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Lich Please! Episode 13
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Introduction and Humorous Beginnings
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Lich Police podcast. I'm Yuan and today I'm joined by, I don't know, I want to say friend but kind of a snake really, a murdering snake who's heard and killed the Forever DMs one and only PC for years in a one shot. It was an accidental kind of kill. I didn't mean it. It feels deliberate. It genuinely feels deliberate to me.
00:00:26
Speaker
Someone had to die. It's just the combat just popped. Someone had to die. It's just a shame you failed on the deck save, isn't it? So, you know. So is life.
Reflections on a Recent One-Shot
00:00:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. That's true. What makes it worse is that we're about to do Cure Wounds on me and I want to know what. I'll do a Death Save first.
00:00:48
Speaker
that that was actually a genuinely that was the worst it could have happened because i i was just like yeah just you know it's definitely been like 24 seconds or however long yeah it was before your turn so i was like yeah roll it'll be fine you won't that one you know one i was like okay i was like whoa yeah
00:01:07
Speaker
It happens, it happens. So yeah, if you watched last week, you guys might remember that Alex was gearing up to run his one shot, which is now what we've done. And it was, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. I love playing Forest Man.
00:01:22
Speaker
I think you have an idea of how I felt with DMing for you guys. God, yeah, so I mean, we've talked about the Slard stuff on the Slarder session on this before and how it just got ruined, kind of, because you just got bested by Tyr and his spells. Compelled your whatever he used. Yeah, I had six.
Player Dynamics and Unexpected Decisions
00:01:50
Speaker
combat encounters six six planned six now I didn't expect all six to happen the reason I planned six is because in my brain it was like oh you guys will take a route and you will get to the vault but you don't have to kill everyone because you're not going to go visit every room
00:02:08
Speaker
Because it's a one-shot and you've been given a goal like you guys are gonna just Go somehow to the room and then so I was actually really nervous because at the start everyone split up And I was shouting myself. I was nervous as well. I was when people like oh, can we take different routes? I was like, yeah, you can But and then the thing so the combats all the combats I set up apart from the last one and
00:02:39
Speaker
one more were so the last one and one one of our combat was deadly in the encounter creator yeah uh the rest of them were just hard medium and then one of them was like um really easy the the room of the nobles the ballroom in case you wanted to fight them that was just the really easy one
00:02:59
Speaker
Yeah, I kind of did yeah like I kind of want to fuck some of them up It was it was straight up and you guys could have just cleared them out and around that it was the easiest it was it was going to be really easy But yeah, so I'd set up like six encounters seven if you include the nobles every counted but
00:03:17
Speaker
Yeah. And when everyone said they're going to split up, I was like, you guys are going to die. I said this up. I said all the cameras I set up are difficult. And they're meant for six people. You're going to die. And then you know what? I'm so happy the roles for deception went well. As much as I was like, oh, you got avoided all my encounters. If the people who went through the front gate, there were two, they would have got battered. They would have absolutely got smacked.
00:03:45
Speaker
There were three archers sat at the back. They had 80 health each. They were just going to snipe them from the start. It was going to be difficult. If anyone entered through the back garden, that would have been worse. That would have been so much worse. Yeah. I looked at that and went, no, not the back garden. There were like drakes in there. There was four blue guard drakes and there was eight mercenaries. Was it eight? Yeah.
00:04:09
Speaker
six mercenaries the mercenaries not too difficult that's fine the drakes yeah slightly more difficult thing is if there were six of you it's clearable like it's it's it's it's it would be easier than what we get in the the monday ones like it i was looking at things it wouldn't be bad but if it was just like a split up party yeah then that would have been
00:04:33
Speaker
That would not end it well. Yeah, and to be honest, I didn't even prepare fully fully because when you guys went to go through the kitchen, now I had the idea for like, obviously servants is going to be in the thing.
Exploration of Campaign Themes
00:04:49
Speaker
I did not have a kitchen map.
00:04:53
Speaker
When another encounter was happening, I went on incarnate, downloaded a kitchen map, stuck it on drive, put it on the map and went, yeah, we've got a kitchen now. Welcome to DMing. Yeah. And then I was just, because it was a really random one, I was just like, yeah, it's, it's.
00:05:10
Speaker
doesn't pass any hygiene standards it's shit it's you'd expect better off nobles but yeah this kitchen yeah awful um yeah and then that month those chicken monsters yep went on the homebrew searched up food that came up i went okay we're gonna roll with that um yeah that's genuinely the whole the whole kitchen the chicken stuff just wasn't even in my original plans um but yeah uh when everyone spit up i was actually nervous
00:05:40
Speaker
Luckily, everyone did well, so that's fine. But there's a few things you guys got very close to doing and didn't.
00:05:50
Speaker
Right. So my room Yeah, that room with the the miffle sheets covering the windows and you're gonna go through this. Yes I completely forgot about that. That room was a lab And there was just a bunch of undead monsters in there. That's why when the perception check happened I said it smells kind of disgusting and it also smells of wine Because it wasn't a great perception check, but if you've broken that room there was like undead
00:06:19
Speaker
monitors and skeletons just sat in a lab, which would have got some aspects of law going. But you guys went downstairs instead. You left. You went straight to the wine cellar and to the vault. So straight up, if you broke into that room, there would have been a lab with some combat.
00:06:45
Speaker
But yeah, you guys avoided that. Yeah, I think we did. I think we did well. I'm sad Forest Man is dead. It's it's sad. But yeah, it was his I feel like it's better for his legend him not to survive. I mean, his his I was genuinely serious. His legend will be spread.
00:07:05
Speaker
you ask Bob Dylan, it's going to be a thing. There's something somewhere in the campaign. There will be like a little reference or a cameo or something for, to be fair, I was thinking for each of the characters will have something because the events in which the one shot occurred is like the turning point, like for
00:07:27
Speaker
um an age if you will like it's a really big turning point so um the the premise for uh the the story uh seems i don't think i've ever said it uh on the podcast i don't think you have no
00:07:44
Speaker
Yeah, so the premise is, and the reason I'm doing this premise, I'll explain it a bit, but it's the end of the age of pirates and gods, and it's all going to science and technology, and it's all of that. But it's about the pirates and gods trying to work into society or overturn society and basically survive.
00:08:09
Speaker
um the reason for that is that after this whole campaign whatever happens uh it's going into space it's going to be a space campaign um so like however you lot do it eventually it's going to end up in space like depending how you you end it like it could be space pirates or just people in space it really depends um okay but that's that's way down the line but that's like the premise right
Player Decisions and Lore Engagement
00:08:35
Speaker
Yeah. And then you're listening. Space pirates. Yeah. Just hit that in the back of your mind. But yeah, so that's that's like the premise. And this basically the the the outcome of the events of this is huge. Like I said before, I tried to emphasize how important the ending was. But it's very
00:09:05
Speaker
It's like very important. Yeah. And I'll be honest, you guys are lucky only one egg was left. I rolled secretly for that. And it was just the one. It could have gone worse. It could have gone exponentially worse. I'm trying to think what that egg could be. Yeah. I mean, a kid came out.
00:09:34
Speaker
say a kid did come out part of me thinking they're gods or something i don't know i guess we'll have to we'll have to wait and find out but i'm very curious to it's a great
00:09:49
Speaker
hook for the campaign to get us to play so much further in the past before our characters. It's interesting. Yes, because this as well has... I think the really big thing, which I don't think you actually thought about, is I gave you the choice at the start, or Bobbling gave you the choice to blow up the island, or not blow up the island.
00:10:13
Speaker
The island blowing up is not a big thing. It's the fact that multiple noble families were on this island, like just multiple wiped out. Yeah, like apart from a few of the leaders who weren't there. Most of their families are dead, like straight up, just most of them have died, except like a few, like a decent amount. But that's that will change where when I drop the law, you will see
00:10:42
Speaker
the massive shift. I will give you numbers, but you will see the massive shift of power and stuff from the nobles. It's really cool. I thoroughly enjoyed the session. Yeah, yeah. I've been writing the lore up since we've done it, just in the document and getting it all up. So yeah, it should be fun. I also dropped the images of some gods.
00:11:11
Speaker
for you a lot. You did. They're interesting. They are. They seem kind of familiar somehow. Yes. Yes. But yeah, that was the one shot. Honestly, it got me very excited to start the campaign.
00:11:30
Speaker
Yeah, I was, in a way, I was sad that we didn't get to do more Alex NPC stuff, but being a one-shot and it being very sort of like one-track, I guess, focus, you've got to get to your goal. I understand that that probably wasn't in the remit for it, but I'm very excited to start the campaign so I can start being a pain in the ass to you.
00:11:51
Speaker
Yes, I can't wait for some of my NPCs. I will make annoying NPCs. There will be NPCs that will have deep-filled hatred. You guys will just hate, despise. Yeah, I think that's fun. I do enjoy playing, especially Ervon for you guys. You really don't like that man. We've only been twice if we don't like him, so that's understandable. But yeah.
00:12:19
Speaker
Mine will come with the voices as well. The annoying ones will have the annoying voices. Not the Borat voice. Most of them, I'll just do a normal voice, but if I want them to be annoying, they'll have a voice. Any voice. Anything I can muster up.
00:12:39
Speaker
So, yeah. I think we have to mention that the most important character in the entire one shot. Singamaboblin. Singamaboblin. Wow. Singamaboblin. What a... Just RIP. Yeah. RIP Singamaboblin. Amazing. Just so amazing. Just brought tears to my eyes that I had to kill him. I was very tempted to stop. A champ. Yeah. Yeah. Rest in peace, man.
Game Mechanics and Homebrew Rules
00:13:06
Speaker
That was...
00:13:07
Speaker
That was, that was sad. Yeah. Loblin's, Loblin's a little friend or big friend as you will. Big friend. Yeah. Loblin's big friend. Yeah. So the thing is as well, this dawned me after this session, uh, I, I got the homebrew gold golem thing up and then I was like, you know, this combat was not as deadly as I thought it'd be in my head. I was like, this, you didn't read the entire sheet.
00:13:32
Speaker
No, not properly. Honestly, to be fair, if I did what the sheet said, straight up you would have died, all of you. It was immune, not resistant. It was immune to bludgeoning, slashing, piercing by non-magical means and resistant by magical means, which means you were the only one who could do damage, just you. Yeah. Because it was resistant to ice cold.
00:14:02
Speaker
fire as well. It got HP back when it gets hit with them. Any plus one weapon would count as magical. Does anyone have plus one items? I think some, I think a few people did. So yeah, like, but it would have all been half. Like it was half anyways. Um, but yeah, it like monks would have been, uh, good. Cause I think they get magical fist as well. But then otherwise, especially at level five, yeah, they would have
00:14:29
Speaker
Yeah, like, genuinely, this thing was insane. None of you use spells. There was no spell usage, which would have got itself back. So you guys actually did well in that aspect. Yeah. None of us were really principal spellcasters apart from Tyr playing Loblin, really. Yeah. And we had
00:14:54
Speaker
film playing a cleric but yes even then I also think it's three levels in cleric yeah so you guys did pretty well to be fair um them monodrones were the most useless pieces of fodder I'd I will never use again like them I enjoyed them hated them I didn't hit a single person I had six monodrones didn't hit a single person
00:15:19
Speaker
Yeah. But you guys did really well because one person got knocked. That was it. In the big vault combat. Honestly, if you guys didn't have logic to check for traps as well, 4D10s of cannonballs were just going at your heads if you tried to open. That would have been fine. Oh, yeah, you would have been. But then that and then the golems, I was like, yeah, this would be fun.
00:15:47
Speaker
But yeah, so yeah, it was fun. I very much enjoyed DMing. It was a very enjoyable experience. Yeah, so I'm hyped for my campaign now. Let's jump in very quickly before we swing back to Alador. Let's jump into our first new section, which is the homebrew rules section.
00:16:11
Speaker
Yes. I do have one for today. It's interesting. I thought someone had put on a Reddit thread that in their campaign on ADM, they do a ability score increase and a feat every level. Huh. Yeah, that's a lot. That's quite a bit.
00:16:34
Speaker
I'm not going to get into disagreeing with the way they play that because, you know, if you want to power, if you want to power, if you're a powerful fuck it, go for it. That's how you want to play. Go for it. I'm not gonna stop you. That's, I'm just thinking like the M brain now thinking that's genuinely terrifying to balance for. Yeah. Like let's say you've rolled tens on all six of the abilities, right? I think it's six. It is six. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:05
Speaker
and you get to, then you go to level 20, you could just have everything at what? I think 13 minimum, or just two 20s in the rest 10s, which doesn't seem like insane, but then you're not gonna roll all 10s. Because you're gonna have, I don't know, you could have, you could roll like two 17s, 15s, and you could end up, depending how good your rolls are, with just straight up 20s on everything.
00:17:33
Speaker
or close to it, which is absolutely ridiculous. Unless, obviously, they must have done it for a while and they can balance it out. But that is insane. Plus pair of befits that can get the score increases. Can you imagine being level 20 with 20 feet? Yeah, that's ridiculous. Plus some of them have ability score increase, like the feets. So you can just do that as well. Yeah. You could have. Yes.
00:18:02
Speaker
like a plus six to ac or something like ridiculous from feats uh some of the things are crazy some of the things are genuinely terrifying um yeah you could you could have like frontal health as well because of like tough and other feats yeah it's genuinely it's insane um you can even have every single cantrip magic initiate everything would just go the first five feats magic initiate everything you just get all of the spells i just have a shit ton of spells
00:18:33
Speaker
You could be a barbarian with like so much spell cast.
Character Development and Player Interaction
00:18:36
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. You could be a barbarian and just pull out Eldritch Blast just from the back pocket. Just I rage and now I Eldritch Blast. You have been blasted. Oh, you can't. Can you not? I don't think you can while you're raging. Oh, snazzy. Well, that's avoidable then. But yeah, still, you know.
00:18:54
Speaker
So I heard that you might have heard something through the grapevine. A little something? Yeah, for the Monday sesh, yeah. Yeah, we have a new player, whom is a cleric. We do. We do. Yes. And the cleric supports one of the gods. One of the gods. That tier also supports the same one. One of the gods, yeah. Tier, two warships, tour. Yeah, tour.
00:19:25
Speaker
Yeah, so that was a call, that was a Discord call with Mike, you, Rosie, and the new player. Yes, I was. Yeah, and I was going to be there. Had I been awake? Had I not decided to sleep? That's how the cookie crumbles, Alex.
00:19:49
Speaker
Yes, yes, it's being asleep is how the cookie crumbles. Yeah, so I was going to also be in the call because originally my plan was to be in the call and also speak about the pirate campaign to the new player to clarify some things. Nope, I was asleep. And then I joined the call right and right at the end. Literally everyone left about five minutes later to do stuff in which I think a message from Rosie.
00:20:19
Speaker
I did. And I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll take your message. I'll put it up now. It's a fun little message I'm assuming. Probably more conspiring. It's a conspiring message. It is a conspiring. Yeah. Forgot to say, some tier law got hinted at yesterday in the call before you joined. Very suspicious reaction to the clerk also choosing Twitter.
00:20:47
Speaker
as her deity. Okay. Yeah. So there's two theories on what Tyr might be, or have I? Tyr may have committed some sort of crime and is hiding from the rest of the temple slash church. That's what Rosie said for the first one. Okay, interesting little theory there. Yeah.
00:21:18
Speaker
Yeah, because apparently you also said we'll have to have a conversation about how all this is going to go down. To Mike. Well, I've actually got it scheduled after this recording. Oh, sick. Nice. And then we've got... She said this one's completely out of the box. If Tyr is a god creature. Oh, wow. Yeah, and she just said that's completely out of the box. I was like, okay.
00:21:48
Speaker
Yeah, we can go with that. That's completely straight out of left field. Do you really think I'd let someone be that powerful of a creature just to fuck with you guys? I don't know. I don't know if it would be like... Tyr is pretty weird. Yeah, Tyr is pretty weird. It could be like a little nerf or something, right? Like a little... Maybe. Yeah. Maybe it's something I would do. Maybe, maybe. But that's...
00:22:18
Speaker
And I missed all of that. The whole, I couldn't see like anything. And I don't even know if cameras are on, I doubt it. But there were no facial expressions, no talks, no whispers, nothing. I missed it all. Because I was lying in that fucking bed asleep. Yeah. That was sad. It was really sad to hear. But yeah.
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's Monday. That's what's going to happen on Monday. It is all going to go down on Monday. Monday's going to be a very interesting session. Quite a big combat plan, which we've been trying to run for like, I think, two, three weeks now. It's genuinely a pushback, because more people just can't make it. And it's quite a big one, so I want everyone there for it. Yeah. But I think it'll be a fun episode. Yeah. Episode session. I smell more squishy, miscellaneous lore.
00:23:14
Speaker
Um, maybe, maybe. Cause the AI generated his image and I was like, okay, we might get some. Oh, that was shit. Sheer boredom. Sheer boredom. It's not relevant at all. It's not relevant. Yeah. Um,
00:23:35
Speaker
So Monday is going to be a big session. I'm excited for that. I have been also very excited for just the Monday session, like in general, like as much as I was excited for the one shot, I was also very excited to just be on the Monday session, just be there killing goblins. It is a good time. It gets kind of complicated in Friday, especially because
00:23:58
Speaker
One of them, three of them, I think it's somewhat well known between the party that they all connected to the gods, the chaos creatures, three of them have connections to the chaos creatures. One of them is a monk in a temple of Atharoth.
00:24:18
Speaker
I like that one. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's fun. But they turned up to the coronation and I kind of described it like, they said they were a monk of temple and I was like, okay, cool, what god are you a monk of? And they were like, Azeroth? And I was like, oh,
00:24:32
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, your temple's kind of been invited, you know, out of politeness, and the king not wanting to alienate members of his community, and he's like, well, it's not really a god, and they kind of scare the shit out of us, but you know, we'll invite them. And then we have two warlocks, both of which worship our patron, our warlocks of two of the Chaos creatures, one of them being Squishy McSquirmish.
00:25:00
Speaker
A squishy but squirmish warlock, that's cool. Which makes the, as you know, arc one kind of interesting for them. Yeah, yeah. Being the goblin, the goblin decimation arc, yeah. Yeah. It is.
00:25:18
Speaker
Fair enough to them. I don't know how they're going to work around that, but that is interesting. Interesting. But yeah, things are coming together in now on. Friday's becoming fun. It's a very different vibe, I think, as well, because it's in person and there's eight of them. Yeah.
Campaign Progression and Planning
00:25:31
Speaker
Yeah, that makes- It's quite a big session. Yeah. Yeah. And I enjoy it. You guys are still my favourites, I think, Monday. Of course. Of course, naturally. Sorry, everyone. I know other guys are listening, but you know, they're my long group. They're Monday.
00:25:46
Speaker
Yeah, we have all of the button God stuff, all of the beers and the alcohols you guys have got in your campaigns. Yeah. Law from you guys. It's us rambling. Friday actually got the original law. Oh, did they? That's right. They did.
00:26:04
Speaker
Oh, I know they did. And Ramsay is now a canon character, as we mentioned last week. I think that episode's not out yet as of recording this. No, it's not out, but yeah. So you guys don't know. I mean, you do, but the time you listen to this, it's really weird in my head, because by the time you listen to this, you'll know, but right now you don't. Yeah, yeah, but I'm just calling it Ramsay as an eldritch being.
00:26:28
Speaker
He's an elderly being, and if you cook bad food, Gordon Ramsay might appear. Yes, yes. That is a nice bit of original lore. I do like that. Yeah. I do actually have an idea for a one-shot that I want to run for you guys as well, set in Elador. And that's not fully correct as a campaign. Oh, I can't. A well-born one.
00:26:51
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no. Oh, just one shot. Just casual one shot. Yeah, I guess we'll find out. You'll find out. I'll run it one day. I see. Can I play as my dad, as in Dan's dad? Unfortunately not. Dan, that is. You will play as Dan. Oh, it's an us one shot. It's the you one shot, but it will not be connected to the world.
00:27:19
Speaker
Oh, fancy. I'll let you stew on that for a while. Same levels or diamonds? Like a party in the future with higher levels? I'm just going to throw that out there. Maybe. Maybe things will be altered. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh.
00:27:44
Speaker
You've been making your subclasses. I've had an idea. I have. I have. But it's not that. But I mean, if you it's not something as wonderful as you think it is. I think it'll be mainly be like a fun, chill fashion. Oh, my God. I've just I hate we're going to be sitting in on one of the Wednesday group. Oh, one shot will be with them surely altered. It's a different timeline. It's a different reality.
00:28:12
Speaker
Dan's a real estate agent in their ones they want, canonically. I stated before Dan is a real estate agent. It's not connected to Wednesday. I'm going to let you keep mulling this over and let you spiral into oblivion thinking about this. Maybe not run it for a few months. I'm not going to tell you when it's happening as well, like one session it'll boom, it'll be there. Fair enough.
00:28:41
Speaker
Oh, I also want to give a I don't think I mentioned it last week, but I've got a new friend who watches me sleep Yeah, mr. Mr. Brennan Lee Mulligan has joined me as a part of the podcast forever Yes, already on the podcast. Yeah guys, we're blown up guys. We've done it. We've made it guys. We've got Brennan Yeah
00:29:10
Speaker
Damn, that one shot sounds interesting now. I will be thinking about this more. I genuinely cannot date you up on this in your mind far more than it's going to be in person. Yeah, that's fine. I like one shot. You know, I was actually thinking about this. We've nearly been in this campaign for a year, nearly.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say like February is when we yeah started Yeah, because I yeah, you messaged me I I moved here. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, almost a year. Yeah. So yeah, we've yeah, we've maybe in the campaign for a year and I was thinking I was like hmm a lot has happened What was your
00:29:58
Speaker
Your favorite moment, Yuan? What's your favorite moment in the Monday sessions campaign? Oh, damn. OK, fair. I was wondering when you could ask me this question. Yeah, I was like, at least what it comes up to, yeah, we've had a lot of sessions, like 20-something, I think. 26, 27. 27 sessions, yeah. I was like, yeah, what's that moment? There's been a lot as well. There's been a lot of good moments. There's been a few. Yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker
combat wise I really really enjoyed the wizard tower session the necromancer yeah that was that was a good session yeah the first tale spire episode was episode session was really fun thoroughly enjoyed that one yeah yeah it was very very good and that was a very enjoyable session other than that oh this is so
00:30:55
Speaker
Oh, I don't know. I think if we give it a few more sessions, now that I think more people are going to have the opportunity to share a backstory and get into those deeper conversations, I think there's more chance that we can sort of get those good sort of role play sessions where you guys are going to really come into your own. Right now, Double Elf is up there. Oh, Double Elf session, that was. What a great role play bit.
00:31:22
Speaker
Yeah, it's definitely up there. That was fun. That was good. I guess also outside the campaign in general, just how much you guys have absorbed yourself in figuring out the prophecies and how engrossed you guys are. It's really like, I don't know, it feels great that you're so invested in something that I've made like that. Yeah, I was going to ask about that because I was like, yes, how much how obviously I've never
00:31:48
Speaker
DMed like with law and a whole story that I've made and I was just yeah I was always wanted to know how it feels to get people to law dive like that. It's genuinely so satisfying and it itches that part of your brain where you're like is it any good and you're like but they're so invested to it but they must be somewhat good. My favourite law recollection was last week Monday
00:32:18
Speaker
when you had them scholars walk through. And I sat there, and you start describing the flag. I was like, that's them. That's the scholars of Isnari. I know this. I've read the document enough times, I noticed them. And I said it, and I was right. I was like, fuck, yes. I was like, I'm correct. I was like, yes. Dan the man. Dan the man. Dan the man. Is that the scholars? Yeah. He travels. So it makes sense. It makes sense why Dan would go there. Yeah, he's got a traveling visa and a few passports. He's been places.
00:32:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking, yeah, because it's come up to a year. I really wanted to know. Mine's relatively similar. That's because the combat would have to be the title one as well. Undisputed, that is probably the best combat we've had. It was great. It was a very, very good combat session. It was like you guys hiding in him like blasting. I think it was genuinely great. It was so much fun. Yeah. And it was the first Hellspice session. So it was actually,
00:33:17
Speaker
Yeah, it couldn't have gone better for the first one. Role-play? God, there's been too many moments. Like, there's been so many role-play moments. It's hard to keep track of what would be. Double F, obviously. Speaking to Bong, Bertram for the first time. Bertram. Yeah, that was nice. Yeah. Even when we made the totem pole, me and Tia,
00:33:46
Speaker
That was fun. Yeah, the totem pole. Yeah. Breaking Niles' arm via hugging. I enjoyed that. Yeah. Yeah. And I think the Nomeo and Juliet one. Just their existence.
00:34:07
Speaker
Um, I really enjoyed so yeah, there's there's been a lot of good moments. I was thinking yeah, we're kind of so yeah May as well. Ask. Um, I don't think we ever asked before I talked about no Yeah Yeah, there's there's so many There's a lot more to come as well Yeah, um, I think it's gonna get it's gonna get better and better I i'm looking forward to the climax of arc one. I'm very much excited. I have I've been I've fought ever since you told me
00:34:37
Speaker
The end of Ark1 is when we'll start the party campaign. And you told me that the end of Ark1 is after the Goblin Camps. I've been racking my brain over how this is going to finish Ark1. Like multiple months, apart from all the lore and stuff, I have no idea what's going to happen. Like, I don't have a single theory or clue as how Ark1's ending.
Future Campaign Direction and Developments
00:34:58
Speaker
Really? Yeah, which is surprising. I feel like I've been quite transparent in how it's going to end. I feel like it's going to be Squishy McSquishy misrelated. I feel like it should be.
00:35:07
Speaker
Um, it's gonna, I, it's going to be, but the thing is, is the reason I've not, because we've only been to two goblin camps. So it's, it's hard to, uh, or three, I guess it's, it's hard to in my brain, like place, like, Oh, Is it going to be a big fight? Are we going to see Scrivenous Glamish? Is it going to be that? Like that little, uh, thing was that there was that book in the session about, uh, kill it. Like, uh, the goblins trying to kill people, whatever it was. Um,
00:35:38
Speaker
Yeah, I have no idea. I have no theories. My bro, I don't know how you're gonna finish it. Yeah, it's genuinely left me stumped. I think I've got an idea of what's gonna happen, maybe up until like arc five, currently kind of working in the back of my head. I've got like three arcs in my head for the pirate campaign at the moment. Like, yeah, like rough layouts.
00:36:06
Speaker
Knowing you lot, they're gonna go out the window on session one. Like, it's gonna disappear. I think that all comes with kind of like, practice. I had a lot of practice running my first Homebrew world, which is kind of, I mean, I guess you kind of heard about the fantasy high one, which I guess,
00:36:24
Speaker
I kind of piggybacked it off dimension 20 quite heavily. So it was kind of like, I was like a trial run that worked out quite well. You become better invested and better equipped to just kind of bullet point a campaign pull out idea rather than like be like, this will happen here. They'll do this and then they'll do this. You kind of just have rough bullet point with like blank space in between to be like, okay, they're going to do this and this and this. I do have,
00:36:54
Speaker
Apart from the story arcs in my head, I've mapped out many different lines and ways to go to introduce your character arcs from the people's characters' backstories I've got. I've been told them. Every time I've been on call for the backstories or got a message about it, in my head, I've thought of stuff that's going to happen with it already. It's the first thing I think of. It's like, yes, we're going to do this. You're going to have these opportunities. XX, YY, whatever.
00:37:24
Speaker
Have you heard about the connection between mine and Rosie's character? Rosie's? Yes. I think so. You're one of her exes, right? I'm, yeah, one of her ex-lovers. Yes. Her most passionate and thorough lover, to be exact. Yes. I mean, there might be stuff there. The thing is, people are choosing interesting gods.
00:37:51
Speaker
Obviously, I feel like I've talked about this before, but I have given the option for everyone to just have a god. Because you don't have to be like a cleric or a pandan or a warlock to just have a god, I think. No, absolutely not. Yeah. So I was just like, oh, you can all have a god that you speak to, or is related to your backstory. And so far, every single person has chosen a god.
00:38:16
Speaker
And it's the best. I was like, yes, like everyone choose one. I definitely will be. I guess I need to first work out kind of the direction. I mean, I kind of have a rough idea about how I want to base my old lady.
00:38:32
Speaker
I don't have much of an air of personality yet, but I know I want it to be quintessential British grandma. They know cookies in the oven, like roast dinner, that kind of quintessential granny, who, if you fuck with, she will beat the living shit out of you with magic. Because, as I've said before on the podcast, can have a one strength. Yeah, yeah, that is, yeah, you did say one strength granny.
00:38:57
Speaker
That's gonna be thoroughly interesting. I'm going to make a list of fun rolls just to make you do just in spare time
00:39:05
Speaker
for role playing purposes. I was like one strength was like, okay, that's fine. I wonder what granny's struggle with in general. Like let's, let's make a fun list sometimes. That just randomly, you wake up with back pain or something. It's just fine. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just get, I'll just get Michael to carry me around. Yeah. Um, yeah. And speaking of lists, um, I recently,
00:39:32
Speaker
got into crit hit lists. Now I have a crit fumbles list for a few things. And a crit success list right as well? Yeah and now I've got a crit success list for ranged weapons, spells, sorry just weapon attacks and spell attacks. But I've been scouring the internet because I was thinking like oh
00:39:54
Speaker
So on the one shot, I made you roll when you failed the D20, and I told you the outcome. That was just based off the firearms list that I'd made in my head. I was like, okay, this is roughly what would happen if it was that. But I have officially got a crit fumbles list for every type of weapon attack. So there's a melee one, there's natural weapons.
00:40:22
Speaker
um there's ranged and there's spells like i've got all of them um and they're so cool uh they are the yeah the crit success one you roll a hundred if you roll a hundred you just kill them i think that's i think that is the most valid thing i've ever heard there has to be a one percent chance to kill someone in a critical hit that makes sense like in my brain it just makes sense i've been thinking about it since you put it in the chat yeah um
00:40:51
Speaker
And sorry to inform you, but i'm stealing them Yeah, yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, that's the one by me Yeah, we're gonna be using them from on in on monday from now on nice. Um, nice That I always read them again. These are so fucking cool But like there's there's no way I can look at these and just not use them because they were just so much fun It's it's like there's so there's there's a few um So the people are probably like a d hundred is a lot. It's not a hundred options. It's
00:41:19
Speaker
like seven it's the one to one to fifty is just a normal critical here like you just get so more times than not like well there's a fifty percent chance of just it's a regular crit which which makes sense
00:41:32
Speaker
But then the other options is just cool as well. There's like, you can disarm them, a bunch of status effects, and yeah, the 100 instakill. And when I read that, I was like, you know, it makes sense. Because a critical hit is you've hit them, like explanation-wise, you've hit them somewhere where it hurts more and does more damage than. So easily, you could shoot them in the neck and they die. Like, obviously,
00:42:01
Speaker
It's gonna be... There's some nuance to that, but... Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it makes sense. And there's even... I've even got like balancing up for CritFails because people are saying...
00:42:16
Speaker
Oh, like in the comments and stuff, they're like, oh, crit fumbles is a list. It's awful. Because what if you've got high level players? I was like, that's a good point, because you're you're on more dice. You're more likely to crit fail. Like you're rolling more dice. It's it's you're more likely to do it. And then I was like, OK, let's say like in terms of and the logic was if you're a high level player in in the world, if you're really skilled at something, you're less likely to just fail. Like,
00:42:45
Speaker
How could a level 20 person fail to cut someone? Just like critically fail to hold their accent to get someone? Yeah. I mean, I get where they're coming from, but I don't know. I would increase the...
00:43:07
Speaker
I would make the higher level plays. I would make the Fumbles with shit for them. I would make it worse. So like, as you leveled up, the fails are higher, harder because the stakes are higher, right? You're a higher level player. You're doing much more dangerous shit. If you fuck up there, that's so much worse. Yeah, to be fair. Yeah, I can see that.
00:43:32
Speaker
I was thinking mine's going to work with like balance. If you're a level 20 player and you're on a natural one, I was going to do like, oh, you can roll another dice. And if you roll a certain amount on that, then you absolutely do fail. Otherwise you just miss. But yeah, you aren't going to reach level 20 in my campaign. So I won't have to cross that bridge. It's not going to be a thing. You guys aren't going to be level 20. Yeah. Because I'm moderately against.
00:44:02
Speaker
level 20 in a regular campaign just moderately I can get what happens but I don't really agree with it I agree I agree I agree because I think yeah level 18 is the highest it should go yeah I mean every time I've done the subclass creation for my campaign and especially so uh especially with Mike me and Mike have been talking about this many times we've been gone through subclass a lot
Balancing High-Level Gameplay
00:44:28
Speaker
17 and above on every single subclass is absolutely insane. It's ridiculous. It's insane. Yeah. And I was like to Mike, I was like, yeah, I'm going to give you a really overpowered ability level 17. We're never going to use it. Like straight up, it's just never going to happen. Like you guys could reach level 17. It's within the range. I was like 14 to 17 by the end of the campaign. In my brain is what you lot will be. Then I was like,
00:44:59
Speaker
it's it's it's it's I don't like level 20 like at all but it's some of it is ridiculous like the sorcerer you get level nine spells go away no it's just level nine level nine spells are scary they're ridiculous they're absolutely insane there's so many dice there's a level nine spell for there's a subclass spell for the
00:45:25
Speaker
the Hexblade Sorcerer at level 19 or 18. It's a sort. I've used it because I've done level 21 shots. I've used it before. It's insane. It's a critical hit on 18, 19 and 20. And instead of doubling, it's originally is
00:45:45
Speaker
I'm going to say it like 8d12 of hit points. Fucking hell. So that's a lot. But instead of doubling, you get like 12d12 extra dice for a crit hit. So you rolled an 18, you critical hit, and that's 20d12. Is that including modifiers, you get an 18? No, no, it's just off the dice. So flat 18 on dice. Okay, that's still... Yeah, but that's a what?
00:46:10
Speaker
15% chance that you're going to do 20 d12s of damage. That's ridiculous. There's no need unless you're doing a murder hobo one shot or a high level one shot because your world has really overpowered characters like most worlds do and you're going to be acting as one of them. Your plays don't need to be level 20. It just doesn't.
00:46:31
Speaker
i just know that's why i don't like xp either like i get why people do it but you can just max a level 20 really quick and then that's that's something i think i can't remember who said it but it was it was someone that said um if you're a new dm and you're doing xp and you give your players an encounter which should kill them to sort of teach them oh this is something you should run away from and they kill that and then suddenly boom they're level four because
00:46:59
Speaker
shit happens in D&D and sometimes I'll fucking go where they end up killing something they have no right killing and they're level 4 already and you're like fuck yeah exactly they're just they're just lists yeah I so I don't I don't even know if I've told anyone this but yeah you are not reaching level 20 like that's fine when we do this for everyone I will give you the most overpowered thing
00:47:21
Speaker
at the highest level subclass when you get. We're not going to use it. We're not getting to the point where you're using it. So you can have it be overpowered. It's up to you. Yeah, that's fair. Something else I saw recently was the wish spell, which does automatically succeed, right? You have to wish and you chain them automatically. I saw someone run it using a percentile dice.
00:47:50
Speaker
and that if you're trying to, so I think it was, what their situation was, the demons from the Nine Hells were coming up to take over the world. And the guy said, I wish the demons weren't coming to take over the, like, they remained in the Nine Hells. And the DM was like, okay, I want you to roll me a percentile dice and get below 15, and then that will succeed. If it doesn't, it fails. And I loved that, that was, that really ups the stakes of things as well, being like,
00:48:21
Speaker
stuff like that where you change very intricate rules.
00:48:26
Speaker
to have it be more chaotic and more sort of dice-based and chance-based. I love that it's so much more fun. Yeah, no, I agree. When it's more up to the chances, it's more interesting. Because guaranteed things are just weird, I think. Like, nothing is ever guaranteed. So I don't know. It doesn't make sense for things to just be guaranteed, like, oh, I can do this. And it's like, apart from some things, like, I get like magic missile, like, well done. You're guaranteed to hit. It's balanced. It's fine.
00:48:54
Speaker
And then like Hunter's Mark, it doesn't even do damage. You just cast on a person. Things like that is fine. It's like spells where it's just cast on a person and it either does a little bit of damage or it's on the person. Sure, whatever. But things the way it's just like, oh, it's insane. And it's like the wishbone is just guaranteed. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It shouldn't be a thing. Like Friday's goal is to get the wish spell
World-Building and Mythology Influences
00:49:20
Speaker
and use it to resurrect enough kings of the nine, you know, the nine great Al-Adawian rulers, and so it becomes a seven-day week again. I mean, fair enough. Which wouldn't
00:49:39
Speaker
Unmake all the acts they did guys. I don't think you're thinking about that because they're just alive again They didn't undo everything that they did during their life like a thousand years ago. They're just alive again So they're still gonna be a nine-day week. You know what just to fuck with you guys. I might just add them back They now have three three hundred days a week So it's now a It's 13 day week
00:50:05
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, my calendar is 12 months, 12 days a week. That's right. The 12 gods of Olympus have 12 months and 12 days a week. It's 12. It's just gonna be, the number 12 is gonna be everywhere. How many days in a month? 12. 144. Days a month? Yeah, 12 times 12, 12 weeks. No, I'm joking. I have no idea. Something. We'll figure out an amount.
00:50:32
Speaker
Wait, so wait, wait, so 12 days a month? Yes. Is it 12 weeks a month? We could do 12 weeks a month. So they all get their own work. Because that would be 144 days a month. And that would be, I don't know, 1,600 and something days a year. That's great. That's mental. Yeah.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it would be 1680 days a year. That's just a few, just a few. That is like two and a half times the amount of days in yours, like straight up like two and a half or 2.75 times the amount of days in your year, in your campaign.
00:51:15
Speaker
I don't think I will do that. I'm just going to pre-phase that now. I decided 12 months in a year and 12 days in a week. I don't think I'm going to do that. I might do three days in a week for Hades, Zeus, and four. Wrong mythology. Three weeks a month, you mean? Yeah, three weeks a month. Yeah. For Hades, Zeus, Poseidon. I might just do that because it's still... That's fair. It's a factor of 12, so that's fine. But yeah, 12, big number.
00:51:43
Speaker
big number. In Greek mythology, I've done a lot of reading. It's just an important number. There's 12 primordial gods and there's 12 gods that live Olympus. It's just a big number. Yeah, it's kind of what I based the nine off really. Oh, yeah, that's that kind of idea that this sort of, yeah. Yeah, that's understandable. I should have carried it through because there's like 10 god creatures and like more
Challenges in Managing Campaigns
00:52:09
Speaker
gods than that. But like, it would have been cool if I'd like carry this energy through. But
00:52:13
Speaker
Didn't happen. I've been sitting here like a good boy, awaiting, patiently, ever expecting the horror story this week. Yes, yes. Who is the horror story? You gave me a tidbit before and I've been mulling it over in my mind since I started recording like fucking ages ago now. Okay, so the title.
00:52:42
Speaker
I had to throw my best friend out of my TTRPG round. Yeah. Okay, first of all, immediately. Amazing DM. Yeah, yeah. Putting your plays in front of your friend. Incredible. Go for it. Smashing you already. Respect it. I might regret that statement. You might. In fact, I'm going to start with some comments. This seems a really weird way to do it. But I was reading this. Oh, no. Oh, no.
00:53:11
Speaker
Am I going to immediately regret what I said? Maybe. So it does sound like a bad player, but you aren't perfect either. Oh, rip. Yep. Random thing based on real world physics in a D&D game is a really toxic and terrible DM trait. I wrote my statement. I wrote my statement.
00:53:33
Speaker
Yeah. And then it's just complaining about how it's D&D, not real life. Picking and choosing real world physics applied is stupid. And you're a bad D&M. Oh, oh no. They're a bad D&M. Yes. So let's get into it. Nearly two years ago, I started to D&M my first round. This part really confused me because I have no idea what they mean by first round. I'm guessing first game session, whatever. Yeah, maybe.
00:54:02
Speaker
I started months before with planning, planning, planning, planning, planning plot points, encounters, and who I would invite. I invited two players from the first round that got me into playing TTRPGs. I'm guessing his first or their first session. Yeah. A local friend of mine and my best friend online because the others live far away. We played D100 system. I got teach by the two players that first invited me. It's more role play focused and has no stats.
00:54:32
Speaker
You describe what you want, the more detailed, the better. Roll a D hundred for everything. So it's like percentile like that works. Okay. That makes sense. Okay. That seems cool. I can get, I can get behind that. That, that seems reasonable. Um, that's set to the group. My best friend lives in another country. We talk daily over discord.
00:54:48
Speaker
He was pretty jealous that I got invited into RP rounds here and there, because he also wanted to play. So of course, I invited him into my new campaign. He also got a new girlfriend in that time. That's probably going to be relevant to the story. Problem started with the character creation. He wanted to play an owl folk. OK, no problem. Can fly, of course. We can manage that. That wields a giant sword. But to fly, you'll need a hollow bones.
00:55:16
Speaker
You'll need hollow bones, which wouldn't give you much strength to wield a great sword. Also magic and the owl is vegetarian. So I'm going to preface this with some science here. You can have hollow bones and still be strong. I'm pretty sure it's just they don't heal as well and the damage to them is a lot more substantial than if you didn't have hollow bones.
00:55:46
Speaker
I think. Also, you can be strong and be a vegetarian. So I feel like I'm especially equipped to answer this question.
00:56:00
Speaker
I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I'm a, I'm a zoologist, uh, specializing in animal behavior and welfare. It's very specifically, um, now Casselberries have hollow bones. Um, and I would argue a cat is pretty fucking strong. Um, you know, Casselberries can't fly either. Um, so that's, I mean, it's just, it's just my point of view, um, that.
00:56:28
Speaker
That man is fucking wrong. Hold the bones does not mean you can't. It's just dumb. Yeah. And yeah, being a vegetarian, I don't think that has any relevance or strength. You can still be a vegetarian and be strong. Believe it or not, protein doesn't solely just exist in meat. You can have supplements. It's fine. Like it's a thing.
00:56:47
Speaker
There's protein powder, guys. I don't care if it's D&D. There's protein powder. We can bring your real life into it. We're bringing your real life into it. Okay. There's protein powder. You can supplement protein. It's a thing. All right. It's just... Calm down, Dan. The Dan just came out there. You slipped into Dan then. Yeah. Cool. I know it's fantasy, but I also wanted at least that my world makes a bit of sense.
00:57:14
Speaker
an owl would need to be light and have hollow bones to be able to fly, and then additionally carrying a greatsword. Things don't have to be light to fly. From a purely physics standpoint, flying has nothing to do, well, like a moderate amount, but not as important to wait as like being light, like planes. Planes aren't light. That's not why they...
00:57:39
Speaker
You know, weight is not an important factor. It's it's a lot to do with like wing shape. And yeah, we could talk about this all day. But proportionately, look at these. Yeah. Yeah. They actually should not be able to fly like at all. They they shouldn't. But they do because it's not. It's physics. It makes sense. Like if you're going to wait like a body to the wing ratio, you're obviously not going to work like most things when flights are stupid.
00:58:09
Speaker
Yeah, but sure. And apparently, yeah, so they need to be light and have hollow bones to be able to fly, and then addition to carrying a great sword was just unrealistic to me. Also, owls are carnivores. Today, I understand I was maybe a bit too harsh during creation. Cool. At least he understood today, so two years later, but whatever. At least he understands that he might have been too harsh. But it's owl folk.
00:58:36
Speaker
They have a brain and they can be vegetarian, I think. Like it, I don't think it's a big deal. But sure. After some time, we settled with a flying Dex based owl with some hand knives and air magic that was vegetarian, but had to eat more to cover the deficit. We had our session zero where every character got introduced. They are summoned by an old wizard to his tower and given a quest to save the world because great evil is coming.
00:59:02
Speaker
But they were too weak just now. So they would need to get stronger on their way to stop some catastrophes. Looking back now, I know it was a bit too thick for the beginning. But back then, I just wanted a cool way to bring them together by destiny. Sure. The other players were a shadow Genasi archer, a war beast, cursed elf, and an undead man with strange mist powers. OK. All right, then.
00:59:33
Speaker
Yeah, first round went pretty OK. A little hiccups. I was still nervous if I would be able to GM. Then everything went down with my best friend. In session two, he already used out of character knowledge. They talked about the war beast, but never addressed her with that description because they don't know the word. Neither that she is one. OK, yeah, that's that's a bit kind of. Yeah.
00:59:59
Speaker
I can see people being annoyed with like a GM being annoyed with out of character knowledge into things but that's that's why we we do if you know it you can use it like for law and yours. Law-wide I think yeah because I've given you the document it's kind of like a reward for reading it um I guess if you're using like
01:00:22
Speaker
If you guys had if it was a module and you guys had read the lore of the module and be like, oh, well, they said, well, come on, guys. Yeah. Yeah. I'll suddenly mention in character, oh, yeah, I already have experience with Warbeasts me. No, you don't. You don't even know that word because no one mentioned it. He then wanted to insist that he knows it. I strictly said, no, you can't. He was pissed off that.
01:00:51
Speaker
That is... That is... It does kind of seem like against your system though. As you said at the beginning, if you roll for it, you'll be 100. You could have asked him to roll for it. That would have been my solution. That would have been mine as well. Just roll for it. You just said the DC really high. Yeah. That, yeah, sure. Session ended and between the next sessions, he sent me some new backstory for his character that he wrote.
01:01:18
Speaker
where his character met a guild master that had the nickname Warbeast. Sure. I said, no, I can't accept that. He was pissed again saying I would not allow him anything. So the thing about this is I get writing more backstory during the campaign, as I have done for Dan, right? I get that.
01:01:48
Speaker
But, specifically putting something in because they didn't allow you on the previous session. It's just a dick move. It's the worst. You shouldn't do that. That's bad. You've added lore to make Dan more of a rounded character. If you had gone back and added, Dan is an adventurer and has met the ten chaos beast multiplication that is on friendly terms with Squishy McSquirmish. And a bit like now, Alex Buddy, come on. Yeah, yeah.
01:02:17
Speaker
But while you've been reading, I've been rewinding my brain back to my first year to a module that we had where we explored survival strategies, where we covered flight biology. Now,
01:02:39
Speaker
What hollow bones do do is they are connected to the air sac which allows the birds to take in more oxygen which allows them to breathe and have more energy during flight.
01:02:50
Speaker
Now, what I'm pretty sure they don't do is they don't make them birds lighter. Unless there's new research I've not read and it's come out in the last two years, I'm pretty sure it's concluded that the hollow bones don't make the birds light and help them apply. So categorically incorrect on that one. Yeah, weight is just... Yes, it's not as important to flying as people think it is.
01:03:16
Speaker
Oh well. Before you go on, I think I'm at the point now, everybody sucks here. Everybody's awful. From what I've gathered. Cool. So he was pissed again saying I would not allow him anything. I then tried to calmly explain to him that I created the entire world and know things you and your character don't know yet. I know best if things don't make sense in my world.
01:03:43
Speaker
I say no one would call themselves a war beast if you would know what it is. Okay, I get that. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Because it was tied to the backstory of another PC and was a rather horrific process, it was story important. He kind of understood that, but it took some time. This was one of the issues he still continued to use out of character information, could not differentiate between in-game and off-game. But the worst thing was he was unreliable.
01:04:11
Speaker
The round was planned for every second Sunday to a set time. We found a day everyone had time for or could take the time. Yeah, he came to a session three hours late without really informing me. That's a bad thing, I guess. The question is, yeah, the question is, I know, like I'm gonna play devil's advocate. What's the time difference of the country he lives in and you live in?
01:04:40
Speaker
That would be my question. Because I've suffered from this. I had forgotten about that. Yeah. Because I suffer from this. I miss sessions. But that's because I stay up. If it's a time that he can do, I get like, hmm, it might be bad. But at the same point in time, if it's a time that he can do because it's on that day, doesn't necessarily mean that he, like things get, like if it's an evening time, he might have things to do in the evening sometimes. I get that. But at the same point in time, let them know.
01:05:11
Speaker
You know, um, yeah. Uh, cool. He sent me a text that he was driving. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Go. It's fine. No, sorry. Go on. It was like 10 minutes before session. Just be like, sorry, I'm, things are going wild here. I can't make it today. Like no one's going to care. Yeah, I agree. Um, he sent me a text that he was driving back from his girlfriend's house and would need an hour back, uh, cause of traffic. I said, okay, I can stretch an hour with three players, but after one hour, two hours,
01:05:40
Speaker
nothing I didn't know where he was, already worrying something bad could have happened. Three hours later he joined the call. Yeah, sorry, my girlfriend's dog threw up so I helped clean up and then we still went on a walk together and some stuff. He told me he were on his way when he wasn't and ignored my texts. He then only stayed for like one to one and a half hours because the dice fucked him up and he was tired enough for the evening. That also happened multiple times.
01:06:09
Speaker
where he would throw tantrums about having bad dice luck and just leave the call or start arguing that the roll doesn't count. Okay. Okay, buddy. All right, then. Sure. In the first five sessions, he was absent for over half the time, if even there at all. I talked to him that we together decided on a date and time, and I have to rely on him being there for the round, or at least him giving me a notice if he wouldn't be able to be there so I can plan for it. Yeah, that's reasonable.
01:06:40
Speaker
Since he was my best friend, I was really hesitant of throwing him out, but it didn't get better. He had some beef with one of the players and they were not going to make it up. It got to the point where if he doesn't leave, I'm leaving. And more than one player said that. So I sat my friend aside trying to talk to him. He is pretty quick tempered, so it's difficult finding words. I told him, listen, you got your new girlfriend and you deserve the love. But that also means your priority and currently elsewhere other than
01:07:10
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role-playing. So it'd be the best if you leave the group for now. You can maybe join again if you have less on your mind. He answered no, wanted to stay in the group. That wasn't a question though, that was. Yeah, that was the statement. Yeah, not a question. You are not coming back. Wow.
01:07:32
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I asked him how, since he was absent for more than half the time, left him in the dark on when or if he would be there and was always complaining. He really just wanted to stay, to stay in the group and took it pretty personal. I knew he would. That was what made it so difficult. But after some time, he realized it was right and was okay with the decision. We are still best friends. He now says it was because of the players and the system that he couldn't enjoy it. Says he needs all of his options written down and ruled like D&D. Oh, so this is not D&D.
01:08:02
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That's good to know. Great horror story for D&D horror stories. Anyways, the round got a bit... It's fine. It's fine. It's just... It's really to be the same. There are dice involved. Exactly. The round got a bit swapped and we had a restart with other characters, but since then it's going really well. I have fun and get better at DMing. At least I don't panic anymore when players try something stupid. Maybe I can one day play a TTRPG with my friends together, but not for now.
01:08:32
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Yeah. That's. Yeah. It just sounds like a new DM, honestly. Um, pretty much. But I don't understand why you'd make a world that has some realistic physics or biology or realistic world stuff in it. Um, because that can just straight up like he understands real world biology. Exactly. Um,
01:09:00
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But it could just ruin things for players. If you want to use real life stuff in a world that's cool, you have to at least understand what you're using. You can't just use just stuff because you searched up and you read it once. It was like, OK, yeah, you guys can't do that because it doesn't make logical sense. But then a lot of things in fantasy worlds don't make logical sense. So here we are. It's a fantasy. It's not real. It could actually terrify both from your hand or drank as well.
01:09:30
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Yeah. And like, the DM is straight up the god of the world. Like, you can just do it if you want. Question. Yeah. If he has dragons in his world, do the dragons have hollow bones? Maybe. Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. But like... Yeah. It's weird. It's very... I don't get it. But yeah, that's why people don't use the real life stuff.
01:09:59
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because it doesn't make boring. Yeah, it's boring. No one wants to sit there and do like calculations for things like if you start using real life stuff, I'm not going to start calculating like I'm not going to sue that. I'm not going to sit there and do like mechanics. No, I'm not going to be stupid. That's so stupid. No, I don't have a degree in maths for a reason because I want to do it like I just say, yeah, I just you know, people. Well,
01:10:29
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At least he knows that he was wrong in some aspects, I guess.
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01:10:33
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Yeah, I think so. That's growth. Now, we have some exciting guests coming up in the next few weeks. We do. We're not going to reveal who yet. We're going to keep it secret. But I am going to... I'm issuing you a challenge. Yes, yes, yes.
01:10:53
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I think I can get more views than you across five videos on TikTok by the time we have our next guest on next week or the week after or whenever we do this. Yes. I think I can get more views than you across five videos in that time. Maybe but as an avid TikToker.
01:11:16
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a person who's been on TikTok for like many years. I don't post, obviously. But I watch a lot. I think I'll do all right. I think I'll do decent. As someone who doesn't have TikTok and relies solely on the TikToks being exported to Instagram reels, I think the quality of TikToks I observe is so much higher than the quality that you have to shift through to find the good ones.
01:11:45
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that i have a i have a an appreciation of them i see i see i'll take your word for it yeah i'll take your word for it well i've posted one today yes yes but they they this that that's this doesn't count this is not for the challenge oh no these were the auto completed clips this doesn't count no no no not the auto completed clips i recorded one today and posted it did you oh my god i've got a look i did i did you can have a look
01:12:14
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gonna look right now it's there it's a newest video oh it's straight up a not podcast related video okay 52 seconds you're too too long I have this I know the attention span of Tiktokers it's too long they're not gonna watch it that might explain why there's zero comments
01:12:40
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I'm sorry if you said at the end comment like people tend to Luckily you can two-time speed things now, but that's not the point people have a low attention span. Don't worry. I believe in myself All right, so I will post some podcast clips but Collectively yes five videos. How many views do you think you can get? I'm gonna say
01:13:10
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over five at least five hundred at least three at least three thousand three thousand five videos i'm aiming for at least 600 a piece views yeah at least 600 a piece i will post memes there will be dnd memes and that will get me views i know the good
01:13:31
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You've got to be in the video. Oh, I can put my head in the bottom left corner. That doesn't count. That doesn't count. I'll figure it out. Don't worry. There'll still be memes. There will still be TikTok sounds. I will win. I will be the winner. I'm going to go conservative. I reckon I can get 2,000. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's fair. That's like 400 piece. But I'm in 600 piece. I think I could. I think I could.
01:14:01
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But we'll also have our next guest and judge not only who got the most views, because that'll be one winner. Who made the best videos? Yes, yes. I can't wait for my D&D skit. I hope you're prepared. It's going to be... Oh, you're going to do a skit? I'm going to do a skit. It's going to be 15 seconds long and I will win. I'm going to employ Friday. Are they going to help me? Damn.
01:14:30
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It looks like my dog is going to have to be a fantasy dragon. Thank you guys for watching this episode. I think it's one of our longest actually. It's up there. By the time you guys actually watch this video I think you guys will have seen these TikToks hopefully.
01:14:56
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