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Some pseudo grid-less combat in the spirit of possible play styles for 5E. Players defeat the final boss of the Crystal Cove.

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The crystal cove holds more threats for our players as they progress to the bottom.

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I would like to cackle in an evil fashion thinking I’ve thwarted you guys with another combo-extra-sode…but it seems that these don’t actually bother people so I’ll have to leave the cackling to Chagur. A little less talk on Baybreeze’s background then due to him, but hopefully you find the discussion meaningful or entertaining or you get mad or something. Come to the website if you can’t see the full background below www.pathlesspod.com.

* Born in the Kingdom of Cecil, Baybreeze Wimble Korren lived in a quiet forest town near the ocean with his gnome father, a woodworker by trade who is known for his wooden masks, and his mother, who assisted in the sale of these wooden items.  Baybreeze watched day in and out as men and woman of all shapes and sizes came and went.  He sat by the docks and listened to stories of love, loss, and triumph all due to the great sea.  He could not accept a life of whittling wood like his father, especially for the creepy witches that would buy his masks. So one day he resolved that next time the tide came in, he would be follow it out.

* Baybreeze stowed away on the ship of Captain Basset who upon finding him, told him that one rule of The Craw is that all stowaways must fight for their lives.  He handed his rapier to young Baybreeze and told him to fight if he wanted to live. Baybreeze with no hesitation picked up the rapier scared for his life and the crew all changed from threatening to laughter. Baybreeze has captain Basset’s rapier to this day.

* After 50 long years at sea Baybreeze worked his way up the ranks and built a name for himself on the seas.  One night the Captain asked to see him in his quarters, the First Mate, a Tiefling named Tarta was discussing their next big take when Baybreeze arrived and was told to go to bed for the night.  The Captain then took this time to explain to Baybreeze that though Tarta was the first Mate she values death over booty and no true pirate can live this way.  He was getting old, being human, and in his 20’s when he first found Baybreeze as a stowaway and it was time for him to give up a life of sea. He dare not break the pirate’s code and give Tarta her spot as captain as she had been with him from the beginning, but he wondered if he could convince Baybreeze to retire as well and start a new adventure on the dry land of a new continent along his side. He claimed the next port was his destination and he was sure there was treasure and adventure waiting there, along with a reliable warm, dry, bed for his old body.

* There was only two days left till port when a sudden and violent storm hit the ship.  Things were chaotic as they tried to hold the ship and all its cargo together and somewhere at the end of the storm Captain Basset was missing.  Most chalked it up to his old age no longer being able to handle the high seas, some only thought but dare not blame Tarta who stood to gain from the loss.  Regardless everyone drank all of the cargo worth of ale until they more or less crashed into a dock at port and stumbled onto dry land.

* Baybreeze was in the land of new adventure, and even if he didn’t know before whether he was ready to leave the seas he knew he no longer had a captain he could follow back out at this time.  He traveled inward, maybe as a final gift to his resting friend’s spirit.

* He ported in Piazza, a large city with large houses that housed many in separate dwelling.  There were men that opened the doors for these houses as if that were their full time job.  What else was interesting about this town was that they seemed to have many independently moving mechanical objects.  Some for work and some for pleasure, the town was full of vendors that sold little toys that could talk and move their arms with the wind of a key. While he was in port he also looked at the ships,

Getting these descriptors shorter and sweeter. More 5E combat, a skill task, and maybe a couple hidden surprises in game. One of the areas is inspired by Dark Souls. 10 points to Gryffindor to whoever figures it out. Comment on the episode or email us at [email protected] with any input ideas or interesting stories from 5E.

Combosode that may confuse you. Yes it is a tavern talk and yes it is an companion episode for the Lightlessness campaign. Probably a bad idea to mix categories. But did you really want a 20 minute and then a 15 minute episode? Maybe you did…see below for Notch’s background semi discussed in episode.

* Notch is a Tiefling Warlock with a love of all things knowledge.

* Notch grew up in the city life of Piazza, where he lived in a shared dwelling with separate living spaces called a Seperatment.   He was always different from birth being one of the few pure tieflings that had come from a time his parents referred to as A-ru-drah (spoken like three barks) which was abyssal for the breaking of chains. He later grew up to learn from his parents what it really meant

* The human Murdok Stromal came to the land with ten thousand men of many races, majority elven and human. They were all slaves until Murdok led a rebellion and they fled from their land across the Tiber (Tib-er) ocean.  They worked within a plant creating clockworks for a man known as the Emerald King in the land of Samara, and had stolen parts over time to build a large raft like hovercraft which Murdok had designed. When it was completed Murdok convinced all the plant workers across a large whole of the land’s assemblies to destroy their work places and those clockworks that were in charge of reporting back to the King or winding his soldiers. They made it to the Land now known as Felicia and vowed to gain support through alliances and use their tools and knowledge to build up a force to protect if the Emerald King sent minions across the Ocean. Felicia was mainly inhabited by spaced out families of Elves, some druidic in nature, sects of dwarves which kept separate from the elves, and a united society of Dragonborns with provinces throughout the land.  The elves welcomed their brothers in the race among their people and supported their brother’s friends.  The dwarfs were promised technology from Samara if they were to share their land and help.  But the Dragonborns threatened to send the slaves back to their master as this was their way and beliefs.  Because of this the elves out of a desire to protect their kin, the dwarves interested in the technology, and Murdok with his army of ten thousand went to each province and asked for amnesty, if this was not granted they were forced to destroy that province.  Ultimately to this day no one has ever come from Samara to regain their slaves.

* Piazza is a shoreline town that is very expensive to live in.  Most of the people who live there are in charge of making and designing machines known as Forge.  Some big, some small, they all are based off exact engineering to run off fire, water, air, or wound gears.  There are those who sell smaller machines with less purpose to tourists, such as toys, or small noise makers known as alarms that hit a bell after a certain hour cycle when set.

* Notch was more or less accepted for his abyssal bloodline and qualities throughout his life, his parents had come from parents who knew the great evil of having freedom taken away and making machines of destruction.  Though the mature in his society never treated them negatively he was set apart in being the only pureblood Tiefling in all his learnings by the Half-Evlen Scholar Silvio. 

* Silvio always treated notch as a certain favorite due to more than their shared interest in books.  He had noticed from a young age that Notch had a spiritual understanding beyond his own and some link to that world.  Small things would happen when Notch engaged deeply in discussion about these beliefs in an Old One, which no one had ever taught him about. After assisting in the raising of Notch he saw that Notch was destined for more than being a Forge-head as he would refer too many of the kid’s parents on some occasions.

The battle against the undead ensues and we make it fun by describing and discussing whether or not the death of skeletons could bother us like the death of a human. I mean we are all skeletons on the inside so there shouldn’t be that big of a difference.

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The character’s travel down the Kektru Path and find themselves in some sweet and simple(?) 5th Edition D&D Combat. The players catch on quickly (faster than the DM about 30 minutes into the podcast) that they can now move out from behind cover and shoot then get back behind cover without taking any negatives.  It’s been hard for me at least to get used to being able to move around while within someone’s threat range without an attack of opportunity. There is talk of disengage and critical hits as well in Dungeons and Dragons Next.

Reid is doing a project checking how long it takes players to make a decision per round in combat. Our experience has been that combat is more exciting with hits happening more often and it feels faster, but the player character’s are still low level so that may be a factor.

Enjoy and feel free to comment, email ([email protected]), or use any social media with any thoughts or input.

If you were wondering…Math of encounter without Morva was 50 xp under hard which was normal before.

Let’s be honest, this posted by accident. Don’t get me wrong this is something we wanted to share with you guys, but it wasn’t scheduled to post today. So enjoy the little audio component with me and Reid if you can and dig into some of the story lore if you desire. Thanks for your support, enjoy the by accident bonus episode.

* Quarion’s father is Penlod Xiloscient: Duke of Merici (Mare-uh-see).  He is part of the original elves who inhabited the land that was claimed by and united as Felicia (Fe-li-see-a) by Human Murdok Stromal 350 years ago.

* Penlod has never taken Quarion off the estate. Quarion has noticed over time that is father is a great deal of a shut in and also not completely sane. He has an unhealthy obsession with rapiers so much so that he has spent more time with them then Quarion, he claims that the halls of his keep are a better place than the rest of the world, and he grumbles angrily to himself sometimes when alone as if he is fighting with someone.

* Being of a noble line, with a father who was there to see it all happen, Quarion was privileged to  learn the true history behind Felicia’s uniting. The history told and taught by others under orders of the last 9 rulers.

* The human Murdok Stromal came to the land with ten thousand men of many races, majority elven and human. They were all slaves until Murdok led a rebellion and they fled from their land across the Tiber (Tib-er) ocean.  They worked within a plant creating clockworks for a man known as the Emerald King in the land of Samara, and had stolen parts over time to build a large raft like hovercraft which Murdok had designed. When it was completed Murdok convinced all the plant workers across a large whole of the land’s assemblies to destroy their work places and those clockworks that were in charge of reporting back to the King or winding his soldiers. They made it to the Land now known as Felicia and vowed to gain support through alliances and use their tools and knowledge to build up a force to protect if the Emerald King sent minions across the Ocean. Felicia was mainly inhabited by spaced out families of Elves, some druidic in nature, sects of dwarves which kept separate from the elves, and a united society of Dragonborns with provinces throughout the land.  The elves welcomed their brothers in the race among their people and supported their brother’s friends.  The dwarfs were promised technology from Samara if they were to share their land and help.  But the Dragonborns threatened to send the slaves back to their master as this was their way and beliefs.  Because of this the elves out of a desire to protect their kin, the dwarves interested in the technology, and Murdok with his army of ten thousand went to each province and asked for amnesty, if this was not granted they were forced to destroy that province.  Ultimately to this day no one has ever come from Samara to regain their slaves.

* Elven history- Murdok had found safety and employment by the elves who allowed them to live alongside their people. This though was not enough for Murdock who, though free, felt as though he just went from working from one master to another.  He schemed with his now freed elven companions to sow the need for a united kingdom due to the threat that the Emerald King would be to their land and how he would ravage nature with his poison.  The elves being peaceful people who desperately desired to protect nature were easily convinced.  Murdok set forth himself as leader and with the support of his elves brought his united treaty to all the people of the land.  The dwarves joined the nation for technology to sunder stone like never before and cut precious stones in ways never thought achievable.  The elves agreed to rule provinces of land they already owned and take on the exiles. But the Dragonborn people did not fear the Emerald King and were content,

This is it, the moment you have all been waiting for. An episode about bartering for services with NPC’s. Hey, that’s D&D for you. There are also some quick and simple homebrew games to simulate an eating contest and tree climbing event, though they weren’t as entertaining as i had hoped since not many of the players wanted to partake in them.

Flank us in the normal places. I’ll be here using a total defense action or in 5E I guess that would be Dodge…maybe I should be ready to use a Help action instead…but that would require someone adjacent to me.

Shout out to Zaran Black for his kind review on iTunes. Thanks to all those who are helping to support the podcast by telling others and listening in each week.