The Clearing Appears Perfectly Safe - Review for 'Perception Check'

Tabletop roleplaying gamers have some of the biggest imaginations. We can dream up whole worlds and interweaving plots of an afternoon. When we game, we transport ourselves completely to these other places, and they feel so real that they surround us.

Similar such people, are those at Deerstalker Productions. Their show All for 1 on Youtube has been something we here at Apotheosis Studios have really loved. Their mix of detailed fantasy costuming, rich Australian settings, and hilarious gaming comedy have kept us coming back for more D&D hi-jinks.

The bandits are invisible, or the players have terrible perception - Image by Deerstalker Productions

Perception Check

We've looked at their older episodes in the past, and these early episodes have shown off just how far they've progressed as a studio and as creators.

Roll for Perception - Image by Deerstalker Productions

This episode plays right into the fears that every player has when their party camps out in the wilderness. Ne'er-do-wells coming to take all their things, even the clothes off their backs, while they sleep. I think we should have guessed that things wouldn't go well when Nixie admitted she had a “-1 in Perception”.

We get the premise of characters with bad Perception rolls stretched to its most extreme here. Which is the essence of comedy, in a way. There's something so funny about seeing the party fail to see bandits badly hiding behind shrubs and bushes right in front of them. When you combine that with the bard falling asleep, and the same bandits handing him a cuddly elephant and covering him in a blanket, we feel the real comedy of the whole sketch.

Now we want to hear from you. Did you laugh along with us to Perception Check? What other well made D&D media like this should we know about? Let us know in our discord server or in the comments below.

Adam Ray contributes much for adventurers here on Apotheosis Studios. As co-founder of fantasticuniverses.com, they write about card gaming and PC gaming to a corner of the internet he carved out themselves. On Youtube, they can be found game mastering for No Ordinary Heroes, or editing the antics on The Hostile Atmosphere. Find where they dwell by climbing their Linktree.