#ivan van norman

[chalkbird]

NO BC WHAT IF this season is "Oops, all DMs!"

matt mercer as game master, and at the table: brennan lee mulligan, aabria iyengar, murph, connie chang, joe manganiello, griffin mcelroy

#personally i would also be partial to one liam o'brien or one ivan van norman #or mark hulmes but unfortunately he's british #anyway would be cool #dimension 20 #matthew mercer #matt mercer #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #joe manganiello #brian murphy #connie chang #griffin mcelroy #liam o'brien #mark hulmes #ivan van norman #critical role #geek and sundry #high rollers #taz #the adventure zone #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #d20 #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dropout

[xombigirl]

I am back in my feelings about this series and these characters.

#sos madness #liam o’brien #marisha ray #ivan van norman #erika ishii #emmett markham

[sporadicivanvannorman]

Happy birthday to Taliesin Jaffe!

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#brennan lee mulligan #taliesin jaffe #ivan van norman #erika ishii #honourable mention to the fire that looks like a little ghost in this screenshot

[hollyevolving]

I haven't been able to find footage of the whole live show, but these are from Hunters Entertainment's "Gods of Metal: Ragnarock" live show at Gen Con 2023.

Game Master: Ivan Van Norman

Players: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Luis Carazo, Markeia McCarthy, Jason Charles Miller, Noxweiler Berf, Michelle Nguyen Bradley

#Hunters Entertainment #Gods of Metal: Ragnarock #Gen Con 2023 #Ivan Van Norman #brennan lee mulligan #luis carazo #markeia mccarthy #jason charles miller #noxweiler berf #michelle nguyen bradley

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Review: Geek and Sundry, "Sagas of Sundry: Dread"

Last week, I reviewed Ivan Van Norman’s appearance on Smosh Games. Now, I’m reviewing him on Geek and Sundry, but we’re still sticking with horror. I was actually subscribed to Project Alpha (may it rest in peace) when Geek and Sundry had that platform back in the day. It’s where I watched Critical Role, L.A. by Night, and Sagas of Sundry, when that was in production. But “Dread” is now…

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[castielsdeadlyparasol]

For some reason, I was just hit with a sudden and immediate need for Ivan Van Norman to dm an EXU campaign. Something dark, not like Calamity which was sort of existentially dark, but like, I don't know, surrounding the hag from C2, some kind of good old fashioned fairy tale. Like a Grimms fairy tale in Exandria, with Ivan's unique sense of horror and humor.

I don't even like horror, but I fucking need this.

#critical role exu #critical role #ivan van norman

[7of-hearts]

watching sagas of sundry: madness is so fun, the whole cast is fantastic! i’ve so rarely been actually anxious because of a show, and ivan creates such a terrifying atmosphere so perfectly!

#also abigail and selina should kiss #sagas of sundry #sos madness #ivan van norman #abigail persimmon #selina tsukiyama

[utilitycaster]

Regarding Editing and Innovating in the space, 2 people who get a Fraction of the credit they deserve are Ivan Van Norman & Marisha Ray. I mean, they created and developed one of the original mixed media cinematic interactive actual plays, Sagas of Sundry: Dread, and then Sagas of Sundry: Madness, and Marisha (later hiring Ivan as well) has continued that trajectory in some of the more intriguingly edited mixed format Actual plays at CR, like Call of Cthulhu, Undeadwood, and others, and being Instrumental in the developments at CR. Like, when you do watch the interviews you get a sense of just how Much of CR's current content designs, ttrpg intentions, and series are marisha's brainchilds, and it sucks that she doesnt get the credit others involved in similar projects, and even those projects, do.

This is a great point. I've mentioned this before w/r/t the fandom - Marisha, perhaps more than anyone, gets reduced even by many fans to "she's pretty and her characters are like what if a girlboss were a girlfailure" and her creative direction goes unheralded. It feels like this has gotten worse in recent years; I was baffled at how many people seemingly resented Calamity or Candela for taking up space they felt should go only to the main campaign when those were not only showcases for Marisha as a performer but also clearly something in which she had a strong hand in designing. Whenever people whine about there only being two main campaign episodes in a month because of Candela Obscura, I do think "You realize this was probably Marisha's call?"

I was focused in my response much more on Daggerheart, and so on the game design side (quick side note - reviews of A Familiar Problem, which Marisha worked on, were pretty positive; I wonder if something's happened in the past 2 years since that's when I've really felt this Damn Critical Role energy among actual play journalists), but I had been thinking about Sagas of Sundry and Undeadwood! I think I mentioned Sagas of Sundry in one of my posts about how Kollok isn't, in my mind, impressive. I loved Dread but never finished Madness before Alpha folded, but actually I was imagining something like Madness - fully on a set, people walking around like it's a play - for Kollok! When I saw everyone at a table with that rotating rock I was like "is this...it?" And, you know, Sagas: Madness wasn't entirely for me, but you can't fault the innovation. Similarly, when I think about the (baffling) criticism from one of the prominent actual play journalists I've had in mind while writing this, that Candela Obscura the show did not fully teach people Candela Obscura the game, I think about how Ivan Van Norman did straight up teach Savage Worlds during Undeadwood. Whenever people gush over the shadow puppets in Burrow's End I think it's deserved, but when they claim it's utterly new? Nah. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace did it first. And Marisha had a guiding hand in the creative direction of all of these.

I think this is sort of elaboration on one of my points in my original post: I think a lot of the journalists are really out of their depth. I don't remember seeing their names when I first started watching CR in 2018, or when I got deeper into the fandom in 2019. My first actual play was TAZ, which I binged in late 2017. I really think a lot of the journalists flat-out don't know Sagas of Sundry or Undeadwood because they didn't show up until after Alpha folded. I've mentioned this elsewhere but so much of the claims of novelty and innovation are completely incorrect and not even terribly obscure. Look, I've seen/listened to most or all of 9 actual plays (this is counting D20 and CR each as one single unit, by the way - I've seen all but scattered one-offs from either), and seen or heard an episode or two of many more. I think that simply by doing that? I know more than a lot of these journalists.

Again: Worlds Beyond Number? The innovation is with the Witch class and the Wizard of the Citadel subclasses, and the allowance of extremely long downtime, but: longform podcast actual play with sound design? RQG did it starting in 2015. Griffin McElroy and Emily Axford have been composing their own music since 2017 or 2018 for their respective shows, both of which are also longform podcast actual plays. Again, Brennan pretty explicitly said "I don't think D20 is new, nor longform" in a quote and the article that quotes him argues that Fantasy High is new and longform...and that article also talks about how before D20 most AP video was livestreamed before talking about how boundary-breaking D20 was for having a livestreamed second season (you know, the thing that they just called old hat a paragraph earlier) that quickly pivoted to remote (even though remote livestreaming was actually quite common in smaller productions well before the pandemic, since you don't need anything but laptop cameras to produce it). I don't even keep up with much in the really indie AP scene, but those people I know who do are even less impressed by the state of Actual Play journalism than I, because D20 executes a lot of things extremely well, has a very talented roster of performers, and a budget most productions cannot hope to match, but a good deal of what it's credited for inventing (and which, again, it never claims to have invented. I want to be clear that the journalists decided to be like this for no clear reason) already existed. And, by placing this heavy emphasis on production, they are automatically making it hard for indie productions to impress them. For all they claim to be going after the 700 lb gorilla, they are simply cozying up to the 600 lb gorilla. It's real "um, why don't you try this little indie game called Pathfinder" hours.

I am fairly sure a lot of the people in prominent journalistic positions in the actual play sphere today came in only after the collapse of Geek and Sundry, is my point, and so I think they literally do not realize how much the medium owes to, for example, Marisha Ray and Ivan Van Norman, because they weren't watching in 2016 nor even skipping through the G&S archives, as I did as a new CR fan. I think they're absolutely out of their depth, and most of them don't even realize it.

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[mercy-misrule]

Man I'd love to see Ivan van Norman GM a Candela Obscura chapter. Sagas of Sundry was so fuckin good. He brought the tension and energy horror needs

I'm really excited for the second round of Candela Obscura, cast looks great.

I don't have a list of dream guests because it's just me picking up the LA actual play scene and shaking them like a snowglobe, because there's too many to pick from

But I'd love to see Ivan GM, and maybe as a swerve get Jason Carl from LA and NY by night to GM. Bring that VtM heat to the CO setting.

Wait I take it back, I desperately want Alex Ward as a player. He's so fantastic. If I had to pick just two players, Alex and Aabria would be my captain's picks.

I don't know if Aabria has GM'd horror before, but she's so emotive and involved with her storytelling, she'd be amazing too.

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[aleph-sharp]

I love pretty much everyone thats been in dimension 20, and I love that theyre expanding, with omar najam joining for the most recent, first, yes More Omar, but Second, does this mean we finally get some more streampunks in D20?? Like, can we Please have a Sam De Leve? Gina Di Vivo? Internet Sensation Amy Dallen?? Hector Navarro? Rick Budd? B Zelda? Kaitlin Bruder? Aliza Pearl?? Eric Campbell running a game??

Sidenote: gm only shot? Eric Campbell, Matt Mercer, Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, B Dave Walters, Ivan Van Norman, Rick Budd, Deborah Ann Woll, Jasmine Bhullar. I have no idea who runs it

#dimension twenty #dimension 20 #queuetimes

[sporadicivanvannorman]

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[thetragicallynerdy]

tell us about undeadwood pls?

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH HELL YEAH

Okay! So! UnDeadwood is a four-part Weird West themed mini series put on by Critical Role, an Actual Play TTRPG company. Critical Role's main stuff is typical fantasy DnD actual play show streamed on youtube/twitch/in podcast form. UnDeadwood is also an actual play show, but using a different TTRPG system (Deadlands: Reloaded, which uses the Savage Worlds core system). It's a weird West setting - Old West frontier mixed with zombies and the like.

Oh! And it's also set in the sleepy town of Deadwood, and uses a lot of the places and people from the show Deadwood. (I've never seen the show, but many of the usual players in it - who are all based in history - such as Al Swearengen, Joanie Stubbs, EB Farnum, and Doc Cochran, all make appearances. And Johnny. Can't forget Johnny!) Deadwood was a big gold mining camp in South Dakota, and was known for being a particularly lawless settlement.

All that aside - it's a show about five newcomers to Deadwood who get hired to investigate some weird happenings around the mining camp. It's got an absolutely amazing cast (Brian W. Foster as the GM, Anjali Bhimani, Matthew Mercer, Travis Willingham, Marisha Rey, and Khary Peyton. Also Ivan van Norman as the barkeep), and in my opinion, is the best thing Critical Role has done production wise. It's got an amazing set, costumes, miniatures, etc for an actual play show.

And for an improv based show? It's got some of the rawest fucking lines. Just absolute brilliance. For example:

I've seen enough people be animals out there, to know that if God made us in his image, God's every bit as feral as the things he created. - Clayton Sharpe, played by Matthew Mercer.

Also the characters are so fucking good!! They are:

Clayton Sharpe - a gun for hire with some Secrits who can barely hit the broad side of a barn (we love him he's baby)

Matthew Mason - the new Reverend in town, a bumbling sweetheart of a man (when he's not being scary) who's also got some Secrits

Miriam Landisman - a 'purveyor of goods needed' who can charm anyone into doing anything, who also has Secrits she's hiding

Arabella Whitlock - an occult enthusiast and rich girl who's grieving her dead sister - guess what? She's also got Secrits

'Aly' Aloysius Fogg - a bounty hunter and suave motherfucker who - you guessed it! ALSO HAS SECRITS

Basically all of them are full of secrets like Regina George's hair and it's absolutely amazing. I've listened to the podcast like half a dozen times and I'm still noticing new things on my most recent re-watch.

UnDeadwood is also the first fandom I've ever been really involved in!! It got me started writing fanfic, and I now mod a very small discord for UnDeadwood fans. I've made SO many fandom pals through it, and I love them very much. It's a really small fandom, and very quiet these days, but it's really lovely.

If you enjoy watching people play TTRPGS and also enjoy Old West settings and really beautifully done character arcs, I would highly recommend it. It's about 9-10 hours of watching/listening in total. However - be warned that the ending is kind of devastating, if that's not your thing.

It is all available on the youtube! This is the link to the first episode!

Also if you watch it you are contractually obligated to come yell at me about it anon (not actually, but i would love u forever if you did)

Thanks for the ask!!

#undeadwood #COME JOIN ME IN SMALL FANDOM HELL #it's fun and the characters are wonderful #if u want to know more about it hit me up with more specific questions! #rambling #anon #asks

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Review: Smosh Games: Board AF, "Outbreak: Undead"

Embarrassingly, I was once a fan of Smosh – back when it was a bit cringey (post Pokémon Lip Sync, during the height of the Food Battle videos). But I am not ashamed to admit that from the moment it came into being, I was subscribed to Smosh Games. While their other series like Game Bang, Grand Theft Smosh, and What’re Those!? were certainly ones I kept up with, my favorite has always been Board…

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#5

Thank you Aabria for my LIFE.

It's the 💖 that really sells it for me.

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#4

I come bearing HQ photos from the CR panel at SDCC! They are watermarked because yes I got them from Getty Images but they're too pretty not to share.

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#3

Since Geek & Sundry's website now directs to Nerdist's site I thought it would be smart to go on a deep dive in the Wayback Machine to grab some stuff from G&S so it doesn't disappear. I couldn't have done this without my Bestie and Shame Pit Roomie, she knows who she is.

@mysticalspiders has already done a great post for the Vox Machina playlists, especially as the relate to The Legend of Vox Machina so check out that post here!!

This Google Doc contains the liner notes and playlist links for all of the Sagas of Sundry: Madness character playlists and for GM Ivan van Norman's playlist which is for both Sagas of Sundry: Madness and Dread.

This Google Doc contains the Ask Vax Machina column which was featured on G&S's website during c1

This Google Doc contains the original story that Laura Bailey wrote about how Vex'ahlia originally came to have Trinket the Bear.

I also have plans to finish transcribing the cast interviews that were also featured during c1 on the G&S website.

If anyone can think of anything else from the old days that needs to be archived from G&S please let me know!!

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My #1 post of 2022

Sam posted a few shots of himself, Liam and Marisha in "The Dead Zone" from Thursday's episode.

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