#the adventure zone

[hollow-head]

Responses to the most frequent comments on my Dungeon Meshi/TAZ crossover doodle

Laios and fair food

2. Taako cooking for real

3. Encounters with plants

(hello, in the manga, the pollen comes out the mouths)

bonus

#i never really drew taz fanart except Merle in a Grass Grass or Grass tshirt was my twitter icon for a long time #dungeon meshi #the adventure zone #i know it's not a popular piece of media any more but i enjoyed it when i listened to it and i still think of it fondly #even though i never had a very consistent idea of character designs

[dreamsy990]

oh boy i sure do hope theres no arsenic in that chicken!! ^-^

#the adventure zone #taz balance #doodles #taako taaco #taako #<- i dont normally double character tag but i mean his full name may or may not be real

[robinante]

-poll incoming at the end of this ramble-

Instead of having a SuperWhoLock trifecta, the modern online loser has a clusterfuck of interest that are always one degree of separation away from forming one large, dorkish singularity of online entertainment. The significant pockets of the cluster fuck are as follows:

Dropout TV

Critical Role

The McElroys

Polygon

Watcher

The Try Guys

Smosh

Starkid

There are likely other pockets in the clusterfuck, as well as semantic arguments to be had over which pockets overlap too much to count as single entities, or arguments over which pockets shouldn’t count as entities at all. There are bound to be discrepancies seeing as I pulled all of this information out of my ass.

With this in mind, take a look at my handy dandy poll. If you choose one of the numbered options feel free to specify in the tags, and add anything you think I missed :]

#I made this all up so don’t take it too seriously lol #dropout #dimension 20 #dropout tv #game changer #um actually #critical role #my brother my brother and me #the adventure zone #the mcelroys #monster factory #polygon #watcher youtube #buzzfeed unsolved #the try guys #smosh #smosh games #starkid

[m0nomercy]

sapphic ship a day for lesbian visibility week!!

carey and killian from the adventure zone balance!!

the first actual play podcast i got crazy invested in i love these wives <333

#tigerpdoodles #taz balance #killian #carey fangbattle #the adventure zone #the zone cast

[taakosleftshoe]

Cooked up something again in Audacity

I think it would be really cool to do something with this as a tribute to ten years of TAZ which we'll hit in December :O

#sierra speaks #taz balance #taz ethersea #taz steeplechase #taz amnesty #taz commitment #taz dust #taz graduation #taz outrespace #taz vs dracula #the adventure zone #SoundCloud

[threat-into]

https://rebecca-497.suduso.com.cn/my/WUARx7B

#the adventure zone #site model icons #breakfast at tiffany's #supernatural #chocolate #vanitas no carte #harry potter smut #th11n$p0 #robin buckley x reader #julian devorak #steve harrington smut #chicago #body positivity

[kleeo-exe]

Duck "It's a Nickname" Newton

#taz amnesty #the adventure zone #duck newton #relistening to amnesty right now and forgot how much i love him #my favorite forest ranger #and i cant draw to save my life but i imagined him doing this #but in the middle of the cryptonomica #amnesty #the adventure zone amnesty

[therearenolimitsonthehams]

“we have ‘sturdy, denim, blue’ at home”

“sturdy, denim, blue” at home: liar, frumpy, wrong

#is this anything #fhjy #d20 #dimension 20 #taz #the adventure zone

[austinramsaygames]

Thinking about Actual Play series and how there are 4 parts that IMO determine if people will want to listen to it.

1. High Concept: this is what the show is about narratively. Setting, plot, characters, themes, all the stuff you'd find in written fiction.

2. Performance: how compelling are the actors involved in the show? Are there suitably funny voices? Do they all have good chemistry? Is there buy in to the High Concept? And so on.

3. Production Quality: Bad mics and poor volume balancing between players can easily take some listeners out of the story. Some of this can be fixed in post, but it's always better to start with the best raw audio you can. That's the baseline stuff but some shows also add music (whether as theme songs or for ambience) and sound effects.

4. The Rules: the most unique part of Actual Play as a format. What rule system are the performers using to inform their performances? The rules place limits on how well the High Concept functions. If you try to tell a story where all the characters are super heroes but you're using Delta Green, there's going to be some friction (which of course could be the basis of the High Concept but absolutely needs to be accounted for).

Different listeners will have different priorities for each of these, and even within them. Really liking one of these aspects within a show may allow a less enjoyable one to get a pass.

For example The Adventure Zone's Balance season is something I listened to every week. I do not give a single shit about D&D actual play and am pretty ambivalent on the High Concept but the audio quality is great and the performances are stellar.

Another example: Friends At The Table's Autumn In Hieron has frequently bad audio quality but the great High Concept of the two diverging parties and the setting, combined with the good performances makes it stand out. Also doesn't hurt that I was interested in Dungeon World.

I don't think I'm saying anything groundbreaking here, but it may be useful for those interested in actual play, fans AND creators, to consider when starting a new show.

More thoughts like this from me on my Patreon! Patrons get early access to my game design work and thoughts. Just $1 a month!

#actual play #actual play podcast #the adventure zone #taz balance #friends at the table #f@tt #autumn in hieron #ttrpg #ttrpg community #my writing

[beckpoppinscosplay]

"But unfortunately, you know, just... life finds a way... or death, I guess, the goddess of death."

"In this case specifically, yeah, death."

-the adventure zone: balance

🖤💀🖤

Big shout out to the TAZ comics for making kravitz fabulous with fuchsia flower colored accents and giving me mental permission to really dip deep into the purples of traditional mourning wear for my version of the raven queen.

📸 by iroun.photos

#raven queen cosplay #the raven queen #matron of ravens cosplay #matron of ravens #the adventure zone #taz balance #critical role #dungeons and dragons #dnd #plus size cosplay #cosplay

[b0nk9]

Montrose pretty

#my art #mine #montrose pretty #the adventure zone #the adventure zone steeplechase

[yourbelgianthings]

#message from mirph #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz amnesty #taz dust #taz commitment #taz graduation #taz ethersea #taz steeplechase #taz vs dracula #taz outre space #tumblr polls #polls

[entguarde]

help it’s again (thinking about Merle Highchurch coming back from dying more than 30 times BY FUCKING CHOICE. and having missed out on so much and the fucking guilt. and the fact that it parallels him leaving his children but then learning to truly and earnestly be a better dad for them. like guys. you guys)

#ent talk #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #merle highchurch #the adventure zone #im Going to Fuckign Die

[chryseis]

FYI every purchase of any of The Adventure Zone music on Griffin McElroy's Bandcamp will be entirely donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund for the rest of 2023. His music is set at 'name your price', and the McElroys are also going to match the donations.

If you've listened to even a bit of any TAZ campaign, you surely know what a fantastic musician Griffin is, and there is no better time to purchase his music than now.

#idk how many of my mutuals/followers are into taz/mbmbam these days #but i know that at one time a lot of people were so i thought i'd share in case some people hadn’t heard #the adventure zone #mbmbam #griffin mcelroy #i just finished this week's episode and so i thought i'd share this

[humunanunga]

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

#i think about xion or the stolen century and need to lay down. i'm so normal about them. #tropes #narrative tropes #memory loss #tragedy #angst #the adventure zone #taz balance #the stolen century #kingdom hearts #xion #writing #musings #hall of fame

[longlivechips]

#the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz balance #barry bluejeans #mcelroys