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Episode 39: “Tall Glass, Short Flask, Leaky Jar” (All Souls Night, D&D 5e)

Episode 39 of our podcast: the next episode of the “All Souls Night” D&D5e game.

Okay.

It’s been five months since we last posted an episode…a lot has been happening for us and in the world at large. Like most people in the United States, we’ve had a big change in our lives and routines with the arrival of the new disease, Corona Virus ID-19. While so far our precautions have been effective and we’ve been lucky enough that no one has become very sick, the shelter-in-place guidelines have kept us from continuing our games in person. Like most people, we’ve had to adjust to limiting our exposure to other people in person, frequent hand-washing, conducting work/school/social interactions from home and online, and wearing masks to provide some protection for others from whatever contagion we might have. With all this, our schedule of editing and posting episodes was disrupted, and it took us a LONG while to get back into a rhythm of editing again.

But, while we haven’t been playing and recording any more games in any of our All Ages RPG campaigns, there are two bright notes: first, we have so many sessions recorded already that we could be posting weekly episodes for a year and not exhaust our backlog, and second, we have been successful in playing some other RPGs online, to the extent that we’re now practiced enough that we could probably resume our campaigns and record them for posting to the podcast somehow. We have done that once before, after all, with the All Daughters crossover one-shot game.

How have you balanced work and play in the pandemic?

As I write this, the fall 2020 semester of school has just begun. This episode resumes the All Ages RPG D&D 5e game from Dungeon in a Box, “All Souls Night,” which we recorded in November 2019, with the Greenwold’s Greatest Detective, Sid Onoso, and friends deep in the Muttonwood, trying to find the missing cheeseman, Piotr Fromanchen. We rejoin the Detective and company in the midst of a battle with crazed goats…

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Episode 29: “Something to Sell” (D&D 5e, Session 7)

The party gets XP and discusses how to sell their loot to get money enough to train for level 3.

At last we reach the end of our seventh recording session, from all the way back in March 2018! This was just going to be a little blurb of DM Harold giving experience points to the party, but the players were pretty hyped up about the adventure and continued to role-play in character, interacting with new NPCs they created to sell the potentially valuable human relics they salvaged from the dungeon…including the artificial humans Sqt Rp Do and That Guy On The Floor! Will they sell their companions for cash? Do they even think of them as companions? You’ll have to listen to find out.

After this recording session, a bunch of things happened: a bunch of the players left for Spring Break vacations with families, and then final exams loomed for the two players finishing high school, and the result was that we didn’t play Guardians of Indir for a while again. We have continued the campaign! But there is a big gap between this session in early March and the next one in mid-April 2018, which doesn’t include a bunch of the players. The next session with the whole group was in early May…and it was a completely different RPG.

We haven’t fully decided yet, but we may start releasing episodes alternating between the Guardians of Indir D&D 5e campaign and other games we’ve played: one-offs in D&D, the Dungeon in a Box Greenwold campaign, and some games in completely different RPGs. We’ve got a bunch recorded already – it’s been a year now as I (Harold) write this! – but we’d love to hear from you: which system(s) would you like to hear us play? So far as we’ve released so far, our game sessions have had pretty much the same group of players all along. What other players do you think we should bring to the table? Do you want to hear more young kids? More parents? More grandparents, retirees? Let us know in the comments or by tweeting @allagesrpg.