High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: 2018 Rollback!

Episode Date: December 31, 2018

Welcome to the High Rollers 2018 Rollback, a celebration of everything we've done in the last year including Lightfall, Rogue's Gambit and Aerois! Spoilers ahead! Halfling Camp provided as part of the Battlebards collection: https://battlebards.com SquirrelCurls' incredible artwork: https://twitter.com/SquirrelCurls/status/1013102361697505280 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe. Add your team to your Uber account today. Need a great reason to get up in the morning? Well, what about two? Right now, get a small, organic Fairtrade coffee and a tasty bacon and egger breakfast sandwich for only $5 at A&W's in Ontario. Hello and welcome back to High Rollers for a 2018 rollback, a celebration of all things High Rollers, answering your burning questions and talking about everything that's happened in 2018. This will cover the final stretch of the Lightfall campaign, the last six months of Arois and Rogue's Gambit, as well as various other things that we love about D&D.

So be wary of spoilers for all of these, there's no set times for when we discuss any of these things, so if you're not caught up you're probably safer skipping this for now. Just before we jump into the episode, I just want to say that as the guy that manages, edits, uploads and records these stupid intros for the podcast, how great 2018 has been, launching this brand new medium for you all to enjoy High Rollers. It's been a fantastic experience and the progress I've made has been incredible. As of right now, I can see 219 ratings on iTunes and an average rating of five stars. That's insane.

It's amazing. There have also been a couple of times where High Rollers has been in the top gaming charts on iTunes and Spotify. For a podcast as young as this, that's an incredible feat. I'm super proud of what this dumb little idea I had out of nowhere has turned into and genuinely look forward to the future of this podcast.

And it's all thanks to you listening to this podcast week after week and sharing with your friends and more. So genuinely, thank you so much. Anyway, on to the High Rollers 2018 rollback with Dungeon Master Mark Humes, Rhiannon and me, Tom. Enjoy! with Dungeon Master Mark Humes, Rhiannon, and me, Tom. Enjoy. Hello. Welcome! What? Oh!

The fade was a little bit... Try again. Hello! Welcome to a little special stream. It's not your regular High Rollers stream today. I am joined by the lovely Rhiannon and Tom Hazel. Hello! As always. Hello!

And because it was just the three of us this week, everybody else is still away at Christmas you've got Kim still away doing her awesome thing out in Malaysia Katie's still up in Scotland and I have no idea

where Chris Trott is but he's somewhere we thought we would do a little special something called and I like to think that maybe we can make this a yearly tradition

where we can maybe do this with more people in the next year we're doing the High Rollers 2018 rollback yeah the rollback and here's the logo for it there's no there's no logo this is put together quite last minute yeah uh but uh what we thought we'd do is look back on the last year of high rollers so 2018 for high rollers we've done a lot a lot's happened um and we want to talk about like what our favorite bits were,

some of the plans that we have for the future, but also, you know, what you guys thought and what you guys favorite bits were. And like, we've got some questions that we've got from Twitter. Disco Tom's been asking the discord as well. Yeah.

Which he's got there now. And so we're going to answer some questions, but also, yeah, talk about some of our favorite bits. I've also got some video clips of people's favorite moments. Awesome. And we can find ones for you guys as well, but i've got the others because they did email me what they had um before we jump into that obviously it's jingle jam the jingle jam still go in yeah make sure you can uh you go in if you've not got the bundle which i imagine

most of you have but don't forget you can still add to your donations to your bundle um there is a way of doing that i'm sure there will be a chat bot that will tell you how to do that. Yep, that'll do that. But if you do, we will try and answer any questions from donations throughout the stream. So if you want to add some money to your amount or donate something,

we can add in your questions and we'll answer them as best as we can. And then the only other thing to talk about is the fact that Erois, our main campaign, is back next Sunday, 6th of January. Everyone's back seven days we're super hyped uh we really really want to get back to it so excited i want to hold dice again yeah oh you say that you both say that now you wait until you see what i've got planned i'm pumped next year i love that i love the fact that you're pumped whether it's good or bad

i'm happy to be here guys i'm just here for the ride yeah i love that. I love the fact that you're pumped whether it's good or bad. I'm happy to be here, guys. I'm just here for the ride. I love it. I'm excited. So to clarify, the rollback is for 2018. So we're going to be answering questions about, I guess, Lightfall

and towards the finale. Rogue's Gambit, Eros. So if you do have any questions and you want to ask them now, Twitter, we've got a post on there. And there is a Ask High Rollers tab in the High Rollers Discord. You can go in there and ask them now. Twitter, we've got a post on there, and there is a Ask High Rollers tab in the High Rollers Discord.

You can go in there and ask some questions. And we'll try and get through as many as possible. Do you know what? I was looking at this, Tom. So, 2018, do you know what it began with? Can you remember what it began with in High Rollers? Was it? Was it the Reynard's Family arc?

No. That was just before. That was uh just before that was the tail end of 2017 oh really 2018 began with the cam buckland stuff which was just afterwards graybell yep holy crap yeah oh yeah i was surprised at that i remember because um there was a massive break in between unky fairhorn yeah unky fairah horn that oh man so there you go little nostalgia for you got so much happened in that time well yeah so like what five months yeah it it was a lot happened for the whole beginning and i appreciate rihanna wasn't there for the finale of campaign one but yeah 2018 was pretty busy so we finished the lightful campaign where we went

through the gray belt arc we went through through a bunch of miscellaneous episodes with you going around and seeing friends and family and stuff like that. Then you had the Siege of Talosval, the Battle of Falania. So we got back to Talosval, and then Falania appeared. What did we do in between? Oh, yeah, we went around and then recruited.

Yeah, so you went to the Elvespires. The absolute final mission. Yeah, the classic final mission yeah the classic final mission go recruit all your friends and allies um and then you got back there was the seeds of talusval after that you literally got back and then that kicked off oh my god that was like the big main follow and then we obviously had the epilogue and then the finale yeah holy crap so so much happens there's a lot of stuff for you to ask questions about if you want to know anything in particular.

Because I guess now that Lightfall is finished, we can just talk about that. Yeah, we can just talk about it. And I'm sure that if you're going back and you're watching it, there will be some spoilers for the Lightfall campaign if you've not checked that out yet. We are going to talk about it. There are going to be spoilers,

but hopefully you can still enjoy it. But obviously we're going to talk mainly about Eros and things like that. So I've got on my list here. So we finished the Lightfall campaign. We started Erois. I did the Stream of Many Eyes and did my critical role. Kalyana was this year. We did Rogue's Gambit,

which was pretty much straight after the Stream of Many Eyes. We started that. It was like a couple of months afterwards. Yeah, what was that? October to December? September, I think. Oh, September to November. Yeah, September to November because it was across the weeks

we obviously launched Erois as a podcast that was new for us, we did that we did some more one shots we did the Spectaculars one shot we did all the stuff at Christmas we obviously had Rhiannon join us that was brand new, we added a new member of the family Kim's horror one shot

Kim's horror one shot stuff as well Comic Con we did the Comic Con we did the live shows yeah exactly so lots to talk about a lot

I'm going to I'm going to start with you Tom Hazel because there were two questions that I sent around to the team okay and it was the two questions were

what were your favourite moments from 2018 so those could be game moments or whatever just any favourite moments you had oh man okay and then the other question which we'll answer in a second was uh what are your hopes or goals for eros specifically in 2019 okay so favorite moments of last year okay so i think

the final episode of lightfall was incredible and i loved that yeah that was so so good and so epic and holy crap what a what great episode that was i don't it's difficult i don't want to talk about it too much just in case there's anyone that's like i haven't finished it yet fuck um but finished what great i've got a video clip which i think is it's not fully spoiled um as in like it doesn't give away too much of what actually happens but I thought this was a pretty epic moment and hopefully Sam This might be what I'm thinking of

As emerging onto a large stone platform a great draconic arch showing two dragons eating demons emerges What you initially believe is Adric. He looks exactly the same. Red and gold scales intermixed.

He wears bright gold armour. He carries a shield which seems to be made from an enormous red dragon scale. He strides forward, cape billowing behind him, as he stands on this lip, kind of addressing the whole Coliseum before him. People of Brasaras, I stand before you today on the cusp of a great celebration.

Soon, our brave soldiers and sorcerers will leave our lands and head east into the lands of the weak. Brasaras has been content with its borders for too long. This desert has been our home, but it has become a prison. I, Korak, hundredth and eighth Worm King, shall elevate our kingdom like never before.

Today, we become conquerors. There is a smirk from the board of cheers. And like Kim as well. Kim is like freaking out. Cheer! Cheer for your king! And another cheer kind of echoes around the thing. I'm like,

you're like, he's our main beacon. Great! All I have in my head right now. He's like, no, no, no, don't punish me, please. All I have in my head. I don't say it. Korak looks around for the rest of the course. This is another one of Mark's epic speeches.

First, we must deal with another man. So I'm going to pause that there. But I like that because there was just that funny moment with Katie coming in and ruining it at the end. But after that, it's the end but um but after that is uh it's the moment where uh adric jumps into the to the thing and like all of you guys follow oh my god yeah so that was oh god that was so good because um that was also what started the break the chains thing as well wasn't it yes so i was trying to find that but it was really tricky to

trying to find the time stamp of where the break the chains bit begins so it's difficult with this vod in particular because it goes on for so long yes because um there was so many donations there was so many donations during that one so holy shit thank you very much for that but um oh i'm trying to find the break the chains bit adric does that too, Korak. Yeah....and like shove them down and... I have the power of Tiamat Vibeenal. The East... I'm gonna trigger that through him. Chop! All of you, what is it? Oh yeah, just...

I'm gonna trigger that through him. Chop! I remember that. Korak looks down at him, he's just like, you miserable fool. I am Worm King here. I have the power of Tiamat and the Worm Throne. You are nothing. You fled this country

as a coward, seeking to raise your own country of weak humans and elves. But no matter. Soon we will conquer them, and you will have nothing. This is not your home. You will die here as an exile. And then you can see the

guards begin to kind of roach around but now the tieflings and rebels form a defensive line kind of blocking the guards from from you guys um you hear visca summon the dragon korak do not let these fools tempt you and he's just like, silence. Korak looks up. Too long have I been away. Adric, sorry. Adric looks up. Too long I have been away. The good guy.

Too long I have let you strangle our great kingdom with his tyranny. And then he looks at the crowd. I left this place feeling shame and fear. I remained in the east because I did not feel strong enough to claim vengeance or seek justice. And for that, I have failed you, and he points at the crowd. A thousand apologies will never be enough, but today I begin the first steps in setting right what I have done wrong. I have helped the East build a kingdom. I have watched them grow strong and shared what wisdom I have with them. Through them, I have learned what many things. I have found the strength to fight. But I do not fight for vengeance or justice or freedom. These things you must fight for yourselves.

My brother has held your shackles for too long. He has bound you with fear, shame and hatred. Cast off these bonds with me. Rise up! Stand with your families. Feel lost for your home. Today I will fight. I will fight for hope, for joy, for friendship and brotherhood. Today I claim my place as Worm King and dethrone this tyrant.

Today I fight for you, my people! And she holds up the dawnblade and the crown just erupts in cheers. Yeah! When he finishes that, I'm going to shout as well,

T-Plings! Metallics! Break the chains! And just start this chant of break the chains. At this point, you watch as the guards see them beginning to move down. I love how hyped you are. But the crowd just turns on them. They just, with their bare hands, they begin wrestling the guards to the ground.

You can see that the ones in the arena have now fully clashed. Andrik just turns up. He's just like, points the Dawnblade up at Korak. End this with me now. If you are truly Worm King, slay me by your own hand, coward. Oh, yes. I'm going to trigger that through him. Chop.

And then a classic, like, that was my 10-minute speech. Job done. I want to break the rules real quick. That was an amazing moment. It was so good. I want to break the rules real quick. Yeah. That was, um, it was an amazing moment. It was so good. I'm going to jump back now, Sam,

actually. So, so yeah, there we go. Um, yeah, that was an amazing moment. And for me,

like going back and watching those clips, cause obviously like I'm trying to pay attention to everybody and I'm trying to like, you know, look at my notes and everything else. Just the amount of like genuine, like, like you as we're playing you're like there's so many moments like especially towards the end of the light fall where i was just like man i'm not even fucking i'm just gonna watch i don't want to watch this um so yeah so that was uh finale of light fall any other moments? Yeah, Finale of Lightfall.

I really liked the Greybelle arc. There were some really epic moments in that one that sort of changed. Something big changed in that one, I think you know what I mean. And in terms of Eros, episode one from the very beginning was just like, bam.

Like, here we go, we're starting now. Yeah, just like, let's go, let's go, baby. We're under attack, we're going. And it was just like, holy shit. Like, I guess we're just playing now. Get used to our characters pretty quickly. Yeah, so one thing I was going to ask you is we've talked a little bit about this

in Q&As and stuff before, but obviously you came into the Lightful campaign like when we were quite we were like level 12 like the guys had been playing for a fairly long time or no maybe you're nine you're nine level nine um the guys have been playing for quite a while and they'd been this like big setup and you only came in as like a guest kind of character to start with yeah but obviously with the rowis you were there from the start. What's been the biggest change between those two? Well, so with Reynard, I'd made him as a character that was going to be there for a month.

He wasn't there for a month. He was there for about a year or longer than that, probably. So I guess when I built Reynard in mind, he had a... And I think it's obvious from the first four episodes he was in and the four episodes I was meant to be in, he had an arc and he finished it. And then for a little while after that, he was kind of like, hey, I'm just a mercenary, I guess,

and he had no story development or anything. It was kind of like, what am I doing? Because I didn't really know how long he was meant to be there for or whatever. So I had to sort of make stuff up as I was going and some weird stuff happened. I remember he started believing in some religion. Bahamut. Yeah.

I very quickly like... Backed out of that. Like, nope. Bye. Thank you for the pamphlets, but no. Well, I like the idea to begin with. And then I kind of went away from the session. I was like, actually, I don't want to do this.

I like the idea to begin with. And then I kind of went away from the session. I was like, actually, I don't want to do this. So I took a load of jumps with Raynard that some worked, some didn't. I couldn't really put much thought into it without knowing how much thought I was meant to be putting into it. So it was very difficult with him. But I think towards the end, he sort of found where he was. Yeah, I think the Greybell arc certainly cemented that i think for reynard as well yeah there was a lot of that which um by the end he was very much the character i

wanted him to be um and so i think that's that's the main difference also first character i ever made yes like he definitely had some things because I made him without knowing anything about D&D. Beyond, it's a role-playing game and you roll some dice. Yeah. Whereas Quill, as a character and as a class, is a lot more complicated because I know the game can support that. Yeah.

So, yeah, Raynor just a pompous hunter. That's basically it. Yeah, I think you even came to me and you had this idea of Gaston meets certain other kind of tropey archetypes yeah um wanted him to play to that whereas quill i feel is much more just you i feel like quill is much more your creation rather than being a bunch of tropes kind of pushed together yeah he's also i think a lot more complicated than than reynard yes was he Raynard was very just in your face. He's just pompous guy.

That's all you need to know about him. That's the character. Whereas Quill has got a lot of bits about him that makes him unique. Anyone can make a Raynard, I think. Yeah, I think a Raynard is very typical of what a lot of people's first D&D character would be like. I feel like he falls into very similar categories that a lot of people's first D&D character would be like. I feel like he falls into very similar categories

that a lot of people do. But speaking of Quill, what do you hope Quill... Do you have any hopes or goals for Quill in 2019? Obviously, as a character, as a person, you must have things that you'd like him to do or things that you'd like him to find or ways for him to develop.

I mean, we've all got, like, a backstory that... Yeah, and you don't have to give any of that away. ..isn't fully explored yet for a lot of people. Like, I think there's some stuff in yours that none of us even know about. I think Mark knows everyone's, but I don't know all of your story, I don't know all of Nova's story, I don't know all of Lucius's or Ayla's. Just, like, not everyone knows 100% about about my one i think we know the most about each other is because yeah we met prior to the campaign yeah in the canon um you're my feathered

son a little feathered boy fevery son boy my robo mom um yeah and i want yeah i want to explore more of his his backstory like why he was hit by lightning, what happened after he was hit by lightning. Um, and also just go deeper into the Hesper stuff. Um, and become more of a fully realized clerk. Cause at the moment he's,

he's a cleric with some clerical abilities, but he's just like, why have I got them? I don't know what I'm doing with them. I don't know what I'm meant to be doing with them. So you want to kind of explore that more religious side and the more sort of like the

mystery behind Hesper. Yeah, without being too like white mage from a Final Fantasy game. Yeah. But like just understanding why Quill and what his goal actually is. That's the nice thing with clerics in D&D now,

is they don't just have to be these healing, pious priests. You don't ever have to be that kind of cleric. You can be your own type of character and your own person. I think that's something a lot of people do with clerics, is they feel they have to play them a certain way. And that's not true at all. And I think that by a god like Hesperper which as we'll discover in the campaign is he is not you know he's not avandra he's not siaska he's not this kind of typical kind of motherly

you know god uh you'll find that that will work quite well with him well there's a lot of different gods and they all have different ideals and different yeah uh different goals and different ways they do things um but is there anything else that you can think of like anything specific like i want quill to find this thing or i want him to get a a new wing or i want him to do this i want quill to get that book with the feather on it. Yes. That was in the... The ghost mansion. What was her name again? Veselvania. Veselvania.

Yeah, we'll get to that. Don't worry. A few people have talked about that. Oh, man. Oh, I'm kind of annoyed that we left there. Oh, but it made sense. We couldn't go back. No.

Like, in that state. Yeah. You want to try and get that at some point. I want to get that, or something like that. Okay, cool. Just something that we'll... Good to know. It was a gift. It was literally, hey, I'm a hesper. but you want to try and get that i want to get that or something like that um cool just something that will good to know it was a gift it was literally hey i'm a hesper here's a book do you want to go get it i can't sorry not right now there's a big old ghost in there

that's kind of what i want to do or something like like that. I mean, mechanical wing? I don't know. There's a part of me that kind of thinks that it's in the way of Hester that what's happened to him becomes him, though. Like, he might get a mechanical wing, but I don't think he

necessarily would be disappointed if he never does. Does that make sense? Maybe it's the kind of thing of like, you? Maybe it's the kind of thing of like, you know, it's the kind of thing of like, once Quill feels like he's earned it maybe, like once he's come to understand

more of what his purpose is. If he can't exist without the wing, then he doesn't deserve the wing. There you go. Tony Stark and Spider-Man. Nice. Okay, cool. Great wings.

I've got some questions. Yeah, I think that was better. I've got some questions. Yeah, I think one was better. I've got some generic questions from Twitter here. So the Tabletop Smithy asked, who's the player whose dice takes over the whole table? I know this. Whose dice takes over the table? Yeah, whose dice take over the table?

There's always one. There's so many. Yeah. Oh, yeah, easy. Go on. It's Katie. That was my answer. She has so many dice it's a third she has

like this huge bag she's becoming the laura bailey uh area of chaos asked oh this is a good one what was your biggest inspiration to start doing high rollers uh what made you want to start dnd streaming every week so obviously i've got like the answer of like why we started it but i'd be interesting to know for you guys like what was your inspiration to say yes like you know when i came to you guys and said do you want to be in high rollers do you want to play dnd yeah was was it just like no sounds fun or was like was there anything there like was there what made you want to actually commit to streaming dnd with us um i think i asked you did you yeah because i remember like because i can't next to Matt in the edit room. And I remember he, I asked him how I roll was going.

He was saying, like, you know, I'm going to be taking a break and whatever. And I was kind of like, if they're taking a break, I really want to play D&D. Yeah. I think I sent you an email that had, like, a CV attached to it. Oh, my God. And the CV was like, I once rolled a D6 and it landed on six. So I think I know how to roll some dice. And you were like, yeah, you sound like you've got the right.

You've got the stuff. You've got the stuff, kid. I'll send it to the shareholders to see what they think um yeah see if we can find it that'd be hilarious to find it's gonna be like really far back yeah because i don't get rid of any of my emails uh literally okay i've got it right here okay i can't bring this up i'm just gonna read it i'm just gonna read it so um no i just going to read it. No, I'm going to read this out. So Tom Hazel sent this to me on February 22nd, 2017. Hi.

Hey. Hi. Matt, let's know he's taking a break from high rolls and you're looking for people to fill in the gap to help out for that period. I've spoken to Matt about it since I don't want to immediately jump on his heels. So if you're stuck for people

or need an editor to replace an editor, which I'm sure is the quota for Matt's position in high rollers, then I'm happy to help. Here's my CV. At least 40 years experience with board games. I own D&D, but never got round to it

because my friends are dicks and can't commit to long sessions. I can do at least two voices. One of these is my actual voice. The other is a slightly higher pitched one. Sounds actually totally true. I once rolled three dice and got three sixes,

which is an 18. I wasn't rolling for any tests but if it was it would have passed i know the singular form of dice is die which i'm certain will alleviate most of your worries i do literally nothing on weekends matt is a likable well-spoken editor who never played dnd prior to high rollers and i fit most of those aspects i'm an editor who's never spoken or likable wow i forgot that you sent this to me this is amazing at the end it says alternatively if you've already got someone cool no worries i'll send this exact same email to critical role and i'm sure they'll accept tom hazel what a memory oh so good what about and so moving on

from that comedy Ray hello obviously you know you joined in you're not even a member of the Yogscast

no you're just our friend that we like yeah but what made you say yes because I know why we asked you yeah I just wanted to play D&D

I've always I've always wanted to play it it's one of those games that everybody like I've got friends at work that like talked about it and like I've always wanted to play it. It's one of those games that everybody, like, I've got friends at work that, like, talked about it, and, like, I've heard it, obviously, from talking to you guys and stuff. I'm like, man, I'd love to fucking get involved with that.

I'd love to have a go, because it just looks so fun. And also, I'm the kind of person who, like, I don't know, like, my day-to-day life is very sort of almost kind of scripted and very monotonous and day-to-day, and very sort of almost kind of scripted and very monotonous and day-to-day. And I thought doing something kind of RP and kind of like, what's the word? Getting to be escapism. You get to like escape and do something different.

Go on adventures and like hang out with my pals on a Sunday. And it's like, sweet. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect answers. Perfect answers. I remember.

A plus students, guys. A plus students. You both are. You're i remember a plus students guys a plus students you you both are you're both my students i remember we were having a you're all my favorite a very official high rollers meeting yes and it was before arois and you said um tom i know what you're going to say about this but what do you think about rihanna and i think you were expecting me to say like oh, oh, God. Well, no, it was because you have mentioned to me in the past, and maybe I was, I think I was getting Rhiannon confused with Briny. Yeah.

Because you have said to me, like, when you play online games, I thought you had told me that Rhiannon drove you crazy, but Briny drove you crazy. Briny drives me insane. Yeah. She's great. Yeah. Oh, we all love her. But she knows exactly what to do to annoy me. To push your buttons. Yeah. Oh, we all love her. But she knows exactly

what to do to annoy me. To push your buttons. And I thought that was Rhiannon. No, Rhiannon is the exact opposite when it comes to online games. So I was like, super hyped. You were super hyped.

Yeah, I think everybody was. I think everybody was just like, Rhiannon's a sweetheart. We can't, we'd love to have her on. Bryony is another editor's wife. Yes, Alex. Alex. Yeah, awesome. So, and and in terms of like what was the biggest inspiration to start high rollers overall it's just generic question

um it was quite simply like i was a huge fan of critical role like i'd obviously been watching matt do it i was super pumped i was like oh my god that looks amazing god i'd love to do something like that um and obviously i'd run some star Wars stuff for Trot and Hat Films. We had a blast doing it. And when Lewis and Terps were like, hey, we're looking for people to fill up the schedule. Is there anything you want to do? Do you want to do a D&D thing?

Me and Trot talked about it and we were like, man, we could do it. We could do our own little show, like do our own little D&D campaign. It probably won't be very successful. How long do you expect it to last? Honestly, I was talking, when I talked to Tr trot my plan was like

i'm gonna plan about six months worth of campaign and if it goes if it lasts that long i'll be surprised like that was my initial thought i was like six months we'll be done what three years yeah here we are now so there we go yeah nobody can hear you because you've got because you were vaping 2016 i think so yeah yeah jesus yeah man uh and then the last one before we move on uh sooner asks where did you get the inspiration for each of your characters so um let's talk a little bit about quillen and and century like in terms of inspiration what inspired those characters um when i heard about arois like uh very very very very early on um i think when you first thought it could be like this thing with some islands i guess and like uh it's gonna be this sort of world and i was just like yeah okay it's gonna be a bird person then

like immediately i think you said um no i don't think you even mentioned the arakokari in the world but i immediately just thought yeah i'm gonna be a bird person i think it was i think i said something like um there's floating cities and it's kind of got like a little bit of like zelda skyward sword kind of like vibe to it and i think it was something like that where you were like i mean it once you said zelda i was playing breath of the wild at the time. That's right, yeah. Obviously, there's that guy, the... Revali's Gale. Well, there's Revali and the xylophone guy. And are they Ruto or Rito?

I can't remember. Rito. Rito, I think. Princess, Ruto. Rito? One of the two. Anyway, those guys. Really, really cool.

But it wasn't until, like, way later on that I was... When I started properly writing them up that i was just kind of like i'm gonna take your fucking wing you're done son yeah because a flying is so powerful um and b super dark backstory and i kind of wanted that for the first time um she had such a light character last time. Yeah. Not that I let you stay light for the whole of life. No, no. No, you didn't. But yeah, it's weird

because there's no super big inspirations. It was just kind of like, once you said what the world was, I was just like, yeah, that's who I want. So that's basically what it was. Okay. Just bam. Nice.

Cool. What about Rhi? What re what about century any inspirations centuries kind of like the amalgamation of all the things that i like yeah like automata and like nature and just like big protective figures like kind of like group almost but like i just thought i love like just protective characters that are like off an adventure and trying to like find their purpose sort of thing and then you and it was you you had the idea of solving so like where did that come from was that just like a place that you made that you had in your mind just made it up yeah i like like like the same as sort of quill in the sense that i like characters that have like a twinge of tragedy to them

that are kind of it gives you a lot to build on yeah like yeah it's nice it's nice if they have everything they could possibly want

and everything that makes them happy they don't necessarily have a lot of drive to go out and do other things so giving them that little kind of thing

I remember when we were first talking about making characters your first like thing that you wanted to play was you wanted to be a war like a guardian druid like a warforged guardian druid um and in fact it was because you

wanted to be a warforged or something like that i made the guardian race yeah um and you wanted to do it because you wanted to be a transformer oh i remember that but obviously because we had a laura play a moon elf yeah and i said to you i was like you can absolutely do it there's no problems with that but obviously you know we did have one in the last campaign also i will have to make some slight adjustments because i do think it's an overpowered class yeah um because there's people that asked me about elora later on but yeah um but yeah i remember that being the first idea but then when we talked about it and i think like i we were talking about other kind of classes and stuff and then you latched

onto Paladin as like, oh, this is because, I think it was the Oath of the Ancients. You were like, yes,

this is really cool. Like that blend of nature and protectiveness. I remember actually when we were making the characters because we already knew that our characters

would have interacted before the story began. Yeah. We actually spent an evening on Discord or something. Yeah, we did like

four hours like well what if century was this thing or what if quill did this thing or whatever and we spent so long like developing our characters um together that was awesome yeah because um we came up with so many cool ideas yeah it was awesome um but even then solvin didn't come out of that that was that was all you yeah you're genius right kim who's away i emailed everybody and asked them to send me uh their favorite moments from 2018 kim wrote me a fucking novel uh so i'm gonna start reading this out so this is from kim and then after once i've read this out what we'll probably do is we'll read out some donations and go through some discord and chat questions but Kim's favourite moments of 2018

she said Juto finally realising that Korak was dead and the tieflings were truly free to be honest in her heart of hearts Juto truly never believed she could avenge her parents in a village and achieve this impossible goal

in her darkest moments she knew it was just something she set as a focus for her anger and sadness because otherwise she just knew she would be lost I think you can see it all when I burst into tears when it was all done.

Also, when Mark described that the tiefling slaves and liberal dragonborn in the crowds were a spring hero in Chinese when they saw Juto, oh man, goosebumps, maximum feels. Juto would never consider herself a hero. It was overwhelming for both her and me as a player. It was one of those moments where, as a player, I was so in awe and thankful for one amazing DM we have.

Yeah! I have to stop for a second, just because I'm getting teary, and how much she cares about all of our characters and gives us these electric opportunities to grow. The next one was being pushed to our limits in the siege of Talas Val. It was like the culmination of two years as a player. We really had to be careful with our actions and decisions, but at the same time, we didn't have time to think things out we had to move fast and we

suffered consequences as a result i'm not going to read fully out because if you haven't watched it yet but there's some spoilers some people some people are lost during that time uh it was great but also nerve-wracking to be challenged as a group and pushed from one encounter to the next then up to the skies to face falania one and two how on earth we survived with a fairly good outcome man i still get moments where i think what if we'd done this uh on that did we get the best ending i mean there's no such thing as did we get the good ending i mean there's no such thing you guys did what you did and that's what you got i thought it was a great ending i do have i do have so i do have. So I saved.

I went back. This is one of my favorite moments because I'm going to just kind of tom it. So I'm going to bring up a YouTube video, Sam. So if we. Wowee, I did not own that shirt. Nothing's changed. Nothing's changed, Tom. So this was when you defeated Falania.

So Rhiannon, this was like the main villainess that I built up the whole campaign. And there's like a real... I had been sat on something for a long, long time. What's the DC? So, trot, like, flame strike. Everybody's like waiting on this spell to come off. This is a big spell.

Everyone's like, what's going to happen? She's going to try and counterspell it. What level spell is it? It's a big spell. Everyone's like, what's going to happen? Radius. She's going to try and counterspell it. What level spell is it? It's a little five. Did you just go that way? She's got 14, which means I need to do a 15 to counterspell it. I love that. Whenever I would fuck up, you guys are magic.

It starts dissipating, and then you just see the flash of Evandra's face and you just kind of grin as this column of fire just. It is going to hit Juto. That's alright. Is it five foot wide or is it a ten foot wide? What save is it? It's going to hit Juto. Dexterity over there.

Can I make a dexterity saving throw? You are also resistant to fire. Yeah. I don't get advantage on this deal, I don't know. That fucking G. What's your DC? 23. She fails. resistance to fire. Yeah. I don't get advantage on this deal, I don't know. That fucking... What's your DC? 23.

She fails. How much damage does this do? I am going to spend her last legendary resistance. 4d6 fire, 4d6 radiant. Roll it. So the radiant, can you half please? 5d6. Give me a hold of taint.

It's not much, it's 4d6 radiant, 4d6 fire. So it really wasn't a lot. It's okay much, it's 46 radiant, 46 fire. So it really wasn't a lot of damage. It's okay, I've got it. White radiant please, so hot. But this one's fiery! No, just roll it as he's got it. Speed it up. Oh! Oh!

That's being halved anyway. That's the radiant, yeah. No one cares. Yeah, good old classic, those lights. 12. Back in the day., good old classic, those lights. Back in the day. Twelve. Are you... Is that...

That's it, Marcus M. So, let me describe what happens. Here we go. This column of fire, you watch as she tries to cancel it. Kim and Katie are both just like... No! This fire comes burning down. You take no damage.

Juto leaps out of the way. It incinerates her, and you can see that this form, this giant form is encrusted with black and scorch marks. And she, like, staggers for a moment. You think it ends here? Did you honestly think that I would wage this battle here on this ship? And she begins to melt in what snow and ice and her form dissolves into water well the crystal screens behind you down there and

They transform into the face of a blue skinned white haired woman sat on a regal throne in an immense castle Her expression is grim beyond anything. You've killed my simulacrum. You've defeated my army. I shouldn't have underestimated you small folk, but you can guarantee that I will not let this stand. If I cannot have your city, no one will.

And the screens vanish. And that's where we're going to probably end things so we can read some more. Like, my favourite thing in this is Tom's genuine confusion. Like, we just killed her. What? I think Trot immediately realised.

Trot knew what spell it was. Once you said he started melting, you can see Trot's face. He's just like, fuck! He knows exactly what spell it is. I've got no fucking clue what a symbol that is.

Kim is just like, yeah, she's dead. Kim's like, I don't get the problem. You're just confused. Katie's just still looking nervous. And then when I did the thing with the crystal screens at the end,

everybody's just like, well, you know, it's a good episode when, when you say, I think it's time to read donations. And Kim just goes, what?

And the thing is, so, so I talked about this when we finished the campaign, but that moment, um, I had been sat on for months and Nina had known about it. Cause I had to talk to somebody. I was like, Oh man, I can't wait. They're going to find out. And what her whole thing was, I had been sat on for months and Nina had known about it because I had to talk to somebody.

I was like, Oh man, I can't wait. They're going to find out. And what her whole thing was, she says, this spell called simulacrum. Yeah. And it basically allows you to create an exact copy of yourself,

all your spells or your abilities. Um, but it just has half your hit points, but it's made of snow and ice. Um, and so it, she sent this simulacrum up to kind of like lead the battle. So these guys will fly up there thinking like,

this is it, this is our final battle thing. They go through this fight, like it's pretty hard, but it's not the hardest it could be. And then they literally kill the simulacrum. And then the real Falania turns up on these screens and they basically see that this flying giant's castle had basically positioned itself over the main city. And they realized very

quickly that her plan was to drop the city on top of it um and it became this race to stop her and like they didn't have time to like fully rest they literally had to just wasn't it like that's awesome it was like a two or three week break as well wasn't it i think something like that yeah so we had just the longest time of just like what the hell are we going to do? Yeah. We don't like to talk about Hyrule. Well, you don't like us talking about Hyrolers outside of Hyrolers because... I don't mind you talking about it. I don't want people to sit there and be like,

right, this is what we're going to do. Yeah, no, we don't want to make plans. Like, there's so many times where an episode ends and I actively try and make a point of just shutting off because if I then start thinking about it, then I'm like, okay, well, next episode I'll do this and i'll do this yeah this and then it will become too scripted i feel like everything every dnd session will be like that where you've got a week or two weeks or whatever to think about what you want to do next time yeah and i try not to do that i want to react

naturally to the moment so yeah so when there's, I'm going to drop a big fucking castle on the city, like, because there was such a long break, it was difficult not to think about it. But at the same time, it was like, I don't know what to do. How do I stop that? And that's my favorite moments. Those are my favorite bits where it's just like,

I don't know. Yeah, there was a comment in the chat. Yes. It just said that you saying that you don't want to see that side of mark in a rowist um that's a no that's not true that's i love i love seeing this side well no i think we've seen that side of mark you have more in a rowist no you haven't people think this right people think that aros is like... I've seen people saying, Eros is much harder or he's being more mean. I'm really not.

No, no. I don't mean mean, Mark. I mean very serious, very cool. Oh, yeah. Into the RP moment. Yeah, just the very hardcore moments like that. There's been a lot of those in Eros. Oh, wait.

I've got the Brookstone moment. I've got one of those. That's still a sore spot for me. We'll go to that later. Let me finish reading some of the stuff. Oh, God, some of the fucking stuff I said to him, I regret so much. No, I don't regret it.

So I'll carry on with Kim's one. So this is continuing her favorite moments of 2018. Lots of lightful stuff in here. I love the entire gray bell Karen vampire arc. I'm a huge fan of Gothic horror. And I just had Castlevania in my mind for this entire chapter. I also loved seeing cam grow up at this point and selflessly give up his lightborn abilities to save Morella.

When trot said he wanted what he wanted to do. I was spoilers. I was generally shocked as a player moments like this are what I live for gang of the century. Yeah. It's like that. I think it was a really cool arc because it was like we saw Trot actually take this idiotic character and actually make him grow up. I think that was actually the moment when like there are so many episodes where I come

out with like chills and like really excited about what has just happened. And I think when I said no, when Cam did give up his lightbornborn i was just so sat at the table just like fuck yeah holy shit yeah man it's my favorite shit um yeah uh meeting reynard's family what a fucking hilarious episode mark tom and trot were on point i couldn't breathe at one point it was too funny i also love the look on tom's face when mark kept introducing more and more of his brothers because I didn't think he knew what Mark had planned but he was also so quick minded

to roll with it it was brilliant RP RIP Baltir big in the sky we'll save it because I definitely because I'm conscious

that we've got a lot of stuff to run through but I do have the moment where you meet Baltir and some of the other family as a clip oh I want to see this it's going to be fucking great

that entire episode even prior to when Daddy daddy Farah one started knocking on door was amazing because it was when we were with um the genie yes uh salabalat yeah him um that and he went off and started buying a load of stuff yeah he was gonna set up his own business yeah yeah that entire that entire episode because he the whole episode like the episode before was uh for rihanna's benefit he this genie had basically been they went to go and buy stuff with him but whilst they were in his like planar realm yeah it was taken over by his ex-wife uh who was basically like you've been stealing all of my fucking shit to sell to these mortals you're in big fucking trouble mister and they had to fight their way out of it yeah and then when they got back to the

normal plane this genie's like oh well i can't go back to my my plane now i'll set up a business in your realm and he just goes around like buying stuff yeah he goes over to a shop and just is he negotiates a deal and it's just like i own the shop now okay cool um i do have an ask actually yeah if someone can watch that episode again and figure out i genuinely think that was the episode i had the best rp and i'm blowing my own horn in that one but people have been saying it in the chat i don't i don't think i've ever been as good as that episode i want someone to watch it and figure out why i did so good and i want to recapture it i think in a way what it was was you you embodied improvisation in that you had no idea what i had planned yeah but everything i threw at you you just rolled with but also you let yourself get committed to

it like when daddy fairhorn is like you you were actively standing up to a father figure it wasn't tom hazel playing a character in a game you were like no father i'm going to help these people because it's something i believe in like you You were very committed to what you were saying. I think it was that episode when I was like, there was something that clicked in between those two episodes where I was just like, okay, I actually fully understand what Reynard is now.

And that episode is a good example. It's really good. I'll read this, then we'll watch the introduction to the Farahorn family. And then finally from Kim, okay, selfishly one more, journeying to Brasarus and showing the party to the Farahorn family. And then finally, from Kim, okay, selfishly, one more. Journeying to Brasarys and showing the party and the audience, something Mark and I had worked on

all the way back in 2016. I'd written about Juto's refugee village and her partner, Yuan Yang, when I first created Juto, so it was wonderful to be able to show all of this to you after two years of the show. I partly didn't think we'd actually go to Brasarys as Fulani and Talisval was such an amazing arc as a finale, so it really touched me

when Mark announced we would be going there and resolving things with Adric, Korak and Juto. In a smaller moment, it was also very special to have time to introduce Cam and Raynard to Juto's parents, ancestral shrines. Juto is such a private person and never really shared her innermost self with anyone. So for her to introduce those two to such a big personal part of her life, to two of the most important people to her, it meant a lot. And I know she definitely would have introduced Allura afterwards as well. That was right, because Katie wasn't there for that episode. I remember, actually, I've only just realised this, but I remember when we finished off the line,

and finished off the Broken Sky, and finished the Siege of Talisval, and all of that stuff, where I was kind of like, was that the final episode? Like, if we carry on now, is it kind of a prologue? Because all of that stuff was so amazing and it was very like Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2 and all of that stuff. Like thinking, can we actually top it if we carry on like this?

It was a bit odd. I think we totally did. That finale episode is... Yeah, I didn't think I would come out of that arc, that side arc, and thinking, yeah, that was the ending. Yeah. That's where everything finished up. Rather than just, by the way, side quest tacked on in the end,

it felt very natural. And it was a heart back to, you know, before your time, like when we first started the campaign, like all this stuff about Juto was an early thing. Like she out with you know wanting to kill korak and adric and all this kind of stuff so it was a good way of tying it up this uh is uh so this is a clip of uh reynard being reunited with his family brilliant excellent condition kind of walled off also beardless lumber used rosewoods that sort of thing. Mahogany. Everywhere that you can see. The carriage pulls in, and

the first sight that you greet is there is a regiment of doormen who are ready to open the carriage, and they open the doors, all dressed in the same black and gold uniform that you've seen Raynaud wear for so long. All wearing the same kind of livery. As you are making your

way in, a big barrel chested burly handsome kind of brown hair very much like reynard's but kept loose and long like kevin sorbo with a big sort of barrel chest shirt open kind of big kind of like butt chin sort of gaston looking fellow with big big axe over one shoulder and big stomping boots just wanders in he's like what? oh oh who is this?

and then he looks around visitors I no it can't be Rainy and he drops the axe down and he comes over and he wraps these huge arms

and like lifts Reynard up almost you hear his back pop. And he like pops you down. Oh, I needed that actually. Ah! What are you doing? We've not seen you in so long!

No, er... Been off on any adventures? I have, in fact, been on adventures. Of course you have! Yes! Actual adventures. Yes, actual ones! Yes, I slayed a crocodile. You have, in fact, been on a Yes, actual.

Yes, actual one. Yes, I slayed a crocodile. Crocodile? A giant crocodile. Bout here, come on now. And what have you been up to? Bout here, mate. Oh, we've cleared out one of the nearby lumber woods.

Chopped half of them down myself. Oh, replanted, I suppose. That was the first. Oh, he replanted them I suppose. That was the first ha ha! Oh good. Oh, I'm supposed to do that, aren't I? Yes you are, you know the rules. I'll make sure some of the other lumbas do it.

Of course, always. Amazing. That was just the first ha ha! So, I think I might have answered this in the Q&A stream we did after Lightfall but I had no idea about any of it I think because there is a bit in that episode where

I'm like do you want to write down the names of your family and you're like yep and I'm like right okay this is their names so I think the only thing I had mentioned to you beforehand was that I wanted there to be something to do with Reynard's mum being ill. And we were going to explore it, and then it didn't really come up,

and then it didn't really matter, and it was kind of like... It was just a loose thread. In a way, it was kind of just like... It was like a really soft moment in the sense that you went and saw her, and she was a bit ill, and you were like, yeah, I'm doing well, and she just was like, I'm very proud of you. But that was it. And it didn't need to be this big epic adventure thing.

No, no, it didn't. I think that was the only thing is that it was just a way to sort of ground Reynard more in the world rather than just being this fanciful, ridiculous character. There was something that made him human and that's what she was meant to be.

Other than that, I didn't know he had three brothers. I didn't know what his dad was going to be like. Yeah. I think there was a lot of... So when Daddy Feralhorn first knocked on the door, my first reaction was, oh, no. And then I think you kind of built a character based purely on that reaction almost.

Yeah. And then I reacted to that character, you reacted to that character, you reacted to that character, and we just sort of bounced a lot of things so well. I think it was, he is outside the door, knocks on the door, and is like,

where's my Rainy? And it was the name Rainy where I just saw you go like, oh, yes. I was like, I've got him. Amazing. Right. Kim's written a load more.

Oh, wow. We keep reading. Oh, my God. yeah so uh she said all of rogue's gambit was a real highlight for me man we really messed mark up with that campaign i think boomer is definitely my favorite little fire starter and i'm gonna miss him a lot he was a real outlet for me and a great bit of escapism to just be silly and are an anarchic and dumb and always hungry i can't get that line i have been described as fun yes i also love the chaos bertie introduced in every scenario and i'm genuinely a bit sad that we were kind of responsible for

aquaman's demise spoiler um soz trot it was also a lot of fun to meet black viper and experience reese i'm a badass voice you regret that don't you no you don't regret that, don't you? No. You don't regret that voice? No, not at all. There was some session where you came out just like, hello. That's right. I made a terrible mistake. But it was so fucking fun, though. It was so funny. So good.

So good. So unexpected. Kim goes on to say, and of course, Erois, to be honest, the last episode we did before the Xmas break gave me chills.

With all the lore we got about Night Frost and Tiangong and a spaceship under a freaking lake, fucking yes. Again, it was one of those moments where I just wanted to hug mark i've written a little bit about tiangong in creative nova but he's just taken that spark and turned it into a fire i cannot wait to find out more about tiangong night frost and their race yes lump yummy your law yes yes law law also lucius rolling in

the shift to fight a cow for fuck's sake if dnd awards were a thing this moment would win them all yeah yeah we'll talk about cows a bit later on yeah um i think a lot of people have said that's one of them yeah yes yeah that's like one of the chief moments uh kim says as a general high rollers team moment i'm extremely proud of what we've achieved in 2018 we finished our two-year campaign what a finale it was we launched our youtube channel twitch channel uh our highly successful podcast thanks tom, Tom. We have had some absolutely gorgeous merch come out that I'm genuinely proud of, available at store.yogscast.com. Use the code HYROLLERS for 10% discount.

She actually put that in the thing. She put that in her email to me. When I was putting together the 2019 calendar, it was a great trip down memory lane and seeing how far we'd come from what we thought was going to be a two-month show. We launched a new campaign, ran one of the funniest mini campaigns ever, did a huge stage show in March where I got to dress up

as Juto and another packed out show in October where they had freaking photos of our faces behind us at the booth. Holy crap, we've made it guys. Matt Mercer, guest starring on our Xmas special, the amazing Reed joining our line up and really reminding us of the pure joy there is in playing D&D. We all went to a wedding

together. Damn, we did. We looked good. This year has been absolutely amazing for High Rollers, and ultimately, it's a pleasure and a privilege to sit down with you guys every Sunday and roll some dice. Aww. I hope you agree. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah, 100%.

And then for Nova in 2019, Kim said, as for 2019, as you can tell, Nova is very excited to explore all this new information she's learned about Night Frost, Tiangong,on and the world she knows the possible location of another down skiff so maybe she can convince the gang to go with her she also desperately wants to go into space it's a life goal of hers so she does hope all this information she's gained so far in her travels will help her get there she's mentioned before when we were in the ghost house how she'd love to find the original city of jasavir and maybe bring it home to eroes so there's that too

she also does worry about quill's wing and would like to try and make him a mechanical magical prosthetic but she's also aware he's still unsure about his visions from hespa and what it all means so she doesn't want to push him but she's secretly been drawing up schematics at night just in case oh has she yeah apparently so okay uh she also wants to help the rest of the gang too she's looking forward to getting to somewhere with a decent library so she can look up Ayla's clan and maybe find out more information about Solvin for Sentry. Lucius, she's not entirely sure what Lucius wants.

So for now, she's treating him like a kid brother who's always getting himself into trouble. Oh, and ultimately she is a little homesick and misses her family and her mum's cooking. She runs a little cafe, don't you know? She'd love to introduce everyone to her family and then get them all mummed and fussed over. Yes, please.

Miss you guys. I can't wait to see you all next week where I'm going to be jet-lagged as hell, but I'm refreshed and ready to roll some dice again and be a big space nerd. Oh, we miss you, Kim. And then multiple Xs in a row. Yes, lots of Xs.

So, yeah, so that was from Kim. Wow. That was very kind. Do we have any... Do you want... Should we read some donations? Yeah, have we got the most? Any questions and some donations? You got that one? You can read Any questions? Yeah, I've got the most. You got that one?

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boom thank you very much awesome boom okay so I've got some more questions and stuff here well also just some comments

this was all taken from Twitter Barrister President said that their fave moments included the break the chain speech from the Lightfall finale Troll's Sacrifice

which I've got a clip for later if you want to talk about that the cow battle with Lucius and also anything from Rogue's Gambit

Snarky Sparks said their fave moments were anything with Grunker in it which I've got a clip for later if you want to talk about that. The cow battle with Lucius and also anything from Rogue's Gambit. Snarky Sparks said their fave moments were anything with Grunker in it. Good old Grunks. Century's Warm Plates, an iconic classic, and the cow fiasco as well. They also asked, how did the name Erois come to be? It was literally because there's Sky Islands and Aero, and then I needed to make Aero sound more fantasy.

Less like a chocolate bar. Aero-ess. Done. Bam. Not Aereos. Bam. Like how I started spelling it. Aereos. Aereos.

No. So that was literally it. It's such a cool name. Wasn't that like the first tweet you did? That was the first tweet. Aereos, guys. Yeah. Okay, Christina, also known as Temporis Libris, asks,

what class would you like to try next? Is there anything left unexplored? And also, is there anything left unexplored in the first campaign or any mini-series? Okay. So class, any class you'd like to try next? Rogue. You want to try Rogue?

A hundred percent. I love Black Viper. You want to go with a Rogue? A Rogue UA, a Rouge. A Rouge. Rouge is very fun. I really, really liked... Toleshank was a Rogue, wasn't he? Yeah, Toleshank and Bert.

I guess Bert, he was sort of a Rogue. He was mainly Rogue, I think. He was mainly Barbarian, I think. Oh, okay. No, he was Swashbuckler, wasn't he? Yeah. Huh. Yeah, weird.

So anyway, any classes? I think I would like to play a sorcerer a sorcerer that would suit you I reckon you I reckon you you'd be dope it's a lot of fun

I think I've gradually gone from really really easy to less easy I don't know about easy like hunt ranger isn't easy

fighter and barbarian the way I was playing the hunter was just shoot shit and jump around even then you still very quickly picked up on like right if I use sharp shooter and if i put hunter's mark and then you're pretty good with all that stuff definitely remembered my favorite enemy well

yeah but yeah sorcerer is good i feel like there's something about sorcerer that i always look at it and think yeah that's the hardest class to play because i think there's just a lot of stuff to keep on top of i i would say Wizard is the hardest because Wizard, there is a lot of spellbook stuff that isn't an actual combat ability, but you have to do a lot of management to the side of it. Whereas Sorcerer, you just know certain spells.

It's mainly the sorcery points management that becomes interesting. Yeah, one of those two. Sorcerer would still be good. I think you'd like Sorcerer because it's a high charisma class and you'd like to talk and you'd like to be involved in i do like to talk yeah you do like to talk you like a challenge though as well you like that's the thing like every time i make a character i want it to be something that i just haven't done

before like yeah bertie ultimately could have just been another toll shank so i took a fist off him see i think at one point one thing i want to see at some point from you okay it's a proper melee tank i want to see you somebody who is like stuck in it who's constantly taking damage it is fun fighter at some point i want to try i also haven't played i haven't played paladin fighter paladin yeah um i haven't played a full barbarian played a full rogue uh i haven't played a sorcerer i haven't played a wizard haven't played a warlock there's so many i haven't yeah there's so many um haven't played a sorcerer. I haven't played a wizard. I haven't played a warlock. There's so many I haven't played. Yeah, there's so many. You could also play the vigilante in my new class.

I've fixed it. I've fixed it now. Okay, and then is there anything left unexplored in the first campaign or miniseries? So I guess miniseries, like any of the miniseries, like maybe something as Black Viper you can think of, or anything from the first campaign or other miniseries. I mean, I know...

What's that? Unexplored. Yeah, like something that we never got time to look into or maybe something that was unfinished. I think Rainy was very complete. Raynard was very complete, I feel. I mean, I know Tolshank. Tolshank was very complete.

I would love to see that story, but I'd love to see the aftermath of that story. Holy shit. Rose Gambit. That was so much fun. That was dead reckoning. Yeah, dead reckoning. Dead reckoning.

Dead reckoning. I wouldn't change anything. No, that ending was just... I loved every second of dead reckoning. That's good. And the ending was... God, it was incredible. What about Rose Gambit?

Rose Gambit. I mean, I'd like to have seen how we could have won yeah um yep you could i mean yeah that that was very easy fun was it yeah i mean that was called don't try and fuck over yeah i mean we fucked up one too many times um so the more and more i've been seeing of people going through dragon heist, the more and more I am seeing lots of groups that are just turn into a chaotic mess. It's like, you know,

they get betrayed and stuff. There were a couple of things now looking back on Rose Gambier, that final encounter, there's definitely some things I would have changed. I made some mistakes in terms of like certain abilities where, but the reason I, and it wasn't necessarily, they were mistakes.

I made poor decisions. I feel because it was the very they were mistakes I made poor decisions I feel because it was the very final episode I was like I could fuck around and worry about like oh can Jarl Axel

attune to the dragon staff or I can just have this moment where he grabs it and tells the dragon to fuck off because otherwise it's just going to create

this like really complicated combat where that's kind of the difficulty with a mini series is eventually we get to a point where we're just like we don't have any time.

We have to finish it. We could have the moment where he picks it up and is like, okay, I'm going to sit around for three hours of tuning. Or you guys are like, well, now we're going to fight you with a dragon. It's like, okay, let's have a four hour long combat, guys. That's it, yeah. It just makes the pacing better. I wish we could have resolved it in a way where

you guys didn't get dicked over as much. But it was still a great ending. It was the ending that the chaos kind of demanded like yeah it couldn't really have gone any other way yeah triple z was like oh yeah triple z okay let me read this one from katie um and talk about what have you done i just broke i just broke with the bottom thing okay thomas hazel it goes back on it thomas thomas thomas let me read this one from katie uh and then we'll talk to riannon uh so katie said her favorite moment um oh yeah do no we've still got 50 minutes before break sam's just taking a brb uh katie says her fave moment was defeating falania uh which was pretty epic uh some really epic moments in that fight um she also said was a bittersweet saying goodbye to alora but sending

her off alive with her friends and family was the best ending she could have had i know katie particularly loved playing alora um she was very very dear to katie in particular so she wasn't gonna die was she she never she was never dying fucking no somebody asks me i don't remember where i put the question but somebody said like were you ever how desperate were you to knock elora unconscious and i was like i'm pretty sure i did at some point in the campaign but i mean i don't like that's fine like katie was always at the back like i had other targets to focus on the monsters were like i have to deal with these other things first and then i'll deal with the druid i know how desperate you were to knock reynard down it got to a point where i was like can you stop going to the back

of the room and avoiding every attack i think that was more because who flips off an ogre flips off i mean jump like i think the thing with reynard is with with the lore it's like okay you're doing your role you're wild shaped to your casting spells you're you're not a massive threat right now the problem with reynard is he dealt so much damage it was amazing and i tried to hit you so many times you just be like i think it was like 2d6 2d8 twice a turn oh my god plus 10 normally plus 10 i kept sharpshooting as well he was absurd plus you had like a plus five dex bonus. It was crazy. And the fucker rode a dragon, so.

Yeah, it was pretty nuts. That's awesome. He was really cool. That was in the final episode as well. Katie said, Hopes, playing Aayla is therapeutic and a hard time, so I hope I can keep her strong. I'm looking forward to her power growing as she levels up

and my eventual amazing hammer upgrades. Wink. Also looking forward to how you'll be involving the clans more in the storyline too, because I enjoy leaving those kind of story twists to you i like going in and not knowing what plus twist you're going to throw at me i love delores so i'm really looking forward to alas um and then she said i just want to apologize my extreme absences this year it was needed and obviously we've seen that katie's back on it and she'll be joining us more regularly yeah so yeah and that's the thing we've we've said this is a thing that we've all

talked about as a group with High Rollers, because mental health and burnout is so easy in what we do, especially for folks like you guys. You guys are working full-time jobs and then coming in on the weekends to do what is effectively another four hours of work. We've always said if people need to take some time out,

just take the time out and we'll cover it, because that's really important. Meanwhile, I'm just muddled up here. Whatever you do, fine it's too late you might as well just carry on uh vincent kitali asks how do you feel about lingering injuries after playing with them for a while i'm very interested to know this myself injuries how do you feel about the injuries love them i've brought in yeah i love them yeah yeah i considering you two are the only ones that have really been affected where Well, you were affected but in an alternative universe.

Yeah. Not anymore. I love it. It's the best. I remember when you first told us about the idea of adding injuries and it was because in Lightfall we would get downed and we'd get healed.

Just get popped up. Get downed and we'd get healed. And I remember towards the end of the campaign we started just rezzing people because we had all the money in the world, we had all the abilities in the world, and if someone died, we were just like, yeah, he's coming back.

And we kind of did an RP thing where we couldn't res everyone for reasons, which made sense, and it worked, but there was nothing stopping us from just saying, yeah, everyone that died in Talosval, they're back. And there was no impact to it. There's no weight to any of the combat. So when we're... I remember there was no impact to it. There's no weight to any of the combat.

So when we're... I remember there was a question, actually, that was, why at the start of Eros were you so scared of fighting? Yes, yeah, I was going to ask that one a bit. I mean, later on, there's a reason. Like, in one of the fights, Echo got blown up and Quill lost an eye. Lucius got broken leg at the same time as well oh yeah lucius

got broken leg and like so many things that happened in that one combat and it was a very difficult combat and it's a very memorable combat yes because of that like because it had weight yeah exactly we could have come out of that and said like okay we've killed the guy and we were down a couple times but it meant nothing it meant nothing i think that's the thing is for me is it's changed combat tactics as well yeah because the thing is is you look at like because i i read a lot about like the dnd community and everybody's like anybody who doesn't play it in the same way that we do which is fine everybody can play dnd in their way some people play it more like a video game or a board game some people just want to kill monsters and get loot that's fine that's a way to play it but in those scenarios a lot Some people just want to kill monsters and get loot. That's fine. That's a way to play it. But in those scenarios,

a lot of people just say like, oh yeah, you want to take healing word because as soon as somebody goes down, you just get them back up again. And it's very dismissive language. Whereas what I like is that now we're in a party where you desperately don't want anybody to go to zero hit points.

Like that's the worst thing that can happen because you know that there is that risk. There's that chance that you're going to roll a one on that saving throw against the injury. And that's a role on the injury table. And again, even though you know that there's a chance that there's, you know, the injury won't be that bad. There's the risk of getting your eye torn in half or whatever. And so it means that like, you know, using your abilities to stop people from going too low on hit points, that like you know using your abilities to stop people from going too low on hit points using healing in a more kind of um uh i'm trying to think of the word preemptive yeah excuse me

preemptive way is way more interesting to me than just like oh lucius is down again second level healing word get back up oh you've gone down again yeah i remember there was some moments in in lightfall where there was a character in a fight that wasn't really doing anything and when they were downed it was kind of like okay, you're out of the combat for a while, that's fine because you've got three death saving throws, we've got some time.

Whereas now we have to stop it before it even happens. Well there's also that risk of like if you're down and you get hit, not only is it extra death saving throws, but you get that roll on the injury table as well. And so it just adds to that. I like it.

I have changed it. So originally when I came up with the injury things, they were going to trigger on critical hits as well. And I think we have had a few of those happen. I'm going to scrap that now. So it's only going to be when you get reduced to zero hit points or you're hit whilst you're unconscious. I don't think it ever happened anyway, did it?

I think it happened, but you saved out of it. So there was never a cause for it. That's fine. But the reason I've changed it is because this is something somebody talked about on, I think it was on the subreddit or in a YouTube comment. They made the good point that there's nothing you guys can do that stops me rolling a 20. Yeah.

Right? Like, it's not fair. It's just completely random and also when we get into high levels when enemies are making like four or five attacks that's a super high chance that i'm going to get a 20 and get a crit yeah whereas a lot of crits dropping you guys to zero that is something you have control over yeah you guys can stop that happening through careful tactics or yeah that makes whatever yeah so i'm going to change that but what about if we get a crit no but from an rp standpoint as well it's cool because like it adds extra blocks to

your character it's like you're going along and like you know you like you would be in fights and you would have scars and injuries and stuff from battle so it kind of just adds that extra little bit to your character gives you something to build on that's it yeah it's cool yeah quill losing his eye is probably one of my favourite things. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I love that. See, that's the thing, is I think it's very easy in D&D.

A lot of people get very anxious and they get very upset when bad things happen to their characters. And I'm like, but that's part of the game. You take that and you roll with it and you milled it into something new. Oh no, me and Rhiannon, we're masochists.

You guys are. You guys, like, you, when that fight, this fight in particular when echo got destroyed you were loving it you were laughing and cackling when all this bad stuff is happening everyone else is like oh god and we and it's just like i think well i loved it it's not that we're actively trying to kill our character no no no like we don't want them to die i didn't want quill to lose an eye yeah but when

it happens when it has happened it's like oh fuck actually holy shit i could definitely play with this yeah yeah it's awesome roll with this yeah yeah it's great it's great it makes you feel so involved you're like in there you're like fuck let's go that's it that's and i love that because like when i play far verona and stuff like that when bad stuff happens to me i'm just cackling like what do we do it's so good it's fun to be stressed it's like the people playing horror games right like sometimes it's fun to do that i love stress dear skull sorry so i have a character that was aged 40 years by a ghost yes so here's so let me talk about that tom hazel because you know when um you're in the ghost house with Veselvenia in Eros. Ghosts have an ability called horrifying visage. If they activate it, if you

fail a saving throw by a certain amount, you age 1d4 times 10 years. And I have had to seriously think about if that hit Quill, how would that work? Because Arakroka don't live very long yeah they don't i think

they're like uh so if it hit lucius which did whatever well not that ability but he's he's an elf so like so he looks like three elves in eroes don't have that they are longer lived but they're not like thousands of years old does anyone know it's their age a age. Arakokra's age. Age, just down at the bottom. Arakokra reach maturity by age three. Arakokra don't live longer than 30 years. So what was it?

1D4 times 10. So what if I... Now, and the thing is there is nothing in the abilities description for the ghost that says like, oh, it adjusts

based on the race it affects yeah it just says aged 1d4 times 10 years so if you roll a 4 or a 3 then I'm well beyond my prime

you would have literally just been like old man dead so there's a 50% chance yep and even if it was a 2 that you roll 23 year old

Arakokra is well into their yeah yeah so do i just turn into an owl people wise old owl i think you change your type of bird will is only three yeah like he's a young man yeah reached maturity that's it that's like he's 18 year old he's kind of teenager yeah um yeah nice there you go uh i've got a question here dear skull Skull asks, if the Eros... I don't want that book anymore. I'm not going back.

Oh, you don't have to worry. Vesalvenia is not a ghost anymore. You taking away the prince solved that. She's a banshee now. And they have an ability which just kills you. Do they? Yeah. That's cool.

It drops you to zero hit points. Dear Skull asks, if the Eros gang had their personalities swapped, which would be the coolest slash funniest? Oh. That's a really good question. I feel like if Aayla and Sentry swapped, you would have a killing machine.

Yeah. A rude, like, I'm just, I hate everything. Kill all of you. Killing machine robot. I think I think like Lucius personality in Sentry would be pretty funny

yeah that would be hilarious that would be kind of funny like really sort of prim proper lady of like like a C3PO type yeah it would be like C3PO but like

in an elegant dress like oh hello I'm Sentry I don't think I don't think if Lucius Quill with Aayla's

Lucius and Quill and Aayla would be good Quill if they swapped Lucius and Quill I don't think it would be... Quill with Aayla's. Quill and Aayla would be good. Quill, if they swapped, Lucius and Quill, I don't think it would be super different. We're still both terrified of everything. Like a Nova Quill would be really cool. Like a super just like really like twitchy,

but like nerdy kind of like... I think if you swapped Nova and Quill, Nova's personality in Quill, you would basically have my first idea for Quill. He was basically going to be that character. Yeah so yeah there you go nice i just said i have a female bender bite my shiny metal ass yeah basically yeah i am century please insert good please bite ass nerd bird nerd bird uh nightjar this was so i took her comments from twitter she said her favorite favorite moments of last year were trails farewell moments with the law and her

parents baltier the final battle the cows the ghost house with ghost house with vessel venya quill any moments with quill she loves quill but also all of our live shows and signings she said you guys are just generally some of the sweetest and kindest and most genuine folk and being willing to share your game with us and of course introducing me to D&D and starting my addiction to dice and she asked are there any classes races you attempted by but ultimately decided against

for Eros or just in general I imagine for Eros yeah again I think for Eros I was just bam just it's going to be a bard cleric. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like once I get an idea straight away, that's the character I just stick with.

Yeah. Although, Quill was a little bit different before. He was still a bard cleric, but he was a different domain cleric. When we did session zero, I think, can't remember you knowledge no was it is there like a law domain or yeah i think it was knowledge domain yeah um yeah so we played a session zero like a week before i was started and i came out of it and i was just like fuck i don't i don't really get what quill is i just didn't enjoy it at all there was something about it where i was just like quill wasn't doing anything in that entire session.

He was just not right. I think in my announcement video I said he was a knowledge domain cleric. That turned out to be changed to the arcana domain because it gave him more offensive spells and more abilities that are just useful and made him

more versatile. And it still worked because it's still one of Hesper's domains. He is a god of magic. Yeah. So it still worked for him for that. Yeah, just sort of

that simple tweak of just one domain for another just suddenly like changed what Quill was. Also, when I played

Session Zero, so this is going to sound dumb, but Carry on. I had an idea for what Quill was and he was basically going to be rivalli falco that sort of very cocky oh yeah i remember you talked to me about this

kind of not not cocky reynard style but kind of like very dismissive of people yeah and very few and far between the compliments and things like that but when you got a compliment off him yeah yeah but then when we did the announcement videos squirrel curls did that artwork based purely on uh the art that we'd put in the videos and our descriptions of them and she drew this quill that was um very like meek and in the middle of everyone and kind of like spooked by everyone and i kind of looked at that i was like shit there he is that's quill that's it yeah um so i didn't actually come up with my character there you go um it was fan art and it's the one i've got on my ipad still but that is um basically when i first saw that i was like there that's that's the character i was looking for finally and i was able to and quickly mold into that and for all

the people that constantly ask me how can quill cast magic missile yeah it's because he's an arcana domain cleric so uh well it's break time so we're gonna take a break um we're gonna take a short break and then when we get back i'm gonna ask riannon all about her joining in and her favorite moments and her plans for century in the future i've got some stuff from trot well with that we're gonna take a break uh we'll be back in five minutes we're just gonna play some ads and then we'll be back talking a little bit more about we're doing continuing the high rollers 2018 rollback thanks very much we'll read some more donations and stuff when we get back to see you in five Now hee-oh, you rascals, with the bellies full of pie

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For you. For you, the audience. Welcome back to the High Rollers 2018 rollback. This is us going back over the last year of High Rollers, talking about our favourite bits. And what a year it was! You could not sound more sarcastic. No, I wasn't being sarcastic. That was a Kenyan.

It certainly wasn't. Wowee! It was a 12-month period in which things happened. Wow, High Rollers, am I right, guys? Wow, High Rollers. Hooray! Let me just rattle through some donations, and then we'll jump into talking to Rhiannon about her

favourite bits yeah CatsMeow donated what is Yogscast I mean I can't answer that question but enjoy

your humble bundle of games it's this word yeah this big yellow word google it that's Yogscast don't google it

it's probably bad Jue Daniel donated five additional dollars and said Mark what is your opinion on a player classing in necromancy i like the idea of having to hide their powers in town so the townsfolk

don't hunt them down also my name is pronounced as dweg i'm sorry dweg um so the way that it's going to work in eros because each world i think is different there are places in eros where necromancy is just seen as a thing. It is seen as a tool to be used, like any other form of magic. And then there are places in Erois where it's totally not cool, and the divine, you know, the churches and stuff would absolutely crack down on it. There are also certain religions that really don't like undead. like palador um kelara and siaska both very very much against undead so their followers why are you giving me that look tom you know just it sounds like an evil place to me i mean i don't want to go there sure or i do here's a cool thing

there are whole planets full of undead oh sorry what the fuck yeah awesome uh there's uh there's like you know how like in planes so there's a plane called the shadow fell in normal dnd right which is like the realm of undeath it's like where undead can come from and stuff oh okay so there's a planet version in eros which is the same thing um but there's more than just one uh ian donated this donation comes as part of my grandma's yearly Christmas present. Every year she gives her grandchildren a gift with the expectation

that they do something for someone else with that gift. In this case, my gift to her is this donation. Well, how a lovely donation it is.

Thank you very much. And if you get the bundle as well, even better. Thanks very much, Ian. Leper Smythe added $5 to the donation. High Rollers is my

favorite faction of the Yogscast, which is odd considering my lack of successful Tabletop RPG campaigns I like how we're a faction The High Rollers faction We need banners Roll out Flintifus donated a

Ha ha hundo Better late than never Another great jingle jam Thank you very much And then one just came in from Leo Krios After watching arois i decided to use injuries as well but i didn't like the table from the dmg i found one on reddit that i liked called grit and glory and gore and grit and glory based on building risk shut up time and work with its author to make a modified version that worked more for me your risk is increased by conditions hitting zero

massive damage and then you roll on a table with 17 or more giving an injury of an increased severity. You then have to roll to determine the approximate injury received based on the severity. Thankfully,

I'm playing Fantasy Grounds so I've been able to automate all the table rolling. The players seem to enjoy it because the injuries aren't always demolishing like losing an eye but the realistic risk is there.

Well, the ones in Arois aren't always demolishing either. We've just only had ever had the bad ones. So, did you make your own custom one or did you use one like me and glit and glit and glory

oh one day um one day i can't wait for you to gm tom hazel and every time you fuck up a word i'm gonna be like oh he said he said a funny word he said restaurant for no reason um no i took the one in the dmg and added stuff to it okay i added a bunch of stuff to it and then i added the rule of um when you get down to zero you have to make a con save and stuff oh okay yeah cool uh so there you go so riannon hello hello hi sweetheart uh So you obviously were the newest member of High Rollers. We brought you in for the Erois campaign. Ever since, well, first of all, how has it been? Love it.

It's great. I love it. I love it. You're enjoying it, having a good time? Oh, so good. Do you feel that you're, you know, do you feel different from when you started to now? Do you feel like you've, you know, leveled up or when you started to now do you feel like yeah

you've you know leveled up or grown yeah i've learned so much like it's only been like six months but like i feel like i've definitely like mellowed out a lot more i've sort of like like got more comfortable with myself like playing a character, being more... What's the word? Comfortable. Comfortable with... RP. RP. Like being immersed.

And immersed, yeah. But like, I know, I can't think of the word. Should I just answer the question for you? But, um... I can't think of the word. Improvisation! Yeah, improvisation. And that's the word to forget of of the word. Improvisation. Improvisation.

That's the word to forget of all the words. And this is my favorite thing of Rhiannon. When Rhiannon just loses it, it's the best. My favorite thing. But it's just, I come from a world where everything is very scripted. Like, in my day-to-day life, I'm very much sort of like... I know what I do. I'm sort of like almost automatous in the way I operate. Like Truman Show.

Yeah. Kind of. I'm in the Truman Show. You feel like your life is very rigid and set. And you have your set schedule and stuff. Yeah. So coming into a world that's kind of very loose. What?

Sorry. What? Sorry. Someone posted Elora Glenodle again. For fuck's sake. That's my favorite moment. That's my favorite moment in High Rollers 2018. Elora Glenodle.

It's all right. It's all right, Rhiannon. You can do it. Ignore Tom. Why do you... Why must you hate Tom? It's not hate. Laura Glen Odle

is the best thing. The best thing. I can't read. I wonder if I googled it. So anyway... Oh God. So yeah, it's nice just being

in a very sort of relaxed very sort of free environment so were you quite nervous when we first started oh yeah when we first started streaming 100%

because I knew that you guys had already established you know a very good audience and you know a very good following of people and I was like well what if I fuck up

what if I do something wrong and everyone hates me or like I know but it's like it's this thought obviously the nerves and I know that I'll talk about that when about the critical role stuff because I have the, I know, but it's like, it's this thought that's all, obviously the nerves. And I know that.

I'll talk about that when, about the Critical Role stuff because I have the same thing there. Yeah. And it's like, but like the community's been like the best.

Like you guys have all been so unbelievably nice. They love you. Yeah. Do you have any messages for your hordes of fans? I love all of you. Like you guys,

I love all of you. You guys are like the best. Like, whenever I've had any doubts about anything, like, mentally, like, I always come back to, like, what you guys have said or, like, just the High Rollers guys. Do you do the thing I do sometimes, which is whenever I'm feeling a bit meh, I just go and look at all the fan art.

Oh, yeah. And it's just like... Oh, it's so nice. But also, like, being around being around like all you guys being around mark and katie trot kim like you guys are all so supportive and so just fucking nice tom as well and tom hello tom boy what the fuck you know carry on carry on i'm not being mean but like it's just it's just like we all we're all you're the whole community is just incredible it's really lovely it's such a nice place to be and like being able to just piss around play dnd

for three hours on a sunday it's it's a fucking privilege and a joy and i love it every single time it's been amazing having you you you've you've definitely brought in i think like uh like kim said like you just bring in this like ray of sunshine like you always find everything so joyous and funny and i think that that does affect the table like because again like everybody's got other stuff going on we get stressed with stuff and then you come in even before the stream so like you guys won't ever see like what happens before the streams but like you know i'll be there stressing with notes and like getting everything printed out and getting all my maps and stuff ready and then

rihanna normally come in with like a bag of biscuits or crisps and it's like hello everybody it's just always happy and bright and smiley and it does make a big difference it makes a huge difference um and that's been really appreciated i've also personally appreciated the fact that you've really like obviously invested in learning like your ability is like you know trying to learn the game and everything else like that really you know i i find that particularly uh you know rewarding like the fact that you've come in and learned so much but what's what have been your favorite moments from 2018 so far oh man let me consult my portable entertainment device and i will have a look at my notes you make some little notes i made some little notes so my top like favorite moment for me playing a century is uh was dual and den yes i

think in dual and den i learned a lot about well i think i had some of my best rp in dual and den yeah for sure and i learned a lot about like century as a character what she stands for how to play her and like like i just i just felt really comfortable with her for like the first time and i was like fuck yes i love this let's do more of this yeah like i just ah it was so much fun yeah it was really good and it was one of those i think that it worked really well because whilst there was obviously a lot there about guardians and and then century can connect to that it was also an opportunity for all the rest of the characters to kind of be involved as well like yeah it's just being able to like somehow connect with the echo and you know like nova being interested in

the guardians technology and stuff like that obviously knowing century beforehand it was a it was a good way of everybody bringing together but still keeping essentially like the central figure in it as well it was really nice it was a nice way for like for as a player's point of view as well it was nice because it felt really like involved and as a new player it's nice to have that opportunity to like be like this is my world this is what we do and you know this is part of my world it just felt really nice and like really it's like oh like yeah it was your story it was your time yeah it was really cool that was the introduction to find the prime as well that was yeah which we still know nothing about hashtag find the prime oh man yeah there's some there's some shit for that coming up

soon excited for sure yeah i've um so what so one of the things that i did is over the christmas break is i sat down with everybody's backstory everybody's kind of little character moments that we've had so far and i've started kind of drafting up okay where is this leading what's the next steps because you guys are getting closer to main civilization now as well. You're like getting to the bigger towns, but into the bigger cities. The world is going to open up a lot more

and that's going to give you guys an opportunity to be like, well, I want to go and do this thing. I want to go and find this thing out. And then there will need to be a little bit of the party saying, okay, let's go and do Sentry's thing. Then we'll do my thing. Then we'll do Quill's thing.

Then we'll do blah blah blah's thing but it's going to allow you guys to pursue different things and so I've been kind of coming up with all the different ways that that can happen and the different areas that that might involve

and stuff like that and yeah the Prime stuff is pretty interesting I'm excited and also a lot of that none of us really know about that's all

machinations that's it yeah well normally what I do you can have that one it yeah normally what I do is it's normally stuff which you guys have written about but never expanded on and then I just go in and I go and I expand it and I you know if there's

ever anything where like I've said this I recently sent you guys an email saying there's ever anything that you're not comfortable with or if there's nothing something you don't want to happen let me know and then I won't have it happen. Otherwise, it'll be nice and mysterious and a surprise. I mean, I think you'll still react to how we react to it anyway.

But it's really cool, like, the way that you've sort of intertwined our stories into the world you've built. Because I think as a DM's point, like, for a DM it must be really easy to just be like, well, this is my world, I've made this world, so you're going to do this this way and you're going to do this this way. It's tricky.

So when we did the Lightfall campaign, the Lightfall campaign had a much more storyline. It actually had like, this is the villain and this is what they're doing. And this is vaguely how I see things going. And then the guys would do stuff and maybe it takes them off in a different direction than I expected and I have to kind of like draw a new line of how to get back to things. Whereas what I've done with Eros is I've taken a much more Skyrim like

approach to it where it's like there are places and there are people and there are groups all doing things and you guys happen to have like obviously I started off Eros with you guys kind of interrupting one of those groups, the Remnant. That was like the first group that you kind of encountered and have had a conflict with.

But now it's open. Now it's like, well, it just depends where you go and what you guys want to do and everything else. It's really cool. So yeah. Like Thomas, would you like to show us something? Is that what you're chuckling about? What have you found?

I've just found something. Well, I say I found it. Game Guy found it. No, it's not Glenodal. So my favourite moment from 2018. I've got the iPad in my hand. So was this episode one? I think it was.

Yeah, it was. Sorry, just brace yourself. I have to go through this every time somebody posts Snapsnacks. Oh my God. Or restaurant. Pixie MLG Gamer donated $10 and said, somebody post snaps next oh my god or restaurant pixie mlg gamer donated ten dollars and said but sad isn't the right word

because it didn't really go anywhere it changed we will no longer see juto zee jing laura glenodal

elena elena oh my goodness these names cam buckland and rayne the two that you can read

she can she can oh no i'm not i'm not carol you know don't play it again pause it anyway god it was anyway moving on uh something so re with with century going into 2019 do you have any hopes any goals for century anything that you any cool thing it can be something particularly petty and minor like i want a cool magic sword or it can be something particularly petty and minor, like I want a cool magic sword, or it can be I want to find Solvin, or I want to do this cool thing.

I want a boyfriend. I want a girlfriend. It can be any of those things. Stop it! Stop it! No, okay, I'm closing it. I'm closing it. I'm saying.

Let Rhiannon answer my question. It will never die. As long as Tom Hazel is here, question. It will never die. As long as Tom Hazel is here, Glenodal never dies. I just need to find something embarrassing that he's done. Yeah, there's plenty. The problem is, he's not really.

Not like an accident or restaurant or Glenodal. What's the context of that? It was a donation. Don't know. I tried to read. He read Allura Galanadel for the very first time it was yeah it was riannon riannon i read it as i saw it yeah miss said katie's old character name um which is a silly elf name anyway right uh but yeah um in regards to century i'll have a look at my notes again. Yep.

So I think it's like, from a playing aspect, I want her to... Tom. Do you need to leave? No, carry on. Just carry on. If we say it enough, he'll get tired of it. No, I won't. Good night, all. Good night. Trust me, I'll have the air.

It's staying. Let him have his vape. He's going to have his vape. Carry on. Lol. In terms of, like, playing Sentry, I want her to find more of a, like, human side. I feel like, at the moment, she's very much sort of a...

She's sort of playing to her more, like, servant side. Her more, like... Service, yeah. Like, fulfilling a duty. F duty fulfilling a duty kind of thing yeah so i want her to be able to like act out on her own more be confident with like decision making and you know i want to be like hey i've come up with this idea come up with more of a leadership role and stuff and take the lead more yeah that's good that's a good role to have um and also like obviously like finding the prime and stuff.

I want to get into the meat and bones of this and really, like, because that golden guardian in the sky is pretty freaking cool. And I want to get into that more. Cool. Super excited. Nice. Me too, actually. 2019 is going to be so good.

Amazing. Okay, cool. Well, that's good to know for Sentry. A couple of questions. So Sam asks, if you could play a character that wasn't your own, whose would you play? In a rowist.

That's really good. In a rowist. Thomas. You have a problem, dude. he keeps seeing you in chat that's why when you said when you said do you want to play a character

I was just immediately I want to play a Laura Glen Odle in a row is what other character would you want to play other than so what main character yeah out of

well yeah play characters if you had to play somebody else's play character I want to play Sentry yeah you think Sentry's

yeah because holy shit how satisfying must it be to launch a guy down the stairs with an axe that was like

the first thing you did as well yeah like max damage divine smile yeah the first thing you did was natural 20

maximum damage oh and launched the guy with thunder that sounds so fun yeah nice she's really good to play

what about you rey um man i think lucius is really fun yeah i could i think you could see yourself i could see myself playing lucius nice yeah how about you mark if you weren't dming i think century yeah i think century's got the story that i would be like super interested in playing i love paladins. They're pretty damn cool. And I always like Constructs and Warforged. So yeah, for sure. Nice. Nice.

Erin said that one of her fave scenes from 2018, Tom Hazel. Sorry. You need to calm yourself. I'm not a gnoodle. Fucking gnomed. We got gnomed. We got gnoadled that's really good oh for fuck's sake i've got a question for you yeah to interrupt that last one yep sure if you weren't dming and you made a character for a rowis oh what would you make oh that's

a really good question join the current cast so, I think that I probably would have played... In all fairness, I probably would have played Santa as a player character. So the bunny lady beast walker. But probably would have made her as a slightly different type of character. I probably would have made her as a gunslinger, a fighter gunslinger. So bunny lady gunslinger, a fighter gunslinger. Oh, cool. Wowee. Bunny lady gunslinger. Kicking guns. That's really cool. Yeah.

But I think also there's a bunch of stuff that we've not really been able to explore. You guys haven't really met any Ember Elves in the main campaign yet, and I think that they're a really cool race. But also just because quite a lot of the races are very different as well. So being able to play like, you know,

I'll tell you what would be cool. Cause you guys, none of you guys expressed interest in playing this race. So I'd never gave you the information on it. But the Yuan T I've got a particularly cool, cause they are connected to the remnant and the Starbane, but they've also kind of tried to separate themselves and say, we're going to make our own society now.

Like we're here, we're going to build our own empire. We're we're going to you know we're no longer serving them because we're trapped here yeah um and that obviously leads to a lot of like are they good guys are they bad guys like where do they draw the line because obviously they're snake people they've got quite a lot of evil abilities and stuff yeah that could be a cool one to play as well wow so awesome cool um so great question thanks tom hazel sorry carry on uh erin said that her favorite scene was actually the quiet moment with lucius quill and vala in rose hall knowing about i really like that that was really nice i think that was the first moment where uh quill and lucius um probably had like a talk as well because prior to that it was just surviving it was like a

moment when we'd finally settled down in rose hall and we were able to just stop and just say right wow what's actually happening yeah um and i think that cemented quill and lucius as friends as well yeah i think so i think like so far i think like obviously quill and century are friends because you guys knew each other but i would say that out of everybody, Quill and Lucius have probably become the closest out of the other group. Yeah. I know that Nova's very motherly in the same sense that Sentry is as well, but I know how much Quill worries about Lucius and Lucius worries about Quill as well.

Because you're both the shaggy and scooby of the gang. Yeah, and also I know how much Lucius doesn't want another situation like Quill's Eye again. Yeah. And how much that affected Lucius as a character. Yeah. Through me. Some good RP from Chris Trott here. Pumpcan has an excellent

question here. Oh, go for it. She said, NPC, boink, by which she means fuck, marry or kill, and it's between Arvel, boink, by which she means fuck, marry or kill. And it's between Arvel, Finny, and Saito. Now, Finny and Saito, for Rhiannon's benefit, Finny is a halfling bartender that the party met. Nice. And Saito was a charming tiefling thief.

Could we, for Rhiannon's benefit, change it to Arvel, to a Roa's character? I'll switch it to a Roa's character. You answer Arvel, Finny, or Saito. Fuck, marry, kill. I don't think I really met Finny. Did you not? No, he ran the tavern, Finny's tavern. Yeah.

And I was there a couple of times. He became a council member. He became a council member, yeah. True, I don't suppose you didn't have the same connection to him as the rest of the characters. Yeah, I went to the tavern and that's about as much as I knew of Finny. Okay.

All right, well, let's change it to Aurora's characters then. Arvel, I'm trying to think who else has become... But Foxito. Yeah, is that... Mary Arvel, maybe. Yeah, Mary Arvel, he's got money. He's got a lot of money. Okay, we'll keep it. So Arvel,

I'm trying to think of two others who aren't that we can reliably use. Arvel. Sana. Sana. And, oh, Rose Hall. Oh, the bartender. Rosalina.

Rosalina. Oh, that's really hard. Fuck, Marry, Kill, Arvel, Sana. Oh, no, that's really hard. That's a tough one. I know how much you loved Rosalina. I loved her so much. Oh God.

I remember how relieving it was getting to Rose Hall after the Bitterwood. Because it was gruesome. Survival is hard. Yeah, it was gruesome. It was horrible. It was such a slog. Not to watch, obviously. It was all gold. But was horrible, it was such a slog. Not to watch, obviously, it was all gold.

But then we got to Rose Hall and it was, like, just comfortable and we could just sit down and stop and just not worry about this nice half-time against us. It's like, do you want food? Yeah, Rosemary was just such a delight. It was the best. He was so nice. I really loved it. What I really loved is quite a lot of people in chat picked up on the

fact that like she offered these like adult services but it wasn't like a big deal yeah it was just like here is a thing that if you want you can have and it's a shame we never got into the background of it because um and maybe you will go back but rosalina comes from a sky city where that is completely normal like it's just seen as a service, like going to a pub for a drink or going to a restaurant, like people have needs and some people need to get that fulfilled by professionals. And so they're all looked after and protected and it's all very kind of positively done. And so when she comes down to the lowlands, she's just like, well, these people need that service as well. And so she provides that. Um, and it's not just like, you know, sex

and adult services. It's also therapy. Like it was also just like speaking to somebody and and stuff like that and i had a lot of people like message me and say thank you for having that representation because that's not really something that ever gets shown and there's no reason in a magical fancy world where you can have wizards and enchanters and everything else that that kind of business would necessarily be still kind of looked down upon like you should be able to have this so that was quite cool

it was a nice little I'm glad that people picked up on that but yeah answer my question fuck, marry, kill Arvel, Santa Rosalina

I think I think Arvel's dead I love Arvel I love him so much he's led a good life he's led a good life so dead dead Arvel I reckon we'd so much. He's led a good life. He's led a good life. So, dead?

Dead Arvel. I reckon we'd have a good fight as well, though. Yeah. It'd be good. And then I would marry Rosalina. Marry Rosalina. And then boink. Boink Santa.

Boink Santa. I like how Pumpkin put boink. Yeah, I think it's going to have to be the same. Same. Sorry, Arvel. Sorry, Arvel. That's all right. I understand. it's rosalina and santa yeah come on uh neko sounds asked is there any lore you could give us about the world of rose that won't be too spoilery for later episodes i mean it's quite tricky because i don't know where the guys are

going to go um obviously so one thing i have just done is I finished writing up all of the gods. So every single one of the, what they call the Starborn Pantheon, which is Siaska's children. Cool. I've now written up all of their,

like, religious entries. So they all have tenants. They all have stuff. I think one of the cool things that isn't going to be too spoilery because we're going to see it quite early on is the town that your guys

are heading towards called Kaylee's Rest is going to be the first big proper city town you've been to. And in there, there is a temple to all of the gods. And so there will be an opportunity for everybody to kind of get to meet a little bit about that world, like the religious world. But you're also going to learn that whilst the star-born gods

are generally seen as quite good, that doesn't always mean that they're worshipped in a good way. Like there are cults and there are sects that can split off and might have very extreme views for example on on certain traditions so it's going to be cool kind of giving that side to it um any time i get to dip into like the more sci-fi stuff is pretty cool yeah um there's one thing so i've written this in the the tenants of palador like the god of the sun and light and this kind of blazing and he's always depicted as this blazing on fire humanoid that flies around eroes providing light and warmth and it's basically the sun um but there is i wrote this into things there is ancient rumor or ancient text which suggests that it's not actually palador himself

flying around the world but a ship or a device of his creation that does it and flies around and is protecting Eros as well, which I thought was quite cool. So more sci-fi stuff. Yeah, Neo and Smoked asked me how badly did I want Allura to go unconscious? I mean, it's fine. I felt like we still had tension.

So there you go. Oh, Austin asked to see if there's a map of eros which i do have but i forgot to give it to sam so i'll post it on twitter or something yeah we do have one well i've got what you put together and basically gave to me and said right this is your map now uh yeah you've got the actual paper map haven't you yeah um but no i've got like a proper proper map fill that in yeah actually i think what I've got is complete. To my knowledge. To what Quill's explored, yeah. Although we should probably go on there

and put some things that Quill knows about from his life as a messenger. Yeah, okay. So we can do that. So Trot wrote me some answers for his favorite moments and stuff. So he begins with, what was your favorite moment in 2018 from High Rollers?

And he starts with, as the best player and character in the game my favourite moments have to be so he said discovering the faulty blacksmith guardian

in the chasm I love the gradual reveal of lore behind centuries kind and also discovering my abilities to connect with Echo also thoroughly enjoyed

dungeon diving in old dwarven ruins our first taste of a historically drenched and ancient world the cow episode having Mark just let loose and reduce himself to our immature level for a bit

and wing in a hilarious encounter. In fact, I can play that scene. Yes. Oh, God. Bring on the cows. Bring on the cows. Let's do it. Lucius. Give me a perception check. Christ, I had my hair that episode.

It's looking very slick. 19. 19. I had a really shit day at work Check. Christ, I got my hair that episode. It's looking very slick. 19. 19. Okay. I had a really shit day at work just before this stream. This just, like, made my day. This was, like, the highlight of my day.

First part of the evening, as everyone rests. The hills are quiet. The night air is cold. You have to wrap yourself up in a cloak to keep the chill from getting to your bones. Did you guys actually think an encounter was coming? No, I had no idea. I was like, what is this? It's when you begin to hear the noises.

It's a strange noise, one you've never heard before. A kind of distorted moan and almost like the jangling of chains or bells Tom, genuinely, you were like fuck Up time everybody, up time! Up time! Up time everybody up! You hear this kind of up up up up noise

What is it this time? It might just take a long time to just light up And you hear another sort of shuffling of bodies, like large creatures moving. You hear that? Ayla and Quill, give me nature checks. Nature checks? Is that perception?

This is when I'm losing it, because I can't hold it in. 13. Ayla, so Lucius, you've woken everybody up. We're about to be attacked. By by what by a zombie with chains on its head And then you hear this noise that Lucian heard during his watch I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you. Don't do that. Kill that first.

It does sound really aggressive. Wait, no, what? It's not a cow, is it? Lucius. What's a cow? I mean, cows are fairly aggressive. Well, then it's a doom to doom to doom to doom. Let's assume our fighting stance is to destroy it.

Before it gets a jump on us I know it's probably mindless I'm going back to sleep You are an idiot You can take it on your own Go milk it I like your optimism in my abilities in combat Attack

This was because of you This was because of you You did tell him to go play You can do it, Lucius. Thank you. Bardic inspiration. Feel a renewed vigour. I'm still exhausted.

I'm going to go out. You sneak up? Are you going to try and sneak up on the beast? I'm going to try. Okay, self-check. Is he actually killing the cow? Hang on, here's your bardic inspiration, guys. He doesn't know what it is.

18. Oh, 18. You stealth up a grassy hill, laying yourself flat, you peer over. You see three of these creatures. They are as long as a horse,

but shorter and stouter, covered in a strange black and white pattern with horns. They wear bells around their necks, wear bells around their necks. Strange bells around their necks. What is this?

They munch on the grass. Two of them appear to be laying down now. Is this really... As Kim, I'm saying this. I am listening

to Mark, amazing DM, who has DM'd us for two years, describe a cow. Lucius. Lucius doesn't know what a cow is. He lives up in the Sky Cities.

They don't have cows. He's never been to the lowlands before. I can't wait until they down him. Carry on. One shot. The one that's still standing looms down to the grass. Starts chewing on grass.

Satanic creature. Gonna fling an ice knife at it. Oh god. We're gonna get attacked by farmers. Okay, range attack roll. Nine plus five. It just gets better. I believe that will hit a cow.

I don't think I have a stat for a cow Like 2 HP Very low We'll make something up 3 A cow would have more than 2 HP A cow's a big tough thing 3 on that cow

and then it explodes We're actually Okay we're actually running We're actually running He would have. Shouldn't you basically have? He would have had advantage. You hit anyway, actually, when we're talking. Yeah, yeah. So three on the first cow, then eight damage to all of them.

Check that you don't get an actual 20. Well, actually, we're going to use a goat stat, but we'll add a few more bits. Goat doubled. Can you do a deck saving throw for the cow? Oh, yes, absolutely. Deck saving throw Oh, 8

It hits all of them though, right? Yeah, so that's 8 cold for the more and 3 for the main one One of the counts rolls out of the way Because he passed the same 18 minus 1 is 17, it rolls out of the way

Oh my lord You know what? 18 minus one is 17, it rolls out of the way! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr blade pierces into the cow's hide then it explodes for the cold damage. Eight. Oh, the first cow is dead. It's just covered in ice. Oh my god. Falls to the ground. The other two are still alive. I'm having this joke the whole time. I couldn't believe we were still doing this. I'm crying.

Sixteen. You go again? What do you like? These two other creatures. That's pretty much that's pretty much the gist of the joke amazing it's very funny

that's great unbelievable so Trot continues with his favourite moments when we finally returned with enough funds to fix Arvel's leg

the whole scene introducing us to a religious character that genuinely healed Arvel he says Blackthorn but I believe he means Brookstone Saga the whole Brookstone Saga being invited to their home

and the tragic result of doing so. Our first real dramatic turn that added a lot of gravitas to our quest. Quillek giving the horde of Brookstone supporters a firm demand. Loved it. Broadened his character. Also him losing an eye. Oh, wow. Cool.

It was the thing I do we'll talk a bit about Brooke Sands in a second I actually have a clip for it as well the entire haunted house part the honourable fallen

night of Siaska the creepy atmosphere the slow unravelling of goings on a touch of planar with the paintings and finally most unexpectedly

Lucius being mistaken for the ghost beloved with a daring escape an awesome backstory that fills the world with a rich history that has ongoing consequences and effects. And then discovering the first fallen ship of the Court of Shadows,

how it started as a strange green glow, and things slowly unraveled in Ironwick. Also getting a badass unique item that I'm yet to experience. Yeah, well, next week. So yeah, Brookstones. Man. Oh, God. That whole thing.

I have a good feeling about that guy from the start. the start you were like i don't trust this guy i'm gonna get in his face i don't want to like him i don't like him whatsoever i believed him and then this and he genuinely was like no i'm gonna i believe him i think i mean i had i understood all the evidence against him, but when we first met him, he was so genuine that he actually convinced me, or you convinced... Quill. Me, Tom. Something like that. Someone convinced someone,

and it was me being convinced, or Quill being convinced. And did you think it was just like, he probably is a bit of an arsehole, but he's not an arsehole like everybody's making him out to be? I mean, I thought that it was... Because he was explaining it as his workers were doing these things, and I didn't want to blame him for something that was... While it was in his control to curb down on that behaviour,

he said he would, and that was it. He kind of admitted to it and said yeah this has happened I'll do what I can to stop it and I was like cool

nice what a great guy what a real great guy and then he invited you to dinner and he invited me to dinner

and it was a great time we all had a lovely meal lovely meal met their kids who were great kids great kids his wife really nice

lovely wife great dinner and then you get back and then um it's awful and then the worst thing happens the worst possible thing happens yep um yeah and that was that was another moment for me where i'd been sat on it while like you've been spending time in rose hall and i've got mike so i have a sheet that's just for me where i track like the days so like how long you've been in a place, and then I track, like, okay, this person would have received this message at this day,

and it would take this long to receive it. Oh, cool. And I was planning stuff out, and I'm like, and then when you guys first arrived in Rose Hall and you said at the gate, like, oh, yeah, our airship crashed, we've just come here, like, blah, blah, blah, all the little dots connected up, and I was like, this is the natural kind of, like, our airship crashed. We've just come here, like blah, blah, blah. All the little dots connected up. And I was like, this is the natural kind of like where this would lead.

Yeah. And I was just sat there. And when I invited you and it was the next episode, I was like, you know, you guys are going to go to Brett Brookston's dinner. And you were like, yeah, let's go. Let's go to the dinner. I was like, okay. Just leave those two behind, will you?

Yeah. And that was the thing. And it became so close because Arvel almost got left behind. Yeah. You almost stayed behind. I think you even said, like, ah, should I stay?

Yeah. No, I'll go, because you were like, I want to protect them if something happened to them at the dinner. Wait, if we left Arvel behind? Yeah. Really? Arvel nearly didn't come with you.

But if he didn't come with us But if he didn't come with us If he didn't come with you He would have been there When the Goliath attacked Yeah And probably would have Got killed as well Arvel has more hit points

Than the others Or he would have been injured At least Badly injured Who knows what could have happened I would have been so sorry If we spent all that time Getting his leg fixed

Yeah He was so hard to fight Well that was it He was a really tough encounter like i i because yeah arval on his own he would have died because ultimately on his own like like the other two well what so i played out i actually that whole affair so spoilers if you've not seen it in this particular episode a an assassin we'll use the term assassin a fighter was hired to kidnap um NPC and the party, that NPC

was left with her two caretakers and the rest of the crew went to this dinner and it was all planned that this bad guy was luring the party away so his guy could go and kidnap this girl, but what I did is I played it out as a full combat so I just had the stats of everybody

and I was just like, right, he sneaks in, roll it for this guy and I just rolled all the attacks I rolled all the damage yeah and then I had like checks for like the guards of like do they notice anything nope do they notice anything nope and I would increase the DC is like more shouting and stuff when but just nothing ever like happened to it and he killed the NPC so quickly um that really it was just like and he gets away. Now if Arvel or Sentry had been there yes, it's likely you might have been taken out because the amount of damage against you

would have been quite high. But there's also a higher risk that some of the other NPCs might have survived that they could have gone and gotten help and it would have become more of a chase. We've got to go get this guy now, he's just left. Whereas what it became was a bit more of a figure out what's happened and then we're going to go after them. And it He's just left. Whereas what it became was a bit more of a sort of like, figure out what's happened, and then we're going to go after them.

And it was really cool. That was really fun for me to GM. That's what D&D is all about though, isn't it? It's like the consequences. The consequences and just the unseen things. Like, you know, the dice rolls and stuff like that. It falls so much on that stuff, which I thought was really, really cool.

Also, Quill lost a lot of chill. Yeah, you were pissed by that i was was it was it because you feel like quill is quite protective of valor and so like them taking valor and like yeah that was after the chat on the wall as well yeah where quill and lucia yeah that so that was unexpected right because i didn't know you guys were going to do that but i knew what was coming later that evening so like you guys having this really meaningful talk with valor i was like oh man this is setting it up super good i was us basically saying that hey we're gonna look at least likely people or the two i guess they consider themselves i guess like lucius and quill consider themselves to be the weakest on the team to say that they'll do what they can to protect Valor.

And then that happens later on. Like, holy shit. And to think, and the two that got injured whilst trying to save her as well. Lucius and Quint. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty cool, eh?

It was awesome. So Trot has written up his hopes and goals for Eros. He says, as the best player and character in the game, I have ambitious hopes and goals. I am looking forward to entering Goldthrone properly. Lucius is extremely excited for the sorcery battles. I hope he experiences them, but also faces some challenges,

both external and internal. There's a ton to unravel about Lucius's past. He keeps things relatively jovial and respectful when mentioning his family, but not everything is pristine and perfect in the El Anasto household. Oh, I love that. I'm looking forward to expanding Lucius and growing along with him.

I feel he's already gained a far better understanding of the way of things, experiencing life-changing events that shape his outlook. He began as a naively positive, if narrow-minded man. Reality is chipping away at that from seeing the consequences of rash decisions that he cannot act the way that he's always done in the past. I'm also keen to expand his relationships with the party and joining them on their personal stories and seeing how that will affect Lucius and their bond.

Lucius' ultimate goal is to reunite with his family and daddy. At first, he wanted to be rescued. Is that the same now, though? Either way, he cannot wait to tell them of all the incredible things he's experienced and overcome. Wow. Boy, howdy. I'm personally very excited yes to reveal uh the

goings-on with the ellen astow family looking forward to meeting the household yeah and it's it's one of those things where again trot has given me a lot of information to work with he's come up with like like he's actually you know this is my father this is their name this is what they're like but then he's also said to me if you want to change stuff, if you want to add in things that Lucius doesn't know about them, like stuff that he wouldn't know about, go ahead, you have free reign to come up with stuff, so

that's really fun for me as a GM, getting to play around with something like that, where he's already got quite a lot of detail but I can mess around with it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's always the approach that we have, is that here's the character we've written you you're a better writer than us so well fix it not always not always i think it's one of those things where it's i'm very i i'm i'm quite good at if you give me something it's much easier for me to work with and to create stuff for you um and then occasionally

i just have like these little moments of inspiration of like oh this would be really cool like um elora is the whole winter spire arc in the first campaign um with the werewolves and stuff like that that was I just came up with that based on a random idea I had and I was like oh this is really cool I really like this idea yeah um but I think like a lot of the other stuff was like you know

the whole cam arc was based on what he'd given me and stuff like that and then I just added to it so it was always cool to do um E what I Do asked arm wrestling between characters who wins? Aayla I think Aayla and Sentry because they're about the same strength now so I think that you know that's a pretty

evil fight. What is Sentry's strength? 18 now because she leveled up Shit so Aayla's I think Aayla's 18 Damn. So I think they're both the same now It's in a constitution battle so yeah so I guess it comes down so character wise

you think those two but out of the rest of you do you think Quill could beat the others with his one arm left handed no no it's not even

he's right handed he's right so he's not even no no wait his left hand is gone Quill and Vala yeah his left hand is gone yeah

so Quill and Vala Vala Lucius as we found out Lucius is quite a strong boy he's very strong he's a bit athletic he's got something there Nova is incredibly weak I can tell you

Nova and Quill would have a I think you'd beat Nova yeah one armed or not I think you'd beat it but then they also asked who would win between the players? And my money is 100% on Rhiannon and Trott

would be the winners. Because you're a buff gym lady. Buff gym lady. Buff gym lady. And Chris Price is obviously a very gym boy.

I haven't worked out for like two months though. I bet you're still stronger than most of us. I'm putting on my winter layers at the moment. Yeah. Via cheese.

Oh wait, in real life? In real life. Who would win? I'd lose. Do you think you could beat me? No. No? I wouldn't beat Kim.

I wouldn't beat Katie. I think Kim would be actually deceptively strong. I reckon probably pretty strong, I can imagine. I think I could beat Katie. I think Kim... I think I can take Katie in an arm wrestle. Don't know about Kim. I don't think Kim in a fight would have any limits.

I think she would just do whatever she'd need to do to win. Just like cheat, like two hands. Yeah. Like kicking you under you under the table i mean like she'd gouge her eyes out or something oh i see it's mental she's mental wow wow um cool well that's it from all of you guys uh i guess i've got some discord stuff discord stuff yeah sure and then i'll talk about so kirsten salumi said the cows was her favourite moment. Yeah. Very well loved. How long till Quill dies of old age? He's three, so... He's got a while.

27 years or so. Well, 27 years until the actual top end. But yeah, he's got a long time. Or a day, if he meets a ghost. You're stuck in a desert island with one NPC from a ROAS or Lightfall. Who do you choose? Rosalina.

Yeah, I mean Rosalina. I love her. Even for you, not Grunker. A good point. So is it... You said Lightfall or Roess. If I'm stuck on a desert island. Oh, that's true. I wonder, yeah. I think if I

was stuck on a desert island, if Tom was stuck, Rosalina. Yep. She'd look after you. Then Zim Zam Zambalon. I think if I was stuck on a desert island, if Tom was stuck, Rosalina. Yeah. Yeah. She'd look after you. Then Zim Zam Zambola. You do not want to be on a desert island with Zim Zam Zambola. He's got the portable tent thing. Don't trust me.

No. Don't want to be on that desert island. Let's be real. He's great. Who's going to be the first to die? That is a question. I was thinking about this today. I was literally thinking about this on my way into the office.

So if we think about the closest we've ever come. So on the same fight, me and Lucius were downed and got injuries. I lost an eye. He got a death-saving throw. And death-saving throws. In the ghost fight, I think a lot of people overlooked it. Lucius was extremely close to dying. He went down to four maximum HP.

Quill, in the same fight, went down to three maximum HP. And so we were both very close to dying in exactly the same situation. So I think it's got to be between one of those two. I think based on pure uh mechanics looking at the pure numbers lucius is the most at risk he has very low hit points um he doesn't have a very good ac um and he is often closer to the danger than he would like or the melee fighters are too far away from him to protect him. So often that is a big risk. I think Quill, you have healing,

so if nothing else, you've got that kind of as a backup, as a last-minute backup. Nova has a very good constitution. She's very poor in melee, but with her cantrips and stuff, she can hold her own. But she has a lot of hit points. Sentry, amazing AC, which means that you'll not hit as often, which means you have much more survivability.

And healing. And healing with Lay on Hands. And then Aayla, Barbarian Rage means that she's resistant to most damage. So she basically has double her amount of hit points for most things. And she's got tons. So I think Aayla is very much like Allura. It's going to be very hard to kill. I think Sentry is going to be the same thing.

But the risk that the two of you have is you are in melee. So you are much more likely to be very hard to kill. I think Sentry is going to be the same thing. But the risk that the two of you have is you are in melee. So you are much more likely to be hit multiple times. With Sentry, I know you've gotten down quite low on hit points before because things just target you. Because especially with protection, you make yourself a target

so that people are like, we need to kill the robot first because the robot is protecting everybody else and then we'll move on to the other targets. But I think Lucius, because the thing is, is things like when we'll move on to the other targets. But I think Lucius, because the thing is, when you get to enemies casting fireballs at you, one fireball can put Lucius out.

He can just put him on zero hit points. And then that's it, you're at risk then. And also, if we look at the stats, thanks to High Roller Stats, my favourite page, did you know that Kim made her first successful death save very recently? Really? Of the entire campaign. She's never made one. She only has passed one, and that was very recently.

Damn. And there's so many good stats on there. Like, I think I've rolled the most natural 20s on death saves, things like that. I love that page. There's so many good stats on there. So much good stuff. I think they're adding... You do roll a lot of nat 20s

on death saving things I do I think there was a question somewhere that's what kind of saved you in the goliath fight wasn't it yeah

because you were like unconscious on one underneath him and you were like yeah I rolled a nat 20 on that one as well I think I nat 20'd

a death save against the dragon in lightfall as well I believe you did yeah because it had you in its mouth. It was threatening you. I almost died.

That was it. It was the worst moment in Hyrule. The thing is, I almost cried. The situation Rhiannon, is this dragon had him he was unconscious or on 1 HP but this dragon had him in its mouth and was basically telling the party if you come fucking after me

I will crunch him and swallow him and he'll die. Jesus Christ. And they basically had to let this dragon go. It got up and it flew away and it just carried him in his mouth and basically, and it was a dragon

so it did keep to its word. It was like, and it put him down. But if they had done anything it would have just gone crunch, swallow and then he would have taken damage inside of

its stomach and melted away and I'd be inside some of the rest either yep that's awesome yeah yep so yeah is that but yes and I think I just roll either very very badly or very very well

I don't think I've ever all middle ground yeah so I think I'd survive a death save easily so Lucius is dead that's something anything else from discord yeah it's quite very well I don't think I have a role middle ground yeah so I think I'd survive a death save easily so Lucius is dead anything else from discord yeah there's quite a lot

actually who's first to die do you have backup characters planned that's a good question you don't no ideas

no ideas I started apart from you go with rogue yes you enjoy playing that one yeah I started coming up with something

after the Goliath fight because I realised how close I got and I was just like, I should probably start thinking about this. So I've got some ideas. There's nothing... Anything you want to talk about? I'd like to hear it.

I mean, I've got nothing like... I think I've got like four ideas and none of them are good. Like, I just need to think of one and just stick with that one. I think as well, like it'll be more interesting because now I've written a bit more

about the Aurorus world. I've got more factions and stuff that you guys might want to belong to or be connected to and stuff like that as well. You got to meet the paladin of the Blackened Rose. He was cool.

That's a whole faction and stuff like that. So there's that. Cool. Anything else, Tom? One of my favorite moments uh is warm plates for century yeah people love warm plates that was a good moment i like that it was just so unexpected everybody was just like would you like some food and you're like i just

want a warm plate to hold my face yeah and it was so sweet and so innocent i think people loved that yeah that was good i enjoyed that that's a a nice little moment. Is there a reason? Is it just the sensation? The sensation of warmth. She just likes the sensation of feeling warm. Yeah, she just likes it. She's like... I think this is only relevant to me.

For those of you who went from spell-reliant classes to weapon-reliant classes or vice versa, do you miss them? So I guess for me, it's from Reynard, who was heavy bow focus,

and just every turn was just shoot, shoot, reload every now and then. Yeah, maybe Hunter's Mark. Do it in a cool way. Yeah. Whereas Quill has a lot more things he can do on every turn. Yeah. Also things outside of combat he can do now as well.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I miss it because it was just that much damage it was so much damage but i like uh having as much versatility like the ability to just say i'm not going to attack on this turn i'm going to make everyone passive yeah that calm emotions was clutch calm motions that's the Yeah. But also, you can still get the damage. Guiding Bolt and Magic Missile. Guiding Bolt is very cool. I really like Guiding Bolt. I need to remember, it gives advantage as well

for future attacks. From anyone as well. Yeah. Carry on for a bit. I've got some Discord ones I'm going to read out. So, Mathcos9000 donated. Greetings from Bodypen. Thank you very much.

Kyle Molest. Wow, what a name. How do you guys feel about D&D Beyond? How do you guys feel about it? Yeah, it's really good. It's really nice to use. Found it useful?

Yeah, so good. Do you feel like making a character on that was easier than if you had to sit down with paper and stuff? Oh, I can't use paper anymore. I've forgotten what pens are.

Like, D&D Beyond, I cannot do it without, make a character without it anymore. It's just so easy. And I'm not saying this as a regular sponsor. No, we're not sponsored right now. Not sponsored right now. I love it.

There's a couple of things that have, when we first started using it, there was a couple of things where I was like, I don't really know where this is, or I wish this was a lot easier. And then all of a sudden, like, we come in a week later it's like oh they've changed it yeah it's fixed and it's just like they're very good at keeping updated it's really good um it's it's great i really really love it um i make quite a lot of characters i do think so and i've said this i've said this before i said this before we were sponsored by them and i'm sticking to it now

i do think i don't 100 agree with their pricing scheme and the way that they price it um and i know that that's not fully in their control as well that comes down to like how it works with wizards and amazon and a lot of other stuff um i do think it's slightly skewed i think that if you were if you subscribe to dnd beyond you should get the base books for free i think you should get like players handbook monster manual for free yeah um because they're so essential to using the tool yeah if you're paying per month it actually works out that you should get like players handbook monster manual for free yeah um because they're so essential to using the tool yeah if you're paying per month it actually works out that you should get those books for free because it works out price wise um and it allows you to like make characters and everything else um and then with it comes to the books you know if there's a way

to find it cheaper to do like digital production that'd be great but i know that that's tricky to do um but apart from that i do think it's a great tool i think they're adding a lot to it they've actually just did a poll i retweeted it the other day basically saying what do you want us to work on next like what should be our next priority so they're looking at doing a bunch of different stuff like an encounter builder um apis that people can build their own tools around i don't really understand how that works it's basically magic to me but yeah adding things like that in just making like quality of life changes as well to the app so i think it's good i think it's a good system it's constantly improving and it's um super useful every time we use it it just gets better and better and better the campaign management thing is genuinely great for somebody like me

and it's not that i distrust the players but i know that people miss stuff quite often where i can just go in and be like, hmm, that's weird. I'm sure Ayla should have more hit points than this. And I can go in and check it and be like, oh yeah, Katie's done this. She's forgotten to add this in or something like that. And then I can say, hey, by the way,

you need to do this next time. Or I can go in and be like, I'm going to give Quill the three scrolls that he picked up and I can just add them into his inventory. Doing stuff like that makes it way easier, makes it much easier to manage and just gives that full net for it.

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very much anything else from Discord favourite moment was either Lucius and the cows or Reynard proposing to Kronka that was a good last minute that's good i'm doing that that's fine uh i've got some things i can talk about uh what from well my my my favorite moments

your favorite moment my favorite moments yeah are you okay so are you saying your favorite moments as a DM or your favorite moments watching... My favorite moments as a DM. Okay. My just favorite moments is like, you know, being a GM and high rollers in general. And then also a little bit from some other stuff as well. I think for me, the finale of the Lightfall obviously was epic. My favorite specific moment for it was Korak's speech,

Adric's speech, sorry. So that, you know, his big epic speech. I'd written that. And as I was writing it, I was like, fucking yeah! It's like, like super hyped. So getting to actually speak it out and stuff was really fun. That's awesome.

His, it was also Adric's getting to put the full power of a paladin fighter combo where he dealt like 120 points of damage in a single round oh my god because it was just like that three attacks action surge three attacks every single one of them's a divine smite it was it was pretty great yeah the visual that you added to that as well. Of just like the rapid Omni Slash style strikes. Yeah, it reminded me of Link's Final Smash in Smash and it was just light beams just sliding out of his body.

It was really cool. So that was really fun. I think definitely the cam Greybell Arc was really good. I'm glad that the way that was planned out it kind of met my expectations for it. The Erois, starting Erois, the initial being able to start Erois in that,

hey, you're in an airship and it's crashing. What do you do? That was really fun. I'm glad that it wasn't like a slow start that I could just throw you in and it was, oh, and everyone's running around. That was really good. The Brookstone stuff that we mentioned earlier,

that was really fun. I think my favorite moments are still to come because I'm looking forward to you guys exploring the wider world and getting to see more of that. The stuff with Night Frost was really cool because the Eterna are something which I had quite planned from the beginning

and I've been very excited to share with everybody. So that was really, really good as well. Um, there was obviously a lot of emotional moments over the time as well. Like, um, Val is kidnapping and the resulting deaths and stuff like that.

And then also Val being rescued, like when she realized what happened and like, you know, the fact that Quill and Lucius had been injured and she'd lost and everything else. That was really great. I, I know it's like, I, people joke because I get teary-eyed

and I know Tom and Trot make fun of me and stuff, but that's my favourite thing in D&D. I like when that moment is so invested in me. It's just I don't have tearducts. Yeah, you have no emotions. I get it. So yeah, so like all of those kind of emotive moments are really, really cool.

The epilogue we did for the Lightfall campaign where it was basically like, so what happens over the next 10, 20, 30 years? Like, and I went around the table and everybody, you know, said what they did.

God, I was just floods of tears because it was amazing seeing everybody so invested in their character and so happy to see their character have this story ending. Like that was super important to me yeah that's really glad that people cared about their characters enough to think about that yeah

you know because it's so easy in dnd like when i was a kid when we played nobody you didn't you didn't care about your character that much it was just a character that you played so being able to have that where everybody was like genuinely emotionally invested was top top stuff um so that was really good uh the other one for me the main one and i know this isn't necessarily high roles related but obviously was doing the stream of many eyes and being in critical role um callie is such a character that's become so important to me now and like all the artwork and stuff like that and just like every time i see it melts my heart because i don't normally get to have a character i'm only playing a wide range of people i love the npcs but there's something special about this being my character in another gm's game um and being in a game with

like matt who's been a friend of mine for so long was was top notch and then the stream of many eyes like going out there and meeting all of these dnd alumni and all these like designers and people i've watched and respected for so long was just like oh it's amazing so yeah yeah those those are definitely my highlights i think for for everything and then a lot of the stuff that we've already talked about like the cow fight was really funny yeah you know all that kind of good stuff um the the vesselvania house was that was fucking glorious it was that moment where you guys came out the room and you said like we're gonna leave we've made our decision and i rolled the because i had this mechanic where i was like every hour she moves around the house randomly because she's a ghost like she just

wanders where she wants i fucking the last roll for the last hour and i was like fuck and so like describing this like you look up and you see this woman and katie's face just like oh god no you're all just like no you're just freaking out i love those moments i love those moments so good i think again that's something that i don't want to attribute it entirely to the injury table but it was just after we'd had a massive fight as well with uh with those uh two injuries and two very close deaths that it was just again another massive uh weight that was added to that combat yeah um oh god i don't like thinking about it um too spooky everybody was just like no no no no no i think it was like

i don't know if it was you or kim or somebody's just like going no no no no no no like the cat like the cat name like no no no no no no no no no so funny it's like we gotta get out watching you guys freak out like all the bad feelings like no what you got there tommy boy uh i've just been copying there was actually a lot of questions okay good i didn't realize we can go through those now because we got like 20 minutes still so uh is the world of a row is fully planned out or are you still developing it as the campaign progresses still developing it so the way that i tend to do my campaigns is i plan out the vague areas where the pcs are and then we'll slowly build out the other continents. Erois is

a million times bigger than the Lightfall campaign as well, than Arak. So Erois is I think like five big continents, two major archipelagos, and a series of the sky cities which are themselves basically

massive locations. How does Savona compare to Arak? Savona is about the same size as Arak. Holy shit, and that's just one of five. That's just one of five. And then you've got the archipelagos and the sky cities as well. And they're all very... I've tried to be much more in detail with their economics

and their, you know, the governments and kingdoms and stuff like that as well. So, yeah, so Eros is pretty big. So I haven't planned it all out yet. It's always going to be growing, hopefully growing with the help of these guys as well um so yeah so eros is pretty big so i haven't planned it all out yet it's always going to be growing hopefully growing with the help of these guys as well like as they come up with more stuff for their backstories oh yeah um have you forgotten about nova's hand being infected it was sometimes i do things where i'm like i'm gonna make you roll a saving throw and i'm gonna describe some stuff but i not actually going to make you get an infected hand.

I'm doing it to scare Kim because it's funny. Yeah. It would have been healed by now anyway. Yeah. And here's the other thing, right? With this bloody person on the team, miss five hit points cure disease. There's no point.

There's just no point worrying about it anymore. Everyone gets heals. Yeah. Alan's, man. You get a heal, man. You get a heal. I don't even have to roll for it. It's just there.

It's gone. Take it. See ya. I need a rest, and then it's back again. Isn't it possible for Century to reanimate Echo? I thought he was basically like a familiar and can be restored when she takes a rest or something. Yeah talked about this isn't it so so yes he can just be repaired he can be replenished like a like a familiar but you wanted it to actually be like

you wanted to find a reason to rebuild him and like you know an actual in-game rp way to do it properly yeah yeah that's it so we're we're working towards that but i mean yeah it mean, yeah, it's up to you how you want to do that. Like if you want to find some remnant tech or buy some old guardian parts or something like that, that's a way that can happen. So yeah. That's the plan. Cool.

So you've basically personally added some... Yeah, Rhiannon's personally chosen that she wants to do it in an RP way rather than just, oh, I click my fingers and he's back kind of thing. Because it's basically like you have to pay a certain amount of gold and do an hour long ritual and then you can get them back

it'd be cool to just like have to physically get acquire the means to yeah make him again it'd be fun yeah

are you all are you overwhelmed by all the questions being asked not really I like it I love answering questions it's great

have any of the characters developed or grown in a way that you hadn't considered when thinking them up? Interesting question. What about you guys? Definitely. Yeah, you've still done a lot of growing. I think when it comes to how characters react to the world, for me, I kind of leave it to the scenarios they're placed in so I obviously couldn't predict episode one crashing an airship yeah the murders in Rose Hall losing the eye saving Valor and his reaction to Brookstone and things like that like if I spend

ages writing down well if he's in this situation and he'll do this thing I don't know how I want him to grow I just want him to grow naturally with the world that surrounds him and I think yeah there's a lot of stuff that surprised me like he's gone from meek and mild to he has his moments of of authority and like that moment when you stood up against the crowd of Brookstone and like you were calling him out and stuff yeah go from the meek century century century century yeah i think he knows when he's angered and when he's crossed he takes that position and like when he was called leader before any of that even happened surprised me um because he'd shown no reason to be the authority in my opinion

but then obviously when everything happened and he suddenly bam, this is what he's going to do now, he's a leader and he's calling the shots and also he's basically telling someone that he killed their son He did do that

He did do that I'm getting messages on Discord now basically telling someone that he killed their son. He did do that. He did do that. I'm getting messages on Discord now. What about the other characters? Rie and you? I think Sentry has become kind of more gentle than I think I envisioned her. I think I wanted her to be more of like a...

In the start, I imagined her being this badass. Like, ugh. She's a soldier. I thought she'd be more sort of run and gun hack and slash type. But she's got this

like, really she's got this nice sort of soft personality to her which I think kind of is a nice contrast against her exterior. Like, she might look like really imposing and freaky but she's just this she just wants to care and protect and i think that that's come about with the group as well because obviously you made century and then the group got together

and adventure together and really the group is a lot of soft they need to be protected like lucius quill and nova they're not warriors they're not soldiers they're not fighters the only one who is is alo who's very fiercely independent yeah so i think century becoming more soft and motherly and protective of these three useless children um makes sense like it's you know she's got to look after them because they can't clearly fight for themselves or they can but they need a little bit of help along the way yeah so i think that that makes sense i really like it yeah i like that as well um and yeah i think it's yeah people would see sentry as this badass robot warrior and it's not you know there's a softer side there i think like

i feel like lucius has changed quite a lot like i feel like lucius has grown up like you know what if not the most than one of the most out of everybody because obviously he started off as just the obnoxious daddy's boy and he still has that but there are also these moments of maturity i will always remember after the brookstone thing lucius is the one who was first like we gotta fucking find this guy like he's like i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this i'm gonna clear these people away like he was on it like trot really role played that really well of him like taking command of the situation as well and i think like having lucius and quill being the ones doing that whilst nova was just freaking out and you know century was upset and ayla's just like i don't

know what to do ayla wasn't there at the time um made a really nice kind of contradiction kind of thing so um yeah it was really really good uh yeah Yeah, that was nice. Any more, Tom? Yeah, I think we need to rattle through these because we haven't got a lot of time left. What made Rhiannon and Tom join? Why did you guys want to? I think it's a slightly different question. I wanted to

because I've always known about D&D and I've never found a group to play it and I joined you in Civ a couple of times and it was great fun. Yeah. And I loved it. And there's actually, in one of the Civ episodes, I think it's the snowflake one,

when Shin nukes the world, and it's the worst thing that's ever happened. There's one episode where I think I say, I'd love to play D&D. And that was before I joined Hyrule. You can find that. But yeah, i just really wanted to just want some dnd that's kind of the same um yeah same here yeah it's not what to dip

my toe into yeah and here we are yep and i and i think it was one of those things where with tom because i've done civ with him i was like tom's really funny i think he'd get on well with the group let's invite him in and try him out for a month and then with re it was the same thing of like we really like to as a person i knew you you'd done streams with Craigle and stuff, so I knew you weren't completely new to streaming. And I was like, let's give it a go. In case I need to ask again, how is Rhiannon so fantastic?

How are you so fantastic? Yeah, what happened? I don't know. Maybe it's Maybelline. There you go. Awkward Dog Boner sent us a message that says, what happened to that Awkward Dog Boner donation guy? He was really cool. He was really cool.

He was really cool. We miss you. We miss Awkward Dog Boner. Yeah. Would you fuck a mermaid? Just sure not answering. I've got a question for Mark. As a DM myself, I love to create nice encounters,

which sometimes do not get used. I'd love to hear what you do with the content that you have prepared for sessions, but the players never experience due to choices or other circumstances while playing, like recently with the Banshee. Most of the time, it just gets shelved, ready if they ever go back, then I'll just keep that on board.

And then I might think about how it's changed or adapted over time. Other times it just gets re-skinned and used elsewhere. Like, depending on the scenario. Illusion of choice. I'd like to know how Mark thinks the alternate dungeon masters, like Kim, have grown

with their one-shots. Well, it's hard because I'm very rarely in them. That's the thing, is often Kim does the one-shots when I'm away, so I haven't gotten to play yet, and I don't have the time to watch them back, sadly. But yeah, I think Kim has definitely learned a lot over the time. She's definitely...

Kim's always been really good. She comes to me with a lot of ideas, and she's very creative, and that's really... And she cares about the players having fun, and that's ultimately what makes a good Dungeon Master. I think it's just the only thing that Kim's learning now

is just the improvisational skills and that's just something you get from time and practice. She did very, very well with the asylum. Oh, yeah. That was so good. Creepy asylum.

Come in when we name that one. Something asylum. So good. So good. I'm going to route through some donations just while you find some questions. Travis donated, Hi, I love you. Thank you very much generally literate added five dollars to the notion

hey mark how do you go about structuring dnd sessions in terms of balancing combat non-combat and helping new players find their way loving the new campaign even though i run my own dnd group on sunday so i have to stick to the podcast um generally i don't try and structure it specifically i don't sit there and say like oh we'll we'll have a fight every two hours or whatever. I just generally look at the locations, the scenarios, what's been happening, and then just write encounters that would make sense. In terms of newer players,

the only thing I try and do is make sure that I give a certain amount of my attention to when Rhiannon joined is making sure that I would ask, what does Sentry think about this or what does Sentry want to do just to make sure that they feel included but then also like just checking in with them outside of the game and you know I did that like saying to you like how are you finding it are you

okay is there anything you need help on and just doing that in general generally seems to be the best way and just asking them to be involved so there's that DarthDave41 high rollers jingle jam still best jingle jam. Thanks for all the laugh, the oh shit moments,

the wait, what just happened moments over the last nearly three years. Here's to a cracking 2019 and whatever all of you lovely people throw at us. Thank you very much. And then Connor donated a ha ha ha fundo.

A fundo? 2018 has come and gone and while many of us change and grow in the coming year, one thing will never change is that love I share with this community. Been an amazing year.

You guys rock. Sorry, I'm a critter. That's not a problem at all um me too cool a couple more from discord a couple of friends want to start playing dnd when creating characters is it better to fit them in the world after knowing about it or create your character then fit it to the world i think you can do both i think as long as you've got a flexible dungeon master who can bend their world a little around you and you're willing to be flexible and bend your character around their world you can easily make do both it's it's a compromise between both sides like for example when we made it you know riannon really wanted to play a warforged i was like okay i don't want to use

warforged specifically because that's another campaigns thing i can make a race which is very similar and has similar traits and stuff like that and we can use that yeah um when you know tom had the idea if he was like i want to be a birdman cleric you know he didn't have a god in mind so he was like oh yeah hespa this god sounds great i'll use that one and stuff like that and then i think hespa slowly became more i've adjusted yeah yeah i changed it so that hespa became the father of Arakogra. Yeah, so it made more sense. Yeah. Would it be possible for fans to do their own version of Aroas in a future setting, in a future campaign setting? Well, the plan, the ultimate hope,

one thing which I've been working on for the last six months is I've been writing up the Aroas campaign as if it were to be made into a campaign book with the hope that one day i will publish that book and then you guys can use that to run your own adventures very similar to what matt did with the taldori campaign guide um because eros is such a big world that book will probably take the form of it will be focused on suvona another continent and then a few of the sky cities and then each book will be a different continent and different set of size cities and stuff like that

but you'll get like all the race information and stuff in the first book. So hopefully you can use that to run your games. It will take me a bit of a time and I haven't quite fully worked out how I'm going to do it because it requires a lot of artwork that I need to pay for. But yeah, we'll figure it out. Whether it's kick-started or something, I don't know.

Tom, how are you planning on breaking Mark in 2019? I don't write this stuff. It just happens. It just happened. It just happens. 30 just happened. It just happens. When will Century going feral start to become an issue? You are... So if I remember, Century is 13. 13.

So two years. Two more years. Two years. Well, 15 is the average. And 15 is the average when they start to go. It could happen sooner. When they go feral. Doesn't mean it can't happen sooner.

Yeah. I'm working on a longer piano arrangement of the Eurose theme. Is there anywhere I can send it when it's done so you guys can hear it? Or would it be sent with fan art? What's the fan art? Yeah, fan art email.

Is it highrollers at gmail.com? I think so, yeah. Go there. Use the fan art email because the best thing with that as well is Trot is the one who normally does the fan art videos and Trot is the one

who made the music and the theme he'd love to hear it he'd love to hear that last one Mark how did you feel oh this is from Nightjar by the way

oh perfect thanks Nightjar how did you feel when you saw Callie was included in the new Critical Role animated intro

super fucking happy oh that was so cool man no sorry carry on I was just going say like that was a genuine like i watched it i was super excited i loved the intro and then when i saw it come up i was like yeah my precious girl she's she's in in that world and i love it that intro is so like i can't wait for the fucking nine to go back to the dash so they can get her package matt's been

holding this package of gifts for months and i want them to get it also when are we getting an echo plushie and i'm a delight merch so i'm a delight merch we are talking about like doing a one-off like you know uh print on demand run so it won't make a lot of money for us but people can buy it if they want um echo plushie i am down for uh we need to look into it but yeah we need to check out yeah i mean we can do that we'll see yeah it's a tricky one to do plushies and stuff generally are very expensive yeah um but i think that's time um just one last donation because it's a it's a half hundo from metamano from metamano one of our regulars mark would you let a one shot happen so you can

play for once love you guys see you next year we talked about it I think like I would definitely be up for doing some stuff like that maybe when I need a bit of a break but the last thing to really talk about is one thing it is more of me GMing but one thing we've been talking about is doing a little side project a little mini series not sponsored it won't be in

Dungeons and Dragons it will be in a different system but it will be themed around Cowboy Bebop Firefly. Space Cowboys is the working title I have for it. We just need to talk to the rest of the group, figure out who wants to be in it, because obviously a lot of people have got other stuff going on. I know these two are keen.

So keen. But if Trot and Kim and Katie can't do it, then maybe we can ask people like Martin or Lydia or those kind of guys. And that will be on the High Rollers Twitch channel, not the Oggs channel. Yeah, and it will be on High Rollers YouTube. You can follow us on Twitter and you'll see all the updates there We are coming up with it It's a cool project for 2019, we want to do

more stuff like that, we want to do more little one-shots and YouTube content and videos and stuff like that as well More to look forward to in 2019 Also, New Year's resolution, I kind of want to DM this year at some point My boy! My boy! I've done it off stream before but um we'll see yeah maybe we should do like a little two week uh break in the summer

i feel like i've now committed to this oh amazing you said it now well look thank you so much for joining us for this look back on rollback our rollback do you get it on 2018

for high rollers I hope you've enjoyed it I'd like to make this a little yearly tradition hopefully next year we'll have more people with us as well we'll see you on the

29th of December next year which is the last Sunday no we'll see you next week I'm saying for the next rollback we'll see you for the next one

but yeah we'll be back next week 6th of January back the next rollback. We'll see you for the next one. But yeah, we'll be back next week, 6th of January, back in Erois, back to the campaign. We can't wait. Thank you so much for supporting the Jingle Jam. Thank you so much for supporting us throughout the year. Take care. Roll on Sunday.

See you in 2019. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you.