First time I didn’t get frustrated with the weird monk guy. Always liked the character but man is he annoying. Loved the cliffhanger, I think its gonna be super awesome what becomes of berg. To what extent are you gonna let Max change Berg? Only flavor stuff or is he getting any new mechanics?
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If they decide to do Court of Wands, remember fire dancing.
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Awesome episode! The dragon reveal / encounter was great to see!
I’m intrigued about some of the interactions between Berg and the Tower (I guess i’ll wait for the patreon vod for some of that). Compendium Class type thing comes to mind. or if it was PbtA taking a new playbook 
I’m curious how you prepped that “side room” was this a revised idea from the original map that they never encountered?
Either way, looking forward to seeing what you do w/ a new area of the world/setting to explore and all the havoc you get to sow w/ a time skip!
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Damn i loved both Azriel and Jubilant Black Gale. RIP and Press all the F for respects.
Also i love how the campaign has essentially become connected stories happening in the setting of CoS, rather than a standard campaign, that show the life and adventures in it (with a considerable abount of tragic ends) But i also love the Saga of Berg aspect in it.
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God this is probably the best turning point for the show I can’t wait to see the time skip to see where the show is taken I really hope they head to the biggest city in the world cu that would be something intresting to explore and bring politics into the game. So Adam how do you feel now that the show seems to now going to be the story of berg and those around him and finally do you feel like Berg’s story is that of the fool’s journey?
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Time to delete Gale and Azriel… Berg is the chosen one now!
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Not that my input is important but I agree with the Court of Cups being the most interesting next stop. The trespasses of water tend to get less scary or interesting at higher levels so it’d be awesome to do it now. Also the Court of Wands sounds like the perfect place for higher level duders.
Question, though. If we’re doing a huge timeskip and Berg has been actively working with and for The Tower, is he still going to be statistically the same? I suppose it makes sense not to mechanically advantage Berg but I’m curious if we’ll see any mechanical growth from how to reflect the personal growth he’d be making over such a long period.
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I’m curious if @itmeJP and @DansGaming have had enough experience at lvl 4-5 (either with their own character or as a group in general) to alter their decision of what might be a better composition for the core group compared to if they were lower levels. Even at level 3 you can pretty much pick whatever and not worry too much about contributing because attack and spell DCs are pretty low, your tool kit isn’t super extensive/diverse , etc.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that someone is going to go the arcane magic route. My own personal bias says “Wild Magic Sorcerer” for RNG hijinks and personal experience (convincing a Unicorn you randomly summon to help you fight is interesting) and metamagic (Twin Spell). Plenty of Wizard options to fill out whatever kind of area you want to specialize in (Blasting/Battlefield Control/Summoning/etc). I will say an option disappointingly not available, that would be interesting fluff fitting into the setting would a Bladesinger from Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide to intertwine with a elves/notelves storyline.
Hell if I know what else would fit… I will say though that while the group + guest tends to do pretty well with whatever they pick, I’m thinking maybe another class that isn’t super reliant on any one resource; Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Monk… Paladin is probably the line of “I’ve run out of shit, but I can still lead us to safety until we can get our resources back”. Again, never been a “You always need a healer” kind of guy but to each their own - someone with the healer feat wouldn’t go amiss.
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Can someone please make an Edge of Tomorrow (live, die, repeat) poster with Jubilant Black Gale?
Also, on a hypothetical situation where they managed to defeat or kill the dragon, would you have them killed by the mercs Adam? From what Berg heard thats what would have happened in my opinion
Thanks for the episode everyone!
First: Adam, do you know there are two-headed giraffes in 3.5e? I didn’t see any in 5e at first glance, but it seems like it might be something that could come up.
Second: Do all followers of the Tower have tattoos like Hassan? Will Old Man Berg? If so, I know a place by the docks that does some high-quality work…
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It was pretty much as-written, with some scaling for the new party and situation. Bigger dragon, no adds. Otherwise they’d encounter it with the high priest of the rock gnomes.
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I did not and that is fucked up and I’m not sure, maybe? That’s kind of up to Max, I think.
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They were waiting to ambush them, for sure. Kill the PCs, take the treasure and capture Berg. Unless the characters said something to dissuade them or made a deal or fought them!
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I’m gonna dig into the DMG and look at the downtime rules!
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Oh sweet! Have fun with that. I think the Downtime section in the DMG is mostly stuff like building a house, making an item or running a business. Though the Other Rewards section in the treasure chapter has other weird gifts.
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I guess it would depend on the length of the time skip, but will we find out how much progress the forest gnomes have made rebuilding their kingdom, as well as what became of Morgan’s character releasing that snake god?
Great episode as usual btw!
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Argh, I really liked Jubs and hoped JP got to play him a bit more.
Personally, I’d like the team to stick to some of the lore we already discovered and advance story there, but I love the whole show so far, so I’ll follow you guys where- and whenever you wanna take it.
Also tree stride, huh? So Mr. Monk has to be at least what, level 5?
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I would like to see the Court of Swords again, then maybe go on a quest to a new Court we havn’t seen yet.
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I’m so torn by this episode. I loved this story line, it was so much fun to watch. I am relieved that Berg is still around and that we will get to see more of him, but on the other hand I really hate how it ended. Not that there was anything wrong with the DM side of it, I just hated leaving the dragon encounter unanswered. I also wish we got to see more of one of the story lines we’ve already seen. It finally felt like we were getting into the some really good lore and now it is just up and skipped. Apart from that @AdamKoebel amazing story telling, you can really paint the picture.
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Great episode, was wondering if you’ll actually run the fight with the Bounty hunters and the dragon and if you do, will the dragon bother leading them through the illusion like it did with the PCs.
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