Great news. Hope to see Ashley back after Thanksgiving then. I'm super excited to see Yasha get some good development, or whatever new character she comes up with if they go that direction.
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Great news. Hope to see Ashley back after Thanksgiving then. I'm super excited to see Yasha get some good development, or whatever new character she comes up with if they go that direction.
You cannot record someone's voice to pass as your own and not end with a skit like this. The comedy gods had deemed it so before he entered the place.
That would make a lot of sense. Oban can dominate someone to start a panic pretty easily. Everyone is on alert because of the attack on Hupperdook. They must be trying to get access to something important, maybe the alert is diverting guards from some vault or something.
Healing in combat, unless someone goes down, is almost always a bad move. Especially against a single opponent.
They still haven't contacted Allura have they? They're going to need all the firepower they can get.
If we compare the stories by levels, this would be around the Vasselheim arc. Maybe around the very early start of the Briarwoods. If Matt is intent of having a level 1-20 story, theres a ways to go.
This is the first time in Campaign 2 that I've felt like we were heading to a classic "season finale" sort of moment. So many plots are coming to a head. Even if the M9 win here I doubt it will be the end of the Angel of Irons cult, but it definitely feels like win or lose the M9 are going to become very public figures after this battle.
I know I am setting myself up for disappointment, but part of me really hopes that they are going to get to the church and just find Ashley as a tenth level Fighter or Paladin ready to join them in their attack.
I know I am setting myself up for disappointment, but part of me really hopes that they are going to get to the church and just find Ashley as a tenth level Fighter or Paladin ready to join them in their attack.
Matt has always had it been a restricted observation to about 10 feet or so around the target creature since Campaign 1. He also forgets/restricts the location application of the spell.
In some ways it's an understandable nerf from a narrative perspective, and he keeps it that way across the board as well and not just handicapping the players with it.
Only got up to the break last night but man this episode was really good. The fight was hard to watch, but it was still fun and all the character moments were very engaging. Marisha is really selling Beau and that's so great after Keyleth.
Oh my god this episode was amazing (aside from that surprise round against The End, smh). What'd we get?
BeauxJester is canonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Jester finally has the talk with her Daddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Astrid's letter (which is totally a fucking trap "Oh sorry to hear about my uncle" bullshit)
Pumat joing the M9 for combat
And what's looking to be a showdown between M9 and Obann's team
This was like the penultimate episode before a season finale. Holy shit it's popping off.
BeauxJester is canonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Jester finally has the talk with her Daddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Astrid's letter (which is totally a fucking trap "Oh sorry to hear about my uncle" bullshit)
Pumat joing the M9 for combat
And what's looking to be a showdown between M9 and Obann's team
This was like the penultimate episode before a season finale. Holy shit it's popping off.
I'm still trying to process everything that happened last episode. We got Beau having a crush on Jester, the Gentleman's backstory and new dynamic with Jester, a cult under Pelor's church, Oban's full crew in town, and most importantly Uno apparently exists in this world and is probably destroying friendships every day.
Also we finally got to see what Fjord's fifth level spell is. That has been bugging me for a long time. I had guessed he would go with Cone of Cold, but Banishing Smite is pretty great too. If he can time it with Cad, that could be a real game changer in this coming fight. The smite is like 5d10, combined with the activated swords 1d8 plus 7, all doubled and counted as force damage. With even just a half decent damage roll he could probably straight up banish Yasha out of the fight with one hit.
Matt has frequently used lots of M9 vs 1 strong opponent fights lately. Now it seems like we are headed to a big group fight. This could be very intense. At least I have Undeadwood tonight to tide me over until next Thursday.
Also we finally got to see what Fjord's fifth level spell is. That has been bugging me for a long time. I had guessed he would go with Cone of Cold, but Banishing Smite is pretty great too. If he can time it with Cad, that could be a real game changer in this coming fight. The smite is like 5d10, combined with the activated swords 1d8 plus 7, all doubled and counted as force damage. With even just a half decent damage roll he could probably straight up banish Yasha out of the fight with one hit.
Matt has frequently used lots of M9 vs 1 strong opponent fights lately. Now it seems like we are headed to a big group fight. This could be very intense. At least I have Undeadwood tonight to tide me over until next Thursday.
I don't think Travis will try it because he will assume they wont work together, but Jeremy Crawford has confirmed that Banishing Smite + Paladin Smite can be used on the same attack. Imagine 1d8+7 (whatever sword attack is) + 5d10 + 5d8 + hexblade curse damage combined with Cad's ability.
Next episode will go incredibly bad if Matt really forces a fight with 4-5 baddies simultaneously (Oban + Yasha + LH + IE + cleric/bishop). The party doesn't coordinate well / doesn't focus fire, people who do high damage each round will try something else/run/etc, Cad might have taken almost all healing spells so will be stuck mostly using cantrips + whatever concentration spell he has going, the party has been rolling really horrible lately especially Laura aside from the beginning of that one fight in the happy fun ball, etc..... I think Matt recognizes this and will hopefully do something like the 2nd battle against the Iron Sheperds where he separated them out. Hopefully, the Laughing Hand and Yasha will be guarding the entrance so the party can deal with them first, leaving Oban + Inevitable End + maybe that cleric as the final encounter. Oh and if that cleric is part of the fight, she will be casting hold person a bunch I bet....
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Oh man, Obann, Yasha, Laughing Hand, and The End are gonna be a formidable team. If they have to take on all four at once that's gonna be a fucking rough battle.
I think at a certain point the group goes all or nothing. Like if two people die I could see the rest retreating. But if three people die I could see the rest of the group saying fuck it and just sticking it out to the end.
They burned the bodies of the zombies, and got a message from the person who raised them to meet them at the pit they first found in episode one. They loaded up on dynamite and supplies and headed over there. Miriam revealed that her husband died of the pox before she got to Deadwood and that he was a healer who believed that she had a gift. She also revealed that she was carrying two bottles of nitro.
At the pit they found the Doc standing over it, and he turned into a giant three headed snake monster. The reverend pulled out a gun no one knew he had, and they started fighting it. The nitro blew it up into a bunch of smaller snake people that they are now fighting.
Sounds good, I got on when he mentioned the doc breaking into 3 pieces so I wasnt sure what was going on lol.
Hey guys, back here with another update. Earlier today I finished C2's Episode 18 aka "The One With the Caleb Backstory Dump"
...man oh man, I didn't expect that at all.
Kudos to Liam (as usual) for the whole scene... I've found his portrayal of Caleb throughout the campaign fascinating, a frustratingly reclusive, long-winded man who is equally driven to seek real and genuine emotional connections as he's afraid of actually making them. Apart from Nott and Frumpkin, of course, he basically longs for feeling part of a group and yet is utterly terrified by that prospect and would rather cut whatever losses and just run away with Nott. I think 18's backstory scene essentially gives us a window into why. And it's a chilling tale.
Then I went back and rewatched Trent Ikithon's introduction and focused on Liam's face as soon as Matt said the name. He sold that PTSD face like a mofo and nobody on the table really noticed! Damn.
Anyway, the episode (and the previous ones) were about much more than that - I'm quite liking how much more... political intrigue-ish C2 feels so far. I'm a sucker for fake-history and lore dumps with fantasy names and stuff (and I know a lot of people hate that) so I didn't mind Matt going full lore-dump at the end with explaining what the fuck is the Assembly, who are its members, and the places and so on and so on, while the rest of the guys were like "it's like 300 different names for fake places and fake people... fuck that, I ain't even gonna try" hahahaha
The festival stuff was really fun (loved Travis getting three nat 1s in a fucking row, lmao) and it provided a nice breather before we dove into the political stuff again (with the declaration of war) and the heavy backstory elements. No complaints from me at all, even if I think Matt was a little tired (and some of the cast, too) by the end of 18 with the amount of things Liam/Caleb had asked to do. It swerved into "shopping episode" territory and we aaaaaall know how much Travis loves those :P
I also watched the first of Vox Machina's one-shots, The Search for Grog, like a week ago or so. Man, it was so bittersweet... I mean, the show itself was hilarious, though sometimes a bit too wink-wink-nudge-nudge with the self-references, but it was kind of opening a bit that wound that I thought it had healed a bit. I mean, I just rewatched parts from eps.114 and 115 and got all fucking teary-eyed again, so I know the end of C1 still hits me hard, so... I dunno, it was lovely to see the cast inhabit those characters once again because it reminded me of how much I missed those characters and those interactions, and at the same time, it was a bit too jarring. Uncanny, maybe. It's hard for me to explain, I guess. It suffers from that "ex-post-facto untold story" thing, when a creator goes back -after many years- to tell a previously untold story that happened chronologically within a major work of his, and then while it's amazing to see that creator return to that same world after you thought all was said and done and it just hits you with a big nostalgia wave, you also notice how diffferent the tone is and how much he's changed in his prose and it's not quite the same because, hell, chances are you've probably changed a lot too. It's the same here. So it feels jarring, like it doesn't quite fit, but when it does, OH MAN IT DOES.
Fuck it, I missed Scanlan the most. That gnome bard is just incredible.
And Grog getting the amazing crowd reaction was such a fucking highlight. That man just wanted to fuck shit up, and he did.
Another great moment was Matt making the ridiculous, offhand (heh) "bugbears got Percy's arm!" comment by Sam actually canon. It was random as fuck... and it was hilarious.
So, all in all, there was more things I loved in the one-shot than things I wasn't very fond of. I still think they went a bit too self-referential at times but I guess the fact that this was a live show lent itself for those kind of moments, to get a reaction from the crowd, so it's understandable.
I guess I'll watch The Search for Bob in the near future, but I'm in no hurry at all.
Thanks for reading! :D
PS: I'm just interacting with people who quote me because otherwise there's a big fucking chance I get spoiled with things that are happening "right now" in the campaign and I'm doing my best to avoid those (I haven't been completely successful, sadly)
...man oh man, I didn't expect that at all.
Kudos to Liam (as usual) for the whole scene... I've found his portrayal of Caleb throughout the campaign fascinating, a frustratingly reclusive, long-winded man who is equally driven to seek real and genuine emotional connections as he's afraid of actually making them. Apart from Nott and Frumpkin, of course, he basically longs for feeling part of a group and yet is utterly terrified by that prospect and would rather cut whatever losses and just run away with Nott. I think 18's backstory scene essentially gives us a window into why. And it's a chilling tale.
Then I went back and rewatched Trent Ikithon's introduction and focused on Liam's face as soon as Matt said the name. He sold that PTSD face like a mofo and nobody on the table really noticed! Damn.
Anyway, the episode (and the previous ones) were about much more than that - I'm quite liking how much more... political intrigue-ish C2 feels so far. I'm a sucker for fake-history and lore dumps with fantasy names and stuff (and I know a lot of people hate that) so I didn't mind Matt going full lore-dump at the end with explaining what the fuck is the Assembly, who are its members, and the places and so on and so on, while the rest of the guys were like "it's like 300 different names for fake places and fake people... fuck that, I ain't even gonna try" hahahaha
The festival stuff was really fun (loved Travis getting three nat 1s in a fucking row, lmao) and it provided a nice breather before we dove into the political stuff again (with the declaration of war) and the heavy backstory elements. No complaints from me at all, even if I think Matt was a little tired (and some of the cast, too) by the end of 18 with the amount of things Liam/Caleb had asked to do. It swerved into "shopping episode" territory and we aaaaaall know how much Travis loves those :P
I also watched the first of Vox Machina's one-shots, The Search for Grog, like a week ago or so. Man, it was so bittersweet... I mean, the show itself was hilarious, though sometimes a bit too wink-wink-nudge-nudge with the self-references, but it was kind of opening a bit that wound that I thought it had healed a bit. I mean, I just rewatched parts from eps.114 and 115 and got all fucking teary-eyed again, so I know the end of C1 still hits me hard, so... I dunno, it was lovely to see the cast inhabit those characters once again because it reminded me of how much I missed those characters and those interactions, and at the same time, it was a bit too jarring. Uncanny, maybe. It's hard for me to explain, I guess. It suffers from that "ex-post-facto untold story" thing, when a creator goes back -after many years- to tell a previously untold story that happened chronologically within a major work of his, and then while it's amazing to see that creator return to that same world after you thought all was said and done and it just hits you with a big nostalgia wave, you also notice how diffferent the tone is and how much he's changed in his prose and it's not quite the same because, hell, chances are you've probably changed a lot too. It's the same here. So it feels jarring, like it doesn't quite fit, but when it does, OH MAN IT DOES.
Fuck it, I missed Scanlan the most. That gnome bard is just incredible.
And Grog getting the amazing crowd reaction was such a fucking highlight. That man just wanted to fuck shit up, and he did.
Another great moment was Matt making the ridiculous, offhand (heh) "bugbears got Percy's arm!" comment by Sam actually canon. It was random as fuck... and it was hilarious.
So, all in all, there was more things I loved in the one-shot than things I wasn't very fond of. I still think they went a bit too self-referential at times but I guess the fact that this was a live show lent itself for those kind of moments, to get a reaction from the crowd, so it's understandable.
I guess I'll watch The Search for Bob in the near future, but I'm in no hurry at all.
Thanks for reading! :D
PS: I'm just interacting with people who quote me because otherwise there's a big fucking chance I get spoiled with things that are happening "right now" in the campaign and I'm doing my best to avoid those (I haven't been completely successful, sadly)
Undeadwood was great. That ending was sooooooo intense.
I don't know that I'd want to see a second season though. I think it ended on such a high note that I'd like to see them branch out and do some more new stuff. Clearly it helped a lot that Brian was super passionate about the setting and the characters, so I don't know that they could replicate that kind of energy.
I don't know that I'd want to see a second season though. I think it ended on such a high note that I'd like to see them branch out and do some more new stuff. Clearly it helped a lot that Brian was super passionate about the setting and the characters, so I don't know that they could replicate that kind of energy.
Here's something I didn't understand from last CR: I thought the Inevitable End was supposed to be even more powerful than the Laughing Hand, sort of a Horseman of the Apocalypse kind of character. How did the M9 beat it to within 50hp?
She probably is stronger, but it was 7 vs. 1. She fucked up by trying to take them all at once instead of waiting to catch the group isolated.
The Laughing Hand was never that tough, the party talked itself into losing whenever they faced it. The problem was before killing the LH heart, the Laughing Hand would just come back to life after a certain period of unknown time (6 seconds, minutes, hours, day?). Probably a few rounds or minutes or it wouldn't have been such a threat in its heyday.
Also, with the LH the party doesn't play it smart, they know you shouldn't use slashing /cutting weapons but they don't really think about it themselves or inform their potential backup like the Cobalt Soul guards. Travis has to remember to not use his sword but he can still do good damage with Eldritch Blast - he seems to forget nearly everything so good luck with that.... Beau is no problem, same with others except Nott. I think doing slashing/piercing damage raises the DC on the mind effect saving throw the LH causes.
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Okay, that makes sense, but I guess what I'm saying is the lore for these creatures doesn't match up with the actual stats. If it was Vox Machina vs. one of them then I could understand, but the M9 still isn't that powerful and yet they took on and nearly killed something that was feared as something immensely powerful in the old times.