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delphiCloudward, Ho! is the newest Dimension 20 campaign of actual-play D&D with its classic cast of comedy improvisers. This one is an aeronautical adventure set in a steampunk universe, about a motley crew who set out on a quest in search of a lost continent and the expedition that disappeared before them. The first episode just came out yesterday, and I really enjoyed it!
I am a sucker for a good "getting the veteran team back together" story, so I was delighted that this is where the episode went. We open with an introduction to the player characters and a couple of important NPCs, then immediately skip ahead twenty years. That leaves the main cast split between two characters who were children then and are now in their twenties, embarking on their first big adventure, and four characters who are now more in the realm of forty to eighty and getting dragged back into things after retiring to other pursuits.
Given my fondness for older characters, I am all about this. I'm especially enjoying Daisuke "Pappy" Bucklesby as played by Zac Oyama.
The setting's fun so far, and the quest itself and the older character's feelings about it are interesting. I also really appreciate getting a trans character whose conflict with her parents is about wanting to leave home to go adventuring (when her father obviously has feelings about being left by his adventuring mother) rather than about her transition, but where there's also a little thread of "Here at home on the farm, we've made our own rules about how we live—but once you go out into the world, other people are going to try to tell you what to do in all sorts of different ways."
I'm looking forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here! Anyone else watching or planning to watch?
I am a sucker for a good "getting the veteran team back together" story, so I was delighted that this is where the episode went. We open with an introduction to the player characters and a couple of important NPCs, then immediately skip ahead twenty years. That leaves the main cast split between two characters who were children then and are now in their twenties, embarking on their first big adventure, and four characters who are now more in the realm of forty to eighty and getting dragged back into things after retiring to other pursuits.
Given my fondness for older characters, I am all about this. I'm especially enjoying Daisuke "Pappy" Bucklesby as played by Zac Oyama.
The setting's fun so far, and the quest itself and the older character's feelings about it are interesting. I also really appreciate getting a trans character whose conflict with her parents is about wanting to leave home to go adventuring (when her father obviously has feelings about being left by his adventuring mother) rather than about her transition, but where there's also a little thread of "Here at home on the farm, we've made our own rules about how we live—but once you go out into the world, other people are going to try to tell you what to do in all sorts of different ways."
I'm looking forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here! Anyone else watching or planning to watch?
