel about that.

One last bit: even though Frankie is gone and she'll be sorely missed, I vote Bobbi to be a permanent player! Not only is she beautiful, but she's smart, she seems to have a very good feel for the game and how to play it, and it looks like she fits in very well with the rest of the group. I should also hasten to add that I've never heard of her, Kimberly or Mandy before I started watching this show. So I know them more as being D&D players than anything else.
Remember to do the dream sequences like Zak does.
 

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Zak, Zak, if your players start sucking you need the monsters to suck equally hard or a random encounter that is supposed to be a simple challenge will turn into a TPK. Since you clearly don't want to use a DM screen and fudge some rolls in the parties favour I suggest using the environment to the parties favour. For example I noticed the Gnolls where dancing about on those tall outcrops, how about some dex rolls and having a few fall down with potentially lethal consequences? When Kimberly threw the half dead dog at the Gnoll it should count as a grapple because suddenly the Gnoll has an armful of dead dog to contend with.
Though to be fair sometimes I think the girls should be posing for SG they way they throw their characters into dangerous situations.
 

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the thrown dog scen reminds me of one of my first games, when a fellow player picked up my dead goblin charicter and threw it at a hobgoblin, killing it XD
 

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Poor KK, her dogs that she just got are no more...

Great episode over all, it just shows how sometimes random encounters that catch you off guard can have dire consequences. A true roleplaying masterpiece.
 

Ian S

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Zak Sabbath said:
I haven't seen the new Gamma World but I use elements from the old one in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Mutant Future mash-up game that we play.

As for 4 E it looks like we'll be playing for the first time during Satine's celeb D&D charity event:
http://sexfoodandcomicbooks.com/blog/2010/10/26/dungeons-and-dragons-charity-event.html
if there's anything we like about it, we'll let you know.
Cool! Something tells me that you've probably got a copy of the old "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" module lying around as well, as that had some tech you could use too.

Since the new GW works with 4E, one of the cool things about it is you can conceivably migrate characters from the D&D world into GW and vice versa. When you consider that Earth in GW has been changed by alternate realities that have been jumbled with our own, this isn't as unlikely as you might think. So characters could cross over without a whole lot of tweaking. Incidentally, I've also been thinking of working-in elements from other RPs for my GW campaigns as well where possible: most notably Torg and Rifts.

The only possible issue could be the CCG component, as both mutant powers and high-tech gear are drawn from a deck and used during the combat phase. That's something that's certainly not in D&D 4E, but I'm betting a creative DM could make it work.