Nerd Poker - The Fog Campaign - Episode 81

Episode Date: July 30, 2026

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Hey, it's Brian Possein. Nerd Poker. We're calling it. The Fog Campaign. My friends are here. Chris Blaine. Ken, engineer Sam, and of course, our kick-ass DM, Dan Telfer. Welcome to Nerd Poker.

Hey, everybody. It's Brian Pousain. And you're listening to Nerd Poker. My friends are here. We're Zooming. It's episode 81 of The Foghkker. campaign. 81. Wow. We're all here. That was Blaine. Hey, Blaine. Was it? It was. Hi. Ken's here. Hello. I am Ken. Hey, pal. Chris is here. Hey, I heard Blaine and Ken are here.

Yes, I'm wearing. Take a picture of Lance Lager. Oh, there was a guy at Comic-Con dressed like Waldo, and I go, he's right here. And he looked so unhappy with me. He did not find it at all. He was really not trying to be found. Yeah, he did not want to be found. What? Dan is here, but he just can't see his Poonum.

But he was... Poonim. You heard me. What about his Pupik? His Pupik is, he's back. Look his Poonum and his Pupik. What a mensch. What a mench.

Look at him. Hey, Dan. We're going to do this whole episode in Yiddush. And, uh... Running the show from his Ruskel. I'm just making up words. Racist. Wait a second.

Nuts sense words are okay. It's Sam, everybody, from the cool part of his huskull. Hello, guys. It's Stettel. We should, uh, um, where's that, uh, where's that adorable dog? He's under the bed. I groomed him earlier, so he's mad at me. That chance.

Yep. So trim from rental. I get it. Dan, we should thank some people, right? I am trying to pull up the thanks. I would like to thank everyone. First of all, thank you, everyone sitting here right now listening to this on Zoom. Also, thank you to everyone who watches and listens to our show.

we are very grateful for you, especially if you head on over to patreon.com slash nerd poker. And we have supporters there like Ian Faisal. Thank you, Ian Fasel. Thank you, Megabeth. Thank you, A-Cab for cutie. Thank you, David Flea Ross. Thank you, Jim Hollingsworth. Thank you, two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.

Thank you, first goddamn week of winter. Well, that's hopefully soon. Thank you, Morrissey, the vegan boar. Thank you, Matt Wienz, thank you, Kilt Bill, thank you the electric bear. Thank you, sentient vampire penis, Stephen Miller. Thank you, Prop Meets, thank you, Deng Wayne, Halfstep. And finally, thank you, Tukans, son of Sam. Blaine, who are those supporters brought to us by?

As far is brought to us by Emodium LTS, lettuce that doesn't give you diarrhea. Tighten up those loose stools with Emodium LTS. Dan? Explain? All right. Well, I am gonna do my best to try and get around my extreme technical difficulties. And let's talk about what happened last time on Nerd Poker. We are mid-combatts.

You have the ability to head on over to Roll 20. Lord knows I'm having technical difficulties, but I'm going to be there in a second. And it will illustrate you guys are currently mid-combat with an avatar of Caius. the worm that walks, you have destroyed... I'm like surviving, difficult, please. I know, right? And that is also my doing. So you guys, you know, mid-combat,

as soon as I can get roll 20 on a device, I will. I may be running into the other room, though, to get an iPad since my iMac appears dead. So if someone could kill 20 seconds. What app do you think Dan has running on his iPad right now? Is it like Netflix? What do you think he's got to? Angry Birds.

Oh. Star Wars Angry Birds? No, it's not that hip. It's old G. Angry Birds. What's that fruit slicing game? 15 years ago. Fruit Ninja.

Fruit Ninja, of course. Coming a, I think. Racist. I have a crazy dog right now. Yeah, that's going to be a movie, I'm sure. Somebody's breaking in. The Fruit Ninjaverse. Yeah, I heard Venzo Washington is circling it.

Oh, nice. Are they still making the, is James Cameron still making the Skibbitty Toilet movie? Because, I mean, that was in production, right? That's gone already, right? We're not still Skibby Toilet. It's like, it's a year, it's a year ahead of Labuboos, which are all also gone. I'm really surprised It sucks as it's all eating itself

You can go on Fortnite and still get a skibbitty toilet skin In the in the featured section of their shop Oh Jesus Christ You know like everything is horrible for us What's the Steve Bishemi thing Where somebody was he was being interviewed And they said how does it feel that even though you've done All these amazing roles and great films

That you'll probably be most remembered for holding a skateboard and saying, how do you do fellow kids? And without listening to beat, he said, I was holding two skateboards. He gets it. I love this.

He doesn't even remember for it. He gets it. He's great. What was the last time you went to, Ken? It's been a while. 2007 was the last time I went. Wow. Weezy.

I've had it. I've still had it. I know. And you were so much a part of my cons for years. Like we would always hook up with either Marriott Barr, Hilton, or, you know, Hyatt. After 2000, X-Men, it just turned into a fucking crazy zoo. Then I gave up. It's pretty bad.

I mean. They were there. I don't like people. We went Thursday. Oh, no, we went Wednesday. We went Wednesday for preview night. And we walk in, I hate when I get proven a liar to my son, you know, like I'll go, I go, Hey, man, it's going to be chill.

There's not going to be anybody. there. We walk in. It was as full as a Saturday and midday. It was nuts. It never let down. Like it was... I can't do it. The best part for me was Saturday an hour before it closed. It got a little chill and I was like I was finally able to like shop by myself and I was nice. I got like a stack of books.

Cool. books and some cool really cool stuff i have last few years i haven't shop because uh well things are tight and and uh you know i everything's online and i spent money on roads well yeah yeah i do buy some books online but i miss that diving i miss going to a sure somebody's booth with my headphones on and you know spending like an an hour and a half you know going through amazing Spider-Man and Detective Comics and all these old, you know, because that's mostly what I collect is D.C. and. Are you looking for specific like Detective Comic runs or something like that?

No, man, I'm just trying to fill holes. Like I have, well, yeah, I mean, I have like. Are we all? And you remember what you do and don't have? No, no, I have an old school folder that I, the binder I had in college. and I still have it. I still have it. Now it's just covered in stickers.

Oh, wow. And so you'll bring that with you to Comic-Con or whatever? It's what my records are in, too. So half of it's my vinyl and half of it's my comic book. I'm always fascinated by people's collections and, like, the people who figured out how to manage their collection. Ken, you must be a professional at that. Oh, fuck, no, just for other people.

Oh, all right. Well, my own stuff is a mess. I have a drawer full of comics. It's so old school. So I type it out on my computer. For the listener, it's a black, hard, like, you know, just binder. And there's a big sticker of Terrence Trent Darby on the front. And on the back is Janet Jackson from...

Free running down. This will tell you how old it is. And there's a K&C.com when that was a thing. I'm sure you with Alex Bennett when he still had hair. Sorry, I'm kidding. He's never had it. The dude abides. Dude abides.

Sudapop. Jackson. If you're nasty. It's cover with great stickers. Cry baby. Cry baby. Yeah, cry baby is a wabedel. Oh, I thought the movie.

Yeah, John Waters movie. Hey, Brian, hold it up one more time. Did you hang out with Johnny Depp at Comic-Con? I heard him. I was eating. and oh you're around downtown yeah it was downtown at that uh you know at the hard rock yeah that it's uh a diner that's been there forever it's like changed hands it's gone through a couple names so i've been going i've been eating breakfast there for like 20-something

years he's still there right now he did but well yeah i hear this one whirl this like loud noise and shit I go what the fuck's that and uh the woman like really didn't give a shit the waitress. She just walks by and goes it's Johnny Depp again. He'd already done it and she was so over it. Going through our garbage like Jimpathy.

He lives here now. He worked his shit this morning. Wait, you got Jimothy? He lives with you? I'm ready to go. I'm worried about Jimothy. People better leave him alone. Yeah. None of your goddamn business. Let's do it.

People need to get out of his goddamn life. Yep. I mean, we could, yeah, we're back. We're back. I mean, I wasn't offline or anything. Hey. So, yes. And I am ready to go.

We are at the top of the turn order. So I believe Lil Peepers is going next. Little Peepers. Oh, you know, Dan, I think actually, not to contradict you. When we ended the last episode, Caius was about to do something. And you were like,

and we'll find out what? On the next, so I think turn order wise. Okay. We mean, I don't know, I think Kaius... I hate that idea. I know. I don't like it either. However, I'm sure the listeners were like, what the fuck's about to happen as a month?

Okay, thank you for having just listened to it. Of course. So, I'm just double-checking one thing because that might, in my, I mean that you had a legendary action he was going to do right before a little peepras, but I don't think so. So, yeah, ta-t-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ha.

Sorry, Dan, I know that puts you on the back, but I mean to do that. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry that I have a backflip to so prominently laid behind me at the moment. Yeah, you know, he might have been going to do a legendary action, but I guess I'll just have to save that for after one of your turns. Let's go ahead and make it his turn, and he's going to do his thing. So just to color the battlefield a little bit,

someone recently summoned a spectral dragon that's right behind him, and there is a poisonous cloud on the other side of Caius. Right now, you guys, Brian, Ken, and Little Peepers are in the southwest corner of this courtyard. Chris Twins in the northwest. Siam slash Blaine. you're in the bottom right slash southeast and caius is sort of to the southwest but those things are between him and keeping him at a little bit of a distance he is now going to use worm burst and this has a 20 foot radius on a point within 300 feet of him so I don't know if he can get more than you two at the same time but he's gonna yeah he's gonna hit Lil Peepers

and Shalab and this is you guys close your mouths this is gonna be an 18 I think it's wisdom sorry I'm just really still dexterity 18 dexterity saving throw.

All right. Let's see if I can get my brain working in the next couple of seconds here. Joe Bonham also just got a 59 worm burst. That's a 13 on my behalf. Okay. Can you still have that Bartick inspiration that I gave you? Yeah. I thought I used it.

In a bad time for it. Little people got it. You would know about a night. What's that? Little people. has made his deck saved. You would know better than he would if you have the Bartig inspiration. So is that a no-kin or a yes-kin?

I mean, no. Okay. So then sadly, this is going to hurt? Sure is. I'm going to have seven hit points, so it should be fine. Oh. Well, this might be two or three hit points, Ken. So hang on.

I'll just take the seven. Yeah. this is probably going to just be sort of like a gentle hug. Okay. Why is... I'll check and see what happens to the dragon.

I imagine it goes away. You imagine dragons? Brian! You have to rule a constitution saving grow. Constitution, not decks? Or for the dragon? For concentration. Yeah, if he's a concentration,

you should check to see if he's a concentration. so I assume he is, but that's just because you convinced me that you were a heart on your luck little guy. He's a concentration, Dan. Confirmed. Okay. Well, you're about to get hit with 5D6, and if you could roll a con save, if you're still up. I guess it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's 28 points of piercing damage. That's a 7 on the Constitution save, so that's pretty good. And that's only 14 hit points for Little Peepers, but he had 13 left, so he's going down. Oh, wow.

I don't like how this game is starting. Nope. Yeah, but I get a bunch of technical. The end of the last time, not so well. A bunch of technical issues, and then I'm like, all right, I murder all of you. Good night, folks. Damn, I don't like your iPad. I think you need to switch to your kidney.

So the dragon's gone. I'm gone. Yes. And Peepers. And Peepers. And Peepers. Let me go take a nap. All right.

Then then. The dirt nap. Brian, you're up. Okay. Where? So, uh, who are my options? Well, you're, oh, yeah, that's right. You're in the southwest corner about, do, do, do, do.

50 feet away from Kaias. Give your character sheet up? No, I'm so sorry this whole time. Okay. Here it comes to save the day. Man, the first time I saw Andy Coppin doing that bit, I couldn't even get my head around that. Underdye or Mighty Mouse?

The first time I saw him do that, I was like, what the fuck? Who's this guy? Like, here I come to the other. It's pretty incredible. It's an ascot. That's already a weird cartoon, really. Yeah.

And you've got a weirdo singing it. That's all it's weird. It's a lot of weird. You remember when he would have people come up on stage and touch his cyst? He had a giant, a giant, like a walnut-sized lump on his neck. And he would bring people. You can come off on stage and touch my cyst. They had like a bowl of water and people would have to put their,

dip their fingers in the water and wash their hands, then wipe them off on the squeam cloth and then touch his cyst. What the fuck? Was this like late stage Kaufmanism? Yeah, and I think it was like an evening at the improv. That's not very funny. Hey, dude, write some jokes. Right?

Where do you go from that? Oh, Christ, here comes Mighty Mouse. Try some crowd work. So where is he? You said he's 50 feet away? Yeah, 50 feet away, southwest corner. All right, well, I'm going to firebolt then. Sound good?

Do it. All right, here we go. She's only 17. 17. Will that hit? I didn't hear the number. I just heard 17, the song. I mean, did you also?

No. 17. Let's see. No, afraid not. I think we established that he has an AC of 21, but we haven't played in like a month and a half. All right. Fair enough.

I think I only have one attack, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, but you do might maybe have a bonus action you can do and you have movement. The reason I bring this up is because, although the bonus action might not see. seem exciting. You have cunning action, so you can dash and double

your movement speed, and you have two team members who are down. And so you could run over and try to, you know, get in position to help either Ken or

Little Peepers or who's closest? Little Peepers is slightly closer, but he is also the NPEBers. Yeah, I'm going to go help 10. Okay. Okay.

Thank you. So I'll get you over there. I won't be able to bind him on this turn, though, right? Not on this turn now. Okay. Next time, however, yes. And then, so we have Blaine next. Sam Spade.

I'm going to do a firebolt and run. So, when you say, Run. Are you headed towards those guys? Where are you running to? You can see where you are. Yeah, I'm going to run north to Alaska. Going north to Rush Zone. I'm going to run up. You can go north. Yeah. I'm going to go here. Sorry, how much? How far is that? From Caius? Now, how, from where I was? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for tracking it. It was 75 feet. I know you can. Yeah, I can only do 60.

Yeah. So I'll go up here, but I'm going to, and I rolled a 16 plus six. It's a 22 to hit. It is a hit. Nice. And 2D10. Grab these D10s. 9 plus 7.

16. Okay. A huge chunk of worms go flying off Kaius and there's a loud shriek. He's been hit a lot. You guys have hit him

for over 300 hit points of damage at this point. So a shriek like that Let me talk. Let me talk to him. Yeah. This might be a misunderstanding. Oh.

I mean, what do you say? Do you call out to anything specific? No, no. No, just kidding. Okay, for a moment, he thought he wasn't as alone in the cosmos, but now he's back to being a cosmic horror.

And then that's going to take us... Blaine sounds like... I was obviously going to say, Blaine, that sounds like you might have a thing there. You might have a... I'm just saying. When Blaine said he was about to say something, Kai has turned to listen.

It's worth me. I know. It's very just like... Worth noting. Worth noting. It's probably like a talking cat What kind of crazy fantasy game is this? Anyway, back to me being made out of worms Um

Is it? Is it? He's not what he's having. Uh, who's up, Danny? You, you. I tried to not just vindicate you were able to talk but that it is your decision. My mistake.

Uh, all right, I will move, uh, seeing, uh, uh, Spikoli rush for our fallen friends. I will, I know it's scary, but I gotta get close. One, two, three, four, five, six. Well, I just mean all of us in a clump seems terrible, especially because he can clearly do whatever that fucking was,

worm cano. From here, the sushi bar. From here, I will cast, I'm going to cast healing word at, third level on our good friend, Ken Daly. Oh. It's really me now. That's just my character. So Ken, you get 14 hit points.

Nice. Wow. So does it, I go to zero and then get 14? Is that what happens? Yeah, you hit zero and now you're healed for 14. You are still prone and not to the ground, but you have 14 hit points in our And covered in little oogie-woogies. And I will then, as I'm running up, I will say to, oh wait a, can I have bonus action?

If I can bonus action, but then I can't do it. I've already spent my action. From where I am, I'm going to look at Spicoli and, you know, Spicoli, I sort of shout to you, Spicoli, I need to touch you. When we're dancing. I like how Brian briefly looked up when you said that. So I say I scream that out. Okay.

And then can I do this? Okay. So I can once prolong rest as a fay-touched creature. I can once per turn or once per long rest do a misty step, but it's not a spell. It's inherent in my, so this is like my hair glowing a little more purple and my eyes growing a little more purple and me embracing that whatever Fay ancestry that I have. And I will misty steps 30 feet closer, which I think gets me next to him, but I can't. do anything. So one, two,

three, four, okay. Can you not do anything because of like a lack of action? Yeah, well, to, the thing I want to do is cast a touch spell, but I have,

but I've already used my action to do the healing, uh, word. So I'm basically now in front of him and I'm trying, let me touch you. And that's the end of my turn. All right. I hope,

I hope that you can make the touching that you want to happen, happen. Oh, me too. So let's see. Then next in the turn order is Ken. Ken, you have been healed. You can use Haccombinum to stand. What's that?

Use Haccom movement to stand. I just remind a newly awakened folk. Okay, awesome. I'm going to cast Promatic orb. Thunder damage. And that is What is the saving? Why can't I see it?

Wisdom. No, sorry, dexterity. Dexterity saving throw. Great. Twelve to his saving throws. To all of his saving throws? His Dex ones and his wisdom ones. Terrible.

Golly. Yeah, so he failed. Ignore the second role and third roll. He got a 28. No, that's not even close. I'm sorry, 23, but that's still not. Yeah, great. I try to catch a spell, but instead I shit my pants.

Does he do half damage? Yeah, does he do half? From the pants shitting, spraying down his throat and giving him a bottle. Yeah. A hit. Yeah. Gross, you guys. I don't see anything about a miss.

Diaries on the news you've got these days. Usually we'll say something like, honest success, the target creature take. Oh, yeah. On the fail. Ken, I think Chromatic Orb is a spell attack, not a save. Oh. You did Chromatic Orb, right?

Yep. Yeah. Yep. Also giving it a lookup. Oh, so it's just an attack. Spell attack. Use the bonus on your skull attack. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay. Billy's excited. Poor Rhodes, I do the same jokes every time we see one of those street hot dog vendors, you know, when we're walking out, we were walking through Comic-Con, and there was several of them downtown San Diego. And every time we walk by one, I want, I go, you want diarrhea later? I love it. He liked the first couple of times. Hot parts. High parts.

And then you used her comedy against him, Brian. I botched. Ooh. Well, you realize she's like 110. No. Jesus Christ. Ken, would you like diarrhea later?

Did you say it was thunder damage? Yeah, thunder damage. Well, when you botched thunder damage, it's certainly diarrhea. 65. Almost nice. Okay. The spell is going to misfire,

and you're going to cast it too close. Hmm. Please take half damage and roll damage against yourself with Chromatic Orb. Well, I mean, why not? This is going great. I take half of 32. Hoof.

16. You're going back down, aren't you? I'm dead. Unconscious. Unconscious. Whatever. The comedy of like Wormbursts can down,

heel, I'm back up. Spell, miss fire, boom, back down. Fucking bucks bunny cartoon and daffy duck.

This whole time little peeper is just laying on the ground. Yeah. Just dead. Anyway, I will not do anything

at this point. Okay. I wish you the best of luck with your nothing and that it soon includes someone helping you up. Lil Peepers fails his first death save, and up next is Caius. He's going to move closer to you guys, and that means he's also going to have to roll con save.

We've rated to those fart clouds. Yeah. Hi, farts. Summer in the city. back on that getting dirty and gritty he does roll in 19 so he is going to take half damage on the

hot farts he takes 10 points of poison damage and then he is going to swat at you Chris he's casting Arthur Treacher's at you you're going to take Poisson damage. Poisson damage.

23 to hit. Poit three hits. I'm arts a treatcher. Bump bha, bump, bha, bump, bha. I got a berth. Arthreatcher. I miss Arthur Treachers. Their chicken and chips was fantastic.

I feel like there's one. I know there's a couple H salts still around. A.A. H. salt is a diarrhea magnet. The one in, let's see. where North Hollywood is now Randy's donuts. Yeah, that's bullshit. I don't like it.

I like donuts. Oh, sure. Who doesn't? And Randy seems like a pretty cool guy. Coyahoga Falls, Ohio. Let's go, guys. Road trip. 21 points of bludgeoning damage, Chris.

21. Ay, aye, y'ye. Big cartoon black eye around for Twidding. Racist. Still standing, though? Yes. Brian, you are up. Okay.

I'm going to fire bolt. Do you guys see the opposite? Does Ken still need to be bound? No. Yeah, he's on, he's, yes. I'm down. Yeah, I'll bind him. Okay.

Thank you. Yes. There is an author, Treaters embedded in the airport passenger terminal at Naval Station Rota in Rota, Spain. There you go. All right. Oh, it's just join the Navy

and go to Spain, you guys. Go to Patton to go there. Oh, yeah. Why Patton? He's in Spain? It was in Spain. Oh, what's he doing in Spain? Oh, wow.

I'm Googling Arthur Treacher's. That's what that is? In East Islip, New York, a small strip mall store has a combination Pudgies and Arthur Treachers. I'm at the Pudgies. I'm at the Arthur Treachers. at the combination puddies and Arthur Treacher.

Arthur Treacher was where Griffin's co-host back in the day. And then he made a fish store. Wow. You can hear us losing listeners. Fish stores are like an aquarium pet store. But you can eat them.

Founders included S. Robert Davis, his friend Dave Thomas of Wendy's and L.S. Retsog. What the hell? Are you asking chat GP stuff again? No, I'm reading it off of a wiki, wiki, wikipedia. Oh, God. Okay, Buck.

All right. Well, I tried to fit some rifts in there, but I think my lag has killed them all. Whenever you're ready. I have, to answer your question, I have no interest in the audience. I saw it. I like it. Yeah, I love it. I took, uh, uh, Ali, and he loved it.

Great. I had low expectations. I like Chris Renan, but war movies and his war movies, me. And I hated Oppenheimer, but I loved it. I like, yeah, I'm not a dark night guy, but I like the, I like his other stuff, and I like the Odyssey. I like Preshige and I like Memento and that's the full extent of it. And a dark night, I like, I like Heath Ledger. I only like Dark Night.

Chris? Yes. I didn't like that. Oh, no, sorry. I'm just absentmindedly gesturing. I like to. First movie, first one is Memento, right? No, there was one before.

Oh, fallen. Yeah. That's an old. one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Memento was the only one and then Dark Night I like... Did you see Prestige? No. It's good. I like prestige. Yeah, I really like...

It's about two magicians fighting. I remember. I remember when it came out. Yeah. I might have seen it then. You know, if you cut out the dream sequences in Inception, it's a movie about junkies nodding off in hotel rooms. I didn't love inception. No.

Yeah, I loved it. His movies are all top-heavy. He thinks he... Get into the top spinning? Top at the end of... Yeah. Go Jokin. Yeah, I liked it.

I do think Tenet, I liked Tenet. I still had to read the Wikipedia entry seven or eight times to know exactly what I just witnessed. The time of the chain was founded, Tricia was known as the announcer and sidekick to Merv on the Merv Griffin Show. I told you.

Yeah. He sometimes visited the restaurants arriving in a red double-decker bus. Racist. The jackass. Ye. Who's turn did we leave off on? Kaius hit me for 21 points. Yeah. Okay.

Then it's Chris, uh, Brian's turn. Ooh. I, I do bound it. Binding. I did bound it. So, yeah, okay. That's not the last thing that happened. So it's a plane.

I'm up. Up in one. Oh, it's me again? Yeah. I'm going to, I guess, go up here. So I'm only doing 30 feet now. And I'll do another firebolt with this guy. Great.

Oh, that's a natural 20. Plus six. That's a hit. Nice. Nice. It's 2. I want you guys. 2D10.

13, so 26. Right, so that's going to just scorch off a bunch more worms, another loud shriek. He is starting to wobble in place, and you see him almost phasing in and out of existence. I like it. I like it. And by standing, I mean, he is still a pillar of worms. But, yes, he is still conscious of life. My old friend.

Is that it for you, Blaine? Because that'll take us to Chris. You take it to Chris. Chris took to you. I look at Spicoli and you have a bow or a crossbow? What do you use? I have a short bow, a dagger, a short sword, and... The ranged weapon, what do you normally use?

A short bow, my friend. Oh, but we're in melee with this guy. All right, it doesn't matter. I will put my hand on your shoulder and say, kill this thing. And I'm going to cast greater invisibility on Spicoli. Whoa. So what that means, Brian, is normally, you know, with invisibility,

you're invisible until you take a cast a spell or an action like attack and make become uninvisible. with greater invisibility, you're invisible for the next minute. Okay, cool. And you can attack, and the reason I'm bringing this up is because now that you're invisible,

you can make that count as you then, I believe Dan, having advantage, which will then start triggering your sneak attack damage. As long as you use... Like a backstab and sneak attack. Yeah, but it doesn't work with magic. Like, for example, Firebolt, I think...

Yeah. I think back... Dan, you... Backstab is technically like a second edition term, but sneak attack means you get to use all that giant pile of dice if you have advantage. Annaman, you have advantage because you're surprising. But the type of attack matters as well.

For example. Well, yeah. Yes. I'll just go in right there with the... I have that javelin. I have that advantage of javelin. So I cast greater visibility on him as my action. I will...

Look down. Bonus action. Yeah, so I'm looking up the rules. It has to be, to get your sneak attack damage, it has to either be a finesse weapon or a ranged weapon. So you could use like a rapier or like a light hand weapon, or you could use a bow or a crossbow. I have a short sword I could use.

Is that okay? Does it say finesse on it? Mealay. I can look that up to. No, it's a melee weapon. Well, Phenna's like a quality of a melee weapon Oh, it does say finesse. Yeah, there you got.

Short-sart, Marshall Finesse-like Lens. Yeah. And my daggers are finesse also. Great. So, yep, you could do any of those things, and he is in melee range. Cool. And Chris, you were in the middle of saying something. I'm going to bonus action cast a healing word.

Let's do that at, I'll do that. again at third level I hope this does not destroy Shalab's body by being up and down so many times 14, pal. All right, 14 points for 10. And then... Awesome, thank you.

He's letting me know that DoorDash is here. Oh, cool. Well, that might be the perfect time for us to transition from anything else Chris is going into until next to the poker. I'm going to start spreading out and I'm going to start one, two, three, four, five, six, uh, 30 feet to the north out of,

so we're not one pile of guys for him to smash like that again. That's it. Great. Well, uh, we'll see what happens next time on a nerd poker. And if you would like to see me stumble like Mr. Bean and spill coffee on my iPad during your Dungeons and Dragon session, and you can head to Dan Telford.com. Blaine, you got anything coming up?

Let's see. Well, by the time this airs, yeah, I'll be in Kansas City this weekend, Kansas City Comedy Club with J.T. Habersat, four shows, Friday, Saturday. And then the next thing is until the end of August. I'm in San Jose, California, where I lived when I was from five to nine years old.

So if you went to God, can't even remember Will Rogers Elementary Holy shit, I pulled it. If you went to Will Rogers Elementary in San Jose, California in the early

70s, come say hi at GalaxyCon here in San Jose or just come by and say hi. But I would be a trip if some San Jose people that are still 60 years later or whatever.

And then, right up to sane.com for more tour dates. I've got Seattle coming up, which is always a favorite, Neptune, that theater. I've been there several times. It'll be me and J.T. and Derek Sheen for that show. So that is a solid hour and a half of laughing at dudes who have it worse off than you. Physically. and then there's some other stuff coming up

Blame Do you have anything to plug or? August 2nd I'm going to be doing Dr. Z. live at the Dynasty Typewriter with guests Edie Patterson Haley Joel Osmond and Haley Joel Osmond

and Paul William for fuck's sake. Oh my God. I should come to that one. That's crazy. Oh, look at that. Ken, it's got a phantom of the paradise ring.

Oh, love that mask. Yeah, that's so good. I'll also be at Scribble in Highland Park doing stand-uping on August 25th, and I got a blood test coming up on August 11th, if you want to come check that out.

Nice. But in the meantime, We attribute the success. Save mankind for me. We're joining us on this episode. You got walls and a roof. Well... I think we should check the Nerd Poker Mailbag.

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