D&D Story: We choose WAR

[@DingoDoodles]

FOOL'S GOLD GRAPHIC NOVEL!: shorturl.at/Yp1kw Well that took a while to get out huh? Sorry about that. I was starting to lose steam at the end there. I know my uploading schedule has slowly slowed down. As I’ve come to realize I’m a bit burnt out. I’ve been doing Fool’s Gold for almost 7 years now, STRAIGHT. I’ve only had 2 vacations and now it’s starting to bite me in the butt. I want to keep going but my brain and body need a bit of a break. I will be taking the rest of this year off to try and recharge. Along with in January- Feb, Felix and I are getting married! Meaning I have a lot to do to get that all planned. So expect ep. 37 to be a bit of a wait. I know it can be frustrating, but I do really appreciate all your patience with me and my process. I hope you all still enjoy things! Kickstarter stuff seems to be going well as I see lots of people getting their stuff. Canada, unfortunately was left last for the shipping services, meaning Canadians should start to be getting their rewards in the next two weeks. If you are at all missing anything or have some questions that need answered please email at: [e-mail] and they will help sort things out for you! The next episode of the Sands Podcast is going to be delayed probably by 1-2 days next week. This is due to posting ep.36 and needing a bit more time to finish off the editing of Ep.21. ALSO we're gonna be at PAX U this year doing a signing at the Hit point press Booth. So we'll keep you all updated on that as we get info on where and when. Once again. Thank you all for supporting us and our many projects while also being SO GODAMN PATIENT with us :3 Stay safe out there and see you all in the next video!

[@surytheworst805]

Congratulations! 🎉

[@Midnightmint27]

Congratulations on getting married 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@Liwcay]

7 years and only 2 vacations. take more time off. Also grats and hope you have a great wedding.

[@paragamer85]

YAY WEDDING - super congratulations!!! Take all the time you need to live your life. 😎👍🏻

[@tireddoggamingtales2091]

LET THERE BE BLOOD!

[@seanmcfadden3712]

... I'm reminded that Jack and Misika are both NPCs, so Felix was playing both. ... I wonder how awkward it is to watch your romantic partner essentially flirt with themselves.

[@Dostoron]

some DMs actually allow the players control over such TemPCs it's how i got some of the most amazing character dynamics.

[@AlbinoBlackMonkey]

I'm a DM who has been playing the same campaign with the same friends for over 5 years now. We're all at lv 20 or higher (25 highest) at this point, I play 7 wives, 2 husband's and over 10 different kids spread out amongst the group. Oh and like 6 gods... shit happens

[@gabebaum6527]

It's probably less so awkward and more just funny af

[@treedungeonsisters4686]

​@@AlbinoBlackMonkey sounds like DnD

[@Valysion]

Imagine how awkward it is for the DM.

[@susannahmitchell5558]

“War before lunch.” 😂

[@Agent_pheon1x]

i cant read the tittle, and not think of pandemonium from surprisingly fun Roblox game pressure

[@GrimCharon]

*walking stick click-clacking*

[@Latverian-Citizen-8172]

Loads cane shotgun "toooooooooooo waaaaaarrrrr Dwayne ! ! ! "

[@j-yoshi64_justcallmej]

Sounds like a Magic Treehouse title

[@TrueAnts1]

@@Agent_pheon1x MINIGAMESSSSSSSSSS

[@Fakesi]

“I picked up the plant…and now I don’t know how to put it down.”

[@therealscoutgamer9880]

I have fallen and I can't get up type stuff

[@R3GARnator]

Help, I've fallen, and I can't get up!

[@MoonlikescookieXD]

I’m gonna slap it out of your hands then /j

[@guilhermegaspar752]

I had the same problem too a few times

[@Shimatzu95]

honestly, relateble. I sometimes forget to put down stuff as well

[@joelt7731]

Godric: The birth of a new age. Dingo: This video was sponsored by! Me: Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

[@neoplasmaelitesaito]

ME

[@thenumberpie314]

**Screen turns black, while Godric monologues about the birth of a new age** Me : Oh boy oh boy I sure hope this isn't the end of the video! THIS VIDEO IS SPON- *rage quits*

[@loganshaw4527]

While Joe falling down a cliff.

[@thomaschattaway2126]

It do be like that, huh

[@oscarpine7145]

Nerdy dude and his badass gf are my favorite archetype now

[@AmaryInkawult]

Sorry Chad, the nerd gets the battle hardened amazonian

[@alexcrimson2826]

Now I can imagine Jack and Masikah at a Wendigo’s (throwback to episode whatever) and Masikah scolding the cashier like “He said without pickles”

[@c0r3theta]

Reminder that Jack may be a nerd, but he's also JACKED ! No seriously, guy got guns and grinder of meat in those dating sim

[@kamengotsev2890]

*cough* *cough* Jax and May from Maccus Norman *cough* *cough*

[@ThatOneDNDGirl]

It’s giving Stephanie Lauter and Peter Spankoffski from Nerdy Prudes Must Die :DDD

[@theemries4766]

I half-expected Stella's children to realize that all the books they stole were just something useless like romance novels or D&D rulebooks and the entire party to be going in blind.

[@kathrynblakeley9823]

I mean, if there were any other civilization, I’m pretty sure that’s what would’ve happened but this is the four climbers they don’t keep around “meaningless” books

[@tl1326]

​​@@kathrynblakeley9823 I would love a race of rock people who specialize in bouldering the number 4. Or it can be a japanese/chinese thing where 4 mean death and the point of their whole race is that they are almost immortal.

[@elcanor9708]

I just want to point out how crazy it is to me that Dingo is speaking all of these different characters by herself. Like there has been such a large roaster of characters and that each is spoken by a single person, be it feminine, masculine, the narrator, funny characters, serious characters, evil characters, they are all unique and clearly distinct, capturing each of them with a single voice is just impressive. Animating all of this is already a shit ton of work, but then speaking all of these characters so well is unbelievable. Like you forget that the same person is essentially talking with herself narrating all of these events. Really, my thanks for your hard work, Dingo, to present us with this masterpiece of a tale!

[@FloralDragonCat]

I believe that Avery helps her with animating and voices Gothi (Correct me if I’m wrong) Avery is Gothis player and plays Kore in Fools gold: Sands

[@Seraphina-Cassiel]

Pretty sure all player characters are voiced by their prospective players

[@932ForeverLove]

Don't forget editing. That is a PAAAAIIINNN al on it's own!

[@BeatchBall]

12:03 I was convinced it was going to be a mechanized Tarrasque. Imagine the irony. 🤣

[@Crested_Hadrosaur]

That is only operated via karaoke

[@chadnorris8257]

It all comes full circle!

[@fengyingli5130]

@@Crested_HadrosaurNow I am imagining the gang taking over the Tarrasque with Sips operating it while drunk. 🤣

[@932ForeverLove]

OG comment and replies are freaking GOLD!!!! XD XD XDX

[@JovanniAnimates]

6:37 “screw it I am a coward GOODBYE!” I love that part so much

[@NotThatVinny]

It was a nice shot though 😂

[@richierich387]

2:50, one of my players who plays a Druid actually asked me if using shillelagh on their staff includes a shotgun cocking sound strictly for aesthetic. I agreed. Now every time they use the spell, they make a cocking sound and the whole table laughs like maniacs 😂

[@tysondennis1016]

That’s the perfect mental image

[@AmaryInkawult]

Everybody laughs until the druid cocks a spell slot

[@byronsmothers8064]

Basheew gave us a visual of how the click is the staff changing shape.

[@libraryscholaralexis6581]

Best use for Shillelagh I've seen.

[@Angelicmushrooms]

Jacks character development is something i love, he is such a well thought out character

[@alexcount5130]

2:46 PLS PUT THAT ON A SHIRT "just cuz we have empathy doesn't mean we can't beat your ass" BEST GRANNY EVERY 😂

[@ICallShotgun13]

My brain called Godricks new super dragon the "ReClaimer" and that goes SO F#$%ING HARD. Alternatively that could be Godrick himselves title. ... Also didn't Godrick NOT KNOW about Zanu having a physical form now? Like you cut the top of a giant mech with clinical ease, and see the artificial god that nearly drove your people to extinction, thought to be reduced to a crystal, just chillin with a plant.

[@mah1na]

yep that's what i'm calling it now too THAT GOES WAY TOO HARD

[@geoffreycannon2197]

Miracle of Sound did a song called Reclaimer… and it fits surprisingly well…

[@WhoTookSaltyCabbage]

"Godrick III, the Reclaimer" almost sounds like a Dark Souls boss

[@Daioblis]

Godrick probably assumed Xanu was back in physical form by now, in which case he was largely harmless, given that he hadn't razed hell yet.

[@homerman76]

It's a fair point, being an empathetic person doesn't mean you just fold over and let people walk all over you, especially when said people are planning to bring harm to you or others you care about 🤔

[@marcusmaiben6976]

Very true. As the saying goes "dont mistake my kindness for weakness"

[@BioroidPilot]

@@marcusmaiben6976 That or the old saying of "fear the anger of a gentle man" someone who is empathetic and loving can be frightening if what they love is threatened

[@codysonic1]

“First lesson of ninjitsu is do no harm unless mean to do harm then do LOTS of harm”

[@metalmusicdiscord]

Sips's gloating laugh when Xanu gets smacked is chef's kiss

[@LunarisAstral-uf1fw]

The tiny detail at 8:58 where after dingo calls team C team cuties. Sips pissed off look goes significantly more pissed. And staring directly at dingo absolute comedy gold. These take forever to come out. BUT BOY AM I WILLING TO WAIT FOR THIS KIND OF QUALITY TO DETAIL!

[@jackmack4181]

2:47 just cause we have empathy, doesn’t mean we can’t beat your ass *LET THERE BE BLOOD!*

[@mr.outlaw231]

...SHED! The man in the mirror nods his head.

[@williamrosen3179]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@claran3616]

@@williamrosen3179 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@falxblade1352]

​@@mr.outlaw231THE ONLY ONE! LEFT!

[@Danthesane]

@@claran3616SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

[@transyuri4534]

As soon as the blades of Godrick's "Stick" came out, I whispered under my breath "The eviscerater ax." (Because I pledged to the Kickstarter.)

[@imnotzestyuare]

Oh God what does it do

[@transyuri4534]

@@imnotzestyuare One minute. The PDFs are slow AF and I don't have my physical copy because I don't live with my grandparents whose address it was sent to anymore. (Picking it all up at Thanksgiving.)

[@transyuri4534]

+2 greataxe, when activated (To which there is no time limit limited amount of times this can be) it does extra 4d8 radiant damage. It can also be used to cast chain lightning. It also does 2d6 extra against constructs.

[@dhruvrathi7116]

@@transyuri4534 I beg your finest fuck. That has to be a bloody god weapon or something. Like what! How do you even survive that shit. Imma ask my DM if my character can get one

[@gero693]

​@@transyuri4534 coming from pathfinder and not D&D, this sounds like the kind of weapon you would call "good" at around.... lv16? Definetly not god weapon xD

[@flopdeop135]

*peace.... was never an option* edit: imagine godric had a mecha tarrasque instead. everything comes full circle

[@DigioBooks]

it was, but we lost it a long, long time ago.

[@random_dumass]

Violence is never the answer because it is the question and the answer is yes peace is not one of those options

[@triforceofcourage100]

It might as well be

[@seanobrien1323]

I give this show 9 /10 because there was no Mecha Tarrasque, other than that I’m really glad they are still making more episodes.

[@wolfbyte3171]

I honestly thought it would be until the wings.

[@necrosylum.l3013]

2:50 loading the staff caught me so off guard and made me laugh so hard.

[@gagamer7251]

Staff has a reload speed buff

[@penguin84101]

it's my favourite somatic motion when i cast shillelagh

[@B4dr4bbit]

​@@penguin84101 same

[@claran3616]

OH these HIT DIFFERENT now that I've ACTUALLY played dnd with one character for a chunk of campaign. I feel this in my bones now.

[@brushfire1989]

13:52 you never need Feather Fall until you NEED Feather Fall

[@whale0_]

We choose WAR is such a banger video title

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

INTO THE FIRES OF BATTLE UNTO THE ANVIL OF WAR

[@blacklight8786]

15:24's scene goes HARD. I love it.

[@Tiredcoffeeaddict]

Full stop, in many other campaign settings removing a SUN FROM THE SKY is akin to killing a god and thus a concept completely removing it from existance. Which is saying godrick has become a god killer. Just from an outside perspective this sounds terrifying to witness even with the debriefing ahead of time. To hear about a character so authoritative yet organized to assemble something to threaten a celestial body. Props to you felix for making a character that wild.

[@SUPERC0W7]

@Tiredcoffeeaddict If that's your perspective, you should pick up their kickstarter book and you'll see extra lore of just how right you are. The whole campaign module feels like a master class of world building.

[@misterdayne2792]

13:19 is such an absolutely vile portrait of the BBEG, and I love you for making it

[@JessicaJohnson-k5t]

‘Let there be blood’ is one of the best lines 2:51 And I got a theory rooster (from Fool’s Gold Sand is part god because the sun is pink and rooster is pink

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

[@fairlyknute]

Did I have *QUACK*ing stroke while writing this? Even your ads are hilarious and I actually enjoy watching them.

[@Lukas.Cancelosi]

8:53 that lil detail with sips getting extra angy after being called a "cutie" is just... *chef's kiss*

[@quackey]

Once again the Master of Cliffhanger strikes again

[@lastofthestarmakers]

I laughed, I cried, I jammed out to the final song, this episode had everything. You've done it again, Dingo. Thank you.

[@cutiegliscor5279]

15:36 Why you gotta do this to us Dingo🤣🤣

[@gaap-mo9jx]

The queen of cliffhangers!

[@Tabby_CatMeow]

4:54 “You will die if you participate in this battle” My immediate reaction: …Please don’t kill Jack. PLEASE DONT KILL JACK 😅

[@GamingWarlord64]

My last dnd campaign had my character lose his warlock abilities after learning that they came from evil void demon's and possibly hurting my friends and the people of my home Town. So now and during a boss fight i am basically a Level 4 Barbarian while the rest of my team was level 8

[@lalicornenoire]

I cannot handle how much these episodes cause my heart to freak out, dear lord.

[@khylerbane4523]

“Everything hurts, and I’m Dying, LETS GO!” -dingo doodles

[@oliverwolfe8225]

"Just because we have empathy doesn't mean we can't beat your ass!" Had to pause viewing to say hell yeah!!!

[@thecatladytm7172]

OH MY GOSH THERE'S A GRAPHIC NOVEL NOW?????? This story is so good, youve kept me and so many other people invested for YEARS, I sure hope a graphic novel would do well! Thank you, so much for sharing your campaign with us, I cant wait to see where it leads! Is this close to the end? Is the Emperor guy our BBEG? Find out next time on DrAGON BALL- I mean, Fools Gold. Lol.

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

I love the staff gun cocking. That joke always makes me laugh. There was something similar to that in Chowder with a bat.

[@murzkatze]

Gosh, I love it so much how Xanu was a menace the hole time he was in sips and now he has a body he more or less like a toddler😂

[@Pioootr]

Oh my god, "this is not a weapon for war... It's a War of total anihilation" gave me chills. It felt like he was saying, it's not a fight, it's an execution!

[@Gormathius]

"THE F🦆 DID YOU DO?" "Well, first of all, robbed a library." "Nice. BUT NO!" I love this batsh🦆 insane old lady.

[@absolutelynot615]

Sips has such short man energy he died and came back 4 feet shorter

[@libraryscholaralexis6581]

Really like seeing how much Xanu cares for Gothi and vise versa. She wanted to protect him with Stone Skin but he wanted to protect her by having Gothi use it on herself and then protecting her from the fall. Also the relief in his eyes just shows how much he cares for her.

[@PotatoMateYT]

8:25 I love that the dragons are just two skylinx😭

[@isaacvaladez22]

There’s also a skylinx used as a censor at 1:56

[@Seven7-f9k]

1:43 she has a monumental point

[@Sleepy_Yazzy]

New revelation, foreclaimer granny has shotgun stick... yup, that's dnd! Edit: The sound design and audio are absolutely amazing. I couldn't stop bopping my head as everything went down lmao

[@demongirl1019]

13:38 Xanu immediately going to protect Gothi tho ☺️☺️

[@AMirrorCat]

4:24 These two are the literal embodiment of black cat girlfriend and golden retriever boyfriend

[@GamblerofFates]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I got both of my boxes from KS! My wife and I love everything we got! We both LOVE this story so much!

[@plague3038]

I hope that next episode, Sips gets cornered and is trouble, then pulls out a microphone and says: “The thing you don’t know, is that I’m REALLY bad at karaoke.” Then proceeds to create an antimagic bubble over the city. I know it won’t happen but let me dream!

[@ferretthegremlin]

“monkey mad” is the perfect description of this entire series

[@islathegamer9956]

The monkey is always mad.

[@ToaArcan]

The top half of Sky Lynx being one of the censor ducks, I'm dying

[@FrumiousBandersnatch42]

Absolutely LOVED the design of the new mech-dragon!!! Stylish, modern, really gives off the vibe that technology has progressed tenfolds since the days of the day old mech-dragons.

[@The_fastfreddy]

I don't know how many more cliffhangers I can take

[@Okeana_Aster]

This passed way too fast. *I WANT MORE !* (By the way yes I know animating takes time. I don't want Dingo to overwork herself and I'd rather have her take all the time she needs for it, but at the same time it doesn't prevent the suspense from being unbearable)

[@AaronCorr]

12:42 oh dang, it's Envy

[@Angelicmushrooms]

I keep forgetting her name but the foreclaimer with glasses is so cute

[@ladyviola2685]

Yessssss I love Misika 😭💜

[@twerkules3957]

Between this war already going to hell in a handbasket and the utter emotional destruction the past few episodes, I'm gonna need dnd vines #3 stat. Pls. It hurts

[@cjslime8847]

That’s a perk of high level dnd you can survive a terminal velocity

[@duck0star]

2:50 the shotgun realoading of the walking stick. amazing!

[@VertigoRound-WiP]

A good day for us fools

[@AlbinoBlackMonkey]

This is mainly to Felix, but i love you all!! I'm a DM who has been playing the same campaign with the same friends for over 5 years now. We're all at lv 20 or higher (25 highest) at this point, I play 7 wives, 2 husband's and over 10 different kids spread out amongst the group. Oh and like 6 gods. I appreciate the ability to switch what you are playing and do it on the fly. Voices, personalities and vibes. Bravo to all of you, cause it's not just him, but you all do it when playing in character... in case you are all wondering, i have 96 individual dice with named characters, most npc's that's become characters that have become important, and...some gods, like 20 of em

[@TheFireTypeMudkip]

To the people who make this video, why did you inspire my friends to start a DnD campaign. Now I have to deal with my favorite schizophrenics in a fantasy world. Anyway your videos and comedy are top notch, please keep making top-tier videos. :)

[@ASTMVN]

Man, it's so over unless Sips really gets some work in. That life crystal dragon is terrifying, by the way, and exemplifies one of my favorite tropes: "New version of friendly technology actually destroys older version instead of some sappy message about heart and humanity triumphing".

[@OctozenX]

"you witness a king's revival and the birth of his new world" ahh line. love it

[@ThyDungeonman2]

lol Sky Lynx png’s as the dragons made me laugh harder than it had any right to do. Magnificent.

[@king_life_master2868]

8:11 I'm not kidding. My phone just freaked out and cut out Pandora even though I wasn't listening to it and it went back to a normal station and it started to play immortals by Fall out boys. I think it was from ironically almost like you was trying to give it theme music😂

[@Doggyears]

I'm always so impressed by your voice acting! Every character has their own unique voice--and there's of many of them. That's crazy!

[@osbornejohnson7919]

The king dude is so fucking threatening. Felix is a 10/10 DM

[@Gamesperger]

Let’s Ducking GO! More Fools Gold!

[@peki006]

Xanu shielding Gothi from first Godric's attack and then fall, so perfect!

[@katrina8231]

Omg dingo and Felix are getting married! Ahhh yessss!!! If anything interesting happens during that time please make a video on it, you started off as a story time animator after all lol. And of course you take as much time as you need dingo, we will be waiting when you return

[@BagofBeans1]

12:50 Please welcome the latest addition to Felix's nightmarish horrors™-- the Glow Stick Dragon!

[@MGG87]

Well, that happened. Of course Felix wasn't going to just let you have 2 dragons for this fight, lol. 😂

[@GoblinDave152]

3:39 "I don't know how to put it back down" Bruh 😂😭

[@WildfireMagni]

WELL THAT'S NOT A BIG ISSUE AT ALL! Oh, and the part where you switched off the lights and the foreclaimer's circuits got all glowy? **chef's kiss**

[@MorglortheMangler]

Great video and having Sips on team stealth will never stop being funny.🤣

[@sydney8631]

0:30 Lol why does that make me chuckle?

[@The_real_Jack_Horner]

1:56 the transformer LOL

[@Heavenlyhounds96]

Godrick's words from the last video ring a sort of truth now. He doesn't want war...because war implies there are two fighting forces engaged in extended, prolonged combat. What he wants...is obliteration. Of all...but himself. (Cause let's be honest, if his own people were to dare question him...he'd obliterate them in an instant without remorse, reluctance, or regret. If he has to be king of dust to be king, then so be it.) Or to quote the Daleks from Doctor Who "THIS IS NOT WAR! THIS IS PEST CONTROL!"

[@pedrostormrage]

2:46 "Just because we have empathy, doesn't mean we can't beat your a?? **chk-chk** " Moss (from your 3-cleric party) would be proud of the "Shillelagh cocking" (I wonder if that was a reference to him) 🔫

[@0_Body]

"We are not doing the kill-every-one option" Murder Hobos: That sounds like quitter talk

[@the-thought-machine]

This is not a run-of-the-mill dnd session, this is a GODDAMN MOVIE

[@Katari_]

*Obligatory comment to support Dingo:* Amazing Video, I myself found your channel at episode 17 and have been loving your videos ever since.

[@Sylvi_Sendero77]

PUMP ACTION STAFF LOL

[@starsilverinfinity]

Holy sh- wasnt expecting a Neo Mecha Dragon it looks so clean

[@danielhale1]

You wonder what this entire population of people are thinking, knowing that so many of them were sacrificed to make this dragon weapon. At some point they have to realize once Godrick has what he wants, they're next. Or at a minimum, their lives will be totally at his whim and "mercy". He threatens to kill simply to make conversation. He culls thousands for resources and power. What chance do they have if they let him succeed? The group with empathy are the only ones thinking ahead clearly.

[@commonviewer2488]

Empathy is very important for group survival

[@Flapalapagus]

Not gonna lie. You deserve an Amazon prime series about Fools Gold. I enjoy Vox Machina but you manage to evoke emotions that break me and make me cry. Yet also laugh at the same time.

[@halothere6995]

Snap back to reality “Oh no there goes gravity!” 1:04

[@GreekierThanThou]

It might be just me, but I loooooove Godric! He's so cool. Slicing the head of a metallic dragon in two, by himself, casually???

[@St4rf1zzy]

BABE WAKE UP THE NEW PART DROPPED

[@carafurry7862]

You guys! Remember how old gothy kept talking about nutmeg!? Nutmeg was put in our cupboards because of a war, a war that killed a lot of native people!!! It wasn't just a joke, she was trying to tell us something!

[@madz2211]

At 5:59 “so jacks going to die huh?”

[@Kalemba6]

Bro dropped every death flag possible 😭

[@Angeloflight1415_LastelleCrea]

OMG Dingo you truly know how to leave us on cliffhangers. But as always I love this!!!

[@adnanhammaoui6814]

not the random chainsaw flying around 🤣😂

[@voryndagothDL]

Finally catching up with this series after... 6 YEARS?!!! Your dedication is astonishing

[@buusinhojr.9555]

11:03 Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” THERE IS NO FEELINGS WE POSSIBLY CAN SHARE WITH YOU, MOTHERF- *quack* -ER!!!!

[@MarcTelang]

11:22 LETS GO Godrick III is confirmed to be the grandson of the man who destroyed Gothica's face