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David (dj) Johnson, VES
United States
Приєднався 10 чер 2013
D&D Fanatic. This channel is (now) largely Dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons. The games I'm playing/streaming, my collection, and D&D history.
Video game Developer, FX Artist, CEO, Creative Director, 2 time VES Award winner, Author. Host of the podcast "Architects of Imagination".
Twitch:
www.twitch.tv/undertone_dj
Optimized D&D Timeline:
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Un-Optimized D&D Timeline:
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The Artists of D&D:
prezi.com/view/DuologozLBJe7VSpqkxw/
Video game Developer, FX Artist, CEO, Creative Director, 2 time VES Award winner, Author. Host of the podcast "Architects of Imagination".
Twitch:
www.twitch.tv/undertone_dj
Optimized D&D Timeline:
prezi.com/view/uJTcTShCCGf2zFgsSvFT/
Un-Optimized D&D Timeline:
prezi.com/view/xnPRA2t8W5rkUW2cE6xX/
The Artists of D&D:
prezi.com/view/DuologozLBJe7VSpqkxw/
Turtle Castle!!! OD&D Supplement V, Swords & Spells!
Turtle Castle!!! OD&D Supplement V, Swords & Spells!
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Interview with Ron Meischker - Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo - PAGE 2
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Wherein I discuss with Ron our shared love of the D&D hobby, The Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo, PAGE 2 coming January 2025 and GAP, the Gamer Assistance Program. A Charity organization dedicated to easing the financial burdens of struggling Gamers and Game industry veterans. groups/phillygamingexpo tabletop.events/conventions/philadelphia-area-gaming-expo-page-2 tabletop.events/con...
Interview with Luke Gygax on G1 - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
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Wherein Luke and I discuss G1 - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, his childhood memories of the adventure, and stories about his father, Gary Gygax! We catch up on all of Luke's latest endeavors. garycon.com foundersandlegends.com/ gaxxworx.com/ gaxxworx.com/okkorim/ The interactive timeline seen in the video: prezi.com/p/h6s1a2tban-y/?present=1 A new one, focusing on the artists of D&D I'm wor...
Prepping for a “Siege of Bodenburg” match!!
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Prepping for a “Siege of Bodenburg” match!!
1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 5 - Into the Depths & A Narrow Escape!
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Wherein the players delve below, and find Riches... and a fever dream of death and destruction.
Feast of Legends - The Most Ridiculous D&D Adventure ever written!
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There was a hot sauce challenge, food was thrown, and "Breastcatball" is invented.
Architects of Imagination with Lawrence Schick
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Going deep into game design with Lawrence Schick as he shares insights on Baldur's Gate 3, his illustrious video game career, and the early days of Dungeons & Dragons. Hosted by award-winning VFX artist David Johnson (DJ), known for his work on Halo, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and many other games at Activisoon/Blizzard, Bungee, and his current company, Undertone FX. Original Video: ua-cam.c...
D&D Table Build - Soundboard updates!!
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Wherein I show off my new soundboard setup for my Dungeons & Dragons room!
Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 4 - Well That went Sideways!
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Wherein Foodie goes big!
Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 3 - Preparations are Made.
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Wherein the players rest up ahead of the main event, And Seek out some items and individuals to help with tonight's mission!
OD&D - Caverns of Thracia- Episode 30 - An unsatisfying end
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OD&D - Caverns of Thracia- Episode 30 - An unsatisfying end
OD&D - Caverns of Thracia - Episode 29 - The end of the Pixies - A long Past Due Reunion
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OD&D - Caverns of Thracia - Episode 29 - The end of the Pixies - A long Past Due Reunion
OD&D - Caverns of Thracia - Episode 31 - Finish the Fight!
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OD&D - Caverns of Thracia - Episode 31 - Finish the Fight!
1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 3 - Welcome to the Kitchen!
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1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 3 - Welcome to the Kitchen!
1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 4 - Dinner is served!
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1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 4 - Dinner is served!
I built a custom terrain shelf/organization and mini shelf.
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I built a custom terrain shelf/organization and mini shelf.
1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 2 - Deeper Into The Steading
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1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 2 - Deeper Into The Steading
The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - The Agent
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The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - The Agent
1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 1 - And so it Begins!
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1e AD&D - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief - Episode 1 - And so it Begins!
Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 2 - An uneventful Respite
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Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 2 - An uneventful Respite
Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 1 - And so it Begins!
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Dragonlance - The Last Dragon Eggs - Part 1 - Episode 1 - And so it Begins!
The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Crisis at Baldurs Gate
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The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Crisis at Baldurs Gate
The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - The Vorpal Threat
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The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - The Vorpal Threat
The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Battle for Blingdenstone!
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The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Battle for Blingdenstone!
The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Sailing and the Denizens from the Deep
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The Golden Elm - Out of the Abyss - Sailing and the Denizens from the Deep
Oh yeah, DJ gets it!
What an epic looking battle!
First campaign setting (discussed about the 50 minute mark) was Empire of the Petal Throne, self published in 1974 and then by TSR in 75. Wilderlands was 1977. So that's the first campaign setting.
I also imagined it about the size of Australia. Maybe because it’s in the southern hemisphere.
Great vid. Cheers
Best Luke Gygax interview ever. Seen it from Brazil. Good job!
Pretending that's a woman 😆
Nice Room!
Best regards from the Chinese trpg player,thx for your selfless sharing the desk design prints!
Wow this is absolutely incredible. As a younger dnd fan, this is like the dream. Awesome collection man
I'm so glad to see this content, very happy you give history lessons with it too, your content is amazing
Paul.
Cringe Transphobia, get outta here
Love the table, would love to get the files so i could replicate it for mine! Or even the Excel sheet with the measurement's!
Wow, it finally dawned on me that 2025 is only the second occurrence of PAGE. When I saw "PAGE 2" I thought the number of part of the name and a play on the acronym. Anyways, I look forward to attending PAGE 2, my very first RPG convention. Great interview! Very informative concerning the roots of the expo and the people behind it. Makes me happy to know that I'm participating in and supporting an awesome grassroots kind of endeavor.
Cheese
When you want it to happen it never does. When you don't want it to happen it does.
14 AC and 8 Hp..... yeah, no wonder
that stamp is genius lol, I think I'll have to order one
Is there a way of verifying whether an Elastolin castle is actually the model 9733 mentioned in the manual? It's more important to get the rough dimensions than have the actual model, I think. Someone could make one out of wood blocks or really anything if they were just interested in playing the game, rather than the historical replication. I hope you post more videos about your playthrough of the game, very few videos out there documenting it.
Great to meet you guys at PAGE 1. Looking forward to PAGE 2. The version of Rahasia I ran was the Daystar version, the original ultra-rare one. Yes, more karaoke!!
Love your timeline!! Yes super cool to see them laid out that way!! I started playing D&D in 1977 and can answer your question on how we did played the early 1978 AD&D 1e modules. We played OD&D and as the AD&D books came on-line we added the rules into OD&D and then I finally switched over 100% to AD&D 1e when the DMG came out. So just a hybrid of the OD&D with the MM and the PHB until 1979. I also starter playing Holme's Basic in 1978 (it came out in 1977). I played OD&D (mostly in a Judges Guild City State campaign). Holmes Basic was the first version of D&D that I DMed in 1978, and first module I ever DMed was the one in the Basic Book -- The Tower of Zenopus.
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Where was that?
Ron and I were at our respective houses. I in Savannah, GA and Ron in NJ.
Love the Game table and I would love to know where you purchased your chairs! I built my own game table and am looking for comfortable chairs - yours are awesome!
My wife bought them on Wayfair. Search for "dining chair pullout ring" www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/rosdorf-park-allena-tufted-velvetlinen-wing-back-parsons-chair-w001171761.html?piid=36154472%2C74513656
Will you record your game play?
Yes sir! It will be live streamed on twitch @undertone_dj and uploaded to youtube here!
Wow I’ve met him I’m related to him
Righton! How are you and Larry Related! He's such a talent and inspiration!
Beautiful!
awesome
A method we use is roll 3d6 18 times then pick the 6 you want and arrange them the way you want. Only 3 times has someone rolled an 18.
Very enjoyable. Can see why we never bothered with encumbrance back in the day, especially when you look at the sheer amount of treasure it takes to level up in AD&D. That alternate reality manticore massacre was brutal. You were very kind to your players there.
This is very cool, David. I'm glad I got around to watching it!
Great episode. Brings back memories of playing this in the mid 80s. Kudos to you guys for playing surprise RAW; when we played (as graduates of Moldvoy basic) we simply did a free round rather than segments and amplified attack frequency.
Thanks Ross! It's been fun to migrate to 1e after about two years of OD&D! I'm still getting through the DMG so we can properly be moved over!
The chainsaw! 😆 I'm glad you did this, David. Nice interview. Thank you!
Thanks Pancakes! It was absolutely an honor to have Jennell on!
I like the shelves for your minis a lot, DJ!
Thanks! My space was just getting so cluttered with minis, I was getting painting paralysis! It's nice to have a clean, breathable space again!
love your table!
Thanks SuperTaco! It’s a pleasure to play at!!
Good session zero: especially liked the ground rules part. Interesting for me as AD&D DM back in the 80s how much of the game system we used to hand wave (segments in surprise, nuances of initiative, weapons Vs specific armour). Suspect we did a Basic/expert Ad&D hybrid.
Yeah, even reading the rules fresh... it's quite hard to keep track of all the rules... there's a lot!
what miniature game are you playing? Just curious
Siege of Bodenburg is the wargame, it was made back in 67'
My bad i thought the name was just a map for the game lol@@hobosapien1813
So… this game… is the precursor to Chainmail, which is the precursor to Dungeons & Dragons. I believe the pdf outlines not only the battlefield itself, but also the rules. So I guess you could say that the game is… “The Siege of Bodenburg”!
@@undertone_dj I thought bodenburg was just a map for another miniature game. I apologize but thank you so much!
Truly enjoyed the show.
Thanks Terry! Lining up Mike Carr for an interview on “In search of the Unknown” next!
The best way to complete G1 is sneak through. The second best way was the way we did it. Multiple Elf fighter/magic users surprising everything 4 in 6 times and throwing tons of rebounding lightning bolts and feather falling thrown rocks.
Ooooo, great strategy!
Stumbled upon your channel. Great video. Thanks!
Thanks Bobo!!
Great video. I played in this one back in high school. Later, I DM'd it two different times. The second time, I altered it quite substantially. Thanks for the historical summary. And, of course, it's amazing to have Luke here sharing his info.
Thanks Ronin! Looking forward to having you out here to Savannah for our 'Siege of Bodenburg' match soon!!
Wow, Luke gave us some utterly awesome info and nostalgic stuff from his family here! And great gaming room as well, sir! Thanks for this 👊🤓
My pleasure Ray! Luke was great! So awesome to hear stories from behind the curtain!
This is awesome! Your game room is outrageous (in a good way) and it's really fun to see your timeline in the video. I'm still going through the video, but wanted to comment for the YT overlords. Cheers!
Thanks so much Martin!! Here's the timeline link! prezi.com/p/h6s1a2tban-y/?present=1
David is the interactive timeline publicly available? Would love to dig into it over a cold beer. Cheers!
It sure is! Adding that link in the description! But here it is: prezi.com/p/h6s1a2tban-y/?present=1
Nice interview. You bent the knee but nice interview.
Thanks PC Cleric!
Nice work on all this David. I ran across your channel a while back. Love the dedication to the game, from the early days until now. Nice to see Luke on here.
Thanks man! I'm enjoying it more than ever! I've got 4 games a week going right now!
No mention of Arduin Grimoire, bummer. Luv the interview with Luke!
Thanks Tom! I don't know a lot about the Arduin Grimoire! Maybe that's a topic I'll dig into soon!
@@undertone_dj for some reason recently the Facebook page is blown up with all kinds of posts and news and such. Seems like a comeback as well
Just started watching. In the AD&D PHB at the top of page 9 under CHARACTER ABILITIES it states that it's expected that PCs be exceptional and have at least TWO ability scores of 15 or higher. So that has always been my "mulligan" for re-rolling.
Good call! In the end, we moved to that system. OD&D was just brutal, 3d6 down the line, in order... so we were used to mediocre characters. But yeah, I didn't see the "two 15's" rule till after our session 0. I allowed characters to re-roll their stats that had under that... if they wanted.... I think in the next session.
@@undertone_dj Oh cool. Speaking of the 3d6 down the line in order, the Shadowdark RPG went back to that. My Shadowdark game is going over a year now. So far so good.
Damn. Nice game room.
Thanks March! It's been a pleasure to play in, and has made it pretty easy to rally players!
Fantastic interview!
Thanks Brad! Luke was great!