Careercow Darrick Dishaw / Venger Satanis / Kort'thalis Publishing - Incompetent TTRPG Creator, Filthy Coomer, Chronic Stoner, and Lovecraftian Cult Leader with a Cult of Grognards

[Fialovy]

Yeah, exactly, if there is more than one monster that works rather than rolling each monsters individual initiative since that can be super tedious. Like, say, you have a bunch of minions of the same type, roll collectively and they can go together, but then say you have the boss you can roll them separate if desired. I guess you can also make the initiative modifier the average of the initiative modifers of the monster (though this might take some calculating, but it could be acceptable if you anticipate that the party will run into the battle ahead of time).

Also, as for text only DMing? I really think it is to hide how baked he is at the moment but...

The reason Darrick likes Text DM is to make it easier for his (overwhelmingly male) paypigs to coom by imagining its a comely buxom wench and not a bald, stoned, rick & morty fan.

I think you are onto something here with this. One of the things I have always said as to why ERPs don't often work is that sexy elf maiden you want to fuck is more than likely played by a fat balding dude with a beard (in this case, well, Darrick...) and you know, two men roleplaying sex with each other in front of a bunch of other dudes (and maybe a chick or two) who are listening? Kinda gay...

Plus, I don't think Danielle wants to hear Darrick in the other room describe how his alien princess NPC rides on the dick of the adventurer played by his paypig as a thank you for saving her. Then again, he does seem to try to play during times when Danielle is at work and/or the kids are at school/doing extracurriculars

 

[Ghostse]

Plus, I don't think Danielle wants to hear Darrick in the other room describe how his alien princess NPC rides on the dick of the adventurer played by his paypig as a thank you for saving her. Then again, he does seem to try to play during times when Danielle is at work and/or the kids are at school/doing extracurriculars

That's a new wrinkle to it as well.

 

[Fialovy]

That's a new wrinkle to it as well.

Yeah, I do wonder often times if Danielle is aware the extent of Darrick's coomerism and just how spicy the games get. She probably knows the games do have some sex stuff in it, after all, she did let him have that one time get a poster of his Alpha Blue game as long as he put it in a place in the house where the kids aren't allowed in so she probably has some awareness.

I would guess it is probably Danielle's compromise to Darrick wanting to sleep with other women and opening the relationship like he wanted to during their early years together when she first got pregnant.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Yeah, I do wonder often times if Danielle is aware the extent of Darrick's coomerism and just how spicy the games get. She probably knows the games do have some sex stuff in it, after all, she did let him have that one time get a poster of his Alpha Blue game as long as he put it in a place in the house where the kids aren't allowed in so she probably has some awareness.

I would guess it is probably Danielle's compromise to Darrick wanting to sleep with other women and opening the relationship like he wanted to during their early years together when she first got pregnant.

She was the one who baby-trapped him in the first place. I'm sure she knows he has a pregnancy fetish, and after giving him 3 kids I'd not be shocked if she does too. Usually the women in these relationships are equally degenerate to their husbands if not more so, otherwise they wouldn't be interested.

 

[Fialovy]

She was the one who baby-trapped him in the first place. I'm sure she knows he has a pregnancy fetish, and after giving him 3 kids I'd not be shocked if she does too. Usually the women in these relationships are equally degenerate to their husbands if not more so, otherwise they wouldn't be interested.

Not just three kids, five kids (the two sons being twins). That is four pregnancies total. I wonder why they decided to stop at that number and Darrick only decided to get snipped after kids 4 and 5? Did Darrick really want a boy and wanted to keep trying until he got one (which ended up being two)? I would imagine if money was unlimited, they would easily have more and be a Lovecraftian version of a quiverfull cult

Also, you are right, Danielle did participate in that fetish by letting slime being rubbed on her pregnant belly at least three times and allowed herself to be recorded doing this, one of the videos even showing her face. She definitely has a degenerate side to her, it is just when whenever Darrick talks about her, he always paints her as the responsible one of the relationship

Danielle is kind of mysterious because we only really got a glimpse of her when she posted on those cult forums of his and also what Darrick says about her and she isn't really active on the internet.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Also, you are right, Danielle did participate in that fetish by letting slime being rubbed on her pregnant belly at least three times and allowed herself to be recorded doing this, one of the videos even showing her face. She definitely has a degenerate side to her, it is just when whenever Darrick talks about her, he always paints her as the responsible one of the relationship

Danielle is kind of mysterious because we only really got a glimpse of her when she posted on those cult forums of his and also what Darrick says about her and she isn't really active on the internet.

I think that speaks to the normal person underneath his shock persona. Someone brought it up earlier but I doubt he'd want his girls to be like the women he jerks it to, and he clearly doesn't want his wife's business aired online in any significant way, so as a consequence those seem not to be part of "Venger Satanis," and are only tangentially mentioned as Darrick.

The only place where there's no barrier between his persona and his real personality is in his pregnancy fetish, which is also the only thing he shared his wife involving herself in.

 

[Fialovy]

The only place where there's no barrier between his persona and his real personality is in his pregnancy fetish, which is also the only thing he shared his wife involving herself in.

I would argue all of his fetishes are a part of his real personality because he has a lot more of them than a pregnancy fetish. He also seems to have a fetish for slime among other things too.

I would also say his tastes in media is also very much what he actually likes as well as his consoomerism are very much his real personality.

edit: But regardless, even if he does play it up online, that still is very much like that one stick figure comic of "Guys, I am only pretending to be retarded" it doesn't matter, he is still retarded.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I would argue all of his fetishes are a part of his real personality because he has a lot more of them than a pregnancy fetish. He also seems to have a fetish for slime among other things too.

I would also say his tastes in media is also very much what he actually likes as well as his consoomerism are very much his real personality.

It's not that it's not part of his real personality, it's that it passes the barrier that he usually keeps his family behind. As far as we know, he's willing to involve his wife in only 1 degenerate thing the internet can see.

 

[Fialovy]

It's not that it's not part of his real personality, it's that it passes the barrier that he usually keeps his family behind. As far as we know, he's willing to involve his wife in only 1 degenerate thing the internet can see.

Yeah, definitely. I noticed he did show and talk a lot about his three daughters in the earlier days which I wonder if it was Danielle who put a stop to it as his kids got older. We did recently see one of his sons walk in on a video recently which gave a glimpse of Darrick as a father.

 

[Fialovy]

So Darrick uploaded a video today about "Cinema Verite" in ttrpgs and I have never heard of this concept and when I look it up, it seems like a more realistic style of film? The way he describes his use of cinema verite really doesn't sound really any different from a typical game I have played and I don't know what he means, like, as opposed to what? The video is completely pointless. I mean, it is just like how he describes OSR which is not good at all.

Also, checked his video the other day and someone did put some criticism on overly simplified initiative order and how scripted it is. Darrick mostly agrees to disagree and is more like "What if it isn't a bug but a feature?"

 

[Adamska]

So Darrick uploaded a video today about "Cinema Verite" in ttrpgs and I have never heard of this concept and when I look it up, it seems like a more realistic style of film? The way he describes his use of cinema verite really doesn't sound really any different from a typical game I have played and I don't know what he means, like, as opposed to what? The video is completely pointless. I mean, it is just like how he describes OSR which is not good at all.

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Also, checked his video the other day and someone did put some criticism on overly simplified initiative order and how scripted it is. Darrick mostly agrees to disagree and is more like "What if it isn't a bug but a feature?"

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Cinema verite huh...

Is Darrick a film studies student? Or is he just looking up film terms, particularly the foreign ones, to justify and Moviebobify his low thought highdeas as something "more"?

If it's the former, it would also explain his autistic obsession with giallo lighting, since his purple/green autism is a shoe-in for it, though they also do contrasting lights as well. Giallo films also would be kind of up his alley, since it has boobs, murder, and weird shit in them, since they're usually murder/mystery movies. I don't think he'd be paying attention though, since I've seen how he complained about the lack of tits in Creepshow 2.

Either way, using film and trying to make your games like them is really, really stupid. Different medium; it'd be like describing a dutch angle shot in a book.

Also yeah, he still is very obviously defensive over his work if even that mildest of opinions gets him a bit snippy and smug auteur cunt. You know who also acts like that? The troons and grifters he tries to pretend he's against.

 

[Ghostse]

So Darrick uploaded a video today about "Cinema Verite" in ttrpgs and I have never heard of this concept and when I look it up, it seems like a more realistic style of film? The way he describes his use of cinema verite really doesn't sound really any different from a typical game I have played and I don't know what he means, like, as opposed to what? The video is completely pointless. I mean, it is just like how he describes OSR which is not good at all.

I've never heard of it before, but after reading up basically its "The Office"/"Parks and Rec"; a style of documentary with no narrator but with the camera being 'part of the action' instead of just a neutral, invisible observer, and improv is expected to incorporate not ignore the camera. COPS is another example. Wikipedia gave saving private Ryan as a film that uses the techniques.

I completely agree. Unless you are going to go full "Party and Recreation" and have a documentary crew go with the party on their crawl, this is bog standard D&D. You can't have a camera in a turn based game, so visual elements are out. Players always have their chaacters tell their own stories and narrate their own actions.

The only thing I can think of is encouraging players to "In character" even when its the player talking: "Well, Eldrick would definitely be thinking about how he can get steal that gem from Jamacia". Which if that's what he's going for, its really dumb.

 

[Adamska]

I've never heard of it before, but after reading up basically its "The Office"/"Parks and Rec"; a style of documentary with no narrator but with the camera being 'part of the action' instead of just a neutral, invisible observer, and improv is expected to incorporate not ignore the camera. COPS is another example. Wikipedia gave saving private Ryan as a film that uses the techniques.

I completely agree. Unless you are going to go full "Party and Recreation" and have a documentary crew go with the party on their crawl, this is bog standard D&D. You can't have a camera in a turn based game, so visual elements are out. Players always have their chaacters tell their own stories and narrate their own actions.

The only thing I can think of is encouraging players to "In character" even when its the player talking: "Well, Eldrick would definitely be thinking about how he can get steal that gem from Jamacia". Which if that's what he's going for, its really dumb.

The only game I think it kind of works for is It Came from the Late Late Late Show, where you play the actors in a shitty horror movie production. You could go full meta by having it be a found footage movie, where the "actor" (PC) is the camera man in the goofy scenario.

 

[Fialovy]

Is Darrick a film studies student? Or is he just looking up film terms, particularly the foreign ones, to justify and Moviebobify his low thought highdeas as something "more"?

You know, I don't know where Darrick went to college and what he studied if he ever did I want to guess if he did go to college, it would be University of Wisconsin since I recall him wearing shirts from that school before. I am guessing he is just pulling a Moviebob and trying to sound smart

Either way, using film and trying to make your games like them is really, really stupid. Different medium; it'd be like describing a dutch angle shot in a book.

Yeah, definitely, writing a campaign is way different than making a book or a movie, a common mistake new GMs make. For one, you don't have complete control over everything and the storytelling is a collaborative effort between players and GM. Yeah, it reminds me of bad authors trying to write a fight scene in a book and describe every minute blow and dodge. It might be interesting acting it out in real life, but in words, it is boring.

Also, I love this Youtube comment. When he tries to explain the difference between cinema verite and sandbox style games and he goes on to explaining essentially slightly different styles of sandbox games. Like seriously, sandbox games from what I have played are literally about meandering and aimlessly exploring AND as a result of meandering and aimlessly exploring encountering points of interest, the GM doesn't force them to interact with them or expect to encounter them in a certain order, but they are there for the players to discover themselves. He doesn't know what he is talking about at all.

 

[Ghostse]

Also, I love this Youtube comment. When he tries to explain the difference between cinema verite and sandbox style games and he goes on to explaining essentially slightly different styles of sandbox games. Like seriously, sandbox games from what I have played are literally about meandering and aimlessly exploring AND as a result of meandering and aimlessly exploring encountering points of interest, the GM doesn't force them to interact with them or expect to encounter them in a certain order, but they are there for the players to discover themselves. He doesn't know what he is talking about at all.

Sounds more like hanging out, no plan, and waiting for the stoned GM to throw shit at you. The TTRPG equivalent of smoking a bowl and playing Fifa.

Also, interacting with points of interest? Nigga your crowning achievement is a mega dungeon set inside a black pyramid in the middle of a desert. The last time you ran it for new players, you forced them inside with a sea of person melting slime.

 

[Fialovy]

New Darrick video, he shows off his new Star Wars shirt his wife gave him in this video. Also, he pretty much reiterates the difference between Cinema Verite and Sandbox. Which, I still think he doesn't know how to run a sandbox style game because from my experience, it is about wandering aimlessly discovering the world around you, then again, how he describes cinema verite as the players "hanging out" just sounds a bit boring. Like, I get that there are some more roleplay heavy sessions out there or sessions where you are fooling around in a town, but the way Darrick describes it, it just sounds like the game version of some people getting together and smoking weed in some guy's basement with no drive for adventure.

Also, here are some tweets from Darrick. I don't know what he means when he describes 3.5 like that and he tries to figure out what to call this playstyle on Twitter. It seems like people are leaning toward slice of life.





Edit: Darrick just posted a blog post doing more cinema verite sperging (archive)

 

[Adamska]

On the Star Wars shirt: This is Darrick pretending he totally didn't buy it himself using his wife's money. This is the same burn-out loser who used his daughters as an excuse to hoard dice he was insecure over because he thought they looked girly.

And he proves he has no understanding that RP sessions already have a name: RP sessions. Even then just sitting on your ass and bullshitting only works so long as you have some form of plot. That he's desperately trying to use a film term to pretend he invented something new really tells you how he wants his non-thought highdeas to be taken seriously. Not that it matters, since Cinema Verite is a film term that relates to a mixture of visuals AND acting.

 

[Fialovy]

And he proves he has no understanding that RP sessions already have a name: RP sessions. Even then just sitting on your ass and bullshitting only works so long as you have some form of plot. That he's desperately trying to use a film term to pretend he invented something new really tells you how he wants his non-thought highdeas to be taken seriously. Not that it matters, since Cinema Verite is a film term that relates to a mixture of visuals AND acting.

Darrick seems to want to make a game of nothing but "RP sessions" which is stupid, especially since I don't think of roleplay heavy when I think of OSR which just proves even more that he doesn't know what OSR really is.

Plus, RP sessions are not the entire game, like what Darrick is trying to do they more serve as a bridge between plot hooks and to set things up or if you are low on players or otherwise your players are really low energy due to life stuff.

You are also right that bullshitting only gets you so far, you need some plan or points of interest set up for the players to run in, even if you don't outright say that they are there which I think is what Darrick thinks sandbox is which sounds like he hasn't played a sandbox game done right since what he describes where you shuttle your players to one point of interest to the next sounds a bit railroady and artificial which good sandbox style games try to avoid.

On the Star Wars shirt: This is Darrick pretending he totally didn't buy it himself using his wife's money. This is the same burn-out loser who used his daughters as an excuse to hoard dice he was insecure over because he thought they looked girly.

I don't deny it, but even if she did gift him the shirt, do you know what I do if someone I liked gave me something shitty that I don't like? I would just not wear it and give it away or, especially if they keep giving me shit I don't like, is that I would flat out tell them that I don't like that kind of shit. He isn't being forced to wear it, unless he implies that he is a manbaby who needs his mommy-wife to pick out his clothes for him because if that is the case, that is hilarious

 

[Ghostse]

it just sounds like the game version of some people getting together and smoking weed in some guy's basement with no drive for adventure.

You got it in one.
Nigga just get a playstation and fifa if you want to just hang out high with people.

Someone please show Darrick PbtA so he can go start shitting up that community and troon out and cease shitting up OSR with his gonzo coomerism.

 

[Adamska]

You got it in one.
Nigga just get a playstation and fifa if you want to just hang out high with people.

Someone please show Darrick PbtA so he can go start shitting up that community and troon out and cease shitting up OSR with his gonzo coomerism.

But he wants to pretend he totally is knowledgeable and skilled with DnD because he used to play 1e back when he was a kid with hair, a much more functional brain, and when he could wank as much as he wanted to Carrie Fisher's costume.

Also wokies play that, and Darrick needs to pretend he's a conservative to grift off of his piggy cult.