Weekender: Diesel Does D&D, Dropfleet In the Studio & Eternal Crusade Interview
October 24, 2015 by lloyd
Welcome to more from us here at Beasts of War as we settle down for another Weekender! We're getting properly stuck into some awesomeness concerning Dropfleet Commander and the video game, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade...
News Round-Up
We've picked out some of the news items we think you should catch up on from this week...
- Vin Diesel Does Dungeons & Dragons - The action move star sat down with Critical Role and the Nerdist to play a session of D&D.
- FireForge Get Medieval Russians Ready - If you're looking for some surly Medieval Russians then the new plastic kits and characters planned by FireForge look great.
Dropfleet Commander
We get stuck into learning loads more about Dropfleet Commander with Simon from Hawk Wargames. We've had a chance to get the game onto the table and find out a bit more about how it plays.
News also hit this week concerning the contents of the Starter Box which will be on Kickstarter. We have a chat about what you could be getting in your set.
Eternal Crusade Interview
Chatting with the Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade team we got to learn about how the game is going right now and where they see things going in the future.
That also means we have a...
Big Prize!
...where you could win a whole mountain of stuff by commenting on this episode. You could win...
- A game key and 4 Character Slots
- 10 Codes up for grabs! Beasts of War Captain Packs worth $120!!!
- 120,000 + 25% Bonus RTP to Spend in the Rogue Trader Store for a total of 150,000 points
- Instant access to Closed Alpha (Steam key will appear on Founder Sheet upon purchase)
- Arkhona Vanguard Title
- Exclusive Founder Lounge Access in Forum
- Reserve Character Name
- Guild System (Coming Soon)
- Other Unique Items
That is quite a lot of stuff and it could all be sitting on your PC soon. The game is looking like it's going to be fantastic to play.
Kickstarter Focus
We also have three Kickstarters that we think you should be paying attention too.
- Swords & Sorcery - Go dungeon delving with immortal heroes brought back from the brink of death to fight an ultimate evil.
- Super Dungeon Explore: Legends - Chibi adventures with a Gauntlet twist. This game looks great for new players getting into dungeon delving and Legends adds even more narrative.
- Headspace: Cyberpunk RPG - Ever wanted to play a game where you share each others skill sets? This RPG sounds like a fascinating way to approach the Cyberpunk genre with loads of character driven options.
Competition Winner
You could also have been the lucky winner of our Fantasy Dungeon Set by Battle Systems. Watch the show to find out if you are the chosen one! You can then Claim Your Prize and it will be winging its way to you.
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Have a great weekend of gaming!
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Happy Weekend!
Is it just me or is Ben the BoW Holly (from Red Dwarf)? Great addition!
Firrrrs- Oh prizes?
Well this is embarrassing….
tshh, you’re slacking, you didn’t even get the usual amount of thumbs downs!
Looking forward so much to eternal crusade, looking great as is and getting better each time,
Also yeah, that Vin Diesel D&D is nice to hear about, deffo giving it a watch.
Looks like they went nuts on lens flare on that Von Diesel game. Obviously we all need more lens flare in our battle report.
I’ve heard some good things about Eternal Crusade, it’ll be interesting to see where the game goes since the change in the goals of the game since the last time i looked into it.
Justin would obviously be Sten the first (and only)
Mammoth Herder… No question!
You beat me to it!
Eternal Crusade looks good, I just waiting to get my hands on it.
prizes again ?
Wow ten winners! Who will they be???
Eternal Crusade looks interesting. I’ll probably play it when it’s released, or sooner if I’m lucky enough to win!
From a performance point of view the DM was great, but a performance is what it was and the players were his audience and passengers in his story. They could easily have been removed and the experience would have been much the same. 10/10 for style, but as roleplaying experience it’s very definitely not for me.
Watch Critical Role where he runs his regular game with all voice actors! That’s where the real role playing shines!
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt until I get a chance to see one of their usual sessions, but the emphasis you place on voice actors isn’t reassuring me that these are great performances rather than great roleplaying.
I’m not sure where you draw the line between performance and roleplaying, but to answer your original concern: on Critical Role, Matt (the DM) lets the players get into whatever trouble they want. It’s pretty much free from railroading.
Yeah gotta agree with Redben.I think a lot of groups go through DM’s and players go through the stages of voices and needless sound effects. There not really needed, The DM didn’t really seem to drag the story along to much
The best GM’s are those engage the players by giving them as much free rein as possible and letting them drive the story. Much like a sporting official, you don’t notice the good ones. I came away with an appreciation for the Matt’s voice skills and comfort in front of the camera, but if that is typical of his sessions I’d never want to play in one.
And to reiterate something from my previous two comments, I’m happy to accept that this isn’t representative of his usual sessions given the restrictions it was ran under. It’s just that this is the specific session we’re discussing.
Horses for courses really. Every group likes to roleplay different ways. But yes, it felt that Vin Diesel’s session was done for show rather than participation (which, it was, lets face it) and obviously it was run differently from the Critical Role series. It is difficult to setup a ‘normal’ D&D game in that situation with limited time and a brand new person to a group who is supposed to be the center of the action. Matt pretty much performed a show and told a story so something happened for “TV” to avoid having 30mins of Vin feeling awkward and… Read more »
I think it was designed to be promotional more than anything else (obviously) but, I think it was meant to be enjoyed in the same way that an old Arnie movie is meant to be enjoyed… with a great deal of cheese cake 😀
Thanks for your time about Sword & Sorcery guys, you are great!
If you have any questions about the game… I’m stick around
😉
Interestingly on Jonathan Ros Vin shared the story that he used to play a D&D Witch Hunter back in the day and that he had shared the story with the writer in a conversation about gaming and several years later he received a script! So I think that means the new film is the first based upon the life of a rig character.
If Justin had a past life then it could only be the 1960s, working in the airline industry…
If only there was a 1960s airline game
Awesome vid guys, loved seeing Vin diseal on geek and sundry and hyped for 40k: eternal Crusade
But @dignity an attack bike is a two person vehicle.
So who will be in the sidecart?
His mammoth 😉
He needs a sidecar just for his mammoth?….
he got bored of herding it, he transports gary the mammoth around now 😛
I thought the DM was excellent in the d&d clip. But the throne and light was awkward. I’m using that reason for vin diesel being a bit embarrassed.
Is it the weekend yet? It is… Yippee!
Here’s hoping the Dropfleet KS can tempt me…
“Chase me… chase me…!”
Dropfleet – that is what I am looking forward to 🙂
I love the way eternal crusade is going, I have kept away from world of Warcraft because I know I would get wrapped up in it, I don’t think that I’ll be able to stay away from this though!
My lad will love this new 40K adventure, still plays Spacemarine!
that giveaway is absolutly rediculus, and i love it
OMG OMG OMG!!! If I don’t win, I’lll have to sell some of my actual 40k stuff so I can get a captain pack. That game looks awesome!
should be good to see eternal crusade develop, pretty ambitious 1000 players at a time, planetside 2 had the same sort of thing and in the early days it was utterly epic, dropped mad stacks of cash on that game lol prolly end up doing the same on eternal crusade no doubt
Can’t wait for dropfleet but headspace sounds rubbish, if sharing abilities is the core of the game, arnt all players just playing the one character?
There will most likely be mechanics in place to make sure that you don’t end up just all feeling like the same character mechanically, but that’s not really the point – it will be up to you as a player to make sure that your character feels individual and different from everyone else, just as in real life. Even if everyone in a D&D group was a Wizard for example you could still be vastly different characters with their own way of thinking, their own way of approaching a problem, their own paths and history. There are a number of… Read more »
two wonderful Kickstarters
So little money
Headspace seems like a gamification of the Sense8 Netflix series.
It’s same kind of idea with the shared minds and skills, but Sense8 is not really cyberpunk or about technology. Come to think of it, Sense8 could make a really cool board game.