[0.0s] Previously, on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2.5s] Thea and Nularaaaa get grabbed and pulled in by the skeletal hands into the sphere.
[9.3s] Thea, are you still alive?
[11.3s] What? I can't see you.
[14.0s] The Doubledores swing open, revealing a 12-foot tall humanoid male.
[19.8s] Ye who seek Diderius's insight must first furnish tribute.
[25.1s] Thea goes forward and places a handful of precious stones.
[29.4s] Gold?
[30.2s] My deerskin hat.
[31.9s] You shall pass.
[33.4s] I walk to the door like reverently.
[35.5s] You step into what looks to be an old library or study.
[40.7s] When all of a sudden you see materialized directly in front of you,
[44.5s] the gnarled, angry face of a female ghost.
[47.7s] Who are you and why are you here?
[50.0s] We're looking for a dwarf.
[51.4s] We are here to find Varan the White.
[53.8s] I don't know Varan the White.
[55.2s] You have come to steal my master's scrolls and his books.
[57.8s] What scrolls and books?
[59.1s] It's true. This place is empty.
[60.9s] You're right. I did not do good.
[64.6s] Where's that pool?
[65.5s] There is another way.
[66.3s] You got to go deeper into the tunnels to get there.
[68.8s] I just warn you that the pool, if you're not careful,
[73.2s] it can drive you insane.
[75.2s] Oh, good warning.
[76.4s] You, Flint, go down these stairs and immediately you see five bearded devils.
[83.2s] What are you looking at, guys?
[84.5s] We're watching danger.
[85.7s] I put five precious, really sparkly stones next to the silver piece.
[90.9s] This is okay. What do you want to know?
[92.3s] We are working for the cult.
[94.2s] We have orders from our boss, Lord Zariel,
[97.8s] Archduchess of Avernus, who wants Tiamat out of the nine house.
[102.7s] You open the door and it enters into a long gallery that holds a dry pool.
[110.2s] Okay, yeah, I'm going to make my way back to the well room there, Russ.
[115.4s] You enter into the well chamber and there are three trolls.
[121.0s] Back in the divination pool, you hear the sound of grinding stone
[125.6s] and you see three serpent creatures.
[130.6s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[132.0s] We are a fifth edition actual play podcast.
[134.4s] I am your dungeon master, Russ More,
[136.6s] and with me today is my lovely wife, Amy More.
[142.0s] Hi.
[143.5s] What do you play, Amy?
[145.0s] I play Thea Amastasia, a druid elf.
[148.2s] And also with us is Carla Johnson.
[151.3s] Hey, I play Nulara Moonbrook, a human ranger.
[155.2s] And Tom Laird.
[156.5s] Hey, I play Flint Firebeard, a dwarf fighter.
[160.1s] Welcome, everybody.
[161.3s] We've already got all the chat out of the way,
[162.9s] so I already know how you are, but how are you?
[165.7s] Doing well.
[166.9s] Super good.
[167.7s] We didn't doubly introduce ourselves this time.
[170.6s] I'm very proud of all of us.
[172.0s] I seriously sat my beer down and listened and was like,
[176.2s] I'm not going to do- Did Amy say her name?
[177.9s] Yeah, because if you did, I would have done it too,
[180.2s] so it would seem intentional, but-
[182.2s] Oh yeah, I totally listened for you guys
[184.1s] to get the format down before my turn.
[186.1s] We did it, you guys.
[186.9s] Success.
[187.4s] Mission success.
[188.3s] Okay, it's been a good game.
[189.4s] I'll talk to you guys in a couple of weeks.
[193.1s] Next time, Tom goes first because he waits for everybody.
[196.4s] No, don't put all the pressure on me.
[199.5s] So yeah, we play Dumbgeons and Dragons
[202.4s] and tell a pretty cool story, I think, and we think.
[206.7s] It's okay.
[208.2s] Most of us think.
[212.4s] 50-50.
[213.7s] Including some fine people on Patreon.
[216.6s] You can visit our Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast,
[221.8s] and join the community there that we have going on,
[225.0s] which is, I'd like to say,
[227.4s] a bigger community of the people involved in this podcast,
[230.5s] but mostly just me.
[233.3s] Well, if you teach me how to use it, maybe I'll use it.
[235.9s] You go to Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast
[239.0s] and put in the password I sent you not too long ago, and-
[242.0s] I lost it.
[242.8s] Okay.
[243.8s] Yeah, I'm also going to say that I don't have that password, so-
[247.9s] Send email.
[249.4s] I do have the password, but I haven't-
[252.8s] Text.
[252.9s] It's all Russ, let's be honest.
[255.4s] Side note.
[256.1s] We have never denied that Russ does almost all of the work.
[260.3s] Yeah, and I even deleted myself
[262.8s] from having the Dumbgeons and Dragons Twitter synced up to my Twitter
[266.5s] because I could not handle it on Fridays anymore.
[272.2s] Yeah, those follow Fridays, man.
[274.5s] They get you.
[275.5s] There was one day where I was on my iPad
[278.2s] and just like notification after notification was coming in
[281.3s] and it was like slowing everything down so much,
[284.3s] I just was like, fuck it, this is going away right now.
[288.9s] So you won't be talking to Tom on Twitter?
[291.7s] Nope.
[292.6s] Not through dumb dragon cast, the dumb dragon cast handle,
[296.8s] but you can tweet him at lair radio.
[302.2s] That's the one.
[304.9s] You might be talking to me on Twitter.
[307.0s] Oh, and the four question marks that Russ had at the end of that
[309.8s] are definitely part of my handle.
[311.4s] Yeah, I'll put his Twitter's down in the description,
[313.9s] so you can get the actual spelling of it.
[317.7s] I have Twitter too.
[319.0s] You do.
[320.1s] I don't know my handle.
[321.2s] Do you use it?
[321.8s] Amore is more.
[323.9s] Amore is more.
[325.0s] I'm clever.
[325.8s] I tweet at you all the time.
[327.3s] You tweet at me all the time.
[328.2s] It's a one sided conversation.
[331.3s] Russ, you should lobby for 280 characters for us.
[335.3s] How do you do that?
[336.6s] I don't know.
[337.0s] I just see a bunch of other people having 280 characters
[339.5s] and I always wonder, why don't we have that?
[341.7s] I would really appreciate that
[342.9s] because I could toss in a few more hashtags every now and again.
[346.1s] You really could.
[348.3s] You're a real influencer, Russ,
[350.0s] so just get on the horn to the people at Twitter
[353.0s] and see what you can do.
[355.1s] I've written down a note.
[356.2s] Twitter, 280 characters.
[359.0s] I will follow up on that.
[360.1s] 280, y'all.
[362.9s] Before this game, I put it to all of our social medias
[367.4s] to ask us some questions.
[368.9s] Oh, boy.
[370.3s] Did we get any?
[371.1s] We got two questions.
[372.2s] Oh, two questions.
[374.3s] First question comes from ALex McClure.
[378.9s] Hi, ALex.
[380.1s] Thanks for asking us a question.
[381.7s] Yes, thank you.
[382.5s] She's also a patron of ours.
[384.7s] She sounds like one of the best people.
[386.2s] She is in my list of 20 to 50 people
[389.0s] that I'm interested in talking to in the world, so.
[391.3s] ALex, congratulations on getting on the list.
[396.1s] Her question is, which we kind of touched on it
[400.3s] a little bit or a lot in the Tales from the Fandom interview,
[405.0s] which is out now by the time that this is out,
[408.0s] but we'll touch on it briefly,
[409.4s] is how you got started with Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[412.5s] Who wants to tackle this one?
[413.7s] I feel like we all have the same one-word answer.
[415.8s] Russ made us do it.
[418.6s] Russ made me do it.
[421.0s] We all were interested in playing.
[423.6s] And then Russ made it happen.
[425.0s] How about that?
[426.4s] That's a good one.
[427.3s] Yeah.
[427.8s] Yeah, that's good.
[429.6s] My Dumbgeons and Dragons is mostly just making you guys play it.
[432.8s] I did play other role-playing games prior to that
[437.0s] in the elementary junior high years
[439.2s] when I was at the peak of my popularity
[442.3s] among the ladies, as they say.
[445.8s] I believe that.
[447.0s] And I played Rifts, which is from the Palladium group
[452.8s] of our role players.
[455.8s] And then, yeah, Dumbgeons and Dragons
[457.4s] after we started listening to the Adventure Zone,
[459.8s] who just fired up their new campaign.
[465.2s] If you listen to them, maybe you could tweet at them about us
[467.6s] and maybe we can get some cross-branding promotion on there.
[471.0s] If I heard anything back from the McElroy brothers,
[473.4s] I would just poop my pants with excitement.
[476.5s] I tweeted them every now and again,
[477.9s] but I never hear anything back.
[478.6s] Please don't air that.
[482.0s] Damn it, that's going in the bug.
[484.6s] And it's going on one of those quote pages
[486.4s] that I haven't done in a while.
[487.8s] Awesome.
[491.6s] It's not because I don't want to do them.
[492.9s] It's because I've been neglectful
[495.0s] in actually writing down the quotes
[496.2s] as I've been editing through.
[497.4s] So it's, yeah.
[498.7s] Why?
[499.0s] Do you have like a job or something now, Russ?
[501.1s] Oh, I know, right?
[502.7s] This gets in the way of my podcasting.
[504.6s] Don't let my boss listen to this.
[507.9s] Does your boss know about it?
[510.1s] Yeah, oh yeah.
[511.6s] Yeah, oh yeah.
[512.2s] Yeah, did you put it on your resume?
[514.6s] I sure did.
[517.2s] It counts.
[518.0s] We had paid like dollars to do this.
[520.2s] And it was what you were working on a lot
[523.0s] and very hard when you guys were in Korea.
[524.9s] It's legit to have it.
[528.4s] I thought so.
[529.7s] But yeah, on my resume,
[530.9s] in the interview,
[531.8s] and in my welcome letter to the company,
[534.4s] I talked about it everywhere.
[537.5s] You're awesome.
[540.0s] My mom doesn't know.
[543.0s] Whoops.
[543.6s] Oh yeah.
[544.5s] Well, let us know when you finally
[545.6s] come out to your mom about us.
[548.5s] Is your mom a big podcast subscriber?
[550.6s] We're having lunch tomorrow.
[551.7s] Maybe I'll finally let her know.
[554.1s] Mom, I've been meaning to tell you something.
[556.3s] Is she more active on Twitter than you?
[558.2s] Because I could tweet at her.
[560.3s] Not on Twitter.
[561.4s] She did, I think, play D&D like in the 70s.
[564.6s] So she'd probably be into it.
[566.2s] Wow.
[567.8s] I feel like this is going to be a real bonding moment for you.
[571.0s] Maybe.
[571.8s] Anyway, did that answer ALex's question?
[573.5s] I think so.
[574.0s] Basically Russ's fault.
[575.9s] Russ's fault.
[576.6s] Yeah.
[577.0s] 100%.
[577.8s] Yeah.
[578.5s] Second question comes from at Elmo the Usurper on Twitter,
[583.9s] who you might recall is part of the Bros and Dragons podcast.
[588.3s] Also check them out at,
[590.3s] you can get a link through DumbDragons.com
[593.0s] slash friends of the pod,
[596.3s] I think is the website.
[597.9s] That'll be fixed in post.
[599.8s] Yeah.
[601.3s] He asks, is there a crondo in your world?
[605.1s] Russ, I'm going to need you to mix in some crickets chirping
[609.8s] in the background because I don't think any of us
[612.4s] have the answer that he wants us to have.
[614.9s] The crondo is their big fighty like beast girl.
[621.6s] It's a girl, right?
[622.1s] Just go with what Amy said.
[623.2s] I just listened to their last two episodes actually,
[626.7s] mainly because I'm going to be doing a live podcast with them.
[634.2s] They didn't mention anything about condor.
[636.6s] Crondo.
[637.6s] Oh, whoops.
[638.3s] Oh, fuck.
[641.1s] I don't think we have a crondo or we do,
[643.6s] but you guys haven't run into it yet.
[646.2s] Yeah.
[646.3s] So that's all the questions we have for this week.
[647.9s] It's a fun new thing that we might try and do
[650.0s] a little bit here and there.
[651.8s] We definitely nailed it.
[653.0s] So yeah, let's keep it up.
[655.3s] Yikes.
[655.6s] So let's play D&D now that we've been talking for 45 minutes.
[661.3s] Yep, time to die.
[663.3s] Let's do this.
[664.4s] Yeah, you split the party.
[666.1s] And while Ylar and Thea are standing eagerly waiting
[672.7s] the water to come down into the divination pool,
[676.4s] Flint has run into three trolls.
[679.8s] And then at the same-ish moment, three Yon-T
[687.0s] walk through the door from what you presume is Diderius' tomb chamber
[694.1s] where you previously had stepped through the doorway
[697.6s] and did not see any other entrances or exits.
[701.1s] And they are staring you down.
[703.2s] Everybody roll for initiative.
[705.0s] Shit.
[706.5s] Get your hands out of my hands.
[708.5s] 11.
[708.9s] What?
[711.4s] Don't ask questions.
[712.6s] How did you have hands inside of hands?
[715.4s] Don't ask questions.
[716.3s] Hashtag marriage.
[719.0s] Okay, Flint, you go first.
[720.1s] I don't know what that means.
[720.9s] 18.
[721.5s] 18.
[723.4s] Nice.
[724.2s] Ylar, Thea, what do you got?
[725.9s] 11.
[726.6s] I'm saving all my big rolls for never
[729.0s] because I'm going to use spells.
[730.2s] For never.
[731.1s] Perfect, yes.
[732.3s] See, that's what's good.
[733.1s] It's better if I'm first because I can jump in front of you or something.
[737.8s] Shit.
[739.0s] My strategy is all about survival.
[741.6s] Oh, me too.
[742.5s] I'm just going to try not to die.
[745.0s] Exactly.
[745.4s] I'm not going to fucking die.
[746.3s] So how this is going to go is we're going to start with Flint and the trolls.
[751.7s] We're going to do a round, maybe two, depending on how quickly it goes.
[756.8s] And then we're going to jump over to Thea and Nulara.
[759.2s] So there's going to be a little back and forth.
[761.6s] Hopefully it makes sense once I edit it together.
[764.8s] Flint, you're up first, bud.
[766.5s] So you got three trolls in front of you.
[768.5s] They are kind of gathered around the closest to you
[774.0s] as you walk through the door in front of the well.
[777.1s] They are busy mowing down on some hoofed creature.
[782.4s] Your turn.
[784.0s] So do they know I'm there?
[786.4s] Yeah, they all turn to look at you as you open the door.
[789.6s] So they're no longer busy mowing down on a hoofed creature?
[793.2s] Not particularly.
[794.0s] They have food hanging from their mouth and they're still chewing,
[796.6s] but they're looking at you kind of like you're disturbing them,
[800.1s] but also like you could be supper.
[802.4s] OK, just seems gluttonous at this point, but whatever.
[806.3s] They are trolls.
[808.3s] How far away are they?
[810.8s] You got, I think this room, you probably got about 15 feet,
[815.8s] if I'm not mistaken, 10 to 15 feet from the door to the closest one.
[821.2s] All right.
[824.1s] OK, I'm going to run towards the one that is, I guess, closest to me.
[830.6s] How are they spread out in front of me?
[835.1s] There's one closest to you, two closer to the well
[838.1s] with their meal in the middle of their little circle they've got going on there.
[843.1s] Perfect.
[843.8s] I will run up to the one that's closest to me
[847.4s] and and well running will make some sort of wild swing
[852.0s] with my axe in its general face direction.
[855.1s] Oh, yeah, for sure.
[858.5s] That is a net 20.
[860.8s] All right, nice start.
[865.1s] All right.
[866.4s] Yeah, that 20 is certainly going to hit.
[868.2s] Yeah, it was all right.
[869.3s] That is 21 points, 25 plus four for my bonus.
[879.9s] Oh, my God.
[881.6s] So because he took quite a lot of damage,
[885.4s] I get to roll a d20 on what happens to him.
[888.7s] Nothing.
[889.1s] Nothing else happens.
[890.0s] You just take a big chunk out of him,
[892.7s] and he doesn't look very happy at all.
[894.7s] OK, excellent.
[896.2s] I should probably use my second attack then.
[899.4s] Yeah, that's what I'm waiting for.
[902.2s] And that's a critical 19.
[904.2s] Jesus Christ.
[905.2s] What do you got your crit boots on over there?
[908.2s] Apparently, yeah.
[909.3s] Is that a thing?
[909.8s] Do I have crit boots?
[912.2s] Because if so, I haven't been wearing them.
[914.0s] He wakes up in the morning and puts his crit pants on one leg at a time.
[918.5s] One leg at a time.
[920.4s] So 12, first one, seven is 19, three is 22, and four is 26 plus four is 30.
[929.7s] OK, so you are attacking the same one, yes?
[933.0s] Same one, yeah.
[934.0s] You take a swing as you run through the door
[937.2s] and you kind of glance off this troll's back
[941.0s] as it turns away from you, taking a large chunk out of its back.
[944.9s] But on your second swing, you swing a little low
[947.2s] and one of its legs is severed from the troll and it falls down.
[953.6s] But you notice that the leg still continues to move.
[959.6s] And now it's that troll's turn.
[962.2s] And he is actually going to regain 10 hit points
[969.8s] because that's what trolls do and crawl towards you.
[975.1s] He's not going to stand up, but he can make it to you.
[978.0s] And he is going to claw at you.
[982.3s] So he makes two claw attacks.
[986.2s] It's a 10 and a 20, not critical.
[989.7s] Yeah, the 20 hits.
[990.9s] That's 15 slashing damage from that claw there.
[996.4s] Troll number two is going to take his turn
[1000.6s] and he is going to jump at you and try and do the same.
[1006.4s] Two claws and a bite this time, however.
[1009.2s] Claw number one is a 10.
[1011.7s] Claw number two is a 24.
[1015.8s] Claw number three is a 22.
[1019.4s] I thought it was two claws and a bite.
[1022.3s] Sorry, bite, bite three, bite, bite is the third one.
[1025.8s] Bite is a 22.
[1028.4s] So I got a claw and a bite off of that.
[1031.4s] The claw is going to do 13 slashing damage
[1036.6s] and the bite is going to do seven piercing damage.
[1041.4s] Troll number three is just going to pile on
[1045.4s] and not do very well because there's things going on in the way
[1048.1s] and that's a nine and two 10s.
[1049.7s] So troll number three is more there for motivational support.
[1053.8s] So we're a cheerleader at this point.
[1056.8s] Let's go over to Thea Nularaaaa.
[1059.0s] You are staring down two very, very lizard-like humanoid creatures.
[1067.0s] They look like they look more or less like a big lizard standing up on two feet.
[1072.0s] They're about medium size and one more human-like creature
[1078.2s] who has snakes for arms.
[1081.1s] What the fuck?
[1082.6s] Like many snake-bodied like snakes for arms.
[1087.8s] So first up in this exchange is Nularaaaa.
[1092.6s] So they have like Medusa hair but for arms?
[1096.2s] Like, is that what you mean?
[1098.1s] Yeah, yeah.
[1100.1s] Yeah, there's one of those and then two more very lizard-like creatures.
[1105.3s] They sound very handsome.
[1107.5s] That's not unsettling at all.
[1109.4s] No, Nularaaaa's great with this.
[1112.5s] She's really jazzed.
[1115.0s] How far away are they?
[1117.0s] We're not in a very big place, right?
[1118.7s] So you are standing kind of by the divination pool.
[1121.1s] It's a longer chamber.
[1124.0s] So you're probably 10, 20, no more than about 20 feet from these guys standing at the door.
[1131.9s] Okay, I pull out Flametongue and I say Louis Caliente.
[1138.1s] And I run over.
[1141.5s] Is one of them closer to me?
[1145.8s] The two smaller lizard creatures are more in front of the snake-armed gentleman.
[1153.9s] Okay, have they drawn weapons?
[1158.3s] They don't appear to have any weapons.
[1161.4s] I am going to run towards them but I'm also going to yell like,
[1167.4s] we don't want to fight you.
[1169.5s] We're looking for Varam the White.
[1172.1s] That being said, I am still going to try and cut them up because they're lizard creatures.
[1181.1s] Okay.
[1182.6s] It's very confusing.
[1184.4s] I don't want to fight you but I'm going to kill you.
[1187.3s] Well, you know, it's hard.
[1190.7s] It's hard in-game.
[1192.0s] We just have to take turns.
[1194.3s] So I'm going to attack.
[1198.2s] That is...
[1200.2s] Sorry, I forgot to open my character sheet because I'm a real professional.
[1207.1s] Is that what we are?
[1209.0s] Just because you slap a mic in front of my face doesn't make me a professional.
[1212.3s] That is a 19.
[1214.7s] And you're going for one of the lizard?
[1216.8s] Yes.
[1218.5s] More lizard-y folks.
[1219.8s] 19 will hit, yep.
[1221.4s] Okay, so just in case this is enough to kill them, there's no way it is.
[1228.0s] I'm not trying to kill them but, you know.
[1231.3s] So you're attacking with non-lethal damage then?
[1233.8s] Is that what you're doing?
[1234.6s] Sure, yeah.
[1236.1s] Yeah, that's a good way of saying that succinctly.
[1239.4s] Thank you, Russ.
[1241.2s] 17 damage on my first attack.
[1245.4s] Run screaming across this room saying, I don't want to attack you!
[1249.2s] But then your sword is alight and you strike into one of these lizards
[1255.5s] and you cut off one of its arms.
[1258.3s] Jesus Christ, I don't want to hurt you, but I'm gonna.
[1263.4s] But it's non-lethal.
[1265.0s] You just cut an arm off.
[1266.0s] I'm also a flesh wound.
[1267.8s] I'm a violent person.
[1269.5s] Yeah, sure.
[1270.1s] So, okay, then I guess I'm going to attack again.
[1278.3s] Same guy?
[1279.2s] What other body part can you attack?
[1280.7s] Well, maybe, I dropped off this guy's arm.
[1284.6s] Maybe I'll attack the other one.
[1287.4s] The other lizard-y one because he's kind of next coming through the door, right?
[1291.7s] So that is a 22.
[1293.8s] Yeah, 22 will hit.
[1295.0s] I don't know why I asked that, like, such a question.
[1297.3s] Like, this guy was going to be way stronger than the other.
[1299.9s] That is 10 damage.
[1302.5s] Okay, this guy doesn't lose an arm,
[1305.1s] but he hisses and shrieks at you as you take a cut into him.
[1311.4s] Okay, Donnie, I keep forgetting about Donnie.
[1314.6s] Don't forget about Donnie.
[1316.5s] So he's going to come in and he's going to try and give the other guy a chop.
[1322.0s] Sure.
[1322.4s] So why would he?
[1323.9s] 14, 14 for my friend Donnie.
[1327.4s] 14 will hit, yep.
[1329.4s] Whoa, feeling kind of bad.
[1333.0s] Sorry, and he's going for the snake arm guy?
[1335.7s] Snake arms.
[1336.9s] Okay, yep.
[1337.7s] Oh, snake arms.
[1339.8s] That is a 6 damage and he has to do a con saving throw in case he gets poisoned.
[1349.5s] He is immune to poison, so nothing happens there.
[1353.7s] That seems reasonable.
[1356.2s] Yep.
[1356.8s] I back up as much as you'll let me, still on the same turn,
[1361.8s] which I'm hoping is like 10 feet because.
[1364.2s] Yeah, about that.
[1364.9s] Yeah, that's fine.
[1366.4s] So it is one of the first lizard type folk, his turn, its turn,
[1373.5s] and it's going to recklessly attack at you, Nulara,
[1379.3s] which means he attacks with advantage on his multi-attacks.
[1386.1s] So he gets three attacks.
[1389.4s] But then has disadvantage until the next turn.
[1392.7s] Yeah, anything, any attack roll against it gets advantage.
[1397.4s] Okay, so for his first attack, which is a, which is a claw,
[1403.8s] that's going to be a 23.
[1407.0s] Yeah, that'll do it.
[1409.0s] Second claw, that's going to be a 6 and his bite.
[1416.1s] That's going to be a 22.
[1418.1s] That will also quite handily injure me.
[1421.8s] Actually, you cut off his arm.
[1423.2s] So I'm going to say that claw doesn't work
[1426.3s] because he would have only had one hand to actually swipe a claw at you.
[1430.2s] True.
[1430.6s] So I'm going to just do the bite there,
[1434.6s] but you get eight piercing damage off of his bite as he
[1438.6s] runs snarling at you and biting and throwing his one arm at you.
[1442.7s] And now it's Thea's turn.
[1443.8s] All right, Thea is going to do something.
[1449.0s] I see the madness in front of me and immediately feel unsafe in my own skin.
[1456.6s] And so I charge forward, transforming into a winter wolf.
[1461.8s] I feel better this way.
[1463.8s] Is this a spell or is it just, it's an ability?
[1466.4s] It is my wild shape.
[1468.6s] Which is a spell or is it an ability?
[1470.4s] It's an ability.
[1471.0s] Okay.
[1472.0s] Fuck yeah it is.
[1472.7s] So fuck yeah it is.
[1474.5s] So I have this ability.
[1476.7s] So now what that means is I have 75 hit points.
[1482.2s] So I'm now this winter wolf badass creature and I'm going to
[1488.7s] bite at the lizard guy, the one that has both its arms,
[1493.5s] that I'm going to roll with advantage because he has disadvantage.
[1496.2s] No, the one with one arm has disadvantage because the other guy hasn't gone yet.
[1500.5s] Oh, then I want to bite him instead.
[1502.1s] Okay.
[1503.0s] Because you know how my rolls go.
[1505.5s] Okay.
[1506.7s] You mean amazingly well every time?
[1509.1s] Absolutely.
[1509.9s] So I get to roll two times and take the better of the two?
[1511.9s] Yeah.
[1514.3s] Well then that's going to be a 25.
[1516.4s] That will hit.
[1517.9s] Excellent.
[1519.5s] So I am going to, I'm going to bite the shit out of this guy.
[1524.9s] Nine piercing damage.
[1527.1s] And since the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC strength saving throw.
[1534.3s] Okay.
[1534.9s] Or be knocked prone.
[1537.2s] Okay.
[1539.0s] DC strength you say?
[1541.5s] Yar.
[1543.1s] 12.
[1543.9s] It's not good enough.
[1545.5s] Okay.
[1545.9s] So this lizard, you jump upon it and knock it prone taking a bite out of it.
[1552.7s] That's your turn?
[1553.6s] Yeah, it is.
[1554.4s] Okay, it's the second, they're called brood guards.
[1559.1s] We're just going to call them brood guards because I keep hesitating on it and I shouldn't.
[1562.3s] It's going to recklessly attack the winter wolf that just jumped upon its mate.
[1566.2s] It can try.
[1567.4s] It's buddy.
[1567.9s] It's pal.
[1571.0s] And that's going to be a 17 on the first claw.
[1579.0s] 19 on the second claw.
[1581.9s] 11.
[1582.7s] Not yet.
[1583.5s] Okay.
[1583.9s] Two claws coming at you.
[1586.5s] 14 slashing damage.
[1588.3s] Christ almighty.
[1590.9s] And now it is the snake arm guy's turn.
[1598.7s] And he is going downtown where all the lights are bright.
[1608.7s] To cast suggestion.
[1610.9s] He's just going to edit that out.
[1615.1s] I thought it was beautiful.
[1616.7s] I don't know.
[1617.2s] I think our podcast needs more Petula car.
[1622.3s] So he is going to cast suggestion on Nulara.
[1630.9s] So you must make a wisdom saving throw.
[1635.5s] On a failed save, you pursue the course of action that he's going to describe here in a moment.
[1645.5s] On a successful save, you don't have to do it.
[1648.7s] But he's going to tell you to attack the wolf.
[1653.8s] Hate these bad guys always telling me to attack my friends.
[1656.9s] Right.
[1657.6s] I'll rip you apart.
[1658.6s] I'm sorry, Lara.
[1659.5s] I know.
[1660.8s] Okay.
[1661.5s] Wisdom saving throw, eh?
[1663.8s] You got it.
[1666.0s] Well, fuck me.
[1667.3s] That's 12.
[1669.8s] That does not succeed.
[1672.5s] Now I have to fight four people?
[1674.4s] This is not cool.
[1677.9s] Hey, at least Flint is alone.
[1679.6s] He doesn't have to battle himself.
[1681.4s] Only has demons within.
[1684.4s] Can she at least look in my eyes and see that I'm fighting this?
[1688.8s] I think I'm smart enough to know.
[1690.5s] Let's find out after we check in with Flint and the trolls.
[1693.5s] Flint, go.
[1697.3s] All right.
[1700.3s] Flint went for a bathroom break.
[1702.3s] Now I was building the tension.
[1705.1s] And Bloss rushed through it to me really quick.
[1707.4s] So I did.
[1708.2s] I did.
[1709.2s] I was in the middle of texting someone.
[1711.1s] Okay.
[1712.4s] So there's one troll that is legless and on the ground and then two other ones, correct?
[1718.4s] You gotcha.
[1719.1s] One took a couple swipes at you.
[1722.3s] The other one is more behind it trying to get in on the action.
[1727.0s] Okay.
[1728.1s] I am going to start my turn.
[1731.7s] I'm going to take a healing surge.
[1734.2s] Sure.
[1736.4s] Yeah.
[1736.9s] Seven.
[1738.0s] That's plus your con, yeah?
[1739.6s] Oh, never mind then.
[1741.2s] 11.
[1743.0s] Don't forget to add your con.
[1744.7s] Always adding the con.
[1747.1s] All right.
[1749.5s] Yeah, I'm going to take a couple swings at the guy that's on the ground.
[1753.4s] Because I seem to have already hurt him a fair bit.
[1756.1s] So we'll see if we can take him on a commission.
[1758.5s] Sure.
[1760.1s] So that's an 18.
[1762.3s] 18 will hit.
[1764.3s] Excellent.
[1766.2s] 24.
[1769.5s] So it takes that 24 damage.
[1773.1s] Hit into it with blood splattering everywhere.
[1775.5s] But it's now trying to looks like it's trying to crawl towards the well.
[1779.5s] It's still a little bit alive.
[1782.7s] All right.
[1783.1s] I will use my second attack and try to take it down.
[1787.4s] 19.
[1788.2s] But not critical.
[1789.4s] 19 will hit.
[1792.3s] 17.
[1793.2s] You drive your axe through this troll skull and it is dead on the ground.
[1801.6s] Just roll a d20 for me, though.
[1803.9s] Okay.
[1805.7s] We'll see what happens.
[1807.5s] Are there any bonuses or just want a straight number?
[1809.5s] Just a straight number.
[1810.9s] 15.
[1811.7s] Yeah, so you drive through the skull and your axe glances off the stone underneath.
[1817.6s] And it is the troll's turn.
[1821.5s] So that one is dead.
[1823.8s] But the other two, they see their buddy go down and they are not super happy about this.
[1828.8s] First one is making a jumping leap to bite and claw at you.
[1835.5s] The bite does a 20.
[1841.4s] Not critical.
[1842.3s] The first claw does a 9.
[1845.6s] Second claw does a 10.
[1847.4s] So its arms are doing weird things, just kind of going all over the place.
[1851.2s] Wacky, wavy, inflatable arm tube guy.
[1854.3s] Its teeth are right on where it needs to be.
[1857.9s] And you are going to take...
[1859.2s] He's an inner ear problem.
[1863.9s] 10 piercing damage.
[1865.2s] Probably at the back of your neck as you are attacking this other one.
[1871.5s] Then the second troll.
[1875.1s] Its bite will do 15.
[1878.4s] Its claw will do 20, not critical.
[1882.2s] And its second claw will do 22, no criticals there.
[1887.6s] So two claws, no bite.
[1889.5s] So first claw will do 13 slashing damage.
[1894.3s] Second claw will do also 13 slashing damage.
[1898.2s] So 26 total slashing damage from that troll.
[1901.6s] Let's go through your round once more again and then we'll go back.
[1906.8s] Yeah, I guess there's a couple more trolls.
[1909.0s] I got a deal.
[1909.5s] I'm going to take another healing surge.
[1913.1s] That is a 7 plus my bonus again.
[1915.3s] So that's another 11 back to me.
[1918.6s] Yeah, I guess I'll spin around for the guy that chomped me in the neck.
[1923.0s] And plan my axe into his neck if the dice so decides that I can do that.
[1929.7s] It's a nat 20.
[1934.6s] He's going to make it back in time to help us.
[1937.7s] Guys, I figured it out.
[1938.9s] I just need to keep rolling criticals and we'll be fine.
[1942.7s] Is that all you have to do to win this game?
[1944.7s] I have been playing really wrong.
[1948.7s] 31, 35 on that attack.
[1951.6s] Oh, my God.
[1953.3s] OK, so you swing into this troll having just been bitten in the neck by it and you actually
[1960.7s] decapitate this troll.
[1964.3s] But when you decapitate this troll, its body remains standing.
[1969.8s] The head rolls to the ground and yells to its friend to pick it up.
[1975.9s] And the body still comes towards you.
[1978.5s] OK, is that head still on the ground?
[1981.9s] Yep.
[1983.1s] I would love to take a swing in my axe at that head.
[1987.1s] Sure.
[1989.1s] That is a 19.
[1990.3s] Yeah.
[1990.9s] Yeah, I'll say that hits.
[1992.0s] I mean, it probably is just going to hit a head on the ground.
[1994.9s] A prone head on the ground.
[1996.6s] No, 19 is not good enough.
[2000.1s] Why?
[2000.9s] Why, Amy?
[2002.3s] So that's 19 damage.
[2003.8s] As it's yelling to its friend to come pick it up,
[2006.7s] its head splits in two.
[2008.7s] And the third troll, whose turn it is now as the body slumps to the ground of the
[2016.9s] decapitated troll, sees you do this and jumps into the well.
[2023.9s] And you hear it kind of slide down as it is escaping.
[2027.9s] And then you hear a splash down at the bottom.
[2030.3s] And now it's Nularaaaa's turn, who is under the thrall of this Yon-T pit master.
[2036.2s] I'm sorry.
[2036.7s] I really thought that Tom was just going to take like a great running kick and just
[2042.8s] like move it field goal style.
[2045.5s] Yeah.
[2046.8s] I should have done that.
[2047.7s] Sorry, guys.
[2049.3s] Think of the entertainment value.
[2051.0s] Come on.
[2052.3s] My bad.
[2052.8s] It's my bad completely.
[2054.0s] Somehow like ping pongs around the room.
[2057.1s] I don't know.
[2058.3s] Goal!
[2060.8s] And then he runs around the room with his arms up and the other troll is just
[2065.4s] watching him like the fuck is happening.
[2068.2s] Shirt over my face, down on my knees.
[2071.7s] Somebody pour Gatorade on me.
[2073.5s] So it's my turn.
[2074.2s] What do I do?
[2074.7s] I don't get to do anything.
[2075.5s] You just tell me what I do, right?
[2077.2s] You have to attack the wolf.
[2080.1s] I don't want to make do-
[2081.6s] Can't you just do it and tell me what I do?
[2085.0s] I look at Nularaaaa and I say, because I remember that I can actually speak as a wolf.
[2090.0s] Your back is to Nularaaaa and you don't know that this has happened.
[2094.2s] Never mind.
[2095.9s] So I guess I attack her like I would attack her if she was an enemy.
[2101.9s] Yes.
[2102.7s] You betcha.
[2103.4s] Because that's what happens when you tail a roll.
[2105.6s] Can't you just pull my tail or something?
[2107.5s] Totally.
[2108.6s] I turn out my flaming sword.
[2111.2s] Get out a small dagger.
[2113.5s] Okay.
[2113.9s] Oh, I wouldn't do that.
[2114.9s] So let's bad rolls.
[2117.5s] Let's go bad rolls.
[2118.9s] That wasn't a very bad roll.
[2120.5s] That was a 17.
[2124.7s] 17.
[2125.7s] 17?
[2126.6s] 17 will hit.
[2128.3s] Damn it.
[2129.3s] Okay.
[2131.1s] 12 damage.
[2134.9s] Under the thrall of this yonte, slice into your friend and singe the hairs on the back of this wolf.
[2143.3s] I believe-
[2143.8s] I yelp and cry out like a hurt dog and I kind of like turn and back up like-
[2150.2s] You have a second attack, yes?
[2152.2s] I do.
[2153.4s] Yep.
[2153.6s] Oh, never mind.
[2154.3s] I can't do any of that.
[2155.7s] You don't get a saving throw until the end of your turn.
[2159.1s] Okay.
[2160.7s] Oh, that's-
[2161.5s] No.
[2162.3s] That's 16.
[2163.1s] Does that hit?
[2164.4s] Yeah.
[2165.0s] Son of a-
[2166.0s] Son of a-
[2166.5s] Damn it.
[2168.2s] Plus two.
[2168.7s] That's 11 damage.
[2170.9s] Donnie is gonna try and bite me.
[2173.3s] It's the end of your turn technically, so you can do your saving throw right now.
[2177.5s] Save yourself.
[2178.7s] So wisdom saving throw.
[2180.7s] I don't even know what that means.
[2182.9s] Oh, for fuck's sakes.
[2186.4s] I mean, it was really good.
[2187.4s] That's what I say when I do an exceptionally good roll.
[2190.7s] Me too.
[2191.3s] Oh, for fuck's sakes.
[2195.6s] That is a seven.
[2198.0s] Seven.
[2199.2s] Yeah.
[2199.5s] Do you not have like a wisdom saving throw bonus?
[2202.7s] Is that a thing?
[2204.0s] Yes, look under your proficiency bonus, girl.
[2207.1s] Oh, your saving throws, yeah.
[2208.4s] Yeah.
[2209.8s] Uh, well, yeah.
[2212.3s] You should have like a huge ass number in there if you're half decent at all.
[2217.9s] Oh, she's like, I got a one.
[2220.4s] Or a bonus.
[2222.7s] Yeah, it's a two.
[2224.6s] Okay, so-
[2225.2s] Wisdom.
[2225.6s] All my bonuses are in strength and dexterity.
[2228.3s] Yeah, so that still fails.
[2232.4s] Donnie, what does Donnie do?
[2233.5s] Donnie's gonna try and bite me because he's like,
[2235.3s] yo, what the fuck are you doing?
[2238.2s] Yep.
[2239.1s] He's gonna bite me.
[2241.1s] And he does.
[2244.0s] He got a 19.
[2247.6s] I hope you can paralyze me.
[2248.9s] No, I don't think he's gonna try and paralyze me.
[2252.2s] He's just gonna bite me.
[2253.2s] It's not gonna sting me.
[2255.4s] So that is, oh, right.
[2258.5s] I still have to tell you, I don't just take damage.
[2260.7s] That is for damage from my best friend.
[2264.9s] Yep, makes sense.
[2265.8s] Love hurts.
[2267.2s] It does, and I gave you more than that,
[2269.1s] so I will take my four happily.
[2271.6s] Okay, so the brood guard who you attacked and pinned,
[2275.7s] you have just been struck by your friend.
[2279.9s] So I'm assuming you kind of look to see what the fuck.
[2284.6s] Yeah.
[2285.2s] Yeah, it's going to remain prone,
[2288.2s] but claw and try and pull you into a bite here.
[2291.6s] So the claw that it has one hand,
[2294.8s] so I won't roll two.
[2297.2s] The claw is going to be a 20, not critical.
[2300.8s] Yep, I don't think I'm gonna last as a wolf
[2302.4s] very much longer, you guys.
[2303.3s] And the bite is going to be a six.
[2307.7s] The bite doesn't work, the claw does.
[2309.4s] Yeah, claw you're going to take seven slashing damage.
[2314.5s] Now it's your turn, Thea.
[2316.0s] Okay, where is everyone in relationship to me?
[2321.6s] So I got one dude under me.
[2323.8s] You've got, yeah, the single armed brood guard under you.
[2327.3s] There is the two armed brood guard standing over you
[2331.9s] kind of to the side.
[2333.1s] New Laura is also to the side of you,
[2336.8s] swinging her sword down at you.
[2339.1s] And the snake armed fellow is still standing in the doorway.
[2343.0s] How far is he from me?
[2344.9s] He's probably no more than 10 feet.
[2347.2s] I turn and I blast my cold breath at him,
[2351.6s] a freezing wind and a 15 foot cone.
[2356.7s] You need to make a dexterity saving throw.
[2366.5s] There should be no getting out of this one.
[2368.3s] He is part lizard.
[2370.8s] Yeah.
[2371.2s] And they are cold blooded.
[2373.2s] Yeah, no, it's fine.
[2374.1s] I'm just looking for any way out of it.
[2376.6s] It's fine.
[2377.3s] I know you are.
[2378.7s] Um, so it's a 10.
[2381.2s] That doesn't work.
[2382.5s] So you need to take 4d8 cold damage.
[2385.8s] All right.
[2387.8s] 4d8, nice.
[2391.6s] No, she said 48.
[2394.9s] 14 cold damage.
[2399.2s] When do I get to recharge at the beginning of my next turn?
[2402.4s] Yeah, you roll it at the top of your turn
[2404.1s] and then you can use it if you were charged,
[2405.7s] but you don't if you don't.
[2407.0s] Does it automatically recharge if I just choose not to use it?
[2411.2s] No.
[2411.5s] Okay.
[2412.8s] In combat you have to recharge it.
[2416.1s] Sia is wondering what the fuck is happening with Nulara,
[2418.6s] but I had a feeling because this has happened before.
[2423.4s] The second broodguard, the double armed broodguard
[2427.0s] is going to jump at you as well,
[2429.1s] being that you are the only bad guy right now.
[2432.2s] Sure.
[2433.8s] First claw is a 15.
[2439.2s] Second claw is a 23.
[2443.2s] Bite is a critical miss, critical miss.
[2447.2s] So he goes to pull you in for a bite,
[2449.1s] but just gives you a smooch instead.
[2451.8s] Was there a lot of tongue?
[2453.2s] Oh yeah, look at that tongue.
[2454.4s] Oh, there's a lot of tongue.
[2455.6s] There's a lot of tongue.
[2457.9s] First claw is 6 slashing damage.
[2460.4s] Second claw is 8 slashing damage.
[2464.7s] And then it is a snake armed guy.
[2467.1s] He's going to Eldritch Blast you, Thea.
[2474.8s] So I make a ranged spell attack.
[2478.4s] That's a 23.
[2481.0s] Yeah.
[2482.0s] And you take, so a beam of crackling energy
[2486.4s] streaks towards you, and you take 1d10 force damage.
[2494.1s] That will be 7 force damage.
[2496.6s] And now it's Nularaaa's turn.
[2498.9s] Okay.
[2501.0s] Guess I'm just going to attack my best friend again.
[2504.4s] That's a 24.
[2506.4s] So I'm gonna injure her some more.
[2510.4s] Uh, 13 damage.
[2513.2s] Okay, hold on.
[2514.4s] We need to do a check here on her wild shape stuff.
[2518.0s] Hold on yet, sorry.
[2518.8s] No.
[2519.3s] Wild shape, reduce.
[2522.2s] You automatically revert if you fall unconscious,
[2525.2s] drop to zero hit points, or die.
[2526.8s] Okay, so I just revert to my normal form.
[2529.2s] So I'm going to drop to zero hit points,
[2531.7s] and I'm going to revert back to my human, or my elf form.
[2535.8s] Yeah.
[2536.7s] So I take all of that and revert.
[2539.8s] Yeah.
[2541.3s] Thanks a lot.
[2542.9s] Sorry.
[2544.5s] I'm gonna get to use my cool icy breath once.
[2548.1s] Fuck.
[2548.6s] Sorry.
[2549.4s] That's okay.
[2549.9s] Are you gonna hit me again?
[2550.8s] Well torn up about it.
[2551.8s] I guess I'm gonna try.
[2553.9s] Okay.
[2554.9s] But I don't think I did.
[2556.0s] I only rolled a 14.
[2558.8s] You would have hit me as a wolf,
[2560.2s] but you're not hitting me as an elf.
[2561.7s] Yay!
[2564.2s] Aw yeah.
[2565.7s] And now I do a wisdom saving throw.
[2570.5s] You betcha.
[2571.9s] Better this time.
[2572.9s] I did it better!
[2575.0s] She did it better.
[2576.8s] It was a 20.
[2578.1s] Yes, that succeeds.
[2579.4s] So you strike into your friend,
[2581.9s] changing her back into her regular form.
[2585.2s] Glance off her armor on the second one,
[2587.1s] and manage to shake free from the spell
[2589.8s] that the yonte pit master put on you.
[2592.7s] And you are a bit dazed as Donnie's turn.
[2596.3s] And he doesn't know that you are back to norm.
[2601.3s] Yet.
[2603.8s] I think what he's saying is Donnie needs to attack you.
[2605.7s] Just saying, so just roleplay Donnie as he would
[2608.3s] if he still thinks you're attacking your Lara.
[2610.9s] Okay, so Donnie-
[2612.0s] Well I mean they do communicate telepathically,
[2614.1s] so you know he's trying to talk to her.
[2617.6s] Yeah, that's fair.
[2619.7s] Yay!
[2620.1s] Okay, Donnie's gonna attack snake arms then.
[2623.7s] Yeah, don't let him do that to anybody else.
[2625.1s] But he's not going to,
[2626.4s] because he critically failed.
[2630.8s] He was very disoriented.
[2632.5s] He had to bite me.
[2633.4s] A lot's going on.
[2635.2s] So sorry, what does,
[2637.7s] let's say Donnie is coming in for another attack on you.
[2642.6s] What does Nulara say to Donnie to stop him from-
[2645.3s] I don't even think I say anything.
[2646.8s] Here's what happened, because he crit failed.
[2649.1s] He's flying towards me and he's going to bite me.
[2652.3s] And then we lock eyes.
[2653.7s] And he knows that I am not,
[2656.0s] like I've come back to myself,
[2657.8s] but it's too late.
[2658.8s] He's like flying too quickly
[2660.5s] and he just smacks into my head.
[2662.6s] He just flies right into my face.
[2666.3s] I like it.
[2666.9s] It's good.
[2668.1s] It's the single-armed brood guard that is now,
[2670.3s] there is a changed Thea on top of it.
[2676.2s] I had to turn, didn't I?
[2677.6s] To icy breath.
[2678.8s] I'm not on top of it anymore,
[2679.9s] but it's probably near me.
[2681.3s] Yeah, it's going to try and claw you again recklessly.
[2686.3s] That is a 23 for the claw.
[2689.7s] That'll do it.
[2690.7s] And a bite.
[2692.1s] It's a seven for a bite.
[2694.0s] He cannot bite me.
[2694.8s] He cannot bite you.
[2696.3s] That's three slashing damage for his claw.
[2700.1s] And now it's your turn, Thea.
[2702.3s] I look over at her and I'm just like,
[2705.3s] we cool?
[2706.5s] I'm back.
[2707.2s] Bitch, we cool.
[2708.9s] I'm sorry.
[2710.3s] I'm back.
[2710.9s] I'm me.
[2711.8s] Let's do this.
[2713.4s] Okay, I turn around and I'm going to blight Mr. Snake Arms.
[2725.0s] What level is blight?
[2726.8s] Level four.
[2728.9s] Okay, so I turn toward him and I cast my spell upon him
[2737.5s] and he needs to make a constitution saving throw.
[2740.3s] As you do this, he raises one of his snake arms
[2748.0s] and your spell fizzles.
[2750.7s] He has cast counter spell
[2753.0s] and it is the second brood guard's turn
[2756.6s] who's going to attack Thea.
[2763.3s] First claw is a 14.
[2765.7s] Nope.
[2766.3s] Second claw is a crit 20.
[2768.0s] Yeah.
[2769.5s] And the bite is a 15.
[2774.5s] I'll take that crit 20.
[2776.1s] That's a 13 slashing damage.
[2778.2s] And it's the yonti pit master's turn.
[2781.7s] He is going to morph into a snake
[2786.2s] and he slithers back into the room behind him.
[2793.0s] Let's go back to Flint.
[2794.0s] Flint, what are you doing not knowing
[2796.0s] that your friends are being attacked?
[2798.1s] I somehow know that my friends...
[2802.8s] I have my spidey senses tingling.
[2806.8s] No, I'm going to start getting the water out of the well
[2811.9s] and getting it all pumped out and into the next room
[2817.1s] just like we planned.
[2819.1s] Sure.
[2819.6s] Yeah, so let's say it takes you the round
[2821.7s] to kind of fill up the basin
[2827.3s] but not pull the handle.
[2830.5s] So Nularaaaa, you're up.
[2832.5s] Great.
[2834.5s] Let's fucking do this.
[2836.5s] I'm mad because I'm sad.
[2839.2s] I react with anger in all situations.
[2842.7s] So I am going to...
[2845.5s] I guess what one's closest to me
[2847.3s] we're all pretty close.
[2849.1s] Yeah, they're both actively attacking Thea right now.
[2854.3s] Okay, I'm going to attack the one that still has both arms.
[2859.7s] That is a 25.
[2861.9s] 25 will hit.
[2863.3s] 20 points of damage.
[2867.3s] I am also going to cast a spell.
[2871.2s] What?
[2871.5s] Remember that I can do that sometimes?
[2874.2s] I didn't, but I can.
[2875.7s] Again, I am going to cast Hail...
[2880.2s] No, that's not what I want to...
[2882.7s] Is that what I want?
[2883.7s] No.
[2884.2s] I'm going to cast Hunter's Mark so he gets an extra D6
[2890.9s] and this is focused on that guy right now.
[2892.9s] So I can't remember if he's number two.
[2894.9s] I think he's number two.
[2897.4s] So he gets an extra D6 damage whenever I hit him with a weapon attack.
[2902.8s] So he's going to take three more damage.
[2906.5s] Then I'm going to attack him again, but I am going to...
[2910.7s] Oh, maybe not.
[2911.5s] I got a good plus.
[2912.5s] That's 16.
[2914.0s] Yep, that'll hit.
[2915.0s] Great.
[2916.6s] 18 damage from that and then for Hunter's Mark he gets an extra two.
[2922.8s] Oh yeah.
[2923.3s] So that is 20 damage total.
[2926.1s] Yeah, you attack him the first time and it brings his attention back to you,
[2930.8s] but not quick enough before you attack him the second time
[2934.2s] and strike him through and he falls to pieces, basically,
[2939.2s] from the damage that he has taken there.
[2940.8s] Yeah, so Donnie will go give that other guy a little little chomp-a-roo.
[2945.7s] That's an 18.
[2947.3s] Look at Donnie, he's back.
[2950.5s] That is five damage.
[2954.3s] And I assume this...
[2955.8s] Yeah, they're immune to stings.
[2957.4s] I assume this guy is as well.
[2961.7s] And it's that guy's turn.
[2963.7s] And he is going to recklessly attack you, Nulara.
[2968.7s] He can try.
[2970.0s] He's got one claw.
[2971.4s] He's gonna do it.
[2972.7s] That's a critical 20 with his claw.
[2975.6s] That'll do it.
[2976.9s] And a 16 with his bite.
[2983.4s] 16 damage, hey?
[2985.2s] All right, no, no, no, sorry.
[2987.2s] Critical 20 to hit with his claw, 16 to hit with his bite.
[2991.6s] Okay.
[2991.8s] So that's two attacks.
[2993.3s] 16 does not hit.
[2995.3s] Does that work?
[2996.8s] Yeah, so just the critical claw.
[2999.6s] So that's eight, 10 slashing damage.
[3002.7s] Okay.
[3004.6s] Okay, I am going to do a healing surge.
[3008.9s] Oh yeah, plus my constitution is...
[3014.1s] Oh, it's 10 points back, yeah.
[3015.8s] Okay, so I am mad.
[3023.4s] I'm gonna dash to the door of the other room and see if I can see where that guy went.
[3034.0s] You can make it just regular running.
[3035.5s] You're like 10 feet from the door.
[3037.1s] Okay, perfect.
[3038.2s] But you come around the corner and he has disappeared from sight, the snake.
[3045.2s] I turn around and I produce flame on the
[3050.6s] the one-armed dude.
[3055.8s] Okay.
[3056.1s] It's gonna be 2d8.
[3059.4s] What level am I?
[3062.0s] You're level nine.
[3063.3s] 2d8, well, that's a great roll.
[3066.0s] Six damage, fire damage.
[3068.7s] Fire.
[3070.0s] So that one lets out a hissing yelp as you burn it and its scales begin to bubble
[3078.1s] and it falls to the ground dead as well.
[3080.4s] Good, good.
[3081.7s] Flint, what are you doing?
[3083.2s] I hope something good because we got our sacrifices, all they just happened.
[3090.1s] Well, I'm assuming I'm still in the process of filling up that basin, no?
[3095.7s] Yeah, we'll say you filled it up to the point where you think it would be enough
[3099.5s] or when you guys first did it that it seemed like it was holding enough
[3103.2s] before it was starting to evaporate.
[3104.8s] I guess I just pulled that lever.
[3106.9s] You pull the lever and the water drains as it did before behind the wall,
[3112.5s] as far as you're concerned.
[3114.1s] Back in the other room, you guys hear water coming out and down a sluice
[3119.7s] that follows along the wall and goes to the divination pool.
[3123.8s] I don't even know if I want this freaking pool anymore.
[3130.2s] Hey there, it's me, your dungeon master Russ More.
[3132.6s] Thank you for joining us for episode 25 of Dumbgeons and Dragons titled
[3137.1s] Split the Party and Ye Shall Be Rewarded or something like that.
[3143.6s] Doesn't seem anybody was very happy with me at the end of this episode
[3146.8s] so it goes as dungeon master sometimes.
[3148.9s] I'll try and make more friends next time.
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[3200.9s] Right now they're DM'd by Tom and we're going through his story
[3204.5s] The Road to Duntheros.
[3206.1s] It is super sweet.
[3206.9s] We all have a super fun time recording that one
[3209.1s] and we think that you'll enjoy it just as much as we enjoy playing it.
[3212.9s] We'll try and keep it to that here.
[3214.2s] Short and sweet.
[3215.3s] The next episode will be out in a couple weeks
[3218.1s] on November 22nd and we dive even deeper into the tomb of Diderius
[3225.4s] and hopefully it doesn't get too deep that
[3229.5s] Tom, Carla and Amy don't like me after it.
[3232.2s] Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
[3233.7s] Let's get back in there though
[3234.6s] and see if they can't get this divination pool all fired up.
[3241.3s] As you guys hear the water come out, what are you guys doing?
[3245.9s] Panting?
[3246.5s] Doubled over?
[3248.9s] I turn to Nularaaaa and say,
[3252.3s] uh, you okay?
[3253.5s] You got a little weird on me there.
[3256.1s] I'm so sorry.
[3258.1s] Obviously I couldn't control myself.
[3260.8s] I'm sorry.
[3263.2s] It's okay.
[3263.6s] I have that effect on people.
[3269.6s] You're a good sport, Thea.
[3271.3s] And you hear the water coming down the sluice.
[3275.7s] Flint must have done it.
[3277.2s] You got a question ready?
[3279.7s] No, I run toward the pool and to watch it.
[3285.0s] The water hits the pool and spreads out and flares with a black light.
[3295.1s] And we go bowling?
[3296.4s] Are you...
[3296.8s] You...
[3302.9s] Thea is mesmerized by what she's seeing and just stands and stares and feels kind of all...
[3312.0s] You stare into the pool.
[3315.3s] Make a wisdom saving throw.
[3317.4s] Can I interject while she makes that throw?
[3319.9s] I like look, but I'm like, see, it's got this.
[3323.8s] This is her ball game.
[3325.2s] And I am still like facing towards where Mr. Snakey Snake disappeared to,
[3332.5s] ready just in case he decides to come back.
[3335.6s] I'm still like ready for action to protect my friend while she asks a brilliant question.
[3343.5s] I rolled a 23.
[3346.1s] Am I cray cray?
[3347.6s] No, you saved the throw.
[3350.5s] You look into the pool and you see swirling colors and you hear
[3357.5s] what sounds like a voice, but it's muffled.
[3361.8s] And it slowly comes into your mind and says,
[3366.1s] if you seek information from the divination pool, we demand a personal sacrifice.
[3376.5s] Like what?
[3378.2s] Do I say that in my mind?
[3379.8s] I say it out loud to weird Nularaaao.
[3386.7s] Like what?
[3391.5s] Nularaaao is just like, what?
[3392.8s] Wait, what?
[3393.7s] Me?
[3394.8s] No, not you.
[3395.7s] Quiet.
[3396.8s] Voices in my head.
[3398.4s] What kind of personal sacrifice?
[3400.1s] The voice, there's a brief pause and it says,
[3406.4s] you shall not receive answers until a sacrifice is gained.
[3412.9s] I reach into my bag of holding and taking out the book that I had found in the library of the dead.
[3423.6s] Library of the dead.
[3424.4s] Thank you.
[3424.8s] Enon.
[3425.6s] I reach into my bag of holding and I pull out the book about the druids,
[3431.1s] um, knowing I have not read all there is to read and there is much more for me to learn.
[3437.7s] I take the book and I throw it into the swirling colors,
[3442.4s] knowing that that information is lost to me forever.
[3445.8s] The book hits the water and lights up with an enormous flare.
[3451.1s] What is your question?
[3453.7s] I did it, you guys.
[3456.7s] I put a comforting hand on her back.
[3461.0s] But still maintaining your readiness to fight.
[3462.9s] Yes, you bet.
[3464.8s] New Laura, are you looking in the pool?
[3466.0s] What's going on with you?
[3468.1s] No, she's looking at the door.
[3470.2s] Okay.
[3471.5s] Just guarding my friend's back, but you know.
[3474.1s] Yeah, cool, just checking.
[3475.8s] My question is, who in the Cult of the Dragon
[3481.2s] can be turned to our side to help the fight to stop the rise of Tiamat?
[3490.5s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin McLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io.
[3515.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.