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Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Ship sessions where I sit down and talk about my journey through the wonderful world of T. T. RPgs. So let's kick this off now, some of you have seen me on various streams, including channels such as Ampersand productions here as in hooligans and I've even been a guest on rather damn dice to name but a few, you've probably heard me on the podcast to cobalt in a trench coat or even you've seen me about on social media. Um now I've been involved in the TT RPG space for nearly roughly two years now and I can say it's been a wild ride so far. I've met so many amazing creators who have put out some truly outstanding content, homebrew settings modules for one shots and campaigns. There's been some outstanding character artists out there and even phenomenal map makers, it's been amazing opportunity to see all these people and see them put out their creative content and just see it thrive and grow. And I think that's a testament to how good the T t our community can be for supporting those artists and it's been amazing for me to sit so many tables whether it be virtual or physical and watching and being able to watch them, truly amazing role players find their groove and you know, that sort of thing has made me a better role player too and to get into the skin of a character as well as bounce off other people, so that's been really cool. So to start off with, we're going to talk about my first experiences with T. T. R. P. G. Now most of you may have heard this elsewhere but I'll explain to those who are watching or listening that haven't had the opportunity. So my first experience with tabletop gaming began at a local games club when I was young and I started playing the Warhammer 40 K tabletop war games which was cool. It was great, it was something I got into when I was younger. I have older brothers who decide who were into like the White dwarf magazine and things like that. I found it through there and then there was a local games club that started up and I got involved there um but then as time went on and I was into the whole you know the setting of the high fantasy setting, all the brimmed up future setting. Then I was introduced to dungeons and dragons which was I think it must have been around the third edition um and there's a few sessions there and it was a fun but it's a short experience that was good for I think for all players if you're young it's good for creativity, it's good for imagination and it's even good to be able to be expressive within the confines of the character that you've created and can help with as a creative outlet as well. So it was one of those things that was my first kind of experience in that sort of creative outlet as it were. So it took several years to find my way back into T T RPGS, it's a, you know, from leaving it when the club closed down to never really picking it back up again, um and I was always on the periphery of it, but never actually in the TT RPG sphere as we call it, you know, and I held onto the sort of, the memory of how it made me feel and just never figured out how to get back on the inside as it were. So I began, you know, watching the these actual players that popped up the critical role for one, which is a big one that I got into. Um and I started at the Briarwood arc, so if you haven't seen that, check that out, The Briarwood arc is probably one of the best arcs in the beginning of critical role. Um and then from that I picked up the the Crazy which was for me, which was totally different dimension 20 so it's a completely different contrast from the critical role that couldn't stop watching to this sort of offshoot dimension 20 which was doing things differently, was a high school fantasy setting, which is crazy if you've ever watched Fantasy High Fantasy High Blood, keep any of those from dimension 20 Go check them out, they're phenomenal, but there were two vastly different ways that dND was run and it was the thing that I found they emphasized the most story telling, which was, which kind of um spoke to me in so many ways um and I think I needed that create this creative outlet, so something like brave, so I did what most people did at that time and found a way to get involved. I joined twitter, I started following various people um that were connected to like T T RPGS, even following like the critical role that all these people that were involved in it, and then it felt down to other people that were in the TT RPG space, that kind of, we're just good to follow, they were creative, they were phenomenal people and then I finally got the opportunity to play, which was, which was kind of exciting as well as nerve wracking because you, you don't know how you've watched on tv, you've seen it, you've read the books, but it's not until you sit down and actually get to play that and obviously not playing for so long was a bit of a nerve wracking experience. But yeah, it started off as a few sessions of like one on one games where it's just one player and one DM and going from there and if I remember quite rightly, I went an easy option, I went with a dwarf fighter, which is a battle master, which is quite good to play, it was nice and easy, not that complicated, not like a wizard or any, or an artifice or anything crazy like that. So that was cool. So it's um one of those things that then I got into get to play um a long term campaign, Which is via, you know, the roll 20 forms of Dnd beyond looking for players forms, which was quite cool. So it's an opportunity to expand my knowledge of the game as well as you know, different classes and characters and and I had a few games going at that time, one where I was half Fighter, which was an Eldritch Knight, which was really cool. And another one where I played I think was one was an arrow **** a ranger and these other, these other classes. I was just experimenting with what I liked the most, what I enjoyed playing the most and it's mostly marshall based at the moment. So that was quite cool now after all that um we're going to touch upon like what interests, in fact, you know, where did my interest in fantasy come from that would draw me into things like DND you might want to ask. Well it comes from a very straightforward, very simple, it's old reliable, it's Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit which all include the film. Some people might trash The Hobbit I thought was quite good and even the very long and in depth if you've ever read it The Silver really and that's a long book and if they ever make a tv series or film about it, that would be great because it's, there's so much in it, there's so much like law and world building and history and like talking about how the world was created and all that sort of stuff. So that's unbelievable. There's been other smatterings of fantasy novels like the Rule of Law series by David Pharrell and that was a really cool concept where you have these rooms that are, you know, branded into they give you empowerment and these empowerment are then leave. Like if you've got superhuman sight, you've taken that site from a willing participant to give to you in a room and you know, it's, it's an old series but it's a good series and it leads to some good concepts about, you know, how to empower, you know, to really increase the power of your character. And there's something in there that I quite like that I'm sort of maybe playing around with if I ever get around to be in deming myself. It's, it's a cool concept with endowments and rooms and things like that. Next up was the King King King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Roth, which I thought was really cool the way it all worked. Um I've only really read the Name of the Wind, which I've got on my bookshelf back here. Um I want to read the rest of the series, but from what I've seen, there's a lot of other good writer, phenomenal writer and yeah, that's really cool. Um I think there's other influences like the witches series, including the games, which is quite cool the way that sort set up that whole mystery of the Witcher and Monster hunting, a monster killing, which I was quite drawn to and that can also work in D and D. As well, which is fun. Um and Game of Thrones, obviously we all know Game of Thrones, so all, most of us do, if you don't go check it out up to series six or seven, well series five, don't watch six and 78678 where it start falls off, but we all know that anyway, Game of Thrones with the whole political intrigue and um the setting where, you know, you got warring factions and families and things like that, that that's also a really cool sort of influence. Um and there's other influences that I've read as well, not, and this is just writers, I mean, books and films, you know, you can get it from any medium is like Graham McNeill dan Abner Aaron Dempsey about and all of these, which are if, you know some of these names, they were heavily involved in the Warhammer 40 K universe with Games workshop and Black Library. So if you catch in these writers, you see them out there, go read their stuff, they're unbelievable there, great stuff. Great, great writers and they turned out some really good books, including the horrors heresy series, which I was, you know, unbelievably. I've read most of the books in that series and it's it's different every time with different writers. So you can glean bits from each writer there to influence your own story telling, if you want to create a dnd setting or any other T T RPG setting, you know, if it's 13 Days, if it's like the Warhammer fantasy role playing universe itself or anything like that, you can just take the set to take the story elements of that and try to implement in your own teach RPGS, which is quite cool. Yeah, so, you know, this is the the first episode of the Ship sessions and I mean it's not a long episode, just a little say, hey, try and catch up with my influences and experiences, so it's in the bag and so where, where you've learned a little bit more about me and where some of my influences, experiences and creative drivers come from as I continue my journey through the T T R T T T RPG space, I hope you've enjoyed watching and listening to this as brief as it is. Hopefully we'll go into some other in depth topics next time and yeah, I hope if you're watching, listening wherever you are, if you liked it, subscribe, like you do the thing on the Youtube and all that and check out my social media links below over this side as it pops up and hopefully I will see you next time.