For your exhaustion house rule...It's a good rule. What we do is each death save failure results in one level of exhaustion. When you are stabilized, you retain the exhaustion. So instead of dying at three death save failures, you die at 6 but you essentially retain your fails and only get rid of one per long rest. We also allow lesser restoration to remove one level of exhaustion and heal or greater restoration to remove all exhaustion.
@@madsam7582: While that's generally true, there are *physical* limitations to how much work muscles can do, how much adrenaline the body can handle, etc.
Books have arrived to the Kingdom of Denmark - Thx you guys for all your work and letting us watch you play - I work with kids and use Roleplaying daily and your stuff keeps me inspired
The moral dilemma posed by Lady Rosavar wanting to leave at the end (02:53 to 02:55) was a splendid touch of complication that the players could not simply dice roll their way around or through it. Great when players must resort to their real-life wits, rather than convenient character stats! :)
Putting two fan OCs in the game as junior officers is such a nice touch. And Soot wasn't from someone who gifted a ridiculous amount of subs, so that shows that wasn't the reason.
I'm let down by Töm not singing: "I get knock down, but I get up again". You're a DAMN BARD! Just kidding, i love Töms RP! Such a pleasure as a player for a DM to have!
The fun thing with elf warlocks is they can effectively do 4 short rests and a long in the same time it takes everyone else to do long rests. This means he can dump spell slots while he's on watch, if he has any that would do something useful.
Anna 2019 “I love fart jokes!” Hahaha Love your charisma and the way you guys always get along and joke around. Really shows how much fun you have when you game. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for the entertainment to everyone at the table. I love this show for so many reason, the fact your all just nerds around the table playing make it so much better for me. The friendly banter the inside jokes. It's all great slice of life. @mattcorville started reading your books, so far I'm enjoying it. However its slow going at I dont have much time until my boys are asleep and tend to pass out myself. Any plan on haveing them converted to an audio format? Then I can listen while doing housework and driving.
I know this is super late but they do a podcast version on most podcast sources. I usually listen to those at work and have the TH-cam video on my tablet in the kitchen.
god I will never forget my reaction to the end of this stream when it was live. The way king just looks to phil feels so in charachter for slim and king. commander giving his bruiser a simple look and the bruiser immeditetly knows whats up.
I love the way Matt rolls with the decision to wreck his carefully considered sequencing, with the opening of the lower level. I mean, I figure that's what a good DM does, but I love his enthusiasm for it. It's Improv Night at the Dungeon!
Why does Boots always land in those Situations where you could play the whole "You´re probably wondering how I got myself in this Situation... It all started with an Idea..."
If I miss it live, which is a better way to show support for the show and MCDM in general, TH-cam or the Twitch VOD? I know that watching at all is a huge show of support, but there may be some marginal difference between the two. So which is better, by whatever metric(s) you guys might consider?
When the Iron Golem goes stomping off to find its way back up to the party, the only thing I could think of was trains in BlackBurrow (original EverQuest). Some of you remember those days...
Oh shit I really hope one of two things happen, 1 slim makes her understand why she can’t leave and she goes with it, or 2 action, bonus action, action surge, drops her in one round.
I do this thing where I pickup mannerisms really easily, and pass them on, really easily. I’m wondering how long before my colleagues start doing the disappointed head shake.
Serious question: if the floor was only three feet thick and made of sandstone, then (1) how was it holding an iron golem in the first place, and (2) how could the xorn burrow through it without falling out into the chamber below themselves?
The xorn were in the caves outside ringwell. As for the first. I'm not an engineer so I dont know the load capacity of 3feet of sandstone. Perhaps the room below being much smaller gave it stability. Perhaps its strengthened by the magic of ringwell.
Thanks. It still seems a little dicey if a three foot sandstone floor is enough to deal with iron golem stomping, but at least the xorn bit makes sense. I always try bribing the xorn, after finding out they like copper as much as any other precious metal. Instead of cashing up all that copper at the end of a dungeon crawl, I keep it for xorn bait (in parcels, in a Haversack).
IMO, Considering they didn't actually eliminate the golem, just pushed to encounter to a later time, as well as basically losing the excavate arrow. I find it unfairly punishing of the gangs' ingenuity for Matt to have the golem drag Boots down. *Especially* since Matt used a normal attack rather than a grapple check, which prevents Töm from potentially saving with an athletics check..
Im pretty sure that most enchanted arrows can be recovered as long as they do still exist The Javelin for example was lost in the beginning cause they left it in the Buttcrack of a superior demon
Ok, so someone wasn't mathing too well....granite is about 170lbs per cubic foot (as is lime stone)...sandstone is about 150lbs per cubic foot. The surface area in feet is pi(r^2)(depth)(avg wt/volume). Matt said that the volume in question was 10 ft across and 3 ft deep. So 3.14(25)(3)(150) = 35325 or almost 18 tons. A nice granite counter top of 2 inches thick is almost 3.4 tons on it own
I feel the need to say this. You need to run the stone weight through the dnd weight adjustment. A great sword IRL weighs 15+ pounds. In dnd it weighs 5. If you do the same scaling for the stone, then the 2 tons would be around 1400 pounds. The largest rocks would be around 200 pounds.
I really doubt that iron golem has any reaction that says:"In case you loose ground under your feet, you might make one grapling attack against adjacent character." Or something like this. That was just cinematical improvisation. I have to say, that i would be furious, if DM used something like this against mine character.
@@matthewhack6510 Rly? He might easily kill that character. In fact that exactly what happened. Do you think it was funny expierence for a player? And this outcome was fairly predictable. What chance did Boots have? Injured and isolated against enemy that was challenge for whole team? He was dead before he was even able to react. Thats just bad DMing in my opinion.
@@pavelhranicky8291 not everything has to be justified by mechanics, and it's a fine experience for a player. when everything is by the book it gets predictable, stale, and boring. it made the other players think outside the box to save him, which they did. keeping the players on their toes is not bad dm'ing. all he did was change the conditions of the test. if you watch matt's videos, a big part of his style is letting the player's plans work /sort of/. so yeah, they dropped the iron golem to the next floor and avoided a tough encounter, buuuut boots went with it. if he hadn't done that, there would be no tension left in the encounter.
@@matthewhack6510 WHat? Look dude, if you think, that it is funny experience, when DM screw your character with some wild impro, than we really have no common ground here. There are many other ways how to keep game entertaining and intense without "punishing" players for clever tactics. There was absolutely no need for this. Why trying to force intensity into encounter, when players outsmart you? And it was really obvious, that Matt is just trying to add some "juice" into game by "sacrifacing" one character. Im really no fan of this. If you are...enjoy.
Pavel Hranický Notice how Umlaut Tom didn’t whine like a pampered snowflake, bud? That’s not a special character ability, it’s a choice of character that we all have the ability to make. Hang in there, petunia.
"Slim knows the stakes of the mission" is such a fantastic line from King.
Shooting a demolition arrow into the floor to avoid a golem and potentially skip a whole level of the dungeon?! The Chain Goes OSR and I'm into it.
But also a set up for a Colville Screw.
jfarrar19 Ah yes the patent pending Colville Screw, what a masterpiece!
@@jfarrar19 We haven't yet seen a Colville Screw where the party sends SOMEONE ELSE to go gather up all the monsters to fight them all at once.
For your exhaustion house rule...It's a good rule. What we do is each death save failure results in one level of exhaustion. When you are stabilized, you retain the exhaustion. So instead of dying at three death save failures, you die at 6 but you essentially retain your fails and only get rid of one per long rest. We also allow lesser restoration to remove one level of exhaustion and heal or greater restoration to remove all exhaustion.
Rob Jacobs I really like this idea! Stealing...
@@madsam7582: While that's generally true, there are *physical* limitations to how much work muscles can do, how much adrenaline the body can handle, etc.
Matt it's cool that you even included Frost having a thing for Buts like Kalemas wanted. Giving the people what they want.
Kissing Buts is not the way to get promoted in the Chain... Or is it?
O'D is out this week. He'll be back soon!
The question is though, will he always have been back soon? [suprisingly difficult composition to build there]
He's totally a fan favourite. BLIMEY!
I am so sad!
I can't get over how cool the intro is. I'm impressed every time.
"Not as good as Two Shoes" was a clever comment. I approve.
Books have arrived to the Kingdom of Denmark - Thx you guys for all your work and letting us watch you play - I work with kids and use Roleplaying daily and your stuff keeps me inspired
Iron Golem: Grabs Boots as it falls
Boots: “Fly, you fools!”
The moral dilemma posed by Lady Rosavar wanting to leave at the end (02:53 to 02:55) was a splendid touch of complication that the players could not simply dice roll their way around or through it. Great when players must resort to their real-life wits, rather than convenient character stats! :)
Putting two fan OCs in the game as junior officers is such a nice touch. And Soot wasn't from someone who gifted a ridiculous amount of subs, so that shows that wasn't the reason.
I'm let down by Töm not singing: "I get knock down, but I get up again". You're a DAMN BARD!
Just kidding, i love Töms RP! Such a pleasure as a player for a DM to have!
The fun thing with elf warlocks is they can effectively do 4 short rests and a long in the same time it takes everyone else to do long rests. This means he can dump spell slots while he's on watch, if he has any that would do something useful.
God DAMN that ending was powerful! I'm too excited for next week. Bravo, MCDM! Bless all y'all
Anna 2019 “I love fart jokes!” Hahaha
Love your charisma and the way you guys always get along and joke around. Really shows how much fun you have when you game.
Keep up the great work!
The energy is palpable. Love it!
Rooms on cards - that is GREAT idea. Why haven't I thought of that before?
Thank you for the entertainment to everyone at the table. I love this show for so many reason, the fact your all just nerds around the table playing make it so much better for me. The friendly banter the inside jokes. It's all great slice of life.
@mattcorville started reading your books, so far I'm enjoying it. However its slow going at I dont have much time until my boys are asleep and tend to pass out myself. Any plan on haveing them converted to an audio format? Then I can listen while doing housework and driving.
I know this is super late but they do a podcast version on most podcast sources. I usually listen to those at work and have the TH-cam video on my tablet in the kitchen.
there is a slim chance that a head will get cut off in this episode
paused @ 4:37, came back to start watching again and saw Annas face and looking at Phil's look of questioning is amazing!
god I will never forget my reaction to the end of this stream when it was live. The way king just looks to phil feels so in charachter for slim and king. commander giving his bruiser a simple look and the bruiser immeditetly knows whats up.
Where is OD?! Ahhh!!! I hope this question is answered in the beginning. Edit: HE'S GONE CAUSE HE SMELLS
I love the way Matt rolls with the decision to wreck his carefully considered sequencing, with the opening of the lower level. I mean, I figure that's what a good DM does, but I love his enthusiasm for it. It's Improv Night at the Dungeon!
Slim is a pilot and an alien in this world. Can we call him space jockey.
I *LOVE* that modification to going Unconscious by using levels of Exhaustion! *yoink*
The Chain: Ep. 23 - The Law of Unintended Consequences
That's a compass, not a protractor!
Another great session, though.
The combination of the sonic plushie followed directly by the horn sounds brought me to tears laughing. Thanks guys
Buts is always the biggest mood
In my group we go down a lot. We have a rule that if you go down, the next time you go down you automatically have 1 death saving throw failed.
Why does Boots always land in those Situations where you could play the whole
"You´re probably wondering how I got myself in this Situation... It all started with an Idea..."
The world needs more The Last Starfighter references. I really enjoyed the cutscenes and math-magic graphics. Keep up the surprises, sir!
Strahd reference. "He is the land."
Dracula reference*
If I miss it live, which is a better way to show support for the show and MCDM in general, TH-cam or the Twitch VOD? I know that watching at all is a huge show of support, but there may be some marginal difference between the two. So which is better, by whatever metric(s) you guys might consider?
Patreon
Metrics are tracked across all platforms, at least internally.
1:06:05 "Where would I be if I were a monster?"
In Lars' face, of course. 😁
1:15:30 Make this into a gif -- also, god damn I love you nerds
It was giffed before the episode even ended ;) gph.is/g/E00kL5p
When the Iron Golem goes stomping off to find its way back up to the party, the only thing I could think of was trains in BlackBurrow (original EverQuest). Some of you remember those days...
The Last Star Fighter, in case anyone was wondering. Disney movie. "Ramming Speed!!""
Gonna be honest, wasn’t paying too much attention at first and I didn’t realize OD was gone until it was mentioned either...
Blimey!
Bloody ‘ell!
@1:41:39 .... screaming in the back of my head is "Train to zone! TRAIN TO ZONE!" Ahhh, EQ days...
...are The Devil's playthings.
That a quote from something?
The saying "Idle hands are the Devil's playthings." Is an old Catholic admonishment to work hard roughly meaning "Too much leisure Leeds to sin."
If the golem is holding a large weapon in one hand and a shield in the other, with what did it grab Boots?
Maybe the golem has one of those fabled bucklers!
@@Lotloxa wouldn't need a 'buckler'. a large portion of full Shields were strapped on, not handheld.
If you do a CON check (I don't know off hand) I would have them roll with a DC of the AC.
Tom is the man!
His rod, or his ROD!?
"Idle hands are the devils playthings"
Should have named this episode, "You caught the vapors..." 17:39
Xorn, awesome! They should've had advantage on the 1st round vs the prone characters.
We want to see Jason's Cthulhu monster!
Lady Rosivar has no chill.
THE LAST STARFIGHTER REFERENCE ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ PLEASE HAVE THE SOMNIUM TENEBRIS FIGHT THE FORCES OF XUR, AND THE KODAN ARMADA!!! PLEASEEEEEE!
1 cubic foot of sandstone is 175 pounds... that was about 300 cubic feet of stone... dang
Matt lets Slim tie a knot in the darkness ;)
I guess it's easy to retcon it and say Judge would've gotten rid of it.
I think he just forgot about the darkness...it can happen...
I mean, I can tie a knot with my eyes closed I think. I tie my laces without looking all the time.
2:37:46 Big Cat go Boom!
oh no, level 3 Aggro train incoming!
OH MY GOD! TOM KNOWS THE SONG DIGGY HOLE!
The cast sang it a few times in the Vallenguard episodes :)
Boots! YYZ isn’t what would dispel this ward! You should have played Presto!
Break Ends at 1:19:54
They need to get better at using inspiration and guidance. Also they need a magical safe place to camp.
5 secs in and Im already so excited. I love this stream !
Wow that was a suspenseful way to end it!
Back in the 80's if a player in our group missed a session, they were considered to be gaseous form, didn't work out so well for Leech though.
Im so sad I missed the kickstarter :( but i pre-ordered Kingdoms and Warfare to show my love
God I love the Chain.
When Anna is entertained, I am entertained.
Oh shit I really hope one of two things happen, 1 slim makes her understand why she can’t leave and she goes with it, or 2 action, bonus action, action surge, drops her in one round.
OD is not there for one session and Leech transforms in a killing machine!
*shows off compass* I have a protractor!
Which book has a write-up of the Xorn-on-Steroids? The ones in the Monster Manual don't have all these extra abilities.
It's homebrew Matt Colville cooked up. Not from any book, official or otherwise.
If you subscribe to the Patreon at the $5 level you can see the notes, including a description of the Xorn.
What book is he using to get that cloud monster from?
I think its volos. Vampiric mist
James Smith Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, not Volo’s
I live I die They cast revivify I live again!
You play what?
Does anybody know the type of character sheet they used for Leech?
Best boi leech has gone. I hope not for too long
Copper is best boy! Best Ranger! Best cat daddy!!!
Lars: I touch his rod.
Josh Leap Blimey.
Mage hand that scepter
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Missing OD!!!
No inspiration for Phil at 49:00??
wait what are they playing?! I don't know?! is this Vermintide?
They are playing dungeons and dragons.
Really? I thought it was paranoia!
Come on... Blow that horn!
Did you paraphrase "I hate the sand."?????
2:21:09
Siri activation warning
I do this thing where I pickup mannerisms really easily, and pass them on, really easily. I’m wondering how long before my colleagues start doing the disappointed head shake.
Serious question: if the floor was only three feet thick and made of sandstone, then (1) how was it holding an iron golem in the first place, and (2) how could the xorn burrow through it without falling out into the chamber below themselves?
The xorn were in the caves outside ringwell.
As for the first. I'm not an engineer so I dont know the load capacity of 3feet of sandstone. Perhaps the room below being much smaller gave it stability. Perhaps its strengthened by the magic of ringwell.
Mal-2 KSC On (2) - I believe the place they fought the Xorn was outside of Ringwell proper, and may not have had any rooms directly beneath it.
Thanks. It still seems a little dicey if a three foot sandstone floor is enough to deal with iron golem stomping, but at least the xorn bit makes sense. I always try bribing the xorn, after finding out they like copper as much as any other precious metal. Instead of cashing up all that copper at the end of a dungeon crawl, I keep it for xorn bait (in parcels, in a Haversack).
@@mal2ksc sandstone..... Granite would have been better.
IMO, Considering they didn't actually eliminate the golem, just pushed to encounter to a later time, as well as basically losing the excavate arrow. I find it unfairly punishing of the gangs' ingenuity for Matt to have the golem drag Boots down. *Especially* since Matt used a normal attack rather than a grapple check, which prevents Töm from potentially saving with an athletics check..
I'm so early I love it give me more.
I can't believe none of them recognized the idle hands reference. You guys need Jesus. LMAO.
Copper used his Arrow of digging already. When they encountered stone golems.
As long as you hit with it, it can be recovered
Im pretty sure that most enchanted arrows can be recovered as long as they do still exist
The Javelin for example was lost in the beginning cause they left it in the Buttcrack of a superior demon
Buy more d8's
Ok, so someone wasn't mathing too well....granite is about 170lbs per cubic foot (as is lime stone)...sandstone is about 150lbs per cubic foot. The surface area in feet is pi(r^2)(depth)(avg wt/volume). Matt said that the volume in question was 10 ft across and 3 ft deep. So 3.14(25)(3)(150) = 35325 or almost 18 tons. A nice granite counter top of 2 inches thick is almost 3.4 tons on it own
I feel the need to say this. You need to run the stone weight through the dnd weight adjustment. A great sword IRL weighs 15+ pounds. In dnd it weighs 5. If you do the same scaling for the stone, then the 2 tons would be around 1400 pounds. The largest rocks would be around 200 pounds.
Not true. Great swords were only 5-8 pounds.
I really doubt that iron golem has any reaction that says:"In case you loose ground under your feet, you might make one grapling attack against adjacent character." Or something like this. That was just cinematical improvisation. I have to say, that i would be furious, if DM used something like this against mine character.
it's not good to be that inflexible. he did that to add tension and make the game more interesting. there's nothing wrong with that.
@@matthewhack6510 Rly? He might easily kill that character. In fact that exactly what happened. Do you think it was funny expierence for a player? And this outcome was fairly predictable. What chance did Boots have? Injured and isolated against enemy that was challenge for whole team? He was dead before he was even able to react. Thats just bad DMing in my opinion.
@@pavelhranicky8291 not everything has to be justified by mechanics, and it's a fine experience for a player. when everything is by the book it gets predictable, stale, and boring. it made the other players think outside the box to save him, which they did. keeping the players on their toes is not bad dm'ing. all he did was change the conditions of the test. if you watch matt's videos, a big part of his style is letting the player's plans work /sort of/. so yeah, they dropped the iron golem to the next floor and avoided a tough encounter, buuuut boots went with it. if he hadn't done that, there would be no tension left in the encounter.
@@matthewhack6510 WHat? Look dude, if you think, that it is funny experience, when DM screw your character with some wild impro, than we really have no common ground here. There are many other ways how to keep game entertaining and intense without "punishing" players for clever tactics. There was absolutely no need for this. Why trying to force intensity into encounter, when players outsmart you? And it was really obvious, that Matt is just trying to add some "juice" into game by "sacrifacing" one character. Im really no fan of this. If you are...enjoy.
Pavel Hranický Notice how Umlaut Tom didn’t whine like a pampered snowflake, bud? That’s not a special character ability, it’s a choice of character that we all have the ability to make. Hang in there, petunia.
I want Judge to die off Buttz seems more interesting of a character
@Bundle of Sticks No issue, as long as everybody turns evil. It starts with Boots.