Secrets of the Ancients: Ep.1 - RPG Review
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Part 1 of my Review & Game Diary for the epic Traveller campaign Secrets of the Ancients. The murder of a dear relative plunges the heroes into a strange conspiracy involving old friends and hated rivals.
This episode covers Chapter 1: Bodysnatchers.
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Guest starring Jack the NPC
#ttrpg #traveller
00:00 Intro
01:52 What You Need
04:58 Meet the Heroes
06:09 Spoiler Warning
06:27 Setting Up the Campaign
09:45 Campaign Opening
11:08 Inspector Norrim
13:55 The Morgue
14:44 TAS Hostel
17:34 Detective Odoy
18:07 Arrested
20:09 Prof Ujinka
21:21 Assassins
25:04 Imperial Intelligence
27:42 Offer for the Statue
29:03 Case Closed
29:48 Winter Shipping
33:00 Ven Yasha's Station
37:40 Overall Thoughts
45:17 Closing - Ігри
"and until one of youze can prove otherwise, I refuse to accept anything but this overcomplicated theory"
*GM PTSD intensifies*
I've been there buddy. I've been there. *buys us both another round*
The most unbelievable part is implying there's any evidence that will convince a player.
@@MechaTrekAD deal me in as well, I'll get the next round
Another campaign diaries? For Traveller? For a full published campaign?
Seth you spoil us
^^^^^^^^ this. also the tips and ideas that are just part of being a GM like wrangling players etc.
This should have been called "Big Trouble in Little Regina"...
Love it.
Love the campaign diaries, looking forward to the rest of this series, even if I’ve never played any version of Traveller.
I'm right there with you the campaign series and the RPG reviews and how-to series
I have watched the two headed serpent so many times, the campaign diaries are def favourite
Agreed, my favourite type of Seth's videos, glad we get a bunch more now.
Seth’s videos have made me really want to play in a Traveller campaign.
@@dmeep I want to but my keeper has let us know that's the one she's going to run so I can't yet. but i run Traveller
I’m glad the ancients now have more than one secret, everyone needs at least two.
Everything being set in Regina makes me think it's all taking place in space Saskatchewan, and that never stops being funny to me.
Quit'cher chirping and pump the brakes with that blaster there, buddy, or we're gonna have a right donnybrook on our hands here
@dutch6857 My galactic combine's pert near running on fumes, so we'd best pitter patter and get after it.
@@DarthMalnu
A few Travellers and their half paid off Far Trader came up to the Highport the other day.
Oh-jeez.
The gas giant is also named Assiniboia which in real life is a town southwest of Regina.
I like the idea of all the orbital escape pods being programed to land at a remote, dusty farming village where all the residents are both well paid and scared enough to not notice any strangers. Parents pulling kids into houses. Except that one old guy who silently hands over keys and points at the barn containing an air raft before running back indoors.
That's way cooler than I came up with.
@@SSkorkowsky Just had a flash of how Gus from Breaking Bad might handle that end of it.
I like the way you think.
"It'd be a shame if the ship we put all this time and effort to went away in the next adventure." -Jack
What a strangely specific thing to be worried about.
Well, I'm extremely optimistic about the ship surviving to the end of the adventure.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to increase my insurance on a space ship.
First, you bring joy to the RPG hobby man, just honest thanks for the work you put in. Second, gonna need a pointer for that t-shirt choomba.
Thank you very much.
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The joy seeing you in these costumes is immesurable. Thank you. You made my day.
At the station, I would have put demolition packs in each of the escape pods. Once the self destruct had been trigged, if a smuggler enters the pod, the package arms, then detonates a few minutes after launch. If a player character is on board, then the package deactivates. If the players are on an escape pod and they see another pod explode, their might take it as another clue that something odd is going on.
I had envisioned that info being revealed by comms chatter. "Unauthorized user?!? What the actual ef! I work here! Try again! You're disallowed too!?! We are so boned!"
06:19 "But if you keep going and spoil yourself, you'll be branded a traitor of the Imperium."
Players: "That doesn't sound so bad."
"Of the Warhammer 40K Imperium."
Players: "Oh."
I adore this campaign diaries. Seth playing several characters that come of as different people is always great fun.
Also the Aslan and Vargr Masks are delightful. The shocked jaw drop of Benjamin in the last leg of the session was great. XD
I love that you used Sid Haig and Robert Englund from Galaxy of Terror. 😊
Lily and Benjamin are a welcome addition to the cast 🐺🦁
“Let me handle this… DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??”
Can confirm that is INDEED a Space: 1999 Commlock Peachy is holding! NICE throwback!
We were just talking about switching over to traveller when we finish our D&D campaign haha - SOLD!!!
Strongly recommend it. But I advise you run a 1-shot combat first. Travller will be a shock
Big fan of Gareth Hanrahanrahan's work, so looking forward to this.
THIS IS THE BEST DAY!! I love your campaign diaries. I’ve rewatched them a few times. So excited!
I hope you enjoy this one as much as those
Oh man I remember when the Two Headed Serpent campaign, it's what got my group into Call of and even more so Pulp Cthulhu, we've already dipped our toes into Traveler so maybe this will become a future game I'll run once our other big DnD campaign is over. Cannot wait to see how this goes!
Jack's new Traveller getup is a step up. Glad to see he's still living his best life!
Still fondly remember reading (and re-reading 😅) the original adventure, and a couple of years back a friend of mine ran it solo for me (lots of 'hand waving' away rules, but it was fun to finally play it 😁)
Neat to see they have made it into a full campaign now, I may pick it up just out of nostalgia (hardly play anything anymore, unfortunately 😒)
I love when campaigns do "known characters". Gives you cool moments like Han's existing ties to Lando, Greedo, and Jabba in Star Wars.
We had fun with that when I ran Starfinder's "FLY FREE OR DIE" adventure. One PC had been the inspiration for a rival crew's pilot, another was childhood friends with their company dispatcher, the third's old crew had been wiped out while transporting a certain diplomat, while the fourth was actually siblings with the main antagonist! Made meeting those NPCs in-game so much more interesting!
If I run this another way to introduce the Droyne early is to suggest one of the travellers actually be a Droyne, it might motivate the character to learn more about his people's distant past.
I love Droynes. My first real character was a Droyne who was a starship captain who was abducted by men in black and horribly tortured and experimented on before he could escape. He was very optimistic but his psionic powers were very high and unstable, he was basically a walking psionic ticking time bomb.
The campaign ended with retiring into an Ancient Stargate System as its administrator with his Vargr partner (other PC). To boldly explore new worlds and help those in need. And a lot of lemonade stands.
As Gareth has written some of my favorite adventures/campaigns I look forward to thus series.
Oh man oh man, I haven't watched the video yet but I've been so excited for this as a GM/Referee. Love you Seth.
Hooray! More Traveller content from one of my favorite creators! When are you going to do another campaign with Glass Cannon?
Once I get the call that a Season 3 has been greenlit, I'll be there. Love playing with that crew.
Seth, you always help me out by posting when I'm gonna have a long work day. Thank you!
Good to see Jack got a wardrobe upgrade!
Been slowly amassing the costumes and props for this series over the past year. There's a couple more pieces I still need for later episodes.
@@SSkorkowsky I can actually see you bring back "Pollock" to stand in for a Droyne in a sketch in this series.
Holy crap! I honestly hadn't thought of that. I'll have to use a blue screen for him because the puppet is green, but that might work. Now to figure out a good way to work in Jack talking to a puppet droyne. Thanks for the idea.
Yes! It's already been said in these comments, but these campaign diaries are the absolute best. Figured I'd add a comment for the algorithm and to show appreciation. Thanks for putting this together, Seth!
Amazing video and looking forward to the rest of the series! Thank you for all the work
Oh my god, even before Jack's last lines I felt increasingly excited for this adventure, and now I can't wait for the next chapter! When I saw this video in my feed I felt so happy as I've been looking forward to more campaign diaries! Loving the characters, both Travellers and the NPCs we met so far! Harlan is such a cool character, I really expected him to be around for much longer but I love the way he got his sendoff and how even in death his cold, ruthless character shined. That was awesome, and Detective Odoy reminded me of Tsuda Kenjiro, who voiced my favourite character of all time, and many others who I like, so even before I learned he was such a fun character I already liked him.
Thank you for this video Seth! Your acting as the crew and Jack is always awesome to watch! Again, can't wait for the next chapter!!
Big thanks for all your videos Seth.
You got me into Call of Cthulhu and i just ran my first game (The Haunting) this weekend.
Large part of the reason why it went well and why me and my 3 players had a great time was thanks to you.
And most of the remaining part of the reason why thing went well were due to people, places and things that I got introduced to through you (such as the Alexandrian).
You are a pillar to this hobby and I feel confident that I'm not the only one who greatly appreciate you, love from the Dark Young infested forests of Sweden.
Just finished four straight days of 12-hour shifts and see this in my UA-cam notifications. This is a good Monday.
21:44 Galaxy of Terror is not the first thing I think of when looking for pictures of random space henchmen, but I must admit that Robert Englund and Sid Haig somehow seems a right fit for the role. I must use that movie more as inspiration!
Indeed, I can see a great dynamic where Bob is the "reasonable" bad guy who explains that you should not resist them because that might make Sid, the unreasonable bad guy, mad, and then Sid would be even more cruel than he was going to be when he gets his hands on you.
21:45
Thank you Seth for once again making me search up and down for the films you pull references from that were lost in the fog of my memory until now, although don't ask me how in the world somebody forgets a movie like Galaxy of Terror.
Any one else notice the improvement in the framerate for this video? I'm loving the increase in production quality, Seth. I'm not a stickler for that kind of thing, but it reminds me how far your channel has come and makes watching a new campaign diary even more fun for me!
Love this. I've been debating picking up Secrets of the Ancients, and this series will help immensely.
I'm just about to start my group's first Traveller campaign. Something relatively brief to teach them about Charted Space and how their characters work. Then, on to deeper secrets!
As a Canadian, I thank you for getting the pronunciation of Regina correct this time.
Also, great vid as always!
Ooooooohhhhh I have been witing for this series for months!!!!!!!
Always love the campaign diaries!
5:37 - A "SpeedSitter?" So it's really quick to sit?
Another great episode, thanks again and I'll see you in the next one.
Oh yes, here we go. I've been following the podcast and waiting for this one for a long time.
Love your content, keep up the great work!
Oh, this is gonna be good. I loved the Pulp Cthulhu campaign videos and while I am not personally interested in Traveler, I like Mystery RPG campaigns. All that mischief... delightful. And you can learn so much from Seth's behind the scene work!
Always enjoy seeing traveler content. Seriously under exposed game.
Man I really want to run it now. So fun. Watched it twice now and there is so much happening in the backgrounds of the skits. This is heading into full blown Seth the Series territory.
I love this so much. LOL Lilly. I can't get over the costumes! Thank you for this upload, Seth. excited for what's to come.
I enjoy all of Seth Skorkowsky videos
First campaign diary since I started following! I'm both looking forward to more, and dreading the wait between videos!
Great video! I always love hearing about the details that go into running a campaign. That's the best part of these campaign diaries.
NPC Mort Kinson, apparently played by famed character actor Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger.
Ah, that was so exciting! Waiting for the next episode!
The production value is incredible. Bravo, sir. 😎
I love these campaign diaries, really excited for the next one.
"Hello internet!"
And my day's already off to a good start.
*sees that it's a 30+ minute video with a title that include a chapter number*
Do we have another "Two-Headed Serpent" style epic on our hands? I'm all in on this.
*settles in for a good time*
Great video! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series!
I love Gareth Hanrahan, his Cthulhu City is amazing. Also pumped for Moria!
Another great video, I really enjoy the costumes (as usual) and look forward to the next installment.
Great start to this series!
Been waiting for this one. Good job.
Absolutely fantastic! Thanks for the review.
So excited to see another Traveller review video! Thank you for all of your amazing work.
Amazing. Looking forward to the rest in the series.
I love this episode and I've been waiting forever for this to come. Thanks for making secrets of the ancients playable
Love these series. Looking forward to more episodes!
Awesome on Mongoose making the handouts free as a download!
Something a group of coastal wizards seem allergic to...
NOW that’s what we’re talking about! More ancients all the time!!!
Ohhh, the new Campaign Diaries is starting!
*Sees it's 40+ minutes*
That's going immediately into my Long Form Listening playlist!
Also, minor update on the Call of Kidthulhu game I am running as a side game: so far so good, everyone is settling in. The minor pulp elements have been introduced as well and we are on our way to the third session whenever we run it. Next stop: demon in a church basement and the arrival of a helpful ghost priest they managed to get because of some extreme group luck rolls at the beginning of the session, as well as doing the secret objective I placed in the basement
Just finished watching BTSHT a day ago, great to have another campaign diary to look forward to!
I'm excited for this series, thanks for the great work. These videos were what got me into Traveller.
Currently in hospital with my mum. She is very sick and your videos have helped me tremendously.
Sorry to hear that. I hope she recovers soon.
Seth you're a gift to this hobby, ya got me into traveller despite my problems with it and i'm just wrapping up my 1st campaign and it's been awesome so far thanks for all the videos, Also i know this is entirely unrelated but, you know anywhere where one can find players to run a KULT campaign? i've been wanting to run one but its hard to find players that even know the game exists.
Always check the Library Data :-)
In all of the GDW adventures I have, they included a library data section with stuff relevant to that scenario, and I spent way too much time and money trying to get hold of the N-Z book (I had the A-M one for ages; but N-Z was elusive). The players having access to the library was one of the conceits I loved about this game. The fact that Mongoose are bringing that back a bit more makes me happy - and makes me hope they’ll update and expand the data books.
On escape pods, it wouldn’t take much of an M-Drive to give quite a significant range on a week of CO2 scrubbing cartridges and litrejohns of water - throw a pack of lifeboat rations in if you’re generous… a week at 1G gets you nine hundred million kilometres according to the core rules… at a 50/50 burn and turn, so they don’t blast right past you still get about four hundred million; the orbital distance of Jupiter is about double that… so give it Thrust 2 and an average 1G over the course… the L4 and L5 Lagrange points are about 1 radian fore and aft of the planet, so about 750 million km for Jupiter. An old, decrepit Type-S stashed in the Lagrange point for if things go south? I like that idea.
Awesome. I’ve been really interested in this campaign. Very happy to see you making a video series for it.
alright more traveler this is gonna be good love the content man
Love your traveller content!
I have been waiting for this for years
Very enjoyable, cant wait to see how this all pans out. Not to mention the campaign review being mixed in with the story, great work as always!
Brilliantly entertaining, consider me subscribed!
This campaign seems very railroady if played as is, you definitely smoothed off the edges
great video Seth!
Great informative video thanks!
I'm so glad you're doing this review! I, too, bought this campaign. I find that the GM and Player information is scattered throughout the book. And, I'm struggling with how to find things quickly when I run the game. So far, I've fallen back to separating that info into a Google Doc and running the game from that instead of from the book. That seems to run smoother during play time.
I'd be interesting if you have any suggestions or tips that you do to make this campaign run smoother.
Note: I'm use to the way that WotC wrote their campaigns. Background/overview is in chapter 1 and player read-aloud text is separate from GM notes as the party traverses a dungeon. I like Traveller better than D&D at this point (as do my players) but this is the part I think Mongoose could do better at with their published adventures.
Hey, great video, thank you for sharing this adventure with us 😀
Great video! The animal masks are awesome. I had been considering using this for a Mechwarrior RPG I am running, and this video has convinced me to use it.
This is the campaign I ran after first seeing your Traveller reviews! Can't wait to see how you and your players enjoyed it!
"you'll be branded a traitor of the Imperium" Jokes on you Seth my group are "pirates" from Drinax and a couple other worlds in the Reach.
"we got one ton of stolen cargo, your welcome btw" cain't have shit in the Reach, errr Regina
I have been wanting a new campaign war diary so much lately! Thank you Seth!
Looking forward to part 2 and beyond!
Yeeees, .... I was waiting for this!!!!
Me too! Seth has been teasing us for months now lol 🎉
I've been dying for this since you referenced the path in another video, what a blast
I always love it when I enter Regina.
Dock your pinnace in Regina Station.
I just watched Galaxy of Terror a couple of days ago lol.
Loved this review, too.
Great Review!
We are going to need more Seths for this campaign.
Thanks for the video, I'm thinking about running this myself!
a 45 minute video for my morning heck yes!
A pair of island going swords? No way those are suspicious…
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH NEW SERIES BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Awww yeah, a game diary, and its Traveller! I enjoy all of your content, but there's just something about your Traveller stuff - I watch as much Traveller stuff as I can find, and you succeed at making the game feel alive, whereas so many others make it feel like a number crunching exercise (I mean, it's traveller, and 'behind the curtain' there's a whole lot of number crunching, especially for a GM). Great stuff! Nice bit of ominous foreshadowing there, Jack... Only thing missing was >Kicks in door< "Scott Brown, I got a viewing, clear out! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!"