Leveling Up (with Satine Phoenix) 

Just buy a bunch of potions you'll be fine

Played a YEAR long campaign (Storm King's Thunder no less) with a Barbarian (me), Rogue, and Monk. Absolutely no healing, we got our shit pushed in every single session.

@@parapotato makes you start to think twice about stupid moves

I personally LOVE doing campaigns where there are no clerics or bards to heal or revive the players in serious campaigns. Makes the players actually engage with the plot more knowing that there is a high chance a foolish decision will get them killed irreversibly

My groups only source of healing is a Staff of Healing... It is pain

I love that he dismisses the concept even though it's literally 100% the ethos of Arthur Aguefort.

​​​​@@TimdeVisser86 What is an adventurer? Someone who adventures. I say an adventurer is a hero, and what is a hero? A person with the strength of heart, courage of spirit, and might of will will to go to strange lands and enact violencen things there. -Arthur Aguefort

*Arthur Aguefort*: THEY DON'T HAVE CHRONOMANCY

@@SteveJonesGamingGWO they have time-turners

@@RabblesTheBinx Arthur: They give that shit up for years except that mousy brown haired girl, little spit fire, too bad she married the red haired little shit

Strixhaven wasn’t that bad, though.

What the fuck are you people even saying

That... is absolutely beautiful. It brought a tear of joy to my eye.

“Agreed to play good guys.” Two ‘secretly’ evil PCs. Yup yup, PCs being PCs as always.

That sounds terrible haha

@@xp1446 I feel like this would encourage teamwork in so many ways though

This would be absolutely amazing or absolutely excruciating depending on execution 😂

Minus eyes

It's so much fun. Be careful to not become a dice goblin

Dude this is so cool, I hope you got it figured out that’s such an awesome idea

That’s beautiful

"So, I'mma stop you right there. Beelzebub is the most powerful being in any plane." "WHAT?! But he's... EVIL. By the holy might of the great god of the Sun, don't make me smite you!" "Guys, guys! Can't we all just get along?" Guess who's who :P

New pact who dis

Schizophrenics are people who suffer a painful, frightening and stigmatized illness. Please be considerate in how you regard, depict, and speak of them.

That is a fair concern generally. Also, one of the most common schizophrenic delusions is believing that an event, conversation, other person’s choice, etc is about you and centers around you when it actually doesn’t. So believing that his character had this grand destiny to win an unwinnable battle is completely consistent with the condition. Especially when paired with megalomania (which is not always true of schizophrenia in the first place).

@@AA-eq2zq question for you: how many schizophrenics do you know? Cuz every single one of them that I've known would find that shit hilarious.

Yeah, I was surprised to see this not brought up. Critical fumbles are a very polarized rule. Im sure satines session 0 will cover it, and people opt out, but it's definitely a rule to use with caution.

Ran to the comments as soon as i heard it, just listened to episode 100 today!

Heck, each of the different martial archetypes could make for a great party. Battle Master for tactician, Champion for simple and straightforward combat, Samurai to be the party face, Eldritch Knight for a bit of magic to the group focusing on Abjuration and Evocation, then Arcane Archer for magic as well but with a focus on ranging.

That's JUST the Black Company books. Which would be awesome.

I had that campaign before, dm called it Soldier’s Fortune, where all our characters in a massive battle desert their armies at the same time, before going on to form a mercenary company. We had a combat medic, a smart shield master fighter(tank/control), a champion fighter(striker), and an archer. Really good stuff

"In 1372, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These people promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Faerun underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A(ll-fighter)-Team."

@@bounce510 this is underrated

Man my players always skip over cleric

It was an amazing system and it is a real shame they locked it down because so many games could benefit from it.

When I DM I give xp for dealing with encounters. If you kill them all, xp. If you convince them to leave, xp. If you manage to sneak past them all, xp. No specific style of play is rewarded, just interacting with the game and encounters.

@@bradyfischer1511 I like this idea a lot more than prioritizing specific styles of play. The interaction is what matters more than how people do it

Another thing you can do is try and make things funny. Obviously, it depends on the tone of the story but that can definitely help. Like in my most recent campaign I DMed for, I had an older guy who mainly used ranged weapons bc we couldnt just throw himself into the fray anymore, but he was still fit, so he had a plus 6 to athletics. I had a character decide to run up the stairs and as a joke, told them to roll acrobatics. They rolled a 2. So I explained how they were running up the stairs, caught their foot on the top stair, and faceplanted in front of everyone, taking a few points of damage. The PC was extremely afraid of being hurt, and immediately started crying out for someone to help. So this old guys goes up to carry the person and rolls a nat 1. So I explained how this dude went to lift up this full grown person and it was too much, and he threw out his back. Sure, that isnt particularly funny, but trust me when i say that the entire party was rolling as I explained things in detail. It's all about layering on the jokes to make things fun for them.

My favorite nat 1 has to be the time I tripped on my cool ranger cloak and shot an ally in the shoulder for 2 damage. Not super flashy or detailed, but it wasted my next turn standing up from prone, and was pretty funny.

Old Comment is Old, but I love Nat 1's in combat. My group has a table 1-100 in which something happens because you got a Nat 1. Could be that you over-reached, so nearby enemies get an Attack of Opportunity, or you accidentally hit your ally, and its always funny to us, especially when we get several in a single session. It's like, "FUCK, I'm just having a bad time in this cave right now, 2spooky4me". I think it helps because, instead of narration in how you suck, which can feel like rubbing it in, its instead an applicable mechanic that roll for and then move past. In regards to Skill Checks, Nat 1's should have no bearing on narration because Nat 20's don't either, since they aren't automatic failures or successes like they are in combat and with saving throws.

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Yeah, I was hoping brendan would have paused to explain the critical fumble rule and use it with caution, but he sped past it. It's a very polarizing rule and should be used with caution as it usually subtracts fun from the game.

Out of curiosity, what are the seven questions you ask?

The orphan campaign sounds a bit like Umbrella Academy, especially when you consider that, as Satine said, basically every PC in a D&D campaign is a superhero...

Something like that exists. I wanna say it's called rogues gambit. High Rollers did a short series in it and I thought it looked pretty fun.

Man, I really didn’t like that Bard player. From what I understand, he wanted to make a suave James Bond type seducer, but he just came of as kind of… a shabby homeless dwarf who would use magic to have sex with women above all else. Not even caring that assassins had shot a threatening message through our window and knew who we were. For instance, one of his first opportunities to shine was to get information out of this guy who had a medallion with the mark of an evil cult on it. He either cast the Enthrallment spell or the Fascinate Bardic performance on the guy, thinking it would make him do whatever he said; because he never actually read what his spells did. Once the DM explains that it doesn’t do what he thinks, he immediately loses interest and has his character walk off, leaving me to do the interrogation by myself. - That Kitsune character I mentioned? When we accidentally triggered the final boss battle, she cast an AOE enchantment of her own on us. The Barbarian succeeds, the Rogue fails. (I roll a 2 and panicked, until I remember that I’m immune to charm effects.) The Bard luckily had been standing just outside the spell’s radius so we just had to worry about the Ro- Bard player: “I want to retroactively move my character into to spell’s range.” Everyone else: “…what?” Bard player: “Because it would be funny.” DM: “Okay…? Roll to resist it, I guess.” Bard player: “…That’s a 3. So now I’m just looking at the hot fox girl, right?” Everyone else: 😡 The DM decides to just have her leave shortly afterward when the Bard failed to break free. The player was upset, because he wanted to be the one to “seduce” her… - There was also a part where the rest of us were fighting a Rakshasa in the house of his human identity. Again, the Bard tried casting one spell on the enemy, then got upset when it resisted it. He proceeded to start building a fort out of furniture and vases by the fireplace while we are still fighting. Then the Rakshasa turns invisible. We are afraid that it was trying to escape and we ask the Bard to try something, ANYTHING, that could help us find or trap it. Maybe some sort of divination spell, or a spell to blow the soot from the fireplace across the room to find his footprints, summon a creature, use an AOE to try and hit it, Dispell Magic? Or perhaps just something to help secure the exits so it can’t easily runaway. After much gripping he agrees to help and uses Mage Hand, to knock over a vase. End turn. Honestly I just don’t think he wanted to play anymore and just did that to pass his turn.

Was he a fighter? 20th lever for sure but I would have assumed a swashbuckling rogue.

8months later but some advice. Try giving a greater reward for beating an encounter without a fight. Think of video games. Sure, killing the guy gives you 10xp but you get 20xp for passing that speech check and convincing them that it's not worth a fight.

We can only hope

Thank you!! We are working on this!!!

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@@umactually Also, the Catholic Vampire concept is the coolest thing I've ever heard!

Is this true/confirmed???

tbh, idk.. =-(

Oh god, yes

The most angry adventuring party ever.

Very cool idea