I love Mark. He just completely vanishes into his role and keeps a straight face while roleplaying a sock puppet.

It's an unusual class composition, but it smite just work.

Mark Meer is just so cool. I mean, they all are, but Mark is the only one with a Dragonborn hand puppet.

HOW I SPEND SO MUCH TIME WITHOUT SEE THIS. B. Dave Walters, Jen Kretchmer, Mark Meer and Aabria Iyengar in one game and all of PA-LA-DINS!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Khizervexx got to have a “Senpai noticed me” moment 🤣❤️

Multiclasses and subclasses: * Vridi (Aabria): Air Genasi, Paladin (Watcher UA) level 20. Stated as Watcher in the intro, mechanically confirmed around 38:00 as having truesight as an activated ability (part of the lvl20 capstone) Aura of the Sentinel: add her proficiency bonus to everyone's initiative rolls in the TCE version, but they recorded this before Tasha's released. The UA version was apparently +Cha. * Dhaltyn (Jen): Triton, Ancients paladin 7 to 17, multiclass. Perhaps with Bard given the stage play backstory, and the +5 Cha modifier for her auras. Aura of Warding (resistance to damage from spells) is an Oath of the Ancients feature. 39:25 It's 30 ft range at level 18 and higher, but she only has 10 ft so presumably multi-classed. That's probably how she has Mirror Image, which is normally only available to paladins via UA Oath of Treachery. Also used channel divinity: Turn the Faithless. * Khizervexx (Mark): Black Dragonborn, Cleric 11+ / Paladin 9 or lower. Multiclass cleric stated in the intro, casts True Seeing (6th) at 39:50. If not from an item, that requires a cleric level of 11 to prepare it. Paladin/cleric of Bahamut, so possibly Devotion or Vengeance. He sounds very devoted... Also, B. Dave is just going to keep mispronouncing his name as kiss-e-verex (transposing the R), even though Mark keeps saying it as kaiser-vex. :/ * Valygar (Dustin): High Elf, ? Paladin 10th or lower / Fey Wanderer Ranger at least 7th. (Probably the UA version, since it was also published in TCE) Appears not to have Improved Divine Smite, so paladin level less than 11. Blessings of the Courts 3d6 smite-like psychic damage is a 7th-level Fey Wanderer (UA) feature; the version published in TCE has some significant changes, including replacing that feature entirely. Only a +8 to hit, so Str only 14 or 15?? And that's assuming a weapon with no +hit bonus. I guess he put ASIs into Con and Cha, and maybe Wis or Dex, all for defense. Knight of the Summer Court could be Oath of the Crown. (sounds very Dresden Files.) Died taking a hit for Titania, possibly from the lvl7 subclass feature > Divine Allegiance: when a creature within 5 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to magically substitute your own health for that of the target creature, causing that creature not to take the damage. Instead, you take the damage. This damage to you can't be reduced or prevented in any way. 56:20 - has something that works against Charm effects, probably just his Elf racial. Oath of Devotion has an aura against that, but he didn't mention that when they were listing auras, or when other people were rolling saves. And his Elf racial would also explain it. Anti-fear aura is baseline for paladins at 10th level, so at least Vridi is covering the whole group with that. He did ask about that for his own save but didn't mention it for others, maybe Paladin level is below 10th. Also, the mind-control / dominate on Freely would have been blocked by an aura that made allies immune to charm. --- 35:35 - Protection from Poison doesn't have a material component listed, but nothing stop you from adding stuff like this as flavour for how your character casts a spell. Very cool. 37:00 - Beholder-like headgear? Perhaps Belashyrra's Beholder Crown from Eberron, a legendary magic item that lets you cast various spells from it. Yup, she later casts Finger of Death from it. 46:10 - If they were using the TCE published version of the Watchers oath, it would be +6 to initiative from proficiency modifier. The UA version used Cha (which explains the +5), like most Paladin auras. Scaling with proficiency was a change between UA and the TCE release, making it an unusual Paladin aura. This stream came out in Aug 2020, but Tasha's Cauldron of Everything wasn't until Nov 2020. 49:27 - Correct, initiative is a Dex ability check, so Bless doesn't apply, but Guidance would, if anyone was concentrating on that instead of Shield of Faith, Bless, and other stuff they cast before going through the portal. B. Dave was trying to think of a spell that gives a bonus specifically to initiative, perhaps Gift of Alacrity from EGW (Wildemount), which gives a 1d8 to initiative for 8 hours. (Chronurgy Wizard, Graviturgy Wizard) 51:47 - as a multiclass bard, she has even more spell slots than a pure lvl20 Paladin; it would be insane *not* to drop at least a lvl1 smite for an extra 3d8 damage (since this is a fiend). This is a one-shot, so they're not going to have time for a huge number of rounds of combat, and B. Dave has dropped big hints that things are going to get bad. I'm 100% with Aabria on this, are you even a Paladin. Depending on Paladin level, she might have a passive Improved Divine Smite that does an extra 1d8 on every hit. 1:21:05 - According to Sul Khatesh's statblock, overlapping spheres of Arcane Cataclysm don't stack; if you're in the area of two of them you still only make one save. > A creature in the area of more than one arcane burst is affected only once. The area of each arcane burst then acts as an antimagic field for 1 hour. Sul Khatesh and spells she casts are unaffected by these fields. Fortunately this ability only recharges on a long rest. 1:33:00 - IDK why Jen thinks she can't use spells. If she was in an anti-magic zone from Sul Katesh's Arcane Cataclysm, she couldn't use magic at all, including magic abilities like Divine Smite. And I think B. Dave would know why if that was the reason. If she was multi-classed barbarian and was raging, then she couldn't use spells. 1:37:55 - Spiritual Weapon's cast time *is* just bonus action, unlike Bigby's Hand for example. He couldn't cast it anyway, though, because his action was a spell (Heal at 9th level) that wasn't a cantrip. 1:39:55 - What is up with all this not-smiting? Divine Smite isn't casting a spell. It's a totally unrelated way to consume a spell slot, and has no interaction with the bonus-action spellcasting rules. B. Dave isn't being generous with the rules here, only generous in saving Aabria from a mistake. You pretty much always want to smite on a crit. 1:41:00 - Normally Bardic inspiration can't be applied to damage. B. Dave was letting chat-granted inspiration apply on damage. Dustin was indeed thinking of Valor bards, not Swords: Valor is the subclass with Combat Inspiration, which lets you add the die to a weapon damage roll. (Or use your reaction to add it to your AC when an attack roll is incoming.) I had to look it up, I couldn't remember whether that was swords bards or not. Swords bards can spend inspirations on Blade Flourishes. Rak Tulkesh's Provoke Rage ability doesn't say a creature has to smite on the melee attack if able, just that they make a melee attack against a random creature within reach. "This attack is made with advantage and gains a +4 bonus to the damage roll." So B. Dave is being kinda "mean" or aggressive by having Freely smite and Eldritch Smite. Sul Khatesh has a different ability that can force a creature to expend a spell slot to do AoE damage (or be stunned). 1:57:04 - Finger of Death is save-for-half, unlike Disintegrate. If it was save-for-none, then no, it wouldn't be "worth a try", not when you consider the opportunity cost of doing something useful with your action, instead of hoping a CR26 gargantuan dragon will fail a Con save. (Acererak would have failed on a 3, but he's immune to necrotic damage.) Niv-Mezzet has a +17 bonus to Con saves, so can only fail via B. Dave's house rule that a nat 1 always fails, not just on attack rolls.

this has got to be the most number of times they've rolled a Nat 20 in the shortest amount of time. they are genuinely BLESSED by the DICE GODS

Timestamps 0:01 welcome 0:38 extralife, 0:46 donation rules & tiers, 2:57 every dollar counts, 3:27 cast intros; 3:44 Dustin - Valygar, 4:09 Mark - Khizervexx, 4:55 Jen - Dhaltyn, 5:41 Aabria - Vridi, 6:07 prelude, 7:27 a room... 7:53 the cast meets, 9:22 Tall halfling, 10:22 history checks & 1 house rule, 11:41 where are we? 12:12 Freely 13:46 $5,000 goal reached, 14:22 donation gifts, 14:50 deck of many, 15:35 Khizervexx does not hoard, 16:42 A thunderous voice, 17:53 justice buddies, 18:32 Selise name drop, 18:47 why are we here? 19:32 Vridi tests the rules, 20:18 Vridi’s appearance, 20:46 Dhaltyon’s appearance, 22:10 Khizervexx appearance, 23:12 Valygar appearance, 23:48 Freely appearance, 24:18 Tyr’s offer, 25:25 a choice, 27:00 weighing options, 27:54 healing? 29:09 the 2nd choice? 29:52 Valtyn casts aid, 30:29 donation gifts, 31:00 go forth, 31:36 bless, 32:40 party order & steeds, 34:31 bubbling stream, 35:46 boss monster donation rules, 36:58 beholder hat, 37:21 divine sense, 39:19 Venn diagram of auras, 39:45 true seeing, 40:35 a stranger, 44:01 Banishment, 44:42 facade fades, 45:28 turn the faithless, 46:09 initiative, 49:46 green flame blade, 51:46 dost thou even paladin? 52:55 bolt of lightning & hex blade curse, 53:47 whispers of madness, 55:29 fake news! 57:32 Freely smites Valygar, 58:52 excuse me? 1:00:27 3 sources of damage, 1:02:01 guiding bolt, 1:03:18 bardic inspiration, 1:04:05 fizzles, 1:04:16 flames to the east, 1:05:22 construct, 1:06:30 mortal bulwark, 1:07:13 illusion, 1:09:00 resistance, 1:10:15 banishment, 1:12:09 Shield of faith, 1:13:33 critical smite, 1:16:01 CR 30 creatures, 1:16:33 dating sim, 1:17:48 black orbs, 1:22:40 melee, 1:23:20 Eldritch turret, 1:24:57 Orcus & Zauriel, 1:26:11 Persuading Zuariel, 1:27:26 Zuariel crits, 1:28:38 hp status, 1:29:14 in the clouds, 1:29:52 Bahamut, 1:30:24 Bahamut fanboy, 1:32:10 Dhaltyn smites & hexes, 1:34:16 critical resistance, 1:35:14 Freely heals, 1:36:01 bardic inspiration, 1:36:21 Khizervexx heals ( spring break in the feywylde), 1:38:08 Vridi double taps, 1:41:39 group saves, 1:42:20 Vridi smashes, 1:43:10 Valygar misses, 1:45:00 counterspell the counterspell, 1:46:12 Acerak riding Niv Mizzet, 1:47:31 fire breath, 1:49:20 Queen of shadows melts, 1:52:53 Acerak crits Khizervexx, 1:54:42 Bahamut reverse gravity, 1:55:46 dragon banter, 1:56:55 Dhaltyon casts finger of death, 1:58:10 Niv Mizzet spits, 1:59:49 Freely tackles Acerak, 2:00:59 Khizervexx uses breath of Bahamut, 2:02:32 technical issues and thank you

I think you mean the A-men!

Every time I watch Mark in something, I am always delighted.

Can Khizervexx Get a guest spot on The Muppet show? Or perhaps, his own show with 3 other Dragonborn party members, but everybody playing has to get their own Dragonborn puppet. Would consider Tabaxi hand puppet also.

Always leave them wanting more I guess. Another great show. Don't forget that you can STILL donate to Extra Life.

When you said “Rak Tulkhesh” I shouted WHAT?!?! and now my family is like “Robin, u good?”

gods, demons, devils, constructs, dragons, behemoths, freely, and a diva...the internet just couldnt handle it.

Got to caress that DM beard... 😂😂😂 Good show thank you 🙏🏻

All those bonuses to saves.

B dave with the all paladin squad!!! Nice

I love Mark Meer so much.

Had me at Corrosivix.

I'm so charmed by Aabria's giggle. ❤ ^_^

Awww that was so good.

I wish I could have seen the end, I enjoyed it.

My ex sailor paladin of Selune would probably rather go for the coastal mission riding her giant seahorse Moonlight

real question. How many DIVINE SMITE!!!!'s will occur during the session? I don't have time for at least a week or two but anyone else who wants to comment with the count please do.

Im gonna need "theres an aura for that" on a tshirt please

If you need help and if you can find them maybe you can hire THE PRAY-TEAM

I wish there was an octopus variant ov ilithid that was benevolent or neutral

The alternative name to the God Squad can be the A-Men

is there a way to see the player sheets/stats for these players? I'd like to know out of sheer curiosity.

ohhhh coool

It feels like some of those areas of effect were aura-news.

Where are Bahamut's stats?

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BDWalters why are you so cute?

Some background music might have made this more watchable.

BDWalters why are you so cute?