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\n* Titansgrave | Geek and Sundry
\n* Titansgrave – YouTube
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\nOverview
\nTitansgrave: the Ashes of Valkana is a video series featuring a group of minor celebrities playing through an RPG campaign.
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\n* Setting
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\n* Love the combination of science fiction and fantasy!
\n* [Buck] Of course I was inclined to root for the technological solutions.
\n* A world with ancient evils that haven\u2019t been seen in millennia is a fun trope. Makes me think of A Song of Ice and Fire.
\n* [Decker] I agree with Buck on the melding of Fantasy and Sci-fi themes- it was cool to see! I appreciate that there was still a love of good beer! I do wonder how more of the political systems worked though- although Wil created a vast world and introduced many characters, he didn\u2019t really develop things like the society that they were in as much as I would\u2019ve liked.
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\n* Story
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\n* [Decker] I wish that more things had been explained- there were things, like Lemley\u2019s amulet and why her family was despised, that were never answered. I also felt that it was a bit short, but I\u2019m also used to novel-esque stories.
\n* Time for a sequel!
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\n* Characters
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\n* Most of the characters had quite a bit of depth. This was intentional, of course, because Wil had each of the players come up with major and minor goals for their characters.
\n* Most of the characters were well-specced for combat, except for S\u2019Lethkk
\n* [Decker] I think that it helps for the PCs to have good actors behind them as well- that makes for some fun characters. I wish that Wil had kept up the whole character keeping secrets from others thing later into the story as well- it would\u2019ve made for some interesting interactions.
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\n* Players
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\n* Looks like a fun group to play with!
\n* Wil Wheaton
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\n* Did a great job coming up with the whole setting
\n* Went to the effort of incorporating the player characters\u2019 backstories into the missions they were going through in the campaign
\n* [Buck]Seemed a little heavy-handed in guiding the players through the campaign
\n* [Decker] I agree a bit, although I also think that he did a pretty good job of improvising and working with what the characters wanted to do along the way (5 gold and a party). The story was definitely a bit railroaded, although he did include a few choices for the characters to make, which is always nice.
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\n* Laura Bailey
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\n* She was great! She got really invested in her character, Lemley.
\n* [Buck] I\u2019m always impressed with people who have to play a character with low intelligence, because they have to reign in their own ideas.
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\n* Hank Green
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\n* He had a really well developed backstory
\n* [Buck] He is too snarky for his own good. Wil had to punish him in the game a few times.
\n* [Decker] No such thing as too snarky… that may have just been part of Ankia.
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\n* Format of show
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\n* 40 minute episodes felt pretty good.
\n* [Buck] Maybe 30-35 minutes would have been ideal.
\n* [Decker] I would\u2019ve gone the other way to 1hr episodes. I thought that it felt like the story was getting clipped short in a lot of cases.
\n* The intro was really long, and we started skipping it
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\n* Production quality
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\n* Love the bottom third they have when someone rolls dice! Especially since they change the numbers when somebody makes a mistake with their math.
\n* I enjoyed the art style- big brush strokes leaves some \u201csmeared\u201d details, but that fits well with the noir and dirty feel of a lot of the setting.
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\n* RPG system
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\n* Looks really fun!
\n* Using three dice pushes most rolls towards the middle o...