Neverwinter’snewest event is uh… a tad strange.
Portobello’s Campaignis a series of missions inspired by Acquisition Inc.’s liveDungeons & Dragonssessions at PAX Prime 2015.
If you’ve never heard of Acquisition Inc. before today, it’s a live, annual one-shotD&Dcampaign run byDungeons & Dragonsstory designer Chris Perkins at each PAX Prime event. You canwatch last year’s game on YouTube, and it’s pretty dang entertaining.
Portobello’s Campaignsees Perkins and his alter ego Portobello DaVinci rope players in for an incredibly meta series of missions set in the actual table-top game. Your characters, enemies, maps, and bosses all become pieces on a huge table, with a behemoth Portobello looming over you like something fromAttack on Titan.
As much as I loveNeverwinter, it still took me a few watches of this trailer to get on board. The writing in the trailer isn’t exactly stellar, but itisincredibly camp, and reminiscent of what your average person thinks of when they hear ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ Neverwinter’salways been self-aware of how daft a lot ofD&Dstuff can sound, so seeing it delve completely into cheesy territory should be entertaining.
While there is, unfortunately, no word of it coming to the Xbox One version,Portobello’s Campaignis a month-long event that will be starting on March 31 for PC.
