Roll Models D&D

RECAP TIME:

Dolan Crissaphaene had sought to control the Touch Lotus Thieves guild with gold, strange clockwork augmentations, and promises of power in the Delnori city. All they had to do was work with him to fix and reopen the Opal archway and continue searching the burrowing worlds beyond it for artefacts Crissaphaene can use to make himself immortal.

But when our heroes came across the archway, and caught wind of Dolans plans, it was never going to happen so easy.

Our heroes stormed the archway cave in the early hours with alchemical bombs, raised skeletons and a bold plan. And it worked. Kind of.

The Touch Lotus leader, Fenriv was ripped away from the ritual machine and draped into an underground river, and Dolan fought first to keep the ritual going, and then for his life.

But even after he fell, the ritual had opened the archway, albeit tenuously. A giant creature pushed through, a mass of writhing tentacles and barbs the size of a small ship.

With the help of the remaining Touch Lotus, our heroes felled the abomination as it tried to slip into the waterways… leaving our heroes catching their collective breath as they searched through the remains of the Clockwork Alchemists hideout…

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

We've partnered with Dice Legion to bring you 10% off all purchases with the code RollModels10 - happy shopping!

RECAP TIME:

After raiding the Touch Lotus Thieves cave, our heroes fought to shut down the archway and stop the soon-to-be litch Dolan Crissaphaene's plans to seek out relics from the worlds beyond the archway.

Explosions rocked the cave, Dolan ignited to life a brass automaton that waded into the fight, and Ora ripped one of the Touch Lotus thieves from the copper pipes that seemed to be stabilising the ritual. The latter sent the archway into a frenzy of flickering auroras, and Dolan struggled to keep it under control.

Then the spilling light of the archway steadied on a cavelike world beyond the, and from within, enormous, blue and purple tentacles began reaching through.

Finally, Ahmaya touched the Schiver buried in Dolan's chest that was fueling much of his magic, and her own schiver – murmur, the sword haunted by a small bird – burned away its power. He stumbled, leaving Freya open to deliver the final blow with a potent spell.

Dolan hit the floor. The archway flickered as the ritual came to an end, and cluster of giant, milky eyes peered through. Before the archway could close, the tentacles spasmed and clawed the ground, pulling their bulbous body through, and it roared…

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

RECAP TIME:

With alchemical bomb and a plan, our heroes approached the graveyard and burned-out house atop the excavation site that the Touch Lotus had claimed as their new hideout. Within the thieves led by Crissaphaene were attempting to open and stabilise the archway and then enter the burrowings beyond in search of Schivers.

With Moxie's reanimated dead in tow, our heroes barricaded the top of the elevator in the cliffside and descended into the cavern where Crissaphaene's ritual had already begun.

Ora cast vortex warp on Amaya sending her to the base of the archway where she set the alchemical bomb and then sprinted across the room. Sentinel flew from the lift into the stalactites above the Touch Lotus and summed a shadowspawn of fear that resembled their father, and it screamed, terrifying a couple of the Lotus thieves and Crissaphaene himself.

Moments later, Moxie shot a fireball to ignite the bomb. A ripple of concussive force ripped across the sanctum, followed by a shower of pink smoke. Two of the Lotus thieves were thrown across the space, ablaze, and dust rained from the archway.

But Crissaphaene continued throwing ingredients into his floating brazier and Fenriv, the leader of the Lotus, was fitting coilshards to his headpiece that was linked to the archway by copper pipes. The ritual was continuing, the archway flashed with aurora light as it opened and closed, in quick succession.

A large oiled tarp by the archway smouldered, and slid from the clockwork giant, a golem of brass and gold, and Crissaphaene awoke it…

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

We've partnered with Dice Legion to bring you 10% off all purchases with the code RollModels10 - happy shopping!

RECAP TIME:

Arriving in the chasm city of Delnori, are six heroes caught a thread: it began with a clockwork augmented rat that enslaved a local gang with a twisted enchantment.

Meanwhile, a splinter of the disgraced Delnori thieves guild, now called the Touch Lotus, were also augmented by strange clockwork. After tracking some otherworldly creatures, our heroes found the Touch Lotus attempting to repair a broken archway of fossil-opal.

Meanwhile, rumours became reality as the team met the strange ex-alchemist who was at work in the Maze market, trading blood for cure-alls, Dolan Crissaphaene.

Crissaphaene was the clockwork genius, and in the aftermath of a Touch Lotus raid on the Artificer's guild, our heroes found out his plot: to fix the broken archway, and using old magics, open the way beyond to seek out strange relics called Schivers and use them to augment himself into something immortal.

Research and preparations behind them, it was time to face the Lotus and Crissaphaene.

Our heroes descended on the entrance to the tomb beneath the Scure Street, and with them they brought two things: a potent alchemical bomb, and a plan none of them were particularly sure about.

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

After a week of research in the stained light of the Delnori University library, parsing through tomes, and toying with scrolls and maps, our heroes finally found the map fragment they were looking for.

Sealed in the back of an old explorer's journal, the delicate brown velum matched the other half held by Captain Killid of the Oddmiun Trist.

They didn't spare a moment before meeting with the pirate crew and revealing their find. And with the looming figure of the captain watching, they joined the two halves of the map and solved the riddle on its back.

In fire and salt the map burned, the salt melting into ink that revealed the two locations either side of the ancient, drowned city. Yelanriae and The Sanctum. And in the burning ink, words began to scrawl: "Form the key given freely in Yelanreire and take it to the Seal Sanctum to open the way. Your second sacrifice is in bleeding for your cause."

The voyage was set, they had five days to prepare… and destroy an archway beneath Scure Street. But before they left The Oddmium Trist, Captain Killid had some questions for Freya regarding the identity of her Deity…

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

We've partnered with Dice Legion to bring you 10% off all purchases with the code RollModels10 - happy shopping!

RECAP TIME:

Swiftly becoming a force to be reckoned with in Delnori, our heroes' two missions were coming to a head.

They had sunk five day's work into research in the sapphire-lit stacks of the Delnori University. They dove into lore, mysteries and histories, all in hope it could help them understand not only who they were up against but their own origins and the origins of their strange deities and patrons.

During their week in the Delnori University, they also shared in the search for the lost map fragment that shold help lead them to the drowned chamber of Yelanreire.

The task was given them by Captain Ryse Killid of the Oddmium Trist prate crew. The crew had bought half the map from a mysterious man called the Curator, and they needed our heroes to find the other somewhere in the Guild Garden district.

Meanwhile, the Touch Lotus Thieves were repairing the opal archway on the orders and physical augmentations of ex-alchemist and aspiring litch, Dolan Crissaphaene.

Time was on our heroes' sides but, as they sought out the lost map, it was ticking away.

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 20 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

Doubling down on their research time, our heroes threw themselves in the stacks of the Delnori University… they were committed to finding the Map to the drowned city Zarlumai… but they were also uncovering other secrets.

Moxie learned about the harrowing origins of Onru, the Labyrinthine – a caustic being that her brother had possibly bound himself to.

Ora learned about the Winged people for Zarlumai, and how they once worshipped a "Crestcoil" whose name he recognised… Enthorandoran, his god, currently secluded in the Edge.

Sentinel earned gold working with patron, Ripper, and they learned some more about sealcrafting… and continued to drink away their demons.

And Eugene figured out how to open the doorway hidden behind the bookshelves with a combination of artificing an alchemy. It led down into a small chamber where a desiccated body of a Tyrlaar and a broken Lexicon rested.

As he investigated, he found a metal rod engraved with waveform hieroglyphics and from it his own Lexicon consumed the stored information – a fragment of history about the origins of the Tyrlaar, and the art of creating artefacts called disquisitions.

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

Our heroes had recovered from their run-in with the Touch Lotus and already had their eyes set on two jobs before them.

The first: to stop Dolan Crissaphaene and his Touch Lotus from fixing the Opal archway and seeking out powerful relics called "Schivers" from beyond.

The second: to find the ancient map fragment for the Oddmium Trist pirates and eventually go with them to seek out the marked, hidden chamber Yelanriae in the ancient, drowned city of Zarlumai.

With a week of downtime under their belts, our heroes were finally reaping the rewards, both in gold and secrets. Many of them had spent a whole week in the Delnori University library, researching a select few subjects, bathed in the sapphire light of its stained-glass ceiling and swathed in the narrow shadows of the stacks.

Ahmaya, not one for books that don't contain recipes, gritted her teeth through tome after journal in search of controversy surrounding her secret homeland, the Opari. And it paid off. She uncovered "the Big Opari Lie", the conspiracy of her home Empire as reported by an old Asildian explorer and scholar…

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

There had been a revelation. The insane ex-alchemist, Dolan Crissaphaene, was once the lover of their close acquaintance Morderyn's mother. So they sent him off to get more info. It was more than possible that Morderyn's mother, once head of the now defunct Delnori Thieves Guild, was still working with Crissaphaene.

And Crissaphaene's aims were not particularly wholesome: he sought to repair and open the opal archway and, in the world beyond it, seek out relics called "schivers" to make himself immortal so he could survive "the coming end."

That night Ora was visited by his lost deity Enthor where he was given a glimpse into the true history of an entity that opened The Edge and destroyed much of the world many thousands of years ago. An entity he called The Unbeing. And Enthor feared it was rising from its decimated ashes.

That morning the tension was broken with the arrival of Moxie's best friend in the whole world, Mariika of house Yaldren from the Dustmere Syndicate – now in Delnori to train at the Guild of Physicias.

The last day had been fruitful, so our heroes decided the archway and the Touch Lotus could wait. They needed time to prepare, and time to understand. So with a week of downtime before them the aim is to achieve a few things:

To find the map fragment for the Oddmium Trist pirates that they knew was hidden in the university somewhere. To research into various mysterious powers and conspiracies that were at play, to top up their purses, and for Eugene, to break the puzzle of the ancient cache hidden in the library.

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/

In exploring the Nexus through her God's Lantern, Freya was possessed by the Disciple, Xethir. She freed herself from his grip, but he knew where they were. They could only assume he was curious about them after they thwarted his efforts in creating a Graven in Dustmere from the body of duke Debiles.

They moved Inn, to The Night Mountain in the Plaza District and made a plan: to take the day, a collective breathe. Sentinel negotiated some well paid work with Ripper and the rest of the gang took to the Delnori University library.

While Freya looked into how the Touch Lotus Thieves could be using the stolen materials to fix the strange opal archway, Moxie looked into the anti-magic poison, rigore, and Ora researched the old magic that seemed to tie many of their enemies plots together: seal craft.

Eugene explored with his Lexicon, in this vast, stained-glass library there was a secret he was after, a cache, similar to the one he found in Dustmere… he just needed to find it. In the first day, he found an old stone inscription written in Bysilman and it led him to a shelf reference, and a book with a recipe for a phosphorus alchemy.

Finally they come together around their table at the Night Mountain inn, where Morderyn blessed them with his presence and they came to the realisation that his Mother was not simply the washed up leader of a thieves guild, she had ties to the man employing the Touch Lotus...

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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!

We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.

Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.

Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.

To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!

Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!

Massive credit to KibblesTasty Homebrew LLC for their Alchemy System used (and adapted to the Descordia setting) in the show!

And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/