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Way more than 1 in 8 lol, she rolled a d20 first, got and 11 which led to a place where she had to roll AGAIN and roll a d8 and THEN rolled an 8 lol. That Dragon REALLY wanted to kill them and Ashley's dice are accomplices. Look at Matt's face, he's like Hmm, interesting, you managed to find the one nuclear weapon made of past mistakes laying out in this open field. That's talent. SPOILERS FOR C2 about the dragon Her name is Gelidon, The Nightmare in Ivory and this is not the first time that they've met, so no, it's not a random dragon generator.
He said to roll and then do a second roll with a D8, so i'm guessing the ELEVEN was dragon, and the D8 determined how powerful the dragon was. So when he said "You got an 8?" it's because now he gets to throw the uber dragon at them.
@@haku8135 More like 11 is "combat encounter, high-end" and 8 out of 8 is simply labeled "Consequences." Or "Gelidon," which is easier to fit into a table.
@@haku8135 SPOILERS nah, they've met this dragon before, and they were in her territory, so that wouldn't make any sense. They're pretty territorial I think. Like the other person said 1-7 was probably like Pack of wolves, ice worm, etc.
Bookish Defense. Spending much time with scribes, notetakers, and other pensman, you have learned how to defend yourself with a book. -You gain a +1 bonus to Intelligence -On your turn (no action required) you can use a book that is being held by two hands to assume a defensive state. While in this state, you gain a +1 to A.C. and protection against yelling from your party members.
M9 reaction to Matt's "of a massive white dragon" Travis: Disbelief Laura: Excitement Liam: Excitement Sam: Shock Ashley: Mortification Talison: Calculation Marisha: All of the above
My favorite parts of this fight were: 1) Everyone (but Travis mostly) kept calling Gelidon a "he" , and Sam asking "C'mon Matt, can't we just change it?" And Matt's reply: "NO! She is the Nightmare in Ivory, and you will respect her!" 2) When Gelidon started to escape, and they started to realize it, Ashley going, "NO! I summoned this bitch, and we are going to end her!"
That moment taught me something about DMing. It doesn't matter how detailed your description is. All that matters is making your players feel like their characters would. It only took 4 words and he made everyone panic with tone and context alone. Dat boi gud.
Gelidon they went at guns blazing and drove an Ancient White Dragon off. Tomb Takers they went at piecemeal, and nearly lost people over and over. The M9 are too clever for their own good and way stronger than they believe themselves to be.
hello gelidon my old friend, we've come to fight with you again. because of visions softy peeping, planted seeds while they were sleeping, and the vision that was planted in their brain, still remains, it's just the sound of violence
0:26 I love how you can see Matt’s eyebrows raise as he looks down and confirms what the 11 means Like he’s already realized what could potentially happen
@@jasonreed7522 that had... nothing to do with either of the two comments before yours?... Like.. that was _just_ a spoiler of a different moment and subplot of events to come, and nothing else lol
Rime of the Frostmaiden has a random encounter like this is in the book. You can randomly step on an ancient white dragon while trekking through the tundra. Whoops!
When I ran it the party encountered her at the Dark Duchess while they were still only 5th or 6th level. Super stressful but through clever usage of illusions and being stealthy they were able to escape and hide in the snow for a few hours before the dragon got bored and flew away
Tbh this might have been a modified chart that was originally taken from Rime of the Frostmaiden. Roll for random event, the 11 is a random fight. Roll for an enemy, the 8 is an ancient white dragon. Then in true improve fashion Matt decided the ancient white dragon would be the one they already met in the past.
Ugh I relate to this so hard. My party and I were playing around with this switchboard in a hall that was keeping a menagerie of high CR monsters in cells. My dumb ass rolled the magic number that released a fucking SIBRIEX and NIGHTWALKER. We barely made it out alive.
Pausing at 2:56 gives the absolute best reactions from the group, sam and travis with a big smile, ashley hiding behind the book, taliesin with the closed fist to his mouth, laure and marisha just in shock and liam in disbelief
I'm still amazed at just /how/ important this roll was. Like, yeah, they fight a dragon. But consider the other possibilities: A good roll would have let them get to their destination with no issues to the point where there would be no need for a rest, meaning the Tomb Takers wouldn't have tried to steal their Bag of Holding. A slightly worse roll would have made the trip go longer, but the Nein would probably have been more well equipped to fight the Tomb Takers. Heck, since Otis stole the Bag during the fight, there's a good chance that even with some of the other possibilities, there wouldn't have been a chance to take it. And then you get to everything that's happened since the Bag was stolen and just, man. Butterfly Effect.
I'm so glad that this has happened to someone else as I am the bane of everyone's existence in my group for random encounter rolls. My luck includes. An ogre for a level one party of 3 people. More trolls than I care to count at levels 2 and 3 A young green and black dragon at level 4 A kraken at one point, I forget what level. Fog that melts people A storm of literal blocks of cheese. Sudden bouts of narcolepsy. Sorry rogue. An earthquake. Fucking mammoth mating season. And a portal to the shadow fell.
Man, this is another showcase of why Matt is such a great DM. It's pretty obvious now that Ashley rolled for the dragon on a random encounter table. But instead of going "As you travel, a dragon swoops down and attacks you!", Matt instead lulls the party into a false sense of security, foreshadows that something scary is coming with the wolves (Which, if the party was jumpy enough, could have given them the chance to prepare or even avoid the encounter) before then dropping the bomb that is a massive dragon bearing down on them.
I was thinking the same thing. It would have been so easy to immediately go "You hear this whooshing sound, like the flapping of a pair of large wings, getting closer to your position", and many DM:s probably would, hoping for a reaction from their players (not throwing any shade, I know perfectly well that I am guilty of it; it's just so easy to get anxious and eager about the cool thing that you have planned, that you forget to take the time to properly build up to it). But that doesn't build tension or trepidation anywhere near as well as drawing it out in this manner does. After all, there's a reason why something as simple as the vibrating water cup from Jurassic Park went on to become such an iconic visual.
But they wouldn't be able to escape at all because the dragon had there scent,so the dragon knew they were around in that location where it landed,unless the M9 had a way to teleport or go to another realm they weren't escaping it
Best part is this was the campaign her character hooked up with Marisha's, with Marisha known for wearing her books as hats whenever in a tense and stressful situation. She's picking up her in-game girlfriend's habits
Lol, Sam is playing an alcoholic goblin. The flask is a gag with throwbacks to his old character who was a gnome, and he had a comically large beer mug.
Sam plays small characters, so it’s a visual gag based on the perspective of his characters. The rendition of it in campaign three was hilarious as well.
In contrast, for a brief period in their first campaign, he did play a normal sized character with a normal sized mug. But the character was rich and the mug was gold
I loved it. The battle was awesome. If there was a time to do it, right then was the perfect time. I wonder what this implies for gelidon's future plans.
Hard to say what a white dragon usually plans. Typically, they hunt out of instinct, but Giledon has shown she's far more intelligent than any other white dragon I've heard of
@@shoylerk9973 I think she may be a recurring theme, like if they forget about her and go to the north again, she'll probably be more prepared than this encounter (like fjord forgetting ukotoa when he goes to the sea and having to deal with an unexpected encounter).
@@shoylerk9973 I think that intelligence is why she lived so long, given white dragons are considered one of the weaker dragons. It’s probably also what got the attention of the Chroma Conclave
At some point in the first campaign the cast convenced themselves that dragons have Truesight And Matt just calmly watches each time they back away from doing things to better hide themselves. think he corrected them once with a roll from Vex.
To put this into perspective, there was-assuming no duplicates, which wouldn't really make sense, but who knows-a 1 in 160 chance of this happening when it did. It would be interesting to see the total number of daily encounter rolls that were made so that the overall chance could be determined.
Couldn't say without Matt's notes unfortunately, because he's been sliding in new encounters when old ones are used up. For now we don't know if ole' Frosty's been in there from the start.
I yearn for the one-shot when Isharnai, Gelidon, followers of Uk'otoa, and basically anybody with any sort of vendetta against the Mighty Nein form into a Legion of Doom to get revenge... and Lord Sharpe is there too.
i had been predicting this since this was well within Gelidon's territory and she had made the statement about having their scent. That feeling of vindication when Matt started describing the encounter. ^_^
ah yes, let us cover ourselves in snow and hide there from the Apex Predator of the Tundra, who, among other things has blindsight, a very good nose and seems to fly in our direction = has probably seen us already I loved that moment so much, especially with Lucien going: "ah shit it's a motherfucking dragon.."
we had this happen to us in a campaign im playing in. We ended up encountering a dragon and sacrificed an npc so we could get a head start and ran as fast as we could. We were level 3
What's funny, when I was watching the previous episode, I was thinking "Hey, it's been a while since they encountered that dragon. I wondering it'll show up now that they're in a snowy area."
See this is why you don't piss off ancient white dragons and if you just so happen to do so avoid said dragon's territory and about 150 miles beyond for the rest of your life because they *will* find you...
0:55 "And so ends the story of [The Mighty Nein]..." Spoilers But this could be true though! The dragon fight gave Otis the chance to steal Fjord's bag, which caused M9 and TT to fight at an already weakened state, which caused them to retreat back to Rexxentrum for a bit, which caused them to speak with Astrid, which caused them to steal the anti-divination necklaces, which is causing Trent to hunt them down, which caused them to go to Hell..... They are at a new low they may have never descended to if Gelidon never came back.
They don't have truesight, but they do have very good sight. They also have very good smell and this particular dragon already knew their scent. It was probably already to late to avoid being detected.
