WWKA: The Tomb Takers and the Eyes of Nine

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WWKA: The Tomb Takers and the Eyes of Nine

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Normally, we tend to focus on one specific topic that seems particularly relevant for a WWKA. This time, however, we’re going to be taking a couple of currently disparate topics and putting them in one article, since the players have been drawing some potential connections between the two in-game. We’re also going to take a moment to clarify some confusion we’ve seen about the planes in D&D, especially since it seems relevant to the topic at-hand.

We have several relevant compendiums for you to peruse:

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Level 11 Update: Spells and Class Abilities

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Level 11 Update: Spells and Class Abilities

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Welcome to level 11! It’s spells, extra reactions, and guaranteed rolls this time around for the Mighty Nein. Caduceus, Caleb, and Jester all get 6th level spells, Fjord ventures into the world of multiclass spellcasting, Beau gets a formerly-nerfed ability back, and Nott gets to be consistently good at a bunch of skills. Plus, all cantrips now deal more damage (yes, even Fjord’s— cantrips scale with character level, not class level).

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What We Know about Halas and the Heirloom Sphere

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What We Know about Halas and the Heirloom Sphere

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What was once a one-off cool artifact to generate a contained dungeon crawl has now turned into an honest-to-Ioun key plot item with much wider ramifications for the Mighty Nein’s adventures. As is our typical M.O., we’ve compiled a summary of everything we know about the Heirloom Sphere and its creator, Halas, along with a compendium of quotes about them.

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Superstition and Dice Rolls

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Superstition and Dice Rolls

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Travis is more dice superstitious with Fjord than he was with Grog. What are the ratios for Travis-as-Grog vs. Travis-as-Fjord?

Ok, if y’all are gonna call us out like this, you could at least @ us. (We kid. These are fun, and good practice for one of our actual jobs.)

So, the base question: how do Travis’ rolls compare between campaigns? As some commenters on the above post pointed out, this gets complicated because we don’t necessarily know all the rolls, but we’ll do the best we can. We previously did an analysis of all rolls here and here, but we didn’t really have enough rolls to break out the campaign 2 characters individually back then. We do now, so here we go:

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What We Know About the Luxon and Xhorhas (Updated!)

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What We Know About the Luxon and Xhorhas (Updated!)

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We’ve heard from a number of you that you appreciate our posts breaking down what we know about the various lore drops on Critical Role, and boy howdy did we get one in the most recent episode! Ahead, we’ll detail the new information The Mighty Nein gained through their experiences in Rosohna.

Luxon

We learned a lot about the Dynasty’s favorite deity from Empress Leylas Kryn, Skysybil Abrianna Mirimm, and Shadowhand Essek Thelyss in episode 2-57. (Yes, we’ve confirmed all those spellings with Matt.)

The Luxon is responsible for creating the elements that became life on Exandria, scattering itself to bring fire and life to a cold and lonely rock of a planet.

  • The Luxon’s body is held within the Beacons, of which the Dynasty has discovered four.

  • Selected followers of the Luxon go through cycles of rebirth so they can live enough lives to learn the true meaning of why they are on Exandria and to bring the fragments of the Luxon’s puzzle to it when it is reborn, to give it purpose.

  • The Luxon is also the source of a very potent magical force and the beacon is one of many funnels of dunamis power.

  • The followers of the Luxon have periods of worship where they “give [them]selves to the sunlight as part of [their] means of showing [their] faith.”

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Most Rolled Values (With Bonus Analysis!) Part 2: The Players

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In part 1 of our roll analysis, we focused on splitting rolls by campaign. Here, we’ll focus on each player’s contribution to the full distributions.

A quick caveat before we begin: we’ll be focusing mostly on the effects of campaign 1 skills on these distributions, since the vast majority of each individual player’s rolls will be from there and the effects are more obvious. There are a few exceptions, and they’re mentioned explicitly when they come up.

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Most Rolled Values (With Bonus Analysis!) Part 1: The Campaigns

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WhatZitTooya93 asked: What number gets rolled most often?

Well now you’ve done it. You got us interested in a thing, and we went way overboard, as usual.

The short version first: if you’re talking natural rolls, i.e. the number that shows up on a d20, the most-rolled value is 10, across both campaigns. If you’re more interested in the total roll, or what was the value after modifiers have been added, the most rolled value is 19, again across both campaigns.

For the long version, we’ve split the rolls by campaign, then by player to get a sense of why each distribution looks the way it does. For this analysis, we’re limiting ourselves to all d20 rolls, i.e. no damage, deflect missiles, healing, or other non-d20 rolls. We’re also obviously limiting ourselves to known rolls. We’ll start by breaking down rolls by campaign, then move to a by-player analysis in part 2.

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Honey Heist 2: Electric Beargaloo Masterpost

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Honey Heist 2: Electric Beargaloo Masterpost

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Kills:

The body count was a little bit higher than the last time Trinket teamed up with Liam, Peddy, and the Sweet Brothers:

  • (1:50:43) Bearacuda by Peddy eating his face off, assist from Trinket

  • (2:02:43) Bearacuda by Liam Las Vegas, assist from Trinket

  • (2:03:50) Bearacuda choked out by Cookie- KO, not kill

  • (2:34:10) Hattori Bongo by Peddy and the special bullet

  • (2:36:08) 2 ninjas and Kody by the Potion of Fireball from Trinket

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Media References of Honey Heist 2: Electric Beargaloo

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Media References of Honey Heist 2: Electric Beargaloo

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On this blessed day, we're fairly certain we're setting records for both Media References and Puns this time, and we're not even counting every time Vinnie the Pooh or his daughter's wedding was mentioned.

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