Part 6: The Big Bad Boss Battle | Starter Kit - D&D Edition

Summary

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Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry

Episode: Part 6: The Big Bad Boss Battle | Starter Kit - D&D Edition
Host: Jason Charles Miller (Dungeon Master)
Date: September 15, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode marks the dramatic finale of the Starter Kit: D&D Edition mini-campaign, where the party faces the dungeon’s most formidable foes in an epic “big boss battle.” Dungeon Master Jason Charles Miller guides the players through a tense and action-packed showdown, testing their strategy, teamwork, and luck. The adventure climaxes with high-stakes combat, crucial decisions around trust and treachery, and an ending that leaves the party as victorious—if slightly battered—heroes.

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Key Discussion Points & Battle Breakdown

1. The Final Approach (01:10–03:38)

• Setting the Stage: The party debates their approach to the final chamber. Suspicion arises over Lalacra's reluctance to join the fight.
  • Quote:
    “Why don't you go ahead?” — Haldor (02:03)
    “That wasn't part of the deal. You were the heroes. You're the fighters...” — Jason Charles Miller as Lalacra (02:04)
• Players take last-minute precautions. Healing potions are consumed to prep for the coming fight.
  • Quote:
    “I'm going to do a healing potion on myself. 1d8 plus 2 is what my thing lays out to.” — Haldor (02:37)
• The group readies their positions and hypes each other up before the big battle.

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2. Entering the Boss Chamber (03:38–05:16)

• Encounter Revealed: The party enters a dormitory guarded by four goblin archers and two imposing hobgoblin leaders—a shaman and a chieftain.
  • Memorable DM Description:
    “A loud voice barks at you in broken Common: Stop. Put down your weapons and leave with your lives ...” — Jason Charles Miller (03:41)
• Initiative Rolls: Players roll for combat order amid banter and anticipation.

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3. The Heat of Battle: First Rounds (05:16–09:01)

• Combat Kicks Off: Players charge at the goblin archers, swinging swords and launching spells.
  • Notable Combat Moves:
    • Haldor and Duncar engage the goblin frontline.
    • Deborah unleashes “burning hands” for significant area-of-effect damage, lighting beds (and goblins) ablaze.
      • Quote:
        “By the power of Helm, I protect you ... with fire.” — Deborah (08:34)
      • DM Response:
        “The female hobgoblin looks pretty tore up ... not dead, but she looks pretty bad.” — Jason Charles Miller (08:52)

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4. Escalating Danger & Narrow Escapes (09:01–16:14)

• Counterattacks: The hobgoblin chieftain retaliates, swinging a massive greatsword—some hits nearly drop the party’s frontline.
  • Quote:
    “Good thing you healed.” — Deborah to Duncar after a heavy hit (09:42)
• Tactical Discussion: Players debate healing vs. pushing the attack. Lalacra remains largely passive, drawing the party’s ire.
  • Quote:
    “What do you mean? ... Useless.” — Haldor (22:02)
  • Party banter:
    “You're waiting till we're weak so you can kill us after we wipe this dude out.” — Haldor to Lalacra (16:25)

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5. Heroic (and Comedic) Moments (13:07–15:55)

• Critical Hits: Thumper scores a natural 20, annihilating a foe in classic rogue (and darkly comic) fashion.
  • Quote:
    “I slid him from the crotch up.” — Thumper (13:28)
• Potion Checks and Party Support: Resource management and concern for other party members come to the forefront.

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6. The Turning Tide: Party Perseverance (20:45–29:35)

• Second Winds and Healing: Strategic use of second wind and healing spells keeps the party upright.
• Dogged Foes: The hobgoblin chieftain uses his own “second wind,” matching the players' resilience.
• Near-Deaths: Thumpar is knocked unconscious, prompting tense death saving throws (33:35).
  • Quote:
    “Helm, watch over us at this moment. Watch over Semper.” — Deborah (32:10)

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7. The Climax: Felling the Big Bad (29:39–36:58)

• Last Blows: After many missed strikes and spells, a clutch natural 20 and well-timed cantrips finally bring down the chieftain.
• Triumphant Kill:
  • Quote:
    “So completely by surprise, you stabbed him right where he wasn't looking ... he goes down.” — Jason Charles Miller to Thumper (36:34)
• Loot and Rewards: The party claims a magical greatsword (+1), gems worth 1500gp, and a map to further adventure.
  • Quote:
    “You may find some interesting items that will more than pay for this adventure ...” — Lalacra (37:19)

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8. Aftermath and Twist Ending (38:45–39:28)

• Return to Civilization: The party journeys back to the city to rejoin the Adventurers Guild—only to find the building mysteriously vanished.
  • Quote:
    “You get back to the street where the Adventurers Guild is. ... The building’s gone. ... It's like there was never a building.” — Jason Charles Miller (39:10-39:20)
• Reflections & Wrap-Up:
  • “Great job. Cool. Well, I hope you guys had as much fun as we did watching us play. You know, this is really a first level game. And I hope that you learned a lot, but mostly had fun.” — Jason Charles Miller (39:40–39:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Suspicious Allies:
  • “You're waiting till we're weak so you can kill us after we wipe this dude out.” — Haldor (16:25)
• Spellcasting Flair:
  • “By the power of Helm, I protect you ... with fire.” — Deborah (08:34)
• Dark Rogue Comedic Kill:
  • “I slid him from the crotch up.” — Thumper (13:28)
• Teamwork in Tension:
  • “Helm, watch over us at this moment. Watch over Semper.” — Deborah (32:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Entering the Boss Chamber: 03:38
• Initiative & First Attacks: 05:16
• Burning Hands Spell: 07:39
• Critical Hit by Thumper: 13:07
• Healing & Resource Management: 15:45
• Hobgoblin Second Wind: 22:46
• Thumpar’s Unconscious/Death Save: 33:35
• Final Boss Defeated: 36:58
• Loot & Adventure Ends: 37:19
• Guild Building Vanishes (Twist Ending): 39:10

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Tone and Table Experience

The session is marked by classic table camaraderie: playful ribbing, spontaneous strategizing, and infectious excitement. Jason Charles Miller masterfully balances narrative tension with light-hearted fun, ensuring each player has moments to shine. Combat oscillates between genuinely dangerous (with several characters nearly dying) and laugh-out-loud funny, especially with the group's antics, botched rolls, and occasional outlandish attack descriptions.

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Summary

This finale perfectly embodies the chaotic magic of a great D&D table—a boss fight with bursts of heroism, memorable spells, daring rescues, suspenseful dice rolls, and a final twist that hints at further adventures to come. Even as players celebrate triumph, they're left with a tantalizing question: what happened to the Adventurers Guild?

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Transcript

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[Jason Charles Miller]

Welcome back to your starter kit. I'm your dungeon master, Jason Charles Miller. This is it. The big boss fight. In this episode, our players are going to have to combine all of their strengths and everything they've learned until now to defeat the most formal, formidable foe in this adventure. Will they make it out alive? Only the dice know for sure. Okay. And we're back. So the two goblins, the cowards, they ran through that other door.

[Duncar]

Follow them.

[Haldor]

Yes.

[Thumper]

Get them.

[Deborah]

Get in there.

[Haldor]

Absolutely.

[Deborah]

Let's all crouch up.

[Haldor]

I will say though, should. Should she go in or like we should follow her into the room since she's been hanging back our Lalocra.

[Deborah]

Lalokri. You're not fighting with us.

[Haldor]

Yeah. What's up?

[Deborah]

Let's make her go in.

[Haldor]

Why don't you go ahead?

[Jason Charles Miller]

That wasn't part of the deal. You were the heroes. You're the fighters. We made a deal for you to clear this dungeon for me. And I will split any of the treasure with you. I took you this far. The Hobgoblin chieftain and shaman are in that room. I know it. I'll open the door for you, but you'll have to go. With your help.

[Duncar]

If they're not, then this is. We now know. If they are, we believe her. If not, then we know she's.

[Deborah]

Yeah. Before we pop in that door, if you guys want to do like a healing potion or something. I want to save my spells.

[Haldor]

Yes. I'm going to do a healing potion on myself. 1d8 plus 2 is what my thing lays out too. So that's helpful.

[Duncar]

I have the same one. DA plus two.

[Moon]

Is there a get your cantrip potion?

[Deborah]

Cantrips are.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Well, cantrips are good. You've always got them. No, there's no way. Get your first level spells back.

[Moon]

Except sleep.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

I am one. That brings me to one less than my perfect.

[Deborah]

Push me up to the door if you could. I'm the one in the white, right here. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna be ready to get in there. So you're gonna be maybe right behind them.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Yeah, we'll put them there.

[Deborah]

Yeah. Who's first through that door?

[Haldor]

She's first through the door.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So the locker's gonna open the door. She's gonna open the door for you and let you guys.

[Haldor]

Is she also fighting lolarda? Are you going to fight with us at least?

[Jason Charles Miller]

I will fight.

[Haldor]

All right.

[Thumper]

All right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I'm not much of a fighter. I'm more of an ambassador.

[Haldor]

Right, I see.

[Jason Charles Miller]

All right.

[Duncar]

Anticlimactic. If we open it up and it's.

[Haldor]

Just like Arcadia, the last three rooms haven't been impressive. Little Agra.

[Thumper]

So what's in there?

[Duncar]

All right.

[Haldor]

Let's go. All right. Let's find out.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Look at those pewter.

[Haldor]

Oh, it's a dorm.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so as soon as you open the door, a loud voice barks at you in broken Comment. Stop. Put down your weapons and leave with your lives. 20ft inside the door. Spread across the room are four Goblin Archers, each with arrows pointed at your hearts. Another 30ft behind them stand two hobgoblins. One is small and hunched, no more than 5ft tall, possibly female, dressed in a brocade cloak of red and gold hair and cloak covered in tinkling beads and shells. She holds a crooked staff in her hand. The other is tall and lean, an archetypal middle aged hobgoblin warrior with a long scar across his cheek. It is his voice that you heard. He wears heavy laminated armor. His hands grip the hilt of a huge black greatsword. He has an air of command and danger about him. So let me set the miniatures and we'll roll for initiative.

[Deborah]

Initiative.

[Thumper]

Better watch out for these guys.

[Haldor]

18.

[Jason Charles Miller]

16.

[Haldor]

Oh, plus two. So 20.

[Jason Charles Miller]

How tiny he is.

[Haldor]

He's little filthy.

[Duncar]

20. Yeah, I got 16.

[Moon]

I got 1309.

[Thumper]

So I'm last.

[Deborah]

Great.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So tell me what everyone got.

[Haldor]

18.

[Moon]

Wait.

[Deborah]

Or sorry.

[Haldor]

20.

[Duncar]

30.

[Haldor]

20.

[Jason Charles Miller]

This is your first. I know.

[Moon]

I got three actually.

[Duncar]

And you got, I guess 16.

[Jason Charles Miller]

16. And then what do we have after that?

[Deborah]

13 from Deb. Ready to help? Ready to prove something, Little Debbies.

[Duncar]

Debbie's taking a break from making sweets.

[Jason Charles Miller]

And what else we got?

[Thumper]

I thought I was last. I don't remember my number now.

[Deborah]

Nine. She got a three.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You got a nine.

[Moon]

Yeah. I'm last.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, here we go. Haldor.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

What do you do? Fight.

[Haldor]

Who dares wins. I'll fight. I'm going to charge in straight at one of the archers.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yes.

[Duncar]

They're all archers, right?

[Haldor]

No, they're not. Are they all four archers?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Those four archers? Okay, cool. Well then, regardless of what they look like, right now those four are archers.

[Haldor]

Well, then I'll take the one to my left. That's the main one there. Kind of flank him out. I'm gonna aim. I'm gonna go right up to his face like that.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great.

[Haldor]

I'm gonna attack him with a long sword. Four plus four is eight. No, I missed.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Sorry. All right, I saw the hard part. Duncar, you're next.

[Duncar]

I'm running up right next to. You know what? I'm gonna go over to this side.

[Deborah]

Perfect.

[Duncar]

And go after this guy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great. Okay.

[Haldor]

It's a good plan so far.

[Duncar]

12 plus 4. 16.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You hit? You hit that guy?

[Duncar]

Yeah, dude.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Smash him with your maul.

[Duncar]

Roll for damage. 2D6. How much? To the tune of 11.

[Moon]

Nice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You know you turned him into soup.

[Thumper]

Nice.

[Haldor]

Nice.

[Duncar]

Later.

[Jason Charles Miller]

We got him.

[Moon]

Oh, we're keeping our baddies.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. Oh, no, that's good. Yeah. Yeah.

[Haldor]

All right. He'll need one later. There's more coming.

[Duncar]

I got.

[Deborah]

No, no, no, no. Don't give him the menus back. And then he can't add monsters.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Now it's Lalaccra's turn.

[Haldor]

All right.

[Duncar]

And Lacraqua stops to tie her shoe.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Just continues to hold the door.

[Duncar]

Yeah, she does.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, she continues to hold the door.

[Moon]

Appreciate it.

[Deborah]

That's nice.

[Duncar]

I told you I'd fight. I'm fighting my urge to fight.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Deborah, it's your turn.

[Deborah]

All right, I am gonna hop in. This is what I proposed. I haven't done it yet, but I would like to use my burning hands spell, which has a. It is a 15 foot cone from me. So I want to get in there and try to get as many guys as I can.

[Jason Charles Miller]

As many as you can.

[Deborah]

In my cone without hitting my friends.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Right.

[Deborah]

There's a little geometry involved.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Probably the best move would be either if you stood here, you could get this guy. Well, okay. Actually, if you stood here, you could probably cone out and get these two as well.

[Deborah]

Perfect. This close to combat. But Deb is ready to play.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Hey.

[Duncar]

And you Know what? They're archers. So even if you're. What's the difference of five feet? Like they're mad at you, they're attacking.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The big spell for last. Okay, so tell us about burning hands.

[Deborah]

Okay, burning hands. As I hold my hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flame shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. Each creature in a 15 foot cone must make a dexterity saving throw, which I assume is against my spell save DC, which is 13. Okay, and then if they take 3D6 fire damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, I like it. So we've got three. So I'm gonna roll saving throws for three people.

[Deborah]

Okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Against yours, one was not good. That was not good. Okay, so one. He failed his saving throw. She failed her saving throw and the little archer didn't. Or yeah, the little archer made his saving throw.

[Deborah]

I mean, he's very dexterous.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's fine. If you were to have one to get their saving throw, it would probably be good. So now you're gonna roll 3D6 and see how much damage you did for everybody.

[Deborah]

By the power of helm, I protect you verry to protect you with fire. That's 11 damage.

[Jason Charles Miller]

11 damage. Okay, that's good. Good, that's really good. The female hobgoblin looks pretty tore up.

[Haldor]

She's not dead yet.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Not dead, but she looks pretty bad.

[Deborah]

She's sort of fiery. Oh. I should add that any flammable objects that aren't being held or worn also do catch on fire.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That aren't or are that are not that are not being worn or held.

[Haldor]

So the beds they're standing on, they're basically on a funeral pyre right now.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Because they're on beds, they have to move off of that.

[Thumper]

So they're in flames anyway.

[Jason Charles Miller]

It's actually their turn to move in their waterbeds.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

And so that means that this guy took five points of damage. So he's still alive. He's definitely still alive.

[Deborah]

I feel like I accomplished that.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That was a very good move.

[Haldor]

Very, very good by the bad guy for the most part.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So this guy, this old big old hobbling guy with his great sword is going to go first and he is charging right at the dwarf. What can he do? You know, what can you do?

[Deborah]

Good thing you healed.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Good thing he gets to attack twice.

[Haldor]

Also, you have the most hit points of all of us.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So he missed the first one.

[Haldor]

Oh, now he's missed the first time.

[Thumper]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Let's sup. Neo, the second Time. He did not miss.

[Haldor]

He hit you the second time.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You got hit four.

[Deborah]

Cut it in a beard.

[Duncar]

See?

[Jason Charles Miller]

So I've got all these guys everywhere.

[Duncar]

Is there a thing that I can do to not get hit?

[Jason Charles Miller]

You got hit four. Oh, boy.

[Thumper]

Uh oh.

[Deborah]

That was a bad noise for DM to make.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Eight points of damage.

[Duncar]

All right, I'm still alive.

[Jason Charles Miller]

If you're alive, that's good.

[Duncar]

I'm alive. I still got five. He's a big dude.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so that's it for him. She's going to move off the flaming bed to here, and we'll cast.

[Duncar]

So they each get to do a thing right now.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry.

[Deborah]

Uh.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Oh, they each get to do a thing.

[Deborah]

We have a. So bad.

[Duncar]

Well, you know what? If we die, you guys could race in and finish them up. Yeah, exactly.

[Moon]

We do our best.

[Jason Charles Miller]

It's actually a good thing that everyone's in front of her because she doesn't necessarily want to hit her own people.

[Duncar]

She has to do, like, touch stuff.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Possibly, or her spell hit whoever's going. So she's going to. You see her cast something on herself. Okay, her turn is she's casting something on herself.

[Haldor]

Healed herself or something.

[Jason Charles Miller]

They're not sure what it is.

[Haldor]

Okay. Protection, Extra pewter.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah. And then now we've got the archers who will, at this point, all pull out their shortswords because every single one of them is in melee combat now. So to shoot with the. With the bow doesn't make any sense. So this guy's gonna go for. Gonna go for you.

[Deborah]

Deb's ready.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He misses terribly. And both of these guys are going for Haldor, right?

[Duncar]

You are one with helm, and Helm's with you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, One definitely hits you for four points of damage.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Duncar]

What are you at?

[Haldor]

I'm at five.

[Duncar]

Hey, so am I. Yes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

And the last one missed. So that's very good, Trinh.

[Duncar]

You'll have to do better than that.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Your turn.

[Thumper]

Okay, so we're in full combat right now.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, full combat.

[Deborah]

It is heavy.

[Haldor]

Everybody needs to.

[Moon]

And she's still holding the door for us.

[Deborah]

Yeah, you can.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Thumper]

As I walk up to the door, I'm gonna be like, dude, help us. Okay.

[Haldor]

So you can race in close, and since they're all engaged, you can both hit them and have your secondary attack.

[Thumper]

Yes.

[Deborah]

Double stab.

[Haldor]

Yeah, yeah.

[Thumper]

Definitely have to double stab. So I feel like poor Thumper. Thumper.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Thumper, Thumper, help.

[Thumper]

Because he's already hurting this big dude right there. So let's go help him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. The issue Is you can move through there, but there's really no place for you to stand in the combat.

[Thumper]

How far in can I go, is my question.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Well, you can go. Your move is what, 25. 25, yeah. 1, 2, 3, 4. So your fifth move would be in the middle there. And you can't actually. So this was really your best?

[Thumper]

Definitely my best.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Your best spot.

[Thumper]

So I basically have to hit. Go to that square where the three is and hit the guy in front of me, Right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah, I'll do that. Okay. All right.

[Moon]

Thank you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so let's roll the hit. Nice. Natural twin.

[Duncar]

Oh, my God.

[Thumper]

Natural twin.

[Duncar]

Gorgeous.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So that's so much damage that I'm not even gonna make you. Okay, good. Explain to me how you kill him.

[Thumper]

Oh.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Set the scene for us. Wait, what was I using?

[Duncar]

Dagger.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You're using your dagger. Your magical dagger.

[Thumper]

I slid him from the crotch up.

[Duncar]

Perfect. Perfect.

[Deborah]

Kidding.

[Haldor]

You learn a lot about people.

[Duncar]

Boom.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Because I'm short.

[Haldor]

Gone.

[Deborah]

It's just practical.

[Duncar]

You go up and then you climb up and up a little more. Then climb up and up a little more.

[Haldor]

I'm not trying to be cruel. It's really just the only place I can reach.

[Duncar]

Can you come down a little bit, please?

[Haldor]

Thank you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Moon.

[Haldor]

Get him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Moon, it's up to you.

[Haldor]

Get him.

[Moon]

Well, obviously, I'm gonna have to use the firebolt since I don't have any of the special ones.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Who are you shooting it at?

[Moon]

I'm going to shoot it at the big one over here.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great. The big, big guy.

[Moon]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Excellent. Okay.

[Moon]

I start off with a 2, which is 4, which means I totally missed.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That's okay. There's always the next round. That's right, Haldor. You're right.

[Haldor]

All right.

[Duncar]

Appreciate that.

[Haldor]

I'm gonna. Let's see. I'm gonna finish off this little guy in front of me. Er, actually, you guys, you can handle him. To the left if I moved in and went straight for the second hobgoblin. So I'm gonna move in that middle spot.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Haldor]

And attack her with a longsword.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Awesome.

[Haldor]

Yeah. Hopefully this works out. 12 plus 4.

[Duncar]

16.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You hit.

[Haldor]

All right, roll for damage. Roll for damage is eight.

[Thumper]

I love those words.

[Haldor]

Come on. Roll for damage. Five plus two is seven. Hit.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You killed her.

[Haldor]

Finally.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That burning hands really took a lot out of her. That was a good. That was a good move. That was a good, good move.

[Haldor]

Thank you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So. Yeah. Hang on to her for a minute.

[Thumper]

No, you did.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You killed one of the archers.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

Which one?

[Haldor]

And both Earlier So I don't want to hear anything.

[Moon]

You like keeping your eyes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Keep your kills for now.

[Deborah]

We're so stabbing for just thump rs.

[Duncar]

I think you took some of them, but Thumpar. I'm attacking that dude. Okay, you attacked me.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, that's true.

[Duncar]

Good. All right.

[Haldor]

Come on.

[Duncar]

Forget.

[Moon]

Could be a seven.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Oh, man. Okay. Yeah, you definitely paper cut.

[Haldor]

You gave yourself a paper cut.

[Duncar]

I trip off my beard.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Now. Don't forget who's got potions left and things like that. Think about that in the back of your mind too, that you've got those at the ready if you're feeling like you need it.

[Deborah]

Does that. Like it takes your action to do it, right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, it does take an action. Okay.

[Haldor]

To give somebody a healing potion.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. And to take it. To take it yourself. To imbibe it yourself.

[Thumper]

I have two healing potions.

[Moon]

Come to find out you're concerned with some of our deaths.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Possibly, yes.

[Haldor]

He's a big, formidable dude.

[Jason Charles Miller]

It's Lalacra's turn and she's not doing anything.

[Duncar]

What?

[Haldor]

Okay, Lacra, I'm calling you out. You're supposed to help us.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I'm not one for fighting. I'm just.

[Haldor]

Yeah, you're waiting till we're weak so you can kill us. After we wipe this dude out.

[Duncar]

I'm just gonna let you do what you were going to do anyway, which is just plunder the space.

[Haldor]

Then why follow us? Go wait in the other room.

[Duncar]

You know. All right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Deborah, Deb.

[Deborah]

All right. I am feeling concerned for my friends. I can do some stabbing, but I. What are you down to?

[Haldor]

I'm at five.

[Deborah]

You're both at five right now.

[Duncar]

And you can do a move and an action, right? Because you should probably get out of dude's way.

[Deborah]

If I'm healing.

[Duncar]

If you have a healing.

[Haldor]

Yeah. Heal us from. Take a couple steps back and heal us.

[Duncar]

Can she get out of the way?

[Jason Charles Miller]

If she gets out of the way, though, they're both gonna get an attack of upper trail opportunity on her. She should not move.

[Thumper]

So she cannot move.

[Deborah]

Okay. Yeah. Cause I'm like in there with knives.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So if she steps back, both of them can take a free swing. Really? It's probably not the greatest idea.

[Deborah]

All right, well, I'm gonna stab. Cause I have a lot of adrenaline right now. And then if y' all need it later, I will heal you when you're unconscious.

[Duncar]

Go for it.

[Deborah]

Okay, perfect.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Stabby stab. Which one?

[Deborah]

I'm gonna stab. Can I stab? I'll just stab the guy in front of me. It feels like, that's probably a dangerous thing to do.

[Haldor]

Okay.

[Deborah]

That is a six. That was not the right choice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Sorry.

[Deborah]

I have regrets.

[Haldor]

All right, you have your resistance thing that you can throw up.

[Deborah]

Nothing that doesn't take an action.

[Haldor]

Oh, all right.

[Deborah]

Yeah.

[Moon]

Let's huddle.

[Deborah]

I can react.

[Moon]

Guys, there's five of us and her just watching, but we got this. There's only three left.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Moon]

Yeah, we got this.

[Deborah]

I feel very inspired by you.

[Thumper]

So the Goblins are next, though, unfortunately.

[Duncar]

Here they come.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. So hobgoblin, big old hobgoblin guy is gonna. Gonna take a swing at you.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Please take two swings at you.

[Duncar]

Two?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, he can take two swings.

[Haldor]

Yeah, he's gonna miss both of them.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The first one, he definitely missed.

[Duncar]

Good.

[Haldor]

Miss, miss, miss, like free throws.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The second one, he definitely missed.

[Haldor]

All right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You're lucking out. It's the luck of the die.

[Chris Wimmer]

It's.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Only the die will know there is no luck. Right.

[Duncar]

There's Helm. Yes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so. But we've got this guy here, and we've got that guy there. So the guy that you just tried to stab is gonna stabby, stabby back at you.

[Deborah]

Okay?

[Jason Charles Miller]

And he missed. And the one stabbing at Haldor missed.

[Duncar]

Stormtroopers. This is awesome.

[Thumper]

Step in and kick everybody's ass.

[Deborah]

Okay, we got you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Very happy for this.

[Thumper]

So I'm gonna go. I'm just gonna finish the jab.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I'm rolling threes and fours. It's terrible.

[Thumper]

Okay, so is anybody hurt or what? What's happening?

[Duncar]

Like, which one's more damage?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Both of these guys have five hit points each.

[Haldor]

Do you mean the Goblins?

[Thumper]

I mean the Goblins.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Oh, the Goblins. Actually, no. Both of these are uninjured. These both.

[Deborah]

Forget.

[Thumper]

I guess I'll do this guy since there's two.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so this one right here.

[Thumper]

Okay. And I'm using my dagger, right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. Okay, great.

[Haldor]

Goblins are at the end. So if we each are hitting.

[Thumper]

I'm lucky.

[Deborah]

I'm using.

[Thumper]

I'm rolling again, Right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

You're lucky. You can roll again. Excellent.

[Thumper]

18. 18 plus 6.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, you definitely hit him. So you're gonna roll your dagger damage plus the bonus. Plus your backstabbing bonus.

[Thumper]

Come on, come on, come on.

[Haldor]

Three.

[Duncar]

Three.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Three plus five. So that's eight. Now roll your backstabbing damage. Cool. You took him out.

[Haldor]

Yeah, of course.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He is gone. Yep.

[Duncar]

So wait, You're a lucky person. So you get every time.

[Thumper]

Water deep.

[Moon]

Good job.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Half. Halflings are. Have a special skill called lucky. And if you ever roll A one under a halfling. You get to re roll it.

[Duncar]

Oh, right.

[Thumper]

But you have to accept the second roll.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Right.

[Haldor]

It's a great.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You got an 18. That was so. You know, that's where Lucky works out.

[Duncar]

We never went the one, so you'd always want the second roll.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, but you could roll a one again. You know what I mean?

[Duncar]

And then D roll again.

[Thumper]

No.

[Jason Charles Miller]

No. Then that's it. Yeah.

[Duncar]

Oh, I see. Acceptable.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. Okay. Excellent job.

[Moon]

Fire.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, which one. Which one are you shooting at? Big guy.

[Moon]

The big guy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Moon]

Five.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You missed. Sorry.

[Deborah]

You need a new die. A dice.

[Moon]

I know.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Give me. This one's broken here. I'll give you a different one to use for the next time. Let's see. We'll try that one next time.

[Duncar]

Haldor, give her a Black Handor.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Let's go.

[Haldor]

I'm going to use my second wind because I don't trust that this big guy, and I don't trust her. So if I'm down to five, I'm gonna be messed up.

[Deborah]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

So I'm gonna use my second wind. It's one D10 plus one.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That's a D8.

[Duncar]

Oh, sorry.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

What did I do? And so what is it? You use this action.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

To do this?

[Haldor]

Yeah. Sorry, yeah. 1D10. But.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

1D10 plus. Ah, 10.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great. So you're back to.

[Haldor]

Yeah, I'm back to 100.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Full. Full health.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

Okay, cool.

[Haldor]

So that way I don't have to worry about when we get attacked by her at the end of this. And I'm not completely.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Aha. That's fine.

[Duncar]

All right.

[Thumper]

Okay, so it's Thumper next.

[Duncar]

Should I do that same thing? I got five. But I want to.

[Thumper]

Somebody's gotta kill.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's not gonna miss forever.

[Duncar]

Yeah, I know. All right, so you've got.

[Deborah]

You can attack and I'll heal you.

[Duncar]

All right. I'll attack. I'm attacking.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Dude, you're attacking.

[Duncar]

Okay, come on. For once, would you? 18.

[Jason Charles Miller]

All right. You definitely hit him.

[Haldor]

So let's roll for double.

[Thumper]

He's gone. I know it.

[Haldor]

Yeah. This. Come on, use his power. Big damage.

[Duncar]

Four plus two.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Six.

[Duncar]

All right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You put a little more of a dent in him. He's still around, but you dented him up pretty good. Okay. Lalocra chooses to just chill.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

What do you mean?

[Deborah]

It's a real pen.

[Haldor]

Useless.

[Duncar]

Shocking.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Useless. Okay, Deborah.

[Deborah]

Okay. I'm gonna do healing. Sorry. Cure wounds. I'm gonna touch you. I'm gonna say by the power of Helm. And I will heal 1d8 plus 5. So I think you're up to full.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great.

[Deborah]

So that was. Sorry. That was seven plus five, which is 12.

[Duncar]

Thank you. I am super thumpy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Excellent.

[Deborah]

Get thumped.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, now it's the hobgoblins and goblins turn to go.

[Deborah]

So I have not been damaged.

[Moon]

Don't say that.

[Deborah]

Are you crazy?

[Thumper]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You notice something that the hobgoblin chieftain does, and he actually does a very similar move. You're familiar with the move? It looks a lot like when you guys call your second wind in. He does the same thing. So that's what he's gonna do.

[Haldor]

We don't know what this will result in.

[Deborah]

He just cinches his belt and holds in his intestines.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Looks like he's in a little bit of better shape.

[Duncar]

So that's one action of his.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, but that's it. That's all he's gonna do this time.

[Duncar]

And then there's another little dude.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Then the little dude is going to stabby, stabby at. At Haldor, like he was trying to. And this time he does hit. And Haldor, you take five points of damage.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Deborah]

I mean, that would have killed you before, right?

[Haldor]

Yep.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Haldor]

But I'm gonna kill that dude, by the way.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The little dude or the big dude?

[Duncar]

Not if she does it first.

[Haldor]

That's right.

[Thumper]

Okay. Who's Optimy? Moon.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Moon]

Which means maybe.

[Duncar]

Which means zippo.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Thumper]

I should wait so that I can go behind and get the big guy. Like she can get him first.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Yeah. That's an interesting move. Yeah, I can accept that.

[Thumper]

I think I'll do that.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. Okay. So Moon, she's gonna hold her turn and. Hold her. Yeah, hold her turn so that you can go.

[Deborah]

All right.

[Moon]

I'm gonna fire bolt at the big one.

[Jason Charles Miller]

At the big one. Okay.

[Moon]

And that's a nine. 10, 11.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Actually, that's not an 11. It is a 14. You still missed. Yeah, you still missed. But.

[Thumper]

But has he hurt at all?

[Moon]

Oh, I've been doing this.

[Duncar]

He doesn't even hit him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I've been watching your die rolls too. Yeah. So it just misses. The fireball just full on misses again.

[Moon]

For the third time. I quit.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Firebolt. Yeah. So it's up to you. You can't wait any longer because you're the last one in line now.

[Haldor]

Yeah. So we can't go behind.

[Moon]

I have to try the other hand next time.

[Haldor]

Everybody's engaged in power.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The gods, right? Yes.

[Thumper]

Shine on me.

[Haldor]

Eleven.

[Thumper]

Okay, so eleven plus seven. I'm using my dagger.

[Haldor]

Great.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Which one was that? Which one was that? So that's 18 on the little guy.

[Duncar]

Little dude?

[Thumper]

No, on the big one.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Oh, okay. Cuz you should have moved in, but I'll. I'll let you do that. Okay, so you moved in.

[Thumper]

I'm there.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Oh, but you know what?

[Duncar]

Let's.

[Jason Charles Miller]

One other thing though. If you did move in there, this guy would get a free attack on you.

[Thumper]

Oh, yeah. I can't move.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, I'll let you use that die roll.

[Haldor]

He can. He might miss.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, he could miss.

[Thumper]

He probably won't miss. I'm thinking off him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Dang. Do the little dude.

[Haldor]

It's okay. You got knock him out. He's not going to kill you.

[Thumper]

All right, so I'll do that towards the little dude then.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Thumper]

Can I use my same.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Yeah. Okay, so do it towards the little dude.

[Thumper]

I hit him, right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, you hit the little dude for sure.

[Haldor]

And he's with me too.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So you get all sorts of damage.

[Haldor]

Wipe him out.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Thumper]

Oh, okay, good. So, yeah, two.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So two plus five. And now roll a D6.

[Haldor]

Yes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

For your backstabbing damage.

[Haldor]

Yeah. There's no way this guy's alive.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Eleven. He's obliterated.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Nice.

[Deborah]

I know.

[Jason Charles Miller]

She's.

[Thumper]

Thank you. I just love collecting.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great.

[Haldor]

Okay, Haldor, I started opening the ketchup bottle.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I know, right?

[Haldor]

Yeah. Oh, totally. I'm gonna charge up on this dude.

[Thumper]

Last one. Take him out.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

Long sword.

[Haldor]

Yeah, long sword. Yeah. It's all of us, right? Until we got a little. Well, it's just you and me, right?

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

Don't move me forward. I have an idea. I don't wanna move forward. I wanna fire my short bow.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Haldor]

Which is the same power as some of my other stuff anyways, just a different. My dagger. So I'm gonna fire my short bow. Hopefully that'll work out.

[Duncar]

Oh, it does not work out.

[Haldor]

Never mind. It did not work out, but glad I moved forward. All right.

[Duncar]

Hey. There you go.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Good. Okay. It was worth a try. Thump R. Yes.

[Deborah]

Get him.

[Duncar]

Eleven plus four. Fifteen.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You missed, comma. Yeah. Sorry.

[Deborah]

It's okay. Lalocra's coming up. Certainly she'll do something now.

[Duncar]

Lakra.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Lakra kind of at least moves into the room. Progress to there.

[Duncar]

Oh, great.

[Jason Charles Miller]

She doesn't do anything yet.

[Haldor]

She doesn't stab my back. Yeah.

[Moon]

Good.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Deborah]

Great.

[Thumper]

So do you know what Malapra's gonna do? You can't tell.

[Deborah]

Of course. He knows exactly.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I know what the locker's Gonna do. She may or may not do anything.

[Moon]

She's up to no good.

[Duncar]

All right, Deborah. Deborah.

[Deborah]

All right, I'm gonna use my hammer. I'm gonna hit that big guy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Deborah]

Cause that's sort of a fun thing to do.

[Duncar]

16.

[Deborah]

16 plus 3 is 19.

[Duncar]

Nice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You absolutely hit.

[Deborah]

Finally. Roll my D8 at 1 plus 1 is 2.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Moon]

Hit him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

All. You took a little bit away. That's good.

[Thumper]

His toe hurts.

[Deborah]

I take my. Get my hammer. And then I just kind of just stop.

[Haldor]

Right.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Now he's back to. He's got his second wind that he just did. So he's back to attacking. All right.

[Deborah]

It's just you, buddy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The first one.

[Duncar]

Is he attacking me?

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's attacking you with both swings of the mighty sword. He actually misses you, by the way.

[Haldor]

Nice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Awesome.

[Duncar]

What does it take to hit me? Like, what's the number?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Your armor class is 17.

[Duncar]

So, like, however, whatever his is.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. He has to hit 17 as a dungeon master. I don't tell you what.

[Duncar]

They're right. No, of course.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Figure it out.

[Duncar]

But I just put those together. That 17. He has to roll a 17 to hit me. Just like I have to hit whatever this his.

[Haldor]

Everybody unload on the big guy.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Go ahead.

[Moon]

That's the only choice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, unload. I know you're gonna hit on him.

[Deborah]

I completely believe in you.

[Jason Charles Miller]

I want you to hit him, and I'm controlling him, and I want you to hit him.

[Moon]

1.

[Duncar]

What on earth?

[Jason Charles Miller]

It's waiting.

[Moon]

I see.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Swear. Give me another dice.

[Thumper]

I say I'll give you another one.

[Jason Charles Miller]

For the next time.

[Deborah]

Does he have, like, an evil black D20 he's hoarding back there?

[Duncar]

Yeah, he does.

[Thumper]

I bet you the black one will.

[Haldor]

Be Let her roll for. Just make sure we know that there isn't anything there.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, Trent, you're in.

[Thumper]

All right, there's one guy left.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Towards him.

[Thumper]

I'm going to move right in front of his ass.

[Moon]

I'm just as useful as La La at this point.

[Jason Charles Miller]

At least you're trying. This could be good if you were.

[Thumper]

Like, I'm going to hit him with my magical dagger.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Whatever.

[Haldor]

Here we go.

[Thumper]

Okay, so seven plus seven is 14.

[Haldor]

14. Nope.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Sorry.

[Thumper]

I can tell.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, we're back to Haldor.

[Haldor]

Okay. Yeah. Again, all my. I'm gonna go for the long sword, so move me up to the other side of him.

[Deborah]

Yeah.

[Haldor]

Outside. Yeah, I'm a flank. That's great.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Thumper]

Yeah, we're counting on you. No, hold on.

[Haldor]

I'm gonna do one that actually 10 plus 14.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Sorry.

[Duncar]

All right, good thumb part. Here it comes. 14 plus 4. 18.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Just missed.

[Haldor]

Really?

[Moon]

Man, he's got him to like.

[Duncar]

This is 19 now.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Lalacra, actually.

[Duncar]

Oh, here we go.

[Haldor]

See?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Moves in and she starts beating on the guy.

[Deborah]

Oh, my.

[Duncar]

She's beating on him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Lakra starts. Lacra actually attacks the guy. Totally misses. But hey, she tries to start. She's fighting with you.

[Haldor]

Baby steps.

[Duncar]

Dabora. Dabora.

[Deborah]

I am going to Sacred Flame, which was one of my cantrips, which I have done before.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great.

[Deborah]

He has to succeed on a dexterity.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Saving throw against your 13, correct.

[Deborah]

Yes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yes.

[Duncar]

Okay, what does that mean? He has to roll something higher than a 13.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah. With his bonuses and all of that. And he actually failed.

[Deborah]

Yeah. Okay. G8.

[Duncar]

So that means that since he did that and didn't reach this 13, now you get to do the thing.

[Deborah]

Yeah. He doesn't jump out of the way of my flaming.

[Duncar]

So now this is all damage.

[Deborah]

Damage time. That is a three.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay.

[Deborah]

Three flames. I light a birthday candle and throw it at her.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So.

[Duncar]

So what was that called? What's the first thing, the getting out of the way thing?

[Jason Charles Miller]

Saving throw.

[Duncar]

Saving throw is like the inverse of the. Do you hit?

[Haldor]

Yes.

[Duncar]

Like on this. In one of these. What's it called? The first one, we roll the.

[Jason Charles Miller]

To hit roll.

[Duncar]

The detour to hit roll is if we do it. The saving roll is if you do it. And then the same thing happens. We find out how bad it's. Right, Right.

[Haldor]

He's got it.

[Duncar]

Great.

[Haldor]

All right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

And now we're gonna find out how bad he hits the crap out of you.

[Duncar]

Oh, yeah. I'd probably have it coming still.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's just. He's not giving up on. On you, dwarf.

[Haldor]

I think he wants to hit Lalacra more than anybody, though. I really think he needs to hit LaCra. She brought us here.

[Deborah]

He hired her, and she betrayed him.

[Haldor]

I would be mad at her. I'm just saying that makes total sense.

[Jason Charles Miller]

All right.

[Duncar]

Logically.

[Moon]

La la.

[Haldor]

I mean it.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He hit you twice.

[Deborah]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So I'm gonna roll for damage and see how we do here.

[Duncar]

He got two over 17s.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He did scrap.

[Deborah]

Helm, watch over us at this moment. Watch over Semper.

[Duncar]

Oh, Helm, no.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, you are 100% unconscious in knockdown, so when we get to the next turn, we'll figure out what's gonna happen from there.

[Haldor]

You still have Raise the Dead or. Yeah. So she's got your back.

[Deborah]

I got your back. I can help You.

[Duncar]

I've got someone's back right now.

[Thumper]

Come on, Moon.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, Moon, I gave you a new.

[Moon]

D. Sure there's nothing going on?

[Deborah]

Okay, well, just. Just shake it in your hand a whole bunch before you throw it. I'm predicting that's a lucky dice.

[Moon]

Yeah, this is. I can't read the numbers at all, but suspense.

[Haldor]

It wasn't a one.

[Duncar]

12.

[Moon]

12 plus 5 is. 17.

[Jason Charles Miller]

17. You just missed.

[Haldor]

No, sorry.

[Jason Charles Miller]

That was a pretty shot.

[Deborah]

That.

[Haldor]

I know.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

I think I got 18.

[Thumper]

I actually feel dread and anticipation.

[Deborah]

Okay, that means it's double stab that man.

[Thumper]

Okay, I'm already there. My magical dagger.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Ah.

[Thumper]

One five plus five.

[Jason Charles Miller]

It's not happening. Haldor.

[Moon]

He's like at least 18, right?

[Haldor]

Whatever. One.

[Thumper]

What is going on?

[Deborah]

Keep going. Still.

[Haldor]

Keep going.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Thumpar is unconscious, so you're. But thump. Are you gonna roll for saving against death?

[Duncar]

Oh, yeah, Right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So you're gonna do a saving throw against death.

[Duncar]

20.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. So you need to roll 10 or higher.

[Duncar]

Okay, 12.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. So you have one success.

[Duncar]

So I make a note of that somewhere.

[Haldor]

Yeah, you make a little.in the little.

[Duncar]

I'll put a.

[Thumper]

So if he did not roll high enough, that means he said, doesn't mean he said.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's got three chances.

[Duncar]

I got one in the happy thing. Oh, yeah. Okay. There we go.

[Haldor]

You fill in those. Let's Scantron.

[Duncar]

Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So Lalacra is.

[Duncar]

I filled them all in.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Is beaten up on the guy now. Good for her. Totally rolled a two. Lakra is useless. Useless in every way.

[Duncar]

I tried to tell you guys. The Bora.

[Deborah]

That guy gets to act before anybody else does. So I'm gonna hit him before I stabilize you.

[Duncar]

Okay.

[Deborah]

I'm gonna do Sacred Flame because that feels better. Because then you have to roll. Okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

It worked a lot.

[Deborah]

Yeah, no, it's a little. It's the little like bam.

[Jason Charles Miller]

And it's on the saving throw against DC 13. Correct.

[Deborah]

Yes.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He. He. He got it this time.

[Deborah]

Oh, dang.

[Duncar]

No damage.

[Haldor]

What's a DC?

[Jason Charles Miller]

What?

[Duncar]

DC13.

[Jason Charles Miller]

DC is a difficulty check. Difficulty check. Exactly. Yeah.

[Duncar]

Difficulty check.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah. Or difficulty class is technically what. It's what it's count for. But. So if it's a DC of 13, then that means he had to. You would have to roll above how hard it is to.

[Haldor]

Got it. The limbo bar of what you need.

[Duncar]

There you go.

[Haldor]

There's a limbo bar. Yeah.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so now you've been really pissing him off. So he's actually gonna try to. He's gonna at least swing one Swing again.

[Deborah]

That's cool. That's fine. I'm fine with that. Please don't hurt me.

[Haldor]

What's your hit points?

[Deborah]

10.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. C is 14. You lucked out. Two whiffs.

[Haldor]

Yikes. What is yours?

[Duncar]

14.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Moon. Bring it home.

[Deborah]

All right, Come on.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Moon]

And it's a firebolt again.

[Duncar]

Firebolt.

[Moon]

Unless I can blind him with light.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Light won't work that well.

[Haldor]

You can rack him up like a deuce. Another runner in the night, though.

[Moon]

No, it's six.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Dang it. Okay, Tren, you're up.

[Deborah]

Stab, stab, stab, stab.

[Haldor]

Come on. 20.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Natural 20.

[Haldor]

Nicely done.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, so I'm a lot of damage to deal here.

[Thumper]

Thank the gods.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So you're gonna roll your D4 twice, then you're gonna add five to it, then you're gonna roll your backstabbing damage.

[Duncar]

Wait a minute. That didn't just automatically kill him.

[Jason Charles Miller]

No, it's a critical hit. It doesn't automatically kill him.

[Haldor]

Always roll for your damage after. And I hit in, like, the corner of your neck and your shoulder, as opposed to on the side of your shoulder when you had big shoulder pads. Like, the idea is that it got in there. Now we gotta swing.

[Thumper]

So it got in there how hard.

[Haldor]

You were swinging, how soft he was.

[Thumper]

Is +5, because that's how much my dagger is.

[Haldor]

Right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

But only. But only on one. So roll that twice.

[Haldor]

Okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

One. Roll it again. It's okay.

[Duncar]

But is it better that it was a 20 than it was a 19?

[Haldor]

4.

[Jason Charles Miller]

4. Now add 5 to that status.

[Duncar]

Are we doing the same thing?

[Jason Charles Miller]

So roll. Roll a D6 now for your backstabbing damage. Okay, so you hit him for 13 points of damage. So completely by surprise, you. You stabbed him right where he wasn't looking. Like right in between where his armor meets his side and he just. He goes down.

[Deborah]

But he's not dead.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He's dead.

[Duncar]

He's dead.

[Jason Charles Miller]

We got him.

[Thumper]

The sucker's gone.

[Deborah]

Yeah. Thank hell.

[Haldor]

But Aubrey, but what? Her name is Lakra.

[Deborah]

Oh, yeah. What's happening?

[Thumper]

Yay, the good guy.

[Moon]

Now we jump on the vets.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Probably not the ones on fire.

[Haldor]

Yeah.

[Duncar]

Hold it.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So Lalacra brings you and says, thank you, adventurers, for doing this. I think you'll find on his person, you may find some interesting items that will more than pay for this adventure that you just went upon.

[Deborah]

Oh, wonderful. While he's being looted, I'm going to help Thumper to a healing potion.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay, great.

[Haldor]

So you're going to pour stabilizer and. And we'll look through his personal effects. I'll go through his pockets.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So on the Hobgoblin Chieftain, you have this amazing greatsword. Turns out it's a greatsword plus one.

[Haldor]

Nice.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He also has various gems and jewels on his person worth at least 1500 gold pieces.

[Thumper]

We will share.

[Jason Charles Miller]

He also has a map as well to the Caves of Chaos and some other areas that could be good for adventuring. I'm not doing anything this weekend, so you never know what could happen next. Do you guys want to go back to Daggerford and then go back to Waterdeep to the.

[Haldor]

I think the plan should go. Let's go back and join the Adventurers Guild, get ourselves in, pay our way, show our wares. Show them the pewter thing and the paperwork. And go. We didn't find anything else. We totally went there.

[Duncar]

Slam that thing down.

[Haldor]

That's right.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So fast forward a little.

[Moon]

There's no treasure.

[Haldor]

Okay.

[Deborah]

So that was it.

[Jason Charles Miller]

You just got a bunch of treasure.

[Moon]

Oh, okay.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Okay. Okay. So we're gonna fast forward to you get back to Daggerford. You spend a night in a broken boat. Right? And then you take passage back up to Waterdeep. You get back to the street where the Adventurers Guild is. You're so excited. You're going back to the Adventurer's Guild. You're gonna show them all the stuff you got. The building's gone.

[Deborah]

Whoa.

[Jason Charles Miller]

The actual building where the Adventurers Guild is gone. It's just. There's not another building there. It's not. It's just missing. It's like there was never a building.

[Duncar]

Celica. It's that hologram thing.

[Haldor]

Right?

[Jason Charles Miller]

So excellent job, guys.

[Deborah]

Oh, wow.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Made it through search of the unknown.

[Deborah]

Listen. But we made a lot of hearts.

[Jason Charles Miller]

So I hope you guys had a good time.

[Haldor]

Yeah. And only two of us nearly died fully.

[Duncar]

Nice work. We did it.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Great job. Cool. Well, I hope you guys had as much fun as we did watching us play. You know, this is a really a first level game. And I hope that you learned a lot, but mostly had fun.

[Haldor]

Absolutely.

[Jason Charles Miller]

Thank you so much for watching. Yeah. Thanks for coming, guys. Thanks for playing. I'm Jason Charles Miller and this was your starter kit bundle and safe.

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