Month: November 2017

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This holiday season, it’s always good to remember what we’re thankful for. For example, that Dungeons and Dragons isn’t nearly as obtuse and inscrutable as it once was. And what better way to remind ourselves of that than to actually go back and try to play old D&D?

Welcome to Save vs. Death, the series where Josh and Rutskarn attempt to survive a playthrough of Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition! THAC0! Two completely different ways to multi-class! No encounter tables!

Will any of our stalwart hosts make it out alive?

We get lost in time while we lose track of time.

I’m pretty sure time travel doesn’t work this way.

Paolo is pleased we’ve brought him the Vice Overseer. His gang, not so much.

Alex wrote this episode title, and she even went to college!

Alex and Josh play Assassin’s Creed: Origins, and try to figure out if they know anything about Egypt while they’re at it.

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And just like that, a legend is born.

Show Notes:
1:10 – Warframe: Plains of Eidolon
18:42 – Assassin’s Creed: Origins
40:33 – Fortnite: Battle Royale
54:19 – Divinity: Original Sin 2
1:08:22 – Mailbag
1:09:05 – What does Chris think of Scott Pilgrim the comic, the game, the movie, the man?
1:11:52 – How do you give feedback to a friend when you don’t like what they made?
1:18:18 – What game had the most emotional effect on you?
1:28:19 – Which does Chris hate most: Guy Fieri, the name “Spodcast,” or Yarny the Cute Little Yarn Monster?

People have been asking me for a while to do some sort of history-related stuff, and as it happens, Ubisoft has finally just released a new Assassin’s Creed that isn’t set in early modern Europe!

Thus, tomorrow, Alex and I will be streaming Assassin’s Creed: Origins as an excuse for me to go off on wild tangents about completely unrelated topics! It’ll be great and totally not a train wreck. Oh, and I hear the DRM Ubisoft is using can like, melt your PC or something, so that’ll be fun to explore.

Join us on the Twitch Channel at 3:30 PM Pacific, 6:30 PM Eastern, or 10:30 PM GMT.