Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Part 3: Class Roles & Battle Tactics | Starter Kit - D&D Edition

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

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Alive. What do you guys want to do next? I'd say we keep pushing forward. Are we looking in this place for the library of their experience, but also they have a treasure in this place, allegedly? Allegedly, yeah. Allegedly, Rogan and Zelligar had massive amounts of treasure. which they used to build this complex.

Right, so they probably don't have any left. You never know. We're also looking for respect and entry into the adventurers. That's true, right? That's just we have to live through this. We don't actually have to find anything for that. We don't even need to find the treasure for that. You don't have to, you know.

Okay. So forward that. So you got three ways you can go. Yeah. Hmm. I don't know, left looks kind of cool. Left looks kind of cool. Let's go left.

That's the sinister way. That was the way he was crawling. Oh yeah. Right. He was crawling the opposite. It was going to opposite. So the blood trail was this way, so I don't know. Yeah, let's go left.

Yeah, we want to find the guy. So either dangerous or exciting. How far do we go? Great. You can go to that corner and pull that off. Okay, and this one? We pull this one off? No, which one of one you're good?

Actually, yeah, pull that one off and then pull that one off as well. Okay, because we can kind of see both streets. Yeah, okay. So ultimately there's another set of hallways on either parallel of this. That's what would seem like, yeah. Yeah. So maybe we go down further down to this hallway on the side to here? Sounds great.

Is this all kind of look like the same stuff we've been doing? Yeah, the building material looks the same. It's all of that carved out of that dark rock. Sweet. Let's keep going until we find something. Yeah, let's keep going. Is that a doorway or anything? It's just over here.

This is a doorway. Yeah. And moving through here, hallway again. I'm singing a helpful song. Thank you. We're all glowing. I just want you all to know. Okay, at this point when you turn the corner,

yeah, yeah. You see two, got you. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Wait, nice goblins? They're not nice.

They're growling at you. And here, and we're gonna do combat differently this time. Okay. Because there's only two and I know where you guys are, we're gonna do this one in what they call theater of the mind. So we're not gonna pull out the battle map. We're just gonna, I'm just gonna place you guys in my mind as to where you are. Yeah, all right.

So, I'm gonna nail these out. I'm for it. Let's do this. So yeah, we're gonna roll for initiative now. Everybody roll. Everybody roll. Okay, I'm 14. Four.

Plus four, right? You add your- 18. So you're 16, I'm 16 technically. I'm six. Five, so yeah. So 18, 14. Yeah, mine's technically 16 because I have two.

Oh, okay. Yeah, did you add your modifier to it? Okay, great. Who was next? I had two. And you had. I'm six. She's six, so she's next and then.

I have five. Yeah. Five. Wow, I'm third. You're always in the back and yet you can throw the flame over top of it so it kind of works out I'm just saying it's not a bad thing. I told you guys I had your back. That's right.

Although in this situation we're all kind of clogged up. Oh yeah. So we are standing in a line. Yeah. We should probably... Well, the halls are 10 feet wide. Okay, so we can... You still two can maneuver.

So technically... So you put two in the front. So the way the marching order would be would be the two of you guys would be in front. And you go. Go for it. All right. 20. A natural 20?

Natural 20. And if I add four, for them all. Great, it's our first natural 20. All right. In combat. So what that means is that's a critical hit. So what will happen there is you will roll, you will roll for damage, and then you will roll for damage again.

Oh. Add those both together. Nice. And that will be your total damage. So. So he's double it. Oh my gosh. 10.

Wow. Plus two. So that's cool. Oh, so 12. plus 12. Wow. Well, actually, what it is, that plus two, you'll only add that to the end.

So technically, so it's 22. It's 22 instead of 24. Okay, I want you to describe to me what happens to this goblin as you clearly have killed. Descimate. Swing, all time slows down, and just splits every,

it just splits perfectly symmetrically, down the middle, and he falls into two. Nice. With a blunt weapon, that's very impressive. Yeah, the point of force on that. I just had like Jennifer Gallagher fantasy about the whole thing, like this goblin suddenly a watermelon.

Yeah, shh. And I, uh, I'm next. You're next. Yeah. Yeah. One goblin left. Uh, nine. And, oh, sorry, I didn't say long sword, but long sword.

So 13. That's a miss. That's a miss. Yeah. Um. I'm a squeeze on up there with my. hammer. Okay, well actually we've got so we have the two guys in front. Okay. So I don't know if there wouldn't be any room left for you to engage. Although yeah at this point there

wouldn't be. Okay sweet. I'll use a crossbow. Okay. It's 12. Total? Yeah. Okay. All right I'm gonna use a crossbow. Great. 12. Plus six. So 18. You definitely hit. So Roll for damage, please. That would be your... Sixes? Oh. See where it says with crossbow. Crossbow, use your eight-sided dice.

Oh, my bad. Plus four. That's a lot. Too bad, because that was a good number. That was. Six. Plus... Plus four.

Yeah, you missed. He died instantly. Yeah, cool. They're both dead. Done. Cool. So I say there's a doorway right here. Let's go in it.

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What do you think? Straight ahead. Always straight. Okay. All right. Yeah. That's just my idea. Ever straight ahead down this.

Oh, nice big room. Very exciting. And no door. Nope, I'd like to describe the room to you if that's okay. Oh, yes, please. So the floor is covered with a carpet of tufted molds. It extends to all the walls and even onto parts of the ceiling, obscuring the rock surface. The molds appear in a rainbow assortment of colors,

and they are mixed in their appearance with splotches, clumps, swirls, and patches, presenting a nightmarish combination of clashing colors. This is indeed fuzzy fairyland. of the most forbidding sort, although beautiful in its own mysterious way. Same. So, investigate it, like look for, sounds dangerous, right?

It sounds like something's about to, like, yeah. I think because of the nature of what's on the floor and it sounds so very like and mysterious, we should detect magic, we should try to, I mean. Yeah. That's neat. And before you do that, you could also do a nature check and an arcana check too.

I don't want you to waste that spell necessarily. I don't think I have that, yeah. Is that a one-time thing, magic? Detect- Yeah. Right, Detect Magic is a level one spell, so she can only use it until the next long rest. So... Oh, okay.

It'll take up the other spells you can do. Yeah, it'll take a one-garde-spouse loss. Let me do a nature check. Yeah, sure. What's this moss like? I've certainly seen it before at home. 13? 13.

Is there a bonus modifier to that? I already did that. Okay, 13. Yeah, I mean, it looks like maybe at one point it was a tended garden that has now been long since abandoned, so every thing in here has kind of grown amongst each other. Got it. Should you just press on? Yes, press on. You said Arcana check too, and we just do that.

What is Arcana? Yeah, what's that? It's like knowledge of magic, right? Yeah. Yeah. unless anybody has a higher intelligence that can do it. I'm not a tough. You may have a better, is your intelligence is 16.

How do I check for Ankana, just the 20? It's in our skills. Yeah, the D20 and it's in your skill set. I see it. Five. Oh, you got plus five, so that's good. Yeah. That's good.

That's good. Do I roll? Mm-hmm. Okay. Six. Plus five. Plus five is 11. 11. Okay, cool.

You don't really discern too much to you, most of it. It just feels like. It's just a moldy room. It's a moldy room with lots of big mushrooms and crazy things everywhere. Very Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory. I do not tell from the way this is like, and I guess not. Okay, so for the most part, unless we want to really check this, we can go back and go back around the other side of this wall.

You want to go? Well, shit, let's go in the room and see what happens. Okay. Like there's no doors or anything, right? Right. As far as you can tell, I mean, it's very hard to see through because like they're literally like little spores flying through the air.

It's probably treasure. I don't know. I mean, it's a cool, dark room. It's usually treasure places. Sure, okay. All right, so we're entering the room. Okay, great. Basically, your-

Closes shut like a Venusian fly trap. Yeah, enough. You see there's a grove of giant fungi kind of in the middle, so you want to approach that. Sure. Inspect the fungi? Should I inspect the fun guy? Yeah.

It's inspect the fun guy. And I'm actually going to do a little rolling over here to determine what you find. Just kind of built into the adventure. Okay, you basically, so when you, you notice that there are all these different multicolored mushrooms everywhere. So you can choose to pull them off, inspect them, lick them, eat. them or not, depending. We should all inspect the mushroom. Yeah.

Let's see, I mean, I'm a cleric, I'm interested in healing properties. I also have a very low intelligence, so I'm gonna go touch one. You're gonna touch one, yeah, okay. I'll pick it up, see if I recognize it. Yeah, could also lick one, and if anything goes wrong, you could be like on deck.

Yeah, go ahead and give me a perception check. Okay, oh, that's really bad. Six? Okay, you touch one and you touch one, and you, don't feel anything. Cool, I'm just gonna grab a few and put in my bag. Okay. I'm a I'm very unwise So I'm going to lick one. Sounds great. Okay, so this is actually gonna be our first saving throw role of the game What you're gonna be doing is saving against your Constitution right and basically seeing if whatever you licked

affects you or not okay so I have a I have a secret number here that you need to roll high than based on your constitution. Okay. And then I'll let you know what happens or not. Good look. Is what you get? Two. Plus two, which is a four.

All right, you start to feel nauseated. And for the next six minutes, you're gonna feel nauseated. So be sure to mark that down. Cool. And what that'll do is you're gonna make any roll at a disadvantage. Gotcha. Because you're just, oh, God, this is terrible. I can't concentrate.

I shouldn't look that much. He liked the mushroom, you know? Yeah, we're wise. Yeah, man. And Dishandilust. Disadvantage means what? It's the opposite of advantage. Disadvantage means that you're going to roll two D-20s

and you're going to take the lower roll. Right. That's no good. In the next six minutes though, so. Yeah, for the next six minutes. So hopefully nothing crazy happens. In the next six minutes, it'll be okay. You don't know that, but I'm telling you as a player.

Gotcha. Anything else interesting in this room, a reason we shouldn't leave? Give me a perception check. Okay. Oh my gosh. Anybody else want to make a perception check? I'll make a perception check.

20. Yeah, yeah. Okay. One little move over there to the right, you notice a body. It looks like it's very well decayed. The body is because the fungus is sort of eaten into it. Yeah.

But the body looks like it has a couple of items on it that you might be interested in. Moon, do you want to look? I can't. I, of course I want to loot the body. Yeah. Finally. Great.

Okay, cool. So you loot the body and you find a short sword and you also find a silver dagger with a black dragon skin handle. Ooh. You guys can have it. What I might recommend is maybe doing an Arcana check on it. Because there's something, it looks really nice. That sounds magical. Yeah.

I just roll this thing, right? Mm-hmm. 20. 15 plus five, right? Okay, 20, like you said. Like I predicted that. You are fairly certain this dagger is magical. Yay, magical dagger.

Now what do we do with it? You can use it, yeah. Well, you guys will probably... You have a dagger fan. You have a dagger fan. You like, you want the dagger? You have a... You have a...

What's your dagger already? It's a plus six, plus four, mine's a plus four plus two. So if I had it... I had it. I gave it to her already. All right. I don't know what that means. Can I have your old dagger?

You may I'll get both? So normally you would have to rest for an hour and kind of examine it, but I'm going to give it to you, since you rolled that 20. It's a dagger plus one. So what that does is it gives you plus one to hit and plus one to damage with your dagger so that you'll add one, if you choose to use it as your main weapon when you're in combat, that, it'll be easier to hit your opponents than with your short sword. You said this place was steps from the water. We just haven't found the steps yet.

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And which way we're gonna go left or right, guys? This way or that way? This way? Yeah. Yeah, okay. We'll take this piece off. That's another hallway. Anything in it?

Or do we keep moving? You can keep on moving. Okay, take this one off. Um, oops. Is this a wall? This black thing? Yes. Okay.

And that's also a hallway that goes this way. Keep going, Vanh. Keep going. I feel like we're going in a circle. Yeah. I think we're going in a door right there. There's a door here. We enter the room.

Yeah. Let's go. Okay, we're going to enter here. It's another hallway. Which is, it's more like, yeah, it's a little. We're in a maze. Yeah. Yeah.

It's another hallway, okay. Keep going. And we enter, I guess, this way or this way? That way. This way? Yeah. Okay. whichever way you want.

Oh, it's a maze, it goes in and... So the turning corridor winds inward until ending in a dead-end room measuring 20 by 30 feet. The walls of this room are unfinished. The stuffy room smells of rotting flesh. You smell it before you make the final turn. The final 10 foot by 10 foot section of the room is filled with refuse, garbage, scraps of cloth, wood.

You even see bones amongst the pile. It stinks of death. So we need to- Mike's rolling for something. I'm getting ready. Something's coming. Perception, perception, check. I mean, I feel like we're gonna go all the way in.

Yes, we would enter the room. I can do perception once we get in there. But the problem was there, is there garbage? Was it like piled up when we can enter? The garbage is in that whole last square. This one? Oh, I see right here. So, okay, so we basically cleared the corner here like that.

So perception. Okay. Yeah. Go for it. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And there we go, plus one, so 13. Okay.

You've reached goblins and they are in a 14 perception. Okay, jumping out of the garbage, completely surprising you, is a monstrous giant centipede. Yes. Oh, no. I mean, oh no. And we need to pull out the battle map because it's one guy.

Yeah. He's just gonna be wailing on you and you're just gonna be wailing on you and you're just going to be wailing on him. Oh, that's really good. Yeah. Look at that. That is a lot of garbage. Really big.

He gets, because he surprised you guys, and it was higher than any of your, he had a great stealth. Yes. And it was higher than any of your perception checks or anything like that. Because he surprised you, he gets to have one free attack, and then you guys roll for initiative.

Okay. Okay. We're surrounding him basically, effectively, right? The way we would design this is we would have all walked in and kind of we're all kind of. Oh no, I'm totally way in the back. Okay, except her, she's way in the back. Yeah.

So you probably attack one of the two. I'm gonna basically roll at random to see what he attacks. He goes for the dwarf right in front, nice little tasty morsel. All right. And let's see, I'm gonna see. Just like when you're burned beer, you know?

Yeah, exactly. Have I told you about beer? And he's really great. He snaps at you, but he misses. So now you're not surprised anymore and you're in combat and now I want you guys to roll for initiative. Great.

Oh. Four. Okay. 19. Nine. Well, yeah. Two. 14.

We have like all extremes here. Yeah. Okay. So 19, 14. Mm-hmm. Right. Wait, that one doesn't have the name on front. I know, it doesn't.

Oh. Yeah, that's what you're fighting. That's the... Oh. Who was after that? Who was after 14? I had nine. Nine.

And I had six. What did my initiative? Nine, six. And what did you get thumber? Two, okay. So nine, six, and two. Okay, you're up, what are you going to do? You're up, what are you going to do? You're going to stab them with your new magical dagger? Yes, I am. Yeah. Okay, let's go for it. So I got ten and I get to add seven. Seven, right? 17. Yeah, great. You hit him. Woo-hoo. Okay, now roll for damage. Right. I'm getting it. So you hit him and because you're next to Thumper, who the centipede was also engaged,

with, you get your sneak attack damage. So roll your D4 for the dagger, add your bonuses, and then roll a D6. Okay, there you go. I roll this guy first. For my damage. Yeah, and... But not the, you have to decide what die,

it's the dagger, so it's... The four-sided dice for the dagger. Yeah, and then you add all your bonuses to... That's the little, yeah. Yeah. Come on, come on. One plus... Wait.

How can you choose? It's what's on the top. It's what's on the top. Oh, okay. What's a set? One, add your bonuses. Okay, so that's eight. No, plus five.

Plus five. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. So you've got six, and then now roll one more D6 for your sneak attack damage. Oh, I get two. Okay. So two. Okay, so you gave him eight points of damage.

Nice. That's great. Yeah. You're so sneaky. Most centipes. Most centipes. Oh, no. Most synops.

A monstrous giant centip. A normal situation, you attack a Yes, and insurance. It's over. Yeah. Okay. Now, he is going to attack you. Literally me?

Yeah, literally you. My first attack. That'd be fine. And he hit you for... Centipedes are not known for being very agile with attacking, are they? You take four points of damage. That's like the worst out of anyone. Yeah.

So you got five hit points right now. You can just write it in your regular hit point. Okay, so right here, four. Yep. Cool. So Deborah. Yes. Your turn. Okay. So here is where I really shine, which is that you're very injured. And I just can't go by, like let you be that injured. I would like to do some heels. Great. Which we haven't done yet. And I don't really know how to do, but I'm excited to try. Okay. So you're going to want to cast cure wounds on her? I think, yeah, I don't think I'm

going to do a healing potion. I'm going to use one of my first level spells, which is called cure wounds. Great. A creature I touch regains a number of hit points equal to 1D8 plus my spell casting ability modifier, which is... That's against your wisdom. Okay, because I'm a cleric. And so what is that? It should be right under your wisdom.

Yeah, three. Plus three. Okay, great. Okay, great. All right, here we go. You ready to heal some hit points? You're down four, and now you are back up four, so you're at full. Hey!

Thank you. How sweet. This involves me going to be doing four. I love me going like, oh, I'll take care of that. You're just like wrapping you up and you're like, I'm in combat, come on. Thank you, thank you. Never.

Right. Great, okay, so now it is Moon's turn. I'm gonna do a fire bolt. Hit it. Do it. Set that thing on fire. Three! I know. No, I know. You're not happening.

But we- You set the garbage on fire. Yeah, it does hit the garbage though. You have successfully- Wait, is it with this too? Even with the plus five, it's not gonna- It's still. Yeah.

So you successfully... So he's gonna attack me now, huh? Wait. Well, no, not yet. Because you're in the back, so he's got some people in front of them. Oh yeah, that's right, you guys, sorry. Yeah. But you did successfully set the garbage on fire.

Thanks. So the smell is great. Yeah. Three, whatever. Five, or, yeah, so three. Okay, so that's a major whiz. Swing and a miss. Thump bar, it's all up to you, man.

Yeah, yeah. Nine plus, uh, four. So 13. That's a hit. Is it? Yeah, it is. All right. Good job.

We'll find out. All right, Sador. Nice. I like that. Is it? Dead? Wow. Nicely done.

You really nailed it. I'm very proud of you. Cool. Can we make boots out of it or anything? Is there a hundred boots? You could. I mean, it's kind of all screwed up. If you wanted to like drag it through the, through the dungeon maybe.

Yeah, right? Yeah, probably. We'll say it for later. It's in the front. You'll come pick it up later. Okay. Let's find this treasure, huh? Yeah.

So it seemed like we should search it for, aw. Yeah, keep it as a trophy for the time being, I suppose. Should we search, see if there's any loot it was hanging out on or? Well, the garbage pile is now on fire. Okay, so we're probably... I could escape, yeah. So I think we go back out the way we came, do we want to try this other hallway that's really short, or do we want to just bugger off and go back to the hallway and try to head down this way?

Yeah. I agree. Okay. It's a little unexplored area, but... Yeah, let's move on. Let's hit a big person. Go this way, come this way. Okay, right there.

Oh, here? As you turn, you see three humanoids coming your way. And they're not surprised. Nice. Because they heard the commotion and everything else. Cautic good? They're not chaotic good. Sorry.

You see two goblins that you recognize, and then you see a creature behind them that you have not seen before. Like, it's Adam Savage. I got my question. I know. Standing as tall as a human, this muscular gray-skinned creature

peers about with tiny observant eyes. It wears chain mail and carries a shield and sword. Oh. This sounds difficult to kill. That sounds difficult. Let's kill it. Is there a difficulty? And it says, what?

And it says, you stop there. Surrender, drop your weapons. Oh. I say run. Where would trap? Well, you've gotten really nowhere to run. Yeah. No, I say...

Engage. Yeah, engage. Let's fight him. Let's do it. Swing for the fences. Wait, is there any talking to him? Is there any like, hang on a second. You don't know us.

You just say something if you aren't. I thought we'd be madden it. Maybe we did him a favor. Maybe they, like, we're trying to get to our garbage all day, but there's this thing and we'd be like, we just kill it for you. I think your pet centipede is sick. You might want to go look at it. I'll go.

get a vet, you wait here. And his response is, attack! Initiative! All right, initiative roll, because we got, yeah. Ah, come on. I got a 15. I have 16. 16, 16, 17?

Eight. 17, 18, 19. Okay, so 19. Who's second? Man, me. What did you get, me? Me. Eight.

Wait, I'm confused. You got an eight. No. It was six classes too. So Hal Dor got first. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, I went back with. Yeah.

I thought it was like, meh, ma'am, ma'am. Man. And the time that has passed, can I take advantage of my short rest? No. No. No. Not yet. Yeah.

Do you need heels or thing? You can use your. Your ability's back. I can use a potion. Okay. But. You have one? Yeah.

So Haldor, you got two goblins in front of you. And then the bigger guy is behind sort of barking orders. Tell you what, since I'm, since the goblins are there and they're kind of holding, he can't really do much over top of them. because he has a sword, right? And a shield? Right.

So he doesn't have a bow or anything. So I'll attack with my dagger. OK. Yeah. The eight plus six, so that gives me 12 as a hit. I'm sorry, 14 is a hit. You missed. I miss it 14.

You missed at 14. Wow. These guys are wiry. I guess so. They're skinny. We wiry and they're, you know. Are gobbling's all the same? Like once, because the other ones would have died from 14, right?

No, they would have died from the hit. I mean, that. But the miss, some of them were, yeah. They're not all the same. They're not all the same. Yeah, there's a beautiful tapestry of gob. They're all wonderful in their own ways.

And we're gonna kill them all. Okay. Oh, I'm going for the same gobbling, right? Yeah. Front goblin. So 20. Great, okay. With the mall.

There we go. Eight plus two, ten. Yeah, you hit that goblin down the hall, like your baby roof or something. Nice. Yeah. So there's one goblin down. Okay, and then.

Okay, now it's the goblin's turn, right? Or somebody. Right. So what happens is the other goblin engages with you, and he hits six points of damage. Oh, that's just a whole lot of damage. That's just like a whole bunch. Wow.

All right. Mm-hmm. And at this point, actually the guy that was barking order, walks forward and engages with you. Okay. So they each get to do a thing like this? Yeah, because I have their whole, the way I'm doing initiative is there as a group. Yeah.

That's just the way to, one way you can do it. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. He definitely hit you. And he gets you for. Lots of places can expose you to identity theft. Oh, no.

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They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for a Rieces. Like this commercial break, did you need 15 seconds away from music, or 15 seconds to eat arreases? Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for a recesses. You take nine points of damage. Dang, dude! I'm dead. Well, you're not dead.

No. I have eight hits, eight points from last time. I haven't healed since. You're unconscious. I'm unconscious. Sounds great. Yeah. Here's what happens when you hit zero hit points, like Hal just did. Howell is actually not dead.

He's unconscious. When you reach zero hit points, first you fall unconscious, and then you're gonna save every turn against death. If you fail three times, you die, if you succeed three times, you live. So right now we're still in combat though, so you've got plenty of time to die or live. Right.

So, and it's now Trent's turn. Can I have a quick question? If she jumps in and does some kind of, then is he out of that? Yeah, I've got a plan. She could heal him and, you know, in the same round. And then he's out of that whole saving against him. Okay.

I've got plans for you. Yeah, thank you. I am here, I have sandwiches and juice boxes. No worry about it. Okay, great. All right. Trin. Which one are you attacking, by the way? Oh, and you rolled the wrong guy.

There's only one alive, right? Cut. Well, no, there's a, there's the tall guy. That you just took. Downhale and then there's the... And they're both right there up against us. Oh, okay, so I can choose who I want to hit. I guess I should get...

Right now, both of them are engaged, so if you do hit, you'll get your backstab. Let's get that tall guy. Does she get disadvantage? Is tall guy behind or are they both next to each other? They're both, you guys are like this. I need to take him out. I can use myself to do that at this time.

He just killed my friend, almost. Great. So, I'm going to avenge you. Thank you. Here we go. One. No. Roll the one.

Not with a one. All right, that's not happening. Okay, no. Oh wait, you can because you have your lucky skill, right? That works in combat as well. Okay, that's right. I have a lucky skill. 15.

Plus. Awesome. Do I get to add something? No. No, well, you do add your other bonuses. Yeah, whatever you were attacking with a dagger. Is that what you were attacking with? I didn't say what I was attacking.

She did. You had your dagger in for the last one, so I'm assuming you're attacking with your master's right. So plus 17. So obviously. So 15 plus seven, so. 23. 22, sir.

Great, you absolutely hit him. Yeah. Yeah. Now roll for damage, first of all, roll for your dagger damage. Okay. Right. So that's two plus your bonuses. So seven, now roll one of your D6s

for your backstabbing damage. Oh, he's a goner. Five. Five, he is a goner. You took him out. Nice. You're welcome. Thank you.

We still got one goblin to deal with, but. But you're unconscious. Yeah, I'm, I'm a. You don't even know about that. DeBora, what are you gonna do? I am going to go up to Halor. And I am going to use my cantrip, which is called Spare the Dying.

Great. Isn't that nice? Tell us what that does. I touch a living creature that has zero hit points. The creature becomes stable. So that means that you don't have to do your rolls. You're just stable now. But you're at zero still.

Yes. So you don't have to do your saving throw rolls or anything. Okay, great. Yeah. So, and then how do I get my rules? my hip points back through healing and other stuff. Yeah, well, we can pop a potion in you. Because I have a potion, yeah, because I have those, I'll do those on my next.

Right, you're still unconscious, yeah, but you're stable right now. Okay, okay, great. Take care of our dues and heal you back up. Moon, there's one goblin left. Well, you know I'm a good shot with my fire bolt. Go for it. Well, I just gonna put you the fire bolt.

But I keep you in the firebolt. Otherwise, I just have light and a shocking grasp. You've got magic missile. Should I use that? I mean, this could be a time to use it. A goblin? I just a goblin though? I mean, we're gonna have to wait a while to get hell healed up anyway.

You might as well do something cool. Yeah? Because I'm tired of firebolting. Yeah. Leave your life. You don't even have to roll. You just have to roll for damage. Okay.

Magic missile. You create three glowing darts of magical force. You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 plus one force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously and you can direct them to hit one creature or several. That's like a hackaroo from the Guardian of the Galaxy. They do. You got all these darts on this one little goblin. Yeah. Do it. Yeah, do it.

All right. Four. Or no, you don't even have to, it hits automatically. Oh, wow. Yeah, all you you have to do is roll damage. So roll three of those little, of the D4, the triangle. The triangle? Mm-hmm. One. That's a seven. No, it's a one. It looks like a seven. Four.

Four, there you go. Yeah. And one again. Plus three for the force damage. Nine. Nine, yeah. So yeah, you hit him for nine points of damage. I didn't realize how much math there was.

Just, yeah. He's destroyed. Yeah. He kills the goblin. But now I can't use my magic missile ever again. Until you can, when you rest. Yeah, you have to rest. Yeah.

That's why they say you can't have your magic missile and eat it too. This is a really good place. This is a really good place to stop. I got it. I was with you. I was totally yon doing with you. Yeah, this is a really good place to stop, and we will be back soon.

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