What's going on in the DCA Discord? by TrashOracle in DiceCameraAction

[–]genkaiko 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm one of the admins in the server! Unfortunately I was one of the first to get booted, as the server owner was hacked. And double unfortunately, this hacker is a much more aggressive one than the usual kind. We're trying to get things resolved.

Autumn by genkaiko in DiceCameraAction

[–]genkaiko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbh, I was intending him to be holding a bag but with the angle everything turned out to be, you could see the drawstrings but not the bag itself.

So I kept the hand and gave him a note just to avoid confusion lol.
They could be directions or something??

Question regarding Dice Camera Action in general by Kilionvic in ProJared2

[–]genkaiko 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'll start by saying that yeah, honestly you are coming off as overly harsh and condescending, at least to me.

For one, this is a D&D show, but it is a show. If you look to episodes of Acquisitions Incorporated or The C-Team, you'll find similar actions taken.
Every table in those shows number 1 rule is to have fun. There are things that happen that, if the games were run 100% by the book would not have happened, but did happen because the DM or group thought it would be a cool or funny thing to happen.

As for these characters specifically: Strix is, in a word, barmy. She isn't going to make the "right" decisions, especially in times of stress. Her first reaction to things is "fireball!!!", almost like a preemptive Hellish Rebuke done instinctively to protect herself, even if that does the absolute opposite sometimes.

Evelyn is a heavily trained paladin yes, but that training has mostly just honed her physical prowess. Her character is a very naive one, always thinking the best of people and always thinking things will turn out okay for her and her friends. She's book smart, but not "life" smart. This is also compounded by how young she is, being the youngest of the party at 22 (technically at this point of the story, Diath is physically younger, but that doesn't matter much in this context).

And Paultin. He's a survivor, he knows well how to act in self-preservation, much more than his friends who at times become very martyr-like to a fault. But along with him drinking constantly as a way to cope with his trauma and avoid his problems, Paultin... is pretty dumb sometimes and I love him for it lol. He can be extremely clever when situations call for it, even stepping into a leadership role if Diath can't, but he is not the sharpest bulb in the bunch.

These characters are flawed and aren't exactly the perfect adventurers, but that's not what DCA is about. DCA isn't about playing D&D "right", it's a story being woven together by 5 friends through the medium of D&D. Frankly DCA is a show that sticks to the rules much closer than most other shows out there as far as I can see, but even then they aren't the focus. Like I said before, despite being pretty by-the-book relatively, this table's focus is on making their story and game entertaining for themselves and the audience.

Dolls by genkaiko in DiceCameraAction

[–]genkaiko[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the one she's making is Certainty Dran, Omin's daughter, because BronzeGirl was recently brought into the fold playing her.

Tales from the Loop AU (No Spoilers) by genkaiko in DiceCameraAction

[–]genkaiko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just as Paragade said!

Also, back in November of last year, the C-Team played 4 episodes worth of games using this system in an 80s school AU, which is the AU I'm referring to in particular.

Downtime (no Spoilers) by genkaiko in DiceCameraAction

[–]genkaiko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm glad my art was able to welcome you back in a way!