Lords of Misrule is an actual-play Dungeons & Dragons 5e game that was streamed live on Twitch. It features a cast of scoundrels and miscreants struggling to survive and make their way in a city ruled by four competing mobster families.
Assets for the project includes the show's titles, a short opening sequence, and a series of overlays that displays each character's information. Original character art was also created from descriptions written by the players.
The cast of Lords of Misrule
Overlay with spaces for the player's webcams and the break screen, styled after a police report
"A hazy moon settles over the jagged skyline of a windswept city. The drone of thrumming engines echoes off the sidewalk along the glistening high-rises. The musk of ten-thousand citizens hangs among the smog, as rats scurry down into the city's bowels. This is Goethford. A pulsing metropolis in the heart of the East Reiman Empire.
In the shadows, however, the real power of the city — and the Empire at large — spreads like a dark flame simmering at the feet of the desperate and greedy. Four Families stoke the fire, holding their respective corners of the city in an iron vice, maintaining peace under an ancient pact dating back to the city's founding.
Yet, between these pillars of mastery, potential seeps through the cracks. Through serendipity or misfortune, several 'heroes' have been swept into this abyssal underbelly, and entangled in the schemes of the Families. Seeking fortune or glory, vengeance or deliverance, they struggle not for 'right' nor 'wrong', but to survive, to thrive, and to perhaps reshape this rotted corpse of a city into a new image — one of their design."
