RogueWatson

Freelance writer, player of games, writer of words, recorder of videos and tabletop role-playing aficionado.

Live Play Session Recaps

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I’m a big fan of tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Thanks to the prevalence of voice and video chat, as well as the magic of online role-playing tools like Roll20, my friends and I can enjoy the freedom and fun that role-playing around a table can bring while living hundreds of miles apart.

I played D&D and Pathfinder a bit before becoming a GM/DM for the first time in the Spring of 2015. We began with Shadowrun Fifth Edition and ran five missions, three of which were hand-crafted and written by myself. Every episode was uploaded to YouTube.

In the Fall of 2015 we began playing Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, beginning with the Starter Set campaign, The Lost Mine of Phandelver.

We are currently playing through our seventh Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition campaign, Call from the Deep (Featuring Ghosts of Saltmarsh!). We live stream our sessions every Friday at 7:30 pm Pacific/10:30 pm Eastern on my YouTube channel.

You can find quick links to my weekly session recaps below. Each recap includes an embedded video recording of our session. Join our official Discord server to chat with me and other fans, and you can support the channel via Patreon.

Alien RPG (June – July 2023)

“Chariot of the Gods,” with guest GM, Chris!

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (September 2015 – Present)

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Our D&D House Rules 

One-Shot Adventures (5e)

The Shadow of the Wild – one-shot mini-adventure (Chris DM)! (10/24/16)

Den of the Rotten Kings – one-shot mini-adventure (Eric DM, Book of Lairs) (07/14/17)

The Haunt – one-shot Halloween 2017 special (Eric DM, The Haunt) (10/30/17)

Secrets of the Blind Palace – one-shot Halloween 2019 Special (Eric DM, Secrets of the Blind Palace) (10/25/19)

The Blood Halls of Emerald Cove – one-shot Friday the 13th Special (Chris DM)! (03/13/20)

The Collector – one-shot Halloween 2020 special (Heather DM)! (10/23/20)

Curse of the Headless Horseman – one-shot Halloween 2021 special (Chris DM) (10/29/21)

Fortress of Dust – one-shot adventure (Chris DM, Eldritch Lairs: Pit of the Dust Goblins) (6/24/22)

The Unseen Alchemist – one-shot Halloween 2022 special (Chris DM, homebrew) (10/28/22)

Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme – one-shot Halloween 2023 special (Candlekeep Mysteries) (10/27/23)

Call from the Deep (Sept 2023 – Present)

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Tomb of Horrors (Jul 2023 – Sep 2023), guest DM, Heather!

Empire of the Ghouls (Aug 2022 – Present) Patron DnD Campaign

Note: These sessions are not streamed live, but are recorded and uploaded to the channel.

Chapter 1: Dread Chambers of the Undercity

Chapter 2: The Holy Robes of Sister Adelind

Chapter 3: The Blood Marriage

Chapter 4: Catacombs of the Ghul King

Patron One-Shot Adventures

Note: These sessions are not streamed live, but are recorded and uploaded to the channel.

Forge of Fury* (March 2022 – April 2022), guest DM, Heather!

*this interlude mini-campaign ran during an act break after Session 39 of our Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. After four sessions, we resumed Rime of the Frostmaiden.

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (April 2021 – May 2023)

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Rime of the frostmaiden session 31 sunblight

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War for the Lost Plane (Aug 2020 – April 2021)- Guest DM, Chris!

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Tomb of Annihilation (Aug 2018 – Jul 2020)

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Level 8

  • Session 64 (01/24/20) Fane of the Night Serpent p1
  • Session 65 (01/31/20) Fane of the Night Serpent p2
  • Session 66 (02/07/20) Fane of the Night Serpent p3
  • Session 67 (02/14/20) Fane of the Night Serpent p4
  • Session 68 (02/21/20) Fane of the Night Serpent p5
  • Session 69 (02/28/20) The Red Wizards of Omu

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Storm King’s Thunder (Mar 2017 – AUG 2018), guest DM, Chris!

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Princes of the Apocalypse (Feb 2016 – Mar 2017)

Level 4 (continued from LMoP)

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Level 11

Lost Mine of Phandelver (Sep 2015 – Jan 2016)

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Shadowrun Fifth Edition (April – September 2015)

Shadowrun anniversary cover

Introducing our new Weekly Shadowrun Role-Playing Adventures (3/13/15)

“Not With a Whimper” 

“Road Rage”

“The Bodyguards”

“Splintered State”

 

16 thoughts on “Live Play Session Recaps

  1. Hi I have been watching your roll20 DnD games. I think they are entertaining. I do have a question. Was Miri’s damage understated after she got the gauntlets of ogre power? Seems like her fists should do min of 7 and with lightening 8. Star dam bonus +6 weapon +1 min die roll 1. I did really notice until the ghoul fight in session 1 of princes.

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    1. Thank you! I believe you’re correct. I think for a while we forgot to change Miri’s attack stat from DEX to STR after her STR became higher with the gauntlets.
      At some point during the campaign we did make that change, but upon reaching level 8 she raised her DEX to 18, which gives her a +4, same as STR anyway.
      Currently with Lightbringer (+1) she has a +8 to hit, and deals 1d8 + 5 damage.

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  2. Hi Eric, I’ve been watching your Lost Mine of Phandelver on You Tube. Thanks for posting that. My friends and I are getting ready to play and this is helpful for me as the soon to be DM.

    Where did you get the map for the ambush encounter? I’ve purchased the module on Roll20 and it is not part of the package.

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  3. I want to thank you guys for some wonderful times listening to your games. I work on the ambulance and sometimes the calls I get are not pretty but I can always count on you guys to liven things up.
    P.S. When is Kalinaar going to return the paladin hero to his brother. I know he’s a lich, and time really doesn’t matter, but come on.
    GO TIM!!!!

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    1. Thank you for the kind comment Jimmy! Glad we can brighten your day, and I’m very appreciative of the work you do.
      Funny you should mention the lich’s quest. If you stay til the bitter end of Session 42 of Princes (like the last 8 seconds), he mentions that very quest. So we may get to it soon!

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  4. Hi, Eric. Thank you for the videos and roleplaying content. I’ve so far listened to Mines of Phandelver and a bit of Princes of the Apocalypse. I’m a long-time D&D enthusiast, though I’ve barely hd a chance to play, and listening to your group’s adventures is always a lot of fun.

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