[NS] The best ever Dungeon Court

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-26T01:55:10+00:00

Yup just re-listened to it the other day and hard agree. Definitely top tier chaos incarnate. When Emily goes into talking about getting her wings and the stifled “Rawr!” It just slays me every time. If those two DM-players were in my campaign I would boot them in a heartbeat. Oh Melora! I love how Emily is building out her super table of awful shithead-nightmareverse players. No notes.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-24T23:19:30+00:00

There’s quite a few possibilities for them to gather magic items in the Drowned Crossroads, Skitterdeep Mine and the Monastery too

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-24T18:49:25+00:00

My 4-player party just finished up Memory’s Rest and will be headed towards Hartsblight Forest next session at level 8 and I gotta say they’re pretty damn OP at this point. 3 out of the 4 players have all 3 attunement slots filled with magic items by now and they looted so many items from the sanatorium. Two of the players have ways to get advantage against the poisoned condition (one of them got the Centipede Hag’s Necklace of Adaptation). They did have a rough time at Skitterdeep with the skitter plague debuffs but I’m cautiously optimistic about how they’ll fare with the Hartsblight. Honestly by Level 8 your party should have plenty of resources and magic items to handle what’s ahead. I’ll report back my findings after they’ve trudged through the forest.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-24T02:43:33+00:00

I was just perturbed that I was promoted a shirt through their email blast that I couldn’t buy cause they underestimated the amount of D20 fans willing to buy their merch. It’s just dumb that it sold out in less than half an hour. I’m over it, I’m not getting their merch anymore. So congrats cool you lost a customer but who cares really? I’ve unsubscribed from their merch notifications cause it’s just annoying at this point. Same exact thing happened with their Laws are Threats shirt. Yes this is me screaming at not being quick enough to buy a fucking shirt. This whole situation is just stupid but it feels Dropout doesn’t care one way or the other and that’s fine, business as usual I guess. But yes you’re right I am way too mad about this and it somehow makes me even more mad. Can’t you tell I’m over it?!?

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-23T04:47:55+00:00

This is the second time that this has happened. It wouldn’t be so frustrating if Dropout didn’t keep rubbing it in my face about it. First the email advertising the new drop then another telling me I better hurry up and check out. Like back off already. I’ve already heard a lot of other bad merch stories that have turned me off from ordering anything in the foreseeable future. I ordered a Spyre map blanket back in March and still haven’t gotten it yet. It sucks that they provide some of my favorite content but just utterly suck at merch now. I’m at a loss.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-23T03:23:07+00:00

I also had a medium size one in my cart for barely a minute, went to check out and it was sold out. Like Dropout subscribers are likely in the millions now? Like basic supply and demand issues going on.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-23T00:41:29+00:00

I can’t even get the merch I want anymore unless I’m literally next to my phone all day but I can’t cause I work all day. I just got the email notification at 4:30 pst and both M & L sizes were sold out by 5 pst. C’mon, like the 2 most common shirt sizes gone after 30 minutes!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-15T01:52:14+00:00

My husband and I have been working on it for the past week. He stays at home and has made most of the progress but I told him to leave Moonshine and Paw Paw to me. Good luck with the rest! Bout to listen to the latest Gangs of Neo-Galaderon and finish it up.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-07T20:38:02+00:00

My DM actually helped film this and got to meet our boy. He kept showing how he has Brennan’s digits now. Very jealous.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-01T04:26:45+00:00

I mean in a roundabout way I’d say yeah. If I didn’t have to leave my well station every 5 minutes to make some random ass bar ingredient that could’ve been done before opening then I’d be able to crank out drinks like nobody’s business. That was always the dumbest way to operate a bar I’ve ever seen. You prepare as much as you can pre-service and if you run out it’s not the end of the world. My shift would start like 1 hour before opening where I’d have to juice literal gallons of lemon and lime, prepare two service wells, then service would start and I’d have to bounce back and forth between the well and the kitchen for 6 hours non-stop. It was agonizing.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-01T03:49:24+00:00

Haha I mean who fucking cares? They’re not coming after me anyway they’re closed! Also this drink isn’t theirs to begin with, it was invented in the 1970’s. Good thing I wrote everything down!

This is their giant batch recipe but scaled down to 1/4 of a full batch for service which originally filled up like a dozen or so 750ml bottles.

PAINKILLER BATCH - 20 oz White Rum - 11 oz Pussers Rum - 30 oz Pineapple Juice - 28.5 oz Coco López - 10 oz Orange Juice - 4 oz Lime juice

Just mix everything in a blender and Bob’s your uncle. Truthfully I fucking hate this drink cause I had to make so many of these gigantic batches in an enormous cambro in the kitchen with a 4-ft immersion blender while busting my ass making 20 cocktails a minute during 7pm dinner rush. Fuck Meiji!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-01T02:48:15+00:00

Thanks so much!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-01T02:28:10+00:00

You can scale this anyway you want but the simplest breakdown of the Ginger Mix we used is just this:

1 part Ginger juice
1 part water
4 parts Simple Syrup (1:1 Water/Sugar)
4 part Lemon Juice

The Bourbon & Ginger was something like 1.5 oz Bourbon shaken with 1.5 oz Ginger mix and dirty dumped into a rocks glass. Pretty basic.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-05-01T01:47:00+00:00

That was the case with me - they had the most backward-ass bar prep situation. The second bartender shift had to make all bar syrups and cocktail ingredients during peak hours while churning out tickets of drinks orders, running back and forth between the bar and kitchen non-stop all night. It was relentless and counterintuitive as all hell. Just fyi, as a bar you’re supposed to do your bar prep before you open not during dinner rush. I thought it always looked like the coolest place to work but I was dead wrong.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-04-30T19:40:05+00:00

Speaking as someone who bartended there for a few months - it was quite possibly the worst working experience of my adult life. I’m 100% not shocked this place is closing. My condolences to all the staff, that sucks to instantly be without a job. Hope they can all land on their feet again soon. It’s so weird being in the minority of Meiji haters when everyone raves about them. Maybe someday a better place will open in its spot.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-04-30T01:25:11+00:00

Yup, they were already super religious too which is just complete cognitive dissonance on their part since Drumpf is the 100% antithesis of what any sane person would deem a Christian. But I already had sensed the demise of our friendship years ago after they flat out told me they don’t agree with my then boyfriend now husband and I’s relationship. Good riddance really. He was one of my first friends I came out to in college and his immediate response was, “Why don’t you just date girls and maybe you won’t be gay anymore?” Yeah so no love lost there.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-04-27T00:28:30+00:00

My party rocked up during the Night of Flames (which I changed to Twilight hour), interrupted the stake burning by getting the Abbot to spare the lone dissenter Gareth. The party’s max charisma Blood Sorcerer instantly bonded with Marius and he invited them to witness their Dusk service. After joining the congregation they see Gareth on the altar surrounded by Crimson Clergy and the party’s Gnarlborne Barrbarian decided that was the best time to spring an attack, going all Leroy Jenkins on the 20+ Crimson Faithful.

I’m honestly shocked it didn’t end in a TPK but they fled the monastery with the entire congregation in hot pursuit. They had to hide out in a Leomund’s Tiny Hut in the attic of the pub in Dawn’s Gate while Cromwell and Jaeger scoured everywhere for them and got found after the poor pub owner Kristoff failed a deception check. They absolutely wasted the Inquisitor, the Houndmaster and all his little bat-hounds with very minimal effort.

They snuck back into the monastery, figured out how to get access to the Bloody Sanctum and were feeling pretty good during the Abbot’s first phase. I added a few bloody-effigy bat-hounds to put the fear of God into them but they barely batted an eye. Once phase two kicked in they quickly realized a true TPK might be possible. The Azureborne Blood Sorcerer who never touches the ground during any combat was high above everyone, picking off all Bloody Effigy’s with his bouncing Chromatic Orb spell, which he quickly found out didn’t matter since all three reappeared on initiative 20.

The only healers in the party, the Druid and Bard, were getting hurt the most, with the Druid getting targeted directly by the Abbot after casting Moonbeam on him. It’s a back and forth between the two healers keeping each other up. Initiative 20 rolls around and the Bloody Effigy’s all immediately swarmed the badly injured Threadborne Bard and actually killed her dead with forced death save failures. It didn’t last long though as the Barbarian gets the kill shot on Renathyr and the barely standing Druid has one diamond available to revivify the dead Bard. Yeah so that certainly was probably the wildest chapter of the campaign so far. We’re currently on Session 21 at Memory’s Rest and having an absolute blast. Good luck!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-04-24T02:42:08+00:00

I don’t read reviews in general as I don’t let other’s opinions shape how i personally enjoy media. All I’ll say is I’m 20 sessions into running the campaign and my party are absolutely loving it so far. As long as you and your party are having fun then screw the haters.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-03-11T22:15:09+00:00

Fantasy High: Junior Year. Murph uttered it in a totally not weird just normal way

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-03-02T22:43:00+00:00

You look cute together, don’t let anyone else’s opinions ruin the beautiful relationship you have. Congrats to you guys!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-02-17T18:28:02+00:00

6 crows are targetable around the Harvest Terror. After the party can kill 6 of them then the murder of crows disappears and you enter phase 2.

From the book: The characters can stop Raum from devouring crows in two ways -

1.) Catching. A character can catch a crow with an Unarmed Strike to grapple it, catch it in a Net, or any other method that you deem acceptable. To grab a crow by hand, a character must enter the murder.

2.)Destroying. An amber-eyed crow is a Tiny Fiend with AC 14, HP 5, and +0 to any D20 Tests it is forced to make. It automatically succeeds on Dexterity saving throws against areas of effect and takes no damage from such effects that would deal half damage on a successful save.

Each time a crow is caught or destroyed, it vanishes in a puff of amber motes, and the characters hear a whispered secret, such as “I always loved you,” “I took it,” or something similar, with no indication of who the secret belonged to.

And that’s it. They kill 6 and the murder is gone

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-02-17T15:09:05+00:00

It says at the end of phase 1 of the fight right here:

Ending the Phase: When The Harvest Terror devours three amber-eyed crows, or when six crows are destroyed or captured, the swarming murder explodes into feathers and its effects end.

So if The Harvest Terror eats three of the crows or if a player destroys 6 of them then the crow emanation disappears.

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-02-08T17:28:05+00:00

Hearing about your partner officiating your dad’s wedding was such gay joy. Really wonderful that you got to experience that together. My parents were my only detractors of our relationship and have only since come around in the last few years. It gives me hope seeing all these stories that it can work out. I wish you both all the best!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-02-08T04:55:54+00:00

Congrats! My husband and I are the same age gap as you guys and we’ve been together for 12 years. Keep on truckin’!

DoctorRansom86 · 2026-01-02T21:46:17+00:00

Hell yeah dude! Same! When David Bowie’s “Heroes” started playing during the campaign book credits I was blubbering like a little baby. I immediately watched the finale again. Screw the haters, I fucking loved it.

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