The Lingering Dead | Dragonriders: A Song of the Damned | Episode 02 | #dnd
Channel: Pb's Dice Den
Date: 2024-01-27

Welcome back to Dragonriders: A Song of the Damned! After defeating the hag who capture Veluin, our heroes continue their journey through the Lehlion Mountains searching for a route for their fellow refugees. But on their journey, they happen upon the site of an ancient battle, and something stirs in the mist....
 
What is Dragonriders? It's a #dnd Actual Play running on 5E. It's the 4th campaign I've ran in my homebrewed 'Songs' DnD setting, but set over 1000 years before any previous campaign. It's set with the ancient world of Terral, a land of ancient magic, mythology, dark shadows, and gods playing grand games for the souls of mortals. For centuries there has been relative piece, but as an uprising begins to burn across the lands, the weaves of fate begin to come undone...

Cast:
Pb - The Dungeon Master. I control all the characters that the players don't.
Calum - Agis, an Eladrin Artificer from a noble family far to the north in the Kingdom of Valenn.
Tommy - Arlyre, a gigantic Tiefling Barbarian, hailing from a village far to the west, in the Kingdom of Terron.
Alex - The Ruined, a Drow/Hexblood Bloodhunter, hailing from a village on the northern border of Arzahmoar. 
Sammo - Zyla, an Elvish Fighter hailing from a clandestine village in the forests in northern Arzahmoar.

What do you use to run the game? The game is ran on FoundryVTT, a virtual tabletop that only requires a one time purchase and has lots of developers creating their own modules (essentially mods) for the system. Incredibly versatile, and ran from your own device, the only limit is your player's bandwidth!

Artwork towards the end and thumbnail background both made by JamesRPGArt https://www.patreon.com/jamesrpgart

Intro music is "Nightsong" by Borislav Slavov, from the Baldur's Gate III OST.

Where do you get your music? All the music used in this campaign is from various films, TV shows, and Video Games soundtracks, and all the rights to said music go to the composers and copyright holders. These videos are not monetised as I do not have the copyright for any of this music. 

Here are the OSTs used:
Assassin's Creed 1, 3 and 4 OSTs
Baldur's Gate 1, 2 & 3 OSTs
Bastion OST
Black Sails OST
Dark Souls 3 OST
Dragon Age Origins OST
Enderal/Nehrim OSTs
Erdenstern Albums
Guild Wars 1&2 (Plus Expansion) OSTs
Hymns of the High Seas by Antti Martikainen
Icewind Dale OST
Jade Empire OST
Magicka OST
Mordhau OST
Phantoms of the High Seas by Nox Arcana
Sea of Thieves OST
Ruined King OST
Uncharted 4 OST
WoW OST

Where do you get your SFX? All the SFX is ran through the program Syrinscape, which you can subscribe to to bring brilliant and immersive sound to your game. We do utilise some custom sounds that I've added to Syrinscape myself. 

Where do you get your maps from? Maps will be a variety of premade maps by loads of different artists and sometimes custom made by myself using assets from loads of different artists (seriously, it's a lot), so it's unfortunately not feasible to give credit to every element on screen, instead, here's a list of the wonderful artists that I've bought assets/maps from. If I've missed anyone I profusely apologise, these assets are from a folder I've compiled over many years - if you see someone's art you recognise please comment below and I'll add them to the list!

Gabriel Pickard - https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/64/gabriel-pickard
David Hemenway - https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/132/david-hemenway
Czepeku Maps - https://www.patreon.com/czepeku
Tom Cartos - https://www.patreon.com/tomcartos
Borough Bound - https://www.patreon.com/boroughbound
Heroic Maps - https://www.patreon.com/heroicmaps
Stained Karbon Maps - https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps
Afternoon Maps - https://www.patreon.com/afternoonmaps

Where do you get your token artwork from? Like with the maps, from various sources that I've compiled over the years. Here's a list of some of the artists, but again if I've missed someone please let me know so I can credit them here! 

Will Nunes
Rachel Denton
Eldar Velikhanov
Mohamed Saad
Lucia Dzediti
Audrey Hotte
Brian Matyas
Corbin Hunter
Paul Adam
Marek Okon

Some token art is also created using heroforge.com

This series is completely not for profit, and is being streamed and uploaded as a way of sharing the story that we're telling together, as well as the joy of roleplaying. That being said, if you are an artist who sees your work being used in this video/series and would like us to stop using it, please get in touch and we will stop using said artwork.

Content Warnings:
The episode features mentions of slavery and descriptions of gore.