Roll Models D&D – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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After swindling their way into taking a job for their nemesis, our heroes stole the very thing that Xethir needed to redirect his god: a fragment of an ancient heartstone. That heartstone once formed the core of Xethir's now-dead god, and our heroes got it to their well-connected friend, the Curator, who hid it and rewarded them with some fancy new magic items. 

But since their last confrontation, Xethir was alive, once again. With the Curator's help, our heroes teleported straight into the Whispered Word Headquarters in the Capital, where they helped Meredith Vollant figure out the next surge of Evraen Xethir needed to forge another heartstone from the shards was overdue.

They would need to find the other shards first, and they would need to recruit the disparate forces across the Entanglement to prepare. For should Xethir succeed, the otherworldly responsible for the historical Great Unbinding, would walk the entanglement again.

After an evening of pampered luxury in the Whispered Word guest quarters, our heroes rested. Ahmaya learned her bond with Murmer had strengthened, and he now manifested as a crow of leaves and twigs. Jacks cast Dream to their father, where they confronted him as he sat over their mother's deathbed and confessed that she did not die in labour, but of a long suffering, magic disease.

Freya visited her god, Nuravorne, the drowned man, weathered and fishing atop the Lunaric sea. He searched for the other heartstone shards, and offered a warning that Xethir only needee one, though without them all, resurrection would be more difficult. 

They went to bed, knowing that the days hence, would be mo easier than the last…

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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 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/ 

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Xethir wanted to resurrect his dead god by forging him a new heartstone, but its broken fragments were scattered across the Entanglement, and our heroes had a plan to stop him.

They defeated Xethir, but he would soon be born again. Then they heard of a job on the Collectorate network that was to obtain a shard from the Verdant Range. They suspected Xethir had put the task of retrieving a heartstone fragment out to market while he was resurrected. So they took the job. 

At the briefing for the shard job they realised they would be chaperoned by Leonitis Balren, Ora's brainwashed soon-to-be father-in-law. Leonitis teleported them to Crulhoste, an ancient Bysilman facility in the Verdant range that was by a deathly miasma called the voidblight. Imbued with Leonitis's protection spell, they entered and found flora and fauna falling into dust when touched.

Deep in the facility was the heartstone fragment. It seemed to resonate and possess the voidblight that suffused Crulhoste. Its link with Xethir's god was enough to spout oil that grew into a great serpent, the shard its one, violet eye. 

Our heroes defeated the serpent and took the shard, but the ordeal broke Leonitis's mind. In a moment of clarity he agreed to leave for our heroes hideout. They visited the Curator who stored the shard for them, then he warned them that they must attempt to unite the desperate powers against the rise of Xethir. To start, he agreed to teleport them to the headquarters of the Whispered Word in Sehira…

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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 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/ 

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Our heroes were a step ahead of their nemesis, Xethir – they simply had to find the first heartstone fragment of his dead god before his minions could. Tomorrow they would get their briefing with a construct of the Apotheos, under a bridge in Miras Kàlorn.

En route to the capital city Sehira, our heroes discovered a secret Gateway that enable them to teleport to a town near the capital, Boraxuss. Eugene's hometown. Where he found a mysterious lockbox left by his father, which held another lexicon and the letter. 

Finally arriving in Sehira, Freya was keen to rescue the Analyst, a great shardwork calculator that was being scrapped for becoming unreliable and seemingly had grown conscious. She had interacted with the machine long ago where instead of printing records, it had asked her for help.

So before they took to the lofty heights of Miras Kàlorn, they explored the lower city and prepared to find the Analyst. But as they  shopped in the canal markets, Opari knights, from the great eastern Empire of the aurora storm, found their quarry: Ahmaya. 

With some quick thinking, and cheeky manipulative spell work form Freya, they quickly fooled the nights and escaped onto the runway and up to the upper city, where they would soon try and save the analyst from its reclamation.

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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 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/ 

After twining themselves with Dustmere conspiracies our heroes toiled away in the stacks of the archivist's guild, researching details they'd picked up since their trek in the depths of the Glass Desert. They uncovered secrets of the Serene. They gained insight into the One Thousand Seals. Sentinel asked more of these seals from their amnesiac patron the Enigmora who asked them to stop their breaking and advised they seek out those responsible. And Eugene managed to unlock his strange cube called the Enriver's Lexicon and it spoke to him of a quest to find the remaining caches.

But, as the duke's ball approaches, they further intertwined themselves; getting jobs at the manor where the ball will be held, ordering a dress and suit to be tailored (and masks – it' a masquerade after all). Ahmaya and Eugene warmed up their culinary skills, Eugene showing Ahmaya how to craft sugar into fruit flavoured rock-candy sending stones to be used during the ball.

Meanwhile, Freya once again meditated on the artefact she had been drawn to in the desert, the rocky, fist sized sphere called the God's Lantern. And after weeks of trying, she finally broke through. Lightening sheered from her body while her mind dwelled within the nexus-space of the Lantern. She found herself on a fishing boat with a man, floating on a tranquil sea beneath stars, moons, and planets. But when the man saw her, he seemed to panic and ejected her, only for her to be visited that night by something else…

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!

After identifying an abandoned ship as Duke Gaspar's, and uncovering the remnants of a macabre ritual onboard, our heroes arrived back in Dustmere. A number of Dukes, a strange cult obsessed with something called "Apoptysaliss", and potentially other forces, were vying for power in the desert city – and all our heroes new for sure was that it involved the manipulation of swathes of people into worshipping Duke Debiles as though he were a prophet.

But after solving the robbery at the Archivists guild, they had access to the stacks, and they took full advantage of it. They uncovered secrets of the Serene, a group that pre-dated the Edgewatchers. They gained insight into the One Thousand Seals, that they were patches placed over cracks in the fabric of the Entanglement multiverse to seal away that which led to the Great Unbinding many thousands of years before. Eugene specifically made progress unlocking his strange cube called the Enriver's Lexicon.

And they found out the meaning of Apoptysaliss – a chrysalis of ritualistic death.

But, as they sign-up to jobs for the upcoming Duke's ball, dangers rise round our heroes, and so do the tensions. This led to an explosive heart-to-heart between Moxie and Sentinel, paranoia among many of the others that they were being watched…

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!

Hunting down and boarding the stranded vessel out of Port Dustmere, our heroes discovered a terrible truth. The ship had been used for some kind of ritual, bodies stacked around a circle of blood and sigils below deck, and a remnant madness clawed at their psyches. Whoever was responsible had intended to blow the boat out of the water, but the fire had failed.

Our heroes found a paper trail — it was one of Duke Gaspar De Avicco's vessels, and then they fled, reigniting the barrels and watching it erupt from afar. Our heroes returned to Dustmere, Moxie finished making her mask from the Prophet of Dust's skull fragments. Eugene managed to awaken his strange artefact, the Enriver's Lexicon, and Sentinel checked in with Zeal after he was caught by the madness on the boat. Ora and Freya used the remaining light to visit the forge where Ora spoke with his old boss and friend, and then the Chapel of the Dawn Chorus where, on the Prelate's records, Freya saw a name she hadn't seen for a long time. That night, the group was finally reunited.

But all was not so well. Ahmaya and Freya suspected a new half-elf who worked behind the bar at the Coal and Petal Inn, and after confronting him, the man disappeared. Sentinel suspected spies, for them and Moxie or for Ora, they were all unsure. But the ball approached, the Dukes' plots continued, and our heroes still needed a way in…

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!

A message from a familiar Pirate Dragonborn woke Ahmaya with a favour. There was a ship abandoned near Dustmere port, and there were bad things aboard. Our heroes were already suspicious about Duke Gaspar De Avicco, suspecting this ship to be one he had used to smuggle coilstones. They had 12 hours before the information would go public, so they took to seas and soon realised the ship was not all that it seemed.

A ritual had taken place aboard the vessel, leaving a scar on the ship, a curse that ate away at our heroes' minds. Below deck, bodies were stacked around a circle of old symbols and in the centre was a stool bearing a burn-mark like a coal had rested on its top. A boat approached, and our heroes raced to find evidence. They discovered the captain's body away in a large bench, along with papers identifying the ship as one of Gaspar De Avicco's.

They found the unburned casks of alchemical grain alcohol someone had attempted to use to incinerate the ship, and they took the opportunity to blast the ship from the water. Returning to Dustmere, they reunited with Ora, where he spoke of his own revelations, and they regrouped to prepare for the last few days before the Duke's Ball…

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!

Doranna, the pirate dragonborn, a lithe lizard of a man our heroes met in a desert outpost, contacted Ahmaya. A vessel was adrift close to Dustmere port – bad things aboard, he said. And after confirming with a contact from the port Master's office, our heroes were given 12 hours to get to the boat and investigate before the information would be released as public knowledge.

Driven by their suspicion of the ship being one of Duke Gaspar's lost vessels he'd used to smuggle coilstones, they flew to the port by carriage. Leaving Ora behind to stir from a strange vision that had consumed him for days.

There was something wrong with the ship. Dead fish surrounded it, birds dove to feed but never resurfaced. On the main deck they discovered a body tattooed with heretical marks, bastardisations of the Three Churches of the Apotheos. They found more bodies… and more. A circle of sigils, and a similarly tattooed man on the edge of dying. 

They saved him. He muttered "Apoptosaliss", told them to seek out The Disciple, and to bear witness to their creation in Dustmere soon. Then he plunged a quill deep into his eye…

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!

After twining themselves in the many threads of conspiracy in the desert city of Dustmere, our heroes concluded the theft at the archivists to be an inside job. The only other evidence being a note in which the writer referred to themselves as "becoming unconsecrated".

In the early hours of the next morning, Ahmaya was awoken by the sending of a familiar Dragonborn Pirate – there was a ship stranded close the Dustmere port… bad things aboard. After tracking down a port contact, our heroes believed it could be one of Duke De Avicco's – and they had only 12 hours before the sighting would go public.

With the Dawn moon of Juness lighting the shallow roof tops of Dustmere, our heroes set out by carriage to the port. And then by smuggler out to sea. The vessel was huge, smoking, and drifting. They sailed to it through calm water, through dead fish and seagulls…

But Ora was not there. Because for over two days he had been lost in an unwaking sleep… and in that time, he had dreamed…

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!

Navigating the tangling conspiracies in the desert city of Dustmere, our heroes took a job investigating a robbery at the Archivist's Guild. After picking through evidence in the stacks, they homed in on a lead – a member of the Guild itself - and chased them to their residents in the cobbled roads and grand estates of the Glitters.

But on arrival, their chaperone from the guild, Ryndell turned on them to seemingly protect or steal evidence and a fiery battle ensued that left the building ablaze. Ryndell fled with a strange teleportation magic, but our heroes were not left empty handed. A note referring being "unconsecrated" and Ryndell's actions all but confirmed they were right about the robbery.

Wrapping up the case, they returned to their friend Caxaria's hideout, where they wrestled with what the dukes we're up to, and what this new evidence, a group "unconsecrated", really meant. Then, there was a knock at the door…

Big shoutout to The DM Next Door & his new podcast, The Goblins Pockets - a new podcast reviewing all things D&D & TTRPG so go check them out!

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!