Rotgrind - S2 E7 - A Corrosive Vacation (

[@Khornecussion]

" It reads you like a frickin' fiddle. " *THEY PLAYED US LIKE A GODDAMN BOOK!*

[@RisaxTheImp]

Wow, first we get several sessions with a hostile DM and now Narrative Declaration is moving onto predatory DLC practices? I can't believe one of my favourite TTRPG groups has gone downhill so quickly... 😔

[@OnCallGM]

It's that EA buyout. I warned Zoran this would happen!

[@NarrativeDeclaration]

HOW ELSE CAN WE AFFORD TO FEED TUGBERT?

[@RisaxTheImp]

@@NarrativeDeclaration Now listen here buster! ...I don't know what platypusess (platypi?) eat or how much of it. So I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and even shut my eyes to Thurston's comment about the EA buyout because I prefer to live my life ignorant but happy. But SpeakerD better be there next time is all I'm saying! Or else I'm going to do some research into the noble platypus to figure out whether you guys are cooking the books or not while using poor Tugbert as a shield! 🤔

[@SaraGrapes]

@@RisaxTheImp platypodes

[@RisaxTheImp]

@@SaraGrapes Huh, you learn something new every day. Thanks!

[@TonyRedgrave]

2:02:47 Zoran gives Rehua a "How to Tank For Dummies" book after Rehua abandons Oran. Extremely good joke and I'm surprised no one mentioned it.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Cant wait till they find bloatus the adventurer merchant, who has tiny adventurers in his cage, they're fine, they just like being small army men that swarm thieves of bloatus with magic and tiny weapons.

[@spritemon98]

Basically night at the museum lol

[@xenonsean7050]

Vaali going "Idk I'm not homophobic" to Bloatus had me in pieces

[@MrMorphine482]

Having been the guy who loves his table despite rolling his eyes at them, I just hope Earndil has a great day today and a good experience.

[@TocloseamI]

He clearly is good friends with all of them, so I doubt anything actually gets to him

[@bionicdragon5]

Just wait, now that Hulky's made that joke, it'll be revealed that Rehua really was killed while he was absorbing sunlight a couple sessions ago, and the Rehua with them now is really his Nobody Xarhue.

[@Khornecussion]

His Heartless attacks the party later, they clash and become a normal tree man again while Simple and Clean plays.

[@AimlessSavant]

So Vali is a missing poster on milk, Rehua is Tugbert, and Tanhauser is DLC content. What, perhaps, is Oran and Baldric? :o

[@divonh7166]

Oran is the Stream, so we'll never know about him If anything Baldric should be a potion

[@thedude4840]

@@divonh7166correction potion seller.

[@jefferycrouse4652]

A warcrime waiting to happen

[@bionicdragon5]

Baldric would be a badly drawn wanted poster of himself with a triangle or a circle for a helmet.

[@SuperSorrow1996]

Baldric if he is missing should just be a bad png of a bucket

[@halfdead4789]

Earndil on the off-chance that you read this I absolutely love the scream soundboard sound. Edit: AND THE DOOR SOUNDS AS WELL

[@Transmissional]

I haven't hooted my last yet...what a rough session...so many developing hostilities...love it. Always a pleasure listening in to these sessions!

[@benedictarnoldfascistdicta3660]

Good news: I thoroughly enjoy this podcast Bad news: They don't upload at the rate I consume their contact and I'm angry about it

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Nore me, I listen to these during work, and I need MOR.

[@spritemon98]

Content

[@DogsandDragons]

I like to imagine Pikturn’s magic missiles come out of his bagpipes

[@inquisitorowl5215]

The first 30 minutes of this is just "Oran's gunky fingers". I fucking love these guys.

[@Voice_of_p]

Tannhäuser DLC was a great idea

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Imagine if someone actually spent 500 dollars in a donation ot bits(half way through so I doubt anyone has yet) and said "now bring him here" XD!

[@spritemon98]

Now I'm expecting the group still in outset to break down baldric's house walls to make one massive house against his wishes 🤣

[@squeethemog213]

I find it hilarious that the first complication {Spoiler} gets is something that happened in Rotgoons 🤣

[@RisaxTheImp]

When that happened I thought I was going crazy! "Wait, haven't I seen this before? Did I somehow forget three hours of my life?!"

[@thedude4840]

Ahhh I see without the chaotic balance of speaker d earindil assumes the role of gm bully.

[@zhishangdi3522]

i'm happy i saw my fan art at the end, anyways love the campaign and can't wait to see where it goes next

[@david7522]

"No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?"

[@BlackShadow1991]

This episode feels especially clip-worthy, those first ten minutes, Zoran's karma nat1 and that fight towards the end, I was cackling 🤣The party was in a *mood*. Great episode and for the algorithm!

[@ajm2487]

Hey is it bad that I binged all of rotgrind Also a complication could be “blind as a bat” the player is now legally blind for 5 minutes and needs to scream to find things for the next 5 minutes

[@Marineisme]

No, nothing wrong with binging something you like, but thats a loaded question since if your binging something at the expense of something important...you get the idea. But no, theres nothing wrong with this.

[@spritemon98]

I'm binging all of it now

[@Damini368]

I had the idea of a complication, “Rolled/Sprained Ankle: The character who triggered this complication has their movement speed reduced to half for 1d4 rounds.”

[@AT2Productions]

That nat-1 roll for Zoran at the beginning was just epically hilarious. Moments like that are why I love this series.

[@TheGM-20XX]

It was a true Zedek moment.

[@AT2Productions]

@@TheGM-20XX Yes, we need a copy of Zedetiquette to show up now.

[@Khornecussion]

@@AT2Productions Zediquette truly is the book all rogue traders keep in their quarters to read before going to bed so they can all aspire to be as cool, successful and charismatic as Zedek.

[@ArcticMoon1982]

Bloatus isn’t a name, it’s a title or status, there are many Bloatus each with their own unique features.

[@Lantern_Light]

What is your favorite blotus. I think mine is the moth merchant

[@MisterManTheBestMan]

@@Lantern_Light Bloatus the slug merchant holds a soft spot in my heart.

[@barrybend7189]

Bloatus the mantis merchant is my favorite.

[@zoushaomenohu]

Gotta be careful around Bloatus the Toadfly Merchant...his friends are...rough...(seriously, they lay their eggs in the nostrils of toads, and their maggots steadily consume said toad's nostrils, eyes and brain)

[@ArcticMoon1982]

@@Lantern_Light mine is probably Blotus the Used Carriage Merchant.

[@legionaireb]

Bloatus is now officially Beedle.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Bloatus is the nurse joy or cop from pokemon, they all look the same but arent the same person and have the same name. Because let's be honest, nurse joy is either having clones, has a big family with the same name, or is all powerful and is everywhere.

[@jefferycrouse4652]

@@Laughing_Dragon Nurse Joy is the secret God of Pokeworld. Jenny is her herald

[@Damini368]

@@Laughing_Dragon I believe the anime showed family photos for both Joy and Jenny

[@Audiotrocious]

I was expecting “Horsefly Merchant”

[@shmee123ful]

oh gods, bloatus is like that one charaters from that ATLAB episode the painted lady. the major, shop keep bloke. who just wore diffrent hats and had diffrent jobs in the shitty little town

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Imagine. A village of bloatus'...bloatusai? Bloatus but plural. A swarm of bloatai.

[@alphaandomega4422]

You've become blind with imaginary power there, Thurston Earndil I love your soundboard, keep it up and hang on there brother

[@Donolohe]

Those few first notes is all I need to know I'm in for a good time, time for another exciting episode of rrrRRROOOOOOOOtgrIIIIIIIIInd.

[@portaljumper339]

Bloatus the hive mind is the lore that I needed

[@Laughing_Dragon]

I need to one day see bloatus prime, or as another in a comment chain said, bloatus the bloatus merchant.

[@paintedsmile5282]

That is no ordinary church, that is the church of Crawdadimus

[@Azakamak2401]

I felt this one in my soul. I've had sessions like this where no one in the party seems to be able to actually do anything, meanwhile the GM can't seem to roll below a 15 for 90% of their rolls. This is not helped by the fact that the GM for the campaign I'm currently in has RNGesus on his side and has rolled more 20s than the rest of the table combined and doubled.

[@darkmikasonfire]

I didn't suffer with you guys, that was fucking hilarious. I've been in this same situation numerous times, I hate it when I'm in them but by all that's holy and not it is the best thing ever to listen to other people lose their shit in these overly long terrible fights where they can't roll for shit (80% of the time I roll sub 10, the other 5% of the time I roll 11-14, and 15% of the time I roll 15-20). I understand the pain, and because I understand it so well, I can't help but laugh maniacally at it when it happens to others.

[@Andri474]

The GM has gone mad with power. We need SpeakerD to restore balance to the game.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

I dont think a chaotic individual, balanced another chaotic individual, but yeh.

[@Andri474]

@@Laughing_Dragon You know, I was thinking they would cancel each other out, but you make a good point.

[@gilliam8897]

WOOOOOOO, Rotgrind!

[@heboric6136]

Wooooo

[@jefferycrouse4652]

Earndil playing that Orb of the dead boss theme. This is why we like him, and when he joins the chaos gremlins and becomes the most evil PC

[@theofficerfactory2625]

How To Tank For Dummies? Is that what's Rehua holding?

[@NerdStoryteller]

Earndil, every episode: "It's clear that I don't want to be here, that I don't like this, and I want to make sure no fun is allowed. MOVE ON GET ON WITH IT."

[@somenerd3515]

It's just amusing enough to make me think he's doing a bit. But it's becoming more and more apparent that it may not be a bit.

[@NerdStoryteller]

@@somenerd3515 It's not a bit. You can hear the awkward pauses and the tiny moments of silence that convey discomfort in the others. Thurston pushes back now and then in very subtle, polite ways which show that it isn't a bit. I don't understand why Earndil stays involved.

[@NarrativeDeclaration]

As people who play with him, he is having a good time and it's all for laughs. :)

[@NerdStoryteller]

@@NarrativeDeclaration Good to know.

[@somenerd3515]

@@NarrativeDeclaration He is exceptionally committed to The Eternal Bit

[@Dutch_is_a_Weird_Language]

Licking sticky goo from a dude's hands, helping lubricate, 3 guys jumping on a 4th,... I didn't expect THAT kind of RP.

[@Ether101_Prime]

Shouldn't the GM rolling a double 1 result in double complications?

[@Wanderingsage7]

The one semi divine being that's undoubtedly on the side of the protagonists: Blofis.

[@assassain0425]

Rehau just saying they vacation here. The phrase of defeat in his voice

[@BrotatoeGod]

2:31:43 I am proud of potatoes for standing up for Piktern Squelchfoot 2:36:26 Poor Zoran :(

[@jefferycrouse4652]

So Bloatus is the Re4 merchant? Cool

[@Khornecussion]

What're you sellin'? What're ya' buyin'? Heh heh heh...

[@MrTripleM3]

I should join the stream sometime and give Thurston some money so he can buy more magic decks.

[@eglewether5523]

Will there be Bloatus the used camel merchant ?

[@heboric6136]

Camel fly perhaps

[@DJ_Birdman]

Legit. Y’all got this bird hooked. Also, Tugbert mvp always.

[@garlicbread529]

This one went south fast. Makes me wonder how it would go with Tannhauser around.

[@gvwwb6259]

5:41 earndil sings an unknown note of rage

[@razielkasimer760]

Hey Thruston, you CAN play commander on a budget, hell theres an ENTIRE channel dedicated to it!!! Dont need to break Zorens bank just to get your fix ;p

[@joshuachapman247]

Soo much awesome Chaos, right out of the gate.

[@Abbojnr]

2:21:36 God damn I love Hulky and his character sheet for Rehua,

[@foolishsparky]

I'm gonna be honest, I really don't like the complications on recovery checks. It just feels like it's starting to get way too much.

[@spritemon98]

Bloatus is the one guy with many hats 🤣🤣

[@KumaoftheForest]

This episode is the funniest one yet 😂

[@spritemon98]

Woooh!!! Finally hit episode 20!!!

[@DogsandDragons]

Is a Blotus a Constant through out each realm and area

[@Penumbra_Guard]

The power of PINESOL COMPELS YOU!

[@highfivedog2336]

Gridrot is my favorite television series

[@bdcs9752]

I don't know if it's just me but this session feels pretty "toxic"

[@spritemon98]

23:49 very missed opportunity to say "smells like chicken"

[@darkrite9000]

I don't think they should complicate on recovery checks since you can't crit fail or succeed on them anyway, so complicating it just makes it unnecessarily harder without any benefit. Especially since Thurston only lets boss monsters complicate on nat 1s, and not standard mobs. Or harder uncommon mobs.

[@thirtymilesniper]

What mapping tool is used for those Hex's? I like the look and would like to use something like this.

[@JamieIsfeld]

They are all custom built for the show! We will release the assets on our Patreon after the party digs themselves out of the swamp, though.

[@minibotas9496]

The fucking door gag XD

[@RinAldrin]

How did we have a situation involving acid and goggles doing nothing happen this organicly?

[@WASDLeftClick]

Damn this was a spicy one

[@blackfearjays2286]

I CAUGHT UP WOOOOOOOO

[@wolfluva24]

What was the ring a reference too? Damn it I lost track of the plot!!

[@Derinma]

Don't the Martinet pistols do that burning terrain shite?

[@OnCallGM]

Naw, that was a boss mechanic. The pistols are just upgraded weapons that grant a bespoke line attack, which is already pretty schweet for characters to have.

[@jennygailey5963]

I thought vaali was given an item that prevent her from crit failing deception.

[@flameloude]

I heard this a few times and find it weird. Why are allies taking splash damage when the Alchemist crit fails? It should be no one takes splash damage right?

[@masonwilliams1345]

The feature that allows bomber alchemists to not hurt friends has a rule that on a critical failure. Which in pathfinder 2e is either a nat 1 or missing a DC by ten or more that is doesn't take place. The logic being you fuck up the throw so much you still catch them in the blast despite the safeguards

[@flameloude]

@@masonwilliams1345 ??? It might have been errata away, but all the bomber says is that they can chose to deal damage to that target alone instead of splash damage hitting allies.

[@spritemon98]

This is what oran deserves by dissing thurstons magic card obsession

[@mixofreak]

Beach episode!

[@horstherbert35]

Beach episode!

[@Lantern_Light]

2:28:31 Thurston sound effect.

[@aleksanderbergerseter6545]

hootking

[@tristanrow4951]

poor Earndil

[@jamesmcdonnell240]

Piktern magic

[@thetexandragon1252]

Wait didn't they kill Oron dragon last session

[@OnCallGM]

There weren't enough parts to make a full dragon... :3

[@Laughing_Dragon]

@@OnCallGM your my kind of fucked up in story making I love REAL MONSTERS and abominations, and love making them myself. While sadly I cannot draw, I DO however hold the ability to make monsters in stat form when ever I get inspired by images lol. Yall have a monster suggestion thing anywhere? Even if they needed to br rebalance, or well, balanced at all since that's the part I duck at lol, I would love to commit some suggestions/creations. Albeit, might need to change the art since well, any art I use, is not mine sadly. One day I'll have that motivation. Hopefully lol.

[@tomesflamingo2202]

i missd it god damit =((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

[@SuperPupkinvasya]

4:59 starts

[@MrSlientdeath]

Hostile Dice! Hostile Dice!

[@jacobg2134]

Rotgrind so fahny