My apologies to everyone, worked on the Ai avatar graphics for this session and then ordered a pizza to eat 2 hours before the game. I ended up with a bit of food poisoning. My night sucked but feeling better now (just tired from a restless sleep).

Top notch work gents

Not having access to the map meant your players couldn't 4D role play as they are reliant on the GM to describe the layout behind each door. Why not just give them the map and have the players describe what was behind the door? In game, the map could have been a relic, and you could have maintained some control over the dungeon content by having 'Orc tribe territory' or 'beware the bones' and other such directions scrawled in blood on the parchment. The map doesn't even have to be 100% correct, as long as the players feel they can populate the rooms. 2:44 Crispy said "wish I could have just given you guys the map", er yeah. As far as I can see the player led story prompts,( ie the 4D RPG bit)were limited to: Redhanded gave the quest - a Barron's son is missing (but this might have been from the session 0); 1:35 Kreech investigating the necklace - which went nowhere;1:44 Kreech asking about who made the bird door - which went nowhere (the question, not the door); 1:50 Kreech asking about the architecture - which went nowhere. As far as saying 'Dungeon Crawls are boring' that's kinda on you. Runehammer has an entire Channel on advice to spice up dudgeon crawls, and the Veins of the Earth is one of the most imaginative supplements out there. Go checkem'out. Another problem with the 4D is because you are 'making it up as you go along' I never believed the players were in any danger. For example, despite hordes of enemies no one ever seemed to be out classed or have more than moderate pressure in a fight. THIS is why people like the crunch of D&D ( I can't believe I'm defending D&D), at least you have tactical play and repercussions. Nor does such a slack rein allow for the more strategic play of 5 Torches Deep. At one point they seem to be able to magic TWO 50' ropes from thin air! I don't know EZD6, maybe this is fine. If rolling 1s is a rule meant to result in added danger then why wasn't this happening? This is the equivalent of mini-maxing your character but THROUGHOUT the game rather than just at character creation. Isn't half the fun torturing your PC so they crawl through the dudgeon on bloody stumps rather than strolling around picking up treasure? Overall the Role Playing and GMing were good (as usual), but it came across as a murder-hobo-door-kicking pastiche of a D&D game than anything 4D. Have you guys considered Broken Compass as a system? It's a fast paced, easy rule-set, with plenty of room for player led input.

So this thing the town is on top of is similar to Lexx, the biomech spaceship from the series Lexx. When it needed to refuel it would land on a planet and slowly move forward, with a giant opening in the front that would scoop up whatever was in the way. Dirt, stone, water, garbage dumps, towns and people...whatever was there was "eaten".

Spencer is an absolute G. A complete professional. My hero.

I delivered the Gom Jabbar to Alaric! He was no human!

1:31:35 RIP Alaric. Cue "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John. Well played Rick. Lots of fun this session. Whets the appetite for more!

The only thing i need is 4 hours of uninterrupted time, the last time I had that was September 2023, but when the kids are ready for role play, i can teach them.

I enjoyed this conversation.

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Critique heavy is fine when it is done to push positive change. I think that we have been trying to achieve that with our criticisms. I am Guilty of the lazy thing, my time for our hobby is limited at the moment.

4:00 Me and Sameoldji were just talking about that. When something wasn't heard clearly.

The act of seeking to critique or the analysis of any aspect of life has a worth greater than gold. Mindfulness can impower everything from sports to academia, why not apply this to a beloved past time? I have never recorded my sessions and did a play back. I will have to do this every thing and discover what I and my players have been missing or overlooking in the blind love of the game. Thanks.

Finally got around to see this gem! Only have Fear city left and then ive seen all of your 4D sessions.

Hey Rick, I'm a 4D player looking for someone to play with - where can I get on board?

Ha ha did I see some 1D streaming here and there xD

Why did i start making videos on 4D roleplay? Becauae you told other people in the comments who were critics: "maybe make a video about it!" And I took that personally.

What a bunch of twattery.

I feel so bad for the people who feel the need to employ these types of tricks in order to have fun roleplaying. I'm less mad and more sad for them.

This is one of the most pretentious things I've ever heard of and is objectively bad for the hobby. This "theory" is basically wrong on every level.

3:09:00 Really awesome so far. I like how the action is picking up a lot. The whole other dimension thing is very mysterious at this point. The ramblings of an intoxicated madman, or real? :) Anyways, I'll definitely be checking out the gm diary on this. Again, thanks for posting.

So I'm at 1:52:00 ish and it's pretty wild to me how separated the PCs are. Not a bad thing, it's just very different than what I've seen in the past. Anyways, good stuff. Thanks for posting!

They're making playing an RPG hard. Just play.

Nice. Looking forward to seeing Worlds Without Number in action.

Im using this directly for my german friend-circle of players. Already got one player agreeing that 4D sounds like alot of fun and that he wants to get away from the constant 1D interruption from players and 2D play just isn't as cool and wastes time.

What I'm struggling with with the premise of this is why roleplaying the entire session is better? Watching the two example games Coleville's game, while a little chaotic, looks more fun to me than the first example presented. In the first game everyone sits around with long pauses awkwardly debating what their character would say vs the second game where people seem to be talking more naturally and enjoying themselves.

I like this video format Rick.

Very nice, sharable, I suppose there is no way around the sharp edges - sometimes a drastic change is much easier than a small incremental one! Keeping 100% in character is a hard sell, but it must be done!!

Concise video, straight to the point, very effective.

That Coleville* one was crazy town at the start! Holy..... Great job Rick

Awesome, this a great format for RPG critique.

I appreciated and enjoyed this session immensely, it was a great game! Though I would not personally give PC''s as much freedom as you did, though each person personally did very well during the session (by not overriding your roll as a referee) and you also rick rolled with what they produced. Over all, what you all produced was entertaining. Well done! I have personally done this as well as using a rotating GM, for it to work well requires specific type of players who all have the same state of mind and approach to RP!

That was a very ambitious session, and you did amazingly well rolling with the punches. Some thoughts on it: 1. At first glance the flexibility of false fags plot lines appear to be a great approach for co-GMing but I would disagree. The players need to trust where the GM is taking them as the GM is the lynch pin to the world. Players led narratives are more likely to drop off and lead to false/abandoned plots which can be hand waved as false flag ops anyway. This is especially true in one-shots where the establishment of what IS happening needs to be rapid. 2. Transparency with the rolls could be better. At one point Sonner's engineer came up with a great idea to blow the baddies away by shooting a fuel pipe. He scored a 4 and still got to ruin both guys - why make it a roll if the bar was so low? I know you lot don't like emersion breaking but as you all report the number back to the GM anyway I don't see why the GM can't say what the target number is. If the players know the system then saying its 'difficulty 8' and explain its a long shot to strike the pipe and not engulf both sides of the combat with a fireball' it qualifies the situation for all the players right? I don't know the Traveller system but it smelt like fudge. Just le them do it or give us some hard numbers. 3. Do you need to have 80% player invented plot? (I know you guys think I'm a BitD shill) but in BitD the players might say 'Tonight The Red Sashes are going to hand over a relic to the Dimmer Sisters at the docks. We're gunna bloody their noses and steal the relic for our client.' All the players know the location, the score and the opponents at the start of the game, and the plot is 100% what the PLAYERS want to do. Direction, purpose and stakes have been established immediately. The GM can focus on making up a few twists, NPCs, and what the relic is. The Lost Epoch felt directionless for the first hour and a half, and frankly I nearly turned it off (boo-hoo poor 1D gamer can't even stay focused for 4 hours). I'm glad I didn't turn it off. It's a delight to see you all running on full afterburners, and WOW🤯 Shonner in an actual game!

14:30 I had a GM whiplash as well just listening lol It was interesting to watch, I might even rewatch it. Kinda nice how each player had their own 'plot' going on. You guys should do a video on that topic [managing multiple scenes]

My character neveer met Fil's character. This was one of the best sessions have I been in. I tried to create situations where we could get together, but I was fine if they didn't materialised.

could only catch it live for the first hour as it was getting late. I was very interested in how you were running 3 to 4 differente scenes as the boys were all scattered, it was very insteresting to watch it with a GM mindset.

Terrible cringe making toss....& yet still BETTER then most live plays on KZbin.

Great Session guys, just like a movie! I would love a game, but being in the UK, the time zones when you play would be difficult!

Also, I'm very curious: Have you ever talk about why you don´t like Evil Hat? It's the first time I hear someone say that, and I would love to know the reasons. I live in Spain, so I don't really know much about this topics and how people see different companies/publishers out of my country. Of course, if I'm asking something dumb, or no really polite, feel free to ignore the question, and I apologize in advance if I was too nosy 😅😅😅 PS. My English is not that good, so I probably wrote something strange or with a different meaning that I wanted. Just to clarify in case something went wrong with my post 😅

Thank you very much for doing this video. I'm triying to learn how to use Fari, and this was really helpful! 🤩