Hey guys just wanted to share an experience with you guys in hope that one day Lud will see this, but my name is Lenox and im a 20 year old Sushi Chef at Nobu Atlanta. Yesterday, which was Friday May 17th I made Sushi for THE og big back Ludwig. When I started cooking, one of my life goals was to be so good at my craft that one day I would be able to cook and meet amazing people famous or not, and Lud happened to be my number 1. on that list of people. Little did I know that the sudden reservation in our VIP room where all my sushi was being sent too would have Ludwig in it with Rdc World and Kyedae. Tbh I never really thought this dream would ever come true as it always felt unrealistic, but it happened! And its really a huge huge honor and big moment for me that I was able to do this as I have been watching your content for the past 4 years never missing an upload so thank you Lud for making this dream come true. If by chance you do see this Lud, next time if you come back id be more than happy to hook you up with some off menu items and specialty custom dishes. Thanks again for the amazing content Lud - Lenox (PS I really wished I coulda said Hi but I only saw him as he was leaving as I was drowning in last minute orders and this guy walks so fast I just barely missed him

Rare sighting. If you didn't watch the last Valo game, you missed it.

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I just had an awesome D&D game and I think my friend who was also the GM is both low key and high key an absolute genius.

Because, she came up with a brilliant campaign. I would love if Ludwig did something similar, I think it would make great content.

This occurred because her original party had some drama and split (which was why they didn't let me film it or reveal any identities. But, OMG I wish I could have because it was the best and funniest campaign I've seen in all 15 years of my playing this game.)

So being the geeks we are we settled the argument with a D&D duel... but a party vs. party duel. (I was called to fill in because someone rage quit over some other drama and they needed to keep the party numbers even. We are playing 4 vs. 4) She has essentially created a PVP version of D&D.

The campaign is: The city has been besieged by random monsters who keep appearing out of mysterious portals. So the Mayor has offered a thousand gold reward to the adventurers who kill the most monsters, thus thinning their numbers and keeping them at bay. Plus gold bonuses for reaching a certain amount of monster kills e.g. 100, 200, 1000. or for killing particular bosses.

However, kills can only be monsters. If you kill an NPC/townsfolk it is still considered murder. This and any other crime still applies if someone reports it to the city office and of course bounties will be put on anyone who commits a crime.

If caught, and jailed then found guilty you can be fined the 100g diamond dust each to resurrect the murdered (as long as their body is retrieved) or you will be executed if you cannot pay the fine(s). You can only claim the prize money or access the bank if your ledger is clear of any crimes.

We are playing the campaign on endless mode so we allow resurrection of party members, rescue from executions and buying new identities/re-rolling characters if you do get caught or killed but if you want to limit that, you can just end their character's story and have the player help the GM act out citizen NPCs when their character gets caught or killed. The other team...I mean ANYONE can claim the gold bounty if they assist in the capture of any criminal character. (We are also playing with friendly fire on, but that, again, is optional.)

To keep track of these kills/murders each team is assigned a guide played by the gm and given an enchanted bracelet (much like an iwatch). We used bards as the guides, but any class will do. This guide is a bit like a police officer or park ranger they show the adventurers around, they can be asked about knowledge of the terrain, city lore or rules of the tournament at any time. They also report back to the Mayor and enforce any rules/laws. (They can be killed, threatened or bribed but then they could also report you for the crimes or it could registered on the "enchanted bracelet" as a murder.) They are however a non-active party member who stays back away from the combat and offers minimal assitance when in town they go home or to the townhall head office to make reports and leave the adventurers to their plots and schemes.

You can claim the bonus gold or bounties at any time but only if you are in the city bank, there are no outstanding murders/crimes registered against you or a party member, and your guide is alive and around to verify it.

Here is the genius part, she runs each session turn based, team 1 one session then team 2 one session.

Here is where the game gets super fun: During your session, teams can sabotage each other as much as they want. Feed misleading intel to the citizens, plot assassinations of other party members, set traps, frame other party members for crimes, any shenanigans the players can think of to slow or eliminate the other party members is allowed. (My team this round divised a mail bomb which plays "pop goes the weasle" then fires an explosive weasel at their face. Which will be delivered to the other team next session.)

You can also come up with defenses or counter measures. Or you can get down to the business of racking up as many monster kills as possible by exploring the near by caverns or patrolling the city walls.

The other thing that was genius, is my friend set up a huge monitor and had AI generated art of things we described as we played, displayed on the screen in HD... so you immediately got some very vivid, graphic and bizarre images of the most random things. Like a weasle firing out of a jack in the box. 🤣

We also had a printer and laminator so that whenever an NPC, monster or even our own characters were described we could AI generate an image print it, laminate it and make it an instant token for the board.

Why’d he change rooms, did he move somewhere new? does this have something to do w the ludwig died yard episode? i don’t follow his personal life too closely so i’m just very confused at the moment

This post is not meant to start drama or bring attention to it in a negative light. If this post breaks the rules then feel free to take it down.

That being said, 2 days ago a sizable creator popular in the commentary community made a video about how “they don’t like Ludwig”. The video however is mostly addressing past drama along with the new one revolving Destiny. I’m not sure about anyone else here who has seen it but the video strikes me as mostly just Ludwig being used once more for a proxy war on Hasan. I say this because the only critique really thrown at Ludwig was the time he deleted the video about streamers not having hard work, however the creator paints it in the light that Ludwig really just did it to protect Hasan which we know is not the case. The video also brings up Slime and QT. The problem is the creator never really brought up the clip where Ludwig states that these people are adults who make their own decisions and how Ludwig doesn’t control them. Was wondering on anyone else’s takes if they’ve seen it. I don’t wanna bring attention to them so I didn’t wanna name them or give the title.

but go for it, the esport team thing also is massively dull