RollPlay: R&D Reunion Show

[@Sc2mapper117]

This was my first rollplay show ever, and I absolutely loved it. I'm hooked :P

[@thtrnerd221]

I started mcing a game of Apocalypse World shortly after you guys started to play the ruleset. I can honestly say that it's pretty easy and a lot of fun. So thanks for playing the game. Emberly will be missed.

[@StevenLumpkin]

Ah I'm thrilled to hear that! I wanted to show off how easy it was to play and get into, so I'm delighted my ulterior motives were effective.

[@thtrnerd221]

The only thing I'm having difficulty is finding a time that everyone can play. Maybe that's my fault being a novice MC for not making sure before we started playing. Oh well such is life.

[@StevenLumpkin]

thtrnerd221 This is a universal challenge! My RL games tended to meet once every 2-4 weeks due to scheduling challenges. I really do think that most groups that play don't play every week, so no need to feel bad about missing that "standard."

[@thtrnerd221]

***** That's the "standard" that I'm used to playing by. The other games that I'm in currently were meeting once a week and all the ones I've been in the past have also. I guess that's maybe where my frustration lies. Anyways, keep up the awesome work and I can wait to see the next game that's played on roleplay R&D.

[@QemeH]

Thank you all for freaking awesome entertainment! Steve is the best DM, I have ever seen (maybe - just maybe - met by Chris Perkins when operating his own system) and Maggie, Wheat and JP are so different, yet on par with their creative storytelling. This is better than 90% of TV shows I watch - and I only watch top 5% of what's on TV...

[@TheDaJoLo]

JP, Maggie, Marcus and Steve you all made this rollplay show the best one Ive seen. It was so fun at times where everything just flowed as water and things just went your way, untill one roll fuck thinged things up. You all hade som brilgent things going on and it made me want to get home so much faster after work just to watch this show. Thank you all so much it was awsome, AWSOME.

[@AngelavengerL]

Loved this show soo much. Its officially my favorite of all of them. It's a little sad to see this story end but very much looking forward to the new characters/world you guys are going to build.

[@elenna_alexia]

Watching some of JPs previous Rollplay shows made me want to play RPGs, but watching them play Apocalypse World ( & Dungeon World, which I had actually watched before) made me want to DM a game like that about as much as playing it. It just seems not just easy and intuitive but also really fun to be able to build a framework and then encourage the players to fill in the details and sometimes even allow them to completely change the story.

[@FairskyeGaming]

This was an awesome RollPlay to watch unfold, even for someone like myself who hasn't rollplayed before. I loved the world you guys created and that it was something you formed together instead of just one person saying this is how it's going to be and that's that. It was so dynamic and the characters each of you made really interplayed well. I loved how Evan was a total badass and didn't take crap from anyone yet he was still there to help when people needed him to instead of blowing them off. Emberly was awesome because...well basically liked DJWheat said without her they would have basically died a lot sooner. She was the reasoner of the group and a pretty solid character all around. And as for Bubba, he was the game changer and I loved it! JP got so creative with him. Also, the MC Steve did a great job narrating the story and creating the npcs, and I loved how you were able to give the characters so many options and based on their decisions just took the story in a totally different direction than I thought it would go. The only thing I would say I didn't like was the harm system for the reasons you talked about in the video and how it limits you in combat and how you become dependent upon your dice rolls to carry you.So if you start rolling crappy well nice knowing ya! lol But I just want to say thank you to all of you for showing me how awesome RollPlay can be and I definitely be watching all the future shows from this amazing group! and hopefully introduce others to it as well.

[@plus1toawesome]

I love that JP is kind of trying to tie up the show, and Steve and Maggie are just so excited to talk about the game and roleplaying in general that they keep going. xD You guys are all so awesome.

[@thatblindtekkenwarrior1177]

Hey great show guys, was so much fun to watch. I can't wait to see what you do next

[@Hologue]

I think this was by far the most RP-ish rollplay yet. Really good job, everyone!

[@ayrtonbraam916]

Thabk you al I had a blast.

[@PhantomBanger]

What Maggie said is totally right. Something people forget when they watch these things is that you guys are playing characters. Like you said, they won't always make the smartest choice, but the choice that's right for their character. People get really offensive about choices at times, but if they only considered this more then they'd probably understand.

[@PhantomBanger]

***** You're a cool gal Maggie, looking forward to seeing more of your roleplay skills! Real jealous of you guys getting to roleplay with a cool group, definitely wish I could do the same.

[@ImperialGuardsman74]

Rules vs Story? Well, i remember a certain situation in dark heresy where Engelbart spent a minute rolling to execute a guy that is histerically sobbing on the floor :P

[@hristiqnsg]

Well he did kill him.....eventually :D

[@izathae]

Hristiqn Dimitrov only because steve was like, fuck it you kill him.

[@StevenLumpkin]

The Lost King ImperialGuardsman74 to be fair, I probably shouldn't have even asked him to roll. Or given him a +60 for 'surprised target' and 'point blank'. But whatevah!

[@schappsi]

I thoroughy enjoyed this show, the whole crew was amazing, as a GM I learned a bit from Steve, the characters were all amazing. Thank you a lot, already looking forward to the new ruleset you'll try.

[@AngelicDirt]

As a past DM and a past player, watching this was insightful and made me want to get back in to Tabletop games again. This particular system was so incredibly fast and loose that it reminded me of everything I missed about DnD; the roleplay and the surprises that good players and DM's can provide. Also the OOC interactions that come about, too. Can't wait for more, guys! X3 I suggest Niel(sp) as a fifth, if he isn't too busy. He's pretty damned inventive, and even as a PC you never know _quite_ what he's going to do. >:3

[@billyb.604]

Emberly also had the most happen. Many of her friends died, and she went through the most hardships. Her death was a great way to end with, since the story of paradise began and ended with her.

[@asgarzigel]

That was an amazing campaign, looking forward to more. :)

[@Zitaloc]

This would fit in rather well as a comic of some sort =) Thanks for a great show

[@mecas]

Thank you for the great series :-)

[@bart001nukem]

Awesome campaign and awesome roleplaying by all. In short, just awesome!

[@Dappis]

if this rollplay would be an anime it would be the most awesome thing ever

[@neurt007]

Watching these episodes of Rollplay made me feel the feels. Now i kinda want to play it too.. BUT, I don´t have a lot of friends, and the `friends` that i have doesn't wanna play with me I think. And maybe looks fun to me because of awesome DMing of Steve and Neil.

[@RobLawtonUK]

thnx for the amazeing show :D cant wait for more !

[@Snowy123]

***** Maggie! Let's cuddle!

[@BeTReZeN1]

That was very awesome game to watch! Love every hour of it! I'd like to see Steve as a player, though. :P

[@TheSeargent13]

Tum tum was the best ever the way he died just gave me the shivers.

[@Gh0stClown]

I'd love to see these guys play Engine Heart.

[@Rhodebunny]

DASBIGUN I googled it in literally 5-10 sec.Just google it.

[@JohnnyKnight5talker]

Rhodebunny whoa man so slow. select. right-click. search for "x" with google from dropdown. 5 seconds max

[@AkhierDragonheart]

Let me preface this with the fact that I am somewhat of a scholar and historian of the older D&D versions so yeah... Building a character to be good at something started with AD&D to make it so everyone had the same experience. The original D&D ruleset wasn't even complete by current standards as it required the DM to basically home rule a lot of things. The many Basic D&D versions where similar but filled out enough to be played out of the box. The biggest thing that caused the shift to the current form was skills as before the predecessors of skills your character was just assumed to be able to do adventuring stuff. Skills made it so that wizards no longer try to jump ravines as jump is a cross-class skill where as before you just jumped the dang ravine cause your an adventurer and they do that kind of stuff. Of course technically only with 3rd edition did skills really cause the current ethos of needing the skill to be able to do something as in AD&D the skill system was just for adverse conditions but because of how it was written many a player was faced with a DM that said they couldn't light a fire cause they didn't have the fire starting skill.

[@RedClaw87]

One day you should ad Day9 to the show if he likes to.

[@Rathhix]

Yes plz, you're all busy so I don't know if you could schedule it, but you should totally try xD

[@satanvenit]

It's already happening :D twitter.com/itmeJP/status/420306130728787968

[@Rathhix]

Sweet :D

[@satanvenit]

*****

[@canhnguyen-uj6ox]

Incontrol: "like he has the fucking time, lol". but yeah, i would like to see Day9 playing roleplay game, seeing his personality.

[@MidgetPally521]

WHAT WERE THE LIGHTS OUTSIDE THE CITY!!!!!!

[@TheFlabluker]

its a older game set but cyberpunk 2020 would be a great game to r&d great show guys really enjoyed following it looking forward to the new game

[@pryor]

loved every second :3

[@antonweit3817]

By far the best dnd on jp's channel (no offend)

[@Robzdefheadz]

I thought the lights was some of the nomads coming to avenge their killed biker friends.

[@Herderus]

Well I would love to see them playing Neuroshima

[@AuspexAstarte]

Battle Jesus died to save all in Paradise that night.

[@TheAoihoshi]

I really enjoyed this rollplay more than any other on this channel so far, so much in fact that I decided to MC a game for myself. There were a few things that annoyed me though. Quite a few times I noticed Steven not giving the players the benefit of their rolls (a core tenant of AW), for instance Bubba rallying people to kill Look(Luk?) or Evan frightening the non-infected gang only to have them shoot at Emberly anyway. I wonder if MC Lumpkin actually noticed. He is still my all time favorite storyteller in a Roll play though.

[@StevenLumpkin]

Yep, this is hard! In my defense, I could say things like "The infected frightened by Evan don't attack HIM... but they could still attack someone else!" ... But the reality of the situation is that it's hard to always give the players 100%! I definitely always try to make their successes (even partial) be beneficial to them, but it's a tough thing to do. As a narrative game, I think it gives me enough gradient in response that I was on the right side of the fence most of the time, but maybe I wasn't as fully supportive of the players in some circumstances as the roll deserved. :)

[@TheAoihoshi]

***** Thanks for the reply! I will probably end up rewatching the play through of AW trying to pick up on the things I really enjoyed about the style of MC'ing that made this so compelling for me. Do you have any tips for a person just starting out with the DM/GM/MC role of roleplay other than following what the book tells you to do? Any media you took inspiration from other than Cross when building the atmosphere and scenery of AW?

[@StevenLumpkin]

TheAoihoshi I run by the book! It's great advice. Just remember to keep building tension to a climax, then back off a bit and let them rest... then ratchet it up again! Inspirations... not a ton for AW, because I haven't watched a ton of post-apocalyptic movies, actually! But 28 days Later, Children of Men, Mad Maxx.... anything that strikes your fancy, really!

[@TheAoihoshi]

***** I noticed you guys mentioning the Juggernaut, which is an awesome custom playbook from the AW community. Any other custom playbooks you guys included? After reading through a ton of them I found some pretty great ones like the Beast Master (you get a huge beast of the appocalypse) and the Wolf (the exact opposite of the Solace)

[@Ricx739]

in my limited rpg experience i like the mechanic heavy character creation of 3.5 because i like to use them for character development. like how the character acquired the lesser skills in it's backstory and how they affect his life.

[@thepunisherabv]

The band is back together and noone died from a drug overdose.

[@shikamarukibalee]

great story

[@naeviaus]

I like the idea of Emberly being the brain and heart, Evon being the muscles, and Bubba being the dick of the operation. Always fucking shit up^^

[@billyb.604]

Maggie became a gun lugging lady Jesus

[@pyrerite]

Apocalypse World would be like Borderlands, if Borderlands were more of a regular RPG instead of a heavy shooter type game. That's what it feels like to me.

[@wildbynature5]

I hope you guys return to AW someday maybe after 5 or so campaigns. that being said I hope the next campaign is just a epic as this one.

[@curtissutherland6094]

Steve is a Boss!

[@novice1016]

Yeah, the combat system isn't really that interesting. However the rules also greatly help players in interacting with the world and its NPCs. I also love the roleplaying and the chemistry between the players so all in all I love this campaign.

[@WolfMoon173]

Maggie play as Zillia, make her a battle babe :D

[@WirlWind494]

And maybe they'll finally get to gain a hold roll for player on player sex lol

[@ProjectKYA]

What happened to the new rollplay video? I saw it upload last night then vanish. I'm confused

[@Daleksaresupreme1]

so is there a wiki of this show yet?

[@skimptomyloo]

part two yess

[@EquusMulus]

With Wheats grin its probably ShadowRun. :))))))

[@BrainHackerz]

I AM GONNA MISS THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH

[@izathae]

Please omg please play maid rpg. I've read the rulebook and it looks hilarious. Me and my friends might try it.

[@leovaeg]

+The Lost King Hopefully you've seen that they do :)

[@izathae]

leovaeg I've seen the first one. I still need to watch the second one.

[@maximumrpg3707]

JP, do you have any recommendation for finding an experienced DM to play with? I've never gotten to experience having one yet and i'd really love to.

[@BlackShadow1991]

As I said in one of the first videos - if you ever gonna play Monster Hearts it would be totally awesome :D

[@OOCMonster]

I would love to see you guys run Dogs in the Vineyard. That's another narrative-style indie game, set in the old west. The GMing load is super-light, and it brings hard choices to the fore in a very similar way to Apocalypse World. I think you'd really like it. My only concern is that the characters really need to give a fuck, and JP doesn't, so it might not be his cup of tea.

[@scozaq]

you should get day[9]!

[@archon458]

Steve should go ahead and make guides for D.M ing

[@warjockey123]

+1 if you think tasteless will be the guest of the next show

[@karchrim]

Play Toons rpg. That would be awesome!

[@ZhirniToni]

Steve is a fantastic GM

[@Vernaleer]

I really dislike the combat system in apokalypse. It just feals too loosely. In addition I dislike the gang concept too. That just feals very strange. In dialog and other social interactions with NPCs the system is great. Also this psychic maelstrom thing is really cool. All in all it was fun to watch, but it's good that R&D is moving on. 4-5 weeks is the perfect duration.

[@novice1016]

I should've read the comments first before commenting myself. I agree with you. +1

[@Large46]

Well, you might say that combat is kinda loose, but it's kind of a point. Do you remember all those movie inspired finishers Geoff used to do in the begining of Solum. Like shanking a goblin with broken spear after waterboarding him with wine, or all those weird shanenigans with dual-wielding knives and breaking them in the skull? Do you noticed how there was none of that by week ten? Vincent wasn't proficient with spears or daggers so doing those thing was inefficient and stupid. Unfortunatelly it was fun. Heck,it feels like half of what Geoff is doing in DH is pointing out ridicolousnes of ultra realistic and thight Warhammer combat rules. You know, i press a barrel of my shotgun to his chest and pull the trigger, so obviously i hit his right leg, because system is also balanced for long range combat that never happends.

[@novice1016]

Large46 Maybe that's just because I love having clear cut mechanics with specific results but that's just me. Don't mistake that for my lack of love for the campaign 'cause I really love this campaign, short but very sweet.

[@StevenLumpkin]

Large46 Yep, the AW-based games do a great job of empowering players to do exactly that stuff, whereas the more simulationist games make it a lot harder. That's part of what I actually wanted to show off through doing R&D! It's nice in some ways because it lets you be very narrative about combat, but it does lack that concrete understanding of the exact consequences for your actions. That's the tradeoff!

[@naeviaus]

In re to combat: I dislike the usual D&D combat - it#s your turn, Greg deals 4 damage to X, Katy deals 2 damage and now the orc is dead - because it seems that's what those systems focus on: number driven combat. While AW is a bit clunky in that regard, it's so much more free form.

[@StevenLumpkin]

Tune in on Saturday..... ;)

[@TheHarimir]

get yatsee or TB :D

[@brock5387]

FIIIRRRRSSSSTTT

[@ImperialGuardsman74]

You are last, son.

[@DanDaMan098]

you ain't first. Your Last

[@alfredwinchesterjr]

:D

[@polterghostx6466]

I lost my interest in Apocalypse rollplay few weeks in. I loved Bubba and Evan characters but Ember was for me blank and boring. Some time after they jumped in time forward I didnt know anymore whats going on. Suddenly its apocalypse Breaking Bad with too many NPCs with strange names and not clear affiliations.