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"The Web is wide."
"And its eyes are as to the stars in the sky."

Natural Six👁 Image
is a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Editionnote mostly using the 2014 ruleset, but with some elements from the 2024 version thrown in Actual Play, available in podcast form and with video on YouTube. Session Zero was uploaded in October 2023, and regular episodes began airing in April the next year.

The campaign is set in the world of Reliquiae, a plane of existence created after a great war between the gods, who had divided into three factions: the Good "Virtuous", the Evil "Vile", and the Chaotic "Wild". After the Virtuous won, they transformed Sentiasa, as the world had then been known, into a place where mortals could thrive. Yet with mortality comes imperfection, and shadowy organisations began to emerge within Reliqiae. One such organisation is the Web, which purports to be able to offer any service and achieve any goal, for the right price. And if you cannot pay in money, you pay in time, which is how our protagonists find themselves brought together.

It features a custom homebrew mechanic, the Deck of Many Friends. In dire circumstances, a character can use their reaction to call on the Deck, drawing one card from the physical prop in order to replace their, an ally's, or an enemy's d20 roll with whatever number is on the card. Each card also has a secondary effect, which will side with whoever benefitted from the new roll, meaning it can turn a bad situation great... or far, far worse. After seeing use, the card is destroyed.

The cast are:

  • Aoife Wilson as Dolly DeWinter, a tiefling Bard (College of Whispers)
  • Alex Jordan as I, a kobold Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
  • Doug Cockle as Kelnys, a gold dragonborn Druid (Circle of Wildfire)note with some features taken from the 2024 ruleset
  • Hollie Bennett as Endellion Rinnan, a human Fighter (Champion)note pretty much exclusively using the 2024 ruleset
  • Ben Starr as Raidion Thornbear, a wood-elf Wizard (School of Enchantment)
  • Harry McEntire as the Dungeon Master

Episodes are uploaded bi-weekly on Tuesdays (UK time); every other week (or at the same time as main episodes for Patrons), a post-show, "Action Surge", is uploaded, discussing behind-the-scenes details of the preceding episode.


Natural Six contains examples of:

  • invokedAccidental Innuendo: Lampshaded at their PAX East 2025 live show, where Kel asks, after meeting Guest-Star Party Member Dasha, Anjali Bhimani's very attractive dragonborn, if there's somewhere he can get a taco around here.
    Dasha: Is that a euphemism?
    Dolly: Believe it or not, it isn't.
    Kelnys: Two things can be true at once.
  • Actor Allusion:
    • Several for Doug's role as Geralt of Rivia, including Alex giving him a significant look in one episode after Harry narrates that the "wind's howling", episode 15 being called "Blood, Wine, and Moonlight", and Kel declaring that a fresh, natural scent is like "lilac and gooseberries".
    • In their promotional livestream for Magic: The Gathering, Ben ends up summoning an ifrit, and, after pressure from the other players, gives the weakest "come to me, Ifrit" ever. He's promptly met with Aoife jokingly wondering how he ever got the role of Clive.
    • Alex is the GM for their promotional video for The Alters due to his role as main character Jan Dolski in that game. (Although it tips over into more of a straight-up reference when Alex directly mentions said role in the introduction to the video.) When Jan prime calls up Maxwell, Doug temporarily switches from playing Botanist!Jan to playing Maxwell, as he does in the game.
    • At the start of Episode 33, Alex jokes that it's their Expedition 33, which Ben is very quick to point out was many people's game of the year. Hollie then adds, "Unless it's The Alters."
  • Achievements in Ignorance: When I rolls a natural 1 on a solo scouting mission, the cast jokes that he gets so lost, he ends up in the Feywild, crossing the Alanites by mistake.
  • Adam Westing: The cast generally do this in their ad spots, with Ben playing himself as incredibly horny, Aoife playing herself as incredibly vain, Alex playing himself as incredibly distractable, and so on.
  • All There in the Manual: The official website👁 Image
    includes some extra lore, including a full map of the world (also occasionally shown in the episodes themselves) and a full glossary, which contains some bonus information in some of its entries, such as the offices, holy symbols, and sacred texts of each god.
  • Ambiguous Syntax: Aoife Plays it for Laughs (in that she knows what the answer is already) in Episode 44, when Harry's rolling damage against Dolly:
    Harry: Ooh, that's good.
    Aoife: For me, or for [the attacker]?
    Harry: Never for you!
  • Animal Companion:
    • Kelnys, as a Circle of Wildfire Druid, can summon a Wildfire Spirit to fight in battle alongside him. It manifests as a pine marten called Hank. He also has the spells "Summon Beast" and "Conjure Animals" (the 2024 version), which he uses to summon spectral wolf cubs (in the case of the former, one named Callum).
    • One of the spells I picks up at level 7 as an Arcane Trickster is "Find Familiar", which he uses to summon a burrowing owl called U.
  • Anthropic Principle: Discussed in Action Surge 47. When Harry reflects on Raidion's conversation with Smoss the cook, who suddenly began waxing somewhat poetic on life in Talisca, he notes that there's an impulse as a DM to make every NPC conversation interesting and unique, and questions whether that would actually have been in-character for her. Ben counters that the fact that they're roleplaying the conversation in the first place indicates that this particular interaction must be special, because otherwise, why would they be focusing on it? He then points out that we can probably assume that the characters must have dozens of mundane, trivial interactions with each other, and sometimes with other characters, daily, and we just never see those because (unless it's a deliberate subversion as a joke) they're just not interesting for the players or audience to witness or participate in.
  • Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: One of the statues in the Temple of the Once Wild shows what whoever sees it considers "unfathomable beauty". Kel sees his childhood love, Dolly sees someone kind and open who will never betray her, I sees the rest of the party, Elowen sees a maternal ancestor who she had always looked up to as an image of strength from a painting of her, and Raidion sees a vague recollection of someone with golden hair from his past that he can't quite bring into focus, as it were.
  • Arbitrary Scepticism:
    • Raidion briefly displays this in Episode 44, and promptly gets called out for it:
      Raidion: It's a sword. Are you saying that a sword is making her have bad dreams?
      I: You has cards that speaks to you.
    • He does it again in Episode 48, asking if they're really thinking breaking crystals will make everyone in Talisca feel happy again. Dolly is the one to point out the hypocrisy this time, echoing I exactly.
    • Played for Laughs in Episode 50 when Dolly's sceptical about... if you can make linen into something that mimics chiffon (echoing Aoife's own reticence to make clothes solely out of cotton and linen in the prior Action Surge). This time, Harry delivers the line about speaking cards, in-character as Heaton, and then questions how Heaton knew that.
  • Arc Words:
    • “The Web is wide” and “The shadow will flood”, throughout the campaign. Also “The briar will hold”, although it comes up far less often.
    • Specific to the first arc (up to episode 13) are "the gods are dead" and "what is beyond the Alanites?"
    • “Tribe” is one for I specifically.
  • Artefact of Doom: Lilith's greatsword deals necrotic as well as slashing damage. After Elowen takes it, she starts having nightmares telling her not to trust the party, and starts hearing what sounds like her voice in her head telling her to keep it and worrying the party will take it from her. It also seems to prevent her from attacking at crucial moments.
  • Artistic License – History: In the 2025 Christmas Episode, Fudgey (Ben) claims to have been in Las Vegas for centuries. Alex immediately points out that that implies she spent a lot of time just standing in the desert, in the middle of nowhere, as Las Vegas isn't that old (it was founded in 1905).
  • Atrocious Alias: When they have to come up with aliases at various points, Kel calls himself "Steve Chase" and Dolly calls herself "Pamela". I calling himself "Me", on the other hand Zigzags this trope — while it is quite a basic nickname, it shows a high level of creativity for a kobold.
  • Author Avatar: Jokingly Discussed in Action Surge at one point, where Harry declares that in episode 200, he'll introduce a character called "Marry NanEntire" who's level 30, rolls 38 on initiative, kills the whole party immediately with a somehow duplicated Power Word: Kill, and then everyone will compliment the character's good looks and say he should be cast in Triple-A games.
  • Badass Family: The Grēnweard family definitely qualify. Eiddon, Caelen, Derwen, and Elowen are all powerful frontline fighters, Celyn is a brilliant shot with his crossbow, Torian is a reasonably powerful Cleric and acquits himself surprisingly well in melee when push comes to shove (and later, in Episode 44, manages to recover startlingly quickly from the shock of being knocked unconscious in battle for the first time ever, although understandably he nearly collapses afterwards), and Riodhr is also implied to have been quite the fighter in his day as well. Lasota and Isolde tend more towards diplomacy, but are also clearly strong women in their own way. Even Dwty, their dog, is a frontline fighter (although he doesn't have to ever show it off due to how well the Battle for Mouse ends up going).
  • Bewitched Amphibians: The first time Raidion uses the Polymorph spell is to transform a gigantic monstrous frog into a small harmless frog.
  • The Big Race: Talisca has the Run, a regatta contested between the city's four districts. The party ends up getting roped into running for the Narrowings, who haven't won a race for roughly 30 years.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: The party's job in the Deference is this: while the Antiqua are the world's most powerful Clerics (mechanically, all of them are level 20), they put aside magic and take bodyguards with them for the journey to symbolise their humility before the gods who gave them their magic. Even without it, however, several are formidable warriors in their own right (thanks to their subclasses), and all of them severely outclass the level 3 PCs.
  • Body Horror: The somnium strain the party encounters in the Mother forest can embed itself in and take over people's bodies, resulting in lots of this trope.
  • Brief Accent Imitation: Harry starts episode 22 with an imitation of Doug, before going into impressions of the rest of the cast. They range from quite good (Doug and Alex) to identifiable but incorrect accents (he does a Welsh accent for Hollie, who is Welsh but speaks with an English accent, and a pirate accent for Aoife — the stereotypical pirate accent is West Country, not Irish), to What the Hell Is That Accent? (Ben, whose speech Harry renders as incomprehensible grunting).
  • Came Back Wrong: When Knox was planning to ascend, it’s unlikely he intended to come back as an eight foot tall mushroom man.
  • The Cameo: Each card in the Deck of Many Friends was designed from someone famous in the tabletop or video gaming sphere, who the cast will call out when their card is revealed. They put a full list of the contributors on social media👁 Image
    , and it includes the entire cast of Oxventure, Matthew Mercer, Anjali Bhimani, and Sam Lake, among many others.
  • Character Title: Several episodes get named after individual characters or whole groups of them, albeit obliquely:
    • Episode 3, "Oathbreaker", is Morgan, who abandons his oath to Ignas after her death.
    • Episode 4, "The Newly Dead", is the party, who have faked their deaths at Jasme's hands.
    • Episode 5, "The Girl in the Cell", is Medea, who the party have to bust out of Baruun jail in this episode.
    • Episode 7, "The Spider and the Flies", is, respectively, the Spider Prince, and the party forced to obey him.
    • Episode 9, "The Prisoner in the Attic", is Rashid, kept prisoner by Medea.
    • Episode 12, "Flies in the Ointment", is the party again, having broken free from the Web, going from flies trapped by them and dancing to their tune, to flies in the ointment spoiling their plans.
    • Episode 13, "The God Killers", is the party once again, as named by Barabask.
    • Episode 22, "Son of the Treespeaker", is Kelnys, after his adopted father's title.
    • Episode 29, "The Midnight Moon", is Dolly; specifically, a nickname given to her by Knox, and now the title given to her by the cult he founded.
    • Episode 43, "The Last Light", is the party once more, being the name they choose to adopt in their letter to Baruun's side of the Civil War as Hope Bringers.
    • Episode 45, "The Last Ride of Calypso Moonrise", is named in part after Raidion's short-legged, thin-backed horse Polymorph form, which he gives this name in the episode (it was previously referred to as "Li'l Raidion"). Hollie then jokes that Episode 46 should be called "The Return of Calypso Moonrise", although it doesn't end up being used as the title.
  • Chekhov's Gun: In Episode 36, when the party enters the caves that form the threshold of the Old Dark, I picks up a particularly nice gem and deliberately stores it in a pouch full of somnium. 12 episodes later, he hands it over to Atticus Winter, a jeweller who he suspects of knowing more than he's letting on, and blows the spores directly into his face, causing him to tell all.
  • City of Canals: Talisca is built on the confluence of several rivers, with more canals dug to connect them. As such, it's built across several islands, with bridges connecting them. One of its biggest annual events is a boat race throughout the waterways.
  • Civil War: At some point between episode 22 (the party's last contact with civilisation proper) and episode 39 (when they find out), the Council of Baruun defies Barabask, prompting him and the Fortis Legion to declare war on them.
  • Cliffhanger: Several episodes end on one, including:
    • Episode 1 - The god Aurum is dead, with no sign of the other deities.
    • Episode 13 - Barabask proclaims the deaths of the gods, pronounces himself the new god, broadcasts the names and descriptions of the party and denounces them as "god-killers", and reveals that two more Antiqua have died, along with Jasme, who he likely had murdered for letting the party go.
    • Episode 21 - "Dolus" reveals himself to actually be Yilder/the Wasp, who had led the party members into a trap, and teleports away leaving them facing down six angry members of the Fortis Legion.
    • Episode 43 - An assassin shoots two crossbow bolts into Torian's neck, without the party being able to do anything.
  • Clingy MacGuffin: The Deck of Many Friends will not leave Raidion's pack, no matter what he does to try and get rid of or destroy it.
  • Companion Show: Each episode is followed by Action Surge, a show focused on talking with the players and dissecting what just happened, as well as giving behind the scenes info.
  • Contrived Coincidence: In Episode 46, I sneaks up to the belltower of the Brass Buckle tavern, spots the bell-pull, and rings it. Harry rules that this happens at the same time as the rest of the party is introduced to the Elders' forum, leading to a very dramatic entrance.
  • The Corruption: The plague creating the black, darkened area on the peak of Mt. Atria causes its victims to temporarily become more powerful, but to slowly lose their maximum hitpoints until it is cured.
  • Couch Gag: The way Harry says "Welcome to Natural Six" and "Action Surge!" at the start of every (main and companion, respectively) episode changes each time. The start of Action Surge Episode 10 is completely different, showing the players coming back into the room after Harry kicked all of them out to deliver a private message to Dolly and then ended the episode there, followed by him surprising them by going straight into Action Surge.
  • Cross-Cultural Handshake: The kobold greeting ritual begins with one kobold holding their hand out, palm up, and the second kobold reaching out to touch it. I's attempts to greet non-kobolds this way tend to result in Greeting Gesture Confusion.
  • Cult: The Children of the Midnight Moon, which is centered on an isolated compound in the Sister Forest, and is led by a charismatic leader who controls the Children through strategic application of the carrot, the stick, and a plentiful supply of psychotropic mushrooms that grow in the area and form a central part of the cult's rituals. Pretty much a Scam Religion — the founder is a criminal fugitive who's shamelessly manipulating his followers to amass wealth and power, and his teachings are almost entirely deliberate falsehoods — but it does turn out to have a kernel of truth: he really is communing with something through the mushrooms, and his belief that he will shortly transcend his human form is genuine.
  • Decomposite Character: Or a Decomposite Language. In standard D&D lore, kobolds' native tongue is just Draconic. In Reliquiae, Kobold is a separate dialect of Draconic — close enough to be mutually intelligible, but separate enough that the speech of a kobold speaking Standard Draconic sounds just as broken as when they're speaking Common (and conversely, Standard Draconic sounds stilted and formal to a kobold).
  • Detective Mole: When investigating the strange magical apathy hanging over Talisca, the party are told that a jeweller by the name of Atticus Winter might be able to help them. It turns out that he was forced to help the people who created the spell, a fact that I quickly puzzles out when he notices that the character in question is far too nervous about what should be a simple, routine task for him (examining one of the gems responsible for the spell).
  • Diegetic Switch: Downplayed at the start of Episode 24, where as the theme tune starts playing, the cast start (deliberately poorly) singing along to it, before they fade out, leaving just the theme.
  • DMPC: Discussed with regards to Morgan and later Parvus, who are built like player characters, controlled by Harry, and get to make death saving throws (not normally given to NPCs), in Morgan's case on the spur of the moment after the party shows enough attachment to him. In the episodes of Action Surge when he's present in the party, Harry states that he's trying to avoid Morgan falling into this trope, and he succeeds for the whole duration; the same issue is discussed with regards to Parvus.
  • Doorstopper: Implied by the official glossary, where Ignas' sacred texts are stated to be called "Imloss Alvar's Treatises on Ignas, Volumes I-XVI".
  • Dwindling Party: The Antiqua rapidly start to become this after the deaths of the gods. Damilo dies of Rapid Aging on the journey down Mt Atria; Grawnoth is murdered by Medea after being weakened by age; Arbuthnot and Malakine both die of old age sometime between that and the Battle of Mouse; Carvilius dies from seemingly a combination of age and injuries sustained from Barabask's control over her forcing her to fight the party; and Parvus is killed by the Gloam and Knox. As of episode 31, only 3 members — less than half — are left.
  • Epic Fail: In Episode 42, Kelnys leaves Dolly and Elowen alone to make herbed bread. As neither of them have made bread before, Harry has them roll with disadvantage; a 3 and a 6 later, they decide to put all the salt in a well in the centre of the dough and then stick the herbs into the surface like a hedgehog's quills. When Kel discovers what they've done, it's too late for him to salvage it (although it's still bread of a sort, which is more than enough for the starving people they're baking for).
  • Episode Zero: The Beginning: The group's Session Zero (a common practice in tabletop games, to see if everyone understands their characters, can work well together, fit into the world, etc.) was uploaded as Episode 0. It's not considered Episode 1 for two reasons: it's a relatively self-contained story, and when it was uploaded it was uncertain if the show would get any more episodes due to it only just having been launched on Kickstarter.
  • Establishing Character Moment:
    • The Deck of Many Friends, and the characters within, get two. First, after the Deck is established as this unusual, unknown, scary thing in the preceding episodes, Raidion finally draws from it in Episode 13, summoning Ravenna to soften Morgan's attack against Dolly and create a swarm of ravens to attack him, showing the party for the first time what this artefact is truly capable of. Then, in Episode 17, on his very next draw he gets Erastus, who only makes the situation worse, nearly claiming Raidion's soul for himself, and showing that the Deck is not a tool solely to be trusted.
    • Harry, in Action Surge, describes the flaming bales of cloth in the Clothfields in this manner: a quick, easy way to show the sorts of chaos produced by the Talisca Run, while at the same time being mechanically not too bad to deal with so the players are eased into it.
  • Exact Words: Erastus Gracey is owed a life after Raidion managed to barely escape him. The fact that he is owed "a" life, and not necessarily Raidion’s, is exploited repeatedly: first by Raidion to change the target to Dolly, then by the rest of the Newly Dead to change the target to Knox, then by Erastus himself to change the target to Endellion (although that one doesn’t stick).
  • The Expy With No Name: Rahul Kohli's character for the Deck of Many Friends is a nameless cowboy figure (with a crossbow instead of a gun, as befits the technology level of the setting).
  • Extremely Short Timespan: Harry notes in Action Surge 45 that, according to the audience, it's only been about a month since the campaign began by that point. He theorises that this is in part because he doesn't like glossing over multiple days of travel in a couple of sentences, which means that they instead play out travel in its entirety, which forces travel times to be shorter to keep it interesting.
  • Fantastic Drug: Somnium, a mushroom which induces hallucinations and sleep when ingested. It's used both for rituals (Kelnys' induction into his druidic circle involved partaking of it) and leisure. Some say the visions show you different times or places, others say the visions are meaningless and consumption will ruin your life (Dolly is firmly in the latter camp). Overconsumption and addiction lead to gauntness, emaciation, and a withdrawal from the world. Kobolds are completely immune to its effects, registering it as merely a strong smell.
  • First-Episode Twist: The first official episode (as opposed to episode 0 and their live show episode 0.5) ends on the revelation that Aurum, god of the dragonborn, is dead. Episode 2 then reveals that almost all the other Virtuous are dead as well, with the possible exception of Themself, god of the kobolds.
  • Flesh Golem: In episode 20, the party fights a flesh golem stitched together out of an assortment of body parts and reanimated with dark magic.
  • Foreshadowing: When Kelnys first disguises himself with his pendant, Dolus has a very strong reaction to the transformation. This initially seems to be just a reaction to how obviously powerful the magic is (as it would indeed much later be revealed that the pendant formerly belonged to Themself), but it turns out a few episodes later that the reaction was actually due to Doug coincidentally describing Kel taking on an appearance very similar to that of Yilder, Dolus' true identity.
  • Forest of Perpetual Autumn: Each of the Four Forests is perpetually in one season. The Mother Forest fits this trope, while the Wise is winter, the Child is spring, and the Sister is summer.
  • Frame-Up: At the end of episode 13, the party are accused of killing the gods and being the leaders of the Gloam.
  • Fruit Cart: When Dolly, I, and Raidion decide to race up to the Temple of the Once Wild in Talisca, Dolly's hired carriage naturally smashes through one, leading to oranges, chickens, and cabbages scattering across the road.
  • Godzilla Threshold: The first time the Deck of Many Friends is drawn from is after Morgan scores a crit on Dolly. Harry elaborated in Action Surge that the attack would have at least knocked her unconscious, if not outright killed her, and the Deck saved her.
  • Groin Attack: During the Talisca Run, Raidion insists on using the ballistae of the Gander's Grace to repeatedly target rival captain Eryk to knock him over, specifically aiming for his penis each time. Eryk retaliates in the same fashion.
  • Hate Sink: Knox, as a textbook case of an emotional abuser, is designed to be as hateable as possible: blaming Dolly and the party for his horrendous treatment of them (including killing Parvus); playing the victim himself in an attempt to justify his past crimes; considering himself a god and building a Cult around himself and Dolly; forcing Celandine into being a substitute Dolly; getting crowds of people addicted to somnium; conspiring with the Gloam to subjugate Baruun... Harry describes him as one of his favourite characters to play, but absolutely his least favourite character as a person.
  • Have You Seen My God?: For the first few arcs, Themself, god of the kobolds, is unaccounted for, their whereabouts unknown. This is still a better situation than that of any other Virtuous, who are all dead.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In episode 39, Themself gives up their life to seal the rift to the Shadowfell opened by the Spinner and remove their concentrated power from the caves so that it cannot be drawn on to create another. In the process, they give some of their power to the party, allowing them to see some of Themself's memories and to gain new strength.
  • Holding the Floor: The main issue in Yannick takes this form — the House of Learned Friends, the local "university", is taking the township's direct democracy as an opportunity to practice their oratory skills, leading to nothing ever actually getting voted on. The party's task is to get them to allow a vote to proceed.
  • Hold Your Hippogriffs: Harry states in Episode 34 that the Reliquiae equivalent of "go fuck yourself" is "go scale the Alanites", because the mountains are quite literally unscalable.
  • Improbable Power Discrepancy: Discussed in Action Surge at one point, where Harry notes that, for the sake of encounter balancing, he had to make Iago, a criminal in a small town in the middle of nowhere (but fought at level 6), way stronger than Jasme, one of Barabask's most trusted (and thus likely most powerful) subordinates (but fought at level 4, with her guards), despite that not making much sense. Ben notes that for him it actually made Iago a more effective Hate Sink, as he had all this power which he could have used for good but was instead using it for petty extortion.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: This is commonly Dolly and Endellion's attitudes after a tough encounter or shenanigans from their fellow party members.
    Endellion: Trust me, it's better for everyone if Dolly and Inote the her, not the kobold have a wine fund.
  • I Resemble That Remark!: Hollie manages to pull this on herself at one point:
    Hollie: [Rolling damage on her longbow] Why are d8s always so hard to find?
    Harry: Yeah. For instance, that's a d10.
  • Ironic Name: The Grēnweard dog is called Dwty — Welsh for "Small". While it's noted to have once been apt, he's now big enough to put his front paws on Elowen's shoulders when both are standing, and to be able to hold his own in battle.
  • I Would Say If I Could Say: Harry, when attempting to describe the facial expressions of the spectral forms of Kelnys' biological parents, realises that "inhuman" doesn't technically work. He briefly tries "un-dragonborn", before settling on "inhuman" anyway.
  • Killer DM: Harry likes to joke about being this, but isn't actually. For instance, when he realises everyone forgot to account for the NPC Parvus at the start of Episode 24 when the party is trying to deceive the Gloam, he admits it was as much on him as anyone else and rules that the character's just next to I, a logical spot for him to be; however, he then jokes about having "got" the players, complete with faux-Evil Gloating.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Consciously Defied. The glossary is structured so that you can filter out entries for things that appeared later than a given episode, and whenever they do a live show, it's a non-canon story taking place before episodes 11-12, when the party hadn't left the Web and Elowen was still going by "Endellion".
  • Layered Metropolis: Baruun, capital of Reliquiae, is structured like this. The lowest tier, the Depths, is industry (and connects to a shanty-town outside the walls); the middle tier, the Deal, is where the markets and other shops are found, as well as middle-class residences; and the upper level, the Crest, is home to the rich and powerful (and still under construction).
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Near the start of Episode 45, Raidion remarks that he feels free to arbitrarily cast powerful spells today as for some reason he doesn't think they'll get into combat. The players all know that the mini-figures hadn't been brought out before the session started, and so therefore combat, at least of a major sort, won't be happening.
  • Literal Metaphor: In Episode 31, Harry narrates that Kelnys finds standing watch in the middle of the day to have both disadvantages and advantages — "So, roll me a check with disadvantage and advantage." (He clarifies that he's joking, although the fact that Kel does roll the check flat actually does make it mechanically equivalent to having both advantage and disadvantage.)
  • Luck Manipulation Mechanic: The Deck of Many Friends allows any player, as a reaction, to replace one creature's d20 roll with the number on a card from the Deck. Each card also has a secondary effect, which will side with whichever side the new roll benefits (if the roll doesn't change, the card sides with the enemy).
  • Make an Example of Them:
    • Theolon, who turned from the Wild to the Virtuous, was placed deliberately after death, whereas the other gods' bodies were strewn haphazardly around the peak of Mt. Atria. The party theorises that this trope was the reason why. It's eventually revealed that this is indeed the case, as the person who killed her was her son.
    • When the party are taken captive by the Children of the Midnight Moon, the leader of the cult considers having one of them publicly executed as an example of what happens to people who "betray" the Midnight Moon.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: The Gloam, a secret society with sinister ambitions, whose members all wear hooded cloaks and plain metal masks to obscure their identities.
  • Mass "Oh, Crap!": In Episode 38, when Harry starts to describe the figure standing on the rock bridge, the players all panic when he says they're wrapped in layers of cloth, indicating that the figure is none other than the Spinner.
  • Menacing Mask: Celandine, the high priestess of the cult of the Midnight Moon, wears a mask made from a skull. She ends up being a subversion, as her interactions with party uncover a more sympathetic side, and when push comes to shove she sides with the party against the cult leader. After that, she does a Good Costume Switch that includes ditching the mask.
  • Misplaced Retribution: Raidion treats Kaspar as though he knows everything about why the party got caught up in the momentous events that they did, when really he's just another agent of the Web like them. Downplayed in that only angry words are exchanged, but it's still more anger than what Kaspar deserved.
  • Mood Whiplash: In episode 17, Raidion is on the brink of death and he draws a card from the Deck of Many Friends. Things just go From Bad to Worse when the card turns out to be that of Erastus Gracey (Andy Farrant), a skeletal human who does nothing to help him, instead trying to suck in the last of Raidion's soul for himself as dead bugs and skeletal rodents start appearing from the cracks in the floor. In desperation, Dolly draws another card... and gets Jacksey Flaxseed, the tabaxi taxi (Robbie Daymond), who springs into existence with an energetic "Hi! How're ya doin'?!", and smacks Raidion's soul out of Gracey's lips and back into the wizard's body due to bestowing a natural 20 on the party. Once the fight's over, Jacksey summons a bright yellow rickshaw and runs off. After the stress of the moment has disappeared, Harry points out that, to make matters even funnier, none of the party knows what a tabaxi is — they don't exist in Reliquiae!
  • My Nayme Is: Characters' names can get... interesting spellings from time to time, such as Grawnoth or Jasme. Harry makes a jab at himself for this at one point, noting that if he has to correct one of Hollie's glossary entries, it's usually because of a weird spelling.
  • invokedNarm: Upon being asked the name of the island the Sanctum is built on, Harry consults his notes and discovers he'd named it "Rock Justice". He tries to roll with it, realises slightly too late that it's ridiculous (specifically, he thinks it's trying too hard to be cool), and gets thoroughly ribbed for it.
  • Nerf: Several of the encounters the party has are slightly nerfed versions of existing monsters, so they can have more interesting flavour without the challenge being overwhelming. For instance, the diseased wolves in Episode 1 are nerfed direwolves (or, alternatively, buffed wolves) with the disease added, and in Episode 21, the party fights an aboleth without the ability to cause long-term diseases and with slightly reduced HP.
  • No Immortal Inertia: The Antiqua, the greatest Clerics of each Virtuous, were all made immortal. When their gods die, all of them begin to age rapidly, with Grawnoth, for instance, going from appearing as a healthy dwarf in the prime of his life when first met, to white-haired, wrinkled, and constantly out of energy when the party next sees him. Damilo, Arbuthnot, and Malakine all end up dying to this phenomenon.
  • The Nondescript: Marta, the captain of the Clothfields' vessel in Talisca's Run, is described as "utterly unremarkable" by Clutterbuck, and that description is entirely borne out when the party meets her. She's a completely average dwarf woman, with such a dull affect that the party repeatedly questions if she's been affected by the ennui hanging over the city, despite her clear commitment to the race proving otherwise.
  • Non-Verbal Miscommunication: In Episode 46, Raidion tries to communicate his name in charades, inspired by an NPC doing the same. Not only is this a bad idea to begin with (the NPC used charades because he took a vow of silence and so can't verbally guess), but a poor Performance roll leads to him taking Raidion's name to be either Drop Penis or Sunlight Piss.
  • Note from Ed.: During one of Ben's Patreon ad reads, he promises that Natural Six will begin uploading one picture of a sexy dragon to their Patreon each month, and then that they might upload pictures of sexy dungeons as well from time to time. A disclaimer appears on screen both times to refute these claims:
    This is a figurative example of a Patreon commitment that could be made by Natural Six. Ben does not speak on behalf of Natural Six and cannot guarantee that any images of dragons, sexy or otherwise, will be uploaded to Patreon. Ben is writing cheques his immaculate physique can't cash. If you join the Natural Six patreon [sic] exclusively for the promise of dragons you will be disappointed. By all means join anyway, but not for this, because odds are they won't do it. Ben writes these things and just, like, doesn't run it by anyone. Weekly dragons? Give me a break.
    Again, and I can't stress this enough, there will be no sexy dungeons on the Natural Six Patreon. At least not officially. What you guys choose to do as members, the comments you leave etc, are entirely up to you. There is a Natural Six Discord where folks share some amazing artwork. Have you checked that out? It's not impossible for some kind of dungeon to appear on that, and hey, you find it sexy? Good for you. Please join our Patreon.
  • Not Quite the Right Thing: When war breaks out, the Council orders everyone to abandon their villages and hamlets and leave nothing usable behind. This seems like it's not a dreadful tactical idea, but it means that anyone unfit to travel gets left behind, with very little hope of survival.
  • Not So Above It All: Parvus is one of the Antiqua, and therefore one of the most important people in Reliquiae, with hundreds if not thousands of years of life experience. However, Harry also plays him as willing to join in with many of the group's antics, such as agreeing that "the licky one" is a good title for Raidion.
  • Odd Name Out: Parvus is an Exaggerated example of this, being the only kobold (other than their god, and it's ambiguous whether gods can be considered the same species as their respective mortals or not) to even have a name at all. All other kobolds, if they need to interact with other people, will call themselves "I".
  • Off the Rails:
    • Defied for the campaign. Harry has mentioned several times in Action Surge that the players cannot break the world unless what they want directly clashes with the rules of the game, and makes sure to stick to that promise.
    • However, the basic structure of the episodes, in particular the introductions, can occasionally fall victim to this trope. Of particular note is episode 16, in which Ben decides to randomly declare after his introduction that, if he were a material, he would be felt, and then goes on to justify it with a rambling story about him getting sick and then drunk on a trip to Kazakhstan. None of the other players have any idea where this is going, and when he finally wraps up, they realise Harry is still yet to introduce himself!
    • In episode 20, as well as a 5-minute-long introduction, Harry manages to derail himself at one point👁 Image
      , and it's hilarious. He comes in a bit too strong with the accent of an innkeeper, and decides to dial it back somewhat. The players notice and ask what happened, leading to Harry jokingly 👁 This example contains a TRIVIA entry. It should be moved to the TRIVIA tab.
      making the accent waver all over the place, ending on a rather slurred, drunken-sounding voice. At some point here, Raidion puts his hand on the guy's shoulder, I puts his hand on Raidion's thigh, and Kelnys puts his hand on I's shoulder, in a vague attempt to help. The NPC ends up calling for another worker, Lavinia, to take over at the bar as he's not feeling great (Hollie, who's not even in the conversation, asks if he can smell burnt toast). Harry then states as Lavinia that the last guy doesn't actually work at the tavern, and has her go after him as he went to sit down in the back. A third NPC comes to take over, and the conversation seems to get back on track... but then Lavinia returns, says that the original guy's gone, and she's not sure he was even real. Everyone ends up Corpsing at some point throughout this whole exchange.
      Hollie: Right, no more mini-shots of espresso during the ad reads.
  • Oh, My Gods!: The Reliquian equivalent of "oh my God" is "by the Nine [Virtuous]", or, more rarely, "by the Crater" or "by the Crater of the Nine".
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: As the party in Talisca is wrapping up, and Kel and I have both got quite drunk, they end up having a conversation that I thinks is about wine-tasting and Kel thinks is about the band. At some point, however, their conversations manage to converge on cheese, so it works out.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted in episode 12, where there's both a Kel(-nys) and a Cel(-yn), with both nicknames pronounced the same.
  • One-Winged Angel:
    • During the battle at the top of the Sanctum, their main opponent transforms into a dragon, which significantly outclasses them and is defeated by identifying and destroying her Transformation Trinket.
    • During the battle for Haven, killing the cult leader Knox results in mystical fungus growing out of his body and forming a montrous mushroom creature that gets up and continues to attack.
  • OOC Is Serious Business: Endellion is usually unflappable, so when the party hears (and, in Raidion's case, sees) her running out of their tent to throw up after a bad dream in Episode 44, they immediately know she saw something seriously messed-up. This applies in a Meta sense too, as the rest of the cast (who were out of the room when Harry narrated the dream) knows that Hollie has a serious aversion to discussions of vomit (having had to take a quick break in one episode after joking about it had made her genuinely nauseous), and so if she's stated that she throws up, it must have been a seriously hefty roleplay moment to warrant that from her.
  • Orphaned Etymology: The tiefling language is still called "Infernal" by the cast, and Dolly can still cast "Hellish Rebuke", despite tieflings in Reliquiae having no connection to any of D&D's Evil planes of existence.
  • Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Discussed in episode 16, when Doug jokingly complains about a dwarf having a Scottish accent. Harry immediately takes mock offence, and points out that Grawnoth and Brynhilde both had Scandinavian accents. In actuality, while Reliquiae dwarves do have some stereotypical features, such as worshipping a warrior goddess who symbolises order, for the most part the trope is Averted, with dwarves covering just as broad a spectrum of existence as anyone else.
  • Our Kobolds Are Different: Due to Themself, god of the kobolds, being one of the Virtuous, kobolds aren't monsters but rather just ordinary people. Kobolds in Reliquiae are a highly secretive and collectivist society, who keep to themselves due to a belief that nobody else would welcome them, and who always put the needs of their tribes ahead of their needs as individuals, to the extent that most don't even have names. They're so seldom seen outside their tribes, in fact, that many characters can't recognise a kobold on sight, instead thinking I is a young dragonborn.
  • Our Orcs Are Different: Norvar, god of the orcs, is also one of the Virtuous, and so orcs in Reliquiae can be just as good as members of any other species — in contrast to typical D&D lore, where orcs are generally Always Chaotic Evil (occasional literal Token Heroic Orcs notwithstanding).
  • Outside-Context Problem:
    • The party start encountering beings not native to Reliquiae, as well as changing water colours, as it's implied the boundaries between Reliquiae, the Shadowfell, and the Feywild become malleable. Naturally, they bring Wrong Context Magic with them.
    • Due to being a world that hasn’t seen war for thousands of years and lacking any sort of standing army, Reliquiae is severely underprepared for The Gloam, who quickly start taking the outlying towns and worming their way into most parts of the continent.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: At the start of Episode 33, Harry, Ben, and Alex all end up sharing stage acting stories, and Hollie notes that she and Aoife are both feeling left out. She then offers to share the story of when she reformatted the structure of Square Enix's press releases.
  • Physical God: The Virtuous all have physical bodies, and it's implied the Vile and Wild did as well. This extends to the Virtuous being able to be killed.
  • Player-Exclusive Mechanic: Harry admits at the start of the Run in Episode 47 that the NPC boats are using a simplified version of the sailing mechanics the players are engaging with. This is because he would otherwise be rolling upwards of 15 dice per round of the race, which would be complicated for him to manage and boring for the players, 👁 This example contains a TRIVIA entry. It should be moved to the TRIVIA tab.
    both things he wants to avoid.
  • Pokémon Speak: Aoife's character Eggnog from the 2025 Christmas Episode, after accidentally falling into a giant vat of seasonal latte, can only say his name.
  • Power Echoes: When the heroes have a personal audience with a god after tracking down Themself's hiding place in episode 36, the god speaks with a great deal of reverb, and echoes that slowly die away after the god stops speaking. (The effect is done live at the table for the benefit of the players, with Harry speaking into a dedicated microphone.) The same effect is applied when Barabask addresses Talisca in episode 50, in contrast with the character's previous appearances, indicating that, despite what the party may want to believe, there is genuine power in this being.
  • Power Limiter: Parvus is one of the oldest and most powerful clerics in the world, but when the party rescues him from captivity in episode 22, he's been fitted with a magical collar that prevents him from casting any leveled spells.
  • Puzzle Boss: A few combat encounters have had non-violent ways to resolve them:
    • In episode 3, Jasme could be talked out of killing the party by appealing to her better nature. Harry reflected in their 2-year retrospective that this fight was explicitly intended as his way of teaching the table (and especially the newer players) that fights don't have to be solved with sheer violence.
    • In episode 11, the golem had to be defeated non-violently, as it was Challenge Rating 10 (against a level 5 party), boasting all sorts of defences including advantage on saving throws against magic and immunity to non-magical damage. It could be deactivated by Elowen either declaring herself as a Grēnweard, showing her dagger, or taking damage; she ended up doing the first two together.
    • In episode 22, Carvilius turned into a gold dragon, way outmatching the party. Elowen spotted that the gem on her chest was important, however, leading to the party mostly targeting that instead; when it was broken, Carvilius instantly turned back and was freed from Barabask's control. At the same time, the spectral forms of Kelnys' birth parents were talked down by a natural 20, and I and Raidion were also trying to focus on freeing Parvus from his chains, essentially making for three puzzles at the same time.
  • invokedQuicksand Box: Discussed in Action Surge Episode 41, where Harry notes that, while as a DM you can think that creating an entire explorable, unknown city would be an exciting thing for the players, in practice, it leads to them being overwhelmed, so it's better for him to have at least one PC with some prior knowledge of the city.
  • A Rare Sentence:
    • Harry, on Raidion's shenanigans in episode 23:
      Harry: I liked the anaphylaxis, a sentence I never thought I'd say.
    • When I is warged into U:
      Alex: I'm just gonna continue behaving like a normal owl. [General laughter]
      Harry: I just love Dungeons & Dragons so much.
    • When Aoife declares, in-character as Dolly, that "skin is just leather waiting to happen," Harry declares it "the worst sentence [he's] ever heard a person say."
    • When they're considering the Sending Stones connected to the Spinner in Episode 43:
      Dolly: We're not drunk-dialling the god of death again.
      Harry: Dungeons & Dragons! Allowing strange sentences.
    • When Endellion succeeds on a saving throw against her recurring nightmares in Episode 50, Aoife grouses that she wanted "more juicy dream stuff". This is promptly taken as innuendo by the cast (and then goes in some weird directions).
    • Later in the same episode, when Kel is in an uncomfortable outfit, Doug declares he's "trying to make [his] armpits fit better." Everyone bursts into laughter.
      Harry: Roll me an acrobatics check...
      Alex: What a sentence, as well!
      Aoife: I know!
    • In Episode 51, the party's very particular brand of shenanigans lead to this line:
      Endellion: Wait, you're taking eggs off orphans now?
      Harry: [Laughing] What an awful sentence.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: A Downplayed example in that she was merely Chaotic, not Evil, but Theolon, known as the Once-Wild, is regarded as never having quite left that side of her behind. As such, it's generally agreed that refined, snooty high elves represent the side of her more palatable to the Virtuous, whereas the more chaotic, nature-loving wood elves reflect something closer to her true, Wild self. In Episode 46, her own writings confirm this idea, stating that she never truly believed in the cause of the Virtuous, but changed sides in order to put a stop to the war, and out of a recognition that the Wild, being Chaotic, would eventually fall apart and someone would impose Order; she chose the Virtuous over the Vile as the less-worse of the two.
  • Required Secondary Powers: In Action Surge episode 23, Harry notes that spellcasters must have some instinctive way of knowing how many Spell Slots they have left, otherwise they'd all be trying to cast their highest-level spells at any opportunity and being baffled about how it sometimes doesn't work.
  • Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Harry occasionally jokes about doing this, typically to Retcon a mistake he made (such as accidentally declaring that everyone would jump from level 6 to level 8 after the Sanctum).
  • Rule of Fun: After Kel and I end up drinking a lot at the party in Episodes 50-51, because they have a major public appearance to make the next in-game day, Harry rules that they've managed to get over their hangovers fairly easily.
  • Running Gag:
    • After Doug declares that Kelnys had made "a couple dozen" wooden spoons in the Deference alone, Kel's spoon-carving prowess quickly becomes a frequently touched-upon aspect of the character. However, it soon turns from a joke to a more solid aspect of his character.
    • Dolly sneaking spoons into Raidion's pack, to the point that Raidion knows that if he opens his pack, he will find some spoons. This one even sneaks into reality👁 Image
      .
    • I wanting to show everyone the message scroll given to them by Barabask (instructing Jasme to Please Shoot the Messenger) under the assumption that it will instantly explain everything to them about their situation and bring them on-side.
    • After Harry accidentally calls Kel "Doug" a couple of times, the cast start to joke that "the actor Doug Cockle" is also there, in Reliquiae, alongside the party.
    • I not understanding figures of speech. In episode 12, when the party is split, Dolly is explaining a new metaphor to him each time Harry cuts back to their group.
      Dolly: I'm not saying that I want to swing one; I'm saying that if I wanted to do that, there would be enough room here, y'know?
    • Raidion thinking that people are falling in love with him. Also, his ideas all being terrible.
    • I being mistaken for a young dragonborn — often Kel's son.
    • When the party first visits a large city, Doug declares that Kelnys wants to find a taco stand, and then does so badly on the associated skill check that Harry rules that there are no tacos to be had anywhere in the city. Kelnys hoping for tacos in each new town they visit became a running gag. He finally gets some in Episode 50.
    • Kel hiding behind a hinge in the Battle of Mouse, which appears both in and out of character.
      Doug/Kel: I had a plan!
    • I trying to put people in the Bag of Holding (which has a very limited air supply) in order to be helpful somehow.
    • The cast waving their hands around weirdly when Harry says the line, "our adventures in Reliquiae," which is pretty much a Once an Episode thing.
    • Harry always making at least one stumble in his recaps. He finally gets through one without issue in Episode 32... because it's just a couple of sentences, in order to avoid spoiling everyone on the events happening to the split party.
    • The Witcher games being an indie series by a small Polish studio that Doug's never heard of.
      Doug: I'm still playing Tetris.
    • I casting Prestidigitation to make Raidion's glass Staff of Defense sound like it's chipping slightly.
    • Aoife accidentally rolling her dice outside of her tray.
    • Doug somehow failing to pay attention to crucial parts of Harry's narration, which everyone invariably ribs him for.
    • Harry once stumbled across Ben doing some very serious-looking writing, only for him to discover that Ben had written the heading "Things I Don't Like" and nothing else; "Things I Don't Like" became a running gag whenever writing (especially Raidion's) is discussed.
  • Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: In Episode 0.5, Dolly rolls a check with advantage and ends up getting two natural sixes. Harry promptly decides that that's a good result now, and treats it like a natural 20.
  • Self-Made Myth: That bit about the Virtuous roundly defeating the other factions of gods, then creating Reliquiae for themselves and mortals? All a lie, a fact known only to the Antiqua and the Virtuous themselves. What actually happened was that the gods all created mortals first, then collectively realised that every mortal in existence drained some of their power. Combined with the mortals' growing population, the gods all started to panic that mortals might Turn Against Their Masters, and came to a truce, each faction separating off their own part of Sentiasa and creating their own plane: Reliquiae for the Virtuous, the Shadowfell for the Vile, and the Feywild for the Wild.
  • Sense Freak: When Erastus gets to fight outside the Deck for the first time in centuries if not millennia, he's so thrilled to be doing anything that he even takes a kind of pleasure in taking damage.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Carl (or possibly Kch'arl) from Episode 39 is a random Gloam member that the party spend roughly an hour trying to reason with and bring him on-side, agonising over whether he can be trusted, if he's worth their time, or if they should just kill him, only for Raidion to cast Mind Spike on him without consulting the rest of the party, killing him instantly. (To be fair, Mind Spike allows you to keep tabs on where the target is at all times if they fail their save... but on the other hand, Carl only had 11 HP left, a fact Ben was previously told, and Mind Spike deals 3d8 damage on a failed save, or an average of 13.5, and the last time he'd tried to use it purely for its utility purposes, that didn't go so hot either.)
  • Shipper on Deck: After Raidion misinterprets their purely Platonic interactions as I and Quincy falling in love, he ends up trying to set them up on a date. He then manages to drag Dolly, followed by the rest of the party, into this trope.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Harry brings up Johnny Chiodini in a few videos, referencing their DMing style and their Catchphrase of being "literally everyone else in the world", among other things.
    • Doug couldn't make it to their Christmas 2024 special, and so Harry jokes that he was busy getting visited by three ghosts.
    • When I is explaining how kobold toilets will not be like how the party is used to, Hollie quips, "Three seashells".
    • When one of the characters asks about the rival crews' names for the Talisca Run, Harry had to make them up on the spot, and decided that two of them were Wendla and Melchior. He then decided to run with it for the other crews when he formally wrote them down, so the other ships' crews are named after characters from Parade (1998) and Les Misérables.
  • The Siege: Episodes 10-13 focus on the Siege of Mouse, and the party's attempt to enter the castle and free the village.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: Discussed when the party meets Themself, who seeks to reject them and all non-kobolds because of how the rest of the Virtuous treated them after the war.
  • Sniff Sniff Nom: Raidion does this to the bat-frog in episode 19 after it's defeated. Incredibly, not only is it edible despite being a creature no-one's ever seen or heard of and likely from another plane of existence, but he knows exactly how to prepare it for eating.
  • Snowball Fight: The party gets into one in Episode 42 as a way to try and deal with being back in the cold after having travelled through the Sister and Mother Forests. It starts off mundane, but I escalates to using magic to help him.
  • Snow Means Death: The campaign begins in the winter with the deaths of the gods, and as Reliquiae begins to face all-out war, the cold starts causing civilian deaths as well. Not that summer and autumn prove less deadly in the Four Forests.
  • invokedSoundtrack Dissonance: Because Harry controls the soundtrack live, there are occasional discrepancies in tone that the cast sometimes point out. A good example is when Raidion tries to act like Dolly and Harry puts on the "Sombre" music, only for Raidion's impression to be him snapping his fingers and saying, in his usual voice, "Me casts me Shatter." Incredibly, he then gets a dirty 20, with disadvantage.
  • Spoiled Sweet: Lennox is accustomed to luxury to a ridiculous degree (he considers his opulent guesthouse "squalor" and his equally fancy clothing "rags", and Harry ends up 👁 This example contains a TRIVIA entry. It should be moved to the TRIVIA tab.
    Corpsing multiple times playing him given just how exaggerated his tastes are), but beneath it, he's a genuinely nice person who's concerned for the safety and wellbeing of the Boughs, Talisca, and Reliquiae as a whole.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • In the recap of Episode 21, Harry insists that the island upon which the Sanctum sits has never had a name at all, referencing how he'd retconned his original name of "Rock Justice" in the previous episode.
    • After Ben's joked that Raidion spends the hours of the night he's not trancing by watching the other party members (before giving a more serious answer), we get this exchange:
      Raidion: I wasn't watching you sleep.
      Dolly: That seems like something someone who definitely wasn't watching me sleep would say.
      Raidion: Exactly, good, I'm glad.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: In Episode 32, when Kelnys swoops in to catch Dolly and send Knox plummeting to his death, Harry plays the extended version of the show's theme tune used in the trailers and at live events. Knox then, unfortunately, goes One-Winged Angel, but that doesn't change the awesomeness in the moment.
  • Theme Naming: The Four Forests are named in rough correspondence with The Hecate Sisters: the autumn forest is the Mother, the winter forest is the Wise, and spring and summer, the Child and Sister respectively, effectively share the Maiden role between them.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: At the start of Episode 29, after Harry sends everyone else out of the room as I has run off, he tells Alex — before doing anything — that "none of this is personal." Alex just sits there with a stunned look on his face for a good ten seconds. (Everything actually goes fine for I; it transpires in the following Action Surge that Harry was just saying this to mess with him.)
  • Treacherous Questgiver: The official who gives the party their quest in their PAX East 2025 live show to sort out a kidnapping case turns out to have been behind it all along, and to have requested this specific Web Chapter because they have a kobold not because he thinks kobolds can't drown (as he initially professes) but rather because he wanted one member of each species for some ritual. Fortunately for the party, he significantly underestimated their badassery, and so they easily defeat the pirates and kill him in one shot.
  • Troll: At the start of Episode 27, Hollie briefly acts as though she's sure it's only Episode 26, before she admits she was just trying to confuse everyone (and specifically Ben). Harry admits that she's so organised that, if she insisted it was actually Episode 12, the rest of the cast would probably believe her.
  • Troubled Backstory Flashback: Both Kel and Raidion have these — Kel through his dreams, Raidion from the Docent of Grace and whenever he uses his Wrong Context Magic ability to teleport.
  • Trust Password: Members of the Web greet each other with a sign/countersign form, as seen in the page quote. Delightfully Subverted in episode 4, however, when Dolly gives the sign and is met with a blank look and deadpan response from someone who turns out not to be a member.
    Dolly: The Web is wide.
    Gloam member: ...Good for the web.
  • Unusual Chapter Numbers: Well, episode numbers. The live show that the cast did at EGX 2023, a mostly self-contained story taking place between episodes 0 and 1, is numbered as Episode 0.5.
  • Unwanted False Faith: The Children of the Midnight Moon are a cult that believe Dolly is the Midnight Moon, some sort of god-like figure. The focus of their faith is very uncomfortable with this, as, for a start, the name brings up some very bad memories — not to mention that they're not a god, and have no pretensions to godhood.
  • Wham Episode:
    • Episode 13, featuring the Battle for Mouse. It includes Morgan turning on the party, implied to be not fully in control of himself and ultimately dying at their hands; the Deck being called upon for the first time; and Barabask, in a one-two(-three) punch, announcing the deaths of the gods and some of the Antiqua, proclaiming himself the new god, and declaring the party to be outlaws and god-killers.
    • Episode 38 has the Spinner revealing himself as the creator of the Deck of Many Friends and The Man Behind the Man for the Spider Prince; opening a rift to the Shadowfell near the Old Dark, coming closer than any other enemy to killing the entire party, with Elowen, Dolly, and Kelnys all going down at one point while Raidion has only barely been revived; and eventually being exposed by Themself as one of the Vile. This comes hot on the heels of Episode 36 which, while not quite as combat-intense and thus feeling like less of a wham, still has the party finding the Old Dark and meeting Themself, who tells them that the Spider Prince was both the child (specifically, Theolon's child) mentioned by the orbs and the one who killed the gods; that Raidion is not a wood elf but rather a summer eladrin from the Feywild; that the Deck of Many Friends and Kelnys' amulet are each a seal for the borders of one plane and that by bringing the Deck from the Feywild Raidion weakened them; and that to re-seal the borders of the planes, the party will have to meet with the dragons; they also tell I in that episode that he will no longer be a kobold if he leaves the Old Dark.
  • Weapon-Based Characterisation: While Kel and Raidion draw more of their characterisation from the spells and magical abilities they use, the other party members' choices of weapons all hint towards their deeper characters:
    • Endellion dual-wields a shortsword and dagger, indicating that she's an agile, intelligent fighter (even if she uses Strength as her main attacking stat for them). The greatsword she takes from Lilith's body in Haven, by contrast, is a more brutal (if also more powerful) weapon, and is implied to be an Artefact of Doom, making her moodier and trying to turn her against the party.
    • I's main weapon is a crossbow, as he prefers to hide in the shadows and attack from a distance. His backup melee weapons, a pair of daggers, reference his nature as a Rogue as well, as fast but weak weapons requiring skill to use well.
    • Similarly, Dolly's Emergency Weapon (and spellcasting focus) is a dagger, representing how she's spent much time trying to survive on the streets and prefers to operate from the shadows.
  • When Dimensions Collide: Implied to be happening with the strange water colours and unusual creatures found within. Specifically, the Serafine turns a bright blue, implied to be from the Feywild, while Fathom turns acrid and pure black, implied to be from the Shadowfell.

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