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0:02So today we're going to talk about role
0:03playing games. A little bit about the
0:05history and what they're all about. Uh
0:08some of you folks have played the game
0:10uh role playing
0:11games. So that's great. Uh anybody play
0:15like uh Fire Emblem out there? Just out
0:19of
0:20curiosity. I know some of some folks
0:24that that do play it and and enjoy
0:26playing Fire
0:27Emblem. So, uh, do you play Fire Emblem?
0:31Yes or no in
0:33chat? So,
0:36uh, anyways, uh, so there are different
0:39types of of of roleplaying games. You've
0:43got your typical tabletop role playing
0:46games where you you you you play a
0:48character or a bunch of characters and
0:50you roll dice uh to to uh, you know, go
0:54through the campaign. There's liveaction
0:57roleplaying where folks actually go out
0:59and into the, you know, into the
1:04uh Shakespeare festival and and wear
1:08medieval garb. And here's here's an
1:10example of of a
1:13uh LAR they call
1:16it. Um so it's uh it's it's big. It's
1:20huge. And um you know, way back when I
1:24was in college, there were some folks
1:26that played Dungeons and Dragons, but it
1:30seemed like only computer science people
1:32were playing it and uh had this nerd
1:35type um stigma to it. Nowadays, you
1:39know, you've got you've got uh
1:42celebrities playing uh Dungeons and
1:44Dragons and you know, it's it's it's a
1:47big thing. It's kind of a cool thing.
1:49Um, so but most of you folks are playing
1:53computer RPGs. Um, and uh mostly sort of
1:57action RPG where you know there's some
2:00form of combat that that is happens uh a
2:05lot of times in real time. Um, but a lot
2:07of these these RPG games uh on the
2:11computer are
2:13turnbased. Um, but they kind of break
2:15down into sort of, you know, two
2:18different sort of structures, action
2:19RPGs or open world RPGs. Um, everywhere
2:24where I was I when I was doing research
2:26on this, they kept calling it a sandbox
2:28RPG, but th this is it's not a sandbox
2:31RPG. You can't go off. Um, my definition
2:34of a sandbox game is something that you
2:37can actually create other games with.
2:39Sort of like a kid playing in a sandbox.
2:42um where you can you can either play,
2:45you know, castles or you can you can
2:47make um I don't know, roads and and and
2:50and create Formula 1 race racing in in
2:53in the sandbox. Um but open world RPGs
2:56is someplace where there's a gigantic
2:59vast world. It could be a continent. It
3:02could be a bunch of countries that you
3:04you can you can move around in um all
3:06over the place, right? So that's that to
3:08me is open world, not
3:10sandbox. Uh tactical RPGs where there
3:13the combat uh is is very um you know
3:19strategic in terms of of what you do in
3:22in that RPG game. um sort of different
3:25than action RPG game where you know you
3:28might you might be fighting um you know
3:31zombies every 5 seconds where a tactical
3:33RPG is where you are sort of making
3:37decisions and trying to figure out um
3:40how you can progress in in in your
3:42mission or campaign um by thinking about
3:45what you need to do. Uh and then there's
3:47this this uh distinction between uh
3:51Japanese RPGs and Western RPGs where
3:54Japanese RPGs are, you know, sort of the
3:56I guess the Fire Emblems that are out
3:58there where um they actually sort of um
4:03emphasize more of the linear progression
4:07of their players. Uh I'm sorry, the
4:09player characters and the characters in
4:11it. um where western RPGs tend to be
4:14more openw world and and uh about
4:18exploration uh you know and and so we're
4:21not going to talk too much about
4:23Japanese RPGs or western RPGs um but
4:27uh anyways uh so you know this is kind
4:30of like a first cut at at at putting
4:34together a lecture for role playing
4:36games. So you folks get to get to you
4:38know sort of uh be the guinea pigs for
4:41this
4:43lecture. So uh origin. So it is a
4:47history class. So it started sort of in
4:49the 1970s specifically 1974 was when it
4:52when it was the Dungeons and Dragons was
4:56first released. I mean they were working
4:58on it even before 1974. I want to say
5:01maybe even like 1970 or 1971. Um Gary
5:04Gyax and Dave Arnison were the uh game
5:07designers of this this incredible world
5:10that has become this
5:12phenomenon. Um, and it's basically a a
5:15fantasy game where you you take on some
5:18role of
5:19of, you know, originally medieval
5:22characters. That could be, you know, you
5:24could be a a a fighter, a bard or or a
5:29giant or um, you know, a cleric or a
5:33paladin that that you you play with five
5:36or six other uh players that are going
5:39to take on a
5:41character, right? And then a then a
5:43dungeon master comes and and and
5:46uh directs the whole game. Okay. Um and
5:50that that's more of about uh set into
5:53this fantasy sort of medieval world kind
5:56of setting, right? Um I don't know these
5:59games too much myself. Um, but I thought
6:03I'd just put these in because this is
6:04the 1970s and there the Traveler was a a
6:09RPG that was about a science fiction
6:12type type setting and Rune Quest uh was
6:15more like um the skill-based fantasy uh
6:19system. And then this uh Call of Tula uh
6:23came out in 1981 which was horrorbased.
6:25So here you can see even way back in the
6:28in the in the 70s and early 80s these
6:32types of games, you know, based off of
6:35the the theme um went all over the place
6:39and you can you can nowadays you can you
6:42can have sort of a onetoone correlation
6:43of you know a fantasy RPG u that that's
6:48skill-based science fiction setting. Um,
6:50you know, I didn't talk about it in this
6:52lecture, but like Star Wars has has
6:54their um version of an RPG game. I
6:56forget which one. If any of you know
6:58which one it is. Um, can you type it in
7:01chat? Um, but these were the original
7:07OG, you know, kind of kind of games that
7:10that set the the course of what an RPG
7:13is. And I put up here, you know, in
7:15terms of an RPG game, it's all about
7:18character de development and
7:19progression. And this could also be the
7:22the setting and um location of where the
7:28the players are are, you know, doing
7:32their campaign in, right? So the
7:35progression of that can also happen, you
7:38know, and and these characters over
7:40time, you know, especially these Dungeon
7:41and Dragon type uh role playing games,
7:44they they uh uh never end or sometimes,
7:48you know, can play forever, years and
7:50years, right? I've been playing my
7:52character for uh for I want to say three
7:55years now that uh you know when I go
7:58down and visit my friends down in um in
8:01San Diego when I go to Comic-Con we
8:04always play you know a couple rounds of
8:06of uh Dungeons and Dragons using the
8:10exact same characters we have been
8:11using. So, um, and and some of you folks
8:15have played,
8:17uh, RPG games, uh, and Dungeons and
8:21Dragons. So, hope maybe we can. I would
8:24love to play it in class, uh, you know,
8:27Dungeons and Dragons. So, I keep
8:30threatening to do it, but we're kind of
8:32running out of of,
8:34uh, of class time since summer's coming
8:38up, so we won't be able to play. But uh
8:41maybe we
8:42can. Okay, so let's talk about computer
8:45RPGs. Uh this started happening where
8:49the tabletop RPGs were in the 70s. Then
8:52in the 1980s, uh they started coming out
8:56with computers on specifically on MS
8:59DOSbased and this is pre Windows. All of
9:02you folks were were have only know about
9:06Windows and MacBooks and you know uh uh
9:09graphical user interfaces. Back then it
9:12was just DOSs disc operating system
9:14which DOSS stood for. Um and they these
9:17games came out on those those machines.
9:19Um precursors were like a col colossal
9:23ca cave adventure and now these text
9:25adventure games they're they're
9:27basically um an adventure game right
9:29where you're exploring things. In this
9:31case, Colossal Cave is you're you're
9:33spelunking in a cave, right? And so
9:35you're you're an adventurer trying to
9:38get through this cave and collecting
9:40things in this cave. And Zork, sort of
9:42the same
9:43thing. But here you're typing in text,
9:46right? Turn left, go forward,
9:50qua qua the potion, where you literally
9:53just type these in, right? and it and it
9:56comes back with another text message of
9:59what uh you're going to do next, right?
10:01Ask you a yes or no question. You reply
10:04yes or no. Okay. Um so, and then uh you
10:09know uh uh DND and uh Pettit 5, I think
10:12it's pronounced Pettit 5. I think it's
10:14also known as the dungeon. Um these were
10:16all kind of the earliest uh computer
10:20role playing games that were on these uh
10:22back then they were called mini
10:24computers. Um, so these were big
10:26gigantic, you know, roomsiz computers
10:28that they were on. I I played Rogue. I'm
10:31surprised I didn't put Rogue in here
10:33because Rogue was one of the first,
10:36um, uh, adventure games that that were
10:39out there. Uh and and from the original
10:43Rogue came Rogue likes, which is uh
10:46essentially a a sort of dungeon crawling
10:50game that has
10:53um uh uh what do you call that? The
10:57um generated levels. So uh progressively
11:02generated levels. And it was from this
11:04original Rogue game. And I played Rogue
11:06on a PDP1 1170 and a VAX
11:0911780. Um, you could look those up. Uh,
11:12and
11:14uh, again, you know, this the screen was
11:16all textbased, but you know, it they
11:19drew the the the graphics on this
11:22textbased machine. Um, so again, you're
11:25you're you're
11:26you're in you're this explorer in in
11:29this dungeon to try to get yourself out
11:31of this dungeon. And yes, we spent hours
11:33and days and weeks to try to finish it.
11:36And um we actually got to the end of
11:39that that uh that uh the game and it
11:43came down to a
11:4550/50 question and we guessed wrong so
11:48we lost. Um but Rogue was one of these
11:52original computer games. Um but it's
11:55more of an adventure game, you know, a
11:57rogue game now because of because it it
12:00became mainstream, you know, it's now
12:03its own um game genre called rogue
12:06likes. Um so uh but again that was I
12:10played that in
12:131981. 81. Yeah. So it' be around that
12:16time where Rogue came out. Um Ultima
12:20series open world exploration. Um and
12:22these the these these these games here
12:25uh Bard's Tale this first person dungeon
12:28crawler uh Might and Magic. So again,
12:32you know, you either played open world,
12:34you played dungeon or and and later on
12:37it became first person, right? So did I
12:40have a might have had a sort of Yeah. Um
12:43Bartsdale uh first person dungeon
12:46crawler. So again, these are the 1980s.
12:49Um and then sort of towards late 80s and
12:52the 90s came what's known as the golden
12:54age. Okay. Uh these were when these
12:58franchises
12:59uh started coming out that that are
13:01still in play today. And um uh what what
13:07uh RPGs other than WoW? Um well, I guess
13:10I probably already asked the question.
13:12Um did you do you did you folks play
13:14anybody play Final
13:16Fantasy? Um, so here the original RPG
13:21games came out on like the the Nintendo
13:25Entertainment SE system, the NES and
13:27then the Super NES. Um and then later on
13:31uh in the like in the this golden age
13:34period it started to shift to computers
13:36and all of a sudden the quality of these
13:39games started going crazy good because
13:43of um being able to do character
13:46customization and um you know I put this
13:50party based combat. So, you know, the
13:52original tabletop RPGs like like the
13:55original Dungeons and Dragons is about
13:57a, you know, a party based uh
14:00collaboration, right? You have five or
14:02six people going into this one quest,
14:05right? Or this one campaign and and
14:08trying to survive. And later on I um
14:11there's there's a a TV show that I
14:13really love is is called um Vox Mechina
14:17and that's based off of a campaign that
14:22was that was uh uh it's still going on
14:25right now created by a group called
14:27Critical Role and
14:30um they're basically pun playing
14:32Dungeons and Dragons on on uh YouTube
14:35and and Twitch, right? So, I've listened
14:38to them a bunch of few times. I forget
14:41which what they they what campaign
14:43they're working on now, but it was the
14:45original um Box Mina campaign that they
14:48turned the the TV show based off of.
14:53So uh you know but but in this golden
14:57age
14:58period storydriven narratives have
15:01become huge where now you can actually
15:03have you know text that comes out and
15:06talks about what the backstory it could
15:10be the current story. It could be
15:11potential things that are you're going
15:14to be encountering later on. and also uh
15:18exploration of it has had become huge
15:21where you're you're going through this
15:23gigantic size map um all the all through
15:27this golden age of of RPG
15:31games.
15:33So, oh, are they really Grace? That is
15:36awesome. I hope so. Um uh we we haven't
15:41had time to finish. I think I think
15:42they're right now on the third. They're
15:46they're they're they're in their uh
15:48their third season. So, but I haven't I
15:51haven't got to it yet.
15:55So again, the golden age, this golden
15:59age period of of late 80s and the 90s,
16:02Final Fantasy on the on the Nintendo
16:05Entertainment System,
16:071987, 1992, Ultima 7, and again, this
16:12was on on uh the PC DOSs system. Okay,
16:16this is pre Windows. 1994, Elder Scrolls
16:20came out also.
16:22um in 1995. I don't know much about this
16:24Chrono Trigger, but um you know, it's
16:27about traveling in time. So, uh I I
16:30thought that was kind of cool that they
16:32created a RPG game about time travel. Um
16:35I don't know much about it. I'm going to
16:37have to research it some more. Um and
16:39Fallout Fallout, I know some of my other
16:42students have played Fall Fallout. And
16:44then there's this really great game
16:46called Balders's Gate. Um and this ca
16:48didn't this came straight out on
16:50Windows. And in 1998, um, Windows 95,
16:54Windows 95 came out, and Windows 98, the
16:57better Windows, came out in '98, and
16:58Baldersgate, I think, came out on
17:00Windows
17:0198. So, and we'll we'll we'll talk a
17:04little bit about Balders's Gate, too,
17:05because basically Balders's Gate is an
17:07is a a souped up version of Dungeons and
17:11Dragon on the computer.
17:16So following the golden age of the 1990s
17:19is
17:20uh 3D RPG games. So threedimensional RPG
17:25games. So happens to be that companies
17:27like Nvidia and ATI started creating
17:31excellent video game uh cards. So back
17:36before the 19 the
17:401990s like early n uh mid1 1990s came
17:44out the first Nvidia cards there were
17:47some 40
17:48plus 3D graphics companies all trying to
17:52do uh 3D graphics and it ended up being
17:56only three companies that kind of made
17:58it uh uh ATI which was bought out by AMD
18:03and then of course Nvidia And you folks
18:05all know about
18:06Nvidia and Nvidia I know is kind of near
18:09and near and dear to my heart because I
18:11was an employee of Nvidia for many
18:13years. So
18:15um these cards also created uh these
18:19excellent games. Okay. So in 2000 Duzex
18:24uh firsterson shooter mechanics. So the
18:26real true firsterson shooters started
18:29coming out right. um original uh
18:31first-person shooter was uh Doom in in
18:361993. What what what I think it was
18:401983. Um you know, but uh RPGs started
18:45becoming firsterson
18:47uh views in it as opposed to, you know,
18:50top-down
18:52uh world kind of or text textbased type
18:55RPG games, right? And uh yes, so
19:02Uh in 2004, World of Warcraft came out.
19:06This massively multiplayer online game
19:09or MMO RPG. This was um a you know
19:13defining moment when World of Warcraft
19:16had millions of players all logged on at
19:19the same time playing playing these
19:21campaigns through there. Um I watched a
19:24couple of World of Warcraft uh games out
19:27there. never got a chance to play it
19:30myself, but uh just an amazing amazing
19:33time when these games all came out. Mass
19:36Effect and came out in 2007 introducing
19:39cinematic action RPG RPG type elements.
19:43Okay. Um, cinematic being the type of
19:46camera where, you know, if you think of
19:49of, you know, sort of a cutscene where,
19:52you know, you you you pan in, zoom in,
19:54then zoom back out with the camera, it
19:56it it it becomes fluid and and also part
20:00of an important part of the the game.
20:03Um, but also Mass Effect had uh, you
20:06know, action elements into it, too.
20:09So the these 3D graphics cards just just
20:14uh jumped the quality of these games and
20:17it's these games that have now uh you
20:20know still are in existence today,
20:22right? Um where uh now there's from 2010
20:28is this modern era type uh situation. So
20:31you know originally we had the 70s which
20:33were first time an RPG sort of came out
20:36and tech generally tech space based then
20:39the 80s and 90s came out with a with a
20:41golden era right and then then the the
20:44the 2000s came the 3D
20:48um graphics cards that changed the world
20:50and now today we have this modern era
20:52where the Witcher and and Dark Souls and
20:56you know Dark Souls is has has now
20:59created its own you know Uh uh what
21:03souls? What's it called? Um
21:06uh souls. I'm sorry. What? My mind
21:10blank. Uh where where there's this, you
21:12know, you you you can you can die, but
21:16then you can come right back in and and
21:17and and live. Um uh souls soul sport,
21:22but I'm I forget it right now.
21:25uh maybe some of you folks can help me
21:28uh what what the term is for it. Um but
21:31like the Elder Scrolls with uh you know
21:34this openw world RPG which is just
21:36gigantic, right? And then there's
21:38there's there's Balders's Gate, right?
21:40Again, Balders's Gate came out way back
21:42when and just every iteration of it has
21:45be been amazing. And then there's this,
21:48you know, Cyberpunk 2077, which is uh
21:52sci-fi futuristic openw world
21:55RPG. Uh, you know, so there's just a lot
21:59of great stuff that that has has come up
22:01with this, you know, uh, sort of the
22:04modern type type
22:06games. So, let's talk a little bit about
22:09just the two of these, Dungeons and
22:10Dragons and and Balders's Gate. Anybody
22:13have any questions? Go ahead and type it
22:15in chat.
22:19So, every everybody good. Give me a
22:21thumbs up if everything's good so
22:28far. Okay.
22:30Um, great. So, Dungeons and Dragons and
22:33Balders's
22:34Gate. Thumbs up, please. Uh again, the
22:39Dungeons and Dragons came out in
22:411974. Uh written by Gary Gagak and David
22:44Arnison, and it's about uh this
22:47collaborative storytelling game with
22:49rules. Okay. Uh you know, your your your
22:53dungeon master uh sets the
22:56stage and um talks about what each
23:00person is uh going to do. or you create
23:04your own character and you you you let
23:07the dungeon master know what what your
23:10character is all about and the dungeon
23:12master will construct a complete
23:16campaign based off of what your
23:18characters can do or not do. um as and
23:22then the dungeon master will also follow
23:24some sort of campaign that could um you
23:27know you you you can go off and and
23:30purchase campaigns and things like that
23:31and just go by that. Um but the the
23:34games that that I've played is uh
23:37actually we've done both. We we we've
23:39done the the the essential um Dungeons
23:43and Dragon set as well as uh uh having
23:47our dungeon master create our own
23:49campaign from
23:50scratch and then started us off at a
23:54different uh a certain character level.
23:56I want to say we start off at maybe
23:58eight or nine in character level um as
24:02opposed to starting from a character
24:04level one. So that's the beauty about
24:06these Dungeons and Dragon games is that
24:09you have character progression in it.
24:12Okay? And and the character progression
24:16could be based off of the skills and
24:18abilities that the character can do. And
24:20also it could be a changing personality
24:23of what the the character do. It could
24:25be you could be wielding, you know,
24:27first an axe and then all of a sudden
24:29you go back and now you you you you can
24:32you you've learned magic. say for
24:34instance or your weapon that you have
24:36has certain magical powers to it. So um
24:40and those would be used to uh either
24:44during combat um or or or or change the
24:48the way that
24:49the progression of the story happens.
24:53Okay. So you know you've got all of
24:55these different ways of of creating
24:59characters, creating the story and the
25:01story line. Um and then uh these the
25:05these characters can uh have uh a race
25:09or a class. So a race being a human,
25:12elf, dwarf, halfling, orc, goblin, and
25:15then a class uh within the race of of a
25:19barbarian, a bard, a fighter, a ranger,
25:21cleric. So if you you can have a race of
25:25a bunch of humans and then a class that
25:28has um uh it could be a a guild of of of
25:34all barbarians say or it could be you
25:37know for us we we have um in our our
25:42campaign you know I'm I'm basically a
25:45ranger uh with I'm an elf
25:48ranger and then uh then we have uh uh
25:53someone who's who's who's a cleric and a
25:57monk slunk that's a healer. So, it's
26:00good to have a healer in your in your uh
26:03uh your group. Um and then there's
26:07uh a bard who can use music to to uh uh
26:13to help with with special spells and
26:16skills. Um, and then uh like for
26:19instance, my nephew likes playing a a
26:21giant barbarian. Um, so you know, you
26:24can create your your character and then
26:27based off of the types of race and
26:29class, you can uh either inherit certain
26:32skills or
26:34equipment. Um and then uh uh you know
26:39then then the dungeon master will will
26:42you know then use those certain um
26:44skills to also construct the story
26:46around based off of what in case our our
26:48our dungeon master um likes to do is is
26:53uh you know create uh enemies that uh
26:58can work for or against uh the type of
27:02players that are in it. Um, and then,
27:04uh, we kind of make our own backstory of
27:07our our our player character. So, again,
27:10it's a collaborative party based
27:12structure and
27:14cooperation between um, all the
27:17different, in our case, we have five or
27:19six um,
27:22different players that go up against
27:25this one campaign. And and the dungeon
27:28master is not an enemy. Even though the
27:31dungeon master controls when when the uh
27:34the different um uh enemies come in and
27:38uh you know sets the stage, right? Uh
27:41the dungeon master is actually there to
27:43to help us progress through the story.
27:46Um so uh you know and and we we can we
27:51can end up in say for instance starting
27:54in this forest and then all of a sudden
27:56the there's there's um a pool of green
28:00something that it's liquid not
28:03necessarily um a pool of water but it's
28:06a glowing green thing he'll he'll he'll
28:09you he
28:11uh came up with right uh and then we
28:14have to uh either
28:16find stuff around the the forest. Or if
28:19there was something that maybe one of
28:21our um
28:24uh our our our teammates is is carrying
28:28something that can figure out what that
28:30green thing is, right? So, we have to
28:32try to understand what that green things
28:34is. It could it could be something that
28:35we end up having to drink in order to uh
28:38go down into the dungeon so that we can
28:41um strengthen ourselves with it. Right?
28:44So, uh, all of these different types of
28:46skills that that that the dungeon
28:48master, um, guides us
28:53through. And of course, there's a
28:56specific goal that that the campaign
28:58will end up having to to to uh go
29:02through. Uh, and in uh many cases, it's,
29:06you know, destroy five goblins that are
29:10in the dungeon, right? That kind of
29:12thing.
29:14So uh the the the game loop of this uh
29:19of Dungeons and Dragons. So the the
29:21dungeon master describes the environment
29:23and situation. So sets the stage, right?
29:26Then the players describe their intended
29:28actions. So, we would go about saying,
29:31you know, okay, the the stage is set and
29:34then the players would say, okay, um
29:38let's have the the uh the bard uh go in
29:43and use music to uh either cast a spell
29:48that that might find out that you can
29:51use it to open the door, say, right? Um
29:54and then we use dice. Um, actually I I
29:58have my This is a very heavy D20 here
30:03that is uh I got from
30:06Comic-Con. It's a solid metal thing. So
30:08I don't use it when we play, but I keep
30:10it on my desk here. Um but you know
30:13there's you know seven different die or
30:15five different dice that that you would
30:16use to determine the the either the
30:19abilities it could be initiative you can
30:22be rolling thing you know dice for for
30:24certain you know
30:26uh skills and attacking that kind of
30:29thing you use that dice for movement
30:31moving forward uh and so
30:34forth um experience and advancement
30:37that's the whole uh thing about these
30:39campaigns is that you defeat these
30:41monsters and complete these quests to
30:43gain experience points basically so that
30:45you can go I I mentioned earlier we
30:47started at characters level eight or
30:49nine and um you know uh if you start
30:53with a campaign that is really at the
30:55very beginning right then you if you
30:58complete that campaign then you can you
31:00can level up your everybody's characters
31:02to to the next level
31:04right and with that next level
31:09uh using the dungeons and Dragons
31:12manual, you can you can get certain
31:14powers and abilities based off of that
31:16level. Actually, I should have showed
31:19I've got I've got the the player players
31:21handbooks and the the the monster books
31:24and I've got all that set. I should have
31:27should
31:28have had a I show showed it to you
31:31folks. Um
31:34uh but anyways, role playing game
31:35elements here, right? So,
31:37uh Dungeons and Dragons. Actually, we're
31:40in the the the fifth edition. Why did I
31:42put fifth edition rules of of character
31:45creation, combat spells, casting,
31:47progress? Oh, I think this was because
31:49this was based off of um the
31:52requirements for Balders's Gate.
31:54Balders's Gate, I think, started off
31:56with D&D second edition rules, okay,
31:59versus the the current um fourth or
32:02fifth
32:03edition. Okay. Um again, it's about the
32:06characters, race, and classes. and um
32:10party based structure of tactical
32:11combats and positions. Um I believe I
32:14don't maybe you folks can can look it up
32:17too. Balders's Gate is more
32:20turnbased. So uh you you you you have to
32:24you
32:25know each person rolls. you you you you
32:29you you do movements and actions based
32:32off of that role and then the um the
32:36enemies would would follow suit. Okay.
32:39So, it'll be one at a time versus
32:41real-time
32:42tactics. Um but it's still the same
32:45thing. Storytell telling and and and
32:48world world building and uh going on
32:51quests and
32:53exploring. Okay. Oh, actually, yeah.
32:57So, um, yeah, I'm sorry. I kind of
33:00messed that whole thing up. So, I went I
33:02didn't realize that, you know, talking
33:03about Dungeons and Dragons that when I I
33:06I kept talking about Dungeons and
33:08Dragons, but Balders's Gate 1998, right,
33:12is this this Dungeons and Dragons second
33:14edition. I'm sorry, I totally did not uh
33:18get that, but anyways, hopefully you
33:20folks did. U and then there's a 2023
33:23modern age version of Balders's Gate,
33:25right? where the original Balders's Gate
33:28was based off of that second edition
33:31rules of of Dungeons and Dragon. This
33:34has got now um a change based off of 3D
33:39graphics that is just
33:41incredible with how this stuff looks.
33:44And there's cinematic cutscenes and
33:46dialogue that now come into play where
33:48the original ones had was based off of
33:50text stuff. So, you read text, um, you
33:53know, you you you you you
33:55you do something based off of that text
33:58and now there's uh you the the
34:01storytelling and actually the the
34:03characters that are in there are are
34:05fully voiced and you they they talk and
34:08then based off of what they say, you
34:11answer um and and uh you know go into
34:16this game
34:18um with with that type of uh
34:20interaction. activity with this
34:23storytelling and and narrative that that
34:26the the cinematic cut scenes and the
34:27dialogue all participate in. Okay. And
34:30so you as the the player um get to
34:33choose and have consequences based off
34:35of those those choices. Okay. Um and
34:40also what's nice about, you know, the
34:42Balders's Gate 3 is that it went into
34:44cross-platform play. So all of the
34:47original games were just on PC, right?
34:49You couldn't have you couldn't play on
34:52the PlayStation 3 and then also play on
34:54the PC. Now with cross-platform play,
34:58you can you can you can play on Xbox,
35:00you can play on PlayStation, you you can
35:02play on PC and then also play
35:04multiplayer all across all the different
35:07platforms. So this modern age game is
35:10just incredible.
35:13Okay. And lastly, we'll just kind of
35:15talk about RPG games as they've, you
35:18know, since they've gotten so popular,
35:20they they're they're now these
35:21franchises are now worth, you know,
35:23billions of dollars for their uh for
35:26their their game development companies,
35:28okay? So that they even make movies out
35:31of it. So, Dungeons and Dragons, Honor
35:33Among Thieves, right here, starring
35:35Chris Pine. This is this was a good
35:37movie. I liked it. Anybody anybody like
35:40uh any of these role playing game
35:41movies? Um you know, Last of Us is more
35:45uh you know, horror, action, adventure,
35:48but I put it in here because the you
35:50know, the character development on these
35:52is just amazing and I just loved Last of
35:54Us series. Um
35:58uh the acting is just great. um World of
36:01Warcraft, you know, Uncharted, uh and
36:04then of course The Legend of Vox
36:05Machina, which we'll talk about here.
36:07The Witcher that with um oh, what's his
36:09name? I don't uh I watched the last
36:12couple of ones, but I don't think he's
36:14going to be the um that that the actor.
36:17What's my mind's blacking right now? Um
36:20but anyways, uh I think they're moving
36:23ahead with uh um Thor's brother. What's
36:27his name?
36:29Yeah, the guy who plays Superman.
36:31Yes, thanks, Grace. Um, yeah. Gosh,
36:34what's his name? I I would I would have
36:37loved him to continue. Um, Henry Cavl.
36:41Yes, that's it. Thank you. Um, but
36:45anyways, I think he just is got uh got
36:48old with it and thinks it should be best
36:50done with with somebody else. Yeah. So,
36:53Hemsworth is the new guy. Um, but
36:57anyway, the legend of Vox Machina right
36:59here. So, this is uh based off of a
37:03campaign done by Critical Role. They
37:05they were on on, you know, you can you
37:08can log on to the web stuff and uh web
37:11browser and follow them and I followed
37:14them a couple of times in in in on um on
37:18Twitch. So there's there's also a couple
37:22other people that I that I might forget
37:24their names right now. I haven't been
37:26listening to them recent times, but here
37:29here's the uh the the the campaign was
37:33called, you know, Vox Men or whatever.
37:35And these are the characters themselves.
37:37So this is uh Parival, Keelis, um
37:41Scandlin, Pike,
37:45um Grog, uh Vax and Vex. These are
37:49brothers and sisters and they all have
37:51different uh roles. And uh Kelis is this
37:55half- elf druid that does shapeshifting
37:59and can interact with nature um as well
38:03as turn into animals. Uh
38:06Pike is a a magical cleric. Scandlin is
38:11a is this bard who uses magic and can
38:14use magic to help uh him uh him fly. As
38:19well as being a bard he he uses
38:22music. Uh Greg uh Grog I'm see I'm sorry
38:26is a barbarian and obviously he's a
38:29giant with with with great strength and
38:32uh also wields a great uh uh
38:37weapon. Um, Vax is this half-felt rogue
38:41paladin druid who uh actually I won't
38:45give any uh spoiler alerts, but he sells
38:50his soul. Um uh Vex is this half elf
38:54ranger that is an uh her strength is is
38:57an archer. And all of these uh
39:00characters have um special abilities
39:03that given special special weapons um
39:08does does very well with that special
39:11weapon. Okay. Uh Henry Caval, thank you
39:15Anand. Um that's that's the actor in uh
39:18The Witcher. So,
39:22um, anyway, so this is that campaign
39:24that was turned into, uh, a TV series
39:27and, um, as you can see, the characters
39:30are just amazing in terms of what what
39:34what they can do. And then, um, uh, you
39:39know, this that, you know, you you check
39:42it out. Um, maybe it's just me, but I I
39:46just enjoy it. So anyways, that's role
39:49playing games. Um hopefully you folks uh
39:53will maybe play Balders's Gate or play
39:57some of these other role playing games
39:58that are out there. Um I want to do it.
40:02I want to play it. So uh anyways,
40:08uh questions, anyone?

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