Dice Shame - 2-190 | 'Fall for You'

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

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I'm a man. Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. Come on, buddy. What does Doran do? Hell, yeah. Battle buddies. Oh, yeah, I remember what Peacaboo is. Are you crying?

I just kind of turn around the left. Boo, Alex, boo! It's actually terrifying. Let's fuck this giant. Do it. Hold on. If he falls. If he falls.

Nat one. Nat one. Okay, I came back right of the perfect time. Let's go. Quit living in the past. Harlan? War. Crimes are war crimes. What's done is done.

War crimes. Some more crimes. They weren't war crimes. They're accidents. Okay? Bad calls. Sue me. Welcome back to Dyshame. This is Season 2, episode 190, fall for you. This week's MVP is Rebecca F, but Rebecca is spelled R3BECA. Retherreca. Rutherbeca. Thank you so much, Rebecca.

Rebecca says, I guess I shouldn't have waited until mid-series 2 to Google what MVP stands for. Where I work, it stands for minimum viable product, and that's always amused me. I hope you are amused being this week's minimum viable product, Rebecca. Congrats, Rebecca. Thanks for listening.

All right, shall we do this? Yeah, let's play some D&D. So there I was. we were driving down this dark, narrow, very, very dark, rural highway. How narrow was it? Of course, we passed many signs, very narrow, like one and a half cars wide, trees thick on both sides. We passed so many of these deer crossing signs, you know, and of course we got our eyes peeled. And wouldn't you know it, just as we're approaching this Ben, this is.

deer jumps out in front and we barely missed it. Then we managed to make it all the way through. Good job. Amazing. Nice. So good. So that was so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Wow. Yeah. That must have been well it was scary for a moment. Then we realized that we didn't hit it. It was like oh,

then the moment passed. It was great. A lot of deer around here. So anyways, that's good. That's good. I think you should move to Canada, by the way. You should. If you like deer. Canada's beauty. If you like deer. I don't like you're jumping in front of my car. It sounds like that's a real problem up there.

It is actually. Vancouver is, you're fine. Vancouver is basically like Canada's Los Angeles or California or something. The weather's different, but the cost is the same. What's Toronto analogous to? Is it? Yeah. Like, structurally it's Chicago.

But in terms of our metropolis, it's New York. I don't think the attitude of the residence in Toronto is at all. It is closest to. Really? Montreal is, listen, we're talking about like shadows of shadows of the cities that are in the states. What I mean to say is if you want to talk about the most expensive city where all the Canadian Hollywood elites go, it's Vancouver, which is analogous to L.A. If you want to talk about the most metropolis type cityscape that's on the water, it's Toronto, which is New York. And then Ottawa is like Washington, I guess.

Ottawa would be like Washington and Montreal is like New Orleans where it's got lots of music, lots of color, lots of food. And that's like the four cities of Canada, you know? That's right there. That's what you can. And then you've got to smadding a little. They're really only four cities in the world. The Yukon's just trees. Texas is Alberta.

No one, Texas is Alberta. No one touches that. Correct. Don't go there. They just do their own crazy thing. And then P.I. is like Rhode Island. There's like analogs. There's like similar sort of vibes.

Well, I will say. In terms of like the personality or like the vibe, I would say Vancouver is very, very close to Seattle in terms of like just the way people are there. But I know what you mean by personality of the city. Yeah. Because they film everything. Everything filmed. Yeah. It's like, oh, yeah, film it into Vancouver back lot versus a, you know, a Hollywood back lot or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless it's. Speaking of backlog. Speaking of backlots. Speaking of back shots. Here we are in the back lot. Oh, finally, we've arrived at the set. Here we go.

You guys ready to go on? Set of Dyshane. Yeah, just put some sound effects here of us like, you know, pulling our... Can I ask you guys a question? I bet you're going to ask the same question I was just about to ask. See how in line we are. Wait, no, no, no. Type it at the same time.

Type it in Discord. And mine's nebulous, but I'll say what I would have roughly. Hold on. We'll press enter at the same time. Okay, hold on. You guys talk about. Alex, count them in for enter. Type it, and then when you're ready, we'll...

Okay, let's... We'll see, I'm ready. I did a brief. Joe, are you ready? Okay, yeah. In three, two, two, one. Would you perform this show on a backdrop like Critical Roil? If you were the green room for a dice, and what would be in Y'all's riders?

Okay, totally different. Okay, different. Oh, these are both good, though. It's interesting, because I thought, because you mentioned green screen, and I was like, man, you know, 10 years ago, whatever, five years ago, there were, there were, there, There was no d-and-d shows around, like on a table. It was like audio of anything. And now, like, to make a new show without a video component where people are sitting

around the table and having all the stuff is like, not unheard of, but it's just so likely to fail. You have a show like that. You are the DM of a tabletop show where there is a video component. Pardon my tape. Originally they weren't doing any video component and that's actually evolved and changed over time. So it's interesting because I was, and I mean, additionally, we were doing like 45 minutes of content in the beginning, which is zero amount of D&D as as D&D players would know.

Right. It was very different in the beginning is what I will say. And only in the past couple of years did they start like filming it. And then there was one year where they put like really um, silly and like old school runescape like graphics that were like really borderline unintelligible and that was really fun. I always, the only thing that'll get me to watch myself is the promise of like, what weird graphics did they put in

and like what they chose to, like someone found out what cobalds looked like at their office and like pulled up images of cobalds. It was very fun sometimes. Oh, that's cool. Do you prefer, do you prefer being on camera to audio or does it make no difference? It doesn't really make a difference to me.

I figured. I'm equally self-conscious either way. Oh, I think the like to perform on a back personally I would love it I don't know if that's clear or not I would love that of course you would you are all about the physicality that's just it if I think I think we all fall into the category of charismatic individuals that are going to do our not me most to put on some kind of show but I know that doesn't necessarily involve all kinds of d and D players not that everybody has to be like that. That's fine. But I guess my point is it also would be humorous

to have some of those D&D players do like a live because they'd be like yeah, I'm gonna roll for passive perception here. You don't watch a lot of live DMD now, Alex. No, but it'd be interesting. Because also you don't roll for passive perception. Yeah.

I said that, Nick. I corrected myself. Oh, sorry. I tuned out. No, listen, Alex. I think you'd be surprised. You just haven't been in it, Alex, but like the amount of... I know they're not like that. And I'm talking about

the vast majority now. They'll do a video podcast. Yeah, but not only that, but like Spotify is paying more for video podcasts and all this. There's like monetary reasons to be doing it as well. So we should... Are you suggesting we move to a video forum?

No, I don't want... We could easily. It's harder to edit. It's so much harder if you're not just dumping the content as is. Like if you're doing a lot of like sound design and stuff especially, it's a lot harder with video. Well, listen, we did...

We did... Cut our teeth. It live. You cut your teeth? Sorry. Ow. Ow. Ow.

We didn't Invictus live for like 10 years of like three hours. Like we started right around. It was before Critical Role. We were terrible. Yeah. But like what I mean to say is like there was no comparative at that point to be like, well, these are doing it. I remember there was like one or two other shows that I was like, no.

My point is we never did anything with it because that wasn't really the goal. But we have a lot of hours underneath it. And between the two, I just find trying to do a. longer game live is just, it's more exhausting. Because I always remember, and we would play for three hours and about half through the halfway point, our energy would just tank. And we'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then by the end of it, you're watching like four or five people kind of just being like,

yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's when it gets like how Alex was saying. You know, we're not professional voice actors, the way Nick is. What about you, Nick? Hi. Video or audio? I, I, yeah, I mean, I like video for, for something. But I also, I'm, I consume a lot of audio only, actual play stuff and podcasts in general.

So, but I'm aware of the, the trend of like everybody has. Like, all of the celebrities that are doing podcast on, like Amy Poller's new thing, it all has video. Yeah. Yeah. But also that's because a lot of, they put it if you're, if you're advertising on, like, Instagram or any social media platform, just having like a, like a waveform. doesn't get the clicks that a video does. So that's another fucking... It don't get the clicks.

It doesn't get the clicks, man. All about them clicks. It's all about that clicks. I'm so sorry. Tim, what's the actual play you're in? It's a show we do every six months on a podcast called Part in My Take. They basically have a D&D episode whenever a big moment in the sports season is sort of over. So they'll release an episode the day after the Super Bowl when they want like a vacation, basically.

and we pre-record the episode. Cool. But it is not a D&D actual play. It's very important distinction. It is a sports podcast where they every six months play D&D, and that's just enough time to forget all the rules of D&D more or less. To their credit, they're like, that's a D20, right, Tim? I'm like, it's always going to be a D20 pretty much.

Like every time. So these are like famous. sports broadcasts and whatnot. They are one of the biggest, if not the biggest sports podcast in the United States right now. Yeah, they're huge. I don't really know when I first met them. I did not know there were sports podcasts. So I was like, oh, I guess those would exist.

That makes sense. And then all of a sudden, next thing I know, I'm on like an office that's one whole floor of a building in Manhattan. And I'm like, what podcast is this? Like, I don't understand. The podcast is. are like, analogous to them. Your relationship to sports podcasting

is kind of like their relationship to D. Very much so. They interviewed me the first time I came on and then in the last five minutes we're like, could we play some DED right now? And luckily I was like, sure. Like, I don't know. And I'm like, there was a goblin.

And they were being like, the goblins working with Hank. I kill Hank. And you hear me like, no, he's not working with. Wait, what? That's not, that's not. I didn't say that. That's not even true. And they just kill each other.

And I'm like, wait a minute, this worked out perfectly. So it is a very, I think to their credit, they're very good at recognizing what we do well is not play D&D. What we do well is have fun with Tim keeping us borderline on some kind of semblance of on the rails. Like that's fun content. It's a very interesting combination. You do a great job. You do a fantastic job. I've seen little bits.

Like for my sensibilities, I'm watching for you. as a D&D fan, you know, nothing about them is like why I'm like interested in that. But from from you, it is beyond impressive to see a DM of your caliber. Roll with that. Rangle such people or like attempt to. You're with me. And it's extremely inspiring how fucking calm you are the whole time. Because like, again, rolls reversed, I'd be like, oh man, I would lost it there.

But that's like something that you excel at, right? Tim, you teach. I run D&D for kids. So like that helps. Yeah. They're just like, I'm doing a new story. Tim, how many times have you had like, you got booked for a table and you're like, oh, it'll be nice to play with adults.

But then when you get into the session, you kind of have to check down to the same methods and like. Probably more. Probably more. I really like when like it'll be the adults, but they'll just be. like, no, we were just here for the goofing around. And I'm like, that's totally fine, too. And, like, figuring out, at that point,

it becomes very much like, how can I entertain, like, what you're doing basically. A lot of the, it's a lot of the repeated gag of, fine, roll to see how hard you fart. Like, it's a lot of that way. Yeah. And, like, once you make them roll for stuff, the story can get, that's what I do with kids.

They're like, I actually want to catch Pokemon. I'm like, roll to see a Pokemon or reel. I'm like this is it. You just turn things into a dice roll. It kind of makes them feel like they either heard it or it's like one, I guess I can't do the thing I want. I'm like, yeah, bummer. But like you could do this stuff. Hey, keep rolling the die.

Let's see what happens. Absolutely. It's a great equalizer, eh? You must come home from those sessions like exhausted. Like, you know what I mean? Just like it's like your workout. Every time I see a picture of you DMing, you are standing also. Yes, I am never.

sit, I'm, you know, I'll sometimes be sitting, but I'm never eating. There's always food next to me having been offered generously to me that's getting cold while I'm like, damn, I'm so hungry. Damn, that food looks so good. And then as it like gets close, I'm like tantalus, as it's getting closer to my mouth, someone asks me a good question. And I'm like, damn it, that's a good question. Hold on. I'm so excited to keep the momentum going on this question. I have a diatribe for you. Unfortunately, my pizza.

is getting cold. Here's a picture of you sitting on a throne of basketballs. Yes. So they have a throne where they'll like do certain kinds of shows and I don't know what like I guess it's just for D&D. I'm not actually clear on what else they use this setup for, but they put me in the throne. I think there is a certain very funny dynamic when it comes to like sports dudes, the idea of like this guy's in charge. Everyone's got to listen to him. Like they get what a referee is. And they also get what it means to be like, screw that referee, I hate that referee. So there's this amount of like,

the DM I can tell is this highly respected individual, but also, I don't know. Like, I think a lot of them understand implicitly like, oh man, I might have a DM who I don't get along with. And all of a sudden we've got a very interesting and problematic game of D&D on Earth. The things they understand are always very funny. Some people say the D&D episodes of part of my take are my Super Bowl.

Tim Woods is a national treasure. I'll say this about the fans. It's always good when they, like, I always think like, oh, I'm putting a kind of D&D out there that's a little weird. And people all, a lot ask on Reddit, like, is Tim's D&D anything like real D&D? And they're always like, no, Tim does a really good job of like turning their chaos into real D&D. They'd be dead three times over. The fans who are both fans of the podcast and true D&D fans are like, all right, Tim, respect.

but like I see what you're doing there and like you sometimes like I wish the guys would just do the adventure that Tim wanted instead of what they did which was like murder the quest keeper try to wear his skin and walk around town and it's like yeah but like that got you kind of

like that kind of what? Who would do that weird? Yeah who would try to skin a humanoid? Oh, oh gosh it's so weird I forgot my dice I'll be right back I thought he was kidding. And I know, sorry, we waste the time, but I do want to ask this, too, because I message

you, but I forgot. You're doing that D&D cruise, and you've never done it before? Yeah. This will be my first time doing this. Yes, it's in October. Okay. I have friends who have done it before, and I've gotten feedback on, like, you know, the thing is, like, cruises are not something I had really looked into a lot, and I'm not, like,

I know I don't get seasick, and that's about it, but this will be a kind of first for me experience, both like doing something like this professionally but also just like I remember being like I think this is the longest I've been out to see and I feel like I shouldn't have to think very hard about that if I had been a week out to see before I feel like I'd remember that and nothing's jumping to mind so not a lot of accidental voyages happening to us in this I'll be honest because I love cruising Joe and I cruise a lot we just cruised we're probably considering cruising again and I looked at that I was like oh that can be really So what I really want to run is Fallout

because we're going to Alaska and so much of the fallout story centers around like the war happening in Alaska and like they never touch on with that look. So I'm like exploring that while we're then seeing the sites in Alaska would be really cool. So I'm dreaming of the idea that I get a table where they're just like run D&D, run fallout,

whatever you want to do. And I'll be like, cool, I want to run fallout, please let me do that. That's so cool. Yeah. That's a cool idea. work it into the Maybe we'll still do it There used to just be like the one

That had the name that everybody Like but it looks like there's at least There's at least a few different ones This one's called D3 at C Yeah yeah D3 at C yeah I didn't I had heard that others were popping up And I think they even mentioned it to me

So if you're looking for a vacation in October Go sign up to be at Tim Woods's table 100% do it Yeah Oh it's sponsored by the Army painter too. Ooh. There's going to be a miniature painter, a teacher,

so you can sit down with her and learn, like, miniature painting techniques and stuff. That's awesome. Bring all of our... I was actually so mad when I heard that because, like, I'm definitely going to be running games on the hour and the same hours when she's probably doing her classes, so there's no way I'll get to do them.

Just say that you're sick. Just be like, I'm so sorry I can't... I'll just be sick for every single... Put a disguise. They find me painting a tank, like, ugh. No, don't look at me. I'm sick. And I mean, Alaska cruise is so cool.

Like the way those icebergs or whatever, the glaciers will, like, crack. Like, you feel in your chest. It's so cool. Listen, if it's good, the next one, Joe and I are going to go. The next one's in October. Heck yes. No, the next one after. Tim, you might see Joe and Harlan.

Absolutely. Probably not. Hi, Tim. It's not impossible. All right. Anyway, should we play D&D? Yeah, let's play D&D. Now that Alex has it's fucking doise.

D&D on land. Yeah, they were here the whole time. I actually thought I was like, oh, normally I keep them in this drawer in front of me. I'm like, there's no way I move this drawer when I moved downstairs. We are mid-combat in the hips of the Vonandad and Red. You are being crad lovingly by Temeel. Red's like so tempted to just like. Stay.

He falls asleep. He's like a sleepy baby, like fighting sleep. Come on, buddy. Huh? Come on. Come on. Come on. Wake up.

Sorry, it's just the... We're right in the middle of a battle. Sounds of the motives. Let go of me. I'm a man. Yes, a man. And she puts you up right. He steps down.

Anyway, what are we doing? Right. I think I'm just going to ready my action. Fabulous. Till the moment this method pokes its stupid head out of hiding. Cool. Next method, you see your leave. losing an arrow, two if you can spare them.

The one I've hunters marked. Great. Is the one I'm going to attack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tamil, it's your turn. Red's hunkering. Tamil will, seeing Red and then maybe even like perceiving a bit of a shuffle further down from the room where all the methods are kind of coming from, she'll kneel down so that she's out of Red's line of sight.

And then she will just ready static to throw at a. If anything else comes around the corner, she will throw it at that. I love the idea of you and Red taking this formation. The like kneeling, javelin throw in front. It's almost like a defensive stance because you have the pointed end forward, like kind of like a shield maiden almost. And then Red in the backstanding with his long bow, ready to take aim at anything that comes within range.

And I do have a shield too. So it's probably, yeah, like kind of. standing up in front with the arm cocked back. Red sees you doing this and he sort of smiles. A fondness, a memory. From a few months ago when him and Kraloth used to combine their efforts, the old one too, he'd call it. And as he sort of washed over with nostalgia

and looking at the back of Temeal's head, sort of realizing how much more competent of a warrior she is, how much more intimidating. He's sort of filled with a sense. sense of pride and he steadies his bow on the top of her shield, sort of using it to stabilize his bow.

He says, all right, Tamil, you and me, we got this. Battle buddies, as my friends and I used to call it. Hells yeah, battle buddies. Yeah. Battle buddies for life, okay? Are you crying? No. It's because my last battle buddy died.

That made me tear up a little bit for some stupid reason. Oh, no. Dungeons and dragons. I got you back. Dora just turns back around the corner to Witted. Battle Buddy. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah.

He's just like on its computer. Sure think. Sure thing. Whatever you need, Duran. Okay. No, he thinks it came for Reggie. Reggie looks at him. Like, do you know what they?

He's like, I don't know what that means. Yeah, I think Wim is probably going to to array herself helpfully behind Red. And if there's anything left over after Red and Temeel take their shots, she's going to send two meteors down to smite the remaining enemies. That'll be her ready action. So this is a shooting gallery now, essentially. Yes.

We line them up and knock them down. It's your turn. I'm tempted to just keep ready. things around this corner, but I also feel like if that method was a lucky situation. I don't see anybody else coming out of the fog in this direction. The sleet storm's almost doing its job too well because it's like constraining all of your enemies within one spot, right? We did, knowing that Doran is getting closer in the round, like the side path, he is tempted

to not sit back and fire anything. He doesn't really have ranged weapons and his only can't trip. is a firebolt at this distance. So he is processing his options and thinking about it. Uh, uh, doesn't seem to really want to, but it's going to take a step out from the cover of the room. I'm going to start heading in the direction of the sleet storm and try to take cover behind this pillar here, Joe. Yes, there are several tall mechanical pillars that line the far sides of either of these walkways. And you are absolutely able to sort of put your back up.

against one of them and get some cover as best you can. There are some moving pieces, so you're going to have to be careful not to catch any of your clothing or equipment on it, but you know, you're able to carefully gain, we'll say half cover, just hanging out by the weird spinning pillar. Absolutely. I will definitely ready the fists again. And then I'm also just going to whisper to Reggie. Reggie peek-a-boo, and I wink at him.

And Reggie seems to think for a second. Like he's saying, oh yeah, I remember what peekaboo is, and he flies around the corner and hides kind of around this pillar here, if that is an opportunity. Yeah, the middle one. Yeah. Even if there are like some moving parts there, I'm willing to risk it to get Reggie sort of hidden amongst, like a cat in a Christmas tree is what I'm kind of picturing amongst the mechanical parts. Smart. Very much. That's fully possible.

Perfect. Okay, cool. Maybe Doran feels a little bit bad that he just sort of took off on Witted without even, I mean, there's the soldier in Doren that is immediately gets halfway down the hall and goes, shit, I didn't give any like direction or orders. But then I guess he just deals with these. You saw the Giants and you lost your head, man. Yeah. And then so, but I guess I'm trying to make the point of Doren has this faith that he's built suddenly within Tamele and Witted. You know, that he's seen what you're capable of, and he's like, I'm fairly confident that you're not going to be worried on your own there.

Plus, the last people that you were in charge of, you sent them all through their deaths. That's right. So I stopped kind of just to take it in the past. Huh? War crimes are war crimes. What's done is done. War crimes, some more crimes. They weren't war crimes.

They're accidents, okay? Bad calls. Just because it was during war. And a crime. I'm a people person. Why don't you, people don't fucking... You watch for me! We have our first giant now emerging from the sweet storm.

Everyone welcome. Giant number one, back to the token layer. This is the giant that is covered in Red's fairy fire. Nice. You can tell. as every status effect. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right.

Here's the thing about this giant. He doesn't have his sword anymore. Technically, they have a ranged attack. That's called rock. And they... What are you going to throw here, Bozo? Well, that's it. And I'm hoping to pull the audience, being my players here.

I don't want him to try to break this control orb to chuck it at... I guess it's just witted, only that's the only target. But I feel like he should have something, some ranged something. Personally, I think if the rare circumstances like this happens, then he wouldn't. Well, because not only is this a rockless map. This is something that from this giant's perspective, potentially, is like his boss's fabled property. So I could get behind him throwing something if this was like an old tanker or something. But this is also something that, A, nothing's going to come off of.

And B, I don't think he would break rank to break a piece off. I think this is a rare circumstance where the guy would be not able to do a distance. I agree. They don't, I'm playing both sides here. I mean, I always like to play fairly. I do. I sincerely do. There's nothing on themselves, right?

Like you can't... Takes off his underwear and shoots it at Wittitt. I mean, it doesn't make sense that he would unbuckle his chestplate and fucking hurling. Like, they don't have throwing stones like a grenade bandalier, but it's just stones. I could, I mean, like, I feel like there could also conceivably be, maybe there are like spare parts, like not cogs that are currently in use, but just like big metal cogs laying around that he could throw if we wanted to just kind of. But also, if you don't want to throw anything, it would. No, I don't. That's cool.

I don't think he's going to throw something. I don't think he has anything to throw. I think that's the thing with him having disarmed himself by accident when he fell the first time, slippery. Well, and what's really funny about this is I think if you hadn't had the previous enemies melt through the grate, I would have said, I think he should throw those bodies. But the fact that you very specifically were like, they melt through the floor. I was like, well, now there's not even like dead carcasses to throw. Throw him off it. I'm going to offer one more alternative as well.

A logical A logical thing that might take place. If I were this giant, and again, I'm just thinking both sides. If I were this giant, you come out of this sleet storm, unarmed,

and you're like, what the fuck? I'd probably turn around and go back in to try and see if I could help the other giant storm. No way. He just spent so much time getting over that sleet storm.

No way. He's like, fuck that. I'll tell you what this giant does. Boo, Alex, boo! This, Giant takes a running jump. Yes. That's dope.

He jumps across this chasm. Hold on. If he falls, if he falls, this is going to be the fucking funniest. Nat one. Could you imagine? He's squeezing, unfortunately, because it is a smaller walkway than he is. So he's going to be traveling. Then he should be jumping with disadvantage.

Well, no. So your strength score determines how far. far you can jump without even having to make any kind of roll. The fire giant strength score is 25. Oh. Which means he can jump 25 feet just from the standing position. Fair enough. From a running long jump. So he was moving out of the sleet storm at his maximum speed. And he jumps across the chasm. And he, he sort of like wobbles on the edge for a second. And he's squeezing between this monument. But you're rolling for this land at least with a wobbly ledge. Let's let's come on. Like how fucking. Like I'm with you. I want to. I want to.

the giant but if this is a fucking one how funny would it be if he falls in i rolled a 15 so he's all right um he yeah this this unfortunate giant limned in in fairy flame uh weaponless sees a single target of witted and is making his way toward him slowly but steadily it's actually terrifying the idea of this giant leaping and boom yeah yeah yeah he's got to come to the realization very soon that he doesn't have a weapon. What do you like get there? Well, when he sees this tiny gnome, I feel like I could beat up a child. I mean, regardless

of Bessie, yeah. He's like, I'm just going to fucking punt him into the gears below. Why not? Couldn't he just pick you up and drop you? You're fucked. Well, you got hoverboots luckily. Well, he doesn't know that. I think this giant's about to be a bit surprised. We're going to find out. You're actually the best

person to be out there, frankly. The second giant does fall within the sleet. The Mephette, the final Mephet inside of the Sleet Storm finally succeeds on their dexterity save. Finally. Good job, buddy. Yep. Makes his way out of the GM layer into the token layer, i.e., flies out of the Sleet Storm directly into the path of our...

Protagonists. Yes. Our heroes. Red. You were the first one to have your action fire off. You kind of specifically said that you wanted to target the one with Hunter's Mark, so we'll deal with that later. Tamil, you said whatever one I see first. So you can take yours first.

Yeah, so this is actually a long range, but I also am getting disadvantaged from... It's just single disadvantage, though. We don't get multiple. Yeah, yeah. So here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, man, I got a 28.

on one, but does a 17 hit this method? Oh. It dies. All right, thank goodness. Yeah. All right, so this method is going to take 17 damage to this method. Nice. That's amazing.

Well done. Static goes straight through this creature's torso, and it explodes, potentially injuring its best friend that's standing right beside it around the corner. Hilarious. Does it? I will tell you momentarily. Six points of explosion. Wow.

That is a critical fail on a dexterity save. Yes. To avoid this explosion. Idiots. You're bad guards. It's like a chain reaction here. Boom, boom, boom. It's like barrels and doom.

Wouldn't it be amazing? If this, these two explode and then explodes those vats. It's actually immune to fire damage. Ah, that makes sense. Yeah. Otherwise, these things would be hilarious. I was going to say, like, it's like fish in a barrel. That would have been cool, though.

Anyway, yeah, static dispatches the method that was rounding the corner. And then Tamil will recall static so that she has it, but she'll get, like, low and really brace against that shield waiting for the next round. Yeah, this next method, Hoves interview, it is Reds, Hunter's Mark. My quarry. Your quarry. All right, I'm going to fight this thing. Do it. With disadvantage.

Yes. I rolled a natural 20. Oh, no. And a 16 plus plus. So the 16 will hit. Yes, it does. 22 to hit. You super hit.

Super hit. Super hit. Super hit. You super hit and dream of a world where you mega super hit. 18 damage. The Baffet explodes. It's essence torn asunder. by your powerful arrow.

Classic. Yes. I think seeing its friend explode beside it and then hearing another telltale explosion from down the hall, this third method chooses to sort of retreat a little bit. And does not appear. Unacceptable.

Yeah. I hate D&D. Why don't even play this game? All right, guys. Thanks for joining us. This is my shame. The end. We fucking do indeed.

It's going to ready a secret action that will come in handy later. This will be a secret for later. Yeah. Doren, it's your turn. Yeah. You know, most importantly, let me just state for the record, the Moffets are a Canadian pop rock band. That's why nobody's heard of them. I have.

I thought they were. I have. I have. I have. I have. They were like hands. They were our answer. The Hansen answer, yeah.

What does Doran do? That is the question. Whether to is dwarven in the no- Never mind. What? To use the slings of crossbows. Does he double back? Or does he continue on the path he's on?

I think Doran's second-guessing. You know, and I think I set myself up perfectly in the last round. I'm second-guessing and I'm going. I really didn't say anything to wit it. And now, now I feel really bad. I just kind of turn around the left. I should probably go back to where he was. He runs down the hallway, stops, runs back down the hallway the other way.

And sure enough, he turns the corner and runs out of the room only to be looking face to face at this fire giant who's only a mere 40 feet in front of him. Whose only crime is existing. Only crime is dropping his very precious favorite great sword down into the cogs of the Von and Dodd. He also jumped the bridge. Be careful. The first time you encountered a giant, Doran was chucked. Very far. And we know that these things can throw.

They do. They've got a good pitching arm. Well, Dorn would know that. He's got no rocks. It's true. What could he throw if not a dwarf? And as he stands there, he considers this position he's put himself in and what red might say to him. Give me that onion bagel.

That's like a... voice. Not physical. I want your onion bagel, bagel. You put this giant in a tricky situation. He's got no other moves. He's got to pick up a dude, you know? He's the fucking Joker. You made him this when you gave them no other option. That's right. And who did they turn to? A madman. Yeah. All right. Red, it's your turn. Red is going to move out until he has his eyes on the giant. Yeah. That is attacking being witted or rather looking him down. And with the advantage I have put on him,

I am going to attack. He is shiny, correct? He's shiny. 23 to hit. Ooh. Yes, you do hit with 23. 28 damage. Amazing.

And I'm gonna attack again with Colossus Slayer. Do it. Oh my god, fuck this giant. That's 26 to hit. Yes. Doing 26 damage. Red is gonna spend the rest of his move moving back into cover where he was.

Wow. Okay, I've came back right of the perfect time. Come on, guys, we can take these bastards down. Yeah. All right, following your lead, Temeel, who's turned it is, I believe. Correct. We'll move out, and we'll also take a shot at this giant with static, throwing again. And with advantage, 29 to hit for the first hit.

Nice. Yeah, that's teamwork, eh? 21 damage for the first hit. Wow, yeah. All right. 28 to hit for the second attack. Yep. Let's all fuck this giant.

Let's fuck this giant. Yeah, fuck them. Wow. Wow. Doran. Too far, Doran. We're also sure it only makes sense to fuck him in the ankle. Come on.

Oh, shit, another 21 damage. Fuck, yeah. Similarly. That's what you call battle buddies. Battle buddies. Battle buddies. But I think Tamila's going to kind of stay put to provide just one more target on the field just in case. Amazing.

Beautiful. Wim whips forward and. and sends two of her meteors out toward this fire giant. That's 13 cold damage against this giant. Nice. Chili. That's her bonus action because she already cast a spell. She just has it active.

She grounds her feet and summons a lightning bolt out towards this. Giant. Each creature in a line makes a dexterity saving throw. She's going to hit my ass. Yeah, Temeel's right in front of her. Yeah, bring it on. I'm wondering if it hits that device behind the giant. The giant rolled a 12, so that's a fail, and she is going to deal 8 D6, 28 lightning damage to the giant. The lightning bolt flies out of her fingertips in a 100 foot long, five foot wide line. And as she does so, it interacts with the mechanism behind the giant. And you see this like arcing ray of light that catches from the mechanism.

And it arcs all the way across the other side of the room and connects with that. massive pillar, it like moves through the sleet storm and you hear an explosion from the opposite side of the room. Then Wim like turns to you and gives you a thumbs up, Temeel, because she didn't hear shit. Too much, Wimmy! With the explosion pushing him forward, everyone who can see the giant watches as, you know,

you can see his bones and then you don't see his bones and then you see his bones and you don't see his bones when he's getting like electric heated. He stumbles forward at this explosion that happens behind him, and he slips. One foot catches on the edge of this catwalk, and he does the like, whoa, whoa, whoa thing. Arms windmilling as he's on the precipice of this catwalk. He slips. There's a moment of just breathlessness, and as he falls, he catches.

the side of this catwalk. He is now holding on with his hands, this platform, dangling above the gears spinning below him. Widdid, it's your turn. Do it. Do it. How? Whedit has one very important question.

Does it look like in that explosion of what happened to the machinery behind the giant, would Reggie be in trouble? Yeah. Through the after shock of white on your retinas from the lightning bolt that arched across your vision and the explosion in the machine behind this fire giant. And everything that happened with the giant falling down, you've lost visual track of where Reggie is, but he's not where he was before. Seeing that as the smoke is clearing and to his horror, he just doesn't see Reggie.

at all right now. Witted is furious. He sees the giant like dangling from the edge, but still kind of like between him and checking on Reggie in a certain sense. And he just, from inside the suit, this roar of anger echoes out of the suit. Again, does not sound like a gnome at all.

And as he hurdles through the air, he slams down fist first on the fingers of that giant. trying to knock his limbs free. Yeah. First attack is only going to be a 14. Assuming that does not hit, I don't think it does. It does not. Okay.

The giant moves the hand out of the way. 100%. Yeah, he moves the hand out of the way. As I land, you, you think you can just... And as he goes to slam the other fist down, I would love Reggie to come flying out and just start, like, getting in this guy's face, suddenly, this was the original peekaboo plan.

And as he comes flying out of the smoke, overwitted shoulder, he just lands on the giant shoulder and does this like a child's party, like birthday thing. Yeah. Noise maker comes out of his mouth and just goes into the ear of the giant. And it's like, and I will use the help action and take advantage on this last attack. Yes, that's phenomenal. 100% with a 20 absolutely. Absolutely. Let's go.

Whitted and Reggie together, the two of you, Reggie distracting the giant, putting down at the giant's one remaining hand. He lets go and you see a look of pain and fear in his eyes as he howls and drops down into the gears, this is a much messier end than the sentinels from before. The giant is shredded to pieces in the churning guts of the gears of the Von and Dodd, and it is destroyed. Let's go. I don't know why I suddenly feel like sausages.

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I don't know if I could have done it much faster than that, so even to go lie down. We'll see you next episode. Bye-bye. Last attack. Yes. That's phenomenal. That's too cool. Harlan, don't include this.

You did actually have advantage because he has Ferry Firey. So the first one probably could have rid. But this is cooler. This is cooler. True. Oh, damn. Oh, that is fantastic. That is cool.

Absolutely. Double advantage. Early morning, I got Mona Lisa by my side.