Hark, or Something! Roll For Distraction is Playing Mythic Bastionland!
What mystical shenanigans shall we get up to in the untamed wilds or yore?
Roll for Distraction has just started their new actual play season, Knight Crawlers, which will be a campaign of the beloved medieval fantasy TTRPG Mythic Bastionalnd! The gang is playing as a company of new knights who will be venturing out into the wilderness for the first time. Watch or listen as we struggle to make sense of the mysterious omens in this strange land, and battle against fearsome monsters, all while trying to save our dear mentor, the Halo Knight!
You can watch the first episode here: YouTube | Audio Platforms
Roll for Distraction features six IRL friends who decided to start documenting their escapades during the pandemic when they were forced to play remotely. While their adventures began with Dungeons & Dragons, the show was completely reformatted after the OGL fiasco. Rather than continuing their D&D games, the group shifted its focus to be about discovering what else is out there, with short campaigns highlighting less well known systems.
They started with a Cyberpunk RED campaign titled The Family Jewels, which followed a family planning a heist against their greedy corpo grandfather. Then they played a Lancer campaign titled The Lost Colony, which was a runaway success that got their YouTube channel from under 300 subscribers to over 1000 in about a month. Next they played a game of Monster of the Week titled The Devil You Know, which followed college students in New Jersey hunting (and being hunted by) the Jersey Devil. After that, they a played of game Salvage Union called Starfall, where they played as post-apocalyptic mech pilots scouring a wasteland for a mythical city. Then they played a game of Honor + Intrigue called The Last Hope, which followed a crew of Caribbean pirates in the twilight of their golden age. In season 7, they played a Mothership campaign called Proxy Error, that totally wasn't a really obvious allegory about generative AI being bad. After that, they returned to Lancer by popular demand, to fight the evil Corporate Alliance in Fractured Republic. Most recently, they played Triangle Agency.
Seasons run for around 10 episodes, and each episode is edited to be about 1 hour in length, so the time investment is comparable to just a season of a typical streaming show. Episodes come out every other Monday at 10:00 AM EST, on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podbean. YouTube members can watch new episodes 48 hours early. The show’s guiding mantra is “unprofessional gameplay, presented professionally”, meaning that while we keep all the puns, jokes, and titular distractions in the edit, we still make sure to create a pleasant audio-visual experience and tell a good story.
