RollPlay R&D - Saga of the Icelanders - Week 1, Part 2

[@evamonkeyN2]

I'm looking forward to this week being jesse explaining how he is the mortal enemy of literally every clan in the game.

[@Lethoras]

"Marry and kill" Jesse Cox starring as Hilda Groomsbane, in this Scandinavian slasher movie.

[@Galeigh]

"I think Hilda will bring me nothing but bad luck" dat foreshadowing.

[@kosmotius6222]

Everytime I hear Crendor say "I am Ingibjorg the Lame.", I lose it. The way he said it, so enthusiatic, is great.

[@lonewolfM16]

There are three broad classes in Norse culture. Thralls (slaves and servants), Karls (freemen), and Jarls (nobles). Huskarl means "Freeman of the House". The name is meant to indicate that the Huskarl is not a slave, but a freeman bound by oath. Rovik is also a freeman/karl, merely a landholding one. Thus she is the Husbondi (Master of the House). Also, the Norse had a severe taboo against harming women (so much so that in one saga a woman hits a man in the face with a bag of 200 silver and he orders his men to kill her, and they refuse to do anything to her because harming women is cowardly.) and divorce was perfectly legal, as long as cause was given, so Hilda would actually likely be praised for killing her husband.

[@Phelan666]

lonewolfM16 Jesse didn't watch enough Vikings.

[@Robert399]

lonewolfM16 Presumably killing a spouse would require a lot of justification though, even if it was only allowed one way? Also, presumably a man could defend himself if attacked by a woman.

[@ffbotha]

Robert R I don't think he could to be honest, not by harming the woman. Fact is that the scenario that Jesse described would have been very unlikely in Norse society, because all that would have been required was for Hilda to tell anyone about what her husband was doing to effectively get him killed. Beyond this though, women didn't just command a lot of respect in that culture, they also held a lot of power. This is because if my memory serves (been a while since I've read about this so I could be wrong) only women were allowed to own land. So a man could never actually own a house, or land, of his own. It would always have been the property of his wife (all single men lived in barracks I think) and divorce was fairly easy (though I'm remembering that only women could actually initiate it, but not sure if that's right either).

[@ffbotha]

Frederik Botha Or rather, it would have been considered very dishonourable for a man to attack a woman, regardless of the reason for it.

[@Robert399]

Frederik Botha right ok, I was more asking if a man's wife came at him with a sword, presumably he can defend himself. He's not expected to just stand there and die.

[@Sandro234]

"What was his name?" "Karlsbad." "His father's name?" How the hell did Jesse not say "Karlsdad" right there >->

[@Leivve]

Huscarls are basically the viking equivalent of knights, a single individual (Normally a warrior, but with huscarls there can be exceptions) who swears loyalty to server their lord; normally in exchange for something like food, drink and housing. Unlike knights though, if a huscarl's lord is dishonorable or in some other way proves to be a bad leader/chieftain, they are free to leave and find a different lord.

[@huskinater]

JP Odin you slipping up. I wanna see all dem charts and graphs and character sheets during creation to follow along. Excited for more!

[@RetryAgainAgain]

I love how as soon as Jeese said Engledong, Steven is just like "Yeah, um... No" in his patented Steven way.

[@thoughtfulldane4502]

Steven, will they go on summer raids? they had to keep themselves going up there, trade would be central, so makes sence that there were ships that could go raiding, with the whales and everything too it would make sence that ships were availeble.

[@denolaj]

Really? Stopping smack dab in the middle of Jesse's awesome background story? Dangit man! This all to say that I'm whining 'cause I'm loving it!

[@BlackShadow1991]

lol, dat parental advisory from Steven :) still a good thing to say ;)

[@Piemasterjelly]

Wait is Jesse is Brienne of Tarth?

[@opty65]

Piemasterjelly that's exactly what I though when he randomed her appearance.

[@mcdergan]

+Piemasterjelly Well, I'm pretty sure Jesse is fond of her, he named one of his computers after her.

[@ruuteldaja]

DAMN! This is so good :D

[@gabba1gabba1hey]

I think the "intro" should all be one episode.

[@SyntaxButthole]

Mcface Have to agree there!

[@gabba1gabba1hey]

Syntax Butthole have to agree with you agreeing with me.

[@SyntaxButthole]

Mcface Lets agree to agree.

[@gabba1gabba1hey]

agreed

[@Lord-Sendo]

Mcface Dat Money Doe...

[@davfree9732]

It's strange not having JP in a window.... Then he SPOKE!!! All that was missing was the beardy JP head popping up.

[@AngusKhan21]

"fight or flight? yeah, right!"

[@ClockworkAnomaly]

Jesse's character looks like a Claymore!

[@ClockworkAnomaly]

And has the back story to boot...

[@BaronVonHoovy]

I would've named it Rovikstead, tbh. Easy, logical, and works in-context. Although now that I think about it it does sound like Rorikstead from Skyrim, so maybe not...

[@earganon]

BaronVonHoovy Could have settled for Rovikheim, no possible coppyright infringement there hehe.

[@soaka]

**** it, im subbing to twitch for the vod

[@Stark339]

xD I love yore guys´s pronunciation on icelandic words like with seiðkona

[@Mephzice]

King Richard I yes

[@Cyberpilot]

Mephzice Is it a thorn, similar to old english, or am I wrong?

[@Mephzice]

same sound as in thorn yes, but a Icelandic word never starts with ð

[@baijokull]

Hlynur Steinn Yes, the ð wasn't too bad. But they "ei" in seiðkona is pronounced like the end of "Hey".

[@urfacecalling101]

Sami Veillard That letter is actually called an "eth". It could be pronounced like a "d" a soft "th" or hard "th" depending on the circumstance. It, too, was used in Old English along with the thorn.

[@herbchen4258]

wonder if this alliteration of resources was on purpose; fish, foxes and falcons?

[@ArcanumGamesChannel]

I didn't know they made roleplay game about me and my friends :p

[@MrChubbyDumpling]

Engledong

[@nicholaslawlor1907]

Crendor the Silent strikes again:P

[@Aeros589]

So Jesse is Brienne from Game of thrones.

[@momyrandersson]

***** Exactly what i was thinking!

[@ObakeOnna]

Dat mind.

[@darkwolfe]

Rovik Ragnarsson.

[@17Haru17]

11:30 Jesse totally just rolled Brienne of Tarth.

[@Phantomzeroneo]

How often are this sessions?

[@TheK1t3]

Can we see the complete video in twitch if we're subbed to Jp's channel?

[@jdsd744]

Yes its on the vod

[@thoughtfulldane4502]

I hope that someone pulls out poetry or something of nordic culture, Codex Regius etc during this game :D

[@LordDeathis]

That moment when ylu had a nordic munk in D&D named Vermund... What's the chance.

[@notanothersong]

So ***** your character with short hair, bright face and tall body is Brienne?

[@Raktus]

So, I've been trying to introduce the R&D crew to some awesome games from Sanguine Games. The creator of Sanguine Games told me that when you offer someone something for free and they say maybe later, they don't want it. I'm just disappointed that out of five seasons R&D has had three shows now that feature the Apocalypse engine instead of something else.

[@Abrams-kun]

Producer call Ikea... yes

[@imaalias2162]

Where is DJWheat?

[@bakke601]

i'm norweegian... the pain... the utter pain...

[@AskiFin]

Shannon's name should be Ragnarsson, not son of ragnar

[@Shannon_Plante]

AskiFin My name isn't "son of Ragnar"...that's just how I'm known.

[@AskiFin]

nevermind then

[@ninjapaul856]

ShannonZKiller How about Man "The Man" Manson? :D

[@soup2634]

Nooooooooo hahahah it's too shooort!

[@Baalshazar]

I respect Jesse for being the only female character considering the difference between the sexes. Jesse gonna get pregnant. Nevermind, Crendor's gonna get prego as well.

[@TheXtractor]

Why do all the rollplay graphics make it so hard to read the names of the characters, your graphic designer does a great job making the art, but he has no idea how to make something readable sadly >

[@dfddfdfdfdfdfdskyrim]

This is way too dragged out. The character creation should be one episode.

[@ninjaprodigy640]

It'll likely be the majority of this week so feel free to skip it

[@dfddfdfdfdfdfdskyrim]

NinjaProdigy I never said that i don't like the character creation. It's just feels too slow.

[@roastedcat2046]

Vojislav Belic It's because character creation is such a huge part of this ruleset. It let's the players take an active role in creating their universe.

[@LogicDoesNotApply]

Vojislav Belic Yeah, it's unfortunate that it took so long to get to the playing, but character creation and setting engagement are such a HUGE part of this game that you honestly couldnt really spend any less time on it

[@dfddfdfdfdfdfdskyrim]

Logic Does Not Apply I just feel like it should be a one or two hour episode. Again, i'm not saying they should spend any less time on it.

[@Canadian_Zac]

Carl's Bad

[@TheK1t3]

1th

[@IllusiveSerb]

Why is it exactly "awesome" that men play female characters and women male characters? You had to get your "modern way" into a place and culture that opposed your own view? Iceland had it right.

[@EvilMageTim]

*Voice of God* "Ikea really?"