#dm roundtable

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The Brennan Lee Mulligan Almond Rant - Critical Role Animated

[augentrust]

scenes where you just know that matt had a lot of "bathroom voice time" in the week leading up to them

[izar-tarazed]

Toying around with Dungeon Alchemist and I tried to make what I imagine Izar's room at the Roundtable Hold to be like.

While we don't see anybody's personal quarters apart from Fia's in game, my headcanon is that they very much exist and the permanent residents of the Hold each get one. Izar was assigned hers after presenting her first Great Rune and suddenly having a small space entirely of her own was huge for her, and step by step, she made it a place that feels like home.

Of course there's a desk, usually all but covered with one of her star maps and stacks of notes and sketches. She mostly prefers to work at the Roundtable proper because the Grace there grants better lighting, but she still uses her own desk a lot.

There's always a teapot, too. She retrieved that armillary sphere from the Caria Manor and treasures it almost as much as her beloved telescope. (It was broken when she found it, and fixing and assembling it anew took a long time.) Also, her backpack is usually sitting next to the door, all ready to set out again.

A simple bed with a somewhat improvised nightstand, plus a storage chest. There's always a book on the nightstand, even though Izar will often either just fall into bed all exhausted, or spend the night working on her maps.

Obviously most books at the Roundtable Hold are found in Sir Gideon's study, but Izar has gathered her fair share of books, too, so unsurprisingly she has a bookshelf of her own. (Some of those are loans from Raya Lucaria, but she'll return them... eventually.)

While Izar's room doesn't have a real fireplace like others at the Hold, it does have the luxury of a small stove that provides warmth... and boiling water. The shelf nearby mostly holds ingredients for tea: dried herba leaves, but also the spiced tea she regularly purchases from the nomadic merchants.

(However, she still has to head down into the kitchens if she wants coffee.)

And last, a washstand with a mirror and a simple washbowl, another small luxury.

[forgetriestowrite]

so imma need a 4-hour roundtable with the cast of Downfall explaining everything

and I need BLeeM to DM the Divergence and also maybe the Schism because the god lore is IMMACULATE

[luckthebard]

So a few thoughts on C3E51, and narrative and encounter design. First off - I loved the episode and thought it was incredibly exciting and engaging and a fun gameplay time. But to engage with a few of the criticism points I'm seeing, I will also say:

At this point I'm assuming the encounter was always planned to end with some version of the outcome we ended up with. Is that railroading? Sure, I guess, but it's also pretty standard D&D encounter design. The "win condition" here wasn't stopping Ludinus entirely, but rather to what degree they could mess up and stall his plans through sabotage. And frankly, I think they actually did pretty well! They destroyed the key in the Feywild and some of the batteries here, and it seems like Ludinus's plan did not go perfectly for him; so I imagine now they have time to react to a very slow and imperfect version of what he was trying to unleash. And that is the next narrative beat we had to get to in order to continue the story.

I know they rolled very low this encounter and many things did go wrong but even with that I came out of the episode thinking of this great quote from Star Trek: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." And that's sometimes an important story beat to hit! It certainly propelled Vox Machina forward after the fall of Emon, and the Apogee Solstice events seem to be performing a similar narrative role for Bells Hells.

To back up my interpretation here, there are a few things Matt did as a DM to signal that a failure here was not an Ultimate Failure and the point moving forward would be reacting to something fixable. The first was Ludinus's reaction to the machine breaking and his quickly covered up fear and uncertainty - he's trying to convince himself he "won" by the end but not as confident as he could be. The second is the fact that Matt took a lot of pains to point out in detail that team Orym, Laudna, Ashton could still see the beam of red shooting up into the sky at Ruidus. The moon prison hasn't been broken, it is breaking, and their efforts likely determined how badly and how much time they have to address it.

Anyway, wanted to push back against the "the encounter was unfair" or "railroading is bad" I've been seeing - the encounter was the encounter and served its purpose, and I recommend highly listening to Matt, Brennan, and Aabria talk about "railroading" in their GM roundtable to get a sense of it as a neutral rather than negative game design strategy.

There's a part 2 to this post but it was also long so it's HERE

[meadowsofmay]

i love how liam is being so serious in the candela dms roundtable and then there's aabria that is absolutely enamoured by him

[utilitycaster]

i would LOVE if crit role did a stream similar to the world building stream worlds beyond number did during the break....just matt answering lore questions would be perfect

TBH, something like that would be great! I truly don't mean to be a hater here and I don't mind questions about process (how do you come up with xyz) nor relevant personal taste questions (the fantasy book recs one) but it is like...I don't know if the CR cast are just nice and don't want to turn down questions, or if it's just the size of the fandom, but every panel does seem to have a few questions that make me go "that literally cannot be answered/that's been answered 20 times already/that probably should be asked of a different person in a different venue or researched on your own/that's a wildly personal and inappropriate question" and I think having a lore/process-specific rule for at least some panels (for Matt) and a character-relevant/process/no crack theories rule for the rest of the cast would also help.

(in particular: I really do think it's important to read or watch GM-ing advice that doesn't come from actual players, and indeed I think it's actually useful to seek out opinions from people who are weird about/dislike actual play because I don't agree with them on that, but I think they often do have a GM-ing perspective that's helpful for home games if you can get past the weirdness. Like, there's a ton of stuff FROM Matt about GM-ing online anyway between the GM roundtable and G&S GM tips but if you're a CR fan and especially if that's your main D&D source, I highly recommend poking around elsewhere for how to DM.)

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KR Gotchard Producers Roundtable PART 2

producer minato gave me a hard time with this one. if you see any problems, please tell me in reblogs/dms/asks/whatever

see “#guster translates rider” for the other parts

Kamen Rider Gotchard TV Series Finale Commemoration Toei Producers Special Symposium (Second Edition)

“Kamen Rider Gotchard” will soon reach its climax!

With that, we are delivering a Toei producer symposium like usual, split into three parts. Furthermore, the first and second volumes will be released one week before the final episode airs. The three-part talk totaled up to over 30,000 words. The participants are, of course, Producer Yosuke Minato and Assistant Producers Daigo Matsuura and Kaho Miyashima. In this second volume, we mainly discussed the inside story on the first half of the battle…!

Act 5: 1st-2nd Cool Summarization

TTFC: I can say that Gotchard is the result of you young producers sincerely bringing answers to the views of “adults”.

Minato: That was when I suddenly realized that the big veteran Keiichi Hasegawa is on our side. That was amazing. It’s not a bad thing to be young. I thought that his aging halted 30 years ago because of changing from art staff to scriptwriter. Hasegawa already has a fair amount of achievements, and it seems like his core is that his surroundings don’t change what he says. However, at the same time, he is also flexible. While communicating during preparatory meetings, he can switch over to going “Oh, it’s this way!” with ideas. That flexibility was very helpful.

Harashima: For me, episode 5 was my first time being in charge of casting the guest actors. That was the pro wrestling episode of all things… (Laughs). But this one also had many guest characters, and I thought whether I did well would be pretty essential, so even though I consulted with Director (Katsuya) Watanabe, I pulled it off in my own way. Even so, it was very troublesome to find who I would ask to play the role of “Koichiro Asahi”. We were able to get Masanori Machida to appear, and after seeing the footage, Hasegawa sent me an email saying, “That was an incredible casting choice”. I made sure to save that email to look at when I’m having a hard time.

Minato: That’s true, you were in charge of episode 5, and then episode 6 too. Shogo Amo was a good choice for Boruto Namarizaki.

Harashima: I didn’t know Mr. Amo had appeared in “Mashin Sentai Kiramager” (2020) and “Avataro Sentai Donbrothers” too (Laughs). And yet both of those appearances were for episodes directed by Watanabe’s team. Not knowing that, when I asked Director Watanabe, “How about this person?”, he said, “That’s Amo!”. I immediately said, “Sure. Let’s ask him.”

Matsuura: Amo was good in “Kiramager” and “Drive”, but he was even better as Boruto Namarizaki this time. He gave a performance that made it hard to believe he was the same actor as in his last two works. At the same time that I thought, “Wow, he’s still a great actor,” Director Watanabe could tell that Boruto would be performed well if it were Amo.

Minato: I think that episode’s script from Hasegawa was good too. Bolt was truly a heel (bad guy) typical of Hasegawa works. Moreover, I’d wanted to see Hasegawa and Director Watanabe working together for myself. They were together for a year in “Donbrothers” and I really wanted Director Watanabe to participate in Gotchard, so one of my aims was to have him work with Hasegawa. That was realized in episodes 5-6, 13-15, and the endgame episodes 44-45. The first one, episodes 5-6, was especially interesting during the script phase, but those were episodes that I think were “changed” in such a way because of the guest casting, the synergy, and even more so, the direction. It had an effect.

Matsuura: It complements itself a little, one cool episode… The structure up to maybe the Kyoto arc was decided before the show started airing. The scripts for those were mostly finished too. Since we had calculated which forms would appear in what order and the like, we weren’t making that part of the show while looking at how the audience reacted. We wanted to do it that way from the start. We were making each episode having already decided what would be done and seen in it. Though there was trouble because there were a fair amount of things we should have done or weren’t easy to explain.

Matsuura: In the early days, episode 4 was profoundly memorable to me. That was the first one where we fully depicted the relationship between Hotaro and Rinne. I wondered if it would be easier for everyone to enjoy “Gotchard” if they watched this episode. But, on the other hand, I was worried if the path we took properly conveyed Hotaro’s goodness. Hotaro is the type of protagonist who makes sure to “listen” to the thoughts of others more than he shares something himself. We also included the point of “a supportive protagonist” and “passivity”. Personally, I think we need more people like him in this day and age… It was for exactly that reason that I wondered if he would be hard for present-day viewers to relate to. In other words, he’s not “easily understood”, isn’t it flashy? At that point, we were already coming to like how Hotaro was, but I worried about if audiences would feel the same way about him. The next pro wrestling episode… I think WrestlerG’s episode (episode 5) was full of showiness, and that was structurally good.

Minato: (Hiroki) Uchida finally had time to write in episodes 7-8, and moreover, that was the first two-episode arc, so we aimed to gamble with Uchida’s specialty style. It’s a story of the protagonist and a young guest character coming together.

Matsuura: Then, 9 and 10 was a school trip arc filmed in Kyoto. That was Director (Ryuta) Tasaki’s second time going up to the mound after the first two episodes of the show.

Minato: Myself, I strongly wanted to make Gotchard also a school drama, so at an early stage, I decided to “do these (episodes 9 and 10) on the Kyoto location as a school trip”. That’s why I basically left episodes 5 and 6 to Harashima, and 7 and 8 to Matsuura; I was focusing on helping with preparations for the location shoot. Then we had to make the scripts for those episodes… Hasegawa specializes in dark stories, and if we did that, it would go in that profound direction. At that time, the person who said during meetings that the appeal of “Gotchard” is its cheerfulness was Matsuura.

Matsuura: The back-and-forth exchanges around that had a structure to them. But my thoughts regarding Hasegawa, who I’ve socialized with for a year, were only “Keiichi, I’m sorry about this” (Laughs). “Gotchard” was our first time working together, but naturally, I knew his name before then. Now, I respect him a hundred times more than I did then. Well, it’s not that I didn’t respect him before (Laughs). I said it before, but even though he’s a big veteran, the way he thinks is young. I don’t know if “young” words are appropriate or what, but he always listened to what a youngster like me had to say, and he would adopt the ideas if he thought they were good. He would say, “I seeeee!” with genuine excitement… I have no idea if he’s always been like that (Laughs). He’s accumulated various experiences, and I know what he’s like now, but the Hasegawa I spent a year with was truly someone I can respect. That’s why a person like me could always talk nonstop about my cocky views without hesitation. I’m very grateful for that. I was also able to give many opinions in the script meeting for the Kyoto location episode too.

Minato: Because Hasegawa and Uchida’s unique characteristics are different, as the side that orders materials, there were parts where it was easy to go, “Hasegawa would fit here,” or “Uchida would be good for this one”. Then Akiko Inoue joined, but she also liked to write scripts that have personality. When ordering for Inoue, I deeply wanted to know her writing style, and I only came across an “Akiko Inoue Script Episode” from “GeGeGe no Kitaro (Series 6)” (2018-2020) that she had participated in. Then, whichever episode she did would be very interesting. She’s very good at making use of the writing styles for people and societies, and yet, she also depicts things that are like human love flowing down. Of course, since it was “Kitaro”, the original work itself is amazing, but I also felt the power of her own writing. What I first asked her to do was Majade’s TV debut episode (episode 19) where what she would do had been decided, so there wasn’t much room left for Inoue to write with freedom, but from the next moment I asked her to do something, around episodes 22-23, she quickly showed her personality. I only ordered her with the information that “a Chemy called Zukyumpire appearing” and “a story where good intentions about love go wrong would be nice”, but she did more than I asked her (Laughs). After that, we were surprised again by Inoue with episodes 36 and 36, but what I really felt a reaction to in the beginning was 22 and 23.

Matsuura: I kept saying from the side, “Zukyumpire in live action is difficult, so can’t we do it another way?”, but a person named Akiko Inoue and a person standing here named Harashima conspired together, and I definitely couldn’t try to stop (Laughs).

Minato: Oh, come on, everyone and their energy was amazing in that episode. Even though we think about production in various ways for the difficult work, I expected that we could more or less compromise and say “It’s good if we make it this far!”, but the filming site really won’t give up either (Laughs).

Matsuura: For example, when Zukyumpire possessed Sabimaru, Sabimaru would always become a different emotion, and try to sing the song with “Everyone’s heart I zukyun, zukyun…” I was proposing that it would end up structured like a Super Sentai “filler episode”. It was interesting for the audience to see a Sabimaru that was different from normal, too. However, the young lady Akiko (laughs) didn’t give up there.

Minato: She was very particular about the idea of “Zukyumpire himself intentionally appearing as a human”.

Matsuura: While midway through it, I thought, “Well, it’s good that I’m not in charge (of the casting) myself”, and said afterwards for Harashima to do her best. No, of course I’m kidding.

Harashima: Firstly, Akiko’s pilot was interesting. That and another thing—when I looked at “Gotchard’s” audience analysis data at that time, it was sufficiently reaching the original audience of the C-group (Children/Kids group, ages 4-12), but more than that, the T-group (Teenager group, ages 13-19) and F1-group (females aged 20-34) were looking a little weak. Here, I thought about how I could bring about a character that seems to appeal to the said groups. I’m really glad we got Taro Yamanaka to appear.

Minato: Yamanaka was decided. and I told Director (Kyohei) Yamaguchi that we should push Zukyumpire and Yamanaka in this episode. So, if you rewatch episodes 22 and 23, there are many scenes we shot inside the Oizumi filming site to cut costs (Laughs).

TTFC: But Zukyumpire was right after Kamen Rider Valvarad’s debut arc (episodes 20-21), so when I think about it again, January and February were putting up a big offense.

Minato: Also as a connection between past and present, Mr. Minato became an enemy, the base called the Alchemy Academy was taken, and the “Kitchen Ichinose Alliance” was active for a while… I had decided that for that series of events, episodes 26-27 would be directed by Tasaki’s team, after episodes 23-24’s (Takayuki) Shibasaki group. I made the season with a lot of excitement.

TTFC: Then, from the spring break period, the episodes broadcast up to early April were a lot of “breather” episodes.

Minato: When we welcomed in Director (Kiyotaka) Taguchi, it was right during that (episodes 28-29).

Act 6: “The Dark Sisters” Secret Story

TTFC: With this, Director Taguchi has now taken part in all of Japan’s “Three Big Tokusatsu Series” (Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai) as a director.

Minato: Actually, I approached Director Taguchi before I did Akiko Inoue. With various conflicts, I knew we wouldn’t have enough directors at some point. So I foresaw that development. Rotating directors isn’t a mechanical process; If we did that, it would be too much. For every director of a story, I would think in the same way as I do for casting guest members, and pick them based on the contents of the episodes. So while looking for what timing would suit Director Taguchi to come in, Director Taguchi himself was pretty busy, and it was hard to find a good spot in his schedule. If his schedule was more open, I might have asked him to do a pair of single digit episodes early on. I was contacting the director frequently, and what I thought he “might be good in” was episodes 28-29. It was also an episode that was just after a big development had ended. When I called the director, I first asked, “What kind of things do you want to do?”. I remember that I started by talking about “which Chemies remained”. And then it became “The Great Yokai War” (Laughs).

Matsuura: I thought with Director Taguchi that the image of monster movies and the work of “Kingdom of Light” was still strong, but when I call on him, he seems to like “GeGeGe no Kitaro” and the works of Mr. (Shigeru) Mizuki too. And since Akiko Inoue happened to have written for “Kitaro”, they got excited about doing a “ghost” story arc (Laughs).

Minato: Well, he had directed with Toei before in “Mashin Sentai Kiramager”, so I thought that he should direct in a different way from “Kiramager” since this is the Kamen Rider series. So, Otojiro Sato, “Gotchard’s” second assistant director… he also had experience filming for the Ultraman series, so we asked for his “favorite Taguchi work”. He had liked “The Love” (episode 6) from “Ultrazone” (2011).

TTFC: He has great taste…

Minato: I watched because I hadn’t seen it, and it turned out to be really good. I discovered that atmospheric dramas like this are the director’s specialty, and I think that reflected on the story of episodes 28-29 too. Toshie Negishi also appeared then, in the role of Renge’s grandmother.

Matsuura: Ms. Negishi was the role of the protagonist’s grandmother in “Ultraman Arc” (2024). Actually, her shoots for “Arc” came before “Gotchard”.

TTFC: That’s been a pattern recently.

Matsuura: There was no aim to have this be “Gotchard’s” specialty. There are benefits to filming early (Laughs). The child actor Soto Osagaki, who we got to appear as a guest actor in the Saboneedle episodes (episodes 7-8), was filmed in the V-Cinext “Kamen Rider Geats: Jyamato Awaking” before, but his role in “Gotchard” ended up airing first as well (Laughs). Ayane Kinoshita from the next episodes, the Kyoto location ones (9-10) was the same way. TTFC’s “Ninja Sentai Shurikenger: Long Ass Name I’ll Look Up In A Second” was filmed first, but before that even went up on streaming, we got her to come back for more “Gotchard” episodes (9-10, 44-45) (Laughs).

TTFC: Director Taguchi came back to help with Sabimaru’s focus episodes, 42-43, and results-wise it seems like he became the “director in charge of the older students [Renge and Sabimaru]”…

Minato: But episodes 28-29 weren’t originally intended to be Renge focus episodes. It’d been decided that it would have a “grandma character”, but not whose grandma it would be. We’d already had focus episodes for Rinne and Hotaro, so it was a difficult point, and then it became “wouldn’t Renge fit?”. And then there were talks of her grandma living in Kansai since Renge uses the Kansai dialect (Laughs). At any rate, the episodes turned out good, so when we asked him to do two more afterwards, it was easy to say, “Please do Sabimaru this time.” In the beginning, the aim in appointing Director Taguchi was from a place of wanting to expand the work’s worldview, so I think there was good synergy with him focusing on Renge and Sabimaru.

TTFC: Since we did the older students’ episodes, I want to touch on the Dark Sisters; weren’t they created because Hasegawa was in charge?

Minato: That’s right. At first, since it’s “a story where they search for Chemies”, we didn’t want clear enemies to be there yet, so there was a period where we were fumbling around for something in that direction. But when Hasegawa formally joined and looked over the plan, I received a comment that “it’ll become hard to understand which way the story is facing”. So I started to think about the creation of an enemy for Hasegawa. What appeared from there was “the Dark Sisters”, but because only three people would appear as enemies at the start, I thought, “this is a new approach”. So, at that time, Hasegawa fit very well with the drama “Dr. Chocolate” (2023)… The premise is that its heroine is a ten-year-old genius surgeon. It was Hasegawa’s idea from the start that the eldest sister of the “Dark Sisters”, Atropos, would be played by a child actor. So when it became time to look for Atropos in auditions, I was able to come across a talented person named Itono Okita. The third daughter, Lachesis, is the incredible Alisa Sakamaki, who we met at auditions for the main cast members. Lachesis’ presence was one that I thought was valuable, so I asked her. The middle daughter, Clotho, was a brutish character, so a person who could fight is the best option. When speaking with Director Tasaki, he said, “What about Kanon Miyahara?”. Now the names had already been decided. Especially at the start, it felt like I would wonder when they would die (in the show) every time I read a script, but Hasegawa, at a point where there is a “creator” of the Dark Sisters, was always saying, “All of them will survive until the endgame!”. On the other hand, I was constantly worrying, “What will happen in the endgame?”. “However it’s done, it will look pitiful. We can’t avoid that.”

TTFC: In the midst of that, to have Lachesis and Spanner, Atropos and Rinne, and Clotho and Hotaro team up, the “teamwork” between the three sisters and three Riders was born.

Minato: The three sisters weren’t just Hasegawa; Uchida and Inoue, as well as all the directors, depicted them well. Right, I was saying to Director (Koichi) Sakamoto that “We’ll definitely ask you when the schedule is free” from an early stage, but his first words regarding that were, “Please let me film Kanon (Miyahara)!” (Laughs).

TTFC: That was definitely implemented in episodes 32-33.

Minato: That’s correct. It was decided to have Kamen Rider Legend finally appear in the TV series, and it became that we asked him to make the buildup to that more exciting. I asked Uchida to do the script, and it was an episode where he really got to shine. Clotho got more action scenes compared to the other sisters, but hadn’t been delved into as a character that much. Uchida was able to come up with a situation where the two of them, as “rivals”, are able to cooperate for a moment, while firmly summarizing the small connections between Hotaro and Clotho up to that episode.

TTFC: I think it’s because of Uchida cooperating with you from the planning stage, Minato.

Minato: Uchida gave me comments from the standpoint of series structure for the episode scripts that Hasegawa and Inoue wrote. Like, “Couldn’t this part be connected to this one in a previous episode in this way?”. He gave useful suggestions within the minimum necessary scope while never erasing the personality of Hasegawa and Inoue’s writing, so it was always helpful. I think the fact that Hasegawa and Inoue had as much freedom as possible to write with probably caused Uchida trouble. The early-on episodes 7-8 and the endgame episodes 42-43 might have been when the “Uchida World” could expand. But because episodes 7 and 8 had so many components put into it, 42 and 43 too, there was an aspect of Uchida World and Taguchi World’s Gotchanko, so with the process of letting Director Taguchi do what he wanted, he had to adjust a fair amount of things…

Act 7: A Well-rounded “Adult” Cast

TTFC: With Kanji Ishimaru (Fuga Kudo), Yoko Minamino (Tamami Ichinose), Saki Fukuda (Kyoka Edami), and Kenta Kamakari (Glion), everyone in the “adult cast” is magnificent.

Harashima: Ishimaru and Minamino had a sense of stability, of security. They were there until the end, and I am very grateful for that. Saki Fukuda herself liked tokusatsu works herself, and she would say, “It’s fun!” whenever I went to meet her. She was an important person for Spanner while performing too, but I think it was good for (Yasunari) Fujibayashi to be able to act alongside her. From Fukuda’s standpoint, there were many times she was together with young cast members other than Fujibayashi, but it seems like she put a lot of work into helping him. Fukuda didn’t say it herself whatsoever; however, we should put care into the things that can’t be seen, and I’m grateful for it from the bottom of my heart. There was also a “Mr. Minato and…?�� scene at the end of the summer movie, and it was wonderful. Being an “older sister adult” character, there are places where she overlaps with Sumiko Kozawa from “Kamen Rider Agito” (2001).

Minato: I think that was a little of my inspiration at the start.

Matsuura: Well, I should have her eat barbecue and gulp down beer from a mug, then (Laughs).

Minato: No, it’s because she was asking for parsley at the ramen cart (Laughs). But, “Gotchard” became a work with many female regular cast members. That wasn’t intended at all, and moreover, I have a feeling that there aren’t too many women in the audience.

Matsuura: The Dark Sisters are certainly raising the numbers (Laughs). But really, there was nothing that made me uncomfortable, and it’s just the trend of the times. Now, it’s the aforementioned last moment of the summer movie, but for Fukuda, even in the TV series, she had been thinking, “Kyoka and Minato could perhaps…”, so when there was a chance, she brought that nuanced acting into it. Even so, (Rikuto) Kumaki is more stubborn and doesn’t get on at all. I don’t think he realizes that (Laughs). The truth is that, and the fact that he played with so much force in Director Tasaki’s summer festival scene. Kumaki himself is a very warm and cozy person.

Minato: That’s true. I hoped for it to be like “Avataro Sentai Donbrothers” (2022)’s Tsuyoshi Kijino… (Hirofumi) Suzuki (plays Kijino), where we would get him to show his immense “acting ability” as a character from the Alchemy Academy, and stimulate the growth of the new cast members, but Kumaki wasn’t “that type”, not in a bad way. He would just enjoy being with everyone if those members were around (Laughs). But, I’m glad it’s that way. If anything, I think a good balance was struck when Fukuda joined later on, and it became an incredible team over the year. Now for Kamakari; Glion.

Matsuura: Kenken (Kamakari) helped a lot too. I think this is a hot topic right now, but in scenes like the one where Glion comes to “Kitchen Ichinose” in episode 49, when I read the scripts for them, I already thought, “I want to see this!”And because Kamakari recognized that this was a highlight of the show, it became a truly good scene. I think that scene was created specifically because he was Glion. At the same time, wouldn’t he have not been performed that way without Kamakari?

[swordsmanoftranquility]

Monthly Plotting (Hi Dashers o/)

Zihark (here!)

Mission Board (Requires Golden Deer UwU)

LANCE +1 [TAKEN: TIBARN]

DEAD MAN: Well shit. That can't be good. [TAKEN: N/A]

(Old) AXE +1: Reasonably, he is concerned that miners may be trapped in there without reports of them going dying or getting injured because anyone else is barred from entry. Blease… he just wants to know if they are safe. [TAKEN: N/A]

(Old) HEAVY ARMOR +1: Heavy (lol) eyebrow raise at Margrave Edmund’s claims that this is totally safe for everyone. If there are pirates, he’ll eliminate them though. Best to keep the waters safe. [TAKEN: N/A]

(Old) FAITH +1: Narrows eyes at maidens being scorched to death by flames. Does the goddess of this land really have the right to pass judgement so easily like that? [TAKEN: N/A]

Non-Mission Board

RIDING +1 [TAKEN: ROLF]

PHOTOBOX [TAKEN: MINERVA]

Nothing for the moment, but feel free to contact me if anything strikes your fancy either on the task board or just as a regular thread.

Kurthnaga @goldoanheart

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LANCE +1: It would be funny. Not for him, for me. [TAKEN: N/A]

ROUNDTABLE [TAKEN: EDELGARD]

(old) AXE +1: I mostly just want the point lmao. But also Kurthnaga probably has the subtle sneaking skills of like. an elephant. Please help him [TAKEN: N/A]

(old) HEAVY ARMOR +1: the ocean? weeee boat !!! let us have a boat adventure 🫴 (and hopefully not have any pirate encounters) [TAKEN: N/A]

Non-Mission Board

ROOMMATES [TAKEN: RAJAION]

RIDING +1 [TAKEN: ELIWOOD]

Nasir @yukyunotabibito

Mission Board (Is Deer UwU)

LANCE +1 [TAKEN: BEOWOLF]

DEAD MAN [TAKEN: ISHTAR]

ROUNDTABLE: Heh. He would excel here. Put him in coach. [TAKEN: N/A]

Non-Mission Board

RIDING +1: [TAKEN: LAYLEA]

(old) BOW +1 : Hunting seems like it would be easy for a dragon, doesn’t it? Not that he is… I'm sure with all of his travelling, he’s had to hunt for his own food before 😂 come on [TAKEN: N/A]

SWORD +1 [TAKEN: EDWARD. MIKOTO.]

Please dm me on discord (lightorflight) or directly on the relevant blog so I can keep my ducks in a row.

[mqfx]

is it counsel or council actually? I know what each word means but which one do u guys think is better for this. as in my roundtable of advisors in my DMs

[coldblood-gardens]

Greetings, this is the mun, I go by Azure, like the azure bluet flower. This blog is centered around mad tongue alberich, mostly situated in the lower floor of roundtable hold, but not exclusive to the setting.

Some info and rules:

1: be 18 or over, mun is an adult and does not want to rp with minors

2: no hate speech of any kind against real people. In-character hate on alberich for being a heretic is acceptable to a degree

3: mun's schedule is sporadic, but will reply to everything whenever they have free time

4: choosing not to answer an ask, reply to something, etc is up to the muns own discretion

5: ask box is always open for rp starters, anons, general asks, asks toward Alberich himself, or whatever else. (please specify if you're addressing me or Alberich)

6: the mun enjoys flirting, even among just friends. Let me know if there are boundaries I shouldn't cross! Flirting will stay between characters, don't expect me to pop up in your dms

7: mun will roll a d20 to determine acrobatics in many cases, so Alberich may rather comedically take a dive at times.

8: the old man's face

[crunchycrystals]

wait youre telling me that the car accident brennan lee mulligan crawled back into to get milanos which he mentioned on dirty laundry was the same car accident he mentioned on the exandria dm's roundtable where he gets the tony pepperoni shirt

[silver-flame-alchemist]

In the DMs of Exandria Roundtable she did with Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan, she explicitly mentions disliking High Fantasy, so I love seeing how she came to DnD from a different direction and all the influences that brought her here.

It's lovely to see a Truly Talented DM who straight up says "this isn't Lord of the Rings shit", and then delivers some of the most beautiful, heart wrenching media imaginable.

Oohhhhhhh. So far, all of Aabria's Dimension 20 seasons are intensely literary Misfits and Magic - Harry Potter ACOFAF - Jane Austen, Bridgerton Burrow's End - Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Animal Farm, 1984, etc.

There's something delightful hearing her talk about not coming to TTRPGs through high fantasy like Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time, but yet there's so much bookish influence on her GMing work. Diversify the literary influences!

[raijintosworn]

CYAN'S MOST WANTED! (May edition)

Cynthia! @justicespeared

Oh deer oh deer, here we are again! With Cynthia as a Golden Deer, she can be used for any of the mission board tasks! But, here are the ones that interest me most (and her draft pile is bigger right now, so I'll focus more on Ryoma for this one!).

Non mission tasks!

We're the original Odd Couple!

So Cynthia may or may not have hidden so many petals from fortune telling and to save for her entrances that they've started rotting. No big deal. The bugs aren't a big deal either. Soooo she needs a place to crash! Please? She'll be the BEST roommate ever.

Going on a silly walk for my mental health

A great way to make new friends! pspspsps come outside with Cynthia

Ryoma @raijintosworn

As my newest addition, he has no threads. Too bad so sad </3 let's fix that by giving him new friends! I'm open to plots outside of the mission board too just hmu!

Mission

Cultural spirits

Kinda just want Ryoma to go to a festival and get a little silly with some spirits! Idk the title isn't strong but!! Get silly with Ryoma it'll be funny.

The price of living

Ryoma doesn't know why he's alive. The rumour of a cure saving lives will absolutely intrigue him, just to see if that's what saved him.

groans of increasing discomfort

He's gonna be pissed if he goes on the field trip to the roundtable meeting. Watch him make more and more annoyed comments under his breath like "I wouldn't have done that". Like he's still crown prince. You're not, Ryoma; you're some guy.

Non mission

Photographs

Idk this is a cute prompt! That's all. Open to anyone, but especially family. Or enemies. :3c.

And who could forget dear rat boy?

Missing students? As faculty, he must look into this. Help him squish rats! (Plus he could always use more sword.)

Take him outside please I am begging

I didn't have a good title for this either LMAO. Expeditions are fun!! Ryoma needs friends!! Please for the love of all that's holy.

I'm open to other plots (outside of mission boards), just hmu! I ask that you either DM me on Discord (vehicroids), IM me on whoever you want (like please don't ask for Cynthia on my Ryoma blog and vice versa), or @ me in the server! I look forward to hearing from you c:

[flora-bigs]

the fatty roundtable. emphasis on round

im always giving out my discord digits on dms if any of yall want

[davidpicts2020-blog]

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