High Rollers: Aerois #75 | Mines of Madness 

Just asking in case any other planescape people know, do planes like Ghenna and the Gray Wastes count as the abyss?

yugoloths actually !! so they’re from gehenna . but i still love them

@@Dark_Jargon in a very specific and technical sense, no. But also, maybe in your game, yes. Devils from Hell are the Lawful Evil fiends. Demons from the Abyss are Chaotic Evil fiends. Yugoloths, the sort of parent species of which mezzoloths are a subsetct, are Neutral Evil, and are from Gehenna. But in your game, they are whatever you want them to be.

The prince division has it just as bad. The number of times they begged and threaten, and yelled at the roller is funny.

It's about the same as i'm used to on roll20

@@DLOFT002 and it's generally conner that has it the worst on there.

Yes

“Never tell me the odds.” Is what I’m sure Mark would tell you.

Exactly as common as any other possible sequence of 3 dice rolls in a row! Shocking.

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I think the argument needs to be made for certain. I don't entirely buy the one time activity as a stipulation. In this case if you take it back then you haven't really surrendered. So there is definently something gamey about that kind of play. And if you make it something you do on your next turn it might as well have been Command. That being said the Suggestion should have at least been worded better. Mark could have stipulated behaviour a bit better than that.

That's also the effect of binge watching versus the weekly gaps that the players have to go through. I think it's just a doubt in his mind that persists. He believes it to be OP so he grapples with reconciling that with what the rules actually say.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue yes… of course, like I said, since I watched them so close together. Hoped that would help my credibility but 🤷🏿‍♂️ Either way, now that I’ve been up to date watching weekly for around 2 years, I can say he’s finally been able to accept the OPness of divine smites lol

@@dadriangreen6179 It's got nothing to do with credibility. I was pointing out the fact that there is a distinct advantage in memory of you compared to him in this regard.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue ... I guess thanks for pointing that out? You must be the only person who thinks I'm trying to be superior to Tom and not trying to get a laugh with the community. Gold star for you.

The dicegods work in mysterious ways.

“Ghost noises” :o

I thought I had. I'll try again but pretty sure I already did this.

I believe she also has Storm Soul, so she gets the effects when she isn’t raging

Ye

Seen it enough times that I don't really trust "loaning out" PCs like that. It's a little harder to deal with when your game is also s show though. In the same way I don't like Mark's Aila as he is quite clearly only going through the motions.

What is your profile pic from? It’s sitting right on the edge of my memory

That said... I wish mark would remember about concentration on his spells as much as he remembers it for his players. Suggestion and cloudkill are both concentration dude!

@@matthewward1346 Mass suggestion isn't.

@@simonthedevil452 True, I thought it was a suggestion spell because only one person was affected, but it was just that the rest made their saves. That's pretty bonkers though... why would suggestion on one person be concentration and the more powerful, longer lasting spell not be?

​@@matthewward1346 Mass suggestion can be upcast for some incredible lengths (up to a year and a day). So basically because sleeping would break Concentration and screw up those long durations you get from the upcast. Pretty weird for a mechanical fidelity issue to override the world's consistent internal logic though.

The phrase I most notice is "and stuff like that"

@@o.d.d.792 Assuming I've not tweaked HP or anything else, of course. ;)

its not up to the DM to explain how to break/interrupt enemy spell effects. If the player characters havent encountered such magic then it's up to them to experiment and speculate how to deal with it. And if they have encountered such magic but they the player don't remember, that usually requires asking and rolling a history/arcana check, which none of them did. They also had no way to break it since it was a 7th level spell and none of them could dispel that high, so i don't think any potential plays were ruined. In fact they were just lucky Sentry was targeted by the wall of fire.

@@gnadlaftehgary4257 yeah but Mark will also be all no it doesn't work that way if someone suggests it. They really have to push to use the rules to their benefit at times

He used suggestion though, even at higher level this spell effect on sentry should of ended as soon as she surrendered coz he completed the suggestion. Not saying either side is too blame, it was just an extension that was over looked in the time

@@gnadlaftehgary4257 It's not, but it is up to the DM to explain how the spell works. And he left out a very important piece of the description for Suggestion: "If the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends when the subject finishes what it was asked to do." Dropping your weapons and surrendering only takes a few seconds (probably the equivalent of one round). So Sentry would have missed one round dropping her weapons and surrendering, but that would have been the end of the spell because she complied with the suggestion. It wasn't a big deal in the end, but I hope if they run into Suggestion again it is explained and used properly.

​@@gnadlaftehgary4257 Can't dispel that high? Sorry that's BS unless you just don't know how dispel works. If you can't hit the level there is an Arcana check, DC 17.

Yagotta Kidding, same

All balls! Missed that. Oh well. Next time, gadget!

I'm trying to figure out what super version of Suggestion the guy is using to target everyone, and not end after the suggestion has been met. Mass Suggestion would do it, but it still would have ended after Sentry dropped her weapon and surrendered. She'd have lost her turn, but not her next turn.

2:15:05 I think Mark's bad day has finally turned around ....or is it worse ? Who knows

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He could but that’s 5th level and he seems to save those for other things and it would mean he was healing and that’s just not the cleric he is. . Also it’s beacon of hope your thinking about.

To be fair he asked them to do it

@@o.d.d.792 thats a good point. I haven't watched the session zeroes, is it on there?

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She uses it tactically when she chooses to. Tom and Mark generally thing it's cool and over use it. Though I do agree that it feels like Mark is setting up his monsters for advantage with it. So not cool at all.

I mean, Aila has resistance to most of the enemies attacks and more hit points than anyone else. Attacks against her are less impactful than attacks against anyone else. I'm pretty sure that at this point, Aila has literally never gone down in a real combat, because she never tries to draw aggro, which is what a barbarian with 18 con should be doing. It's meant to tempt monsters to attack the sponge with hundreds of hit points, instead of the 12 ac sorcerer.

Reckless is a huge point of being a barbarian…

Nova?

They already have art for each character. It's the portraits that are cycled through in the center of the screen when there isn't a battle map.

It could just as easily happen for the players' benefit, though. But when that happens it's "cool".

Lots of chances to use it, just needs to remember to use it. ;) I changed it so he can combo his Chromatic Control and the Item a while ago.

@@SherlockHulmes he can use chromatic control and absorb the spell all as part of one reaction? And it also charges his dichromancy damage? And he doesn't need to guess what level the spell is being cast at to counter it, like you do with counterspell? Seems like Trott should be abusing the hell out of that, even if it risks exhausting him. The first two levels of exhaustion aren't that bad anyway, and that's assuming he fails the Con save. The really crazy part is, I looked at his character sheet on DnD Beyond (which is why I'm nerding out about this right now) and he has counterspell in his spell list. He has counterspell on steroids wrapped around his arm, for free!*. He literally gets to cancel people's spells, gets a damage boost from doing it, and can do that as much as he likes, assuming he makes the Con saves. It's a good job an item like that didn't go to Tom Hazel, the combat optimiser, because I get the feeling he'd be using it all the time. Edit: oh I just looked closer and saw Chromatic Control costs 3 sorcery points, and Lucius has a max of 12. Nevermind, my rant was unwarranted.

Well....

Lmfao this didn't age

I understand not trusting RNGs but it's the transparency and ability to verify that make them a necessary evil for VTTs. Of which there are a fair number. It's one thing to hate Random Number Generators and another entirely to just hate that particular site. Though I have to assume your knowledge of Virtual Table Tops is small to nonexistent.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue A bit bizarre of a comment, especially so late. I’m well familiar with them, have used them, and it doesn’t change that myself and many many others simply dislike how a lot of the systems operate. Especially older versions. There’s simply no arguing that programs, extensive or small as they may be, are not how we define random. They cycle through a set order, even if it’s from a colossal list. I’ve seen virtual rollers that were painfully predictable. That being said, virtual rolls are certainly *not* “a necessary evil” for virtual, as the High Rollers themselves let players roll with hard dice if they wished and it worked out beautifully for those players who did. Whether their rolls were good or bad. A group’s players make the game, not the method of rolling and tracking.