Land of Eem: Actual Play
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Land of Eem is a tabletop roleplaying published in partnership with indie game publisher, Exalted Funeral. and is about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten better age. Described as The Lord of the Rings meets The Muppets, players portray lore-seeking travelers, fortune-seeking pioneers, and adventure-seeking heroes in a time devoid of them. But for all its post-apocalyptic doom and gloom, Land of Eem is tonally quite lighthearted and droll.
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Land of Eem: Actual Play
Land of Eem: Fantasy Actual Play S03E02 | The Scarlet Wyrm
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Join us on an audacious quest through the whimsical Land of Eem TTRPG, played in the Mucklands Campaign Sandbox Setting and published by Exalted Funeral. In this thrilling episode, our party sets out to slay the formidable scarlet wyrm nestled within the Jagged Hills, accompanied by special guest Shane Shandar—a renowned dungeoneer with an uncanny resemblance to Dolph Lundgren (from The Expendables 3) and an unexpectedly average stature.
As the dragon hunt begins, the team grapples with the scarcity of dragon-slaying supplies and dwindling finances, all while sharing laughter, sitcom references, and tales of past escapades. With Rylee and Galen's aliases of Thunderblade and Phoenix Dark in tow, camaraderie becomes the guiding force as the group navigates high winds and eerie sensations in this treacherous terrain. Between strategizing and secret-sharing, the journey strikes a perfect balance of urgency and preparedness, ensuring both tension and humor are ever-present.
The narrative crescendos in an epic tabletop RPG showdown, where creative tactics and strategic gameplay take center stage. The party dissects the dragon's vulnerabilities, employing daring moves like Shane's bullwhip leap and Claudia's heroic arrow shot to tilt the odds in their favor. Amid the clashing swords and rolling dice, the camaraderie among players shines, blending triumphs, humorous failures, and imaginative storytelling.
As the adventure culminates, the team uncovers the dragon's mythic horde, celebrating their fantastical endeavor with humor, resilience, and the joy of shared discovery. Perfect for fans of Fantasy Actual Play, Collaborative Storytelling RPGs, Rules-Light Indie RPGs, and the ever-creative TTRPG community, this episode is a testament to the magic of role-playing.
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Dashing Bold Adventure in Bogtown
Speaker 1Hi , oh my gosh , hi . Good morrow everybody . Oh , my goodness , gracious George , you're muted .
Speaker 2It was probably better out that way to be real .
Speaker 1Hi , everybody so right before the stream . I ate a fortune cookie Like randomly I just had one on the counter . Also ate the fortune and the fortune is , life to you is a dashing , bold adventure . Whoa yeah , it is Land of Eam . Wow .
Speaker 2You guys are going on a dashing bold adventure today . Yeah , we are . I mean , maybe kill a dragon ?
Speaker 1One of our lucky numbers is a 12 , so let's , we're going to roll some 12s . Baby Bernard's going to guide our hand . He's going to guide our hand .
Speaker 2Bernard , wherever you are in the world , you must guide their hands , it's true .
Speaker 1You must Egg animates , egg animates . You're a little early .
Speaker 2Hey , hypes for the stream . If you're still here , egg , how you doing . Today is the second session of season three and , uh , you guys are in bog town you have done a couple things you've . You've met Shane Shandar , the famous Dungeoneer .
Speaker 1Indeed , I thought he would be bigger . He's pretty no , he's pretty built . I still thought he would be bigger . He is has the exact . He looks exactly like Dolph Lundgren From the Expendables 3 . He is Dolph Lundgren from the Expendables 3 .
Speaker 2Yeah , he's got a bulbous boggart nose and pointy ears and a big stache .
Speaker 1He's a handsome fellow , hello . Hello , has a chemical engineering degree .
Speaker 2Thank you for joining us , alright , so you guys are in Bogtown . They're . Thank you for joining us , all right , so you guys are in Bogtown . Well , the story behind this whole thing is that Dungeoneer Magazine needs good stories and Shane Shandar's stories haven't been exciting all that much lately and you guys are kind of outshining his stories .
Speaker 2Uh , but part of that is because zone imbach has um kind of punched up the romance , the non-existent romance , between you two we swear it doesn't exist , it doesn't , it doesn't and so , uh , yeah , you've , you've partnered with shane Shandar to go on a interesting , amazing adventure , which he brought up the idea of going to slay the scarlet worm in the jagged hills yeah , that's a dragon he wants us to slay a dragon and I am legitimately terrified .
Speaker 1Yeah , thunderblade is not terrified , it's a party of two goofballs . Am legitimately terrified , yeah .
Speaker 2Thunderblade is not terrified .
Speaker 1It's a party of two goofballs . Fyi it's not .
Speaker 2Well , you're going to have Shane Chandar . He's legitimate , he's a force .
Speaker 1I turn . Is Shane with us right now ? Are we with Shane ? Let's set the scene .
Speaker 2You tell me where you are , it's the morning of the next day . Today you're supposed to go on this journey . Do you want to already be with him ?
Speaker 1Yeah , we're like we're hanging out . He's like packing up a mule on the outskirts of Bogtown as we are about to embark north to the Jagged Hills . I like the idea that Shane Shandor has a trusty mule .
Speaker 2Yeah , let me ask you did you want to get any supplies beforehand ?
Speaker 1I would like dragon slaying supplies , whatever those are . Do you have anything in a ballista ? I'll ask the guy . Yeah , it's called a crossbow , it's a handheld ballista . Yeah , that'll be one pouch of silver coins . Sorry , don't have it , we broke .
Speaker 2I forgot .
Speaker 1That's something we should mention . The reason we're doing this is because we are flat broke and we need resources in order to continue our own quest , and what better way to fill your coffers than with a dragon's hoard ? There was a point at which we were sailing down the Black Robe paying two gold pouches to Piabity here and there for our transport , and I kept thinking to myself we're hitting that level of the game . Yeah , we're . We're like we're hitting that level of the game where we're going to be getting gold more frequently . It should be okay to spend this well and we're yeah , I mean we were headed .
Speaker 1We were headed to go uh finish building our ship and and uh go on a pirate adventure looking for treasure yeah , this is part of the problem , you know you , you guys kind of hit a low point in your adventures , you know .
Speaker 1I think it's more like if you look at the writers of any sitcom . They just are like how do we drag this out more and we're going to take away their money ? Let's make a figure it out . Two words , stefan Urkel . Wow , he's canon in the land of him . Do we lose Ben by any chance ?
Speaker 2I heard that voice . I don't know why I have no image . It says my camera lost connection . That's disturbing . Okay , you need to see your beautiful face .
Speaker 1Alright , everybody , let's vent for a minute . The Industrial Revolution was neither industrial nor revolution . Discuss , let's vamp for a minute . Uh , the industrial revolution was neither industrial nor revolution discuss it's true um there's ben casa . He'll be back . He'll be back um , so let's see um he's returning , he's returning . I think that I don't think there's anything we need to pick up or purchase or anything that we can't purchase , really no , I don't think there's anything we need to pick up or purchase or anything that we can purchase really no , I don't think there's anything we have enough .
Speaker 1We have like five rations , I know right . I wonder if we can forge anything . That's a good thought . What could I possibly ? Craft you're good on armor . Right now I am armor less , but that would be good . We could even just start , oh no , but we don't have any materials . I've got the great helmet on , Okay that's a start . I've got my halberd , I'm using the updated character . I'm looking at what I'm wearing now .
Speaker 2Ah , yes .
Speaker 1But the updated character sheet . We'll share that with everybody soon actually we're going to update a big update to the Quick Start Guide that you can check out . You can download it for free . If you hop on over to LandofGaimcom and join the newsletter , you just automatically get a link to it . And you'll find out all the updates , new art , new layout , all the changes that are coming to the .
Speaker 2And it's not a lot of changes really , the beta is pretty fleshed out . We're getting great feedback on Discord , which you can also join to share your thoughts .
Speaker 1But anyway , sorry , plug over no . I mean , this is the advertisement while Ben figures this stuff out . Yeah , and you know , speaking of feedback , we got some fantastic feedback on the Land of Doom Discord yesterday about treasure hunting on the Land of Doom Discord yesterday about treasure hunting , and one of the things that Ben worked on yesterday was trying to simplify and revamp the treasure hunting a little bit , because Ben and I have always felt that it was a little complicated and because we had not delivered treasure . Any playtests never really got super fleshed out , but hopefully we were successful today .
Speaker 1Georgie and yeah yeah , shout out to melky . Or for giving us feedback in the playtest feedback channel on discord I mean that's , this is super helpful . Um , you know , because we live in our own like . Yeah , we live in our own microcosm . Like when I get 12 mundane items like three canoes , like a tennis racket and four umbrellas , I'm excited about that . But I think most normal people are not excited about that .
Speaker 2I don't know this is the land of the issue . The issue was more with , like , the rolling aspect . I don't think it was like what you get .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah . But I mean yeah , that's true , it's even just trying to roll 40 things . Not everyone has roll 20 to roll a bunch of things for them at once .
Speaker 2So I don't know why I lost my camera , but I had to shut everything down . I closed my browser and I lost all my tabs oh . Ben control .
Speaker 1shift T will reopen all of your previous , if you hit that a couple times .
Speaker 2I don't know if I want to do that . It only worked when I shut everything down .
Speaker 1Sinking ship says poop , which I heartily agree with .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Not only is it a great username for making that game . Welcome to the sinking ship .
Speaker 2I hope sinking ship comes like once a week to our streams .
Speaker 1Technologically are we living the dream . Now Enhance .
Speaker 2It looks good .
Speaker 1We're fine . Yeah , I think we're back to normal . I see Ben in roll 20 . Yep , I got to say , for three seasons of this , this is the first time we've had a catastrophic failure . That's true .
Speaker 2We've done this for Technologically .
Speaker 1I don't even know how many episodes we've done , but this is season three , so I'm just going to think about it .
Speaker 2It's like 47 episodes or something crazy like that , who knows ? My internet seems to be wonky at the moment , but that's okay , we'll power through . So wonky at the moment . That's okay , we'll power through . So I can't guarantee there won't be more problems . That's what I'm trying to say .
Speaker 1We're going to role play . It'll be Shane Shandard going off gallivanting by himself Dashing in Bold Adventure . It was foretold by the fortune cookie it was . Do we want to talk about the treasure stuff at all ? James james and I were briefly I mean , we just talked . We we talked a little bit about uh yeah , we got some great feedback on discord and we're making some adjustments and maybe those will be tested today . But you know , nobody hold your breath .
Speaker 2I don't , I don't think we want to like I find a treasure just yet .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah yeah . Totally , Totally . Riley and I discussed it . There's nothing else that we need to buy really , because we're broke . We have some rations . The chicken lizard is fed the jar of firecrackers is fed . Yes , it's all very rational , I think .
Journey With Shane Shandauer
Speaker 1We pull up to Shane Shandauer and I reach out to give him a hero tug and he looks down at my outstretched forearm and doesn't understand .
Speaker 2I think he would totally understand .
Speaker 1Yeah , okay , fine . And then we have a hero tug .
Speaker 2You know , you don't .
Speaker 1He says I don't think we're there yet . It hurts my soul .
Speaker 2Let's see how this adventure goes .
Speaker 1okay , I do the thing where you're reaching out for a handshake and then they reach out for it and you go too slow and I just look even dumber because he's not practicing . I shake my head silently , like come on , can't we just met this guy ? He's the only thing that's going to save our lives from the drone . Got to channel Thunderblade . Got to channel Thunderblade .
Speaker 2Is there a Rickety Stitch Land of Eme Discord ? Yes , yes , there is .
Speaker 1We'll link it right now . You can check it out . It's got sections for Rickety Stitch , it's got sections for the Land of EMRPG and if you're looking for a group , there's groups formulating every day now , which is awesome , it is awesome , okay , yeah . Well , there we go , let's begin your journey . Journey begin , I say to Shane . I say to Shane , I say Shane , do you always hunt by yourself ? You never have someone else with you .
Speaker 2I often employ hirelings . You know , usually folks who are very knowledgeable of the area I'm going into so like guides and such yeah , a Sherpa , if you will .
Speaker 1Sure Puh , puh , meh , I say , but they're just guides . Do you ever hire other adventurers to go with you ?
Speaker 2No , no , that's just . You know you don't want to give too much away . You know splitting things six ways , three ways gotta have your secrets and I don't need it , frankly and I mean look , just be , just be happy that we're , we're going on this adventure together , okay , no , we are happy .
Speaker 1We're just trying to figure out the dynamic . I'm really excited to be here . I appreciate you allowing us to participate in this dragon hunt . He wants to know if we're like your butlers or whatever .
Speaker 2Riley , if I thought you were my butlers , I wouldn't bring you along . I don't need dead weight .
Speaker 1Understood the implication that Galen is not dead weight to Shane Chander actually like really kind of tickles him . He's like , oh nice , he thinks I'm something .
Speaker 2I mean you're Thunderblade and Phoenix Dark .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , thunderblade and Phoenix Stark . Yeah , yeah , thunderblade here , phoenix Stark . Write that down . Write that down , zona . They are Thunderblade and Phoenix . We already knew this . Why aren't they repeating themselves ? Classic .
Speaker 2All right , begin your journey . All right , someone make a travel check .
Speaker 1Should we take the road and go straight to Veselberf , To Thrig to Jagged Hills , To Thrig to Jagged Hills ?
Speaker 2Taking the road gives you plus one .
Speaker 1It's realms , right ? Okay , we got a nine . Oh , we're 10 actually , with the realms or with the uh , with the road . So we're gonna move . One leg , two legs , two .
Speaker 2One leg , two hexes yeah , all right , that's a uneventful journey . As you travel along the road , you can . Um One leg , two hexes . Yeah , all right , that's an uneventful journey as you travel along the road . You can , george , you can search for stuff , resources .
Speaker 1I'm going to search for elemental items . I'm going to make a wilderness check . That's a 12 , baby . That's a wilderness check . That's a 12 , baby . That's a 14 total . Any resources I was saying I wanted to do Gather materials ? No Fish , pick , herbs . Was there a gather elemental resources one , or am I crazy ? I guess that's lumped into a high enough role in a , uh , gather materials check . Okay , so I maybe I would have been doing that . Um , so I rolled a 14 , gather 1d6 materials and choose an elemental component , which I will do while james rolls . Um , so , james , you can add one material to your pile . Okay , I'll do my own elemental component check . We're in Fleabag County .
Speaker 2All right , james , make a travel check . Eight , oh , we're all going to die .
Speaker 1Sure , these are quest points . No , I don't want to .
Speaker 2Your max is plus three , so it'd be seven , seven . Sorry Okay , roll a d6 . A d6 . Like a d6 , like a d6 three you guys are exhausted .
Speaker 1I feel it . It's tough to keep pace with Shane Shandar , yeah , and we're also kind of embarrassed that we can't keep pace .
Speaker 2So we're like gu of embarrassed that we can't keep pace so we're like guzzling water and eating extra food . Come on , pick it up , gonna lose time .
Speaker 1He's a slave driver man . I'm still a little out of shape , shane , sorry .
Speaker 2Out of shape . How's that even possible ?
Speaker 1Well , I mean , we haven't been eating well , essentially just been eating hot dogs for two months . I can really go for a salad . Yeah , we haven't had any roughage in our systems in way too long . Are you saying we need to ?
Speaker 2stop in Beasleberf . It might be a good idea . What do you think ? We're going to lose time ?
Speaker 1We're going to lose half a day if we do that Well we won't be rested right if we're going to fight a dragon , galen is not going to be there tomorrow .
Speaker 2You know what I mean .
Speaker 1I think Galen would be like no , no , we got to power through .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's good . Let's go Like forget Beezleblur , forget salads , all right .
Speaker 1I'm like I hold my own , but I'm like totally disappointed internally .
Speaker 2You kind of skirt around and , beezleberf , you want to go here or here .
Speaker 1Which way ? Yeah , we can go up towards Thrieg Thrieg , thrieg Thrieg . Yeah , th can go up towards Thrieg Thrieg , thrieg Thrieg . Yeah , thrieg is right there . Jagged Hills is right on the other side of that bridge . That's where our gravestones will be .
Speaker 2Hey Princess Funnybone .
Speaker 1Hey , welcome Welcome .
Speaker 2Tackling your own personal dungeon ? Huh , that sounds harrowing .
Speaker 1It's awesome . Sinking Ship says I'll be sure to join more streams to say poop . We appreciate that . We look forward to your future poop endeavors . Yes .
Speaker 2Everybody poops , it's true , everybody poops . All right , all right , it's the end of the day . Sorry , I'm a little flustered after getting disconnected and all that . Oh good man , technology Kind of threw me off .
Speaker 1Got to get a shrimp over there . You know , cranking on the spud of technology , I think I got bunglewood for my . It was taking forever for me to find my item list . Yes , sorry , carry on , fine my item list . Um , yes , sorry carry on .
Speaker 2So you're all making camp with shane chandar . Um , is there anything what you want to say to each other ? Remember that you can tell a story about yourself in lieu of like building relationships um , yeah , maybe we can tell .
Speaker 1We'll start telling the story of , like the time . Uh , hold on , let me just scroll back in my quest log and I'll turn to riley and I'll be like hey , riley , I'll say it just loud enough for for shane to I say remember when we fought alongside Jayla the Red Axe that night of that Felmog night , how could I ever forget it ? I pull out her Red Axe . I say you know , I kind of miss her . She was a great asset against the Sarpathy threat when we were invading their underground or underwater temple . Yeah , I don't know .
Speaker 2You made it into their temple .
Speaker 1Oh , sorry , didn't see you there , I didn't wake you .
Speaker 2I didn't wake you , Riley .
Speaker 1I do like a phantom fist bump with him . Yeah , I say yeah , yeah , we were all the way down in Galen pulls out this map . We were all the way down in Hex , like you know 1221 .
Speaker 2I don't know if you've been there . It was a little north of the Scallywag .
Speaker 1Yeah , it was a little south of Dunk , north of the Scallywag Strand , there's a lake , a massive lake , filled with muckmen and Sarpathy . We went there in search of not only the Sarpathy , but I think we were after the Wyvern too , right yeah , and we weren't even sure that there was anything there . It was just kind of a rumor .
Speaker 2But when we saw that gigantic Sargog- Yeahog yeah , oh yeah , this all sounds made up no , no , I show .
Speaker 1I show him the , the fang marks , the scars I have from when the sargog bit me , because I actually you know what I have ? Venom from the sargog . Yeah , oh , you do you have the same ?
Speaker 2you can create a uh it , but it didn't work .
Speaker 1Yeah , there's the Venom right there .
Speaker 2The Sargog's name was Karul . This is just Sargog's , but Sargog's are not venomous . He hands it back to you . Oh , you try getting bitten by Sargog .
Speaker 1I'm feeling .
Speaker 2That's why it didn't work .
Speaker 1Oh , I just toss it didn't work . Oh , I just toss it into the fire . So you totally come over and just like craps on our parade , which I love . So I think Galen's a little deflated because this story has gone off the rails and he says , yeah , you know , we were captured and then escaped . And then , yeah , we got out of there with our lives , we helped the muck men in the battle against the Sarpathian . Yeah , I guess it's not that cool of a story anyways .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean , not many people have delved into the temple or even know that it exists it was spooky .
Speaker 1They're up to something that's hard . They've been kidnapping people and they've been all over . They destroyed our village . That's really what this is about for us , we're trying to figure out just what they're up to and to stop them from taking over the Mucklins . Yeah , I say , Shane , have you ever seen a Hierophant ? They have three heads and four arms . They're spawned by the Queen Sindranoth . They're terrifying .
Speaker 2I have . I have seen a Hierophant before . Nothing that grotesque or monstrous .
Speaker 1Seen a two-headed one the one we saw was three-headed , four-armed . It was worse , terrifying . I say uh , you know , you know the sarpathy threat that don't you feel compelled to do something about it don't you feel compelled to do something about it ?
Speaker 1There's only so much that one person can do . I mean , maybe if you could share more about your experience because , George , if you remember , we're doing this partially helping him to have him tell us about the Sarpathy . I totally forgot that . I genuinely was just trying to think of a cool story to tell Shane Shandar . It was genius george .
Speaker 2All right , it was just it's . I'm channeling my inner galen . It was a genius georgie . Well , I I don't want to . I want to make sure that you guys don't uh abandon this adventure if I just spill the beans on everything I say , shane , we're in , we're a man and woman of our words .
Speaker 1We would never abandon you words , um , but I'm just saying that maybe , after this dragon threat is dealt with , it would be we could share some intel , because we think this sarapathy threat is is is much bigger than people realize well , I've heard some rumors and I think they have a another location , headquarters or something whatever .
Speaker 2They call it hive of scum and villainy , a den snake , den Snake , den Nest .
Speaker 1Ah , Based on my experience , it's probably some unknowable horrifying temple deep within the Earth . Am I right ?
Speaker 2Yeah , they say there might be something near the spill .
Speaker 1Oh jeez , we were just in the spill .
Speaker 2Spill's the worst place I've ever been .
Speaker 1Shane , if you go back and listen to season two , episode nine through twelve , Is that actually nine through twelve ? I don't know .
Speaker 2If you were that accurate , it would blow up .
Speaker 1That would have been awesome .
Speaker 2It is in season two .
Speaker 1I tell Shane , we were just there , we saw horrible . And then just at that moment , gabe , the monk fairy creature kind of comes splurging onto my shoulder . I'm like , not now Gabe . Oh yeah , horrible creatures . And I point at Gabe . There was this . What was he ? An ogre who was experimenting fusing creatures , together with the secret of the ewes .
Speaker 2You should probably not keep that as a pet .
Speaker 1So he's harmless and there's like he's meanwhile sucking on my neck or something . I'm like Gabe , stop it , stop it . It's like a soul with rat bones .
Speaker 2Yeah , jandar pokes it with a stick .
Speaker 1It hisses and it's like fleas down my back . Are you sure ?
Speaker 2that's safe .
Speaker 1I mean you know how it is Nothing safe , we don't really know . But this guy's been following us around for a while . He seems all right , yeah . And then I say , wait , have I introduced you to Claudia ? Immediately Claudia comes clucking around the lizard on her back .
Speaker 2Now . That's different from the spill .
Speaker 1Claudia , that's a curse right , or is she a mutant too ? I think it was . I think she got spill juice on her in that fuse with the lizard .
Speaker 2Yeah , you're right , it is toxic .
Speaker 1She's my tiny mobile weapons platform . Yeah .
Speaker 2You got . She's my tiny mobile weapon platform . Yeah , oh , you got quite the menagerie .
Speaker 1Yeah , and of course you know zona , he's our chronicler . He now has fangs and zona goes . He just mostly eats mud and soup . This is this is the first time , I think , that Galen has fanboyed out over their previous adventures Like I realize . We've had a ton of adventures .
Speaker 2Yeah , you have , and it's it all . I'm telling you , it all doesn't sound real these are fantastic adventures .
Speaker 1Well , I mean , we grew up on the stories of Shane Shandor . You've had fantastic adventures yourself . I'm sure that what might seem mundane to you is mind-blowing to the rest of E . I want to relive the glory days and find our own glory days . Maybe together we can have that grand adventure .
Speaker 2Ever since I rode that gargle beast in the underlands , it steered it away from the undercity . I feel like things have just really gone downhill . Nothing's quite topped that .
Speaker 1Well , you know why do you have to top it ? You're an explorer . People should be interested in the stories of your explorations . Doesn't mean they need to be amazing . It's not like we go out and seek these amazing adventures . We're just trying to do the right thing and we get wrapped up into it and boy oh boy , the road is a hard place to live . Yeah , I think that's the thing you've . Before you were adventuring for the sake of adventuring . I wonder if now , I wonder if now you're so wrapped up in
Camaraderie in the Jagged Hills
Speaker 1topping yourself you're not enjoying it anymore .
Speaker 2You see , like a troubled , depressed look sweep across his face .
Speaker 1I say , Shane , let's just have fun with this . Let's do it for ourselves and not for the readers . I'd like to jump on the word fun , I will use inspiring order to no , it's fine , I'll just make an inspire check . I think I still just have a plus one . Let's make an inspiration check Six . I mean he looks at me . I mean I can do some stuff , I can re-roll it . I mean that's enough . I think that's enough to kind of Nudge him in the right direction .
Speaker 2You're right , let's , let's go wild , let's just have fun okay , I reach out again for the hero tug .
Speaker 1He gives it to you , like it happens right in front of me , like yeah , I'm like a little nervous , like okay , like let's remember what we're trying to do here guys .
Speaker 2yeah , the only rational way A flame just like around your .
Speaker 1The camera pans up on the wisp of the column of smoke coming from the fire and it pinholes to the next morning as the music swells and . Riley is just like nervously , like uh guys . I don't know .
Speaker 2Alright , the next morning .
Speaker 1That's some relationship building . We're getting XP for that baby . It's the good stuff . That's what I crave . It's Brondo Wow .
Speaker 2Marlon Brondo , marlon Brondo , marlon Brondo . Alright , it's the next day . You've got another Day of Traveling to reach the Jagged Hills .
Speaker 1Alright , you want to roll it , trudy , I do , I do , I do , it's true . Ooh , it's a seven . Seven , I'm not so on the lookout today , as I was yesterday um , kind of riding high . Now that we're with shane chandar and we've kind of hit a groove , uh , we move one up towards thrigg . I don't think we need to stop at three , we can just uh , I guess we're moving two . You want to just bypass three and go for that bridge ?
Speaker 2Yeah , why not ?
Speaker 1I turn to Shane and I say , shane , we're about to enter the Jagged Hills . There they are , the Jagged Hills . They're like the teeth , the bottom jaw of a dragon , creaky wheels of the wagon on the cobblestones of the bridge . Yeah , yep .
Speaker 2They surely are jagged . Have you ever been here ?
Speaker 1Maybe I think we've passed through , possibly , but we never went into the hills . I've never been in the hills myself . Jalen shoves like a field ration in his mouth . While they're talking he's like no , no , no , daggett Hills . I don't remember him . I think we sailed down the river to the north .
Speaker 2Um , you guys encounter like really high winds . Uh , you've run afoul of bad weather . It's like super windy . Um , yeah , uh , you've run afoul of bad weather .
Speaker 1It's like super windy , um , yeah , like it's almost difficult to ride on top of our mounts . I have to get down off of um fb and lead her , yeah , through like dust and whatever yeah , so this next travel check will have disadvantage and yeah .
Speaker 2Also the other thing I was going to say you also move only one hex in mountains .
Speaker 1Okay , I mean we're almost . Yeah , we're almost . I assume that it is in one of the nearby hexes seas Right , yeah , we're almost . I assume that it is in one of the nearby hexes .
Speaker 2Yeah , so once you enter the nearby hexes , you'll stop One hex .
Speaker 1Jonah hex Six . Alright , I feel that I could have been worse . That definitely could have been worse . That ain't great .
Speaker 2Alright , you enter the jagged hills , which are more jagged than they appear on the map .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Good copyright structure .
Speaker 1Mario .
Speaker 2They're pointy , jagged rocks . It's not smooth traveling .
Speaker 1Traveling it's like you're walking on uneven gravel and rocks and uh , everything is pointy , yeah even the gravel is pointy , like there's nothing smooth or worn down . You're walking on caltrops . Yeah , yes , exactly my toe , my toe . I'm gonna be careful to walk into other people's footprints because I'm too light and I keep scrambling up or sliding down .
Speaker 2So you don't make it too far in the hills before night starts to fall . You just get an uneasy feeling that things are watching you .
Speaker 1The hills have eyes , it's true . Um , that's the sound of blood curling screams . I'm thinking , if there's anything , if I want to just uh , ben , can I discerning I uh like kind of a , a rocky outcropping that would be really suitable for a camp , so that we're a little more protected , in the sense that stuff can only come from one direction in the night ?
Speaker 2discerning eye is more like it's like weakness or a vulnerability .
Speaker 1Okay , yeah , that's fair . That's fair . I , that's fair , I will , I will look for make like a survival check , maybe a wilderness , wilderness . Yeah , I think I'll do that . I type today that's an 11 . I say Shane Shane because I only care about getting Shane's approval , that rocky outcropping looks really defensible . There's a little bit of a peaked roof for an outlet for our smoke to go up . We can have our backs to the wall . I think it'd be a good place to set up camp as night falls .
Speaker 2Yeah , good eye , it's a very discerning eye .
Speaker 1Wow , galen reached out for another hero tug because he knows it would just be like needy at this point . But you see like Riley sees his hand quivering a little bit like he wants to hero tug . I'm gonna roll my eyes and then like look at the approach , yeah , where things would come from the camp and I'm gonna use'm going to use trap making to collect everybody's spoons after dinner and tie them all up to a rope that's low so that if something tries to pass , through it'll jingle .
Speaker 1Shane is hesitant to give up his favorite traveling spoon .
Speaker 2This is my spoon up , his favorite traveling spoon .
Speaker 1Ah , this is my spoon . Yeah , I'm going to have to , I just need one more .
Speaker 2You can get it back .
Speaker 1You can get it back in the morning , shane . This is how we survive . Zona Imbach documents . And thus began the great spoon fight of that evening .
Speaker 2Fine , take the spoon . I guess it's kind of gross .
Speaker 1But Zbach is actually making shane shandara out to seem really petty , like just like blowing up all the terrible like he didn't want to give a spoon . My total is eight . Nice , it's okay , that was advantage man for the one and a five you want to do ? You want to suck a quest of punta ? Make it a nine . Is that worth it ?
Speaker 1You want to save them all for the dragon when we die . You know what ? I will use a quest point and my reasoning is because I'm afraid of getting beat up before we have to kill the dragon . That makes sense .
Speaker 2So I'm going to use a quest point to make a nine , to set up the trap Get that mana quest point .
Speaker 1Imagine that's how Shane talks . So your trap is just it's more of a warning . It's like an alarm . Yeah , using trap making to make an alarm so that we don't get pounced on . Little did you know it was going to be flying creatures that beset us in the night , yeah right , just specters . Yeah , we put up Ghost Spoonie . Ghost Spoonie , I see you like to play Knifey Spoonie too . Okay , okay , um four bog witches you're lucky .
Speaker 2You're lucky this evening , yes , you had a three and six chance of encountering something , but the night goes uh , without incident . You just hear the jingle of your spoons a couple times from the wind hear those spoons .
Speaker 1They jingle , jangle , jingle . It's true , um , you get up in the morning and I . I get up early to put a pot of coffee on for shane and also riley , but mostly for shane . But when I pick up the pot to pour myself some , it's all it's all gone , it's all mostly coffee grounds .
Speaker 1Shane is like up before you and you have no idea how , because you yeah I really set your heart on getting up yeah I wake up and I'm like oh , oh , coffee , already coffee is he's like finishing shaving with ? Yeah I say uh , and I , as I sip the coffee , I'm like shame , this is the best coffee I've ever had and like that's not even like me trying to build them up , I'm like you've got to teach me the secrets of road coffee .
Speaker 2It's all about the beans Wow .
Speaker 1Get out of here . This can't be the best coffee you've ever had .
Speaker 2I silently hand Riley the cup yeah .
Speaker 1And it's like that's the best coffee I've ever had too .
Speaker 2These come all the way from Button Hollow the gnomes they're .
Speaker 1Finest Arabica beans from Button Hollow Do you hand grind them every morning ? He actually uses the hilt of his sword to crush them To the appropriate grind size .
Speaker 2I had this hilt , this pommel custom built size . I had this hilt , this pommel custom built .
Speaker 1I say it'll grind enemies' faces and it'll grind coffee beans . That is a true multi-tool .
Speaker 2I'm learning so much . Well , these are the little things that make the journey worth journeying . You know what I mean .
Speaker 1Zonianbach writes that down verbatim and he says that was a good one , shane , we like that . He claps his hands together . He's like all right , let's have some fun today .
Speaker 2Yeah , do this for us now . It's gonna be a little tough to uh find the scarlet worms uh cave here , you know actually worms cave here you know , actually , are you going to do it ?
Speaker 1I was going to use hyper clues and have it be something tremendously obvious like a gigantic footprint with red scales just scattered around .
Speaker 2I think it's that way guys .
Speaker 1Roll search yeah , it is , yeah , baby , it is . Wow , actually it's done and we can clearly see that we've camped in a footprint . Yeah , that was yeah , oh , no , I love it .
Speaker 2I was going to give you guys disadvantage on searching around False , so you will just have a normal check , search , check to search around the hills .
Speaker 1Let me get a search check baby search around the hills , let me get a search check baby . I really gotta improve my stats instead of just leveling up all the time yeah , I did a whole level of terrible . Um , I think I have search . Oh , I'm going to sneeze . I'll roll in a second .
Speaker 2Sneezing Did you mute your sneeze .
Speaker 1I was waiting for it .
Speaker 2I did mute my sneeze . That is courtesy .
Speaker 1definitely I was actually primed for it and expecting it , it didn't happen .
Speaker 2Can you give us a fake sneeze ? I felt kind of let down .
Speaker 1I'm so sorry . I shouldn't have said anything . I should have just muted . I rolled a 10 . That's a 10 for the search . Nice , we're using up all our good rolls getting to the dragon , wherein our bad rolls will kick in and we'll die .
Speaker 2Yep alright , you're able to follow Riley's clues and take it from there . Shane Chandar is really impressed . It's like you just found it like that . I mean , that's the fastest dragon hunt I've ever had .
Speaker 1She's amazing . Well , I mean , I blush .
Speaker 2I mean we've gotten deep into the Jagged Hills without any encounters .
Speaker 1This is Don't jinx it , be cool , be cool , don't jinx it . Yeah , I mean , this is fun , random encounter starts . Moment he says attack my Scrockwings . Yeah , Shane , I'm having a ton of fun too . Buddy , I can't wait to get to this dragon and see it in action . Would you guys focus on the challenges at hand ? There's a dragon in here .
Speaker 2Make one of you make a perception check .
Speaker 1Oh , it should not be me . My perception is terrible . Is Riley's much better ? I'm okay . Mine's plus one .
Speaker 2Okay , thank you you for perceiving you . Uh , catch a whiff of like hot air , just kind of like it only hits your face , riley sorry , I was walking in for any riley .
Speaker 1It was me , I had my mouth .
Speaker 2It smells like sulfur a little bit , but then it like yeah , I'd be like shh guys , do you smell that ?
Speaker 1Come here Like show them where the heat's coming from . It's like down there . We all like crawl to the edge of an overlook or something .
Speaker 2Yeah , you're peering down into darkness now .
Speaker 1Peering down at Charlie Murphy . Wow , dave Chappelle , I just squint really hard into the darkness . I know it's not going to help at all . It's just like you see Galen squinting like , peering as much as he can into it you see darkness and it really just kind of pierces your soul mercurial darkness yeah it's like you're taking in the sublime . It's Derridian darkness . I'm sorry , gosh .
Speaker 2It struck me like a whore . Out of the darkness comes a dragon named .
Speaker 1All of us have English degrees . Shane Shandar turns to us . He says Do you know the name of the dragon ? And he whispers it's Dawa hair . Oh Sorry , guys . We're making jokes about having the same professors in college right now . Oh God . Yeah , it's deep , deep , it's meta .
Speaker 2I mean , there definitely are some Dawahis and Dawahoos .
Speaker 1There's a lot . There's a lot of versions of Solomon . All the Dawahis and Dawahoos know Kung Fu . You just see them walking around in karate keys . They're in line at the Freudian sip . Sorry To everyone watching , this is like .
Speaker 2George is going off the rails .
Speaker 1I am out of control . I'm fatigued . I'm out of control . I apologize . Let's return to the pit . All right , Guys ? Do we really need a slant dragon to be famous ?
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Speaker 2No , this isn't about fame .
Speaker 1This is about fun really we're already famous . Is that fun ?
Speaker 2shane chandler just jumps in the hole oh my god all right , right , let's uh no , let's go .
Speaker 1let's go , we're good , I'm the last one to go in . Let's be like like , let's do Shane Shandar , alright , we got you here . No , I leap in after Shane , I go in last . It was the biggest grin on my face as I leap in with a red axe flaming above my head .
Speaker 2Alright , everyone make an athletics check .
Speaker 1Or break your legs . I am not an athlete , but I'll take that nat 11 . That was pretty solid . I roll a six , I think I stumble as I go down the embankment and I kind of do a little roll and I clamber back to my feet .
Speaker 2Yeah , you took a little dread because you rolled a bunch of sharp rocks it makes sense .
Speaker 1Okay cool , I have 22 courage out of 23 .
Speaker 2Okay , you guys are in complete darkness .
Speaker 1I use my infravision .
Speaker 2I'm afraid you do . Wow , you guys have a lantern . Do you want to use it though ? That's the thing .
Speaker 1I'm afraid of sparking it up , and then the first thing I see is a is a six foot , eyeball . I wonder if okay , wonder if a firefly jar would raise less suspicion from the dragon than like a lantern . So how much damage we take no rolling up the dragon's abilities . Oh my god , lord um , I make a perception check to hear where shane is , so I can go back to back with him and I I grab riley's hand and we move together . It's like shuffling along the wall .
Speaker 2Yeah feeling uh cold rocks .
Speaker 1Yeah , because of the echoes in the cavern I actually move farther away from Shane .
Speaker 2The plus is you're right next to Riley . You guys are together , but you've lost Shane .
Speaker 1Yeah , say Riley , riley , this isn't fun anymore . No , I'm glad you see that now . I'm glad you see that now because I'm glad you see that now because this has not been fun ever since we decided to come and die . Okay , okay , okay , okay , okay , we gotta get . We gotta find Shane . I'm sure he's gonna have like some kind of battle cry here in a minute and then we'll go . Shane is overcompensating . He's an explorer . He shouldn't have to do this . This is crazy . We got to get out of here . It's okay , we'll be fine , we'll be fine . Yeah , we hear Shane at all . Or is he just like lurking stealthily waiting to kill us ?
Speaker 2You don't hear him . He's gone as far as you . Unless you like , light your torch or whatever . You have your lantern .
Speaker 1I am regrettably going to gently shake my jar of fireflies . So a soft glow begins to firefly jar , perpetual light best part of our river country trip . Yeah , I gently shake it so there's a very soft , faint glow .
Speaker 2We can see our foot , kind of like our feet , and the immediate surroundings perhaps okay , you briefly see ahead of you Shane Shandar's legs , but he ducks behind a rock . You don't see a dragon , you don't see a dragon .
Speaker 1Can we cautiously follow him around the corner or behind the rock ? I mean , I know he's just on the hunt . At this point I just don't want him to attack us , Attack you . I mean , just like I don't want us to sneak up on him or something and like surprise him . I don't think we could possibly surprise Shane . Actually I do it , I sneak up behind him .
Speaker 2You'll have to make a sneak check .
Speaker 1Is Riley for Riley to sneak up on him , or just ?
Speaker 2for us to not make a mistake , or is that running To get to him ? You have to make a sneak check .
Speaker 1Oh so nine Thank you . Oh , I had to make . We have to make a sneak check . Oh , so Nine Thank you . Oh , I have to make minus one . You have to make one too , minus one , that's a two .
Speaker 2Is it better to ?
Speaker 1be a complete failure , or should I bump it to a three ? Is it three ? I ?
Speaker 2don't know . A three is better than a two yeah , right , it's like a failure if you're asking like is it better to die now versus ?
Speaker 1later yeah yeah , I , I use it . I use the quest point and I bump it to a three like ow as I bang my shin on a low-hanging rock .
Speaker 2Alright , you do that and you scramble behind the rest of them , but you hear like a massive grumble , like someone . I'm sorry , I'm sorry .
Speaker 1I'm sorry , I'm sorry like someone , sorry , sorry , sorry sorry . And then you hear like someone , like a creature that's waking up , like I'm gonna whisper to Shane and be like we can't even see in here . We should lure it out into the daylight and quiet okay , I'm gonna use my don't need to be rude . How many is my flaw in a kind of a creative way , okay , stumble like at the end and opportune time .
Speaker 1I'm gonna say like sorry , like at full and then immediately cover my own mouth just because I'm being polite , you can . You can feel Shane staring at you , sorry that you just hear a huge roar .
Speaker 2You feel like a hot breath . That's just come .
Speaker 1That must have come from a giant mouth , and um then , um , then you hear it say uh , it's all right , I'm going back to bed . Appreciate that , it's uh yeah you .
Speaker 2You also feel like the worst , stinkiest , or you smell the worst and feel it Like it . It's first . It just feels like that breath that you first sniffed , riley .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2But then , like all of a sudden , there's just like a waft of like horrible bog breath . Um , you all are plus two defense , oh no , that means I'm plus two defense .
Speaker 1Oh no , that means I'm plus three defense , you and me both dude you and me both , it's just making you ill , yeah . If you're watching and not familiar . Higher defense is bad . It's bad . Yeah , I know it sounds like a positive thing that means plus three to their attack against us .
Speaker 2Yep , so you guys are in a conflict . Obviously you haven't seen the creature yet , but I guess if you really wanted to turn your lantern on Mm-hmm .
Speaker 1I start shaking the firefly jar furiously .
Speaker 2I want to see it . Yeah , George , you see a giant head about 20 feet away from you . You can barely make out its giant body behind it . It's bright red .
Speaker 1I feel like Shane's just going to get immediately eaten in the first attack . It's like when Matthew McConaughey leaps off that giant tower with the axe and he just gets eaten tower with the axe and rain of fire and he's just , and he's just like rain of fire reference . Yeah , I'm dragging the podcast down , guys , you got to find better better co-hosts .
Speaker 2No dude , that's , that's great , that's great stuff . Um , yeah , you know that Shane is . You can see already that he's poised to just go all in .
Speaker 1I'm going to grab him , grab Shane by the belt and be like look , shane , this is crazy , we've got to get out of here . This is not , this is vainglorious . Like this isn't fun . Like this is . This doesn't need to be a Dungeoneer magazine . What did this creature ever do to us ? Like we can't ? We can't , just like Ben . Can I narrate Shane real quick ? Sure , shane ignores what Riley is saying and turns to Galen and says Galen , are we having fun ? Are ?
Speaker 2we having fun yet , galen .
Speaker 1That was unintentional . Unintentional . Galen gives Shane the knowing nod because he's all in at this point uh , yeah .
Speaker 2So I mean riley , you could , yeah , your words kind of fall on deaf ears . Um , you could make a mic check at uh disadvantage to keep him from rushing in .
Speaker 1Can I use the might check ? Can I slap him instead and be like ? Get a snap out of it , Galen , and you're nothing but an instigator .
Speaker 2No , you're short and he's in front of you , ready to go , and you grabbed him by the belt .
Speaker 1Alright , I will do a mic check .
Speaker 2I will this is all like split seconds yes , um , I love it .
Speaker 1It's pretty mighty . It's disadvantage you gotta get your bad roll out there we go .
Speaker 2All right , yep , yeah , um , all right , that was your action , galen . Does anybody ?
Speaker 1want to talk to the dragon . No , I want a discerning eye . Okay ,
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Speaker 1I want a discerning eye , his scales , to say that they are metallic in nature . Okay , okay , ah , it's a four . It doesn't work , it's okay , it's all right . Next , next turn , I'm gonna discerning eye , his mouth and say , uh , he has metal caps on his teeth . That's genius . He's got like a filling . It's like you know . That's his weak spot . Chop right through One gold tooth .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , that was a failure with a plus . What do you think the plus is ?
Speaker 1They're not metal . Maybe that his oh sure how about this ? Because of his immense size , um , his scales actually are less . They're less defensive versus another dragon because they're spread so thin , like , due to his mass they're kind of stretched out and thinned . So maybe is that too good . It's probably too good . I'm gonna say he has some kind of his defense . Wouldn't be as good as another dragon . Maybe maybe , like , uh , the scales could get hung up on all the jagged , uh , rocks and stuff that we had to sure climb to get up .
Speaker 1Yeah , they're kind of knurled and hooked so he can get hung up on a tight space like this .
Speaker 2Yeah , maybe make him less dexterous cool yeah , maybe he has like like this yeah , maybe make him less dexterous . Cool yeah , maybe he has lifted up scales that get caught all the time .
Speaker 1Okay , you just hear him fussing as he tries to get us Stupid scales . Why did I pick such a small ?
Speaker 2Look , I'm sleeping in Velcro . For Christ's sake , yeah sleeping in Velcro , for christ's sake . Yeah , sleeping in velcro is good , all right . Um , that is shane's initiative . Shane was so-and-so wow . So that's not your action , george , it's true , yes . So what are you actually doing ?
Speaker 1as my action . I mean , it would just be I mean attacking , I think , because I have a feeling shame will attack . I too will attack and follow him in .
Speaker 2Okay roll initiative .
Speaker 1Wow , you both go after the dragon , which is good stuff . Makes Ben happy . See you on the other side , ray .
Speaker 2I mean I'm happy to be playtesting a dragon .
Speaker 1I'm a little worried for you guys . When the GM worries for us , it's like one of the most powerful creatures in all of Land of Eden Devastatingly powerful .
Speaker 2Okay , okay , it will kill us . Sorry , sorry , sorry sorry , I'm sorry .
Speaker 1I'm sorry , father he's gotta scroll through the two pages of death creating abilities that the dragon has . Yeah , he's like I rolled a one , a four , a six and a twelve . He's got poison breath , poison tail , fire butt , fire butt . Is that what you said ? Fire butt . That's true . You can't sneak up behind him because he's got a fire butt Breathing fire out of both ends , just dragging chili all day , burning wind .
Speaker 2It's dragon chili all day Burning wind . George , you are attacked with a splash of acid breath .
Speaker 1Oh , that's the worst yeah .
Speaker 2No counter . Okay , so your metal armor or weapon or something is destroyed .
Speaker 1No , he's wearing magical armor . No , no , what I do , ben , is I hold up my shield to block it . It's destroyed , it's destroyed . Hold on , let me read this verbatim real quick . Uh , tell me , it's star fell or something like sturdy cannot be broken .
Speaker 1That's a stretch , because that's broken versus like destroyed . I guess I might just suck it up . I'd rather lose that than lose anything else . It's fine . Oh , wait , wait , wait , wait , no , no , no , no , no , no , no . Even better , ben , no , that's fine . Yeah , I was going to say I hold up . I'm wearing Welder's gauntlet , non-magical black gauntlet that gets destroyed , but no , let's do the shield thing is destroyed , but nah , it's . Uh , let's do the shield thing .
Speaker 2That's more cinematic holding up the shield it's immediately destroyed , but it's not because it's indestructible . Well , oh , I should take dread oh , is there a difference between indestructible and yeah ?
Speaker 1that's the thing I'm thinking . It's like if it's , if it says , cannot be broken . I think that it's gonna be destroyed , yeah , I believe that there is because there is ind be broken . I think that it's going to be destroyed . Yeah , I believe that there is because there is indestructible which ? I think Starfell provides , but I don't remember exactly .
Speaker 2Cannot be broken is just like if you get wounded and stuff breaks and you have to repair it .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I think I'd rather lose the shield than my magical armor , your shield melts off of your arm , but you also take damage . I throw it to the ground . Um , yeah , so the shield , okay , the shield blocked three of it , which is fortunate , fortunate , son . Um , so I had 23 out of 24 . Yeah , okay , carry on , I had 22 plus 5 , 7 minus 3 . 24 . Okay .
Speaker 2Okay , it bites at Shaneane chandar rude . Um , okay , do you want to ? You want to roll for shane , because that's a hit with a counter attack . So this massive mouth comes after him , like , hits him partially , like snaps , slashes his arm and he takes 14 dread .
Speaker 1Wow , wait , wait , wait . He has plus five temporary hit points from my armor .
Speaker 2Yeah , he's also got a lot of hit points , okay , courage .
Speaker 1Sorry , yes , courage , and he did not . I assume he has , I don't know . I rolled a three for his counterattack .
Speaker 2Okay , that is a just a miss . Miss with a plus .
Speaker 1Hmm , he could have set us up for better attacks in the next round , or he could have put the dragon off balance for follow-up attacks . I don't know how many more attacks does the dragon have ? Two ?
Speaker 2The dragon loses an attack . Okay .
Speaker 1We're good .
Speaker 2It frustratedly slashes with its claw at you , Galen .
Speaker 1You see Galen's arm reflexively go up because he keeps thinking there's a shield on it . Miss yeah on it .
Speaker 2Uh , miss , yeah , miss , with a plus . Um , I'm saying that you go tumbling yeah , that's , that's cool . I dive out of the way uh , I wanted to use some location aspects which I forgot about .
Speaker 1Okay , cool .
Speaker 2So we're in a chavern , so we got acid pools . Perfect that makes a lot of sense actually and spider webs .
Speaker 1You're walking through my spider webs . You're walking through my spider webs . How can we use ?
Speaker 2spider webs . I'm going to say that you get caught in a spider web when you roll . You're a little held up .
Speaker 1Galen for a moment , panics looking around for the spider that created this web . You see no spider .
Speaker 2It's still a sticky web . It's the next round .
Speaker 1Galen yells out Ilgath , is that you Call back to season one baby Ilgath is that you Come back to season one baby . Ilgath the Inkblot Spider . That's amazing .
Speaker 2Hilarious , all right . So what are you guys doing ?
Speaker 1Any , actions on combat . Is it possible to make Ilgath , and like 40 other Ilgaths , a reality ? I'm looking . Do I have any abilities ? No , that wouldn't be like a weakness or vulnerability . Right , ben , I have already . Oh yeah .
Speaker 2I can try for clues and do it .
Speaker 1I wonder if it's worth it . We'd have to like turn them to be on our side , though , or discover something , I don't know . Maybe it's too dangerous to create new enemies if they won't for sure help us . Should we run out of the cave ? I don't know . I have no idea All right . I am going to . I'm going to freak out that we're here in the first place . Drag me all the way out here . Now we're in terrible peril , and I'll shout out to Dragon pick on someone your own size and stand in front of Galen .
Speaker 1Wow , Dragon spends a round laughing . One round laughing . It's like Tasha's hideous laughter , but you know . It's like Tasha's hideous laughter , but you know , oh .
Speaker 2What was that roll ?
Speaker 1I don't roll for it . Yeah , I'm going to feed of strength something , ben . Okay , galen's going to break free from the spider web and take his axe to the edge of a an acid pool and chop it into the earth at the um , just like the rim of it so , and lifting it up and flinging like kind of an earth , like a acid soaked bundle of earth , at the dragon , uh see if it might eat through his scales , if that makes sense . Okay , can I roll it ? Or do you want to modify the thought process , unless the acid seems like it came from him and it wouldn't affect him at all ? Yeah , that's what I was just thinking .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean he's got yeah all right , how about this ?
Speaker 1I'm gonna do the same thing , but add some uh stalactites above him to break them free to fall on him okay , how are you gonna hit those ? With the same like feat of strength , I'm gonna kind of carve out some earth to fling at that okay yeah , so I'm kind of like launching a boulder off my axe or some giant chunk of earth into the ceiling .
Speaker 2I'm gonna give you minus one because of the spider webs .
Speaker 1Leave a message and I'll call you back . I use a quest point to make it a six .
Speaker 2All right , you fling it at the lag tights and it just kind of it shakes everything in the place and they start falling on all of you um the dragon takes five dread but it's like so sad he has , he has block he's got Elliot on his back he takes two dread block here and it is at that moment that Galen begins to feel fear . Who's next ?
Speaker 1Shane is Shane .
Speaker 2Shandar , this is rough , george
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Speaker 2.
Speaker 1Roll initiative for Shane . I believe God , I'm going to go first , getting the bad rolls out of our system . Yes , this is rough .
Speaker 2James . It's very rough Bread of garlic . You can control Shane . Does he have ability ? He doesn't go first .
Speaker 1No , dragon goes first . Dragon needs Shane whole . He's going to attack me . I just picked on someone , but it increases my defense .
Speaker 2So he's only plus one , okay , but he's still plus three , hmm , hmm , because of the minus two or the plus two that he gave you , and he already has plus three .
Speaker 1so he's , it's like super stack all right , well , it's been good .
Speaker 2Yeah , I know , I know right , hit with a counterattack .
Speaker 1All right , I counterattack this guy Can't wait , kiai 12 . Nice , oh wait , no , that wasn't right . I was like James , you rolled a 12 ? Yeah , no , let's see . So I got the 5 temporary Mm-hmm . Nearly wiped me out right there . All right , I'm counterattacking . Come on Nine .
Speaker 2It is minus one .
Speaker 1Oh , that's going to end up in a counterattack loop . If you don't , unless you have a bonus to it at all . I don't , I don't .
Speaker 2Alas .
Speaker 1Should I use a quest point ? You have a lot of them left . I got four . One early hit could be good . I'm going to do it just because I may not be able to hit him again before I die .
Speaker 2Or about not getting hit again ?
Speaker 1I know , but I can't use a quest point to defend myself . You know what I mean . Alright , whatever Counterattack loop , let's do it . Let's see what I roll for my D6 . It's a five dread .
Speaker 2Five dread . Okay , he takes two .
Speaker 1Thank God this dragon only has ten hit points beyond all that block . He's really old , the geriatric dragon , we're picking on an old man and then you get another attack against you , which is a critical hit . That's it for .
Speaker 2Riley just like stomped into the ground . Bam bam bam , bam , six dread . Oh my gosh .
Speaker 1I am standing , Still standing . Baby . I have one courage . Could you have stout-hearted any of those ?
Speaker 2Yes , I could have stout-hearted .
Speaker 1Maybe the oh yes , I could have stout-hearted . Maybe the no it's fine .
Speaker 2I might hold on to it .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2We did change stout-hearted . Yeah , we changed stout-hearted .
Speaker 1Oh yeah .
Speaker 2All right , so that was just one of his attacks . Yeah , yeah this is the end of riley well , the beginning of the end , yeah , ah yes , it's another critical hit . Wow , now I , now I use , now I use Stout Heart , that's 12 .
Speaker 1Riley is Wormfeast . I am Wormfeast . I have to use Stout Heart yeah . But I don't have the updated rules in front of me . Seeing Riley ground into the pavement before him , galen begins to weep . What is it ? D8 like a d8 .
Speaker 2Like a d8 , down , down , down down on a six plus metal check , you take half dread .
Speaker 1Alright so . I take , I take six dread Alright , so I'm definitely at zero . I am crazy at zero .
Speaker 2Should you have just saved that , then you should have just saved that then Hmm . You should have just saved Stout Heart then , if it was going to take you to zero anyway .
Speaker 2Yeah , I big boy rules no , take back , it doesn't much matter well it does , because you're going to live again yeah , you'll be up soon , yeah so don't use stout heart and you'll go to zero and you're out save it for a subsequent attack . Yeah , you're out for one round . You roll vitality to see if you're wounded . Attack yeah , You're out for one round . You roll vitality to see if you're wounded . I've got something I can do next round . Not wounded . Nice , the dragon uses its other attacks . It's going to do its acid breath again against Shandar .
Speaker 1I love the idea of a naked Shane Shandar beating this dragon to death with its fists as his armor gets se to death with its fists , Like as his like armor gets seared off with acid breath . It's like he man yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , shane wears kind of light armor but he is top breastplate and shoulder pauldrons get burnt , reduced to a steaming pile of goo . The last attack is against you , george , I accept your collect call . That is a 10 dread .
Speaker 1Okay , do you stand ? I do no , I'm still fine .
Speaker 2The dragon says I smell fear in all of you . Leave now
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Speaker 2or die .
Speaker 1By that logic , the dragon that's interesting right Like quickly in Galen's mind . He thinks the dragon asking us to politely leave , like this , means that he fears us . So we have to press our attack Because I mean like why would this guy even get ? Yeah , why would this guy even give us a chance to leave ? He would just eat us if he could , if he thought we didn't have a chance because he wouldn't want people getting out with you know location whatever to come back and like mess up his house .
Speaker 1Riley is not conscious to hear this yeah , I I yell it , I yell at Shane , shane , he fears us .
Speaker 2Now I smell overconfidence .
Speaker 1Shane , he's got a really good sense of smell , shane .
Speaker 2Shane , shane's turn .
Speaker 1Does Shane have some kind of you know , crazy ability to Slay this guy ?
Speaker 2No , well , you know what ? Yeah , let me see what kind of magic item he has , because he's a dungeoneer .
Speaker 1Yeah , George fingers crossed . Yeah , that he . He rolls one of the just astoundingly powerful items roll a d200 george okay all right , george , there's stuff on there that could make it happen . That's what I'm saying . 83 , 83 , baby who knows what that is ?
Speaker 283 . 83 . He's got immovable long johns . He cannot be moved by force . What he cannot be moved .
Speaker 1It's like the blob he can't be moved . Boy , that guy can hold a door . Let me tell you , god , that's hilarious , you moveable . Long johns , mm-hmm , mm-hmm , all right , well . Ah yeah Well , all right , I don't know what to do with that attack with him . I attack with his immovable long jumps , jones , um , I do it . D12 . What was his bonus to attack then three ?
Speaker 2uh , plus two , 3 ? Plus 2 .
Speaker 1I'm rolling terribly on attack rolls today . That's as we foresaw .
Speaker 2Yeah , he just goes up and whiffs as the dragon somehow deftly moves out of the way . And , george , did you ? You , you already went , did .
Speaker 1I , because I rolled to go out . I was going to go after the dragon okay . I declare a mighty blow a mighty wind . I do Michael Keane guide by hand um it's nine . Hmm , it might not be a hit it's a hit with counter attack .
Speaker 2He's quest point , can I ?
Speaker 1can I act when I have one quest point left ? I can give you quest points once I'm conscious again . Okay , I am debating .
Speaker 2Too late , yeah , no I will .
Speaker 1Oh wait , this is a mighty blow . So it changes the rules On a 9 to 11 , it's a hit and deal plus 2d6 dread . If it had been a 3 to 5 , it's a hit and deal plus 2d6 dread . If it had been a 3 to 5 , it would have been a hit and adversary counterattacks . Oh , so this is an 8 . It's a hit and deal 1d6 . I'm going to use a quest point to deal one more d6 of dread to him . But he does not counterattack me , so it's a d10 plus 2d6 .
Speaker 2Come on .
Speaker 1That's 10 damage Minus 3 , so 7 damage Indeed . We got him on the ropes now , shane . Today we Proved that dragons can bleed , yeah .
Speaker 2Isn't this fun ? Yeah , I'm having so much fun right now . I gotta tell you this is pretty thrilling . Just burned through my armor .
Speaker 1I don't know why we're here I don't know what's going on . I wish I would .
Speaker 2I wish I'd actually connect with him , though I mean this is .
Speaker 1It's okay , shane , I know you're just baiting him into a false sense of security before you bring out the big guns .
Speaker 2All right , next round , Riley you're still not up . Because you just fell this round .
Speaker 1Ah , okay . I finally go before the dragon .
Speaker 2I would say , Riley , you could wake up in the combat round to attack . That's what you wanted to do .
Speaker 1I'm going to take an action . Probably I have a couple things I can do , but this one , I think , will take priority . Can I use ?
Speaker 2a dark side . What I mean is you fell during combat so you'd wake up in the combat phase .
Speaker 1And take a combat action . Got it .
Speaker 2If you wanted to . Yes so yeah , galen , is that you or Shane ?
Speaker 1That was me . Let me roll for Shane . That could have been my attack . That could have been my attack .
Speaker 2Could have been my attack . So Riley roll Roll initiative Could have been my attack . Could have been my attack , bernard , so Riley roll initiative . Oh yeah , so Galen and Shandar go first . Okay , ben , did we just decide if sweeping strike could hit multiple parts of a large creature .
Speaker 1Yeah , it cannot . Okay , so we decided against my greatest dream Dang it . No , it's . I mean I will ask that again next time we fight a giant . I will constantly hope , against hope , that it got changed . It's a little counterintuitive .
Speaker 2I don't understand what you're saying I get it .
Speaker 1I guess I just attack Ben . His scales are not metallic , are they ? I mean like at baseline ? No , okay , so carving through metal wouldn't work . It's eight . He counterattacks me Cool , and he takes four damage . After the minus three , Hmm , he , he criticals me 6 , 8 , dread hatred you said 4 , you said four .
Speaker 2Yes , all right .
Speaker 1Now Shandar . Let me see he's a dungeoneer . Yeah , all right , let me scroll that real quick . Can we learn a class in three seconds ?
Speaker 2hold on , he's a level nine dungeoneer , but he has no underlings or anything yeah , that's fine , let me .
Speaker 1And he's level 9 . Oh so you used magic item . Wow , that's awesome . He has health insurance 8's useless seven , all right . Okay , all right . What's this tinker ? Uh plus two , all right . He says aha , I have just the thing for this . Suck this down , dragon . And it's uh , he brought an acid neutralizing um bomb now , um , something along the lines of like a shrimp technology that uh oh , oh , okay , You're fine with something that simple .
Speaker 1Um , I appreciate you allowing my brain to rest . Uh , I roll a D 12 plus two . Come on , baby , 10 . You have it Cool , he , he has it Now .
Speaker 2he's got to throw it in there .
Speaker 1Yeah , that'll be , I guess , next round , or ?
Speaker 2or does that count as a free action ?
Speaker 1I mean , he could have done this sure beforehand . I appreciate that . He yeah , thank you . He rears back his acid scorched shoulders and hurls it . He spins a couple times . He does the hop thing like a shot putter . You wonder why he threw it that way . He throws it's an 11 . Minus one , 10 ?
Speaker 2Yeah , the acid-neutralizing shrimp bomb goes directly into the dragon's open mouth , down its throat , and it goes . It tries its acid breath and nothing comes out . It's just his bog breath that once again washes over you , pew . Um , it's just his bog breath that once again washes over you , be-woo . Um , then he bites Shane . Shandor . What have you done ? That's right .
Speaker 1I'm so fearful that everyone will be a crit . Yeah , they are . I feel like I get critted all the time you do .
Speaker 2It's amazing 9 dread , so he's taken 23 , I believe it's not a dread yeah . It's not dread yeah .
Speaker 1He attacks Galen again .
Speaker 2Okay , does a hit with a counterattack ?
Speaker 1Okay , it's the end of game .
Speaker 2Five .
Speaker 1Five . I stand tall With one out of 23 .
Speaker 2The wings of your dreams .
Speaker 1Yeah , I shall not be defeated by you .
Speaker 2I haul with one out of 23 .
Speaker 1Wings of your dreams . Yeah , I shall not be defeated by you . I , I wow . I don't counterattack because I don't want to counterattack you back . No , I counterattack , yes .
Speaker 2Yes , that's why you counterattack .
Speaker 1Yeah , that is why you counterattack you don't be a coward . Yeah , that is why you counterattack , you don't be a coward . Yeah , baby , 16 damage Minus 3 . 13 damage . I say we're turning the tide , shane . Come on , riley . Two arms , two arms , riley's like .
Speaker 2Do you not do a bonus with your axe ?
Speaker 1Oh my god , he's bleeding . I'm so dumb . He should have been bleeding for two rounds . So that's what I don't know . Does his armor block it ? No , Sorry , I totally Thank you for being a fair and just GM .
Speaker 2GMs take note from .
Speaker 1Take note from Ben Two additional . Yeah , this round it'll be two . Two additional damage . Sorry , where did I ? I have this written down . Weapons , there we go . A nine plus hit it does bleeding damage . One day , oh you know what it might be starting this round . I can't remember if I did a 9-plus last round .
Speaker 2I think you did with the Mighty Blur . Okay , upped it . Okay . So then one last round . So it's a 3-edition .
Speaker 1Yeah , exactly .
Speaker 2All right , you can notice we see that he's got a lot of cuts and you know wounds from Galen , not from Shane . Yeah , lot of cuts and you know wounds from galen like multiple , not from shane , bleeding .
Speaker 1Yeah , um , come on , boys and girl . Uh , it's um , that was a counterattack . It did not get a counter . It has to finish its actions . And then Riley is up . Sorry , I forgot where we were . Oh , it's done . Then Riley is up . Riley , you see it bleeding ? Yeah , come on , claudia . I say two games . Yes , I was literally going to say Claudia comes in and blows some fire .
Speaker 2I think we can use Claudia once per battle . Is that what it is ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm going to attack it .
Speaker 2I forgot what Claudia provides .
Speaker 1I want to say it's like a once per combat ranged attack Cool . I feel like that's fair . I don't know if I wrote this down Cloudia Seven .
Speaker 2It's minus three . It's minus one , that's one . Nine it's a hit .
Speaker 1Once per combat I can double the dread . I want to make it 10 plus 2 , 12 . Nice 12 .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1Oh man , ben , does this dragon look like ? It's like we have a ? I don't know ? You said it looks like it's taking . I'm just trying to figure out how much longer we have to last . I need to take my action . So bad that can help us so much . Sorry , james , take your action . I'm sorry , I don't know when I take my next action .
Speaker 2It would be now . How many hit points , how many courage do you have upon waking up ?
Speaker 1It's plus your level right , don't you get your level .
Speaker 2It's a d6 plus your level .
Speaker 1Yeah , I didn't roll it . And what level am I ? That's a good question . Who am I ? I'm level 8 . I leveled , so it's 12 .
Speaker 2Okay , 12 out of 14 . But George is low .
Speaker 1I gotta heal George .
Speaker 2So , riley , you can act before combat .
Speaker 1Okay , I'm going to muster courage and heal the party for 1d12 plus my level . Amazing , that is so good . Fect me , shane Shandar and me . That's what ? 9 or 10 ? That was a terrible roll . I understand what you're saying . It's such a good ability . Regardless , it's my strongest courage healing ability .
Speaker 2All right .
Speaker 1Now is it initiative now . Sorry , I was like reading my powers , I wasn't paying attention . I think , ben , can I use Claudia , or you want me to use her on my turn next round . It's fine either way .
Speaker 2Yeah , you can use her on your turn .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think that'll be more cinematic Cinematic . The ECU , the Eames Cinematic Universe . It's already better than the DCU . Write your letters to Netflix , yeah .
Speaker 2So , James , I think that does heal you as well .
Speaker 1It does . Yeah , I'm full , it's just , I was already at 12 . I'd forgotten that I needed to roll the D6 .
Speaker 1Alright , so it's combat time To roll initiative um , shane goes before the dragon , I go after the dragon , right ? So , um , oh , uh , sorry , I need just galen goat , no , or riley , no , okay . Um , uh , kind of a fire lights in uh , shane's eyes . Everyone sees and for a second we have hope . But we realize it's just him using his demolitionist ability . He actually has lit some explosives . It says roll plus tinker with little time you can rig explosives to destroy or harm a structure or object without having explosives in your inventory . Gm should impose penalties on particularly hardy objects , and the consequences of the action varies wildly based on the environment . I
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Speaker 1say that he wants to try and collapse a little bit of the cavern on the dragon .
Speaker 2I feel like that's going to take some time .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think this should take his round . It'll be his action . This round is set it up and maybe it goes off next round .
Speaker 2Yeah , you can roll to see what .
Speaker 1What happened , or you know what . I'm sorry , I just saw another ability . That's awesome . I'm going to use that . Instead , we're going to use Bullwhip Roll plus Nimbleness , to Use your Bullwhip to the extraordinary feat of wrapping , grabbing or swinging . And um , I'd like to what ? What's his nimbleness ? First of all , plus three plus two Okay . Yep , that's 12 . So he uh , whips the dragon's horn and yanks himself into the air , leaping up onto its head . Okay , could he have ? Could he also attack , or is that didn't be his action ?
Speaker 1maybe it distracts the dragon yeah , okay , maybe him being up there distracts the dragon enough to where it's focused on , not like it's not going to necessarily attack us , it's going to be trying to get Shane off his back , his head . Okay , so that's Shane's action . You see Shane leap glistening into the air , screaming I have you right where I want you , dragon , have at me fiend . And then this is so much fun .
Speaker 2Alright , I'm going to have the dragon try to get Shane off . He'll roll a disadvantage .
Speaker 1Nice , nice I feel like nothing works , but the seven actually might work . No , the three , it's a three . Nice yeah , it's a six , it's a three .
Speaker 2It's a success with a twist , so what ?
Speaker 1is the twist three . It's a success with a twist . So what is the twist ? The twist is it took a lot of thrashing around and the dragon hit its head a couple times . You know , like on objects . Trying to dislodge , shane Maybe took a little bit of dread . I'll take dread at this point , okay . Or I'll take like hey , he dislodged some stuff and it fell on him Dread . I'll take . Like hey , he dislodged some stuff and it fell on him . Dread . I'll take he concussed himself Dread .
Speaker 2Stubs are still on something Dread , dread . I'm going to say that he used two actions to make this happen . Dread , dread , shred , everyone , take six . Dread , as there's just this chaos and rocks falling . I realize you guys never took dread for the time that I said you would .
Speaker 1Yeah , the stalactites I pulled from the ceiling yeah , I let it go . That's one of those times . Are you really ? No ? No , I let it go . That's one of those times . I'm unconscious .
Speaker 2Are you really ?
Speaker 1No , no , I'm kidding , I'm kidding . Oh , From the missing dread .
Speaker 2I would be unconscious .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , dread debt , if you will . I'm good . I'm good , I'm eight out of 14 . I'm fine , nice , any scenario . I would feel like I have a lot , but he's going to critically hit me when he attacks .
Speaker 2Very much so yes , and Shane goes flying off . You lose sight of him behind the dragon as it smashes you guys .
Speaker 1Maniacal laughter the entire time . Yahoo .
Speaker 2That is against Galen . It's a miss .
Speaker 1I grin at the dragon , no teetering towards an acid pool . Okay .
Speaker 2Make a nimbleness check .
Speaker 1I don't remember my bonus . It doesn't matter . Okay , it's going to matter . Let me find out . I'm going to . Oh , I'm a minus one nimbleness , that's a zero . Uh , I'm gonna . I'm gonna suffer the consequences of a failed check later . Wilson , back in the chat . Welcome , welcome , welcome . I'm about to die . Actually , riley is gonna die in my stead . Yeah , I , I , uh , I take the consequences of him falling in the pool . You couldn't have . You don't want to just re-roll mine .
Speaker 2I , I I mean , I guess , yeah , I need .
Speaker 1I feel like I need my quest points for other stuff . Whatever you want , if you want to take damage and just be out again or lose an item , I'll use lend a hand . I appreciate you .
Speaker 2Are you ?
Speaker 1falling actually , yeah , falling Zone . Imbach writes . I could use the second part of lend a hand to do , roll with advantage when catching someone's fall , pulling them from danger .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , that's perfect , I'm going to say you're going to not be able to attack .
Speaker 1That's fine Thanks dog .
Speaker 2So what is that ? Like a nimbleness athletics . Yeah , either one .
Speaker 1I catch it , nice , nice . I give a knowing nod to Riley . And Zoni and Buck embellishes this moment as a romantic moment , which is not .
Speaker 2Downside is . I'm going to say this attack is against both of you , this next attack . Because they're standing right next to each other .
Speaker 1Can I shield Riley ?
Speaker 2Can I shield Riley ?
Speaker 1It's going to hit me , no matter what , oh my God ?
Speaker 2Well , it's a hit with counterattack .
Speaker 1I failed to shrug it off , so I'm going to be unconscious . Can I counterattack before ? I failed to shrug it off , so I'm going to be unconscious . Can I counterattack before I go ? No , it's fine , but Claudia will seal the deal on this one . Are you definitely falling unconscious ? I'm definitely falling . I have five out of 23 , so I'll fall to zero ?
Speaker 2Well , it's not . Definitely See , that's four .
Speaker 1Oh , I'm sorry . I thought that the seven was the damage .
Speaker 2No that was the hit with the counterattack .
Speaker 1Okay , then we're countering baby , I've got you right where I want you . Yeah , we both counter Wow , I do have him right where I want him . That's 12 damage . And then I yell Claudia , go . And in a weird twist , you see the chicken with lizard on its back and one additional object . It's , uh , it's , it's kind of golden , it's a golden arrow . It's true fire , the magic arrow , the lizard , the lizard deploys it . Um , we had this set up all along . Uh , true fire , the magic arrow , the lizard deploys it . We had this set up all along . Truefire , the magic arrow automatically hits and applies maximum dread , non-critical , and can be retrieved at the end of combat maybe . So I don't know how much damage .
Speaker 2You want this golden arrow to do .
Speaker 1Say d12 . It does 12 damage .
Speaker 2So , uh , that's 24 minus six because it was two attacks , so it's going to be oh sorry , sorry , um I I misheard that it wouldn't do 12 , it would what ?
Speaker 1does claudia do ? Yeah , what is ? Yeah right ? I don't know , is it six ? I don't know , is it six ? I don't know . I can't write it down . I'm officially writing it down now . She is a mobile weapons platform chicken that blows fire off her back as a rain attack from the lizard , and she also has razor sharp talons . Take your pick . They probably both do D6 damage if they hit . Do chickens razor sharp talons ? So , take your pick . They probably both do D6 damage if they hit . Do chickens have sharp talons ? Yeah , d8 , ben D8 because she's a mutant . No , it's fine , d6 .
Speaker 2No , I would either say a D8 or D10 . And either way , those are both going to kill the dragon , this true hero .
Speaker 1I love Claudia .
Speaker 2That's why I was saving it , babe , I was saving the true hero .
Speaker 1For this moment , this is Claudia's enough talk moment
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Speaker 1. Enough talk , ha .
Speaker 2Oh God , hey , Lena , welcome . Yeah , claudia leapt off my back . That means we need chicken wings , son .
Speaker 1Yeah , oh .
Speaker 2Well .
Speaker 1Claudia's the hero . We can't eat , claudia .
Speaker 2She's out of chicken .
Speaker 1So I guess we can eat the dragon meat . I mean , I would assume that dragon meat tastes like chicken Following the whole lizard , it's a lizard , it's a little gamey , a little stringy .
Speaker 2The arrow pierces the throat of the dragon and you see a burst of acid . That arrow is not going to be retrievable , then the massive thing just falls and shakes the whole cavern . You guys have slain the Scarlet Worm .
Speaker 1That's unbelievable to me . Yeah , it was really . I love the Dungeoneer abilities . I want to play that class now . There's so many cool things . I pick up Riley , dust her off and say we got to find Shane and celebrate , Celebrate .
Speaker 2Let's get us killed .
Speaker 1I'm going to start like I'm still kind of shaky .
Speaker 2I'm frazzled .
Speaker 1Wandering into the dust cloud looking for Shane , the chickens pecking at things . Yeah , you just see flashes of fire as the chicken celebrates , with the lizard blowing fire up its back . Shane is impaled on stalagmites . That's what I kind of had a feeling that might have been thrown and impaled .
Speaker 2Yeah , Shane definitely has to use health insurance .
Speaker 1Do you want to roll it , James ? What do I roll for health insurance ? It's going to be roll plus vitality . Sorry , I just rolled it . Thanks , Ben .
Speaker 2It's fine , he's not defeated , he has one courage .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm fine , he's not defeated , he has one courage .
Speaker 2Yeah , I'm fine .
Speaker 1We see him pulling himself off of Stalactite , or my giant gaping hole in his side .
Speaker 2He comes from behind the dragon and he's standing on top of it . Now , we did it , we did it . That was so much fun .
Speaker 1You know what ? I can't believe I'm saying this , but yeah , we did . This is wild .
Speaker 2Did you see that arrow I mean that was amazing Right out of your chicken .
Speaker 1I say that's right , we've got to find the arrow again .
Speaker 2She's got a heck of a throwing arm .
Speaker 1Let me tell you .
Speaker 2Look , I mean , if you want to dig your hands into all that acid , I mean I guess go for it , but I use weldar's gauntlet to do it .
Speaker 1It's finally found its use that's too funny .
Speaker 2Make a nimbleness check if you want to do that , all right this is where galen dies somehow .
Speaker 1Oh no , it's mine okay , no , no , it's fine , it's , it's . Uh , it's a oh . No , it's minus . Okay , no , no , no , it's fine , it's a 10 . It's a 10 . It's not a 13 . That was close , man . I had something that could help you Fast hands .
Speaker 2You get in there , the gauntlet is destroyed , but it does not harm you , okay , and I got the arrow back .
Speaker 1That's all I was hoping that was going to be the killing blow for the dragon I was saving it to the end . I'm so glad that it was because I was kind of freaking out .
Speaker 2Aside from just hacking at it .
Speaker 1I was out of anything I could do ? I can heal still , though , I've got lots of healing abilities , love it , and I had a courage potion . Courageous and I had a courage . Question .
Speaker 2Courageous Shandar says right , where's the horde ?
Speaker 1There's got to be treasure around here I'm going to use I for clues to make a discovery Roll search . Make a discovery Roll search .
Speaker 2We spend time searching .
Speaker 1Actually wait , hold on , I can make it a six .
Speaker 2What were you trying to do ?
Speaker 1I was going to create a discovery . I was going to say the acid that spilled from the dragon actually eroded down and revealed a chamber and created a natural stairway . Nice , I got a six .
Speaker 2Success .
Speaker 1I rolled a search . Check that was an 11 , maybe to find the mythic horde down the stairs or something , or we already covered on that front . Yeah , okay cool you .
Speaker 2You find there's no stairs because like . I meant like a natural milky no it's stairs . It's perfectly laser-cut stairs after the dragon . He uses his acid to carefully . It's an escalator .
Speaker 1We slowly just go down adjusting our clothing .
Speaker 2Yeah , you find the dragon's ancient horde .
Speaker 1Time to roll relics . Hold on , you kill Shane , okay , actually you know what ?
Speaker 2Let's just say it's a mythic horde .
Speaker 1I'm going to open up my coat and I'm going to point to Mad Marian's multiple map .
Speaker 2Oh , yes , to Galen , be like , look man , I think we celebrate , yeah , so we're going to have to change the rules on that . I think I'm going to change it to like you , roll with advantage . I figured you'd do something , so we're going to have to change the rules on that . I think I'm going to change it to like you , roll with advantage .
Speaker 1I figured you'd do like do a plus or advantage or something . So no longer plus 90% on a treasure hunting roll . It is now roll with advantage on a treasure hunting roll . I have two out of three uses for it and maybe yeah , plus three . I have two out of three uses for it and maybe yeah , plus three , plus three roll with advantage .
Speaker 2It'll be capped at three , but as it is right now , you're already going to be making these checks at plus two uh , all right , george .
Speaker 1Um , I think you should roll it . I believe in the power of lupin . Uh . And bernard , where did I close ? I must have closed the tab . Give me a second for the new uh rules . There we go . Yeah , ben , we mentioned uh . I think I said that you were back on when we were .
Speaker 2I caught the end of it , yeah okay , that's right .
Speaker 1Yeah , we're gonna . We're gonna test out some rules if it doesn't work it doesn't work . That's what play testing is for . Yeah , so okay , sorry , here we go . Myth Horde a forgotten royal vault , a hidden reliquary from ages past or powerful creatures' legendary treasures . Contains five treasure hunting checks for a maximum of two relics . Ancient vault , or ancient , oh sorry , ancient .
Speaker 2I said we'll just make it a mythic , just for kicks .
Speaker 1Oh sorry , mythic . That's what I meant to say when else are you going to kill a dragon ? I mean whenever we hang out with Shane again , that's all we're going to do ?
Speaker 2Want to go kill another dragon ? Yay , alright , here we go . Treasure hunters .
Speaker 1Roll it up , baby . So five treasure hunting checks , maximum of two relics .
Speaker 2This was a level eight dragon . You get plus two to the bonus . There are five checks among you . Um shane will get some and he will keep those items okay , so you and I should both roll one .
Speaker 1One roll with advantage and a d12 yeah , so yeah , we'll both roll one of those . Got it Okay . Kick it off , Georgie . Alright , alright , alright , alright . D12 , 2d12 . 8 , that's a 10 . 11 . 11 ? Sorry , why would it be an 11 ? Oh , is it plus 3 with ?
Speaker 2Magmarium yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , got it , okay . 11 . Ah , shoot , I was so close . Magic item plus magnificent item , just so really good . Okay , do you want to roll to see if yours uh works , jimmy ?
Speaker 2yeah advantage .
Speaker 1Yeah with advantage . Oh that , yep , look at you . You got a relief .
Speaker 2This is the ? What a relief we're actually going to gain experience for finding one .
Speaker 1Oh my god , that's amazing . This is the first relic we've ever found .
Speaker 2Shane Shandar gets a magic item . Yeah , he does .
Speaker 1There are two more checks .
Speaker 2I'm going to say that one goes to Shandar , that's fine , Just because you know he's a legendary hero .
Speaker 1Shandar gets two magic items and magnificent he gets three total magic items and one X magnificent , he gets two . Oh , I thought he rolled another one before . Okay , so two magic items , one magnificent . And then we have one last treasure hunting check Roll d12 plus three , just plus two , two , seven .
Speaker 2A magic item .
Speaker 1Okay , so we have a total of two magic items , one magnificent and a relic . That's pretty good . Let me see those are mundane items .
Speaker 2Those are magnificent items I'm going to start rolling .
Speaker 1I want to see what Shane Chandar's magic items are . Let's take care of that . It's always delightful , do I have those tables ?
Speaker 2Roll 2d100 . No , we only have the master . Thank you , bandit . It's only been edited one time by Bandit 37 , and 43 for 80 . 37 and 43 .
Speaker 1Draft of 3743 draft of the campfire amazing or something . What were you saying ? No , it's 2d100 , I don't know . I think it is a 37 and a 43 , right ? You don't want this .
Speaker 2I want to 2d200 , oh right .
Speaker 1You don't want this hook Go ahead . I want two 2D 200s . Oh Sorry , I thought I heard 2D 100s , 94 and a 169 . What's up there ? Kobold Whistle and Valor's Frock of the centipede shane shanta shane's not only wearing a frock , he now has a hundred legs .
Speaker 2Yeah , he lost his armor and he's got a frock he no longer fears tiny insects and he takes no dread from such creatures .
Speaker 1Whoa like creepers . That's good , creepy zombies , immune to creepers , amazing Some creepers . Anyway , james , you should oh go ahead . Mundane , yeah , or Magnificent , rather , cobalt Whistle , yeah , cobalt whistle , yeah , cobalt whistle .
Speaker 2This whistle startles cobalt and they will be all ears to the user's command . That's hilarious . Thank you , paul . Oh , slash roll space D200 .
Speaker 1Lena feels like talking about Pokemon guys . I am intrigued about the new Pokemon open world RPG . I believe it's called Arceus Arceus , pokemon Legends Arceus Is that what it is ? Yeah , it's kind of cool . It looks like it's going to be more Breath of the Wild-y Pokemon deal . I think that , from what we saw in the alpha footage , it is unlikely that it's running on regular Switch hardware . I think it's going to be on the next generation Switch , which is probably announced soon , because it was chuggy and they say it's coming out next year . I am excited about that . That is my current thoughts on Pokemon . I love you , george . That's what I'm here for , riley .
Speaker 2Hey Bug , how you
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Speaker 2doing . I love you , george Riley , you get hey Bug .
Speaker 1How you doing . I love you .
Speaker 2You get a quill , a quill .
Speaker 1Peter Quill I rolled for . Is that a quill relic ?
Speaker 2Oh , that was a relic .
Speaker 1Yeah , sorry , I rolled a D200 , but I don't think there are that many relics .
Speaker 2No , no , there's like way fewer .
Speaker 1Yeah , no , no , no .
Speaker 2Roll a D50 .
Speaker 112 relics or fewer .
Speaker 2Actually just a D40 . D40 .
Speaker 1D6080 . My favorite , d Roll a 40 . Ooh , d he rolled a 40 .
Speaker 2He finds something called the Nimbus Hammer .
Speaker 1Nimbus Hammer . It is the softest hammer you can ever get hit with . It's super OP , really hammer .
Speaker 2It is the softest hammer you can ever get hit with . It's super OP .
Speaker 1Really We'll edit it , but I'm curious to know what it does .
Speaker 2I mean , it's a relic so you guys can roll lore to figure out what your items do and whatnot . Get that Welkin guy .
Speaker 1Yeah , I was gonna say hey , welkin , whatever your name is , professor , what's a who's it ? I can't remember the name of it Phylo Sim . Phylo Sim . Good day , Phylo . How are you doing today ? We are doing well .
Speaker 2Is that a dragon ?
Speaker 1It was . It was .
Speaker 2It was it still is .
Speaker 1It's not a living one by any stretch of the imagination . It's wonderful , I say . Feel free to assess it at your leisure . I'm sure you wanted to study one of these up close for some time now oh , I know what this is .
Speaker 2This is called the Nimbus Hammer . Did you know that ? We did not it has been said that the Nimbus Hammer was created by giants of the sky who dwell above the world , that they were quick to anger hmm , the head of the Warhammer is an actual cloud , the sky .
Speaker 1Who dwell above ?
Speaker 2the world , not their quick anger . The head of the Warhammer is an actual cloud . You see this . It's very light . It doesn't sound very powerful , but it is . You can attack twice in a round with this , oh , because it's so light . However , when you roll a one a natural one the cloud flies away to the sky and does not return until the next session .
Speaker 1That's incredible .
Speaker 2I love it .
Speaker 1Incredible If you guys want to add powers to it . On a 12 , I mean , I'm just saying there could be thunder and lightning very , very frightening . A bolt of lightning , yeah , um , that's awesome . I love it . What a cool relic . I wish we got two attack twice . I wish we got two Attack twice . Okay , amazing , we need to roll two magic items then D200, .
Speaker 2Ben .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm 2D200 and attacks of life 44 and 35 . Kind of low rolls . What does it mean ?
Speaker 2Who knows , it's not there . 44 . Druidic rope .
Speaker 1That's a Druish rope . I got it . Hello , bear Bear , calm down , why are you scrambling ? He's scrambling .
Speaker 2So you find this piece of rope and a crowbar .
Speaker 1I say , Philo , was this some kind of Are you sure these are magical .
Speaker 2No , it beats me .
Speaker 1Is it because I used him once in a session already ? Mm-hmm , I say , hold on , I can do this myself . I can do this , I can do this . I say , oh yeah , this is an eight that I rolled on this druidic rope .
Speaker 2Ah , yes , yes , Druidic rope , rope , so you know that . Um , it can move at your command . Oh cool , it's like basically a sentient , not sentient its own , but it obeys commands and ties itself . That's super useful .
Speaker 1It's like crazy , useful . I already see a moment in the future where we use it to bind ourselves and to present ourselves as like prisoners to infiltrate something .
Speaker 2I mean , it's just pretty standard and to present ourselves as like prisoners to infiltrate something and have it untie .
Speaker 1I mean it's just pretty standard , no one would ever suspect having a magic rope that unties itself . I love it . And the other one , the crowbar . I'm very familiar with reading about this crowbar of lore . That's an 11 . This is .
Speaker 2Quanet's about this crowbar of lore that's an 11 . This is Quanet's trusty crowbar and it can open any non-magically locked or sealed door and chest .
Speaker 1Also really useful Because of items , man he said , non-magically locked or sealed door or chest .
Speaker 2Et cetera . Cool , that was a favorite tool of the thief , quanet Fimp , who has famously pilfered the estate of the Mad Earl of Skrunk .
Speaker 1Is Skrunk even on the map .
Speaker 2It's likely an old munch place .
Speaker 1An old village that no longer exists . Yeah , let's see , we got 1x Magnificat Magnificato . What do we roll for the Magnificat Magnificato ? What do we roll for the Magnificat item ? Ben James , would you like to roll it ? Sure . D200 , and then depending on what kind of tool it is . Yeah , 129 . Looks like a chemistry set it's a warhammer another . Okay , oh , you guys have probably changed the table that I'm looking at .
Speaker 1I don't know what you're looking at oh , do you not look at the mundane item and then make it a Magnificent ? Okay , I take it all back . I couldn't remember how you got Magnificent you do , but oh it's been looking at a spreadsheet or the book . I was looking at the book . That's probably why .
Speaker 2I'm looking at the book as well , so I don't know , weird . No , it's fine , it's very , very first beta pdf oh , I'm looking at the version 1-2 yeah , that's , that's old that's old dude .
Speaker 1I gotta download the newest uh edition at drivethroughrpgcom . Download a new beta bundle which is free right now . Comes with uh , some adventures , the entire rulebook everything you need to play the game .
Speaker 2You can also get it at landabeamcom .
Speaker 1You can get the I think the beta's up there along with .
Speaker 2It's true .
Speaker 1You've got to roll a D12 to see what that blunt weapon does . Oh , I forgot Seven .
Speaker 2It's a parry .
Speaker 1Interesting .
Speaker 2Once per combat . Negate a counterattack Meaning they can't counterattack .
Speaker 1Awesome .
Speaker 2That would have been useful against a dragon Right . So you got like two hammers . It's a lot of weapons .
Speaker 1Shane , you want to trade this hammer , this parry warhammer , for something you got ? Hello , princess Funnybone , welcome .
Speaker 2Hey , I don't know if you heard , but you know slain dragon getting treasure getting treasure .
Speaker 1I hope you successfully tackled your own personal dungeon .
Speaker 2You want this kobold whistle .
Speaker 1I was not paying attention when you said what it did , but I'm sorry yeah , you control kobolds or something I . I turned to riley . I shrugged and say hey , you want the kobold whistle instead of this perry warhammer yeah yeah , I think we got too many warhammers yeah I totally . I feel like this nimbus hammer is so cute , so cute and it's good for Riley to wield because it's so light . Yeah , alright , I say , hey , good trade , good trade , buddy . So you seem more like a Warhammer kind of guy anyways .
Speaker 2Yeah , something was wrong with that whole sword business . It wasn't connecting .
Speaker 1I need something
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Speaker 1just to smash , I think it was a little bit of weight . You know what I mean . The kobold slide whistle got it .
Speaker 2Alright , guys , I think we're two hours and 15 minutes . That was a solid amount . I'm going to probably .
Speaker 1The fact that we were fighting a dragon this time was totally outside of the ordinary . Indeed Good times , though , gentlemen , yeah .
Speaker 2Thanks everyone for watching yes indeed . We'll be back next week .
Speaker 1Back next week . If you want to try out Land of Eme . You've heard us say you can get it at landofemecom or you can search for it on DriveThruRPG and definitely join the Discord , because people are looking for groups to play with each other and if you have feedback about the game you can put it there , or you can just stop in and say hey .
Speaker 2Hey , all right , goodbye everybody .
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