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We Played D&D at Level 20 for Two Hours

Matthew Colville

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The 1981 BBC Radio production of The Lord of the Rings, with commentary...
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The Fires of Ishk, the level 20 adventure I started with.
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/prod...

Cthrion Uroniziir, the Worm of the World's End, the TIME ENDER, is detailed in Kingdoms & Warfare, as is Khorsekef the Infinite (the mummy's hand we saw).

Goxmoc, the Titan of Ix, will feature in "FLEE, MORTALS!" our forthcoming monster book.

20 Comments

@mcolville Creator 4 years ago Pinned

Lars reminded me that...

Cthrion Uroniziir opened by using the psionic power ANOTHER WORLD on James and Lars.

"What if things had been different? Maybe in another world, I’m the wizard and you’re the fighter!
"Target two enemies. Both must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or swap character sheets until they finish a long rest."

Then James, playing Lars' character, used Divine Intervention to swap them back. :D :D :D

@mcolville Creator 4 years ago

I love how other YouTubers strive to make these thumbnails showing their face with a ridiculous expression fOr tHe aLgOrItHm, meanwhile YouTube's autogenerated thumbnails do the exact same thing for me with no effort....

@mactireliath2356 4 years ago

The fact that you, as a DM, were able to utter the phrase “milky white fluid” to your group without being wviscerated with pubescent laughter is amazing in itself. My group would have destroyed me

@GabrielRodriguezArt 4 years ago

"This world is mine to end!" is the rawest fucking line and I want to design a whole adventure/campaign around that concept.

@mcolville Creator 4 years ago

"The Titan of Ix has failed. Ynixquichcauitl awakes. This is the end. All hope is lost unless you can reach the Heart of the World, and stop the End of Time."

@markcartwright4491 4 years ago

“Is this story interesting?”

Chat is just a sea of rapt faces, eyes reflecting the shimmering firelight, forgotten s’mores in hand, captivated by the greatest camp counselor in this or any age, holding court with a ghost story that will live on in memory for as long as the last forest still stands.

@DunantheDefender 4 years ago

Against the Wyrm of the World's End sounds like the logical conclusion of a game that starts with Against the Cult of the Reptile God...

@Cazleb_Baker 4 years ago

High level is always intimidating to me as a DM because it's such a high concept, mindset change. I'm excited because I really think that yours is the best channel for discussing high concept and mindset!

@zerotheory941 4 years ago

We think this room is the heart of the house... This house has many hearts. -- Poltergeist

@MMCDigitalGirl 9 months ago

Enjoying coming back to this after Crack the Sun went live

@JValerian 4 years ago (edited)

"I remembered it without looking at the word! - That means it's real now." Is so perfect. That is exactly how it feels as a DM to have players reference locations, people and phenomena in the world you share. Love how you captured that in a sidenote.

@ŲmbraÅrcturuŞ 4 years ago

"Dead universes inside her..."

Damn. That is cool, and existentially terrifying, but mostly cool.

@kevingriffith6011 4 years ago (edited)

I think a lesser DM would have tried to foil the players here, particularly resurrecting godzilla "Does godzilla have a soul? Could mortal magic really restore something of this scale and power?"... but this is just a fun one-shot with level 20 PCs, so honestly the ideal game situation is that the players do break the game at every possible moment, that's why it's fun. I loved the story we got here.

@asanelson4178 4 years ago

I wonder if this is the first time anyone has played a lv20 beast master after it’s release.

@jimmiddleton2206 4 years ago

Holy shit, Kelsey's lvl 20 adventure is getting a shout out from MCDM! Everyone should check out the Arcane Library for other great adventures at all tiers!

@bodbyss 4 years ago (edited)

Gate doesn't link to the same plane of existence. It links to another plane. Note to casters: Always read the spell! And then read it again. Normally this is for summoning creatures. Not for just teleporting

@gobbelgub4031 4 years ago

two rounds of combat
two hours
two rounds of combat
...two hours

@collin6691 4 years ago

I like diplomacy more than persuasion. Persuasion is more the perview of things that are resolved via fictional positioning most of the time. Diplomacy is the scale of things that justify rolling.

@kevinlacombe2868 3 years ago

Biggest takeaway? If 20th level characters don’t want to go through your dungeon, they’ll skip to the end, every time.

@MarcLucksch 4 years ago

I have most fun running level 17-20 content in Adventurers League, you see so much insane stuff. Combats that seem impossible and are won in 3 turns cause someone turned all the enemies into rats and then use the pipes of the sewers on them. Just insane crap, I love it.