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inthesto posted:As much as Ben and Edan mocked his speaking style, Dave is still definitely the best narrating DM out of all the actual play podcasts I listen to Yeah it cuts both ways, he speaks/narrates with a particular inflection and rhythm that makes it easy to parody but its also super entertaining in its own right.
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Roach Warehouse posted:Yeah it cuts both ways, he speaks/narrates with a particular inflection and rhythm that makes it easy to parody but its also super entertaining in its own right. One thing I noticed, that they picked up on and mocked, was that he really does fixate on using specific words a lot from season to season. I started laughing at it too. Like ostentatious. Then one day I found myself just saying it in casual conversation and laughed my rear end off at myself while everyone looked at me weird because I don't think any of my friends even know what ostentatious even means.
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The stand up segment in 4.06 is a terrible vengeance from Dave holy poo poo.
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LentThem posted:I'm only up to episode 26 in that podcast but man there are already some amazing bits of backstory for these guys. On this note, just listened to episode 73 where Hing explains that his mom didn't allow him to drink from water fountains because she was an insane germophobe, caught him drinking from a fountain at school, and made him drink a whole liter of milk as punishment. Ben: "The more I learn about your childhood, the less explicable your character becomes."
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inthesto posted:Dave's greatest skill as a DM is knowing exactly when to take his hands off the wheel and let the players make unforced error after unforced error Rodyle posted:The stand up segment in 4.06 is a terrible vengeance from Dave holy poo poo. 
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May 20, 2018 04:55
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Having a co-DM to play the NPCs is definitely not the norm at all. The only other podcast I've bumped into that does it is Neon Rivals Presents Tomb of Annihilation, and that's a very new one.
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May 20, 2018 07:50
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Having other people play NPCs is a key feature of Tenra Bansho Zero, a very good and cool game!
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May 20, 2018 08:10
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Ben and Edan and all the guests also let Dave come up with 10 times the NPCs of most podcasts without them all having a singular voice moving things forward. And sometimes you get the Fae king and queen where they just get real horny, which a regular DM might not perform so vividly.
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May 20, 2018 08:24
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Yeah, having someone else play the NPCs is great but even better is having two people who bounce off each other and cut down on the number of times one person has to awkwardly converse with themself.
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https://twitter.com/drgnfrnds/status/999520423128645632?s=19
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May 24, 2018 07:48
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This makes me very nervous. Every NPC is just going to be a homicidal maniac from the get go.
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May 24, 2018 14:20
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So this is how Dragon Friends ends. lol at "A Very Canonical Episode"
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May 24, 2018 14:33
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not being australian it upsets me that I will not get to see this until the end of the season
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May 24, 2018 14:55
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I feel like the Hing DM sessions needs its own bingo cards with squares like "Hing forgets the premise of his own adventure", "Freezo is portrayed as the victim despite clearly being at fault", and "Dave blows apart Hing's climatic fight due to actually knowing the rules"
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May 24, 2018 18:31
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The No Difficult Questions Episode
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May 24, 2018 23:51
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I just started listening to this - this is the sort of funny thing I need right now to get through some really stressful stuff.
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May 27, 2018 19:00
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I wish I could get Ben and Edan to come over and play the npcs in my games
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May 29, 2018 18:01
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https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy/status/1001107980048392197 What monkey's paw do I need to wish on to get Justin McElroy to guest on Dragon Friends
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May 29, 2018 19:46
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Ask Ben, I guess? He's the McElroy fan.
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May 29, 2018 19:51
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I’ve started watching the ToA streams and there’s something that just feels slightly meaner about the players tormenting Dave when there isn’t an audience to laugh at it. Also you have to look at him as he suffers, which makes it more personal. But I’ll get used to it. And I’m only on episode 2, but they seem to have fallen back toward season one levels of knowing how to use microphones to create a consistently pleasing audio experience. Hopefully that gets better
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They start getting a bit more of an audience as the thing goes on, so that sort of helps, but Dave being visibly crushed by 3-5 idiots at any given time is still something you'll have to deal with.
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SpacePig posted:They start getting a bit more of an audience as the thing goes on, so that sort of helps, but Dave being visibly crushed by 3-5 idiots at any given time is still something you'll have to deal with. I mean, I knew what I was getting into, I’ll live.
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When you all were saying there was a S3 payoff for Hing doing whatever he wanted, did you mean when Freezo loses his ties to magic and then has to kill Hing at the end? Just finished and Jesus christ, lol
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Pastrymancy posted:When you all were saying there was a S3 payoff for Hing doing whatever he wanted, did you mean when Freezo loses his ties to magic and then has to kill Hing at the end? Just finished and Jesus christ, lol Do you maybe mean famously depraved and gross serial killer Michael Hing? Yeah, it's absolutely amazing. Not that it's really changed much so far, but it's still very funny.
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SpacePig posted:Do you maybe mean famously depraved and gross serial killer Michael Hing? Sap Toad
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Season 3 end spoilers: Has Dave ever said why he took magic away from the party in Freeside? It was deservedly vindictive but also didn't have a real payoff.
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Psychepath posted:Season 3 end spoilers: Has Dave ever said why he took magic away from the party in Freeside? It was deservedly vindictive but also didn't have a real payoff. I'm 99% sure it was just to gently caress over Hing
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I have to say that given the style of NPCs/bad guys Ben Jenkins plays as it's uncanny what Griffin McElroy used for his namesake in TAZ
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e: wow, I really misread your post if I thought this was news. Not Operator fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Psychepath posted:Season 3 end spoilers: Has Dave ever said why he took magic away from the party in Freeside? It was deservedly vindictive but also didn't have a real payoff. I think it's just a setting thing. In Shadowrun, magic doesn't work in space in general.
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Up to episode 2 of ToA, and every second of that talent show was incredible. Alex Lee slowly panicking as she realized she pimped herself into doing a half-orc rap musical was delightful. Also, I'm enjoying having faces to put to the voices, but I'm getting very distracted trying to guess how old Benny Davis is. He's either a very stern 25 or a very gracefully-aged 50, I cannot tell. Ainsley McTree fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:Also, I'm enjoying having faces to put to the voices, but I'm getting very distracted trying to guess how old Benny Davis is. He's either a very stern 25 or a very gracefully-aged 50, I cannot tell. 
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It's also fun that Edan Lacey looks exactly like I imagined him.
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Edan has the best laugh in the cast
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Pastrymancy posted:Edan has the best laugh in the cast And someone on the stream said he looked like Pablo Escobar and now I can't unsee it
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Edan Lacey is the best thing Australia has ever accomplished, I feel.
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The crowd went nuts for Freezo's crit in the latest episode, in a way I was unprepared for and delighted by.
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Continuing my journey through tomb of annihilation; I absolutely loved Edan and the frog king doing drugs in the hot tub ("Yes! You get me! I'm SO glad I met you!") It's criminal that this podcast isn't more popular than it is (I don't actually know how popular it is but whatever it is, it should be more)
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