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Graveside Chat #1
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Goooood day to all our ghouls, ghosts, gremlins and freaky lil' guys, we're back this week with a special interlude episode coming hot off the heels of Episode 3! Our boys have braved the the Death House, gotten just a littttle lucky, and uncovered some gnarly secrets. Delving deeper into the basement, strange chants stoke the flames of curiosity, but before that, let's take a short rest, and talk about how things have gone so far.
Bryan, Tommy, and both Kyles have a candid conversation in this short-form episode from The Blade's Edge. We're hyped to be back in action with Episode 4 next week! Interested in hearing us talk about certain moments from the show so far? Comment below with your ideas and we'll absolutely add your requests into the next Graveside Chat!
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Transcript
Graveside Chat Welcome
00:00:03
bladesedge
Well, welcome one and all to our first ever graveside chat. Our version of a fireside chats. All you ghouls, gath gargoyles and gremlins. Welcome.
Introductions and Agenda
00:00:16
bladesedge
Brian Samus will be your ghost host. And we're just going to talk about the campaign so far. I'm joined by um both Kyle's and Tommy Trev.
Reactions to Episode Three
00:00:30
bladesedge
We'll be able to make it for this first one, but in chat, how are you guys feeling?
00:00:35
bladesedge
Right after episode three.
Gross Moments and Session Zeros
00:00:37
Gilmund Graves
I feel alive, but barely.
00:00:40
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:00:42
Gilmund Graves
I feel pretty grossed out.
00:00:42
Kyle
Yeah, that was, uh, tough.
00:00:43
Gilmund Graves
I feel like there's a lot of icky stuff going on. I don't like don't like it. Yeah, it was...
00:00:48
bladesedge
i That's why session zeros are important. Icky stuff for sure. There's going to be tons of that.
Graphic Elements in the Campaign
00:00:54
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, you know, the bones, the guts, the ghouls, the beaky blinders, the skin, the scrotum sack.
00:00:57
Kyle
Mm-hmm. A skin.
00:01:03
bladesedge
Yeah. Wow.
00:01:05
Kyle
No, it's all really great, though.
00:01:05
bladesedge
Yeah. What are your guys?
Character Health Comparison
00:01:07
bladesedge
What are your guys health? What's your health at right now? Let's let's get a little meta in this great chat.
00:01:10
Gilmund Graves
um
00:01:11
Kyle
I'm at 16 right now.
00:01:11
Gilmund Graves
yeah Yeah, Gil is at seven
Gil's Backstory and Health Impact
00:01:15
bladesedge
Seven.
00:01:15
Gilmund Graves
after having been, I've been taken, look, Gil Graves has constantly been beat unconscious throughout most of his life.
00:01:15
Kyle
It was going through it.
00:01:23
Gilmund Graves
This is not new to him, but for it to be done by gross things versus just gross dad, you know, that's a whole
00:01:25
bladesedge
Yeah.
Pros and Cons of Being a Rogue
00:01:31
Gilmund Graves
different story.
00:01:31
bladesedge
Well, that's the, that's the risk and reward of being a rogue. It's like, yo, you go and investigate stuff, but when you're investigating a sack of bones and it says right here in front of me, if the bones are disturbed and you're rolling that one, I go, huh, that's disturbing. That's got it.
00:01:46
Gilmund Graves
Yep.
00:01:46
bladesedge
That's disturbing the bones.
In-Game Mechanics and Actions
00:01:48
Gilmund Graves
Yep. The bones were disturbed.
00:01:50
bladesedge
And then the other one, it's like, yeah, if anybody comes within five feet of this alcove, I'm like, Oh, well, he walked within five feet of it.
00:01:57
Gilmund Graves
Yep. I was just like, Hey, this thing looks kind of cut out. What's here? Oh my God.
Tommy's Untouched Character Discussion
00:02:02
bladesedge
What about you, Tommy? What was your health up?
00:02:04
Gilmund Graves
Uh, I'm untouched. I haven't touched one time. I am touchless. Uh, 16, 16 health.
00:02:08
bladesedge
What did it, what? 16, 16, seven 16.
00:02:12
bladesedge
Wow.
00:02:12
Kyle
Out of 16?
00:02:13
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:02:14
Kyle
Wait, you're...
00:02:14
Gilmund Graves
16 out of 16 haven't been touched.
00:02:16
Kyle
Oh, wow.
Hit Points Mechanics for Wizards
00:02:17
Kyle
I feel like that's pretty little hit points.
00:02:17
bladesedge
Oh, he's a wizard.
00:02:17
Gilmund Graves
Also, I just.
00:02:20
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I.
00:02:20
bladesedge
Wizards have low hip lids.
00:02:20
Kyle
Oh, true.
00:02:22
Gilmund Graves
Bro, I have 15 max. Yeah, I have 16 max.
Class and Constitution's Role in Hit Points
00:02:26
bladesedge
Yeah. So your, your hit points for those of you listening and for Kyle Gerard, your hit points are determined by the class you play. So it's the class you play plus your con score, your constitution score. So every time you level up, what I like to do, which we don't ever really normally do is you roll for your hit points, which is.
00:02:39
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:02:47
bladesedge
So you have a plus three to your constitution, Roy, and you're a ranger. And so you roll a D eight and you'd add three, but
00:02:55
Kyle
well
00:02:56
bladesedge
Um, I think it was a D eight or is a ranger a D 10. Let's check. But what we do is we just take the average. So you just know you're a D 10.
00:03:04
Kyle
gotcha
00:03:06
bladesedge
Yeah. So every time you level up, you get nine. Cause you get six, which is the average plus three.
00:03:11
Gilmund Graves
the
Death House Overview and High-Risk Scenarios
00:03:13
Gilmund Graves
Maybe we'll do that.
00:03:14
bladesedge
That's yeah.
00:03:14
Gilmund Graves
We'll save for the next one where are we roll for stats or roll for the upgrade.
00:03:14
Kyle
Yeah, I mean, I like the system of rolling but
00:03:18
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. And so like I have, uh, yes.
00:03:19
bladesedge
ah You, you get nine. You have a D eight, right? Kyle. Kyle beams.
00:03:23
Gilmund Graves
And I have a plus one to con and I have one health less than Tommy who has a plus three in con because he's a wizard. He only gets a what D six.
00:03:32
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:03:33
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:03:34
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:03:34
Gilmund Graves
It's super short.
00:03:34
bladesedge
He was a D six for every time he levels up, but he still adds his con modifier. So that's sort of the big, the big pro for having a high con constitution score is like, if you are concentrating on spells, you can like maintain your concentration earlier for some like saving throws and also just for like hit points.
00:03:38
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Yeah. i
00:03:56
bladesedge
Really?
00:03:58
Gilmund Graves
And I had a really good idea of what type of wizard I was going to play. And Khan was probably the second most important staff beside intelligence. So I made sure to put a lot of points in there.
00:04:07
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:04:08
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. And you also have a plus three decks, but you have a minus three strength. i love Yeah. I rolled the, I rolled the. When we rolled for stats, I know it's super low. I just kept it and I was like, I don't want to roll it. Oh yeah. Why I'm not a buff wizard.
00:04:19
bladesedge
I like, I like that you kept it.
00:04:21
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. I haven't been in the gym. Yeah. I just thought it'd be funny. I don't know.
00:04:26
bladesedge
Yeah. Well, hey, listen, 16, seven, 16, that's not bad for death house.
00:04:31
Gilmund Graves
It's pretty fire. Yeah, most of the death houses just getting taken out on me and I'm fine with it.
00:04:34
Kyle
Yeah, given them how...
00:04:39
Kyle
Yeah.
00:04:39
bladesedge
Well, fuck around and find out is what as or so they
00:04:40
Gilmund Graves
For now, for now.
00:04:40
Kyle
We're pretty well off.
Behind-the-Scenes Decisions and Death House Introduction
00:04:44
bladesedge
say.
00:04:44
Gilmund Graves
Look, I'm a Fafo guy.
00:04:45
Kyle
I don't like that every single time we end a fight, Brian's like, that could have been really bad. Could have been a really bad fight.
00:04:52
Gilmund Graves
and
00:04:52
bladesedge
yeah <unk> Well, let me give you a little backstory at this graveside chat here, um Kyle, and for people listening that so Death House
00:04:53
Kyle
I'm like, Jesus Christ.
00:04:55
Gilmund Graves
Man, one roll higher.
00:05:06
bladesedge
peek behind the curtain. The main reason why I'm running you guys through Death House is because when Tommy who Tommy DM'd Curse of Strahd for me the very first time I ever played and we didn't do Death House and then when I ran you guys through on tour
00:05:21
Gilmund Graves
Oh really? Yeah.
00:05:26
bladesedge
Kyle, this like we did a very upraged version of this.
00:05:27
Kyle
Yeah.
00:05:29
bladesedge
because We were on tour and it was like hotel room. We had to be kind of quick with it. And we were telling a different story as well. I had some the moon, the whole moon beast, if you remember all that stuff.
00:05:40
Kyle
yeah
00:05:42
bladesedge
um We didn't run Death House either. It's like an optional. It's an optional starting thing that is known to be very dangerous. Um, and so when I was like, if I'm running for people who have played it before, I need to do some things that are different than what we've done before.
00:05:52
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:06:03
bladesedge
And you guys like with the. factions that you guys met in Daggerford, who all gave you guys stuff. And the dark gifts
Dark Gifts and Character Powers
00:06:15
bladesedge
that each of your characters starts with. I was like, you're a little, you guys are buffer than most and they're good rolling for stats.
00:06:23
Kyle
Mmhmm.
00:06:23
bladesedge
Yeah. You guys are like a buffer way better version of a level one characters that I was like, I was like, you guys are seasoned D and D vets. You're not going to die. And so far so good.
00:06:36
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, and also something that I forgot, Brian, is that when I went to um make that move on the last ghoul there, but I didn't because I didn't want to take the opportunity attack backing off, I've got Shadow Strike, man.
00:06:46
bladesedge
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:06:52
Gilmund Graves
I got to remember that. 10 feet, and I can do that three times or two times.
00:06:54
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:06:59
bladesedge
Yeah, don't forget about your guys. Dark gift stuff.
00:07:02
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, totally forgot.
00:07:03
bladesedge
Looking at looking at you, Vesrak.
00:07:05
Gilmund Graves
I would never forget my dark gift. Yeah, Tommy forgetting things about his. No, I got a little notebook right in front of me. Listen to it. Hold on.
00:07:12
Kyle
Haha.
00:07:12
Gilmund Graves
you'll shoot yeah here Let me.
00:07:13
bladesedge
Yeah, let me let's see. Let me hear it.
00:07:15
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I did. I got sticky notes and stuff here.
00:07:17
bladesedge
Wow.
00:07:17
Gilmund Graves
yeah This is me flipping. He does actually.
00:07:19
bladesedge
Yeah. Here's, hey, here's Tommy flipping the pages.
00:07:19
Gilmund Graves
Let's see.
00:07:23
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, there you go. Oh, got all my dark gifts on all these sticky notes in this white moleskin notebook that I have. Shout out Moleskin. Please sponsor me. Please sponsor us. Please, please, please, please. please
00:07:38
bladesedge
Yeah. It was a, the dark gifts are cool, but yeah, with the dark gifts and having some items from the, the factions, I was like, you guys. I feel comfortable putting you in death house and not worrying as much. Although, yeah, I mean, there is like, you know, I roll a, uh, that specter you guys fought in the attic that that attack does, um, if that, if that would have hit would do three D six damage.
00:08:00
Kyle
Mm-hmm
Intense Moments and Missed Opportunities
00:08:10
Gilmund Graves
oh Oh my god.
00:08:11
Kyle
Wait, which attack?
00:08:11
bladesedge
And the guy in the, in the attic, the nurse made that you guys were fighting would have, it only had one attack.
00:08:16
Kyle
Yeah Oh,
00:08:16
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah.
00:08:18
bladesedge
It has one attack that's called life drain.
00:08:21
bladesedge
And if I hit you take three D six damage and you have to make a con save or your hit point maximum is reduced by the amount equal to the damage that you took.
00:08:21
Kyle
okay
00:08:34
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:08:34
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:08:35
bladesedge
So let's say I rolled three sixes, that's 18 points of damage. And then you fail your con save. Your hit point maximum is reduced. If your hit point maximum is reduced to zero, you're dead.
00:08:50
Gilmund Graves
Oh, oh.
00:08:50
Kyle
Wow.
00:08:51
bladesedge
Yeah. So like, there's no death saves. Like if it, if you failed the concept, which is only DC 10, but it's like getting in, it only has one attack, you know, it didn't even hit any of those attacks, but like, God forbid I not 20.
00:09:04
Kyle
Mmhmm.
00:09:05
bladesedge
Then even if it's an average roll of 10, both times, that's still 20 points of necrotic damage because, because I'd roll 66 and then you have to make a con save.
00:09:10
Gilmund Graves
Jesus. so
00:09:17
Gilmund Graves
And I was the only one that got attacks swung on him, so I would have gotten art and immediately just done one of these, just X right through it, rest in peace.
00:09:17
bladesedge
Yeah. all
00:09:23
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:09:27
bladesedge
yeah for ah For those of you listening, we this is June 22nd and we got the actual art made.
In-Game and Real-Life Relationship Dynamics
00:09:34
bladesedge
Just just delivered. Roy, you're up next.
00:09:38
Gilmund Graves
Tell you what, Bri, we could probably add the the character art process into this video on Patreon, what do you think?
00:09:38
Kyle
I'm so excited.
00:09:45
bladesedge
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, we can add all, I think, yeah, Patreon will get, I mean, even the art as it's being done, we could, upload for the, you know, we're currently sitting at a nice 16 people up there.
00:09:56
bladesedge
And those of you who are.
00:09:56
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:09:57
Gilmund Graves
Thank you all so much.
00:09:58
bladesedge
We're currently up there. I mean, even, even this will be a while until you guys hear this, but thank you.
00:10:03
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Hey, welcome.
00:10:05
bladesedge
Yeah. Hey, welcome.
00:10:07
Gilmund Graves
Welcome.
00:10:07
bladesedge
Welcome.
00:10:09
Gilmund Graves
Any storm wind guards in chat?
00:10:09
bladesedge
All right. I'll never forget showing up for the curse of Strahd finale. Uh, when tommy you dmed it and you're and your video was on and you were wearing a cape and you're like well, the house
00:10:25
Gilmund Graves
I was wearing full robes. I was so, I was so excited about it. I went full Avengers stylies. Oh, it was great. Love it. All the friends we made along the way joined the battle.
00:10:36
bladesedge
yeah
00:10:37
Gilmund Graves
Oh, love it.
00:10:37
bladesedge
i was drinking beer out of a horn mug
00:10:40
Gilmund Graves
Yep.
00:10:41
bladesedge
as he ran the finale
00:10:42
Gilmund Graves
My horn mug is on the top of my shelf over there next to my gigantic D 20.
00:10:46
bladesedge
Yeah, don't use it as much just now. Yeah, I don't use it as much now that I don't drink, but I should.
00:10:55
Gilmund Graves
You know, non-alcoholic beer tastes just as good in there. Yeah, I hear liquid death is really good in horns. Yeah, true.
00:11:02
bladesedge
Um, yeah, don't, oh yeah, your intrusive thoughts and your intrusive echoes. I was just looking at what your dark gift was again, Tommy.
00:11:09
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, don't try don't try and pull my card on that. I got it right here on the sticky notes.
00:11:12
bladesedge
I know yours is good too, because it's like two of your main things are like passive. It's like the proficiency and two skills and the additional language.
00:11:16
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:11:19
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:11:21
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:11:22
Gilmund Graves
ah Hey, Kyle.
00:11:25
Kyle
Yes.
00:11:26
Gilmund Graves
How are you feeling getting back into D and&D after not playing for a while?
00:11:26
bladesedge
Yes.
00:11:30
bladesedge
Yes.
00:11:32
Kyle
It feels so good. Like, whenever I'm not playing D and&D, I'm like, Oh man, I missed D&D. And then I forget how, how fun and awesome it can be and how great the storytelling is and how
Improving Immersion with Roll 20
00:11:45
Kyle
visual it can be as well.
00:11:47
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, shout out.
00:11:47
Kyle
I think the, the like, go ahead.
00:11:50
Gilmund Graves
Oh, I was going to say, shout out Valerius. I use my quarterstaff like a bat and his head explodes like an orange. Huh?
00:11:58
Kyle
Yeah.
00:11:58
Gilmund Graves
Or is that coming from? I didn't know you have that in you, Trevor.
00:12:00
Kyle
Yeah.
00:12:01
Gilmund Graves
He's not here, but geez, OP.
00:12:02
Kyle
Yeah.
00:12:04
Kyle
What I was I was really proud of was the the the ah blanket on the bow.
00:12:11
Gilmund Graves
I love that.
00:12:11
bladesedge
Yeah, I love that.
00:12:12
Kyle
Like
00:12:12
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I love that. That made me very happy. um
00:12:14
Kyle
Yeah, I really love finding little things like that that just breathe life into this world that completely unnecessary. Or when I blocked the, uh, the bite attack with my sword, I just lunged my sword forward and the bite he to be bit down on the sword.
00:12:29
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. And that works out so well, especially like if it's your turn next and their turn is over. Hey, how do you stop that blade or how do you stop that bite with your sword in its mouth?
00:12:39
Kyle
Yeah.
00:12:41
Gilmund Graves
Fucking sick.
00:12:43
Kyle
um But I definitely feel ah this episode, for sure, this last one, so much more comfortable, like, RPing and like having conversations in character.
00:12:53
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:12:55
Kyle
Because the first two episodes, I felt so awkward.
00:12:55
bladesedge
You're funny. You say that. You do say that after every time, though. So it's just like the natural of it.
00:13:01
Gilmund Graves
Well, yeah,
00:13:01
Kyle
Yeah, but this one truly felt so much better.
00:13:03
bladesedge
And then after the next one, we have you be like, honestly, guys, I'm really starting to feel it actually after I'm really I'm really in my groove now.
00:13:10
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:13:11
Kyle
Nah, no.
00:13:11
Gilmund Graves
the first half hour for me, I always feel like I get a little flustered, um just like, ah, shit, people need to hear me talk.
00:13:18
Kyle
Yeah.
00:13:21
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:13:22
Gilmund Graves
Or am I saying anything cool?
00:13:23
Kyle
Yeah.
Future Gameplay Strategies
00:13:24
Gilmund Graves
Or wait, I just need to play my character and have a good time.
00:13:27
Kyle
Yeah, I was, I was really overthinking for the first two episodes of like, what is like cannon, like what I'm, what I can say, or like, I remember I said certain things and I was like, Oh, wait a minute.
00:13:31
Gilmund Graves
ah Agreed. Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:38
Kyle
That's not like true in, in game.
00:13:42
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:13:43
Kyle
And I have to figure out how to, like, it RP my way out of mistakes that I've made. um
00:13:48
bladesedge
Yeah I've lowkey forgot what Rose and Thorn sounded like. Like I couldn't remember because there's this weird like unspoken thing with Barovia where like a lot of times people who DM it like the people of Barovia or in Curse of Strahd are like vaguely Russian, or like, Transylvania.
00:13:48
Gilmund Graves
Well.
00:14:09
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:14:09
bladesedge
Like, there's weird things.
00:14:10
Kyle
yeah
00:14:11
bladesedge
So I couldn't remember if like, I did that for the little kids. So when I was like, I was like, Hey, I couldn't remember if like, the first time I was like, Hey, or something. I don't know.
00:14:20
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think it was I think it sounded right to me.
00:14:20
bladesedge
I'm just like, can't remember.
00:14:23
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, it sounded right to me.
00:14:23
Kyle
Yeah.
00:14:24
Gilmund Graves
Everything sounded pretty the same.
00:14:25
bladesedge
Yeah, I probably won't do that unless it's like, I don't know for
00:14:29
Gilmund Graves
Voices are hard.
00:14:31
bladesedge
Yeah, i just depend a certain voices from your heart. It's like, trans so then it's like that that whole shit is very like.
00:14:35
Gilmund Graves
It's like you fucking Count Chocula ass. Yeah.
00:14:38
bladesedge
Right, like i I could do that. And then if you guys were like kept talking to somebody for like five more minutes, I'd be like, bra stop, stop.
00:14:47
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:14:47
bladesedge
I can't keep doing it. I can only say 100 words in it.
00:14:50
Gilmund Graves
Well, Brian, every time you do a ah you do a Southern axe and I slip into it every single time, and so i'm I'm glad there's been no Southern NPCs floating around so far in the death house.
00:14:55
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:15:00
bladesedge
Oh, that's my ah that's my gonna be my twist on curse of strong for you.
00:15:05
Gilmund Graves
yeah It's just Matthew McConaughey.
00:15:06
Kyle
Hehehe.
00:15:08
bladesedge
That's curse of the curse of the south.
00:15:10
Gilmund Graves
Barovia is actually just outside Baton Rouge. Yeah, yeah.
00:15:12
bladesedge
Yeah, oh god.
00:15:14
Gilmund Graves
That'd actually be kind of sick.
00:15:16
bladesedge
Yeah, cool.
00:15:16
Kyle
Um, one other thing I'm really enjoying and like starting to see is, uh, the relationships between our characters starting to develop more.
00:15:18
Gilmund Graves
I.
00:15:26
Kyle
Like, especially after that last fight where Roy had to help Gilman. And this is just becoming like this ongoing thing of Gilman getting fucked up and then Roy coming in and like trying his best to support him or help him back up. It's just watching that stuff naturally happen over time, I think is really cool.
00:15:40
bladesedge
Yeah, or heal.
00:15:41
Gilmund Graves
yeah.
00:15:44
Gilmund Graves
Well, and that's one of my favorite things about D and&D in general. I think in our, uh, in our Tuesday night campaign, you know, me and day are all like that. Um, and we've got some guys that just like, there's a bit of a like symbiotic relationship that goes on between characters and groups where like you have the group as a whole, and then you have like the the smaller pairs within the group or trios, you know, it depends.
00:16:07
Kyle
Yeah.
00:16:08
Gilmund Graves
And those seeing how those relationships can turn into. whole points for the next hour, or even if it's just in one one fight in combat, it's so much fun.
00:16:17
Kyle
Yeah.
00:16:21
Gilmund Graves
um Because, like, dude, we haven't met in real life, you know?
00:16:22
Kyle
Mm hmm.
00:16:25
Gilmund Graves
And there's a bunch of people we play D and&D with that I play D and&D with that I've never met in real life, and yet we have such, like, a bond because of how we help each other, and just that stuff is the thing in this game that makes me really stoked. Because where our characters are making friends, but so are we.
00:16:43
Kyle
Yeah, it's really, really cool.
00:16:45
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. So far so good. This is going really well. I'm going to I think I might the only I think I'm thinking from my perspective, I might change. I might well I might use roll 20 less just because I'm constantly thinking of the fact that we're on an audio platform. And sometimes people will be like, oh, I walk over here and I'm and and I hit this guy.
00:17:07
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:17:08
Kyle
ah
00:17:09
bladesedge
I will walk over and I hit this guy. I sort of like, well, walk over where? You know what I mean?
00:17:13
Kyle
Yeah.
00:17:13
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:17:13
bladesedge
Like, Maybe describe the general direction you're walking or like if a guy's around a corner just because he's within five feet of you, like, you know, like um which we we have a good a good amount of that stuff, but I am like. I'm trying to I think I'm going to just maybe rely on Roll 20 a little less and do pretty theater of the mind until it comes, you know, time to to show something.
00:17:36
Gilmund Graves
Sure. I think also pretty much all the maps you're using are like specific for the module, correct?
00:17:44
bladesedge
Mm. Yeah.
00:17:46
Gilmund Graves
50-50? Oh, okay, cool.
00:17:47
bladesedge
The happy cow. Wasn't the edge of town map I used. Wasn't, but the death house has been.
00:17:50
Gilmund Graves
Sure.
00:17:52
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:17:53
Gilmund Graves
Okay, cool.
00:17:54
bladesedge
But yeah, half and half.
00:17:54
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think that because like sometimes if you look at a map and you're like, okay, I want to leap over this
Importance of Detailed Descriptions
00:18:01
Gilmund Graves
this table. like Well, the table isn't actually there, it's just a prop kind of thing.
00:18:05
bladesedge
Right.
00:18:06
Kyle
I think just being better if we are using Rule 20. I try to like, you know, be like, oh, I walked down to the southeast and go to this door.
00:18:14
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:15
Kyle
Just like trying to catch yourself if you find yourself being vague about what you're doing or where you're going.
00:18:21
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:18:21
Kyle
um And just trying to be more descriptive and visual about it.
00:18:21
bladesedge
Totally.
Roy Halovich Art and Artist Shout-Out
00:18:24
bladesedge
Totally. I think you have been, you've been doing a good job with that.
00:18:27
Gilmund Graves
Definitely. I love Roy Halovich.
00:18:28
bladesedge
I'm excited for, yeah, I'm excited for that final Roy Halovich art, dude.
00:18:33
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah.
00:18:34
Kyle
Yeah, dude, me too.
00:18:35
bladesedge
Hey, he's crushing it. Shout out, shout out, Bagus.
00:18:37
Gilmund Graves
Honestly, Bagus, Bagus from Indonesia.
00:18:40
bladesedge
Shout out Bagus baby from Indonesia and from Indonesia to Barovia.
00:18:42
Gilmund Graves
Let's go. My boy. Uh-huh.
00:18:46
bladesedge
Well, uh, we'll maybe we'll include on the Patreon and hit the link to Bagus's Fiver right here in case anybody wants.
00:18:51
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think we should. Yeah, just getting a little shout out, I think that's great.
00:18:53
Kyle
That's a great idea.
00:18:54
Gilmund Graves
Bagus is an OG.
Character Art Evolutions
00:18:56
bladesedge
Yeah. I crushed it. Yeah. Even with the, we have the gill graves and he's going to finish up the Roy and then he's going to be on to a Vesrak and Valerius.
00:19:05
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, hey, is, um in Roy's art is his bow, like present in the art. I can't remember, I'm trying to scroll back up real quick.
00:19:14
Kyle
It is, it's like in the background.
00:19:15
bladesedge
In the background, yeah, we could add a little like rose or wilting rose to that or something.
00:19:18
Gilmund Graves
A wilting rose, yeah.
00:19:20
Kyle
That'd be really cool.
00:19:20
Gilmund Graves
That'd be cool. i I think that would be great. I think that's the kind of thing that I like about, we've moved on a little bit in the campaign. We've got some things that are like specific to our characters now. Like if I were to have kept that eye patch on or something like that, Dan, I would like to throw an eye patch on. ah ah Yeah, throw that rose in there.
00:19:41
bladesedge
Yeah, it's pretty cool how the like the eye patch is so funny. It's like i'm I'm running this pretty since we're doing this like recorded thing and other people can listen to
Accurate Module Running with Unique Flavor
00:19:52
bladesedge
it. I'm running this thing like pretty by the book.
00:19:54
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:19:55
bladesedge
Like I'm not I'm not making up too much that the fact that it was like, you know.
00:19:55
Gilmund Graves
go Kind of my color scheme.
00:20:00
bladesedge
ah Yeah, black like black leather, our patch, I patch with a carnelian sewn into it. Um, opaque orange, red, brown, gemstone, like stone in it.
00:20:08
Gilmund Graves
So.
00:20:13
bladesedge
I was like, I was reading it. I literally googled carnelian real quick. Cause I was like, okay, I should picture the fuck that is like, but it's good. Yeah, it's cool. Just a little shit like that.
00:20:24
Gilmund Graves
So i picked my characters I picked my character's colors based off of this Japanese color combinations dictionary that Carly has.
00:20:24
bladesedge
Like, I wish I could take fucking credit for the human skin pouch, but I can't.
00:20:37
bladesedge
It's cool.
00:20:37
Gilmund Graves
And it has a whole bunch of different color combinations and stuff that look really cool. And I was like, oh shit, that's kind of like in my my swatch.
00:20:46
bladesedge
Yeah. Oh yeah. Totally. Yeah. Even your eyes on your character sheet are like almost that same sort of orangey red Brown.
00:20:55
Gilmund Graves
Mm hmm.
00:20:58
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:20:58
Gilmund Graves
Hell yeah.
00:20:59
bladesedge
I'm excited. Yeah. Death house, man. This is a, this is, this has been gnarly and we're not, ah we're not done yet.
00:21:05
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely, I think it's going to.
00:21:07
Kyle
ah The build up has been great. You set the tone with these ghost voices. We're doing these these you know little mini arcs like the fight with the ah the three guys. Was it four?
00:21:22
Gilmund Graves
For zombies, yeah.
00:21:22
Kyle
At the end there?
00:21:22
bladesedge
The ghouls, yeah there was four of them.
00:21:23
Kyle
The ghouls, four.
00:21:24
Gilmund Graves
Four freaking ghouls, man.
00:21:26
Kyle
Yeah, but just like setting the tone in the basement and then ending chant it that is growing quieter and having to lead, having to follow them and just like, you know, where are we gonna end up?
00:21:31
Gilmund Graves
Oh, so good.
00:21:37
Kyle
So it feels like it's building up to some really, really cool climax.
00:21:42
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:21:42
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I feel like I can really re-feel myself like being in the shoes of my character with all the descriptions, the theater of the mind stuff, like the chanting.
Tone and Pacing in Narrative
00:21:50
Gilmund Graves
It feels so good.
00:21:52
Kyle
Yeah.
00:21:52
bladesedge
Yeah, the chanting was fun. I was like, felt the good place to edit. I mean, with these shorter sessions, it's it's nice that the module gives me some like, you know, like he hearing that like, though those are the sections that I'm like, I'm not changing, but I'm like, you know, you, any module you're supposed to take and do your own thing with it, but like taking
00:22:02
Gilmund Graves
Thank you.
00:22:18
bladesedge
Something like that, that does happen. That chanting happens. Absolutely. But like in that exact moment, maybe not. But since we're like taking a break from the episode and going to come back to it, it's like, OK, cool. That's the beat to end on, you know.
00:22:30
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, it's a great it's a great time to end it. And it makes me want to press play to the next episode, which we hope you do.
00:22:33
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:22:36
Kyle
Yeah.
00:22:37
bladesedge
Yeah. Same with like the like adding a little things like but like Veserak that the skin pouch that's in there, but it being on top of the robe,
00:22:45
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:22:49
bladesedge
I put that back in there because since we're recording, you know, we try to do it every week, but sometimes it's a couple of weeks or a month, even that just like little refresher things like when you guys were seeing all those beds and I, my head, I'm like, right. You saw like robes on the first floor.
00:23:05
Gilmund Graves
Like in the closet, yeah.
00:23:06
bladesedge
But I was like, let me bring that back because they forgot. And so I just like that, like like little thing, placing little things like that that in the module doesn't necessarily say there's a robe in there, but just to remind the players like.
00:23:17
Gilmund Graves
The tone. Yeah, no, it's everything's interconnected and hey, this is where we are, it's good.
00:23:18
bladesedge
Yeah, there's like some some robe. Cultist stuff going on.
00:23:25
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely, yeah, super appreciate that because that definitely helped us kind of reframe the way that we were searching because I was thinking, okay, let's find the mom.
00:23:35
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:23:36
Gilmund Graves
But now it's like, wait a second.
00:23:37
Kyle
Yeah.
00:23:39
Gilmund Graves
It's not just the mom down here. I also forget how gross this module actually is. Like this, the descriptions of like the bones, the blood, like it's gross.
00:23:45
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:23:49
Gilmund Graves
Like me going like, Ew, like if I, I think if I had a human bone in my hand, it's like, it's like, what the fuck?
00:23:51
bladesedge
Right.
00:23:55
Gilmund Graves
Like, get me the fuck out of here.
00:23:56
Kyle
Yeah.
00:23:57
Gilmund Graves
And that's why I'm like, Mesorak's like trying to find the way out.
00:23:57
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:23:58
Kyle
Like we're in so much deeper.
00:24:01
Kyle
Yeah, it's like so much more than any character.
00:24:01
bladesedge
I'm definitely, what were you saying?
00:24:04
Kyle
Sorry, it's like so much more than any of our characters have gotten
Horror Modules and Creative Liberty
00:24:08
Kyle
into. Like, Roy has never been in something this heavy or dark. Like, he's seen some stuff, but nothing to this caliber.
00:24:13
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:24:17
bladesedge
Yeah, I've definitely liked, oh I tried to set the tone with the session zero, like shout out world anvil. I'm using, there are some descriptions I'm using from world anvil that are like not in the module that are like grosser and like more horror.
00:24:31
Gilmund Graves
Hell yeah.
00:24:34
bladesedge
And, uh, describe has helped me out with some, um, gross horror descriptions I've used so far. And then also like, I'm just taking, I'm taking some liberties, you know, like the. brush being made of human bone. Like that's a me liberty. Um, that I'm just like, yeah, I was like, when we went into this, I was like, yeah, my take on this module, since I've watched other people play it, I've played in it.
00:24:52
Kyle
It's all great.
00:25:01
bladesedge
It was like, there's this like dour, like sense of within in this module of like people like Tommy, you can attest to that of like, there's like people are like, like bummed out and like there's a big bummer energy with this module and it's easy to play it like uh like purgatory kind of vibes and like really bummed out and like i've seen yeah i've seen that be like done so many times and i was like cool what's my twist on this and i was like well i love all like the old like universal horror films and i was like cool i'm gonna up the
00:25:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:25:25
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Seattle in the winter.
00:25:42
bladesedge
even in the very first description of the whole campaign, I was like, yeah, let me get let me get the word. Let me get a wound infested with maggots in there pretty quick just to like let people know what the fucking vibe is.
00:25:53
Gilmund Graves
Well, I like the twists, especially as veteran D and&D players. and like Everyone kind of knows what Strahd is and what it entails, but having like that you know like older monster vibe to it just adds a little bit of twist and flavor that's a little unexpected and keeps it fresh. you know like Kind of like what you said, where everyone kind of plays it the same, where it's a little sad and depressing, it's raining. and like I really like this vibe and twist. I'm not just saying that because you're my friend.
00:26:18
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:26:19
Gilmund Graves
Uh, but I really like it.
00:26:21
bladesedge
Yeah, I think that's a good distinction is like like sad and depressing is a bit like depressing is really the word for like this module and like Barovia in general. And I'm basically taking that word and replacing it with horror, like make the depressing out of it and put in horror and like scary thriller.
00:26:35
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:42
bladesedge
Put that in like gross, you know.
00:26:43
Gilmund Graves
Well, like every time I, I'm sorry.
00:26:44
Kyle
I think what I i was just gonna say, what I really enjoy, and maybe you guys who have played Death House can let me know if this is true for any other time that you've played it.
00:26:56
bladesedge
Nobody has played death house.
00:26:58
Kyle
Oh, nobody has.
00:26:59
bladesedge
That's what that's why I'm running it. Yeah.
00:27:01
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:27:01
Kyle
got you Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
00:27:03
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:27:03
Kyle
It is dark and it is depressing, but we were still able to have really beautiful and emotional moments throughout, which I really, really like.
00:27:11
bladesedge
Oh, yeah. The rose and thorn twist.
00:27:17
Gilmund Graves
And that only happened because you chose to do it, man. I love it.
00:27:21
Kyle
Yeah.
00:27:21
bladesedge
Yeah, you guys also could have just like stayed out of that room like this whole you can complete death house without ever. Going into that room that the kids are in, you know.
00:27:31
Gilmund Graves
Right.
00:27:32
Kyle
Yeah.
00:27:32
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think that speaks more to the personality of the players. You know, it's like, what do you decide to do? Do you decide to help these kids? Do you tell them to, you know, F off.
00:27:39
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:27:39
Gilmund Graves
See you later. You know, it's the choices that we make in the game that help really build the world and make it come alive. And I love it.
Teasing Upcoming Module Surprises
00:27:47
Kyle
Yeah.
00:27:47
bladesedge
Yeah, also shout outs. I mean, there's yeah the world anvil that describe, but also the van Richten's guide to Ravenlofts supplements.
00:27:54
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
00:27:56
bladesedge
I've been using that a lot of mess with the dark gifts come from. That's where there's a lot of really good stuff in there. If you're a DM or whatever about creating domains of dread and genres of horror, it's got it's got whole sections on body horror, cosmic horror, dark fantasy, folk horror, ghost stories, gothic horror. And there will be other stuff. A couple of things from there that I'm going to be putting in as little, uh, little Easter eggs throughout and little, little things to make this whole run of it different.
00:28:26
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:28:27
bladesedge
But I still have, I still have like death house was the first surprise of this module of like, I mean, for those people who played it before of like, Oh, we're starting here. We're not starting the normal way that the book starts. And then I've got like. I got three more big ones I'm really excited about. That'll be awesome.
00:28:46
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
00:28:47
bladesedge
and More big surprises that'll really.
00:28:47
Kyle
Awesome.
00:28:50
bladesedge
Throw throw it on the head of what, you know, even if you listening have played it before or have listened to other ones, it'll be a bit different and ah different, but still in canon and still in, you know, lore and all that shit.
00:29:05
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, we love that. I just don't know how we're all going to make it there. You know, you'd be wrong if. ah Bezrak's brother. Bezrak is not ready at the tavern to make down the paladin of love.
00:29:17
bladesedge
yes
00:29:18
Kyle
Um...
00:29:20
Gilmund Graves
You know, it's a different twist on the character. Bezrak might not make it, but Bezrak is right there.
00:29:23
bladesedge
Um, I think it'll be all right. I mean, I think it's like, just play it. Like there's no, that was another big reason why, when you guys were making your characters, I didn't want to push anybody to be like, you need to be the tank and you need to be the healer and blah, blah, blah. Like there's no right or wrong thing to do. Like if a fight's too crazy, like run. You know what I mean?
00:29:47
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, just leave.
00:29:47
bladesedge
Or like, if a situation seems too spooky, don't do it. You know what I mean? Like, uh, low key. That was when I was, I was, trying I was, I wasn't trying to dissuade that Roy from going down that hallway, but I was with a natural 20.
00:30:01
Kyle
Yeah.
00:30:02
bladesedge
I was painting it. Like if you go this way, you're getting into a fight and you're going to do if I were like multiple people.
00:30:09
Gilmund Graves
Well, I think that's the fun challenge of DND is like, it's not, you know, the triangle of like world of Warcraft, where it's like tank healer DPS, it's, you know, bringing individual characters and Hey, make it work, you know, which is fun.
00:30:10
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:30:19
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:30:19
Kyle
Yeah, finding that synergy naturally.
00:30:23
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. Good job on finding that hidden spike pit. That was good.
00:30:27
Kyle
Oh, yeah.
00:30:27
Gilmund Graves
who
00:30:28
bladesedge
The fight with the grick. That was that monstrosity. It's called a grick.
00:30:33
Gilmund Graves
yeah Yeah, that thing.
00:30:34
Kyle
Uh, the, the worm tentacle guy.
00:30:36
bladesedge
Yeah, they're gross.
00:30:37
Gilmund Graves
Affectionately named the Beaky Blinder because it went for my eye.
00:30:39
Kyle
Yeah.
00:30:41
Gilmund Graves
The Beaky Blinder.
00:30:42
bladesedge
Yeah. That is.
00:30:42
Kyle
ah
00:30:43
Gilmund Graves
Then you'd have a reason to wear the eye patch. Oh, shit.
00:30:45
bladesedge
I know. Yeah.
00:30:46
Gilmund Graves
So maybe you should have let it get your eye.
00:30:46
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:30:47
Gilmund Graves
Fuck.
00:30:48
Kyle
Guillemin doing squats while Roy and I, er, Roy and, uh, Valerius take turns attacking.
00:30:49
Gilmund Graves
Immediately, level two.
00:30:56
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, um well, you talked about it being Russian.
00:30:56
bladesedge
isnt
00:30:58
Gilmund Graves
I'm doing the like Russian like kick out fucking hands out thing.
00:31:01
Kyle
oh yeah
00:31:02
Gilmund Graves
Da da da. Yeah.
00:31:04
Kyle
ens and on and
00:31:05
bladesedge
Well, you guys are, you're almost done with death house. It'll be the longest day of your character's lives. I'm sure.
00:31:12
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely, yeah. That was ah a pretty gnarly place, and but we've got some cultists to deal with and ah a ghoul mom.
00:31:14
bladesedge
um
00:31:21
Gilmund Graves
Where is Jimothy?
00:31:21
Kyle
yeah
00:31:22
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, where is Jimothy? At every turn, where is Jimothy?
00:31:24
bladesedge
Um,
00:31:25
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, Jimothy isn't in the house, my friend my friend.
00:31:26
bladesedge
Oh, rest in peace to jimothy senior yeah order of order of the
00:31:28
Gilmund Graves
We don't know that.
00:31:29
Kyle
Yeah.
00:31:30
Gilmund Graves
Oh my gosh, Jimothy Senior, yeah.
00:31:30
Kyle
Yeah. We found his granddad.
00:31:33
Gilmund Graves
Oh shit. i As a Wizard of Loathe, I refuse to let the Order of the Iron Gauntlet down. And we got find to find out. What did I say? No. an Iron Lion. What is it? Golden
Order of the Golden Lion Lore
00:31:45
Gilmund Graves
Lion. Golden Lion.
00:31:45
bladesedge
Gordon golden lion.
00:31:46
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:31:46
Gilmund Graves
Order of the Golden.
00:31:47
Kyle
Yeah.
00:31:47
Gilmund Graves
Gordon Ramsey. Yeah.
00:31:49
Kyle
Yeah, what what did I say?
00:31:50
Gilmund Graves
Well, or the the Lord of the lions is the Lord of lions.
00:31:50
Kyle
It was uh... Yeah, Lords of Lions.
00:31:54
Gilmund Graves
It's much a lion iconography.
00:31:59
Kyle
That is in my notebook right now and I have not changed it.
00:32:01
Gilmund Graves
so Yeah, I have a order of the Golden Lion in quotes. rock And that's all I got.
00:32:08
bladesedge
Rah.
00:32:10
bladesedge
um Well, fuck yeah, guys, thank you all for coming and listening to our first ever graveside chat. We'll
Conclusion and Excitement for Future Campaigns
00:32:17
bladesedge
probably do more of these every now and then whenever either we have a cancellation that somebody can't make it or if it just seems like an appropriate time to check in on this spooky little adventure that we're going on. um And right on. we'll ah We'll see you guys next time. And up next, the conclusion to Death House.
00:32:41
Gilmund Graves
Whoo.
00:32:41
bladesedge
Fingers crossed.
00:32:42
Gilmund Graves
Can't wait. Yeah. Huge thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.
00:32:43
Kyle
Oh boy.
00:32:46
Gilmund Graves
We love ya. We appreciate ya. Please ask questions. We can always answer them in here. We can take a topic from, from anyone who's interested in hearing about a certain aspect of D and D of our characters or just stuff about us.
00:33:00
bladesedge
knock on wood that they, the characters survive and say a prayer to Lolz.
00:33:05
Gilmund Graves
Maybe two.
00:33:06
bladesedge
And we'll, maybe two.
00:33:06
Gilmund Graves
Nailothu.
00:33:08
bladesedge
Uh, and we will see you guys next time. Later.
00:33:11
Gilmund Graves
Peace.