High Rollers: Aerois #78 | A Game of Chance

[@cameronthorpe4755]

I love how mark picks on Trott for being the most experienced d&d player, but when he gets a crit or gives a good plot narrative exploitative point, Lucius has amazing cinematic scenes where his character really comes to life and the party wholly respects his plays. I absolutely loved when Tom (Quill) added that little bit to Torott's (Lucius') value

[@thatmooseman]

Opening fan music Heroes of Aerois - Matthew Episode Start at 8:41 Sponsors at 9:26 Announcements at 11: 53 DUN DUNS at 15: 43 Recap starts at 16:43 Recap ends at 19:20 Break start at 1:40:55 Break ends at 1:51:42

[@rhinoyarn]

Spoilers for both of the main campaigns below: Episode 78 of Lightfall: a member of the party makes a deal with a devil and forfeits their soul Episode 78 of Aerois: 2 members of the party make a bet with a demon and forfeit their souls What is with episode 78 and soul forfeiture?

[@craigbainton4173]

rhinoyarn OMG we are the same number of sessions into aerois as trells deal! Wow

[@dukeolizards5643]

Haha haha! Didn't notice that. Awesome

[@Chalvrek]

Might want to put a few more spaces to get the spoilers below the Read More line

[@AcidManticore]

Lucius is consistantly moving from "daddy's boy" to "hot boy".

[@salamanda550]

Not..."Daddy's Boy" to "Daddy"? Cause..hoo...that boy,.

[@johnplesia5154]

He was become his own Daddy xD

[@ErinCole1000]

I cant believe I started watching this during quarantine and I didnt even realize it's 2 year Anniversary of Aroes. Congrats guys! This campaign has had me on the edge of my seat the whole time!

[@tyz6031]

Lucious: crits on chromatic orb Me: NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!!!!!!!

[@xAugustx11]

Thats a lotta nuts

[@the_holy_ninja889]

Dyecromancy: "How about a little more"

[@MystWalkur]

I am ENTHRALLED by every single one of these stunning fan music pieces!!! I could listen for hours and hours!!!

[@Durzo]

Man, angry Katie look is terrifying. I was waiting for a table flip, but there is no table.

[@mikkmihkelson7113]

DUN DUN DUN!

[@j.d.jackson2983]

After the ending of last week.... as soon as I got the notification that this was uploaded I watched it immediately. 😆

[@darraghevans7271]

Binging it now and I fully just skipped the into to get the result hahaha

[@humphreysg]

I legitimately thought that Grazzt's annoyance was that he wanted to be behind on the second card, to make sure the challengers thought they had a chance, and he couldn't make it work

[@nopethnks]

Oh shit. I started binging the podcast when quarantine started and now I'm all caught up! Time to buy some merch to celebrate! ❤ Thank you everyone for creating such a wonderful world. It's been an honor to experience it all with you.

[@little_lilac3262]

I love Thalia kdkdjfjrhrh she's literally my favorite NPC so far

[@kamaljohnson2200]

Mark's small subtle frustration when Katie asked for the angel's name is either great acting or the troubles of a dm lol

[@lukewood8851]

Mark :Roll high my friend. "Nat 20"

[@arcticwiz2249]

Spoilers: Nothing says 2 year anniversary like being enslaved by demons

[@zavierboyles]

Finally caught up with the vods. Started watching halfway through March and absolutely loving it. Unfortunately can't tune in to the live streams because of time zones though. Much love to you guys

[@jelenadjokic9843]

Lucius being BAMF this episode. /fans Quill some more/ That reaction was

[@aseemapastamb8638]

I loved Aila's speech to the audience. Excellent RP, kudos! 1:08:24 Aila should not have known about the True Sight though. Quill only shared that information with Lucius as they were inside the glass dome.

[@vivianluty]

Quill yelled about the true sight when he and Lucius were about to be grabbed

[@eldritch4560]

I just adore the music tbh, fan music and all. Im just gonna say that "Broad Horizons" by Francis Wells is really nice and i found it via HR. Just the wonderful music makes me happy!

[@malakai960]

Here we go bois one episode left and my life spirals into depression been watching at work like 10 hours a day for a month and now I'm caught up... I need MORE, MORE, COMSUME... PRAISE HADARR!!!

[@humanperson2375]

starts at 8:42

[@konstantinkoch6114]

love how they try to appeal to the morality of demons xD

[@stevenmckenna745]

Well that's what I expected, but I thought tom would pull a side bet of "if it's truly impossible for me to know what the cards are before they're turned over then I couldn't possibly know what your next card is. Although if I was to gamble an eternity of service in exchange for victory, I'd say your next card is the broken one." Alternatively " see you in 10000 years, for you didn't specify when the servitude started

[@arcticwiz2249]

I really wanted him to try and bluff grazz, or messenger Lucius to bluff grazz (Charisma boi). Say stuff like "Why are you so uncertain?" Or take a leap of fate, vaguely pointing out cheating mechanics that could be anything like "Don't you have a "vision" for these types of things, or "Not so controlling now" even if it was wrong. Just feed his uncertainty with something, anything! I dunno, "either you win or lose, or we could have an outcome where neither happens (a draw).

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Grazzt is a Demon-Lord not an Arch-Devil, meaning Grazzt is not bound by contracts enforced by cosmic law, he didn't specify when the servitude would start but he didn't have to, Grazzt could force you into service immediately, let you go for a minute, an hour, a day, a year and then force you into service etc... he could double your time or set you free at any point, sure you made an agreement but why would a Demon honour a contract if they didn't feel like it? nothing is forcing them to . . . except maybe other Demons.

[@stevenmckenna745]

@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 missed that bit, lol

[@DrSmurrie]

With that Lucius crit, I'm imagining the magic power just drooping aound suddenly in the hallway... Like, we see Lucius gather the energy and it radiates with the ceiling beginning to drip and the floor beginning to sizzle... Sooooo.... Gooooood! ^^

[@bill-1835]

Spoiler-free possibly useful timestamps: Stream starts - 8:42 Intro video - 15:43 Recap - 16:48 Gameplay starts - 19:15 Break starts - 1:40:51 Break ends - 1:51:37 Gameplay Ends - 3:00:53 (No fanart, no XP)

[@jonbly]

"Ha-ha! I've made armour out of acid!" Two seconds later... "It burns! It burns! This was a terrible idea!"

[@bladerbane]

Quill: what do I do I saw the vision. HOW ABOUT YELLING WHAT YOU SAW? Lmao

[@blackh9604]

The start of this episode was so tense I'm sweating lmao Edit: also lucius with the badass crit and sentry sending an elk through the window LMAO, this episode is amazing

[@andredias95]

I've bingened the episodes from 15 to this one. Been totally stuck these past 2-3 weeks.

[@xxRikuKHx]

16:56 skip to recap 1:51:40 end of break

[@Trigun99]

"So She threw Him out the window, the window, the second story window!" Fun stuff as always!

[@xmrcomplicatedx5441]

Quillek shouldve went first and ask the question "which card will make me lose on the first pick" if it doesn't work that means the broken is good, also if it shows, he could just walk around the table to make it positive

[@xmrcomplicatedx5441]

I just needed to say this, im not trying to tell how to play

[@joluoto]

SPOILER and Speculation below: So Grazzy boy was probably counting the cards, and was thus fairly sure where the Borken One was but not 100%, which was the thing that irritated him. Ah, nvm he just cheated.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

You are kind of right on both accounts. Yes he cheated no matter what he says he has forfeited his right to the stake on that account. But his annoyance and the reason why are only subtly different. Full marks regardless.

[@pedantsunited5368]

1:06:05 "when you come across the golden arches" ah yes, mcdonalds

[@pedantsunited5368]

1:52:00 aha thomas i beat you to it

[@kennydupont7833]

I remember a movie about poker where this famous high roller - haha- used the same trick and as soon as Mark described the game, that idea popped in my head. Great idea Mark. I love it and will steal it. (You will get credit/blame)

[@frank83153]

Every combat is like a movie scene, even when narrating two at a time, Mark is still the DM everyone wishes they could be

[@EverlastingEclipse]

Tom it was obvious Tell him you can predict the card Use the eye Also, magic resistance doesn't work on channel divinity Elko the patronus

[@asherandai1000]

@@Ziajin Wrong. Only channel divinities that create a magical effect are magical effects. You could have a physical effect happen such as your god punching an enemy (And yes that actually happened in a critical role episode)

[@asherandai1000]

@@Ziajin well again, no not entirely true. You're correct I thought we were talking about divine intervention (why did I think that???), however some channel divinities are physical such as war gods blessing or guided strike, though those ones don't have saving throws associated with them. I can't recall all channel divinities however, nor have I read them all (probably) so maybe there is one. Additionally "magical effects" is extremely overused in the rulebooks to the point where it pretty much loses meaning. There are numerous instances where "magical effect" is used to describe something that has no magic associated with it. So that comes entirely down to how you choose to interpret it. In my view the influence of a god is the same as a monks ki; magic that isn't magic and doesn't suffer the drawbacks of magic.

[@asherandai1000]

@@Ziajin You clearly haven't read the rulebooks.

[@asherandai1000]

@@Ziajin Theres a reason I know you haven't read the rules. If you had you would already know that what I said is true. Additionally in an early interview Jeremy Crawford himself said they made some mistakes with misleading wording. He then highlighted two areas of misleading wording; Melee weapon attacks do not need to include a weapon, and magical effects are not always magic. But sure, lets go with you. A guy who read one paragraph of one rule and now knows better then the creator of the game. I'm not gonna keep arguing with someone who can't even be arsed to read more then paragraph.

[@izeraman2]

I've just started watching and my heart just dropped still watching but now what.

[@robertleitch1050]

This episode had me genuinely shaking while watching

[@MrNobu93]

To be honest Quill's first question when they learned about Wishes should be: "Are those Wishes actual reward?" That way they could find out if they should even risk coming here, next question could be: "Can we get those Wishes in other way?"

[@poisonedoak6563]

I know Kim didn’t want any bs about the cards But Does Tiangong have true sight? Nova reaches for a card *No*

[@HighRollersDnD]

Alas, Big T has darkvision, but not True Sight - Kim

[@Markcrazeer]

@@HighRollersDnD he might get it later but you have not found that module yet, and kalas probably has it.

[@BlackIronHero]

It was cus Tiangong has a big brain that It(?) said *no* when Nova said "do they have any chance of winning?", It didn't know how it was rigged, but It knew it *was* rigged. Big T knows better than to make deals with Demons.

[@BlackRockRenegade]

If there’s a moral to this tale, I’m pretty sure it’s don’t play games with the devils. And if you do, find all the loopholes or start making them :p. Really fun session to watch and let’s see how much chaos is in store for everyone.

[@mme.veronica735]

These are demons not devils. Even if you made them sign a contract they would break it without a care

[@MightBeCale]

Devils are the lawful ones. Demons are pure, abject chaos and are too unpredictable for loopholes

[@AnderH518]

At 2:52:30 or so, this is their “We’re the Guardians of the Galaxy” moment, and I love it.

[@silentk4221]

Not sure if this was Marks inspiration but also knowing what a huge nerd he is I wouldn't put it past him using a Star Wars reference. The moment he said the cards were marked in a way only his "demon eyes" could see reminded me of a part in the book Zorba the Hutts Revenge where Zorba uses that exact method to cheat Lando in a game of sabacc by having a deck that's marked with ultraviolet paint that only Hutts are able to see. That or it's just an amazing coincidence

[@Neutral_Tired]

Flip it vertically would have worked if it were a devil, but because he's a demon he's not bound to the contract so loopholes are less effective

[@dukeolizards5643]

Happy birthday Aerois! High Rollers, y'all rock 👍👍👍

[@SerenDipInT]

I’m fine, Your fine, Their fine, We’re all fine 🔥😐🔥 edit: Happy Anniversary 🎉

[@animewarrior3]

This is fine

[@TheLegoLord100]

Spoilers To be fair, that broken one was a 50/50 for grazzt. While he may have rigged all that was before that, in the end he bet it on a coin toss. I can respect that, as could most of my characters

[@TheXDman123]

I mean mark placed the cards how they were so really there was no way they could win from the start

[@animewarrior3]

@@TheXDman123 this. He had a you lose card the whole time. And clearly they did not have the positive broken card.

[@Joestone1984]

Yeah there was no chance they were going to win the game. In the lore he gave them before they got there was Grazzt has never lost. He says through Qills vision that Grazzt didn’t know if it was upright or not but just knew the card was the broken one, but there was no way Mark didn’t have it setup that way. He designed the story to be like this on purpose. If he rolled to pick a card it would be truly random but he knew what cards to draw and he designed it for the story line. They were supposed to lose and he played it out for the RP.

[@xininjaaix7873]

@@Joestone1984 tbf, mark could have had a way of distinguishing which card is which without seeing which way up they were on his second screen. We don't know what mark could see and he's definitely the type where he would set it up so he didn't know which way round they were

[@Joestone1984]

@@xininjaaix7873 No he knew exactly what card was where and how it was to be played. It was a story driven element. They were never going to win that game and get the ring. Let’s say the players pulled it by mistake, they lose and it seems even more fair since it was their choice. The character was a showman and played it out for the end making the crowd and the players think they had a chance. He flat out said he cheated to win to them. The whole point of the encounter was to get them to free their friends to setup a chase and potentially more allies( and enemies) for the fight to come. I’m not knocking Mark for this. It was the purest form of a no win scenario for them but it was one they had to take. It cemented Thalia as a vigilant ally and also gave Aila an opportunity to gain a friend with ties to her origins.

[@lucasnicholson9443]

I’m only 30 minutes into the episode so for all I know this is explained later, but I think the backs of these cards are illusions which tacan be seen through with true sight. Edit: Yeah, yeah, yeah I got my answer just a few minutes later...

[@davidandrews7041]

spoilers for the first hour: Okay can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that Yumeko-Senpai would've blown a fuse at Gratz and dealt like 5,000 hp of damage to him, if she found out that he was cheating. Thanks for listening to my Tead talk :)

[@MystLunarabne]

Spoilers: So, did anyone else see the whole Truesight thing coming or was it just me? (and maybe Kim judging from one of her reactions but she also didn't say anything) If it was me I probably would've called Graz'zt out for being unoriginal and said that magnets would've been cooler, especially as it'd make it easier to rig whether the card was reversed or not while setting the table.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

In hindsight I should have. But it's like any number of abilities where people aren't thinking about them until they are used. I don't want to go hey that's lame though since you are also calling out Mark and he is doing his best. And while I certainly know that high level fiends have truesight forgetting about the possibility was better for the tension that was needed in the moment.

[@thatlycantomboy]

spoilers thoughts I honestly wish I was smarter to see how our intrepid Stormchasers could’ve possibly gotten out of this one? ‘Cause wow.

[@stumbling_]

I feel like if Mark was going to let them win he would have put the win or lose card in the position so they could. So unless they came up with some extremely brilliant thing it was unlikely they’d win.

[@calunsagrenejr]

Through persuasion, via Lucious. My idea was to appeal to the "fairness" of the game and change the rules before they play but after they've declared they will take the first turn. At the end of the game, only 6 out of 14 cards are flipped and 8 are unused. What a waste. What a boring, benign, uninteresting game! So, just like poker, propose a "card burning" rule, where each time you flip a card, you also burn another card so it's unflippable. The result is the game has 6 flipped cards and 8 unflipped cards, same as before, so what's the difference, really? Then increase the stakes as an incentive, bet eternity instead of just 200 years, and play up that it's all random anyway and they can't possibly know which cards are which. Quill can easily find the reversed Broken One with one question - "Which card will immediately make us lose the game?". He just needs to burn that card first while picking the Dark Lord to get a solid lead. Then they have no way to lose. Side note: this is why you always pick Subtle Spell for metamagic.

[@thedetective3477]

2 years later and I have figured out how 😏

[@poisonedoak6563]

I was watching the two year announcement and I just kept thinking SPAAAAAAAACE

[@AnderH518]

Rhiannon, I love your new hair cut. I just got my hair cut in a very similar way to yours.

[@tyz6031]

Yo Mark, is Sentry super shiny now? You said her shield was shiny last episode.

[@djmitchell6063]

1:57:56 the four faces of D&D.

[@tannebraevitus1222]

1:05:27 didn't they have a scroll of Knock? or was that Light fall I honestly don't remember lol

[@flared9921]

No they don't, and knock is very very loud

[@lincolnsummers1235]

Music was very good :)

[@greengrendel]

2:09:52 me just clicking this over and over. "eh!"

[@gyrrakavian]

þ (thorn) is a Norse letter still used in some Scandinavian languages for the 'th' sound.

[@oddcinema]

Late to the comment game. Its only contemporary usage is in Icelandic, comparable to a voiceless 'th' as in 'thick' or 'maths', but not as in 'the' (which is signified by the d with a line through it -- ð)

[@amyheath8261]

SPOILERS 2:50:40 Is this where the Quill x Lucius fantasy from Tom starts?

[@chrisstewart4549]

Dat Lucius crit tho.

[@drako7222]

What's with the conditions box thing on the right side?

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Quill's Slight of Hand is -1. 😉

[@gyrrakavian]

'Contiguous' is a word, Tom. Example: The UK isn't part of the contiguous continent of Europe.

[@AniBashShow]

Turn yourself’s in then wish yourself’s safe and free with one of the wishes lol

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Because, as we all know, when you get captured you get to keep all of your things (including the artifact that let's you alter reality).😒

[@MrZonehawk]

Never play a game with a demon. It's just asking to get beat because he's always on full cheat mode.

[@kylewilliams2943]

I know this is years too late and people have probably already asked but… Didn’t Aila leave her hammer at with the smith to get it made lighter?

[@preatorantrax]

Contiguous is a word... 🙃

[@joluoto]

What happened to the Strahd campaign?

[@xxRikuKHx]

Yeah I was wondering the same thing!

[@Indigo_Roses]

Mark wasnt feeling good so no strahd episode this week. They be back next week. Chech his Twitter

[@HighRollersDnD]

Two week break! Back tonight, so VOD Monday!

[@williamdavis8146]

Lots of missed jokes by not calling it the dance of the 11th finger. Spoilers below..... Seems fitting that Gratz would call it that as he is a demon prince of both pleasure and pain I think as anyone who plays is screwed.

[@deannekellogg8514]

excellent everyone ☺ good show👍 Never a dull moment

[@Neutral_Tired]

Honestly, Geas isn't super bad at that level, it only does the psychic damage once per day, they can take that then cast dispel and the geas is gone, problem solved

[@RonquixoteDIII]

I’m sure marks geas would be much more worrisome especially from a demon lord associate

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Yeah I'm sure Mark would've fixed the spells shortcomings with homebrew. And yes the spell as written really is NOT fit for purpose.

[@gokulxx]

Literally has the power to see the future, present and past, but cant cheat at cards....

[@CuSolais]

Im watching this so long after release but i still want to scream at them to pull a "guess ill tell starbane to call off your deal". Ahhhhh! Love it tho

[@spaceslime21]

Does the Arcanist brainwash the staff with a lantern that goes in a circle? Do they accept the Earth King’s invitation to Lake Laogai?

[@joshuategeler3419]

Turn yourselves in, get the ring, use one wish to get free. You still have 2 wishes left.

[@ghostrunner6815]

If this was my game everyone would be banned from rolling on D20. I’m sure it is random but doesn’t look remotely so. On the other hand only true randomness can seem so unfair.

[@violetopal6264]

Too bad Quill isn't more like a rooster. He could have used some spurs.

[@Arrusoh]

Just realised I am watching the second anniversary near the time of the 4th anniversary... I might be a little far behind

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

You find it when you find it lol

[@venrisulven]

Mark wouldn't truly give them the wish since they would just wish to be on aerois and just cut the whole flight back out of the journey

[@grizzlyb9984]

Lol , barely finished the last ep. Hope at least this time things don't go to shit for the party.

[@iez-jayambion8864]

man everything was spell clash until balah pushed those buttons and now here we are hippity hoppity getting two wishes for free?

[@sparhawkmulder1137]

Fucking mark Spoilers, dude! >:(

[@stevenbeagle7040]

If the DM says do u wanna be stealthy , if your not a rogue ,just say no An run like hell

[@Joshua-xi5zg]

Cry of the storm Nnnice

[@BlackIronHero]

I wonder if Locate Object would've worked on the Wish Ring. Maybe they could've had the Demon bring it out to prove it's legit, then decided they wanted to chicken out of the D-D-D-Duel after they've seen it, so Locate works. Then they Heist it.

[@MarvelOfRain]

I just realized something... You don't need to reverse the card in any way. If you flip it using the longer side the card will stay facing the same direction and if you flip it using the shorter side the direction will flip... If Qillek had taken the option to flip the card himself he could have won - just flip the card on the opposite side to what Graazt was doing (shorter if Graazt was doing longer or vice versa). No strings attached, no cheating... They could have had 3 wishes.

[@J_Aokay]

I think that's what Graazt was saying when Quill asked if he himself could reveal the last card. Quill had the intention of flipping it up so the Broken One would reverse and be upright, while before they had been flipping the cards sideways so the original placing of the card (up or down) was the same.

[@MarvelOfRain]

@@J_Aokay I think he said he would reverse it and then flip it. My point is that there is no need to actually reverse anything just choose the right way how you will flip the card. Graazt said nothing about that.

[@J_Aokay]

@@MarvelOfRain I agree that they could have done that but it was too late. In retrospect they should have asked the Storm Eye about the Broken One and do what you are saying (aka pick it up the right way so it would no longer be reversed). I think if Quill picked it up the way you are saying Graazt would have stopped him/said that wasn't the correct way. They could have argued that there were no rules about how to pick up the cards but I mean they'd be arguing this a demon prince so...

[@skeletalarkeus5728]

@@MarvelOfRain the note he showed stream literally said flip the card vertically so you're kinda wrong.

[@jamiadixon331]

Quill could of just asked where the Broken One was with the Eye then said it was rigged. smh

[@MystLunarabne]

1:02:42 ...Kim, Mark was just talking about Demons having Truesight...

[@chandlerreed5596]

Go to a pet shop !! Get a pet beholder lol

[@Human-gu2cx]

Come on Katie, we’re not as bad as twitch chat for sure

[@drako7222]

Lol and gives a new meaning to cry me a river XD

[@hades_head_empty]

45:33 could he not call them out on cheating???? like would that do something?? wtf

[@hades_head_empty]

nvm i was wrong i forgor he was a demon and not a devil

[@greenarrow1558]

Cant help but wonder what would have happened if tom tried to call the devil out on his bullshit

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Nothing, Because Grazzt is a Demon lord

[@billyq6129]

yesyesyesyesyes lets GOOO

[@michellejean11]

WOW, the heroes are cheating before they know if Gratzz is cheating.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

A game of chance that has never been won is a good indicator that Graz'zt cheats whether or not they have proof

[@Dark_Jargon]

Was that the first use of elk-o? Wait there was the distraction..... do they just use elk-o to die and distract?

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Mounts can be hard to accommodate in all game situations

[@animewarrior3]

I don't see how it was winnable if the demon prince had a "you lose" card

[@RyanAcidhedzMurphy]

It wasn't winnable, he railroaded them into this situation and rigged it so they couldn't possibly succeed.

[@ettinakitten5047]

Because the demon prince didn't know it was a "you lose". He knew which card was which, but not their orientation, so he could have instantly lost or won with that last card.

[@Kicksticks]

Only way it was winnable was if Quill asked, which card is Graz'zt going to choose last, and then flipped it vertically like Tom said.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Hate hearing people saying Mark rigged it after he explained that the entire board was determined by random chance. It was heavily waited towards the demon which is absolutely how such a creature would operate. Is it unsatisfying? Certainly. But calling a 50/50 chance of that Golden Snitch of a card railroading is rather disingenuous. Especially when, by that logic, you want Mark to overturn that result since it's "unfair" which would be handing them victory. There is a lot of needless obfuscation for tension and a lot depends on that single random roll though. You strip it away and it isn't really much of a game or puzzle.

[@Canary246]

Thalia got play of the game

[@yimyam7615]

First we breaking windows and now we breaking hands?