Scott - The best advice/video I can recommend for someone new to DM'ing is Seth Skorkowsky's video "How to learn a new RPG system - Running RPG's" it is part of his "Running RPG's" playlist. You should really check out that playlist, I've found it to be a very useful one for any GM and any RPG system. Because he tries to not focus on a single system his advice is designed around system neutral concepts which are applicable to most, if not almost all RPG games a DM could run.
I was about to comment that Jon must have severed the cables to the microphones with that sword. It’s all just muffled mumbling to me, even at maximum volume.
This episode was awesome as usual! However, the volume is mega low - I had to crank my speakers up to max and then got immediately deafened whenever the ads hit lol.
Have you changed your recording method? The last few podcasts (and I do just listen to podcast) are very quiet, and I have to really turn up the volume. Just a note. Not unlistenable, but just got to remember to turn down the radio when I am done or I pay for it later. :D
I paint strictly for enjoyment and self care. Quiet time to myself. I don’t play any of the games. I have played shatterpoint and might investigate that more. But overall, just enjoying learning to paint.
Play an RPG (any rule system) with AoS models, but specifically models that fled to battle shock. A small party of people that fled battle due to their fear of dying, so now they navigate the world together trying to not get involved in the battles of the grand alliances.
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Paint the sabre purple like it's a "black light" saber. Then you can whip out the florescent paint for OSL....
Scott's comments on roleplaying fit me perfectly. My friends and I have always played that way. We would joke and say, "Just making a story." Loved this episode as usual! 1:20:53
1:10:00 It's High Marshal Helbrect, of the Black Templars, who has a servitor polishing his sword as he's stabbing an ork on his base. He's also got another servitor holding his gun, so he can pose dramatically without worrying about it. Dude is insanely badass. Also marines are canonically dirty and worn down fairly often. Sometimes they go on crusade for long periods without resupply or support, and have to improvise or make due with scavanged weapons or gear. Basically there's no wrong way to paint your toy soldiers, lol.
I know you guys were joking about the audio at the start but had to give up on this episode as I genuinely can't hear it in my car at full volume. Might be my end to be fair, but other podcasts work at 50% volume or less
You're so on point about being happy for your opponent's epic moments. I'll never forget my SO's Atlas "One Punch Man"-ing my mech in a game of BATTLETECH. Such a hilarious moment we still laugh about.
I haven't painted in like two years. I don't play or paint war hammer type games. I just paint my board game minii. I've got three monsters from The Rising Sun by CMON to finish, and I just dropped and broke the head off the earth dragon. Ugh. But I've been so busy. After we moved, I haven't really painted anything, and I focused on my garden instead. Watching you lot makes me want to paint again. After I'm done reorganizing my hobby room which is filled with all of my abandoned projects [including plants, diamond painting, wax melts, canning jars, and all sorts of kind of tornado of crafts] I will have to return to finishing my monsters. My desk is torn apart because we shoved a murphy bed into the room to give me more space [for my lemon trees.... I have a problem. It's called hobby collecting] so... I might be a few weeks, but I'll love to go back. I miss it.
Congrats to both of you on the big milestones! Glad you can enjoy some downtime and hobby excitement! Next week is my first adepticon! Can’t wait for TUP live!!
It sounds as if you are going into Fantasy Flights Star Wars Force and Destiny as your first game. Yes, you will want to run the intro adventure and I recommend marking it up. Highlight what you need to in each section so it draws your attention to see it fast. There is something a bit more important to understand about its system vs. others though; it's not a straight succeed/fail, it's a spectrum of success/failure. Meaning you can succeed with a complication or fail with an advantage and so on. Get to know that about the dice mechanics and then go back and watch a few of the movies with that in mind. Do that and if you can recognize it in the movies then you'll be able to get that feel of a Star Wars atmosphere. It's a bit tricky at first because you are so use to the binary effect of a dice roll in the majority of games, in the "Narrative Dice System," the dice act as an active player in the game helping to create interesting outcomes.
Mixing the DM advice and Rules brought up after a war game session. Don’t worry about the rule while playing, look it up after the session and see how the table wants to play it going forward.
For the Vader, try a thin pure white line across the bridge of the nose and you will need 2 circles or one oval at the top of the head that go very bright without using any Pink
Another cracking episode guys. It is always nice to just hear why people enjoy the things they do. Funnily enough I actually made a video a couple months ago called "Why You Should Paint A Space Marine" and it is exactly what Jon was talking about with painting his ultramarine. I don't overly like space marines, but I find huge value in painting them from time to time.
Regarding the question of what is D&D's version of the Space Marine, I would say that it is either a one shot adventure (single session adventure and your done), or the basic dungeon crawl (Room to room, to room just fighting monsters, getting whacked by traps, collecting loot). Since both formats tend to be simple, you can focus on learning the basic rules without having to think about how to present a complex multi-session adventure. Just let them fling the magic missiles at the darkness and go woosh woosh with the swords and maces. And at first level, there's nothing like taking on a dungeon full of goblins, skeletons, and other low level mobs. Also, no first dungeon experience is right unless you nail them with a rust monster and watch that purty armor go poof, and then let someone walk straight into a gelatinous cube for the sizzling skin feeling. It's a right of passage, and hilarious when it isn't your character :)
Good to have You guys while doing some hobby stuff, thanks! Question about painting time. When does the clock start? Is it at start of priming, pre-highlights step? Also when does the colock stop? Final varnish or earlier? Cheers!
12:34 Please do a podcast on how you guys record yourselves painting. I find that very interesting and I believe you guys will make it really funny because of real life examples. Thanks guys.
If you did the lightsaber black but dabbed a thin layer of mod podge or liquitex gloss medium over it you would get a pretty crazy effect, especially if you mix a drop of black contrast in with the liquitex; it takes a little playing around to figure out how much to mix this, but you can do like 4 or 5 different ways just on a hobby mat and pull it off after it dries (works for fire with Army Painter Zealot Yellow REAL nice).
Unrelated, i am literally working on supporting up a full plate of space marines just to practice color schemes and styles (that sick Ataraxia Marine in teal?!?!?!?). Also Sepia washes get me moist, and I'm a dude maybe a year younger than Jon - maybe its an age thing, maybe its The Great Frozen North, idk.
53:00 For those of us who are sculptors that did come from a mini painting background, the anwser is - yes. It is always in the forefront of what is being sculpted. How well is this model suited for painting.
Necromunda is my favorite game GW has put out and it's not even close. Glad you are enjoying it Scott. I'm a little surprised Jon hasn't given it a try considering it sounds like it'd be right up his alley after hearing him describe what he likes about RPGs
I think John should give MESBG a shot. So many story senario missions instead of straight up battles, could be something of interest. Plus the games rules are superb.
I agree with the Ultra Marine comment. I've been putting them off for ages because all my friends told me "Your models will be dead to me if you paint them." But after painting them, and going to a new model, I found super growth in my painting skills. Afterward, and before (granted), I thought, "Just paint... because those who study photos and paint once, will always perform less than those who paint 20 times, and study that one photo while they paint." I guess the moral of my story was just paint.
The audio podcast is so low even when I max out the volume on my phone it’s difficult to listen on it if I’m out walking 😢 Edit: it’s just meant as a friendly feedback. 😊 Maybe something you could check with the next episode?
The sound in this episode was terrible, I couldn’t hear you guys while listening to the podcast through earphones and even at full volume in the car I still couldn’t hear you. Love you guys by the way.
What excites me? Building armies and having an idea of how they'll play on the table just to leave them on the shelf and start a new army and do that 12x
Just run a simple system for your RPG. Strip it down to basics, then you don't have to worry about that side, you can concentrate on the fun. Add more crunch as time goes on and you get more comfortable. Plus, ducks.
Well vader’s helmet isn’t just black. Its a mixture dark metallic charcoal grey and black. So if you can offset the colours you’re using for the helmet
Looking forward to watch Jon down 10 tiny Fireballs then shotgun a GoGurt at TUP live in a couple weeks. 🤣🤣 There are going to be so many people with Warcry this year. I know Zambies and Jason are going to have their grudge match, but through various streams, seems like a ton of people will be bringing warbands for random casual games. 🤘🤘🤘
the feeling of falling in your sleep is when your body temporarily fails to supply the your brain with the chemicals that paralyse you during sleep. That jolt is your limbs suddenly waking up.
If you google pictures of comic book Magneto (wears red armor) there is a bluish-white lightning effect in a lot of the images. This would be a good lightsaber color a red Darth Vader. It's also similar to Anakin's original lightsaber color so it fits into an alternate lore. Just my 2 cents.
Definitely paint Vader as though he never turned evil. Imagine he talks to Mace and they confront the emperor and during the battle Anakin commits to the jedi. He and Mace are overpowering the emperor but Anakin makes a mistake. Palpatine goes to deliver a killing blow but Mace jumps in the way and sacrifices himself to save Anakin. Anakin is beaten and weak but throws himself off the side of the building Mace is blasted out of in the real Canon and manages to escape with his life. The emperor escapes and flees immediately to Mustafar to pivot his plan since his identity is going to be revealed. Anakin is the only one close enough. He sends out a signal to the jedi explaining what happens but his pride is too strong. He doesn't wait. He chases the emperor to Mustafar and challenges him again. He unleashes his rage. He's been beaten, manipulated, embarrassed. He takes everything that males Vader strong but he wields it with the resolve to serve the people as a jedi Knight. He wounds Palpatine. He wants to deliver the killing blow but he knows he should bring him in, reliving the moment he slayed Count Dooku. But in his hesitation the separatists arrive to help Dooku. In a moment of distraction, Palpatine, who had previously been begging Anakin to spare a weak old man screams "Power! Unlimited Power" and assaults Anakin with a surge of force lightning. The blast causes Anakin to lose his footing and he falls down in to the lava of Mustafar. He wakes in a sterile white hospital room. Obi Wan is watching anxiously as medic bots try to repair the extensive damage. They say he will survive but he will constantly need prosthetics. The first thing Anakin says is "Obi Wan. Where is Padme? Is she safe?" Obi Wan wipes the tears from his face and he says "yes my friend she is safe. She is being attended to by doctors on Coruscant. She fell suddenly ill and went in to labor but help arrived immediately. She is safe. Anakin, your children are safe. A boy and a girl. Padme is waiting for you to return home to your family so you may give them their names together. It is time for us to go home."
Hi guys, do you have any info about the painting competition mini war gaming and lazy squire games did at the end of last year, the one for the new waves for ravaged star with dwarves and bugs? It was my first time entering a competition but it so far seem like it was a scam. No info anywhere, neither organiser answer any messages. That or I just completely missed all the news.
I think you guys overthink your videos sometimes. I don’t need to have a story when I come and view your videos. Im there to see you paint a mini, and how you do it, because you are great painters and that inspires and educates painters like myself. I’m sure there are a few of subscribers who would feel the same. It’s a shame we won’t get to see you paint that speed hump of a horse Jon, I have been enjoying that series of videos. Possibly the most positive I’ve heard Scott commenting in ages about hobby life. Looking forward to see some painting videos from you as well my dude.
So glad youre loving Necromunda Scott. Its a heavy lift but so worth it. My a.i. fantasy is to have my players give a synopsis of there battles so i can feed it to an a.i. and have it spit out a graphic novella for the group every week.
Always love your stuff guys! However, the volume seems particularly low the last 2 or 3 episodes. Also, the camera zooms are kinda weird but maybe that's just me? Are those new? Anyway much love dudes!
what happened to the sound? the sound on this vid and the podcast is terrible. Pod is unlistenable the levels are so low. In my car turned up all the way can barely hear it. Maybe ill listen to the next one.
Star wars RPG youre playing was unfortunately canned but one of the best RPGs Ive ever played. Really opened the storytelling collaboration between me as GM and my players. The dice rolling mechanic leads to great story opportunities and no dice rolls felt like flat "i attack and deal x damage" like in other RPGs . Hope youre enjoying it I think its a great way to start GMing and i take lessons from that game into all ither RPGs I play
All the FF Star Wars games got spun off into/bought by EDGE Studio- which I think is just former FF people who worked on them that made their own studio? I forget the exact origin story but still being made and readily available.
