Thanks so much for having us, Dael!!

I like it when KZfaqrs I like hang out with other KZfaqrs I like.

I finally get to chew on new Monarch Factory content. 😊 Dael Kingsmill? More like Dael BringsMeal. Aaayyyyyyy

Every time someone mentions "Princess Bride" I remember all the times I've compared it to "Stardust", I wish more people referenced that movie.

WHAT IS THIS - A CROSSOVER EPISODE?!

The stereo on this episode is wiiiiild lol. Jim just riiiiight in the left ear.

Someone: "Avengers: Endgame is the most ambitious crossover." Dael: "Hold my Castlemaine."

I really like the post-apocalyptic "recovery" genre where the apocalypse has happened, but it was a long time ago. Where a new stable society has emerged but it's at a lower level of technology and there are still the ruins of impossibly advanced ancient wonders that nobody understands any more. If you're looking for inspiration in that vein, I can really recommend "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban, which is set in a new bronze age, several thousand years after the collapse of our own culture and lets you perceive our own "ancient wonders" through the eyes of the characters.

The Appendixes-N of these three people is like the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria

This was awesome! Especially loved the part where you all discussed magic/the feel of magic. Thinking about what would be in my own Appendix N got me to realize that I might be far less well-read/watched than the average ttrpg content creator, but maybe that's good in a way? I think I tend to pull heavily from song lyrics. A single word or phrase can kickstart a whole major world building thing for me, and usually the end result isn't really related at all to the original song I pulled from. Example, the song Threshold by Hammerfall contains the line "At the threshold of the universe", which inspired a location in my setting that a whole story arc revolved around in one campaign. A single lyric taken out of context kept ballooning out into more and more ideas with history and cosmic significance in my setting. Anyways good to see a new video, and I'm looking forward to whatever's next!

One of my favorite content creators reviewing the work of another pair of my favorite creators. I'm in for a treat when I get home from work today!

What a great group!! :D

I wasn't sold on the idea of appendix N at the beginning of the episode but I'm glad I stuck around to hear you and your guests talk. Just nice to listen to people talk about their passions and get inspired by it. Cheers for the content!

Like the mention of Alatriste (2006) with Mortensen in it. I didn't know it even existed until the last year or two. Watched it as soon as I found out. Few movies cover that time period, at least here in the US. Interesting flick!

today I learned 17th century Mediterranean swashbuckling is a genre, so that's the whole rest of my year now

I had to turn on subtitles because Jim's voice was only coming through one of my head phones.

Wow I’m never this early. KZfaq algorithm I summon you to fulfill your oath

This felt less like an interview and more like friends hanging out, everyone here is just excellent

I think the game that had you quote Bible verses to use powers was the Dragonraid RPG.

It’s really interesting seeing the reactions of non-Americans to the influence of Christian Nationalism on the American Protestant Church…like, oh yeah, not all Christians believe things like god has chosen America as his nation on this Earth and it’s the duty of the Church to enact his will by opposing abortion and Islam/Communism. I remember a when I was really young the preachers would still talk about communists in the sermons lol I used to have these vivid nightmares about Revelation and the Rapture. I think the Rapture might be the thing that scared me the most, tied with the idea that only God knew who had achieved salvation, I was so afraid that one day I’d wake up and find my family’s clothes scattered around the house like in the Left Behind books (I was allowed to read them when I was way too young, and they aren’t even any good 😬). Oof growing up Southern Baptist is a trip haha 😅

This is an amazing new series! I love, love, LOVE when multiple people I sub to collab! It's like DC and Marvel crossovers!

Wear headphones so you can hear Jim Davis smack his lips directly into your left ear

I wasn't expecting this but I love it!

Damit, every time Dael makes a video I'm both jealous and inspired to do my own. Wish I had that charisma. I think I'm going to enjoy this serise

This is such a great interview!!

Love both your channels, great collaboration.

Great content as always. I just watched dances with wolves and will add some of the themes of the frontier and new settlers to my game. Also I like the ideas of giving magic a deeper impact on the world. Thanks Dael!

This conversation was fantastic. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for this talk. As a 15 year DM, theater major/history minor in college and moderately invested in classic literature but very invested in how storytelling functions, this hit so many of my favorite topics. And when quest for glory came up, *kisses fingers* muah. Not only did I love the series, my favorite campaign I ran was similar to QFG1. based off the Thunder Rift 2e book sort of mixed in with Pathfinders' Rise of the Runelords that I started homebrewing. As always, amazing video Dael :)

Pruitt story about his wooden sword - that could be a character origin - brought up in a monastery but instinctively a fighter - maybe he is made by his good to be a pal;admin - but at first he is a fighter

Dael!!! I'm so excited!! Missed yyyyyoooooouuuu!!!

Talking all about DM Inspiration!? Well if that aint just my favorite thing ever. So much so that i started a podcast about it. This is fantastic!

When the 3 of you talk it's always great!

Snow Crash is worth it for sure. Wild ass book.

Oh dang a new series! Love this. :3

Damn I love Alatriste and Web DM - Thank you Jim!

Interview The Angry GM! That would be fantastic.

Really enjoyed this. All the D&D settings that come to mind are post-apocalyptic to some degree, and this should make exploration more prominent, not less. It prompts the question: with 5e having so many gaps in exploration, and with so many low-level abilities that are so utilitarian, shouldn't there be a major setting that dispenses with the pretense and just takes place in a more-or-less consistently progressing world? If you spend any time thinking about a D&D world in which there was no lost golden age, a world where all the most powerful magic is recently devised and is gradually improving the lives of the common man, the details start to write themselves. Just keep asking, how is it possible to have a world in which all these mythological or horror-story things are still around-or in which they weren't always around but now are? What if magic used to be cruder but people accepted the tradeoffs for the sake of survival, and now that survival isn't as much of a struggle for much of the world, those places are figuring out how to make it cleaner/safer/more ethical? That world is going to have lots of conflict and interesting choices to make, and not make it seem like your characters missed the really epic stuff.

My favorite D&D people together! ❤

I didn't realize Web Dm lived so close to where I do. Small world

I didn't have the left earbud in and fully thought Jim was doing a bit where he was just mouthing words

Liking the new camera and lighting

I love Waterworld aswell Jim! I just showed my kids and the loved it as well.

"I don't know how to end videos" may I recommend a Gloryhammer singalong?

My left ear is a big fan of Jim!

What a great crossover!

Web DM is only in my left ear and he sounds very close

So now Brennan has interviewed Dael, Web DM has interviewed Brennan, and Dael has interviewed Web DM

THIS IS CROSSOVER OF MY DREAAAAMSSSS

Gdamn it! Their marketing worked on me. It's good, but I was planning on waiting for the possible next project spelljammer book, but nowni will get the book.

Jim and I have quite the similar background. Cool.

I mean, I would love to see a parody film that just starts the Fellowship in Mordor. "2 Towers, Too Furious"?

Ah ha! Someone else who references 13th Warrior for media touchstones!

Here’s my question: What happens when your characters awaken in a world where their existence has been erased from everyone else’s memories? Nobody recognizes them, nothing they’ve accomplished is remembered. I’d love to hear Dael’s take on this. 🤠👍

I really loved this conversation! I backed the kickstarter the first day! Check it out!

Podcast! Podcast!

Well, this video checks so many boxes. Dael, check. More dnd youtubers, check. Talking about dnd check.

I love it

I am a historical fencer so swords are great. Quest for glory was awesome. There is a remake of II btw. The duelist is one of the best sword fighting movies.

oh boy .... Jim voice is only coming on the left side . and my headphone left side is busted XD XD XD

Dragonraid was the christan ttrpg.

Please live stream a game with Web DM and Dael. Please.

Is the Weird Wastelands going to be a Hexcrawl map type of thing? Curious what else they might do if not this.

*YES*

WORLDS COLLIDE!!!!

My appendix is odd cause I can't quite pin point where my inspirations come from. I almost exclusively play home brew, but a lot of stuff in my world is inspired more so by history and mythology I suppose and not stories or movies I've seen. If anything, a lot of my world building are elements that subvert existing tropes because I think it's more interesting. Drow in my current setting are beef cake barbarian sorcerers that fight with serrated greatswords and using blood to invoke magic.

I agree, the Sandestins kicked ass.

Wait, should I email this to my grandma?!?

I HAVE to look up that Viggo Mortensen movie

Just found out my phone is broken. Can't him Jim. Hes on stereo! 🤭

Email this to your grandmother!

Love the new series idea... Also reading Peter Bebergal's 'Appendix N' right now - an apt name for inspirational material. And Snow Crash is legitimately amazing. Without it there's no Matrix. There's *definitely* no Ready Player One. But it's so much more than just cyberpunk - it reaches into ancient history, language, mythology and the programming of the human mind itself. Genius ideas expressed by a master of the form.

Ex-pentecostal solidarity over here

I wonder if there’s some reason why Baptists are predisposed to making/watching videos about interpreting and applying the framework of D&D. - another former baptist (pastor’s kid) DM

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Oh my God, growing up religious in Texas. That's my life. My dad was a Baptist preacher. I haven't touched the Bible since I was a teenager, but 30+ years later I can still recite John 3:16 off the top of my head (King James edition).

The one dislike is Appendix M

Why is Jim in mono?

👍👍

Email this to your grandma!

so that was cool, but are we supposed to emale this one to our grandma or not?

As someone who is still a very religious Christian. A TTRPG based loosely on stuff like the Book of Enoch, Revelations, & other Abrahamic Apocalyptic literature would be pretty metal. Heck one based broadly on traditional Abrahamic cosmology (as opposed to the boring pop culture bull crap) would be really cool, provided it didn't shoehorn in any of the cringe modern tropes of "God is Evil" or it's "Order vs. Chaos not Good vs. Evil" that does not actually fit in that setting. Still I am not sure I trust anyone to pull it off, as most folks would muck it up in some manner or another. You'd need someone with enough respect for the source material to pull it off right, but not so stuck up their own ass to make sure it's actually fun to play.

the stereo audio is messing me up on this one

Can someone explain what “appendix n” is referencing?

Hope it's not about Lovecraft's cat

I'm gonna watch this cause I don't know shit about media

I was hoping this was an Appendix "N"ourishment and we would get Dale, Jim, and Pruitt doing cooking and or Tik Tok dances. This is great to though.

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Did Pruitt say Spelljammer?!?!? Say it ain’t so! Hot damn I need need to get my ass to Texas and kiss those beautiful men because that’s what the people want! I hope you guys beat WotC to it and cash in because they have kept us waiting toooo long!

awesome show, i have a little bit of unwanted constructive advice to Jim though: if you would say "like" a little bit less often, your speech would get much easier to listen to. or maybe he was a bit tired, and i'm being unnecessarily mean now. humans are humans afterall. just wanted to put this out without any ill intent, just so anyone who knows he/she does it could consider it and be more conscious about it in the future. edit: just noticed that in fact it's not just Jim so just ignore it is directed at a specific person :')

5st

Gideon the Ninth. Anyone who isn't adding this to their D&D is wrong. Just straight up fucking up necromancy. The Unspoken Name. This is how dark gods work. This is a magic system that feels right. This is crushed empires trying to stay relevant. A Dowry of Blood. Vampires. Did you read this? Congrats, you can understand them now. Star Eater. A new take on the undead, and a new take on religion based around cannibalistic themes. When Tiger Came Down The Mountain. Monks. Spirit creatures. Magic and history as the same thing. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Space, with contact. Learning how to live in that universe, and try to expand the benefits to new species. Learning how to live with your own feelings and past, when you're not sure you like them. I guess: read lgbt+ spec/fic. It seems to be the only place where there's actual innovation and improvement. I've sworn off anything else for now. I went into quarantine thinking about the same boring crap, and am now leaving quarantine enlightened by the state of modern publishing.

Dear Hollywood, Hello hate the work lately. But could you please adapt some s***** books. Stop adapting good books that you're just going to butcher. There is a wealth of bad books out there that could be nothing but improved by a Hollywood screenplay just a thought