12:57 the Robin Williams movie is "What Dreams May Come" a lovely slab of misery!! And thank you for the opening few seconds, not just me who can only hear Asmodeus to that Falco tune from the 80s!!
About a year and a half ago I came up with a level 20 campaign based in the 9 hells. Essentially it's this adventure accept the group makes a contract with a wizard in Sigil, Samuel Floos Dresido. He offered them 2 wishes each to take the river styx from avernus to stygia to collect the blood of Levistus. He gave them a syringe made of platinum and a gem of recall to bring them to him after they get the blood. Asmodeus was the wizard in disguise and the contract was written as a will and testament so it only goes into effect upon his death. After a year and a half of my players fighting their way to stygia to fulfill their contract they discovered the truth of their deal and made allies with Moloch who made a deal with them to free Levistus and fight Asmodeus. Which they accomplished. They are now in the middle of the fight. 4 hour game last night equalled about 7 rounds of combat. Asmodeus is about half health but still has mass heal he can use on himself and has forsight giving him advantage on his attacks. Also two brazier protected by a shield that is kept active by gliphs scattered around the room heal him for 50 HP each every round. For the time being he is not having anyone roll disadvantage against him. He wants to see the fear in my players eyes when he heals himself fully and stops letting them hit him. My players are all about half health while Asmodeus keeps summoning pit fiends from his blood moloch is busy fighting them and levistus who is feriously using his rapier against Asmodeus is being largly ignored by the ruler of hell. Even though the game is a slog from 9 legendary actions a round plus two lair actions my players are having fun and the encounter is just challenging enough for their power level. But the looks on their faces when they slay Asmodeus and realize that was only his aspect will be priceless 😂😂😂
Thanks for the review. Starting to run this now and enjoying it but have had to do an exceptional amount of legwork with characters on backstories that provide more story to the campaign. I enjoy doing it but it’s a lot. The map problem is real, and the fact that the transition between layers is completely unprovided beyond flavor text
i once tried to make a Hell champain one (in Pathfinder), i was warry inexperinced at that time, the players chose a devil and would get powers to become more like that devil, the players begun thair adventure in Asmodeus palace in Nesus as newely created unique devils, thair mission were to ascend the 9 layers and earn each archdukes favor before joining in the war against the Demons to which they would have the choise to ither invade the Abyss, go to the Material plane, sabotage heaven, or just secure the boarders and stay in hell, the champain died out on the 8th layers since i didn't really know what i was doing back then as a DM. i find Devils to be intriguing in how a LE society would actually work and this was me trying to explore such a society.
Heh, referencing the song only works if you do that pronunciation of Asmodeus. I like As-MO-de-us more but I know I'm in the minority. Also: I think I have that Falco CD somewhere.
So it is a review on map? I saw your review on Phandelver (which was SUPER linear) and you loved it..due to the maps. Dungeon Crawls are no longer necessary due to pc games.
12:57 the Robin Williams movie is "What Dreams May Come" a lovely slab of misery!! And thank you for the opening few seconds, not just me who can only hear Asmodeus to that Falco tune from the 80s!!
Yes!
@@RogueWatson One of my favorite movies of all time. Great reference.
Thank you so much for reviewing this!
About a year and a half ago I came up with a level 20 campaign based in the 9 hells. Essentially it's this adventure accept the group makes a contract with a wizard in Sigil, Samuel Floos Dresido. He offered them 2 wishes each to take the river styx from avernus to stygia to collect the blood of Levistus. He gave them a syringe made of platinum and a gem of recall to bring them to him after they get the blood. Asmodeus was the wizard in disguise and the contract was written as a will and testament so it only goes into effect upon his death.
After a year and a half of my players fighting their way to stygia to fulfill their contract they discovered the truth of their deal and made allies with Moloch who made a deal with them to free Levistus and fight Asmodeus. Which they accomplished. They are now in the middle of the fight. 4 hour game last night equalled about 7 rounds of combat. Asmodeus is about half health but still has mass heal he can use on himself and has forsight giving him advantage on his attacks. Also two brazier protected by a shield that is kept active by gliphs scattered around the room heal him for 50 HP each every round. For the time being he is not having anyone roll disadvantage against him. He wants to see the fear in my players eyes when he heals himself fully and stops letting them hit him. My players are all about half health while Asmodeus keeps summoning pit fiends from his blood moloch is busy fighting them and levistus who is feriously using his rapier against Asmodeus is being largly ignored by the ruler of hell.
Even though the game is a slog from 9 legendary actions a round plus two lair actions my players are having fun and the encounter is just challenging enough for their power level.
But the looks on their faces when they slay Asmodeus and realize that was only his aspect will be priceless 😂😂😂
I've had my eye on running this one for a while now, thanks for the review on it.
Thanks for watching!
Eric : " Turns out Asmodeus was the name of his sleigh. There you have it, i just saved you 20-30 tentacle-less hours. "
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A Family Guy reference that references Citizen Kane, and a growing in-joke for our current streaming campaign. Well fucking done!
Thanks for the review. Starting to run this now and enjoying it but have had to do an exceptional amount of legwork with characters on backstories that provide more story to the campaign. I enjoy doing it but it’s a lot. The map problem is real, and the fact that the transition between layers is completely unprovided beyond flavor text
Anyone remember the Book of vile Darkness? The was intense content in there.
Very aware of the book of vile darkness. My Dm recently introduced it In to our Critical role homebrew game
@@robmartinez1627even matt used it. That's where he got the idea for the dread emperor.
I'm using Asmodeus' stat block from this adventure. Quite squishy for a God so that stat block I'm using as his aspect.
i once tried to make a Hell champain one (in Pathfinder), i was warry inexperinced at that time, the players chose a devil and would get powers to become more like that devil, the players begun thair adventure in Asmodeus palace in Nesus as newely created unique devils, thair mission were to ascend the 9 layers and earn each archdukes favor before joining in the war against the Demons to which they would have the choise to ither invade the Abyss, go to the Material plane, sabotage heaven, or just secure the boarders and stay in hell, the champain died out on the 8th layers since i didn't really know what i was doing back then as a DM. i find Devils to be intriguing in how a LE society would actually work and this was me trying to explore such a society.
So you’re telling me I can add hell pirates?
It is your solemn duty to add hell pirates!
Heh, referencing the song only works if you do that pronunciation of Asmodeus. I like As-MO-de-us more but I know I'm in the minority. Also: I think I have that Falco CD somewhere.
Looking forward to dropping one of those venom trex’s in my party lol
So it is a review on map? I saw your review on Phandelver (which was SUPER linear) and you loved it..due to the maps. Dungeon Crawls are no longer necessary due to pc games.
Dungeon crawling is my favorite part, whether it's tabletop RPG or a video game!
Very tempted to make a deez joke with how City of Dis is pronounced. Very juvenile I know.
Dang, missed opportunity.
I can't be the only one that gets AI vibes from the cover art.
A lot of the art gave me AI vibes, honestly , but it may just be the more abstract art style.
Watch at 1.5 speed to make his endless stammering less annoying. You're welcome
Ugh yeah, did this idiot do the whole review in one take without any edits? What a lazy jackass!