#chris perkins

[big-moon-little-moon]

sometimes a family is a guy who's a CEO because someone had to set up a bank account, Mark, an american girl doll shoemaker, a hybrid made of two legendary game designers and a creative director who can't make a straight PC to save her life. and that's okay

[cicatrixtwigs]

So I know we're all caught in the hype of C4 but it's so funny to me that I haven't seen a single person comment on Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, legends of the industry, in their giant get-along turtleneck

[desertleviathan]

So tonight's Acquisitions Incorporated game at PAX Unplugged is using Daggerheart? Not just a one-off like their Star Wars or Call of Cthulhu games, but a reboot to level 1 and permanent switch from D&D? And Matt Mercer is joining as a player? That's big damn news, y'all.

For those who don't know, Acquisitions Incorporated often gets credited as the first major Live Play TTRPG group. Opinions may differ, the way fan communities are fractured on the internet makes it hard to research this kind of thing with any precision, but it's certainly the first Live Play TTRPG group I ever heard of.

It was co-sponsored directly by WotC originally as a way to show off D&D 4E material while the edition was still in playtesting, and the original players were Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade, and Scott Kurtz of PvP. Kurtz is long gone (that's a guy who hasn't got a lot of friends left in any of the creative communities he's part of, but that's a story for another time) but Holkins and Krahulik, in addition to running one of the most successful Webcomics of all time, are the founders of the PAX conventions and are still deeply involved in their operations. AcqInc never got quite as huge as Critical Roll, Dimension 20, or the Adventure Zone, but the AcqInc games at a given PAX always packed the theaters to the limit and got pretty big viewership online, and for the last 15 years AcqInc has been one of WotC's most high-profile vessels for promoting upcoming content and storylines.

Also AcqInc was the first major platform on which Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford went from being just anonymous WotC employees to the unofficial brand ambassadors, because they were both AcqInc's GMs for several years each, and sometimes AcqInc players under other GMs. This of course meant that Holkins and Krahulik had a stronger relationship to Perkins and Crawford than to WotC itself, so when Perkins and Crawford both left WotC to work for Critical Role on Daggerheart, in retrospect I guess a shift like this was inevitable.

Still. It's got to sting for WotC.

[oldschoolfrp]

Wizards and Weasels -- Rastull Fizzlewand and his giant weasel T'bubnik have seized the wizard Quelkin's manor and taken his servant Jethro as a hostage (David Day, AD&D adventure "Quelkin's Quandary" by Chris Perkins, Dungeon 47, May/June 1994)

[foldbaron]

Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, fresh off their retirement from Wizards Of The Coast, have joined Darrington Press.

[LA Times]

[biblicallyaccuratesandworm]

I was looking through the spells in the PHB 2024 to see how the new version was wording things differently from 5e.

Most of the old spells are the same, with a few exceptions being buffed or nerfed.

But then I saw that the Sending spell which I thought was unchanged had one critical line added to it.

The target of the spell can now block the caster for eight hours after the initial casting of the spell.

You cannot convince me that this isn’t a direct consequence of Perkins watching in abject horror as Jester Lavorre abuses a spell meant for rapid communication to harass and annoy NPCs through the campaign.

[dailymarisharay]

[ablueper]

the endless burrows—favorite quotes, no context

(fjord) yeah, maybe we should just leave. what do you think? pack it up and go. (nott) but my husband. (fjord) mmh. (nott) we spent three months searching for your backstory.

(nott) we're just looking on the bright side of things. we're optimists!

(nott) see? look, beau, we have a plan. (beau) encounter worm—. (beau and nott) turn it into a cow. (nott) profit.

(beau) i have a question for caduceus. cad, do you have any idea how far underground we are? (caduceus) nope. so glad it's one i can answer.

(jester) there's a chamber ahead of us. (nott) oh my god! (jester) it sounds wet, nott. (nott) no!

(matt) you turned around and saw fjord shout, "big trouble!" and then vanish behind a nearby rock. like a...hero. (travis) or a tactician!

(laura) i went out doing what i love. (sam) painting dicks?

(matt) how do you want to do this? (travis) like a hero...

(matt) so you can add a roper tongue to your inventory. (sam) to my belly! (matt) there you go. that's the other inventory.

(caleb) it's two o'clock. (nott) shut up.

(caleb) it's three o'clock. (nott) no.

(caleb) ding-dong ding-dong. it's four o'clock. (nott) no. stop.

(nott) but, you know it's not so bad if you're down in the water with your friends. (caleb) oh! it's nine o'clock. (nott) fuck you!

(beau) "as she reached down, she could feel her—." (fjord) man, i hate to interrupt, but you know, we have some divergent pathways ahead.

(caduceus) the hammer is very obstinate, but i would imagine that's expected of a hammer. i'm not going to say it wasn't worth a try. i would have been surprised, but i would have been delighted as well.

(jester) yes, little me's, we have food for you. worship me! i am your leader!

(nott) don't make mommy mad!

(chris perkins) so i will take off my green slime pot, and i will take off my rock grub pot, and i'll lay down my scorpion stick, and my skunk in a cage, and my wasp in a bag.

(jester) hey spurt, how long have you lived down here? (spurt) 11 days! (nott) how long do kobolds live? (spurt) 11 days!

(jester) hey, this kid thinks you're his mom. (nott) that's super duper sad right now.

(spurt) i win!

(travis) this is the worst american gladiators course ever.

(sam) doesn't everyone have the creative lead of d&d next to them when they play a game?

(sam) jar of peanut butter? get ready for a dick.

(sam) perfect plan. foiled on the first step.

(liam) if anyone attacks the cow, i'm going to beat you up in the lobby tonight. don't do it.

(matt) you can't tell where fjord ends and spurt begins.

(matt) the cow's going to move. (liam & sam) it's going to moo-ve?

(taliesin) i got a plan. (laura) do you have the ability to roll back time?

(travis) 18d10? what is the matter with you, perkins? didn't you know this moment was coming when you made those rules?! i get that lava is dangerous, but fuck!