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Ep. 74: Highprince of Hell (Mage Madness with Zac Oyama)

🕑 Added 2019-08-23 01:13:57 +0000 UTC

Comments

Mike Cathcart

ok cool

Cancelled my subscription because of eps 73 & 74. I am all for heroes succeeding but the plot armor (Akorat not killing Bev with 2 attacks left, but has enough time to kick him) and twisting of the rules was just ridiculous. Even a Tolkien novel has more realism and that's saying something in fantasy. Final nail in the coffin was Bev putting a holy amulet into Akorat that conveniently did not kill him but let's keeps him alive to prevent his dad become next in line. Could have been so great storytelling to make him choose... when nothing ever has any consequences and everyone always survives / gets rescued / win then there is no point in listening to the episodes because what else could happen then a full out win

Gurl Luigi

I wish Emily had taken the emotion of Paw Paw brutally going down to fuel her 102 freaking points of damage. That was so badass and she made it too jokey.

Super want the BoB to put Akorat in the gem with pentagreens

Mikkel Voigt

Answer the question Murph! I need my fix of liveshows I cannot get to from Denmark

Lucas Machi

My understanding is that Akorat is dead and Bev Sr. Is the new Dark Lord in Akorat’s place.

Y C

The whole time I was convinced the random necromancer was going to be Ilsed. Guess I was overthinking that one... Anyway great episode. Mavrus is absolutely hilarious.

Is Akarat dead (and Bev Sr. is the new bad boss) or just in a suspended state of 1 hp and serving as a key chain so Bev Sr. doesn't get even more damned than he already is?

Lucas Machi

Murph said in an earlier episode that pawpaw has plot armor. He can be knocked out but can’t die.

Garrett Guthrie

Did pawpaw die? I don't think anyone healed him.

The Plum

Put Akarat in with Pentergreens

Lucas Machi

To further elaborate on why this is important, one of the diseases you can give is “Slimy Doom” which says if anyone deals damage to the inflicted target they are stunned for their next turn. The way this was run in that episode potentially lets moonshine win against Theiala (or literally anyone) by herself just by casting it turn 1 and repeatedly doing anything that guarantees at least 1 point of damage every turn. The reason the spell works this way is because the effects can cripple anything in the game if it takes effect, thats why they basically have 3 turns to try and win the fight (or avoid the oncoming effect) because otherwise they are done.

Lucas Machi

So I hate to be a bit of a rules Lawyer but I don’t want you to get womped in future big encounters as badly Daddy Murph. The way contagion works is weirdly worded but important. The effect of contagion does not happen until the target has failed 3 saving throws. Akorat should have had at least 3 turns where he got to try and save against flesh rot. Also being a paladin I assume he was immune to disease, contagion specifically states that the spell does not work on people immune to disease. Again, I hate to be a rules lawyer, i just want to make sure you know this so in future encounters it isn’t broken (the way it was played here was basically more powerful than some 9th level spells)

Justin Harris

"First one.......Nat 20."

Alex

It’s just a really not fun spell is all I know everyone hates rules lawyering

Alex

MURPH JEREMY CRAWFORD UPDATED THE LANGUAGE ON CONTAGION so that it is not so broken because all of its effects are so game breaking the spell only takes effect after three failed saves