(D&D5e) Eberron: Ashat’s Adventurers - Episode 1: Humble Starts, Lofty Goals

[00:00:00] During the last war, when the Elves of Arinall annexed Valinar from Seir, the Ashot Ranch

[00:00:11] stood defiant in the Borderlands.

[00:00:14] At the end of the last war, when the morning creeped across Seir, decimating all in its

[00:00:20] path, the Ashot Ranch imps in the security cameras or like the fact that like there is no like telephone system it's all clacks so it's defiant in the borderlands. Now five years after the last war, Mama Abby of the Ashot Ranch stands defiant, but hopeful, with plans for a future for wayward Sieran survivors.

[00:03:02] She'll need help in this new expansion. And as our players, as our player characters find themselves in the meeting hall of the singular building of the village of Ashot, the tavern and gathering hall where Mama Abby

[00:04:22] has brought you guys in, let's introduce our characters. I kept him for a year trying to get him to... Trying to reprogram him. Trying to make him right and he didn't turn out right, so they just sent him out anyways. Yep. Do I go into your regret or do you want to save that for... as it plays out in-game? I don't... how do you want to do this? I don't care. I don't know. Let's hold off for the regret until it becomes prevalent in-game.

[00:05:42] Sure.

[00:05:43] Alright. the border right next to Tronish which is a town a city in the mornlands that you were designated to for a couple up. Okay, so my name is Fintan Dantilus. I mean Fintan Polaris. My friends call me Finn.

[00:08:20] I am wearing very simple navy blue attire withro I'm sorry that's fine I don't care it's good didn't mean to you don't have a mask yet yeah yeah we start doing burglar alright werewolves. Actual werewolves, not shifters. The Church of the Silver Flame showed up to deal with the werewolves, but it was their really, really right-wing sect, the Pure Flame.

[00:11:00] And they killed the werewolves, and then they took me in and I joined them, so I I left the pure flame I stayed loosely affiliated with the silver flame But I basically went on a pilgrimage to kind of find myself Where when the voices that's when that's when my dreams started taking an interesting turn Which if you know Kalash are they don't actually dream they have memories of their quarry. Yeah

[00:12:24] Quarry q u o r I not't afford a mage bred donkey yet how much is mage bred four

[00:13:42] times the price of a normal oh my god Yeah Well, and I don't have also the main right donkey your main grid donkey also goes an extra 10 feet Per right. I guess I'm gonna need to actually write down to that What is the donkeys like base speed? I find a wagon. Can you just hook him up to the wagon? Oh, yeah

[00:15:04] Yeah, okay. How is not a donkey. No, is it not a mule is a crossbreed between a donkey and a horse. Hey I know they are They're sterile. They can't breed don't quick quick. We're into five equipment donkey or mule in brackets

[00:16:21] Okay, it did not say in theBread creatures get? I actually have that in the... I post it in our Discord. Hang on, I can pull up... I can try and pull up the template again. Okay.

[00:17:40] Plus two All Ability Scores.

[00:17:43] Mage-Bread Animal on the Eberron.

[00:17:46] Now this is technically a homebrew that I found, Wait, so if his constitution's going up, then... His HP would also go up. His HP would also go up. Okay, so that would increase by four. And then it would be double that. Last rubber band... Yeah. Elastic rubber band? No.

[00:19:00] For those at home, he's asking for an eraser.

[00:19:06] Yes. and camels and stuff and dinosaurs there's probably a mate vernacular there yeah get old uh Tala to planes it's a cool place land of hobbits and dinosaurs mm-hmm advantage

[00:20:21] on strength and dexterity tricks saving throws meeting its effects that would the entire kingdom of Sier which was like central country of the continent of Corvair. It was just immersed in a death fog that went out from the She's got sort of a map of the property and a map of the Corvair itself. And it's like, all right, all right boys.

[00:23:03] So we've got our big plans.

[00:23:06] I've been saving up. There go giving us that extra 160 miles that goes out to Gatherhold. That'll take, that'll let us, uh, that'll, that'll give us a lightning, uh, a lightning train all the way out here. Because it's days to go anywhere right now. Yeah, currently it takes, it can take us anywhere between six to seven days to get to Gatherhold. That's our closest city. And like, we do get passerby's, we do get people who. By the way, we have a map because the... Two of them. We have two maps because we have two copies of the Heberan setting book, which't have a station yet The tracks are still operation. Oh, yeah But the rail but it doesn't come down this far because though the tracks are here. There's no station for it to go to Yeah, because the other the closest station is Tronish

[00:27:03] Which is in the more

[00:28:07] If we help him, he will help us in and talk with the King of Terre Velesta, the capital of Velenaire, to get us a land grant of the land right next to the lightning rail south

[00:28:13] of us.

[00:28:14] So we will be able to expand the Ashok property all the way down to the rail station.

[00:28:19] Or to the right.

[00:28:21] Then we can make a deal with House Orion, maybe again this is like first game in a while so I'm a little nervous so fair enough I haven't adopted's basically expand the borders, potentially get the lightning rail or keep the borders the way they are, get the boat hooked up and just get people coming here anyways and just get things started. Yeah, get things started that way. Again, the

[00:31:03] downsides of doing like a lakeside, like leaks here now is like there is the from the ruined homeland. That's sort of the ideology that Mama Abby has been kind of promoting for you to you guys and to the village and to what you guys have left or what you have on site. As it stands right now the population of Ashot is nine. Including us three. Including your three.

[00:32:20] Yeah. Mama again, you guys

[00:33:42] have plans of taking plans of expanding. Is someone tending to This game, we only roll perception checks when we are actively looking. It's like search versus spot. Oh man, so spot is just... We don't roll spots anymore. Oh! We have a passive perception. Okay, what's your passive perception? My passive perception... Because I assume you're also upset.

[00:35:01] Is...

[00:35:02] It's 10 plus whatever you...

[00:35:06] 10 plus...

[00:35:07] So 14.

[00:35:08] 14? Three weapons rode by being ridden by by elven warriors. I need one because Bargumum And like yeah a few moments later you notice them as they get closer like the closer in for a landing and they basically land

[00:36:25] majestically right in front of the the tavern and they are garbed in

[00:36:28] Valinor, elven behind the bigger of the Griffins. And that one has this kind of... he's a taller elf. As far as elves go. Yeah, a little bit more stockier. Like he's got more muscle to him. And he comes... he slides off of his mount and then whispers something to it and the others

[00:37:40] kind of follow suit. And the Griffins sort of two are kind of just staying silent and strong, silent types in the background behind the commander, like good soldiers.

[00:39:00] And the commander is taking off his helmet at this point and is greeting Abala rather That's a lot of pour me a glass of oil sure yeah me too yeah says God There's not much flavor is it this is black cherry oil there's not much of it there is a Yeah There's just a nice root oil I can crack into as well

[00:40:21] That one's got the natural stuff. Yeah

[00:40:24] Brute I'll do shots of all of It was dangerous, because it doesn't have a taste to it. So it's just like knocks you down. It's dangerous just because bad. Only thing you drink vodka and it's Caesars. I would say sorry, Russia, but not given what the current climate is in this situation. Because fuck you, Russia. Only the leaders are dicks.

[00:41:45] Yeah, when their army is like breed griffins in captivity. There go, and unfortunately our numbers of griffins have been kind of diminished since the the eyes at home a big kiss does 13 minus one which it would be 12 which is a common theme in Eberron for some reason 13 minus one yeah so yeah they they yeah it's like I Yeah that's right. Sorry. Yeah it's persuasion and intimidation. So 15 plus 5 is 20.

[00:45:40] Okay. You'll need to go to either gather hold or to tear so tear sorry I guess I should actually take a look and see where sharn is Sure is across the fucking continent. Yeah, so so you guys live in a shut which is on the border of Basically, yeah, we need to go up here Over here across this water somehow over here down here. No, oh wait. It's down here actually

[00:47:03] Sorry down here somewhere probably down the whole of the orange. Oh, that's a different story altogether for standard coat standard coach Not first class. I was one day one day. I'll get first class Mama Abby comes up to you and like pass you on the back It's like when a shot is a thriving village will you can spend that money?

[00:48:25] One day, but yes considers the fact that a donkey is a medium sized creature and yep just don't worry and my Papa mama Abby are you sure it's like yeah it'll be, yeah. It's also where like, I think the tower also goes like, is where like skycoaches and stuff like meet and then it goes down to like the ground level where the rest is the end of the line. Yeah, basically. It's the yeah, the end of the line for House Orion and their their lightning rails.

[00:51:02] So yeah, once once you get over to you'll have to travel together that might have some

[00:52:02] for standard coach and

[00:52:06] Says some farewells to Mama Abby and

[00:52:09] says something like like

[00:52:13] kind of I guess well, I was it doesn't give you guys greetings give you guys like a

[00:52:17] farewell as well. Yeah farewell to

[00:52:20] before marching his men out and

[00:52:28] Hopping on their griffins and taken taken to the air as he's going. I'll say farewell your your emotionally and physically Also sexually yeah, of course You invoke feelings in this in this robots you're so attractive

[00:53:44] You could make a warforged plush

[00:53:48] Hey, that was possible It only comes to Gatherhold! Okay, we'll have George just watch the carriage in Gatherhold. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, you guys... With that, you guys are okay with just heading off? Yeah, get your stuff ready to go and...

[00:55:00] Get her going.

[00:55:01] My Explorer's Pack and my armor and my shield and all my weapons. to gather hold. So we're not going to go like, like, all right, day one or night one, like, yeah, roll your stuff, like do the stuff. Yeah, we're not going to do that kind of thing. But I sent hit the border to the talented planes we're gonna build a wall and make them pay for it technically seer already paid for it uh lives hundreds of millions of lives i would see that war yeah um

[00:58:44] follow as well triceracops yes

[00:58:49] now I can I'm gonna get dragonborn that's just from the telenta plants and it's just it's just it has like a triceratops sort of like

[00:58:55] this inch mm-hmm he he just wields a hand crossbow or repeating hand crossbow

[00:59:01] and he makes he has advantages yeah advantage against the tickets called Although you are not a threat to me. So it's fine. I was more expecting you to talk like this I guess I can't give you guys do you guys welcome that do I do walk in or do I do Adam? Save walk in for somebody else. Do your best I'm not sorry Adam Well, hey guys, I guess I'll just wait here at the carriage and hopefully we get the hope that doesn't bad it's

[01:00:21] Your arm, don't you?

[01:00:23] Pulls out his daggers

[01:00:25] Maybe you'd be fine

[01:01:23] what that exactly means when you're the armor. What's the term for it?

[01:01:24] I kind of like the idea of it just like the,

[01:01:26] your carap, the rock, like metal carapace of your body,

[01:01:30] just like clamps onto things,

[01:01:33] like or like unhinges and clamps onto things.

[01:01:34] Integring to protection.

[01:01:36] Yeah, it takes an hour for it to happen.

[01:01:39] So what I was thinking is the wood underneath

[01:01:42] like grows out and like, yeah, basically gruts onto it.

[01:01:46] I like that.

[01:01:47] To hold it there.

[01:01:48] Here's the thing, As you're rushing over, you start being able to make out the actual like, what's being said or what's being called out. I defied you, Dino! Help! Help! It's a crazy car.

[01:03:02] So, an angy car. They're all dead but I'm still there Morphing. Yeah, the raptors. They're just ignore me because they're not moving. They're vicious based off movement. No, if it was a T-Rex I'd be able to make that joke better. Yeah, yeah. I love this game. Alright, I guess I'm gonna pay the sheet back for this.

[01:04:22] This is somewhere else. It rolls.

[01:04:24] That's better.

[01:04:26] Alright. cool okay so amazing yeah there's an adventure in here yeah yeah the one wait oh is that the one that we're I might be oh I thought you had a whole separate book that you were doing no that this one's actually from this book from the

[01:05:43] second book I figured we'd run the the one Iron Defenders in the shape of hybrid animals or other fantastical creatures? It says two or four legs as well. That's what the Steel Defender said. Like he could, I could have made the Steel Defender a dude. No, I believe these ones have to be quadrifed. That would be kind of funny if a Maimish Steel Defender looked exactly like me.

[01:07:00] Which one's the real me?

[01:07:02] Your twin brother.

[01:07:03] Yeah, I'll be right back.

[01:07:05] My brother Daryl.

[01:07:06] This is my brother, brother Daryl. speed. Although too small to bear large riders, the fastieth can carry a halfling with light gear easily at a good pace. I think it was a mage bread fastie. That's good my new thing is just like what about a mage bread version of this thing?

[01:08:23] Anything could be mage bread now. He's welcome to try. He will. Because he can make two attacks with his bite and one with his claws. That's one thing I was being asked. What is the structure of actions? Because I know there's like one action and then there's like a bonus action potentially and there's like a reaction. Yeah, so you've got a reaction which is it's basically an interrupt.

[01:09:44] You can use it a Strength check.

[01:11:01] Strength check or a Strength saving throw?

[01:11:04] It's a Strength...

[01:11:05] It says...

[01:11:06] It would be a saving throw.

[01:11:08] Yeah, saving throw. So that one's going to attack you. That is going to be a 16. Not good enough. Okay. So it soars past you. Soarians past me. And next up is Eufyn.

[01:12:22] Okay, cool.

[01:12:23] Well,

[01:12:29] I assume I had my sword in hand hat sir it's going to fall off it's going to fall don't worry no he's me he's bending the book to make sure it doesn't fall off the book and continues to spin oh it's getting wobbly because you and slashed at your armor, you then just like... Phew! Just locked its head off. Clean off. With a piercing weapon.

[01:15:01] With your rapier.

[01:15:03] Wait, wait, wait, sorry. Was it a rapier?

[01:15:05] Yeah.

[01:15:06] Sorry, not bad.

[01:15:07] You just like stabbed it. Hold up with a crossbow and fires this It's gonna hit that die and stop. It's still... wow. It recovered. It is a mightily excellent stop. I'm surprised it recovered so well. So I have to take the less... the least one?

[01:17:43] Yes, because you have disadvantage.

[01:17:44] Damn it.

[01:17:45] So that's the... damn,. Yeah, the one that died came at him from the front,

[01:19:01] and the other two kind of went at the sides,

[01:19:03] but both of them leaped over in crisscrossed.

[01:19:05] Both attack?

[01:19:06] Yeah, they both have attacked.

[01:19:08] Oh, okay. he'd be shooting into melee with a ranged weapon. So he would take penalties for that if he didn't have precise shot. Should we have picked feats and shit? No, no feats. No feats. Humans get feats at first level. Beyond that, when you get your ability score increase,

[01:20:20] like at level four or level eight or whenever we get them,

[01:20:26] you can forgo the ability score increase touch because it was a touch attack. Yeah. And then it's a touch spell attack though, right? Yes. But there is no touch AC anymore. So a touch attack doesn't... it was basically a wizard's way of being valid in combat. Yeah. But it's not really

[01:21:42] a thing anymore. Yeah, I guess so.

[01:23:01] Or...

[01:23:04] Can't take reactions until the start of its next turn.

[01:24:06] damage of the weapon. I poked a numbeast. So top of the round. So I think there's a reaction thing I could take as well. Because that's one action right?

[01:24:12] Yeah. Actually yeah, then for my next trick I will cast Shield on myself. Because that's

[01:24:21] a reaction spell. Damn. Alright. Because I cast Shield on myself, it gives me a plus 5. I'm glad I cast that now.

[01:25:40] Yeah, basically it's bouncing off your shield.

[01:25:42] Yeah.

[01:25:43] Like, I have a blade so you could

[01:27:03] potentially stab through and then go like straight up if you were strong Also I believe that deflecting from my seal defender, I think it's for only one target so like I would be telling him to protect someone so like if I'm telling him to watch you then anyone attacking you would be getting a negative. I think that's how that works, I'll double check. If that's the case I would probably give it to the bunny man because he's the one that

[01:28:23] can't defend himself right now. So it's going to attack, actually it's going to attack at gnarl. Sorry, it's going to attack the gnome. It's the rabbit man. So that is actually not going to... That's not going to hit?

[01:29:41] Okay.

[01:29:42] I'm going to roll again to. Fuck. I can do that too, you know. You've blown all your slots. Nope, different thing. Oh really? Lay on hands does not take a spell slot.

[01:31:02] Nice.

[01:31:03] I can just do it.

[01:31:04] Is it a cancer trip or something? I can't even get to him right now. I got a deal with one in front of me. Okay, that's fine. It is what it is. Okay. Actually, should I make a constitution check for the rabbit guy? No, every round. Every round? Okay, I'll wait till the next round then. To see if he stabilizes. Yeah.

[01:32:20] Well, he's still being grasped by the creature,

[01:32:22] but he's still in its mouth.

[01:32:24] So maybe kill that raptor first.

[01:32:26] Okay.

[01:32:28] Yeah. Okay. But either way, I would be, I don't know what action I would be using to tell my Defender to,

[01:33:42] right, my fucking Defender has actions, he goes after me.

[01:33:46] Should've, yeah.

[01:34:41] That's fine. Mangy Gnarl.

[01:34:42] He's not that Mangy.

[01:34:43] He's more crazy Gnarl.

[01:34:44] Okay, so that's 12 to hit?

[01:34:45] Yeah.

[01:34:46] Oh sweet, okay.

[01:34:47] Finally hit.

[01:34:48] Wait, wait, wait, sorry.

[01:34:49] What was it?

[01:34:50] 12 to hit with my hammer.

[01:34:51] No.

[01:34:52] Sorry, sorry, man.

[01:34:53] Were you rolling advantage?

[01:34:54] Yeah.

[01:34:55] Okay.

[01:34:56] The second one was worse.

[01:34:57] Sorry, man.

[01:34:58] That's fine.

[01:34:59] Now your dog gets to go.

[01:35:00] I'm used to attacking humans.

[01:35:01] There you go.

[01:35:02] I'm not going to get to go.

[01:35:03] Oh yeah?

[01:35:04] He can't.

[01:35:05] He can't. doing force rend which is his melee attack. Okay. So I will roll. And this is on the same claw foot that you were trying to attack? Yes, because he's defending me. Yeah. These are not rolling well. 12 as well, so he also missed.

[01:36:20] Yep.

[01:36:21] These go over here.

[01:36:22] These get put into my pool to use.

[01:36:25] Okay, so top of the round.

[01:37:22] Damn. Just like that, the gang didn't even make it a couple miles away from their homestead.

[01:37:27] First encounter would die.

[01:37:29] Yeah.

[01:37:31] Next up is going to be Finn.

[01:37:36] Your little bunny guy is not looking to you that he's like screaming goddamn thing with me or my puppy. I mean you're sure it's so... I'm a distraction right now. I'm a distraction. Oh.

[01:39:01] There doesn't appear to be critical threat ranges anymore.

[01:39:08] Huh. some of the larger threats extend down to 19 to 20 or even 18 to 20 it says. So some of them do? My reading is deep 5E. Maybe this isn't 5E. Sorry, Aaron, to get your hopes up there.

[01:40:20] It might just be everything is times two.

[01:40:23] Yeah, I think it might be times two in this system.

[01:40:25] Because otherwise, CoPesh would be OP, right? Yeah, like a like a combat certain combat related ones. Yes. Okay Or at least I heard somebody do this in the podcast I was listening to soon by Ken Yes, I need to get I do kind of want to go back and listen to them again It makes sense because like if I was gonna roll medicine on someone that needs to be tied to some sort of action, you know

[01:41:44] Yeah

[01:41:46] For animal handling

[01:42:46] Narl is just like, he's wheezing. Every time he goes, there's a blood spurt coming on.

[01:42:49] Well if he's in negative hit points he should be unconscious.

[01:42:55] Yes, he's doing that unconsciously.

[01:42:59] He does it in his sleep.

[01:43:01] Of course he does.

[01:43:03] So next up is, well Narl, true you know I'll say like yeah his it looks like he he's wheezing and then he coughing he wheezes like another like laugh out and then he can't just one more I don't think that was enough to push me over. Okay and you are adding both your proficiency bonus and your appropriate ability modifier? Proficiency bonus for what? For your weapon that you're proficient with. There's no bonus for that. Yes there is. I thought it's just you're proficient with it so you

[01:45:40] can use it because I have marginal. Yeah. OK, so I will attempt to just swing again at him with my hammer. Actually, you know what? This is actually falling in line with Eberron's whole, like, noir shtick. The hero has to get beaten down. And then on the final stretch, pump himself back up

[01:47:01] and defeat the enemy.

[01:47:02] Yeah, we'll see.

[01:47:03] What?

[01:47:04] That's the shtick of Eberron?

[01:47:06] Well, Eberron actually does intelligence on top of that. Yeah. Boom. It's like bonk. It's bonk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it just shakes. It's like, I'm feeling a little woozy and it shakes. It's top of the round, so it's going to attack.

[01:49:41] It's going to I did, yeah. A total of six damage. Okay. As this little puppy sized Saint Bernard leaps at this guy. You know what, this claw foot has had enough. It's running. Okay. It's gonna run away. Yeah, but there's a bear trap. It's gonna run away with part of its tail missing.

[01:51:03] Yes.

[01:51:04] Okay.

[01:51:05] Yeah, that's probably where it. Yeah, fair.

[01:52:20] Alright.

[01:52:21] Okay.

[01:52:22] So, yeah, um...

[01:52:24] You guys, uh, well, yeah, so he's, he's, he's Like completely like all God's more energetic he was already like Back you do that he does that thing really like the kip up. Yeah the kip up

[01:55:01] Russian dance from like I do have a gun your badge and your gumption But I do have If you would if you weren't my weight sometime, I do have tickets to an event that's gonna be happening at some point soon

[01:56:24] What's the event well, it's the witchlike carnival it's coming it to you and whenever it shows up you guys will have free admission to the whole thing it's not gonna show up in the next week or so is it because no no no trip right now no no no no it's not I don't think the time's right yet for for it to show up on cold air but uh yeah these these things will help you out if you want um you guys can roll me while he's like going on off of this guy. And that's when your databanks kind of kick in and notify you what kind of... your threat assessment thing kicks in. He's a Herongon.

[01:57:41] They are creatures from the Feywilds. They time, when the veil is thinnest. Either way I need to do some research to know whether or not it's actually soon or not. Exactly, yeah. And if he's saying that the Carnival isn't something like that,

[01:59:00] if it's something to do with the Feywilds, it might be when that happens. But regardless,