Would have been so good in green screen to Benny Hill music

It's very in character actually

I am actually rooting for him to win

Greg basically did a denial of service on those doors :)))

@@e1123581321345589144 I was so hoping someone would be knocked through those doors and get walloped by Greg's guardian!

Let's not forget Hold Monster + Draconic Spirit (from part 1) And also can't concentrate while raging. I don't really blame Adam for not knowing that one, it's not one of Baradun's normal class features

@@mlpowers1991 that was one of my predictions on episode 1 lmao

He also keeps using magical guidance for saving throws but it's only for ability checks

Yeah, that deterrent is so incredibly effective. The 1/3 chance for 20 dmg really just locked everyone out of those doors

He's a strategist alright

The 20 damage wouldn't be enough for me to consider not using the door. You've got break a few eggs to make some omelets. At some point you have to start making moves and the Guardian can only hit 3 times before it vanishes. 20 damage at there level isn't even all that much. It's everything else that Alan has at his disposal like Spiritual Weapon, Harm, etc that should have the players worried.

@@viktorbryce951 That is absolutely true, even more so for a raging barbarian that can halve that damage (I believe it is bludgeoning?). But they have decided it is too much of a risk, and thus stun locked themselves with no end in sight.

@@luisleongaming1776 I know right, they view a moderately small amount of damage as otherwise lethal, though to be fair, if Alan either soaks the damage they inflict or it out right misses he has a great opportunity to make you suffer for it. For being the quote otherwise healer he does have some very powerful spells and abilities that can drop say Bob or Baradun, more so Bob as Baradun has ways to mitigate said damage as we saw. Rog is likely the one who's in the best spot to deal with this due to his overwhelmingly high pool of HP's. Like just use your Move-Action go through oh look there be Alan, I use a say Ranged Spell/Attack then go back through the door. Sure I took 20 dmg but you likely inflicted significantly more and even if you didn't you could cause his concentration to break. That or just take the damage and move away from the Guardians, it's stationary so it's a one and done unless you go back through the door. Or say force him to burn limited amount of Spell slots forcing him to heal. Then at same time it forces him to make a tough call to either A: Stay in said environment and risk taking compiling damage from said environment which can also break his concentration or B: Move into a new environment and risk a encounter with one or more individuals.. It quite literally puts him at a bigger risk than I would say the other players as they all have say Ranged Attacks whereas Alan doesn't short of Spells until he has extinguished them. At that stage provided it gets to that point it should be checkmate and match.

Yeah, people often think clerics = heals/buffs exclusively, and underestimate their offensive abilities. At 5th level spell cleric gets Flame Strike and then the real fun begins. I hope Alan realizes what an unit he should be by now in the campaign.

@@czerwonyelf well flame strike is just bad fireball... but the power of spirit guardians, guardian of faith and spiritual weapon is absolutely bonkers as you can have all 3 spells up at the same time for maximum battlefield domination

Baradun is OP because of his ability to ignore rules to a point: ignoring Concentration being a big one (casting Hold Monster without losing his Draconic Spirit, not losing said Spirit when he wild surges into a Rage, casting Vitriolic Sphere while raging until Rob remembers and retcons it.)

Also Clerics are so fun! Versatile.. They let DM raise stakes and dangers in Campaign without making it miserable for the players. Finetune other party members. And it's easy Chaotic good vs Chaotic evil freebie plotline if they want to use it. :)

Yeah it truly is. At first I was kinda annoyed by "holy" greg, but actually its pretty sweet. Its great honestly.

hear hear! We need them!

IT'S CANON NOW

Spending 3 rounds to buff himself and take advantage of non-concentration spells being on the field is brilliant tactics. Guardian of faith alone forces the rest of the players to not use hit-and-run tactics via the doors and spiritual weapon also bottlenecks players from the area it's in

Did Greg get screwed on his 2nd lucky point? They made his concentration check a constitution save so he had to reroll

​@@brad7864Concentration checks are always Constitution saves, DC 10 or half the damage taken, whichever is higher.

He has the best odds as of right now, the only one that can realistically beat him is Baradun and Baradun is being attacked from all sides. I would imagine that at some point Bodger is going to try and go for him, but there is almost zero chance of dealing enough damage to Greg without taking a lot of radiant damage in return.

@LuizAlexPhoenix personally I think baradune is going to try and keep his distance from Greg for a bit because of that harm spell, bodger might take advantage of baradune being at low health and take him out, Greg might be the reason why Bob gets out because Greg can use radiant damage and I believe Bob takes more damage to radiant (I'm probably wrong about that last part so please correct me if I'm wrong but that's my overall prediction of how it's going to go)

We get into that next episode I believe 😅

nor cast spells

@@georgechristian6852Yea, that's what I figured. Rage is actually pretty bad for a caster.

16 is normally heal 5 points per turn on the wild surge table

It is a wonderful series but idk why it annoys me so much that Baradun gets away with blink / a lot of rules. I can see the disappointment in Bodger and Bob every time he blinks when they could just ready an action?

We need more PvP.

This is what I’m gonna imagine happens in Honeywood from now on 😂

You are correct who ever does the editing and the CC works at great quality, and humor

I loved the little zoom and pop back on Ben at 3:35.

Yeah, that would explain how I keep missing so many things for him! Two con spells, no con save. Whoops. Hmm, how did this cash end up in my hand? Weird.

@RobertHartleyGM HM WEIRD INDEED

Not to mention you can’t concentrate on spells while raging

@@RobertHartleyGM Hey, the Benjamins are very persuasive.

So what we're saying is that Rob needs a PA (backup lore/rules master).

Only Adam could have the rare triple-meta ability

Poor BOB. He just wanted to find his own path in life, and now he is at the mercy of powers he doesn't understand.

Were you ever in doubt? The exploding through people sort of gave a clue...

I'm going to have to disagree. Bob is not evil. If anything, he is the only party member who has shown any level of non-shelfish compassion. That being said, being the good guy inherently puts him in a antagonistic position to the party.

I feel like the Van Lier curse has spread throughout the dickheads at this point. If ever Bob becomes the BBEG, I feel like Ben's going to be rolling high af to all his attack rolls 😂

​@@masonharris9166and being a good guy doesn't really stop him from being mind-controlled/possessed. He may not become the BBEG, but it can still be a kind of Boss battle for the dickheads lol

what it also SHOULD have done is finally break Baradun's concentration on the dragon that should have been long gone after casting Hold Monster. But no, he maintains even while raging...

@@Yutah1981 The dragon has evolved past his control. It exists on its own now and will eventually turn on its former master.

Ikr, on Bodger's turn I was screaming prepare/hold action against Baradun for when he re-appears and captain america him. But also hitting the dragon to keep rage was good too

To be fair, Ben's jokes are replies to Rob's exposition. Ben actually likes to make the people he's talking to laugh with his jokes.

That dragon was gone halfway through part 1. But that’s what happens sometimes.

I am going to assume that consent-tration is on purpose, because that's a beautiful pun.

It is right - but to be fair he’s got a +9 to con saves - so highly unlikely it would have changed things

​@@christianbechhenriksen898the moment he cast Hold Person on Bodger last episode, the dragon should have immediately disappeared. You can't concentrate on two spells at the same time.

That's the secret power of the High Sorcerer of Kalabor

And her man, Mister Bilities.

😂

Dun worry man, a bit of backseating is normal, especially if you really have a neurodivergent brain ;) I for example am very annoyed at the fact no one remembers to ready actions... Baradun's blink would be a trap if Bob or Bodger would remember XD

@@nicolalanti449 haha for sure, it's like having an itch you can't scratch

@@Taurickk In my case is more like something that blurts out with almost no control 🤣😂

Tend to find that people forget as much good stuff as bad stuff in the heat of the moment during gameplay, such that it balances out in the end. 😊

Yoh dude I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought the same thing

Yeah I noticed this too

Except Adam double concentrated

@@willhicks7027 true true but I don't think that adam caught it and I doubt he'd have done it if he'd realised

The Dragon should have been gone 3 separate time lmao

Baradun raging completely changes everything! 😂 I predicted that Bob would roll terribly and was proven wrong. It's anyone's match at this point. My next bet is that the Dickheads call a temporary truce and decide to focus fire on Baradun on one of the turns he doesn't blink since that guarantees a win against someone with high damage ranged AOE attacks.

It's been so fun and unexpected. I only had a soft prediction of Bodger winning because I prefer him to Baradun and he seemed the strongest. BOB is my favourite and I'd love him to win but Greg has been the MVP honestly, using the environment to his advantage with Guardian at the doors, and using Harm on Baradun. Hope he wins now. Alan deserves it but will have to see.

Still betting on Greg, clerics rock in PvP if they use their spells well.

Seems like it’s rigged for Baradune with all the passes on extra concentration spells and no checks after taking extreme damage to keep concentration other than that I’m loving it

Alan is still my bet. He really uses his spells cleverly and I want to see Alan win. The others all got several heroic fight moments in the main campaign and he didn't get the one he could have...

Thanks! PvP is tough to make interesting in DnD

All hail our Lord God of DMs, Rob!

Made a similar face in the last episode when he had to make a concentration check for the dragon a little while after using hold monster on Bodger

😂

He knows. Its bit bullshit. As if the blink ring isnt enough.

Yeah, he is such a cheeky bitch sometimes.

Baradun metagaming and low key breaking rules is kind of in character though so he might get a pass.

No joke, Baradun is the only one that can cause enough damage to Greg. Bodger and Bob could team up and still not be able to reach him. Greg already set up his guardian of faith and holy weapon, so he controls two areas and is going through doors with impunity. He also has higher AC and temporary HP, so they cannot even hit him nor deal enough damage without him retaliating in full force.

@@LuizAlexPhoenix Yeah, it'll just be bob's eldritch blast over and over until greg kills them ;p

Rob commented else where that he realizes this next episode

​@@masonharris9166maybe but if you recall in the Goldhorn fight Baradun/Adam was literally using 3 different concentration spells at the same time so I'm thinking Rob doesn't put limitations on how many of them that can be used simultaneously. Though I'll be honest in my games while I don't put a limit on concentration spells myself I do however make it so you got to roll with disadvantage for each additional concentration spell and a fail counts towards all of them. Simply put the more concentration spells you got going on the more likely it can fail.

@@syncdom I like this as a rule. May steal it. (I don’t do PvP so I don’t mind players making busted combat builds. So long as they can’t break the story I don’t care if they breeze fights)

And dragon wasn't take damage when start in same biome

YES!! ANOYING

You know something funny. When he casted hold monster, which is a concentration, it should have ended the spirit dragon, which is also concentration.

I'm actually considering making PvP part of session zero for my next game. (I usually start players at level 3 so they can have some of their class features/ abilities) I only hope that will help my players learn their characters as fast as these guys seem to be learning there's.

Its ridiculous & awesome. :)

Haha we do actually have TONNES in the office. I definitely should have gone to change

@@VivaLaDirtLeagueDnD *insert Rowan with the shame bell gif 😂

PS: With thunder, you get the clap. With lightning, you get the slap.

I'm okay with it only because Rob killed the Hold Monster before Baradun could even do anything with it

​@@lukeari9890 Im not really okay with it myself. Not only do I think Baradun would not use hold monster if he knew he would lose his dragon, but hold monster on Bodger forced him to get a point of exhaustion which gives him disadvantage on all ability checks for the rest of the fight. Also he's been avoiding concentration checks for the entire game it feels and during that harm thing, when he rerolled with a sorcery point, that was also against the rules. Magical Guidance specifies ability checks, which saving throws are not. So Baradun would've failed the saving throw and been forced to either take the entire brunt of the harm spell or use his hero token. While I like Adam I find it hard to believe that after all this time he still struggles to remember concentration despite how often he has used it.

@@dtfe3 I caught the magical guidance thing, since my current character is a sorcerer. It's a decently easy mistake to make, but he has been playing a good while now. And the concentration checks being missed are pretty ridiculous. I don't blame Rob, since there is a lot of stuff going on; but Adam needs to get better at self-policing. He does seem to only remember the rules when the DM does. But I dunno, maybe he would have still gone with Hold Monster since the effect was incredibly powerful. Arguably more powerful than the dragon has been so far, since knocking out Bodger early would be massively helpful. Bodger is easily the biggest direct threat to him.

​@@lukeari9890Adam is blatantly cheating at this point. If he wasn't calling out other people for forgetting stuff (even when they remember) I would believe he was honestly forgetting. Although it is 100% within his character's personality to use any "glitch" he can find within the game.

Isn't it %50 or more of "full hp" not current?

I looked it up, they call it massive damage. It only occurs past the damage threshold of 50 points.

Also, wasn't his max hp lowered for an hour, too?

@@HCXWinchester It is current health, which is why the threshold comes into play I guess. They didn't want someone one with 20 health keeling over a 10 damage attack.

@@DerLaCroix1 Rob said only if he failed the save. Why am I the one answering these questions lol, I've never played the game.

Absolutely yes. If it was beneficial to do that

@@RobertHartleyGM thanks for the answer. I can imagine it's a way around Baradun blinking out of harms way the whole time. Though of course the characters would have to know roughly where he will reappear.

Yeah Bodger should wait with hammer attack rather then attack dragon and that might end really bad for Baradun ;)

​@@RobertHartleyGM i was screaming at my screen for them to remember the ready action, they should really give the player handbook a look 😅

Well… he already shouldn’t be allowed to keep it (because he cast ‘Hold Monster’ in Part 1). This is just the second (maybe third) time he shouldn’t be allowed to keep it, lol. 😂

I would love a green screen episode that shows the highlights from this PvP match.

Im going To fist you all!

Would he be able to? Harm is a level 6 spell and to counter it he would need a level 6 spell slot. I think he only had 1 and has used it up on the dragon.

@@neodigremo really? he used it with a lvl 6 slot? summon draconic spirit is a lvl 5 spell. anyway, he could still use counterspell using a normal lvl 3 slot (charisma check dc 16).

@@neodigremo You can counterspell a level 6 spell with a level 3, 4 or 5 (or above 6) spell slot. You just have to roll to see if it works

Alan and I also have 1 level 7 spell slot now too (and yeah the Dragon is a level 5 spell)

@@VivaLaDirtLeagueDnD Ah my bad, I thought the Spirit was a higher level spell. Simple mistake. Thanks for the clarifications.