RollPlay R&D - Saga of the Icelanders - Week 1, Part 3

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RollPlay R&D is BACK! This time with a brand new cast! Join Steven, Maggie, and Jesse as they play through and test out new table-top games.
This season they're joined by wowcrendor and ShannonZKiller
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[@VJTProduction]

Jesse and Story, it simply can't go wrong. I love it!

[@hanna-justinawalliarosalin8769]

Gotta love Crendors fortune cookie style fortune telling by not telling anything. "His pride may make him good, it may make him bad."

[@Pyronar]

Hanna-Justina Wallia Rosalind Sieglinde Marseille That's what's awesome about it. I think magic is very limited in this setting, so the characters believe it, but the players know that most of it is bogus. It's a great concept that opens up a way to some amazing roleplaying. Roleplaying a superstisious or mystical character, when you know it's not true is super cool. I was actually very impressed with Crendor here, I wouldn't expect such a serious thought-out performance from him. He usually just rolls with whatever, but this time he really prepared and made up an interesting story that fits with the setting.

[@2smart2die]

Steve is such a good DM, his questions regarding each characters backstory are amazing, it leads them each to a deeper and richer backstory. I wish I could be that good.

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

13:25 "Certain set of skills, skills you've acquired over a lifetime" I caught that reference. It was funny

[@grnd_ctrl8387]

Steve- "So you guys hooked up?" Jessie- "Oh all the time."

[@Magmafrost13]

This is already my favourite series yet

[@gorantharon]

"Have you noticed that..." Steven's worth his weight in gold doubled.

[@grifflikespie]

thank you steven for that ever so subtle league reference

[@JediLordRevan]

Listening to Jesse's back story made me realize that I would love Jesse to be the DM once.

[@santiagofreytes3178]

LordRevan that would be fcking great i loved him in both the previous r&ds he always has secrets and "plot twist" but being a GM takes a lot of practice im not sure if jesse is ready

[@thatssomebadcheese]

LordRevan nah I think this is the perfect spot for Jessie he needs to be a spot to tell a story without having to deal with all the numbers and other shit that comes with being a GM.

[@TheMrVengeance]

+Bad Cheese - To be fair, when Jesse was asked for a name, all that came to his mind was Ingle Dong. :') Maybe he's not quite on the level to DM yet. :p

[@RetryAgainAgain]

Jesse is so aggressive in his character's backstory that Shannon had to change her character's age to keep it kosher. It's good the girls are so laid back about all this.

[@Pyronar]

RetryAgainAgain I think he's just very enthusiastic about it. You can see that he's really not that aggressive, because every time Steven corrects him or changes something to be more consistent, Jesse immediately agrees. I'm not saying he could refuse Steven, but he's not even trying to add any details of his own. He's just like "that's cool with me". I think if Shannon didn't change Rovik's age, but just said that the ages don't match up, Jesse would simply change that part of his backstory. I actaully like his enthusiasm. Sometimes it leads him too far out of the setting, but it really brought life to a big part of the Numenera season and I'm confident that he will have the same effect here.

[@Shannon_Plante]

RetryAgainAgain he's just a true viking spirit!

[@otherish2788]

RetryAgainAgain Eamon fears Ingibjorg, remember when that superstitious deliciousness was thing that would have been awesome. Then "I don't think so but I could be down with it." Instead Ingiborg has a soft spot for Eamon. It's good the "girls" are so laid back about this.

[@Pyronar]

Otherish I don't think we can blame anyone here. We know that Maggie usually has a fairly strong vision of her characters. It's good to be open to stuff, but I would rather she'd be comfortable with her character. Roleplaying something that didn't fit in your original vision is a nice thing to do, but only if you know you can pull it off somehow. I wouldn't want Maggie to try and force that relation, when she doesn't know how to work it into the story.

[@otherish2788]

George K. It has the feel of a power gamey move to shoot down a potential weakness that just doesn't sit well with me personally. But that is my problem and R&D players should do as they please. IMO Characters are not avatars of players but tools to tell an entertaining and interesting story. Flaws make interesting characters, and it will be interesting to see if Eamon has any.

[@TheDagger222]

Watching Jessie get carried away with his NPCs was hilarious :P

[@HeroicPeanutOfStormAndLightnin]

the AMAZING powers of Ingibjorg the Lame! \o/

[@DyvimZard]

4th relationship: "Steven will make life hell for us."

[@ShadowOfHavoc]

Best character creation session ever

[@kazkasKitoBaisaus]

that eyebrow @8:30 from shannon is amazing

[@johnnytwotoes]

Jesse Cox world's greatest lover... I mean Hilda Groomsbane, who am I kidding Jesse Cox world's greatest lover!

[@roflshield]

i think throwing a foreigner into the mix would be really cool, like have one person play a british mercenary captain or some such and see how his stats and ways would mingle with their society.

[@TheBrokensaintvxvx]

I was fully hoping Jesse would have picked "Scum, Andorv, and illainy" for his raiding party people's names.

[@clawhammr666]

For some reason when they said "it's my wife" what popped to my head was "it's my wife it's now or never, but i ain't gonna life forever" etc bon jovi

[@missdeadite9696]

Jesse's character is basically tumblr.

[@missdeadite9696]

Hahahahaha. I like.

[@WArtC]

***** *Tumblrsdottir

[@BaronVonHoovy]

WArtC Thank you.

[@wrathisme4693]

Remember when they had a separate video for character creation?

[@DeanoD34]

They're gonna kill each other on their first adventure at this rate XD

[@paulj3781]

Hilda's sheath is so long and circumferous that you will have to put in your puny dagger sideways. HARHARHAR

[@cadenmcerlean4920]

Hilda seems to be on every bodies bad side. Man, Jesse must be having the time of his life.

[@BlackShadow1991]

Jesse's character theme song is definitely "Sex Machine" :P

[@sieldarion]

Wow, I can't believe it took so long for an Olaf to pop up!

[@Dermeister009]

Do you have a relationship with any of them? ALL three ofthem!! LOLOLOL!

[@evamonkeyN2]

geller died in a tragic spoon bending accident.

[@Stoic_Zoomer]

I need to play this!

[@Robert399]

So is Hägar the Horrible going to make an appearance :P

[@Piemasterjelly]

Thora the Explorer :D

[@legion_sqd]

finally!

[@coffeegoblin3887]

Are these real Norse names? I was half expecting Yarl Yogi bear...

[@IPrinnyExplosions]

is saga of the icelanders from the same people of apocalipse world, or did i missed who it is from ? :s

[@noahkirtley8550]

IPrinnyExplosions Saga of the Icelanders is built off of the Apocalypse World rules, but the game itself was developed by a different dude.

[@IPrinnyExplosions]

they can do that, building on someone elses rules ? isn't that like coping as in copyrights, i meen i have no problem that they use Apo. world's rules cuz they ar awesome.

[@Em0srawk]

IPrinnyExplosions apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=29.0 There's a few published games that use the system, it's referred to as "powered by the apocalypse" :P

[@IPrinnyExplosions]

oh wow so people can make there own game while using that system, for example if i want to make a game but rules like that, i can but for sertain parts i need permision?, thanks you made my day with that, ive been creating games for a hobby trying to find my own system, and one of my games i wanted to use apo, word dice rules but i wasn't sure if i could do that :D

[@IPrinnyExplosions]

good too know thanks :)

[@Robert399]

Does Saga of the Icelanders actually have magic and monsters and stuff or is it just superstition?

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

There would have been different "tiers" of raiding. Mos vikings didn't kill everyone in places they raided so surely there rooms for real viscous Vikings

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

Qimodis I'm sorry I'm revising for exam and that word comes up alot

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

Shadownet Spy My point exactly, my point there could be "evil" Vikings who wouldn't do that

[@Scoma19]

D Birt Yes but all raiding is on an even level, like there is no "good" or "bad" raiding.

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

HarryD19 well no? some just plundered and other murdered, plundered and enslaved. I'd say one was worse than the others

[@Scoma19]

D Birt yes but in the eyes of the the people of the town that they brang the loot back for they didn't care what type of raiding was done, as long as loot was brought back.

[@aubrey83573]

Frodi sounds like a Pokemon

[@Drago3491]

Wait a 12 year old child named Rolf... Someone ship that kid off to Tellius ASAP

[@Rhaenday]

The game is the game and all, but I believe average age hasn't changed that much with time - it's just that a high number of child/young adult deaths skew the numbers, once someone survived through their teens they probably lived quite long lives so 28 back then shouldn't necessarily be seen as "old".

[@AnthroTsuneon]

Weren't raids from vikings not as bad as history used to tell? As in, most people just paid a 'protection fee' kinda deal/left offerings, and nearly never were all the people of a place actually slaughtered 'cause raid.

[@burdo43boriszero1]

so Crendor doesn't want to share a bed with anyone? That is probally called te lame.

[@AuspexAstarte]

vebjorn wasn't anything like jessse said steven, but it's okay, you are cuul

[@MrDonRolfie]

I love this because im danish, and my first name is Rolf, so i evidently screwed jesse's character lol

[@KageRyuu6]

Just more proof that Jesse Cox is just a horrible human being lol.

[@sev_elm]

Moar pls

[@ikano1]

The butchering of norwegian names are cringe wrothy yet amazing at the same time XD

[@ShadowBomber19]

I know DMs have their jobs and are required to do and know things.. However.. I feel Steven is FORCING a story rather than building one. Is this normal? I wont pretend to know a lot about role playing.. I really am just curious.

[@shikz0rz]

***** Don't think the show would progress fast enough unless it was done this way. It sets the stage and backstory, then the players unfold the future. I guess?

[@shikz0rz]

***** Don't think the show would progress fast enough unless it was done this way. It sets the stage and backstory, then the players unfold the future. I guess?

[@ShadowBomber19]

Shikton Better than anything I can come up with lol. Makes sense anyways

[@nicholaslawlor1907]

Hilda/Jesse raising her voice?, Hilda/Jesse talking sense?????? c'mon, seriously:P

[@oseas000]

Just imagine if SJWs finds this video

[@wythore]

I love this series guys :D But I have to confess something: I know my opinion doens't mean much to you but why invite crendor and jesse? There are plenty of other "geeks" out there that would sell their mother to be on your show and you invite those 2. I find them extremely anoying, specialy jesse that thinks he's funny but he isn't. Even Will Wheaton is more funny that this guys, and he his obnoxious with his adult jokes

[@AB-ln2py]

IMO too much hassle making chars... especially for a system that kills PCs easily...

[@Pyronar]

Marcin Kocimski That happens in every season of R&D. It will become quicker next time, because they are already familliar with the system and have established NPCs. Besides, it's no Pendragon. If I remember correctly, the entire first episode of that season was prep and character creation. That was ridiculous.

[@AB-ln2py]

Well, we shall see. Tho in pendragon someone died almost instantly, and his next char wasnt as elaborate :P

[@Ketolos]

Marcin Kocimski It's also to build the world around the characters. After an hour of crafting characters, you have many NPCs, you have motivations, you have lot of small stories. And GM can take those and use them a lot. This type of making characters is usually better then just putting some numbers on the sheet. Cause your characters feel more alive.

[@AB-ln2py]

True, but getting char like that killed by a random rng roll in 1st session is well... annoing ? Besides Coxx will use his womanly charm and kill them all, he is so predicatble ;P

[@X32Amnity]

listening to these Americans pronounce scandinavian names is hilarious and is simultaneously hurting my ears.

[@KiDynomyte071]

X32Amnity I know you'd think they'd keep it simple and safe.

[@X32Amnity]

Yeah, but that also entails that they would have to be at least semi-humble and with Crendor and Jesse on the cast that is not gonna happen. :D