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Graveside Chat #2
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We check in with Bryan, Kyle, and Tommy after our 8th episode! We've barely set foot in Barovia, and the doom & gloom hasn't yet stifled our spirits. Come on in from the cold and join us for another Graveside Chat as we talk Level 4, loot, playing in a grimdark campaign, and more!
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Introduction and Greetings
00:00:02
bladesedge
Good mourning vietnam morning, Good morning, Barovia. What's up, guys? Brave side chat number two.
00:00:13
gil
And here we are.
00:00:14
bladesedge
Brave side indeed.
00:00:18
gil
Yeah, true.
00:00:18
bladesedge
Because it'll, nice little ring of regeneration.
00:00:22
gil
Yeah, that thing's bonkers, man.
Ring of Regeneration Discussion
00:00:25
bladesedge
I know, that's the pay. Sometimes it pays to just go looking for a real rope.
00:00:29
gil
Yeah. Look, I mean, I wasn't even looking for loot. I saw the freaking cemetery and I'm like, you know what? Just a walk in the graveyard just seemed pretty good.
00:00:39
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:00:41
gil
um
00:00:41
Vesz_rak
That's what I like to do on these sunny, uh, Saturday mornings.
00:00:44
Vesz_rak
is You know, find the nearest graveyard and just go walk around, see if there's any magical rings laying around that I could put on and attune to.
00:00:46
bladesedge
Just go for a walk.
00:00:48
gil
Yeah.
00:00:52
gil
um Yeah.
00:00:52
bladesedge
Yeah, see if the morning Lord's going to speak to you by crumbling a tombstone top and letting you see a ring of regeneration.
00:01:01
Vesz_rak
up
00:01:01
gil
So for those of you at home, the ring of regeneration, uh, lets me regain one D six HP every 10 minutes, provided I have one health. And if I lose a body part, the ring causes the missing body part to regrow and return to full functionality after a week at the most, at the least two days, bonkers.
00:01:25
bladesedge
Pretty cool. Pretty. I mean, the main use for that obviously is just kind of like, I felt like a short
Plot Threads and Campaign Reflection
00:01:31
bladesedge
rest, right? Because then even if you're out of hit dice, you're rolling 66. six
00:01:40
gil
Yeah.
00:01:41
bladesedge
Right. An additional 66, which I just rolled when I got a 20, like every short rest, you're basically. Even if you're out of short rest die, you'd still regain 20 hit points.
00:01:53
Vesz_rak
you
00:01:53
gil
any Yeah, and even just walking around exploring a house if we're in there for half an hour. I mean, for for the notoriously fragile Gil Graves, that is the perfect find.
00:02:05
bladesedge
Yeah, I thought that was great.
00:02:07
gil
I really liked that. Yeah, that was really cool.
00:02:10
bladesedge
um Yeah, it was good sesh. Kresk, baby.
00:02:14
gil
Yeah, it was cool. I mean, I think it's just like that whole episode was just all us like looking at every single thread we could possibly pull. And so now we've got all these things in front of us and we're just like, okay, where are we gonna start? Cause we need to, ah we need to move somewhere,
Winery Ownership and Significance
00:02:34
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I think there's a lot of places we could go, you know, especially with the Taroka card reading, we got the mother knight thread, obviously Strahd is the overarching, um, poll here, but also, you know, us, you know, seemingly being present during the spontaneous combustion of the wizards of wine, you know, dealing with the Mardukovs, having tenacious deed. Do we return them? Do we keep them? like
00:02:34
gil
go.
00:02:55
gil
Mm hmm.
00:02:56
Vesz_rak
I, first, me, Vesrak, me, Tommy, I think that Mardukovs are going to be pissed when they find out that, uh, we were inadvertently maybe, maybe not so much the cause of their winery blowing up.
00:03:05
gil
So the well, the Mardukovs don't own it, right? They just work there.
00:03:10
Vesz_rak
I, I thought they owned it.
00:03:10
bladesedge
Right.
00:03:12
gil
It's it. No, it's it's the the burger master of Kresk that owns it. And he didn't seem that pissed.
00:03:19
bladesedge
Yeah, I guess it's, it's, I don't know if you necessarily know who is like the full hundred percent owner,
Consequences of Past Actions
00:03:24
bladesedge
if it's a multiple ownership thing, but yeah, it seemed like the, the burger master has a vested interest in it and maybe some ownership stake.
00:03:24
gil
Mm hmm.
00:03:34
bladesedge
And then it also felt like, yeah, they maybe also have ah so a vested instrument and some ownership stake and it's where they all work.
00:03:41
gil
Yeah. Well, look, we did what we could. And ah all we have is one thing left as evidence to our um our bombardment, let's call it. But hey, look, we weren't going to get the wine out any other way. So it's just the cost of doing business as they say, right?
Character Motivations and Dilemmas
00:04:03
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I think another thing with the Markov's, uh, is they also have the seeds, you know, they were talking about some powerful seeds that were going on.
00:04:03
bladesedge
Yeah, I loved what we're gonna say.
00:04:10
Vesz_rak
And I think Bezrak has a but ah potential interest in some magical seeds.
00:04:17
gil
Yeah, I mean, that that sounds pretty cool.
00:04:17
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:04:19
gil
I'm definitely interested in the in the man with the monkey because the mercy that he he showed to the the people that stole his son was not something that Gil Graves had in mind when he finds the people that stole his sister. um And maybe maybe there's a something that I can learn there to help quell the ah the things that I feel in regards to that situation.
Sandbox Module Exploration
00:04:51
gil
Someone who understands.
00:04:52
bladesedge
Yeah, you guys got a lot of threads. You guys got the, you got the, so you got the monkey man. You've got the three potential treasures. You've got the Marta cause, which you're going to do next time and their whole seed quest. You've got the werewolves. You've got going to the village of Barovia because of that piece of paper.
00:05:19
bladesedge
It's a lot.
00:05:20
gil
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:05:20
bladesedge
That's a lot. Yeah. That's what's good about this module is it's it's sandbox. You know.
00:05:27
gil
Yeah, just take whatever bite you want.
00:05:31
bladesedge
Yeah, you can go anywhere. That's why the replay ability like I liked starting over here because in.
Special Events and Player Influence
00:05:39
bladesedge
The one that i last time I ran this on tour for Trevor and Kyle and some other people, we never even went to Kresk like they never like.
00:05:48
gil
Oh, really?
00:05:48
bladesedge
Yeah, the map because the map is so the module is so like open ended that there are places that you may never even I also don't think they ever went to the wolf den. You know, in ours, Tommy, I don't think we ever went to the wolf den either.
00:06:01
gil
Oh, okay.
00:06:05
Vesz_rak
No, we didn't go to the wolf den per se, but we went to a different location that was akin to it. Well, I'll just say that.
00:06:12
bladesedge
Yeah, you had you had changed some stuff.
00:06:12
gil
Yeah, I'm.
00:06:15
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I had subscribed to like a module or DM help or whatever for Strahd and they were kind of enhance, not enhancing, but as a brand new DM, helping hold my hand a little bit and helping run some stuff.
Railroading vs. Freedom in Campaigns
00:06:30
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:06:30
gil
Yeah. the The tarot card reading was pretty awesome in as, as a way to give us our, our next steps or at least have things that we can follow because, you know, following player motivations is one thing, but when you come to a whole new land, it's like, what do we do?
00:06:47
bladesedge
Yeah. its I think that's why this adventure is so Good. And so, and like the replayability is good and people played it forever is because like, it's both, right? It's railroad and sandbox because the railroad is you're stuck here.
00:06:59
gil
yeah
00:07:04
gil
Yeah.
00:07:04
bladesedge
That's the railroad is like, you cannot leave Barofia until this salt done, presumably, but like that's the railroad and then the sandbox is, but you can go anywhere you want to go.
00:07:10
gil
Sure.
Character Interactions and Villain Defeat
00:07:17
bladesedge
and do whatever you wanna do. And like, I have just have little things that like, like even in Kresk, every location has these things called special events. And one of the special events in Kresk is delivering the baby.
00:07:36
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I didn't think I'd be doing that so early on, on ah on a Saturday morning.
00:07:36
gil
Oh, cool.
00:07:38
bladesedge
I know.
00:07:38
gil
Yeah.
00:07:40
bladesedge
Yeah, there's every every place has special events. And that was one where I was like, it's it's a it's a way to sort of floor dump the hole. That child has no soul thing like get it in there, but. Yeah, it was good. It's also normally when you start on the east, there's a different character who gives the PCs a lot of exposition about where you are, what's going on. things you could do, blah, blah, blah. And when you start on the east, it was like, it has to be somebody else.
00:08:11
bladesedge
And the book, the book recommends it being as Brelda because she has a Toroka deck because normally who it's a different person who reads you your tarot.
00:08:12
gil
Right.
00:08:16
Vesz_rak
Yeah.
Strahd's Role and Philosophical Implications
00:08:21
Vesz_rak
I think it'll be an interesting, I really liked the conversation that we were having with Esmeralda about, um I mean, what happens when you take down Strahd? I mean, like power vacuum, no power vacuum. I don't know why I feel so stuck on it, but it's like, well, what happens next? You know, in that whole conversation of the devil, you know, you know what happens when you overthrow a dictator and a ruler?
00:08:40
gil
it
00:08:40
Vesz_rak
What happens? Does everyone just suddenly become free?
00:08:42
bladesedge
Right.
00:08:44
Vesz_rak
Is there somebody else that steps up to you know take the crown? I'm very Game of Thrones-y. What does happen? I think that's going to be a very fun thread to pull.
00:08:54
bladesedge
That's, that's funny. yeah you're You're in your game of Thrones bag right now.
00:08:56
gil
Ha, yeah.
00:08:57
Vesz_rak
I'm, yeah, I, yeah. How's the dragon season two, uh, episode eight finale coming out tomorrow and I'm rewatching game of thrones, um, from season one. I, you know, I'm on like episode five or something like that. So I'm very in it very much thinking about overthrowing the King revolutions.
00:09:10
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:09:15
bladesedge
I think it's like I think, yeah, that's it's funny that you that's I think why the Abbott was laughing because he was like, this guy doesn't do anything for this realm. He doesn't provide. He's not good in any way. So he's like, you know, I think from maybe other people's perspectives, they're like. The guys, the guys Hitler were not necessarily thinking about.
00:09:15
Vesz_rak
Uh,
00:09:38
gil
Yeah, the guys like this. This can't get any worse this guy.
00:09:40
bladesedge
Yeah. We're not thinking about who is going to be the next in line after Hitler. We're just like, let's get rid of Hitler first. You know,
00:09:46
gil
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:49
bladesedge
Strahd is Hitler. Is that a unique comparison? Am I the first person to make that?
00:09:53
gil
Yeah, i I don't know.
00:09:55
bladesedge
Probably not.
00:09:56
gil
We'll we'll learn more. um
Character Relationships and Revelations
00:10:00
bladesedge
But yeah, i love it I mean, that is it is, you know, if the Abbott is correct in assuming that though, ah Tommy, like, you know, he said that he wants to retire, hes he's been looking for like a love for sure.
00:10:00
gil
Yeah.
00:10:14
gil
Reason.
00:10:15
bladesedge
But he's also been looking for like somebody to just take his place to be like, I'm done. I want to be done because of love, presumably. You know, I think that's
00:10:25
gil
Hmm.
00:10:25
Vesz_rak
I mean, I mean, don't we, I mean, don't we all, Brian?
00:10:28
gil
I wonder how the Abbott came to know that information.
00:10:31
bladesedge
Well,
00:10:31
Vesz_rak
Yeah, it seemed like there was something off for sure about the, like he knew more than he was letting on and he, you know, he just, he seemed kinda cracked a little bit.
00:10:39
gil
Of course he knows more than he's getting on. Everybody in here does.
00:10:43
bladesedge
yeah, I think also, uh, leading back to that note you found, I think there's some that you guys can infer like I, the burger master of Barovia, the town of Barovia, send you on her with despair. My adopted daughter, the fair Irina Kolyana has been these past nights bitten via vampir. For over 400 years, this creature has drained the lifeblood of my people. Now my dear Irina languishes and dies from an unholy wound caused by this vile
00:11:08
gil
Yeah.
Exploring New Locations
00:11:09
bladesedge
beast.
00:11:09
bladesedge
He has become too powerful to conquer." So, I mean, if he's talking about Shrod, you know, Shrod finding this fair, young, you know, this beautiful woman and biting her to turn her into a vampire, you know, like,
00:11:28
gil
yeah
00:11:30
bladesedge
He's looking for love, blah, blah, blah. You know, think there's some there's some stuff you guys can infer there.
00:11:32
gil
Yeah.
00:11:34
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I can't wait to get to Barovia. I feel like that was definitely one of my favorite locations when we played before.
00:11:40
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:11:40
Vesz_rak
And I'm i'm pumped. I'm excited. Yeah, I've i've never really been to Kresk. Never really kind of explored it too much. And just excited to play more.
00:11:49
gil
I'm definitely getting a lot of Castlevania vibe, um which which is really fun because like Sypha Belnotus was with the Seekers and I get a very Sypha vibe from Esmeralda and then the Vistani are also the Seekers who also weren't all that perfect at all times.
00:11:53
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:12:09
bladesedge
Totally.
00:12:09
gil
um And then obviously the thing that set Dracula off in season one was his wife being murdered brutally.
00:12:22
bladesedge
Yeah, that's just the the classic.
00:12:23
gil
Yeah.
00:12:24
bladesedge
That's just the story of Dracula, like even in Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I watched last night.
00:12:25
gil
Classic story. Yeah.
00:12:30
gil
Oh, it is.
00:12:31
bladesedge
Yeah, I mean, he's he he goes off to to war. Gary Oldman has Dracula wearing the sickest fucking armor of all time.
00:12:39
gil
Mm hmm.
00:12:40
bladesedge
And then comes back and then his wife is brutally murdered, you know, which turns him sort of into this.
00:12:47
gil
his one touch, touchstone to humanity.
00:12:51
bladesedge
Yeah. And then he's like, and then he's like, you know, he's searching for her.
00:12:52
gil
Yeah.
00:12:57
bladesedge
He's searching for the, the reincarnation of her, the next iteration, the, you know, constantly
Character Gender Dynamics
00:13:05
gil
Well, um none of us are girl characters. um So we can't but can take one for the team.
00:13:05
bladesedge
trying to get that back.
00:13:12
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:13:14
gil
but
00:13:16
bladesedge
It is funny. I do think it does. I do think there are. Um, not necessarily.
00:13:21
gil
Options to romance fraud.
00:13:24
bladesedge
I think what it, like it says.
00:13:31
Vesz_rak
I think I'm just saying it if it's just looking to retire.
00:13:31
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:13:33
Vesz_rak
I mean, I know a nice demon mommy that would love to take his place.
00:13:38
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:13:39
gil
so
00:13:40
Vesz_rak
You know, I'm just just saying, i'm you know, I'm a little upset that my I've been kind of sussed out. It's not saying I was planning on doing anything, but it seems that Esmeralda is kind of caught on to my game a little bit.
00:13:53
gil
Yeah, hey, what's the deal with the barrels, by the way? um i Did you poison them?
00:13:59
Vesz_rak
Hey, I
Leveling Up and Strategic Planning
00:14:00
Vesz_rak
don't know. you Who knows? They might be posing.
00:14:03
bladesedge
No.
00:14:04
Vesz_rak
They might not be poisoned.
00:14:06
bladesedge
He didn't.
00:14:06
gil
Oh, or or were you just tracking them to see if you would find them again or something like that? I don't know.
00:14:12
bladesedge
Now the barrels aren't poisoned.
00:14:15
gil
Okay, cool, it's the bottles. Yeah, that's right.
00:14:16
bladesedge
There are bottles that he switched out that are poisoned.
00:14:19
Vesz_rak
Yep. Yep. I switched out some bottles. And my idea was it was to give the barrels that were um Marked with the spider as being like, Oh, you see, there's like this, like other, other thing in play gift from Walt, the spider queen. Um, so I'm, I'm trying to lay the groundwork for, uh, something much bigger.
00:14:44
gil
Ah, I see. I can deal with that.
00:14:47
bladesedge
Yeah, but by the way, it says here. um ah He he'll turn his attention to see if any of them is worthy to be his consort. Yeah, if you want to use what's playing a ah woman, a female character there.
00:15:00
gil
Oh yeah.
00:15:05
Vesz_rak
um I messed up. I should have. I knew it.
00:15:06
bladesedge
Yeah, there's a little bit of potential.
00:15:10
gil
sitting um Hey Tommy, what are you going to do at level four?
00:15:15
bladesedge
Yeah, what's level four for you guys?
00:15:17
Vesz_rak
Oh, man. ah So I've been going back and forth on I think I'm a feet guy. I like taking um ability score improvements, but I'm just I'm a big feet guy and I like to take stuff that helps enhance role play.
00:15:32
gil
I'll send you picks for free.
00:15:34
Vesz_rak
No, no, no, no, no.
00:15:34
bladesedge
Well, not to, not to, uh, not to derail you here, but funny enough, I've been re doing all the research and I preordered all the new books for the D and D five, 5.5 is basically how they work on it.
00:15:47
Vesz_rak
Oh, man.
00:15:48
bladesedge
And, uh, all the feats in the new one, every feat is like comes with the the half ability score improvement, which is really cool.
00:15:59
gil
Yeah.
00:15:59
Vesz_rak
Oh, sick. I love that.
00:16:00
gil
yeah
00:16:01
bladesedge
Yeah. So you, you can. You could go all feats and still be leveling up your ability scores, just like half as half as quick, half as quickly.
00:16:10
gil
Right, and another thing is when you create a character, don't you choose a feat at level one now? That was always my homebrew rule, but maybe I'm misremembering that from the new rules, but I recall something about you can take a feat when you make a character.
00:16:23
bladesedge
So humans now can take in the new one. Humans will be able to take a feet, not just not variant humans. Uh, every human can take a feet and then everybody, there are feats tied into the backgrounds.
00:16:36
gil
Oh, okay.
00:16:37
bladesedge
So the background you pick determines what feet it'll give you.
00:16:42
gil
And your ability scores are determined by backgrounds rather than race as well, right?
00:16:44
bladesedge
Yeah, your ability to turn my backgrounds.
00:16:45
gil
Which I think is a great change.
00:16:47
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a better change.
00:16:47
bladesedge
So it's not you can't just have any feet, but you can't I don't think there's one that's just like I take sharpshooter at level one because of my background.
00:16:54
gil
Sure.
00:16:54
bladesedge
ah But like there's there's there's a bunch, um which is cool. So if you're a human, you would get two at level one. You get one you get to just choose and one from your background, which is crazy.
00:17:04
gil
Yeah, I like that. I love feats. I've always had a good time with them, but I'm actually just going to be taking the ability score increase and I'm pumping my decks to 20 because the, that's the only thing Gil Graves does well. Um, other than, uh, find his way into trouble, which also didn't end up in trouble today and ended up in fortune. Just nice.
00:17:25
bladesedge
Your sneak attack still 2d6, but next level will be a 3d6.
Eldritch Adept Abilities Impact
00:17:29
gil
Yeah, we love that.
00:17:31
bladesedge
And then what about you, Tommy? You're looking at the feats right now.
00:17:34
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I yeah, I'm looking at maybe like an Eldritch Adept move, maybe. um
00:17:40
bladesedge
Wow. And you get another second level spell slot and another cantrip fun.
00:17:43
Vesz_rak
Yeah, so kind of. Yep. So leaning into like the more Eldritch Adept, I was thinking about maybe metamagic to boost my damage, but I just now that I'm reading over kind of the different abilities that I can do, like B speech, armor of shadows, Eldritch side. I mean, all these are so. Enticing, I may have to go with this.
00:18:02
bladesedge
Mm hmm. Yeah, that's a fun one. So a lot of especially given the fact that, you know, yeah've we've been playing with the fact that you have this echo, this soul echo. um I guess what is it? Yeah, echoing soul like in the back of your mind from Lowell talking to you, you know.
00:18:26
Vesz_rak
Yeah. So I think that's my, ah that might be something I yeah lean into for sure.
00:18:31
bladesedge
Yeah,
00:18:31
gil
Definitely.
00:18:32
gil
I noticed that since my charisma is a minus one, which by the way, guys, uh, playing a character that has negative one charisma is tough for me. It's tough cause I'm like trying to
00:18:47
bladesedge
yeah you're, you're the, you're a natural instinct is to be the talker.
00:18:51
gil
Yes. A hundred percent.
00:18:52
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:18:52
gil
And that's why I like any, I, I, I've noticed it over the last couple of episodes that when like things get quieter, there's nobody talking. I just, my, my body just starts talking and I'm like, ah, you're not there. Stop that.
00:19:03
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:19:05
gil
Um, but, uh, yeah, cause all, almost all of my characters are like party faces. Um, and so this is a, this is a fun exercise for me.
00:19:17
bladesedge
Yeah. I hear that.
00:19:20
gil
I just have to be a ah a dog murderer. um you know that's a That's totally something that I had on my bingo card.
00:19:30
bladesedge
Um, I'm looking at these Eldritch
Roleplaying Challenges and Adaptations
00:19:33
bladesedge
Invocations. There's some fun ones. Mage Armor at Will's pretty crazy. No, so no spell slot.
00:19:38
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I think that might be that one's great.
00:19:41
bladesedge
Speak with animals.
00:19:41
Vesz_rak
ah Yeah, I speak with animals great, but I feel like Roy's kind of got it.
00:19:44
bladesedge
Proficiency and deception.
00:19:46
Vesz_rak
He's got that one down pad. He's he's the animal guy.
00:19:49
bladesedge
Oh, true.
00:19:50
Vesz_rak
Would hate this, you know, what can I say?
00:19:51
bladesedge
Very nice of you.
00:19:54
Vesz_rak
um
00:19:54
bladesedge
Devil's Sight.
00:19:56
Vesz_rak
That looks like could be good. I think it might be.
00:19:59
bladesedge
I'll give you this for free. Don't take devil's side.
00:20:01
Vesz_rak
OK, all right, fine.
00:20:02
bladesedge
I don't think that's ever going to come up to play.
00:20:02
gil
Mm hmm.
00:20:04
Vesz_rak
I think Eldritch site might be sick. I can cast to tech magic at will or eyes of the rune keeper.
00:20:07
bladesedge
Oh.
00:20:12
Vesz_rak
I can read all writing, which I think is like what wizard, what young kid as a wizard doesn't want to be able to just read everything he comes across.
00:20:15
bladesedge
Pretty cool.
00:20:21
Vesz_rak
Right. Like be it magical or non-magical, just gaining information, you know, how that so.
00:20:28
bladesedge
Eldridge site is such a is such a I also DM move That's so funny. That's that's like so something I would do as a player because I'm like, oh like I Gotta know if there's magic around hmm
00:20:41
gil
Yeah.
00:20:42
Vesz_rak
I might as well just start detecting. Well, so I have detect magic as a ritual. Um, so I'm, I'm leaning away from that. So we'll see where the, uh, where the dice land.
Eldritch Invocations Analysis
00:20:54
bladesedge
Fiendish vigor cast false life at will
00:20:54
gil
Yeah.
00:20:58
bladesedge
gaze of two minds, you can see through touching the willing humanoid and you can perceive through its senses.
00:21:02
gil
We were talking about that one.
00:21:02
Vesz_rak
Yeah.
00:21:05
Vesz_rak
Yeah, the only hang up about that one is a willing creature. I would love to touch an unwilling creature like the Abbott and see through his eyes, but it's a willing creature and rules is written.
00:21:11
bladesedge
ah
00:21:14
Vesz_rak
he can You know, can't do that.
00:21:15
bladesedge
good Right.
00:21:16
Vesz_rak
That's so that's a tough one.
00:21:17
gil
Unless they're, are they willing to be touched? how do Yeah, I guess that's yeah it's a consent issue right there.
00:21:24
bladesedge
Disguise self at will mask of any faces. Silent image at will, misty visions.
00:21:33
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I might just go with the passive one with ah eyes of the Rune keeper. I think I'm pretty leaning towards that one. I can read all writing, which is could be it.
00:21:43
gil
That's pretty badass.
00:21:45
Vesz_rak
It's not bad. You know, I'm an RP guy. This sounds like a perfect RP one for Bezrak.
00:21:50
gil
Yeah, cause like the mage armor one's cool, but it's like a set it and forget it kind of thing. And then it's like, yeah, you're, you're an RP guy.
00:22:00
Vesz_rak
But the, the interesting thing is read all writing, not necessarily like comprehend all languages though, you know, so.
00:22:06
bladesedge
Yeah, you can't understand every language you can just read all writing.
00:22:10
Vesz_rak
So that mean, I guess here's a question for you, Ryan, if I can read all writing, can I understand the writing? Is that what that's saying?
00:22:17
bladesedge
Yeah, like if you read a book that was an infernal, but you don't speak infernal, you can read the book.
00:22:22
Vesz_rak
Okay. All right.
00:22:23
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:22:23
Vesz_rak
Yeah. Might, might have to go with that one. We'll see.
00:22:26
bladesedge
I would say i I won't mind if like, if you pick that and then you're hating it, like at your next level up, I'd let you switch it, you know?
00:22:36
gil
Thank
00:22:39
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I'll definitely do some ah some soul searching on the feeds, because I, you know, I'd like.
00:22:44
bladesedge
Cause yeah, if you like, if you get it and then all of a sudden you just never use it.
00:22:48
Vesz_rak
Yeah, that would suck, you know, it's like, but also where they're going to be.
00:22:49
bladesedge
That would suck. So.
00:22:51
Vesz_rak
But, you know, do we think there's going to be books in Kresk or the Mardukavs that I won't be able to read? That's not going to be in some sort of common, right? Like,
Maximizing Character Stats
00:22:59
Vesz_rak
who knows? A lot to think about. What do you what do you think? And what are you thinking for the ah you said you were going to level up your decks the level four.
00:23:04
gil
you. Yeah, i'm a I'm currently at 18 decks, so I think that just bumping it to 20 is just like the right thing to do. um that's That's the thing that I'm about. I'm a stealthy skulker. Kind of want to just continue doing what I'm good at and see how my character evolves for the next feat or a level up kind of thing.
00:23:31
bladesedge
And then five's pretty big. Five is, Brode you'll get, youll next next level you'll get Uncanny Dodge.
00:23:37
gil
Mhm.
00:23:39
bladesedge
Your sneak attack goes up to 3d6. And your proficiency bonus goes up.
00:23:44
gil
Mhm.
00:23:45
bladesedge
And Wizards get third level spells at five.
00:23:48
Vesz_rak
It's coming, it's coming for all of us.
00:23:50
bladesedge
Which is pretty...
00:23:51
Vesz_rak
That that fireball and it closed in space is coming for everybody.
00:23:54
bladesedge
ah Yeah, Fireball. has e dig That you're gonna take?
00:24:01
Vesz_rak
ah Who knows, maybe I'd change it into a blood fireball, we'll see, who knows.
00:24:02
bladesedge
okay Oh, um my God. Blood ball.
00:24:11
Vesz_rak
Hey, if Katara can do it, then I can do it too, that's all I'm saying.
00:24:18
bladesedge
That's fun. And then. What did Roy Roy at four? He doesn't get he just gets an ability to score improvement.
00:24:29
gil
I get Uncanny Dodge at fifth level too.
00:24:32
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:24:35
bladesedge
Roy's still three spell slots, but level five, he'll get extra attack and then he'll unlock his second level spells. And what about clerics? They also, well, he'll also unlock, he'll unlock third level spell slots at fifth and get destroy undead, which is awesome. And right now he just gets one more second level and an ability score improvement.
00:25:03
bladesedge
Gotta imagine he's going to take a feet.
00:25:07
gil
Yeah, i'm I'm excited to see what Kyle does.
00:25:08
bladesedge
You guys all.
00:25:10
gil
Kyle's been a blast to play with.
00:25:12
bladesedge
Yeah, you guys all rolled pretty well on your stats. So it's like either you take a feet or you're probably going to max something out.
00:25:28
gil
Yeah, that's that's what I did, I think. ah oh I mean, let's see.
Reflecting on Past Sessions
00:25:32
gil
Kyle, he's got to be close to maxing something out, right?
00:25:35
bladesedge
Yeah, like Tommy, you're a 17 to 20 intelligence, so you're really close.
00:25:40
Vesz_rak
Pretty close, yeah.
00:25:42
bladesedge
Roy has a 19 wisdom so he could take a half feet and still max out his wisdom.
00:25:50
bladesedge
And Valerius. Has a 16 wisdom, but a 17 deck, so he's he's three away. So yeah, Tommy, you and Trevor only three away from a stabbing 20. Roy's only one and then.
00:26:06
gil
Oh, my Roomba is on the way. ah to get him and Let's see.
00:26:09
bladesedge
And then because you you leveled up with the ASI Roy you got you're already there For sure, especially with the dark the dark power is really is what gave me the confidence to send you guys into
00:26:20
Vesz_rak
Yeah, we're pretty close to being probably the most powerful level four characters to ever grace Barovia.
00:26:28
gil
Yeah.
00:26:36
bladesedge
The coming in on this side of the map and doing death house, like you have to, your party's gotta be, first of all, they probably gotta be vets.
00:26:36
gil
Death House.
Death House Encounter Tension
00:26:45
bladesedge
Second of all, they gotta, they gotta have a little extra juice.
00:26:48
gil
Just a smidge and a little lack of fear. Normally, ah normally I wouldn't go for the ah the the grim dark option. at the end there, but it would have been interesting to see that, uh, that fight unfold on the altar instead of killing Lance a lot.
00:27:13
bladesedge
Which fight?
00:27:17
gil
If we tried to escape a
00:27:17
bladesedge
Oh, well, oh, in the death house? Well, that, I mean, you're supposed to, you're supposed to run because otherwise you'll, you're fighting something that has two attacks and can probably down somebody with a single hit.
00:27:32
gil
single turn. Yeah. Bye-bye, death house incarnate.
00:27:38
bladesedge
Yeah, supposed to run, but then the house tries to just like stop even running. The doorway is turning to swinging sides. The room with a chimney. The room fills up with smoke. All the windows are bricked up.
00:27:55
gil
Oh shit, the windows are bricked up. We love that. Yeah, that'll be that'll be a cool thing to see, but not experience. I'll get the 3D rendering run through. That would be cool.
Strahd as Antagonist
00:28:15
bladesedge
um Yeah, then we ended the sesh too with Roy seeing Strahd on top of the house next to you guys. He's watching.
00:28:27
gil
Yeah, he's a...
00:28:29
bladesedge
He's there.
00:28:30
gil
He's spooky. He throwing his is bats at us, bat attack.
00:28:38
Vesz_rak
I think it's yeah, I think it's a pretty cool aspect that Strahd is kind of like this.
00:28:38
gil
Property damage.
00:28:44
Vesz_rak
He's so much he's so much of a personal villain because he's just there. He's watching, you know, he meets us at the front. he You know, he gives us the picnic basket with some wine and cheese and stuff and um
00:28:58
bladesedge
They gave you guys health potions.
00:29:00
Vesz_rak
Yeah, he gave us health potions.
00:29:01
bladesedge
ah
00:29:03
Vesz_rak
That's the one thing I like about this module is that like usually the big bad is, you know oh, I can't wait to see him. I can't wait to see him. But Strahd is like so ever present in our campaign. it's It makes it a lot more fun, I think.
00:29:16
gil
Right.
00:29:17
bladesedge
Yeah, he's super fun. You guys will absolutely hate him because you guys hate every party hates an arrogant villain, but Strahd is arrogance personified.
00:29:28
gil
The most, yeah.
00:29:31
bladesedge
Like he's giving you health potions. Even him giving you health potions is arrogant because he's saying I'm so so not threatened by you that do it because I want to watch.
00:29:36
gil
Of course.
00:29:41
gil
Yeah, he wants to see what happens.
00:29:43
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:29:45
gil
and So we shall. I'm excited.
00:29:48
bladesedge
I know. Yeah, I'm excited, too. It's going to.
00:29:51
gil
I think from here on out, yeah, we're we're digging in. Now we get to really dig in.
00:29:56
bladesedge
Yeah, also going back to the Marta cause, that's a whole thing that we didn't do.
Anticipation for New Storylines
00:30:01
bladesedge
With you, Tommy, or with the other guys, so that'll be fun. That's that's why I like how we're starting. We're starting off with a whole.
00:30:09
gil
Freshy.
00:30:09
bladesedge
Oh, yeah, all new shit, basically. ah We met the a we met the habit in yours, Tommy, but.
00:30:15
Vesz_rak
Yeah, we did.
00:30:16
bladesedge
But he was different. You had done some different stuff with him.
00:30:19
gil
Hmm.
00:30:22
bladesedge
I remember that. Do you remember that?
00:30:24
Vesz_rak
I vaguely do. I mean, it was during covid. So it was a few years ago. they The bits and pieces that I remember, I remember the big moments that happened that stick out in my mind for sure, um which I won't discuss here because the potential spoilers, but I am very vaguely, very, very good. Remember it.
00:30:45
bladesedge
Yeah. So this should be fun. Yeah. If you guys go with the mark cause and look after, look for the, uh, stones or seeds or whatever the shit the fuck that was. We've never, we didn't do that in nearest time. We didn't do that with the guys on tours. There'll be another new unexplored, uh, section of this module that we'll get to check out.
00:31:05
gil
yeah Yeah, it's been cool so far. it's just ah It's such an interesting tone that I haven't really played that much in D and&D. So it's cool to ah school to be challenged in that way.
00:31:18
bladesedge
Yeah. Super, super bleak. Super grim dark. um Awesome. Well, good shit. You guys are level four. We'll see everybody for the next episode. I believe that's episode nine. And thanks for tuning into our second graveside chat. Check in on how the campaign's going. And thank you, ah Kyle. Thank you, Tommy.
00:31:43
gil
Absolutely. Thanks buddy.
00:31:45
Vesz_rak
Yeah, have a good day, everybody.
00:31:46
bladesedge
Peace.
00:31:46
gil
Peace out.