The intrepid heroes bamboozling their DMs for  

Its ally, you never know what they're thinking

That's why you ALWAYS keep em' guessing! xD It's just a nonsensical bit... until it isn't!

Lou even said that's what they were doing--but he said it into his hands. (Thank you to the person who corrected me. I midgendered Ally and--though unintentional--I should have realized it sooner)

My favorite part is that Lou absolutely understood what Ally was doing, but everyone was talking over each other so none of them heard him explaining it.

@@CMonty wait, what did lou said?

Right up there with Ally’s ‘I don’t know what to tell you’

@@jonathanjernigan3865 "I don't know how else I can say it." "You don't know how else you can say it... besides 'meat mama'?"

"They/Them's the breaks!"

I'm not a native English speaker, can someone explain this expression to me?

@@barbarabeatriz6504 Sure! So, "Them's the breaks" is incorrect, grammatically, by intention. We do this with aphorisms (turns-of-phrase) sometimes, not really sure why, but a similar example would be the phrase "How 'bout them apples?" as popularized in the movie Good Will Hunting. "Show [someone] the breaks" is a phrase in reference to pool (billiards) where you'd "rack" the balls into a formation and then "break" them with the cue ball, and it's sort of random. So when you say "Them's the breaks," you're saying, in effect, "Bad luck, nothing you can do about it."

Seriously though, how did they?

@@whynaut1 Probably in case she wanted to breach a wall and escape the arena

@@whynaut1 i don't remember exactly who said it, but i think it was Siobhan who answered something along the lines of "we read the books! or, emily did". i think maybe battle of the brands is in canon, and brennan says the plinth is a returning champion.

"Am I getting Ocean's 11'd? On my OWN show?" is truly the funniest most bamboozled he's been and it kills me every time

And he sounds so wimpy and defeated too. Like, he fully WHINES it.

No he just thinks so hard he gets angry about it

That's so Warhammer orc of him

Mechanics vs engineers

​@@jasonninja55no, he's so angry, he goes full circle back to calm enough to concentrate. Like how you get so mad, everything is just a blue, then something boils over and now you have damn near perfect clarity, you have no distractions, no worries, no pounding in your head. Its a temper so strong that your consciousness becomes the eye on the storm. The rage is as powerful as can be, but you aren't buffeted by its force, able to direct it exactly as you want.

​@@jasonninja55 maybe im a barbaficer

“Are you using the weapon I homebrewed for you to fuck me??” (Or something like that, I forget the exact quote)

I’m honestly surprised that wasn’t in here.

I think what makes this dynamic work so well is that matt is substantially more willing to pull punches Brennen actively tells his players that he is out to fuck them this combat and they take that as a challenge. which works with who they are as friends the jokes and jests carry out of the game. but when asked to list positives about each other they just melt into positivity over how much they love and care about each other

I love the difference in dynamic and style. Matt is much more of a background player while Brennan is more of actively antagonizing, but in a friendly way. Matt is the Yin to Brennan's Yang.

Part may just be that Brennan is _able_ to go all out a little more because he has a group who can hit back. Obviously Emily Axford is a terror, but everyone's good. Once they get a feel for D&D, Beardsley's one of the best support players I've ever seen. Zac both has moments of ad hoc brilliance but also just has a knack for always picking the right place to be to share a buff or stop an enemy with Sentinel. Murph is conventional but solid, even though he has the dice luck of a man who pissed off two witches on the same day. And Lou and Siobhan just never miss a beat - look at how Lou instantly understands what's going on with the Call The Guards play even though Brennan has all the same information and doesn't see it. Past the early seasons, Brennan _has_ to play the enemies aggressively, because otherwise that group of players would just cakewalk through everything. From a mechanical perspective there was no way in hell they should have survived the brutally overleveled opposition in the Battle of the Brands. But despite the fact that Brennan didn't go easy on them at all, they _still_ squeaked out a win.

​@@ericeves1180I laughed so hard at 'the luck of a man who pissed of two witches on the same day'. But not this season. It's a new season it's a new Murph~~

​@@cinderlord4950 i think the idea that matt frequently "pulls punches" is a little overblown (ESPECIALLY if you watched c3e91 today lmfao💀) and that the dynamic difference is entirely down to the casts being fundamentally different people. the intrepid heroes are all comedians so naturally they gravitate more towards loud, boisterous jokes at each other's expense while matt is a lot more soft-spoken and gentle, even when he's absolutely destroying the party, so the cast takes the same tone with him in turn for the most part (cause if you make too many aggressive jokes against someone not reciprocating the hater energy it just feels like bullying lol 😭😭)

It's beautiful.

‘Shit that was good. Shit that’s better than what I got.’ “Alight we’re gonna end it here!”

The dice didn't cooperate, but it was still a great move. Anyone can roll lucky. It's more impressive to do something where even if it doesn't work it was still clearly the right choice.

That's honestly one of my favourite moment in that episode, coupled with Brennan's "NOo!!" and Murph and Em not missing a beat to explain what's about to happen

this is one of the few i saw coming! it was so exciting to know what was coming and watch it bamboozle the table

After confirming there's ONLY 3 guards outside. Like "I can take 'em"

I also love how candias secret of magic is what saves him here. They don’t know Sur Theobold has this power and then ge just busts out there with his knightly chivalry to save the crown family!

I know exactly what you mean. There’s such raw emotion, like Murph is feeling all of Theo’s adrenaline and nerves and reckless badass abandon, it literally gives me the chills. More human and emotional/serious than they usually get, but it was a wild time. So, so good, I’ve watched it on repeat.

For real! Jasmine handed him that bit and still suspected nothing.

That and "what should I tell your family" are probably two of the coldest lines to come out of D20

Honestly the biggest reason it works so well for Zac is because he usually doesn't play spotlight characters. Most of his characters tend to fade into the background to let others shine, and then have their breakout moments shine harder because they're less remembered. Gorgug is one of the least, if not THE least notable members of the Bad Kids due to his life's overall relative stability compared to the others, which in turn means all the cool things Gorgug can do tend to slip Brennan's mind. Lapin, Cumulus, Ricky, Pib, and Colin also tend to fall into that same niche. Lapin and Cumulus don't stand out or make themselves prominently known nearly as much as the rest of the Rocks do, but Lapin helped massively on the political side of things and would've been an absolute unit of a character had he lived longer. Cumulus is also rather understated and seems a bit distant, but he's the biggest reason they got out with so few injuries from the Dairy Sea. Pib's entire story *_was_* assisting others with his own talents for "his own profit", but he continued to do things that benefited others more than himself. Colin wasn't as notable as his other counterparts in the Ravening War, but that allowed him more leeway to make an impact. Ricky's arguably the most normal of both Unsleeping City parties comparatively and for the most part is just there to help the team when they need him. Squinge and Skip are probably Zac's boldest characters, and even then Squinge still prefers the sidelines. Skip's by FAR Zac's most spotlighted character, yet still ends up being support just as much as a mainline fighter. All of Zac's characters work like his comedy style- understated till they whack you in the face. It overall leads to less standout moments, but in turn it means Zac helps others have more frequent standout moments (like telling Lou to roll against the Nat 20 in the arcade, which does save Fabian, or jokingly telling Margaret to bank when they were escaping Rec 91) and that makes Brennan forget about Zac's own cool stuff until it whacks him in the face.

Emily and Ally deserve their reputations but Zach is such a sleeper agent of chaos

Emily fucks Brenan up in combat, Ally is a consistent wild card whos luck will put Brennan on the backfoot, Zac is a Rouge at the table, almost everything he does has a purpose.

"Why would that be mine? You pulled it out of YOUR pocket." from Starstruck is so great

sorry to ruin the magic but brennan totally knew. in most of these he knows. he's playing into the villain dm character. he's setting these up for the party.

@@SharinganMan that "no wait" was the sound of a man who just got tricked

@@wowdogememe1541 no, it was acting from a happy dm

@@SharinganMan He has repeatedly said he doesn't know

@@kai325d3 doesn't know what

FINE, I’ll rewatch the Starstruck Odyssey

FINE! I'll watch Crown Of Candy then rewatch Starstruck Odyssey.

Emily's *

Don't forget the time Ally and Lou got back into the worst, Ally hoping on the gun, and Lou supercharging the weapons systems, just to atomize the Vercadian with 560 damage.

god you are so right!!! I was just going by my memory of most memorable episodes per each season and completely missed that bit. yes also a legendary moment

@@pibscuite oh no I guess you have to make part 2 now. sorry, but them's the breaks

Murph's move with Swirlwarden to keep from drowning should have been in here.

@@branecollisionas too Emily’s thunder step rescue of Joren

lol

Lou also has one with the rematch Daybreak fight

​@@branecollision literally started cheering while watching alone in my apt at 2am!

The shortening of the cigarette holder so so good😂

thank you so much!!

Mostly humor. Margaret was canonically not an athletic person and a businesswoman in a pencil skirt, so it's unlikely that she would be athletic or brave enough to leap out of a crow's nest 30 ft in the air.

Plus, doing it that way helped con Brennan into thinking it was a bit rather than a play.

It’s so that she has enough movement to get to the corn guy then move away. Leaping would use movement

Cards and flow charts are genuinely (characters') lifesavers. Can't play smart until you can remember what you can do.

thanks for pointing it out! yes i def know it tho when I finally made the clip it was all IH seasons and one coffin run ep which also was just zac so i wasn't sure how to name it, and just went with IH haha

Ahhh - Coffin Run isn't an "Intrepid Heroes" season