Dice Friends - Escape from Semolo Plateau Ep5

[@gnyrinn]

I find the phrase "Stagehand in the theatre of the mind" very satisfying.

[@willthemeadmaker4048]

Lol at Grahams decision making in this series. Feels wild but very much following a goblin's thought process

[@tronzero]

"Fight fire with fire, also fight other things with fire." The wisdom of Jaya Ballard.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

tronzero Fight fire with fire, but what kind of fire?

[@FrankiePeanuts]

"Of course you should fight fire with fire! You should fight EVERYTHING with fire!" - Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

[@pyredynasty]

Speaking as a custodian: I have been in many situations where I have said, “I hope it’s just pee.”

[@JacquesSnacques]

Dale, you are such a cool DM. I am learning a lot of things that I should be doing as a DM (I am trying to make a campaign and it will be my first, so I am very grateful) such as saying "yes, and", and incorporating other improvisation skills, and supporting the decisions that the players make, even if they leave behind cool things such as the monochrome elf and the door with what I think is just hiding a room filled with that gold liquid that would spill out and stain all the players. Thanks for being awesome, and I can't wait for the next episode!

[@Zara-Bari]

This week, Graham learns that Accept and Build is not always a good thing. "Join us, face down in the fluid!" I think this is actually my favorite episode yet.

[@ChrisHendricks]

FYI: Dale reveals what would have happened if the group hadn't taken the teleportation circle and gone with the golden door instead in this Desert Bus clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ3Ylo1no9N7bsU

[@logank9177]

Thanks so much I had no idea this clip existed!

[@MlleDollyDagger]

Oh my god this was amazing. Dale is some sort of evil wizard and I think he gave me claustrophobia.

[@resilientspring]

Kudos to whoever did the intro music, it's so rad! Much base, such wow!

[@KraestBurns]

I just want to say that if and when I get into D&D I really want my DM to be like Dale. The amazing descriptions, the comedic timing, everything is seriously just amazing!

[@hiimemily]

"The other half is a spider." "I'm not using a spider! So, the bottom half is millipede..." Beej and Kathleen's reactions slayed me.

[@ChrisHendricks]

24:35 "Treeth." Well played, whoever it is that writes the stuff in the top right corner.

[@peacedustinc.7108]

that would be Heather I think.

[@daleEfriesen]

You are correct. Heather was on tech this week.

[@kivipaperisakset3999]

50% laughing, 50% wondering how I would have DMed it. 100% loving it.

[@jessesaunders7043]

“I don’t even know what a modron is!” Oh, you will!

[@SirDovington]

I thought this came out on thursdsy! I am so happy to be wrong I literally just finished the lava bear series and came back to find this episode up!

[@Edgxxar]

Nick Dovington they stream it on monday evenings so you can watch the vod on twitch even earlier if you want :)

[@castlewise]

Dale has the best descriptions. I'm kind of sad Snak railroaded everyone into the teleporter. Either the door or the pod seemed like much more interesting options.

[@Zara-Bari]

I didn't think that UNTIL they went into the teleporter. Up to that point I was like "I think two options are death and the third one is the teleporter." But the second Snak went for the teleporter, I was like "But what if those options were NOT death?"

[@daleEfriesen]

Not one of the options was instant death, but each of them was bad (in a completely different way).

[@castlewise]

I suppose this is metagaming, but a good GM (which you are) would never spring a surprise TPK. So when presented with choices in a game I always go with the most fun or interesting, as opposed to the safest, under the assumption that I'm going to have a path to success in any case.

[@daleEfriesen]

While I have no intention of springing a surprise TPK, I think that there's a fairly wide distance between on the one hand not killing everybody instantly and on the other hand providing them with a path to success. :) Regardless, thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you're enjoying the game.

[@castlewise]

I guess it doesn't have to be a very wide path :) More broadly speaking, everyone is at the table to play D&D and I assume that there will be more D&D behind whichever door you pick. Even if from a character perspective it might have been less traumatizing to just stay in jail.

[@cyberrittengrem4993]

2:00:57, very smooth Kathleen, veeeerry smooth and elegant.

[@riolufistofmight]

They are never gonna get to the port

[@eddyshore6528]

Get into the wall sphincter, quick!

[@brianhedley5139]

It would be funny if this teleporter delivers them back to the plateau, but at the bottom in a forgotten cavern in the prison.

[@davidpoulton8592]

Extra History joke: Everything connects to Wallhole

[@joannawall6084]

"Is it Questlove?" Thanks Beej.

[@thisislesbomaya]

wow, this is great

[@Pistonrager]

This episode vaguely reminds me of an epic level 3.5 game ran by my group... The Womb of Sacrilege. But it was about an undead God fetus, Atropal.... rough customer.

[@RaiTsuka]

take one for the team...or just disengage.....

[@leftwingdragon6235]

What is the black ball?

[@Pastshelfdate]

Dale, thank you for not killing their characters, at least yet. I really like the players, as they're part of my support system, and I want them to have fun, too. They seem to be enjoying these characters, and have invested a lot in them, already. Looking forward to more, and if I'm ever free on Monday evening, I'll try to join you, for your live session. And I'm glad you're having so much fun, too, and get to work with these people. :)

[@jacobpratt1871]

I think snak believes in the bad luck now... also wasn’t he thrown in jail after he got back from this place? Lol

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Jacob Pratt 1+1 is not his strong suite.

[@ThreatLevel9]

Ooh. In one campaign, my friend was playing a wizard. His magic focus was a petrified "member" from a cleric cultist leader. Best magic focus

[@vinceinman9666]

Bontan: "Thank you sir! May I have another?!?!"

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

Somehow when D&D is mentioned bubblegum suddenly sounds like some kind of cute but deadly dungeon slime monster, also true with final fantasy for some reason.

[@rafaeltrevino2392]

What cameras are they using? I’d like to do something like this myself

[@shyro_pyro]

Episodes 1-4 of Escape from Semolo Plateau are not available on iTunes.

[@Sam-oi5lr]

And into the orifice we go.

[@andrewsouthard9331]

36:30 is this where the inspiration for Burlap came from?

[@daleEfriesen]

Yes

[@craigblack9572]

Bulging piece of wood.... '

[@PainSled]

33:37 Morra does not want the bulging piece of wood. Which I believe Graham notices right about 33:40. Also: 38:00 is basically a hentai scene.

[@Tengila]

Yeah. As soon as they mentioned wiggling roots, I knew I'd read enough hentai to know where this was going.

[@FourForDeath]

I think that was probably him reading the living wand

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

PainSled It-s time to stop!

[@boltarion461]

hell yes

[@TheVWarriors]

watch dales hands at 1:17:30 O.O

[@theneonviking641]

Dice friends!!!

[@heyy13]

YAY MORE! :D

[@Ugunark]

The lack of sense of urgency in combat decision making drove me craaaazy this episode

[@LadyLunarSatine]

Roughly an hour in and the only blemish on my enjoyment is that Beej was disadvantaged from the first fluid-drain but has rolled another Con save against fluid-drain (granted he can't roll higher with disadvantage and that was a failure) and a Dex save to fall right-side up without accounting for the disadvantage. Does disadvantage apply to death saves? If not, Beej totally luck-sacked. I think this leg of the adventure out to be called "Plumbing the Craw;" this reminds me of a fusion of Mario and Abadox. "If you want information, you should touch it; if you want lots of information, you should lick it!"

[@OfilthO]

1 level of exhaustion only infers a disadvantage to checks not saves. so any death saves, con saves are fine. if he tried acrobatics or athletics he would be fucked as they are at disadvantage. the second point simply halves his movement.

[@LadyLunarSatine]

I appreciate the clarification, I've only been exposed to 5E through watching this and Critical Role.

[@derpdeer6140]

But what was the gold stuff? I need to know! WHY SNAK WHY

[@maxx1110]

Monk cat tank

[@thomasgrieve5762]

Trees are dumb.

[@ellaser93]

I think the roots were going for more than third base.

[@maxpower2480]

Whoever wrote "Treeth" (Heather I assume) is now responsible for a fist-sized hole in my wall...

[@joshuahuneycutt7873]

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