Friday, May 21, 2021

My Life As A Gamer: Watching SF Writers & OG Gamers Play D&D

You ought to have this on your regular watch/listen rotation.

That's Nick Cole, James Ward, and several others playing Dungeons & Dragons in the original campaign setting known as "Forgotten Ruin"- yes, also the name of a new series of Military SF novels by Cole & Anspach of Galaxy's Edge- which you can find here at Amazon.

Marvel at watching military veterans somehow fumble their way through a premise that can be summarized as "GATE, but written by men that actually got shot at for real." Laugh as they cope with fantasy weirdness, boggle as they make decisions that make you wonder why they did that, and enjoy actual play by actual gamers and not a fake-assed improv show by out-of-work F-tier actors (looking at you, Critical Roll).

There is an aftershow later tonight--check the channel schedule--that's an informal After Action Report, and they archive on YouTube also; you'll want the "Shattered Sea" videos that they haven't made a playlist for yet.

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