A D&D Story Christmas with RunDMG!

Thank you , welcome to a D&D story .

I am Brennan , the Irish Wookiee , and welcome to a very special Christmas D&D episode , brennan the Irish Wookiee . And welcome to a very special Christmas D&D episode . We had a great opportunity to play a charity game with Ryan as a Dungeon Master .

All right , quick , quick stuff . I went over . I viewed these previously , but it's always good to look at um . I looked over the the consent checklist stuff . Um looks good . You know I always send that out because you never know . People have a lot of sensitivities , complete strangers . You have no idea who I am . Right , I could be a raging monster .

I feel like uh you look like a raging monster in your christmas sweater I could just be like we're gonna do a bunch of gore .

No , it's like it sends off the message I'm I'm willing to listen to you . I think it's always a good step . Everything I didn't see there was no reds , which are hard lines . There were some veils , but all of those pretty much line up with . Oh , there was sexual assault . Somebody put sexual assault A-OK in my book . This is a Christmas adventure .

into the no , no questions for me . Appreciate you going over all that .

Oh , I guess we could introduce . I'm ryan , by the way . I go by run dmg online . I do a lot of social media stuff and this is , in fact , uh , a reward for one of the charity drive things I was doing . So I really appreciate y'all um doing this . This is going to be I think this is the first time I've .

okay , you going first bill yeah , I'll go all right .

So valen , dusk whisker , dusk , whisper is a a half , is a half-elf , a half-dark elf , half-human . Stands about 5'8" , lean , athletic build , vigorous due to her vigorous training as a paladin . Skin of ashen gray .

Nice . Two things One , as we're introducing everything , if everybody could change their profile name to their character's name , it would make it easier for me to reference . And then two I think I may have flubbed up a little bit so it's a shared stronghold .

So , yeah , kael Frostbane . So he is . Get to my character sheet over here , yeah . So Kael stands just under six feet tall , he's a Shatterkai elf , so he's got ashen gray skin with dark blue eyes and he's got black , raven black hair and he's got various swirling tattoos covering his forearms and neck .

Any kind of decorating going on in your section of the keep or stronghold .

Yeah , he doesn't really decorate for holidays or anything like that . Again , he doesn't like Christmas , it just reminds him of some darker days . So while he'll enjoy some of the drinks , some of the food , he typically tends to stay to himself during the holidays , so he just goes down to his basement .

I'm assuming you didn't send a letter to Santa Claus this year ?

No , no , he did not send a letter to Santa Claus this year . He hasn't sent him one in a very , very long time and in the back of his head's he's convinced that santa sat him on a permanent naughty list . That it's not something you get to change one way or the other . It's just you're born and you're on that list you're born with it .

That's his character . Bro , who would like to go next ? I can go next .

You want to go Ray ?

Sure , alright , I am Fiznak Frostgrim . He is a small , wiry little goblin . He's got greenish-gray skin , big bat-like ears and he's just wearing an oversized Santa-like coat that's belted really , really tight so it stays up and on him and all over the coat he's just covered in ornaments Just everything sparkly , glittery , jingle bells .

I'm assuming Fisnack believes them on the good list he does .

But he also doesn't realize how far he's willing to go to cheer people up and that it's not always uh wanted about like santa claus saving you .

There was like and when I looked behind me in the snow there was one set of footprints because santa claus was carrying me . Um , amazing , amazing , amazing . I love it . We have a little dichotomy . Now we have , you know , somebody on the fence . We have somebody seemingly kind of against christmas , and now we have somebody like thoroughly on santa claus's side .

Alright , so Reuben Dolphier is a centaur . He was born of a nomadic tribe that followed the red god . They were very devout followers of him , and so he was born on Christmas Eve under the light of the red comet that tells the coming of the red god , aka Rudolph's nose bringing forth santa and his sled . Uh , so his people saw it as a sign .

All right , john was the same he goes John Wick on , all of the people at the top of the list of the naughty list yeah , yeah , um , but I think in his heart of hearts , what he really wants this year is a treadmill .

Uh , he really misses the open range of his nomadic people . And so just to get on the treadmill and run for hours as if he's unimpeded by uh life of wherever we've made life , probably , you know , in or near a city , um , and uh yeah , he at least thinks he's on the nice list .

Yeah , a treadmill's a good one . Especially , it's hard getting the long ones that are centaur-like . You know long enough for a centaur . You got a very long torso there , so that's a good gift . It's probably a rare gift in medieval times .

I would assume . Yeah , we might have to go with a hamster wheel and pump water with it at the same time .

So does he sleep on straw or a bed ?

He sleeps on straw .

The bottom body sleeps on straw and then the top body has like a little side bed . It kind of just leans onto .

He does use a pillow , though , right , I mean , he's not a beast .

It is a New Year's Eve . Everybody has gone to bed for the evening , some of you a little more excited than others . You're probably expecting something really nice under the tree . Some of you are probably expecting to not have anything , just because either Santa doesn't exist or he might be an idiot , according to some .

Yeah , kael is going to grab his bow and start heading in that direction as fast as he can , so he's going to run upstairs and start heading towards them to sound the noise .

So Valen will . I'm assuming you're saying that this sounds like a violent noise .

So Valen will run towards the sound to the hall , probably bringing her sword and everything with her you can assume that you're all like , pretty adept at this point of getting your clothes on and armored in a short time , so any armor , arms and everything can come along . You don't have to worry about donning and doffing anything .

Oh then I definitely put my pants on .

Okay , yeah , oh , so , yeah . So Vaylin will obviously put all of her stuff on and enter summoner sword and run towards the to the sound until she gets close .

then she will slow down and kind of take a little bit more of a cautious approach fizz neck will get up , probably covered in decorating things and a plate of whatever cookies were left out that he stole .

And then it's going to take Reuven a good eight seconds to get up . You know just moving all his legs trying to get him under him from laying down in the hay . But once he's up he is dashing at his full speed to get there , pulling his scimitar out and lighting it up .

You all make you know different directions from the keep coming into the central location . You get there about the same time , maybe a second or two lapsing . Everybody make Perceptor .

I'm very good at this 24 .

Pretty good 30 for . Riven 30? . Natural 20 plus 10 . What ?

a kind centaur , are you 13 . An observant one , I guess , natural 20 plus 10 . What a centaur are you 13 ?

An observant one , I guess .

So with a 30 , there's not much . Little hides From your eyes , reuven , as you gallop down the stairs , entering into the great hall , you would . To your eyes it would look like somebody just Launched a catapult , catapulted something into your main keep . The floor itself is cratered , the stones split , the baseboards caved into it .

You are 100% sure You're pretty sure that's Santa Claus in the center of this room .

Alright , so I think the first thing I would do is cast Dispel Magic on the Arcane Eye to try and be to the point where we're no longer being watched For Dispel .

I can't remember if it's a high-level magic . Do I roll or do you ?

roll , I roll , so it'd be a d20 plus my spellcasting modifier I'll give you advantage on this , because I'll let that nat 20 .

He's a much nicer DM than I am , yeah .

So the top one's going to be a 23 .

Ooh 100% , I guess . How do you cast this magic ? How does this take form ?

So I clutch onto my holy amulet , which is kind of the red comet on a chain around my neck , and I laugh and roll like a bowl full of jelly and just as the ho-ho-ho echoes , it pulses on that arcane eye and causes it to dissipate .

You hear a scream kind of reverberate through this place as this mist . It felt dark , like when you were kind of battling this magic . It felt dark and it was maybe the darkest , most malign thing you've probably encountered in a long time . This was not like , hey , I wonder what's going on over here . Let me check this out .

I feel like my perception check was pretty low , so I feel like I didn't really notice what's going on ?

You're scratching your head .

I'm sorry , go ahead . I was going to ask is Kale able to track where Reuven is focused on ?

Yes , with a 23 , you also notice that there is just like a hint of red and white fabric at the center of this crater . But yeah , you notice that he did something . It was a quick little shot of magic and you can see the after effect something kind of dispersed , but you didn't catch what it was .

Okay , just based off of the day it is , he's a little on edge . You're going to see his bow's going to have a little bit of tension on it . He's not pulling it back , but it's going to have a little bit of tension on his string .

From the crater you hear a .

I know there's people in here Help .

At the ho , ho , ho . Fiznak's gonna like light up like a lunatic and he's like I know him , I know him and starts trying to shake somebody .

But since he's so small and really weak , he just starts faking himself like vibrating at the entrance of the room and you see the hand from the crater , kind of like move the entrance of the room and you see the hand . From the crater . Kind of like move aside some of the wrecked furniture .

Just .

Yeah , Kale is not going to help . I want to be very clear about this .

So Is that probably going to start bolting forward , trying to get close enough to cast Cure Wounds or something , because he's now just like oh crap , it's Santa's here , just launches yourself into the hole .

It's like two feet , which is , I mean , considering it's Starkstone Is impressive that he hit so hard . You launch yourself , you start clearing all the rubble away . You find , like on his back , you see the big puffy White beard the nice , I mean , it's a little smashed .

You don't help me fish neck . Oh , you think you can help out . Just give me one of those sweet little cure wounds .

Yeah , I'll dump a cure wound into Santa real quick .

Alright , you do that . What level ? First level , what level ?

Uh yeah it's gonna be a first level , so it's gonna be for 13 hit points .

Oh , okay , that ain't nothin' .

He's gonna take an ornament off of his jacket and like bite it open and then just pour like a magic out of it as his healing spell . It's like tinsel .

Absorbs into the skin . You hear some like the re-knitting of bones , so like some snapping that's happening underneath his coat as the bones are getting re-knit . You can notice that some of the red in his coat there's red where there's probably supposed to be some white and you can see that almost like drain away as it kind of like reforms back in the body .

Oh , you're such a good boy . I knew I could count on you . Fizstack , Could you help me up .

He's gonna start like pulling and like waving over the rest of them . God , it's Santa .

God . Santa help me up Upon the realization that that is in fact Santa . Um Reuben is gonna drop his front two horse legs down and bow and say Red God , your servant , awaits you .

Oh , I don't , I , I Red . God's a new one . You can call me Old Saint Nick if you want . Call me Santa Claus . I don't know , god seems strong .

So , Valen will take a step forward and kind of lean forward and reach out her hand to help him up and basically say welcome to our stronghold Crimson Saint .

Got a beast , man grasp as I pulled up .

It's glad that I could finally make it out here . Of course I came last year , but you're supposed to come more . You know , friends come more than just once a year . But I didn't come here just for nothing . Great turmoil is happening at the North Pole .

It's under siege by and his mouth moves and he says something , but like it's sour to your , your ear , your ears refuse to hear the name that he mentioned . You try to think of the way his lips moved , but it gets all twisted up in your mind .

It's on the naughty list and he's trying he grabs , he , he , he grabs valent . He's trying to reverse the naughty list . He's trying to put all the good people on the naughty side and all the bad people on the good side . He's trying to take my job .

So you see a light , a glint in Valen's eyes and a flash of anger across her face as she realizes that , oh , Hello .

Oh , I think he's being called by somebody else .

It's a very dramatic pause .

He gets really into the game .

He's actually on his way to the North Pole right now . He's going to save Santa himself .

Yeah . So Kale , at hearing that the naughty and nice is going to be reversed , you see he perks up a little bit and he takes a step forward and grabs Santa Claus's other arm to help pull him up .

Oh , yeah , thank you . Good , kale . I knew I could depend on you Always on the fence , but you're such a good boy .

Sorry about that . So Valen's face is kind of shining because she realizes that this is what she is here for , is righting these wrongs and giving the gift of justice . That is the gift that she provides , so she will help Santa up with .

I knew I could count on you .

Alright . So yeah , kale is going to . Once Santa's up , he's going to release his arm and then he's going to . I'm assuming we have chairs and tables in this room somewhere that haven't been destroyed .

There's a couple .

Okay , good , yeah , he's going to go over and grab a chair and place it near old St Nick .

Okay , you're still riding high on that , matt . You notice , like you know , in the kind of general shape of this room it's pretty long , it's longer than it is wide . There's a big fireplace , santa , and to your viewpoint , santa is kind of in front of that fireplace . That you know . It was right . There's fire everywhere here .

It seems to be spreading from that fire friends , we are not alone at this time from that fire .

Friends we are not alone at this time . You never know what you have in sight .

There's a darkness spreading from our fireplace . Oh what .

And as you say that he goes , oh , A multitude of black hair wrap around various facets of Santa Claus's robes and begin to tear him .

So the dark hands are pulling Santa away from us .

Away from you .

So Valen will kind of grab towards the front of his shirt to hold him his vest or whatever coat you put hands on um , you can hear the fabric , the uh , the threads , and it's starting to strain and snap in certain place .

Pull against , is it what , uh ? Is there anything else you wanted to do ? I think I sorry if I cut you off no , no , that would be it .

Just hold it , grabbing a hold of the the chest to try to hold him in place .

What else Is anybody else doing anything ?

Fiznak would probably grab onto the pant leg or something like that and maybe fire off a starry wisp at some of the hands to try to shoot him off .

You start popping off and the second you eliminate a shadowy hand with the purity of your love for Santa Claus . Two more take its place as more of them begin to envelop Santa Claus , pulling him back into last things anybody wants to .

Yep , kale , seeing this , is going to drop his bow , he's going to dash in and he's going to start using flurry of blows to keep those tentacles away from Santa Claus .

Punch , punch , punch , punch , punch , punch , punch . You're trying , you're trying , you're trying .

Doing my best guys .

You're fighting , you're slapping back these hands as they try to reach for Santa Claus . You start punching and then one of your fists , one of those attacks , one of those punches , it doesn't return to you firmly by one of these shadow hands . Their hand sprouts out of the side of that hand just to crawl up your as more of these hands start to reach .

Well , shit Huh Um .

And in fact , as you all look about the room , this room has become quite dark . All of these hands out of the shadow you find like you try to take a step forward . Around your powerful legs , you find many hands dragging you .

I think Reuven is going to just kind of wildly slash at these hands , not really sure how to do it , but just kind of every time he feels the , the fingers or the palm of it , he's going to slice down with a scimitar to try and free himself . Uh , understanding that it's just kind of a losing battle at this point yeah , it is .

Uh , it feels good in the moment . It feels like you're doing something . But you realize instant you all basically get covered and grappled by these hands and are slowly dragged into the fireplace , as all of you hear , you're mine now Santa Claus , no more escaping you naughty , naughty boy . You feel the last vestiges of light in your vision eke out .

It's so much time so much okay , uh , so kale does have uh winged boots , but he knows that if he saves himself , his companions are still going to die . Um , so yeah , he's gonna .

He's gonna look around to see if there's an alternative solution his neck also has winged boots and I assume , uh , you guys would also know this I don't think we're stopping a centaur so as a bonus action for a minute , because I'm assuming we're kind of in dim light , uh , reuben can give himself the ability to fly what .

What ? Because he's a Twilight cleric .

I love it . We can say that this is happening at night . So yeah , it is dark , so it wasn't so much like the daytime that this was happening . It was just like the moon kind of reflecting off this white snow . That was your pinprick of light . Not so much light at this point , but yeah . So that is valid . Three people that can fly . What about the ?

See you Valen .

So Valen will just fly , cast , fly , yes .

I was really banking on . It would be really funny if nobody brought Featherfall or Fly for this level 15 adventure if nobody brought Feather Fall or Fly .

for this level 15 adventure , I dropped Feather Fall right before we started . I was like , eh , what are the odds ?

Okay , so I'm assuming we all know this about each other .

Then yeah , you all know about each other's abilities Now , as you are falling , and maybe speed . I mean you have control of your flight now so you can even speed up faster to the towards the ground . Is there anything you'd like to do ? Um , and this could this is really you could try and explain , figure out what happened to you .

those things , uh , so I have two questions for you before we do that . I did say that I dropped my bow . Did I happen to grab it before I got pulled through the hands ? Got it ?

you see it flying like spinning around wildly nearby and so you can fly . At this point you run out and grab it okay , uh , yeah , uh .

Kale is going to start looking down below and see if he can determine the battle lines all right um so , as he's doing that , um reuben is going to assist the team in their ability to see and cast eyes of the night , uh , with up to five willing creatures .

say you have a dark vision , 120 normally .

But I do in fact have dark vision I .

I just put it in the chat because I'm really excited about it and I don't believe myself when I roll net 20 . So the chat's not looking for me . Oh no , it was 29 with a net 20 .

So there's a couple . The battle lines look like vision . You can tell that the battle lines are what looks to be masses of us Very colorfully dressed and colorfully equipped elves , a lot of green hats , green little vests . They're all with candy cane spears and lollipop maces .

Okay , so yeah , kale will say out loud I don't necessarily trust the tools of Yule , but it seems like they're being pushed by the undead .

Anybody doing anything else , as you fall .

Well , vaylin , not being a fan of undead in general , things that are dead should stay dead , and as she's coasting and flying down , she will be launching Eldritch Blasts at them as soon as she gets within 120 feet , she starts launching Eldritch Blasts as with she'll be holding her ornate sword out in front of her and pointing it , and the Eldritch Blast are

Yeah you , uh , it's , it's easy pickings . This mass is so big that it's it would be much harder to miss something than to hit it . Um , you do notice that even just with your meager even there's your regular shots as you're coming down here it's making some effect .

preparatory things you can do preparatory spells now , if you want in so two things that Reuven would be doing . So one he would fly over to Fisnack and allow Fisnack to mount him in his saddle of the Cavalier .

Fisnack just settles right in .

And I do have a 70-foot fly speed because I also have the horseshoes of speed . I have a flying centaur that can cover a map uh , and then kind of like one round before hitting uh , reuben would cast on himself spiritual gardens , guardians of fifth level , and so you just see these tiny sleighs pulled by reindeer of radiant light that circle around him .

Fiznak is going to see him casting his spiritual guardians and he is going to see him casting his spiritual guardians and he is going to A light show . That's a great idea .

Amazing . So intermeshing spirit guardians come forth . You're a little bit almost like a Death Star , approaching all of these spirit guardians . You all land on the ground , melee in front of you . These elves are fighting for their lives . You know that you could be the tipping point .

Yeah , so I'm on the ground now .

Yeah , we'll say that for the sake of argument . Everybody's on ground now , Okay .

So , yeah , what I want to do is Kale's going to be looking around , he's going to try to find , he's going to try to find the best way , see if he can see Santa Claus first off , and then find the best way to see if he can see Santa Claus first off and then find the best way to get to him the shortest route possible , whether that's maybe not the

So whatever skill that you can convince me of . So like it'd be like oh , I think this is going to be a performance check , but like , if you can convince me of it , it's good to go . So , okay , this , uh , perception investigation . What is this ?

what I want to try to do is use survival , using follow tracks , being able to find a trail , avoid hazards I I buy that . Go for it . So plus nine that gives me 15. , 24 .

24 . That's a success .

Let me so . Is it the entire group needs to have five successes , or each of us need to have five successes before three failures the entire group has to have five successes . It's like we're going to be here a while .

Yeah , I was just trying to do a combat here , but then it's going to take forever . Yeah , so I love skill challenges for this , so it gives the possibility of a combat . So you do that . You clear your mind for a second .

Okay , can I say anything ? You can do it . I'm going to say loudly , as loud as I can , this way , what would I call him ? Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba . I guess I'm trying to get the elves there too , this way to St Nick as loud as he can , to try to get not only my party's attention but also the elves to kind of muster behind us .

You , you , you ring out and they almost threw a game of like telephone . They're like oh say Nick's over there , we got to go save , we got to get Sandy Claus . Um , they begin to refocus their efforts . Instead of a , a , a very spread thin line , they kind of form into a triangular formation piercing through , um , and they are making headway totally .

I'll go , so you kind of stole a little bit of my thunder , uh , but uh , so , so , so what I had planned ?

We can do a little retcon . They start to try and form up , but it seems like they don't know quite what to do and you take a step forward and begin issuing order so I only got an 18 .

So only an 18 . Good enough , it's good enough , but with what was that plus 10 ? You think I get more of it your orders bellow .

you start mixing up with some of these undead , giving them some breathing room so they can organize behind you , but your orders ring out and something about your words captivates these elves . They are in desperate need of a leader and your words sound like they're from a leader . It doesn't matter if you're from a .

So reuben um , from kind of his vantage point , coming down , uh , I feel like would have the ability to kind of , you know , look at the front lines , trying to understand what the overall strategy is with these hordes of undead . Where are the elves winning , where are the elves losing ?

You're going to roll with advantage because you have spirit guardians , and I'll say , because you're bolstering hit points , there will be an additional benefit unseen , so it's an 18 plus 15 for a 33 . Okay , okay , I thought this was going to be difficult . I should have been like ah , DC 25 .

Yeah , you should increase this , Because most of my skill checks are plus 9 .

You know what ? This is what I was talking about before , with high level encounters , but no it makes sense .

There's only certain classes that have huge skill advantages , and mine does not .

You just have a plus 10 .

Yeah , I have two skills that are plus 10 . All the rest of them are low .

I took skill expert for insight because he's got to know whether you're naughty or nice , right .

Yeah , as you're doing these strafing runs , between the strafing runs themselves , as you're launching magic against and your spirit guardians massive carnage , you're creating huge pockets in this battlefield , giving the elves a massive advantage .

So I am strapped to Ruben's back . So I am . I have my spirit guardians up , so I guess I am trying to just be a menace on the battlefield , to gain as much of the attention of the zombies as I can so that their attention's off the elves , so they have a a better fighting chance .

You're making an impact , regard , um , but yeah , roll , roll it oh , oh , okay , cool , cool 22 . 22 . Like I said , I should be 30 . That is the fourth success . You are menacing .

or it was Valen no , it was Kale so my thought is is we haven't gotten the reindeer involved right .

So , brandon , unless you've got one on the top of your mind , uh , I was gonna try to do something with a poor roll , just to see if I can have a failure .

Go for it I'm down with it okay , all right I'll give you disadvantage on this role okay , um , let's .

So what I would like to do is uh , I'm having a hard time .

Go ahead , andrew , sorry well , I mean , if you got something in mind , go for it . I don't want to . We can workshop it too , oh yeah , you know what ?

You know what . I got it Alright .

Perfect , I , I I'm definitely . This is definitely a uh , like this is gonna be a factor coming up like it is spewing out these undead like what even is it ? Um , this could be a huge decider .

It's still fine , the formation is holding okay , yeah , uh , kale will say say loudly the tower , that's where they're coming from . That's all I got for you guys . He's not a very smart man .

Hey , do what you can . Who would like to go next for successes ?

So my idea is what's the most effective unit you have against the infantry ? That's Mounted Cavalry , right . So we're going to get the reindeer involved in this . What's the most effective unit you have against the infantry ? That's mounted cavalry , right . So we're gonna get the reindeer involved in this .

Up to you . It's up to you .

Am I able to give him guidance while I'm strapped to his back ?

I think you already have advantage because I've already got advantage . You're pretty . I think you're solid . I'll go with the animal handling . I think I clicked already got advantage . You're pretty .

I think you're solid . I'll go with the animal handling . I think I clicked the right one . It didn't matter , it was a 5 plus 10 for 15 .

Two failures .

Two failures . We're actually getting some rest here .

I'm supposed to be good at that too . I'm half horse .

You gallop in the air because that's kind of I guess how you're flying is like galloping on the uh . As you're flying to the barns , you kind of make this grandiose speech like kill your arms , let us save the red god . And then you see these kind of like lilting shapes inside the barn , covered in shadow .

I got this . I got this , all right , glenn .

So Valen will see the morale start to shift and see where some of the areas are starting to weaken , and she will use her skills to awe and intimidate her compatriots into putting everything they've got into it .

so she will use intimidation hooker by crook , we're winning this fight . So 18 again hey , that's all you need , though . Um , this is a very dramatic moment . You can see that the hey , that's all you need , though . Yeah , this is a very dramatic moment .

I cannot have you interfering with my master's plan I will not do .

And as like , in the middle of him saying that a wave of elves overcomes him and starts stabbing in all the eye holes getting in the underarm ? Oh no , no , as he's like their own wave .

Using the eldritch flash is part of how she fights , but she also uses her sword as a sword . So , but she can use a two-headed sword , but will not . It's ineffective for her .

She uses a one-handed sword , so no , I'll say , if you want , if you were curious about it , you get as you approach it . It does shrink down to that . Uh , I don't have to get it , but it's available ?

She probably wouldn't . She's been using the swords of Perun , for that is her best item that she carries is her sword . No , no , it's totally cool .

Well , seeing Valen turn away , Kale would go over and pick it up . It looks cool and it really adds to his emo attire it is pretty cool .

Uh , it's a , so we'll say it's a long sword and it will just use the death knight stats . It does . Uh , depending on how you use it , it's either a 1d8 or 1d10 , but you get an additional 4d8 necrotic damage . Um , this thing is vicious and you're not . It's not like but it is a little loud . It's gnarly .

Okay , yeah , kale , you , you know he doesn't have long sword . I mean , he's got his bow and he's . He's a ranger monk , right so .

We will take many you and I new master .

Kael starts turning around in circles trying to find the voice .

Yes , we'll take up a reconnaissance position and whenever they come , we will take them .

Finally realizing it's a sword . He says the undead , though right Like , not like my friends .

Could be your friends , if you want . No , I don't .

No , I like my friends , I would like to keep them around .

Don't eat a box ourselves in no , no , no , no , Just the big guys . Anybody can be a victim master .

I feel like you don't understand what the word master means . I said not the friends .

Well , you hear it's like a whisper For now , 10-4 . For now . I get what you're saying Wink , wink Can't let people get suspicious .

The rest of the party just sees Kale talking to himself and he finally just throws up his hands and starts walking back to everybody else all right .

So y'all have reached you . Before this you were kind of outside the village . Now you are in the metropolis , santa claus proper . There is a ton of little houses , little manufactoriums , uh , there is like connected to the . You're pretty close to it now so you can kind of see how it's phased in .

Yeah , I'll roll a survival .

Oh , I Valen rolled a perception of 16 .

Okay , if you want to roll any checks for really anything at all , just let me know 13 perception , 3 plus 10 .

3 plus 10 . 16 plus 9 for 25 .

With a 25 , you're going to find , you do see , and it's less tracks , because it's wild with tracks right now , so many footprints . But you do see what looks to be some red thread heading to the east , um , and there does seem as you , kind of like head off in that direction .

You said that it was kind of diagonally cut across the top . Is this on the dark side or the Santa's side ? This is Santa's side , you must sacrifice for Santa .

No , uh , no . This is on the obsidian spire side , okay , where the entrance would like . Looking at it , you see a bunch of signs being oh , entrance to the manufactorum . I keep on . I've been watching a lot of 40k stuff . I keep on saying manufactorum To the factory , um , um .

It seems that the obsidian spire , at least a portion of it , is like erupting from , like the front half of this okay , okay , so , oh , sorry , go ahead bill I was just gonna say uh , since uh valen was rescued by uh santa as well , and in her past , and could she like remember , is there any other ways to getting through the village to get to there ?

so you were actually following like a trail of breadcrumbs from Santa Claus so you're within like eye line of it . Now you could very easily walk to this place .

There is some like meandering undead , but y'all are very high level , no trouble at all no , I was just wondering if there's a a way around through the original santa's village to get past this gate , because she doesn't have any way to get past the gate .

So you could probably assume that there's other entrances , but , like as you're looking around , like the undead are still pouring out of the spire , it would be much harder . This is this . Place is relatively clear right now and the elves are holding them at bay . You could still try and attempt to go into those places . Might be some more fighting that way .

Alright , kael , seeing all this , he's going to relay the information , but while he's relaying the information about needing a left arm , a statue missing a left arm left side of his face burnt off and it looks like an uh , like an insert for a left arm he's gonna start looking on the ground for any kind of uh , undead left arms that have been lopped off .

He's gonna .

So many , so many body parts are around here , so much so still wanting to use his new sword and uh , now he has something that talks to him finally , master , you're going to use me . He's going to pull up the longsword and find the closest undead and lop off the left arm .

Easy .

We're going to finish it right , master .

Kale just shrugs , lops off the head of the undead and then sheathes the sword .

Good , good , good , I thought it was going to get blue-sworded for a little bit . A perfect master , a perfect master . You're so good at this , master .

Yeah , again , just make sure undead . Only we talked about this .

Yes , they'll all be dead when we're through master .

I feel like we really need to work on our communications right , this relationship . We need to have a two-way communication .

We're still figuring each other out . It's fine . There's obviously a power dynamic that could be troubling in the future , but we'll handle it in time .

Yeah , so he's going to sheathe his sword and then pick up the left arm and start walking pretty confidently towards the statue .

All right , yeah , so yeah , the statue is there . What do you do when you get to this ?

So there's an actual insert for a left arm , correct ?

Yeah , yeah . So there's a statue with what's like missing a left arm , but then there's the door itself that looks like there's a bit of a stylized imprint of a face with a the hole where probably the left eye would be , and then there's like a stylized like torso .

So kale is trying to use both of his hands to try to meander these both in the same direction . Not being able to do it , he's going to kind of wave over Fisnak and ask him to push the left arm into the hole . Can you just like insert the arm into the hole ?

for me , vaylin , you of see all this going on and she will look around and see if there's another body of an undead and just pick up the whole body . Just reach down and grab and pick up the whole body and carry it over . Can't we just insert it as one ? Why do you have to have two pieces ?

Kill him now or kill her now . That's the question .

Our amazing plan that we worked on for so long .

Kale's staring at Vale and you see him start subconsciously reaching towards his sword . And then he sees his hand and kind of grabs it and pushes it down no , that's a great idea , we should try that and he kind of throws the left arm over his shoulder .

All right . So I'm assuming you kind of like press the zombie arm and body to this ? Yeah , just shove it in the hole . You've guessed my trap .

Oh , gail's going to look down and just go damn .

You can still put yourself in there the doors begin to move forward . You can if you want ?

Yeah , Kale's going to try to rush forward as fast as he can and push his left arm in and push his face against it .

Alright , so you're going to .

As the door is moving he's like walking with the door .

So , uh , ruben is gonna try and grab you and slow you in this process , and just my friend . My friend , this is not a gift that you want .

There's some obvious . Are you gonna do it or are you gonna let yourself be stopped ? No , at the first touch , he's going to do it , or are you going to let yourself be stopped ?

No , At the first touch he's going to use Blessed of the Raven Queen and just teleport himself away from the grab of Reuven to be able to push his arm and eye against the thing Inside , like your arm in the door , You're going to take some damage .

It's 10d10 .

Okay let's do it .

Let's see here .

I have 147 hit points . Let's go .

You take 147 damage , as your hand is macerated and eaten by the door . It's replaced by an ephemeral magical substitute . Your eye also is replaced with I think it's called an ersatz eye in the game book . It's basically an artificial eye you can still see . None of this affects you in any way .

Yes , that's pretty cool , master , you look cool . Your friend should also do this . Your friends could also look a lot cooler .

It kind of like you can almost feel like air , being like your friends .

Yeah , so he's going to be holding his hand against his left eye , but he's going to stand up , try to act real tough , even though he just took a crap ton of damage . Turn to his friends and he's going to go .

Nice . So Valen has a very dark sense of humor and kind of quirks the corner of her mouth up . Yep looks good .

Weird Bill . One of your characters has a dark sense of humor . It's like you always play yourself .

I rolled it up and Valen got a dark sense of humor .

Glenn is . Bill Loaded dice yes .

It was a one-sided die .

I don't think it looks great . It looks great . Can you still use your hand ?

Yeah , kale's going to flex his hand a little bit and if Fiznak's saying it looks great , he's going to pick him up because he thinks he's going to help . And he's going to try to pick him up and try to walk him to the door to help him kind of get into place .

No , no , no , I don't think Fiznak's , I don't think I'll reach across both things at the same time . I thought you wanted .

Okay , I'm sorry he's going to put Fiznak back down on the ground .

I think it looks good on you and I don't think it'll look good on Fiznak . That was cool .

And then I'm gonna put one of my little ornaments on his swords , like sheath .

I look good , don't I Master ?

You look pretty shiny . Yeah , it really completes the look .

Perfect , yes , more unsuspecting than Mork . Potential for catching them unaware . We must blend in .

I get it , because blending and handling , those are sword puns . Ha .

Ha , ha , ha ha . I'm assuming y'all would like to enter in .

I'd like to look through the door first to see if we're in I mean we have someone just blindly doing things .

So go ahead . I was just going to say Vela will also use her divine sense to detect any good or evil inside so much evil . So , what is it ?

What is ? What ? Is that a character , ability , or is that the spell , or ?

it's a paladin , it's the paladin divine sense .

So what's the ?

range on .

It is 60 feet , 60 feet for the next 60 feet . This place is . You know you get a lot of sensations from this , you know . Sometimes it's a smell , sometimes it's a sound , sometimes it's like an aura . It's none of sensations from this . Sometimes it's a smell , sometimes it's a sound , sometimes it's like an aura . It's none of it's good , it's all here .

So um Valen will uh , quickly look over at um , at , at Reuven , as as I see , as she sees Reuven looking in and trying to inspect , and we'll point out the different where the undead are it cause she could specifically sense them and that there is a crap ton of evil in this area . So what can you see ?

Let's see Be like an 18 on a perception , much as I described the phasing magic of this , the plane shift or teleportation .

It's also led to some goof happenstances , like you see some zombies shambling around with like jack in the boxes for any kind of like erupt out at strange intervals , um with an 18 , though you you catch on the music as well and it's , and as you kind of like look around a corner , this kind of just obliquely , this gothic architecture just basically obliquely ends

It appears that the transformation is not done yet . Perhaps we make haste to the source of the music and see if we can stop this Sounds like a plan to me .

So Velen will agree and start walking forward with her sword and shield prepared , ready to go , being very wary of anything .

So just a just a question for my character who is the tank in our party ? I know I'm part monk , oh , valen , okay , so uh , and are these quarters kind of tight , like short corridors as they're as we're going through these ?

so the you're still in kind of the spire section . It's big , lofty , um , lots of room in here , but like it basically like obliquely cuts into a space made for much shorter individuals like max santa height , uh , and it's a lot more compact . There's and you can actually see like lines of toys being come .

So sorry , I I instantly said that that valen is the tank . I don't . I mean , that's my assumption . She's walking around in Mithril Plate with a sword and shield and doesn't have as many hit points as you do but close and an AC of 22 . So I'm pretty sure she's the tank .

I mean , my rare item was the Amulet of Health .

so Everybody's a tank .

It's clearly Fiznak with my 14 armor class . Hell yeah the tank .

The tank is more of a state of mind than it is anything else . It's clearly Fiznak with my 14 armor class . Hell yeah , the tank . The tank is more of a state of mind than it is anything else .

I already know what I am .

I'm the mount . Yeah , vaylin is kind of like the face in the tank , so that's her role and can do some serious damage single point damage , damage and double point damage but other than that she's pretty much soaker .

I'm the mascot do we recognize what Christmas song is playing ?

what is that ?

can you hum a little bit of it ?

this is Halloween . This is Halloween .

This is you , oh no , oh , I think I know who's on the . This is .

Halloween . This is Halloween . This is you , oh no .

Oh , I think I know who's on the naughty list Bringing out Mariah .

Yeah , mariah , I was like it has to be Mariah Carey . And that's weird too , because Mariah Carey doesn't exist in this timeline .

What is this ?

foul music , but it is exactly that . Before the party gets too far ahead , Fiznak's going to be before we go any further . Just in case there's any more craziness in there , take these and I'm going to clip ornaments onto each of them and cast Aid at 8th level , so it increases all three of yours maximum health points by 35 .

Holy crap . A substantial amount of arc like magical vigor enters your body . You feel much better . It's like temporary hit points , right ? Is that aid ?

Yeah , so it's temporary hit points that you can actually heal back for 24 hours .

Yeah , so it increases the maximum and our current hit points by that much Okay yeah , you feel much healthier than you did feel like you can kind of take on anything in this .

Yeah , so at that at Fiznak's aid , Kael's going to look at his ethereal arm and touch his eyes and say , totally worth it .

Yes , master , it's all totally worth it . We should go kill those elves .

Not the elves . We talked about this . Just the undead for now . Maybe Santa Claus later .

Make them undead first , and then we will kill them , master . Okay , we'll talk about this .

We will talk about this After we rescue him . Maybe we'll kill the Jolly Jailer . We'll figure it out .

We'll figure it out . Yes , wink , wink , I have to say wink , wink .

I have some googly eyes , I can put them on the blade .

I won't say no .

Kind of a good plan uh what is y'all's next move ?

it seems like the factory . So you're still kind of in like the gothic creepy obsidian tower part , but it does seem like the factory floor is , uh , straight ahead yeah , so I think we're headed towards the factory floor .

Reuven would bend down to offer Fiznik a ride if he were so inclined , and then also cast on himself his Twilight Blessing ability to give himself advantage on any initiative checks that he has in the next period of time .

So how long , would you say , we've been here doing this , like from the time we entered in our falling state to now ?

Mostly less than an hour . This has been pretty quick . Okay , all things being said and done , do you have a time in mind or a thing that you're trying to do ?

No , if we were still within the first 10 minutes , but no , we're not .

So that was I was going to be silly Because his fly spell is no longer active .

Yes , my fly spell is out . I'm not going to hover Because I don't want to burn another spell slot .

His neck would jump up onto Reuben Just like .

All right , so as you actually exit this obsidian , this creaking place Actually , everybody make history check .

I'm so good at this . I am good at this . How good at history 19 .

I'm not 19 . Oh , I also got a 19 .

I got a 3 . Got a 13 .

19 . 19 . 19 you don't Like in the back of your head for those of you that got 19, . There is a like wrinkles bit , but it's unconnected to a person or really a place , thing called an interesting obsidian spire that has been known with masses of undead ruled by .

Cavidius .

Cavidius .

I can't remember if it's a dark temple or a paint company , definitely a paint company .

So Valen , as she's walking along , will say that this citadel , it reminds me of something . There's a citadel called Havidius and it's strange . I know that , I know who runs the citadel , but there's something missing . It's gone and I don't know why . And she will continue walking forward .

You enter into the factory proper , again , some elven eyes , like from inside . They're actually kind of like inside , inside the gift boxes you see some eyes pop up Like are you cool ? Are you cool ? Yeah , you don't shamble , so that's a good sign . You don't shamble , so that's a good sign .

So Phelan will say be at ease , we are here to help , we're saving Santa .

Oh , thank God , we watched Santa get carried to the auditorium and we were all thinking we should do something . But then , when it came time to do something , we were like you know what ? We'll wait . We'll wait for somebody that's more responsible than us . I think we all agreed on that . Yeah , cool , awesome .

Yeah , we were feeling pretty bad about that .

I have to know uh , ryan , is that your patrick warburton ? Because it kind of sounded like him . Uh , yeah , it did .

Which one ? The uh , the first voice ? Yeah , it sounded kind of like patrick warburton it goes between that and uh . John h benjamin okay , that's pretty good . I was like I could buy it . I am .

It depends on how quickly I speak . We're feeling pretty funny . He's in the auditorium . If you could let him know that we sent you when you inevitably save him . I think we've got quarterly reviews coming up and I was caught stealing slinkies and I . That's been , that has been .

So , um , so , um , Balin has pretty much after , after she realized that they're safe air , quoted um , she will pretty much just move on beyond them . They're not evil , but they're not in need , so she will move on . Um , oh , okay , oh you didn't get our names out .

Whoa , okay , in need , so she will move on . Oh well , okay , you didn't get our names . Oh , whoa , okay . Also , you know , if it greases the skids or whatever like . If you need , like , the adventurer's toy room , stop the corner there . It's got some good stuff in there . You know , I don't know how many , I don't assume to know who's on the naughty list .

There's absolutely no way I'm going to remember that .

I'm going to take the text and . Swordbro , did you get that ? To who yes ?

Okay , alright , we're good to go . Guys , we got this .

Oh , I don't know if it'll let me put it in the chat Zach's going to be having a minor freakout and grabbing Reuben's hair .

Like we're definitely on the good list , but if he takes the things first , we're going to be on the bad list . Oh no , is there ?

a neat place that I can put this , because I can't , for whatever reason , it's not letting me put it in the chat .

It's not letting you put it in the chat . It says messages fail to load .

Oh can you see the chat ? No , I can't even see it . Well , I can see it , but it's like messages have load Interesting .

I don't think they have access . Can you send it to me directly and I'll put in the chat .

Who offered to do that ?

Brandon .

Irish .

Wookie .

What is it ? It says Brandon Kale Frost , frost , bran Frost .

Bane .

As we go by this elf , ruben's just going to draw his scimitar and point it at him and say stay off the naughty list , because in his mind , right like this elf , is stealing slinkies which could go to needy kids , and instead he's pointing them for himself .

I was definitely like the capitalist system is very predatory , so I was trying to give slinkies to the less fortunate bandits in the area . Aw , that's so nice . Yeah , they needed help and they just had too much gold to be on the nice list . Just go . You know what ? I never said a thing .

He just kind of like smacks me Wrong lever .

Alrighty . So are you guys all going to I'm assuming , adventure or Toy Room ? Probably grabbed everybody's attention . Yeah , shopping trip , alright . So as you veer , there is like in front of you big thing that says auditorium . To the left it says adventurers , toy room .

Okay , so what is the configuration of the lights ?

Sorry , the sockets Are they in a straight line . They're in a line left to right .

Okay , so left to right . So Rudolph leads the way I realized this .

It says start here on the left side . Oh , no , sharpie .

So the red light goes in the left one , the green one goes in the left one , the green one goes in the the next one yeah , the green one is the second one , and then you said there's how many so there's five , five total sockets .

Uh , six total colors , but there was nothing yellow mentioned . Okay , so the thing , so it's maybe an obvious red herring . So so red , yeah it's maybe an obvious red herring .

So red yeah . I can't really tell whether it goes red . It goes red-green and then either black-blue-white or white-black-blue . I can't tell .

So I think it's red , and then the mistletoe's following , so green , and then , because you spend too much time under the mistletoe , then it's coal , and then , followed , coal is the blue .

And then white , and then white at the end . Yeah , okay .

Yeah , because I couldn't tell if the snow is never far behind , never far behind the coal and the blues or never far behind Rudolph . But if it's one sentence , so it's probably you're right . That's how I would do it . Red green black , blue , white , and while this is , going on .

Kale is just holding the sword up to his ear trying to listen to Sword Bro , it's definitely all red for blood .

It's definitely all red for blood . It's a red herring . Everything is rude . They are fools , Master Speaker .

They cannot hear me , is everybody good on that ? I believe it was red , green , black , blue , white . Everybody good yeah , that so I believe it was red green black blue , white , yeah , yeah , everybody , good , yeah , as the doors like slowly , these huge , like foot thick doors , uh , behind it you just see a treasure trove . Um , you solved my puzzle .

I was like great or poorly , it makes sense to me . Oh , that's the hardest part about this . I read something once . It was like come up with puzzles that a second grader can solve , Otherwise you're going to spend 30 minutes figuring out for your players , because to you it makes perfect sense To your players conveying , it's difficult as hell .

So back here is an assortment of pretty much anything you can imagine , if you want . I don't want to take your agency away from you . If you can find a legendary item of your choosing , you can have one , or I can give you one . It'll be somewhat at random , possibly depending on your character , uh , but feel free to peruse . Uh , it could be anyone .

That's legendary . Evidently I didn't know that . I think I know what I want . It's like a potion of giant growth .

A potion of giant growth .

There's a lot of good ones .

Yeah , Ryan , does this sword have an actual name ?

It does not have a name under the death knight thing , so it's right for naming , if you want it . I was thinking something like Derek , but that's not a very epic name . I love Derek . That is awesome . It's like people that name their dogs like Chris .

It's like ah that's a human name .

Why it's like why .

All right , so is the sword itself an actual item .

Yes , it's an item I can send you . It doesn't really have any . It's just the description of the attack that the Death Knight has . It's a longsword that does an extra 4d8 damage of necrotic . All right , I'll just make one , then , which may or may not Like . Honestly , when it comes to undead , it may not be the most useful thing to have , you know .

For everything else , though , pretty extra 4d8 necrotic damage named derrick derrick the long sword derrick and I are going to go on some adventures I've always been a fan .

Uh , in other editions , like , the weapon that the monster had would be transferable , but in 5e they don't really do that , for some reason . They say , if you fight a drow , the drow's weapon will be added to it , which I was like . But why , though ?

It's a drow . Everything they have should have poison .

They should also be carrying around gallon buckets of poison . Alright , I'm going to go bathroom , bathroom , real quick . I'll be back in five or ten minutes okay , sounds good , you sound good why ?

thank you . What insane legendary weapon are you going ?

after dude , I don't know like . I'm looking at these and you know what I keep coming back to is the Ring of Three Wishes .

Oh , shit , dude . I barely could figure out the uncommon items . I picked the Comprehend Language helmet . I just reflavored it as a Santa hat . I might grab a Robe of the Archmage Eye , though it just becomes , like my spellcasting's already obnoxious . I got the Rhythm Maker's Drum plus 3 , so I have a 21 spellcasting right now .

well , there's like four different decks now after the , after the book of many things . So there's like four different decks now after the book of many things . So there's the deck of many more things , the deck of many things , the deck of several things .

I was muted . I like the deck of several things . Couldn't really afford many things , so we just got several Right .

Look that shopkeep , she was just gouging us on the many things . So we just got several Right . Look that shopkeep , she was just gouging us on the many things .

Legendary dragon-touched focus . Once per day casts a spell first level or higher as a ninth level spell , oh dip .

Brandon's gonna doom us all .

Well , yeah , yeah , I'm not good at it . Took me a very long time to doom us all . Well , yeah , yeah , I'm not good at it . Took me a very long time to pick out weapons or pick out other items the Gloves of Soul Catching , oh my god Gold Canary .

Figurine of Wondrous Power . Yeah . I saw that too . It just summons a golden canary right so you can turn it into a giant canary that you can ride or , if you would prefer , a gold dragon I would like to see how the centaur is riding this big gold canary hither , tither staff .

Oh , that's pretty , pretty cool , though I mean .

Bill , you may want to go with a holy avenger plus three long sword extra 2d10 . Radiant to undead or fiends 10 foot radius . All friendly creatures have advantage on saving throws against spells or other magical effects damn the avenger . Ioun Stone of Greater Absorption . You can use your reaction to cancel Ioun Stones .

Alright , I'm so ready . I know what I'm choosing .

All of the attunement things .

That's a tough one . Yeah , Attunement coming into the mix .

Oh yeah , because I've already attuned Like we've been kicking around in high level things for years and years and we've acquired all of our stuff .

I also just shared the Roll20 . I imagine there might be a bit of a boss fight coming up what I'm so ready .

Where are you guys sharing that stuff too ? I'm putting in the chat right now , bud , yeah , oh , cool , cool , cool . For some reason , ryan doesn't have access to it it's , it's like weird , it's like , oh , please reload .

And then I hit the reload thing and I think it might be because we're in the podcast channel instead of the community game channel . Oh yeah , it might be because we're in the podcast channel instead of the community game channel .

Oh yeah , that might be true . We see all the things you bought . It's like I didn't buy this . I haven't spent that much money .

Crap , where's my password ? I somehow got logged out . Dun dun dun .

Oh man , I think I have to take off my cloak of keeping me somewhat safer .

That's why I figured it would probably be okay to give a little legendary , because I would imagine almost everybody has to get rid of one of the other magical items . It's a bit of an issue yeah it is .

But I figure , if you're going for the legendary item , I might as well go for the most bonkers one I could grab and go for Robe of the Magi or Archmagi . Oh , but the trade-off is I'm not as squishy . I got 17 AC now .

So I'm letting you know , Ryan , I almost chose the Ring of Three Wishes .

Hey .

I mean , that gives me so much ability to like twist things yeah . I know that's the reason .

I didn't . I'm very surprised you didn't .

I didn't , I chose something else .

Honestly , there's been a couple of things . I've always avoided giving characters , which I might try and , but I've never given the deck of many things because I've never done high enough level adventures where it really makes sense and I've never done anything wish related actually .

During our game I had the characters get transferred temporarily to another plane and they met a djinn who gave them wishes and it's still fucking with them to this day . That was like two years ago .

Always comes back around . Has everybody picked an item so far ?

I am absolutely awful at this . No , I have not , oh no wait , Take your time , no rush .

I'm still trying to find like halfway decent .

What kind of class are you , Phil ? Are you a paladin ?

No , I am a Sorlokadin . Okay , Odip Sorcerer , Warlock Paladin .

I'm a wand of the War Mage . You could take a look at power armor , I see , or powered armor , or whatever we're getting really into the Warhammer stuff now For the Imperium .

I'm actually , I think , the next . So I've got a D&D game that is winding down Tomb of Annihilation , and we're thinking about doing I think it's with Wrath and Globals the Warhammer 40k relatively new-ish .

I was reading something about it . It does look like it's going to be a good time .

Yeah , and it's got tiered play , so you can be a bunch of space marines doing space marine stuff , or you could be just like a random thug in the streets of like a hive city , trying to like eek out more than just eating corpse starch all the time . Nice , so it's got a bunch of layers to it .

Maybe the platinum scarf .

That'd be good . I was doing a real quick search and maybe a blood fury tattoo lets you do bonus necrotic damage . It lets you regain hit points on a successful melee hit . So it gives you extra versatility when you're doing ranged or melee damage . It's called a blood fury tattoo , or you can go like Like A real classic ring of spell storing .

Spell turning Ring of spell storing .

Spell turning is the legendary one . Storing just stores . Turning blocks spells , because storing is not a legendary Right .

I think it is isn't it ?

No , I think it's just no , it's rare .

Okay , my bad , so , um . So yeah , ryan Kale's gonna look around trying to ignore his sword behind him , and he sees this robe that kind of catches his eyes and he's going to walk up and grab it . And it's this dark blue robe . It's got a bunch of small white and silver stars embroidered on it and he's going to grab it and put it on .

Nice I think I like the scarf because I have to give up my cloak of protection , which loses me 1 AC . The platinum scarf . And with the platinum scarf I can pull a scale off and get a plus 1 shield which gives me back my plus 1 plus I can pull , pull scales off to heal . Oh shit , or ?

make a big ass hammer and it's like plus one .

Plus , I can pull scales off to heal or make a big ass hammer . I was like , how many scales does it have ? Oh , it's covered in them . So yeah , as many as I want , and it's . It does a breath of life . The scale disappears and you or a creature you touch gains 10d4 hit points Oof .

Nice , it's wild . Yeah , the Robe of Stars . It gives me a plus one bonus to saving throws , and then I've got six stars that regenerate at dusk . But as an action , I can pull one of the stars off and cast Magic Missile as a 5th level spell , and then also , while wearing the robe , I can , just as an action , choose to enter the astral plane .

I do it blindly , I don't even .

Fuck this centaur .

Dun , dun dun .

Alright .

Oh , Brandon , did you share that thing ? By the way , the link .

Yeah , it's in the chat oh um .

What chat are you guys in , by the way , am I ?

in a wrong . This chat right here , the podcast . He doesn't have access oh . I'll just send it to you . My bad it's probably the same damn it . Ray , you had one job .

I'm sorry so while Reuven was looking through the chest of many things or the supply closet , there was a shield that was speaking to him because it's also sentient , so it's the shield of the hidden lord yeah , from .

Baldur's .

Gate . Oh , here we go okay .

The shield of the hidden lord Celestial , the prison for a pit fiend ? Yeah , I remember reading about this one . Was it the ? Is it dragon heist ? It's uh descendants of earnest oh yeah , um , oh yeah , okay , okay , yeah , yeah did you know you're going to be voicing two objects today ? Ryan I honestly , I wasn't like there was this part of me .

So so the the best part about it is it's your ability to choose when it happens . During my turn , you can choose to radiate an aura of dread for a minute . Any creature hostile to me that starts its turn within 20 feet must make DC 18 wisdom saving throw . Failed save , it's frightened until the start of its next turn .

They're quite fine , so I'm going to lock that one in Nice For those of you , that one in Nice For those of you that are in the Roll20, . I've got some tokens selected . They're not necessarily like I'm just having a hard time finding good ones and I own them If any of these fit your motif . I remember there also being more drows .

Yeah , this is kind of close . I'll take the top left one , this one , yeah .

Alright , zoomed way in . You can't just add your own picture , I guess .

That would be a nice thing yeah .

I think with the changes to Charactermanser it became more difficult .

So can you move the token .

Let's see let's pan select .

Yeah , it should be there .

Yes , yeah , there , yes , again I'll take a bottom left , this one , yep , there's no drought , really yeah , I'll take the I'll .

I'll take whatever goblin , it doesn't matter . You guys know what I look like these are .

They're not gonna last very long . I mean , it's just for this one . What is your ? Oh , it's Bill .

I forgot about my shield . I have a shield of expression . I do too the common is some of my favorite so she was just going to be running around with it , always having a screaming face angry , screaming face . An angry , screaming face .

If everybody could test their tokens real quick . Make sure your roll 20 is sick .

I'm currently making a cup of coffee . It should be done any minute or any second , no worries .

Cup of coffee at 1030 . All right , bill , it's decaf .

It's only 9 30 .

oh yeah I forgot you moved . Yeah , central time zone .

I I'll be actually right back for hot second nice quite tired of texas , so hot here understandable . Oh , you're in texas as well yeah , my wife's in the air force , um , and she was enlisted first and then she became a mustang , become an officer from enlisted and they don't allow you to stay in the same place because they don't want you fraternizing um .

It's not the one near Pensacola .

Okay , it wasn't Pensacola , it was like a . Really I had to look it up , it was not near . She was an intel officer , so there's like a very specific place that they go to in Florida . And then there was like some railroad so I was like you know what texas is ? Fine , we'll do texas , texas , like pretty , I'm sorry .

Did you say air force ? Is that what you said ? Yeah , air force .

Yeah , okay yeah bill andrew and I were all in the navy uh , yeah , I work for the navy .

Oh yeah , I , I . I worked for , uh , the construction side um , ddg50 class destroyer Hole and mechanical electricals , which , honestly , fine with me . Yeah right , I don't need that level of clearance , I don't need that much scrutiny , I'm fine just doing other stuff . I don't need War Thunder players trying to get in my inbox asking for specs .

So I live in Houston and every time I go to San Antonio I'm just like it does get worse , apparently , in Texas .

It does fucking get worse . And yeah , the traffic here sucks . The drivers here suck really bad too , because there's so much traffic and your stop's so much worse because they're missing lights . My wife was actually hoping to go to Houston yesterday . Beyonce was at Kamala's rally . Yeah , she was like trying to get tickets . She's like I can do it .

If you want to let her know that she made the right decision not to go . They gave out 1.1 million tickets to an event that only let 30,000 in the door .

Oh my god , it makes sense . When the ticket said does not guarantee admission , I was like , that's right , you're not getting inside , you're not getting inside . I don't think she was doing a song or anything . I think she was just like hey vote for this person . A bit of a letdown .

Yeah , as of 2pm , so it was an hour before it started . The line was blocks and blocks long . Kamala didn't come on until 8 pm , so people were there for five hours for her to come on for 10 minutes maybe . Oh my God .

Yeah , I wasn't going to go because because I actually I'm getting older , so I was playing with my dog on friday I don't know it's thursday and I like strained a muscle in my , in my calf , by like standing up too quickly like playing with my dog , like trying to run around there , and I was like yesterday came around , she's like we could go , it's like I

I feel like that would be oh yeah , instead of resting this , yeah I like the game in your 30s where you play this fun game when you wake up in the morning . What part of my body's gonna make noise this morning ?

did not . It was such an unexpected thing . I was like , no , I didn't even do anything . I was like I was like laying on the couch with my leg elevated with some ice on it and my wife Jasmine came out . I was like what's wrong with you ? Maybe tore a muscle ? What did you do ? I was like I played with the dog .

I didn't want to call you out , Bill 52 a couple of days ago .

I know , oh , happy birthday . Well , sorry , 12 days ago . Yeah , 12 days , it's nothing for people . My age Blink . I was a blink . I was going to say that the fun thing is when you pull a muscle while stretching . When you get up in the morning , oh , what did I ? Oh my God .

You know , I should have known that . I had the memories pop up of us going to the wine festival last year or two years ago , and I didn't even text you . I'm gonna . I'm just a bad friend apparently . Uh , happy birthday oh thanks .

No , that's , that's cool . I , uh , I am . You might be a bad . I am awful . I don't tell anybody happy birthday and I avoid I . One of the reasons I avoid facebook is because it pops up and tells me what people's birthdays are , but I only get on Facebook like once every three months .

even official .

I mean , yes , not on Facebook , right ? So yeah , then is it even official . I mean , it's not on Facebook , it's not official .

Things can happen off of Facebook that are so true ?

No no , if it's not on the internet , it doesn't exist .

It was funny Last year when I got onto Facebook and it popped up and had happy birthdays on it and I was like , okay , I need to say thank you to all these people that say happy birthday . And I realized that the last time I was on Facebook was my birthday two years prior .

I try to go on like once every month because my mom posts on there , I have family that posts on there , so it's nice to keep a brace , but like I I get like a good five minutes like this place . Like I don't know , facebook has gotten so bad . Oh yeah , we used to post stuff on facebook .

At the hell man , what the hell man .

I was like this is the time I don't post on fucking Facebook anymore . Wild stuff , Just absolutely wild .

It sounds like the guys that would keep you out of the shops in the 90s . That would have the sweatpants up to the chest and if you couldn't recite the full spell of 3.5E , you were not sitting at the table .

That's one of the reasons , like I've heard , warhammer 40k can either be immensely cool , like the people playing it , or just evil . Ever Like , just like .

Yeah , you , you . You just tell people that you 3d print them and it's like they start hissing at you , it's it's awful man like I spent .

You know there's one of the reasons I haven't gotten 40k also is like I know I will spend on it yeah , there was a video where they were talking about like , if you want to get into the really big mech ones , it's like rand , yeah , like pieces and parts separately and that's unpainted , um , so it's just like and then you're spending another couple grand probably

Alright , y'all ready . Yeah , ready . Did you choose a ?

legendary item . Yes , I took the robe of the Archmagi , so now I'm just a big old glass cannon of Christmas whimsy .

Awesome .

For the radio aspect , we'll start in the toy room and you will all emerge with your item and you can make love it awesome . For the radio aspect , we'll , um , we'll start in the toy room and you will all emerge , uh , with your item and you can make it's going to make your character incredibly broken .

Yeah . So Kael is going to start looking around , and he's going to the entire time . He hears the sword talking behind him and he's trying his best to ignore him so he can focus on the items in front of him . But one thing catches his eye , and it's this robe .

I was pretending to say something . I was like were you about to say something ? Right , I was . I was pretending to say something .

Am I gonna say something ? Yeah , you put it on and no additional voices into your head , which , honestly , probably a sigh of relief . Probably , good , yeah , so , uh , yeah , he , he chose the robo stars , so it gives me a plus one bonus to saving throws . I have six stars on the upper front portion that are very large compared to the others .

Pretty useful item , honestly Great . Pull you step out , flare your robe and wait for somebody else to exit .

Vaylin went a little mundane . She picked up the Platinum Scarf , which has three functions that it can do . One of them is producing a plus one shield , which is a Platinum Shield that she can use as a shield for an hour . Another one is a . Basically she can pull a scale from the platinum scarf and heal somebody for 10d4 .

You have a nice warm comfy like hand-knit , with a bunch of I guess it's like sequins of scales on it that you can use .

I'm picturing it kind of like a dragon skin type of scarf , like a platinum dragon . That's what I'm picturing it kind of like a dragon skin type of scarf .

Yeah , yeah , like a platinum dragon . That's what I'm picturing it as my mind goes towards like gold , lame , but platinum lame .

But yeah , no , I dig it and I'm thinking like tassels on the end of it , so like she's got it like thrown over her shoulder , Like the classic the way you wear a scarf , kind of like wrapped around and not hanging down and just kind of like dangling there and it compliments her her outfit very well radiating so as Reuben goes into the toy room , he's

Pick me up master , we can do such great things but as they're having kind of this middle conversation conversation , he finds out that , while the shield is of celestial origin , origin , it's actually a prison for a pit fiend that fashions itself like a god , which doesn't sit well with him being the good cleric that he is and the loyal follower of santa claus .

I promise you I'm much better than that scroll .

And so by using an by using an action Quiet you Using an action , my support is out there somewhere . Quiet you . Using an action to read the skull , I cause a comet to fall from the sky and crash into the ground at a point I can see up to a mile from me . I must be outdoors when I use the scroll or nothing happens and it's wasted .

Okay , so a bit of a nuke .

you could say Good thing I can go to the astral plane .

Oh my god , just arm straight out between you and it . You just kind of like walk . Oh , I don't know if you guys seen Anchorman , but it's when Brick has the grenade . Yeah , yeah , you find the scroll of the the comet a very rare and powerful spell .

oh no , oh my god , I was very tempted , but when it said that I couldn't control it , I figured like one epic fight is enough for a one-shot .

So you've got the scroll . We've got one last person cruising the Adventurer's Toilet .

Fiznak's very torn , very torn about taking something from the room in fear that he will not be in Santa's good graces .

You're all armed a little bit more better at the armor . That's a good one , all right . You've all exited . You're all armed and armored in various new toys that you found . Maybe they were meant for you all of the long , all along . Maybe these were actually always supposed to be yours .

So you said we're walking into what's in the room .

It's a giant auditorium but the doors are still closed . You haven't entered through , okay , but you can assume it's a pretty large auditorium where probably most , if not all , listen to Santa talk about his vision for the next year .

This is when we find out that Santa's actually running an MLM scheme and like calls them in for sales .

Yeah , yeah . So Gale is going to reach in his pack and pull out a a small feather , or sorry , a small tuft of fur . He's going to throw it on the ground while saying some words and he's casting Summon Beast and a small dog-like creature , kind of in the shape of what can only be called a vicious chihuahua , takes form next to kale .

So uh , valen will , um , look down at her shield , her uh , what do you call it ? Um her shield of expression , and realize that this shield of expression , the expression part of it , can actually peel off of the shield .

Question I have are you going to burst through the doors in dramatic fashion or something ? A third option , potentially . How would you like to end ? I ?

mean , I'm not great at stealth , but I am in plate .

I got you .

I mean , I'm not bad at it . It's mithril plate , so it's .

I'm gonna , I'm gonna take back the Summoned Beasts , if you don't mind me retroing , okay . So yeah , kael's gonna stand , walk towards the door and turn around to all of his companions , and he's going to suggest a little louder than he wanted to . Why don't we try to sneak into this place ? Why don't we try to sneak in here ?

Ensconced in heat . Every time you place your foot , the sound is muffled . Quite sneaky , right .

Okay . So when Valen starts sneaking , you notice the expression on the shield , the eyes get kind of squinty and the face squishes down a little bit , so it looks like she's hiding . I see .

Fiznak got a 25 on the stealth oh . I guess you want to roll for that .

Go ahead and roll stealth checks as you approach the door .

Oh , I got the fat dragon . Oh nice , nice , natural 20 . 20 . Stealth , all right . So plus 9 , naturally , and with a plus 10 on top of that . Oh , I'm glad I had that . Total is 29 .

Because plus 19 ? Am I able to guidance our friend ?

yeah , you guidance yeah all right , well , with the pass without a trace , I was up to 22 , and so now I've got another four with the guidance . We're also sneaky , sneaky , yeah you 32 , and so now I've got another four with the guidance of 26 . We're all so sneaky , sneaky .

Yeah , you , so I'm sitting at 32 .

So you all hunker down kind of slut Like and honestly in a complete you slip through kind of ambling chairs and I'll bring you that . I set up just for reference purposes .

Santa Clause so upset , but just think about it it's retirement . You've worked for so long and we all know the Santa Claus that if you're to fall , that the person that begets your falling is the new Santa Claus Dying . New management , giving away toys , secrets to little boys and girls all around the world . What are they going to use it for ?

I knowing all of them . Knowing all of them would be a . So you see , kind of monologuing to Santa Claus , who's upside down , you see there's like a ritual circle that's been laid out . There's three big braziers that are unlit and Santa Claus kind of like almost in terms of like wrestling in the 90s . There's almost like a what is it ?

Is there anything you'd like to do , as he's kind of like kind of sticking it to Santa Claus at this moment , trying to like monologue to him , and he's going to whisper an elvish swift death to my enemies , and I have now marked him as my he's , so he is now my sworn enemy until it dies , or until dawn seven days later .

I'm your enemy child . How can that be ? You wear my mark , you have my eye in your Kind of does a dramatic turnaround . How could I be ? I give you you those are my gifts to you . I am santa claus . He kind of like puts a little red furry cap on his head , or maybe not now like I still have full use of my body right .

Like it's not okay , all right good , like the one .

Catch . All of that is like you get inside , you take damage , you get the stuff , but he can see through the eye . Oh no , I don't think he's lying to a certain degree , okay , and you feel that too . You feel that kind of twinge in your hand and your eye . You don't have the last control of it , but they are definitely gifts .

Okay . Well , that's what I'm doing in preparation for this .

Oh , I'll swear you'll have this jolly fat man done that much for you in the past .

I've spent millennia on the naughty list . He has done not . Did he not let ?

your parents die . He kind of like points over to Kale and Valen kind of had like some parental death going on .

Valen's parents died , but actually Santa saved Valen , so this is more of like to Kale . His parents died , but actually Santa saved Valen .

Ah , gotcha , gotcha . So this is more of like T'Kale . He let you up , he could have saved them ?

And you too , Do you think if you had wished for your parents to live another fat man ?

he gave you paltry presents and then ignored you for a lifetime .

And then knocked on your door when it was convenient for him . Does he love you or does he ? You worship a god that does not exist ? He is no red . He is a fat man with a beard who gives presents to children and forces a whole factory floor of peasants to work under him . He is no righteous god , he is a capitalist .

Um . So Valen looks at whoever this person is talking um and kind of cocks her head a little bit and says I think you misunderstand the purpose here . My job is not to defend him , my job is to defend all . I deliver justice , I deliver vengeance .

Oh , go ahead . Oh , no , no , no , I'm sorry , go ahead , ryan , oh you're a woman with vengeance in Vecna the Whispered One and let's roll for initiative . Can I ask for a favor before we start this ? Ryan Sure , so Kale's kind of on the edge with all this and bringing up his parents and everything .

you will , yeah , do an insight check insight check .

I got a plus nine of this . That's pretty good .

23 yeah , like there is a part of there's . Definitely he's touching like some sore spots for you , but , like everything about this guy is like he is not gonna be better than santa claus . Santa claus at least doesn't sacrifice people .

Valen got 18 , 1 to 8 one of the feats I took was alert , so I have a plus 13 to initiative it's a 14 for Reuven a 22 for Kayle . I think I rolled a plus 13 .

If they roll 20 , things a 20 , then I have a 24 .

Okay , yeah , all right , sorry I might have to go . Reuben was what ? 14 . 1-4 . You might be able to add in the stuff yourselves Valen was 18 . 1-8 . Kale 22 . In the stuff y'all selves . And then valen was 18 , 18 , kale 22 . For vecna , unfortunately I .

Some might say a god .

Maybe , what's a god doing ? What's a king doing ? Alright , so Descending Order . Luckily I'll get to go first . They roll . I roll really bad . Also the um .

So he's going to take off one of his baubles again , bite the bottom off of it and just whip it as best he can . If I have to move closer to get to that , I'll do that . But the range for Slow is 120 feet .

Yeah , within that range he , he's 115 , so just inside that bubble a wisdom save of 23 oh yes , that's such a let's go .

Yeah , it's . Uh , you get a negative two to your AC , uh , dexterity saving throws , Uh , a negative two to your AC and dexterity saving throws are negative 2 to your AC and dexterity saving throws and you can't use reactions . On its turn , it can use either an action or a bonus action , not both .

Honestly very good on this turn . Yeah , after your turn , vecna is a little angy , so I also want to inspire Kael oh perfect my boy action actually won't be able to use anything . I think that range is yeah .

So he's like I could do something and then realizes y'all are way .

Oh , actually I won't be able to use anything . Yeah , it's 60 . I think that range is 60 . Yeah , so he's like I could do something and then realizes y'all are way too far away for him to be able to actually reasonably do anything . So legendary , he doesn't take the legendary action All right Valid . I believe that is your turn .

I did have a question . Like I said earlier , I don't play rangers very often , so I have two abilities here . The first is it lets me , whenever I take an attack action , I can attack twice whenever I take an attack action on my turn , so that's just an extra attack .

But I also have . Which kind of ranger is it ? Is it the Gloomstalker ?

Yeah , it's a Gloomstalker .

Ah yeah , you get that additional attack on the first round .

Yep , but I also have Dread Ambusher , which at the start of my first turn of each combat my walking speed is increased by 10 . If I take an attack action on that turn , I can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action . So between those two abilities , do I get three attacks for the first turn ?

Yes , I love the first one .

It's so good , all right All right , so good that first round .

And that extra one also does an extra D8 of damage extra one also does an extra d8 of damage . I think it's force damage .

Okay , and I have my Oathbow , which deals . I've marked him as my sworn enemy , so I get an extra 3d6 against him , alright . So yeah , I'm gonna take my Oathbow out and I'm gonna say something real like dorky , like uh , uh , let's end this Falala , far , farce . And uh , I'm gonna start shooting my bow at him as I'm slowly walking towards him .

Uh , he's going to use shield as a reaction , bringing his ac up to 22 , so I believe only the nat 20 is going to hit right only the second one yep , only the second one yet so that's 3d6 .

Do you do anything special with nat 20s for attacks ?

oh yeah , double damage double damage .

Nice alright . So my original 1d 1d8 plus 4 is a 11 and then 3d6 on top of that is a 14 . That brings it to 25 , so 50 damage 50 damage .

This is a significant hit . You get like this .

Okay , was it just me .

No .

It's not .

We lost him , Ryan no , no On a cliffhanger .

How much damage did you do ?

Only one of three attacks hit because I used shield , so I only did 50 damage . I would have done a lot more . This oath sworn bow is kind of ridiculous .

So if you want , right now , while we're waiting , click on your token in roll 20 , and click the gear and you can add your your name and then it will pop up on the left in the initiative tracker so that you can actually see who's going when .

He's restarting . He'll be back , alright , thanks for locking us down , andrew .

My pleasure yeah thanks for including me .

This was a lot of fun .

Yeah , I don't think I can be a DMF to this guy . He's much better than I am . He's a professional , just different .

Just different oh man you say he's a professional yeah , he gets paid to do this shit oh yeah , no , I follow him on Instagram .

When Andrew sent me the thing , I was like , oh snap , a D&D story is great . That's why I did fan arts for it . When Andrew sent me the thing , I was like , oh snap , a D&D story is great . That's why I did fan arts for it . Hey , he's back Now . I do more 3D stuff . Now I got to make more cool stuff for the show .

Hell yeah , hey Ryan .

No longer wanting to play nice , all right . So where did I drop out for y'all ?

because I probably didn't notice yeah , he said that he did 50 damage yeah , 50 damage you said is a significant hit .

And then that's when you froze like this significant hit and like the arrow , almost like passes . And then you can see this burst of energy coming from the arrow , you know the empowered by the oath bow , and maybe just something a little extra . You are pissed off . This guy is lying to you and that fury you know top bringing up your parents . Like that .

So I've got 45 feet of movement plus the 10 excuse me , 55 . I'm going to move myself over to here . So I've got 45 feet of movement plus the 10 . Excuse me , 55 . I'm going to move myself over to here .

Valon is now here , all right , so Valon will start walking forward as well . Oh , I can't do anything . I can't move my . Oh , there we go . So are these five-foot blocks ?

Yes , they should be at least there is also a ruler Bill .

How do I get rid of these things ? Hold on , sorry , my screen's off . Everybody's little pictures are all over , right in the way .

Oh , if you hit the , you got it .

Yeah , I just slung them out of the way . All right , so she will start walking forward and then , as she's walking forward , who did you shoot ?

Vecna , the main boy .

Okay , so I am . So . Valen will use as she starts walking forward . She's still not within Where's the ruler . Vaylin will use as she starts walking forward . She's still not within Where's the ruler . Okay , she's still not within 30 feet . She is going to use her sorcery points and quicken a spell as she's walking forward . She will cast Eldritch Blast at Vecna .

He casts shield as a reaction to the arrow , so his AC is a little higher than normal . He can still roll the attacks and I think he's at 3 at your level for Eldritch Blast .

No , because she's only a level 3 Warlock .

Well , for that , for Cantrips , it's full level . Whatever your full level .

Oh really .

Oh For invocations . For different invocations , like for for different invocations , you have to hit that warlock level to actually be able to access them . But if you take a cantrip as like a , like a magic , magic initiate , and you're a warrior or whatever and you're level 20 , it does the full damage .

Wow , all right , so it will be three of them . So that's kind of cool , and so she will cast . So is it three separate attack rolls or one attack roll for all three ?

If you want to do it for expediency sake and risk it for the biscuit , you can do one for all three . But rules as written it's . You do an individual attack roll for each one .

Okay , I'll do each one that that's fine and they're all at advantage , or nope , they're not disregard , they're not , because they're not sorcery . Sorcerer spells , that's a miss . Uh , 15 , a natural one and a 17 .

and a 17 . Basically , it's almost like streams of water that just kind of like hitting the outside of a car as they just stream over the shield .

That pitiful bargained magic is nothing for hundreds in comparison for hundreds of lifetimes of learning . Know your place in comparison for hundreds of lifetimes of learning . Node your place Um .

can he do anything ? Yet ? No , he cannot . He has no cantrip to offer that range necessary .

I see your ruler . I'm not coming any closer to you , alright .

Reuven , it is now your turn .

Alright , uh , reuven , it is now your turn . All right , reuven comes charging in based off the insult that his god is not a god as he passes by Velen , he is going to tap his longsword is what you have , yes and cast on it 5th level holy weapon .

no , and he is going to say , is Horn of Blasting ?

No , and he is going to summon 4d4 plus 4 Warrior Spirits .

I'm going to get something suitably for token-wise that you can use A lot of . With that many potential little beans around , it could get difficult .

Yeah , so I rolled poorly so I'm updating my spreadsheet . I only got 11 of them out of a possible 20 .

I thought it said 4 .

It's so much worse than I thought it was and so what everyone else is going to see is 11 dwarves , humans , elves , just kind of a mix of all of them , mall Santas just apparate around Vecna in his tarrasque , and so they're just these , you know disgruntled , looking kind of late 30s guys , reek of cigarette , smoke , kind of question what they do with their

Does it say if they act on this turn or if that becomes , or is it like next turn ? Does it say they have actions this turn ?

No , it just says statistics of a berserker return to Valhalla after one hour when they drop to zero hit points . I can't use the horn again for seven days and they are friendly to me .

Would you mind , just so you can handle the sheets for the berserker , since you're the only one doing the rolls and stuff do you have access to that in any way , shape or form ?

Yeah , I've got the access to the sheet and actually , in preparation , built a spreadsheet so that we're not going to wait for me to roll 11 sets of dice with advantage .

Alright gotcha , gotcha , gotcha Good . But yeah , depending , so I'm going to assume they can take actions If you blow the horn without having proficiency with all medium , do you have ?

I have proficiency with all weapons and armor Dang that would be such a cool turn Alright .

Oh crap , I did so . I was like I wanted too many monsters on the field .

I'll keep it to one minion I , I was actually a whole battalion . It looks like only the first 10 will be able to attack um , because they don't only reach first 10 . just let me uh , let me know how many are attacking whom and what the attack rolls .

These are all for Vecna first .

Yeah , that's 7 damage . All right , those 5 are Vecna . And then on the Tarrasque , 19 ? Nope , okay , the 18s are going to miss 24 . 24 will hit . Alright , that's four damage , and then everything else is 19 or less Nice .

Don't worry , I'll go in and I'll start numbering them . I got them colored too , so that would make it easier to be like oh , I want orange , guy pink . Such a wild turn . Alright , they're all color coded now anything else ? Is that all you got on your turn ?

that's everything .

I have alright . Well , at the end of your turn , before it is actually Vecna's turn , he finally gets to use a legendary action so cool of your turn , before it is actually Vekta's turn , he finally gets to use a legendary action so cool To make this also a really long time . He is going to use all three legendary actions and use , disrupt life .

Is that enemies only or all living things ?

All living things .

You can tell that he's moving the magic in such a way , only or all living things . I think it's all living things , all living things .

He's like moving the magic in such a way that it doesn't seem to be directly affecting Xanny . I also need a roll .

What about his Tarrasque as well ?

Tarrasque seems to be an undead of Tarrasque .

Oh shit . Alright . So the ones that pass you said it was the DC 18? . Oh shit , alright . So the ones that pass you said it was the DC-18? .

DC-18 was Constitution Saving Throw .

Yep . So green-orange will pass Purple will pass Green and blue separately , or sorry , no , blue and red pass separately , they pass holy .

So , uh , if they take , they take eight points of damage , because that was actually kind of a crummy roll , uh , since they pass but everybody else takes six . Okay , I'm writing them down . So many many things to manage .

Yep , that's why I built a spreadsheet .

Yeah , that's honestly a great idea , such a good idea . It is now the Lich Propper's turn . Just a little bit Feeling a little bit naughty , feeling a little bit angry . Definitely wants to take some aim . I gotta get my ruler out and see what the distance is . Oh , there's a ruler , alright , so oh , I can't get you .

Oh , I don't like that . Constitution saving throws Okay .

Plus 5 . And the DC is going to be an 18 .

17 plus 5 is 22 .

26 . You both pass . You take half damage . You're both going to take half of 19 . It's just 9 points a day . Love a cloud kill . It does remain , though , um , so it is going to last . I can't use that , um . Oh well , actually there's one thing that does happen .

Take the damage away .

Yeah , take the damage away . Sorry about that I forgot to concentrate on something mysterious . He'll just cast a fireball . Then you can use your same rolls for the resistance because you both pass . That seems fair and I'll just roll 8d6 and then you'll take half of that . He pops you with a 5 .

Oh , hold on a second Go ahead . Hold on one second . Hold . Counterspell oh , yep , I am , it's 60 . You're correct ?

Yeah , so instead of taking half of 19 , you take half of 28 . So it's going to be 14 points of damage to each of you , but there is no continual effect . That'll be the entire time .

That's worse .

Slightly worse , slightly worse , Well I would have been able to poison you at least another . It would have stuck around for a while . I would have been able to poison you at least another . It would have stuck around for a while , and I could have been harassing you with it for a bit .

How much did you say total ?

14 ? Because you saved 14 points . Sorry about the confusion . That's the Lich's turn . It's the mini Tarrasque's turn . It can only attack once , so it's going to attack the blue . It's going to attack the blue . It is going to go for a bite . It has plus 19 to hit , so it's probably going to do it .

It hits . It hits . It hits .

Plus 19 . It's going to do 30 piercing damage . Holy crap .

Alright , blue's looking a little rough .

It basically bites on the leg and just immediately starts to rip on it . Yeah , it's got . It's miniaturized in hit points and it doesn't have legendary actions or legendary resistances , but for the most part it remains unchanged From regular Tarrasques , oh man , these teacup Tarrasques .

Yeah totally .

He's going to cast a cantrip . He's going to cast Ray of Frost at you . Does a 23 hit ? It hits For 19 cold damage . Most of the time the rays of frost you've seen are pretty meager measured . This one is like a cannon hitting you in the chest , covering you in frost , and you now move .

I think you're moving . I'm down to 60 feet from my movement speed .

Just a paltry 60 feet until the start of your next turn , so I do have a question .

Uh , I'm wearing a saddle of the cavalier which says that the attacks against the mount are at disadvantage . Does that apply to me if I'm not currently a mount ?

you're currently not like you are . You're you , you are the things . I don't think that counts . Okay , and also , and also , in my defense too , I rolled a 23 and a 23 on the attack , so okay , yeah , the same um , yeah , so that's one legendary action down . Uh , it is now fizz . Next turn . Some stuff is going down .

No bueno , no bueno , no bueno , no bueno , no bueno . Well , I gotta see how far away I am from the good stuffs . Oh , sorry , sorry . I think I should be good to use cantrip or two , but I have slow up on the Tarrasque . I want to keep that going and then I'm going to pop off . Was that the story ? No , it's 60 feet . Firebolt at Vecna .

It's a 26 to hit 26 is going to hit Nice , nice , nice .

Or 19 fire damage , nice , nice . Or 19 fire damage . Nice . Not nice actually . No , I wanted to fail .

You can see that he takes it and he immediately continues to keep chanting . You can see his lips are moving . But a big portion of him puffs up in smoke and turns to ash . Cool , cool All right , I think that's gonna be movement action .

Cool , cool . Alright , I'm gonna . I think that's gonna be movement action . Yeah , that's it . I'm gonna save my bonus action , or I'll save my inspiration points and stuff like that . That'll be my turn then .

Kale .

Alright , with all of these faux Santa Clauses around him , do I have a clear shot to Vecna ?

Yeah , I mean like you don't have to worry about them getting in the way , like Vecna's pretty tall . We'll say that they're all gnomes or something like that . Gnome store Santa . So you don't gotta worry , you're level 15 . You don't gotta worry about like you can weave through a tarp .

Okay , then I'm gonna take a double shot with my Oathbow at Vecna . First one is 15 plus 11 for a 26 . And then a 1 plus 11 for a 12 .

12's not going to do it , unfortunately , but that one will hit .

All right , so roll this . That's 8 plus 3d6 for 23 points of damage .

Pretty solid hit Again . This kind of pierces through like paper and then again another portion of him goes as the Oathbow energy surges through , rolling . Very well for these concepts it helps that he has a plus 10 to Connor . It helps being undead sometimes , but the damage hits and he's like he's taken some considerable hits . So far he's not looking like .

Okay , is this area up here elevated ?

Yeah , these areas are elevated . We'll say that there's like a 30-foot rise or something like that up there .

Okay , Between the levels . I realize I just drew and I don't know how to erase that .

Yeah , it's no big deal , All right , valid it is now .

Well , after Kale's turn . I'm going to use my Raven Queen and teleport up to here .

Gotcha .

So I have an aerial view of everything , perfect .

Do your worst , just checking some distances .

I ain't scared .

Seeing that you are now approaching and pretty close to him . Legendary action going to Rayafrost you Okay .

It's stupid mortals , you'll never , understand what it means to be on the naughty list for so long .

Rayafrost does a 19 hit .

It does hit . What kind of damage is that ? It's going to be cold , just cold , okay . It's cold , all right , it does hit . What kind of damage is that ? It's going to be cold , just cold , okay . 21 points of cold damage . Back down to 100 HP .

But with your Blessing you resist all damage until the start of your next turn . Blessing of the Raven Queen . Oh , you're right .

So you just take 10 . 10 points of damage . Thank you for right . So you just take 10 . 10 points of damage . Thank you for that .

Your movement for your next turn is slow .

I'm going to be honest with you here , Ryan .

I'm not going to move next turn , you know what . Fair enough .

Fair enough , all right , sorry , valen , it is now your turn . I just got to pop off some of these legendary actions while I can remember . Sorry , valen , it is now your turn . I just got to pop off some of these legendary actions while I can remember .

Alright . So Valen is going to use Sorcery Points this time actually , and do a Quicket Spell of Fly , okay , and she is going to fly , since that moves her speed up to 60 . So she's going to move over here . Gotcha , she doesn't care about that , she's going to keep getting closer and then we'll cast .

So , if you use quicken spell the only other option you can do if you use quick and spell um , the only other option you can do , because you can only use one I was kidding I'm . Oh yeah , oh okay .

I was just like , before we get too far on that track no , I can only use a cantrip so I know I was just gonna drop a fireball and get rid of all those people that are in my way so you gotta , you can fly on top of them though , yeah , I know , but now I had to burn a level three slot so I could fly um . And how far am I now ? You ?

are 45 feet away from back down too far okay , so elders blast yeah , all right , you go ahead and roll your your .

Your fly speed should be 60 , though , right ?

yeah , I move 60 . Yeah , oh wait , I don't know . Sorry , 26 .

Oh , you can't see my rolls , sorry , 24 and 22 22 will not hit , but those first two invoke shield . Okay , and just gimme them individually 10 and 8 .

Wait a second nope , that's it .

Anything else on your turn , uh action bonus action movement .

Nope , that's it , legendary action , seeing that you just attacked him .

Action bonus action movement nope , that's it , Legendary action . Seeing that you just attacked him , ray of frost .

So hold on one second before you tell me what you rolled . I need to read the description of a spell because I can't remember . No worries , the 30? , 30 ? Jesus Christ yes .

You're gonna take 26 points of frost or of cold damage as again , like just a cannon , shoots out of his finger this huge swath of like white energy hits your chest . I can't counter , can I ? You can counterspell it if you wanted to . It is a cantrip , I will . You can counter spell it if you wanted to . It is a cantrip . I will say that .

Yeah , okay , I'll just look it up . All right , how many points ? Did you say 24 ?

26 points . So you shoot off a couple of your Eldritch Bl you know he's able to bring up the hand just in time to block the last one and then retort just a huge beam of frost energy towards you , covering you , and frost slowing you down a little bit . Uh , your movements decreased by 10 feet .

Um , okay now all right , um would reven have been able to see that , like Vecna , is concentrating on a spell , honestly , at this point it seems You're spellcaster , right , I am .

Yeah , it is so obvious .

Any spell of third level or lower on the target ends . For each spell of fourth level or higher I make an ability check to see if I'm successful . So I'm going to cast it at third level , just not knowing what effect is holding him .

Vecna , seeing you start to do that , isn't even going to risk it . Counter spell back You're within 60 feet . I believe yes I am , I'm 45 . I don't think so , as a little negating gray beam singes your fingers as you begin casting anything else you'd like to do on your turn .

With my bonus action , I'm going to give myself a fly speed equal to . Actually , it looks pretty bright in here , right ?

it's , it's what I would say for the purposes of you the dim lighting for your fly .

It's dim lighting okay , there's lighting going on here .

AC is currently 23 , I believe .

Okay , they all miss Vecna , and then they all miss the Tarrasque Oof and so .

Because the Tarrasque is also , I believe no , Vecna's is 22 . The Tarrasque is 23 .

Yeah , the highest of any of them was a 21 .

Just all like this , like bouncing off the chitinous armor of the mini Tarrasque and then bouncing off this shield that Vecna seems to be emitting , as he's like chanting these dark words of power . Vecna's turn . The next thing that immediately happens on his turn Go ahead .

Well , I was just going to say the yellow one is going to pull back and leave an opening for Velen , and so I guess Vecna can't take an attack of opportunity , because he's already reacted with Counterspell .

He has already done that . You can see Santa Clo .

He's taking my back .

You can see another one of these braziers light up and Santa is looking gaunt . I don't like that . And Vecna , skin and bones before . His skin is changing from a sickly rotted gray , muddled green to something a little bit more lifelike . There's even maybe some redness on his nose . It seems like this spell is getting .

I see all these rulers just pointing out of everybody's character , like what can we do to save Santa Claus ?

um uh , I need , uh , kale , uh , can you make a dexterity saving throw please . As Vecna raises a finger .

You , son of a bitch . Alright , I got a plus 10 . Not a problem , not a problem 28 .

28 . He was going to disintegrate you .

Yeah , I figured as much .

So on a failed save target , I think if you succeed is no like half damage . You have to disintegrate . Yeah , you try . It zips past your head and behind you it hits a pillar and then the complete , the center stone part of that pillar just immediately evaporates and turns into . You hear Vecna go .

Oh damn , no , no , no , not me .

So , as the ray passes by , I'm going to take my ethereal left hand and give him a finger . Oh , perfect .

He has no bonus actions , so anything on the spell list . Yeah , he doesn't want to dip out so far , yet His turn passes and then , as a legendary action at the end of his own turn , he's going to disrupt life again to all of these guys around him . So I need Basically everybody in the clump around him needs to make a Constitute .

So Con save , I had four of them save .

So they take 10 , the rest take 20 . And then that's his turn . That's his bonus action is the Tarrasque turn . It is still slowed . Wait , who casted that ?

I did no , not Kale , it was .

Fizzneck , you got taken any damage . I was going to ask if you made any con saves or concentration , but you're good , you're good . So it's Trastern , it's going to try and gore the blue one again , the blue one died . Oh , blue one's dead . Yep , if any of them are dead , could you peel them off , either add .

X on them or delete them . Yeah , I'm updating the sheet . I had to jump ahead .

No rush 29 to hit .

Yes , it will . All the other ones should be still up , we'll say just red .

It hits with a 29 doing 45 points of damage and latches on grappling Red's dead , grapples them , shakes them and throws them off the stage and then looks at Blue-Red . I will say , if slow on , this thing is diabolical . Really doing a lot of work . Only being able to do one attack with this is a good move . Fiznak , it's now your turn .

Alright , I am seeing the craziness . Still I've got to get myself up there . So Fiznak is doing his best to catch up to his friends , but I don't have a lot of movement speed so it's slow going . I think that was one second .

It's always the frustrating thing when you start off the fight and you're a hundred yards away .

I gotta close that distance yeah , I'm still not far enough to do what I wanted to , though I will use guiding bolt on the Vecna , alright , that is a . I will use Guiding Bolt on the Vecna , all right . That is a 16 to hit . One sec . I have a weird racial trait or something . I just want to double check it .

Yeah , favored by the gods . Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah .

No , it's the Divine Soul , so it's a yeah favored by the gods . So I add 2d4 to the roll , so I'm going to try that . So 8 , 8 plus 16 , 24 .

You can't shield against that , so it does hit oh sweetness . Alright , Do the damage Damage and that's 3d8 . Oh terrible . What is this again ? This is .

Guiding Bolt .

Oh wait Hold on .

Oh , I did the wrong number .

What are these fixers at 66 ? No , I rolled a cantrip like an idiot . Oh , I did the wrong number . Is it 66 ?

No , I rolled a cantrip like an idiot .

Ah , okay .

It's 46 . I'm sorry , guys 15 . Hey that's much better . That's a lot better . And then the next attack on him gets advantage .

Guiding Bolt , is that Radiant ?

It is .

Radiant . Does Radiant do extra damage ?

to undead still , it did in earlier editions , but uh , they , it doesn't have the same stuff . I think there is some undead , but this one , yeah . So you , you wind up this hit and it looks like it's going to go long . And then you call on some powers , your patronage , uh , whatever that patron may be , I guess santa claus .

Now it is okay , I have two questions . One how is uh , how is uh uh vecna looking ?

he is officially like , probably entered somewhat okay not not on his last legs , not on the ropes , but definitely feeling it , looking rough and how big are these , these fires , these lanterns , what are you calling them ? They look to be the braziers yeah they are honestly like the size of a man . They're like big . Well , not size .

Oh , yeah , yeah .

Five feet so they fit pretty big . They're pretty squat and close to the ground , filled with like what looks to be holes or some form of like magic material that's becoming a light so pretty heavy looking . Pretty magic material that's becoming a light so pretty heavy looking Pretty heavy .

They're not as insane , all right . So Kale is going to take two shots with his oath bow For it . Do you worst ? Do I have advantage on these ?

You'll have advantage at least on the first one .

Okay , so I'm going to roll the first one with advantage . Roll . That gives me a . Oh good thing thing I had advantage . First one was a one a 24 .

nice 44 is going to hit regardless of shield , so and then the second one , a 26 .

Both of them all right . First one 1d8 plus four , that's 12 plus 4 , that's 12 , plus 14 , so that's 26 points of damage for the first one .

Significant hit Again rips into the left side , erupts in this energy , the vengeance energy . Looking rough , I'm going to roll .

Second one is 7 points of damage for the first , and then 3d6 gives me additional 17 , so 24 points of damage he's officially entered like all right , and then I'm going to use my winged boots to fly over to in front of this , this dude , and use my bonus action to do blurry of flows on them blurry of flows , flurry of Flows on him .

Brandon , you are also still inspired with the Bardic Inspiration which you can add to attack rolls and stuff .

Nice , okay , go ahead , and it's two attacks , two with the fist , yes , yep .

First one . He's flanked by the way way okay , so I'm glad because the first one is only a 16 , so that is a 19 , all right . And then second one , a 24 24 is gonna hit .

The first one like dense the shield a little bit . Next one pierces through , punching him in the chest . Uh , go ahead and roll your damage .

And I'm going to add , I'm going to add my Bardic Inspiration to my attack or my damage . That's a d10 . Alright , so 1d8 plus 4 is only a 9 . And then plus a d10 is 8 . So an additional 8 , so that is 17 .

Roll this con save . It's getting close to his turn again . And did he get ?

it .

He rolled a d10 . He's supposed to get half or 10 , whatever is higher .

Okay , and Kale's gonna look over his shoulders and just yell really loudly Well , what if you do something ? Whoa , whoa .

As you can see , some of the more of the it's transferred into Vecna Kaelin . It is now your turn . Things are looking a little bleak right now . Like , don't be wrong , vecna looks very rough , but he is very , very close to completing this spell . Like the lights in this room are beginning to flicker .

All right , so Valen's still flying . Alan , it's your turn .

I will say he's flanked right now , surrounded by opponents . You would have advantage on your attack regard .

Okay , so Valen will attack with a normal attack action and attack Vecna with her normal sword Max , as you slice towards who's looking very much like Santa Claus right now .

Sorry , I didn't do advantage . So as you slice towards . He's looking very much like Santa Claus right now .

Sorry , I didn't do advantage , so alright , 29 and 24 . 24 .

I believe both of those are going to hit , so we're going to roll damage . He's looking pretty rough . You might be able to break concentration . He's giving each attack individually .

So 16 and 15 on the second hit not looking good .

Um , he was like a one that almost , almost almost he rolled it too okay .

And then two extra things that she gets to do . I gotta find it . Try the first one . She will use her . Where is it there ? It is . So she's going to use a fourth level spell slot and activate her Divine Smite ?

Oh , which is 5d8 , and activate her Divine .

Smite , oh , which is 5d8 of 5d8 of Radiant .

Is that counting the extra that you would get for no , Okay yeah , and it's 6d8 .

Also , did you roll the damage for the holy weapon ?

No .

Put all that together , we'll roll it .

So that's an extra 6 .

How much is the ?

holy weapon 2d8 . So that'd be both of the attacks hit . So yeah , your sword kind of shatters through Vkna's shields , cutting off huge pieces of his stupid purple red cloak , and then on that last hit , you charge up some um , still like caught in his chest . You kind of like pulse it with energy . What's what's ?

39 points of damage .

Would you like to do this ?

Ugh . So Velen , in a low voice , will look at Vecna and say I told you I'm here for vengeance . And the sword .

As she thrusts the sword into Vecna , it explodes with light burning vecta from the inside out it's kind of explodes in a puff of uh , um the tour and then you feel like almost like a gift .

So much better . I know you can do it . You got him . You got him . He was trying to take my job and you stopped him and you're on the good list , nice list , forever . You did it . It . Get me down , please . This has been the longest . I still have so many presents to give . It's still Christmas Eve go ahead .

Fizz neck , it sounds like you're up on this one , brother .

He like clicks his heels together to get the wing boots to start going and he just flies up in the air and starts like trying to undo everything , get Santa down as like safe as he can .

Yeah , you , untie Santa .

He kind of very nimbly kind of like does a little cartwheel and then lands on his feet and kind of like does a little as he lands a , does a little cartwheel and then lands on his feet and kind of like , does a little as he lands , um , a little little pose as he lands , oh , oh , oh fizz snack .

then it's not really Christmas , because what is cold other than a vengeance of not getting a good gift ? I see you got into the adventurous toy room .

Feel free to keep it , you've earned it .

And Kale . He looks at the back and he's like that sword looks , no offense , a little naughty , but you know bro .

No , no , no , this is my sword , bro .

We could become Santa Claus master All of the stuff is here .

We just need to figure out what Vecna was chanting . But you're a genius and so smart you could figure . I bet you know already . All we have to do is murder the fat man .

Derek will you just like , like , just chill bro .

I guess it is Christmas .

There it is . I'll give you an extra polish this weekend . Oh , oh , oh .

Any an extra polish this weekend ? Oh , oh , any last little bits y'all want to do before , I guess , at the end of this adventure , maybe going back home ? Any questions for Santa , any things you want to do here before ?

Would Santa maybe need a helper on Christmas Eve this year to deliver the presents ? I'm pretty fast at going up the chimneys .

I think I'm going to need four helpers this year , but actually I'm running dreadfully behind . I haven't even gotten . We have hemispheres to go before Christmas mornin' . Oh God , it's 3 am . We gotta go .

He loses it and just gets super excited and starts whipping around everybody .

Thanks , and I think that's a good spot .

Well , you all have this , and then in the corner of the room , malignant eye form , kind of like a single tear , running it down , and then just barely I'll get you next year Santa , as you can feel the whole ground shift as this portion of , I think , pandemonium I can't remember if it's pandemonium or wherever it is , wherever his citadel is , it kind of warps

Awesome job , Ryan yeah . That was awesome , could you ? Could you do me one favor , ryan ? I'm going to do some editing , but would you mind just saying our catchphrase ? For us , our catchphrase is it's been nerdy .

It's been nerdy . Love it Awesome , awesome . Sorry if this went a little long . I planned on it like maybe going like 10 30 . Hopefully it wasn't too much of an issue for people . But yeah , y'all were amazing . This was a lot of fun . I think you were really on it on target . Um , if y'all want , I try to end games with it . Was it stars and wish ?

no star .

You give people stars that you think they did a good job in something and then wishes it's not so much criticism or it's more like just polite feedback , like oh , I don't like more opportunity to talk to some of the elves , or oh , I actually like to fight some bees , like that sort of thing . Um , I honestly want to give everybody a star .

So we're partnered with Syrinscape , so we take all of our sound effects from them . So I'll add some Christmas music in the post . Edit .

Nice . I always think it was going to be back-to-back Mariah Carey Christmas .

Just a loop .

We don't want to lose listeners over this , right yeah , we don't want to talk too . Uh uh , listeners over this right .

Yeah , we don't want to talk too bad about Mariah here .

Yeah , um , but yeah , if y'all have any feedback or want to give each other stars for anything in particular , um , feel free . If you don't have anything , it's not a big deal .

I honestly , Ryan , like your . Uh , your storytelling is very good . Being able to describe the background is something that I struggle with every single day . Describing the scene that the characters walk into is something that I struggle with . I think you do a really good job with that .

I appreciate that .

That's great , thank you yeah , I really enjoyed it and I also enjoyed how , like I don't know , you pulled our backstories into it , which is really difficult in a one shot , right , because ?

Like , oh , I'm austin powers , I'm , I'm like pirate from a sea of the nether realm or whatever . Like all y'all kind of like I like , honestly , that's , it's such a great move by all of you . Weaved christmas in some way shape or form like santa claus , at least in your backstory , so it made it really easy to reference it later down the line .

Awesome well , I ? I'm sorry , bill , did you have something to say ?

no , I was just gonna say I I really enjoyed the storytelling . Everything everybody else said it was really cool . The interactions between and and the whole keeping the flow going . That's one of the harder things is like you'll see lulls and stuff like that and we didn't really have that . I had a lot of fun .

Yeah , if you ever feel the urge to come be a player . We do community games . Andrew runs them every couple weeks , so you're welcome to join us . Or if you're looking for a player to join one of your games every once in a while , feel free to hit us up . We would love to join trying to more stuff .

Um , I I tend to run a lot of stuff . That's not 5e just for certain things , but honestly , I did the prep on this like I had an outline for everything . I didn't really have a ton ripped for this one and I think it still ran well .

I'd have to go back and look , yeah , because there was like two right next to each other . It was like the , the tabletop collective or something I think oh yeah for aaron , yeah , so no , yeah , that was .

That was really awesome , that we were um , yeah , it's , aaron is so nice and like all that stuff that was going on with her family and like them , but they may be losing their homes Just super nice to be able to like like , hey , I could like put a game on here . I hope it helps . And then it kind of did so . I really appreciate it .

No it was an awesome experience and I was called Andrew does the community games . I'm actually just a big fan of their show and I just jump in their community games like a whole bunch of times but , um , what's , and I don't know . I don't like combat and stuff like that all that much .

So like this was a fun time for me with the skill checks and just being able to be like a goofy player yeah , I feel like for one shots you got like enough time for like one , because I think we started in maybe a bit before 10 yeah , and it took an hour and that was just . I kept it really skimmy .

I really appreciate it yeah , man you're welcome to join anytime you want yeah and that is the conclusion of our very special Christmas episode with Run DMG . Once again , we hope you had a great time . We definitely did . I'm sure you could hear that in the episode . I'm going to shout him out again because he is just such a great guy .

It's been nerdy ¶¶ , so is the truth . Come on , thank you .