High Rollers DnD - D&D in D&D (Part 1) | High Rollers: Aerois Christmas Special 2021

Episode Date: December 13, 2021

Story Master Rosemeadow teaches the team how to play her favourite TTRPG - B&B! It's like D&D but in D&D! Donate to the Jingle Jam to get £900 worth of games for just £35 (and support charity too! Win win!) Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and Studio updates) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Grab some High Rollers merch: https://freshmerch.fm/collections/high-rollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe. to the High Rollers D&D Jingle Jam Special. I'm your Dungeon Master, Mark Sherlock-Humes, but also, Rosemallow! Welcome, I am joined by, as always, my five fabulous friends. It is Jingle Jam time! It's the Jingle Jam, everyone! Jingle Jam! The Jingle Jam, if you don't know,

if you're new to it, maybe if you're a High Rollers viewer who's just joined us in the last year, maybe you're just checking out Twitch and you're seeing what's popular and going on, The Jingle Jam is a big charity event that runs all through December, partnered with the Yogscast and with a bunch of amazing charities. If you go to jinglejam.tiltify.com, you can grab an amazing bundle of games for 30, if you donate £35 or more, you get an amazing collection of games worth over $900. 900 smackaroos. That's a lot.

That's value for money. But not only that, that 35 pound bundle that you buy, it is also supporting loads of amazing charities. 14 charities who want you, and you get to choose where your contribution goes when you buy the bundle. Charities such as Special Effect, EVR, End the virus of racism uh ilga world war child and so many more as well

so many have already hit their amazing funding goals but a lot of them are still looking to kind of hit their totals so if you do donate to the bundle maybe consider some of those i know obviously evr is very close to kim's heart maybe you should go and donate to that one but that what that brings me to a point what What are we doing? Who are we? We're High Rollers D&D. Normally, we play D&D every Sunday on Twitch, 5pm. High Rollers D&D, twitch.tv.com. You should come and watch our amazing Erois campaign.

Level 16 characters, high-level, epic, sci-fi, fantasy adventure. But today, we're not... Well, we are playing that yeah but we're also going to play another game at the same time um frogger uh no no no no that's the first game that came to mind frogger you've been playing like final fantasy so much and your first thought was frogger frogger i love that game. I love that game. Crossy Road. Crossy Road. It's the same thing. No, today, our usual characters from Erois,

our high level mega superhero adventures, have been summoned to a lovely little apartment by their friend, their friend, Rosemeadow, to play her favorite game of all time, Bakers and Blacksmiths, a tabletop villager role-playing game TV RPG and yeah and that is what we're gonna be doing today there we go nice nice all right well if everybody's ready I mean yeah okay how does this work do we have to introduce our characters introducing our character no you're

gonna make your characters as your characters. Okay. Oh, cool! So, game-wise, so, and just to make this clear, right, if I'm speaking in this voice, this is Mark, the Dungeon Master, sat here with their friends in the studio. Okay. If I'm in the Rosemeadow voice,

that is either Rosemeadow talking to you or also Rosemeadow DMing her own game. Okay. Do you wanna explain, like, who Rosemeadow even is? Yeah also Rosemeadow DMing her own game. Do you want to explain who Rosemeadow even is? I should probably do that, yeah. So in our main Eros campaign that we're playing through, the players have met this centaur. You can't see it, but I actually have a horse body. It's amazing.

A full horse body is underneath this. You see more horses? It's an actual horse. I just cut the head off. Rosemallow is a centaur who is kind of a bit ditzy. She's like a valley girl who's really into crystal healing and organic shampoos and things

like that. And as an offhand thing, during a session once I mentioned that her favourite game was this villager roleplaying game and it became a thing and then when we were thinking of the Jingle Jam this was the next best idea. So we are literally going to be playing D&D 5th edition

but inside of D&D 5th edition we will be playing another game that is going to happen. Roleplaying lasagna. It's roleplaying lasagna. That's a perfect way to put it. You've got the layers of the cake layer. You've got your meat filling, you've got theagna. That's a perfect way to put it, Rhi. Yeah. You've got the layers of, you've got the cake layer and then, yeah.

Like the layers of hell. You've got your meat filling, you've got the cheese. Yeah, that's it. What's a roast? That's like the... It's like the crispy bit on top. It's the glass bit. Oh, the dish.

Oh, the dish. Wait, no, aren't we the dish? We're the dish. It's the D&D, the dish. Anyway, I'm just going to move on. I'm just going to crack on. I'm just going to crack on. I'm the cheese. So...

That's why I'm allergic to you. Yeah. Hey. As Mark now, as the DM of Aroes, you have all been, you have all come to Horizon, the great sky city that, you know, you have kind of turned into your base of operations for your epic adventures against the Valkyrian empire but you have a little bit of downtime you know this is probably before your

big adventure into the feywild um before we we set off uh with rosemidow into the feywild adventures and instead she has invited you to her lovely little apartment very quaint little uh cute apartment uh just kind of nestled into horizon Streets to play her favourite game ever. When you arrive, yes, Lucius, or Trot. This is Trot. Trot. That's the other thing. You guys need to make it clear who's speaking.

I mean, it's obvious. If I raise this hand, it's Lucius. Right. Also, the voice is very obvious. The voice will be a thing, yeah. That's true. Just a quickie. Yes.

Sorry to interrupt, but we're in quite a, like, like you know pretty horrible moment in yeah absolutely yeah it's gonna end well yeah we're decided to play yeah what like you've played is it canonical is what i'm asking 100 is canonical right also imagine like you've played mass effect right like you have to have the party on the citadel before you fly off to stop the reapers right you you have the the moment of of lightness before the big conflict. The darkness. I mean that's what this is right now, we're here playing Dungeons and Dragons and the world is going to end outside.

It's going to end, yeah, exactly. Very appropriate. We're doing that, so think of it that way. So this is canonical. I love you mom! The like Hadar and the Valkyrian Empire, that is all a big thing, but your lovely friend Rosemeadow who is just this beacon of sunshine and happiness, has invited you around one evening, it's only one evening, to play her favourite game. And when you arrive into her little apartment, there are all sorts of decorated plants, houseplants kind of all over the shelves and on the windows.

Most things are pink or soft cream coloured. A table has been set up with five chairs and a sixth chair at the very head of it uh and you can see that covered on on on the table are little maps and books and little kind of colored dice and little miniatures and figures and things like that have all been prepared um and rosemary being a giant centaur her chair is much like she basically just squats down at the table more than sits down um but everything has been a laid out and she's just like oh welcome everybody I'm so glad that you came to play my favorite game everyone find a seat you can sit wherever you like I would sit next to Rosemeadow okay and then yes you can take a seat next to Rosemeadow for sure

I'll sit here which is this seat okay I thought you were going to sit next to me, but that's fine, you can sit there, that's absolutely fine. This looks the comfiest though, so I'll sit here. Did anybody bring any snacks? Yeah, you were vague about what to bring, so I just brought biscuits. That's great, no, biscuits are perfect, yes, that's amazing. Mmm, they are crunchy. I brought an apple crumble! Oh, yay!

Apple crumble! Yeah! Wait, Cedric, do you normally cook? Because you don't eat. I've been learning. Oh, okay. Yeah, great. I'm super excited. Yay! Would anyone like a drink before we start playing? Yes, we have an elderflower and grape. Yeah, okay. Okay, I can get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would like an alcohol, please. Um, yeah, I think I have some. I think I have something. Anyone else? Would anyone else like a drink? Century loaded me up on coffee earlier. I really, no. He's like, jittery. Maybe I should get you a glass of water, pretty. Okay, okay.

I brought scrolls and quills and ink for everybody. And I also copied out the book several times and read it from cover to cover. I'm so ready for this. Wait, that looks like, oh, I know, but that's an older edition. And I also copied out the book several times and read it from cover to cover. I'm so ready for this. Wait, that looks like... Oh, Nova, that's an older edition. I'm afraid that it's a completely different set of rules. What?

It's fine. Everyone's going to learn together. It took me a whole week to write everything out again. No, you silly thing. And everyone read it, right? Everyone read it. A whole week? I left it in your rooms.

But it was this thick. I opened the first page and said... You had the older edition. There's so many complicated rules. Please tell me it in your rooms. But it was this thick. I opened the first page and it said... You had the older edition. There's so many complicated rules. Please tell me it's easier now. It's so much easier. I lost the coffee. Sorry.

Yeah. The first rule was... Accidentally over the side of the airship. The first rule was there are no rules. And I'll be honest, I stopped reading there. That scared me. Oh. I didn't know what to do with that.

The quills and the parchment, that's super useful. Thank you so much, Nova. That's lovely. Well, let me... And she goes and fetches you drinks and then kind of brings you down and then she sits you down at the table and she's like, okay, okay.

So this game, it's my favorite game ever and here's the book. This is Bakers and Blacksmiths. That's a lot thinner. It's nice and thin. Yeah, it's really nice and simple. And it is, they call it a villager tabletop role-playing game and what it is

is you're all going to be playing villagers in a fantasy land and you get and there's all you can be elves and dwarves and humans and all that kind of stuff but you will be a position in the village so maybe you'll be a baker or a blacksmith and then there'll be problems and you have to solve them together you have to make friends and be friends together and that's how you play the game and it's very exciting. What a wonderful escape

from, you know, the combat and heroism that we have every day. It doesn't exist here, Quill. And the other Lubick's is about to hear his name. That's not to say that there might not be,

you know, scary situations, but you're going to work together to overcome them and save the day. Okay, that sounds okay. Okay. Well, the first thing we need to do, this is the most exciting thing. Where's the board? Well, there is a board. Oh, that's the board.

Here's the village, but I'll do all of that later. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to make your characters. So you get to play somebody who's completely different to how you are. I want to be a scientist! Well, you determine it randomly. So we're going to use these colourful dice. Can you see all of these dice? I can, yes.

Wow, this one looks lovely. I wonder why I can buy it. Oh, you can buy that. There's a store nearby called Fresh Merch and you can buy these lovely dyes. Donate to Jingle Jam! Who would like to go first? I think that if we maybe have someone go first, that'll make it easier for everyone else. Me. Lucius! Okay, okay. So, you need a six-sided die. Do you know which one of those are?

Oh, no, but what's this one? It's the square one. No, no, that's the big one. That's a 20-sided die. Close. Yes, that's it. This one? So you're going to roll that, Lucius, and this is going to be to determine your race.

So are you an elf or are you a human? No, no, I'm an elf. No, no, but this is you get to play pretend. You get to be something else. Ooh, that's so fascinating. Right, okay. You get to put yourself... I got a six.

Oh, that's very special. Is it? So on a six, you're gonna roll twice, and you have parents who are one of each race, and that means that you have some of the benefits of both! I get to be two? Yes! You're in that race like me!

Yes, exactly. So I roll twice. Roll twice more, and if Lauren's- I got a six again. Well, roll again. So now I'm four! No, no, no, no, no, just roll it again. Try to stop rolling sixes.

Two! Okay, so one of your parents was a dwarf. Oh, that's so cute. And then what's the other one going to be? I'm like Arvo. Yes! But Arvo could... Maybe Arvo could be your dad. You get to make up their backstory and everything.

No, that's weird. Two. Okay, well roll again because you already had that one. Five. Oh, an orc! So you have one parent... I don't want to be that! No, it's okay, but why not? Why wouldn't you want to be a little orc?

Orcs are strong, and dwarves are very tough... But they're smelly a little bit, because they've been out in the ocean a lot. Well, maybe you're not. Well, let's see, but that's who you're going to be. So you're going to take a parchment... Is that what you think of Uriah? Well, Uriah's different, because... Okay, maybe not all of them. There you go. See? But now you get it.

So you're going to take a piece of parchment and one of my little flat-fired sticks. Now I think that Araya and Avlo are my parents, and this is very strange. Well, you can... Maybe they're like them, but it doesn't have to be. I can't get their image out of my brain. So you're a half-dwarf, half-orc. A dork. Yes!

You're a dork! You're a dork! And because you're a dwarf, Because you're half dwarf, you get extra stamina points, and then because you're an orc, you're actually gonna be more physical and stronger than other people, okay?

Who wants to go next? Let's pick all of our races first. Okay, Aayla and then Nova. All right, so Aayla. Six! Six? You're also gonna have mixed parents. Yay!

Five. Orc, so also going to have mixed parents. Yay! Five. Orc, so one half of your own. Okay. Four. A halfling. Halfling and orc. Oh, wow. A hawk. A hawk. Okay.

Well, get a piece of parchment. You're going to write down that you're half halfling and half orc. Now, Nova, you get the six-sided eye, and you roll. I'm going to write like A-load, right? You're an orc. There's a lot of orcs. I've never had this before. I'm going to try and write like A-load, so it's going to be like... So you're just a full orc.

I'm a full orc. I'm going to be big and strong. Oh, this is so exciting. So maybe the three of you, maybe you guys know each other, or maybe you come from the same place. You're my mum. No! Or maybe sister or cousin.

An awful person. Maybe sister or cousin, maybe. Maybe not mum. I want you to be my mum. Okay, Quill, let's see what race you're going to be. Please don't roll another five. I'll try not to. Is Aarakocra an option?

No. Oh, God. But that means you get to pretend to be something you're not. Okay. Human. Two. A dwarf. Oh.

Don't say it. Don't say it. Daddy. No, because you know what that means. All right, so you're gonna write down dwarf on one of your parchments. Dwarf. And then, Century, you're the last one. So you get to roll a dice and see what you are.

A one! You're a human! That is so unique. I'm a human! So let me tell you, humans are the most common race in the village. They are loyal, dependable, and generally get along with mostly everyone. And your heart is going to be better. So you are better at making friends and overcoming fear.

And you're brave and loyal and true and all of that. And then for dwarf, for quill, dwarves are known as great crafters and their stamina is higher than most. They work hard and appreciate well-made things. And your stamina goes up by four points. Stamina? Mm-hmm. Uh... Now, for those of you who got the...

You have two parents of both kinds, so you're gonna get both benefits, but your starting talents, which is something we'll get to in a moment, are gonna be a little bit worse than the other characters, because you have, like, a mixed background, so you've kind of done lots of different things. which is something we'll get to in a moment, are going to be a little bit worse than the other characters, because you have a mixed background, so you've done lots of different things. It's a way that it balances out the game a little bit.

Otherwise it would be too powerful. I see. Okay, so everyone has their race. Does anyone have any questions? I am a dwarf. You're a dwarf, that's right! I am a dwarf. I'm not very good at voices.

That's okay, you don't have to use one, but it can be really fun if you try. I'll try and do some voices, so it'll be fine. Okay. The next thing is... That was great! You should do that! Hello. So the next thing is, we're going to determine what your job in the village is.

So this is fun, this is another fun. So this is kind of like the second half of what makes a character. So let's start, let's go reverse. Sentry. So you need the ten sided dice. This is the dice with ten sides. Okay. Yes, and you're gonna roll that and that's gonna determine your job. I got a nine. A nine. You're a guard. So that means, so what that means is whenever you do anything that you would do as your job, you get to roll twice and use the highest result. So it means that when you do guard things,

you're very good at them because that's what you do. You also start with some special equipment. So you have a helmet and armor. You have a spear and a horn or a whistle. Okay. Okay. Which one do I have? All right.

So let's do quill next. We're 10. A 10-sided dice. or a whistle. Okay. Okay. Which one do I have? All right, so let's do Quill next. Uh, we're at ten. A ten-sided dice. Ah, twenty, twenty, I literally didn't bring out a ten. Zero. That's a ten! It says zero. No, but it counts as a ten.

Oh, okay. Otherwise you wouldn't fit the numbers. You're a merchant. Merchant? A dwarven merchant. You are horrible! No! So you start with, so again, any time you do anything to do with being a merchant. A dwarven merchant. You are horrible! I'm awful! So you start with... So again, anytime you do anything to do with being a merchant,

you get to roll twice and choose the highest. Okay. And you start with a big backpack, a horse and cart. You have a horse! Okay. What's his name? You have 75 gold in a coin pouch,

and you have traveller's clothes. Traveller's clothes? 75 gold? a coin pouch, and you have traveler's clothes. Traveler's clothes? 75 gold? That's not much. No, in this world, that's a lot, because you're villagers, remember. You're not adventurers. Oh. So that means that you're quite rich.

Oh, I mean. When do we get all these things? No, you have to imagine that you have them, Lucius, in your mind. I have gold on me. I can just spread out actual gold. Imagine that everything is, I'm going to describe things, and you're going to pretend that you're in this world. Oh, like, yes, like make believe. Yes, but we use dice and we have all these different things to kind of make the game play a little different.

Fascinating, okay. Well, why don't we do, who's next? Nova, I think. Let's do Nova's job. One. One. That you're a baker, Nova! Oh, great! You're a baker, so anytime you do anything involved with baking, you get to roll twice and take the highest, and you start with, ooh, a basket with, and I have to roll a dice now. You start with four baked goods, and these will restore stamina to people who eat

them. You have a variety of ingredients and a bag of flour and a rolling pin. A rolling... You know, my mom always wanted me to be a baker and take on the family business. Well, now you get to pretend like... What would that have been like if you were... And you were a half dwarf. No, you're a full orc. I'm a full orc.

So imagine you were a full orc, but you were a baker, and you get to imagine what that would be. All right, Ayla, let's do yours. So, D, a ten-sided die. Four. Four. You are... Yeah, you're a weaver.

That's somebody who makes clothing. So, you are really good at making and sewing and crafting things. I don't want that one. Give that one to Lucius. He likes that. No, no, no. You have to have the one you rolled. That's the point. You get to imagine it. And you start with... I don't want that one. Give that one to Lucius. He likes that. No, no, no. You have to have the one you rolled. That's the point. You get to imagine it.

And you start with... I don't like clothes. You start with a sewing kit and leather working tools and sharp scissors and fine clothing so you look resplendent. Why did she get that? Because that's what she rolled, Lucius. But I want that. Well, let's see what you get. And then maybe you'll like that one too. This one, yes? Yes, the ten-sided. No, that's what she rolled, Lucius. But I want that. Well, let's see what you get. And then maybe you'll like that one too. This one, yes? Yes, the 10-sided. No, that's 12-sided. That's 12.

Oh, sorry. That was a troll error. That's me messing that one up. Here we go. I've never had a job before. This is so silly. One. One.

Well, we already have a baker. Let's re-roll that one because we already have a baker. But it would make sense if my mum did baking and then I... We'll roll again. We'll see what it is and then you can pick. How about that? I got a nine. Oh, well, that's a guard. That's the same as century. So why don't you pick one of those two? Okay.

Or you can roll again. I'll roll once more. Okay. Nine. I guess I'm a guard. Let me just roll and see what I get. No, that's the same thing as Ayla. Yes, why don't you be a guard along with Sentry's character?

So I have a job? Yes. Oh, this is so strange. We can work together. You've got to be very responsible. Yes, exactly. We can guard the bakers and the tailors and the... Merchant.

Merchant. Merchant? Merchant. Exactly. So the next thing we're going to do is, and this you get to choose on this. So, in this game, all the things that you can do are represented by three, we call them stats. Okay? Statistics.

Or abilities you could think of. I like statistics. Is this like calculus class? No, it's going to be simpler than that. Right. So, you have body, mind, and heart. And body is how strong and quick and tough you are. Mind is how clever and witty and cunning you are. And then heart is how good at making friends you are and how sociable you are.

And you get to assign a dice to each one. So you can assign a d4, a d6, and a d8 to each one. assign a d4, a d6, and a d8 to each one. Now remember, those of you who are an orc or have an orc parent, your body die goes up by one size. So if it was a d6, it becomes a d8, and if it was a d8, it becomes a d10. What about those that are both? Then you get the same thing as well. Oh! But I don't get the plus there's no pluses you don't there's no you don't have to add anything it's just a roll of

the dice oh good so people I have more stamina that's not one of the three you said no everybody gets you will work that out in this D for there's no d5s up there's not before no so how do I that goes up to a d6 oh I've got twice how can I assign this so I have the best statistics for the roll that I'm playing? You should pick it based on what you think your character would be. No, but I want to really min-max this so I can get the most out of my dice rolls and statistics. But you don't know what kind of situations you'll be in, though. Just put all of it into being really strong, that's what I did.

Hmm, that's a good idea. I think that's the best thing for anybody. So which one everybody so you put the where have you put what i put it in the body so you put the d8 and then yeah okay and then what did you put your d6 in mind mind okay so you're smart and then you put d4 in heart yeah because i don't really care okay that means okay well maybe you've not made very many friends before accurate okay i'm confused arval is very strong, intelligent, and loving. He's all three. Oh, well this is the thing.

You may think that about Arvel, but I'm sure he would say that he has some weaknesses somewhere. Now I'll feel bad though if I reduce one. Well, you're not playing Arvel actually as Arvel. You're just gonna play a character like Arvel. But he's my touchstone. What was that, Quill? Well, you have a think on that, Quill, and then we'll come back to it.

I'm confused about the orc thing. So what dice did you put in your body, Statnova? A d8. So that would go up to a ten-sided dice instead. Do I want to be a super hunchbaker? Yeah! Yes, I do. So that goes up to that, and then you've got the other ones.

And then, Lucius, what did you do? I put some dice next to these three thingies. No, that's perfect. You've done great. That's perfect. Is this right? Yes. So whenever you have to make,

whenever you come across something in the world. Oh, I swapped it. You did swap it. Whenever you come across something in the world and you want to, I don't know, try and say, you know, climb up a tree, right? You will have to roll your body die and you have to beat a certain number that I come up with. So the higher, the bigger the die, the more chance of success you have. How do we know if there's a tree to climb?

I'll tell you. It will be described to you. Oh, and can we just add stuff ourselves? I hate how you're making this more complicated. You can sometimes, I might ask you questions. I'd like to climb up the tree. There's not a tree yet, we're still making characters just now. We'll get to it, we'll get to it. So the next thing I want to do is, you also have something called stamina, which represents how tired or injured you are.

Ooh, I have more of that. So, what is, so whatever your body die is, the maximum value is your stamina points. Okay. And then if you have a dwarf, if you were dwarf, or you have a dwarf parent, you get to add four. Even if I'm half dwarf? Yes, yes. I feel like I should add four

because orcs are really strong. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to add four. But you get to, you are already stronger than everyone else. Oh, that's okay. That's fine. Yes. Did you put the, so you upgraded it, yes, to a ten. Excellent.

So that's your stamina. And then when your stamina runs out, if your stamina reaches zero, your character passes out or runs away or is knocked unconscious or something. They're out of the moment and they can't help in the game. Like Quill and Sentry. Wow. Technically, I suppose, yes. Okay, the next bit's really fun. So now you guys get to make some decisions. So all

of your characters have a talent, a special talent that they are particularly good at, right? So this could be maybe you're an artist, and you would say, I'm a really good painter, and so your talent is painting, right? Or maybe it's you're very knowledgeable about the forest, and so you would have your talent as knowledge of the forest. Or maybe you're very brave,

and you get to put bravery down as your talent. You get to kind of make up what that talent is. Flying. What do you see? I guess if you were magical, you could maybe use magic flying, but dwarves can't really fly, Quill. Selling stuff.

Yeah, you could have that. You're already a merchant though. Do you really want to have that as well? Maybe, maybe you have a passion for, I don't know. Climbing trees. Sure, you could put climbing. You're a natural climber. Maybe you climbing as a pastime. Climbing. Okay, so you're going to mark that. So you're just a dwarf, right? You're just a full dwarf. Just a... So your climbing talent is going to be d6. D6, okay. And whenever your talent would come into play, so if you were trying to climb a tree, you would roll your body

die and your climbing talent, because that's specific to what you're trying to do. And you can use either one to see if you succeed. Okay. Sorry, I'm really struggling to understand the breadth of this thing. And I'm really just- Well, if you read the notes that I gave you- It was the wrong edition.

Fell off the side of the boat. What are you gonna do? You blew it up. How did it fall off the side of the boat? Accidentally got thrown really far. Why was it thrown? Why did you use the word thrown? I had to... Anyway! Who else has an idea for a talent that they might have?

Ooh, me! Yes, Lucius. I like to be really good at standing very still. Okay. Because I feel like if I'm a god, I'm going to be standing still for a very long time, so not much. Sure! Okay. So maybe we can call your talent Stationary. Okay, but you're a half dwarf and a half orc, right? Yes. Not much. Okay. So maybe we can call your talent stationary. Okay. But you're a half dwarf and a half orc, right? Yes.

So your talent's only a D4. That seems so. But you get the benefits of being an orc and a dwarf to balance that. Right. Stationary. Stationary D4. Anybody else have any ideas? I want to fight things really good.

Okay. Well, you can maybe. I mean, there is a little bit of fighting maybe, um maybe maybe you you're a weaver right? You're you're like a seamstress. Yeah can I have like a sword or a bat or? No you I mean maybe you could find one later on, maybe. Ayla, is there anything that you really wanna be, like in real life? And this is the time for fantasy. Ayla's just gonna pick up her hammer and show it to Nova.

Maybe instead of hitting things- But you're really good at hitting things. No, it's okay. Maybe instead of hitting things- Yeah, I like it. I wanna do more. You're good at lifting things. I'm pretty strong, so.

Maybe like lifting. I could lift Quill up so easy. So could Lucius. Okay, no. But remember, you're not going to be you. I could lift Sentry though. But remember, you're not going to be you in this game. Yeah, but.

Oh, I see. Can your Halfling Orc lift Dargal Begos? Probably. Well, you put lifting Can your halfling orc lift Dargol Begos? Probably. Well, you put lifting as your talent then. Lifting. Okay, I can lift heavy things. And you're also a half. Yeah. Halfling, half, orc.

Yeah. In that case, so you're going to put that as a d4, your lifting, and then because you're a halfling, you also get something called lucky, which is a talent, and that's also a d4. And lucky is you can spend, you can use that whenever you want to kind of push your luck, but you can only use it four times, okay? Four times you can use that. That seems ridiculous, you're overpowered.

I know it is, it's a criticism of the game, and halflings are really strong. I'm really strong, I think I'm winning, guys. I think, have I won? Not yet, no. I think I've won. There's not really strong. I'm really strong. I think I'm winning, guys. I think. Have I won? Not yet. I think I've won. No.

As long as we have fun, everyone's winning. Yay! Yes. Nova, what about you? Do you have an idea for a talent? I've always wanted to be really good at dancing. Yeah, that's perfect, Nova. Yay!

Dancing. I'm terrible at dancing in real life. And you're a full orc, right? I'm a full orc, right? I'm a full orc. So that would be a D6. So whenever you think that your dancing can help you in a situation, you can roll that dice along with your other one, okay?

And then Century, could you have an idea? I'm really noisy a lot of the time, so could I be really good at being quiet? Yes, of course, yes! Yes, so maybe stealthy. You can put stealthy as a stealth. Yes, of course. Yes. Yes. So maybe stealthy. You can put stealthy as a stealth. Cool.

Okay. And that would be a D6 because you're just a human. Cool. Okay. Oh, and because you're human, you get to have another talent, but that would be a D4 talent. So what else would you like to be? Oh, my goodness. Stealth was like my main one. Oh my goodness.

Stealth was like my main one. Maybe you're good at finding things or you could be good at maybe, maybe you have a certain knowledge of like an area or maybe you're an artist or a musician. An impression of a worm. Animal impressions. Animal impressions is a great one! That could be good actually.

I could be a horse! I'm not an animal, I just... But I could do what you do! That's not what I do! No, you do do that on a kid. That's not what I do! Yes, you do bee-kitty. You do bee-kitty.

I don't think you realise but sometimes there's a little... That is so offensive. All right, so you have animal impressions, and that's a D for it. Okay. Okay, all right, we're nearly done. The last thing, and this is... You have to put yourself... Remember, we're playing a game, and the idea is to play a real person, okay?

Because this might sound a little strange, but you all need to come up with something called a quirk, which, think of it as, like, maybe it's a fear or a bad habit or a weakness that you have. And the reason that you have this is whenever you think it would come up in the game, I'm gonna give you an extra special token, okay? So there's a good side to it as well, but think of it that you want to play a real person. So maybe Sentry's Guard has a fear of spiders, okay? And if that would ever come up, then that would be something that maybe affects

the decisions that she makes. Or maybe you have a bad habit of being too excitable and that can cause you to get distracted all the time, or something like that. So have a think about a weakness or a fear or a bad habit. Yes. Go on, Lucius. I have a fear of my parents dying okay maybe something not as extreme as that maybe something a bit maybe a fear of my sister being some sort of secret assassin I think maybe there's a little bit too much Lucius coming in maybe like a fear of blood or something? Oh, fear of blood's good.

Okay. Okay. Anyone else? Can I be afraid of the dark? Yes, that's perfect. That's a great idea. Yeah. That's a perfect idea.

And it doesn't have to be a fear. If you don't want to have a fear of something, it could be a bad habit, or maybe you have like a bad back, a bad knee or something like that. Okay. My mom says that I talk too much and too loudly about topics that nobody's really interested in and that's why I don't really have any friends. Okay. I didn't realize that this was going to be such a big personal therapy trauma thing that's going on. People think I'm not good at making friends.

Okay. They think that I come across harsh and maybe a bit blunt. Yeah, okay, let's put that down. Cool. Maybe for Ayla it'll be easier if you're mostly Ayla and then the character is something that you can get into as we play. You said we have to be a real person, so I'm going to be a real person anyway. I'm a real person.

This is like a pretend person. It doesn't have to be you. It's someone else. But why would I want to have more flaws in Fantasy World? Well, because sometimes flaws can make a person better. Overcoming flaws is a really lovely thing. Okay. I don't know.

I don't like giving any of my characters flaws. I hate you. Maybe my dwarf merchant doesn't have a divine connection to a god. There's not really gods and stuff in the game. There's magic. Maybe there's something about magic. I cannot use magic. Yeah, okay. Maybe you can't see magic i can't see magic sometimes you can well i mean it depends okay i can't see magic sure you've never seen my acid well he's talking about his character oh sorry i keep forgetting he's you're my dad

Oh, sorry, I keep forgetting, you're my dad. Am I the meta elephant? You wanted to make characters on stream! I know, I know, I know. This is the fun bit, so anyway. Anyway! Um, okay. Oh, maybe, no wait, I'm doing your voice. You can make a voice like mine for your character if you like. Okay, well I'm an orc, right? Yeah, orcs can speak like me. You can make a voice like mine for your character if you like. Okay.

Well, I'm an orc, right? Yeah. Orcs can speak like me. Hello. Okay. Did you have an idea for your quirk? I'm really tall. Too tall.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sure. I keep bumping my head in the kitchen. Okay. That works. I know how that feels.

Does everyone have a quirk now? Yeah. Yes. Okay, last thing. You just need to come up with a name and what your character looks like. But I'll let you guys do that. And while you do that, I'm going to give each of you one of these. This is called a friendship gem.

And friendship gems, you can spend them in the game. Do I have to attend to this? No, no, no. This is just them in the game. Do I have to attune to this? No, no, no. This is just like a little marker. So when you make a dice roll in the game... It's really sparkly, Lucius. I think you'd like it more. No, you should keep... That's yours. You have to take that. You have to keep it. Sorry. Do I roll this?

You don't need to roll it, no. When you roll a dice in the game and you would like to re-roll it or maybe get a bonus, you can spend these gems by giving them to me and you would like to re-roll it or maybe get a bonus you can spend these gems by giving them to me and I will let you re-roll or maybe make your roll better but you can only spend one each but you can work together to spend multiple ones for each other so let's say that the quills dwarf was trying to jump over a pit,

and he makes the roll, and it's not a very good roll. He could spend a crystal to re-roll it, but then maybe Nova's like, no, I really want my friend to succeed. I'm also going to spend my crystal, which would make Quill's roll even better. And then he gets to have a greater chance of success. And if three of you spend a crystal,

you succeed automatically. And how many of you spend a crystal, you succeed automatically. And how many of these do we have? Is it just this? You start with one. I'm also going to have one, and I can choose who I want to spend that on. But if you do things in the game to help your friends, if you make a sacrifice for one of the other characters,

or if you befriend an NPC, which is a character that I'll play, you might earn more of these gems. Okay? Okay. It'll make sense when we play. is a character that I'll play, you might earn more of these gems. Okay? Okay. It'll make sense when we play. It'll make sense when we play, okay? It's going to all make sense.

Wait, who are you? So I am the story master. And I've never done this before. I've only ever been a player like you guys. But I'm going to try being the story master. And it's my job to describe the world and play all the characters that you meet and set challenges and obstacles that you guys have to overcome, okay?

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Does anybody have any questions? Um, no. Okay, that's great! That's great!

Are we meant to? Is that part of the game? No, no, no, that's just if there was anything you didn't fully understand. Okay, let's get started. Oh, I don't understand. I think this will all make sense when we start to play. Now, some of you may, and Nova, I'm looking at you, some of you may want to make little notes about things that I describe or explain, like maybe the name of characters that you meet or places you have to go. So just keep that in mind and you can use the parchments that Nova gave you to write

those down. Can you take my notes for me? I can't be bothered. Sure. I'm not good at writing. You're not. Is that what we read with your left hand? You've already snapped the quill. I have left handed. Okay.

You've already snapped the quill. It came like this. I've got some spares. I've got some spares. It came like this. I'll try and write stuff down, but I'm probably going to try and write everything. Okay. Okay. All right. We're going to start. Okay. So I'm going to set the scene. Okay. Okay. It's my first time doing this, so bear with me. Do you want us to close our eyes?

If you think that would help, you can kind of visualize it. Sure. Okay. But you want to open them again. Okay. Okay. The adventure takes place in the village of Stargarden, a little country village that sits along a river and a large ancient woodland. Stargarden is a blossoming town as many merchants and traders pass through it on the way to bigger cities nearby. The mayor of Stargarden is an elven woman called Moonshimmer. Mayor Moonshimmer is very nice and well liked by the people. You are all members of this village. You may be newcomers or you may have been here for some time and now you should all introduce your character by saying what their name is and what they look like.

So who would like to go first? Uh, Oop. Yes, Lucius, yes. So what is your character name and what do they look like? My name is Arvaia and I look like Arvald and Araya. Okay, so combined together what color hair do you have? I would have wisps of black hair and also blonde hair. Okay, that's cool. Yes, mixed with the two.

How are you dressed? You're a guard, right? So you have like armor. That's right, yes. I was thinking of wearing a kind of pirate's cap with some... You could have that still. I'll have a pirate's cap. Okay. But that would be... I'd be told off by the guards, wouldn't I? Well, let's just say that the mayor is okay

with you wearing the pirate hat. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Moonshimmer. That's right. That's okay. That's Moonshimmer, yeah. So what was the name again? I should write this down myself.

Arvire. Oh, can you pass me a graphite stick, please, Ayla? Thank you. Arvaya. I would like to climb a tree. Not yet, not yet. We'll get to that in a second. You'll be able to do that soon. Okay, so Arvaya is Lucius.

Okay, who wants to go next? So that's Arvaya, and everybody should keep that in mind, okay? Who wants to go next? I think Sentry should go next. Okay. Well, my character's called Guard because that's what he does. That's his job. So that's his name.

Of course, Guardian's name. Well, if you think how Quill and Lucius have different names to what they do... Okay. Do you think you would want to have a name like that, or do you want to stick with guard? I'm going to think, I'm going to try really hard. Matthew. Matthew, okay.

Matthew. Matthew the guard. I like that. That's great. And that's sentry. And what does Matthew look like? So much energy went into Matthew. Such an exotic name.

He's got... So unusual. So creative. I think he has, like, blonde hair, but it's got, like, dirt and twigs and things in it. Okay, okay. Yeah. And he's got his armour on,

so maybe it's, like, mine, like, silver armour. Ooh, nice. Okay. Silver armour, and it's like mine, like silver armor. Ooh, nice, okay. Silver armor, and it's all dirty, okay. So maybe Matthew likes patrolling the woods and things like that maybe. But he can only do it during the day because he's scared of the dark. Right, okay, that's very good.

That's well remembered. Okay, great. Okay, who wants to go next, Quill or Ayla? Oh, I can go. Go Quill, and then we'll do Nova, and then we'll do Aayla last. I am Dargol Bagos, a dwarf merchant. Dargol Bagos.

And I have, oh, I have blonde hair, and a purple blue robe, and I've got some furs hanging off my belt. Okay. And, and, and, and, I'm made of metal. No, no. I have a book. Okay, do you have a beard?

Yes. Okay, a big blonde beard? Sure. Okay, big blonde beard. Okay, and... Okay, great. And I'm from Savona. Okay, sure, we'll make Savona a place. And I have a hat. And you have a hat! Perfect! Okay, Nova, what about your character?

Can you come back to me? I'm still writing. Okay, okay, Ayla, do you have a character name? Ayla. No, It should be something different. Aria. She's an orc. She is. Do you want to try and come up with a name that you've never heard before? You'd be my mum if you were Aria. It fits with the group. You'd be my dad.

Okay. Oh. I look green. Okay, I look green. Okay, green. Like Ayla looks. But you're a seamstress, so maybe do you have some nice clothes? No, I fell in a puddle in the Ryoki now. Oh, okay.

Ryoki clothes. I think you would look very lovely in a beautiful dress, but that's okay. Nova, you're the last one. You have to give us your name and tell us what your character looks like. Okay, I've written my ten page backstory. Wow, did you do that so quickly? That's so quick. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Um... Wait, backstory? So my character was born under the sixth moon of the tenth year, pre-sevening. Um, and they are... We have to write this down. ...a master baker from a long line of master bakers and

they're called quasar. Quasar. Quasar. I've always wanted to be called quasar. So quasar, okay. And what does quasar look like? Really tall. Super tall.

Very tall. While Nova's dictating this, she keeps looking at Ayla. Really tall, super tall, so tall, very muscly, incredibly muscly. Muscles on muscles on muscles. Okay. Flaming red hair. Okay. Like flaming red hair. Like long, flamey red hair. Okay. That's fine. Okay, great. So, long, flamey red hair. Okay. That's fine.

Okay, great. So, all right, perfect. Okay, so everybody... Okay, hang on. I have to get back into storyteller mode now. Mayor Moonshimmer has asked you all to come and help with a problem that Stargarden is facing. And being loyal members of the village, you have all come to their aid. To come and help with a problem that Stargarden is facing. And being loyal members of the village, you have all come to their aid. Tomorrow is... Oh, I have to do her voice. Sorry. I have to play it.

Okay. Tomorrow is Stargarden's special winter festival. A day where everyone celebrates the hard work they have done throughout the year. As well as spend time with friends and family. However, I have foreseen that the night sky will be obscured by clouds. the hard work they have done throughout the year, as well as spend time with friends and family. However, I have foreseen that the night sky will be obscured by clouds, and we will not be able to enjoy the view of the stars, nor let our lanterns up into the sky. I know of a special wizard who lives in a tower across the river in the woods,

who would surely have a spell or way to make the night sky clear and visible to all. I must ask you to travel to this wizard's tower and beseech their aid for the benefit of Stargarden. Okay. And now you guys, as your characters, can ask questions and you can talk back to the mayor.

Oh, uh, uh, uh. May your moon shimmer. I can't do the... No, that's great, Quill. You're doing it. Yes! Yes! Dargol!

Oh, uh, uh. I am a merchant and I have 75 gold with which to purchase a scroll of magics. That would be very useful if the wizard charges money and why I am sending you if need be. But perhaps you could also buy supplies

for your friends before you travel. I would, yes, I would like to bring my very good friends. Ayla. Ayla. Oriah. Oriah. Yes, I would like to bring my very good friends... Um... Aayla! Aayla? Aria! Aria! Aria... Matthew... I'm your son.

Arv... Arvia... And Quasar. Quasar! Yes! Most excellent! You should lead this expedition, Dargal! But...

Yes! Does anyone else have a question how far away is it oh it should be you should be able to reach the wizard's tower in less than a day if you head south and cross the bridge and travel west into the woods you will find it by sorry I have to look it up it's in this adventure you you will know that you are close when you find

the moon tulips okay I'll go now yeah no no wait fair enough I was going to do something you're going to do it in your mind

oh I see it I see it I'm so annoyed you did that insane brain I'm so annoyed you did that. Insane brain. Okay. Oh dear.

Yes, so anyway. Yeah, so I should also mention it is winter, so it is snowy and cold outside. Okay. Of course it's snowy and cold outside. Okay. Oh, of course I'm snowy. I would like to speak to the wizard. You have to get there first, Lucius. I would like to go there and speak to the wizard. We will do in a minute. Yes, but you've got to get there first.

So we're going to describe how you travel there. I jump there. I run really, really, really, really, really, really, really fast. Wait, no, wait, we need to get supplies. We were told to get supplies and I have 75 gold with which to buy supplies. It's not much. I have flour, that's a supply. I have flour. Flour. Really sharp scissors. Okay, I have a horse and cart. What's the name of your horse? What's the name of your horse? Arvia. Arvia!

Because he named it after me. That's perfect! Okay! Yes, for my tenth birthday. Yes. Dad, it's the first time we're adventuring together and this is a very emotive and bonding moment for us and I can't wait. Happy birthday! Happy birthday!

Wait, no, that's not my voice. That's great, Nova. Well done, well done. I love you, sir. Lucius starts crying. No! It's okay, Lucius, it's okay. It's okay, it's okay. Go on! No, Lucius, it's okay.

That's the only time my dad's ever said that to me. Oh, God. Maybe we should get some snacks and have a drink! Well, let's just say we get some snacks. I'm not sure about this game, it's a bit too much. No, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be fun! We're gonna have a good time, okay? We're gonna have a good time. Okay! So, you all, um, you all leave Mare Moonshimmers,

and if you want to buy some supplies in town, there is a general store that you can do that at, or you can just begin your adventure. It's probably a good idea for us to buy some swords and armor. Swords! How dangerous could it be out there? Swords!

It's cold as well, we need coats and things. Coats and things. Because skin gets cold, right? Yes, it does, it does, yes. That's right, Matthew thank thank you of via I'm their son Wow Raya I'm arrival who's my wife Raya no because you're a half or a half dwarf yeah yeah it'd be a big crazy you're a half-orc, half-ling. I'm not a dwarf, I'm a halfling. Yeah, it would be, it'd be ques-

But you're called Oriah. Yeah, because I'm an orc, so I have to be Oriah. Obviously. Mum? Ooh, that felt deeply uncomfortable! So anyway, you're at the general store! Okay, um... Hello? Oh, yes, I have to be, um...

The general store owner is a human man called... Matthew. Jonathan. Jonathan. Hello there, traveler! Oh, um... I am Jonathan. I run the general store. Wow. Jonathan. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So good. Thank you. My name is Dar... What? Swords. Oh, my name is Dargal Bagos, and I need... What? Coats. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Coats. And swords. Hammer. And hammer. And a giant magical hammer. I'm afraid I don't have any weapons. Stargarden is a safe place, but you have your guards to look after you. Oh.

But I do have fine coats and boots for this winter weather. Am I not wearing boots? Well, you might have some things like traveller's clothes, so maybe you don't need any. Ah. I already have traveller's clothes, thank you, and a horse and carton, 75 gold, sir. Would you like to buy some boots and clothes for your friends? Yes. You're getting me a gift. How much, uh, sorry, uh...

Oh! How much for the sore, uh, coats? Um, I have to look, there's charts and tables, hang on. It's all very complicated, isn't it? They are two gold each, so eight gold pieces. Actually, Rosemary, I think you'll find if you look in the chart, it's three gold each. No, this is a new edition. No, no, no, no, it's like, I think they carried it over. I read about this.

I'm looking at it right now. I'm looking at it right now. Are you sure? Because in the notes I read it was three. I know, it was three. So, also, I get to have the final say on all the rules. So if I say it's two, it's two. Oh. It's two gold each. So that's eight.

Oh. I'm a merchant, Rosemado, and I would like to try to change the price if I can. That seems like a lot of money. Yes, this is perfect. Can I do that? Of course you can, yes! So you want to bargain with the merchant? Sorry, Ayla's drawn a sword. I don't have swords, I'm afraid.

Oh. But perhaps I have some shovels that you could use? Yes, sir, I would like a sword, the shovel, and coats, and I would not pay any more than five gold for all of it. Okay, so this,

okay, this is perfect. So what you're going to do is, what is your mind dice? Eight. So you're going to roll the eight-sided dice, but because you're a merchant, you get to roll twice and pick the highest result. Oh.

And then I set a number that you have to beat, and I think that this would be quite easy, so I will set this at a four, so you have to roll a four or higher. Okay. Okay. Four. Okay. So, Jonathan is like, you drive a hard bargain, sir, but that's a deal. And you mark off five goals.

That's what I did. And then everybody gets, everybody can write down that you have winter coats and boots. And Aria, which is Ayla, you get a shovel. Shovel! You can hit people get a shovel. Shovel! I can't hear people with a shovel. Thank you. I feel better now. Thank you, Darvel Agus.

Dargle Bagus. Dargle Bagus. Thank you. Oh, in character. No problem, Matthew. Oh, and because you did that for you bought everybody clothes from your own money, you can have another friendship, Jeff. Oh, wow.

Because you did something nice for everyone. Oh, amazing. Okay. How many do I need to win? Well, you can spend them to succeed at things, but the winning is, we win if everyone has fun at the end. And you successfully manage to help the festival. That's what you're trying to do, remember? Oh, okay.

Now, is it bad that I swindled this man? No, because he probably was charging you a little bit more anyway. So you've probably bought them at a fine cost. Wait, people do that? Yeah. I have to deal with it all the time. People think that I'm going to sell like at really bad prices but... Did you do that to us?

No, you're my friends. I would never do that. No, but when we first met you, you weren't your friends. Oh, maybe when we were... I think that I gave you a very good deal. Well, I have a business to run over. I had supplies and things to buy. So you're telling me every time we've seen a merchant they've been swindling us? Not swindling, but it's like, you know, they just charge a bit extra to make profit. This game is teaching me so much about the world. Unbelievable.

Okay, so, so Dagus has bought everybody winter clothes, um, but, and you still have to, but that's, you know, maybe that takes a few moments, maybe, you know, uh... Do we have to play the entire thing out? No, we're gonna kind of skip ahead a little bit. So you buy the clothes, maybe 20, 30 minutes goes past. My shoes are the wrong size. Okay, well they find you ones of the right size.

These are two lefts. They find you a left and a right one. These are the correct ones now. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, thank you. It's been a pleasure, Jonathan. Indeed. Did you like that, Dad? Yes, yes, yes, son.

Thank you, Dad! I'm surprised you... You are! Thank you, Dad! For if you didn't intervene, you would have left the store with two lefts. I can't believe I didn't predict that Lucius would use this to project his trauma. I should have absolutely seen this coming. It was right there!

I was like, I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it.

I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go and get it. I'm going to go two lefts. I can't believe I didn't predict that Lucius would use this to project his trauma. I should have absolutely seen this coming. It was right there. Is there anything you want, Dad? Do you want my friendship gem? No. No, you have to keep that, Lucius.

You have to keep that. That's your gem. But you could spend it if Quill's character is in trouble. Okay? Okay. Okay. So, well, don't forget, I don't want Quill to, like, take...

So, you guys have got all your clothes, and you know that Mayor Moonshimmer said to head south until you find a bridge to cross the river, and then head into the woods. So now, what would you like to do? I would like to speak to the wizard. Well, you have to get there first.

So you have to follow to the wizard. Well, you have to get there first. So you have to follow the instructions, the directions, and that means you have to go to the bridge, and you have to cross the bridge, and then you have to go through the woods. And we have to do that as a team. Is it my day off? Because I'm a guard. Well, this is guard's business. You're being sent to look after the others. Is it daytime?

Yes. Good. Yes. What kind of village is this? They're sending bakers and weavers and merchants to go talk to... Well, because everyone in the village helps out and works together. But it sounds kind of really dangerous to just send... Are you from the village? Oh, it's you, Mum. Never mind.

Hello, Mother. We're doing this. Okay. Hello, son. I'm your mother. oh it's you mum never mind hello mother we're doing this okay hello son I'm your mother was that the voice I was doing I can't remember

no it was deeper it was strong voice strong this is what a strong voice is hello is this what it's like because you're

okay hello hello son it's so good to see you again mother are you proud of me having a job? I'm always proud of you, son. Thank you.

It honestly means so much to see both of you. And we're doing this journey together. It's really lovely. I love both of you very much. I love you, son. I would like to cry as a character. That's okay. Yeah would like to cry as a character. That's okay. Yeah, you can cry as a character.

Should I roll? No, you don't need to roll to cry. Crying's a free action. Okay. I cry a lot. Okay. So anyway, you guys travel south towards the bridge. We're in the forest.

So, oh, so, yes. Maybe you're all traveling on Dagus's cart or you're helping carry things around. However... Oh. As you travel south, the sun begins to

travel through the sky and you follow the babbling brook that runs alongside the town. After a few hours, you arrive at the bridge, but to your dismay, you find that the bridge is broken. Maybe it was struck by lightning, or a monster broke it, but now there is a large gap 20 foot across in the middle,

and the river is icy cold from the winter snow. in the middle and the river is icy cold from the winter snow. So now you have to, you guys have to figure out how you're going to get across this river because the bridge is broken. If you imagine it, the bridge is broken, it has a big hole and gap in the middle. So how will you cross the river? You know, statistically speaking, if it's the winter and it's snowy and cold, it couldn't really be a lightning strike that broke the bridge because you don't get lightning storms in winter. That's just not a thing that happens. This sounds highly illogical. If I was there, it could have happened. Oh, I guess, yeah, if it was magical, yeah. Did you break it, Ayla? Maybe a giant did it. Maybe. A giant. I want

to look under the bridge for the monster. Okay, that means you'd have to go into the water though. The water's really cold. Be careful, don't hurt yourself. I guess you could try and peek round, but it'd be quite hard. Okay, I'll do that. Okay, so we're gonna make a dice roll. So you're gonna, what's your mind? Not very sharp. Six. Oh really? Six. So you're gonna roll the six-sided dice, and do you have a talent or anything that might help you in this? I can lift the bridge. Okay, I don't think you're gonna be able to help with that one. So you're just gonna roll that six-sided dice. She has a shovel. Okay.

I slide like this. Hey! Two. That's not- you peer and you look, but you can't see what's under the bridge from where you are. You would either have to go out... I would like to look under the bridge. Okay. Can I just do that? Um... Yeah, I guess you can. Yeah, I guess you could just make the same... Okay, well, if I don't look under the bridge, you guys can look under the bridge too, and eventually...

Oh, if we keep trying. Yeah. Oh, I guess you can. I should look in the bridge, you guys can look under the bridge too. Oh, if we keep trying. I guess you can. I should look in the rules. We'll just keep going until we get a good score. Although actually, you just try again. Can I just look again? No, so you can't try again. I know that much. You can't try again.

Can we all go together? You could do it. So that's a thing. Yes, you can work together to make a task easier. So you could all say that you're helping Dagus look, and that will make it a much easier task. Oriah didn't manage to look under bridge, so I would like to look under the bridge. Come look under the bridge with me.

Yes. We will help you. Okay. So every person who's helping you will make the task easier. So you're still going to roll your mind. My mind? And then if you have a talent or job that might help you... Climbing. No. I'm tall. A five. A five. So with the help of your friends, you all sort of peer around

and you try and look, and it doesn't look like there's any monsters under the bridge, but there is a lot of all the wood that kind of broke inwards is made like what do they call it, debris underneath it. But there's no monster there. Okay. But the water does look very, very cold, and it would probably be not good to cross through that. What she said.

I can dance. I'm really good at dancing. Okay. Maybe I could dance across the river. So try and like Skip across it. So you don't spend as much time in there like a river dance Okay, you can try you can try sure. So this one would be It's such a dumb joke and she's made herself laugh through it. Like it's a terrible fucking joke. I'm so disappointed in you, my love.

I'm so disappointed. It's such a mum joke. I haven't been outside all year! So Nova, you're gonna roll the body dice. So what's your body dice? A ten. Okay, so you roll that and then what's your dancing talent? D6.

So you both, you roll both of those and you need to beat, it's quite a hard check. I rolled a ten and a three. You got a ten? You got a ten, look! Okay, so when you roll the maximum on a dice, you get to roll the next best dice to see if you score any higher so that would be a 12 sided dice yes this is called the exploding dice what no no no it's just it's just that's a name for it it just means that it gets bigger and

bigger every time you roll the maximum? Seven. Seven. So that's not higher than a ten, so we keep the ten that you rolled before. But ten is very good. So yeah, so, Quasar, you nimbly and gracefully dance across the river and you splash, your feet lightly touch it and you never quite get fully drenched and you reach the other side safely without losing any stamina points. I can dance, everybody! Wait, no, that's not my voice. I can dance, everybody!

Yay! You are so graceful! But now your other friends are on the other side of the river. Oh. Oh. Hi! Hi! That's really Hi! Hi! Oh, yeah.

That was really good. Thanks! Oh, it's us. Now what? I would like to cross the river. How would I do that? I can lift the pieces of bridge. You could try? Yeah? That's something you could try to help it make it easier for everyone else? Yeah. Okay. Wait, but we need to get the horse and cart over as well. And that's heavy. Very heavy. Maybe, maybe, Araya, which is Aayla's

character, could lift the horse and cart over the river. I'm really strong. I could probably lift a horse and a cart. I can lift a car. Maybe. I can lift a century. Remember, this is your character, not Aayla. Who's stronger, Oriah or... Aayla's stronger than Oriah. Probably. Or Aayla's stronger than Oriah.

Wow. So much metal. Oh my god. Okay, so Oriah's a character. Thor gave me a belt, Quill. Okay, okay. Alright, okay. So you're going to roll your body dice as well, and then you get to add your lifting dice

as well this time. What is my lifting? Oh, okay. And remember, if you get the maximum, you get to roll the next highest dice. Five. Was that the highest you got? Yeah. Okay.

That's probably not going to be enough to lift the... Three. You carry the wagon and the horse, but they're going to potentially fall in the river. So, what you could do, Ayla, is you could spend a friendship gem to re-roll that dice to see if you get any higher, or if somebody else wants to use their dice,

you could spend two dice to make it a better chance, or if three of you spend your dice, you succeed automatically. You have a lot. Can I have one? Can I have one? Can I take one? No, they're my points.

Can I just... No, Quill has to give it to you. Quill has to give it to you. I have it, though. No, no, Quill has to... No, Quill has to choose. Ayla's taking it now. You can spend yours, though, Ayla.

You can spend mine. Don't hit me. Okay. Did anybody else want to spend one? I'll spend one! Okay, thank you, Century. So, because you spent three of these, Ayla, uh, Aria picks up the horse in the cart, and she strides across the river, splashing through the water, and manages to carry them both across. But, you will take two points of stamina because you're wading through icy cold water.

So you're going to lose two points of stamina. But I won because I got it across, though. You did, yes, yes. So it was fine. That would have been a very, very hard task. You would have needed a 10 or higher to succeed. I was in the cart. Okay, we can say that.

Yeah, sure. Nice. Because it's your cart and your horse we can say that, yeah, sure. Nice. Yeah, because it's your cart and your horse, it makes sense that you would go with them. Thank you, A. O'Raya. So we just have Matthew and Arvia to get across. How would you lads like to get across? Now think, it could be anything, think of any way that you would want to try and get across. Well I want to impress my parents right in front, so I'd probably do something very daring. Okay.

So I'd like to... Whilst Raya is carrying the cart and horse... Across the river. I see that as Avaya, and I'm like, look at me! And then I run up the bridge. I look at him, okay? Yes, he's looking at me.

And then I run up the bridge to the part where it's broken. I'd like to jump and I'm going to jump onto the top of the cart and then jump onto the horse and then onto land like stepping stones. Okay. Yeah. That sounds good. And then backflip. And then do some cartwheels.

If you want to add the backflip, that's going to make it harder and harder. So if you want to do that, you can. I don't want to fail in front of you. Okay, so maybe don't do the backflip. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, so you're going to, this is going to be your body dice again, so whichever that is.

And then what are your talents? What, what's... Being very still. I don't think you're being very still, so you don't get to add that one. I can do it like a stick though. Okay, so, so you're going to just roll that d6. Right. Um, and we'll say that this is

quite hard so that's you'd need a five to six. Everyone give me your gems and then I can succeed in front of my parents. Well they have to choose to give you a gem. I don't have any gems left. Well I suppose if you're my son then yeah I should help out so you can help me. Thank you mum. That's very nice. There you go son. I believe in in you. Yes, you do. Yeah, don't forget to do stretches beforehand. You never said that to me in real life. I'm watching him, and I think that's helping. Yeah. There you go.

So that's an automatic success as well. Yay. So we see, Arvia, yeah, you jump up on the bridge, and then you jump onto the wagon, and then you jump onto the horse, and then you jump off safely onto the bank of the other side yes perfect you succeed and i bow i'll be um um i'm so proud of you son i raised you right that was an amazing feat of um what's your voice oh did my voice change Sorry, I'm not very good at... Okay. Good day.

No, I can't. No. Thanks, son. Thank you. That's okay. You said it. We can just, maybe next time you speak, think about the voice. Okay, well, sorry.

Speak which one you want. It's okay. Oh, I say, wow. Okay. Great. Perfect. Yeah. That's exactly what he would say.

So, Matthew, so you're the last one. How do you want to try and cross this river? I'm good at animal impressions. So can I try and maybe do an impression of a bear? And then I can ask the bear to help me get across. And the bear can carry me. But it's only an impression of a bear. You can't, like, create a bear.

You could be a fish. That could work. Maybe you could you can't like create a bear. You could be a fish. Fish trying to swim. That could work, maybe you could, you know, try and- Pretend to be a fish. That might help you swim. Yeah, okay. Can't we just have a bear come in? Where's the bear now, right?

I'll roll the dice and I'll see if a bear comes by. Okay. Still haven't seen a tree. I'll see on a 15 or higher. Oh wow, I actually rolled a 16! So yeah, okay, there's a bear and it's drinking from the river downstream. It's a friendly bear so it's not angry or anything. It's just kind of happily drinking. Vlam, vlam, vlam, vlam, vlam.

So you want to try and ask the bear to help you by doing a bear impression. Yeah. Okay, so let's use heart and then you have a talent in animal impression, so you can roll both of those. Okay. Wee! A one and a two. Oh...

Oh, century... Well, a one is an automatic failure, but a two isn't going to be high enough, I'm afraid. Okay. So what happens? Do I get very slow? So you make all the bear noises, and you're doing your best bear impression, but whatever it is, the bear kind of just looks at you, and it doesn't seem to understand what you're

saying and it just walks away. Oh, no. Sorry, bear! I feel so bad. No, it's okay. But it's okay because the bear is, what could it do? It knocks over a tree and that makes a bridge across the river. Because you failed and that upset the bear and then it got angry and it strikes the tree

and that falls down okay and but now but you still have to balance across the tree okay so this is going to be a body test body test um yeah it's easy that doesn't sound like something a bear would do a one oh well that means that you fall in the river okay and you're gonna you're gonna take four points of stamina away but you do but then you kind of get to the other side, but you're cold now and shivery. My stamina is zero now. Oh, what?

So Matthew gets to the other side of the river and then Matthew falls down. And he's so cold that he falls asleep and he's passed out. Matthew. Okay. But maybe if he has some rest and some food, then he'll get some stamina back. I have a basket of four baked goods.

Okay. Have a baked good, no you're asleep. Well you could wait, we wait like maybe after an hour. Sushi. You feed Matthew a nice baked treat and we'll say that gives you four stamina back. Okay, okay, thank you for those. Maybe three stamina, three stamina.

Okay, three. Three, big dude. The fucking first test you did and Matthew died. It is the most reactant result of a game that is engineered for you to succeed at and you failed twice. You still find a way. Twice. You still find a way. I need for you to succeed at, and you failed twice. Still find a way. Ree finds a way.

Ah, that one's... You always find me. We should send you. You've got four stamina was in your hand. We should send you to like game testers everywhere and be like, send Ree. Also, I think this should be a D8 because you're a human, right? So that comes up by a D8 as well. Send them Rhiannon.

I have a question, Rosemeadow. Yes. If Matthew doesn't make it back, which it seems unlikely he will. Well, Matthew will be fine once he's had a bit of a rest and some food. I just want to make sure that he's not lumping his hours of being a guard onto me being a guard. Because if I have to... Oh yeah, that'll eat into your time, I'm sorry. It'll eat into my time going home, I'll never see my parents again.

No, but that's... I mean, Matthew... I have to work overtime. Well, then you have to make sure Matthew gets back. You have to look after them. I grab Matthew. Okay. And I just start wringing out the clothes. Okay. Oh, I'd help, yeah. Okay. Matthew's like

shivering and it's all cold. Oh no. My skin is so cold. I cast Fire Touch. No, you can't cast spells. You're just a god. You don't have magic. Create Bonfire. Nope. I dominate person. You don't have any magic. Madden Darkness? No magic.

Oh. Matthew, stay with me. I can give Matthew some fine clothing. Yeah, so like a nice scarf and a hat and you kind of dress Matthew up in extra layers to try and warm them up. Yeah. That's perfect. I don't want to anyway, so I'll put on some different stuff and I'll give you my fine clothing. Thank you. Because I don't like it. it. Anyway, so it works because now somebody who wanted it has it. Has it, that's exactly it. That's perfect. In fact, there you go, you can have a friendship jab for giving that up. So, now you kind of see the basics of the game. Now you see the basics of the game. Let's take a little break, let's get some snacks and drinks and if anybody needs to use the bathroom we can do that. And then when we come back you'll journey into the woods to try and find the wizard's tower. Wow.

But I don't have any snacks on my sheet. No, but listen, I'm talking about you Lucius now, not your character. Oh, so I'm Lucius now? Yes. And Lucius is going to have snacks? Yes. And we're taking'm Lucius now? Yes. And Lucius is going to have snacks? Yes. And we're taking a break? Yes. We're also going to take a break as the real life

people as well. So I'm taking a break. Trot is taking a break. Lucius is taking a break. But our Veer is not taking a break. They've frozen in time. Thank you.