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Marvelous Misadventures of Mat | Part. 3: Ep. 54 · Sessions Canceled

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  The players met the warlocks, Patron, went insane.
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  And there were hurled through the Astro.
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  See to die. So sessions cancelled, welcome.
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  I'm back. And we're going to be doing the
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  another anniversary episode. No 50 power.
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  The men of D&E culture themselves.
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  My boy, my boys not boy, God, no be weird.
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  You guys were like, you ever watched on YouTube, right next
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  to the voices in your head speaking?
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  Some brought to you for a few weeks now over years disembodied
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  from Matt's physical betide. This is not my this is we're
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  just we're just be because we're stands but we're like sentient
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  stands for part. Five stanzas how it is.
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  It's got that scene from inside. I was just like let go man.
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  No. Josh and Isaiah.
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  No that's not. No.
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  All right but no Matt do it properly.
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  Dude. Probably I'm here with Isaiah
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  and Josh. Do you have to Pause, I respond.
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  I'm here with Isaiah, pause Isaiah response that persist not
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  as funny. Well, that were just, I, I don't
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  even care anymore. I'm just, I'm off.
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  I've got out the nearest window. Fuck this shit.
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  Besides I will, I will do it for you just for you.
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  Imagine like, you do jump out the window so did you just do a
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  flip? Oh, what's that?
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  You guys, ever watch the a stiff like cartoon.
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  As deaf ASDF cartoons on to look at their funny like really
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  short. They're basing.
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  My type of humor kind of cartoons fair enough and they
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  have a bit o where guy, you know?
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  I'm standing on top of building. Open window do down below.
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  Wait, don't jump turn some record button on his camera.
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  Okay, now jump. Oh, I see, I love that shit.
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  Okay. I love that show.
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  I put any who's an? I am here with Josh.
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  I'm not doing it anymore. I've given up and Isaiah.
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  What's up, man? How you been?
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  That's how John Wick yesterday. Was pretty.
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  Pretty cool. Okay.
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  Love Keanu. But guys ever get that feeling
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  like I'm actually so I know. Isaiah you've seen the John
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  Wick. Movies.
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  Josh. Have you seen the middle though?
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  So I don't know if it's just Keanu or he's like this is how
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  John Wick. I don't remember.
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  John Wick, having dislike delay reaction.
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  Anytime? He's talking to somebody and
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  conversation, it'll be like, it's like, hey John, you got
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  shot in the foot. Well, is there?
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  No, no. You just like holy shit, dude.
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  Yeah, I don't know. They've definitely wasn't a full
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  disclosure. I haven't seen a third movie.
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  I just saw the revolver bit from the third movie, but I do know
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  the first two. But, you know, I that that must
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  have been like, a weird editing, a thing.
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  Like a weird stylistic choice would be like, he's just so
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  tired from all the fighting. Like, maybe probably, I don't
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  know. He's just, he's like, he's like
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  he needs an extra minute to process and he's outside some
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  It's like you're accusing the audio of have with the tizen.
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  I'm just saying it's a noticeable thing.
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  When he's talking to someone it's like it's like Hi.
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  How are you doing? He's processing the information.
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  He's processing every single word and then he struggles like
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  a motherfuck to respond. They I'm doing well, you just
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  like question mark. Well, yeah, I heard a lot of
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  like, even like a lot of the fight scenes in the movie were
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  like a lot slower. More than his usual pace.
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  So maybe she's getting older. Maybe I think the new movie was
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  talking. Maybe John Wick got brain damage
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  from getting his ass beat too much.
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  Yeah, he did get his ass, beat a lot across all seven and a half
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  hours of movie. Yeah.
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  But yes because movies Matt, I'm just wondering Will you will you
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  go watch action Kamen Rider with us?
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  Isaiah, I'm really right now, right now, right now right now.
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  No I think this conversation map please bring us into the top of
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  a bitch. Oh my God.
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  Please don't do this right now. Either like a ghost behind you
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  like a stand or suit of armor, like a rider.
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  So you really could just do a show yourself among maybe throw
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  in, like, a few levels of Barbarian depending on the
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  writer or, and, or maybe some wizard for some of the crazier
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  abilities, like decade has I'm trapped in a prison of my own
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  making, you are? Yes.
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  Yeah, because I was thinking, like, after watching the movie,
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  I'm like, all right. What class would John Wick be?
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  I'm just like, I don't know, but he definitely maxed health
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  because fun. It all in the con, I don't want
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  to spoil anything but there's a scene where he falls down a
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  flight of two hundred stairs. And I feel so fucking bad for
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  the man and many players. Also fell down a flight of two
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  hundred stairs and his three-year campaign.
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  So now we're hanging up. Let's just talk about John Wick.
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  Guys know, any wasn't good with us.
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  Yeah. But so before, as I always do
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  after I record these, these episodes And something will come
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  into my mind. I'm like a fuck.
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  Let me just enter enter, you know, play this real quick.
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  Matt, you're gonna have to give us a recap.
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  What happened to me last night because I don't even told you
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  remember, right? Right, we'll get to that when we
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  get to the thing but just a couple of notes.
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  I want to mention just for the people who didn't, don't you
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  start with the recap first know. During the during the whole you
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  want t b, that happened. That's where the beef jerky Joe
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  came from. I don't know if you guys
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  remember that. Yes, I do over this where he's
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  one of my players it was the boss that specifically.
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  He took the boss and he's like he's like oh I can make, you
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  know, snake jerky out of this. And I was like, you know, Chris
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  the, you know you want these are monstrosity.
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  These monstrosities is mutated. Like people are animals like
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  fuse together or some shit. He's like, but he's not a person
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  anymore, right? But I can I can still eat.
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  This is perfectly fine. It's and so he went through out
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  that he and you want you want to have Ama nations are fucking
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  massive. So he just had an endless bleich
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  supply of you. Auntie, beef jerky all the time,
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  you can't. You can't jerky the entire body.
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  Well, he and jerky whatever bits.
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  They he could, I don't call you can jerky.
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  Yeah. Also jerky takes a long time to
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  make like, a long long time. He had a whole campaign.
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  No, I'm talking like I'm about to look this up.
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  How long does it take to actually do that?
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  Yeah, but yeah, so he had endless supply of you want tea.
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  The Abomination jerky that he would give out to random people
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  without telling him telling them like what it was, you'd be like,
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  yeah, it's been my own special beef jerky, you know, just try
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  it out. It's great.
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  They even fed it to a you Auntie later.
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  Yo, your fucking players out here.
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  Come in actual war crimes. I like, Get us some crimes
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  against humanity type shit. What kind are evil.
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  Its monstrosity is, it's fine. Everything's fine.
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  What about the people? You were feeding them to do.
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  The normal people. Yeah, that was yeah, that was
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  That was a thing. Insanity.
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  But yeah, anyone Stop and Go Hair.
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  We the bad. Guys, know.
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  Well, that couple times throughout this campaign.
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  Not started anyone during the jerky tobacco go.
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  Are we the baddies no animals? No, they all just went you,
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  we're not eating that. And then towards the end of the
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  campaign, they, you know, like War veterans dealing with some
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  shit. Hey, hey, Chris, you have any
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  more of that jerky man? I guess I should really use a
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  pick-me-up, right? Oh my God.
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  So apparently it only takes like a day to make jerky but that's
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  with turn technology. So I don't know how long it
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  would take to dehydrate. Old-fashioned way, snake person
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  mean the Sun a few days. I feel like you're more than my
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  son. You doing like a smoker.
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  I don't. Do you think his players just
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  had a portable smoke room on hand?
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  I mean, they, I mean, they had a whole house and then went, there
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  we go. I guess it's fancy.
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  Josh, it's fine, anything you many things past and when your
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  imagination, No, I reject that statement on multiple levels.
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  Okay? What else during the shenanigan
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  Arc? As I've now dubbed, it, the
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  stronghold and followers book did come out.
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  I think, when my players actually, it was right around
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  the time. They went to White plume
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  Mountain, which gave them a whole bunch of fucking abilities
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  that made the move and more powerful than they are.
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  Yeah. Like what some of the things
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  they did, like it would allow them to add additional effects
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  to their spells. So the Bill Murray wizard, he
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  had an effect where when he casts his signature are his
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  specific. Fireball spell, you deal in The
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  Chronic damage instead and healed him afterwards.
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  I'll funnel. Yeah, that's one of the things
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  in the stronghold book and it's not Jesus Christ.
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  Yeah, the dead. Listen, even in the the book.
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  Smack, all those like, listen, there's a lot of stuff is
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  overpowered as fuck. Yeah, just like you just left it
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  that he didn't, he say, I'm sorry I didn't even be like,
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  here's how you can bounce stuff now.
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  He's just like yeah, this is overpowered as fuck.
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  But man, is it cool? It's like yeah, it is cool, I
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  appreciate that. Thanks Matt, Colville is very
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  cool. Also headache-inducing, for
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  dungeon master. Thanks Matt Walker, okay.
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  Ah, he doesn't play of hubris, but okay.
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  Yeah. What else I mentioned that they
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  got some henchmen. Should like, I didn't go into
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  specifics, I think on some of the henchmen, they got with the
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  stronghold, but do you know you did?
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  Oh, you did. No, no on top.
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  No, the henchmen that they hired were not a part of the
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  stronghold, follower rule stuffs Christ.
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  So how I'm over? Yeah, they got more basically,
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  when the stronghold follow rules came out, basically the players.
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  I think every time they leveled up the stronghold, they got to
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  roll on a table and there was a specific table per character
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  class. So some of my players got like a
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  squad of like I think one, one player got like a squad of Elvin
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  Elvin nights so they got like a whole little Squad guy of K
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  nights. Another one, got an assassin who
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  also happened to be like a like a.
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  I think this is for the hex played player so it was a
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  librarian assassin, dude. Dude who would, you know, spy on
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  people and kill people with his garrotte wire but also would be
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  able to hand down and like information on the Warlock,
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  Patron and give info to the player back and forth.
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  Another one, another one fucking Chris and some of the monsters
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  and some of the, my should say, some of the people you can get
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  as henchman on the tables are redonkulous, like Chris, got a
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  young sapphire dragon as a friend.
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  Oh, I'm sorry. And so the sapphire dragon
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  basically. It wasn't a, it wasn't like a
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  pet. It wasn't like he owned.
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  It was basically a young Sapphire.
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  Dragon lives in the surrounding neighborhood around your house
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  and if you're nice to the dragon, it will defend your
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  home. So Chris would specifically try
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  and spend time to like he built the dragon a little nest on the
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  roof of their stronghold. He would try and hang out and
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  talk to the dragon just You kind of learn, what?
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  The fuck is the deal with Jim dragons.
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  Okay. Yeah, I was really close that
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  was nice and then and then Joe specifically got Dwayne the Dow
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  Johnson who was more so a meme. Yes.
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  This hate. Yeah, this one.
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  I remember, yes, yes, picture at some point.
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  But basically Joe, when, when he got, when the book came out here
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  old and he got a dow and as his like, stronghold companion And
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  because me and Joe are both wrestling nerds.
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  I found art someone made of the rock as a doll like Jeanne Stone
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  man. Of course you do and then the
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  players met him and specifically built a wrestling ring in some
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  in strongest, tell me. You still have this art.
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  Yeah. Yeah I'll find it and this place
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  fucking need it is. But they they basically they
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  built a wrestling ring for him specifically and they would hold
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  like tournaments and stuff to like me.
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  Make money. He was always the champion.
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  So I think only Krug beat him. But that was like, when Craig
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  was like 18th level or some shit. so he was like Craig was
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  already, like, we're donkey has the over that point against the
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  Dow and it's like, Yeah. Is there a that it?
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  I feel like I thought there was more stories to Down The Rock
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  Johnson. Uh no that was basically it.
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  Oh, here we go. I found I found the picture for
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  you guys. Oh my word be.
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  All right. That's right, that's not what I
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  was expecting the rock as a stone man.
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  What do you mean? Yeah, I not it's just not what I
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  pictured when you said that. No I I just pictured the rock
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  with weird Rocky textures for Yeah, I mean this this checks
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  out. This is okay.
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  All right. Okay, but now back to our
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  schedule, e normal schedule program.
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  Yeah, so tldr last time on Dragon Ball Z my players.
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  They were at a monk Monastery. We were doing Chris's
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  characters. Stuff for a session supposed to
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  be important. Bit for him not anymore.
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  Oh yeah, I'm supposed to, yeah. Supposed to go on for a while.
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  I forgot about that. Yep, your players said about,
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  how ya know it that, well, it's like, it's the most extreme
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  version of you. You present a cave in front of
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  your players and then there's you also described how there's a
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  white rabbit next to the cave and then the players just
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  fucking follow the White Rabbit. This is the most extreme fucking
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  version of derailing I've ever seen in my life.
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  It fucking, yeah, I Yeah, no, I got nothing on that one.
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  Yeah, but I mean I mean I mean you put the rabbit in front of
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  them. I did I did put the right.
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  I did allow it to. I could have been, like, you
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  could have said, no I could have pause.
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  I've been like, Hey Joe, let's pause for a moment and he but I
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  don't I told you to give me a fucking week.
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  What are you doing here? I could have done that but uh
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  yeah I could have but you know what?
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  She didn't. I didn't, I hilarious.
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  But players went went to like the border of the far realm and
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  the Astro. See met Jose Patron, who's like
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  this big Shadow. Gray old one tentacle Cthulhu.
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  Slenderman kind of dude. That was his Patron, the king in
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  yellow or was that no he's no the guy was bad Patron, right?
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  No the King in Yellow was a servant of Joe's Patron.
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  Oh yeah. I ain't got I use the senior
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  staff block from Tomah photos at the time and basically this was
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  like this was Jose patrons second-in-command dude who
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  basically like, you know, his Pope version or whatever.
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  And Damon Jones character was climbing the ladders of the, you
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  know, quote unquote Church of, you know, very old one.
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  And so the King in Yellow Sea org, I was like, all right, this
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  day. It just dudes being a problem.
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  I need to take them out so that. I can like hold my position in
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  the weird Church of the great old one.
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  And so as the players are leaving realizing that they are
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  stuck there for 24 hours. While Joe's character had to
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  wait for his Mystic arcade. Mm, spouse lot to come back.
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  The King in Yellow attack them, with a mindful are like
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  intelligence blast, most of the players failed to save except
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  for the Barbarian. And as the basically, the can
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  yell with his giant tentacles yielded, the players out into
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  the Astro, see where they basically work.
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  Floating in space. The Barbarian managed to grab
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  float himself over there by harpooning?
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  Yes, he Harper. Teenager the NPC.
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  Yeah. And and he's pulling himself to
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  the entire group of players where they were then pulled up
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  by. I think I actually I said they
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  fell last time I showed it was a tractor beam you know nonsense
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  that pulled them onto a. Just so happened to be flying
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  by, get the Yankee pirate ship just so happened to you know.
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  Just, you know, just gonna be. So this is where the dragon
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  annihilated them. Correct.
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  Yes. Okay, okay, yeah, so, for this,
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  the whole get the Yankee bit, I'm gonna just I'm gonna do the
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  thing where I describe what was my intentions describe what
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  happens afterwards, which I did tell last time in the great joke
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  video like way long ago. But so around, you know, doing
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  all this stuff and because, you know this now, Now space
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  adventure got thrust upon me. I was like, oh shit.
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  All right, I got caught up with some so I looked at a lot of
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  stuff from for the fourth edition.
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  Astral see book, I also looked at a lot of the more than camera
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  tofo stuff and I basically randomly rolled out an entire
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  like giant massive, get the Yankee, pirate crew with a high
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  as see our level captain, and they have an Elders night in
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  there. A butt ton of fully armed with
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  Yankee Warriors and the on the plates and the swords and
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  everything. NG and then on the tables have
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  Road for like special creatures and I happened to roll to Rhett
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  Young Red Dragons. Are ya where they young dragons
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  doesn't? Yeah, they were young.
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  Yeah, they were murdered regardless.
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  Yeah. They're red rock.
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  Yeah. You're relevant their targets.
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  So basically this whole Last Ship and my idea originally was
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  that this was not supposed to be a combat, countered, the player
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  it was supposed to be, oh shit, look how how look how armed they
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  are, and look how outnumbered we are.
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  And originally, I had the gift kind of, they being the players
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  on board. Where'd all the players are
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  unconscious at this point and they tie everybody to the mass
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  except for Krug, how to get the Yankee, have a fucking tractor
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  beat, I don't know. It's fancy, it's fine.
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  It's it matters. I mean, getting all the get
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  their psionic as fuck so like they could have mine yet.
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  Yeah, telekinesis them but I just was like, especially the
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  ship does it? You just, you just didn't even
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  bother to justify it? I mean, if I really wanted to
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  because again at this time, the whole like spell Jammer, confirm
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  bit was going on the internet and I was looking up some spell
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  Jammer stuff but I didn't want to go and I didn't look into the
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  detail of like those, our ship have a tractor beam.
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  It's like if I describe to my players there's a pirate ship
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  floating in space and it has a tractor in the pulls you in?
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  Yeah you could spare you know your disbelief are the be like
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  oh yeah it's fancy fancy pirate ship in space.
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  It's ain't right. Still germer.
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  Hmm. Give me a key from spell Jammer.
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  I don't know if they're from dispel Jammer originally.
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  I know they came at in the fiend, folio before that, but
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  get Yankee their thing, they are if they're actually in the new
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  spell Jammer stuff as well. Very heavily featured in there
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  as creatures and stuff because get Yankee or basically like
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  space Viking Pirates and they fly around the Astro see which
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  the Astro see is a part of the wild space and spell Jammer.
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  It's how you get two different Wild Spaces, quote unquote,
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  through the Absolutely, apparently.
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  The get thank you first appeared in white dwarf.
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  Number 12 In fact, it wasn't that means know that magazine
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  white or via its it was a gay magazine.
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  That's very it's where a lot of like Warhammer stuff was posted
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  back in the day. Oh shit.
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  It was it was like a Gaming magazine.
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  Cool. Yeah.
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  Well that doesn't sound like the first, so that's the first
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  place. They might have existed in
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  general, but that doesn't sound like the first time they
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  existed. No, no, yeah, that's the first
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  time they ever appeared, was in warhammers, white dwarf, number
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  12 back in, in war hammer. No, no.
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  But like we're Hammer was the company that made the magazine
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  but other people put stuff in the magazine.
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  It was a know what I'm saying. Top magazine, I'm assuming,
• 21:58
  right? But what I'm saying is it sounds
• 22:00
  like they existed as something different before they were put
• 22:03
  into deed. And someone took them from that
• 22:06
  magazine, put them in too deep. It doesn't seem like it.
• 22:10
  They existed since first edition and white Doors.
• 22:13
  Number 12 came out in 1980, June or July in 1977.
• 22:19
  Hey. Their original art, by the way,
• 22:27
  is hilarious. Hilarious.
• 22:29
  And I love how funny it is. Yeah.
• 22:31
  There's a weird skeleton. Lighter, pretty.
• 22:33
  Yeah. What they're fucking Oompa
• 22:35
  Loompa hair? Yeah.
• 22:36
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:38
  They're pretty yapped up. And they had we're oh, that's
• 22:40
  right. Then they had a Loompa bike.
• 22:44
  Afros. They also had like a mummy
• 22:46
  thing. Yeah.
• 22:48
  Because they're they're, they're they followed the Lich God of
• 22:53
  guess Yankee. Or not God, leave their leaders.
• 22:56
  A lich basically Yankee Lish lady fucking interesting her.
• 23:01
  Yeah, but yeah. And who's in so these get these
• 23:07
  guys is whole entire pirate crew of get the Yankee in the astral.
• 23:11
  See picked up the players tied, all the unconscious ones who
• 23:13
  Massacre. Us crog's character.
• 23:15
  And his backstory being the Goliath barbarian was that he
• 23:19
  was a pirate. So he would like talk charges
• 23:22
  like oh I'll negotiate for our group.
• 23:24
  Don't worry guys, I got this players are sweating bullets
• 23:28
  waiting to like Matt's my character wake up.
• 23:29
  It Matt does my character wake up.
• 23:35
  Enzo. What I had originally planned
• 23:41
  was that I had planned a, like, Guardians of the Galaxy type of
• 23:45
  mini Adventure, especially since like, again, this is when people
• 23:51
  start talking about spell Jammer and so I'm like, oh, I can use
• 23:54
  some of this as inspiration. My idea was that the gift Yankee
• 23:58
  would in exchange for some money.
• 24:00
  Take the bullet players, back to the far realm.
• 24:03
  Maybe they would have some ash rosi encounters.
• 24:06
  I picked up from the fourth edition book and like see cool
• 24:09
  things in the in space. And, you know, have fun Pirate
• 24:13
  Space Adventures Treasure Island shit.
• 24:15
  And then they would get to the far realm fight.
• 24:17
  Some Cthulhu nonsense, Joe could get revenge on the King in
• 24:22
  Yellow and take his place. As you know, shadow shadow
• 24:26
  Cthulhu God's, you know, second dude.
• 24:30
  Like many things in my campaign does not what fucking happened
• 24:34
  and that's when the plan fell apart.
• 24:37
  Exactly. So Krug.
• 24:39
  You know, deciding to go, she ate, and he was doing so badly,
• 24:44
  not that he was rolling badly. He did the thing like Grog did
• 24:47
  and critical role where he was buying potions from the dude,
• 24:51
  and the guys like also to you for five gold and then Grog,
• 24:55
  I'll buy it for 30 gold. So drugs, like, All right, if
• 25:02
  you'd let us all go, I'll give you all their stuff and their
• 25:07
  players are like rock. Are what are you doing?
• 25:13
  He's like, yeah. He's like, I think one of them
• 25:15
  has like a magic like Dragon Sword.
• 25:18
  No, no. He's got like a cool cloak over
• 25:19
  there. I don't need any of that shit.
• 25:21
  That that good man. I don't believe any of this
• 25:25
  shit. Yeah, here is offering up all
• 25:27
  the players shit. And so me, I was laughing
• 25:30
  because I'm like again in the background like as a DM.
• 25:33
  I'm not actually going to take all their shit, but the gift
• 25:36
  might just be like, playful. Be like listen, he said, he'd
• 25:39
  give me, give us the stuff like, like, do a little back and
• 25:41
  forth. Yeah, then that, you know, again
• 25:45
  didn't happen. So while the players are
• 25:47
  freaking out finally, you know, some of them are, I said, some
• 25:50
  of them are you guys are starting to wake up?
• 25:51
  So I realize what's happening? Chris is the first person to
• 25:55
  wake up. Decides to wake up the rest of
• 25:58
  the group and then because he's a shadow monk, he's Shadow steps
• 26:03
  out from the rope that he was tied to the mass and punched the
• 26:07
  near skiff Yankee warrior in the face tried knocking basing knock
• 26:10
  them off the boat. Mmm and so that's when again the
• 26:14
  Hat flip I'm like oh no. That was all he could think of
• 26:20
  that. Was the plan.
• 26:21
  Yeah. Just throw hands.
• 26:23
  Let's just. Yeah.
• 26:24
  Okay. All right, bye.
• 26:25
  Look hey Gospel of violence. I appreciate you.
• 26:29
  But I'll so Dragon. Like, I'm trying to think like,
• 26:33
  maybe because of the situation. I can understand like why.
• 26:36
  He's like, all right, I'm tied up.
• 26:39
  Krug is cell is shredding away. All my fucking magic items.
• 26:42
  I need to do something to get out of here and because I did
• 26:46
  like I put them. It is also probably on me if I
• 26:48
  put like, Splash art or something.
• 26:51
  Probably that would change anything.
• 26:52
  But I put a literal battle map of the spaceship because I
• 26:55
  thought the map of school is a big.
• 26:57
  Big ship. I had every gift on there the
• 26:59
  dragons. So this is something like
• 27:02
  another like learn from my mistakes.
• 27:03
  Like if you don't intend for combat as a DM, don't put your
• 27:06
  players off. Fucking battle map but find some
• 27:09
  water splash art, I was something that's close enough.
• 27:12
  If you're using this is all like sorry.
• 27:14
  If you're using a digital tabletop or virtual tabletop, by
• 27:16
  the way, find like a, like a splash art of some, you know, if
• 27:21
  you're doing a space pirate themed thing, Fine Art of a
• 27:25
  space pirate. That looks exactly like you
• 27:28
  want, put the tokens on the map so your players know who they're
• 27:31
  talking to and there you go. Don't put a fuck battle map
• 27:35
  because then immediately the players will think that this is
• 27:39
  you're supposed to be fighting here.
• 27:41
  I think. And that's something.
• 27:41
  I think that's probably the thing I'm like, I shouldn't have
• 27:45
  probably done that because they probably just assumed This was
• 27:47
  meant to be a combat. If I may, if I may, I can't
• 27:52
  speak for your players and I'm not I'm not saying anything
• 27:54
  about your players, like What sort of looking for, like
• 28:00
  situation A literacy, right? But I have done the same thing
• 28:04
  where I've put a battle back in front of the players and they
• 28:06
  were like, um, we're not fighting right GM, I'm like, if
• 28:10
  you don't want to, but that's what you're looking at.
• 28:13
  But that's what it is. yeah, I like you're not necessarily
• 28:21
  wrong here, Matt, but at the same time I feel like I don't
• 28:29
  know. I don't think you should make
• 28:30
  any asset like just because of GM put a battle map down.
• 28:33
  It's like don't assume things. It might have just been the best
• 28:37
  despair. Like, I don't know.
• 28:38
  I've heard stories like this before and I'm like players.
• 28:41
  You gotta be a little have a little more wherewithal and
• 28:44
  remember that like it's a tabletop game.
• 28:46
  You have, you know, infinitely more options.
• 28:49
  Like if it was a video game understandable but to tabletop
• 28:52
  game you have way more options than you think like Like I don't
• 28:57
  know. Use your brains a little better.
• 28:58
  Yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying all that, but I
• 29:02
  am saying that being said, like, you're dumb.
• 29:03
  I'm just saying like you know, pay attention a little bit more,
• 29:06
  you know what I mean? Like, I don't know.
• 29:08
  Let me to be fair. The last thing that happened was
• 29:10
  they got blindsided by to you know mine flare like technical
• 29:15
  dude, in the gold cloak, I got knocked the fuck out.
• 29:18
  They wake up there, they're tied to it.
• 29:19
  Yeah, they had the seeing a bunch of these alien looking
• 29:22
  dudes, I guess what I'm getting at is specifically talking to
• 29:25
  him, selling them. Stuff.
• 29:25
  So they're like, they're all on me.
• 29:27
  Like they went from panic mode to even more panic, but I guess
• 29:30
  what? I'm getting at here is I don't
• 29:32
  think you did anything wrong. Matt so much is like it will
• 29:36
  agree with that. Yeah I don't think it either.
• 29:37
  I think do it placing the battle maps.
• 29:39
  That is a good like this. Like because put it it's true.
• 29:42
  Sometimes battle maps are a good layout of like this is what you
• 29:45
  see. You know, this is the layout of
• 29:47
  the area and it's like putting a battle that down.
• 29:50
  I don't think like, I don't think you shouldn't have done
• 29:52
  that. The only thing you maybe could
• 29:54
  have done was like If the players were in the mentality of
• 29:58
  all, we have to fight just make the statement of like, you don't
• 30:01
  have to fight. I'm just, I've told, you know, I
• 30:03
  probably should have said that like, say yeah, just say
• 30:05
  something. Yeah.
• 30:07
  Because I didn't. I think the other thing was I
• 30:08
  didn't get to that point yet. Yeah, well, yeah, a lot of.
• 30:13
  Yeah, that's a weird thing. A lot of GM's, get kind of
• 30:15
  afraid to do the thing where like, DMS don't want to do the
• 30:23
  video game tutorial message, right?
• 30:25
  Like a lot of GM's are afraid to do the thing where the game
• 30:29
  pauses and a big pop up screen shows up on screen and it tells
• 30:33
  you the tutorial of how to do the thing.
• 30:35
  It's like GM's are afraid to do that.
• 30:37
  All the GI G m--'s always want to do their tutorials like Metal
• 30:40
  Gear Solid, where the characters say really weird things.
• 30:43
  As like, there's like, literally in Metal Gear, Solid, you will
• 30:48
  get a codex call and they straight up will say to fuck
• 30:51
  Snake to fire your gun, you press the action button.
• 30:55
  That's like actual written dialogue in the game.
• 30:57
  Yeah, I love her. I remember playing some of Metal
• 31:00
  Gear Solid 5 and yeah. Yeah.
• 31:03
  Play characters will say that to you and it's like GM's want to
• 31:07
  do that. It's like, no guys.
• 31:08
  Just put the game on pause for a second and just say something as
• 31:11
  an out of character above board thing and just explained, you
• 31:14
  know, like it's okay, you could put things up on my players.
• 31:17
  Have realized that there are certain phrases and things.
• 31:19
  I say that means certain things and I'll go immediately say what
• 31:22
  it means after was it. So like a player will be like oh
• 31:25
  you notice that your you know, your re-of Frost doesn't do that
• 31:30
  much damage to the ice Golem. I it's resistant and I like,
• 31:34
  Yeah, okay, or I have little lucy.
• 31:36
  This, this creature is on its last leg.
• 31:39
  It's got like less than 10 HP. Yeah.
• 31:42
  I mean, I'm like that. Yeah. - the funny thing with the
• 31:45
  resistance is situation is because resistance is our
• 31:49
  binary, right? It's either half either.
• 31:51
  You have half resistance or you don't, I don't even bother
• 31:53
  anymore. I literally just say verbatim
• 31:56
  the creature takes half damage from your spell, I just say it,
• 31:59
  okay, I'll just give it up because because I'm trying to be
• 32:02
  like, oh, it doesn't do as much damage as you hope.
• 32:04
  There's no point. The players know, it's either
• 32:06
  half or nothing, those are the old.
• 32:08
  It's a binary side. I still want that little DM
• 32:10
  description like for other things.
• 32:12
  Yes, but for that particular example, I've just given up
• 32:15
  because there's no way to do it without sounding too goofy.
• 32:18
  Like it's honestly, it's possible to be a shit.
• 32:21
  I mean, You know, it doesn't do as much as you think it.
• 32:24
  Probably should have been there. Like.
• 32:26
  Oh, so it's resistant. Okay.
• 32:28
  Like I'm doing it cheekily. I mean, yeah.
• 32:29
  If you don't need to be a shit that's fine.
• 32:31
  I'm just saying. I've got a bead as a you could
• 32:33
  vouch. I've just given up on that one.
• 32:35
  Correct. Yes.
• 32:36
  It's just like fuck it. It does have fun of it, maybe
• 32:38
  it's just me. Then can I I like doing that.
• 32:41
  I don't know. It's still like if it was a
• 32:43
  beginning, the tutorial thing while also like yeah, if it were
• 32:47
  trying to be like the DM behind the screen thing, I don't know,
• 32:50
  like if you can Do it? Like I just I'm just cheeky
• 32:53
  about it. Yeah, you could do it.
• 32:54
  It's like, it's just if it was a mechanic wear resistance was
• 32:57
  like, based on a Dye, or a number, that could be variable
• 33:00
  or something then fine, right? Like like if the way resistance
• 33:05
  Works was, when you get hit with an attack, your resistant to
• 33:07
  roll a d-10 and subtract that amount and that's the resistant.
• 33:10
  Now then I would be a little more off you skated about it.
• 33:13
  But because the players, if they have literally any functioning
• 33:16
  brain cell can go half damage. It's like, you know, it's like a
• 33:19
  see once your players have done the I haven't figured out the
• 33:22
  AC, just tell them like there's no point in continuing to be
• 33:24
  weird, you know, like tell, you know.
• 33:27
  Well, it started like some teams are so obsessed with doing that
• 33:30
  is likes. Let It Go.
• 33:31
  No, I do the thing where, like, let's say creature has a 15 AC,
• 33:35
  and they'll they roll 14. I'm like, you'll, you just
• 33:38
  missed. So, they sell that.
• 33:41
  Oh, I just missed, I do. That means it's a c's 15.
• 33:43
  See my God. I would do that from time to
• 33:45
  time, but my players have gotten into the habit of just tracking
• 33:48
  and asking each other what the hit was and the just doing the
• 33:50
  math. So I Don't even bother any more.
• 33:52
  Like Sam will be like, alright, a16 doesn't hit.
• 33:55
  Isaiah was your role? I got a 19.
• 33:56
  All right? So it's either 17 or 18, it'll
• 33:58
  be like, okay, I don't even bother they just do the mask
• 34:02
  themselves. But also, I have this very good
• 34:05
  by player is I have again, Isaiah can vouch for this by the
• 34:10
  four players. I have currently have gotten
• 34:12
  into quite the system of tactical stratagems.
• 34:17
  I mean, would the battle starts. They start like they start doing
• 34:20
  military Battle Battle Tactics shit.
• 34:23
  And I'm just like, all right, X-Men, maneuver 17.
• 34:25
  Literally I there's there's certain they literally have
• 34:28
  Maneuvers. They have tricks that they do on
• 34:30
  the regular that's like, all right, we're going to do the
• 34:32
  thing. I need to after the game.
• 34:34
  I'll show you the link and or I'll give you a one of The
• 34:38
  Arcadian issues where they have Team, like, Maneuvers that you
• 34:41
  can actually give your players. It's so cool.
• 34:44
  I kind of, I'm I'm trying to figure out point to throw that
• 34:48
  in my, my game, but I haven't found the right bike.
• 34:52
  I'm found the right thing time yet soon Tim.
• 34:57
  So I remember seeing side. Do I remember for a specific
• 35:00
  Pfeiffer? I was like, right about the
• 35:03
  state. I know I saw Sorry I just had a
• 35:05
  thought, right? As you were talking, but I
• 35:06
  remember for a specific fight, by players literally designating
• 35:09
  who was going to take out the ads and who was going to focus,
• 35:11
  the book? See all my players just be like,
• 35:16
  wasn't it? Yeah, fucking know.
• 35:19
  Well it over it's because Josh is ads, are never ads.
• 35:22
  They still deal about like a third, like a lot of damage.
• 35:25
  This much damage is the boss. Um, so I'm for the ads.
• 35:28
  I'm like. Okay guys, I'll just take care
• 35:30
  of this. They can't hit me.
• 35:30
  Anyway, just stand there. Be Asshole.
• 35:35
  Don't they? We like we killed them or I kill
• 35:37
  them. What were you gonna say
• 35:39
  beforehand? Isaiah though?
• 35:41
  Oh oh God damn. It was I going to say, kill my
• 35:43
  train of thought. It's been a minute.
• 35:46
  Son of a bitch. Oh, it was about using like
• 35:49
  coded language. Yeah, I know.
• 35:51
  I totally like, yes, do that. And I in like, when it comes to
• 35:56
  talking about bored, I am. I've never.
• 35:58
  Once hesitated it is. It's because, you know, we just
• 36:02
  had a player died, right? Like last session, Our character
• 36:05
  died, sorry. And I told them like a, you
• 36:07
  know, every something, every time something that's comes up,
• 36:10
  especially in the like I dropped the battle map down and the
• 36:14
  fight hasn't started yet I go home, like you're at a
• 36:15
  Crossroads this can go real well or real poor.
• 36:20
  Hmm. Choose your actions wisely and
• 36:22
  they've to this day, they've never been like that will be
• 36:26
  fine. They'll always, they've always
• 36:28
  been like the GM is literally saying she was.
• 36:30
  You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, someone will remember this.
• 36:33
  Yeah. It's The, it's the it's the
• 36:36
  scene in the game where the game gives you the warning.
• 36:38
  It's like, once you start this Mission, you are in the final
• 36:40
  leg of the game. Do all your other shit first?
• 36:44
  It's that energy of like pause. Hold.
• 36:46
  Hold on. Shareware.
• 36:55
  Yeah. So, yeah.
• 36:56
  Chris Xiao step punch to get the Yankee off the ship.
• 37:01
  All the other geek Yankee, you know, begin pulling out their
• 37:04
  swords. The two dragons look, very unga,
• 37:08
  and the captain and Krug, who are talking at the moment.
• 37:12
  You know, the captain's like boy, hey, Ran in your dude and
• 37:17
  then Craig pulls out. His battle-axe was like, my
• 37:18
  what? And this was again another big
• 37:25
  ass fight. I think I think we started the
• 37:28
  session with the players like waking up at, on the gift ship
• 37:33
  and we and it became a massive fucking combat that lasted the
• 37:36
  whole session. Which I will just say like Hi
• 37:42
  ndnd, they fought the whole ship.
• 37:45
  Yeah, Chris, yeah. Only one of the done to know.
• 37:50
  So to technically a third one, got banished to another
• 37:54
  dimension. Yeah.
• 37:57
  Um, so high level DND, especially when I realized
• 38:02
  combat ended up taking like if not.
• 38:05
  Well, I'll have to session the whole fucking session.
• 38:08
  And wouldn't even be like, oh, like this is a medium.
• 38:11
  This is a medium encounter. It's still taking half the
• 38:13
  fucking session. Like I don't know if I have I
• 38:17
  do. And they were only level 13.
• 38:20
  That's the other crazy thing. They were only 13.
• 38:23
  Well, I mean, we were so, so shoe if you're dealing with
• 38:27
  high, so, high tech and I had a big group that's the other
• 38:29
  thing. I have a secret that I did have
• 38:30
  a big group six six players, seven players at this time with
• 38:35
  the with the more standard for player.
• 38:38
  Chelation the pacing I've generally because in our last
• 38:43
  session by players did for combats in a session, right?
• 38:48
  Great three or four. Is that how many combat you guys
• 38:51
  do? Like three, right?
• 38:53
  Accession Encounters in the dungeon like three, I think?
• 38:58
  Yeah because it was the the to Goobers that in the first room.
• 39:02
  No, it was the Suez afford room. ORD room downstairs, room
• 39:06
  hallway, downstairs hall Library her room.
• 39:09
  Yes. O3o and up for ya for the prayer
• 39:12
  room to yeah. Yeah, so for so yeah, my players
• 39:15
  did for fights in a session, one of which they ended a little bit
• 39:20
  prematurely because bad guys gave up.
• 39:24
  To be fair though like we do a comical amount of damage.
• 39:28
  Well I don't I don't think it has anything to do with that so
• 39:31
  much is it's just a case of when you're doing if you're doing
• 39:38
  hard or deadly encounters a lot. Yeah, my skin is fighting to
• 39:43
  take forever, but if you break things up into, lots of small,
• 39:46
  easy encounters. It things do tend to be quite a
• 39:50
  bit snappier. And I think the main reason for
• 39:52
  that is just because, Because, like most of the monsters, you
• 39:55
  guys fought last session were cr5 and down with a couple of
• 40:01
  small exceptions, like one of the dread.
• 40:03
  The, the purple dragon dude was The Mastermind.
• 40:06
  I think is like, maybe cr9. But yeah, so like if you break
• 40:13
  it up, break your encounters up across The smaller stuff.
• 40:19
  I, it seems to be way less of a thing.
• 40:26
  And I think that, you know, it's just one of those things.
• 40:29
  I feel like, yeah, I what I've noticed is just that the
• 40:31
  intended balance Or not balance the intended for flow.
• 40:38
  I guess you'd say yeah is is really supposed to be wearing
• 40:45
  players down over a period of time with a bunch of small
• 40:48
  things and then bigger fight but most people don't run it that
• 40:53
  way and most people go kind of Overboard into the like Into the
• 40:59
  urethra, a deadly encounter that.
• 41:01
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, basically.
• 41:04
  Yeah. And it's medium, encounters back
• 41:06
  back and yeah, and it becomes a thing where it's like, yeah, of
• 41:08
  course, you're gonna feel like the fighting it because the
• 41:10
  other thing too about monsters. The other thing too, it would
• 41:14
  just whack the shit on my mic. The other thing about like in
• 41:21
  counterbalance and stuff is when otra hold on train of thought
• 41:28
  these to reorganize it. Pause.
• 41:34
  Okay, when you're dealing with there, go my thoughts.
• 41:37
  No, I was just out. They were jumping on top of each
• 41:39
  other when you're dealing with high level 5 e right mmm because
• 41:44
  of the relatively. I don't want to say flat because
• 41:48
  that's not quite the right word but it's the word everybody
• 41:50
  uses. So whatever the relatively flat
• 41:53
  math of 5 e, right. The fact that a CR half Goblin
• 41:59
  Could potentially hit a like sea level 15 fighter, right?
• 42:06
  Right. Yeah.
• 42:07
  Because of them food sort of relatively flat math of DD.
• 42:10
  What happens is when you get into higher level D&D, those
• 42:13
  easy and medium encounters will involve.
• 42:16
  See are three to five enemies, right?
• 42:20
  Oh, by the way, the Draconian masterminds actually lower than
• 42:22
  I thought. He's only cr6.
• 42:24
  Yeah and like the Draconian Mages which I play.
• 42:29
  Also thought we're CR2 and my players are level 15, right?
• 42:34
  You still get usage out of those lower, see our guys.
• 42:36
  So what ends up happening is you have higher level players when
• 42:39
  you're doing easier and counters, you're using simpler
• 42:42
  monsters. So, it makes things a lot
• 42:44
  snappier. Yeah, you know, like, I think
• 42:46
  that is supposed to be the intended flow, and that's part
• 42:49
  of the reason they did the flat math is.
• 42:51
  So you could use lower. See our dudes for easier and
• 42:53
  counters. It definitely does seem to be
• 42:56
  like, weighing that way, for sure.
• 42:58
  Yeah, I mean, Literally like the Draconian Mastermind do to cr6
• 43:03
  the dragon speakers and the library were CR to Dragon Mages
• 43:08
  or CR to wait. Hold on, I just hold on.
• 43:12
  Wait oh back up, hold on. There are dragging people in
• 43:16
  your setting and you would not let me be I drank or Druid.
• 43:21
  We weren't allowed to play them. Okay.
• 43:23
  Yes they're not allowed to play them.
• 43:25
  Also know there's not dragging people in my setting.
• 43:27
  There's experimented humans started to Good people, damn it.
• 43:31
  This isn't like there are like drunk people walking around on.
• 43:33
  Fuck. Yeah.
• 43:35
  So yes, but no, the dragon chosen our cr3, right.
• 43:40
  Which were like the primary bulk enemies.
• 43:42
  You guys are fighting so, you know, pretty low relative to the
• 43:46
  player levels but it works because that's the intended like
• 43:49
  attrition system. Yeah, that was a really long
• 43:53
  detour, but anyway. Yeah, I just well, I will just
• 43:55
  ask Isaiah, how do you how did you like, fighting those?
• 43:59
  Those guys was it was a fun when they exploded my players despise
• 44:04
  that my players also complained about poisoning so well no more
• 44:08
  Forge? Well, no.
• 44:10
  So one of them exploded, the poison of the other guys,
• 44:12
  exploding into Force. The Draconian, Mastermind was
• 44:14
  also supposed to explode, but I forgot fair enough.
• 44:18
  I was on my own I got hit by one of them so that's good.
• 44:20
  I went. Okay, I hope for this one of my
• 44:23
  players did did so it was Sam was like what is with all the
• 44:26
  fucking explode? I'm The I genuinely thought it
• 44:30
  was you getting back in for the snakes.
• 44:32
  I'd like know. They have every fiber of my
• 44:34
  being was like this is for the this fucking zombie.
• 44:37
  Snake thing, isn't it? I would be funny but no they
• 44:39
  explode? No.
• 44:39
  It's an actual thing. Even in Old dragonlance
• 44:42
  Adventure that's the thing that you're Coatings do exponents.
• 44:44
  Also thing that 5e specifically is starting to do with a lot of
• 44:48
  like newer monsters and new adventures.
• 44:50
  There's a lot of creatures in like spell Jammer.
• 44:52
  The the like I'll just hit them or whatever.
• 44:55
  Yeah that just when you reduce it to zero it just explodes
• 44:58
  yeah. Or the other.
• 44:59
  Languages. Fuck.
• 45:00
  The other thing is, when you hit them, you you get hurt by them.
• 45:03
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 45:04
  It's because it's an easy way to make an enemy more dangerous
• 45:07
  true. But like in the strict saving,
• 45:10
  I'll just saying because a lot of the earlier encounters I've
• 45:12
  had this change because it was getting fucking annoying.
• 45:15
  Was that it kept throwing those kinds of creatures at the
• 45:18
  players and they would get pissed off as like, oh, we have
• 45:21
  to fight steam methods. Oh, the fucking method explodes.
• 45:24
  We have to fight this trash thing.
• 45:26
  Oh, when you kill it, the trash explodes and poisons me.
• 45:29
  It's like it was a bunch of those encounters back-to-back
• 45:32
  and eventually like I could tell my players are getting annoyed
• 45:35
  and I was kind of like yeah it's kind of feels like cheap but now
• 45:39
  I'm using Draconian song so I know I've given up that rule.
• 45:41
  Yes, I'm fucking good. I remember what I was watching
• 45:45
  critical role campaign to and like towards the end.
• 45:48
  Almost everything had a fucking retaliate mechanic to it.
• 45:52
  Yeah. And I was like after a while, I
• 45:55
  was like, if I was playing I'd be getting annoyed for sure.
• 45:59
  I mean, here's the thing. It's the exact same logic as
• 46:01
  legendary actions, right to making a good way to make a
• 46:06
  monster threatening and imposing in D&D.
• 46:09
  But also fictionally is, every time you get to do a cool pet
• 46:14
  badass thing. The enemy also gets to do the
• 46:16
  cool bass thing, right? Like part of what makes villains
• 46:20
  threatening in-game terms, but also in media, is that every
• 46:25
  time, you think you get to be cool, they get to be cool back,
• 46:28
  you know? Like if you think about it I
• 46:30
  mean here you go. Isaiah Dark Souls terms, right?
• 46:33
  Little bitch enemies in Dark Souls or if we want Matt we can
• 46:37
  say Alden ring little bitch enemies in a Souls game.
• 46:40
  When you hit them they stagger and you could just Wombo Combo
• 46:43
  them, and kill them and it's not a big deal.
• 46:45
  When you hit bosses, they have a lot more Poise.
• 46:49
  You're not just going to cheese stagger the shit out of a boss
• 46:52
  with obviously exceptions. Don't start going down the spur
• 46:54
  drought Isaiah, I literally wasn't even thinking about it,
• 46:57
  okay? I just say you're pretty here.
• 46:58
  My buddy, Jack. Here, Joe and wolf in the
• 47:00
  background. Be like, well, because I have,
• 47:03
  because I know there are bosses, you can pull his cheese and all
• 47:06
  this other bullshit. But generally, you know, when
• 47:09
  you hit a boss there, you can't just stagger them out and stop
• 47:13
  them from doing what they get to do, you hit them.
• 47:16
  And then you have to deal with what they do in response because
• 47:18
  they're a boss. You know, that's part of what
• 47:21
  makes them like cool and threatening.
• 47:22
  So, in D&D terms, what does that mean?
• 47:25
  Well, that means when the players hit them or do something
• 47:27
  to them, they have to have some sort of retaliation.
• 47:29
  Enoch, I said, I think you guys fucking Omega dead.
• 47:35
  When horror Lou suplex, you didn't get up to her.
• 47:38
  Luke is my PS4, brick. I don't know what you're talking
• 47:41
  about when you fight Godfrey and he starts doing actual WWE moves
• 47:46
  on, you know, I didn't get to God.
• 47:49
  How did I still can't believe? I'm the only one that beat out
• 47:51
  there. I got a nice job, you guys are
• 47:52
  all the peoples in there. Literally can't do anything
• 47:54
  about it. Mother pause, pause, alright,
• 47:56
  two things, one. I'm not a Dark Souls nerd.
• 47:59
  For starters, I played like three of them and I've only been
• 48:03
  30. There's not, there's double
• 48:06
  eyes, it made my God, sorry. Sorry, you better at least have
• 48:09
  them. I've only played a couple of the
• 48:12
  souls born games. I'm not that super into them.
• 48:15
  I'm like, kind of into them and also more importantly, yeah, I
• 48:19
  stopped playing Elgin ring because to video game too much,
• 48:21
  too much, video game. I just got bored.
• 48:23
  I was like, I've got like my God respectfully disagree.
• 48:26
  I've played 80 hours of the I put I 80 hours.
• 48:29
  Into that game and I was like I'm good.
• 48:31
  I really don't feel compelled to play more and I haven't gone
• 48:33
  back to it and I don't know if I ever will damn.
• 48:36
  You want the DLC comes out. Maybe had more Josh.
• 48:39
  This is a solid maybe. Yeah for me.
• 48:44
  I literally couldn't like like PS4 bricked.
• 48:47
  Couldn't I literally couldn't do it.
• 48:48
  Yeah. Like, I mean, you could get it I
• 48:49
  piece. I now get on PC, I could but a
• 48:52
  I'm not buying the game again and be I had like 120 hours in
• 48:57
  that game where I was at. You'll do as a jewelry, buy it
• 49:00
  when they make the scholar of the first sin Verte.
• 49:04
  Probably yeah, that and then just, uh, I'm just going to
• 49:08
  cheese it. I'm just gonna cheese as much xp
• 49:11
  is like, hey, I'm juli crash hundred hours in and just get
• 49:14
  the whole game. I mean, no, no, I don't think
• 49:16
  that's what it means. No, I'm just going to like grind
• 49:19
  XP, like an idiot for about three weeks Chase and then come
• 49:23
  out like third way to the game is like level 400 and then just
• 49:28
  clap, everyone. One.
• 49:32
  Anyway point being game too long, too much.
• 49:35
  Yeah. Yeah I don't even know.
• 49:39
  I even I will Stone. Oh okay Co do you think they
• 49:43
  went? So they what they?
• 49:44
  Okay. So they had a giant.
• 49:46
  Fuck off battery in Matthew Combat on the ship, which is
• 49:50
  overly, super mega, deadly outnumbered event, the gift
• 49:58
  Yankee they had and this these are all creatures that are found
• 50:00
  in Tomah foes to there's like On that specifically is basically
• 50:04
  an elder tonight. They have spells, they can
• 50:06
  shoot, can trips all the time. All day, including sword slash
• 50:11
  the captain was I forgot what the, what it's called in the
• 50:15
  book. But it's basically the most
• 50:16
  powerful gift Yankee thing is like a CR 11.
• 50:19
  Yeah, the well guy giant massive.
• 50:21
  Fuck off, silver Greatsword. And what the silver weapons to
• 50:25
  the thing with those is like the get the Yankee are specifically,
• 50:29
  they can do into them and they can cut the ring attached to
• 50:33
  your body from your astral form. So like let's say you like a
• 50:37
  wizard casting astral, astral self.
• 50:40
  If it gets Yankee with a suit with a silver sword, sees that
• 50:44
  and seizure string, connecting your astral self to your body,
• 50:47
  they can just cut that and then now you're just astrally
• 50:50
  projected lost in the astral see forever.
• 50:54
  You're fucked. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:57
  I don't know the astral plane is like, kind of a real.
• 51:00
  Like that's a fun idea. But in 58 doesn't bomb.
• 51:04
  Didn't do anything really with it.
• 51:05
  So you're kind of like, well you gotta read some of the bit in
• 51:07
  the DM the GMG chapter on it is really cool and it gives you
• 51:10
  like a little bit of constant. Tell you how to like have an
• 51:13
  adventure in the astral plane, or he's you ideas.
• 51:16
  And then that's why I also recommend.
• 51:17
  I highly recommend 5e style of the FIV style.
• 51:21
  Yeah I do recommend though a lot of people The internet also set
• 51:24
  the fourth edition book, literally called the astral see.
• 51:27
  It's the covers literally a get the Yankee pirate that book has
• 51:31
  so much cool information on and that's what a lot of my
• 51:34
  inspiration I took and was going to do it's the catcher big-ass
• 51:43
  fight. Some some notable highlights I
• 51:45
  wrote down Joe's character cast Darkness on himself and like the
• 51:51
  players so that the get-go he couldn't see them.
• 51:53
  Em. And I think because he's a great
• 51:55
  old, one more lock. He had the thing where he can
• 51:57
  see through magic Darkness. I think also wolves character
• 52:01
  had the same thing so the two of them were just wrecking shit
• 52:04
  while to get the Yankee. We're just blind.
• 52:05
  Fuck you dude. What else?
• 52:10
  Oh Chris's character because the ship was still flying.
• 52:15
  He pulled out one of the magic items that Chris had.
• 52:18
  This is became his like, signature magic item throughout
• 52:20
  the campaign was an immovable rod.
• 52:24
  Of course, so as a monk, he shall step up to the the front
• 52:31
  of the ship activated the rod and just watch as it.
• 52:35
  Just cut the two massive Matt, the to mass of the ship in half.
• 52:41
  As the ship was flying. The captain being like my ship.
• 52:48
  Fuck yeah. Oh wait.
• 52:50
  So like as the ship was flying the rod just went through it.
• 52:53
  Yep. Nice.
• 52:55
  Did they lose the rod? No.
• 52:56
  No. He got it back, hilarious.
• 52:59
  Yeah. What else okrug was constantly
• 53:03
  trying to one? Like the captain was Krug.
• 53:07
  Somehow was not like Crow, he's the Berberian, There's a fuck
• 53:11
  ton of damage he could not for some reason I think hit the the
• 53:16
  guy for whatever reason but he's just got missing with his tax
• 53:21
  and the guy was the the captain was the first creature that you
• 53:24
  know Ragnar's as the person he felt that this guy does a fuck
• 53:28
  ton of damage and as a Berberian having a million Health he's
• 53:31
  like oh a challenge. Oh no.
• 53:37
  So he really wanted to 1 V 1 fight this guy and the dude was
• 53:40
  just not Having it because he was as he was fighting Krug,
• 53:44
  he's just watching his ship get destroyed.
• 53:48
  The other players were also dealing with the dragons and
• 53:50
  specifically because the gifts like we're basically, you know,
• 53:54
  they made a deal with the dragons, the dragons weren't
• 53:57
  using their breath attack. At first, I have first at first,
• 54:03
  then an o with the the Bill Murray wizard, one of his
• 54:07
  signature spells was also Bigby's hand so he's basically
• 54:11
  just doing the Bart. Simpson choking the shit out of
• 54:13
  one of the Dragons. The other one is fighting in the
• 54:15
  other side of the ship. And so he like he basically
• 54:22
  just, you know, he crushes, the dragons neck and kills it.
• 54:26
  So then I will show that I wrote I'm like, you know, if one of
• 54:29
  the Dragons died the other one's going to basically go, you know
• 54:33
  enraged and so the other one, just fire blasters the shit out
• 54:38
  of the ship destroying a lot of the ship I think, hitting most
• 54:41
  of the players, some of the gif But the big thing was it?
• 54:47
  It just killed the Bill Murray. Was it did quadruple his health
• 54:54
  nice. Yeah.
• 54:55
  So he just yeah cell being come here made by Gohan.
• 55:00
  Let's see. Yep.
• 55:06
  Oh shit. I should also mention fuck.
• 55:08
  I'm sorry I'm did this. All in order before that?
• 55:13
  I mentioned last time That we had a new player join us
• 55:16
  Paladin. I'm going to call him.
• 55:18
  He was playing a Dragonborn Paladin Nano because he just got
• 55:22
  level 7. He picked the spell Prismatic
• 55:24
  spray. Yeah.
• 55:27
  So if you don't know what pretty much spray is a big fuck-off
• 55:29
  spell that does a lot of different effects.
• 55:31
  Each one is a different damage and so he was in the magical
• 55:36
  darkness when Joe First cast in the beginning of the combat so
• 55:40
  he didn't know where the fuck he was aiming.
• 55:42
  Unfortunately, he hit Collin. And on I think it's on a 100.
• 55:50
  The character is basically playing shifted to a another if
• 55:56
  they fail wisdom, check or something, they basically are
• 55:59
  banished to another plane of existence entirely.
• 56:01
  Yeah. And because they're in the
• 56:03
  astral see which is the highway to every fucking plane.
• 56:08
  The characters basically lost him.
• 56:11
  Oh no, like what? He's gone, he's dead.
• 56:15
  He's fucking dead chip. Never okay.
• 56:21
  Yep. So that happened on the again
• 56:23
  Dragon the dragon watched its other Dragon friend, get
• 56:26
  murdered fire, blasted the shit out of Nano.
• 56:29
  He died. Then I think the worst one was
• 56:34
  Jose character, who as the immovable rod?
• 56:38
  Destroyed the 2mass Joe was hiding in the darkness.
• 56:43
  He's a hey it's my plan is working, they'll never find me.
• 56:47
  Look, so does not see the giant mass falling directly on top of
• 56:51
  them. They'll never forget.
• 56:58
  So the mass falls on top of them does a fuck ton of damage.
• 57:01
  He loses concentration on Darkness.
• 57:04
  Oh, I was hoping it'd kill them outright that would have helped
• 57:06
  them however they get the Yankee standing next to him who saw
• 57:10
  this. Oh no because Joe's character
• 57:14
  was now proned just just stabbed the shit out of him.
• 57:20
  I was you know what? I wanted a you know the fucking
• 57:23
  the Looney Tunes. When the fucking mask falls on
• 57:27
  Daffy it likes to lie. Nails him into the ground.
• 57:29
  Like I know what I was I felt so fucking bad.
• 57:37
  I was outside. Oh because I was like all right
• 57:40
  I'm like oh shit I was like oh no.
• 57:42
  He's the new guy, you know, his character and then Nano
• 57:46
  disintegrated like oh fuck ha. And then Joe dying was a
• 57:56
  paladin. Where's layer?
• 57:57
  That got forcibly removed later later.
• 58:01
  Yeah, this is, this is around the time when he was still good,
• 58:04
  but he wasn't being a weird. He wasn't being a dickhead yet.
• 58:06
  No. Hmm.
• 58:09
  So this is this. What sparked up, Matt?
• 58:11
  This would be was you. Really you did this.
• 58:13
  Yeah. Right.
• 58:15
  You do anything. It was technically there's
• 58:17
  definitely got the Bill Murray was in, he teleported him.
• 58:19
  Not true. I think we also joke because for
• 58:24
  some reason we're doing and up it's somewhere in here, I'll
• 58:29
  find it but Yeah. So Joe yeah and the last one was
• 58:35
  Joe gots moated got stabbed to death by the other get Yankee
• 58:39
  cuz he's thrown on the ground. The attacks have Advantage.
• 58:42
  The gift they fucking hit like trucks, so just you know, shink
• 58:48
  shink, shink shink. Hmm, turn into a pincushion And
• 58:54
  the wizard was the one who could plane shift, and he got a raise.
• 58:57
  Now now, that is Joe. Oh Joe.
• 59:00
  Okay. Sorry.
• 59:02
  Usually pretty good at names. I'm a struggling right now not
• 59:04
  talking but yeah so after after that happened also because the
• 59:10
  ship the dragon you know fucking fire blasted the ship where and
• 59:15
  and Nanos character the ship was now also burning ship.
• 59:19
  Its mass were destroyed half the crew actually I think over half
• 59:23
  the crew is dead between the dragon and the players and now
• 59:26
  the front of the ship is burning and is basically crumbling so
• 59:32
  the The elders night. So things are going great.
• 59:35
  Yeah, things are going great. The elders night basically calls
• 59:38
  out to the captain and was like, yeah, we need to go bad.
• 59:41
  We need a banjo, but, yeah, get the fuck out of here.
• 59:43
  Hey, I just killed three players.
• 59:46
  Technical to technically one was just gone, which is banished and
• 59:49
  what is just a little let. Yeah, and then be, it was super
• 59:53
  late as fuck. So I was just like, in my mind,
• 59:55
  I'm like, all right, let's just wrap this shit up.
• 59:57
  This combats taking too long and I feel so like this is my first
• 1:00:00
  player deaths. So I felt That.
• 1:00:03
  So I'm like, all right. The red dragon flies off.
• 1:00:05
  It grabs the Eldridge night and the captain who's still like rug
• 1:00:09
  is just not fazing. This dude is smacking the shit
• 1:00:13
  out of him and crows looks like, why won't you fight me Jocelyn
• 1:00:18
  shoot and the cabins like yeah, you know, worth it and then
• 1:00:23
  basically climb the dragon was enraged.
• 1:00:26
  Struck even more. He's like what are you doing?
• 1:00:28
  There's a perfectly good moments.
• 1:00:29
  Throw your life away. Yes, thank you dude.
• 1:00:38
  So while that was going on the players they killed off through
• 1:00:42
  the remaining. Get that couldn't get onto the
• 1:00:43
  dragon with the captain and the Eldridge night.
• 1:00:46
  Captain Elgin. I flew off a way through space.
• 1:00:52
  Basically leaving you know, leaving The Players they're
• 1:00:55
  stranded on the ship to which Chris after destroying the
• 1:01:00
  2mass. He's like.
• 1:01:01
  All right. So Matt I'm gonna go up to the
• 1:01:02
  wheel. I'm going to try and fly a ship.
• 1:01:05
  I'm like, how you do the crash. Why the ship that's on fire?
• 1:01:09
  Like I'm like, I'm like how you do that Bud?
• 1:01:11
  He's like with with, oh yeah. Yeah, so basically the party now
• 1:01:26
  stranded in the Astros in a complete different plane of
• 1:01:30
  existence on the ship that's half, destroyed floating amongst
• 1:01:34
  the Stars. The two players that could
• 1:01:37
  possibly get them home. Dead dead, one of their walls.
• 1:01:43
  There's new their new buddy just gone.
• 1:01:47
  They didn't even know what half because of the darkness.
• 1:01:49
  They don't even know what happened to him.
• 1:01:51
  There's they assumed he fell off the boat like in character and
• 1:01:56
  because they're like, where's Paladin?
• 1:01:58
  Anybody see looked over the ship.
• 1:02:00
  I can't believe he's fucking dead because his body's, no,
• 1:02:05
  we're not. Oh, oh shit.
• 1:02:10
  So tastic but da but they love add up, I can't do 40 now.
• 1:02:21
  So at this point, I felt terrible.
• 1:02:23
  I felt so bad that my player deaths.
• 1:02:26
  We're not only job my boy for that.
• 1:02:28
  I killed two players at the same time in combat and a third, just
• 1:02:32
  banished to another plane. The players have no fucking idea
• 1:02:35
  what's going on. It was a great joke.
• 1:02:38
  It was like looking back, it was funny, but I think at that time
• 1:02:43
  as a DM out of I felt I just felt bad.
• 1:02:46
  I felt bad about the situation. I think I apologize.
• 1:02:49
  I apologize to the group because of it.
• 1:02:52
  What are you apologizing for? Because they died because
• 1:02:57
  because, because again, this is new, DM never kill the player
• 1:03:00
  before. That's not, I felt.
• 1:03:02
  Yeah, yeah, he knows that. At now we know that back pain is
• 1:03:09
  like a weird thing to apologize for.
• 1:03:11
  But okay, look I apologize when I come by first player in few
• 1:03:14
  weeks back, I was like learning to East because it's you don't
• 1:03:17
  want them to die, right? Like, you know, for a goal is
• 1:03:20
  never to kill the plant. Like if I have a bad guy like if
• 1:03:22
  I throw like a really deadly encounter, a hard thing in my
• 1:03:25
  players I would say listen, this monster is going to try and kill
• 1:03:28
  you me, Matt. I don't want you to die, but if
• 1:03:30
  it happens it happens. I'm not going to say it's the
• 1:03:33
  goal, but it is part of the game.
• 1:03:36
  Yeah, no that's Agree to when you agree to start playing?
• 1:03:40
  Well, I don't even think it's that serious.
• 1:03:42
  I think if the, the idea is right, is like, you as the GM
• 1:03:46
  should always be rooting for your players.
• 1:03:48
  So you like you're like, hey guys, I really hope you all.
• 1:03:51
  Make it out of this, I don't know.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah, sure rooting for the players, but that's not the same
• 1:03:54
  as apologizing that they died. Like that was like, okay, if
• 1:03:59
  they had died because Matt just was like, and then a dragon show
• 1:04:04
  up and dick on your day. That and like you killed them in
• 1:04:09
  like a shitty way. Sure.
• 1:04:11
  But killing them because of, you know, the consequences of their
• 1:04:15
  own actions. I'm not apologizing for that.
• 1:04:18
  Y'all dad. That's on y'all.
• 1:04:20
  I don't, you know what I mean? I mean I guess I know.
• 1:04:24
  It's like it's yes and no. It's like the again as a DM like
• 1:04:28
  I as a new DM at the time, I felt bad.
• 1:04:32
  I feel bad because I've never killed a player before I never
• 1:04:34
  really wanted to To it was never the goal.
• 1:04:38
  If it happened, it happened again.
• 1:04:40
  I'm not saying, hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 1:04:42
  I feel like I have to defend myself here.
• 1:04:44
  I'm not saying it's the gold are you defending?
• 1:04:46
  No, I'm not. Because I have a, because What
• 1:04:53
  are you defending? Well, I'm just saying this is
• 1:04:55
  gonna happen defend myself because I feel like, I feel
• 1:04:58
  like, because by my take a odd, like character death and game is
• 1:05:02
  different. And you all are saying that
• 1:05:03
  like, oh, whoa, It's not the goal to kill your players.
• 1:05:07
  I'm not saying it's the goal to kill your players, that was one
• 1:05:11
  point. I'm trying to make Mama wears.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah, I do. But I would Okay, I still feel
• 1:05:16
  like I need to defend myself here.
• 1:05:18
  I gotta do what you gotta do but because I'm the outlier take
• 1:05:25
  here. Apparently.
• 1:05:26
  Yes. Oh, who cares?
• 1:05:28
  Well, I don't want to come across as like I'm some sort of
• 1:05:31
  horrible evil jackass. That just intentionally is
• 1:05:33
  murdering my players all the time.
• 1:05:35
  Because we would say something you just stated an opinion on
• 1:05:43
  the internet. Someone's gonna do that
• 1:05:44
  regardless. I mean, yeah, that's why I'm
• 1:05:47
  special. That's why I'm specifying now
• 1:05:50
  and he's not gonna help what the fuck ever.
• 1:05:53
  I could still try to act like posted cat mean, everybody
• 1:05:56
  knows, I mean, sure he has, oh my goodness.
• 1:06:03
  I don't know, I guess I've gotten attacked over this
• 1:06:05
  before. So like, I'm very defensive
• 1:06:07
  about the subject, it's like, fuck them.
• 1:06:10
  Like, I mean, I've gotten attacked over by you to also.
• 1:06:13
  So like that's why I'm defending with and attacked to Dairy
• 1:06:17
  different things. I'm just telling.
• 1:06:19
  That's why I'm defending myself. That's my point, okay?
• 1:06:24
  Either way. I don't remember where we were
• 1:06:29
  somewhat. Do it.
• 1:06:30
  Yeah. Yeah, just did it by two
• 1:06:32
  players. Don't like what I say, one
• 1:06:33
  banished I just thought I just thought of the Kevin Bridges.
• 1:06:38
  Mmm. You can't take a shame and
• 1:06:40
  shame, it's not. I mentioned earlier that could
• 1:07:05
  get them home and he's gone and he just bit the Dust.
• 1:07:09
  Wait, which animals can wear a was Joe?
• 1:07:12
  The Bill Murray wizard was Nano The Who Nana that'll still very
• 1:07:15
  much with his Mystic. Our cam could have gotten the
• 1:07:25
  players home, right? He dies and he was Nana wizard,
• 1:07:28
  having the sending spell could have contacted somebody at home
• 1:07:31
  and be like hey get us help and he's dead and then he got
• 1:07:35
  murdered Paladin. To be fair, he couldn't really
• 1:07:40
  do much but he's also dead. He was supposed to be there.
• 1:07:44
  He could have begged God for a smooth for a crisp high five,
• 1:07:47
  but he was only like language some divine intervention over
• 1:07:50
  here please? No, no.
• 1:07:53
  I don't think I was just on the role for it.
• 1:07:55
  I will. Are you rolled that anything
• 1:07:56
  could happen for the astral C. Is also the cake, the gateway to
• 1:08:00
  to the deities. Sure.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, I mean I guess that's why they have that thing in spell
• 1:08:05
  Jammer book of like the astral traveler and they are some Like
• 1:08:09
  that where they get like cleric spells and shit.
• 1:08:11
  I yeah, butchering it. But yeah, that girl.
• 1:08:15
  Yeah. So now I stand there being like
• 1:08:18
  well the fuck do I do? Because my whole Guardians of
• 1:08:22
  the Galaxy Revenge Adventure is starting out the window.
• 1:08:25
  What up and literal smoke? Yes, my players can't get back
• 1:08:29
  to the material plane on their own.
• 1:08:32
  The ship had taken so much fucking damage.
• 1:08:36
  That was basically non-functional and Now I need to
• 1:08:40
  introduce three new players looking group.
• 1:08:45
  So the time-honored tradition of this three-year campaign.
• 1:08:50
  Fuck it. We're doing it live.
• 1:08:52
  Nice. I appreciate that.
• 1:08:54
  I mean fuck it. We're doing it live.
• 1:08:55
  Could have been the name of the camp so I do everything fucking
• 1:08:58
  we do it. Laughs fucking meatball.
• 1:09:00
  Yeah, the remaining characters on the ship, Chris wolf Krug and
• 1:09:05
  their their pet Drake is here basically stuck in The astral
• 1:09:09
  c4i randomly rolled on a table, I think they got like a like a
• 1:09:14
  two weeks, three weeks. I think stuck on the ship.
• 1:09:17
  Luckily to ship with stocked because y'all full go skanky
• 1:09:19
  crew. They also found I think I rolled
• 1:09:22
  because of how high the CR shit was.
• 1:09:24
  I think one of my players found they found one of the tone books
• 1:09:28
  I like Buffs a stat. I would love those.
• 1:09:32
  I think they got the health one. Remember who they?
• 1:09:36
  I think, I think the x-blade ended up taking that one, I
• 1:09:40
  don't remember. Yeah.
• 1:09:44
  And so now I need to come up with some sort of excuse and our
• 1:09:48
  way to introduce the three new players to the group and to help
• 1:09:53
  get them back and get the rest of the crew back to Earth.
• 1:10:00
  Josuke. Joe ended up rolling a druid
• 1:10:05
  Spore, Druid fighter Champion Fighter character.
• 1:10:11
  Nano switch to the mat. Mercer gunsmith or Gunslinger
• 1:10:17
  done Slayer. Yeah.
• 1:10:18
  Gunslinger. He was a high elf, Gunslinger.
• 1:10:22
  And Paladin became the wild magic wore Forge, which had the
• 1:10:27
  hilarious event of rolling once on the table, every fucking
• 1:10:31
  round of combat. A wild magic his first time
• 1:10:35
  rolling wild Magic, by the way. Nice.
• 1:10:38
  Okay, dude, fun times. Basically, what I ended up
• 1:10:43
  having was after a while, the characters got somehow they got
• 1:10:48
  contacted from Nurse Joy because she's a high-level clerk, she
• 1:10:52
  found them was able to get a grew, a small Tactical Team to
• 1:10:57
  plane shift to the ship, find the players, bring them home.
• 1:11:04
  And I basically was just like, well, we're not going to space
• 1:11:06
  anymore. Fuck that place.
• 1:11:08
  Never again, so that the new, the new characters, save the old
• 1:11:12
  characters that was the maneuver your day, they may see rescued
• 1:11:14
  them. Yeah, those are.
• 1:11:16
  I think, actually, so around this time to send to her Vernis
• 1:11:19
  came out to and through the App Store, so you can actually end
• 1:11:23
  up in a furnace. So I just had like, a devil,
• 1:11:28
  pirate ship, show up like a small, like, small, like, little
• 1:11:31
  tiny boat. So up a bunch of devils.
• 1:11:33
  Jumped onto the ship to try and attack the players and then the
• 1:11:36
  new player characters just teleported in, you know, fucking
• 1:11:40
  like Father come with us if you want to live all right.
• 1:11:44
  Now this is not a call out anyway and yet you yourself
• 1:11:48
  advocate for like steal everything but I just met, Matt,
• 1:11:50
  Matt was like the green see-through visored like tackle
• 1:11:53
  away at the fucking typewriter preparing for a session and then
• 1:11:57
  he just needs a new book comes out just reaches over and grabs
• 1:11:59
  it looks. And that one's I just ripped the
• 1:12:02
  page and yeah. Like, see ya.
• 1:12:04
  You just staple it on you pull it into his home but yeah.
• 1:12:08
  Yeah I fucking love it. I feel like Matt's campaign
• 1:12:13
  method just becomes the the fucking Charlie Day with the red
• 1:12:17
  wire meme. Yeah, it's a lot of you should
• 1:12:20
  see my old. Like I actually have a physical
• 1:12:22
  notebook with all my old notes and half of it is like that.
• 1:12:25
  Like sticky notes tapes actual pieces of paper This bad.
• 1:12:31
  I just have about a dozen miscellaneous, Google Docs.
• 1:12:33
  I've got like three sentence is written on a me, which I know
• 1:12:36
  i-i-i duality of man. I I also have my notes are all
• 1:12:43
  on massive. My notes are very well organized
• 1:12:46
  and all in one place and okay, I transfer everything.
• 1:12:49
  I go something physical and I transfer it into the digital and
• 1:12:52
  clean it up and make it like more legible.
• 1:12:54
  I can't, I don't enjoy writing with a physical pet.
• 1:12:58
  I know. For you pointed out but you
• 1:13:00
  like, but you draw a job. I know, I don't enjoy writing
• 1:13:03
  with a pencil and I can barely read my own handwriting so I
• 1:13:07
  just don't ever bother writing it.
• 1:13:12
  But the other thing end up doing.
• 1:13:15
  As when the players got back after they, you know, they
• 1:13:17
  killed the Devils were able to with the new characters playing
• 1:13:21
  shift. The old characters back home,
• 1:13:24
  the group tried to resurrect T', the bill, Mary, Wizard and
• 1:13:30
  failed. I tried I did the, the mat, the
• 1:13:34
  first person. Resurrection rules.
• 1:13:35
  Yeah. Yeah, they didn't, they didn't
• 1:13:38
  pass the check. Unfortunately, they didn't pass.
• 1:13:41
  The check with Jose character. I there, unfortunately, uh-huh,
• 1:13:45
  but they did pass bringing back. Everybody's favorite.
• 1:13:48
  Boy, Chad, elephant in Joy. Suppliers were visibly upset.
• 1:14:01
  That's great, especially crying because he's like this at.
• 1:14:04
  Take away one of my kills. Yeah. you know, can we just I
• 1:14:11
  don't want to go on at. I'm not gonna, I'm not I'm not
• 1:14:13
  on a tirade about and now do it. Don't be anxious just last to
• 1:14:17
  the internet. I just want to say, I know a lot
• 1:14:20
  of people use the map Mercer Resurrection rule thing and for
• 1:14:25
  those who don't know what it is, I'm not going to just look it
• 1:14:27
  up. I just find it fucking annoying.
• 1:14:31
  I just I just want to put that out there.
• 1:14:33
  It's just so much. Unnecessary hippity-hoppity hoop
• 1:14:36
  from. I love you.
• 1:14:38
  You're literally not 10 minutes ago.
• 1:14:39
  I was like, I gotta defend myself.
• 1:14:41
  Off to the internet, you wouldn't have to defend
• 1:14:42
  yourself. You couldn't keep making these
• 1:14:44
  wild techniques just have better.
• 1:14:46
  Text Forehead. I don't feel like that's that
• 1:14:49
  wild to say the like Resurrection rules are annoying.
• 1:14:53
  Well, but like are they can be your look you're my choice of
• 1:14:57
  phrasing against know you're speaking against.
• 1:15:00
  Everyone's Lord and Saviour map, Mercer.
• 1:15:01
  So you're good. Now, you've I didn't get some
• 1:15:03
  iron before you definitely will, never fair, but I have kids on
• 1:15:07
  recording before that. Like, I think Matt Mercer gets a
• 1:15:10
  little like, Not that he's a bad diem, but I think he gets sort
• 1:15:14
  of overly praise and put on a much higher, pedestals and
• 1:15:17
  rewarded. I feel like it's a lot of people
• 1:15:19
  who've been good, like kind of shitting on him and it's like,
• 1:15:23
  I'm not sitting on Pete. No, there's no, no, I'm not
• 1:15:25
  saying you are. I'm just saying generally
• 1:15:27
  recently in the last couple of years, there have been a lot of
• 1:15:29
  people being like, he's not so great.
• 1:15:30
  He's probably a, he's actually the worst DM ever.
• 1:15:33
  And so no, that is incorrect. He's very it's one of those
• 1:15:37
  things are like yes, he's very clearly a deficit.
• 1:15:41
  What He's doing the the part that bugs me is that I think
• 1:15:45
  people think. I don't know why.
• 1:15:49
  I don't really get it, but people look at what he's doing
• 1:15:52
  and think he's on like this different Echelon and like he's
• 1:15:55
  doing things that you couldn't do.
• 1:15:57
  It your own table, but like the whole time I wash critical role
• 1:16:00
  in like nothing, he's doing is beyond anyone's reach other than
• 1:16:04
  he has more spare money to buy like terrain minis with well.
• 1:16:08
  You know the well if you look at like the cat if they like the
• 1:16:11
  First campaign like back when they didn't have a lot of money
• 1:16:14
  and still use minis. But they weren't like yeah
• 1:16:16
  fucking nothing. Was that all raising forges?
• 1:16:18
  Yeah, exactly. But it was Matt was like a like
• 1:16:22
  a lot of people. He's played D&D for a while.
• 1:16:24
  He was at a. I don't know what I get higher
• 1:16:27
  level. I hate saying that he's like
• 1:16:29
  Fishin he's telling practice compared to a lot of newer
• 1:16:31
  people who because 5e was the lot of people in critical role
• 1:16:35
  was a lot of people's Gateway into D and D.
• 1:16:38
  He was looked at as wow look how good of a DM.
• 1:16:41
  He is, I should do that. I'm looking by, I'm an example.
• 1:16:45
  I used him as enough as an example of a DM, I should follow
• 1:16:48
  Matt Koval Chris Perkins. Another on, actually shout out
• 1:16:53
  to Monty glue of the unexpectable.
• 1:16:55
  'S, that's another stream I watched and they are so fucking
• 1:16:58
  funny, so good. I think my thing is like, yes,
• 1:17:01
  he is very good at it, but he's not some sort of golden god.
• 1:17:05
  That's my first point. Like he's not like Beyond
• 1:17:07
  Humanity. Well, that's how people talk
• 1:17:10
  about him sometimes. But and the other thing is the
• 1:17:13
  thing that really bugs me is, I think the thing that people Miss
• 1:17:15
  is that the magic of critical role is not Matt Mercer.
• 1:17:18
  The Magic of critical role. Is the entire group.
• 1:17:21
  Yeah. The whole group.
• 1:17:23
  Everyone could try everyone. Yeah.
• 1:17:24
  It's not matte Mercer. He's not some sort of weird like
• 1:17:27
  Dad beatific fucking like idle that brings out the goodliness
• 1:17:31
  and people it's the whole group. That's the part that bothers me,
• 1:17:35
  the most. I said, I wasn't get high.
• 1:17:37
  God damn it. I literally don't like know what
• 1:17:40
  you expected you started. And I was like, he's gonna keep
• 1:17:42
  going. I shut up.
• 1:17:46
  Hey! Hey, don't get mad at me because
• 1:17:48
  I stated your site like it's just I it's okay.
• 1:17:52
  Josh, we all want it bad, take sometimes.
• 1:17:54
  He's fine as we all grow up and insert man backs, bait, that's
• 1:18:02
  bait. Anyways.
• 1:18:11
  Yeah, so they failed to bring back Joe and Nanos, original
• 1:18:14
  character. So the stick with the old one.
• 1:18:16
  Also, at this time, if you guys will count the party at this
• 1:18:20
  moment, consisted of three. Fucking fight are multi classes.
• 1:18:25
  Uh-huh! Fuck.
• 1:18:28
  Is that a whole lot of action surges?
• 1:18:32
  I have three. Half of my group could just
• 1:18:34
  action surge constantly. It's and became like, yeah.
• 1:18:40
  Any any challenge? Like this is also one of the
• 1:18:42
  other things that I wear for a while.
• 1:18:45
  I was, I did not lie. I got annoyed with multi
• 1:18:48
  classing. I got a note because like, it
• 1:18:50
  was hard for me, the challenge my players possible.
• 1:18:53
  Again, majority of that was probably, it was magic.
• 1:18:56
  Items. My players were a lot more time
• 1:18:58
  saying I was as a DM, you put a lot of onus on the multi
• 1:19:01
  classic. I feel like there's a lot of
• 1:19:03
  things. A lot of, that's the thing.
• 1:19:04
  Yeah, I for thanks again at the time directly now, looking back
• 1:19:08
  on. Yes, it wasn't just the
• 1:19:09
  multi-class thing, but that was a thing at that time.
• 1:19:12
  I fixated on for some reason. Because that was the one of the
• 1:19:16
  problems I thought it was the most obvious one. but in
• 1:19:20
  reality, it was just one, you know, piece of the puzzle, I
• 1:19:24
  find it hilarious that you got So, so indignant to the multi
• 1:19:32
  classic situation when in my game currently I literally
• 1:19:35
  forget that three of my four players are multi class.
• 1:19:40
  I just I just forget because it's such a like a non relevant
• 1:19:43
  thing the only time, the only reason I remember that Sam is a
• 1:19:48
  multi-class is because he's a paladin Rogue.
• 1:19:50
  So he mentioned sneak attack all the time and I'm like, oh yeah,
• 1:19:52
  Sam's about to class. I literally forget that the
• 1:19:54
  other two players are also able to claim that's yeah, yeah.
• 1:19:57
  Now I don't Give a shit. Don't give that much of a shit.
• 1:20:00
  The only thing I had that whole the rule where you can't be the
• 1:20:03
  same subclasses another person. That was the only thing because
• 1:20:06
  I wanted my players to like you different big fucking.
• 1:20:09
  You didn't want no hex blades? Yeah, so so okay.
• 1:20:16
  You may have told us he probably did but I personally don't
• 1:20:19
  remember. And it's you might as well just
• 1:20:20
  say, if the universe is there, a, What stopped you from being
• 1:20:24
  like, you guys. Can't all play a Fighters.
• 1:20:27
  Like what what stopped you from? Like, put your foot down.
• 1:20:30
  Oh, I didn't, I didn't, I have two fires in my, in my shirt
• 1:20:33
  saving game. Right now, the home saying,
• 1:20:36
  well, in the first game, what stopped you from doing?
• 1:20:38
  He's saying, why didn't you put limits on what your players?
• 1:20:42
  Okay, as he was it or was it you know the game was already
• 1:20:46
  running and I didn't want to be that guy to like take the toys
• 1:20:50
  away or just like y'all. Yeah I mostly felt like I didn't
• 1:20:55
  want to take the toys away or be like hey guys I realized magic.
• 1:20:58
  Now I'm like I probably should just talk to you know talk to
• 1:21:01
  your players. Uh-huh I should have just been
• 1:21:03
  like hey guys I gave out to my magic on my candy.
• 1:21:06
  Hey guys, I feel like as a DM, like I'm struggling to challenge
• 1:21:09
  people because of some of the T classic stuff.
• 1:21:12
  Hey guys, you know this isn't this isn't fucking military
• 1:21:19
  strategy game, which ill as well as my silly Goblin counter.
• 1:21:26
  See that's the problem at to some people, it is.
• 1:21:29
  Yeah. But no no I ain't got now, I
• 1:21:32
  don't know. Now I know and I had to go
• 1:21:35
  through all this like a three-year campaign stuff to get
• 1:21:39
  to this point. Now where I feel like You know,
• 1:21:41
  now I feel like I'm I'm not I'm not going to sit here and I'll
• 1:21:44
  be like, oh, the best DM ago? No, I'm good.
• 1:21:47
  I know I'm good, but I'm not going to be like, blow smoke up
• 1:21:51
  my ass and be like, hey, Matt Mercer, eat your heart out.
• 1:21:53
  No never fuck. No, I'm not going to say that.
• 1:21:56
  I'm not going to tell anybody. I'm better than them at the end.
• 1:21:58
  I will fuck you members are better than you.
• 1:22:00
  Well, there's terrible take but like yeah, I know now I can
• 1:22:09
  confidently say that I'm a good idea.
• 1:22:12
  But I had to go and struggle and learn.
• 1:22:14
  And again, looking on the internet, I'm not the first
• 1:22:18
  person. This is happened to, and I'm not
• 1:22:19
  the first person. This is happened to because of
• 1:22:22
  five of, in 5e in the five East time since critical role boomed
• 1:22:27
  and all that. I've seen the same shit that has
• 1:22:30
  happened to me to happen to a ton of newer DMS.
• 1:22:34
  And I've only been and I've been dming since 2018 so took like
• 1:22:40
  roughly four years. To get to be like, I'm good.
• 1:22:45
  I'm okay. I mean, I would be lying if I
• 1:22:49
  had said that I didn't use your like struggle for as a like,
• 1:22:56
  okay, well he's struggling with this.
• 1:22:57
  So I'm gonna be sure to think about that when things come up
• 1:23:00
  to it. Yeah.
• 1:23:01
  Like, it's Lessons Learned. You have to, you have to fail to
• 1:23:04
  succeed. Yeah, you're also like many
• 1:23:07
  times. I got was so it's not exactly
• 1:23:09
  the same but, you know, in Hell's Gate, Oops, there's like
• 1:23:11
  the three races quote unquote, right?
• 1:23:13
  You can book a normal human and mutant or be steel which is
• 1:23:15
  you're just like an animal person and everyone's like I
• 1:23:17
  want to do that and I was like no one of you can do it.
• 1:23:24
  A few of you can play mutants but like some of you got to play
• 1:23:26
  normal fucking people and they were like damn it fine and I was
• 1:23:32
  loaded, all your players want to be mutants eaten either mutants
• 1:23:36
  are be steals. It was mainly be steals.
• 1:23:38
  It was very funny. You don't want to Repost
• 1:23:41
  apocalypse game and everybody, I know people, I didn't, I didn't,
• 1:23:46
  I think the only one don't to sorry the two out of the six who
• 1:23:50
  were like I just want plain old. People was Brett and Paladin.
• 1:23:58
  I can, I can just imagine your players were, like I said, hey,
• 1:24:02
  can we have Mad Max with some zootopia in it?
• 1:24:08
  I mean, Isaiah, you Boulder Boulder, Jewel that I cuz I
• 1:24:12
  probably would have said no be steals at all.
• 1:24:16
  Why? I mean here's the thing, there's
• 1:24:19
  only three races you like so there's so here's the reason
• 1:24:24
  total yeah in total so humans. Bespoke and humans be smoking
• 1:24:28
  mutant. Yeah, so there's two reasons for
• 1:24:30
  that particular game because One.
• 1:24:37
  The humans inhale escapes have a really interesting build your
• 1:24:42
  tribe system. So even if you're all playing
• 1:24:44
  humans you could very easily have a party of four very
• 1:24:47
  different humans like they're all humans but they have
• 1:24:51
  different Vibes based on the like three pieces of the tribe.
• 1:24:54
  Build thing that you pick me, you know what I'm talking about?
• 1:24:57
  Yeah, the ways. Yeah, so that's the first reason
• 1:24:59
  so that even if you are like, yeah, there's only three races
• 1:25:02
  but the three races have a lot of customization options within
• 1:25:05
  them. And then the other reason is
• 1:25:08
  just totally. I'm not crazy about like the
• 1:25:10
  weird animal people running around in the post apocalypse
• 1:25:15
  the mutant thing. I'm a little more okay with
• 1:25:17
  tonally. I feel like genre why's that
• 1:25:19
  fits a little bit more and also I probably would just reflect
• 1:25:23
  over. The mutant says people with
• 1:25:25
  weird powers. I wouldn't say they're like like
• 1:25:28
  I don't like like Fallout me. You know I don't like Fallout on
• 1:25:32
  Young's, not big on Soviets. I don't like false tribes.
• 1:25:35
  I don't like fun. Like ghouls either.
• 1:25:38
  No. Well, so the game describes
• 1:25:39
  mutinous is basically X-Men. Yeah, that's that's yeah.
• 1:25:43
  Getting more than triple. And if you think I mean it's
• 1:25:46
  kind of rough, right? Because if you think about it,
• 1:25:47
  like oh well, if you're, if you're like to play an X-Man,
• 1:25:50
  what's to stop you from playing Beast from?
• 1:25:52
  Yeah. Like a weird gorilla.
• 1:25:54
  Wolfman like, yeah, I might let the player do that maybe.
• 1:25:58
  Well, it's like, you know, I basically said like you need to
• 1:26:03
  look like a person, right? Like you can't, you Be
• 1:26:07
  strategic. Yeah, you can't be an anthro
• 1:26:09
  like I have to be 90 days your ninja turtles next zactly.
• 1:26:12
  Yeah. And you know, they pretty
• 1:26:14
  quickly were like, all right, that's fine.
• 1:26:16
  So, like, you know, snubby like her.
• 1:26:20
  Her SharkMan the one who just fucking bit it look like a
• 1:26:24
  normal person, except he had, you know, rows of concentric
• 1:26:28
  teeth and he had a black tips to his hair because he was supposed
• 1:26:33
  to be a black-tipped reef shark. Yeah, that's fine.
• 1:26:37
  So yeah, like you know that's like the stipulation of like if
• 1:26:39
  you want to be a peace deal you cannot look like it.
• 1:26:42
  Like you have to look more human than animal.
• 1:26:44
  Yeah, that's kind of. Yeah, that's sort of like the
• 1:26:46
  stipulation for the tiger Rosie and blades in the door.
• 1:26:49
  Yeah. So I wouldn't see a reason to
• 1:26:51
  ban it outright but I understand you being like you cannot
• 1:26:54
  literally be a walking fucking bear person.
• 1:26:57
  Yeah, I'm not looking for TMNT and mud in my post-apocalypse
• 1:27:01
  bear. No, neither was I so like, you
• 1:27:03
  know, fair enough but I think like you Could probably do
• 1:27:07
  something like that in 5e where it's like I want everybody to be
• 1:27:09
  human. Be like you could pick whatever
• 1:27:10
  race like, yo, alright lets you drag Mart, okay?
• 1:27:13
  You're some sort of, you know, mutinous Dragon person but you
• 1:27:17
  just look like you look like a Duke.
• 1:27:19
  Yeah, a normal number. Maybe you have some dragon
• 1:27:21
  scales. Maybe your eyes or reptilian,
• 1:27:24
  but that's about the extent, you know, huh?
• 1:27:28
  It's like Oh I'm a dwarf stats. But just what was that?
• 1:27:32
  What was that? One player.
• 1:27:33
  Isaiah the, the fucking the girth, dude.
• 1:27:36
  Oh you mean Brett, Brett skirt. It was rev course.
• 1:27:39
  Yeah. The Auburn and dark died.
• 1:27:42
  Yeah, that's that's from dark tide.
• 1:27:43
  Matt, that's not no no in in your, in one of your games.
• 1:27:47
  You said one of your there was a player who wasn't who didn't
• 1:27:51
  show up a lot, but he was, he couldn't play a dwarf because
• 1:27:56
  Cardell band or scare ya. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:01
  You're playing a human because you're playing very short, very
• 1:28:03
  large rotunda playing music, playing a really wide human who
• 1:28:08
  had dwarfism but wasn't a dwarf. Yeah exactly.
• 1:28:11
  Yeah he was too wide to walk through doorways normally as we
• 1:28:15
  had to shimmy his way through every yeah they also just had
• 1:28:18
  endless supply of smoked fucking sausage in his pockets.
• 1:28:22
  Hmm. Okay, this is a quick I have to
• 1:28:27
  do. You did I ever tell you how we
• 1:28:29
  got introduced to that fucking campaign?
• 1:28:31
  Which like, like of Cardinals game.
• 1:28:34
  First thing, does your hair is to make a right first session of
• 1:28:37
  my first-ever Dina game. It we roll it and fucking god
• 1:28:43
  dammit. His thing is also paladin on.
• 1:28:48
  You, you got your guy can be Paladin one, mine will be
• 1:28:50
  pausing to know what, like, both of them.
• 1:28:52
  Like this player that I'm about to talk about is also named
• 1:28:55
  paladin on a Discord. Well, what the fuck was his name
• 1:29:01
  in in who Dad? I'm sure to come who dad.
• 1:29:05
  So, like I got who. Dad.
• 1:29:07
  What are you doing? He goes, okay, I empty my
• 1:29:08
  chamber pot and they're like, he's like, okay, and then he
• 1:29:13
  goes. All right, you know what, I'm
• 1:29:14
  Gonna Roll to take a pit like he literally goes.
• 1:29:15
  I'm Gonna Roll to take a piss. Goes yeah.
• 1:29:17
  Well, wow, you're on like a. You're like I'm not in top
• 1:29:19
  Fortress so there's a bunch of the Ravens.
• 1:29:22
  Anything, I try to pass that the Ravens and he pissed them off
• 1:29:25
  and he at level 1 got almost attacked by a swarm of Ravens
• 1:29:28
  and was almost murdered 10 minutes and 20 minutes of like
• 1:29:39
  him trying to like hit the fucking Ravens with a chamber
• 1:29:43
  pot and not can't murdered because he had 6 hp.
• 1:29:48
  It was ridiculous but very funny.
• 1:29:51
  The fuck. Yeah.
• 1:29:52
  It was so good, dude. That's great.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah, yeah yeah. But yeah, so half the party
• 1:30:05
  gone. Three new characters.
• 1:30:06
  Stroll up, you know? Basically they are like hey, we
• 1:30:11
  got to work with you guys. Now, you know, reading, you
• 1:30:13
  know, you guys just you've been through a lot of shit.
• 1:30:15
  We're pretty skilled up towards the other players.
• 1:30:18
  Like, you are fucking whatever. I don't, fuck it, whatever,
• 1:30:22
  whatever. Where's the booze?
• 1:30:27
  And this is finally around the time after they got back I'm
• 1:30:30
  like okay no more Shenanigans Arc over after killing off the
• 1:30:36
  plate. Like two players all that shit.
• 1:30:37
  I'm like all right. Finally now it's time for
• 1:30:39
  serious mode. Pull takes off like rainbow,
• 1:30:42
  clown Hood, EDM hoodie and puts on you know, series DM like
• 1:30:47
  serious mode story time. Yeah, yeah, this is where I
• 1:30:51
  finally like, I'm like, all right.
• 1:30:52
  You have a plot. I'm just gonna be epic Grand
• 1:30:55
  Adventure. Again, didn't didn't really
• 1:30:58
  happen but, you know, I try really happy it was Grand
• 1:31:04
  enough. I'll just say it was Grand for
• 1:31:07
  me. Damn it, you know, Matt that's
• 1:31:10
  all that really matters, isn't it?
• 1:31:11
  And now I ain't I got looking back at everything and my
• 1:31:15
  players they day they still. Yeah.
• 1:31:16
  We stil joke about 30 games. They loved it.
• 1:31:19
  They like we all had a good time but definitely again big thing
• 1:31:23
  way too long. Definitely, definitely did not
• 1:31:25
  need to be three years. Fuck me.
• 1:31:27
  You know, you say that I'm coming up on three years next
• 1:31:29
  week for my game. Yeah, I know I feel so bad.
• 1:31:32
  I'm like fuck I mean I don't know getting past the previous
• 1:31:37
  Ark was a chore for me but now that it's over and I have a new
• 1:31:41
  character to play with. I think everyone's a little, you
• 1:31:45
  know, maybe I could be lying but I feels like everyone's a little
• 1:31:47
  reinvigorated to be like, okay we're getting back you know I
• 1:31:51
  mean practically yeah a little bit but that reinvigoration is
• 1:31:56
  probably going to be a A lot shorter.
• 1:31:59
  Yeah. Fair enough.
• 1:32:01
  Hmm. Just it's just the nature of the
• 1:32:03
  thing but so now I finally had like a big adventure.
• 1:32:10
  I'm like, okay I said, you know, at the beginning of this
• 1:32:12
  campaign I'm like I want to, I want to run a game from 1 to 20.
• 1:32:16
  I want to, you know, prove like Ella people can do it.
• 1:32:19
  No one ever does. I'm like, alright, we're doing
• 1:32:21
  okay, it's funny. Yeah, yeah, sure you can and he
• 1:32:24
  had the end game setup. Yeah.
• 1:32:29
  And so I basically said the players said they were sucking
• 1:32:31
  Astro sea for two weeks in the for you book.
• 1:32:34
  They said that time can be kind of wonky and they actually I
• 1:32:36
  don't know if they had a table in there but I basically just
• 1:32:41
  said like so yeah you guys are trapped in space for two weeks.
• 1:32:45
  But on the material plane it was like six months and they're
• 1:32:47
  like, oh, That's why time. Yes.
• 1:32:53
  And during said time the dragon called that I had hinted at
• 1:32:58
  we're now a thing, they just basically they were able to
• 1:33:02
  summon their God, back to the material plane.
• 1:33:04
  It's on it was a destroyed and took over one of the major
• 1:33:07
  cities that were on the other side of the continent.
• 1:33:10
  Think like the players are in New York, like that's where
• 1:33:13
  their home is, and the dragon called is, I all the way out in,
• 1:33:15
  like, Washington like sorry I should probably Lease a West
• 1:33:19
  Coast, California. And so now they're, you know,
• 1:33:23
  they're near, they're attacking their burning towns, killing
• 1:33:26
  murdering at random and basically just causing all sorts
• 1:33:29
  of chaos. At the same time, the Invincible
• 1:33:32
  Overlord. Now the resistance, and those
• 1:33:37
  that the NPC's that kind of work with the players have discovered
• 1:33:40
  that the the overlord has been sending word to be like, hey,
• 1:33:44
  you know, give me the give me the teeth of the Dragon.
• 1:33:47
  I know you have basic doing what Cal routed, give me the teeth of
• 1:33:50
  dragon. What's that?
• 1:33:51
  Don't play. Down with me like and because
• 1:33:56
  the, you know, he's the big bad guy.
• 1:33:58
  He knew that the, the teeth that the players had, we're not on
• 1:34:03
  the plane anymore. So he just assumed that the
• 1:34:05
  players died and that the teeth were gone.
• 1:34:08
  So he started also going on the warpath now.
• 1:34:13
  And my players and they see the resistance in a bunch of their
• 1:34:16
  NPC's friends were like they set up a war council to basically
• 1:34:19
  talk to the players and say, hey so Dragon called trying to
• 1:34:25
  destroy the world, the evil president is trying to destroy
• 1:34:29
  us. There's not looking great.
• 1:34:33
  Can you help? I would have loved right if
• 1:34:37
  you're they're like, yeah, we don't have them.
• 1:34:39
  They really lost them on the ship and he was right.
• 1:34:41
  Well, that was the whole plan. Wait, what do you mean?
• 1:34:45
  They're just gone. They're like yeah nah man,
• 1:34:46
  they're gone. I we it's fucked, everything's
• 1:34:48
  fucked, it's gone, I'm sorry. And he was like, well no, I've
• 1:34:50
  just, I don't know. I just go home, buddy, I don't
• 1:34:55
  want to I do. What do I do now?
• 1:34:57
  I was going to go on the warpath.
• 1:34:58
  I kind of want to but like, I don't have the thing, they're
• 1:35:04
  just like look, man. I don't even know what to tell
• 1:35:06
  you. I'm sorry, I guess like, that's
• 1:35:11
  rough buddy. We want.
• 1:35:12
  Yeah, it's like my whole plan hinged on those magic items.
• 1:35:17
  Yeah. I think I left.
• 1:35:18
  Yeah, it's that's just floating the actual see.
• 1:35:20
  I mean, you can probably find him.
• 1:35:22
  Maybe you look for him if you want, but yeah, in the cosmos.
• 1:35:27
  You can even be like, bro. Even if we went back, we have no
• 1:35:31
  idea where it is true. Yeah, let me so good.
• 1:35:38
  Um, so as they were having this this little Before war council
• 1:35:43
  that the I think I mentioned the orc totally not throm or a
• 1:35:47
  thrawn or a fuck. What's the New York from?
• 1:35:50
  Well Josh I'm sorry thrall, thank you, I butchered the shit.
• 1:35:53
  I was named totally not thrall showed up the monk master from
• 1:35:57
  Chris's Monastery and basically was like Hey okay so I need to
• 1:36:02
  explain to you guys what the actual deal is of with these
• 1:36:05
  teeth of dragging these magic items but we can't do it here.
• 1:36:08
  We have to go back to the monastery and so Chris is like
• 1:36:11
  fire. Lee I could do my thing.
• 1:36:13
  Fuck. And that's when I had the
• 1:36:18
  there's a there's a nice spell called projected image where
• 1:36:21
  basically you could just project, a image of yourself,
• 1:36:23
  you know, whatever. And this is how I did.
• 1:36:25
  The bad guy hologram speech where the invisible Overlord
• 1:36:29
  showed up in the war council. Basically told the players
• 1:36:31
  rather the teeth and you know you know won't kill you all that
• 1:36:34
  shit player said no. And workout interesting.
• 1:36:39
  Yeah. They're so immediately after
• 1:36:41
  they turned him down. He's like well you know that's
• 1:36:42
  unfortunate disappears. All of a sudden the entire city
• 1:36:46
  is being attacked by the Dragon Cult and the players like just
• 1:36:52
  fucking do like the fucking Overlord.
• 1:36:54
  He's with the cult. God fucking damn it.
• 1:36:56
  I knew it. I was gonna tell you I was going
• 1:37:03
  to do them at Mercer thing of like, you know, just destroy my
• 1:37:05
  city, it's fine, don't worry, it's fine, the players don't eat
• 1:37:07
  home. That's okay if you're stuck and
• 1:37:12
  so the players fought off a shit ton of cult is some dragons and
• 1:37:16
  then the, I had them fight the white abishai, which I mentioned
• 1:37:21
  I think in the first episode, The White abishai after they
• 1:37:23
  killed Kal-El, they destroyed his pondering orb, which
• 1:37:28
  released the five abishai. And then they, the five abishai
• 1:37:32
  kind of fucked off. While since then and now the
• 1:37:36
  abishai have been working with the dragon called Helping to
• 1:37:39
  resurrect to bring back their God.
• 1:37:40
  To the material plane now is that time so the white abishai
• 1:37:45
  was leading the assault on the city, a kind of buff the y z, a
• 1:37:50
  lot of the like the to out of all the abishai are from Tama
• 1:37:54
  foes. Each one has a different step
• 1:37:56
  block and like the red one, the blue one, the green one are
• 1:37:59
  fucking great. They're awesome.
• 1:38:02
  The white one and the black one or more, so meant to be like
• 1:38:06
  kind of globes, like let's just like really.
• 1:38:08
  Yeah they're just not like Mobsters yeah.
• 1:38:12
  So I kind of buff them to those two up to kind of be similar in
• 1:38:16
  power to the other three because I wanted them to feel like these
• 1:38:20
  are important bad guys. But in matter because the
• 1:38:24
  players just wipe the shit out of the fucking, the white
• 1:38:26
  abishai no problem. And after they killed it, I had
• 1:38:31
  it that it affected. Once the white.
• 1:38:33
  I wish I died, it transferred, its power and basically made the
• 1:38:37
  white, the white tooth, the dragon that wolf was using the
• 1:38:41
  one he got basically looks like the second.
• 1:38:43
  The first second session became more powerful and also I think
• 1:38:49
  this is when like we actually got I found rules and like I Had
• 1:38:53
  the tiled or a PDF. I was looking at how Matt built
• 1:38:56
  vestiges a diversion. So I was like okay I can do this
• 1:38:58
  and add these powers and they become exalted and don't you
• 1:39:01
  know that kind of stuff. And so, after the players, they
• 1:39:08
  dig, they hell, we're helping to say like, okay, that we think
• 1:39:11
  we're good, we killed one of the abishai, no problem.
• 1:39:15
  The blue one, the green one, and the red one.
• 1:39:16
  Showed up immediately each one of them was riding on a
• 1:39:19
  different dragon and so our players are like we could
• 1:39:22
  probably violence our way out of this.
• 1:39:24
  We could probably take them. And then I did the thing where,
• 1:39:28
  like more Dragon showed up and I like maybe not mats.
• 1:39:31
  Outnumber us yet again, guys, I feel like this is a message.
• 1:39:35
  I feel like this is a message. I feel like we shouldn't be
• 1:39:38
  fighting as Krug is pulling out his great acts again.
• 1:39:42
  He's like I wish to violate violence, not know, but not
• 1:39:46
  today. That's a big smash.
• 1:39:48
  No a big monster but that the mud, the monk Headmaster showed
• 1:39:55
  up and Cuz, you know, like I like I mentioned the Christie,
• 1:39:59
  made the monastery, they take magic items from bad people that
• 1:40:02
  hide them in their vault. He just happened to have a Helm
• 1:40:06
  of teleportation because you know, and so he pays he was
• 1:40:10
  like, hold my hands loses. We're going back to the
• 1:40:12
  monastery and teleported the players out.
• 1:40:17
  As the basic. The rest of the, the resistance
• 1:40:20
  was kind of unfortunate left to fend fend, the dragon called off
• 1:40:24
  for themselves. Because the the they see the
• 1:40:27
  monk was like, listen, I can't risk.
• 1:40:29
  You guys losing the teeth of these boobs and I needed you to
• 1:40:33
  like, learn the important information and I did the NPC
• 1:40:36
  laying on fire. Hey, this way like follow me
• 1:40:38
  fuck. So, they get to the monastery.
• 1:40:43
  Originally again, way back in the way back.
• 1:40:48
  Originally the plan was the players when they got to the
• 1:40:50
  monastery before the plane ship shit.
• 1:40:53
  I was going to have them the the monk Headmaster, the work guy,
• 1:40:57
  tell them. Listen these items are very
• 1:41:01
  important but I don't know if I can trust you with that.
• 1:41:03
  You have to complete a couple you know.
• 1:41:05
  Yeah I come like I'm gonna ask you to surrender them to us or
• 1:41:10
  if you can prove that you're worthy of wielding them, we will
• 1:41:12
  tell you everything about them. That was what I originally
• 1:41:16
  intended and then they went to space.
• 1:41:21
  Okay and so instead of doing these trials now I just said
• 1:41:24
  fuck it the headmaster's just going to take them to the drag
• 1:41:27
  fuck fuck the trial. I don't have down time for this
• 1:41:32
  fair enough so I'm like fuck it. He leads you down into the no
• 1:41:37
  secrets a fire like a gem like you know, dungeon area inside
• 1:41:42
  this massive underground cave. They see a the Um at the MC DM
• 1:41:46
  version of a sapphire dragon which more look like more.
• 1:41:49
  Like a buret mutinous. Dragon people.
• 1:41:51
  Yeah. They look more like Elementals
• 1:41:53
  than anything else. Yeah.
• 1:41:55
  And in DM C, DM book. Then this is we're going to this
• 1:41:58
  is before the Forgotten Realms are not forgotten.
• 1:42:02
  I'm sorry. 5e version of gemstone dragons came out.
• 1:42:07
  So in the MC DM lure, sapphire dragon, specifically stored
• 1:42:12
  knowledge, and they gather, knowledge and collect, and
• 1:42:14
  basically keep Gatekeepers of Forgotten lore.
• 1:42:18
  So, I basically used the dragon, like hard drive, okay.
• 1:42:23
  And basically Lord um, to the players that you know, long time
• 1:42:27
  ago, there was a hidden Vanguard the Dillion order, our players
• 1:42:31
  like oh I remember those guys do yep.
• 1:42:36
  And I see That they were a secret planar kind of Vanguard
• 1:42:40
  protectors trying to deal with things that would destroy the
• 1:42:44
  material playing. They were the protectors, this
• 1:42:48
  dragon that they finally learned.
• 1:42:50
  They were finally actually also because of the Dragon towel or
• 1:42:52
  dumping them this Dragon knew the name of the dragon was able
• 1:42:56
  to the god, the evil dragon God and was able to tell the
• 1:43:00
  players. So now they can finally know the
• 1:43:03
  fucking name and would stop hearing White Noise, anytime I'm
• 1:43:07
  they heard the dragon God name. Please tell me his name was
• 1:43:10
  actually just white noise. Is why I know.
• 1:43:12
  Yeah. Was it.
• 1:43:14
  I was Furious damn it instead of Garrix.
• 1:43:17
  Yeah I wanted white noise so no yeah Isaiah was saying he wanted
• 1:43:20
  his name to be white noise said yeah right now the next time.
• 1:43:25
  Next next dragon Gotta See ya. Next time you guys are gonna be
• 1:43:27
  named white mr. Noyes yeah.
• 1:43:32
  And basically you like, you know, fucking guy, you know,
• 1:43:34
  whatever thousands of years ago. Whatever I said back in the day,
• 1:43:38
  this Vanguard to do, whatever, whatever should I said whatever
• 1:43:41
  yeah, whatever bullshit I said the daily nor managed to banish
• 1:43:44
  this Dragon goddess before she can destroy the world and they
• 1:43:49
  basically prisoner in the pain during warm.
• 1:43:53
  All right. Now, not in prisoner.
• 1:43:54
  They've been the prison. That the Abshire.
• 1:43:56
  I'm sorry. But they basically banished her
• 1:43:58
  and she couldn't come back to the material plane and in doing.
• 1:44:02
  So they basically created a massive spell using.
• 1:44:06
  Like I think I said I'd like high Elven magic.
• 1:44:09
  They basically wiped her name and memory from from people's
• 1:44:13
  minds and which is why nobody knew of the Dragon called, or
• 1:44:16
  what God, that's why I know we could hear the dragon God.
• 1:44:20
  Anytime one of the followers, say it.
• 1:44:22
  It was my players were like, well, okay, then, why did, how
• 1:44:24
  did the followers fucking know about this?
• 1:44:29
  And basically, what the sapphire dragon mention, was that each
• 1:44:32
  one of the followers, we're basically given Insignia from
• 1:44:37
  the dragon God Chosen. And they can basically learn of
• 1:44:41
  the goddess and get some Boone's, and spells, and shit
• 1:44:44
  from her. Anybody got a booty booty.
• 1:44:47
  Yeah. Magic.
• 1:44:48
  Magic potion? Yeah.
• 1:44:50
  As I players. All right.
• 1:44:52
  Okay. We know the God.
• 1:44:54
  We know that she wants to destroy the world cause chaos
• 1:44:58
  burn everything to the ground. Okay.
• 1:44:59
  Sick the fuck. Do we, how do we stop?
• 1:45:03
  How do we still do? We do with that information?
• 1:45:04
  Yeah. The sapphire dragon mentioned
• 1:45:07
  that the doing order made an item specifically designed to
• 1:45:12
  destroy her and banish her and basically eraser existence and
• 1:45:17
  how they they basically separated the item, 25 different
• 1:45:20
  smaller. Other items and you know send
• 1:45:22
  them out until you know the world, which were the five teeth
• 1:45:25
  of the dragon and players like, oh, it's like Dragon Ball Z.
• 1:45:28
  Oh shit. He did it.
• 1:45:31
  It's like, okay, so I tell my players.
• 1:45:35
  So the dragon basically said you have to gather the five, the
• 1:45:38
  Five magic items bring them together.
• 1:45:41
  Go to the Dillion to Matt's in the FAE wild and you will build
• 1:45:47
  the item. They're using the Anvil that was
• 1:45:49
  left there by the doing order. Like, okay, sick.
• 1:45:53
  What? Wait a minute.
• 1:45:55
  But where were the other teeth? Why are we going?
• 1:45:58
  Why did they leave an anvil in the face?
• 1:45:59
  Wow. What the fuck?
• 1:46:05
  And after that they were told that I go.
• 1:46:08
  Okay, the next tooth is over in this swamp Village on the other
• 1:46:12
  side, you know, more down like to the like I think it's like
• 1:46:16
  the southern part of the country, which is where Joe's
• 1:46:19
  care new character. The lizard folk I was like, hey,
• 1:46:21
  that's where I'm from. I can help you guys out and I
• 1:46:24
  can show you around and maybe fucking help you find this to
• 1:46:27
  thing. So the players they had heard
• 1:46:34
  they find they had a like a goal, they had a big story thing
• 1:46:36
  and it's like okay cool. We're going to be dealing with
• 1:46:38
  dragon koltes and dragons and fighting dragons, sick can't
• 1:46:42
  wait, dragons dragons dragons. Yeah someday finally actually
• 1:46:46
  putting dragons in my Dungeons and Dragons.
• 1:46:49
  Let's go. What else?
• 1:46:56
  They got to the Village, they got to the Village, you know,
• 1:46:59
  they fucking monk the monk, I teleported them back.
• 1:47:02
  He's like I can only do this three times a day so I got one
• 1:47:05
  more shot so you teleported players to the swamp area did
• 1:47:09
  before we can get home. Tell where the players to the
• 1:47:16
  swamp area. Joe shows them around a little
• 1:47:19
  bit. It's like, you know, imagine
• 1:47:21
  stereotypical like bog town, like I've built on wooden
• 1:47:25
  planks, just Floating above the dirty, monkey swamp water.
• 1:47:31
  I forgot what the god of lizard folk is.
• 1:47:33
  There's the God, fuck, I forgot what their name is, but the
• 1:47:38
  players like maybe we can gather some help from the church.
• 1:47:40
  Let's go. Look at the local church.
• 1:47:42
  They go to the church and they see that a lot of the members
• 1:47:46
  are you Aunty and the players are like, huh?
• 1:47:49
  That's that, that that's that's strange and that you want to
• 1:47:55
  immediately begin shitting bricks and being like Oh God,
• 1:47:57
  they found us. You want to each one day?
• 1:48:04
  They basically begin backing the play.
• 1:48:05
  So this is, we're sorry. We repented, we're not
• 1:48:08
  worshiping the lizard. Oh God, we're trying to be good.
• 1:48:10
  I swear don't kill us. We saw at least enough Q average
• 1:48:16
  and the players like oh shit. Yeah there were some Escape you
• 1:48:20
  want T? Oh we totally forgot about you
• 1:48:23
  guys. Look you get you get a pass
• 1:48:25
  today. This is that fucking the the
• 1:48:27
  campaign to shit with the band that's where they're like you're
• 1:48:29
  really bad at this, you just yeah.
• 1:48:31
  Stop, dude, just give up Shirley, yeah, they did that.
• 1:48:38
  Like, okay, well can fuck. Fuck you guys.
• 1:48:42
  The left. Couldn't find anything out on
• 1:48:44
  the town so they began just exploring the swamp.
• 1:48:47
  A couple encounters from both like, some Venom trolls, bunch
• 1:48:50
  of groung, just random swamp creature shambling, Mounds till
• 1:48:54
  finally, they discovered a lat massive like rock structured and
• 1:48:58
  hidden within led to an underground dungeon.
• 1:49:01
  In which I ended up using. I think one of the Mad Mage
• 1:49:05
  dungeon Maps which is a huge underground swamp map and I'm
• 1:49:08
  like perfect great fill it up with a fuck ton of you want tea
• 1:49:13
  or not. You Auntie fuck lizard?
• 1:49:16
  Photo Dragon coltish. I use some stuff from the actual
• 1:49:20
  Adventure in their corrupt. Oh yeah.
• 1:49:28
  Did you see it's so easy? Just steal from everything.
• 1:49:30
  It's fine. Worry, don't match.
• 1:49:31
  That's not all right back. It's a it is this a joke for
• 1:49:39
  bred? Specifically likes plated out
• 1:49:43
  there. It's really stupid.
• 1:49:47
  Oh my goodness. One of the.
• 1:49:49
  One of the things that happened in this is where Palin 2's new
• 1:49:54
  character. The wild magic sorcerer, they
• 1:49:56
  get into a big combat large area, ton of lizard folk around
• 1:50:00
  and this is where his, my first-ever wild magic goes off.
• 1:50:04
  And now, I ended up ruling because I like wild magic, what
• 1:50:09
  I ended up doing just to make my life easier.
• 1:50:11
  I was like alien every time you know, you rolled the the spell
• 1:50:14
  just roll a D20 if you know. No, just so I don't have to keep
• 1:50:17
  track and don't have to do this pass back and forth, back and
• 1:50:19
  forth thing with you and he's like yeah, that's fucking
• 1:50:21
  awesome. Let's do it.
• 1:50:24
  But I think wild magic. It's like the DM toes.
• 1:50:26
  You Wendy I'm just tells you whatever the fuck they feel like
• 1:50:28
  it. Yeah.
• 1:50:29
  And I'm like that's fucking I'm like dude I don't want to keep
• 1:50:32
  sure. I got you see all these lizard
• 1:50:34
  folk on this map. I can't I could barely keep
• 1:50:36
  track of this shit just anytime you're all Spa spell bub first
• 1:50:40
  level just roll a D20 on top of that.
• 1:50:42
  If it's one you do the table, you know more chaos and he's
• 1:50:45
  like, oh yeah sick, I love more chaos.
• 1:50:48
  First time fucking happens rolls on the table gets the you know
• 1:50:52
  uncontrollable Get the roll the table every turn of combat.
• 1:50:55
  For the next minute they were in combat every fucking time, every
• 1:51:00
  single turn. So you have to wear like,
• 1:51:04
  engine, I think. We're just on.
• 1:51:08
  I found actually end up finding in my notes all the results here
• 1:51:10
  old in order. Which the first one was he cast
• 1:51:15
  fly in a random creature and 60 feet of him, which I had them
• 1:51:18
  rolled to randomly rolled to determine who he who he cast a
• 1:51:21
  spell on. Why Did You jot this down?
• 1:51:24
  Because I thought it'd be funny. Fair enough unorthodox, just
• 1:51:29
  tell you that he's had a line but he has a point, is funny.
• 1:51:37
  I fucking dad like specific the funny moments the he he ha ha.
• 1:51:42
  This is this is definitely one of those.
• 1:51:45
  I think he ended up targeting a backside of a random dragon
• 1:51:48
  Cultus to its Dragon called this was like I can fly.
• 1:51:51
  Now the goddess has given give me the flight.
• 1:51:54
  I'm gonna go warn the boss and just flew off.
• 1:51:57
  Well, fuck. We.
• 1:51:58
  All right. Well, fuck, right now.
• 1:52:02
  We'd they definitely know we're coming.
• 1:52:05
  His skin turned blue eyes and he couldn't change it unless via
• 1:52:10
  remove car spell. The next minute he had to shout
• 1:52:15
  everything. He spoke Yep.
• 1:52:19
  He gained resistance to all damage for the next minute.
• 1:52:21
  They're pretty good in a big fight.
• 1:52:24
  He heard faint ethereal music for the next minute in his ear.
• 1:52:31
  So on top of him shouting, he was also just like hearing just
• 1:52:34
  music being like who's playing that.
• 1:52:39
  Cast mirror image on himself. He was frightened of the nearest
• 1:52:43
  thing for the until the end of his next turn.
• 1:52:46
  He has grease on himself which will be very important in a
• 1:52:50
  minute. He turned himself into a potted
• 1:52:54
  plant classic. Yep.
• 1:52:59
  And then cast Fireball directly on top of himself fan.
• 1:53:02
  I okay, I need let the grease didn't he?
• 1:53:05
  You knew. Yeah.
• 1:53:06
  You knew he had to do it to me was a potted plant.
• 1:53:08
  So yeah. Potted plant.
• 1:53:10
  Specifically you are vulnerable to all damage.
• 1:53:13
  So just ignored that resistance, he got a minute.
• 1:53:17
  Oof kicks it to normal damage. So yeah, yeah, so he he didn't
• 1:53:24
  die but he was fucking hurt. Yeah, nope.
• 1:53:29
  With that fireball, he did take out the rest of the, the lizard
• 1:53:32
  folk caught this. So you know what?
• 1:53:36
  They are how they work itself out.
• 1:53:39
  It wiii I appreciate the Kamikaze kill fire bawling
• 1:53:43
  oneself to kill their enemy because they just can't be
• 1:53:45
  fucked anymore. I appreciate you.
• 1:53:50
  I've done it. And now after that the players
• 1:53:55
  are like, right. Well they fucking know.
• 1:53:56
  We're here. Let's go.
• 1:53:57
  Follow in the direction that flying guy went flying guy,
• 1:54:01
  managed to get to the black abishai, who was the boss of
• 1:54:04
  this area who had the, I think he was the one that I also had
• 1:54:08
  the black tooth, the dragon because I don't think the
• 1:54:10
  players got that one back yet. So, on top of the black abishai
• 1:54:16
  that I buffed up a little bit. He had a the flying dude, who
• 1:54:20
  was just random Dragon Cult, mooc, a dire troll, which if you
• 1:54:26
  guys haven't looked up what diet roles are, they're the ones that
• 1:54:28
  like they had their, the trolls they eat other trolls and they
• 1:54:31
  mutate themselves and they grow like extra limbs and mouths and
• 1:54:35
  heads and shit. There's broken.
• 1:54:36
  Have I feel like I haven't seen this thing before Darrell?
• 1:54:39
  You know, fucking battle. They're so cool.
• 1:54:41
  Definitely see I have yeah. This is ours Metals fuck.
• 1:54:44
  They have this like Tasmanian Devil, like fucking tornado.
• 1:54:46
  Spin Attack a decimates shit, out of everything sick.
• 1:54:54
  I was going out of each other. Yeah, right.
• 1:54:56
  Yeah. He has their faces extra miles
• 1:54:59
  extra like they have, like, not even like, fully-formed other
• 1:55:02
  arms. There's like one arm, we're
• 1:55:03
  like, half a hot hand and like, thingies are like kind of
• 1:55:06
  crawling out of it weird. This is my nightmare.
• 1:55:11
  Oh, yeah. And what else?
• 1:55:13
  Oh, and then I think the guy had the black.
• 1:55:15
  I wish I had like to have zero as well, we'll just just because
• 1:55:20
  I'm like, yeah, has was a cool even people because demons are
• 1:55:22
  neat big boss fight. Players survived.
• 1:55:27
  No, no, no more. No more uncontrollable wild
• 1:55:31
  magic, just regular wild magic. I think he, I think he
• 1:55:34
  accidentally cast fly on the guy, the one mooc going again.
• 1:55:39
  The God has blessed my God. Oh my God basically but the
• 1:55:45
  players they defeated, the black abishai blacktooth of the Dragon
• 1:55:49
  was acquired. It became a little more
• 1:55:51
  powerful, they leveled up to level 15 and off we go to the
• 1:55:56
  the next next part of the adventure that I think I'll
• 1:56:00
  probably save next time. All right man.
• 1:56:04
  Yeah how How much more horseshit are we looking at?
• 1:56:11
  No idea, to be honest. Oh my goodness, three and a half
• 1:56:15
  year game. This last shit happened.
• 1:56:17
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:56:18
  Let's just say there's a level 15, the attempt.
• 1:56:22
  The plan. We did a lot of fucking around
• 1:56:24
  this episode. We probably could have been a
• 1:56:26
  little more on task. That's fine.
• 1:56:28
  This is this is fun. Comes in the plan I kind of like
• 1:56:31
  these you guys liked I felt bad the first two episodes because
• 1:56:34
  you guys in talk as much. Well I thought I was gonna
• 1:56:37
  otherwise we'll be here till we fucking die.
• 1:56:39
  That's fine. Going to, I'm going to spread
• 1:56:42
  more die of old age. All right, here's the plan will
• 1:56:44
  shoot to finish next week. No, no.
• 1:56:48
  Remember, I literally just said, I don't know.
• 1:56:52
  We're not getting off this ride. We're not getting off this ride.
• 1:57:00
  All right, hold on. Not host and also be, I feel
• 1:57:28
  like I'd be, you know, nice breather, give people some space
• 1:57:31
  rather than just, I don't want to have the out.
• 1:57:32
  Well, Just wrap us up to trap us.
• 1:57:36
  We'll talk about this later. This is not, this is not, this
• 1:57:38
  is not on recorded conversation, but uh there's nobody needs to
• 1:57:43
  hear a dirty laundry who cares for the I care.
• 1:57:47
  It's for production quality and Williams.
• 1:57:49
  I get he's fucking guess. Now we look like idiots gone now
• 1:57:52
  that we know more like she's just wrap.
• 1:57:59
  Yeah. So yeah.
• 1:58:01
  What did I learn this week from all this?
• 1:58:05
  You know, best laid plans can always just burn in a trash
• 1:58:10
  fire. Yes.
• 1:58:12
  Best the best laid plans. Never survive first contact with
• 1:58:14
  the Enemy. Yep.
• 1:58:16
  Players, Isaiah, the plate. I mean, I mean, players, Isaiah,
• 1:58:24
  why we're not? I know what I said, and maybe I
• 1:58:28
  could have again dry the the whole boat thing.
• 1:58:30
  Maybe I could have signaled it a bit better.
• 1:58:32
  That I mean I didn't want them to fight but Yeah.
• 1:58:34
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:58:37
  Like fucking shrug. Yeah, what else?
• 1:58:44
  Yeah, I think. Yeah.
• 1:58:45
  And now I this is where this is the I called the dragon called
• 1:58:49
  Arc that we're in now Gathering the grabbing the dragon balls.
• 1:58:52
  I mean the Dragon Teeth magic items but there was five teeth.
• 1:58:59
  There's five teeth. Yeah.
• 1:59:01
  Now that's fine. We don't need to go to needs
• 1:59:04
  some work. He taught me the other two.
• 1:59:08
  Okay, But yeah, thank God. Thank you everybody for
• 1:59:12
  listening tune in. Next time to find will my
• 1:59:16
  players find the other teeth? Will this campaign ever come to
• 1:59:18
  an end will Krug. Finally get that 1 V 1 with
• 1:59:21
  that, get the Yankee Captain - - I feel like the answers note
• 1:59:25
  about. Ya know, he had that fucking
• 1:59:28
  Captain. Never shows me.
• 1:59:29
  Yeah, I figured I tried. I tried perfect.
• 1:59:34
  But that's a story for another time.
• 1:59:37
  Thanks. Thanks for listening everybody.
• 1:59:40
  Yeah. Oh yeah, we never did our plug
• 1:59:42
  in the beginning. I forgot.
• 1:59:43
  Yeah. Yo Josh him with the plug.
• 1:59:49
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