That moment is by far one of my favorites of the campaign. Bodger jumping off the airship is just something you would expect from him, but at the same time it was so surprising that he actually did it

"yes, ROWAN asked me for consequences for his actions" bless his heart, I don't know how that sweet man made it to adulthood. he is the epitome of "haha, I'm not touching you" while hovering his hand an inch above a hot burner on the stove.

Rob has an angel’s patience adjusting and adapting to this group’s chaotic energy lol

Rob just sold me on the idea of never putting an airship in my campaign.

I could not help but burst out laughing when you said "Baradun and the dickheads." I was not prepared

Hey man gotta say I respect Rowan a bunch for asking for no plot armor. More importantly I respect the way you DM and all the little tweeks to the game you make. It has forsure gave me some decent DM skills of my own, and has paid off in the few campaigns I have hosted for friends. Glad the universe gave us yall thanks a bunch!

Rob was a great addition to the VLDL team.

Rob describing the problem with bodger jumping off of the ship to test the mechanic and subsequently wouldn’t have felt the need to do so if it weren’t mentioned is the same as the vase scene in the first matrix film

"...Until you either hit something or stop falling." I enjoy the implication that these two outcomes are mutually exclusive.

Petition to bring this series back! Love behind the screen with Rob

That whole airship experience was absolutely brilliant.

Props to Rowan for requesting no plot armor. You'd think he wanted Bodger to die 😂

This episode, where Bodger jumps off the airship, has been my favorite so far. Not just the scene itself, but watching Rowan realize what he may have done. It was amazing.

So basically: Viva LA Dirt League D&D: What if...? Love it!

This episode was so intense! I thought the fight for the Grandfather's hammer was nerve wracking but here I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat. But it was such a Bodgerian thing to do, really appreciate Rowan's willingness to go all the way. And to test Rob's DM skills. You both are absolute champions *salutes*

Props to VLDL for getting creative with putting up new types of content when they can not deliver the original content they set out to. I know it's hard, and I know that ideas are not always easy to come up with, yet you seem to keep on top and bring diversity, quality and entertainment. Thank you for staying strong. Keep up the good content. It's like training for being innovative and productive even when times are rough. I like you guys very much

I am all for this. Due to timezone differences I can't catch Rob's behind the scenes on his Twitch channel. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these. I am so hopeful that this covers topics like underutilized NPC characters (Frank's brother, Bodgers niece, Gareth, etc.), major events like other ways they could have dealt with the chasm, how successful was Greg's distractions and how often did you spare Bob? Really looking forward to the next episode.

“Baradun and the dickheads.” Yeah, after all poor Rob has had to endure, he’s quite justified with calling them that. 😆

Holy shit, this is amazing, that break down gives us much more insight and perspective. I love it, please continue this and make it a series. Doesn't have to be released frequently, just every few episodes or months.

Rob is an exceptional DM and I will always be glad to hear how he approaches the sheer madness that the guys throw at him

I admire how prepared Rob is ALL THE TIME. When a player does something unexpected, he rarely misses a beat. I’ve DM’d for family, friends, strangers, and now I only do it for my kids. Kids are extremely random, and it is a pain to keep up. Rob is a true inspiration to DMs. It is actually because of this series that my Enchantress has decided to DM herself, for the first time, for me and strangers she’s met online lol. She even wants to stream it live, so we had to call it something. So we went with Critical Fail 😅 we’ll see how the first session goes next Saturday. You all make this channel and everything you all work on, just so damn entertaining. Thank you for everything you do. 🥰

I love good GMs talking about how the game goes and how/what/why they make decisions. And you are a good one. So please, keep those coming!

Please bring these back. You are absolutely my favorite game master. I believe you do a great job patiently teaching and guiding insightful knowledge and forethought towards both your players and viewers. You are like the Pen & Teller of ttrpg's. You give everyone a small peek behind the curtain. A little taste of the could've happened, and I predicted that. In the end, you still keep the real magic hidden behind the screen.

"Baradun and the dickheads" has to be the best adventuring team name I have ever heard!

Loving these new series so far!! Please cover the part where Bodger almost drinks BOB's blood somewhere in the future, it's one of my favorite BTS from Rob's stream.

I love this! I'd love to know all the plotpoints and things they missed/destroyed by being so chaotic

This is the reason why i love this series Its always improvised. New ways to pass through a scene how isnt intended to happen from the "script"

Bodger jumping off the ship got me rolling of laughter. It was so unexpected

"Baradun and the dickheads were..." lol I died laughing at this.

Love to hear the different routes they could've taken. I'm sure some of their choices could've led to a VERY different campaign 😅

I absolutely LOST IT when Bodger said "Let's give it a crack." and then proceeded to hurl himself off the side... Robert's face when he initially asked it and that momentary pause before he answers = PRICELESS!!! I have been down a rabbit hole VLDL for 2 weeks now and ABSOLUTELY love this BTS look!!!

Thank you for the extra tid-bits of content. And I love how Rowan managed to escape despite no plot armor even tho he was as reckless as always!

I was hoping Bodger was going to go splat, character death has been rare in my experience, but Rowan kind of deserved it (sorry brother, love you), and Rob deserved to break the bad news (given how much of a stinker Rowan has been throughout the campaign. I dig the new series!

Well I know this is a video that explain stuffs behind the scenes and a moment of appreciation, but I just can't stop laughing while remembering that scene🤣

If Baradun died would Adam be forced to play Eugene?

I honestly don't know how you guys aren't top 10 on KZfaq I watch alot of KZfaq n I enjoy your guys content probably the most I don't miss anything since I started watching and I go back n watch stuff from before keep it up KZfaq goats!!!

Bodger is just the best. Half the time he's pissing somebody off does something that jeopardizes the whole group or just blatantly oblivious to his surroundings but also does (did) the most damage and is essential to the group's survival

Absolutely one of the most Bodger momentS thank you entertaining me through these times Stay safe and roll on

Bodger jumping off the airship was definitely one of the best moments in the series. Especially given all the circumstances and that he was saved at the end. Who knows how the whole campaign would turn out if he actually died (even if it just meant respawning in Honeywood but still marking the end of his journey in the campaign).

The rules for fall damage are actually pretty good. Terminal velocity is a thing, and plenty of ordinary people have survived terminal velocity. The acceleration has been largely ignored for simplicity, but you do reach terminal velocity after around 12 seconds. The world record for surviving a fall without a parachute is held by Vesns Vulovic. A bomb exploded on the plane she was in, tearing it apart. She fell 33,330 ft. After a few months in the hospital (nothing a long rest couldn't fix), she was left with a slight limp. 67 rounds of falling didn't kill a flight attendant. Keep in mind that a commoner in D&D has 1d8 hit points. Let's say she rolled an 8, and had an unusually high constitution she built up after all the tiny wines. It would take a lot of tiny wines to get a con score of 16, but hey, that would put her at 11hp. Roll all 1s for the fall damage and she could survive. If anything, the fall damage is skewed to be MORE punishing. The real issue isn't really the fall damage, but how much health the characters get... Side note: people say cats have nine lives because they have long been seen surviving incredible falls. I believe their terminal velocity survival rate is over 90%. The bigger they are, the harder they fall isn't just about the sound they make.

Rob you're doing an awesome job! I love this D&D campaign! Ben Allen Adam and Rowan plus whoever guest stars keep doing such a lovely amazing piece of work I'm hanging on the edge of my seat waiting for the next piece of the campaign!!!!!!!😳

Bodger: "It's fine, we're gods!"

I love this new serie. It is basically a highlight video of Roberts Behind the Screen streams

I'm so glad for this new series. When you DM, you prepare SO MUCH that you ultimately never end up using because....players. But you feel this need to tell SOMEONE about everything you planned! Looking forward to more!

Hard life of DM. You have my endless respect. Also i find this as really interesting concept for video. Thanks for that

Hahaaa. Best moment to start with. This or the first BOBsplosion. Awesome.

Haha I mean I understand the time zones but I still find it funny how it's like "later tonight that'll release" and like I literally just woke up. XD

I was quite excited about this new series

This is genius! I just started watching the series and often wondered what would happen if they decided to do something else!

Mad respect for Rob's GM skills in rolling with the punches from the crew. When Bodger jumped I went, "Well he's dead." Glad it turned out ok.

As a GM, loved this video! It's uncanny how the players are prone to do the most unbeliavable things and thats always amaze me. And congrats on your story telling, your story, characters and their interpretations are always great!

I like this a lot, I have not had any contact with D&D prior to this series. Hence, i was always intrigued how the story could develop and how close the characters can stray away from the path. TLDR : me likey

I must say, while no new episodes are popping up, this kind of videos are more than welcome!! More please, I'm always wondering this kind of things while watching the episode.

I want ALL of the 'behind the screen' series! Rob is a real hero in the world of GMs

DISCLAIMER: DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT throw yourselves aou of an ACTUALL airship IRL!!!

I don't quite follow the mathematics. Terminal velocity for an average human, with an average air resistance coefficient of Earth's atmosphere is, working with some safe assumptions, 450 (±50) feet every six seconds, meaning gravitational acceleration hits terminal velocity at 2 rounds of falling. I mean humans don't continue accelerating past that. And even there, almost all the acceleration happens in those first 6 seconds, with less than 1 foot per second left to reach in those next 6 seconds, because velocity plateaus due to air resistance. In effect, a 500 foot fall is interchangeable for a 10,000 foot fall, in terms of the impact force. Which is survivable if the person can land effectively, and isn't hitting pavement, but _thousands_ of damage wouldn't match the physics. And I mean HP is a weird system anyway, and villagers die if a slight breeze hits 'em funny, so y'know... whatever. But if you want to set your baseline at terminal velocity being almost definitely lethal to even a raging, level-20 barbarian with max natural CON, that would work out to 480 fall damage for an impact at 73.1 ft/s... ... which, accounting for acceleration, would mean a 5 foot drop would necessarily have to deal an average 115 points of bludgeoning damage (if velocity correlates to damage). Because the velocity reached after a 5 foot fall is about 1/4th the velocity of terminal velocity. Because, again, the velocity-time graph of human free-fall has the sharpest acceleration right at the start before plateauing, with diminishing returns of velocity for a longer fall time. The rate of acceleration rapidly declines. Heck, even setting the benchmark at a level 10 barbarian with a 0 CON modifier would mean a 5 foot fall would have to deal 15 points of bludgeoning damage, which is _still_ clearly pretty ridiculous. The real problem is that HP increases in general. It doesn't get _much_ harder for a 500 foot fall to kill a person if they're extra beefy. Personally, I think HP should be replaced with something static, and the odds of hitting/missing be what actually change. So something is still as lethal as it ought to be, if it hits, but the players' characters are more skilled. But basically, any attempt to put realism into D&D physics can't really work effectively. Rules as written are what they are for pretty good reason in the case of fall damage. But also, the fall distance per round is like 350 in the first round and about 450 every consecutive round (which is, I think, why they round to 500 feet). There'd have been way more rounds for Bodger to fall. EDIT: I used omnicalculator's free-fall-air-resistance calculator to do the working out. So I'm trusting that.

Chaotic things like this is why I watch this campaign. The guys have amazing chemistry together as a group.

Mad respect for your patience and your creativity. Even though I love the guys I have to say that you make this dnd series superb 👌 👏

Definitely love this series, would like to see the different missions in the dead frost as I am actually quite curious about them. Especially since the last dead frost quest (the frost giant) was pretty connected to B.O.B.

I must say that Bodger throwing himself off the airship to see if he will be caught is the absolute best moment of the entire campaign. It firs the character of Bodger perfectly. Well played by all. Kudos.

When Bodger jumped off the ship. It was hands down the funniest thing ever. The rolls were perfect.

You could have had bodger's brother replace him if he died. That way bodger's backstory would still be relevant. Edit : (corrected rowan to bodger. Mixing up series lol)

You are an amazing story teller. And your ability to improvise at a drop to keep stride with VLDL's wonderfully chaotic nature. Epic NPC D&D is by far one of my favorite things to watch. I've never played D&D myself but the combination of all of your talents has made this a wonderful fantasy series. I look forward to every Thursday to catch the next installment.

this was INCREDIBLE! As a fellow gm, I love this series, seeing how Rob is so prepared and all!

"Mini series" he said "Main series" we said

That's a really amazing series, cause I for one don't really have the time to follow all your twitch stuff (as interesting as I find it) so this is a great shorter variant for it.

Bodger just throwing himself like that was hilarious and also in character I think as he would just test something to see if it works (hope we get more like this) brilliant job too of just going with it and seeing what would happen.

This was brilliant! Love this idea...so please do one on Dirk? I need to know if he had any information or quests for the gang before Boger kept poking him in the PTSD and made him have a breakdown!

Would love to see more of this series :)

Can we just appreciate what an amazingly AWESOME dungeon master Rob is?

Mr. Hartley is a scholar and a gentleman. Thanks for keeping up with this, I miss Thursdays ♡

I love the fact that rob adjusted the rules of dnd to the rules of pyhsics. Thats awesome

Recently got back into watching the series and during this episode I thought for sure Rob was fudging dice for suspense and to possibly teach Rowan a lesson.

This is awesome, I love behind the scenes. Rowan is so chaotic, but Rob's a professional, he's got this 👍

It was brilliant because what was a joke became a real threat for Bodgers life and we can see him understand that gradually :)

Thanks. Great vid, I would love more of these.

HELLS YES. I am HERE for this. Oh man. Like I absolutely adore watching you guys play, it's the highlight of my week (obviously minus the current hiatus) but honestly, I really love hearing all the behind the scenes and stuff that Rob puts into coming up with the story. Thank you so much for the extra content ^_^

Baradun and the dickheads at :45 had me!!! 🤣🤣

Absolutely love this concept! ❤️‍🔥 Brilliant idea, Rob! 🤯🤩It’s so fascinating and equally entertaining to get these insights! It’s especially enjoyable to hear how you might’ve had to tweak the story, or how you’d have addressed the aftermath of a situation like Bodger throwing himself off an airship! 😂 I know you do talk through a lot of this stuff during your recap streams, but as others have noted, much as I’d love to join them all, I’m in the US and need to sleep sometime. 😆 I like this format especially. Fun as the streams are, they’re also kinda chaotic - in a good way - and you really engage with your viewers which is awesome. But, it also makes it more challenging to not get derailed by the chat. 😜 I really, really hope this continues as a regular feature on this channel, ever after the episodes resume! Cannot wait for more!

Great insight into behind the screen Rob. It was a great episode to watch and I had wondered what was going through your head apart from panic when the dice was coming up short. Also brilliant typical impulsive Bodger

Great idea to do the highlights of the D&D BTS and to explain what was going on in the campaign vs. what might have happen. I think it will be very interesting for those who haven't seen the original full BTS videos and still very entertaining for those who have seen them. Personally I love this format (and the nostalgic feeling of going through all the adventures again). It's short, concentrated, very clear, interesting and funny. And Rob is just charming here, even more than ever... :)

This content is so good as well as VLDL in general. I would pay to watch all your guys' videos in a heartbeat.

I LOVE this stuff. Due to time zones, I never get a chance to watch Rob’s Twitch streams about it but I find this all fascinating and so entertaining. More please!!!

This. This. A thousand times this! I love the idea of "what was Rob thinking" videos.

Yes! I've always loved these behind the scenes stuff. I can't wait to keep watching all the new content

in some point we always wait for Bodger to do something like that... but... in that moment was insane and hilarious!

I have to be honest, the whole skit where Bodger jumps off the ship had me laughing so much I stopped it like 20 times just to no faint from laughter. I'm being 100% serious when I say I was DYING of laughter.

That is one of the best episode, unexpected, real curiousity. Gold

"...in episode 63, Baradun and the [_] were..." Priceless. Also, if something is specifically mentioned to Rowan, he absolutely will have Bodger interact with it immediately, and forcefully. At this point, it's a rule. See for examples: Dirk's locket, the casino, the cursed axe, the cursed shield, the Aarakocra lifeguard.

I didn't know I wanted more of these types of videos, but now I've seen one I want to know all the behind the screen moments

Yes!!!! I like this!!! More of this!!! The brilliant mind behind the screen!!🤩

Another option idea: Rowan sits out until the airship lands and then uses Bodgers brother.

Rob should do a DM master class series. For real. As an amateur, self taught DM, it would be awesome to have basic lessons from Rob.

We're currently up to episode 69. Nice.

Okay okay okay.... this seriously better be a continued series from this point forward! Thanks for sharing!

Nice insight, only Rowan could say I want NO plot armour, then straight away go "I should test if Rob will actually do it"

how am i now just finding these episodes? love the extra content!

Absolutely love the behind the scenes content. Please more!

Loving the idea to break after a good amount to do shorts and skits like these and the behind the dice

This campaign is. so. fucking. amazing. Ich love it, and I even love it when there are no new episodes, because the guys figure out a way of making great content after all