Keyleth roll natural 1 (SPOILERS, Episode 80) 

Antrix same D:

Think of it this way. "As long as I don't roll a 1 I'm good" *rolls a 1* Like a metaphor for Murphy's law, or jinxing yourself.

Bryan Olivera no their saying she’s a fuck up

Since no on answered. Basically this moment was a representation of how the whole fight has been going (really shitty). No one actually said a metaphor, but it naturally occurred. This moment (that represents how the fight is going) just happened in a 'fell into your lap' kind of way. So, "hey, look a metaphor (for how this fight is going)"

@@sunpreet93 Exactly. :-)

I know the scene was hilarious, but do yall think Matt should have made her do an athletics check here? She easily had a running start

@@Awes0m3n3s5 By RAW, she should not have had to roll. With a running start, you can jump a number of feet equal to your Strength score - so it should just succeed. It's a commonly forgotten rule.

It's also the DMs decision if he wants to make it an obstacle or more difficult. Rules are guidelines.

@@adonyx1 Based on the squares on the table, it doesnt look like she took enough space for a running jump as you need a 10 ft run-up, she only had 1 square, so 5 ft. To clear 7 ft without a runup, she would need atleast 14 STR. (I have no idea what it was at the time.) Otherwise she had to make a check.

@@Awes0m3n3s5 I actually think it’s on the player to remember what they can do and how they can do it. If you can just jump that distance then you should remember that.

2022: Still feels like we're prone over here...

She is bringing balance to percy's nat 20's.

Don't worry. Raishan suffered the worst by keyleth, thanks to a good feeblemind spell.

yes

You were the chosen one! Not the natural one!

@@skotosman thought that was Will Wheaton

Critical success’ as well! Remember “Search For Grog” and how THAT ONE ended?😂

Makes me sad for Matt. Those are the moments when DMing is not fun.

And my nephews claimed the DM's job (AKA: my job) is to kill them all. That expression proves otherwise. I say being a DM is more like being a judge: you may have control of the outcome, but you still have to follow rules, and so you'll inevitably end up creating outcomes you don't like.

@@omegagilgamesh NA dawg, the DM's JOB is to make the game fun and exciting for the players, and themself. The real enemy is RNG

"Oh boy, my party is looking really bad... at least there's still our druid with full health, she's always super competent." - Well, that's a natural 1 It was that kind of face.

It is the TPK-scare face. When roll fudging is imminent to avoid total carnage... I have definitely made that face myself. When 63 damage turns into 53...

im not sure but i feel cold

Guessing here but, since this was posted on Jan 19 2017, they most likely are referring to the 2016 election results.

@@Atilahunt yeah, they said "2016"... which was a pretty ugly year, but still part of the before times.

Oh, sweet summer children.

@@Atilahunt yea poopy butthead orange man drumpf ruined the whole world forever in 2016 T_T

nah still doesnt beat that, cliff diving was just her dumb decisions, this was simply due to a bad roll

There's a big difference between lightning flashes of stupidity and the worst luck ever.

@@Anduril74871 agreed. The cliff dive was due to alcohol, this was literally her getting screwed

this was also first

@@bigbundle3223 I wouldn't compare this to the cliff dive. That was completely Keyleth/Marisha's fault, while this was the dice completely screwing her over

Enemies aren't meant to crush the party, they're difficult obstacles for his players to overcome and feel awesome when they do which makes it all the more painful when the dice just dont cooperate and make you feel like a buffoon instead

futurecomedian16 Wait till episode 97....

Its fine! were gods!

Personally my favorite is...."uh.....a penis!"

''we're gods you guys''

Goldfish Keyleth.

“I have the low ground and still will trip on it, Keyleth…” she says to herself as she trips on nothin and lands face first in molten rock

Bentley Jaminco hmm what that mean??

A short bus is the bus that special needs children get on to go to school, stereotypically.

I remember what you are referencing, but he was already KO'd and if the Pit fiend they were fighting decided to kick him in the lava he was literally right beside thats instant death and hes turned to ash. She explained the action in a talks machina

Just for clarity It was this fight against Raishan and Vax was already unconscious.

No, but I do now.

Quick reminder that Vax's foot got stuck in Lava at one point and Pike had to keep healing it for a good amount of time. He also had permanent disadvantage on all his stealth rolls, which was only nullified by his special cloak. I can't remember if anything else came of this, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't just fine.

To be fair, they are far beyond the limits of normal humans. That damage would kill commoners, what the average person is, five times over.

The game is one huge abstraction. If you are looking for realism, there are plenty of games designed for it. D&D is not one of them. Nor should it be. The game would probably be less fun if you tried to make it make sense. I am a fan of increasing the damage which falling and lave cause, to make them greater threats to players. However, that is a GM choice. Not everyone wants to run or play in a super realistic game.

@@ezrablock3218 I like to think that part of what allows them to become superhuman is the magic of the world. Magic can alter people's bodies permanently, so I like to imagine that magic subtly gives people to ability to go beyond normal limits. After all, if you push your body it will respond to compensate for the conditions. If you're in a magic world, where the magic can alter the body and many other things, and lots of dangerous creatures or people are trying to kill you. Since magic resides in small amounts of every living thing, I like to think of it as a sort of limiter removal.

@@copycrow4486 this is really late but for a standard game i use that magic permeates the world which is why grievous wounds heal up after a single night of sleep. I also allow for a shorter long rest with constitution rolls for exhaustion for each day they run a shorter long rest. To balance that rule i had something stalking the party that could randomly show up at any rest shorter the rest the less likely it to return +2 dc for each hour shortened 8 hours being a 50% chance of a return. had some really tense moments

+Guy Smith No, more like he doesn't want his own fiancee to lose her character over a single roll like that, because he knows how hard she would take it and he doesn't want to hurt her just because those are the rules, while at the same time he knows he would cheapen the game and everything they've done so far if he _doesn't_ follow the rules. It was a deeply personal dilemma for him, and that showed in his face in those moments. Remember, falling into lava is perma-death, as he explained at the end of the episode. (And the fact that he took time to explain it proves that's what he was concerned about.) If there is no body, nothing less than _true resurrection_ will work, and they've never met anyone in the campaign who is powerful enough to cast that.

Guy Smith No, you're not getting it. Matt has been GMing for years. He knows how to deal with PC deaths and probably even TPKs. But that look showed this one was personal. As far as I know, he's never reacted like that before to anything else in this campaign.

Guy Smith That's fine. We're essentially speaking two different languages anyhow.

I took Matt's expression more as sympathetic 'OMG this battle is going so poorly for them.'

It was just a simple check. Nothing clutch about it from what I can see.

When a nat 1 means you take lava damage, and full lava damage, not the fake damage from early episodes, NOT rolling a one is clutch in my books

Technically there shouldn’t have even needed to be a roll, characters have a running long jump of their strength score if they get 10 feet of movement before so keyleth can theoretically jump 15... Though Matt always makes them roll a lot more athletics checks than usually needed so it’s not unusual

Or you could be vax when trying to sneak out of keyleth’s room when he rolled a nat one and then used luck to roll another nat one.

Yeah but this is so much better. Plus, maybe it’s a house rule.

@@giannacarter9711 - It's not a house rule, Mercer just didn't remember that you can jump that far. He did eventually realize it... in the final boss battle.

They're using boards from Wyrmwood Gaming. wyrmwoodgaming.com/

Actually I found out that the lava map was from Dwarven Forge, but thanks!

So you think a str 10 average tavern keeper can automatically jump 10 feet across ? Also , jumps out of battle are different than during battle , out of battle automatic success is fine but you have to consider the added difficulty of pressure from the battle itself

@@Pasteldqueijo Exactly. 10 feet would be pretty much dead on the world record for long jumping, and that's into sand.

@@theWebWizrd the womens long jump record is 24ft the mens is nearly 30ft a 6-7ft gap shouldn't be that hard for even the most average of people.

@@joeofdoom This was in the middle of battle against a dragon though. And I doubt the DC on the check was super high. It was just a nat 1.

You're right, but it is always possible that someone trips. As others have said just because he called for a roll doesn't mean it was hard...she might have succeeded on anything except a Nat 1 for all we know.

It was in the middle of battle though and I doubt it was a high DC. Keyleth just was just super unlucky.

@@Birthday888 5e rules say you can jump the feet equal to your strength core with no roll, I'm and out of combat. This roll doesn't make sense

It was right after the 2016 election where trump got elected Which arguably started everything. So yeah it's very applicable

hi I know this is old. My guess is she was saving her bonus action to do Healing Word, a spell with a wider range, and since she's circle of the moon, wild shaping would've taken her bonus action away, and maybe she couldn't do cure wounds instead

you can long jump your strength score automatically, just saying.

@@WarlordM only when moving at least 10 ft before making the jump, its half the distance from a standing start (and i believe the landing still requires DC10 acrobatics check or you fall prone)

madmeddik only if you're landing on difficult terrain

This is a fantasy game physics don’t apply here.

It was more than one square. It was 6-7 feet.

If she has a running start (move 10ft before jumping) she jumps a distance equal to her Str score, she could easily make that distance no checks required. Without a running start she jumps half her Str score, Keyleth has a Str score of 14 so she was OK anyway.

Ruling different from the official rules does not make the ruling "wrong".

You do realize in the dmg it clearly states the “rules” are guidelines, and can be changed to however the dm wants. They homebrew, and in real life, an unathletic person can’t just jump a 7 ft gap easily 100% of the time.

@@Fl4m30f3d3n under pressure, on a time crunch, in pain (if from the radient heat of the lava, if nothing else), and on likely unstable footing

Critical failures for ability checks and saving throws are an optional house rule though: a 1 is only a guaranteed failure when it comes to attack roles.

i don't remember the board clearly but i think she was planning to reach one person with like a cure wounds, and healing word someone else.

Kyle Nott perhaps that's it

You supposed to say you don't know, not the opposite of what it is!! thats just saying its bad!

Thank God you weren't dm then

Man, what is it with you Marisha haters...

@@artemiswallace8716 Not really, it's calling out stupidity when we see it

Doesn't lava deals 6d10 dmg ? 53 is pretty high for a fudge!

lava deals 20d6

In 3.5 yes! In Princess of the Apocalypse: "A creature takes 6d10 fire damage when it enters lava for the first time on a turn or when it ends its turn there."

Yeah I know what it says in that module I also know what it says in DMG in Improvising Damage section. But the most important information is what damage does it deal in Matt's game and that is 20d6. He ruled that since some incident i don't remember in which somebody has fallen into lava and taken little damage and community then plagued Matt with how he shoul up the lava damage and so it now does 20d6.

also sorry for the somewhat broken english

And also killed a child offscreen