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I ran a one shot last weekend for Magpie Games Community Play Day. It was Masks: a New Generation Generation game. SANTA was a time traveling dude from the far future who thought kids needed a little more hope. But he was being invaded by Fae and other dimensional mystical beings that he had no defense for. The Naughty and Nice lists were essentially Census/historical data on everyone. So much delightful chaos.
I love that Matt, Travis, and Liam fully zoned in on focusing down Chutney as the final antagonist. Travis started talking after stabbing Santa and they all knew it was a more interesting story because it hadn’t been told before like the standard plot.
It's super subtle, to the point it's very easily missed since others are talking way louder while they're just whispering behind Ashley, but near the end there Travis tells Matt "You have to stop me." It's all fun and games until Santa actually dies so Travis wanted to make sure he had his moment but that it wouldn't actually lead to the death of a beloved fictional character. Shout out to Julie who was perfect in her role of "new person who can't believe this is happening".
I's not just a "It's what my character would do" moment. This is a "This is my character's motivation and I did not hide that fact" moment, and everyone had a chance to see it coming. I don't think Liam was completely surprised by it, and Sam and Matt both were clearly aware he was going to try it.
I always thought that Matt's Klaus' Battlemaster is what partially inspired Liam to make Orym a Battlemaster as well. Because, like Mike said, Matt was a beast with Klaus.
I watched the episode after your last demystified in preparation since you said you were doing this one! 13:40 One small correction: they are not rolling advantage for any attacks or spells or anything like that. As Liam said to them whenever they asked: "the star doesn't work on violence". They do have it for resistance or anything defensive. even though I caught the rest of the movie connections, I somehow missed that the monsters were the kids lmafo The spinning tower is such a cool battlemap. I usually live-post my watching on your discord so I added a whole thread for this one so I could still do so not in the regular episode channels. SPOILER I thought FOR SURE that when Chutney looked at Santa and the restraints, it was going to be a classic cinema bait-and-switch where it looked like he was going to stab Santa, but he stabbed the restraints instead. But NOPE. I was so not ready for the real result.
The irony often hits that way. I had an adventure where a town was under the effects of a batch of poisoned grain. One of the players came down with the effects of a stomach virus mid-session.
This one shot inspired my family's elf on the shelf alternative. Chutney is a retired woodshop employee that hasn't done shelf duty in centuries but he sends my boys a wooden toy every Christmas. When they learn the Santa truth I'll sit down with them and watch Nightmare Before Critmas together
I was just looking for this episode's Demystified yesterday! I was 12 hours too early it seems One of the best one-shot ideas I've ever encountered, the elves actually inspired me to make a Christmas Elf warlock of Santa when my friend did a mini-campaign last holiday season. We workshopped it but she was a "winterfied" version of a Spring Eladrian Elf (I think we dubbed Cami a Holly Elf), Pact of the Tome, Santa Patron. It was really fun
Coincidentally I watched A nightmare before Christmas for the first time tonight! When I saw the scene with the tree doors I realized that this was referencing the movie, but I didn’t realize just how much of a reference EVERYTHING WAS!
Maaaan I cannot wait until these episodes get to the Mighty Nein campaign. I just watched the supposedly "painful" episodes 92-97 and loved them overall. Then found out there was a critical epidemic of Marisha Derangement Syndrome around those episodes and got confused. I'm excited to see a more "in depth" analysis from a more experienced DM/DND player than I. Seriously Mike this series is amazing! Liam is a legend and I loved this one shot.
The first dnd game I solo ran was a one shot where my characters were all Christmas Elves. Two players picked their classes, but the other three had me create their characters. We had a paladin, a warlock serving Krampus, a bard, a druid who had spent time in the Faewild, and a Barbarian. I took a lot of inspiration from Liam's one shot, including elements of the plot. It was a lot of fun to run, gave me a taste for DMing, and it led to a second installment the summer after for a "Christmas in July" installment that we didn't complete. By the end of the first adventure, the paladin and warlock got together, which was really sweet. Now I run a homebrew game for my table and I'm glad I tried these two one shots as practice. Christmas in July had the Miser brothers as enemies and a sorcerer from a later Rudolph movie as the BBEG.
I was inspired by Travis here in a recent "ancient roman gladiators" oneshot. Almost as soon as the game started I began to hint that my goal was to kill the Emperor, and it's the whole reason I was here. Finally when the arena games were in full swing, I used my last round to cross the space, misty step into the stadium box, and double-attack the Emperor. GM later revealed that he was possibly gonna be our ally 😂. Instead, our rogue joined me and finished him off.
Just did my Christmas oneshot a few nights ago. Jack Skellington, Rudolph, and Santa Claus had to reclaim Santa's workshop from the Grinch and Krampus. Was a fun time.
My favorite part of seeing this originally is Matt's reaction to Travis observing he was alone. It always gave me the feeling Matt let himself get too engadged in the fight and forgot to keep protecting Santa. And his oh no moment feels like a legit oh no.
3:39 - I think Marisha's character was a Strength domain cleric. War domain is also possible; they have very similar channel divinity and domain spell options, and the same divine strike (and the same lvl17 avatar of battle). War gets a bonus action weapon attack (War Priest: wis/day uses), Strength gets a bonus proficiency and druid cantrip. The RP flavour heavily leaned into being strong, which made me think it was likely inspired by the Strength domain. I thought Strength domain had appeared in an early UA (Unearthed Arcana), but now all I can find is PS:A (Plane Shift: Amonket, which apparently is a magic: the gathering thing, which might be why Strength domain is so similar to war domain.) If she'd cast Haste, that would be definitive for Strength domain spells, but she didn't. (And the fact she *didn't* cast it is maybe a sign she wasn't playing that domain.) One piece of evidence in favour of Strength domain is that she only used Channel Divinity to add +10 to someone else's attack roll on a melee attack using Str. Not on her own Guiding Bolt (a ranged spell attack is also an attack, which is all that war's Guided Strike requires). But for flavour reasons she might have wanted to use it on weapon attacks, or didn't think of it on Guiding Bolt. And the CR cast still don't know what "attack" means in 5e rules terminology, as we saw in recent episodes of C3, so perhaps didn't realize it was usable on spells with attack rolls. (Not knowing the details of every spell is not a problem, agreed with your point in your video about that a few months ago. But not knowing the bones of the system and thus misreading rules text when they do look stuff up, that's a problem. I can comment on that vid in more detail if you're interested in discussing it.) For a lot of the episode I was assuming she was a Paladin since she said "divine smite" early on (and Matt even responded "2d8", I guess taking her literally and giving the damage dice for paladin smite with a lvl1 slot). Each new cleric feature had me scrambling to figure out how she had access to it :P. But I'm pretty sure she actually meant "divine strike", which also gives extra damage on her melee attack. So if she made two attacks on any turn (with war cleric action + bonus, limited uses per day), I may have not taken note of that and assumed it was paladin Extra Attack. But if she didn't make two attacks on any turn when she could have, that's probably a sign she's not War domain. (Especially in the later fights; in early fights she might just be saving long-rest resources.) --- I comment on the original video 4 years ago with what I was able to reverse-engineer: > Classes (subclasses) and levels: They're exactly level 8 (cleric Divine Strike, but proficiency bonus only +3, not +4 at lvl9, confirmed by Taliesin's dex check not save at 2:52:35), assuming they're all the same level. > > Taliesin / Arthur: Rogue (Thief): Sneak Attack, Second Story Work 3:44:20 > Julie / Ellory: Cleric (Life): Divine Strike doing radiant damage in an early round of the first fight. > Marisha / Cranberry: Paladin(?) / Cleric(?) multi-class: Divine Smite in first fight, Spiritual Weapon at 3:10:40, Toll the Dead 3:12:40, lvl3 Guiding Bolt 3:25:40. > It's possible Marisha mis-spoke and meant Divine Strike, and is pure Cleric (Strength), which would fit the the character theme. > Sam / Bunglestein: Fighter (Samurai): used Fighting Spirit at 1:18:40 during first fight. Feats: Mobile (+10 move, limit op attacks) 4:03:03 > Matt / Klaus: Fighter (Battle Master): Riposte maneuver adding a superiority die during first fight. > Ashley / Nutmeg: Wizard (unknown): said out loud. > Travis / Chutney: Rogue (unknown): mentions Sneak Attack, uses cunning action in later fight. > > > [... further citations of specific things, which led me towards single-class Cleric, none of which distinguish between war vs. strength domains.] 4 years ago, I also didn't see any evidence for subclasses for Ashley wizard or Travis's rogue. Some wizard subclasses have features that are rarely useful, but we can't assume that a class feature would have been used if one had been useful for a situation that came up. Same for War vs. Strength cleric.
I'm sure others have noticed this before but Klaus reminds me of Matt's Ganondorf from There Will Be Brawl. You could see him referring to his hands as "these killing mits"".
Playing a Druid that wild shapes into one of Santa's reindeer would have been hilarious. Play a Blitzen who's sick of Rudolph getting the limelight or Comet who's totally jaded with Christmas
Just a tab of my browser away, I have the Bardic Aggravation this year's Christmas oneshot in the DC20 system, "Rumble at the Pole". It's near sure to end up in a Naughty vs Nice skirmish and Rudolph is one of the PCs (on the Nice side, duh).
Real quick... The reason tavern openings are bad is because they're so often aimless. "Youre in a tavern... What do you do?" Is a terrible opening! But "in the early hours of the morning, you awake to a pounding at your door. The innkeep shouting that they've got a job for you" is infinitely better.
I actually adapted Rocky Horror to a Halloween Escape room-style one shot. And made a reverse Home Alone one-shot where the players are Elves(gnomes) tasked with taking out traps in "troublemakers" homes before Santa arrives to deliver presents.
I forgot this one-shot was modeled after Nightmare Before Christmas. I had a GM who modeled nearly every encounter on tropes and established plotlines: trust me, it gets old for a campaign. But very fun for a one-shot!
Has there even been a released or assembled module to run this with Liam's stat blocks? I would love to run something similar and it would just be easier with things like that already made. Although now I'll be spending my day making them myself anyway...
Bigby's Hand (not Bigsby) is the official name of the spell in the player's handbook. (The free SRD version strips off the proper nouns, making it Arcane Hand.) Most of the wizards who have spells named after them (like Melf and Mordenkainen) were PCs in Gary Gygax's home games in the early days of D&D. I wonder if Bixby (the ranger companion from Liam's one-shot) was inspired by that, subconsciously or intentionally. Yeah, interesting idea if that's what you're referring to.
I get what you were going Mike, but saying the Jewish character has a "clearly" Jewish voice is a tad offensive. Sam can do the voice all he wants, he's of Jewish descent, but think of your remark if it was any other ethnicity and you'll see what I mean... Great episode otherwise, definitely stealing some of the Christmas ideas
I thought it was obvious that my point was that it was a stereotypical voice for a Jewish character (it’s very close to characters like Mort from Family Guy), and not an implication that all Jewish people talk that way, which is obviously not true. Apologies if that was unclear in any way.
Honestly I hadn’t thought you meant it like that, just with the rise of antisemitism I felt I had to stand on a podium for a second 😅 Keep doing the good work!
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I tried running a Home Alone-themed session several years ago around Christmas time for my homebrew campaign.
I ran a one shot last weekend for Magpie Games Community Play Day. It was Masks: a New Generation Generation game. SANTA was a time traveling dude from the far future who thought kids needed a little more hope. But he was being invaded by Fae and other dimensional mystical beings that he had no defense for. The Naughty and Nice lists were essentially Census/historical data on everyone. So much delightful chaos.
Man that Chutney character is funny, shame we'll never see him again
Chutney was funny for a one-shot. Not for a campaign.
I love that Matt, Travis, and Liam fully zoned in on focusing down Chutney as the final antagonist. Travis started talking after stabbing Santa and they all knew it was a more interesting story because it hadn’t been told before like the standard plot.
A Christmas Elf Druid might be easier to picture as a Reindeer doctor
Make it happen! Chop chop!
I was picturing an elf who grows the huge Christmas trees and takes care of the poinsettias!
Or someone who diverts the polar bears from Santa's workshop so that the reindeers don't get eaten.
It's super subtle, to the point it's very easily missed since others are talking way louder while they're just whispering behind Ashley, but near the end there Travis tells Matt "You have to stop me."
It's all fun and games until Santa actually dies so Travis wanted to make sure he had his moment but that it wouldn't actually lead to the death of a beloved fictional character. Shout out to Julie who was perfect in her role of "new person who can't believe this is happening".
Fictional?
I ran a Christmas one-shot last year. One thing led to another and we finally wrapped it up after Easter.
Pontius Pilate?
Just like Christmas at my household.
"a warlock who draws power from the ghosts of Christmas" I am *so* here for this, sign me the heck up :O
"I thought the December red snows were a natural phenomenon!" ~ One of my favourite banger lines from Travis
"You're a fool, Klaus. We can't compete with Amazon!" - Another banger from Travis.
@@night4345 That's turn out to be quite a prophetic line too. 😅
I's not just a "It's what my character would do" moment. This is a "This is my character's motivation and I did not hide that fact" moment, and everyone had a chance to see it coming. I don't think Liam was completely surprised by it, and Sam and Matt both were clearly aware he was going to try it.
For anyone NOT aware, this oneshot is the inspiration for Travis' character for the majority of campaign 3.
On the 25th December, everyone gathered for the Best Character was born
RTA!
This is my favorite CR one shot followed shortly by Grog's One Shot. "I ate that meatball from Scanlan, and then I fucking DIED!"
"We could end the suffrage of the elves!" Verbal typo or not, I believe Chutney wants to stop voting.
Still lines up with him toppling the regime hahaha
22:04 Mike, with the classic Matt Mercer there (thank you for not cutting it, I needed a good laugh)
I always thought that Matt's Klaus' Battlemaster is what partially inspired Liam to make Orym a Battlemaster as well. Because, like Mike said, Matt was a beast with Klaus.
I watched the episode after your last demystified in preparation since you said you were doing this one!
13:40 One small correction: they are not rolling advantage for any attacks or spells or anything like that. As Liam said to them whenever they asked: "the star doesn't work on violence". They do have it for resistance or anything defensive.
even though I caught the rest of the movie connections, I somehow missed that the monsters were the kids lmafo
The spinning tower is such a cool battlemap.
I usually live-post my watching on your discord so I added a whole thread for this one so I could still do so not in the regular episode channels.
SPOILER
I thought FOR SURE that when Chutney looked at Santa and the restraints, it was going to be a classic cinema bait-and-switch where it looked like he was going to stab Santa, but he stabbed the restraints instead. But NOPE. I was so not ready for the real result.
Iconic Episode. No wonder Travis wasn't done with this character!
The irony often hits that way. I had an adventure where a town was under the effects of a batch of poisoned grain. One of the players came down with the effects of a stomach virus mid-session.
"This city must be PURGED!"
This one shot inspired my family's elf on the shelf alternative. Chutney is a retired woodshop employee that hasn't done shelf duty in centuries but he sends my boys a wooden toy every Christmas.
When they learn the Santa truth I'll sit down with them and watch Nightmare Before Critmas together
I was just looking for this episode's Demystified yesterday! I was 12 hours too early it seems
One of the best one-shot ideas I've ever encountered, the elves actually inspired me to make a Christmas Elf warlock of Santa when my friend did a mini-campaign last holiday season. We workshopped it but she was a "winterfied" version of a Spring Eladrian Elf (I think we dubbed Cami a Holly Elf), Pact of the Tome, Santa Patron. It was really fun
Me: "You're really rushing through this episode this time."
Me: *accidentally has this on 1.25 speed*
This is a good channel. This is a good series. I like Mike.
I. LOVE. THIS. ONE-SHOT.
Coincidentally I watched A nightmare before Christmas for the first time tonight! When I saw the scene with the tree doors I realized that this was referencing the movie, but I didn’t realize just how much of a reference EVERYTHING WAS!
Maaaan I cannot wait until these episodes get to the Mighty Nein campaign. I just watched the supposedly "painful" episodes 92-97 and loved them overall. Then found out there was a critical epidemic of Marisha Derangement Syndrome around those episodes and got confused. I'm excited to see a more "in depth" analysis from a more experienced DM/DND player than I.
Seriously Mike this series is amazing! Liam is a legend and I loved this one shot.
Those episodes were supposed to be painful? Why?
Also, those were the ones with her family and the hag, right?
Even when he isn't the one getting the cursed sword, Travis still plays the crazy character.
The way Travis played his character in this one shot is one my all time favorite characters from any game I has seen from Critical Role.
a Druid that can wildshape into a reindeer, & is a substitute reindeer if needed lmao
I was thinking about all the winter plants that could be used! Pine trees, mistletoe, holly, poinsettias (I know they're a hothouse plant shhh)
The first dnd game I solo ran was a one shot where my characters were all Christmas Elves. Two players picked their classes, but the other three had me create their characters. We had a paladin, a warlock serving Krampus, a bard, a druid who had spent time in the Faewild, and a Barbarian. I took a lot of inspiration from Liam's one shot, including elements of the plot. It was a lot of fun to run, gave me a taste for DMing, and it led to a second installment the summer after for a "Christmas in July" installment that we didn't complete. By the end of the first adventure, the paladin and warlock got together, which was really sweet. Now I run a homebrew game for my table and I'm glad I tried these two one shots as practice. Christmas in July had the Miser brothers as enemies and a sorcerer from a later Rudolph movie as the BBEG.
"Mythological creatures like a Turkey or a Rabbit or a cupid"
Who wants to tell him?
I was inspired by Travis here in a recent "ancient roman gladiators" oneshot. Almost as soon as the game started I began to hint that my goal was to kill the Emperor, and it's the whole reason I was here. Finally when the arena games were in full swing, I used my last round to cross the space, misty step into the stadium box, and double-attack the Emperor.
GM later revealed that he was possibly gonna be our ally 😂. Instead, our rogue joined me and finished him off.
Just did my Christmas oneshot a few nights ago.
Jack Skellington, Rudolph, and Santa Claus had to reclaim Santa's workshop from the Grinch and Krampus. Was a fun time.
AND I TAKE MY WOODEN CHISEL!!!
Are there any restraints on Santa?
My favorite part of seeing this originally is Matt's reaction to Travis observing he was alone. It always gave me the feeling Matt let himself get too engadged in the fight and forgot to keep protecting Santa. And his oh no moment feels like a legit oh no.
The "what are you guys talking about?" gets me every time.
3:39 - I think Marisha's character was a Strength domain cleric.
War domain is also possible; they have very similar channel divinity and domain spell options, and the same divine strike (and the same lvl17 avatar of battle). War gets a bonus action weapon attack (War Priest: wis/day uses), Strength gets a bonus proficiency and druid cantrip.
The RP flavour heavily leaned into being strong, which made me think it was likely inspired by the Strength domain.
I thought Strength domain had appeared in an early UA (Unearthed Arcana), but now all I can find is PS:A (Plane Shift: Amonket, which apparently is a magic: the gathering thing, which might be why Strength domain is so similar to war domain.)
If she'd cast Haste, that would be definitive for Strength domain spells, but she didn't. (And the fact she *didn't* cast it is maybe a sign she wasn't playing that domain.)
One piece of evidence in favour of Strength domain is that she only used Channel Divinity to add +10 to someone else's attack roll on a melee attack using Str. Not on her own Guiding Bolt (a ranged spell attack is also an attack, which is all that war's Guided Strike requires). But for flavour reasons she might have wanted to use it on weapon attacks, or didn't think of it on Guiding Bolt. And the CR cast still don't know what "attack" means in 5e rules terminology, as we saw in recent episodes of C3, so perhaps didn't realize it was usable on spells with attack rolls. (Not knowing the details of every spell is not a problem, agreed with your point in your video about that a few months ago. But not knowing the bones of the system and thus misreading rules text when they do look stuff up, that's a problem. I can comment on that vid in more detail if you're interested in discussing it.)
For a lot of the episode I was assuming she was a Paladin since she said "divine smite" early on (and Matt even responded "2d8", I guess taking her literally and giving the damage dice for paladin smite with a lvl1 slot). Each new cleric feature had me scrambling to figure out how she had access to it :P. But I'm pretty sure she actually meant "divine strike", which also gives extra damage on her melee attack. So if she made two attacks on any turn (with war cleric action + bonus, limited uses per day), I may have not taken note of that and assumed it was paladin Extra Attack.
But if she didn't make two attacks on any turn when she could have, that's probably a sign she's not War domain. (Especially in the later fights; in early fights she might just be saving long-rest resources.)
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I comment on the original video 4 years ago with what I was able to reverse-engineer:
> Classes (subclasses) and levels: They're exactly level 8 (cleric Divine Strike, but proficiency bonus only +3, not +4 at lvl9, confirmed by Taliesin's dex check not save at 2:52:35), assuming they're all the same level.
>
> Taliesin / Arthur: Rogue (Thief): Sneak Attack, Second Story Work 3:44:20
> Julie / Ellory: Cleric (Life): Divine Strike doing radiant damage in an early round of the first fight.
> Marisha / Cranberry: Paladin(?) / Cleric(?) multi-class: Divine Smite in first fight, Spiritual Weapon at 3:10:40, Toll the Dead 3:12:40, lvl3 Guiding Bolt 3:25:40.
> It's possible Marisha mis-spoke and meant Divine Strike, and is pure Cleric (Strength), which would fit the the character theme.
> Sam / Bunglestein: Fighter (Samurai): used Fighting Spirit at 1:18:40 during first fight. Feats: Mobile (+10 move, limit op attacks) 4:03:03
> Matt / Klaus: Fighter (Battle Master): Riposte maneuver adding a superiority die during first fight.
> Ashley / Nutmeg: Wizard (unknown): said out loud.
> Travis / Chutney: Rogue (unknown): mentions Sneak Attack, uses cunning action in later fight.
>
>
> [... further citations of specific things, which led me towards single-class Cleric, none of which distinguish between war vs. strength domains.]
4 years ago, I also didn't see any evidence for subclasses for Ashley wizard or Travis's rogue.
Some wizard subclasses have features that are rarely useful, but we can't assume that a class feature would have been used if one had been useful for a situation that came up. Same for War vs. Strength cleric.
Greatest holiday 4 hours.
I'm sure others have noticed this before but Klaus reminds me of Matt's Ganondorf from There Will Be Brawl. You could see him referring to his hands as "these killing mits"".
Playing a Druid that wild shapes into one of Santa's reindeer would have been hilarious. Play a Blitzen who's sick of Rudolph getting the limelight or Comet who's totally jaded with Christmas
Just a tab of my browser away, I have the Bardic Aggravation this year's Christmas oneshot in the DC20 system, "Rumble at the Pole". It's near sure to end up in a Naughty vs Nice skirmish and Rudolph is one of the PCs (on the Nice side, duh).
Real quick... The reason tavern openings are bad is because they're so often aimless. "Youre in a tavern... What do you do?" Is a terrible opening!
But "in the early hours of the morning, you awake to a pounding at your door. The innkeep shouting that they've got a job for you" is infinitely better.
Jesus, did Mike really just say “do it for the vine”‽ ‽ ‽
I actually adapted Rocky Horror to a Halloween Escape room-style one shot. And made a reverse Home Alone one-shot where the players are Elves(gnomes) tasked with taking out traps in "troublemakers" homes before Santa arrives to deliver presents.
“Bard who sings Christmas carols” is precisely the idea behind my character for our Christmas one shot this year. Super pumped to play him
Happ Holidays, Mike. Thank you for this episode and rising my spirits.
Can't wait to see the video you make about the Darrington Brigade!
Warlock christmas elf whose patron is santa
This is definitely one of my favorites, not the least due to my love of the film. I twigged to what Liam had done during the first fight.
To see what a dramatic moment looks like in real time just watch their guest after she says: "This is fun!"
How do you request these again? I'm really looking forward to the Ashley alien one shot
I like that you just rattled off a list of mythological creatures that included turkeys.
6:36 What a McFreaking Mood ™️
I forgot this one-shot was modeled after Nightmare Before Christmas. I had a GM who modeled nearly every encounter on tropes and established plotlines: trust me, it gets old for a campaign. But very fun for a one-shot!
"Inside the coffin there is a shart" xD
Love it 😂
Lovely!
Has there even been a released or assembled module to run this with Liam's stat blocks? I would love to run something similar and it would just be easier with things like that already made. Although now I'll be spending my day making them myself anyway...
Haven't seen anything, which is a shame as this looks like a lot of fun.
I stole this one shot idea and one of my players had a great idea for a warforged candy making machine
The fact I got a Flash ad with Brian Blessid in it lol
Yay! critmas game!
Evidence number 1203585 that Travis is the best dnd player
YAAAAASSSSSSSSS ❤🎉
the end 👅😂
Just out of curiosity: does the 3-shot Elder Scrolls count as a bonus?
Yep!
@SupergeekMike 😀
Happy Crisis!
Methinks Mike’s gonna run another game this month. That look was loud.
isn’t bigsby what sam called his magic hand in the first campaign
Bigby's Hand (not Bigsby) is the official name of the spell in the player's handbook. (The free SRD version strips off the proper nouns, making it Arcane Hand.)
Most of the wizards who have spells named after them (like Melf and Mordenkainen) were PCs in Gary Gygax's home games in the early days of D&D.
I wonder if Bixby (the ranger companion from Liam's one-shot) was inspired by that, subconsciously or intentionally. Yeah, interesting idea if that's what you're referring to.
@ it was lol
I get what you were going Mike, but saying the Jewish character has a "clearly" Jewish voice is a tad offensive. Sam can do the voice all he wants, he's of Jewish descent, but think of your remark if it was any other ethnicity and you'll see what I mean...
Great episode otherwise, definitely stealing some of the Christmas ideas
I thought it was obvious that my point was that it was a stereotypical voice for a Jewish character (it’s very close to characters like Mort from Family Guy), and not an implication that all Jewish people talk that way, which is obviously not true. Apologies if that was unclear in any way.
Honestly I hadn’t thought you meant it like that, just with the rise of antisemitism I felt I had to stand on a podium for a second 😅
Keep doing the good work!