High Rollers: Aerois

[@RossMKitson]

I do enjoy now the players' suprise when they win fights without all being near dead. And Mark's slight frustration. TBF balancing encounters at L13 is really challenging, and it's funnier when he occasionally misjudges it (like the meteor swarm). * Not meant as criticism; this is the best DnD campaign on KZbin.

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

It's funny I didn't expect this encounters to be too difficult. What I think frustrates me is that a tough fight for Lucius and Quill is such a breeze for the other three. I need to try and make encounters that challenge everyone else whilst giving the poor boys a break. XD

[@toshomni9478]

@@SherlockHulmesDM Aila is basically Thor now. It would probably make things easier if Qillek and Lucius could get a boost to their constitution scores to increase their hit points either by a respec of their ability points or from some magic items or boons granted them. Barring that I guess all you can do is keep throwing monsters at them that can target the low strength and wisdom of Nova and low intelligence of Aila and Sentry who are also resistant to the types of damage that the martial players can dish out while not resistant the magical attacks of Lucien and Quill? Sounds difficult to keep from getting old fast.

[@wierdpeopleotherdude1422]

Sherlock Hulmes So there seems to be a severe lack of fire resistance from non magical sources as for one Lucius can’t prismatic gauntlet it the casters can’t dispel it and the lightning resistance the melee classes have can’t resist it Edit: actually use multiple non magical elemental damage so that they can’t really adapt with abilities This is also the nuclear option and would be a very tedious fight

[@julespecools9572]

In my experience, players sometimes by being scared and misjudging a situation, act passiv and overprotectiv instead of just going for it, hitting foes and diminishing their numbers quick. That can really turn a tough but doable fight into a tough scramble for survival. As good as you can plan an encounter, you can not always plan how your players will react.

[@weslooos]

@@SherlockHulmesDM a familiar DM problem indeed

[@thatmooseman]

Episode Start at 0:02 Announcements at 1:50 Let's play who's birthday and when was it? at 6:28 DUN DUNS at 7:26 Recap starts at 8:25 Recap ends at 10:34 Break start at 1:23:17 Break ends at 1:33:39 Gameplay ends at 2:49:41 Ending donos at 2:51:50

[@medude420024]

You're amazing btw

[@thatmooseman]

@@medude420024 You made my day.

[@meph2473]

"Arvel Dagos.", he said while sipping on his tea, " Now, that's a name I haven't heard in loooong time."

[@kinggonzalez3269]

Arval*

[@autumnmayer6992]

Yeah, i mean I legit thought someone forgot about him but he Is the coolest NPC

[@poisonedoak6563]

Mark: I’m going to make a gunman and caster bosses. Aila: not for long you aren’t

[@monotonexylophone1623]

Yea he should make a boss that has resistance to bludgeoning damage

[@stumbling_]

@@monotonexylophone1623 Or some sort of way to prevent them from being hit by melee

[@BlackIronHero]

@@stumbling_ he gave her invisibility as a legendary action, it was just unlucky initiative order. Grey was first, Aila was second, so the first opportunity Grey had to turn invisible at the top of a new round was at the end of Aila's turn, so she was always visible when Aila attacked.

[@darraghchapman]

I'd like to imagine that before leaving the room at the end of the episode, Quill with his passive perception just notices a painting on the wall of Trell, Elora, Cam and JiuTou... shrugs and thinks nothing more of it.

[@JupiterTheWizard]

haha yeah Nice

[@simonsonlyfan8600]

And a whole huge portrait of Raynard and his family

[@Tristyn_Waterman]

Lucius' wall of ice placement was PHENOMENAL! He was the real MVP in that fight imo

[@kyleweir689]

It's a GREAT hallway control spell

[@Trigun99]

As soon as I heard the dwarves, I did a little happy dance hoping they knew Arvil!

[@toshomni9478]

Of course. All Dwarves know each other. That's canon now.

[@SigmaSky173]

This session sent me back to when my DM ran a Bladesinger Lich against us. Good times. Love that steel wind strike.

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

Bladesinger Lich is terrifying and awesome.

[@LeonKevlar]

I love how this part of the campaign practically a DnD remake of MGS1. Mark you absolute genius!

[@stephenpodeschi6052]

Mark loves hitting Quill/Tom since the beginning and always makes me smile when Mark rolls in the mid to high twenties and asks if it is a hit ....lol damn well knowing it is...lol

[@Kepponen]

Best start to morning. 4 am here in Finland. 🇫🇮 Going to work soon, love listening these while driving and at work. Thank you! :)

[@TheWearyAlkamyst]

Fun fact: dndbeyond can have cocked dice, it just gives whichever side was last faceup

[@FlamingLily]

This video has melted my brain. The youtube upload date is 10/11/2023 (2 months ago as of writing). There are comments on here from 2 years ago. at 3:29 the GTAGUESSR video is referenced, uploaded 1 year ago, but seemingly dark viper's comment is being contrasted with the existence of the video.

[@FlamingLily]

What. Why is this comment here. This is not the video I posted this comment on. What is happening. Help.

[@mushroomkaat2667]

I see mecha ninjas and I think about revolver ocelot exclaiming " AHHH MY HAND !!"

[@adixxx3056]

I have finally caught up from episode 1, what a rollercoaster

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Congrats. Now you get to wait each week for each new episode.

[@Masterkavi]

The amount of effort that goes into something like this is phenominal. Can't imagine doing it.

[@serenitybarry4679]

I demand that Rhi plays Jiutou with only a brief synopsis about the character 😂😂

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. Sentinel Prime wrote The Art of Overkill.

[@Kaardoron]

Wohoo! Earliest I've ever been. I absolutely LOVE the Aerois campaign! It scratches all my roleplaying itches since I don't have a group of my own at the moment. I could listen to you guys play 24/7. Lots of love. //Dad

[@darraghchapman]

Can't say I ever heard 'gong xi fa cai' in China, only 'xin nian kuai le'. Regardless, happy new year Kim, high rollers and comment scrollers! :) Looking forward to the episode!

[@HighRollersDnD]

We mostly say Gong Xi Fa Cai in Malaysia! :D Happy New Year! - Kim

[@darraghchapman]

@@HighRollersDnD Interesting! I wonder if it may have fallen out of favour in Mainland China with the communists because of the emphasis on wealth... It'd be interesting to know what they say in Taiwan, that'd be a good litmus test of my theory. Also, it may be just as commonly used in China and I just didn't hear it out of coincidence :P Anyway, bring on the Ox!

[@gothmissstress]

you must also realise that China isn't a small country x) I lived in Shanghai and Gong Xi Fa Cai was a common thing to see on hongbaos and the doors during the time nearing the Chinese new year

[@MightBeCale]

I've been lamenting not having any HR content to catch up on all day, thank goodness for this

[@jamesmaceaveli6679]

Been on edge all week for Nova's plan! Let's go! Areois time baby!

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

What was her plan? I forgot about that and must have missed it.

[@jamesmaceaveli6679]

@@Blasted2Oblivion Casting arcane gate right at the start of the episode so Alia and Sentry could get in the room.

[@CallumCotterill]

I now need a RhiCap

[@alex16cole]

V good as normal. He says posting in advance. Well done for remembering the held action Rhi.

[@renasmurakkojiraines5422]

Project vanguard basically a dnd multi vechile Voltron 👍 Locals of aerois: Hehehe we're in danger XD

[@humphreysg]

I thought the electric guitar dun duns from last week were going to be a permanent thing!

[@lonelysailer5774]

steel wind strike!! one of my favourite spells, unlucky mark for not realizing the dice were wrong

[@TheGuzdar]

Rhiannon is looking stunning this episode

[@kyleweir689]

Every episode*

[@Spiceodog]

The spinctdoor from evening star returns everyone! Thanks white text friend! Tresym salute!

[@kellygingrich4302]

Love the image of everyone sitting down for this elaborate picnic just in a dungeon with prison cells and mindflayer bodies.

[@KarlKarsnark]

Love that shiny "big damn heroes" reference ;)

[@maddog1794]

Well hello there high rollers. I am ecstatic for this new episode and I’m very excited to see Novas plan hehhehehehe (also the title is great👌👌👌👌)

[@WindOWinter]

Man, I know it was a bad healing roll, but that bit at ~2:28:00 really goes to show how bad 'cure wounds' is in-combat even if upcast; Quill spent a 5th level slot and an action to ultimately not help Lucius at all, as Lucius would've went down on that hit whether he was at the pre-heal 1hp or not.

[@BloodSplatter1997]

One Piece Dnd was earlier today, followed by High Rollers and soon to be followed by Critical Role...just a normal thursday

[@Trigun99]

One Piece DnD sounds fun, do you have a link or channel to search for?

[@BloodSplatter1997]

@@Trigun99 it’s Rustage2; they’re about 20 or so episodes in so it won’t be too hard to catch up. If you search One Piece DND, you’d probably easily find it

[@Trigun99]

@@BloodSplatter1997 thanks for the help, I love this community!

[@cuttlefishhh]

okay i just looked it up on yt and wow i’ll have to start watching because it looks really cool

[@o.d.d.5437]

@@cuttlefishhh oh definitely because there are moments where they’re so freaking lucky that it’s unbelievable and because of these lucky moments they called themselves the Devil’s Luck Pirates

[@zelozoem]

First time I had to wait for a new episode, it seemed soo long! Saw the last 100 in about 3 months.. whoops

[@calebjohnson3537]

what if nova makes a prosthetic leg for Squawk McKenzie

[@JupiterTheWizard]

He'll replace Qillek...

[@Markcrazeer]

i do hope that had they not done this raid these bosses would all attack the meeting at once and they would have had to face all of them.

[@TheFrozenFlame05]

I love how the Roll20 tokens still haven't changed to the new art.

[@warrenhome3771]

Fastest I have ever been here and love the series Thanks for all the thumbs up

[@TortillaBill]

Mark is so creative and great

[@zelozoem]

Aila would/could know a githjanki right? From the spider party oneshot

[@matthewjeremy6887]

Correct me if im wrong. But didnt alia meet a githyanki and a githyeki when she meet lady dustwillow. And that is cannon

[@mme.veronica735]

Yep she did, even bonded with the warrior one a bit

[@matthewjeremy6887]

@@mme.veronica735 yhea. Tbh i dont blame em for fogeting. Twas ages ago

[@BeingWolfie]

It's also canon that the love potion they gave the githyanki and githzerai would cause a warlike hatred when it wore off. Though, if I'm reading the monster manual right, that was the case anyway. XD

[@matthewjeremy6887]

@@BeingWolfie yhea. Nothing new there

[@clailia21]

Trott's face at all of the Metal Gear references 😆 This episode was great fun!

[@jak-jaydavis50]

cant belive im finally here having started watching 3 months ago

[@spiceywolf15]

I did it in a month and a half from episode 1.

[@mme.veronica735]

2:13:12 She might be a Ranger with some extra homebrew added in for a boss monster.

[@c.wilson88]

PLEASE add more to your patreon mark I need battle maps lol

[@eddy7174]

Bro gave me all the feels to the way back when side charecters

[@little_lilac3262]

I binged all the Aerois episodes so fast i ran out within 1-2 months-

[@lukeamparo6586]

References made in this campaign thus far: Star Wars ("My friend doesn't like you!") Metal Gear (Reverend Ocelot)

[@DuoSanguis]

A weapon to surpass Sentinel Prime!

[@mrdonut09872]

I had autoplay on while i was sleeping and ended up here, right after watching the entire mythology of hades, passing gods, and rain world anciants

[@julespecools9572]

Sentry hodoring that door in the last Fight gave me so much! Best Girl

[@DomCombatVids]

BEAR STRADHT AND MEDIUM SYZED NEXT WEEEEEEKKK

[@bard5107]

It's a pity that they didn't save the githyanki from dying, although Mark was giving the hints that she was still barely alive but bleeding out. They could offer her to be sworn to Valla as Callas' and Siaska's dauther for the future grorifying figth against Hadar, their common enemy.

[@KyleA296]

Mark is so good at making magical weapons

[@RisaxTheImp]

All of this is making me want to try the Metal Gear games. Only really played the Phantom Pain game, but am familiar with the rest of the series due to pop culture osmosis.

[@joshuategeler3419]

From America I don't understand the elevator confusion. The ground level (entry most of the time) is 1st floor. How do you do it in UK?

[@mme.veronica735]

They use stones to measure their weight, I wouldn't exactly call it an advanced society.

[@BeingWolfie]

So in the uk, the floor you enter on is called the ground floor. The next floor up is the first floor. The next floor up is second, and so on. Basically, we only number the floors above 'ground level' and call the entrance floor 'ground'.

[@joshuategeler3419]

@@BeingWolfie ok. We sometimes refer to the ground level as ground floor also but then the next floor up is 2nd and so on. The ground floor is the 1st floor.

[@setelliott9683]

Purple mountains and rolling pink skies.... Montana? 😮 😂

[@lloydpetersen2]

wait can spell be cast through arcane gate if so then nova could line up and bunch of ppl and sentry could just sun beam through the port to get a better angle

[@tannebraevitus1222]

Ok here is a theory: Valkyrian is using Valla to power the gateway, she is a fledgling Goddess AND was created from the energy that created Aerois so she has in intrinsic connection with the world. Thoughts?

[@asherandai1000]

Nice idea except we already know how he got to Aerois. Just seems like unnecessary effort for something he already has access to.

[@AkiiaTM]

took me a while to realise the fight was just Gray Fox, even with the title

[@warrenhome3771]

I’m not sure if it’s possible but are there any stats for that katana

[@Spac3_Duck]

It could just be the regular githyanki silver sword but its dealing force instead of psychic. Never mind its doing other cool s***. Still could be in the same ball park though, modified so mark could actually get some hits in.

[@Daaboo]

Alien: Release me! Release me! NOOOOW! President Whitmore: I know there is much we can learn from each other if we can negotiate a truce. We can find a way to co-exist. Can there be a peace between us? Alien: Peace? No peace! President Whitmore: What is it you want us to do? Alien: Die...DIE!

[@yuogotheeliotrope9804]

I like how in some encounters they act like they can’t take on something and then when they proceeded to fuck them up they’re still like no we can’t we can’t take them on🤣 they seriously underestimate their power. Also I’ve never seen a more passive group so yes let’s take five seconds to kill the thing that will definitely come back and haunt us, no we have better things to do but it’s nice to know that they are just murder All in our way

[@multi-class-rules5962]

I understand you are flavoring steal-wing strike like this yet 2 bonus actions

[@harima03]

Arval my lad!

[@Mike-oc6vs]

squishy bros back at it again quill and lucius nearly dead again.

[@danalou_who7765]

they needed an immovable rod in this one

[@theattercopworkshop9990]

Githyanki got hit by acid, never did a concentration check for invisibility... should have made a check before having advantage against Quill. And again... the next round. Still, an amazing episode. Well done!

[@joshangrian]

The invisibility wasn’t a spell I don’t think, he said she did it as a legendary action, I just think it was a special ability the boss had.

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

@@joshangrian Correct.

[@o.d.d.5437]

I apologize for my many comments, I shall now do only 1 hope you can forgive me, from now on to everyone, the channel deleted my many comments from today's video so from now on I'm only doing 1 comment because of my many long spamming comments.

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

How many comments are we talking? Enough to apologize for and enough for them to delete, I just want to know who the dick is, it's not the first I've heard of High Rollers deleting comments.

[@Heucaze]

​@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 you know, it's possible someone outside or youtube flagged these users as spam. it sucks because i know for a fact that olarson likes this series so much and tends to post lots of comments to express his interest but i doubt someone from high rollers or yogscast would do something like this.

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

@@Heucaze You may be right, High Rollers strikes me as fairly open as long as you aren't outright attacking people you can say whatever, and I have only heard from people through comments about comments being deleted (not the most accurate or reliable source), also, deleting comments from someone who likes the show and is probably only talking how much they like the show, fan theories etc... doesn't seem right. God knows I critique them more than I should and I don't think they have ever deleted any of my comments.

[@o.d.d.5437]

@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 it puts me at ease knowing that it may be someone reporting me for spam but to be safe looks like I have to type only 1 comment from now on to avoid the valid spam report

[@Heucaze]

@@o.d.d.5437 i just hope it's youtube being wonky with spam filters, especially the past month since it seems like... tiddy bots are spamming uncrowded comments sections. the idea that someone reported you out of malicious intent leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

[@gyrrakavian]

Mark trying to do a stereotypical American southern accent (north Texas?) but still saying 'schedule' the British way.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Make the Rhi Cap a beanie in whatever colors Rhi likes with just the word "Rhi" on the front.

[@spiceywolf15]

IM FINALLY CAUGHT UP

[@Human-gu2cx]

Mark just loves hitting Quill for no reason, I don’t understand it.

[@Human-gu2cx]

She literally says he’s not a threat and then just tunnel visions him.

[@CA-zn8hu]

How much damage did he do? How much healing did he do? Villains aren't braindead. Him healing Aila or Sentry is a lot more AC to hit thru for the boss than hitting him or Lucius would be.

[@cesargeney5268]

1:11:45 Mark says kill Chris Trott, not lucious Elenasto... hmmm

[@autumnmayer6992]

Wait a second... Monk? Deflect missles

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

7:20 Dum-Dum is Dun Dun.

[@martinkoranda6672]

when is the next episode????

[@Human-gu2cx]

Lucius’s brain “is this in Elvish floor naming or human.

[@mariuspieterse7614]

Alpha strike u mean ?

[@jamiadixon331]

Do they not have 1st floors in the UK?

[@ollieb.21]

In the UK, we call the bottom floor the 'ground floor'. The floor above is the 1st floor. Then the floor above that is the 2nd floor. Etc.

[@lukeamparo6586]

WHERE IS THE CARDBOARD BOX!?!?!?!? THE ONE THING TO SURPASS METAL GEAR!!!!!!!!! RULES OF NATURE!!!!

[@Seninthekitchen]

Why has tom not been using portent for awhile

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Maybe he has had bad portent rolls, rolling average (9, 10, 11) kind of sucks for portents, or more likely he forgot.

[@Seninthekitchen]

@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 but low rolls are good for enemies and that's kind of the big feature of that class.

[@jesseehlman5101]

They haven’t had a long rest in a couple of episodes, he’s probably out

[@asherandai1000]

@@Seninthekitchen Low rolls are good for portent. High rolls are good for portent. Middle rolls are bad for portent, unless you know the required target and the modifiers which generally you don't unless you hardcore metagame and/or have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the MM.

[@robbycovello5026]

wait how old are they all

[@stephenmudiecastles.2938]

You can only react to something you can see.If the Mindflayer is blinded can you raise a shield spell?

[@mme.veronica735]

Does the shield spelll specify needing to see the attack at any point?

[@stephenmudiecastles.2938]

In order to react to something you need to be aware of it.Being blind how can you see an attack coming to react to it?

[@bloodfreak57]

@@stephenmudiecastles.2938 that's not how dnd works. The spell will state whether you need to see it.

[@stephenmudiecastles.2938]

You only get a reaction if something triggers that reaction.In this case the shield spell is triggered by an attack.If an archer shot an arrow at you how could you react to that attack if you are blind and can not see the triggering action?

[@danielraitt3670]

GIVE US THE DAMN RHI CAPS

[@gabebecker85]

1:33:40

[@heyyolkalot4627]

Re-cap

[@jaco-bean1286]

I made the likes 666