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For sure, I’d rather have lets say; “none of the original rules” if they aren’t implemented and thought out by the dm, than if I had to find material components and I can never get ahold of them
I mean... Veo freed the entire party and got Pluto the mace, gave Seb most of his spell components and took out multiple enemies in a single round .. but aight...
this has been "enemies wear your armor and use your weapons against you" the episode I like the idea of taking the player's equipment from them to see how they can rip and tear their way through a dungeon to get it all back
This is the only bit I do not like about these brilliant broadcasts. The ranger's damage is far too high and makes every encounter ( and the other 2 characters) pointless.
@@illoney5663 Yes it should be expected to do more damage but not so excessively so. It is far too powerful in comparison others to the point that it dominates play at the expense of other characters.
@@markcooper662 It dominates "combat". There's been a lot more to play than that though, so I don't really see an issue. Even then, there's more going on in combat than that. Veo has great single target damage, but no crowd control or AoE, and those are both supplied by the other two.
@@smusher6late to this but I currently have a level 8 gnome arcane archer that has done more damage in a round with a shortbow. It’s more because of how much sharpshooter adds up. With action surge and all 4 hits it’s a minimum of 40 damage before you even roll damage. So Veo is right in line with the expected damage of an archer at level 8.
I would have started sinning the "meow mix" cat food song in cat. ./7Meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. ./7
Best way to break a minder is to do what Aton Rand did in the game Knights of the Old Republic 2: play Pazak in your head. Keeps those pesky Jedi Mind Tricks from working so easily. In short, constantly count cards to get a total of 20, and repeat.
I absolutely LOVE how this is ran. Veo gets to shine with her insane combat skills and agility. Pluto gets to be a strong boy, really flex those muscles. Sebastian's cobbling together spell components bit by bit is the crowning achievement, though all players cleverly rising to the challenge of a DM willing to punish mistakes is inspiring.
A good DM wants to make the game be fun, not end it fast. Them having to get out of prison is fun and an approbiate punishment for failing the riddle and th taunting with their items is just the icing on the cake.
@@darktrent182 yes Which we'll just ignore the casual or drop that this episode GIF of Pluto having a wife I haven't watched all of the videos yet and I'm just going to hope that particular plot point never comes up again
when they wake up in the cell a rat is mentioned going by and V's head darts to the side like a cat lol almost instinctively lol I was like awwwww shit....! LMAO Great RP lol
Drakkenheim!!! Been eagerly awaiting the aftermath of last week’s “down the hatch” ending. :-) Love the show. You are all awesome. Kudos to everyone involved (on and off camera).
I wish the bugbears were eating bear with a side of bugs. So the bandit leader has been bodyshifting/impersonating people as the mole, not using a network but being one on its own... nice move, very dungeonpunk, good throw. Also that lantern was obviously unhooded, Veo, what a rookie mistake to make. I actually thought "tieflings, then? Maybe River has been the Queen all along?" last session. But it seems to be something else entirely, I guess. We'll see what sort of beastie it may be, but I guess it works as another classic-but-entirely-working dungeonpunk move of "super-creature as a crime boss". Perhaps it was active in the city even before the apocalypse... Will be interesting to finally get down to seeing what it all may be about. The music wasn't playing in the TH-cam upload at least, just in case.
I think that the Queen of Thieves might be a Doppelganger! I hope it's the case, I've loved them ever since I played to Baldur's Gate 1. They can mess with your mind to insane levels.
Some clarification: - Javelin of lightning does NOT require attunement - Only one bonus action allowed per turn; Pluto used Shield Master feat and Second Wind feature in the same turn -> not allowed. - Sebastian has not used Mage Hand when he saw the spider web in one of the corner of their cell... It was funny when Monty used Joe's helmet to impersonate the bugbear. The characters solved the escape very cleverly, including the gathering of material components. Well done guys, keep up the good role-playing!
This show is seriously so good! New to DnD, but it’s taken ahold of me and I can’t stop learning playing watching; this is hands down the best place for information and entertainment. The best DnD I’ve watched, sorry I’m two years behind! Keep up the great work everyone!
Ok I love watching these episodes. But after the riddle fiasco and Jill and Kelly not grasping that the guard that got put on the honor guard was an imposter, I'm beginning to think they are not the brightest bulbs in the box 🤣🤣🤣 I cant figure choose between laughing histerically at their antics and yelling in frustration 🤣🤣
In the last session of my DnD group, me and another party member spontaneously broke into song, singing "We Didn't Start the Fire", whilst burning down a warehouse. Hearing Joe randomly start doing the same thing was amazing.
Aaaaaaah! Monty when are you getting this out to play? That ending was NUTS! I flipped out that River walked into the room as the Queen of Thieves and then dropped for the 2nd time when disguise changed again and again lol
Okay, finally time to start the heroic odes: first up Sebastian, the "MAGIC MAN" (queue up the classic song by Heart) MAGIC MAN: Golden Dawn so long ago, when he was just a child you know The vision came down to him, and he saw skies aflame He could not run away, just scream, he’d seen the fires inside his dream He seemed like a natural, he just thought and it came… yah “Come on home, boy,” his father wished with a cry “But you’re just like those mages now, and you set your home on fire So try to understand, try to understand, Try try try to understand… You’re a magic man.” Fifteen years he wandered far, returning to a city at war Hunting in all weathers, calling spells through the nether Came at last to his old home, crossing realms with power borne Mama left a mirror, but it didn’t get much clearer “Work on our side, boy,” all these factions will demand But he’s got two friends to keep him close, as they travel ‘cross the land And they try to understand, they try to understand, Try try try to understand… he’s a magic man, papa “I’ve come back home, now” he said with a smile “Some ‘incidents’ will rock this place, and we’ll climb way up high So try to understand, try to understand… Try try try to understand, I’m a magic man I’ve got the magic hand….” (narration for the instrumental): With Pluto’s shield and Veo’s bow There’s chaos in the streets you know In running battles, poisoned air His darkened goggles and orange hair With webs of stories, and webs he slings They’ve got this town upon a string Once proud city, now a wreck They’ll raise it up from all the drek Restored ambitions, grow some more More power’s what he’s got in store The Strike Force three are all for one and one for all, until they’re done Oooooo… oooooo… oooooo… oooooo… oooooo… He’s come back home, and he blazes with a smile Finger pistols fry his foes, a wand to stop their wiles So try to understand, as they reclaim the land Try try try to understand… HE’S A MAGIC MAN!
I love how the appearance of what I think to be a doppelganger immediately messed up the head of the players! This is one of the creatures that hold the most potential for a skilled DM such as Mounty. You can really create a paranoid atmosphere much like in the movie "The Thing" by John Carpenter. As for myself, it reminds me how in the game Baldur's Gate 1 you face doppelgangers who takes the appearance of people of your youth in the Candlekeep catacombs and try to make you doubt of your own sanity. At some point, I no longer knew if I was massacring my former friends and teachers or true monsters. Glad to see that in this D&D game and I can't to see where it goes!
Just watching this through for the first time and not only am i gripped i literally just said out loud to myself "Wow this has taken a serious turn" cant wait to see how it plays out even though im a year too late 😂. Well done dungeon dudes love the vids keep it up.
We all need to take a moment, and really let the fact and joy of Vao thinking that "a lantern" was a hooded lantern in that cell asking Vagner if that was his friend xD Another amazing moment in this epic tale
Using the spell was a great way to show how much of a chronic liar the Sebastian character is! I'm sure Monty had a ton of fun with that role-playing scene!
Spoilers Pluto failed the save, yes? That means he was thinking about one of the princesses? Since he isn’t married and Queen Lenore did say, he might marry one of her daughters, if they find them.
Tani I think the queen threatened to marry one of her daughters to Jupiter if he didn’t do a good enough job. I don’t think Pluto marrying one of the princesses was suggested
As was mentioned, Queen Lenore wasn’t offering to marry Pluto to one of her daughters if they find them. She was playing off of Pluto’s childhood rivalry with Jupiter. He technically doesn’t even need to find any of the royal children to accomplish what he came to Drakkenheim to do. His nephew, according to him, is a living heir of the royal family of Drakkenheim; he just needs the documentation (the will) that proves his nephew is in the line of succession. If that documentation is lost, then he better hope for the sake of his mission that they can find at least one of the royal children still alive, regardless if Jupiter ends up marrying one of the daughters. From what I understand from their conversation, Lenore’s family and Pluto’s had been conspiring to unite the crowns of Caspia and Drakkenheim in order to stabilize Caspia for years. Without proof of a living heir, whether it be one of Lenore’s children or Pluto’s nephew, then the kingdom of Caspia has no successional right to the kingdom of Drakkenheim. I’m pretty sure the inhabitants of Drakkenheim would think ill of Caspian rule whether it’s by inheritance or by war, but at least there’s less bloodshed with the former than the latter.
Not going to lie, the entire time they were chained up I was on edge thinking "why won't he just cast enlarge/reduce on veo and she just just slip out np!" and then I remembered that spells have material costs and I felt really dumb.
The material component for enlarge/reduce is a pinch of powdered iron, which seems like it should be pretty easy to get given the iron manacles and chains.
monty: make sure you have at least three sets of dice at the table kelly: I have three in front of me *me bringing fifteen sets every time, even on roll 20, travelling across the city with a dice box bigger than my forearm*
1:10:42 This campaign inspired a character I rolled (half-elf Shadow Monk) and I have been field testing him by imagining he's a fourth member. I realize that a DM might not accept some of the things I thought (furry of blows Darkness, Shadow Step, and Unarmed Stunning Strike Deceit). But it is moments like 1:10:42 that would turn any frustration of a night filled with "Sorry, you can't do that" into "Man that DM sure wants to favor our characters in their campaign." Just because Monty rolled without hesitation.
Just found your channel and I have been really enjoying all of your content. I've been binging this campaign and I only wish Pluto would knock people prone before he uses his attacks instead of after, so he would get advantage on the attacks instead of only costing his targets half movement to stand. But truly an enjoyable campaign!
As a DM, I would have given my party the chance to get out of it, bc the enemy taking captives to question is a legit thing. How did they get this far, why are they here, what is there purpose, etc... There probably would have been more torture and pain lol.
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I love how you're playing into the material components of spells - so small, and yet such a huge part of the system
For sure, I’d rather have lets say; “none of the original rules” if they aren’t implemented and thought out by the dm, than if I had to find material components and I can never get ahold of them
Pluto Jackson for MVP for sure. First the troll and now he kills a bug bear while unarmed and his arms and legs literally tied.
"IMGONNAHEADBUTTCHA IMGONNAHEADBUTTCHA IMGONNAHEADBUTTCHA"
Not gonna lie. Pluto is epic.
It was like Conan biting the throat out of the vulture while nailed to the Tree of Pain.
I mean... Veo freed the entire party and got Pluto the mace, gave Seb most of his spell components and took out multiple enemies in a single round .. but aight...
@@Nomadic813 she also was the last person to drink the knock out juice and therefore put the party in the position of being captured
Ah, I love it when the DM taunts the players after taking their stuff. Nothing makes them madder or want to hurt someone more than that.
this has been "enemies wear your armor and use your weapons against you" the episode
I like the idea of taking the player's equipment from them to see how they can rip and tear their way through a dungeon to get it all back
The party: *drinks poison and passes out*. Monty: I'm so wearing all of your stuff.
I feel like he was hoping they failed the riddle JUST to pull that move! lol
But Jill got to keep her ears, that's just not fair!
@@Klaital1 I mean, it'd be pretty bizarre (although probably hilarious) if Veo woke up in the cell without her actual ears.
@@shadowwolf1502 I know, I was joking mainly due to everyone else having to give over their props to Monty except Jill.
I swear that whole riddle thing was a ruse as their last resort
Weeeeeeell freaking played XDDD
I love how Pluto literally *headbutted a bugbear to death while chained*. Huge set of quads on that human.
Based on the evidence in this episode, Pluto's helmet wasn't protecting his head from the world, it was protecting the world from his head.
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Veo gets a longbow, my response: "Well, this fight is over."
This is the only bit I do not like about these brilliant broadcasts. The ranger's damage is far too high and makes every encounter ( and the other 2 characters) pointless.
@@markcooper662 So, the damage focussed Ranger does more damage than the tank Fighter and the Sorcerer?
That should be expected.
@@illoney5663 Yes it should be expected to do more damage but not so excessively so. It is far too powerful in comparison others to the point that it dominates play at the expense of other characters.
@@markcooper662 It dominates "combat". There's been a lot more to play than that though, so I don't really see an issue. Even then, there's more going on in combat than that. Veo has great single target damage, but no crowd control or AoE, and those are both supplied by the other two.
@@smusher6late to this but I currently have a level 8 gnome arcane archer that has done more damage in a round with a shortbow. It’s more because of how much sharpshooter adds up. With action surge and all 4 hits it’s a minimum of 40 damage before you even roll damage. So Veo is right in line with the expected damage of an archer at level 8.
43:43 I peed myself laughing at that dry delivery.
“It’s a bomb, got it”
That prison break was super intense, great job grabbing some spell components during the chaos!
"Come check out this brick I found." LMAO
“Ah crap this guy reads minds!”
*cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats*
Fighting mindreaders with icanhascheezburger dot com.
I would have started sinning the "meow mix" cat food song in cat. ./7Meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. ./7
Best way to break a minder is to do what Aton Rand did in the game Knights of the Old Republic 2: play Pazak in your head. Keeps those pesky Jedi Mind Tricks from working so easily. In short, constantly count cards to get a total of 20, and repeat.
isn't that the only way to defeat a mind reader, just suddenly fill your mind with mundane and utterly retarded thoughts
I would have started singing my one-hit wonders playlist... tarzan boy, africa, video killed the radio star, maybe even the sound of silence...
"My mom was the reviewer." Dude, I'm dead. I love y'all's humor.
1:05:05 I believe that is known as a warning shart.
Wow a fantastic episode showing the power of the mind, fighting with characters stripped to nothing, I get more excited for every episode!!
I absolutely LOVE how this is ran. Veo gets to shine with her insane combat skills and agility. Pluto gets to be a strong boy, really flex those muscles. Sebastian's cobbling together spell components bit by bit is the crowning achievement, though all players cleverly rising to the challenge of a DM willing to punish mistakes is inspiring.
35:47 for those of you wondering, that brick is still on Pluto's character sheet to this day. the uncredited mascot of drakkenforce
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This is what happens when you don't pace yourself when drinking.
kinda disappointed they didn't force the tieflings to drink everything first...
Thankfully Monty is a forgiving dm lol, everyone being ko'd could have easily been a party wipe
Yeah, but that's no fun.
A good DM wants to make the game be fun, not end it fast. Them having to get out of prison is fun and an approbiate punishment for failing the riddle and th taunting with their items is just the icing on the cake.
@@CallenExile Yeah, you want to give them a challenge, but not an overwhelming "Dark Souls" style one. :D
That look Sebastian gave Pluto of looking up and then over was priceless. He looked soo heartbroken!
Sebastian/Pluto is so real, oh man.
@@darktrent182 yes
Which we'll just ignore the casual or drop that this episode GIF of Pluto having a wife
I haven't watched all of the videos yet and I'm just going to hope that particular plot point never comes up again
when they wake up in the cell a rat is mentioned going by and V's head darts to the side like a cat lol almost instinctively lol I was like awwwww shit....! LMAO Great RP lol
i could put my hand up a hogs hinny and pull out a ham sandwich....wow that is priceless
I lived in the American South for a while, and they can turn a phrase. But THAT was A+ material right there. Kudos to Jill for that one. lol
Yeah Jill pulls out some really amazing phrases all the time, no idea how she does that but it's great.
So that’s not a Canadian expression?😽
Reading this, I can already tell that you're quoting Jill. She drops a line of this type almost each episode.
After this Pluto's next level should be in Barbarian so he can go into a Rage when his friends are attacked XD
I wouldn't multiclass on lvl 8 but yeah
I'm sitting here watching this and keep saying/ GIVE PLUTO THE MACE DAMNIT!
Drakkenheim!!! Been eagerly awaiting the aftermath of last week’s “down the hatch” ending. :-)
Love the show. You are all awesome. Kudos to everyone involved (on and off camera).
43:20 The look on Kelly's face when he hears plutos answer... so good.
I wish the bugbears were eating bear with a side of bugs.
So the bandit leader has been bodyshifting/impersonating people as the mole, not using a network but being one on its own... nice move, very dungeonpunk, good throw. Also that lantern was obviously unhooded, Veo, what a rookie mistake to make.
I actually thought "tieflings, then? Maybe River has been the Queen all along?" last session. But it seems to be something else entirely, I guess. We'll see what sort of beastie it may be, but I guess it works as another classic-but-entirely-working dungeonpunk move of "super-creature as a crime boss". Perhaps it was active in the city even before the apocalypse... Will be interesting to finally get down to seeing what it all may be about.
The music wasn't playing in the TH-cam upload at least, just in case.
I think that the Queen of Thieves might be a Doppelganger! I hope it's the case, I've loved them ever since I played to Baldur's Gate 1. They can mess with your mind to insane levels.
You all run a great game. It is very entertaining.
Thank you!
Some clarification:
- Javelin of lightning does NOT require attunement
- Only one bonus action allowed per turn; Pluto used Shield Master feat and Second Wind feature in the same turn -> not allowed.
- Sebastian has not used Mage Hand when he saw the spider web in one of the corner of their cell...
It was funny when Monty used Joe's helmet to impersonate the bugbear. The characters solved the escape very cleverly, including the gathering of material components.
Well done guys, keep up the good role-playing!
he didn't use shield master he did the trip attack for battle master
This show is seriously so good! New to DnD, but it’s taken ahold of me and I can’t stop learning playing watching; this is hands down the best place for information and entertainment. The best DnD I’ve watched, sorry I’m two years behind! Keep up the great work everyone!
Now that I'm rewatching this series, I believe the line "cat-filled Drakkenheim" gave Monty several ideas
I thought the same thing
The absolute best two and a half hours of d&d I've ever seen.
Ok I love watching these episodes. But after the riddle fiasco and Jill and Kelly not grasping that the guard that got put on the honor guard was an imposter, I'm beginning to think they are not the brightest bulbs in the box 🤣🤣🤣 I cant figure choose between laughing histerically at their antics and yelling in frustration 🤣🤣
I had Crowley vibes from Supernatural when Sebastian said "Sick em' boy!"
In the last session of my DnD group, me and another party member spontaneously broke into song, singing "We Didn't Start the Fire", whilst burning down a warehouse. Hearing Joe randomly start doing the same thing was amazing.
Oh, the anticipation while waiting for Veo to count her damage rolls! LOL
I wonder how horrifying it would be to shout in infernal and pull chains out of the wall. Thematically of course.
Aaaaaaah! Monty when are you getting this out to play? That ending was NUTS! I flipped out that River walked into the room as the Queen of Thieves and then dropped for the 2nd time when disguise changed again and again lol
When I explain something to anyone I find myself using Monty's tone and style. Almost making it a question with the last 2 syllables.
Sometimes I really notice this and it drives me insane... Then I stop paying attention to it again.
It’s called “uptalk” 😂
Episode 23: Honestly, he's pulling it off.
Okay, finally time to start the heroic odes: first up Sebastian, the "MAGIC MAN"
(queue up the classic song by Heart)
MAGIC MAN:
Golden Dawn so long ago, when he was just a child you know
The vision came down to him, and he saw skies aflame
He could not run away, just scream, he’d seen the fires inside his dream
He seemed like a natural, he just thought and it came… yah
“Come on home, boy,” his father wished with a cry
“But you’re just like those mages now, and you set your home on fire
So try to understand, try to understand,
Try try try to understand… You’re a magic man.”
Fifteen years he wandered far, returning to a city at war
Hunting in all weathers, calling spells through the nether
Came at last to his old home, crossing realms with power borne
Mama left a mirror, but it didn’t get much clearer
“Work on our side, boy,” all these factions will demand
But he’s got two friends to keep him close, as they travel ‘cross the land
And they try to understand, they try to understand,
Try try try to understand… he’s a magic man, papa
“I’ve come back home, now” he said with a smile
“Some ‘incidents’ will rock this place, and we’ll climb way up high
So try to understand, try to understand…
Try try try to understand, I’m a magic man
I’ve got the magic hand….”
(narration for the instrumental):
With Pluto’s shield and Veo’s bow
There’s chaos in the streets you know
In running battles, poisoned air
His darkened goggles and orange hair
With webs of stories, and webs he slings
They’ve got this town upon a string
Once proud city, now a wreck
They’ll raise it up from all the drek
Restored ambitions, grow some more
More power’s what he’s got in store
The Strike Force three are all for one
and one for all, until they’re done
Oooooo… oooooo… oooooo… oooooo… oooooo…
He’s come back home, and he blazes with a smile
Finger pistols fry his foes, a wand to stop their wiles
So try to understand, as they reclaim the land
Try try try to understand…
HE’S A MAGIC MAN!
Epic! So well done kudos to you and kudos to the Dungeon Dudes for inspiring you.
Found the Bard!
I also must say that the queen of thieves being River would have been a great twist
I love all of these episodes! I am tryin to catch up rn, I like the way you all operate together, it's awesome. Thank you for making these videos!!!!!
This episode taught me that Empowered Spell is flawed, and I will be treating it as advantage on damage rolls in my games.
My DMs make it the Higher of the two rolls
Thanks for this wonderful journey so far
"Is this your friend?" My sides just failed their death saves hahaha
I love how the appearance of what I think to be a doppelganger immediately messed up the head of the players! This is one of the creatures that hold the most potential for a skilled DM such as Mounty. You can really create a paranoid atmosphere much like in the movie "The Thing" by John Carpenter. As for myself, it reminds me how in the game Baldur's Gate 1 you face doppelgangers who takes the appearance of people of your youth in the Candlekeep catacombs and try to make you doubt of your own sanity. At some point, I no longer knew if I was massacring my former friends and teachers or true monsters. Glad to see that in this D&D game and I can't to see where it goes!
Glad to be back in MF Drakkenheim
2:26:28 I'm pretty sure thats Carmen Sandiego. lol
That was a good encounter and yet another great episode of the campaign :D
In this episode Pluto makes a puppet from a corpse he created with his own head! Yes, Yes, Yes!
Joe is the master of figuring out just how long to keep a gag running.
"We're from the Purple Petals."
This jail break scene could easily be out of a really really good buddy action comedy.
Just watching this through for the first time and not only am i gripped i literally just said out loud to myself "Wow this has taken a serious turn" cant wait to see how it plays out even though im a year too late 😂. Well done dungeon dudes love the vids keep it up.
Imagine getting a heart a year after the video came out that's amazing
Especially since the comment had zero likes and no commenters so I'd imagine they were looking for comments lol
Possibly my favorite episode, alongside "Dog Days" and "Rat Trap"
1:05:04
"That was a warning poo"
LOL!!!
Great save guys, glad to see everyone's alive!
My reaction to the royal guardsman in the dungeon was just "Oh... oh no..."
I wish that I could be as excited about school as Joe/Pluto is about his brick.
We all need to take a moment, and really let the fact and joy of Vao thinking that "a lantern" was a hooded lantern in that cell asking Vagner if that was his friend xD
Another amazing moment in this epic tale
That Queen is pretty...... Shifty
I was reallt disappointed that they'd let themselves be captured like that.
I love detect thoughts. Best spell ever.
Makes people try to go "BEGONE THOUGHT"
Using the spell was a great way to show how much of a chronic liar the Sebastian character is! I'm sure Monty had a ton of fun with that role-playing scene!
Talon Greenlee best part. The material component is a copper coin. Penny for your thoughts?
Spoilers
Pluto failed the save, yes?
That means he was thinking about one of the princesses? Since he isn’t married and Queen Lenore did say, he might marry one of her daughters, if they find them.
Tani I think the queen threatened to marry one of her daughters to Jupiter if he didn’t do a good enough job. I don’t think Pluto marrying one of the princesses was suggested
As was mentioned, Queen Lenore wasn’t offering to marry Pluto to one of her daughters if they find them. She was playing off of Pluto’s childhood rivalry with Jupiter.
He technically doesn’t even need to find any of the royal children to accomplish what he came to Drakkenheim to do. His nephew, according to him, is a living heir of the royal family of Drakkenheim; he just needs the documentation (the will) that proves his nephew is in the line of succession. If that documentation is lost, then he better hope for the sake of his mission that they can find at least one of the royal children still alive, regardless if Jupiter ends up marrying one of the daughters.
From what I understand from their conversation, Lenore’s family and Pluto’s had been conspiring to unite the crowns of Caspia and Drakkenheim in order to stabilize Caspia for years. Without proof of a living heir, whether it be one of Lenore’s children or Pluto’s nephew, then the kingdom of Caspia has no successional right to the kingdom of Drakkenheim. I’m pretty sure the inhabitants of Drakkenheim would think ill of Caspian rule whether it’s by inheritance or by war, but at least there’s less bloodshed with the former than the latter.
Pluto is married. Happily married, in fact, so wouldn't be thinking about other women.
Strange that none of them, including the rogue, ever took the dodge action during the prison break fight.
During the escape scene, the mission impossible theme kept playing in my mind. Especially when Veo was undoing the chains. lol
Not going to lie, the entire time they were chained up I was on edge thinking "why won't he just cast enlarge/reduce on veo and she just just slip out np!" and then I remembered that spells have material costs and I felt really dumb.
The material component for enlarge/reduce is a pinch of powdered iron, which seems like it should be pretty easy to get given the iron manacles and chains.
Pluto looks really odd without is helmet; but his Gap Year sounds like a blast.
Who stores a strung bow?
Veo is kickass. great team effort overall, would be lost without Veo's movement though.
monty: make sure you have at least three sets of dice at the table
kelly: I have three in front of me
*me bringing fifteen sets every time, even on roll 20, travelling across the city with a dice box bigger than my forearm*
Situations like this is why I try to take the combo of Create Water & Shape Water.
Sub Zero my way to my gear.
"That was a warning poo!"
Words cannot express how much I wish he'd said "warning shit".
Montys DM style seems to ride the line between hard ass and eternally on the players side. He makes it look easy.
the riddle answer is air
1:39:19
Vao: Guys I just got my paws on a bow again, please give me all your dices so I know how much dmg I do this round xD
1:10:42 This campaign inspired a character I rolled (half-elf Shadow Monk) and I have been field testing him by imagining he's a fourth member.
I realize that a DM might not accept some of the things I thought (furry of blows Darkness, Shadow Step, and Unarmed Stunning Strike Deceit). But it is moments like 1:10:42 that would turn any frustration of a night filled with "Sorry, you can't do that" into "Man that DM sure wants to favor our characters in their campaign." Just because Monty rolled without hesitation.
I missed everything after the Hell in the Cell fight, excited to see what happens next
"you have a thieves guild? we have a veo!"
Just found your channel and I have been really enjoying all of your content. I've been binging this campaign and I only wish Pluto would knock people prone before he uses his attacks instead of after, so he would get advantage on the attacks instead of only costing his targets half movement to stand. But truly an enjoyable campaign!
1:01:12 "That's for whallopin' people!" peak Pluto
"Come check out this brick I found" is so funny
“The bugbear falls like a wet sack of doorknobs” what? Lol!
Beginning of the episode: I'm still mad at them! They should have died... how could they...?
End of the episode: AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
I know right, if I was DM that would absolutely be a TPK. All 0 hp around a hostile enemy? That's a throat cutting.
As a DM, I would have given my party the chance to get out of it, bc the enemy taking captives to question is a legit thing. How did they get this far, why are they here, what is there purpose, etc... There probably would have been more torture and pain lol.
I gagged when they started eating the spit soup 🤣🤣🤣
Not gonna lie the spitting in the soup almost made me gag listening to it and imagining it, great job monty.
"No, fail and you're exhausted."
I would give a real hard look man.
"Concentration check"
You mean Arcana?
Ah, save.
Don't agree. But whatever
I love you guys. lol Seriously. Thanks for the great show.
This jail had an awful lot of bugbears!
Okay, I know it was a year ago, but I still have to say it... Burning Hands is only verbal and somatic!!!
I'm very certain that Sebastian unlearned Burning Hands when he hit level 5.
@@siamath9954 that would make sense. ☺
1 ticket for the hype train, please.
Averyman, what are you doing in Drakkenheim?
subtle spelll would have been so clutch
should have tossed the poop bucket at the chair in the interrogation room, "CATCH!"
Getting your players to blindly drink potentially dangerous liquids is the height of being a DM. It's what I DM for.
I'm so binging this, I'm hoping they can set off the bomb in there next episode "fingers crossed"
True to the riddle, the Queen of Thieves has no name.
Rangers do NOT have that many spell slots
Bows aren't stored strung. It takes an action to string a bow doesn't it?
In a thieves canton I would believe they wouldn't even consider unstringing bows for storage for the most part
Is Veo gonna become a stabby stabber now?!