Dungeons & Drogans: Q&A Session 

Q&A Session Summary

The players and DM answer questions asked by YouTube viewers.

Q&A Session - Part 1 Summary

Question: In your opinion, who has the worst attendance?

Doug: I guess it's Stephen or Dave.

Dave: I think it's either me or Stephen.

Stephen: Oh it's definitely me.

John: Yeah, it's one of those two.

Nick: It's definitely Stephen.

CJ: I guess it comes to me for the official answer, because I keep attendance records. Expressing attendance as a percentage, with 100% meaning you've attended every session and 50% meaning you've attended half the sessions, we have Doug with 83%, John with 82%, Nick with 81%, Dave at 60%, and Stephen at 43%.

Question: In your opinion, who has the relatively best roleplaying?

Doug: I would go with CJ, although you might possibly be exempt. Otherwise, if we're going on PCs, my dear brother (Nick) is quite good. He's fun to RP with. He seems to be the one that tries that hardest.

Dave: I agree. Nick is the best.

Stephen: I'm gonna say Nick.

John: Yeah. Doug does have some good RP skills, but Nick tops it off.

Nick: I personally think that Doug's RP is the best because of his portrayal of Rekoj. Just pure gold and lots of fun.

CJ: I think Rekoj's character -- or some incarnation of it -- was brought out in large part thanks to Doug. I think Nick is among the best, and when Doug can riff off Nick, that brings out some of Win'tyr's best RP. I think you guys have some great chemistry together.

Question: Who has the relatively best combat?

Doug: Me.

Dave: Probably Nick.

Stephen: I'm going to say Nick, too, because I'm pretty sure I missed the majority of combat.

John: Yeah, Nick, too, because Nick gives a lot of suggestions to us regarding what to attack and stuff.

Nick: I certainly know when to run away and leave my team to die, so I would have to vote for myself there.

CJ: I'm going to go against the grain; not to knock Nick's combat prowess, but I'm going for John. John has terrible luck in combat, but based on my experience with him in various campaigns over the past decade and the amount of experience he has in D&D, and I think, over time, that experience has accumulated into what is presently a very tactically sound player. From a war-gaming aspect, John is a very strong player. He makes very good decisions in combat.

Question: What do you think of the other PCs in your group?

Doug: They're a terrible handsome bunch of fellows. I'd love to get drunk with them.

Dave: When everyone is not asleep, they're very good. But when they do fall asleep, it can be annoying. I presume that when the player falls asleep, the character does nothing.

Stephen: I'm pretty sure they're all plotting to kill me -- although I'm not sure why, yet.

John: Uh... they're a good bunch of fellows? I don't know; I can't answer that question.

Nick: We haven't exactly had much time to get to know Morgan or Rhekd... Win'tyr is a bit of an ass, but he's useful, so I'll take him. Sorrow... she burns stuff. That's cool. And she's full of useful information that she stole from her stupid employer. The older PCs? Rekoj was obviously just a fun character. Autumn was incredibly silent. And basically all of John's characters were just awesome.

Question: If you can choose an NPC to join your party, which would it be?

Nick: Definitely not Kalarel, because he was an incompetent fool. Absolutely the slime. With that slime on our side, we would destroy everything.

John: Hands-down, Splug. It's the most awesome NPC I've ever met in any campaign. I don't know if we went back for him or if he's dead or if he's still locked up in that cage, but I want him in our team as a mule or something. The voice, man.

Stephen: The blacksmith, hands-down.

Dave: Before Rekoj died, I'd go for the blacksmith. After Rekoj died, I'd actually want Jacques back, considering he's an NPC now.

Doug: I didn't get to interact with many NPCs. There would be some interesting banter between Coltaine and the barkeep. I like it when Coltaine gets made a fool of. As Win'tyr, Ninaran would be a nice choice.

Question: If you could go back in time and undo something, what would it be, and why?

Nick: I'd go back to the very first session and, when I met Jacques, I would not agree to go adventuring with him. He was annoying. His character was useless. He set a forest on fire.

John: The suggestion to go back into the slime room. I think we could have saved a session if that didn't happen.

Stephen: I don't remember half the things I did. [after being prompted] Opening those sarcophagi and getting ambushed by skeletons was probably my worst decision ever. We had just fought zombies... It wasn't the smartest idea to get into another fight.

Dave: Instead of killing Ninaran, we could have maybe knocked her out and avoided all the awkward stuff with Win'tyr.

Doug: There's two events... The first was Sir Keegan. I really wish we could have passed those skill checks, which would have unlocked a lot more backstory. The event that I really regret was that stupid trap room where Autumn and Zook drowned. I would have made all of us enter the trap together so that we would have had a solid chance of overcoming it.

Q&A Session - Part 2 Summary

Question: If you were stuck in a room and knew you had to be there for a week with this party, with water but no food, what would you do?

Nick: I would probably get eaten. I'm just some slightly out-of-shape fairly useless student-type with no special skills, and I'm stuck in a room with a bunch of retarded, angry, combative people. Before anyone else could stop him, Rekoj would have torn off my limb and started chewing on it, Coltaine would have sighed and sat in the corner in despair, Autumn would have done nothing, Win'tyr might have shot arrows at me for fun.

John: It's pretty simple: I'd help the collective, as a whole, and make a fire to cook the person we'd be eating.

Stephen: I think Nick's got it pretty dead-on, although I may have stabbed a few things.

Dave: I believe Nick got it right. I'd die within a matter of minutes. But just to spite everyone else, I would try to grab all the waterskins and either drink all the water or pour all the water out, because I'm pretty sure they can't survive a week without water. So I go down with them -- or before them.

Doug: If you look at this logically, you are suddenly in a room with these strangers. They're going to be just as confused as you are. But the thing is, they are familiar to you, but you are unfamiliar to them. So they will associate you with the room, and you can have a sort of mental control over them when it comes to what's going on. You should be able to stop them from killing you in seconds by at least bluffing that you're the only way out.

Question: Have you played other tabletop games other than D&D, and if so, what was your favourite?

Nick: I've unfortunately never played any of these other games.

John: I don't know if it counts, but there was this old Hero Quest board game. D&D is my favourite; Hero Quest was like a stepping stone to D&D.

Stephen: Munchkin, if it counts. That would be my favourite, because it's evil.

Dave: I've only played D&D. If it counts, that homebrewed d20 modern/future campaign CJ made was awesome.

Doug: I played a lot of Magic: The Gathering back in the day, but no real tabletop RPGs.

CJ: As for myself, I've primarily played D&D. I'm familiar with the GURPS rules and have been published in a few issues of the GURPS Pyramid magazine. I've played Warcraft RPG, d20 Modern, I'm familiar with the rules for Star Wars RPG... StarGate RPG, although that may fall under d20 Modern. Overall, D&D is my favourite.

Last question: How did you get into playing D&D?

Nick: I'd heard of it before and played D&D-based computer games, and I'd always wanted to try playing D&D but I had no one to play with. And one day in University, CJ, knowing I'd once expressed an interest in D&D, asked if I wanted to play.

John: I started with Hero Quest, then CJ got my brother into D&D, who got me and my neighbour into D&D, who got a couple of his friends, and we had our little group for a few years. Then I joined CJ's tabletop group. I first got into D&D about 9 years ago.

Stephen: I don't remember. I think CJ asked me or something.

Dave: I think it was toward the end of High School. A bunch of my friends wanted to play Warhammer 40k, but only three of us bought models. It was too expensive. So since another guy had played D&D, he agreed to DM. So we played. But it was stupid; it was just shouting matches and cheating, and it quickly died off. My D&D experience revived when I met CJ in college. Much better experience.

Doug: I was an avid computer gamer as a child, and D&D was a popular type of game people tried to convert to a computer format. I played a few of the really old conversions. I always knew what D&D was, but never had an opportunity to play the real thing until I saw my brother was having these sessions, and I asked him if I could play. Nick eventually said maybe. Actually, now that I think of it, I had played D&D once before -- a one-time session with a premade character.

CJ: About 12 years ago, I was gifted a Diablo 2 version of Advanced D&D. That's how I became interested in D&D. I have a cousin who played back in the '80s, and he mailed me his old DM binder, compelte with notes and maps and loads of awesome stuff, and along with that, his illegal photocopies of the rulebooks. I think that was first edition. From there, I made the $100 investment to buy the 3rd Edition rulebooks.