Andy Farrant from Oxventure Talks Corazón de Ballena

Our second Champion from the Oxventure crew from Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra brings a tremendously insecure rogue who hides his self-consciousness both figuratively and literally! It was a delight to work with Andy Farrant to bring Corazón's fast-talking, sneak attacking, Grease loving rogue to life in our game.
Corazón likes to avoid getting his hands dirty and prefers to focus on increasing the damage of his fellow Champions rather than having to do all the attacking himself. To make that easier, his Pirate's Code increases the damage of all Neutral (along with the Good/Evil spectrum) Champions, and Honorary Crewmates lets him add the Neutral tag to anyone who is adjacent. His Specializations Distant Crewmates changes the way Honorary Crewmates works to affect non-adjacent Champions instead of adjacent ones, and Mage Hand modifies Grease to drop puddles on the enemy furthest from the formation instead of the ones he attacks. When the field is filled with pools of Grease, Corazón uses his ultimate Fiery Bombardment to set them alight.

[@PhantomJokerX]

And he never mentioned the Beeples. The greatest creation of all time.

[@angstbringer2992]

It's fine, the Beeples are already a worldwide sensation 😌

[@dee...]

@@angstbringer2992 STINGsation

[@JuanJuan-wt7bg]

No need to kick up a buzz about it

[@robodogmech]

Alright people, beehive yourself

[@angstbringer2992]

Can't beelieve how long this joke's been going on for

[@SaintedKarma]

Merilwen’s Meat Grinder is one of my absolute favourite moments of Oxventure

[@Banquet42]

Up there with "Ahh.... It's Orphans Boss."

[@team5243]

Mine is atonement begins with an apology OH!!

[@doctorstrangepants6706]

My favorite moment was very much Dob casting Thunderwave with Merilwen in it...

[@rhylin26]

Bear-down Protocol 🐱🐻

[@minaly22]

There's also Merilwen's other rendition of housewares. Such as Moonbeam Microwave. (there's also another one but I forgot the name)

[@angstbringer2992]

We *have* noticed Corazón becoming more empathetic. Aww, look at that character growth

[@dee...]

Corazon has come a long way from kicking an old man to death 😂

[@bezerkoid]

@@dee... in his defence, Erasmus Symes was practically made of plasticine.

[@Nate-zb4bk]

Favorite moment for the other Oxventurers?: “I won’t single anyone out, but anything other than Merilwin is brilliant.”

[@bezerkoid]

In Andy's defence he did mention Merilwen's Meat Grinder shortly after 🤣

[@littlefurnace]

As a Merilwen stan, i almost fucking rioted

[@jonbrookes9434]

@@littlefurnace Quiet Rioted?

[@littlefurnace]

@@jonbrookes9434 excellent (golf clap)

[@MrSquark]

I'm glad that Andy recognised that he can have a tendency to general/railroad the party and that he tries not to, good self awareness.

[@SixShooter14]

I always see it as a part of Corazon's character. He thinks he's the leader and acts with "main character" energy. But obviously it's best for the group if Andy or one of the other Oxventurers reins that in.

[@dee...]

One of my favourite Oxventure moments was the village Chandler shenanigans. _Could I make any more candles?!_

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

Okay, I would LOVE an Oxventure animated series. That would be amazing.

[@DevilboyScooby]

I love how Andy's name wasn't long enough for the code so he's got an exclamation mark at the end of Farrant! He should adopt that. 😂

[@rikpep3585]

So glad to see Corazon an Prudence in this game, downloaded it especially for them. Keep it up guys guys. The oxventure is my absolute most favorite series on YT.

[@photoo848]

I tried to download it on my Switch but I can't find it in the eShop :(

[@DevilboyScooby]

Hearing that he's interested, it would be really fun if Andy guest DMed one day like Luke did 😅

[@bezerkoid]

Maybe Johnny or Luke will teach him one day?

[@photoo848]

Wouldn't mind seeing them each DM a different TTRPG

[@bigbangbuddha16]

Some of Andy’s intros on the podcast make me want for him to guest DM, maybe Deadlands or something?

[@ethanp1348]

@@bigbangbuddha16 Well, you just called that, didn't you?

[@LegendaryTalesandTrails]

@@bigbangbuddha16 well your wish came through. He did DM a deadlands series and by the gods he smashed it.

[@timmoss8510]

Andy is such a likeable chap as are all the Oxboxtra crew.

[@davemckinney6555]

I always think Corazon is Andy living out his Jack Sparrow fantasies....

[@mibber121]

Egbert chose the Ancients subclass, which is the paladin which makes an oath to nature! It basically makes you a druid paladin. I think mike probably read the word "ancients" and thought "yeah that fits!" without particularly reading much about what the subclass revolves around. Thats why he shares so many spells with merilwen: its because hes basically half druid!

[@jonbrookes9434]

i often think they should do some retcons - Egbert to Oath of Redemption, Corazon to full Swashbuckler (three rings of spell storing for his spells, typical Corazon thinks its him being magic, not the rings), Dob to Collage of Eloquence, as he does way more talking than anyone, he will benefit loads more than being Valor.

[@ashfreywar9862]

@@jonbrookes9434 to be fair to Egbert being Oath of The Ancients, if he wasn’t OOTA we wouldn’t have every single hilarious time merilwen’s gotten pissed at him for using one of her specialty spells

[@Septimus_ii]

So he automatically got Speak with Animals (and Ensnaring Strike) at 3rd level, Misty Step and Moonbeam at 5th level, and he'll get Plant Growth (and Protection from Energy) at 9th level. Plenty of space for Merilwen to get annoyed again

[@ptonpc]

@@jonbrookes9434 I like them they way they are. It's more chaos and you know what they say "Chaos is a ladder".

[@minaly22]

I consider that Quarter druid. 🤣🤣 Druids are full casters, paladins are half casters, and a paladin subclass with druid flavoring is only quarter of a druid. XDDD

[@justforkicks5112]

Idle Champions needed more grease and the best pirate in the world according to Corazon

[@MrMBinder]

If I were British and people mistook me for an Australian, I'd go "Oi, mate, how could you tell?" more often than not. I've been watching OX and Oxventure for years, and I'd love for more appearances in games. And also more cocktail recipes.

[@TransGuyShane]

Bone hammock, tongue ham, slippers..... heist society is my all time favourite episode ♡

[@MrSquark]

Egbert with a 6-pack 😆

[@TransGuyShane]

@@MrSquark so good

[@joehadari7315]

The bone hammock, tounge ham and slippers were from mind your manors.

[@TransGuyShane]

@@joehadari7315 those were meant to be read as two separate comments :)

[@thishandlestaken]

Definately correct about failure being fun. Our DM has Crit Success/Failure decks that he draws from to enhance the experience. This lead to not only me tracking the occurrences of 1s and 20s each session but also everyone being excited about crits, regardless of who gets the crit and what kind it is.

[@dudderzz1]

This was a super interesting discussion into the oxventure guild! It was also really nice to hear how Andy complemented Johnny as a DM!

[@TheWindii]

That was a really great interview! :D

[@ethanpethel3261]

My favorite pirate and my favorite dnd adventuring group! Will definitely have to try this game out if the rest of the Oxventurers show up lol

[@shadowedpokefan331]

Failure in dnd is actually my favorite part because something funny would happen Edit: this is why I use rogue because I would abuse my magic

[@ptonpc]

Great to hear from Andy :)

[@jijiowen8267]

the end pitch was definitely the most corazon-like

[@its_KettLs]

Glaswegian here - can confirm, Glaswegian accents are hard - even for us. ;-) Even though it's a total trope - I kinda like the accent shorthand for fantasy characters. Loved hearing from Andy and Jane on their character development and arcs and what went into working with ICofFR. So interesting - it's like In the Actor's Studio. :)

[@jamiejkk]

I love this love you Andy your one off my faves on KZbin

[@ItsCamille735]

Been playing Idle Champions for a few years now. So happy to have Corison and Prudence on my team.

[@Godeias]

I have been thinking about making an Oxventure comic, but I've never done anything like it before. I just think it's crazy that no one has made animated shorts or anything for the Oxventure. I want to do it, but I don't know if I can.

[@nobledonkey17]

Wait is all of oxventure in it because if i can get my loveable careless dragonborn I'm 100% gonna play this game

[@littlefurnace]

Norfolk accent is the hardest accent for other English people to get. No one gets it right, everyone ends up doing a Westcountry accent and it is WRONG.

[@MrSquark]

Yup, Norfolk+Suffolk accents are very hard to get right.

[@MapleOnCrumpets]

Born and raised in Norfolk and I can't do the accent to save me. So hard to do.

[@littlefurnace]

@@MapleOnCrumpetsLol same

[@emperorleachicus2199]

I’ve also heard some terrible ones that are actually trying to be westcountry but have clearly never been there.

[@anlizheng6134]

25:26 There is something strange about American ears. My family moved to Australia when I was a little girl, and I learned English entirely in Australia, but when I was working in the USA people always told me that I sounded "like a Brit".

[@inkgraved]

I had almost exactly the same thing growing up in NZ, i think the brit accent via the parents just sticks a bit.. or maybe you just sound educated ahaha

[@awmperry]

I really can't get interested in Idle games, but I'd love to see the Oxventurers in a game with more interactivity some time. Something like Neverwinter Nights or Mass Effect or so, perhaps, but set in Geth...

[@ironized]

I’m so thoroughly impressed with oxbox in general adapting to johnny’s pronouns

[@toratio8547]

I did notice Andy correcting himself on that, which was nice

[@ironized]

@@toratio8547 and this was like, early days.

[@Technoir444]

Funny he mentioned trying not to be the centre of attention and railroading the adventures because that’s what irritates me most about Luke, who totally does that.

[@ventedbus4917]

Don’t watch it if you don’t like it you numbskull

[@jonbrookes9434]

there are times I think Luke is either borderline problematic with that, or is just johnny's favourite as he can do so much more in a turn or "day" than anyone else. However, when his plan isn't followed, or his gimmick isn't used, he does get very withdrawn. don't get me wrong, Oxbox is very fun to watch, but like any sitcom, sometimes it goes off the boil.

[@Technoir444]

You don’t have to like every character every minute of a show to enjoy it as a whole. I just wish Luke would let others drive the story a bit more often. Also name calling is really childish Ventedbus

[@Godeias]

True, but it's honestly why I love Dob lol

[@I_am_PiT]

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one noticing that. That's also why the BitD campaign is less fun IMHO. Super railroad-y DM style.

[@D.J.Berryman]

Liverpudlian? You can just call us "Scouse," Andy. Its not a racial slur.