Below the monastery — a guest star arrives — a tremendous encounter — amicable interrogation — information is the sharpest blade of all.

Guest starring Josh via Hangouts.

Show notes: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-11-breach-clear.html.

When it looks like clearing the rest of the Sacred Stone monastery will proceed without incident, a tactical retreat by the monsters forces them into a tricky negotiation.

Show notes: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-10-hostage-situation.html

We fight gargoyles for 45 minutes. That's all this episode is.

However, it does showcase the lovely abuse potential of the heallock build. Check out the show notes page for more on that.

Show notes: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-9-fighting-gargoyles-for-45.html

The party encounters the Abbess, the big boss of the Sacred Stone monastery, and there's a pretty tactically interesting fight. When I see the way the tide is turning, I have her retreat, and it's a game of cat and mouse from there.

And, at the end of the episode, someone lies dying—BUT WHO!?!?

Show notes here: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-8-dojo-showdown.html

The party's rest is interrupted to deadly effect, but then they return to the Sacred Stone monastery with a highly effective stratagem.

Show notes: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-7-hulk-smash.html

2/3 of the party is composed of new characters, fresh, shiny, and chrome. But eternal??? They infiltrate the Sacred Stone monastery, home to the earth cult, and engage in hijinx involving excretory functions on command, stacking bodies in the washroom, and abusing prestidigitation to clean up after themselves.

Blog post with expanded commentary here: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-6-masters-of-disguise.html.

Sometimes you eat the bear; sometimes the bear eats you. Or the giant vulture does. Or you get crushed by a tidal wave.

The party takes a (really long) journey to Womford and encounters many, many cultists.

Daniel shows that he doesn't read spells before casting them.

Moose hath made a death cleric.

We talk about casting more than 1 spell per turn and if people can turn into wolves, and what about if they're already wolves, can they THEN turn into wolves, smartypants?

Blog post: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-5-one-where-almost-everyone-dies.html.

This is a brief episode in which the party handles a single (and the last) low-level sidequest: The Haunted Tomb. Audio quality is the best so far and representative of the trend for later episodes. We're getting the hang of this.

Link to blog post for expanded commentary: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-4-boo-ring-sidequest.html.

References: here's some info about Great Grey Wolf Sif from Dark Souls: http://darksouls.wikidot.com/sif-the-great-grey-wolf

Apologies: NONE. We've taken our audio quality to another level. Hope you enjoy.

The party meets the fancy Feathergale Society, rides hippogriffs to hunt a manticore, choreographs an action movie, finds a high level area, and has a deadly encounter with jackalweres. Someone dies. But who!?!?!?

See our blog for full notes and commentary: http://ggnorecast.blogspot.com/2015/05/episode-3-jackalweres-are-serious-thing.html.

Corrections: the adventure does in passing mention the history of Feathergale Spire and the other haunted keeps (page 5 and 33, column 2).

Rules discussions of interest: how warlock spell slots interact with spells and slots from other classes on a multiclass character.

Apologies: sorry about the chair squeaking. We've since learned to use wooden chairs.

EVERYTHING CHANGES.

Moose becomes a regular cast member.

The party investigates a conspiracy in the home base town of Red Larch and ends up throwing the entire place on its head with a night of stupendous violence.

We quickly wrap up some sidequests in preparation for following the main thrust of the module.

Here's the Goblin Punch article from +Arnold K that Daniel mentioned, about only rolling something that's in doubt at the point in time when its consequences may effectuate: http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2015/04/just-in-time-compilation.html

Corrections: Daniel was totally wrong and Jim was totally right about what dim light does. Dim light only imposes disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks based on sight (Player's Basic Rules, p. 65, "Vision and Light").