Seth Skorkowsky
@SSkorkowsky
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Author. Game Master. Audio book addict. I also make YouTube videos. Gold ENNIE Award winner (x3). Agented by Amy Brewer at @metamorphlitag
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Behold! The most D&D headline to ever D&D. I've had my doubts about this movie, but having to repeatedly move the release date makes me think it might actually be exactly like D&D.
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It's weird how people who grew up on The Neverending Story talk about their most remembered parts and it's always Artax dying, the existential horror of The Nothing, how cool Falkor was, and never mention what fascinated me as a kid.
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This Japanese ferry boat is the greatest spaceship that never flew.
I love absolutely everything about it
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The chances of me zoning out and casually trying to eat that "tasty looking sashimi" and breaking my teeth mid-game is too high
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Dear Non-D&D Players:
Right now there's a spike in the number of forum posts of, "What is there outside D&D?" or "How is <X> different than D&D?". Yes, I know it gets tiring, but while its your umpteenth time to answer the same question, it's their first time to ask and explore.
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It appears the dragon finally emerged from its cave and spoken. It swears it had no intention of eating your livestock and burinating your homes, but to only protect them from the cold. You both won.
You can trust it. Put away the D20. There's no need to roll to find Deception.
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I'm still unable to get over that line.
With whatever ORC license Paizo, Chaosium, and all the other companies are planning together, please have the final line be, "You won—and so did we."
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Hopefully the OGL 1.1 speculation/leak isn't as bad as everyone fears, but if they're true...
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TTRPG Fandom Advice:
If someone tells you about a RPG they love and shows several hundred dollars worth of books/materiel for it, if you declare that it sucks and they need to play "X" game instead, you all but guarantee they will never ever consider "X" game.
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D&D, who gave us Parkinson, Brom, Elmore, Easley, and so many others is using AI art now?
Was there some sort of decree at the home office that every quarter of 2023 must include some WotC scandal? Cause at this point it's a pattern.
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You know in a horror movie when the monster adorns the skin of a long-dead character, and the hero character is all, "OMG, you're alive!" and embraces the thing in ill-fitting corpse skin, and the audience is all, "Can't you see that's not really them?!"
Anyway, TSR is back
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Remember Burke in Aliens? He was the liar who put profit over lives. The aliens killed him too. Yes the monsters were still an active threat to everyone else, but no one mourned when the sleazebag who caused it was caught in the results.
No reason for me thinking this today
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Years ago, when I was just starting my YouTube channel and had maybe 150 Subscribers, Matthew Colville had 120,000. I couldn't imagine an audience that huge. It was beyond anything I believed I could do.
Well, 2 ENNIE Awards and 7 years later, my little channel finally did it.
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One of my players sent me the greatest Call of Cthulhu character sheet of all time.
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2/3 of my time fixing stuff around the house is spent unfucking and cursing the guy who lived here for 40 years
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I'm no PR expert or anything, but if your company is desperately trying to improve their public image, sending the Pinkertons to intimidate YouTubers probably shouldn't be your Plan A.
Maybe, I dunno, start with an email.
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Two sought adventure (and that primo black lotus).
While Conan purists tend to bristle at it, the 1982 Conan film is a masterpiece.
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I've made a lot of dumb mistakes in my life, but marrying my best friend was the best thing I ever did.
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Seven years ago today I posted my first RPG video. I didn't know how to edit. My equipment sucked. But it was a start.
Two Gold ENNIEs, several writing gigs with various RPG publishers (and a 3rd ENNIE for one of those), & 117k subs later. What a weird and fun journey it's been.
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I should write a Call of Cthulhu scenario titled, "The House That Couldn't Burn." I've no clue what it's about, but the title alone should send chills down players' spines as their
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tactic clearly won't work in it.
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When the group suffers a TPK, but everyone makes new characters because they want to continue the campaign.
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Due to pandemic reasons, a ton of TTRPG gamers have started using virtual tabletops. Me too.
But some of you need to hear this. You don't HAVE to use the virtual dice roller. If your GM is cool with it, you can still just roll the dice and say what you got.
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Years ago, Matt Collville said something along the lines of, 'many, if not most, people on RPG forums or comments sections don't actually play, but want to.'
Given the endless stream of authoritative ignorance and hilarious hottakes I regularly receive, I often think about that.
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Found this picture I forgot to share.
In 1991, this man (center) was my first Dungeon Master. His impact on my life has been profound.
This was in October at the grand opening of his son's (left) gaming shop.
No one could have imagined where that first game would take us.
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Got home from GenCon to find this waiting for me. Thank you, everyone, for all your support. This is awesome.
#YouTube
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January 1999 8 college kids crammed into a 350sq-ft apartment for some AD&D.
Over the years players have come and gone. Wedding, careers, kids, life, etc. Various RPGs played.
Today is our January game. 5 of us total. 4 of us were at that first game 24 years ago.
Life is weird.
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$30 a month to play a VTT?
GMs you now have a baseline to charge your players $15 a month to play on a different VTT or even in meatspace.
$5 discount if they own a PHB
$5 off if they know their character's spells/abilities.
$5 off if they're on time.
Make lemonade outta this
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You want to live dangerously?
Ever thought "Stairs are just too easy"?
Need to murder someone and have it look like an accident?
Then boy, oh boy, do I have the stair carpet for you!
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The original 1974 run of D&D was 1,000 copies.
Either every single player from that time is still alive, gaming, and actively posting online how they've played since '74, or some of y'all are fibbing.
(though I do know a few who legitimately have played since '74)
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Best. Merlin. Ever.
Also Helen Mirren, who is always the best thing ever.
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Defining D&D Hit Points is always goofy. Physical damage or Hero Points, none of it fully works.
Except... 1 HP = 1 pint of blood.
Low-level, you lose 10HP, you bled out. High level PCs have 50 gal of blood at 4000psi. It sprays everywhere and combats look like Tarantino films.
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I'm 97% sure this is a helicopter full of Player Characters enacting a "brilliant" plan that will soon go sideways.
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I think this is going to become my standard reply to commenters asking my opinion of the OGL or why I'm not making videos about it.
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BOOM!!!
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One thing that always baffles me is existing groups of RPG players seeking a GM to run them through a specific mega-campaign. Some post on boards, some have even messaged me direct, “Will you run me and my friends though Masks of Nyarlathotep,” or some other campaign.
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My favorite new Twitter feature has been scrolling down, seeing a tweet I'm interested in, only to have it vanish as an ad tweet bursts into my feed like the Kool Aid Man, and then spending the next couple minutes scrolling around until I find that tweet I was trying to look at.
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I saw Henry Cavill has been tapped for the Highlander Reboot. Cool.
But what I want to know is, who will play Ramírez?
In keeping with tradition, it must be an older sex symbol and badass actor.
Who should play Ramírez and why is the only acceptable answer Antonio Banderas?
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Last night my buddy told me the fan theory how Jonathan in The Mummy is a WW1 veteran, and all the goofy behaviours we thought of as incompetence were really trauma.
This is now 100% canon to me.
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T-minus 40 minutes until our Traveller campaign begins. Prep is done. Antsy waiting begins.
It is fortuitous chance that today is the 46th anniversary of the game's release.
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Couple of my older videos have started gaining traction again. Maybe they were a little too ahead of their time.
"How to Learn a New RPG System"
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I can't believe I have to say this, but I insta-block nazis. If you are a nazi, kindly fuck off.
Hijack someone else's thread to talk about genetic superiority or whatever the hell that was.
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For any Tabletop Gamers who support banning books and materiel in schools, here's a list of schools that banned D&D during the 1980s because of made-up damage it was falsely accused of causing. Remember your roots.
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There's a much younger DM I know. Nice guy.
3 yrs ago, he couldn't fathom why anyone would play RPGs other than D&D.
1 yr ago he showed me his monster book of House Rules he used to fix D&D (which was still flawless).
This year he's glowing about all the cool RPGs he's learning.
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Growing up, D&D was portrayed as this dangerous underground thing. Oprah and 60 Minutes warned us about it. Movies like Mazes & Monsters and Cruel Doubt said it would drive us into insane killers.
The USPS is now doing D&D stamps for the game's 50th.
TTRPGs have come a long way.
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Maybe it was the dice.
Maybe it was the GM.
My money it was something like, "I drink the lava," after everyone said, "Dude, don't drink hot lava. You'll die." Followed by complete surprise the lava killed him.
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I'm not entirely sure when awkwardly inserting Game Master Screens into old pictures became my thing, but it did.
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@PoPville
The only suspicious thing there is how he looks good in pink/blue plaid. I couldn't pull that off.
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As a friendly reminder, Chaosium offers their own OGL for their BRP system, as well as self-publishing Community Content programs for their Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and 7th Sea lines.
Mongoose Publishing also offers a Community Content program for Traveller called TAS.
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Two of the most common criticisms of my channel are
1: I only talk about old games and not new ones.
2: I only talk about Call of Cthulhu and Traveller.
These are my last 5 vids. I'm 95% sure the critics really mean, "He never talks about 5e D&D."
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So, Crown Royal bags are a regular thing in the gaming world. People have called them the OG Dice Bag. Hell, my dice tower is felted with a Crown bag. With this type of brand recognition from a community, have any of the gaming conventions ever approached them for a sponsorship?
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Say what you like about Jack Chick, but he knew what women want
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I will never not be amazed at how the Cyberpunk TTRPG community embraced The Scott Brown Incident.
This popped up on Reddit.
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Finally blocked one commenter who endlessly complained on every video for the last 7-8 months, making some interesting accusations, and just bringing me down. After her rant about my archiving and redoing an old vid & threats to unsubscribe, I eased her suffering by blocking her
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The number of people who can watch my videos, especially the ones specifically about Call of Cthulhu, Kult, Traveller, etc. and think I'm talking about D&D is kind of amazing.
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When you want to give your badguy a powerful magic helmet, but also want to discourage the PCs from keeping and using it themselves after defeating them.
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Any RPG Forum: "Dungeons & Dragons is Tolkienian fantasy. There's no place in D&D for guns or science fiction."
Gary Gygax: "Fuckin' Laser Guns Kick Ass! Pew-Pew-Pew!"
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This week I've encountered 2 RPG YouTubers going, "There's so much more than 5e. Check out these popular channels talking about other games." And they're channels that spent years focused on D&D and only recently branched out.
Meanwhile, I've been pitching other RPGs for years
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If you got a haul of RPG books for Christmas and you think, "Should I tag Seth and say how I blame him for getting me into Call of Cthulhu/Traveller/Kult/RBRB/etc.?" and then think, "Nah, I don't want to bother him," I assure you it is no bother at all. In fact, I love it.
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One of the great Star Wars 'what-ifs' for me is if they hadn't deleted the women rebel pilots. Especially this one.
The fact she's old really illustrates how rebellions take who they can get. In her twilight years she went to war.
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In the Alien RPG, GMs are called Game Mothers. Every Aliens vid I do, some commenters assume it's a slip, a joke about GMs mothering their players", or even rants about 'Woke Culture' trying to remove "Master" from the RPG vernacular.
Truth is, they should just watch Alien (1979)
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Last month was the 25th Anniversary of our group (or at least the 4 of us still together from the original 8). Tonight my buddy Jesse gave me this shirt. Lotta inside jokes and great memories referenced there.
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Back in the late 90s I had "Being Dungeon Master" listed as a hobby on my AOL profile. After the umpteenth random message asking for a spanking, I added "(AD&D, not S&M)". This led to random messages asking about this new and exciting S&M called AD&D (and if I'd also spank them).
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Ever see that guy who obsesses over an ex-GF they swear to be 'totally over'? He chases news and gossip about her like an addict and always talks about her, and you're all, "Dude, get over her. Move on!"
Anyway, the people who swear to be 'totally over D&D' saw the new cover art
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Well, we finished Willow. That was a thing that happened.
I have no idea who that show was made for, or why they chose to do it the way they did. I can only assume a committee and a mountain of cocaine were responsible for it.
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Of all the recent OGL drama and legal experts weighing in (both real and armchair), my favorite twist by far has been the American Bar Association's statement on matter.
Their verdict: We prefer Call of Cthulhu.
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"Hi Seth, after watching your review where you thoroughly explained why you didn't care for this game and said it wasn't your jam, I bought it and didn't care for it. I blame you for recommending it."
This is a weirdly common message I get and I'm never sure how to respond.
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I used to love conspiracy theories. Then Flat Earthers happened. I thought it was the greatest joke ever until, to my horror, I realized they were serious.
My feed is full of posts about mirrors seeing through paper and something about the Matrix. I can't assume they're joking.
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Remember that time the Mystery Men bumbled their way into Casanova Frankenstein's lair, killed Captain Amazing, and not only got away with it but were hailed as heroes?
That's the most RPG thing ever.
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The big trick to improving your TTRPG game is to play a different one. Not a 1-shot or half-assed side-game, but a good 4 or 5 sessions in a completely different system and genre. When you return to your old game your perspective and approach will have changed.
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In a film loaded with more hyper-manly badass manliness that ever manlied, and the cast was trying to out-manly each other with the biggest muscles and coolest poses, Bill Duke casually pulled out a Bic safety razor and won the title.
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Well, it took 3 years of running, but she finally caught me.
Felt a little congested last night but today has been coughing my guts out.
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"Why should I change editions?"
You don't have to. Play what you like.
"It's bullshit you say I should buy all new books!"
I'm not.
"Yes you are. I already have the old edition and like it just fine."
Cool. Then play that.
"Fuck you!"
-This is a conversation I've had many times
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I so rarely open my 5e D&D books I'd forgotten how terribly crappy they're made. Tissue-thin paper that's glue-bound.
Meanwhile Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Kult, Alien, and more RPGs are thicker paper and stitched. They're made to last.
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One of the playable species in Traveller is uplifted Dolphins. We get all sorts of stuff on playing them, how their spaceships need to be modified, and specialized gear such as cyber arms so they can hold stuff.
They're cool.
But has anyone actually played one? How'd it go?
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While I dig how the term Session Zero drives the point that it occurs before the start of a campaign/group, it also gives the false impression that it's a one-time thing or has an end.
Session Zero is the beginning of a conversation. It's not 'one and done'.
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After the gauntlets of writing a novel, query letter hell, securing a publisher, editing and more editing, the final Trial of Fortitude is the number of people wanting to support your accomplishment by asking you for a free copy.
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I find the post-apoc fantasy setting of swords and magic against a backdrop of crumbling skyscrapers and strange technologies (Thundarr the Barbarian, Wizards, Vampire Hunter D, He-Man, etc.) far more interesting than a medieval fantasy world that hasn't progressed in 10,000 yrs
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I've been seeing a lot of "D&D needs to bring back Dark Sun!" and how WotC wont bring it back due to "problematic themes".
Here's the real reason they won't bring it back - AD&D Dark Sun sales stunk. Why resurrect a proven dud?
Also, without Brom would it really be Dark Sun?
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On a general topic RPG vid where I show 8 games that weren't D&D or D&D clones, this guy declares in the wordiest way how he's never played anything but D&D.
RPGs where story and roleplay were pushed front and center go back to the 70s. And how other tables play doesn't hurt you
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The only way this could be more awesome is if they build a tunnel of fast-moving light so it feels like you're launching.
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I, for one, welcome the Class of 2024 Grognard Graduates
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There popular sales pitch of, "That RPG you love sucks! You should play 'X' instead," is all but guaranteed to ensure I will sooner die than ever try 'X'.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
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