I was laughing so hard at that. Because boats move what like 4mph? and sea turtles can swim 22 mph so it was probably just swimming laps around the boat xD
Didn't Fjord also have his damaging armor spell activated during the first clip? Cause there was one clip I specifically remember them going "oh shit" over because of his armor attacking the polymorph
I love how the snow bunny did 1 point of damage, and in return Fjord did 1 point of damage, and that just unleashed this terrible Ice Worm. They barely scratched each other, but the consequences were still dire.
One thing to remember about giant tortoises is that while they are slow, if they bite you it's probably going to take some of you with it. That shit fucking hurts.
The thing is, Liam was thinking of a Galapagos Tortoise, but the Monster Manual actually has an entry for a snapping turtle the size of a VW Beetle. That's what Matt was using.
it's even more hilarious that he actually let it play out for a moment only to drop the bombshell at the end that it didn't matter what Fjord did the worm was coming out.
@@oscarlangdon3233 Depending on what creature something is turned into, they all have different amounts of hit points. when those hit points reach zero, they return to their previous form, and any extra damage from the attack that made them hit zero is carried over to their actual hit point pool. So if you damage a polymorphed creature too much, they revert back and get all of their scary abilities and statistics back.
If it were me, I'd probably just pick something like a Giant Slug that would be very slow and pretty easy to just avoid....and/or just try to move/teleport it into a nearby hazard, like an acid or lava pool. :P
Marisha during the game: How dare you not have a cow mini. Marisha on the drive home: please don’t buy cow minis, please don’t buy them.... OuR HoUsE iS aLrEaDy MaDe OuT Of MiNiS !!!!!!
@@chrism7395 I was also thinking about when he got killed by Nott twice, both times with an explosive crossbow bolt. And when he got eaten by that ice bug thing.
if I had a quarter for every time they had to polymorph the same monster twice because the first polymorph was still dangerous I'd have 75 cents which isn't much but it's weird it's happened three times
The best part of D&D is that a good DM can make grown-ass adults feel afraid of make-believe animals. I'm not even ashamed to say that I live for those moments.
I think it's so good because they LET themselves be scared. Especially Travis. He doesn't have to be big strong guy who Must Protect Family, he can be Fjord who is afraid of turtles
@@High-LordHarza that's only true in American English. In English, tortoises are the land dwelling kind and turtles are the swimming kind. It's a clear distinction.
One of my favorite parts about Fjord being attacked by Polymorphed animals is that he has so many things that if something damages him, it'll automatically damage it back. Just amazing.
which one poses a real threat to Fjord: an awakening ancient leviathan with its dominion span across the sea backed up by an army of cultists one snapping boi
It's less that it went after Fjord, more that he was on top of it when it was turned into a bat mid-flight, sending him careening into the ground at Mach 1.
7:44 Travis is very “they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand”
other dms: "no, you can't polymorph my boss into a tortoise" matt: "and.. is now covered" proceeds to cover the miniature of a polymorphed tortoise with a blanket
Matt knows that they’re stupid enough that they’ll do to still keep the fight hard, it’s why he doesn’t have to compensate by making things immune to polymorph. Now stunning strike on the other hand…
As Verity already said pretty much all female cows have the capability to grow horns. It's a thing that all horn wearing species (not antler wearing) have in common, both male and female animals have horns, most times the horns of the females are smaller thought.
@@Thewrittingferret i'm not sure about in the UK, but in the US a lot of breeds the horns are slowly being bred out (i think, i'm not sure why though, probably a safety thing)
7:38 Trambooze was so happy to have his nat 20 and thought Matt was staring because he thought he cheated. Littel did he know, it was disbelief that he is AGAIN attacked by the transformed creature!
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It’s situations like this that ‘inspired’ my DM to institute the house rule ‘you can only polymorph/wild shape into things you’ve brought the mini for yourself.’
I mean, the man tried to intimidate a forest after becoming a paladin, guess his job bio is more about putting the most unruly parts of nature into order x)
Does the sea turtle technically count? It couldn't attack Fjord because it was in the water, but it still was faster than and tried to attack their ship, which Fjord was captaining. And this most recent time, I think, is technically the first time turning something into a turtle has worked, and they still kind of had to struggle with it.
You mean the Dragon Turtle? Technically they're Dragon type, not Beast type so it's more accurate to think of it as a dragon than a turtle. IIRC they did polymorph it into a regular turtle to outpace and escape it but it didn't attack anyone in that form. I might be remembering that encounter wrong though. It's been a while.
@@Cyb3rM1nd Yeah they turned it into a sea turtle and then discovered that the sea turtle was faster than their ship when it kept trying to attack them. They ended up eventually turning it into a sea slug to get away from it. Polymorph never seems to work the way they intend it to on the first try.
I personally really like the first part how they displayed their health above their banners. It helped us know the severity of the situation, although I guess not knowing the health adds to the tension. I hope to see it return some day.
It was a feature when Legendary had them on Alpha. Which was a parent company that owned Geek and Sundry. That company, and the chinese Corp that owned it, really didn't understand the audience and ruined a number of things under their management. That being said it was a fun little feature. I tend to like that kind of transparency and accessibility in Actual Plays. Though with the kerfuffle and the amount of time they've done with out it I don't see CR bringing it back. At least not without a lot of fan input demanding it.
If I had a nickle for every time Fjord accidentally did damage to a polymorphed enemy because it hit him and he had an automatic retaliation he couldn't control, and either turned it back or threatened to turn it back, I'd have two nickles. It's not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Octopus. They have basically no land speed and can hold their breath out of water for 30 minutes. In an Armor of Agathys situation, simply stay in its threatened area until someone else can scoop it up and carry it to a far corner of the map. (If you're feeling crafty and have an alchemy jug or decanter of endless water as well as a DM who finds this sort of thing funny, you could try rigging up a makeshift tank to make sure it doesn't go off until the spell naturally ends.)
As someone whose mortal enemy is a massive sludge monster who was ploymorphed into a goose who survived the collapse of an entire universe. It only exists to haunt me.
Beautiful. Thank you for doing this. My favourite is when they all get stunned except for Jester and Laura figures out like one of three options out of thousands or millions that could possibly save fucking everyone AND THEN not one of them, but an inanimate object fucks it up, Travis rolling the nat 20 and becoming the target, it's just perfect. THIS is how you know it's not scripted. Show me a person who could come up with this shit. Bonus points for Travis realizing what happened. Perfect expression. Honorable mention (totally unrelated) of Laura's sweatshirt in the time of quarantine.
I'm sure his stats went up in the time between the first and second clips and that could explain this, but I love how Liam was like "the save is 16" for polymorph the first time, and the giant completely failed it with a 5 so it didn't matter, but the second clip Liam says the save is 17, and the thing rolled a 16 XDDDDDD so clearly it would have mattered that time
