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When my party played this, one character broke up the fight in the yawning portal by throwing a chair at them and telling them to be quiet. He had a nat 20 intimidation and they just sat down quietly lol
one of my players cast sleep on it, causing 3 bandits and one of the other players to go out. Them the paladin rolled intimidation on the last one and the combat was done in one turn
Our ranger threw a glass on them, rolling nat20 and sniping their leader, knocking him unconscious, for our barbarian to move in and intimidate them to run away
Running this now. My one party member (who’s had to learn the hard way that major cities can kill you) got caught up in the middle of this fight. I was proud he used “zephyr strike” to GTFO and make his way to the bar while not engaging.
Looking at the party, I'm thinking well shit 2 casters 2 stealth types. And a monk for healing and damage? Who is gonna tank when words and stealth don't work?! Remembers there's a Goliath.... Wow he is actually like the coolest person here, like a stealthy tree covered in moss.
I love Mycroft so much. His sheer disappointment in everyone and their seemingly stupid tactics are absolutely beautiful. I forgot how much I love to see Logan as a player.
I realize that. I was saying that's an odd inference to make.Animals appearing on everyday items is hardly uncommon. Shirts, mugs, socks, pretty much everything, etc. If that's an indicator of someone being a furry, then furries make up like 50% of the population of the United States.
It wasn’t until I learned their last names that I realized if Spencer and Jacob hyphenated their last names they could be “ worst-budz “ which is pretty hilarious
Wow, They get right to the meat of the mission, but still throw in their own side elements periodically. This is really entertaining and a good example of how to keep the story moving. Looking forward to the rest of this series!
Yeah I am running this for my group now and let's just say at the end of session 2 they didn't go to the zentarim hideout yet. They spent most of the second session interrogating random people in the Skewered Dragon with intelligent questions like :where are you from? I am from here why? Master I roll to see if he is lying... All because I hate directing PCs towards the goal, I keep telling me they will ask a sensible question, but to no avail. One of the P. C.s tried to rob the barman though. No, he is not a rogue, he just thinks he is one. After one hour of this inanity they decided nothing was worth knowing in the tavern, they went . So I thought :"let's give them a hand". I had one of the locals go out after them and whisper all hush hush :" I want no trouble, see, but if you need to know, the men that went after your friend.. I've seen them already, they tend to stick to Candle Lane, see?" The pcs thought about it a bit, then one of them said :"this is clearly a trap". So they went to look for Neverember at his mansion instead...
@@theuncalledfor Sometimes the DM chooses the module and not the whole group. Or maybe they just liked the Waterdeep Setting. Players running off and not doing what the DM initially planned is also really common
I like the concept of a changeling character. This made me subtly change an NPC in my campaign to a changeling. The party doesn't know, and I'm not gonna tell them. If they figure it out then I'll say so. But until then...Fhil the Fighter will remain a wayward boy looking to help
Started a campaign with that in mind...party woke up in a prison after a shipwreck. My character was disguised as a half-elf. He called himself Tricky Nym Suda...but that was just a anagram of "tricky pseudonym" (fake name). He had a fake names for several aliases...Declan Stein, Anna Graham, or Yuri Goodforge, for example. All anagrams. Eventually, the party began to catch on...the half-elf didn't have darkvision, evasive questions about his past, lack of language proficiency...funny, though, they suspected, but magic couldnt detect anything.
@3:02:00 you can absolutely make a Medicine check to stabilize a party member without a Healer's Kit. If you also have a Healer's Kit you can Stabilize without making the Medicine check. If you have Healer Feat you can Heal them instead of stabilizing them.
Thanks for clarifying! That's always how I've run it in my games but I couldn't remember if there were actually rules that I had read of if I just made that up...
I had been wondering how this crew got through so many adventures so quickly for quite a while. After watching this, now I know: Your sessions move *FAST*. I think this chapter took my players like 3 sessions, and we played once every other weekend!
This man dedicated an entire room and commisioned someone to make a custon table just for this so judging by that, they know their way around the game and know where to search to get to the meat.
Real Potato Gamer this seems more like a “home game” than shows like critical role and dimension 20. Not many crazy set pieces and miniatures but a good time nonetheless
I'm gonna run this as my first non homebrew campaign this week. I'm reading the book about the town to kind of learn the lore but I'm sure my players will just follow the main story and won't explore that much. Edit. I ended up running it for two groups and they did anything but follow the story. I'm amazed at how you guys managed to get straight to the point.
Well, it’s good that the players want to explore a lot! Do you want the entire campaign to be a waste of time or something? Exploring character relationships is the best part.
I just realized how good a Rogue/Druid would actually be. Wild shape would make it literally Impossible to keep you out of just about anywhere since you could just turn into a mouse or a sparrow!
I'm really enjoying this run. Especially fun 'cause I'm also running this so it's interesting to see how other Jacob interprets the NPCs. Really love the combat banter. You guys are really entertaining and so are your characters.
I started playing this a few weeks back. I like my DM's version of Zoblob better (he refers to himself in third person). My monk befriended him, and now buys purple colored plushies of monsters from him. She has two beholder's and a Tiamat so far. She bought a mastiff and purple tack and harness for Old Zoblob. She wanted him to see her dance at Trollskull
@@meme0taker87 They rolled a Nat 20 too, but they had Disadvantage. Their other roll was a Nat 1. You pickpocket the spectators and find a total of *rolls 5d10* 26 gold and a strange green potion.
Now just imagine the city watch searched them and found a very incriminating letter from the Zhents with orders for them to transfer the prisoner by the name of Reneer Neverember....
So instead of doing the responsible thing and try to help out the orc lady, my party decided to watch as she gets beaten down by the gang of tattooed dudes. Except me, I tried taking bets, rolled a nat 1, and was promptly trampled by the crowd. Fun times.
It makes more sense then what these meta games did. They not only got involved in a bar fight with out knowing who is really innocent but then they bring deadly weapons and spells to a Bar Fist Fight!! They are either murder hobos or meta gaming cause they know the module
I love this play-through of the module! You guys have such awesome energy! I also like Jacob's really interesting takes on all the NPC's. It's hard to have so much energy throughout an entire session while also keeping the game flowing with such vivid descriptions, nice transitions, and a moving plot in a module that is not always straightforward (depending on your players).
@@zeterzero4356 by the time u have figured it out there is already a Rapier in your lung and you have somehow been persuaded to apologise for bleeding on your assailant's coat.
I know this happened awhile ago but I can already tell that having a party consisting of only people with d8 and d6 hit dies won't end well. I know, because I DM'd for a group of only Changelings that consisted of a Monk, 2 Rogues, and a Sorcerer.
Nonsense. D6 and d8 are fine. D10 is LITERALLY an average of ONE hp more per level, d12, TWO. 🙄 Anyone with half decent tactics and optimization can wax the floor with enemies.
@@gethriel The gap between d8 and d10 is 1 hp, but without some very specific subclasses for the d6's and some significant investment monetarily or build wise by the d8's their armor class is most likely not going to be very good, at least not compared to the classes that have a hit die that actually means something, because it's not the raw amount of health alone that makes d6 and d8 classes more squishy it's the consistently lower AC. It isn't nonsense it is a fact that the Caster classes were all given lower hit die and few armor proficiencies, and a proper party composition in literally any game ever will have a Tank and trying to go full party DPS is a fools errand. You might be able to wax the floor with small enemies, small fry that those casters and Monk/Rogue can take out immediately, but the moment you come up to something that takes that hit and keeps on coming you will see the error of your ways as the entire party then dies to an AOE (except the Rogue because they have multiple damage mitigation abilities that make them good at survivability)
This adventure is awesome! I know no one is perfect and not all of this has been run as written but Jacob does a great job of rolling with it and lets be honest D&D is just playing make believe with friends, there is no right or wrong. I really loved the pacing, the game didn't seem to drag and you made lots of progress in 3 hours, I myself am running this and it took my players 8 hours to get to the end of the Xanathar guild hide-out. I am a new DM and I do tend to let my players, and their imaginations, wander. The characters are interesting, have intertwined backstories and the players play this out well making for and interesting show. Overall keep doing what you're doing its great!
My players decided to find the secret door and do the dungeon backwards, resulting in them actually fighting the mindflayer as they were in the doorway which was its exit.
1:30 I mean I let both my parties sleep trough the night before they checked out the warehouse. But they didn't see the kenku so the attack on the zhentarim just happened later and floon and renaer were held prisoners for two more days.
Jacob, xp to level 3 is awesome, this is my first time watching you dm. You really move things along and keep it interesting. Your party members are great, completely wrecked that troll! Looking forward to catching up on your videos thanks for posting!
Jacob, you and your friends are adorable!! I don't know if I can commit the time to listen to all episodes, but keep doing what you guys are doing. Much love😍😜
The goliath rogue being super not sneaky flavor wise remind me of the centaur rogue I made. Narratively it doesn't make as much sense as other combos, but it's quite hilarious to play. The centaur was actually also basically a Pegasus because of a choice of homebrew boons (with downsides) our dm gave us all choices from. So a draft horse body, huge, marvelous golden wings, but built to be sneaky af. It's flavored as her blending in with nature and wildlife and knows how to navigate quietly through the woods.
I’ve seen some of your short form videos, and found them very insightful and funny. Gotta say, you’re a better DM than any I’ve had, and much better than I am currently. I love how every action isn’t just swing and miss/hit, but has a theatrical flair to it. Kudos! I’ll try to incorporate that into my game style.
I am running this campaign starting tomorrow - it'll be my first DnD campaign as a DM, (reference, the original ADnD were when I played last) - so I'm a bit nervous with all the moving parts in this campaign and the multiple villians and bringing others in etc.
My first thought seeing 2 rogues was that they could both stand either side of an enemy and whenever the enemies focus shifted they could just take turns sneak attacking him
Just about every one you can think of is. My party went into an inn, and saw a hooded Drow elf with two simitars, but Drizzit was not interested in talking to us.
Great video! About to run this for the first time myself. SO cool to see how you put everything together and the way the PC’s interpreted everything. *excellent* resource for a new DM.
My group just started this campaign last night and the best part was our 8 foot tall Goliath bard, who stood at the base of a black dragon in the previous session dodging and weaving its claws, rolls a nat one as the first roll of the campaign and proceeds to get knocked on his butt by an elbow to the face from Yagra. Besides the hilarity it actually provided a really good rp moment for my silver tongued rogue to convince the men that they couldn’t win that fight
I like your dm'ing, it's not that all elaborate, descriptive, and official, but it's very flexible and interactive (I have a feeling that it's also often improvisational). You also feel chilled and confident and having fun, probably because of playing in a circle of friends. That all reminds me of my style, except I am not confident and don't have enough friends for a campaign :'D
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did anyone do fire or acid damage to that troll? aren't the stirges supposed to attack the party too? and durnan helps?
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When my party played this, one character broke up the fight in the yawning portal by throwing a chair at them and telling them to be quiet. He had a nat 20 intimidation and they just sat down quietly lol
one of my players cast sleep on it, causing 3 bandits and one of the other players to go out. Them the paladin rolled intimidation on the last one and the combat was done in one turn
Wow, I would’ve loved to witness
@@lowgun5149 The Twilight Cleric of Selune also cast Sleep...for which my future Swashbuckler claimed credit 😎
Our ranger threw a glass on them, rolling nat20 and sniping their leader, knocking him unconscious, for our barbarian to move in and intimidate them to run away
Running this now. My one party member (who’s had to learn the hard way that major cities can kill you) got caught up in the middle of this fight. I was proud he used “zephyr strike” to GTFO and make his way to the bar while not engaging.
Iroh: *takes cookie* “I know if this is a trap you’ll never let me live it down, but if this is poisoned I won’t have to.”
It's either delicious tea or poison
You just HAD to stretch it over 10 minutes
ikr he’s obviously money hungry
ikr who adds 3 hours 14 minutes and 53 seconds of filler like that?
oh that is brilliant.
No content only ad revenue shaking my smh
smh
“Is there a way to get upstairs?”
*He points at the stairs*
Haha haha. I love it.
*five minutes into the game*
Oh so they're lawful neutral
I wasn’t really watching until I saw Mycroft speaking in a Posh accent sipping tea. Brilliant 👌
Ahhhh but he kept the bag in so that's -2 poshness.
Brilliant!
@@jpg3430 ooof, I can taste the bitterness
@@jpg3430 haha haha!
Same
"They're the Xanathar Guild. That means they're part of the Xanathar Guild...." - Jacob
Really.... Or maybe they're just part of the Xanathar Guild.
Hm the floor is made of floor 🤔🤔
Uros Mirkovic or ...
Out of Xanathar Guild
M.A.C or possibly, could you maybe consider, that they’re part of the Xanathar guild?
Gus hear me out.
There part of xanathars guild.
No, they're probably a part of the Xanathar Guild.
I like Mycroft just based on that introduction. “As if designed by an idiot”
Mycroft is like deadpool. He can see past the plains and 4th wall
Looking at the party, I'm thinking well shit 2 casters 2 stealth types. And a monk for healing and damage? Who is gonna tank when words and stealth don't work?!
Remembers there's a Goliath.... Wow he is actually like the coolest person here, like a stealthy tree covered in moss.
When my party meets Volo, I'm just gonna imagine Jacob with moustache and floppy hat.
when my party met Volo they asked Durnan to murder him....
I would like but I’m not gonna de the one to ruin the perfect amount that it’s at
@@alertpenguin8403 How noble of you!
Did someone say EASY ROLLER DICE?
Easy roller dice
Mmmm yes easy roller dice
Easy roller dice everybody
EASY ROLLER DICE PEOPLE!!! WE HAVE EASY ROLLER DICE!!!
I hear they cure cancer
Mycroft is one of my favorite characters I have ever seen in D&D. Absolutely hilarious!
"Do you *want* to loose your arms?"
He’s Sherlock Holmes. Just straight up.
STOP FAKKU I’m aware that Sherlock’s Brother was named Mycroft. I meant that his character was more or less synonymous with Sherlock Holmes.
STOP FAKKU If you’re talking about the BBC show I suppose but the Conan Doyle novels Sherlock was a lot more personable.
Elementary, my dear DoctorSawbones
You see everyone jump into the fray. What do you do?
I CAST FIREBALL
ONLY FIREBALL
COUNTERSPELL
Why is this my party
MMMMMMMM I CAST POWA WORD KIELL!
Reflect!
"Do you want to keep your arms?" Bruh he went from let's be peaceful to psychopath
Chewbacca
Fantastic bit of RP right there, thoroughly sucked me in
I love Mycroft so much. His sheer disappointment in everyone and their seemingly stupid tactics are absolutely beautiful. I forgot how much I love to see Logan as a player.
Can I just say how much I love that Logan was drinking tea? Like I'm weirdly happy about that.
Tea is the most wonderful thing in the world
Serious question are you a furry?
What, a man can't use the only thing on his desk for a username and profile picture without being a furry?
@@Tigercup9 it was a question I wasn't saying you were, I was saying it appeared so.
I realize that. I was saying that's an odd inference to make.Animals appearing on everyday items is hardly uncommon. Shirts, mugs, socks, pretty much everything, etc. If that's an indicator of someone being a furry, then furries make up like 50% of the population of the United States.
It wasn’t until I learned their last names that I realized if Spencer and Jacob hyphenated their last names they could be “ worst-budz “ which is pretty hilarious
Wow, They get right to the meat of the mission, but still throw in their own side elements periodically.
This is really entertaining and a good example of how to keep the story moving.
Looking forward to the rest of this series!
Thanks Patrick. This means a lot to us and appreciate the kind words.
Yeah I am running this for my group now and let's just say at the end of session 2 they didn't go to the zentarim hideout yet. They spent most of the second session interrogating random people in the Skewered Dragon with intelligent questions like :where are you from? I am from here why? Master I roll to see if he is lying...
All because I hate directing PCs towards the goal, I keep telling me they will ask a sensible question, but to no avail. One of the P. C.s tried to rob the barman though. No, he is not a rogue, he just thinks he is one.
After one hour of this inanity they decided nothing was worth knowing in the tavern, they went . So I thought :"let's give them a hand". I had one of the locals go out after them and whisper all hush hush :" I want no trouble, see, but if you need to know, the men that went after your friend.. I've seen them already, they tend to stick to Candle Lane, see?"
The pcs thought about it a bit, then one of them said :"this is clearly a trap". So they went to look for Neverember at his mansion instead...
@@Eisenwulf666 just slam the book and let them free style at that point. 🤣
Mycroft as in Sherlock Holmes brother, Lol. He even was acting like The Holmes.
Mycroft: Could you sign this?
Volo: I would like to bu-
Mycroft: then do it!
that came off really fucking creepy
I remember playing this
My party completely ignored what we were meant to do and started a cult for our warlocks patron
fucking brilliant
@@fishpickles7316 the patron was an old god who was stuck in a candle, it was our Dms second campaign
Whyyyy are they playing a module if they don't want to play the module?!
@@theuncalledfor Sometimes the DM chooses the module and not the whole group. Or maybe they just liked the Waterdeep Setting. Players running off and not doing what the DM initially planned is also really common
Two seconds in and realized their classes. Get ready for the SQUISHIEST of parties
A party of glass canons
I once was in a party of a warlock/sorcerer, a sorcerer, an artificer and a monk. Playing in a party of squishies is fun. Scary but fun
I did death house with a bard a rogue and two wizards (all level 1), the bard was simultaneously damage, support, healing and tank all in one
@@fishyjishy2867 kobold monk?
@@evaahh9584 Nope Warforged but he looked like a tiefling for some reason.
Bust out a whiteboard! I used it to sketch out the outline of these building and saved a bunch of time explaining the layout over and over :)
I like the concept of a changeling character. This made me subtly change an NPC in my campaign to a changeling. The party doesn't know, and I'm not gonna tell them. If they figure it out then I'll say so. But until then...Fhil the Fighter will remain a wayward boy looking to help
Having a single changeling as two different npcs in a story could be fun.
Started a campaign with that in mind...party woke up in a prison after a shipwreck. My character was disguised as a half-elf.
He called himself Tricky Nym Suda...but that was just a anagram of "tricky pseudonym" (fake name). He had a fake names for several aliases...Declan Stein, Anna Graham, or Yuri Goodforge, for example. All anagrams.
Eventually, the party began to catch on...the half-elf didn't have darkvision, evasive questions about his past, lack of language proficiency...funny, though, they suspected, but magic couldnt detect anything.
There's a pdf addon written by the original author that incorporates a changeling villain/guild.
I honestly hate changelings they seem so lazy to me.
Dominic larratt Interesting. What about them feels lazy to you?
@3:02:00 you can absolutely make a Medicine check to stabilize a party member without a Healer's Kit. If you also have a Healer's Kit you can Stabilize without making the Medicine check. If you have Healer Feat you can Heal them instead of stabilizing them.
Thanks for clarifying! That's always how I've run it in my games but I couldn't remember if there were actually rules that I had read of if I just made that up...
Yeah it's RAW, page 197 PHB =)
Gonna be dming this module this semester so being able to watch/listen to how someone else runs it is very helpful as I’ve never dmed before
I had been wondering how this crew got through so many adventures so quickly for quite a while. After watching this, now I know: Your sessions move *FAST*. I think this chapter took my players like 3 sessions, and we played once every other weekend!
This man dedicated an entire room and commisioned someone to make a custon table just for this so judging by that, they know their way around the game and know where to search to get to the meat.
Yup. Same.
Jacob's Kenku voices were amazing!
Not the best production quality (but not bad), but so fun to watch! This is great!
Real Potato Gamer this seems more like a “home game” than shows like critical role and dimension 20. Not many crazy set pieces and miniatures but a good time nonetheless
I'm gonna run this as my first non homebrew campaign this week. I'm reading the book about the town to kind of learn the lore but I'm sure my players will just follow the main story and won't explore that much.
Edit. I ended up running it for two groups and they did anything but follow the story. I'm amazed at how you guys managed to get straight to the point.
Well, it’s good that the players want to explore a lot! Do you want the entire campaign to be a waste of time or something? Exploring character relationships is the best part.
"Mycroft and the people that are going to doom Mycroft."
*Distant screaming* Foreshadowing
Ranair: I'm not in love with him!
Mycroft: Really?
Also Ranair: Ok maybe a little
I just realized how good a Rogue/Druid would actually be. Wild shape would make it literally Impossible to keep you out of just about anywhere since you could just turn into a mouse or a sparrow!
Also, great for making the Rogue part a bit tankier.
Also great for abusing druid of the spores abilities to murder everything without taking any real damage
At 28:31, the way he said Baldur's Gate was like the verbal version of bolded text in a video game.
I'm really enjoying this run. Especially fun 'cause I'm also running this so it's interesting to see how other Jacob interprets the NPCs.
Really love the combat banter. You guys are really entertaining and so are your characters.
you know a player is experienced when he starts coming u with the memiest builds like mycroft
"Beauty is terrifying"
Why does that sound *so* wise?
When I ran this, Durnan just got his sword, hit all his attacks, and kicked the troll's corpse back into Undermountain. It was awesome
I started playing this a few weeks back.
I like my DM's version of Zoblob better (he refers to himself in third person). My monk befriended him, and now buys purple colored plushies of monsters from him. She has two beholder's and a Tiamat so far.
She bought a mastiff and purple tack and harness for Old Zoblob. She wanted him to see her dance at Trollskull
I've played through dragon heist twice and both times have been some of my favorite times playing dnd, it's such a well written adventure
Watching this over a year late but "you can't be afraid of a basket ball" incredible quote
Daam guys that pace, defeating the orc in our party was like at least a hour in
do't you mean troll?
(Edit :grammar)
Jacob: Everything cured even cancer....
Rogue: "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT"
It's 0:01 in and I can already see that everyone wants to be the damage dealer... Who needs healing when you are death!
or when you can just dodge the damage
Giant fight starts at the Inn
Everyone npc: watches the fight
Everyone pc: get involves in the fight
Me: pickpocket every spectator for gold
Roll a Slight of Hand check.
Roll a Slight of Hand check.
@@primeemperor9196 nat 20
@@meme0taker87 They rolled a Nat 20 too, but they had Disadvantage. Their other roll was a Nat 1. You pickpocket the spectators and find a total of *rolls 5d10* 26 gold and a strange green potion.
Now just imagine the city watch searched them and found a very incriminating letter from the Zhents with orders for them to transfer the prisoner by the name of Reneer Neverember....
12 minutes in and I’m now only watching for Mycroft.
So instead of doing the responsible thing and try to help out the orc lady, my party decided to watch as she gets beaten down by the gang of tattooed dudes. Except me, I tried taking bets, rolled a nat 1, and was promptly trampled by the crowd. Fun times.
It makes more sense then what these meta games did. They not only got involved in a bar fight with out knowing who is really innocent but then they bring deadly weapons and spells to a Bar Fist Fight!! They are either murder hobos or meta gaming cause they know the module
@@homunculus7 Fair enough. I think they weren't really thinking and were kinda just reacting maybe?
homunculus7 the thugs instigated the fight, so the party nonlethally broke it up. How does that make them murder hobos or metagamers?
I love this play-through of the module! You guys have such awesome energy! I also like Jacob's really interesting takes on all the NPC's. It's hard to have so much energy throughout an entire session while also keeping the game flowing with such vivid descriptions, nice transitions, and a moving plot in a module that is not always straightforward (depending on your players).
“Ooohh he’s being racist!”
My first ever campaign was Waterdeep: Dragon Heist we never got to finish it so this will be fun to watch
Logan is the Mountain that sneaks while there is a Changeling Twins
"The mountain that sneaks" is a sick alias.
@@zeterzero4356 by the time u have figured it out there is already a Rapier in your lung and you have somehow been persuaded to apologise for bleeding on your assailant's coat.
Give this guy one more like, get him to 69 likes. Nice.
I know this happened awhile ago but I can already tell that having a party consisting of only people with d8 and d6 hit dies won't end well. I know, because I DM'd for a group of only Changelings that consisted of a Monk, 2 Rogues, and a Sorcerer.
Nonsense. D6 and d8 are fine. D10 is LITERALLY an average of ONE hp more per level, d12, TWO. 🙄 Anyone with half decent tactics and optimization can wax the floor with enemies.
@@gethriel The gap between d8 and d10 is 1 hp, but without some very specific subclasses for the d6's and some significant investment monetarily or build wise by the d8's their armor class is most likely not going to be very good, at least not compared to the classes that have a hit die that actually means something, because it's not the raw amount of health alone that makes d6 and d8 classes more squishy it's the consistently lower AC. It isn't nonsense it is a fact that the Caster classes were all given lower hit die and few armor proficiencies, and a proper party composition in literally any game ever will have a Tank and trying to go full party DPS is a fools errand. You might be able to wax the floor with small enemies, small fry that those casters and Monk/Rogue can take out immediately, but the moment you come up to something that takes that hit and keeps on coming you will see the error of your ways as the entire party then dies to an AOE (except the Rogue because they have multiple damage mitigation abilities that make them good at survivability)
Logan just reading The Warlock in the background 🤣
I'm rewatching this series before watching ToA bc of Ary and Irah and god I forgot how much I love Mycroft and how Logan plays him
Currently working through this for my first D&D campaign.
How is it going?
Rui Kirisame - It went so poorly, OP died.
the deadpool song Jacob was thinking about was "Mama said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J
This adventure is awesome!
I know no one is perfect and not all of this has been run as written but Jacob does a great job of rolling with it and lets be honest D&D is just playing make believe with friends, there is no right or wrong.
I really loved the pacing, the game didn't seem to drag and you made lots of progress in 3 hours, I myself am running this and it took my players 8 hours to get to the end of the Xanathar guild hide-out. I am a new DM and I do tend to let my players, and their imaginations, wander.
The characters are interesting, have intertwined backstories and the players play this out well making for and interesting show.
Overall keep doing what you're doing its great!
My players decided to find the secret door and do the dungeon backwards, resulting in them actually fighting the mindflayer as they were in the doorway which was its exit.
1:30 I mean I let both my parties sleep trough the night before they checked out the warehouse. But they didn't see the kenku so the attack on the zhentarim just happened later and floon and renaer were held prisoners for two more days.
Irah and Mycroft's interactions are hilarious
I like Irah's RP
Finally, a D&D series I can actually watch without being bored!
a few years late, but I absolutely LOVE Irah's cluelessness.
"I always think of Xanathar like Kingpin" IVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT TOO
I love how Mycroft is just reading during the whole intro. Way to set yourself above everyone else.
"who won?"
"The people that survived."
Mycroft might be my favourite character lol
"Beauty is terrifying." And just like that, I loved Mycroft.
I think the changelings being cautious of people and using the disguises against the party was really clever
Jacob, xp to level 3 is awesome, this is my first time watching you dm. You really move things along and keep it interesting. Your party members are great, completely wrecked that troll! Looking forward to catching up on your videos thanks for posting!
I think Ary is a Divine Soul Sorcerer. I say this as I heard Spencer ask if she could use her Divine Soul ability to gets d4 on a performance check.
I just bought this module and am excited to run it, and absolutely tickled pink that I get to see YOU DM it first!!!
Why have I not heard of this channel?!? It's got 2 of my favourite youtubers in it. I'm so glad I found this channel. 😁
Watching now the sewers is done, I think I'll print the map so as to reduce the amount of time trying to explain the layout.
I love that Irah's art looks like shaggy from scooby doo with more hair
The bloodeborne hunters dream music is always so soothing
It's nice seeing another DM's take on this.
"I'm not in love with him"
*every d&d group* "no, we think you are"
Huh... I just put together that the volo in waterdeep is the same volo from baldurs gate 3.
And the same Volo who wrote Volo's Guide to Monsters :) tho that one is a tad more obvious lmao
I was looking for another game to watch and, I was also thinking about running Dragon Heist so, I am super excited to watch!!!
Wait Logan’s last name is Reese… like Logan Reese the “bad guy” on Zoey 101… I love it.
My gosh, baby Jacob! Also this is a great actual play, everyone is fully invested in their silly characters.
Wow you guys keep it moving. Took my group 12 hours to get where you guys got lol
Jacob, you and your friends are adorable!! I don't know if I can commit the time to listen to all episodes, but keep doing what you guys are doing. Much love😍😜
Now this is a stream to get comfy to.
Ya''ll know crowbar allows the strength check to be done at advantage right?
I’ll try and use this in my Waterdeep Dragon Heist campaign.
When you realise Xanathar's symbol looks suspiciously like a covid cell
Ahhhhhhh your right.
The goliath rogue being super not sneaky flavor wise remind me of the centaur rogue I made. Narratively it doesn't make as much sense as other combos, but it's quite hilarious to play. The centaur was actually also basically a Pegasus because of a choice of homebrew boons (with downsides) our dm gave us all choices from. So a draft horse body, huge, marvelous golden wings, but built to be sneaky af. It's flavored as her blending in with nature and wildlife and knows how to navigate quietly through the woods.
That goliath is definitely my favourite character!
I’ve seen some of your short form videos, and found them very insightful and funny. Gotta say, you’re a better DM than any I’ve had, and much better than I am currently. I love how every action isn’t just swing and miss/hit, but has a theatrical flair to it. Kudos! I’ll try to incorporate that into my game style.
I feel like when people play changelings they’re just gonna wanna change. It makes sense.
I like how Logan's face drops mid Mind Flayer description.
Dude I come home stressed and then BOOM D&D hilariousnes always ensues tis happy again 😊
I am running this campaign starting tomorrow - it'll be my first DnD campaign as a DM, (reference, the original ADnD were when I played last) - so I'm a bit nervous with all the moving parts in this campaign and the multiple villians and bringing others in etc.
My first thought seeing 2 rogues was that they could both stand either side of an enemy and whenever the enemies focus shifted they could just take turns sneak attacking him
So wait Volo and Zanathar are in this premade campaign?
Just about every one you can think of is. My party went into an inn, and saw a hooded Drow elf with two simitars, but Drizzit was not interested in talking to us.
Also Jarlaxle
@@DarthSoto78 I hate to be THAT guy, but *Drizzt
Having gotten that out of the way, that's awesome, I love that he was incorporated into it for y'all
Matt Mercer is actually sitting in the yawning portal, in the back of the book
I love Mycroft!
It’s kinda surreal to see someone play the same game I played. Especially so different to how we ran it...
Great video! About to run this for the first time myself. SO cool to see how you put everything together and the way the PC’s interpreted everything. *excellent* resource for a new DM.
My group just started this campaign last night and the best part was our 8 foot tall Goliath bard, who stood at the base of a black dragon in the previous session dodging and weaving its claws, rolls a nat one as the first roll of the campaign and proceeds to get knocked on his butt by an elbow to the face from Yagra. Besides the hilarity it actually provided a really good rp moment for my silver tongued rogue to convince the men that they couldn’t win that fight
I like your dm'ing, it's not that all elaborate, descriptive, and official, but it's very flexible and interactive (I have a feeling that it's also often improvisational). You also feel chilled and confident and having fun, probably because of playing in a circle of friends.
That all reminds me of my style, except I am not confident and don't have enough friends for a campaign :'D
Your content is fantastic! Keep up the good work.