That's a cool animation. Nice work!

Used a timer in D&D twice and both times it made the game better for the players. Great advice.

SUCH great advice!! Thank you! Can't wait to do a REAL TIME timer!

Your advice at the end about the candle - have you ever heard of Ten Candles? Nevertheless, great video! In fact, I am going to run Aurora for my DnD group (our DM takes a break after we finished our mini campaign). This will actually be my third time running a game in general (2 evenings of Ypsilon 14, now Aurora). If you have any advice for me as a newbie, just go ahead. ;-) Greetings from Germany!

@wacomatrixo

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, how did it go?

@scharmuetzelmax8573

2 жыл бұрын

@@wacomatrixo Hey! All in all, it went quite well, but it really was a challenge for me as a beginner. In fact, the problem was not your module, it was the "tec" I used for playing online. I used the Roll20 version. First, everything went very well, but suddenly, one of the players stated that the whole map was revealed from the beginning, and that he could see the enemy tokens. And two others had the same, the fourth didn't have these issues. "His" Dynamic Lighting worked, he could (resp. could not) see what he was (not) supposed to see. So I decided I switch off Dynamic Lighting and use the normal fog. But guess what, the fog didn't work. And all that after the 2 hour countdown had started. So I tried to run theatre of mind while setting up the game from scratch in Owlbear Rodeo, and managed handouts in discord while the timer was shared using a KZread 2h timer and synctube. And the players rolled in Roll20. A lot to manage for a beginner, and I was overwhelmed. Finally I asked the other players what they want to do, if we should stop here, because - from my point of view - it didn't work very well. Then silence for several seconds. Then my DnD-GM said that no one would have noticed my desperation if I had not asked this question. And that these technical issues were not my fault. It took me a few minutes to calm down, then I continued GMing. And we finished the game. During the playthrough, we used: - Roll20 for music, character sheets and rolls - Owlbear for the maps and tokens - Discord for talking - synctube and youtube for the timer Quite overwhelming, especially when you try to keep track of the players' panic status, and when you notice that three of your four players haven't read the rules. 😅 At the end, I did one other mistake - I helped them (they stopped the timer, but the Varcolac tossed their characters around as if they were toys, and the dice bot in Roll20 for players is an a....hole), and one of my players noticed that. He told me after the game that in that moment he realized I wanted to help them, his tension went down. I had wanted them to think about a little backstory why they were stowaways on that freighter, and two of them put so much love and effort into it that I didn't want to waste the characters for a one shot and wanted to use "Aurora" as an intro for a little campaign. I ended up being too much of a fan of the characters. But nevertheless, during the session, I learned A LOT about running a game, tracking info (e.g. panic conditions), improvizing and so on. And especially two rules: - most of the time, less is more - kill them! 😁 Unfortunately, after playing Y-14 and Aurora, my group really likes Mothership, but they cannot imagine that this system can hold a whole (mini) campaign (e.g. Dead Planet). One of the reasons is that for example character creation is way too random (too much luck with rolls involved). We played using 0e since I haven't looked in the 1e beta rules. But it's not "on ice", Mothership will return! I on the other hand LOVE Mothership, and it's quite a shame that there is only ONE Mothership session in German on YT. And moreover, I am planning to run Aurora again for another group during the next weeks or months, let's see. Then I will use Discord, Owlbear (has a built-in timer functionality) and Tabletop Audio. Maybe with beta 1e...? What would you recommend - 0e or 1e? Maybe I will try out the calm system and the android panic table from traaa.sh...? But I have to remind myself - less is more. 😉 Btw, in the pdf of the module I found a small mistake. In the description of B.U.L.A, the freighter's name is (wrongly) given as "The Aurora", but it's Carpathia. In the end, I really enjoyed your module, and - what is also important - your module helped me a lot to learn and improve - hopefully. 😇 Wow, a lot of text... Edit: I just thougt that it would be a fun idea if you run Aurora for "Into the Darkness" (a channel here on YT about CoC, but it also has other systems included, e.g. KULT, but only one Mothership module).

@wacomatrixo

Жыл бұрын

@@scharmuetzelmax8573 Hey, sounds like you did awesome all things considered! KZread and synctube for the timer is a great idea, I'm going to use that from now on! I've converted to 1e, even the beta rules I prefer much more than 0e. We'll also blast that typo out of the airlock. There's a great playthrough of Aurora here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fH2mr5WbdqjTes4.html

@scharmuetzelmax8573

Жыл бұрын

@@wacomatrixo Thank you for your kind words and the link. In fact, I have watched this playthrough 2 or 3 times as a preparation. You can find me there in the comments section. 😉

Heck this is so well done!

Best one yet!

Amazing! Love it! Great presentation of a great idea!

This is useful!

The game sounds really cool and the animated short is awesome!

Heck yeah, your tips and tricks are useful, the animation is really cool!

Love this

Awesome to see the finished product on this one!

Nice work Waco, killed it with this one. I feel like I didn't see the shot of the waconaut backwards through the screen, it's really good!

Nice work man!

Well done, and fun to watch! I enjoyed seeing you working on those key frames during your streams, too! Looking forward to more!

❤! Awesome man!