High Rollers: Aerois Battle Royale 

Note to self; Meteor Swarm does more damage than you think it does. Other Note to Self: Give Tom a break next episode.

So in this we have the following; Quill as Anakin Skywalker Rosemeadow as Rosemeadow? Sentry as Terminator Nova as Teleporting War Criminal Johan as a lazy ethereal dragon Lucius as a rainbow Mindflayer

Meteor Swarm is amazing, but making it only hit one region would probably be a better overall experience similar to the other effects - very fun match though

You’ve got to feel for Tom. He commits the ultimate sacrifice and heals someone else when he has 1hp himself, then immediately gets punished by Sentry (which was pretty funny, Rhi has no mercy). The gang shouldn’t be surprised if he goes back to never healing again in the Campaign !

I know Katie's wig game is completely OP, but DAYUM! She even put on a fake beard for this one.

Looks like it'll be slightly overcast, with chance of meteors. Perfect weather for a battle royale! Though it's a bummer that there was a meteor swarm on a 1/8 chance, should've been fireballs at most - after all we want the characters to murder each other, not randomly die from a single dice roll

Worth mentioning, Quill would've taken a failed death save when his body hit the ground. The second the lava heated up, he would've been dead-dead.

Me not caught up to the main campaign, mark-"no shape shifting for Johan" me-wait what???

hopefully they do a rematch at some point, where half the contestants don’t get wiped in the first round

There's nothing that says "Arena of Chaos" quite like a meteor swarm at turn 1

Surprised no one commented on Rhi's hair. I know she had it short two sessions back when last we saw her, but she is really rocking that hairstyle! Kinda a chaos twin pixie thing going on.

_Nova uses Warcrime_ _Its Super Effective_

Ravs needs to be added to the cast permanently. He's always such a delight with his cameos.

I hope tom gets an honorary fun coin after this, The turn one death was funny, but realistically it kind of booted him for the game. The whole thing was pretty chaotic and thrown together though, I think the meteor swarm was probably just too much damage, Youll get them next time quill!

when quillek was placed inside the statue hand at the beginning of the game i got nervous that he was just going to be grabbed and crushed.

Glad you guys had a blast, Sentry has an ability undying sentinal, she would have actually survived tthe last metoer swarm. Pretty epic stuf

They should definitely do this again with Aila!

i absolutely adore that you guys did this

Wow that first turn wtf lmao

Should we consider foreshadowing if the team help out Rosemeadow? She will be a powerful to have around if that’s the case

This is about to make Monday so much better!

Their team has a far greater power gap than Critical role lol. Sentry is basically a god, while Quill and Lucius were basically on the edge of death the entire thing, meanwhile Nova has the highest damage potential with the war crimes spell

Would love to see a rematch with Aila in the battle as well!

I absolutely need to see a rematch, this was so much fun!

Love Ravs in High Rollers!

So fn awesome for you guys! The shows only gonna get bigger and better from here folks. Cant wait! Yall need to go pop a bottle and celebrate! 🍾🍻🤣

I'm so enjoying Tom SEETHING with rage throughout this.

I really hope the new studio is getting a secret basement :P

I love this idea. Great stuff. Guys

Having seen some battle royales from different campaigns, I think the best ones give something for those who are dead to do which still affects everyone else. Such as, being a ghost and passing information along and teasing, etc, or activating additional environmental effects more regularly based on how many have died, and so forth. This looked like fun, but not for Tom after Qillek died. Fun to see how everything was going, but not really interested in commenting or the like, unlike Mark, who was still running things at least.

This is Monday morning quarterbacking, so I acknowledge this but I think Lucius could have cast dispel magic to get rid of Heat Metal. I also wanted to say congratulations on smashing part your goal and you're right, it was all for fun and it was incredibly entertaining. I wish you great success in the building of the studio and I do hope you are able to get Sam Riegel to do an ad for campaign 3.

that random event before the first turn xD

that was so fun. I hope they do this again some time.

"Dead Tom's always been dead! That's why we call him Dead. Tom."

Fun fun, nice to see sentry being a juggernaut

The meteor swarm was fantastic haha

This really goes to show that paladins (especially Oath of the Ancients) are amazing counters for spell casters

Maddening darkness should be the Nova chanting the Jojo cherry meme.

"You're asses are looking prime for a beatdown" lol

Sentry you have full reign to kill your friends , 'Chest plate starts opening.......'

Now we need a part 2

I really wanna know how this would have gone if it was Aila in cause that could be an awesome fight honestly

I love the rosemeadow art

Feels like Mark should have played a melee character to balance the classes a bit, this was very caster-heavy (and Sentry’s aura was super powerful as a result, if only she ever could succeed a save). Still fun, though!

As some one with D&D PvP experience, I can confirm the Ethereal Realm is super busted for PvP lol cause you don’t drop concentration while in there, so just summon some demons, rub yourself in Ethereal oil, and have a load off while you watch everyone die a salty death 😂

u never realize how many spells dont require line of sight until u use them competitively lol

6 awesome players and the game truly was won, from the first action until the very last by the lair

YAY!!!

Just a quick reminder that a 5ft radius from a point is a 10ft diameter which is basically the same as a 10ft cube

i want to think that katie wasn’t in the battle royal to make it fair for everyone else, as aila would be so hard to fight against 😂😂

I’m soo far behind in the campaign this is a nice break

Nova started her turn in lava and never took the damage that wouldve killed her , or at least come close to it

Wish u would upload the whole stream

This was very fun, but it really highlights how underpowered the enemies are in the main campaign compared to the party. This was the most exciting combat I've seen in Aerois for dozens of episodes, including Zephyr, and it was purely because the people that were fighting were on the same power level. Mark, the RP and lore aspects in Aerois are *awesome* you're doing a fantastic job there, but you really need to buff the enemies in the main campaign to be more on the party's level. You've let the party progress in power well beyond the normal limits of DnD, so using what DnD says the balance should be CR wise and stuff isn't sufficient anymore, you've said multiple times during the campaign you need to up the enemies power but have never done so, and it really feels like there's no stakes. I'd forgot you were even using injury rules in the main campaign cos noones been downed in dozens of episodes. You build up the hype extremely well for big fights but they're just not delivering. I've been cheering for enemies for ages now just so that the stakes are upped at bit. At this point the Calus fight or even the Hadar fight are gunna be a walk in the park I feel. Please balance the combat better, making the party feel like superheroes is awesome from a player/dm PoV and that should be a thing, but you've got to the think of the viewers as well and introduce some proper danger during combat, you're not just playing for yourselves anymore when you're asking people to fund your new studio. Keep up the good work, and hopefully you'll take this on board so combat doesn't feel like a boring foregone conclusion anymore, I feel like just skipping combat when it comes up these days cos I know the party is gunna walk it and be totally fine.

Sentry should've halved the damage from both meteor swarms, so she would've survived - i'm glad they gave her the win

I am not positive but I believe if sentry didn't use her 15th level oath of the ancients ability she would have gone to 1 hp so she would have won without the technicality. But it doesn't really matter since she won.

Ayoooo!

Rosemeadow is here to get her revenge on Nova for what she did to her... Edit: Welp, Nova war crimmed her Edit 2: Rosemedow is stomping on Nova's unconscious body

So is the person running the arena in setting secretly names Publenia Gith or something?

I like how they all have lights and none of them match their character's colors.

My money is on Lucius or Sentry winning.

I can't believe lucius and rosemeadow were like the two most badass. Don't get me wrong terminator sentry is scary but those two were more badass. Also, they need to stop providing sentry x rosemeadow ship bait. It's such a crack ship and i don't want to find it cute

1:58:27. I’m sorry tom you are going to do what???

So glad you all reached 200% of your goal. Something you could consider is that since you will have the space setup for DND play and will have the equipment and technology and programs setup to work properly with streaming and recording, perhaps you can rent out the studio on days/times when you won't need it as this would help to support the rent in the future and upkeep, but since you guys reached your goal and more, you COULD use some of the extra money to allow smaller channels/streamers to use the space for free or at a discount and use the extra money to cover the time required by whomever needs to be there to run the equipment and watch over the studio. Just an idea, I understand if you aren't comfortable having others in your space (or at least not right away). Great Job everyone.

Tom wins, quill doesn’t win. Tom does

_go_

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!!!

A good video to make me forget I have a terrible cold! I hope Lucius or Johan wins! Edit: I especially hope Rosemeadow paints the walls with the blood of her enemies. Revenge for being left behind! 2nd Edit: My brother and I like to call Feeble Mind "Vegetable Spell" for obvious reasons. 😂 My sore ribs hurt giggling over poor Johan.

Why would you put in a thing that could wipe a character in turn one?

14:05

I know Mark just wanted to play. But he actually does not get back to 1 HP at three successful Death Saving Throws. You become stable and roll a D4.

This is the worst way to run a Battle Royale. The meteor storm was completely unnecessary and ruined the experience for a number of players. You could hear the disinterest in Tom's voice when he came back from break. Don't understand why it wasn't just restarted.