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Yall remember when Mark Hulmes just throw natewantstobtl amadeusfink littlenommer erinmevans in an adventure with a giant spider woman? Yeah, Paultin just managed to get an angel drunk and crying in that time 😂

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“The wine-loving, 4th wall breaking friendly neighborhood bard that goes hard, Mr. Paultin Seppa” Well... I started with Strix... wanted to do a Paultin Portrait anyway... welp I guess now I just need Diath, Evelyn and Chris and the whole DCA Crew is together :) Also, no the Shadow isn’t on the wrong side, just because the light comes from the right.

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Well, I thought about some D&D related Tattoo's and I had just finished episode 40 from Dice Camera Action.

So I actually tried a Simon Tattoo Design :D But I can't get him to look creepy XD He just looks happy no matter what I try. But I love it :D

His eyes are great and I got facial structure in it so that's good :) Maybe I go with this design actually... will see.

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Session four: Dice Carma Action season 1

Watch here episode 1

   31 episodes, averaging 2 hours and 10 minutes. About 58 hours and 24 minutes total. It started on  Mar 16, 2016, and the final episodes came out on Dec 9, 2016.

Dice Carma Action is a D&D 5e game set in the Forgotten Realms. They play the official published modules from Wizards of the Coast, for season one they played Curse of Strahd, with some character story integrated. It stars Chris Perkins as the DM, Jared Knabenbauer as the human rogue Diath Woodrow. Anna Prosser Robinson as Evelyn Marthain, a human paladin of Lathander. Holly Conrad playing a Tiefling sorcerer named Strix Skizziks. Then Nathan Sharp is playing Paultin Seppa a human bard.

I was really excited when I first heard about Dice Camera Action because I have been a big fan of Projared since his early Normal Boots days. So when he announced made the announcement video on his channel, I was stoked.  Not only was I a major fan of the content creators that were going to be involved, but I was also just getting into Critical Role the same time. Then when I learned that the DM was a writer for Wizards of the coast, and most likely knew the module from cover to cover better than anyone, made me even more excited.

Though with all of this going for it, I have to say Dice Camera Action is not a show I watch every week, nor have I seen all of the episodes. It isn’t a bad show by any means, it just does not catch my attention like some other shows do.   In most aspects, it is just painfully average.

Gameplay: 4.5

With this show being produced by Wizards of the Coast, and shown on the official D&D Twitch and youtube it follows the rules very strictly. While I do not feel like the rules get in the way of the gameplay, it is on the very cusp of having that happen.  If you are a rules freak, you might enjoy how strictly they follow the 5e books, though there still is some player input into the story. (some spoilers ahead skip to the next section if you do not want to see them) Really the only thing that is not taken strictly from the book is how some of the NPCs that interact with the PCs have been changed slightly. Both Strix and Paultin have family in barovia they did not know about beforehand, and some of the NPCs are actually played by guests rather than the DM.

Pre/postproduction:3

Not great and not awful production value. The live stream on Twitch, and the only additional visuals, beyond the player’s faces, are illustrations out of the curs of Curse of Strahd, book. The later seasons have animated intros and on-screen stats for the characters, but for season one it is just their faces and illustrations of monsters. The audio is not perfect, but it is not offensive in any way, everyone is just using a headset with a microphone rather than higher end recording equipment. They do sometimes peek and the audio crackles and pops some, but nothing worse than say the average video game streamer uses.

Story/RP:  3.5

It’s Curse of Strahd, with moderately exciting characters.  I only find about half of the pcs interesting, and truthfully, I struggle to remember Paulten when talking about the show. There are a few excellent moments that make up for midcore PCs. (spoilers start) The whole storyline of Diath dyeing and coming back is super compelling, and as a DM myself I have taken a lot of notes from this side story (end spoilers). If you want to watch a good stream of Strahd, or indeed any of the modules that Dice Camera Action covers this may be the show for you.  It is also an excellent way to see how the module plays before you buy or run it yourself.

Representation: 2.5

I cannot think of anything outstandingly good or bad about the representation in the show.  The DM does not go out of his way to add any minorities to the game, nor can I think of any major representation with the pcs.  I guess I could count the vistani people as analogs for the Romani people in our world, though they were already found in the module before the people of Dice Camera Action played it.

I could be wrong with this, it could be stated in a later episode that a PC is LGBT+ or disabled in some way. I believe that some of the characters may have PTSD or some mental disorder, but it is played for laughs. It is no worse than most tv shows, but along with some fantasy racism that just comes with the setting of the forgotten realms, this is defiantly something that could be done better.

Overall:

While not an offensive show in any way Dice Camera Action is not precisely the most interesting D&D 5e show out there. It is just average, defiantly worth looking at if you are interested in the modules they are playing, but beyond that, it isn’t exactly super unique and original. It is not a bad show in any way, and I still watch it from time to time, but that’s generally if I don’t have anything else to watch, or if I find the guest interesting.  Still, you may like it, and I like specific parts of the show, but overall it is painfully average.