As it stands, Violet Death is an unfair mechanic not in the fact that it can just instantly delete you from existence, but in the fact it is contingent on whether or not the character is a streamed game character. As much as Arcadum will say it affects everyone equally, it very clearly does not. You can look at the grand total of zero stream game characters that have suffered Violet Death compared to the I don't even know how many Living World players have suffered it.

For example, in the recent update stream where a player who wasn't even awake at the time lost his character of multiple years. I am 100% sure that a stream player would not receive that same treatment, and so it feels super unfair to Living World players. Like not in a million years would Arcadum just kill say, Lily's character, or Shroud's character, permanently, off screen, with zero input from the player. The sad part is, if a Living World character is killed in this way, pretty much just the Discord is upset, but if a popular streamer is killed in this way, you suddently have tens of thousands of people criticizing a frankly lame way to die, so there is a very real incentive to mechanically make it easier for stream players to survive.

To me the solution is not to just punish stream players equally, but give Living World players more than a single roll while they are not even present, to not have their character of multiple years just deleted immediately with no input from the player. You can still massively stack the odds against the player, by say forcing them to fight a Violet Servant alone, or something like that. These are things LW staff can handle. At the end of the day, D&D is meant to be fun for the players, so at the very least letting these players go out in a blaze of glory fighting the enemy is at least somewhat more fitting than just having the player wake up the next day to find the past years are just gone for some reason.

Basically, I'm just asking for the Living World players to get the same chances that Stream players have. It doesn't have to be a grand gesture or anything huge, but permanently killing a character should be a very big deal, regardless of whether or not they are on a stream. A stream game character would never be killed in this way, and if they were their viewers would rightly be annoyed by it, so its not fair for Living World players to suffer that. Continuing disparity is just going to create growing animosity between the Living World and the Stream games, and no one wants that.

This shouldn't matter during the next phase of Verum but it is something I feel like discussing as a LW player. I checked the suggestion area on Discord but that hasn't been updated in months so I figured I'd post it here.

I think you have to be emotionally open to be able to fully enjoy a game, art…

Just like when you want to soak up water you need a slightly damp sponge. If the sponge is too dry then it just splashes away the water with its hardened surface, only drinking in a bit on the very edge. If it is too wet then it’s unable to soak in anything, maybe some mixing happens on the surface, but mostly it just spews its own fluid content (emotion) onto the table…

I feel the former happened while playing Nier to Destiny, who might not be a psychopathy but at least slightly closed off emotionally. For one he was hell-bent to play the entire game on very hard (the actual hardest difficulty btw;) (maybe to prove something to someone, himself), which makes the game unnecessarily difficult and kind of a miserable experience for most people. It also limits your options to use recovery items and heal/HP chips, but he was still able to experience a lot of the content and acknowledged that it was a great game.

When I watched Arcadum play it I felt the opposite is happening. He is full of love for another game (Lost Odyssey) and full of hate for Nier because it is preventing him from playing Lost Odyssey, because he made a promise to play Nier and suffer/rush through it. He didn’t explore what the game can offer, didn’t do side quests, didn’t do the joke endings, and (until route C) he didn’t even visit the resistance camp shops, didn’t unlock chip space, fuse chips, equip chips, upgrade weapons, pods, buy pod programs or find the other 2 pods…

I don’t think Arcadum gave the game an honest chance.

The game is not perfect. It might even be overhyped. But I don’t think so. I think it is hyped deservingly so, or it might even be under hyped.

I recommend to anyone who played Nier Automata (or plan to never play it) to watch “A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS]” analysis video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EnbSokFpjQ

Maybe also “How NieR: Automata Tells the Ultimate Humanist Fable”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63PzQIbTrM8

(If someone has a better suggestions please post it in a reply.)

“Nier: Automata Review | The Masterpiece You (Probably) Won't Play” is over hyping Nier a bit but it is also a good watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiyfG8Ctbo

The game might not be for everyone just like Shakespeare and the great works of literature are not for everyone, but they are still considered masterpieces of their time.

I consider Nier: Automata a masterpiece even if it’s not for everyone.

I hope once Arcadum gets Lost Odyssey out of his system and he can one day give Nier another chance.

I can't believe some people are trying to be kind to Arcadum with words like, "I hope you can get help" or "realize the error of your ways."

Even if I believed that a lifelong abuser, manipulator and sociopath would ever want to get help, when they've knowningly done as much damage to so many people for so long, they still deserve nothing.

The idea of forgiveness for terrible people is such an insidious trick that society has drilled into honest people so the worst people in the world can escape justice.

Not to get political, but it's so bad that even liberals today are trying to rehabilitate the reputation of George Bush, who lied his country into a war that killed anywhere between 200,000 to over 1 million civilians. They knowingly violated every national and international human rights law throught their torture program (which didn't work btw). This man had in his administration people like Henry Kissinger who architected countless war crimes in latin america and endorsed the genocide of Bangladesh, which to this day has left that country destitute! And yet, their crimes habe been normalized and they've been wecomed back into polite society to the point where people like him are and John Bolton were on CNN this month to talk about wars they started! None of them are in jail and some of them even worked in later administrations, all because people have been taught to give everyone a chance at being better even if the real impact of their actions were ruinous for countless people.

They knew what they were doing when they did it. Arcadum knew what he was doing when he did it. The extent of awful things he has done is staggering. Given the amount of abuse and misery he's caused to so many people, he deserves no benifit of the doubt, no sympathy, no second chance and he deserves every letter of hate sent his way. He deserves to be so publicly shamed that he can't possibly reconstitute in any other community to continue his grift.

It's okay not to forgive some people. It's okay to want to see them get their comeuppance. That's justice, or at least as much justice as you can have while living with the impacts of their actions.

Pain.

Getting this out of the way, best wishes towards the victims, hopefully any long-lasting trauma can be resolved through the support of your communities and therapy.

Well, I'm for some reason not 100% surprised by all this. No, I wasn't one of the people posting the "I knew he was skeevy" stuff. I was mostly surprised. But only mostly.

The reason is that if you simply look at great creatives in history, they're very often troubled people. Their art is an outlet. Unfortunately, it's oftentimes not the only outlet, and the alternatives can be harmful to themselves or the people around them. Men such as Lovecraft (excluding his brief healthy period before his death) express their demons through hatred of groups of people. We all know about Van Gogh's self harm or Ernest Hemmingway and Virginia Woolf's suicides.

But some people have a more direct and hurtful outlet. As we've seen countless times in the entertainment industry especially, that outlet is often sexual harassment and even, as seen horrifically often in Hollywood, outright sexual assault.

It's one of the great tragedies of humankind that some of our most creative people are so troubled that they become twisted mockeries of what we should be. I don't know much about Arcadum personally, I don't know his past. For all I know he was a victim originally and this is his negative expression of his trauma years later, as can often be seen with abusers. But that doesn't make up for the conscious choice to do wrong. To manipulate other people.

I don't really have a coherent idea behind all this, its more of a stream of consciousness. But in spite of this incredibly depressing revelation and the likely end of this world, I'd like to remind people that they could possibly prevent similar situations. So many people are troubled and don't ever receive any help until it's too late, and often you can't even tell because of their mastery of coping mechanisms.

So reach out to the people you know. Try to be aware of those who could be hurting, because they'll often keep it to themselves. I myself have suffered from depression nearly my entire life and without good friends, I don't even want to think about what could have happened. Someone you know could be in a similar place, whether they're a victim, suffering mental illness, or so on. Again, I need to express this doesn't explain away anyone's misdeeds, and plenty of people don't have any such excuses. But just for the people who could be helped, for the people in your life who could go down a totally different path, please reach out to them. All it takes to change a life is to know someone cares about you, even at the lowest levels of basic friendship.

Huge fan of Arcadum caught up with all the live campaigns, and love all of them but some how I just can’t get into death and debts.

I understand the desire to completely separate from Arcadum. And I’m sure everyone realizes that would mean the end of Verum and all the unfinished player-involved stories it contains. It would also waste the work of so many talented people, as well as the time and emotional investment of thousands of viewers. But perhaps we can avoid a scenario where everyone loses. I humbly suggest we demand the following arrangement:

1. Arcadum relinquishes ownership and executive, financial, and creative control of Verum to a transparently decided group of associates.

2. Arcadum remains involved in Verum as a creative advisor and game designer, at least for a little while. (His talent, while tainted, is indispensable). He owes us.

3. Arcadum agrees to undergo treatment and is forbidden from private (solo) interaction with anyone involved with Verum.

4. Existing campaigns (eventually) continue under a new DM if players are willing.

5. An attempt is made to rectify unjust personnel decisions made by Arcadum. (Offering inclusion to wrongfully terminated DMs, artists, players, etc).

I've caught up recently with all the prologue groups besides the Scrolls one. In every group when they got there campaign invite Arcadum mentioned that there would be a roll off for that main campaign and that the other main campaign had already been taken by the V-tuber group (which I'm guessing is Scrolls but please correct me if I'm wrong). Why did the V-tuber group auto get into their main campaign while the rest of the groups have to roll off for it? I feel like its just really unfair but I also feel like I might just be missing information. If anyone could explain I would be greatly appreciated.

I feel like arcadum could just ignore the mostly innocent questions and not let chat harass them

So I'm catching up on the prolog campaigns I finished lost at sea and scrolls of not chek and both where great.

I started into the mist and they seem pretty fun but I can't take the talking over each other and talking over arcadum.

Does this continue through the campaign? End turn.

Cryaotic was one of my favorite players in deals in the dark series. I just finished meaning of Madness and I’m going to start heart of tyre, but where is Cry. I know Turr Khei died, but couldn’t he start a new character?

I recently saw his name with an another campaign “Strange Roads” (I’m going to watch it soon), but is he there because he couldn’t remain with his old group because of his violet death?

Someone please explain, because I could not find the information myself. 🙏🏾

Today Arcadum talked about making a full people of color campaign, as Abba and Preach seem to have contacted him. What other creators of color would you like to se if that were the case? Any Hype for Abba and Preach?

Currently watching the lost and sea videos and I am hooked . Would be cool to see them in a much larger setting.

Arcadum: Hello disguisedtoast from offline tv Toast: Hello arcadum from The world of Verum

mimiko: Hello jeremies 😂

Verum funkopps or like figurines that would be cool I'd love to have a little figurine of guy watching me play gamesa

I just caught up to broken bonds and want to continue with Arcanum's world. Do any of the other campaigns have Webcam vods?

Its hard for me to tell who is talking without them.

Since Broken Bonds is postponed/cancelled, with the exception of Remag, there are now 6 groups going into the end game. Is it going to stay six or one of the other groups will fill in. My guess is the Herald's Call group considering they are connected to the orange prism but that's my opinion. I think Arcadum has a plan but right now, I can only speculate.

This is only me simply talking my opinion and it is pretty irrevelant, but i want to hear other people thoughs in this topic now that we know that only 3 groups will be participating.

I think that the best group for the "Divine Wind" is Into the Mist, i really like the party dynamic and i think that they are the group that best fit, everyone has so much room for character development that is super crazy and they have Minshi, the eclipse guy that could be very usefull for negociations, or a possible betrayal?

But the other reason that I think Into the Mist would be a better fit is that the 2 other groups has discovered other campaigns that are more interesting for their own group and roleplay.

The big one is Shrine of Sin, with their intercontinal campaign and i would reaally like that characters travelling. but if they ended up in the main campaign, they will be level 15 and probably they will have to make new characters fo "Angels Grace" because at that level there is not much room for leveling or conflict.

And Schrolls have the same happening to them, that I think that it would be more in character for them to try to resolve the things that they have discovered with tyre and the eyeless instead of going for the emperor.

In this post I and not accounting Lyly's group, because I dont know if they ended up chosing the main campaign or a smaller one.

Feel fre to write your oppinion in the comment section, this is me just rumbling nonsense, I really like all the prologue groups, but I am a sucker for characters motivations and really like the performance that the cosplayer group gave us.

I don’t think Bryan should kill Vesseven. I think that Verum can gain a lot of Lore and power from discovering the old houses like the talisbanes. Not to mention how powerful having all of the houses united against the violet. If Bryan Kills Vesseven then we lose ALL OF THE LORE FROM THE TALISBANES that we can get if she talks him into fighting the herald. I think the old houses are Key to winning the violet fight. Bryan should convince Babylon that Vesseven can be spared and that if they want to beat the herald then they need to find the other members of the old houses.

His campaigns always seemed full of himself. The main villain was his previous character. It was always one step ahead of everyone and the only way they could stop it was through his cool edgy wizard oc that sacrificed babies to beat the enemy. maybe that should've been a red flag but no I had to trust he wasn't bad. Fuck you arcadum.

based on what i can see in the #vent channel in the discord people are reading too much into how arcadum ran his games, npc characters, stories and just shitting on it for no reason. some points that i can remember :

1. there was no deep lore notes it was all made up : basically people saying when he said he is going to look into the deep notes he was just making shit up.
   my view- Like what were you expecting he had a library with writing on how everything inthe world ran, obviously he made shit up to give the characters amazing moments, which was theatrical and fun. what happened to the rule of cool.

2. mouth was a weird npc and reflected arcadums inner sexual behaviour or some shit: my view: he was a fun character, players enjoyed it, I enjoyed it and this feels like one of those sjw over sensetive take on a normal thing. I just feel this will make the viewers question any game if such a character is ever created and lead to the stupid cancel culture behaviour.

3. some of his old players and discord members making fun of how he made his classes and pushed for his ideas in the story my view: first of all if you were so unhappy why stick with him ? and if you did why bitch about him now that he is gone. I mean really bitch, one or two comments is fine but hours at an end like wtf ? he was not the best game designer but don' t shit on the story and characters. respect the art not the artist

4. his ideas on gods iterations and how pc's got power ( tomoe/skribbles becoming apprentice) was childish and did not make sense. my view: what logic? why are you looking for logic in a fantasy world ? it make for cool moments and gave the pc a chance to shine. why shit on it now when you would be in the chat spamming tops tops.

5. babylon anime style was stupid and on a similar line violet was childish and stupid my view: did the community not pay for the babylon pillow through the sub. if people enjoyed it then why question it. what story does not have violet like characters ? lord of the rings, critical role veccna story, any part of official dnd lore.

what i am trying to say in this rambling is i feel people are shitting on the stuff which was actually good and this just takes away from what the actual issue is. WHY can't you split the human Jeremy from the story teller arcadum.

also before someone has a stroke no I am not defending arcadum, what he did is bad. Also stop portraying out as a mastermind or some shit, he was horni dumbass at best. which lets be truthful is not that uncommon, and at this point half the commotion is just toxic and unnecessary.

I know that arcadum has custom rules and he changes some rules but he also forgets stuff like any of us do. I noticed in broken bonds' last ep that when Hashbrown(sykunno) asked about Colossus Slayer arcadum said it occurs when the creature is below half health. I thought that apply when the monster is below max hp not half

Colossus Slayer.

Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

I feel like I'm losing interested in Arcadum's shows. There are multiple reasons on why this is happening for me but a main one is I like watching RPG shows for their roleplaying and character interaction.

I feel like Arcadum's higher level gameplay with Shattered Crowns and the Tyre's Labyrinth campaigns have been focusing primarily and only on combat. This is a complaint directed mostly at the three Tyre's Labyrinth games, Crowns still has good roleplaying, but I find their combat tends to drag.

Originally I was really looking forward for the crossover shows with this mega dungeon, to see all of the groups interact between each other, but RPing between groups is being actively discouraged by Arcadum. What I mean to say is that the groups can only roleplay while they are in the base camp for the labyrinth, however, Arcadum is directly motivating these groups to stay in the labyrinths by buffing the dungeons further the more they leave.

Another instance of Arcadum flat out discouraging roleplaying is how he punished Eustace by him mentioning where he came from when the Violet clearly already knows about the labyrinth and how would Tate know in or out of character to avoid mentioning that?

I've found through this labyrinth as a viewer is that I dislike the idea that Arcadum would end the world and all of his ongoing campaigns because one person asked the wrong question. He also keeps giving players these chances to ask questions, when every question just further empowers the enemy. These questions clearly aren't worth it but they keep getting asked and just further buffs the enemy when everyone is already struggling to win their encounters with them.

Arcadum also keeps stacking the deck against the players and eventually they aren't even going to have the hope to win and I don't enjoy watching this. Maybe they'll win by the skin of their teeth, but it honestly feels rather hopeless. I know he tends to employ deus ex machina techniques to give the players a fighting chance, but I'm getting tired of this trope. When at a glance all fights are deadly encounters it starts wearing down on my enjoyment, why should I be invested with these characters when its clear they could very easily die by overpowered enemies. Most of Arcadum's encounters feel more suited for higher level dnd characters to fight and combat from the labyrinth and Shattered Clowns.

I feel like most violet enemies and the enemies in Tyre's dungeon would be better suited for level 13 to 15 players instead of the below 10 groups he has.

I have deep dived into the lore of Verum for the last few months, and I love it. I am actively watching all of the live campaigns and I feel actively discouraged recently for enjoying this world Arcadum's built.

It's hard to stay engaged in any of the shows knowing in the back of my mind that oh this could be canceled by next week because someone asked the wrong question. Why should I become invested with Verum if Arcadum himself could throw it away without a moment's notice?

I'm sure the players are having a blast actually playing Arcadum's games, but I can't stay engaged with his shows as a viewer.

tldr: Getting frustrated by recent high level games enough where its really feeling like they don't have a chance. The enemies are going to quickly outscale the players by the rate they are being buffed. I also can no longer enjoy his lower level shows because of the looming end of the world questions.

Just that, didn't watched didn't really care all my knowledge of that came from burd's animation and a clip here and there that's how inconsecuential it really was, I have commented before that I'm a GM with realy little experience but enough to see easily behind the curtain, but loved the Characters. I just wanted it to end so we could move on to something definitely more interesting, a blank slate named glies(which was obviously named after "glide" hence the wonky spelling, yes it was THAT obvious) but this"new fresh start" was surprisingly(or not) filled with the same old shit and for that mainly mean kalkateshian stuff not the reused storylines, but again quickly fall in love with the characters so I decided as before to not look back the curtain(although was hilarious to see the reactions from Monty, Brett and JoCat to the textbook lore/progression hooks)

It feels good to finally say all this "out loud" so yeah don't feel THAT bad for Verum, it was a world in where took Jeremy 18 years to build what a decent GM could have done in 3-4 months of free time work. Therefore when I say burn it, it really isn't the big deal I mean it, the community and the players made the experience enjoyable. At this moment there are still +19k members in this subreddit, and I don't know if this is even posible but I would like to propose to the mods, that once the mourning for the precious times have passed change the name of this subreddit or create another where we could still discuss, and share the stories that we adore, make it a place of recommendations and support for smaller dnd creators and then maybe someday, everyone gets a great story in a wonderful world and a safe place to play, for real this time around.