You. You win "best comment" award for that ^_^

😂😂😂

One of the guys I play with plays a tabaxi named Schrodinger 😂

@@bartholomewlunt3347Does he often get into dicey situations?

Does he like boxes and poison?

One of my favorite things on NRB/CN is how much Sully enjoys hanging out and getting silly with his friends. Dude's laugh is beyond contagious and he always seems to be having the absolute best time (even when Dom is torturing him).

When he said "I'm very confused, I don't know what's going on..." I wasn't sure if he was talking in or out of character...

@@SuddenReal yes ;)

I saw Sullivan in the thumbnail and had to check out the video! He's just the most wholesome part of pretty much any video he's in.

Him and Dom are just the best duo, really enjoy their banter.

What an… astonishingly accurate assessment of Sullivan’s personality

Well actually, he's a man-bird.

This was both the very first line I saw in the video, and my very first thought upon hearing it. 😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Fun fact! The startled bird expression comes from many traumatic years in the USSR under Domseph Stalin.

I imagine there is also a half pack of Marlbroro reds, an unidentifiable tooth and blueprints for the building.

one must always be prepared to open an unexpected box or cut a dangling thread.

Also, not allowing anyone else from your party to use your knife is also very Prudence 😄😄

I used to carry one all the time. Can’t anymore cause of work.

@@davidchristie6003 a friend of mine, in a previous job, used to carry half a packet of cigarettes with her even though she didn't smoke because smokers got a five minute break every hour or so and non-smokers did not.

To be fair, I also heard “they gratefully drop their robes” 😂

I also heard you are not prone

I heard both as well to be fair. Also,Luke looks like Chandler Bing (and he’s a damn good DM).

@@doom4627 same

Cracked him up too o_O

Cracked him up so much he almost didn't recover.

And still he was the MVP of this session!

DM applies specific injury effects like no character in D&D ever suffers. "That seems fair."

​@@crouchingmarker I feel like Luke rules unfairly against Mike quite often. I remember in an earlier episode he was DM:ing he made Mike roll a DC 18(?) strength check to jump 5 feet lol. Maybe it is because Mike is less competitive than the others, so Luke is more likely to put him in bad spots for comedy, but to me it feels a bit arbitrary and unfair when it happens.

What has hobbitses got in its pockets???

It's always a good thing when players think of something that the DM did not.

In case of doubt: steal, steal, steal from the original adventuring party book. Player always has a ring in their pocketses.

I'm a little surprised that Luke didn't have an inventory for these characters ready to go. That was one of the first things I thought of when I realized what was happening here: just check your pockets.

@@DiZtheJedi I'd assume that's because of the scenario, there's not much reason any of the characters would be holding onto an inventory here.

What had me laughing was just how long, and completely in character it went on, and somehow, without words, conveyed an entire group's argument! XD

With the crab honestly smashing Tiddles into the beach?

'The Honest Crab' sounds like the name someone came up with for a trendy London venue where tattooed barmen with beards and handlebar moustaches pour craftbrewed American IPAs and you can get a delicious Thai green curry served on a shovel. 😄

@@zak3744 as a man with occasional hipster leanings, I kind of feel like I've been there already 😳

This is VERY specific and a vibe... I'm in !

Not entirely incorrect

Her confidence made me question my entire understanding of D&D classes

@@joshuacheung6518 Definitely incorrect. Monk != fighter.

My other theory with no evidence whatsoever is that Jane is the captain himself.

Guess what…I was totally right! 😆 The mention of Kir Sabal gave it away.

I love just how amused Luke seemed to be by the spell's description of "unusually intelligent" 😂

Ikr? This immediately made me want to pitch this to my D&D group. Actually, so did the Kobolds episode. I'm loving this "D&D, But..." series just as much as I've been loving Dom's "Monopoly, But..." series over on NRB.

It's unfortunate that we all know what happens to people who mentor Lukes. Johnny should make a good ghost, at least

The rules lawyer in me is screaming in pain, but the storytelling is great so i shove that down😂.

@@Sirfinchyyy "They're more what you'd call guidelines" - Luke, presumably

@@joncombs8372 SKELETON. Not an Elf. *clattery bone noises*

@@Sirfinchyyy The rules lawyer in me failed his death saves about half a campaign ago when I started playing more regularly and found just how many things are ignored for the sake of a good story and player experience. I have to respect it and I think it improves the experience for those playing which is all the justification you need but dear lord I could never run the game like this myself. The instinct to just start checking over character sheets to make sure they've done the maths right when the numbers sound wrong or "subtlely" hint at unused class abilities would be too much for me after maybe a week. It's like if someone played a barbarian who never used their mechanical rages. Narratively you could have excellent story there and it simplifies the game for the player hugely but I just wouldn't expect it to be as fun mechanically and would feel obliged to remind the player every time initiative is rolled unless they explain they're doing it on purpose and at that point why not just play a fighter? (Sure, you could argue you can clearly have fun failing your rolls, as Egbert has hilariously demonstrated but you don't want to be failing all of them or ones you specialise in ideally as something like Merilwen failing nature rolls or Corazon failing with rogue skills would feel pretty bad if it happened consistently because your player isn't adding their bonuses.) Full respect to Luke, Johnny and the rest of the players for making it work but much like those who dance in heels, that's just not something I think I can do.

Alas, Luke did specify that the pony is intelligent.

strange that comments are not on the top. 21 likes and one person responded, best response so fare.

Really.

Came here to say the same thing, lol. Im gonna have to make sure my next character gets in a shipwreck xD

Well, considering the dagger did 1d8... xD Serious note though, the way that crab hit, the winged damage was probably scaled for it's hitpoints or something

He was channeling a Smite.

@@TarossBlackburn Yeap, but that damage is mentioned as separate radiant damage

Need more of Ellen in NRB. She was great

what is NRB?

@@wraithshadowheart No Rolls Barred, a board game channel also based in London.

​@@cookiedudegaming The Dom show, featuring Dom and friends... And Sullivan.

@@BadByte How about Ellen taking part in the next bit of madness that is Domunopoly? 😁

How could anyone forget? Lol.

What really?

That video was proof that Luke is a great storyteller, and was born to be a DM

I love those videos, and Ellen's reactions to them too haha I particularly liked the medieval one where she kept dying from random stuff, and Luke was so happy she kept picking the "wrong" choices haha

Especially since Jane was specced as a Monk.

*defer

I don't differ with you, but I wouldn't defer to you.

For anyone confused by "how many dice to roll", Shadowrun is a game where you roll a number of d6s equivalent to your relevant skill or attribute. Each d6 is counted separately, not added together. Each d6 that rolls >= to the the target number is called a success, and multiple successes amplify an effect you're trying to achieve (usually making something you do faster, or dealing more damage). It's also worth noting that any 6s are rerolled and added to that die's previous total, as that's the only way to achieve some of the hard TNs.

Sullivan Beau Brown of No Rolls Barred, indeed!

He is the best boy. Used to like horses

@@subman23 Excuse me. He used to LOVE horses.

Cany start a lawn mower though

​@@johnplaysgames3120 hey, he had a VERY NORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT HORSE

What are the allegations

The running gag on No rolls barred is that he fancies horses

Find Steed is not a "horse related spell". There are plenty of other animals that are steeds (and are much better than horses, in most cases).

@dyanosis bruh I'm just making a joke about a running gag for NRB

"I HAVE A PERFECTLY NORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS HORSE!!!"

*Khajiit

What do you mean “no joke”? Wakes on the Shore would have been an amazing Tabaxi name, and a brilliant pun that Ellen would be proud of!

@CorwinAlexander I'm pretty sure Skink In Tree's Shade was an Argonian. Khajiit have names like Ri'jah or Preht'e Keht.

I like where you're going with this....

Special ops but they forgot their mission.

Hah! Same!

I briefly thought Ranger for Mike but ruled that out as Rangers are half casters, like Paladin, and Mike doesn't have any magic. I'm leaning towards Rogue as they aren't forced to take lock picking, it's just common, and I'm, like, 95% sure there's an investigator rogue subclass

Plus, Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 is the roguest rogue to ever rogue and he was a magistrate in his backstory so being involved in law previously isn't completely rule rogue out

@@mnoelis Oh that's a fair point, Mike seemed to have abilities rather than spells. And if there's an investigator subclass of rogue, that does make a lot of sense for the skills he has. Thanks for the info!

Ooh, I hadn't thought Monk for Jane. I was thinking maybe a fighter like she said, but I'm playing a Dragonborn Fighter in BG3 and I just leveled up when I chose my subclass I was choosing spells and had the option of getting burning hands. I think I turned it down, because Wyll also has burning hands. Sullivan I feel sure is a Paladin. I'm torn on Mike as well, but I'm leaning toward Rogue as well.

@@SolaScientiaI know for sure Monks use ki points because one of my friends plays a Monk in our DnD game, but it could be that other classes have that feature too and I'm just not familiar

Isn't that just Oxventure? Every good villain sees themself as a hero

I was thinking D&D but...Among US/Werewolf. One of the party is trying to sabotage the quest, no-one knows who

@@joncombs8372 they might have their moments, but none of the oxventure has evil alignment. Chaotic Neutral mostly

​@@esteban280889 counterargument: Prudence

​@@esteban280889prudence.

That hadn't even occurred to me! 🤣

Yeah, Inquisitive Rogue specifically.

I believe Luke said something like 'upper middle age', or 'past middle aged', which to me means 45-50ish.

I love both of these channels but, as I mentioned in another comment, I was kind of disappointed that we didn't really get to see Sully shine here. It might just be a difference between the way the two groups play D&D - different table styles are a thing - or that the Oxventure crew are gamers/presenters more than actors, but it seemed like Mike and Jane spent 90% of the game speaking out-of-character to Luke rather than RP-ing with Sully and each other. And I can count on one hand how many times Jane even looked at Sully, let alone interacted with him or his character. So, despite the fact that he tried to start RP-ing with them a couple of times, M&J weren't really engaging with Sully much and that didn't give him much to bounce off of, resulting in him being way quieter and more sedate than fans of NRB and CN are used to seeing him. I hope the Oxventure gang relax into it and RP a little more in the next episode bc, otherwise, it feels like Sully's kind of wasted here. And that's a shame bc this version of the game is such a cool idea and has a lot of potential to be fun and funny. On a hopeful note, it did feel like they were warming up a little toward the end. I noticed that, late in the episode, Mike and Jane started moving from an "I tell the others what I saw" style of gameplay to actually telling them (sort of) in-character, so maybe the lack of interaction was just a nerves thing and, as they get more comfortable with these new characters, the weird conceit, and/or playing with a guest who's known for his improv and comedy, they'll settle in and RP with him a bit more.

@johnplaysgames3120 Yeah that did come through to me too, but in their defense I do also feel that not having Andy or luke who are usually the proponents for chaos in a lot of oxventures as playable members hurt it a lil too. Hopefully, this is the start of nrb members coming on oxventure and not a one-off.

@@sartajhansi6127 Agreed, across the board. Especially that it might have been a different experience if Andy or Luke had been playing. They lean into the RP a lot more than Jane or Mike tend to (and, as you said, tend to bring the chaos, which is always fun). And, just to be clear: I'm not attacking the Oxventure gang. As I said, different tables have different styles of play and there's nothing wrong with that. Also, the Oxventure folk are not really actors or anything so it's a different set of skills/strengths. It's just interesting to see how much the table he's sitting at changes the way Sully is able to play, and - for fans of the RP at Chaotic Neutral - a little disappointing that he didn't get to go off and get silly like we're used to seeing. I definitely hope there's more crossover between the channels though (I always love seeing Ellen show up on NRB). And, tbh, I'd love to see Chaotic Neutral try some of these "D&D, But..." concepts as well bc I think they could have a lot of fun with them. The two channels are two great - if slightly different - tastes that have the potential to taste great together.

Why? Everyone loves the Dommunist Party! DON'T YOU?!?

i think its more likely to be paladin because of what Luke said about holiness and feeling guilty when he used radiant smite

My thoughts exactly. Plus Astarion is very cat like to begin with. But they haven’t picked a lock before and we all know that’s what Astarion is good for.

To everyone very familiar with the game lol. No shade to them but I had a slightly patronising smile when Jane said ki points reminded her of fighters. (That said oof, poor Tibbles not getting his uncanny dodge.)

@consolescrub4031 oh I freely admit this is specialised knowledge not everyone has. That's why I like the Oxventurers and Johnny. They take it a bit more loosey goosey than other actual play shows which has actually given me the confidence to DM myself because they show not everyone has to be CR/D20/other high profile rules heavy actual plays

@@AlmondLBD Indeed it's a casual approach which I find endlessly interesting on account of how the game can remain fun even when you remove and omit so many mechanics (I'm still faintly terrified of trying to run a monk without ki but considering they had previously not tracked spell slots, there's so much you could change if you wanted to). I do think ultimately the DM still needs to know a lot about the game or have an assistant such as one of the other players who knows things and is willing to explain them in a helpful manner. You could run the game without opportunity attacks, spell slots or even conventional hp if that's not something you're comfortable with (good to clarify that last one at session 0 though) but it helps if someone can explain to new players what they should be rolling and what they add to their rolls. Or they can just play like Mike if everyone has fun that way.

I'm considering running an NPC with no memory for my players to interact with. I'm going to have a filled sheet so I know what stats I'm working with, but I'm leaving the name blank so I don't reveal anything too soon (and I want to see what they end up calling them)

@@katherinepurvin7802 That is interesting! He could turn out to be anyone! Even the BBEG whose plams were laid ages ago!