Mark can't claim the players did this when he rolled extra dice for Jarlaxle and not for the dragon, used Jarl's legendary actions but not the dragon's, etc. He knew where he was steering this.
Meh. The point of Legendary actions is to balance BBEGs and other monsters so that they can contend with a party. If he uses the dragon's then the whole effect is counteracted. But still more fair to go with all or nothing. Hell a Gold Dragon that's been down there for a long time should have laid actions as well.
1:18:03 "I didn't do this. You guys did this." No Mark, you did this. I love Mark and High Rollers and ill get over it very quickly but this was the first time I was really disappointed in Mark's dming. Still overall enjoyable
Two years late but i feel like Bertie should have been able to teleport out with a massive dragon sized hole in the ceiling. Ill get over it but i this is the first time ive ever been disapointed by some the decisions.
Also, the Grappling break is not a saving throw, but an ability check. I really feel that though this was a one shot and a side game I was a little miffed at the multiple times the rules were twisted or broken. I enjoyed it overall nonetheless. Not hating on the whole game.
The staff requires attunement to use. Nothing Jarlaxle has lets him auto-attune to an item. Even if he did, Adult Dragons have legendary resistances. Disappointing that he just let Jarlaxle command the dragon.
@@lecram86 Well as I said before they had Fun and that's most important. Even if some of the rules were forgotten it was a just end forum this campaign. 😉
Late to the party but just watched this on Plex The words "get on with it" were uttered by me on multiple occasions. Can't believe how patient the Dragon and Jarlaxle were with what seemed like an hour long huddle. Was still fun to watch and reminded me of what I miss about playing with a group, but also what i dont. ;)
This was a great mini series. Loved the humor and style they put into this. P.S. Still would love to see a Boomer and Bertie spinoff, those two had great chemistry with each other, keeping things light and hilarious.
I’m kinda disappointed they didn’t pull some sort of heist move where they sleight of hand the portable hole off of Jarlaxle, like with the stone of galore
Man, teleporting into the vault doesn't work, but teleporting out does work. Bertie should have been able to do that. Even though the teleport spell does not work on unwilling creatures.
This was a great series. In fact all of your guy's mini series and one shots are spectacular, and they somehow always manage to surprise me. Two thumbs up, 10 golden dragons out of 10
When Bertie does the tackle, I just imagine everything is slow motion and all the sound in the room is opera music as all of the arrows are flying through the air.
I think how it should have ended is like this we pan back to where aqua mambas bodie is and zzz comes down and we find out the zzz is really aqua mamba
um i hate to point this out, but is it me or did mark use the dice to force the direction of the story towards the way it went? As if i'm not mistaken he used extra die for jax, but not the dragon? Still quite an interesting turn of events and spectacular end
Steven McKenna I liked the fact he did it. The dice are kind a to force things. He can choose when to use it, what to force. Players can choose too to force something. I know its not what we liked i guess that he used it for the bad guy but hey the ending was great!
He hasn't used the extra dice for NPC companions for the entirety of the campaign so his being consistent hardly sways me despite disliking the downer ending.
@@stevenmckenna745 Big problem with D&D in general and the reason Blades in the Dark exists. The worse part us Trott/Aqua wanted to do the greediest and most dangerous route and nobody else was on board. So karmic death and ending I guess. Sorry about the necro posting but I usually need to get things off my chest. And I've become late to so many parties I don't actually expect people to respond.
Bertie never used his boots or staff. That could have been a deciding factor. Also Fantastic campaign series, one of my favorites. Not as good as lightfall season 1, but really enjoyable to watch.
Aquamumba:mind waiting jax while we have a team huddle, sure im a patient man. *5 hours later Aquamumba:So we back stab jax and die *7 more hours later Aquamumba:We back stab the dragon and die *5 days later Aquamuba:So we agree we wait in the hut and see who's left to kill.... um where's all the gold Burty: jax asked me to help him carry it out after he killed the dragon.
I wish the party could have come out on top, but this series was awesome as a whole. I'd love to see more mini-series from the High Rollers, even if it isn't from a sponsored module.
Kind of wished she had just been fully a part of this one. Granted we would have gotten another character entirely. And possibly another substitute for Fleur.
If you guys come back to this can you keep the fact that every halfling sounds like a 30’s gangster and that every Drow is French? Gives it that special something
DnD has broken me in many ways, but this campaign had me laughing from start to finish. From the players breaking themselves with their antiques, to watching Mark lose it watching the campaign derailing during character creation. Loved every minute of this. If Boomer and Bertie were to ever meet Grog and Scanlan, the mischief would not be manageable.
hmm if highrollers was to have a pole about what adventure people would like to see them do, either a preexisting one or a few custom options, what would you want to be listed in the pole. I personally would love to see them do strad's castle
I hope they do dungeon of the Mad Mage, and a mini series in Ravnica would be cool. I doubt they'd do Strahd though because mark and trott have already played it. Storm King's Thunder would be cool as well. Or a follow up to Dead Reckoning, following Terryn
That ending was fantastic! This was a great mini series as always. All the characters were fantastic (both PC and NPC), and I already can't wait for the next one. All that said, I'm sad this ended, but at least we still have the Aerois to enjoy.
Am I the only one that thinks a sequal to this would be the most obscene and entertaining campaign ever? I mean A: they continue these characters and start a new campaign with a revenge plot or something, mamba could be like a revenant or like force ghost following the team to get revenge on banray, flir tries to escape and rejoin the team for revenge on ban ray as well, Bertie wants revenge for grundle with boomer and black viper reuping for some fun
Great mini series in general. Last episode caused some mixed feelings. I think the issue is mainly that the players don't make the group decision and then can't deal with that, going in a mixed directions or not doing anything. No issues with the DM actions, his game, his rules, specially with the players not keeping up all the time that well.
Yeah I'm disappointed they were so passive & indecisive about everything. Idk I would had faked a fight to distract the dragon but constantly roll perception to keep tabs on the invisible Jarlaxle & constantly messaging the dragon so he knew. They just sort of let him take the staff.
this episode may just make me stop watching High Rollers because of the bad plays and most of them from Mark not using dragon legendary resist or using lair actions. putting the staff in the portable hole as a free action. saying that ranged attacks have advantage on aqua mamba which they would not at best it would be a normal attack. jar being able to use the staff with no attunement or command word or anything. there are so many errors
All the rule errors did make me cringe quite a few times too since it so drastically affected the outcome... although being a DM myself I do understand how easy it is to make such errors and it's often better to just wing it than stop the game so you can check the rule book in case you don't exactly remember how some rule goes (or you just forget to even think about some rule existing). Still, the point of the game is to have fun and fun was had so eh, in the end they're just minor details.
I can understand that but for this series honestly not that big a deal really was a fitting ending to a weird and funny series imo but yeah a little annoying too
This was amazing loved every single second of it. And bertie is the best character ever. Btw. Tarin is totaly to blame for Tholschank´s death (in my oppinion) so Chris and Tom are even now :P
It turns out to be rather disappointing module design, if it's really set up this way. Jarlaxle's party overwhelmingly outnumber the players whether the dragon is a factor or not, and Jarlaxle is apparently statted out to be able to take on the dragon single-handed anyway. There doesn't seem to have been a way to do this that didn't effectively make the PCs into spectators in the final act. (Yes, Jarlaxle shouldn't have been able to command the dragon, but Mark was right, at least, not to make the PCs gut out a long combat sequence to which they'd be basically irrelevant and for which they didn't have time. At least his choice had the virtue of leading somewhere funny.) . It feels like Jarlaxle is the product of the same kind of wank that followed Harlequin around in older editions of Shadowrun: whatever the protagonists were given to do, it turns out to be irrelevant when he shows up and you discover that you're the extras in *his* story and will have the privilege of watching *him* live out the dream. I can see why the party was wrong-footed. That sort of thing really shouldn't happen in D&D modules of this era. . That said, this is one of the funniest High Rollers miniseries of all time. Boomer, Aqua Mamba and especially Bertie were hysterical. Mark's ability to generate off-the-cuff NPCS on the level of the side-splitting ZebZot Zwindle is an inspiration.
It was the party's actions that created this stand-off. It isn't a foregone conclusion that the adventure would conclude this way. Generally Legendary actions and Lair actions are not supposed to be on both sides of the table.
As Twitch chat seemed to miss my fawning over the beautiful, tall, dark, handsome stranger that is Jarlaxle, allow me to make up for it here: *HEAVY BREATHING* JARAXLE MY HUSBAND YOU ARE SO CLEVER AND HANDSOME AND DEADLY AND CHARISMATIC AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH That is all Love, Wolfie
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Final List:
Zeb Zot Zwindle
Zap zin zoduh...
Zip zep Zandor
Zap Zan Zindolar
Zin Zan Zoodle
Zandolin Zim Zam
Zind Zam Zimbab
Zin Zor Zandolim
Zen Zen Zimbodimb
Zeb Zot Zwindle (The first correct iteration by Kim Richards!)
Zim Zim Zadoo
Zim Zor Zamzolim
Zim Zam Thank you man
Zim Zor Zimzolim
Zor Zor Zimdolos
Zin Zin Zadoo(Zaloo)
Zon Zon...
Zin Zin!
Zim Zim
Zond Zond Zoondalah
Zim Zim Zimdolimdim
Zibble Zibble Zabbleboot
Zim Zim Zimdoloo
Zabba Dap Zibodoo
Zoozy
Zam Zood Zoddle
Zib Zab Zibidaboo
Zim Zam
Zoom Zun Zoondalah
Zun Zun Zimzam
Zim Zun Zamzim
Zoogah Zoogah Ziggle Zingle
Ziggle Zandle Zooandoline
Zin Zim Zoobahdoobahdoo
Zib Zab Zibbadidooda
Zeb Zot Zambodon
Zem Zam Zambodon
Zet Zot Zindolam
Zit Zot Zindolin
Zip Zip Zipazibbie
Zam Dor Zindolam
Zib Zam Zimbolor
Zeb Zin Zendolor
Zim Zon Zindolor
Zippa Zippa Zippadoo
Zippy Zippy Zoo
Zip Zan Zindolor
Zim Zam Zondolor
Zim Zam
Zim Zim Zimzozor
Zeb Zim Zamahan
Zim Zabadobadé
Zim Zim Zimbolin
Zeb Zim Zimbaloo
Zab Zab Zabzab (My personal favorite)
Zim Zam Bubblebutt
Zib Zeb Zimbolim
Zim Zeb Zebze
Zim Zim Zambalo
Zed Zed Zimbalon
Ethan Caldwell underated comment
I was so hyped to see the guys and the dragon go up against Jarlaxle and his gang in an epic battle and have an actual good ending. But noooooo...
Mark can't claim the players did this when he rolled extra dice for Jarlaxle and not for the dragon, used Jarl's legendary actions but not the dragon's, etc. He knew where he was steering this.
Shaitaan they could’ve just worked with him. The end. They controlled this. if they worked with them then it wouldn’t of happened
Yes that is a very good point
Meh. The point of Legendary actions is to balance BBEGs and other monsters so that they can contend with a party.
If he uses the dragon's then the whole effect is counteracted. But still more fair to go with all or nothing.
Hell a Gold Dragon that's been down there for a long time should have laid actions as well.
1:18:03 "I didn't do this. You guys did this." No Mark, you did this. I love Mark and High Rollers and ill get over it very quickly but this was the first time I was really disappointed in Mark's dming. Still overall enjoyable
Yeah he didn't give them a chance to roll perception or anything
Would love to see Boomer and Bertie again. The Misadventures of those two would be great.
Can they try to get Bertie a wife? Or do missions for the goliaths?
Two years late but i feel like Bertie should have been able to teleport out with a massive dragon sized hole in the ceiling. Ill get over it but i this is the first time ive ever been disapointed by some the decisions.
I see it more as an AoE, you can't teleport within this zone, regardless of the structural integrity
@@ivyartemis2431 Yeah I guess. Thanks for the reply btw, you just made me wanna re-watch the series again
@@Kicksticks lmao I just finished my rewatch tonight
@@ivyartemis2431 It was contingent upon circumventing the door. Mark shouldn't have left it in place.
Also, the Grappling break is not a saving throw, but an ability check. I really feel that though this was a one shot and a side game I was a little miffed at the multiple times the rules were twisted or broken. I enjoyed it overall nonetheless. Not hating on the whole game.
The staff requires attunement to use. Nothing Jarlaxle has lets him auto-attune to an item. Even if he did, Adult Dragons have legendary resistances. Disappointing that he just let Jarlaxle command the dragon.
Also ranged attacks have disavantage if they target is lying down which he was when he got pelted nu the crossbows
But hey they had Fun 😀
@@Sylcatam Though he was unconscious, it gets advantage so it is negated and would be normal attacks.
Mark wanted them dead for ruining his campaign with dumb characters XD
@@lecram86 Well as I said before they had Fun and that's most important. Even if some of the rules were forgotten it was a just end forum this campaign. 😉
Late to the party but just watched this on Plex
The words "get on with it" were uttered by me on multiple occasions.
Can't believe how patient the Dragon and Jarlaxle were with what seemed like an hour long huddle.
Was still fun to watch and reminded me of what I miss about playing with a group, but also what i dont. ;)
This was a great mini series. Loved the humor and style they put into this.
P.S. Still would love to see a Boomer and Bertie spinoff, those two had great chemistry with each other, keeping things light and hilarious.
The dragon broke the vault to leave so there could be a chance of the teleporting helm working
50 minutes of arguing, at the end of it, nobody was one the same page still.. Lol.
I’m kinda disappointed they didn’t pull some sort of heist move where they sleight of hand the portable hole off of Jarlaxle, like with the stone of galore
This was such a great final episode, even if it didn't end as expected.
Man, teleporting into the vault doesn't work, but teleporting out does work. Bertie should have been able to do that. Even though the teleport spell does not work on unwilling creatures.
The teleportation was an effect of the vault door. Pretty much should have been removed when they breached it.
I'm surprised no "A wizard's staff has a knob on the end" jokes came from Mr. Zippadidoodaa
Loved all the characters! Especially Boomer and bert!
This was a great series. In fact all of your guy's mini series and one shots are spectacular, and they somehow always manage to surprise me. Two thumbs up, 10 golden dragons out of 10
When Bertie does the tackle, I just imagine everything is slow motion and all the sound in the room is opera music as all of the arrows are flying through the air.
I think how it should have ended is like this we pan back to where aqua mambas bodie is and zzz comes down and we find out the zzz is really aqua mamba
um i hate to point this out, but is it me or did mark use the dice to force the direction of the story towards the way it went? As if i'm not mistaken he used extra die for jax, but not the dragon?
Still quite an interesting turn of events and spectacular end
Steven McKenna I liked the fact he did it. The dice are kind a to force things. He can choose when to use it, what to force. Players can choose too to force something.
I know its not what we liked i guess that he used it for the bad guy but hey the ending was great!
@@atilla44J yes we can both agree the ending was spectacular
He hasn't used the extra dice for NPC companions for the entirety of the campaign so his being consistent hardly sways me despite disliking the downer ending.
Wow forgot about this. Pretty sure my issue was 30min of watching one player plan, while everyone seemed to of already decided what to do....
@@stevenmckenna745 Big problem with D&D in general and the reason Blades in the Dark exists.
The worse part us Trott/Aqua wanted to do the greediest and most dangerous route and nobody else was on board.
So karmic death and ending I guess. Sorry about the necro posting but I usually need to get things off my chest.
And I've become late to so many parties I don't actually expect people to respond.
Bertie never used his boots or staff. That could have been a deciding factor.
Also Fantastic campaign series, one of my favorites. Not as good as lightfall season 1, but really enjoyable to watch.
Aquamumba:mind waiting jax while we have a team huddle, sure im a patient man.
*5 hours later
Aquamumba:So we back stab jax and die
*7 more hours later
Aquamumba:We back stab the dragon and die
*5 days later
Aquamuba:So we agree we wait in the hut and see who's left to kill.... um where's all the gold
Burty: jax asked me to help him carry it out after he killed the dragon.
I wish the party could have come out on top, but this series was awesome as a whole. I'd love to see more mini-series from the High Rollers, even if it isn't from a sponsored module.
Apparently there was a whole slew of mistakes on Mark's part. Idc. Funny as all hell
Really hope Rhi is completely involved in the next mini series
Kind of wished she had just been fully a part of this one.
Granted we would have gotten another character entirely. And possibly another substitute for Fleur.
I hope they do another soon.
This mini series is amazing
If you guys come back to this can you keep the fact that every halfling sounds like a 30’s gangster and that every Drow is French? Gives it that special something
This whole ride was hilarious. Well done HR!
DnD has broken me in many ways, but this campaign had me laughing from start to finish. From the players breaking themselves with their antiques, to watching Mark lose it watching the campaign derailing during character creation. Loved every minute of this. If Boomer and Bertie were to ever meet Grog and Scanlan, the mischief would not be manageable.
hmm if highrollers was to have a pole about what adventure people would like to see them do, either a preexisting one or a few custom options, what would you want to be listed in the pole. I personally would love to see them do strad's castle
I hope they do dungeon of the Mad Mage, and a mini series in Ravnica would be cool. I doubt they'd do Strahd though because mark and trott have already played it. Storm King's Thunder would be cool as well. Or a follow up to Dead Reckoning, following Terryn
lol on how this one aged. Granted they gave it a few years but I am still looking forward to watching their Curse of Strahd campaign.
That ending was fantastic! This was a great mini series as always. All the characters were fantastic (both PC and NPC), and I already can't wait for the next one.
All that said, I'm sad this ended, but at least we still have the Aerois to enjoy.
The disgust from some of the players towards Mark is so palpable in this episode.
well bang goes that theory that the black viper is theus alter ego
Am I the only one that thinks a sequal to this would be the most obscene and entertaining campaign ever? I mean A: they continue these characters and start a new campaign with a revenge plot or something, mamba could be like a revenant or like force ghost following the team to get revenge on banray, flir tries to escape and rejoin the team for revenge on ban ray as well, Bertie wants revenge for grundle with boomer and black viper reuping for some fun
Great mini series in general. Last episode caused some mixed feelings. I think the issue is mainly that the players don't make the group decision and then can't deal with that, going in a mixed directions or not doing anything. No issues with the DM actions, his game, his rules, specially with the players not keeping up all the time that well.
Yeah I'm disappointed they were so passive & indecisive about everything. Idk I would had faked a fight to distract the dragon but constantly roll perception to keep tabs on the invisible Jarlaxle & constantly messaging the dragon so he knew. They just sort of let him take the staff.
I hate and love the amount of planning for the 1st half. It's kinda weird but great.
this episode may just make me stop watching High Rollers because of the bad plays and most of them from Mark not using dragon legendary resist or using lair actions. putting the staff in the portable hole as a free action. saying that ranged attacks have advantage on aqua mamba which they would not at best it would be a normal attack. jar being able to use the staff with no attunement or command word or anything. there are so many errors
All the rule errors did make me cringe quite a few times too since it so drastically affected the outcome... although being a DM myself I do understand how easy it is to make such errors and it's often better to just wing it than stop the game so you can check the rule book in case you don't exactly remember how some rule goes (or you just forget to even think about some rule existing). Still, the point of the game is to have fun and fun was had so eh, in the end they're just minor details.
I can understand that but for this series honestly not that big a deal really was a fitting ending to a weird and funny series imo but yeah a little annoying too
As someone who loves going off book, it didn't bother me all that much. As long as it's fun and funny I'm good. Or it can be serious ofc.
I'm sooooo annoyed they didn't just work with the dragon
Beautiful
How come Berty's magic item didn't work, but every other magic item did
Mark really messed up this time
I came in here expecting a huge awesome fight.......and then this happened a very fitting end to this strange funny series lol
What a great ending to the dumpster fire that was this mini-series. I wouldn't have had it any other way. Perfection.
Someday that Beholder is going to finally get those pesky players... someday.
Would anyone else pay for a properly animated version of this adventure because I sure as hell would
1:24:40 for a teeny tiny Mark arm
This was amazing loved every single second of it. And bertie is the best character ever.
Btw. Tarin is totaly to blame for Tholschank´s death (in my oppinion) so Chris and Tom are even now :P
should have sided with the dragon instead of going against it at first lol
Should have simply picked a side but even the party was divided. I also agree with Fleur about not trusting Jarlaxle.
Can u do a spectaculars mini series next also love u guys
Can look into it for sure!
If Prince Burnie gets on Idle champions hoping for a Thanos Skin :D
aww i so want to see, boomer say : burty teleport us to safety after i set all my bombs to detonate
Kind of sad I couldnt help them, my phone said it wasn't compatible with the game :/
Why must Kim have a Pyrocynical hairstyle now?
RIP poo snake
RIP in peace poo snake
Aqua mamba nooooooooooo
It cald black pouding
That portable hole thing was pretty cheap like come on
It turns out to be rather disappointing module design, if it's really set up this way. Jarlaxle's party overwhelmingly outnumber the players whether the dragon is a factor or not, and Jarlaxle is apparently statted out to be able to take on the dragon single-handed anyway. There doesn't seem to have been a way to do this that didn't effectively make the PCs into spectators in the final act. (Yes, Jarlaxle shouldn't have been able to command the dragon, but Mark was right, at least, not to make the PCs gut out a long combat sequence to which they'd be basically irrelevant and for which they didn't have time. At least his choice had the virtue of leading somewhere funny.)
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It feels like Jarlaxle is the product of the same kind of wank that followed Harlequin around in older editions of Shadowrun: whatever the protagonists were given to do, it turns out to be irrelevant when he shows up and you discover that you're the extras in *his* story and will have the privilege of watching *him* live out the dream. I can see why the party was wrong-footed. That sort of thing really shouldn't happen in D&D modules of this era.
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That said, this is one of the funniest High Rollers miniseries of all time. Boomer, Aqua Mamba and especially Bertie were hysterical. Mark's ability to generate off-the-cuff NPCS on the level of the side-splitting ZebZot Zwindle is an inspiration.
It was the party's actions that created this stand-off. It isn't a foregone conclusion that the adventure would conclude this way.
Generally Legendary actions and Lair actions are not supposed to be on both sides of the table.
Maybe Boomer and Birthie could bring the giants and defeat everyone and torture the half burned face guy
As Twitch chat seemed to miss my fawning over the beautiful, tall, dark, handsome stranger that is Jarlaxle, allow me to make up for it here:
*HEAVY BREATHING* JARAXLE MY HUSBAND YOU ARE SO CLEVER AND HANDSOME AND DEADLY AND CHARISMATIC AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That is all
Love, Wolfie
In other news, great series, guys. IT was so funny and ridiculous, and I'm so glad Mark stopped fearing the insanity and jumped headfirst in. C:
I Want to see Boomers and Burties
Baby😂
P.S. I made a human character based on boomer😉
Sorry wizards
Mark has such a huge crush on rihannon
Mark is engaged to nina-serena though
these players need to play an older edition. AC 19 on a CR 18 is way too fucking low for a monster as difficult as its supposed to be
Sorry wizards