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C1 Ep. 139 Eberron Reviewed 22
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This week Jeff, Philip, and Eric sit down for another Reviewed of the Storm’s Ashes arc.
This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of our amazing Show Sponsors: Laura Pickrahn, Darrin Katzska, Irene Viorritto, Ryan Royce, Darrell DeLaney, Charles Compton, Douglas Popp, The Kamm Family, David Scrams, Elizabeth Clark, Rebekah Miller, and Michael Clark.
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Episode Introduction and Patron Shoutout
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This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Irene Villarito, Elizabeth Clark, Darryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Ryan Royce, Laura Pickron, Douglas Pop, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, Michael Clark, Rebecca Miller, David Scrams, and John Kerry, as well as all of our generous patrons.
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Gamer Nation Con 7 Announcement
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I just have a couple quick pieces of news before we get into today's episode. Firstly is Gamer Nation Con is upon us. Gamer Nation Con 7 is going to be happening next April and we are going to be in attendance again this year. Tickets are currently on sale. You can go to our Facebook group, The Geek Pantheon, where the Order 66 podcast Chris Witt dropped the late to go purchase tickets there.
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Or you can head to tabletop events slash conventions slash gamer dash nation dash con dash zero zero seven. You can head over there and buy tickets. And there is a special ticket where you can play in a game deemed by yours truly or potentially one of the other hosts.
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So that is the first exciting bit of news. Please head on over there. We would love to meet all of you and see you all come out and have a great time. It is one of the most fun cons that I have ever attended. It's four days of nonstop gaming. It's not about selling stuff. It's about playing games. So it is a lot of fun.
The Geek Lyceum Book Club Invitation
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Secondly,
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Many of you may not know this, but some of our patrons have started up a book club kind of tangentially associated with the community called the Geek Lyceum. And they asked me to put in a quick plug for them to let you all know that they're going to be starting the wonderful, fantastic read.
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by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Good Omens in January. And they're going to be putting a link to their Discord in the Facebook group. And they meet once a month via Google Hangouts. So if you are interested in that book and want to be a part of a really fun group with some really fun people, then definitely give them a check or check them out. Anyway, that's enough for me. I hope you enjoyed today's episode
Eberron Renewed Podcast Discussion
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and I will see you
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to an episode of Eberron Renewed, an actual play fifth edition D&D podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. We just put out the end of an arc last week, and so this is our Eberron Reviewed episode where Phillip and Eric and I will talk about the last six episodes and answer some questions from our Patreon Discord. But let's start by recapping. We begin the episode. We're still in Arenal. And I'm Eric. Oh, yeah.
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I only do this, you didn't do any of the intro. I don't care about you guys. You know what, actually you guys just wanna hang up and I'll send the file to Eric when I'm done talking. Sorry, I'm Jeff. I'm Philip.
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refer to my previous comment. Yeah, nobody cares. So let's get started with the first episode of the arc.
Arenal Strategy and Dragon Contact
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We are in Arenal and we are deciding where to go next. And we know that we need to get in touch with the dragons again, unfortunately. Yes. And so we do that. Yes, and they bring with them
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That's Bonnie. Bemani. Bemani. Bemani. See, and I keep wanting to call her Beaumani because the sports writer Beaumani Jones that I follow and like quite a bit. But yes, Beaumani, who is a Calistar. And this is the first time they have come up in our campaign, but they are a deeply ingrained bit of Eberron lore, correct? Based on the reaction, it's the most controversial thing I've done in the history of the show.
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It was heavy. So let's just go ahead and answer or begin with a question
Kalashtar Personalities Explained
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then. Irene on the Discord asks, so my understanding and reading of the Kalashtar is that the presence of the Quarry spirit was diluted over the generations and essentially a nearly merged consciousness of the dual souls, not a flip switch between the two, or a switch flip, pardon me, between the two. Is that a DM choice on your part to make it more obviously dichotomous?
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So yeah, I also addressed this question in our discussion channel on the Discord, and I'll just reference that. I wanted to depict the Kalashtar as kind of a mirror of how the inspired have been depicted. And yeah, I mean, I know what they're like in canon.
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And I just thought this would be a more interesting depiction for our specific story. Is kind of why I made the decision I made. Okay, there you go. And so unacceptable. I know. I mean, I'm fine with it. I mean, after that episode aired, Keith Baker did knock down my front door and scold me very, very hard.
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and you knocked his hat off his head and said, yeah. That destroyed all of his power. Yes, yes. I put his hat on and said, no, I'm the captain. Oh, wow. So now you are the master of Eberron. Yeah, I know. You have the hat. Yes. Why do people listen to us do this? Why do people prefer, not prefer, really like these episodes? I mean, why don't you listen to us do anything? You're right. But yeah, so Bamani and
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This is one of those times where I do actually wish that I had read up more because Dex would have had a big reaction to being a college star than I think I gave him. I think I made it pretty clear.
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that his immediate thought was, OK, if you got a quarry in you and I've seen my brothers with the quarry in them, he really wanted to suss out how much of his brothers were left when they died was exactly where my head went for that. That's why he didn't quite freak out as much as was probably warranted. Yeah, and I mean, it's and in the in the question channel of cool and Irene were hoping that I would elaborate more than my
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stock answer I gave before, so I guess I can do that as well. But yeah, I mean, obviously I kind of said that this is like meeting a superhero for Dex, like this is a big individual, a big deal. Just kind of continuing to elaborate on the distinction real quick. Because the way that I, my very definition of inspired breaks Eberron canon. The inspirer are very specific
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type of individual that's like a human crossbred with either a celestial or a fiend. So the sheer fact that I refer to just the reedrons that directly deal with the quarry as inspired is already tinkering with canon quite a bit. But like I said, I like the idea of the quarry on both ends having a stronger
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presence in the conflict, rather than being this diluted soul that exists within it, and they kind of merge. I like having the dichotomy of the two
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the two beings existing. Just to pull back the curtain a little bit, we've already recorded some of the episodes coming up and in some future episodes, you're going to kind of see maybe a situation where Bhimani and Kitesh have distinct personalities and don't act the same way that the other one would.
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So that's kind of what I wanted to have going on with the Kalashtar is having that distinct flavor. And also, I like having characters that have a great deal of knowledge and can inform the conflict beyond the past couple decades. And so having Kitesh there
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Um, working with the money to have this very concrete knowledge of the, the plane of Dao core and the dreaming dark and the Corey conflict and what's going on, um, is more interesting for me as a storyteller. And some people might also call it a crutch to have a being thousands of years old explain, like expose, but, uh, I don't care. So
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Um, but yeah, we get to tell the story we want. Dang it. So, um, so yeah, that's, that's my, that's my elaboration that I will give you all and I hope it is sufficient. And if not, I'm sorry.
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And if I may, just since you said the thing, to defend Dex's muted reaction a bit, he is nigh unto a superhero himself at this point and definitely is running with some superheroes. Like Beric is a superhero. He's a tortured, he's an anti-hero or something. Something, I don't know. He's a Jedi. Beric is a dark Jedi.
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who are superheroes. So yeah, you're right. The comparison was there. I wasn't disagreeing. No, I know. I know. But yeah, so so we have a college star. And yeah, she very much. I mean, my character is the one that got to have the the more pointed conversations with her. But she's definitely kind of rerouted Dex's head on a bunch of stuff already.
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Not necessarily as to the urgency of what we're doing. He was pretty much on board, but just the idea of seeing that. I think the biggest part was Dex growing up, revering the Kalashtar and learning that if he succeeds in what he wants to do, they're just going to go away.
Dex's Lucid Conversations
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Is, is a big, it's a, that's big to him. So we find out why the dragon suddenly give a crap and it's because now they've got skin in the game.
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Which is very dragon. Like I'm not saying it's not, but it doesn't, does it fit? Yes. Do I, do I like it? No. Uh, or Dex doesn't, but yeah, because Katakas. Oh, no. Yeah. I think that was right. Katakas. Yeah. Whatever. The dragon. I'm not going to try to pronounce it again. The dragon we all know and love. Turns out he has been corrupted. Quarried. He got quarried.
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Uh, and so now the drag's like, whoa, I guess we should pay more attention to this thing. And, and we, and they, and they leave Bhimani with us and we head to storm reach. Cause Bhimani is going to help us. She has a direct interest in this and it's gonna.
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Yeah, no, they don't leave her with us as a charge. They leave her with us as a- Here's a person that can help. A boon. Not that she is theirs to leave. You need a fourth person to wield that fourth weapon. That sounds more like it.
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Especially since later in this, I think it might be the next episode, but especially since we find out that Barrick's plan is to conk out Orianna if he must to keep her from going. That was just, that was the end of the last arc,
Recap and Journey to Stormreach
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right? Oh my gosh. No, that was after, that was after Bamani was introduced. The Bamani kit got introduced. We talked with the dragons. Yeah. We decided to go to storm reach end of episode. Yeah. I believe that's correct.
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All right, and the next episode is some more talking. This is where Dex and Vamani have the conversation where he finds out that the Kalashtar will be no more if this succeeds, but also learns that when he is, every time he had a conversation with one of his brothers, it was a lucid version of his actual brothers talking with him, trying to reason with him as far as it is reasonable.
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and pleading with him to join their side and that that wasn't fun to find out as a player that that had happened.
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but everything your character knows and believed in was a lie. Yeah, man. We're gonna make t-shirts. Yeah, and it is a bummer, and I understand we can relate on that part, but you don't have to be like, oh, so when I looked at Booyah and was like, shoot this guy in the head, it was 100% definitely my brother seeing me do that. When does Booyah find out he only dreamed his son?
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I'm just saying, you all have been told that those were your brothers a lot over the course of this story. And you've done checks and stuff, and I kept telling you, nope, as far as you can tell, it's your brother. Well, sure, but I think it would be safe to say that the Quarry are underhanded and sneaky and powerful and smart, so. Fair enough. And also, they did try to kill us all, so I don't feel like a ton of remorse.
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Um, but yeah, so that conversation happens and then, uh, I think the next thing is the Dex fills Barrick in on just that. No, no, that's not true. Dex Barrick and Orianna have a conversation next. So you guys are free to discuss. Yep. And this is what I do when you win, when Barrick and an NPC have a conversation, I just shut up and let you guys parse it out. Uh, yeah, I mean, it wasn't, it was just a,
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It was the same conversation barracks been having with her for months and months and months of, you know, he would like her to step aside from this, but he's not, he's not at this point, you know, expecting that anymore, but he feels sort of an obligation to try, uh, to get her to, to leave this and go be a person, uh, instead of a, you know,
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murder machine. And I mean, but that conversation did spur. I mean, you may have already thought this, but when it was the final defiant, no, you can't make me leave. Is that when you, Philip, decided that Berwick needed to take a drastic measures to keep her out if he had to? I think I had already kind of decided that I needed to have that conversation with Dex at some point because I've known for a while that
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Or I felt for a while that there was just no way that Barak would possibly let her go into Dal Kor with us because Barak really considers that a one-way trip. Because, I mean, Barak does not know how we will get back. Barak assumes that the dragons or Bamani will provide us a way in, but Barak has no idea on getting back, especially after
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I think I'm skipping ahead a little bit after Bhimani's revelation that one way or another, our accomplishing the mission will end her. Yeah, Barak doesn't know that yet, but Dex does. The audience does.
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That's, yeah, Barak has known that for a while. He didn't want to do that, and I've known that for a while. But I hadn't really worked out how to bring it up, and so I decided to just try to enlist Dex. I don't know what it looks like at this point. I don't know what subduing her looks like at this point. I did not actually mean
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you know, hit her over the head with something. No, of course not. You did. It's the fact that Berwick said incapacitate. And of course, both Dex and Jeff knew that he did not mean physically harm so that she cannot come with us. But it was funny to say Dex thought that for a second. In the interim, though, between the Orianna conversation and Berwick and Dex talking,
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No, it's not in the interim. I apologize. You go right to, we go right into that. And then we find out that Rickard does not plan on going any farther past getting dropped off at storm. Also true. He's going to go back to the jungle, spread his light as they say. Yeah. Yeah. Rickard's not coming. He's going to go back to the jungle. Yeah. Felt right. Since you're going back to storm beach anyway. Was there anything that particularly prompted that Eric, or was it just, you were kind of kind of looking to, you know,
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Position position people for for the end game, which is obviously right nearing well, I think a piece of it was The like
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The idea that Rickard understands completely what's at stake in this fight, and that's why he's stuck around as long as he has. But it's also become increasingly clear to him that outside of occasionally summoning a sea hag, there's not a whole lot he can do in direct help.
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Uh, even if he were to walk into Dalcore with all of you, what's he going to do there? Um, so I think he just kind of made the decision and I tried to express this as best I could, but
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Uh, whether or not you all succeed or fail at this point has very little to do with him. And if you all are going to fail, then he's going to go out doing what he loves, which is helping people in the jungle. So, um, so that's kinda where he landed of like, well, they're going to get it done whether or not I'm with them. So I might as well go do what I'm actually passionate about. Sure. Chase his bliss. That sounds fair to me.
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Plus we have a shiny new purpose-built NPC that we're playing. So throwing Rickard on top of the new ones is a lot. I don't envy Game Masters. I don't like them particularly either, but I don't need them. Easy. Yes, so Rickard is leaving and then
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I think the episode ends with, well, one, we get to Stormreach. We see it approaching and we have the conversation about Orianna and we end of episode it. And we start the next one up in Stormreach and here's where we start to get some revelations that...
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basically so we get to storm reach i do not recall how we end up underground i mean i was it just a we use it was it was how we uh oriana was leading us into the city right and using her you know life as a street urchin to guide us and we were using we went around by way of the tents of ruchime
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and just found the dead Giants. Yes. And then moved into the into the sewers. That's what I forgot to get across the city. I totally forgot about the Giants. That was a bummer. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. You making that decision to kill off some pretty benevolent, sweet NPCs that we remember from the past is a sort of hard GM thing that you have to do to make a story of gravity.
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Yeah. But what we see when we're underground are... I almost just said there's two separate piles. One of dragon stars and one of reach residents. Did we get a sense of how many dead people were down there?
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like really I don't think I gave a strong yeah I mean it's it was at least a few dozen that you saw I mean it wasn't an insignificant amount it's not like the sewers were lined with with corpses sure
Stormreach's Grim Discovery
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I mean not to not to put too fine a point on it or anything but you probably like the most vocal dissenters were dealt with swiftly
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and drastically. So yeah, I mean, that's kind of the scene that you came upon. It wasn't like they were committing genocide against the entirety of the storm reach population or anything, but a lot of people were dead. Right. I mean, we do find out like when we get to the surface, there is still a city here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, that's. But before we get to the surface, I recall this recording
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It was late. I'm an old man. We're in the third episode and it's around 10, 15 that Eric says, roll for initiative. And to say I had mixed feelings. It was a cool fight though. It was a great fight. It was a fun fight. The SeaHag returned. We got to see what Bhimani could do and it's rad.
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So no, it was a very, it was a very good fight. It was a fun fight. I mean, obviously we dispatched of these goons pretty quickly, but I mean, yeah, it was just a good fun fight. And we got a cool moment. Barak got to do his Jedi force jumping around stuff. Orianna got to really seriously murder a couple of dudes. I love the one where you said she took her spear and did the, um, in my head at least.
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Okay. There's a, there's a documentary about the Shaolin and one of the, one of the weapons proficiencies they can choose is like a bow staff. And one of the moves they have to do is they don't plant it in the ground, obviously, cause it's on stone, but they put the butt end of their staff on the ground and they have to jump up and perch on it. And it's called, I don't want to, I don't want to say the name wrong because I feel like that would be insensitive, but they're essentially
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they're balancing using their own counter weight to balance on a staff that's at a 45 degree angle. And it's just really cool. And there's a point where you think, yeah, it's amazing. If I can find the YouTube link, I'll put it in the Discord after this episode drops. But you have a point where you say that she plants the end of the spear in the ground and spins around it. And in my head, she
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does that and jumps off to get some extra momentum and I like that visual so I'm sticking with it. No, I like that visual as well. That's very cool and very appropriate to the kind of the way I imagine her fighting to be is very acrobatic. Yeah.
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Right, because you're I mean, because the training that you're giving her is obviously, there's, there's stuff you learn from your swordsmanship. But it's a lot of monk stuff, right? It is. It's a lot of it's a lot of I mean, the, the basis for the way I describe a lot of barracks, fighting style, when he's using Erebus less so when he's using the the flame tongue sword, because it's a long sword, and it wouldn't quite work this way. But
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The way I describe a lot of Waybaric fights is from studying Tai Chi sword forms. And so, yeah, there's a lot of that acrobatic sort of flowing motion to the way that I think Oriana would fight.
00:24:47
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Awesome. Okay. I, I, I did look it up just, just if anybody's interested, it is the, the technique is actually called the monkey staff and the move is called monkey going up the tree. And I'm going to put a picture of just some random, I'm assuming American martial arts practitioner.
00:25:10
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Well, no, here's a better one. I'm just going to put a picture in our chat. So use guys. Use guys. Hey guys. It's important for me. Did you guys get a tan? I screwed it up. Use guys makes me think of fat Tony from the Simpsons. That's the only, that's the only person I ever think of. Oh, that's awesome. I was like, look in the chat and tell me a little. A little bit of bend to it. That's really.
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Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. So everybody looked that up monkey going up the tree and obviously they don't stay there for long. Sure. No, yeah. Gravity does still exist even that high in the mouth, but not in fifth edition D and D true. Anyway, the fight is great. And.
00:26:00
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Do you use your sense to help us get closer to the mall and that's been sensing where the mall is the whole time and kind of generally been leading us towards the marketplace, which is how we end up in this warehouse. But yeah, we ended the episode with us looking out the door in the direction of it.
00:26:20
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And I think it's early in the next episode that we figure out that we are headed towards, um, uh, last night's house. Yeah. Right. Very quickly. We, we, we see that and we have a bit of, cause there's four dudes. We do realize somebody rolls a natural 20 on a stealth check. I think Oriana, I think I believe it was Oriana as well. And that allowed us a very smart move by Phillip to say, uh, reinforcements aren't coming.
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which is almost as broad a phrase as nobody will miss him, but less horrifying, less horrifying. Uh, but it worked because I, okay, this fight started, you know, we, we got a surprise round. It felt like it was going to be another chump fight for a while. Yeah.
00:27:10
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And that was clearly on purpose. Oh, we should mention at the beginning of this episode, there was a, so we're all remote right now, uh, have been for the last couple of sessions.
00:27:23
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all recording in our own homes. And so on the, on the chat screen, there's four little circles representing. We use Discord for our recording. Yeah. Sorry. We use Discord to record when we're remote. And so there's four little circles and this time there was a fifth one and Eric was like, Oh, I'm also logged in on my phone because I had using that to listen through. And I thought, you know, Eric doesn't understand a lot about computers. So I thought maybe that's just the easiest way for him to make this work.
00:27:49
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No, what was fantastic about this is a couple of sessions back when we were doing this, Eric and Randy, I think.
00:27:55
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Um, we're actually having to do that. Yeah. We actually had to do that. And something went wrong with the sound on his computer or the way we were set up. And so it was just this, it was so perfect because I, I logged in first and he just explained that there was no questioning it. It was just like, Oh, well, of course. Yeah. No, absolutely. I bought it. I bought it like a sucker. Uh, it was fantastic. So we're doing this. I don't know what he would have, what you would have done.
00:28:22
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If you hadn't had to do that at some point, like, I don't know how you would have sold that to me. Yeah, I don't know. That was a. Worked out real well. What if it was such a long con that he was. We got to do it by phone. I don't know what to tell you, man. Cause he needed, he needed that excuse to blindsided. Computer stuff, computer stuff. Not that clever, but I say, and if that's the case, I'm a little scared of you now and I'm going to start being nicer.
00:28:51
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But luckily, it's not unlikely. I can be nice. I just choose not to know. I think you're quite nice. I think it's unlikely you're going to start being nicer to Eric. OK, fair on air. Now, frequently nice to Eric in person. It's true. Don't give up the mystique, Philip. Sorry, sorry.
00:29:13
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Cut that. What's it called, kayfabe? Yes, kayfabe. Yeah. Anyway, wrestling. Okay. So the fight's going and then Eric describes a thing that happens. You know, there's people getting blown by wind and there's doors flying everywhere and there's columns of fire. It really is a cool, it would be a very cinematic chump fight. Yeah. And then Eric describes smelling brimstone.
Draconos' Return as Antagonist
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And he describes a tiefling that I see a tiefling and I'm, I, I have no problem. I have multiple times on this podcast admitted that I'm a dummy. I still didn't have it. I didn't have it till I heard that voice. Did you? I, I think I started to suspect something. Although I really thought he would have the mall. Like I thought he was going to fight us with the mall and then he had his axe and I was like, Oh, well maybe it's not. Cause like he started, he had the tiefling and the armor. I'm thinking.
00:30:10
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I kinda started to think he's turned into a kind of this is gonna be the kind of but it was really like a long shot thing i was not. There was no moment at which i was like i've got it like there was nothing like that and i certainly didn't expect ever to be there yet even if i put together konos i would have thought what he's in pc now and he's been a code whatever happened to a co.
00:30:30
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Yeah, which I guess I want to ask, is that essentially? Yeah. Yeah, they go experience the same thing. Acre was just just to give people a sense of the timeline. The Acre fight that you all did was the recording session after Trevor and I started planning Jircona's return. So I wanted to set up that foreshadowing of it having happened once before.
00:30:53
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But it was different with a co right it wasn't it wasn't actually a co no no he was very explicit there was actually the thing that makes it different is we thought we saw a co die. But also didn't the purple crab thing flash with a co.
00:31:09
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Yes, the purple crab thing did flash. So we were talking to Eko. Eko, it was also like there was a quarry here. Yeah, it was it was switching in between. It was back. So it was it was a little different with Eko because that's that's just what I was trying to I'm trying to remember this. This was you know, that was a year ago at least. So I'm trying to sync up what what the distinction was between what happened with Draconis and what happened with Eko. That's all. Right.
00:31:34
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Okay so let's just I mean okay one of the questions of the discord was will Trevor be joining you for the reviewed no class this time he is not here. Yeah I literally just saw him go live on Facebook and then messaged him asking if he was available but he is at work right now so tragedy. How long have you and Trevor been planning that had you been planning that and what went into it and I'd love to just hear a little bit about Trevor planning his return for a bit.
00:32:03
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So I went back and looked in our message history. The first message I sent was April 16, 2018.
00:32:14
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was when I messaged him saying, hey, I've had this idea, are you down? And he was, to say excited, would have been a bit of an understatement. So yeah, we, honestly, I just got Trevor's buy-in and then I just started like trying to plant the seeds and figure out when would be a good point and all that kind of stuff.
00:32:43
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Um, so it wasn't until I kind of decided, okay. Um, they're headed back to storm reach. It's under reedrin occupation.
00:32:53
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And this kind of is addressing a couple of questions because Laura asked, what's Draconos been doing all this time? Irene asked, how long was Draconos actually in the other plane? His aging. Yeah, Draconos, I kind of decided a while back when the ACO fight happened, and I knew that Trevor was gonna be able to help me out with this, had kind of become
00:33:21
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a general in the reedron like forces essentially like being used for both his his knowledge of you all and his uh his abilities as a paladin um and uh yeah it just kind of kept growing from there um and so yeah i basically just sent trevor all of the pertinent information it's like a few pages worth of what
00:33:47
Speaker
what happened to Draconos, what he's been through, the story that he's been told by Strint, Chance and Connor,
00:33:55
Speaker
Um, his relationship as it developed with them, all that kind of stuff. Um, so it, it was, it was a lot of preplanning of just trying to make sure that Trevor and I were on the same page in terms of. Draconis is mental state. Um, and one of the big things that I told him in all bold letters that will get into why that turned out to not be the case was.
00:34:18
Speaker
you cannot, they can't change your mind. You are resolute in your belief that they abandoned you, that decks may still be worth saving, but probably not because Barak has twisted him against his brothers. I told him, these are your resolute truths. These are your core values that cannot change. And then somebody rolled like 20-20s over the course of one combat encounter.
00:34:44
Speaker
Um, so, uh, we'll get into that. Um, but no, it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun to kind of, uh, get Trevor on the same page and make sure that everything was set up. Um, he was, he was a great sport. Um, he, he did neglect to tell me until the very last second that his computer's on the Fritz and he was going to have to do it over his phone. Uh, but I still love you, Trevor. Um, even though you told me that day of, but, uh, but yeah, no, it was a lot of fun.
00:35:12
Speaker
It was a lot of fun and we were, I mean, our reactions were genuine. Yeah. And it's funny, I'm gonna blow up his spot because I don't care. Yeah, I was wondering if you were gonna do this to him. I thought, and it may have been because of the change in quality just because he was on his phone. I thought that we were hearing a recording. I did not think that Trevor was, I thought it was gonna be a fun thing.
00:35:42
Speaker
But then he screwed up. The power of editing made him sound a lot better than he actually did when he first joined the call. He said something he didn't mean to say and had to go back. And that's when I screamed the first time. And then I knew, I knew Eric was going to let him rerecord it. So I had to get it in there for posterity.
00:36:04
Speaker
But it was really, it was, it was really, really fun to be surprised by that. And then it was way less fun to be the object of his discontent and the remainder of this fight, because I guess I didn't realize his AC was 34. It wasn't quite that high. Let me, I have, I'm getting this character sheet up right now. There were a whole bunch of questions about how it was built. So this might be a time. Yeah. Yeah. Let's, let's go ahead. Cool is one person.
00:36:34
Speaker
who just straight up asked was he built as an NPC or a PC and if so if a PC what was his bill. Yeah so yeah he was a PC build I used dnd beyond to throw the character together so all of this is.
00:36:50
Speaker
Uh, perfectly legal in terms of D and D rules. Um, but he was a tiefling, obviously, um, 16th level paladin with the, um, oath breaker, um, uh, paladin type.
00:37:07
Speaker
oh so he leveled up faster than us in in delcore he he'd been busy also time works differently there um so um so yeah that's uh that's his build essentially without and then he had a lot of really cool equipment just to kind of
00:37:24
Speaker
beef him up to make him a spooky fight. Because
Behind the Scenes of Draconos' Return
00:37:30
Speaker
the reason I made him a higher level and gave him really cool equipment and a lot of stuff to do is the last thing I wanted was to bring Trevor back and in two and a half rounds, Draconos be dead. So I was really trying to stack the deck to make sure that didn't
00:37:48
Speaker
happen. Not that he would kill all of you, just he would be able to last long enough to make it interesting. So he had 164 hit points. He was a beefy, beefy teeth and boy. So yeah.
00:38:04
Speaker
Um, did you give any thought to the fact that it might be one of us dead in two and a half rounds? No, no. Um, well, I don't think about that. I'm not too worried about that. Um, but yeah, so, um, no, it was, it was fun to build that character and kind of, uh, use.
00:38:24
Speaker
Both the so so building in this this gets into kind of just meta advice. This is more knowledge check territory, but I'll do it here. Building this PC in my mindset going into it was two different two different points of attack. One was what has he been through and what would the the reagents train him to do?
00:38:49
Speaker
So things like Mage Slayer, where when a creature within five feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature. That was something that seemed very like a war commander in Eberron would obviously have that in my head, with magic being as prevalent as it is.
00:39:09
Speaker
Um, the Oathbreaker obviously makes sense. Um, but then also doing things based on his knowledge of who you all are. So like giving him sentinel attack to make sure that he can immobilize people. He fought alongside Dex for a while, obviously not one, not during the time that Dex was like crazy speedy. Um, but he knew that Dex was one to move around the battlefield a lot. And so preparing for this like confrontation would
00:39:36
Speaker
take that into account and trained how to do that and stop people from moving around. So I was allowing this enemy to have a little bit more intimate knowledge and ability to prep for fighting the party that I would normally because he's a former PC and he knows you all. So yeah, that's kind of the two points of attack I took when building the character.
00:40:03
Speaker
Obviously because I use the PC rules that also, it's actually a lot more limiting than building an NPC because when you build an NPC, you can just do whatever you want. Like building a monster, just if you wanted to have this ability, if you want to have this plus to their perception, whatever, just do it as long as it's balanced from a CR standpoint. With the PC, you're obviously building within the confines of what a player can do.
00:40:32
Speaker
Uh, so, but Trevor was a great sport, having a level 16 character thrown at him and just being like, here you go, bud. Um, I mean, he got it a day in advance to be able to look over it and kind of highlight the big things that he wanted to be able to do.
00:40:47
Speaker
And I think the only thing you had to remind him of was that feat when I tried to get away. So he clearly had put some time into that sheet. Yeah. Yeah. He was, he was very well prepared. And I do appreciate that because I had it up the whole time too, just in case. But, um, yeah, so, uh, one thing for Trevor, and I don't know if this was intentional or not, but Draconos episodes one through funny.
00:41:15
Speaker
With Pithy, he wasn't a big pontificator. But much like other people who have been radicalized to bad opinions over the course of time, he really likes to talk about it now. It has a lot to say. And it was a very good, this was obviously a different Draconos. And now, is it awesome to be insulted for a paragraph before you get hit in the face? No.
00:41:45
Speaker
I bet it was really good character work. Yeah, it was. Man, this fight ruled. It was so cool. It ruled and your, especially once Trent showed up, your
00:42:03
Speaker
appeals to Draconos and veiled threats at Draconos was some really good stuff, Philip. It was like, I was listening to you do it. I was like, well, that one, that doesn't convince him nothing's going to. Like, honestly, I had an advantage there because I knew, like, because he immediately focused on Dex, I wanted to let that play.
00:42:30
Speaker
And sadly the dice just didn't work for you. Yeah. No, I wanted to, I wanted to hurt. I know. That was not an exaggeration when I screamed that I finally hit him. I was so glad. Yeah. The dice just weren't working for you. And I was like, okay, I can keep waiting, but eventually one of us is going to get our heads stoved in. So well, uh, but, so I just had, I had a lot of time to think through, okay, what would I, what would Barrett say?
00:42:59
Speaker
to try and get to Draconis. And what would Barak, who's a very different person today than he was the last time he met Draconis, say, and to what degree does Barak actually have any sympathy for this situation? And that was not actually a lot.
00:43:16
Speaker
Well, and you want to talk about the dice not working. I mean, we had two separate attempts to do a planer travel for a really interesting one on one conversation. And the dice just beefed it both like.
00:43:29
Speaker
real frustrating. I wish there had been any kind of character driven way to justify just not just just deliberately failing to save because yeah you don't have to make the save but you know there was no way that there's no way that Dex would just allow someone to teleport him away and likewise there's no reason that Draconis would allow Barak to do that so it was just
00:43:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That would have been really cool. And when it failed with Dex, I wanted to create that scene because I thought I'd really like to hear what, cause I, you know, I imagine Trevor had put a lot of thought into what he would have said. Uh, and so I really wanted to at least give him, if I couldn't get it with Dex, I'd at least wanted him to get, have the opportunity to say those things, but it just didn't. Yeah. The dice just didn't, didn't cooperate. Yep. Yeah. Uh, but I know I really liked getting to getting to appeal to him as Barak and I really liked.
00:44:21
Speaker
the visual of when he just hit Barrett. Oh my gosh, he hit me so hard. I'm not usually scared because Eric is inadvertently to a certain degree and quite willingly to another degree made Barrett very hard to kill after killing him twice.
00:44:43
Speaker
And so I'm not usually very worried about Barak dying. I'm often worried about the fight going out of control and other people dying, but I'm not usually worried about Barak being dead at the end of a fight. But man, that first time he hit me, it was like half of my hit points.
00:45:04
Speaker
Uh, so I really liked, but I really liked the visual of him, you know, knocking the mask off of barracks face. And I really loved Trevor's reactions. I really loved that Trevor immediately just jumped on that despite having not, you know, listened to all the episodes. What a jerk, right? Right. You heard of your first listeners. You're a better person than Trevor.
00:45:28
Speaker
And, you know, it's fine because apparently Trevor won't ever do this. Well, and I just I want to. And yeah, he might not ever listen to this episode, but I just want to.
00:45:39
Speaker
talk about him as a player because I love the fact that like, yeah, I gave him a lot of super powerful things to do. And what's the first thing that he does in the fight?
Draconos' Headbutt and Motives
00:45:49
Speaker
He headbutts Dex. Yeah, he doesn't do one of the super awesome things like he does something interesting and impactful and totally makes sense because I told him before the fight started like you like as the fight starts, you do not want to kill Dex.
00:46:04
Speaker
Dex is your rescue project and so I love that he went with a non-lethal but still combative like disabling thing like that's such a cool thing to do from the outset when you're given this level 16 character sheet with all these fun toys like nope just gonna bash him with my forehead yeah
00:46:28
Speaker
Although I feel like a Tiefling should get a boost on the damage die because I'm just picturing the bone ridge that has to support those horns. And what that would feel like to be headbutted like a Tiefling. Yeah, that seems there's. I thought at the time, I just thought it again. One of my.
00:46:51
Speaker
Uh, no, I almost said guilty pleasures. I hate that. I love the Jack Reacher novels. They freaking rule. They're stupid and they're mindless and they're a great thing to read. Uh, and one of the things he always talks about is every couple of books, you'll have this little monologue where you talk just out of nowhere. Sometimes talks about the arch as an architectural piece and how it's super strong, the way that it displaces, uh, force when it comes in, when something comes in contact with it and da, da, da, da.
00:47:18
Speaker
And he says, the arch is this, the arch is that. And then he ends up with, so I headbutted him.
00:47:25
Speaker
that's the shape that's awesome that's so funny yeah those books are those books are good you'll never convince me otherwise the movies are okay i have i have not read the books my uncle loves them um but i have not read them they're quick i'll say that sure um i act like i read them obviously i listen to them as audiobooks because i don't get to sit down and read anymore yeah um anyway
00:47:54
Speaker
that the speeches that you give and obviously the numbers that you rolled led to Dracono's not, he's got some deprogramming to do, which I would not hate hearing. And if I'm assuming
00:48:16
Speaker
What do I know? But I'm assuming we're probably not going to have Trevor back on, but I would love to get a Dracono's epilogue. Yeah. Yeah. And I hope that you and he will collaborate on that because I'd love to hear a bit of it. Because as an NPC in campaign two. Well. Or that. No, I would not hate that either.
00:48:39
Speaker
strength shows up, keeps talking about disrespecting his house, which steams up Orianna, which is great. Oh, I love that you gave me the opportunity to do that, Eric. There was no like, I asked you for that or anything like that. I just loved that you set up that moment where Orianna just, because in my head, it was, you know,
00:49:01
Speaker
in the the first Avengers movie where um uh colson's been stabbed and loki is going on his is grant pontificating rant and then colson blasts him with the big alien gun right mid-sentence yeah that was the picture in my head as he comes down pontificating about his house and then oriana hits him with the fire wind pretty great
00:49:26
Speaker
Really great, actually. Oh, what we have not exactly mentioned is we definitely with this house on fire. Very, I mean, there were columns of fire. There was, oh no, I did lightning bolt, not cannot fireball, but still. Eric's sword is on fire. Eric's sword is constantly on fire, which, well, we'll get to that question later. Strength dies.
00:49:54
Speaker
but man the way he dies. I enjoyed this fight for a couple of reasons. We haven't had a combat opportunity for Beric to display how dark he has gotten in terms of his view towards the enemy. And so I really enjoyed being able to show that off in
00:50:19
Speaker
with strength, because I wasn't going to do that with Draconos. I really didn't want to kill Draconos. Barak probably would have cared less, but Phillip really didn't want to kill Draconos. But getting to like, you know, grind strength's face into the burning floor of this building, that was solid.
00:50:37
Speaker
But more than that, I loved Trevor's moment here. I wish Trevor was here to talk about it. Trevor's finishing moment with strength was just so good.
Post-Battle Mall Retrieval
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah, that ruled. In the meantime, Orianna and Dex have run up to get them all. Honestly, I was going to use my next turn to start running, but I didn't want to
00:51:07
Speaker
take away your thing. And so I was like, well, run up there with her. Why not? And I can, I got these tools. I'll unlock this bad boy. And so, and we get them all and we go outside and
00:51:23
Speaker
Dex lays down. Dex wants to sleep for a thousand years. Hold on, you skipped something. We go outside in slow motion as that burning house collapses and then explodes behind us. That's true. Yep, that's canon.
00:52:00
Speaker
What a dumb thing. Now, no, no, you had you told me later you had another idea for you originally. And I want I want you to hear that because it's a wonderful alternate history in my mind. Yeah. So I had not forgotten about Cashew mostly because shout out to I believe it was Laura in our discord asked like months ago. Hey, what happened to Cashew? And I took that in the back of my brain. But yeah.
00:52:01
Speaker
I thought I didn't have to say it.
00:52:27
Speaker
I had had the thought when trying to figure out what role cashew could play. And my initial instinct was to have some altered, like, abominable form of cashew, either a dire rat or even even if I even toyed around the idea of doing a full on where rat, like they they were four or five cashew into like a Draconosis sidekick.
00:52:56
Speaker
But then I said him the news from Ninja Turtles. Yes, exactly and The reason I ended up not is because I had it in my head of like, okay. I
00:53:09
Speaker
This group tends to, in moments like this, either roll a just pitiful amount of 1s or an absurd amount of 20s. I did not think it would be as many as it ended up being, but I thought I need to keep Cashew in my back pocket in case
00:53:30
Speaker
they just roll enough 20s to where I feel like, okay, there's a chance that Draconos can be saved. Because I was going into this fight in no way, not know how. He had been turned, he had been indoctrinated into the cause. But things went the way that they went, and I'm glad that I kept Cashew in my back pocket because that was going to be
00:53:56
Speaker
the final moment that snapped him out of it is because we had all forgotten about Cashew, including him. And so him seeing Cashew again was going to be the tipping point. So that's ultimately where I landed. But yes, we were very close to having either giant Cashew or person Cashew. Yeah, I love that. That's funny to me. Awesome. I mean, it really is great. OK, I think do we
00:54:22
Speaker
hit the questions and yeah okay so I think the first one chronologically in the channel that we have not yet addressed is from leopard2ace who asks where were the rest of the inspired forces there couldn't have just been a dozen or two in the city controlling the populace or do they just decide not to run towards the fire brewing at basically their HQ
00:54:45
Speaker
Obviously the 20 came to play with reinforcements arriving. For the other part of that question, stay tuned. Stay tuned! But there is a reason. Irene would like to know if your version of Eberron has coffee and or chocolate. Yes. And yes. Aren't they Zindrik delicacies?
00:55:11
Speaker
They are Cabarin. They just haven't started mass transport yet. That's why you don't see it ever. Nice. Okay, Philip, a question for you. Is Beric using the flame sword over Erebus now for story or mechanical reasons? Well, I would hope by now you would know it's not mechanical. No, Erebus is way better than the flame sword. Erebus is a fully ruined out moon blade. Erebus is insane as a weapon. No, the flame sword
00:55:41
Speaker
No, the flame sword is not mechanically better. No, basically, and I don't, I guess Barak has not come out right out and say this, but I feel like I'm trying to lean into this a little bit. The conversation that Barak had with Erebus in the previous arc, where Erebus asked, basically told Barak that what Barak needs to do is release the pact so that Erebus can be freed and that this will de-anchor the silver flame.
00:56:12
Speaker
that is exact that's like if we were writing a script for the shadow in the flame to tempt someone like if this is if this is the silver flame bible that is right out of the garden of eden
00:56:25
Speaker
And so Barak is now firmly and completely convinced that he is carrying around with him a manifestation of the shadow in the flame and that Erebus is just an evil demonic entity that's trying to play him. And so he doesn't know exactly how he's going to deal with that when it comes to dealing with the court.
00:56:53
Speaker
but he's not gonna bring that thing out anymore than he has to because, well, it's a demon. So, yeah. So that's, it's very narrative and yes, Beric is mad at Erebus and scared of Erebus. Sure, yeah. Joe asks, are Tinsel and Hugh ever going to make a cameo? Almost certainly not. They don't exist in our Eberron, I don't think.
00:57:21
Speaker
I mean, I can tell you this, Hugh's not coming back. Hugh, Thorin and Dex go on an adventure. Jeff goes crazy. How does Trent find them all? Laura wants to know. I mean, that's a story for another time. No, I mean,
00:57:48
Speaker
the party are not the only people looking for these implements like the he went on an adventure the clues have been out there in plain sight for literally anybody that might come across them and the reedrons have a vested interest in figuring out what these weapons are and holding on to them um so i'll just let you know because it's literally impossible um for you all to go on the adventure there were uh
00:58:17
Speaker
hints laid out in the pyramid where you all found out about Barash and Orgev.
00:58:23
Speaker
Um, but there, there's basically a, in my Eberron, um, on the subcontinent, I guess of ever ice. It's the, the, the pole right below Zendrick. Um, in case in a magical, like kind of protective bubble, um, there was a lost civilization of cloud giants that had the mall. Um, and, uh, so they went and massacred them and then took them all from them, um, is, is what happened. So.
00:58:53
Speaker
Yeah, they figured out the location and sent forces down there and killed them. So, yep. Okay. Yeah, there you go. Okay, and also she asks, Laura, what was the thing that Eric wanted Barak and Dex to remember when they were talking to Orgev and Barasha?
00:59:19
Speaker
I saw that question and I remember wanting you all to remember something. I even went back and listened to this conversation. I don't remember. Honestly, I do not recall what I was getting at in that conversation. Apologies to everybody. I do not know. Moving on.
00:59:43
Speaker
All right. Sorry, Philip. Oh, no. I was prepping myself for the next question. Oh. OK, here's the next question. I hate this. What does Vore do over Christmas break? His taxes.
01:00:05
Speaker
He is early on his taxes every year. Yeah, he does his taxes. He's like Ebenezer Scrooge, but without the cool ghosts.
01:00:17
Speaker
Cool ghosts. Statler and Waldorf, as far as I'm concerned. Amen, amen. That is the best film version, absolutely. Oh, absolutely it is. Okay, so Darren has a question. Eric. Yes. You know what, I'll tell you when it's your turn.
01:00:37
Speaker
Do you have any advice for creating combat NPCs that use PC rules? Are there any tricks you've used to save yourself time? Are there any PC abilities you've purposely avoided giving to NPCs?
01:00:49
Speaker
And he says thanks because he's polite. Thank you for being polite. So the biggest thing, because I knew that I was just going to be handing this single sheet to a single person and they were going to be controlling all of it, I just left it as is. But last year for Gamer Nation Con,
01:01:08
Speaker
which tickets are on sale right now. I did a one-shot of the X-Men set in Eberron, and I used the PC rules to build those characters. And I would recommend this both for if you're building an NPC or if you're doing a one-shot convention module and you're doing pre-generated characters.
01:01:28
Speaker
I then took the stats from building them with the PC rules and then looked at monster cards for inspiration and basically used the monster card formatting and just cut anything I wasn't gonna use over the course of that single encounter or that single adventure or whatever. So just looking at Draconos' character sheet just for a lark, I would have just cut Channel Divinity
01:01:58
Speaker
because I'm not gonna use Control Undead in that combat. There's not gonna be undead things, so there's no reason to have it on the sheet. Dreadful Aspect, maybe. That was his Oathbreaker, Channel Divinity, but once again, it's not very flavorful. It's probably not what I'm gonna use it for. Cleansing Touch, cut that. Divine Sense, cut that. Lay on Hands Keep, because that's helpful.
01:02:25
Speaker
So yeah, just look at the things that are not essential to what you're gonna use the character for and just don't include it because you don't need it. It's just gonna take up space. It's just gonna draw your eye when you don't need it to be drawn. In terms of saving time, I promise I'm not trying to be a shill, but D&D Beyond made it super quick and easy. Like I literally just, it took me maybe 10 minutes to build Draconis.
01:02:51
Speaker
Um, and that, that's with me being very intentional and thinking about like, what feats would he take and stuff like that? If I was just on a time crunch and like crap, people are going to be here in an hour and I want to use these rules to make it awesome. Bad guy. Uh, I could have gotten done in five. So, um, so yeah, that's, that's my process for it. And that's also how I built the X-Men characters. And that's what I do with Draconis. I just use D and D beyond rolled the characters up. And then that's, that's really it in terms of things that I would avoid.
01:03:22
Speaker
This is just me, spellcasters. This campaign has made me better about using spellcasters in combat. Spellcasting used to be my weakest skill set in D&D, just because I could never keep track of what did what and when I should do things. But I don't think there's any PC abilities that jump off of my head that I would
01:03:48
Speaker
like call out to saying never give an NPC this thing. Just make it flavored for your encounter or the character. That's what I would do. And to just roll right into Darren's next question, because I think it's a continuation.
01:04:27
Speaker
end than I thought it would have going into the fight. And I did not know that Beric had the sentinel feat as well. So I also wasn't like heartbroken or like, oh no, this breaks the whole campaign when Strint died. But I was expecting Strint to be able to get away and abandon Draconos essentially.
01:04:33
Speaker
In particular, are you happy with how the fight with Draconis played out?
01:04:55
Speaker
And that's all I have to say about that. Did you all think you would be able to do this a little more quietly at the very least? Most of the fight would take place in the house, but at least 65% of Stormrage knows something is going down. The thing about the fight
01:05:19
Speaker
that the Eberron's fight with the quarry is that the tip of the spear is a wrecking ball, unfortunately. It is a blunt tip of the spear. We are a blunt object.
01:05:34
Speaker
as we were approaching that we might, but then I kind of did my whole, uh, well, let's look for windows or can I get above it? And Eric basically just made it really clear to me that while he wasn't saying, no, I've walled off this entire building, he was essentially saying, no, you're pretty much going to have to go through the front door. Like my only way I could have gotten in, I think was with dimension door and that would have gotten two of us inside.
01:05:59
Speaker
So it was pretty evident from just the signals i was getting off eric and from the little bit of scouting that we did that the way and was the front door which i'm kind of think was eric setting up the awesome draconos reveal because if we snuck in through window that would have been a lot harder to pull off.
01:06:17
Speaker
Yes. And that was from JP nerd, by the way. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, I apologize. I did just gloss over that. But I mean, as far as the question of, do you think we'd be able to do this a little bit, a little bit more quietly? Have you met us? Like, yeah, half of our stuff involves fire. True. And yet most of the party is so stealthy. Like that's the other thing, like we can sneak to a place, but once it starts, it starts. Yep.
01:06:47
Speaker
We're a real stealthy fireworks show. Yeah. I did not take assassin as my, uh, subclass. Orianna did. She did. And she could be, she could be quiet, but instead she's throwing walls of fire at people. She's got a, she's got a, she's got a patience and an anger thing. She rules like 14 year old everywhere.
01:07:12
Speaker
I don't remember how old she is now. I do like the subtext that Dex is starting to wonder if she'd be worried about Orianna replacing him in the group. I have really enjoyed that. That's been a very funny bit. It looks like the last question here is, is Dracodos the only PC character that isn't multi-classed?
01:07:35
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I think so. That's from CBS pop tart. Uh, Theradac didn't stick it to stick around long enough to multi-class. Yeah. Yeah. He inevitably would have, uh, yeah, I think so. Yeah. Cause we got rogue fighter. We've got ranger cleric and warlock, warlock can say, can say, pardon me. Yeah.
01:08:02
Speaker
And then in the hybrid NPC PC form that Orianna is, she is also- She has now started out as a PC. We initially started with her as an NPC block just on the fly, but Eric told me to go ahead and stat her out. So she is a rogue monk. Sure. Yeah, I guess I went from a story standpoint since Eric still plays her, but yeah. Yeah. She is also awesome.
01:08:33
Speaker
Y'all, thank you so much for listening to this. We have recorded the first two episodes of the next arc and some things happen, as one might expect. Two hours of stuff. Y'all, we are really nearing the end of this campaign. And I'm not saying like we got three more episodes, but I would be surprised if we have three more sessions. If you all, yeah, I mean, it's to the point now where
01:09:01
Speaker
Um, if, if we're going to live stream it, like it's, it's near in the finish line. We have reached the point where everybody looks at each other and goes, whatever it takes. Uh, if you hit that point in the RPG where we are told, if you have anything you haven't done yet. Right. Turn around.
01:09:25
Speaker
Yeah. And we've hit that point in the evening where Jeff forgot how to talk. So I'm going to say thank you all for listening so much. It means the world to us. Before you sign off, I have one last little announcement thing. Okay. On...
01:09:42
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December 21st, Saturday, December 21st, the Geek Pantheon Twitch will be hosting our first ever live play, not of Everon Renewed, but of a one-shot that I'm writing. This is an idea pitched by a couple of the guys that I occasionally stream with on Thursdays on the Geek Pantheon Twitch, where the six of you who ever watched that, because why would you watch me stream games? I'm terrible at stuff.
01:10:11
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But anyway, a couple of them have been interested in playing and I've been kind of streaming to support them as much more impressive streamers and to make them look good by being terrible. And they wanted to kind of jump into my world to a certain degree. So on the 21st, I'm going to run a one shot on our Twitch. I think we're going to start about four in the afternoon central time, but I'll get more announcements on the Facebook page.
01:10:37
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The Facebook page has been slowly populating the lightning rail that they're going to be on with a really bizarre and eclectic group of people. And we've started revealing the characters. Eric's going to play, along with a couple of other guys. And yeah, so if you're around and want to watch, that will be up. And I assume it will also be available later in some other form, but we haven't quite gotten to that yet.
01:11:03
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One very quick piece on my end. We do our level best in all of our properties.
01:11:11
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to keep it accessible for people of all ages and all proclavities and everything. Thank you. I enjoy playing video games with the people that we've been playing D&D with. This stream is going to go ahead and come with a very... It's gonna be explicit. There's not gonna be an edit button. It's a live stream. So don't let your kids watch.
01:11:37
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Y'all know how sometimes, even though I try really hard, I sometimes forget and let a bad word slip, these guys aren't gonna try. But out of spite, while they're streaming that, I think Randy and I are gonna stream ourselves silently playing speed chess for four hours. So if you wanna do that, I don't know. It might be so funny to me for some reason. I don't know if Randy knows how to play chess. I am not good at chess. I think it's gonna end with me
01:12:05
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screaming king me in his face and then, I don't know, stabbing him in the leg and running away. But the four hours of buildup will be... Anyway, yes, and I think, if I recall, it has been asked in passing, when this campaign is over,
01:12:33
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We are going to do another campaign. There will be some time between the two. I'm going to run a one shot for our, for everybody. Um, we might take a couple of weeks where there's some radio silence just to have a minute. Uh, does not have to worry about jumping right into a new campaign, kind of decompress a little bit. Uh, but, but we're coming right back. So, uh, with another Eric run game in Eberron.
01:13:01
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with the three of us, at the bare minimum, the three of us are coming back to play for it. Unless one of you all wants to run it. I mean, that's not off the table. Well, I guess the, uh, do I have to know anything about Eberron? Probably. I barely know anything. So, you know, I mean, that's nonsense. Um, yeah. Um, yeah, there will be another campaign. So, so having said that, thank you so much for listening.
01:13:31
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If you want to get in conversation with us, you would absolutely we would love to see you get involved in the Facebook group at the Geek Pantheon on Facebook. We do have a Twitter and Instagram both at the Geek Pantheon. Our Discord is a
01:13:47
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is a gift for our patrons and you can check us out at patreon.com slash thegeekpantheon. I believe the five dollar tier gets you on the discord. One dollar. Everybody gets on the discord. That's right. Every patron is on the discord. I apologize. So the one dollar one dollar a month and you're on the discord.
01:14:06
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Um, and the, the, uh, tears go up from there up to, I believe is $30, the highest available one right now. Uh, there is a $60 a month, uh, tier. Oh, I thought it was full. My bad. No, no. Uh, the $6 month tier is where you get everything. Plus we send you a present every, uh, a physical present every month. Mm-hmm.
01:14:30
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When it was my turn to pick, I chose the DVD set of Over the Garden Wall because I'm a child, but it's awesome. It's wonderful. Anyway, I'm Jeff. I'm Philip. And I'm Eric. And this has been the show we do. Bye.
01:15:05
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Thank you, Kylo, for jumping in. That wasn't Kylo. Was that Argo? Argo? Nope. Argo says not in the room. No, your little baby dogs didn't make that bark. That was your end.