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Graveside Chat #3: Forging Jimothy
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Come take a break from the drama and terror for a silly fun time sesh w/ the gang as we chat about what's gone down so far. Later, we create the legendary Jimothy, our very missing friend and former student who is now certainly old as hell.
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Transcript
Introduction and Player Characters
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The Blade's Edge
Welcome one and all back to the Blade's Edge. This is our graveside chat number three, where we will be ah talking to some of the players. No, Trevor Christensen, unfortunately, but talk to some of the players checking in for the first half of this ah episode. And then the second half of this episode, which is news to you guys as well, I wanted to, all of us collectively, ah craft Jimmothy.
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The Blade's Edge
the NPC that we've been looking for.
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Vesz'rak
Yes.
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Alma Graves
I'm gonna need to start by you rolling a D12.
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The Blade's Edge
Uh, yeah, we could, uh, yeah. First hog size. Well, luckily enough time has passed.
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Alma Graves
Wait, yeah, enough time has passed, it's fine.
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The Blade's Edge
He's a. 150 year old men somehow.
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Alma Graves
huh Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
ah But first, yeah, let's go through and you guys can introduce yourselves.
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Vesz'rak
Nothing a blue pill can't solve, dude.
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The Blade's Edge
Let us know the character you play. And then after you guys all do that, we'll ah jump into some just some campaign thoughts before we do that. So why
Character Introductions and Campaign Progress
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The Blade's Edge
don't we start with you, Tommy?
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Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
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Vesz'rak
Hey, how's it going? I'm Tommy. I am playing the Drow Elf paladin named Desan, formerly Vesrak the Blood Mage reborn as a paladin of Lathander.
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Alma Graves
Our sweet boy.
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Vesz'rak
That's all I got.
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Kyle
Who's next?
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, go. Yeah, go for it.
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Alma Graves
Go for it, Kyle.
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Kyle
oh ah What's up? I'm Kyle. I play Bash Bloodsinger, the son of Kavan, the half-orc, barbarian, big stronk man.
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Alma Graves
Hell, yeah. And I am Kyle Beams playing Alma Graves' sister to the good old Gilman Graves, the late Gilman Graves.
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Alma Graves
um And I realize that we're coming up on just as many episodes as called The Lightning as we are or as we were with the original cast.
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Vesz'rak
RIP, peg boys.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, pretty crazy.
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Kyle
yeah
Character Death and Narrative Continuity
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So, uh, with that being said, I think this is maybe our first grave side chat since the windmill TPK and subsequent, um, reroll of characters, which is, uh, very common in D and D and especially with this, this dangerous module. Um, how do you guys feel about that? How does everybody feeling about their new, their new characters and everything, that's everything that's happened?
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Alma Graves
I thought we rolled it in to the new characters so well.
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Kyle
Yeah, it was pretty flawless.
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Alma Graves
I really thought it was fucking sick. You did a great job of bringing us back into the fold in a way that made sense. um And just the fact that we share kind of like that generational knowledge from our previous characters just helps give our current characters a a good level of, oh shit, we aren't completely new entities in Barovia. We have some level of connection already. And I think that helped a lot for me.
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Kyle
Yeah, same here. I thought it was written in so well.
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Alma Graves
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Awesome, thanks.
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Kyle
That's ah like my favorite part of D and&D is just like the main overall question for me when doing anything is like, how does this work in the game world?
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Kyle
And that was, that was great.
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The Blade's Edge
Totally. Yeah, I think that's pretty important for
Fantasy Book Recommendations
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The Blade's Edge
me. I think given our home game that um both Kyle Beams and Tommy play in as well as Trevor, um it's been our home game has been going for so long and it's taken so many twists and turns. And as any ah dungeon master out there can attest to, ah it's always going to go off the rails and you can never fully control what happens. and There's ah things that you are never going to account for that pop up.
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The Blade's Edge
So I think being able to like, reign it all in and be like, well, here's how it makes sense. Let me, let me make it make sense.
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Alma Graves
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Even if it's something crazy, which we're going to get to with Jimothy, where we're going to get to some of that, make it make sense because of how much time has passed.
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Kyle
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
But there's always a way I think I've found, I mean, Uh, I know, uh, beams and Tommy, you guys read a lot of fantasy as well, but I think that's something that we've maybe all learned from fantasy too, as like.
Pop Culture References in the Campaign
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The Blade's Edge
Even the most insane shit can happen and you can like finish a book or a chapter and be like, well, what can they possibly do? They just fucking killed the main guy or like it's, oh, it's over.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, man. Yeah. Uh-huh.
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The Blade's Edge
And then they always find a way to reel it back in and make it make sense.
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Alma Graves
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm staring at, I was gonna say, I'm staring at my copies of Mistborn, I'm staring at my copies of every Joe Abercrombie book, and I'm staring at my copies of, ah let's see, my signed copy of Golden Sun.
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The Blade's Edge
Mistborn motherfucker.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, hell yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I mean, Mistborn just being like how big the stakes get from books one to two to three, which Kyle Gerard, I know you were mentioning off pods.
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Vesz'rak
Damn.
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The Blade's Edge
You were thinking about reading in the new year, ah reading more.
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Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
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Kyle
Mm-hmm.
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The Blade's Edge
If you, if you. are a fantasy guy. We have tons of ah wrecks and also I have all of the books.
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Kyle
Oh, huge.
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The Blade's Edge
So if you ever want to read like any of these series that we all love, like Mistborn, for example, I could give them to you because I have them.
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Kyle
That's...
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Alma Graves
And if any listeners out there are dungeon crawler Carl fans, I had just finished book two and that shit is just, it's it's candy.
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Kyle
Hell yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Alma Graves
It's like licking barbecue sauce off your fingers.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Alma Graves
It's like fucking delicious. It's so good.
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Kyle
I'm reading a sci-fi book right now.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, which one hi classic, um,
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Kyle
I think sci-fi is what I'm mean into. Project Hail Mary.
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Alma Graves
Ah, yeah.
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Vesz'rak
Oh, so good.
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Alma Graves
One of the best audio books ever too.
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Kyle
It's so good so far.
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Alma Graves
Fist my bump question.
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The Blade's Edge
That was, we did this thing in our discord, uh, where people had to say like, like all our friends from high school and stuff, or we were saying everybody was giving their, their best, their three favorite books.
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The Blade's Edge
And then people had to guess. And Project Hail Mary was the book that was on there the most.
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Kyle
No way.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, it was like six out of 10 people
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think it was like,
Storytelling and Character Death
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Alma Graves
had that as their favorite.
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The Blade's Edge
yeah.
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Kyle
Wow.
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The Blade's Edge
Well, if you like,
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Vesz'rak
I will admit it took me two tries to get into Project Hail Mary, I will admit. But after I got into it, I was hooked.
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Alma Graves
I feel like it does start off a little ah ah less exciting, but then it just goes great.
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Kyle
Now I was I was into it. I'm like probably 75% of the way through.
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Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
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Alma Graves
I love that.
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The Blade's Edge
Well, if you're into ah if you're into science fantasy, ah you should you should check out Red Rising after, which is what um ah I know.
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Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
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Kyle
address.
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Vesz'rak
ah Classic pitch my sister has that on her new new books to read this year is red rising I kind of gave her a look and I was like everyone I getting into it fucking loves it.
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Alma Graves
Oh.
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Alma Graves
Uh huh. Tommy's Tommy kicked down the door for us and then he just left the building.
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Vesz'rak
Don't I Did Don't don't ask me any questions about don't ask me any questions about the second series.
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Alma Graves
i
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The Blade's Edge
You had read like you had read like three of them.
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Alma Graves
Uh huh.
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Vesz'rak
Don't ask me any questions about
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:07:14
Alma Graves
Hey guys, I like this red rising book. You should read it. Cool. We will. And then oh my God.
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Vesz'rak
i read it i I read it like three times and then I just like never made the jump to the new series. I'm so sorry. i just That's just who I am as a person. Please accept me for who I am. That's all I got to say about that.
00:07:26
Alma Graves
Okay. We love you, Tommy. We love you. We appreciate you. Thank you for doing that.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, but it's a, it's a great, it's, it's one of, uh, my favorite book series of all time. And I read it last year.
00:07:35
Alma Graves
Yeah. Yeah. Absolute same.
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The Blade's Edge
I finished all five of them in a couple months. Cause I was just. The adrenaline you get from reading it is crazy.
00:07:43
Vesz'rak
brian was setting
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Kyle
Damn.
00:07:46
The Blade's Edge
It's I showed it to this tattoo artist in New Mexico and he texted me and he was like, I feel guilty reading this. Like, I feel like I'm, I'm having too much fun.
00:07:57
Alma Graves
Yes.
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The Blade's Edge
And he's like, I feel like it shouldn't be, I shouldn't be allowed to be having this much fun.
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Alma Graves
And then.
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Kyle
and This is this is red rising.
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Alma Graves
Well, get to get to dark age and then you aren't having fun anymore.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. You're right. Yeah. it' The adrenaline that you'll get from this book is like.
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Alma Graves
yeah yeah
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The Blade's Edge
It's crazy. And it's like good adrenaline and bad adrenaline.
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Alma Graves
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
He knows how to rip your heart out of your chest and also ah get you like standing up while you're pacing around.
00:08:16
Alma Graves
Yes.
00:08:20
Alma Graves
Yeah. Anyone who's familiar with the Brandon Sanderson books that have like the Sanderlage in the last like 20% of the book, this happens like multiple times across the books in the Red Rising series.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:08:34
Kyle
sick. That's definitely I'm reading that next for sure.
00:08:37
Alma Graves
Yes.
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The Blade's Edge
Cool.
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Kyle
Because I picked Project Hail Mary on a whim like I went to like the top books charts and just was looking I had no idea what kind of book I wanted to read.
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Kyle
And I saw that and I was like, Oh, that sounds interesting.
00:08:50
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
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Kyle
And then ah yeah, so i'm I'm super open to anything.
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The Blade's Edge
Well, when you're, when you're ready, I'll just come drop them off. I'll put them in a bag, drop off all five.
00:08:58
Kyle
Hell yeah.
00:08:59
Alma Graves
Maybe we do a sidecast, a book talk.
00:09:03
Kyle
Book talk.
00:09:03
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. let ah Well, speaking of and pieces of media that, you know, maybe sort of reflect on the campaign, things like that, you know, bringing, no matter what happens in a campaign, making it work, cool party TPKs, but you don't want to start fresh. Here's what you do. Kind of what we did.
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The Blade's Edge
or in our home game, ah somebody wants to be a god or somebody ah tells the DM session one, hey, my guy only cares about the rat king. And I go, cool, I got to figure out who the fuck that is and how that how that fits into the the the thing and whatever. But speaking of that stuff, did you guys all see Nosferatu?
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Alma Graves
Fuck yeah.
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Vesz'rak
No, I'm gonna go see you tonight, I think.
00:09:43
Kyle
No, I did not see it.
00:09:45
Alma Graves
Sure did.
00:09:46
The Blade's Edge
You guys, you guys should. It's very um I mean, I'm sure anybody listening to this podcast or you guys as well know this, but Curse of Strahd is is is taken from the famous story of Dracula. It is basically Dracula, the Dracula story.
00:10:02
The Blade's Edge
And Dracula comes from Nosferatu, the original vampire story, the first, the OG.
Dungeon Master's Role in Story Development
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The Blade's Edge
So you'll see a lot of similarities in the Nosferatu movie to what we're doing here.
00:10:19
Alma Graves
It definitely helps me visualize the world even more and it makes me uncomfortable.
00:10:24
The Blade's Edge
Hmm.
00:10:25
Vesz'rak
I, I saw somewhere that ah there was a big resurgence in like count or lock due to like the spongebob episode where they like make a reference to it. So like that kind of helped the cult following.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:10:37
Vesz'rak
I mean, that was definitely how.
00:10:38
Alma Graves
ah Classic SpongeBob marketing efforts.
00:10:40
Vesz'rak
Yeah. but yeah
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The Blade's Edge
I mean, it's been, it's it's a mass. I mean, Nosferatu, this is like the fourth time a massive director has made a Nosferatu movie. and And the word Nosferatu just means vampire.
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The Blade's Edge
The guy's name is always Count Orlock.
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Kyle
Mm.
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The Blade's Edge
But when you watch it, just picture Count Orlock being Strahd and picture the main girl in it being Irina. You know, and they even say in the movie, they say burger master classic.
00:11:04
Alma Graves
Yeah, completely.
00:11:08
Alma Graves
Yeah, I was like, yes, I was gonna stand up.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:11:11
Alma Graves
I'm like, the burger master is here.
00:11:13
The Blade's Edge
but They said that the movie and we're in a packed theater in Atlanta and Madison sitting right next to me. And my fiance is like, loved her favorite movie of last year.
00:11:23
The Blade's Edge
But when he they said burger master, she still has no idea why. But my ham was on her thigh. I just squeezed. I just got so excited.
00:11:30
Alma Graves
ah Yes, yes.
00:11:31
The Blade's Edge
I was like, they're doing it. They're doing it.
00:11:33
Alma Graves
They said the thing.
00:11:34
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:11:36
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
00:11:37
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, the towns, if you guys watch it, like the towns they're in, it's very like. Cresque and where are we right now?
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Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:11:46
The Blade's Edge
Where's the other? This. Velocchi. Yeah, you the town they're in, in the thing, it's Velocchi, you know?
00:11:46
Alma Graves
Well, uh, Velaki.
00:11:49
Alma Graves
Yeah. I thought
00:11:52
Alma Graves
Exactly. like I just thought about the last two sessions and just the the festival and all that stuff.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:11:58
Alma Graves
it just When I had the picture in my head when we were running the session, it is now very different in a great way. ah it just like it so That movie is the most atmospheric movie ever.
00:12:11
Alma Graves
And if you paint that over what we're doing, it feels so cool to to be a part of it.
00:12:17
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you guys should. ah Tommy Tommy and Kyle Jordan, you guys should check it out as well as anybody listening who.
00:12:23
Kyle
Yeah, definitely.
00:12:24
The Blade's Edge
I mean, this will be out in a couple of weeks from now, so I assume probably most people will have seen it by then. But if you haven't, you should definitely check it out.
Character Transitions and Enjoyment
00:12:33
The Blade's Edge
Gothic horror. ah You know, what's funny is right after that, I watched Van Helsing, they like the old one with with Hugh Jackman.
00:12:41
Alma Graves
Yes, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman.
00:12:42
Vesz'rak
Hugh Jackman, huh? Yes. So good.
00:12:46
The Blade's Edge
And there's so many that there's so like in a different way. There's so that Van Helsing movie, there's also a ton of references to curt I mean, obviously, because it's about Dracula.
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The Blade's Edge
So even more, I mean, Nosferatu is like the OG. That's like it's cool. It's the atmosphere. It paints the picture. But the Van Helsing movie, I was like, oh, every character in Curse of Strahd is actually like in the Van Helsing movie.
00:13:10
Alma Graves
Right.
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The Blade's Edge
And I was like, wow, it's crazy.
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Alma Graves
Um, another, another vampire show is what we do in the shadows. Um, and whenever I heard Duke Orlock talking, it sounded at the beginning kind of like Nandor.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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Alma Graves
And I, I had to immediately snap that connection because the movie would have gone from freaky intense to kind of goofy because, because Nandor is just such a goofy guy.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:13:36
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I mean, I want ah no no spoilers. But there is there were there were some funny things that i weren't meant meant to be funny. ah I'll say earmuffs for Kyle Girard and Tommy and any any listeners out there.
00:13:51
Vesz'rak
Taking the headphones off.
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The Blade's Edge
But um just the fact that he kind of he kind of looked like ah ah Dr. Eggman from Sonic.
00:14:02
Alma Graves
Kind of yeah, and he also hangs dong
00:14:03
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yes, yeah. this the um ah You're good to come back. Anybody.
00:14:11
Kyle
um back
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The Blade's Edge
But he's good. ah Yeah, they got they got his prosthetics.
00:14:14
Vesz'rak
Still here.
00:14:17
The Blade's Edge
Nicholas Holt got the Count Orlock prosthetics framed.
00:14:21
Alma Graves
No way.
00:14:22
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:14:24
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:14:24
The Blade's Edge
Because they were just so good, he has like a frame of one piece of the prosthetics they took from this that.
00:14:28
Alma Graves
That Bill Skarsgard really gets into his freaky guys, doesn't he?
00:14:33
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, he's great. I mean, yeah, he he was he was great in everything except for the crow.
00:14:34
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:14:37
The Blade's Edge
And I'm sorry to say that the crow remake.
00:14:39
Alma Graves
Yeah, you liked the crow, didn't you? Like the original one. That was your.
00:14:42
The Blade's Edge
The yeah, you guys should watch the original crow movie.
00:14:45
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:14:46
The Blade's Edge
It's amazing. It's bad in the way that like 80s and 90s movies like didn't look great if they weren't big budget.
00:14:53
Alma Graves
Sure Yeah.
00:14:54
The Blade's Edge
But that movie is amazing. But yeah, the remake where he plays the crow is is I think pretty bad.
00:15:02
The Blade's Edge
Um, all right. So, um, uh, I guess, yeah, how is, uh, so yeah yeah, we got the TPK we guys have the new characters. like Well, how does everybody feel about their care playing this character versus their last character? Is anybody like, is it a, is it an upgrade for, for pretty much everybody or what, what are we thinking?
00:15:24
Kyle
i think so
00:15:24
Alma Graves
I'm thinking upgrade, yeah. I think the group comp is pretty well balanced. I think it feels good. Everyone has their own kind of niche, right?
00:15:34
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, so you're all my grades. You're now a celestial warlock.
00:15:40
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:15:40
The Blade's Edge
ah Whereas before you were a inquisitor rogue.
00:15:44
Alma Graves
I was a soul knife rogue.
00:15:46
The Blade's Edge
Soul knife rogue.
00:15:47
Alma Graves
And yeah, I ah i felt like Gil was just very fragile.
00:15:47
Kyle
I think so.
00:15:51
The Blade's Edge
Hmm.
00:15:53
Alma Graves
And there was no real recourse to to remedy that other than just keep putting your nose where it doesn't belong and what eventually happened or what eventually was going to happen happened.
00:16:04
Alma Graves
We died.
00:16:04
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:16:05
Alma Graves
And I think that's great. I tried to always stay true to the heart of the character all the way up to the end. um But playing Alma, I just feel like I can I can do more.
00:16:18
Alma Graves
I can support more. um And I don't usually play ranged characters. I usually play like upfront melee guys.
00:16:29
Alma Graves
So it's a nice change.
00:16:31
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. And then your, your celestial patron is Lathander.
00:16:35
Alma Graves
is Lathander, yeah. And so stumbling upon the ring in um way, way, way back at the cathedral.
00:16:37
The Blade's Edge
Nice.
00:16:43
Alma Graves
I can't remember the name of the cathedral all the way to the to the west where it first started.
00:16:45
The Blade's Edge
The one in, cres yeah, Yeah.
00:16:48
Alma Graves
The one in Kresk, yeah. um Stumbling upon the ring um that was in, or that was basically given to me by Lathander or however we spun it, I can't recall. um But that just kind of got me into the whole like dark versus light themes. And so as Alma, I've been trying to be like the person who offers extra compassion in hard times, even if hard decisions have to be made, right?
00:17:15
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, the Abbey of St. Markovia.
00:17:17
Alma Graves
There we go.
00:17:18
The Blade's Edge
on Awesome. um Tommy, you were you were playing Vesrak Baneval, the wizard, the blood magic wizard.
00:17:29
Vesz'rak
Yep.
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The Blade's Edge
And now you are just on the ah vengeance paladin.
00:17:35
Vesz'rak
Yeah, vengeance palette. I thought that would be good after kind of, um, are we allowed to like, yeah, same guy.
00:17:38
The Blade's Edge
Because you are the you are the same guy.
00:17:42
Vesz'rak
Um, now on kind of same trajectory, now just doing it a different way.
00:17:42
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:17:48
Vesz'rak
It kind of took a left at Albuquerque, but still heading, uh, uh, in the same direction here. Um,
00:17:55
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Reborn by the, by the grace of Lathander.
00:18:01
Vesz'rak
Yeah, for me, it was really that whole ah pivotal moment with like the Sun Sword and just super great story beat just ended up happening in our favor. and you know just When something epic happens, you just got to be like, okay, I'm now committed to this because it it was just such an amazing moment.
00:18:19
Vesz'rak
and Yeah, that's, that's all I kind of got to say about that. I mean, blood wizard, that was, that was fun. I just like Kyle beams. I, I usually play like very up close and personal guys.
00:18:29
Vesz'rak
So it was definitely a little bit change of pace for me to play spellcaster guy and kind of back to my, uh, up close and personal roots. Let me say that.
00:18:37
Alma Graves
Yeah, you you and me are the Bash Bros, baby.
00:18:39
Vesz'rak
Yeah, me and Kyle beams are our home game are definitely the bash brothers, the splash bros, whatever you want to call it.
00:18:43
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:18:44
Vesz'rak
We have fun.
00:18:44
Alma Graves
the Somehow we took like 500 combined points of damage while nobody else in the party took even a lick.
00:18:50
Vesz'rak
Yeah, kyle Kyle Beams, the Paladin, Tommy, the Barbarian. We had a lot of fun.
00:18:56
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:18:56
Vesz'rak
Let's say that.
00:18:58
The Blade's Edge
Um, and you are, you're toying with this design, your, your new name, which is, which is drow for light.
00:19:09
Vesz'rak
Yeah, it's like rebirth or light.
00:19:09
The Blade's Edge
What does it come for? Rebirth.
00:19:11
Vesz'rak
I'd have to go through my notes. It definitely means something. um All of my names, i've I looked up like a drow ah translator, if any any any listeners kind of caught on to that. My names mean something, you know.
00:19:22
Vesz'rak
Ooh, cool. But it brings the character more alive in my eyes. and um just as kind of like a rebirth, kind of a separation my from myself, from Loth, the spider queen. But, um, you know, if you've been listening, it's, it's very much kind of like a tug of war push and pull yin and yang kind of thing with Lothander and Lothan. It's, it's a lot of fun to play. And I even texted Brian, I was like, yeah, I'm i'm having so much fun with this. This is so much fun to play with. And it's just, it's been a blast. So this character is a lot of fun.
00:19:51
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, and there's always that that is always's always that unknown, I think, with this on, too, about, like you know like, you never know which way the pendulum is swinging with the influences.
00:20:05
The Blade's Edge
you know I think we've sort of been doing it but based on like roles, you know the Spider Queen versus the Thunder presence within the game.
00:20:11
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:17
The Blade's Edge
um
00:20:17
Vesz'rak
It's, it's just, it's just a lot of fun that, you know, I, I, I don't want to say, you know, go into this big laboring. It's just the shortest way I could say it is. It's a lot of fun. I'm having a lot of fun within Brian's doing an amazing job. So, I mean, you can't ask more than that as a player.
00:20:32
The Blade's Edge
Thanks, dude. And then...
00:20:34
Alma Graves
We're getting pucks toward the net. We're getting in front of them.
00:20:36
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:37
Vesz'rak
ah We're getting, pued we're getting, yeah, we're getting pucks deep.
00:20:39
Alma Graves
ah
00:20:39
The Blade's Edge
It's all we can do.
00:20:41
Vesz'rak
We're crashing the net hard.
00:20:42
The Blade's Edge
And we got 21 minutes here.
00:20:42
Vesz'rak
We're getting rebounds.
00:20:42
Alma Graves
Yeah, shit, yeah.
00:20:43
The Blade's Edge
We got 20 minutes here. We got our plan. Yeah.
00:20:43
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:20:46
Vesz'rak
But every character I ever make, um, I, I go in there knowing that this character is probably going to die. And I love, uh, living on the edge of my seat, being like, this could be the day, like every session I go into, I go, this can be the day I'm, I'm, I'm one, I'm one down save away from not wanting a death save, which is like,
00:21:02
Kyle
Ha ha ha.
00:21:04
Vesz'rak
Happens all the time. It's so funny. It's already happened a few times in our home game.
00:21:07
Alma Graves
Mm hmm.
00:21:07
Vesz'rak
We're like, it's so innocuous, but I just, I love living on the edge of my seat like that. It's it's very fun.
00:21:13
The Blade's Edge
I think this ah think this campaign should be a good blueprint, not only for dungeon masters, but also for players where sometimes ah character death doesn't need to be like the end of the world. I think there's there's so many people are afraid of that happening, where I think sometimes you get a better story and, um I don't know, better like, you know, how even people are liking their new characters more, or at least from my perspective, fitting into their new character more.
Storytelling Blueprint and Narrative Stakes
00:21:49
The Blade's Edge
Like I think yeah like the characters you guys chose second as you going into it, all you guys fit a little more snugly into.
00:21:49
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:21:58
The Blade's Edge
And I think like it's made for a great story and it's made for, you know, the, you guys seem to be having fun. So I don't know, let this be just a lesson or a optimistic story for anybody out there who's afraid of their PC dying or dungeon masters who are afraid to kill the PCs.
00:22:17
The Blade's Edge
Obviously don't go out of your way to do it, but
00:22:19
Alma Graves
If it happens organically and it makes sense, like you should, as a, as a player, there are things that you could do to maybe not die.
00:22:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:22:28
Alma Graves
Like, Oh, let's run away. Yeah, sure. You could absolutely do that.
00:22:32
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:22:33
Alma Graves
But what if you just commit and see what happens? um
00:22:37
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, and I think that there's also like from the DMS perspective, certain enemies will ah capture you if they have need for that certain enemies will ah down you and walk away and let them the your roles tell the story.
00:22:47
Alma Graves
Um,
00:22:52
The Blade's Edge
um You know, certain enemies will attack an on lethally certain, you know, so it's important to know who are your characters fighting? Where are they fighting? What are the Like the bad guys motivations basically, because I think the worst than a a PC death is like, if you guys were fighting some really tough monster and it wasn't going your way.
00:23:18
The Blade's Edge
And then you guys could tell that I started like giving it to you.
00:23:23
Alma Graves
Oh, yeah.
00:23:23
The Blade's Edge
Like I started letting you win basically.
00:23:23
Kyle
Hmm.
00:23:24
Alma Graves
A little asspolar-y, yeah.
00:23:24
Vesz'rak
Yeah, there's there's nothing there's nothing worse than when your dm starts pulling punches because it takes away the gratification of winning really hard battles and sometimes that's just not how it goes like um, like one of my favorite characters died before an epic climactic and in like that's the way life is like sometimes you don't get to see the final conclusion, you know characters don't get to go where you want them to go and that's okay and that's
00:23:26
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:23:34
The Blade's Edge
Totally.
00:23:47
Kyle
Yeah.
00:23:51
Vesz'rak
So that's the fun of dungeons and drag and just being like, you know, and feel, you know, it's, that's the way it goes.
00:23:51
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:23:56
Alma Graves
Yeah. And.
00:23:56
Vesz'rak
Don't pull any punches.
00:23:57
The Blade's Edge
And even, and even then it was, it was down to the role.
00:24:02
Alma Graves
And.
00:24:02
The Blade's Edge
because you had your rate. That was, I mean, a little inside baseball for those of you ah who have played a lot of d andy before, but he was a barbarian. ah So at a certain level, if you get to zero hit points, if you make a con save, you stay up and you had a really high con.
00:24:19
The Blade's Edge
And so like even then it was like it was interesting because it wasn't like you were just down to outright.
00:24:20
Vesz'rak
Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:24:20
Kyle
as well.
00:24:25
The Blade's Edge
It was left up to your dice to tell the story. Is my guy going to stay up?
00:24:31
Alma Graves
hu
00:24:31
Vesz'rak
Yeah, and and if you nat one death saves, maybe you deserve to die.
00:24:31
The Blade's Edge
Or is he going to go down? Yeah.
00:24:36
Vesz'rak
Maybe maybe you're just bad at rolling dice.
00:24:37
Alma Graves
Maybe, but like, like I'll, I'll remember that moment for as long as I live because the stakes associated with you dying were so colossal.
00:24:38
Vesz'rak
ah what Oh yeah, it was awesome.
00:24:45
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:24:46
Alma Graves
um
00:24:46
Vesz'rak
I mean, it was so great.
00:24:46
Alma Graves
And you and I for what, you died at level 17?
00:24:50
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:24:50
Alma Graves
16, yeah. So I mean, you and I were right next to each other and then I'm pretty sure I got dimension dored out of the fight by one of the other guys to leave you behind.
00:24:58
Vesz'rak
Yep, yep.
00:25:01
Alma Graves
And so I had to just watch as my best friend gets killed in front of me and his soul is forever damned to hell.
00:25:08
Vesz'rak
and and what ah and what a great And what a great moment that would have happened if Brian, because Brian didn't pull any punches and he left the rolls up to the players and to kind of bring it all back around.
00:25:08
Alma Graves
And the survivor's guilt that you have as a player ah and as a character, obviously like dude, that shit is just, I mean, I felt that for days. I felt like a legitimate loss.
00:25:27
Vesz'rak
Don't, don't pull your punches. Let the story, let the, you know, i'll let the players dictate the story and I'll get off my pedestal and I'll go sit back down in my chair.
00:25:29
Alma Graves
ah
00:25:34
Vesz'rak
but It's awesome. you know lets let the Let the game play out.
00:25:35
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:25:37
Vesz'rak
you know Play the ball off Bigfoot's foot back there. you know
00:25:39
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's about, yeah. Knowing as a DM to just, just knowing who are they fighting? What's their motivation? Is it beneficial for them to capture them? Sometimes yes. Is it beneficial for them to kill them outright? Sometimes yes. is it but Do they, is it a beast who doesn't think that far ahead? Like is it, is it something that can't eat them? So they're just going to down them and leave and be like, you were attacking me. I want to get away from you.
Balancing Encounters as a Dungeon Master
00:26:05
The Blade's Edge
Is it something that is hungry, that is like, i dont even if you're down, I'm going to finish the job because I'm going to eat your body? Is it a political opponent who says, i you're worth more to me alive and in prison that you are dead? you know I think that just knowing who the enemy is is important.
00:26:22
Vesz'rak
And it's about last, I'm stepping back up on my pedestal for a second. It's also about trust and trusting your DM and trusting, you know, that person to, you know, that they know they're not, you know, out to get you or there's, you know, it's just trusting that the story will develop in a way that's both satisfying for you as a player in the story at whole, you know, so it's.
00:26:41
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think that there's also a way to like, like and as a DM learning, the CR system is important and learning that the CR system that they teach you is broken is important and knowing like how to.
00:26:54
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:26:58
The Blade's Edge
Uh, balance that like a lot of times in our home games, because you guys are such gamers and you have a party of seven, uh, last campaign, we had a party of eight, um, like building encounters that I know I'm like, you could definitely win it.
00:26:59
Alma Graves
Balance.
00:27:15
The Blade's Edge
It's going to be hard. If the roles go away in your favor, this might be a little easy. If the roles go away, not in your favor, somebody might die. And it's that balancing point of being like,
00:27:28
The Blade's Edge
It's hard, but it's manageable. If they work together and they have a good plan should be easy. If they don't might be hard. And then there's also the roles.
00:27:38
The Blade's Edge
Let's say I roll three nat twenties in a row that can turn the tide real quick.
00:27:38
Alma Graves
Yep.
00:27:43
The Blade's Edge
Or them rolling three nat twenties in a row can turn the tide real quick.
00:27:46
The Blade's Edge
And I think it's just, yeah, learning that is. Comes with, comes with experience, but also just, you know, being able to work on the fly and you know, Uh, understanding, uh, that balance, but how many players do you have? How many magic items do they have? CR is normally balanced for four players. Uh, and that's the original CR, which is challenge rating for those of you listening in the 2014 edition was when they used to say that character should have like three fights per long rest. So like every day you would have three encounters.
00:27:46
Alma Graves
For sure.
00:28:26
The Blade's Edge
So the CR was supposed to happen three different times and that was a medium difficulty.
00:28:26
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:28:30
Alma Graves
Hmm.
00:28:31
The Blade's Edge
Um, and that's not how most games go.
00:28:31
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:28:33
The Blade's Edge
Most games sometimes days go by where it's just political intrigue or socializing.
00:28:34
Alma Graves
No.
00:28:39
The Blade's Edge
And sometimes you have just one big fight. Uh, you know, so I think just realizing that this sort of an outdated model.
00:28:49
The Blade's Edge
Um, the cow Gerard playing bash blood singer, um, before you were Roy Halovich.
00:28:51
Kyle
Yes, sir.
00:28:57
The Blade's Edge
Um, how are you feeling about the, the switch from ranger to, um, you were a beast master ranger and now you're a frenzy barbarian.
00:29:10
Kyle
Yeah.
00:29:11
The Blade's Edge
What's it called?
00:29:12
Kyle
I don't remember what the specific berserker Yeah, berserker barbarian.
00:29:14
The Blade's Edge
Berserk. Yeah.
00:29:19
Kyle
um It feels good. I'm not gonna lie. I think a lot of like I really want to be able to do the cool, like, you know, everyone is multi-classing and playing half mage, half rogue, like crazy stuff, but I'm just, I'm a simple guy.
00:29:42
Kyle
I bonk things, I do a lot of damage, and it's great, I love it. I bonk, I print dopamine, it's amazing. um So I definitely think,
00:29:50
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you guys is, yeah, you guys, you guys help me have only Trev is multi-class. I think he's, he's wizard and monk. I believe.
00:29:59
Kyle
Yeah, but I'm just saying overall like overall in and people's you know D and&D history.
00:29:59
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Or fighter.
00:30:05
The Blade's Edge
Oh yeah.
00:30:05
Kyle
like I have historically played very simple characters, um whereas like you know trevor Trevor goes in on this kind of stuff.
00:30:09
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:30:12
Alma Graves
ah Trevor, Trevor always has some kind of calculations he's doing 17 levels in the future.
00:30:18
Kyle
Yeah.
00:30:19
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I will say, I will say just for those of you listening as well, I think a lot of D and D media that people can consume. Like if somebody was getting into D and D now and said, YouTube, I want to make a a strong character.
00:30:35
The Blade's Edge
What what character should I play? You're probably going to get recommended like you to or D and&D shorts like that guy or like whoever else that's going to talk about some like broken, quote unquote broken combo that like has certain conditions for that combo to happen.
00:30:41
Kyle
Yeah.
00:30:52
The Blade's Edge
And I would just say to those of you out there, I think the most fun I've ever had playing characters was when I went all one level, or when I took a multi-class that wasn't optimal for the story, like the first time I ever ran Curse of Strahd, Tommy was my dungeon master. And I was a rogue. I was a, um,
00:31:20
Vesz'rak
Swashbuckler Road.
00:31:21
The Blade's Edge
I was a swashbuckler.
Character Building and Story Fit
00:31:22
Vesz'rak
Yep.
00:31:22
The Blade's Edge
I was like a pirate. And then halfway through the campaign, I like wanted to leave Barovia so bad that I made a deal with like Cthulhu basically and became a warlock. Hexblade warlock, but Hexblade warlock. ah Rogue swashbuckler, definitely not an optimal. ah Multiclass, but one of the most fun characters I ever played and.
00:31:51
The Blade's Edge
Same with a lot of others. So I think, if you know, if you're out there listening and same for you, cara I mean, it's just like, I don't know. I think the whole like power gaming aspect of this, if that's fun to you, um, and to you listening, I think do it, like find what's fun to you. But I will say you could all, you could also just play like Uh, I mean, look at critical role as a Scanlan, but when, uh, when he started playing that Sam Riegel, he, he wanted to play the worst D and D character.
00:32:19
Kyle
Mm.
00:32:26
The Blade's Edge
And so they were like, yeah, play a gnome bard. And then he ended up being one of the coolest characters and having some of the most epic moments all from. Playing, you know, just like playing into it and, you know, learning the character thoroughly.
00:32:40
Kyle
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. I like finding um little synergies here and there, like with with different traits. um But it's not my it's not my life's mission to just squeeze every every tiny little bit of power out of my character. With that being said, I am having a great time playing playing Bash Bloodsinger. It's been awesome.
00:33:04
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I mean, also with a ah with a barbarian, that just happens naturally.
00:33:08
Alma Graves
Mm hmm.
00:33:09
Kyle
Yeah.
00:33:09
The Blade's Edge
Swing, swing reckless, ah crit, do big damage, get big number, big smile, big dopamine.
00:33:09
Kyle
yeah
00:33:14
Kyle
Yeah, yeah, it's great.
00:33:16
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:33:17
Kyle
It's the best.
00:33:18
Alma Graves
Lift big rock, throw a big rock downhill.
00:33:20
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Um. Okay. So we're, we're about halfway through this graveside chat and I wanted to hop into, so let me, let me preface this by saying.
Crafting the NPC Jimmothy
00:33:31
The Blade's Edge
Jimmothy might not play a role in this campaign.
00:33:34
Kyle
Hey, he's missing.
00:33:35
Vesz'rak
Brutal. Brutal for me, let me tell you. I've been looking.
00:33:38
Kyle
We've been looking.
00:33:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:33:38
Vesz'rak
That was the whole trajectory. That was how we started.
00:33:40
Alma Graves
Outside of Barovia, Jimothy is starting his reign of terror upon all of Faerun or Iola, et cetera.
00:33:45
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:33:47
Kyle
but Real quick, i where did jimothy originate for us?
00:33:52
Vesz'rak
ah the This is me turning my my pages back in my notes here.
00:33:55
Kyle
you Where did he get like wasn't even confirmed that he was real
00:33:55
The Blade's Edge
When when Trevor was talking to another professor about the kids that had gone missing from the school and.
00:33:57
Alma Graves
Episode one, dude.
00:33:59
Vesz'rak
Yeah, session one. ah
00:34:07
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:10
Vesz'rak
They said that Jimothy stopped coming to class, that he may have been kidnapped.
00:34:10
The Blade's Edge
ah Yes.
00:34:15
Vesz'rak
I'm i'm deep in my notes here back in section one here.
00:34:17
The Blade's Edge
Which this is the beauty of being a dungeon master. Just a name off top my head. I'm just being silly thinking it's going to be a throwaway. And of course, like every throwaway NPC name that you put out into the universe, your players go, that's the one.
00:34:31
Alma Graves
I love that guy.
00:34:31
Kyle
speaking for
00:34:32
The Blade's Edge
That's the guy. That's the guy.
00:34:33
Alma Graves
Hey, shout out to Charlie. Shout out to Charlie.
00:34:36
The Blade's Edge
Yep.
00:34:36
Vesz'rak
Yeah, shout out to Charlie.
00:34:37
The Blade's Edge
gnarly the mushroom we had in the campaign. What was that?
00:34:41
Alma Graves
Now in the body of a wizard.
00:34:43
The Blade's Edge
What was the hair in the in the body of of Kellogg, for those of you D and D aficionados out there?
00:34:43
Vesz'rak
ah Is it carnage? Yeah, yeah.
00:34:48
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:34:51
The Blade's Edge
What was that? What was the goblin on tour? Cauger, we had.
00:34:56
Kyle
Wait, the goblin on tour?
00:34:58
The Blade's Edge
Bing bing bong.
00:34:58
Kyle
Oh, uh... Bing bong, dude, my boy.
00:35:00
Alma Graves
Bing Bong.
00:35:00
The Blade's Edge
Yes, Bing bong recurring was he know he was a cobalt. He's like a cobalt merchant, doesn't he?
00:35:06
Kyle
Wait no, wasn't Bing Bong our boy?
00:35:09
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, he was your.
00:35:10
Kyle
Bing Bong was like a main character.
00:35:13
The Blade's Edge
No, he was like a recurring NPC that you guys just like. Liked until he kept coming back.
00:35:19
Kyle
ah the The very first... that Wasn't that who we were supposed to meet right at the very beginning and we just immediately left?
00:35:25
The Blade's Edge
I think so, something like that, yeah, yeah I remember, but.
00:35:28
Kyle
Yeah.
00:35:30
The Blade's Edge
Um, but all, all that to say, uh, don't fret, not Tommy. Jimothy also may play a role in this campaign.
00:35:38
Vesz'rak
Ooh, okay, I'm back in.
00:35:39
The Blade's Edge
I think based on that what we do here, he's definitely alive and he'll be somewhere in Barovia. I think it's just a matter of like, if you guys follow that thread or come upon him.
00:35:52
The Blade's Edge
Uh, but if not, then we just had fun creating an NPC today, but let's get you guys all on the roll 20.
00:36:01
Vesz'rak
Oh no, okay, here we go.
00:36:02
The Blade's Edge
If you're not already, because what we're going to do is we're going to roll for Jim at these stats.
00:36:03
Vesz'rak
Let's see what we got here.
00:36:12
The Blade's Edge
And what we're going to do is we're going to not do the nice way of rolling for stats, which is you roll 46, you drop the lowest. And then I typically do at the end of that, you take your lowest score and you can reroll that.
00:36:26
The Blade's Edge
What we're going to do is you guys are going to just roll 3d6 and those will be his scores.
00:36:32
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
00:36:33
The Blade's Edge
And then we won't put them in anything, because then we'll decide what his race is, his class is, his background, all that stuff.
00:36:43
Vesz'rak
That's great.
00:36:43
The Blade's Edge
his
00:36:43
Vesz'rak
I feel like I've been picturing Jimmothy a certain way and I feel like maybe that's probably not, that's obviously not going to be the consensus. So let's do it.
00:36:50
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think this is this will be funnier, too, because we'll have to you know make it how is he alive, how what is you know depending on what he is. as he You know, there's a million different things.
00:37:01
The Blade's Edge
I don't want to lead the witness in any direction. So.
00:37:03
Alma Graves
Uh, Jimmothy is, uh, Sid from Toy Story.
00:37:08
The Blade's Edge
Let's get a let's get ah everybody roll a D20 and we'll see who goes first for rolling for Jimmothy's stats.
00:37:09
Alma Graves
but
00:37:09
Kyle
yeah
00:37:18
Alma Graves
That's a seven.
00:37:19
Vesz'rak
Oh, we got two for it.
00:37:19
Kyle
Oh, brutal.
00:37:20
Vesz'rak
Roll off, Kyle G.
00:37:20
The Blade's Edge
Roll off Kyle and Tommy all fours.
00:37:21
Vesz'rak
Roll off.
00:37:22
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:37:25
Kyle
yeah
00:37:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:37:25
Vesz'rak
16.
00:37:26
The Blade's Edge
All right. So Kyle, uh, beams your first and go ahead and just roll me three D six.
00:37:30
Alma Graves
okay
00:37:35
Alma Graves
Yeah, that's a four, six, and a three for 13.
00:37:38
Vesz'rak
Classic.
00:37:39
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
00:37:39
Alma Graves
And do I get to choose where that goes?
00:37:42
The Blade's Edge
Uh, not yet. Cause we're gonna, cause, uh, we want to pick his class and then put them, uh, Jim, uh, fee.
00:37:43
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:37:47
Alma Graves
Ah, okay, okay, okay.
00:37:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So we got 13. So, uh, Tommy you're next. three d six 3d6.
00:37:57
Vesz'rak
That'll be a tenner, a four, two, and a four.
00:37:59
The Blade's Edge
Honestly, and so far, not bad.
00:38:01
Vesz'rak
Jimothy, pretty strong.
00:38:01
Alma Graves
chair Jim
00:38:02
The Blade's Edge
Jim, a fee. That's his name. All right. It's cannon. Uh, all right. His name is not Jim, a fee, Jim. Okay. Uh, college. All right. Let's get 3d6.
00:38:14
Kyle
Oh, 3d6.
00:38:16
Alma Graves
Bro, I fucking love rolling dice. I'll roll dice all fucking day.
00:38:18
Kyle
Nine.
00:38:20
The Blade's Edge
All right. Back up to the top.
00:38:20
Kyle
A four, four and a one.
00:38:21
The Blade's Edge
Kyle beams.
00:38:22
Alma Graves
Yeah, okay, 3d6. Give me 666. Oh shit, there's a four.
00:38:26
Kyle
Oh, that is brutal.
00:38:26
The Blade's Edge
Or it's just going to be very, very bad at something.
00:38:27
Vesz'rak
Oh, no.
00:38:30
Alma Graves
Very bad. Well, I'm hoping that goes to wisdom or intelligence personally.
00:38:34
Vesz'rak
That's what Bezrak strength was. So I don't know. There's hope for the future. Let me say it, but he did get dragged to the top of a window, but.
00:38:37
Alma Graves
That's true, he was the wielder of the sunsword, after all.
00:38:42
The Blade's Edge
Thirteen, ten, nine, four. Tommy, you're up.
00:38:45
Vesz'rak
3d6 coming at you.
00:38:46
Kyle
It's only getting worse.
00:38:47
Alma Graves
Oh!
00:38:48
Vesz'rak
15, 15.
00:38:48
The Blade's Edge
Oh, my God.
00:38:49
Vesz'rak
Hey, I've been, Hey Jim, I'm looking out for you, big dog.
00:38:53
The Blade's Edge
All right, last his last stat, it'll be right here with you. cow gerard
00:38:53
Alma Graves
Wow.
00:38:57
Kyle
I'm rolling these one by one.
00:39:00
The Blade's Edge
Let's do it to knock, right?
00:39:00
Alma Graves
ah Oh, Ooh.
00:39:02
Kyle
That's a two.
00:39:03
Alma Graves
Yeah-ooh.
00:39:04
Kyle
That's a three.
00:39:05
The Blade's Edge
Great.
00:39:05
Kyle
And this is a two.
00:39:07
Alma Graves
Yes. Seven.
00:39:08
The Blade's Edge
Seven.
00:39:08
Vesz'rak
Oh, no, dude.
00:39:09
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:39:09
Alma Graves
Seven.
00:39:09
The Blade's Edge
So pretty bad overall.
00:39:11
Alma Graves
What a spread.
00:39:11
The Blade's Edge
A 15 is good.
00:39:12
Alma Graves
Mm-hmm.
00:39:12
The Blade's Edge
So he'll be, he'll be really good at one thing.
00:39:13
Kyle
And Jimothy's not great.
00:39:14
Vesz'rak
One thing you'll be good at.
00:39:16
Alma Graves
Well, I mean, he's got like the ideal dumb barbarian stats right now.
00:39:16
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:39:20
The Blade's Edge
So let's let's start with I want to start with his his race here. um And let here's what I think we can do. We could roll for it.
00:39:35
Alma Graves
I'm into rolling for it.
00:39:35
The Blade's Edge
um You guys, how do you guys feel about rolling for it?
00:39:40
Vesz'rak
i'd be I'd be okay with rolling for it.
00:39:40
Kyle
We roll for everything.
00:39:41
Vesz'rak
I i always picture Jimmothy as a human, but I don't know if that's, um but i I'm okay. i I want to roll for it.
00:39:51
The Blade's Edge
Um, okay. So why don't we do this? Why don't we do, why don't you guys each roll me a, cause there's so many here, especially with like, I have like some homebrew stuff in there.
00:40:06
The Blade's Edge
I just feel like let's leave it all. Cause it could be something crazy, which could be very funny.
00:40:10
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:40:11
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you each roll? yeah How about this? There's a ton. You guys tell me how many you want to roll. Do you each want to roll a D20? Do you want to roll one D4 and have it be right at the top of the list?
00:40:23
The Blade's Edge
do You guys want to each roll a D100 and add them together. You guys decide this is we're building this guy by committee.
00:40:32
The Blade's Edge
OK, Kyle wants to roll a D12.
00:40:32
Vesz'rak
Yeah, why don't.
00:40:33
The Blade's Edge
So what is it? Everybody can to decide
Jimmothy's Character Details
00:40:35
The Blade's Edge
what kind of type of dice they want to roll.
00:40:35
Kyle
Wait, how many how many are there?
00:40:38
The Blade's Edge
A ton like and if it goes over, I would just go back to the top. It would just it would just spin around like a wheel.
00:40:45
Kyle
So we would all roll a d12.
00:40:47
The Blade's Edge
Well, Kyle chose a D12. Each of you guys can choose your own dice. You guys can talk about it, whatever you want.
00:40:51
Kyle
Oh, I'm gonna roll a d9.
00:40:56
Alma Graves
Oh, yeah.
00:40:56
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, a D12, a D9.
00:40:58
Vesz'rak
Oh, I'm going to I'm going to roll.
00:40:59
The Blade's Edge
Tommy, go high. Why not?
00:41:02
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm ah i'm just going to roll a D 100. I'm just going to, I'm going to pull up.
00:41:05
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
00:41:07
Vesz'rak
So I'm gonna roll D 100 and see what happens.
00:41:07
The Blade's Edge
A D12, a D9, and a D100. Let's go in in that order, D12. Let's see what you roll here.
00:41:14
Alma Graves
That's a six.
00:41:14
The Blade's Edge
Okay, six.
00:41:17
Kyle
That's a nine.
00:41:17
Alma Graves
A nine. Oh, 69.
00:41:17
The Blade's Edge
On nine.
00:41:19
Kyle
Nice.
00:41:21
Alma Graves
Oh, a 25.
00:41:21
Vesz'rak
All right. D 100 coming at you.
00:41:22
Kyle
Roll a natural 100. Oh.
00:41:24
Vesz'rak
25.
00:41:25
The Blade's Edge
So 15 plus 25 is 40, so if I'm just going.
00:41:26
Alma Graves
ah forty
00:41:31
The Blade's Edge
And then let's do this, let's do a coin flip, whether I go top down or bottom up.
00:41:33
Alma Graves
That's 40.
00:41:37
The Blade's Edge
um Why don't you each roll each roll me a d 20, whoever rolls the lowest d 20 will roll a d two to see if it goes.
00:41:38
Vesz'rak
What?
00:41:45
Vesz'rak
Oh, golf rules.
00:41:46
Alma Graves
Classic Tommy. If you're going to roll low, always bank on Tommy.
00:41:47
Vesz'rak
ah yeah no no come on ah Top down.
00:41:47
The Blade's Edge
All right, yeah. All right, Tommy, do you want one to be top down or one to be bottom up?
00:41:59
Vesz'rak
Actually, actually we'll do bottom up. We'll do bottom up.
00:42:01
The Blade's Edge
So a one will be bottom up, a two will be top down, so roll me a D2.
00:42:05
Vesz'rak
All right. Again, here we go. ah One. Here we go.
00:42:10
The Blade's Edge
Oh, so top down. Okay. So we're starting. So I have everything here. The only thing I'm minimizing is the core, the new core rules.
00:42:18
Kyle
Wait, wasn't one bottom up?
00:42:20
Vesz'rak
Yeah, Brian, we're doing bottom up.
00:42:21
The Blade's Edge
Oh, we're doing bottom. Okay.
00:42:22
Vesz'rak
Yeah, one is bottom up.
00:42:22
The Blade's Edge
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
00:42:23
Vesz'rak
Sorry, I switched it on, yeah.
00:42:24
The Blade's Edge
Cool, so I have your core rules, I have the expanded rules, I have 2014 core rules, legacy, ah the critical role stuff, the humble would, the grim hollow, the cobalt press, the free league, the Griffin saddlebag, the home brew at the bottom.
00:42:39
Vesz'rak
Oh my God, that's so many.
00:42:39
The Blade's Edge
So yeah, I know. So going up from the bottom, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
00:42:58
Vesz'rak
Keep going, keep going. Have we laughed yet? Have we laughed?
00:43:01
The Blade's Edge
Okay, okay. No, no, not even close. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.
00:43:04
Vesz'rak
Oh no.
00:43:11
Vesz'rak
What are we?
00:43:12
The Blade's Edge
Jimothy, ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:13
Vesz'rak
okay
00:43:14
Kyle
What is he?
00:43:16
The Blade's Edge
Long established guardians of the deep ocean floor. Timothy is a Triton.
00:43:22
Vesz'rak
Okay.
00:43:23
Alma Graves
yeah
00:43:28
Vesz'rak
Oh man.
00:43:28
The Blade's Edge
I love it.
00:43:28
Alma Graves
And we need to find him at the bottom of Lake Zarovich, finally.
00:43:31
Vesz'rak
Oh, what did we see?
00:43:32
The Blade's Edge
Maybe that's where he is.
00:43:32
Vesz'rak
Oh my God.
00:43:33
The Blade's Edge
Maybe that's where he lives.
00:43:34
Vesz'rak
Oh my God.
00:43:35
Alma Graves
Holy shit.
00:43:35
The Blade's Edge
So he's got amphibious. So first of all, his ability score increases for you guys, in case you want to know this. is His strength, his constitution, and his charisma each go up by one.
00:43:48
The Blade's Edge
So keep keep that in mind when you guys pick his class, if if you if you care about that.
00:43:48
Kyle
And.
00:43:52
The Blade's Edge
If not, if we want to just go for the goofs, that's totally cool, too. ah His age, this is good. This is good for us, because Tritons mature on age 15, but can live up to 200 years.
00:44:04
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:44:05
The Blade's Edge
That really works well for us, because what we said he was what, like?
00:44:05
Vesz'rak
Thank God.
00:44:05
Kyle
He's old.
00:44:06
Vesz'rak
Thank God. He's gonna be like 119 or something or 120 I think.
00:44:12
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, how? ah
00:44:14
Vesz'rak
I thought he was...
00:44:14
The Blade's Edge
How many years I passed was 140, right?
00:44:16
Alma Graves
I thought it was 70 something years.
00:44:19
The Blade's Edge
Oh, okay. Good. Okay. So 70 something years and he was probably around age 10.
00:44:25
Vesz'rak
Like 10?
00:44:27
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:44:27
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:44:28
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So well why don't we just say he's, Timothy is a hundred years old.
00:44:32
Vesz'rak
Deal.
00:44:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Timothy is 100.
00:44:33
Alma Graves
Cool.
00:44:37
Alma Graves
Jimothy the Triton ah wandered off from school one day,
00:44:42
The Blade's Edge
Captured, captured by the wolves.
00:44:45
Alma Graves
captured by the werewolves of Barovia.
00:44:48
The Blade's Edge
OK, so he's you can look to that. His size is he's ah he's around. He's around five feet tall. But let's say if he's around five feet tall, let's roll. I'm going to say we're going to start at three feet and each of you guys is going to roll me a D12 and we're going to add those inches onto three feet.
00:45:11
Alma Graves
okay
00:45:13
Vesz'rak
one inch
00:45:14
Alma Graves
Classic Tommy.
00:45:14
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:45:16
Alma Graves
Oh, hey, that's a D12, or that's a three for me.
00:45:18
The Blade's Edge
Three foot four so far.
00:45:20
Kyle
Oh god.
00:45:21
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:45:21
The Blade's Edge
So he's three foot six.
00:45:21
Vesz'rak
but
00:45:22
Kyle
I'm a short king.
00:45:22
Vesz'rak
is he iss fucking yoda dude he's fucking hungry
00:45:23
Alma Graves
Fuck yeah. It's Yoda.
00:45:26
The Blade's Edge
He's three feet.
00:45:26
Vesz'rak
yeah he's underwater yoda
00:45:28
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, three feet, six inches. ah Speed is a walking speed of 30 feet and a swimming speed of 30 feet. He can breathe air and water. ah He can control air and water so you can cast fog cloud.
00:45:39
The Blade's Edge
um He can cast gust of winds at fifth level. What level are you guys again?
00:45:45
Alma Graves
Seven.
00:45:46
The Blade's Edge
Guess maybe we'll make him level seven. Or is it funnier if we roll for it?
00:45:50
Alma Graves
I think it's funny if we roll for it, roll a d20.
00:45:53
The Blade's Edge
Well, why don't we, I want to get each of you into it. So we'll say, why don't you guys each roll a D 20 we'll add them together and divide it by three and then round down.
00:46:03
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:46:07
The Blade's Edge
11, nine, and two is 22 is yeah.
00:46:07
Alma Graves
Okay, 22, he's level seven.
00:46:11
The Blade's Edge
Seven, 14, 21.
00:46:13
Kyle
I am.
00:46:14
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So he's all seven. So he's your guys level. Wow. That worked out.
00:46:18
Vesz'rak
Where the stars are aligning here.
00:46:19
Kyle
Roll, roll for your dong.
00:46:20
Alma Graves
Wow, yeah.
00:46:21
Vesz'rak
but um yeah touch give it I'm so sorry, buddy.
00:46:22
Alma Graves
ah ah Another one, Tommy.
00:46:22
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Why don't you guys each roll a D 12 and then we'll divide it by three for his dong four, five, 10 divided by three is 3.33.
00:46:28
Kyle
Oh, oh, it's not looking good.
00:46:30
Alma Graves
Oh, no. ah Respectable, respectable.
00:46:34
The Blade's Edge
We said we were rounding down. So that's actually, that's actually huge.
00:46:36
Kyle
Hey man, that's huge bro.
00:46:38
Vesz'rak
I'm sorry.
00:46:39
Kyle
That's actually massive.
00:46:39
Alma Graves
yeah Damn, bro.
00:46:42
The Blade's Edge
Well, it's like the, it's like the thing from Seinfeld, the water's cold. So you can't really.
00:46:46
Vesz'rak
I to keep i ah yeah had to keep him in check.
00:46:46
Alma Graves
Oh, shit.
00:46:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:46:49
Alma Graves
The water in Barovia has to be very cold.
00:46:51
Kyle
Yeah.
00:46:51
The Blade's Edge
Uh, so starting at fifth level, he can also cast wall of water, which is great. Um, he uses charisma for that. If we want to, if we want to do fold that in, he has dark vision up to 60 feet.
00:47:03
The Blade's Edge
Uh, and this area of the sea, he can communicate simple ideas with beasts that can breathe water. So it's kind of like Aquaman. Um, this is the Aquaman of Provia. Uh,
00:47:15
Vesz'rak
Hey, hey. Zack Snyder, write it up.
00:47:17
Alma Graves
Yeah, write it up, Zach.
00:47:17
The Blade's Edge
Resistance to cold damage. Uh, he can speak common and primordial. Great. We've picked that now for his background, not that this matters as much, but let's do the same thing.
00:47:30
The Blade's Edge
You can each pick a dice roll and then we'll decide if we roll go, um, top down or bottom up.
00:47:40
Alma Graves
D4.
00:47:40
The Blade's Edge
Okay. D four from Kyle.
00:47:46
Kyle
the D, ah D, seven.
00:47:50
The Blade's Edge
Tice.
00:47:51
Alma Graves
Ooh.
00:47:52
The Blade's Edge
Yes, we've got 10 so far.
00:47:53
Kyle
ah ninety seven
00:47:55
Vesz'rak
Oh no. Sorry.
00:47:56
The Blade's Edge
Tommy, whatever you want for background, you do another 100 if you want.
00:47:56
Vesz'rak
What am I rolling here?
00:47:59
Vesz'rak
Oh, okay. Do you 100? Just keep it simple. Stupid. 59 Ryan.
00:48:03
Kyle
Gotta make him count.
00:48:03
The Blade's Edge
59 plus 10 is 69.
00:48:05
Alma Graves
Wow.
00:48:06
Vesz'rak
The star, what are the stars are aligning.
00:48:07
Kyle
Damn.
00:48:10
The Blade's Edge
And then let's each roll a D 20 and we'll do lowest number, we'll do the coin flip.
00:48:16
Alma Graves
Oh, not one.
00:48:17
Vesz'rak
Oh, not one.
00:48:19
Alma Graves
the What's the opposite of calling the lightning?
00:48:20
Kyle
It.
00:48:20
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you guys all rolled.
00:48:20
Kyle
Our roles are so bad.
00:48:22
Vesz'rak
Hey, we're.
00:48:22
The Blade's Edge
And,
00:48:23
Vesz'rak
Yeah, that's if those are death saves, we're dead.
00:48:25
The Blade's Edge
uh, do you want one to be top down or one to be bottom up, Kyle?
00:48:25
Vesz'rak
We're dead as fuck.
00:48:26
Alma Graves
Yeah, we're cooked, bro.
00:48:32
Alma Graves
One is top down.
00:48:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay. We'll meet you too.
00:48:35
Alma Graves
One is top down.
00:48:36
The Blade's Edge
All right. I got to count 69 here. So you guys talk amongst yourselves as I do that.
00:48:42
Alma Graves
So if we're looking at these stats, we don't know what his background is yet. We're looking at the fact that he has some bonuses to strength con charisma. I know charisma is typically, uh, best on paladins and on sorcerers, right?
00:49:01
Vesz'rak
I'm leaning towards her. I don't know. I feel like that'd be really funny.
00:49:04
Alma Graves
Sorcerer could be fun. I like it. I mean, and you can.
00:49:06
Vesz'rak
Cut. Oh, go for it.
00:49:09
Alma Graves
Oh, I was just gonna say it could be kind of fun um as we don't have a sorcerer in the group in any capacity.
00:49:18
Kyle
We don't even know where this guy is.
00:49:20
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:49:20
The Blade's Edge
Yes. And we also don't know if he's friend or foe.
00:49:21
Vesz'rak
up
00:49:23
The Blade's Edge
We'll get there.
00:49:23
Kyle
why
00:49:23
Alma Graves
Right.
00:49:24
Vesz'rak
He's obviously underwater. I mean, how do you, he's been, how do you, he's been dodging strong for so long, huh?
00:49:28
The Blade's Edge
Uh, I, swear, I swear to God, uh, background.
00:49:28
Alma Graves
Dude, he's been buried in a river.
00:49:33
The Blade's Edge
I, the only backgrounds I skipped for the core rules. So I went straight to the expanded rules. So I didn't hit the 2014 core rules, the critical role, the Drakenheim humble wood home brew.
00:49:43
The Blade's Edge
I didn't hit any of that. Uh, but with 69 down from expanded rules, I landed on a shit you not ship, right?
00:49:51
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:49:51
Vesz'rak
Ugh.
00:49:52
The Blade's Edge
You have sailed into war on the decks of great ships, patching their hulls with soup bowls and prayers.
00:49:54
Vesz'rak
Okay?
00:49:58
The Blade's Edge
You once helped build a fishing vessel that single-handedly saved a town from starvation. You have seen a majestic prow in your dreams that you have not been able to replicate in wood. Since childhood, you've loved the water and have been captivated by the many vessels that traveled on it.
00:50:13
The Blade's Edge
Skill proficiencies, history and perception, tool proficiencies, carpenters tools and water vehicles, background feature, all patch it provided you have carpenters tools and wood.
00:50:24
The Blade's Edge
You can perform repairs on a water vehicle. When you use this ability, you restore a number of hit points to the hull of a water vehicle equal to five times your proficiency modifier.
00:50:32
Alma Graves
Wow.
00:50:32
The Blade's Edge
A vehicle cannot be patched by you in this way again until it has pulled ashore and fully repaired. All right. This is coming together. A Triton ship, right? We're building a complete
00:50:46
Alma Graves
I mean, that's pretty cool. I mean, yoink, yoink, right in the back story now.
00:50:48
The Blade's Edge
here.
00:50:48
Vesz'rak
I'm in.
00:50:51
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. I mean, this could also be, if if God forbid somebody does again, could be ah a backup character for somebody.
00:50:57
Vesz'rak
Yep.
00:50:58
The Blade's Edge
Um, so, so up next, and let's, let's talk about this up next naturally would be class.
00:50:59
Vesz'rak
This is...
00:51:06
The Blade's Edge
Now you guys can decide, or you can roll for it.
00:51:10
Vesz'rak
man. I love, I do love rolling dice, Brian.
00:51:13
Alma Graves
I do love rolling dice, but I also think that it might be a little fun if we went with one of the two that we just talked about.
00:51:24
The Blade's Edge
up to you guys. I'll let you guys decide if you want to roll dice or if you want to pick or if you want to roll dice to decide if you pick.
00:51:30
Vesz'rak
Kyle Dryhite, what are you feeling?
00:51:32
Kyle
I think we've come this far.
00:51:34
Alma Graves
Roll it.
00:51:35
Kyle
It makes sense to roll it.
00:51:36
The Blade's Edge
All right, so.
00:51:36
Alma Graves
Yeah, let's roll it then.
00:51:41
The Blade's Edge
Well, I'd say everybody can roll a dice, but don't pick a dice higher than a D 20.
00:51:48
Vesz'rak
Deal.
00:51:49
The Blade's Edge
So everybody can decide what type of dice they want to roll and then we'll decide if it's top up or bottom down.
00:51:51
Alma Graves
I did D3.
00:51:55
The Blade's Edge
which is a one ID 19, which is 16. So we're at 17.
00:52:00
Vesz'rak
I'll do a D12, I'll roll a D12.
00:52:04
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:04
Vesz'rak
Mix it up. Nine.
00:52:07
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So we're at 26. So now each of you roll a D 20 lowest number will decide if it's go top down or bottom up.
00:52:13
Alma Graves
Oh, Nat 20.
00:52:17
Vesz'rak
Don't ever challenge me to a low roll competition.
00:52:17
Kyle
am.
00:52:19
The Blade's Edge
All right. Do you want a one to be top down or bottom up?
00:52:24
Vesz'rak
we'll do ah We'll do the same as last time, one is bottom up.
00:52:28
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:29
Vesz'rak
And we're bottom up. Oh, that's a D1.
00:52:30
The Blade's Edge
okay
00:52:31
Vesz'rak
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
00:52:31
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:32
Vesz'rak
ah We're top down. I rolled a D2 top down.
00:52:36
The Blade's Edge
Top down and I'm going 26, which means we're probably going to come back around here and I'm keeping everything in here. I have some funny stuff. I have expanded rules, 2014 core rules, critical role, MCDM and free league.
00:52:50
The Blade's Edge
So there should be some very, very weird stuff happening here.
00:52:52
Vesz'rak
ah
00:52:53
The Blade's Edge
Uh, 20. six, right?
00:52:59
The Blade's Edge
Or maybe let's just do, should let's just keep it all, I'm gonna, I'm gonna not do MCDM or free league stuff. I'm just gonna do expanded rules, 2014 core rules, critical rule. So there's one, two, three, it's a top down.
00:52:59
Vesz'rak
All right, start counting, Brian.
00:53:12
Vesz'rak
ah Yeah, top down.
00:53:14
The Blade's Edge
One, two, three, four, five,
00:53:16
Vesz'rak
So what I am under the impression that Jimothy is underwater. I don't know. I think he's...
00:53:21
Alma Graves
i I like the idea that any ships that are passing, he's just cruising up from the floor below to patch up any holes in their ships.
00:53:32
Vesz'rak
Or is he shipwrecking them?
00:53:34
Alma Graves
Well, he's a ship right, not a ship wrong.
00:53:34
Vesz'rak
Is he in league with Strog, huh?
00:53:38
The Blade's Edge
Well, I, there's good news here.
00:53:40
Alma Graves
yeah yeah get good
00:53:42
The Blade's Edge
There's good news and there's, and there's not bad news, but the good news is he, we landed on a class that we can absolutely make sense as to how this child got powerful, how he went from being a child to having class levels.
00:54:00
The Blade's Edge
The bad news, the the slight bad news is it it's a warlock, which is also obviously what Alma is.
00:54:07
Alma Graves
Aha, OK.
00:54:07
Vesz'rak
I'll allow it.
00:54:09
The Blade's Edge
But makes sense for. ah How he found this, so obviously our otherworldly patron options are celestial.
00:54:20
The Blade's Edge
We're not going to do that, but the fathomless kind of makes sense.
00:54:23
Vesz'rak
i think or yeah
00:54:25
The Blade's Edge
Or yeah, fathomless, genie, hex blade, undead, undying, archfey, fiend, great old one.
00:54:32
Alma Graves
Hmm.
00:54:33
The Blade's Edge
All makes sense. Those make sense as well. Do you guys want to pick this? Do you want to roll for this?
00:54:38
Vesz'rak
Oh man, Brian.
00:54:40
Alma Graves
We gotta roll that shit.
00:54:41
Vesz'rak
We got to roll.
00:54:41
Kyle
We gotta roll.
00:54:41
Vesz'rak
We got to roll for it. Come on.
00:54:43
The Blade's Edge
OK, nobody can roll higher than a D6 this time.
00:54:43
Alma Graves
Ain't no way.
00:54:46
The Blade's Edge
but You can each roll a dice, or you can choose not to roll, or you can roll whatever you want, up to a D6.
00:54:50
Vesz'rak
That's a three, a one, and a four.
00:54:52
Alma Graves
Eight.
00:54:52
The Blade's Edge
So eight.
00:54:53
The Blade's Edge
self i So if I go from the top down, that's ah ah celestial fathomless.
00:54:53
Alma Graves
So that's landing on grade old one.
00:54:56
Vesz'rak
ah
00:55:01
The Blade's Edge
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. But we land on the fiend, unless I took celestial out of that. and just went, in which case it would land a great old, great old, great, makes sense.
00:55:10
Alma Graves
In which case, oh, that's what I thought.
00:55:13
Vesz'rak
Yeah, give me a great old one.
00:55:14
Alma Graves
Yeah, great old one.
00:55:15
The Blade's Edge
That makes sense. OK, so.
00:55:18
Alma Graves
There's already one celestial warlock in this in this house.
00:55:21
The Blade's Edge
And he's level seven.
Finalizing Jimmothy's Character
00:55:25
The Blade's Edge
OK, so we've got Jimothy, the level seven, Triton Shipwright, who has made a pact with a great old one. Now, for those of you that don't know,
00:55:35
The Blade's Edge
um
00:55:40
The Blade's Edge
Do. Find.
00:55:44
Alma Graves
Great old one is more of the Cthulhu style thing compared to Fathomless, right?
00:55:50
The Blade's Edge
Yes, so let me pull that up, I can read that to you guys and for those listening.
00:56:00
Alma Graves
Hey, and for those listening, thanks for hanging out with us.
00:56:03
The Blade's Edge
Yes, thank you. This is we're almost done here, but this has been a fun little hour.
00:56:06
Alma Graves
Having a grand old time.
00:56:08
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So you're. Jimmothy's patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the far realm, which is think think aliens think outer space, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends.
00:56:26
The Blade's Edge
Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals. Think Lovecraftian. and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast the secrets that it holds. The great old one might be unaware of Jimothy's existence or entirely indifferent to him, but The secrets that Jimothy has learned allows him to draw his magic from it.
00:56:52
The Blade's Edge
Entities of this type include gonadar, called that which lurks, ferizdun, the chained god, dendar, the night serpent, zargon, the returner, great kuthulu, and other fathomable beings.
00:56:56
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:57:04
Alma Graves
Got it are so cool.
00:57:05
The Blade's Edge
um This works really well with a certain thing in.
00:57:15
The Blade's Edge
So this is where I will take a little bit.
00:57:21
The Blade's Edge
Of mystery from you guys, and I will.
00:57:21
Alma Graves
Oh, yes.
00:57:25
The Blade's Edge
I will decide.
00:57:27
Alma Graves
Surprise us, Dungeon Daddy.
00:57:29
The Blade's Edge
Yes, I will decide who his guy is, so I think last for us to do together is decide where his abilities go, which once again, ah you guys can decide or You can roll for it.
00:57:48
Alma Graves
Okay, and what class did we end up with?
00:57:51
The Blade's Edge
He's a warlock.
00:57:52
Alma Graves
Warlock.
00:57:52
Vesz'rak
warlock yeah.
00:57:53
The Blade's Edge
Great old one. He's got six ah scores and you have six numbers here. You could roll to see which number fits into which slot. They could be a funnily bad warlock or.
00:58:02
Alma Graves
Which, ah can you, could you put all the numbers into the chat for us real quick?
00:58:08
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. It's 13, 10, nine, four, 15, seven.
00:58:13
Alma Graves
Okay, so 15 popping straight into charisma.
00:58:18
The Blade's Edge
Yes. I just want to know if you guys, you guys as a group can decide if you want to continue to roll for it or if you want to.
00:58:19
Alma Graves
Yeah, what do we think?
00:58:22
Kyle
I think we can choose where they go.
00:58:24
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I think we choose No, come on college you get in here Just what it does it doesn't matter we're not we're not yeah, we're not playing the optimization
00:58:24
The Blade's Edge
choose
00:58:29
Kyle
ah this This is you guys.
00:58:31
Alma Graves
Hmm.
00:58:34
Kyle
I don't know. I don't know what the most optimal is for this particular person.
00:58:39
Alma Graves
Hey, followup follow your heart.
00:58:41
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Why don't, why don't let's go person by person. Let's have each you guys roll a d20 and we'll go highest number. We'll go first and you guys will each choose which number you want out of the numbers we have and what you want to put them in.
00:58:54
Alma Graves
In which section?
00:58:58
The Blade's Edge
Roll it. All right.
00:58:58
Alma Graves
That was a 1D2 minus.
00:59:01
Vesz'rak
Oh no.
00:59:01
Kyle
22 minus.
00:59:02
The Blade's Edge
So
00:59:02
Alma Graves
It all worked out.
00:59:03
Alma Graves
It all worked out. All right, Tommy, hit us.
00:59:04
The Blade's Edge
so So Tommy, you're first. So here's what you can do. You can choose a number and you can choose where you want to put it, or you can roll for a number and roll for where it goes.
00:59:15
The Blade's Edge
Meaning you could roll like a D six, like the 13 being on a one, the seven being a six, and then you could roll a D six, a strength being a one career as a being a six and determine where it goes.
00:59:15
Vesz'rak
Oh boy.
00:59:17
Kyle
Wow.
00:59:26
The Blade's Edge
Or you could pick and put it where you want.
00:59:28
Vesz'rak
I already know what I got, Brian.
00:59:30
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:59:30
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. What you got.
00:59:31
Vesz'rak
I'm going to go 13 intelligence.
00:59:34
The Blade's Edge
I love it. Very reasonable of you.
00:59:36
Alma Graves
I like it.
00:59:37
The Blade's Edge
Very reasonable pick.
00:59:39
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Hey, say pick.
00:59:41
The Blade's Edge
Love that. ah ah Kyle, all the graves.
00:59:45
Alma Graves
Yeah, I am going to take the 15 in charisma.
00:59:48
The Blade's Edge
OK, so you're being you're being generous and you're saying, Jimothy, I want you to be strong in what you're good in what your thing is.
00:59:54
Alma Graves
Yes, I want I want Jimmothy to succeed more at the things he does.
00:59:55
The Blade's Edge
OK.
00:59:57
The Blade's Edge
Good, because he might be an enemy. We don't know yet.
00:59:59
The Blade's Edge
We're going to roll for that next. um ah Kyle, you're up. You can choose. You can roll wherever you want.
00:59:59
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:00:06
Kyle
The 10 goes into dexterity.
01:00:10
Alma Graves
I like it.
01:00:10
The Blade's Edge
and What did you just roll?
01:00:11
Vesz'rak
oh Oh boy.
01:00:11
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you're just you're just choosing that.
01:00:14
Kyle
No, I rolled.
01:00:15
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you rolled a D6 for each.
01:00:16
Kyle
I rolled 2d6. Yeah.
01:00:18
The Blade's Edge
Oh, OK. Just for the listener. Let um let them know.
01:00:19
Kyle
Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry.
01:00:21
The Blade's Edge
So the 13, the 10, and the 15 are off the board, back at the top. Tommy.
01:00:26
Vesz'rak
Oh man. Um, Oh boy. Let's go.
01:00:41
Vesz'rak
Oh, this would be so funny. Um, you know what? Shout out to my boy. That's right. We're gonna do a four strength brand.
01:00:50
The Blade's Edge
Okay, for strength, which which gives him a total of five.
01:00:54
Alma Graves
um Yeah, I was gonna do four wisdom, because he wandered off as a boy, but I'm gonna do seven wisdom.
01:00:56
The Blade's Edge
yeah ah that's one strength He did not wander off as what he was, he was kidnapped.
01:01:01
Vesz'rak
Oh yeah.
01:01:07
Alma Graves
Oh yeah, he was kidnapped.
01:01:08
The Blade's Edge
Uh, so four, seven, which means.
01:01:09
Alma Graves
Seven wisdom, he took candy from the from the the bad boys.
01:01:13
The Blade's Edge
The nine be in his con becomes a 10. So he's got a five strength, a 10 decks, a 10 con, a 13 intelligence, a seven wisdom, and a 16 charisma.
01:01:24
Alma Graves
Oh, yeah.
01:01:25
Vesz'rak
That's pretty good.
01:01:26
The Blade's Edge
It's pretty, pretty decent. Um, and then let's go real quick here. So Kyle, since Kyle droids, since you didn't get to choose that last one, I will let you choose his at level four, he would have gotten an ability score improvement.
01:01:41
The Blade's Edge
Do you want him to get an a ability score improvement or a feat?
01:01:44
Kyle
Oh, shit.
01:01:45
Alma Graves
a
01:01:50
Kyle
Let's give him a feat.
01:01:52
The Blade's Edge
OK, do you want to choose the feed or do you want to roll for it?
01:01:54
Kyle
Oh, we're gonna roll for it.
01:01:55
Alma Graves
Oh, yeah.
01:01:56
The Blade's Edge
OK, roll.
01:01:56
Vesz'rak
Yes. Okay. I love it.
01:01:58
The Blade's Edge
Roll however high you want. There's a ton of these.
01:02:02
Kyle
ah
01:02:02
The Blade's Edge
Or if you don't want to hear me count.
01:02:05
Kyle
Umm... 1d29, 28.
01:02:08
The Blade's Edge
OK, 28. Do you want me to go top down or bottom up?
01:02:15
Kyle
Top down.
01:02:15
The Blade's Edge
OK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
01:02:17
Vesz'rak
Now edge of my seat. Is he, is he favorable to us or is he, and does he hate us?
01:02:20
Alma Graves
Hmm.
01:02:22
Vesz'rak
That's,
01:02:23
Kyle
He's gonna get like, fae touched or some shit.
01:02:25
The Blade's Edge
E four five six seven.
01:02:27
Alma Graves
Hmm, Faye Touch is a good one.
01:02:29
The Blade's Edge
Is it 28?
01:02:29
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:02:30
Kyle
28.
01:02:31
The Blade's Edge
A savage attacker.
01:02:33
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:02:33
Kyle
oh Oh my goat!
01:02:34
Vesz'rak
Oh no.
01:02:34
Alma Graves
a
01:02:35
The Blade's Edge
Oh, wait. Hold on. Hold on. This is that's the let me I have to read. I have to recount. Those are from the new core rules, which I'm not using. So hold on.
01:02:42
Alma Graves
Oh, get him out of here.
01:02:43
The Blade's Edge
Hold on. Hold on. So twenty
01:02:43
Vesz'rak
ah Pause everyone.
01:02:44
Kyle
Wait, I think I have Savage Attacker.
01:02:44
Vesz'rak
but Everybody pause.
01:02:45
Alma Graves
Get it out of here.
01:02:49
Alma Graves
I think you just might.
01:02:53
Vesz'rak
That's a very bash answer of you.
01:02:57
The Blade's Edge
eight slash slasher.
01:03:01
Alma Graves
yeah Yes.
01:03:04
The Blade's Edge
You've learned where to cut ah to have the greatest results, granting you the following benefits.
01:03:04
Vesz'rak
Okay.
01:03:08
The Blade's Edge
Increase your strength or decks by one to a maximum of 20. Which one do you want to increase? Do you want to make the strength of a six or the decks and 11?
01:03:19
Kyle
We'll make the strength a six.
01:03:21
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
01:03:21
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:03:22
The Blade's Edge
ah Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. When you score a critical hit that does slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it until the start of your next turn.
01:03:33
The Blade's Edge
The target has disadvantage on all attack rolls, which means I'm going to pick a spell that does slashing damage for him to make it make sense. um
01:03:41
Alma Graves
Sweet.
01:03:44
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Let's, let's, the last thing let's do is let's roll for, uh, since you just picked that, uh, Tommy and Kyle beams.
01:03:52
Alma Graves
Yeah yeah yeah.
01:03:54
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you each roll me a D four. I'm going to add them together and we're going to pick his packed five total.
01:03:57
Vesz'rak
Okay.
01:04:02
Vesz'rak
Five total.
01:04:02
Alma Graves
Five.
01:04:04
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So one, two, three, four back to the top is packed to the blade.
01:04:08
Vesz'rak
Oh this guy's coming together.
01:04:10
Alma Graves
Yeah, he's coming together.
01:04:11
The Blade's Edge
It's coming together.
01:04:11
Vesz'rak
He's coming together.
01:04:13
The Blade's Edge
So he can create a packed weapon um and do.
01:04:22
The Blade's Edge
and OK. You can create a packed weapon. Got it. Okay. We've got that. I'll pick his proficiencies and his invocations and his spells to make him somewhat usable in case you guys and either are friends with him or, or not. Uh, we'll just give him like crossbow component pouch scholars pack. Cause he can't came from school.
01:04:48
Vesz'rak
True. You think he still has this like, um, I don't know what 10, uh, 10 year olds learn in school, but like you think he still has this like, uh, algebra book or whatever, like pre-algebra, like arithmetic, like it's just the same books from school.
01:05:02
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, we're gonna write I'm gonna write that down right now. He has his algebra book.
01:05:05
Alma Graves
Cool.
01:05:07
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:05:07
Alma Graves
I'm trying to think what spells use slashing damage. Cloud of daggers.
01:05:12
The Blade's Edge
Maybe you something like that. Yeah.
01:05:14
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I have no idea. I'm, I'm not in my element.
01:05:16
Alma Graves
ah But he has like cloud cloud of sharks. ah
01:05:20
The Blade's Edge
um Let's
01:05:21
Vesz'rak
He's literally just Namor from Marvel Rivals.
01:05:24
Alma Graves
Yes, there he is.
01:05:25
The Blade's Edge
So we're going to save the big one for last. We're coming up on our last couple rolls here.
01:05:29
Alma Graves
Oh no.
01:05:30
The Blade's Edge
We've got personality traits, ideals, bonds, flaws, and then it's going to be alignment is going to be the last thing we do. So, um, that's one, two, three, four, five things we're going to roll for.
01:05:46
The Blade's Edge
So let's first get, um, let's get you guys to each roll a d20 high roll. We'll go first.
01:05:56
Alma Graves
13, 14, 12.
01:05:59
Kyle
Bail.
01:06:00
Alma Graves
Wow, 12, 13, 14.
01:06:01
Vesz'rak
Let's go, let's go.
01:06:01
Kyle
Wow.
01:06:02
The Blade's Edge
All right, Tommy, which do you want to roll for personality traits, ideals, bonds, or flaws?
01:06:07
Vesz'rak
ah Flaws, let's do flaws.
01:06:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Flaws. Uh, I need a D six roll from you.
01:06:13
Vesz'rak
D6, that'll be a four.
01:06:15
The Blade's Edge
A four. I am so obsessed with sketching my ideas for elaborate inventions that I sometimes forget little things like eating and sleeping.
Character Perfection and Motivation
01:06:28
The Blade's Edge
I think what that means for me is no matter when that, no matter when you meet him, he has one level of exhaustion.
01:06:28
Vesz'rak
It's because he's underwater.
01:06:30
Kyle
He just like me for real.
01:06:36
Alma Graves
Timothy is exhausted.
01:06:36
Vesz'rak
Oh no dude.
01:06:38
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
01:06:39
The Blade's Edge
Um, okay. Next up is Kyle. Would you like a personality traits ideals or bonds?
01:06:48
Alma Graves
Kyle B.
01:06:49
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:06:50
Alma Graves
Yeah, I would like ideals.
01:06:53
The Blade's Edge
Okay. I deals, Romeo D six.
01:06:56
Alma Graves
Four.
01:06:57
The Blade's Edge
Four, it's got an evil ideal perfection.
01:07:03
The Blade's Edge
Perfection to measure a being and find it lacking is the greatest disappointment.
01:07:08
Alma Graves
Yes.
01:07:09
The Blade's Edge
He wants.
01:07:09
Alma Graves
Oh, jimothy judge jury and executioner.
01:07:13
The Blade's Edge
He wants perfection, and it's it's his sketching his ideas. He wants his elaborate inventions to be perfect, so he expects perfection from everybody else.
01:07:23
The Blade's Edge
Kyle Girard, personality traits are bonds.
01:07:27
Kyle
ah Let's do bonds.
01:07:29
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:07:30
Alma Graves
He loves his old teacher romantically.
01:07:32
The Blade's Edge
Give me a D six.
01:07:34
Kyle
D6, 4.
01:07:36
Alma Graves
Oh, three fours.
01:07:37
Kyle
Damn. 4, 5, 4.
01:07:38
The Blade's Edge
I repair broken things to redeem what's broken in myself.
01:07:43
Alma Graves
Oh. wow
01:07:47
The Blade's Edge
Um. OK, so he's he's obsessed with sketching these ideas, creating the perfect thing because there's some self loathing going on. He expects everybody to be perfect because he himself is a perfectionist and is never happy with what's inside of him.
01:08:03
Vesz'rak
Oh boy.
01:08:04
The Blade's Edge
I love it. This is feeling very evil to me. But maybe he can be evil. who Evil people can be saved. Who knows? um Tommy, let's get a personality trait D6 D8.
01:08:14
Vesz'rak
All right, DA, I'm hoping it's a four, Brian.
01:08:14
The Blade's Edge
Sorry, D8.
01:08:17
Vesz'rak
It's an eight.
01:08:18
The Blade's Edge
And eight, I don't mind getting my hands dirty.
01:08:22
Vesz'rak
This guy, he's so evil, bro. We just made evil Jiminy.
01:08:25
Alma Graves
Oh, shoot, man.
01:08:25
Vesz'rak
Oh no, dude, he's so evil, man.
01:08:28
The Blade's Edge
Uh, Kyle beams pick another one because they can have multiples of these things.
01:08:32
Alma Graves
Yeah, V8, five.
01:08:33
The Blade's Edge
No, no, no. I mean, pick a ah personality traits, ideals, bonds, flaws.
01:08:37
Alma Graves
Oh, I want another personality trait, A5.
01:08:39
The Blade's Edge
Okay. What'd you get? Okay. Five. Uh, I'm not afraid of hard work. In fact, I prefer it. So a bit, this guy's a bit of a workaholic perfectionist workaholic who's never happy with anything.
01:08:53
Alma Graves
Fantastic.
01:08:54
The Blade's Edge
Um, Kyle Girard now pick ideals, bonds, or flaws.
01:08:59
Kyle
Have we done an ideal?
01:09:01
The Blade's Edge
Yes, it was evil perfection to measure a being and find it lacking.
01:09:02
Kyle
Oh, oh.
01:09:05
The Blade's Edge
It's the greatest disappointment.
01:09:06
Kyle
Let's do another ideal.
01:09:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Give me a D six.
01:09:11
Kyle
Five.
01:09:12
The Blade's Edge
Five. Reflection, muddied water, always clears in time.
01:09:21
Vesz'rak
I feel like he's pretty complete. I feel like everything's leaning into this water guy. I love it.
01:09:26
The Blade's Edge
Well, let's get, we got, we got two more and it'll be a Tommy and then Cal beams Tommy, but you first and you can pick a bond or a flaw.
01:09:34
Vesz'rak
Oh, I'll do, i'll do a I'll do another flaw. I'll do another flaw.
01:09:37
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Give me another D six.
01:09:39
Vesz'rak
E six, a one.
01:09:41
The Blade's Edge
A one. I don't know when to throw something away. You never know when it might be useful again. That's why he has the algebra book.
01:09:50
Alma Graves
Oh, that's why he's going to keep one of us alive in the future.
01:09:51
Vesz'rak
Oh, we're cooking here.
01:09:54
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:55
Vesz'rak
We're cooking.
01:09:56
Alma Graves
Oh, shit.
01:09:56
The Blade's Edge
Uh, so, uh, Kyle beams, give me that bond D six.
01:10:00
Alma Graves
D6 coming at you with a five again.
01:10:02
The Blade's Edge
A five. I will craft a boat capable of sailing through the most dangerous of storms.
01:10:09
Alma Graves
He's going to create a sky ship that sails us out of Barovia.
01:10:13
The Blade's Edge
So he's so obsessed with sketching his ideas for elaborate inventions.
01:10:13
Vesz'rak
Holy shit.
01:10:17
The Blade's Edge
The invention obviously is this crazy boat that can go through the most dangerous of ah storms. ah He doesn't know when to throw stuff away, including ideas for things that haven't worked. He's obsessed with perfection, but also reflects a lot on the things in the past.
01:10:35
The Blade's Edge
These things that he never throws away, he reflects on them. Muddied waters clear away with time. He's not afraid of getting his hands dirty. He's not afraid of hard work prefers it now last.
01:10:45
Alma Graves
Jimmothy da Vinci
01:10:47
Vesz'rak
This is such a fun way to make a character holy crap. I didn't think it'd be this fun.
01:10:51
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I love doing this dude.
01:10:51
Vesz'rak
I love it.
01:10:53
The Blade's Edge
Last but not least. Alignment seems like something we should get each of you guys on. I'd love it. If you guys each roll the dice, we add it together and I'll do it roulette style top to bottom and keep going. You guys can choose a D four or any D you want up to a D 10, let's say.
01:11:14
Vesz'rak
Give me a D10, Ryan.
01:11:17
Alma Graves
D9 from Kyle.
01:11:17
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:11:18
Alma Graves
I rolled a three.
01:11:21
Vesz'rak
I also rolled a three.
01:11:23
Kyle
Early five on a d10.
01:11:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So that's 11, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Wow. Worked in your favor, boys.
01:11:37
The Blade's Edge
Chaotic. Good creatures.
01:11:38
Alma Graves
Yeah, he just wants to get home.
01:11:38
Vesz'rak
Oh, thank God.
01:11:39
Kyle
Yeah.
01:11:40
Vesz'rak
ah
01:11:41
Alma Graves
He just wants to get home.
01:11:43
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, he's just, he's just like a little insane is what it is. That's the, the chaos of it all is that he's made a pact with an otherworldly being like Cthulhu or some great unspeakable thing.
01:11:48
Kyle
yeah
01:11:54
The Blade's Edge
And he's so obsessed with building this thing and perfection. Uh, chaotic good ah creatures act as their conscience directs with little regard for what others expect.
01:12:05
The Blade's Edge
A rebel who waylays accrual barons tax collectors and uses the stolen money to help the poor is probably chaotic. Good. Love it.
01:12:14
Alma Graves
Love it.
01:12:16
The Blade's Edge
We've got jimothy here and this was a ah lovely little graveside chat.
Fan Engagement and Session Preparation
01:12:25
Vesz'rak
We're a fleshed out character, man.
01:12:26
The Blade's Edge
What a flushed out character. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you guys for helping me build jimothy. Now it's up to me. You know what? Hey, just for me, last but not least, a role that you guys don't know what it means.
01:12:39
Alma Graves
Oh, I like that. What are we rolling?
01:12:40
Vesz'rak
Ugh.
01:12:40
Alma Graves
What are we rolling?
01:12:41
The Blade's Edge
Um,
01:12:44
Alma Graves
D69, D69.
01:12:44
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you, uh, no, why don't you each roll me a 15, um, each roll me a D 20. Let me know what it is. And I'm gonna have to divide that by three.
01:13:01
Alma Graves
Seven. 19, six, 25, 32. That's going to be a 10.66, repeating, of course.
01:13:09
The Blade's Edge
So all my, all my, you roll the seven college, you roll day 19, 26. Okay.
01:13:15
The Blade's Edge
So, and then probably a 32 divided by three is 10.6. And then I'll just decide if up or down is better for that.
01:13:15
Vesz'rak
And I rolled a six.
01:13:25
Alma Graves
Roll d20.
01:13:26
The Blade's Edge
um Well, let me just see here. Let me look at the, hold on one second. As I look at something.
01:13:39
The Blade's Edge
Haha, perfect. Okay. Just write this down.
01:13:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Great job guys. And thank you everybody who tuned in for this graveside chat. We'll see you.
01:13:59
Alma Graves
Yeah, hey, who who knows how long ah or when somebody is gonna be ah interested in drawing a picture of Jimmothy for us. But if you're listening to this, even if it's six months in the future, why don't you give us a little pic of Jimmothy, huh?
01:14:14
Kyle
Some Jimmothy fan art?
01:14:15
Alma Graves
Yeah, some Jimmothy fan art. What does Jimmothy look like to you? What color is he? What color Triton?
01:14:20
Kyle
Where- where my Jimmothy stans at?
01:14:21
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:14:24
The Blade's Edge
um
01:14:24
Alma Graves
Yeah, maybe we make that a new ah new Discord rank.
01:14:28
The Blade's Edge
Fuck yeah.
01:14:29
Alma Graves
jimothy jimothy stands
01:14:30
The Blade's Edge
Timothy stands.
01:14:33
The Blade's Edge
All right. Fuck yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Thank you guys. I'm going to just choose his proficiencies and his invocations and his spells. And we will see you guys next time as we return.
01:14:44
The Blade's Edge
We're returning. but Where do we leave off? Where are people coming back in after this?
01:14:50
Alma Graves
It was at the end of the festival, we're thinking about what we're doing next, right?
01:14:57
The Blade's Edge
Oh no, you guys are in the basement.
01:14:58
Vesz'rak
No, we're in the basement of Lady Watchers.
01:14:58
Alma Graves
Or, oh yeah, we're in the basement, yeah.
01:14:59
Vesz'rak
Yeah, we're in the basement of Lady Watchers, yep.
01:15:00
The Blade's Edge
Lady watchers house with Isaac Strosny.
01:15:05
Kyle
Oh yeah, there's like 70, 70 bitches down there.
01:15:05
The Blade's Edge
ah
01:15:08
The Blade's Edge
Yes, you guys are. If you're still on this, I'll remind you, yeah you're fucking absolutely surrounded. You guys have opened the door. We pick up next time. Inabi is on the stairs.
01:15:20
The Blade's Edge
ah Isaac is in the middle of the room. Bash and Desan and Alma are by the door.
01:15:23
Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
01:15:26
The Blade's Edge
They have just opened ah in the room with you are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight skeletons in the room are one, two, three, four, five cultists, lady watcher and a some sort of demon or devil that has been summoned.
01:15:43
Alma Graves
Oh, that's right. Yes.
01:15:45
The Blade's Edge
So lots, lots to think about, but we will see you guys next time.
01:15:46
Kyle
WE'RE COOKED
01:15:47
Alma Graves
Crazy.
01:15:54
Alma Graves
On Dragon Ball Z.
01:15:54
The Blade's Edge
ah Bye