Episode 27



Gun Brightmetal

Returned once more from hiatus, we continue our trek through the chaos-infested Russian landscape while colour, that may or may not be out of space, warping around us. The sad background music is how you know it's Russia. Listen as our preponderance of naming npcs after iTunes reviewers almost overwhelms the normal goofing around. Almost. Also, rock monsters!

Orignal banner artwork by Isaac Milner.

Check out the Artificer playtest info from Wizards of the Coast here.

Background sounds by Tabletop Audio.

Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

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Episode 26

We find Turge, Gun tries/fails to stab-heal him, then we wander off in search of some kind of sekrit town. We don't quite get there, but we do fight a  jacked up devil-bear.

Orignal banner artwork by Isaac Milner.

Check out the Artificer playtest info from Wizards of the Coast here.

Background sounds by Tabletop Audio.

Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

Death Save is a part of the Ace Podcast Network.

Also special shout out to the Crazy Town podcast. Go subscribe on itunes!

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Episode 25

Thanks to all the folks who left reviews for us on iTunes. We start up Taulbee's run, fast-forwarding three years and sending our intrepid protagonists to Russia, in search of Turge. Join Sassy Sara Sasquatch (hobbit druid), Gun Brightmetal (dwarf artificer-gunsmith), and Schneltheck (gnome rogue-arcane trickster) as they board a train and seek out their troubled half-orc friend in the frozen taiga.

How about that sweet new banner image by Isaac Milner? Check out his instagram here.

Check out the Artificer playtest info from Wizards of the Coast here.

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Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

Death Save is a part of the Ace Podcast Network.

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Tavern Talk 4

After Spike finished his run we took a few minutes to reflect on the game and talk about what's next. This will probably be a regular thing going forward.

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Episode 24

The beholder, he is fighted! We wrap up Spike's run and get ready for Josh's. Spike tried real hard to cull the npc herd, but we saved them. We saved them all! Well, almost.

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Episode 23

Our heroes investigate a giant floating corpse-island in the dark, sunless sea. The gross jokes about being inside of 'flesh tunnels' get about as out of control as you might think.

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Episode 22

Candygram...

Popped (pooped?) out of a portal into some kind of sunless sea, our intrepid heroes flail wildly, fight sea creatures, and finally remember they are kind of immune to this sort of thing. "We're going to need a bigger boat!"

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Tavern Talk 3

Tavern Talk! If only we'd been in a real tavern... We talk about the show: past, present, and future. Also, we do some general game-y talk and work in some stuff that's been going on outside of the game too. Here's some links to some things we mentioned.

Apocalypse World
Mouseguard RPG
Acquisitions Incorporated, PAX South 2017

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Episode 21

Foresty hoedown!

Castor, Schneltheck, Trixie, and Garin travel south seeking the Sealer of the Guilty. More chaos is encountered. Also, talking animals! Gnomes are the best!

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Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

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Episode 20

Old Jim, the dapper-est undead.

Joining forces with newfound friends Trixie (gnome bard - Cherise) and Garin (human barbarian - Zack), Castor and Schneltheck work to save Rijek from slaads and fire. For their troubles they get a visit from the boogeyman, Old Jim!

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Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner

Public Domain pic of Old Jim yoinked from here.

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Episode 19



An actual pub in Sevierville, TN

Banbi the bar gnome has visions, real pushy visions. Yaga gets ess-scared, Castor light-saber axes a slaad, and Schneltheck gets elbow-deep up in that slaad skull. Gotta get dem gems!

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Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

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Episode 18

Kukarek's Revenge!

More slaadi! Castor unleashes the god-rock on them lizardos; Schneltheck slip-slides, pew-pews and scoops up slaad gems; and Yaga unleashes the ice & fire of ultra-mega chicken!

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Episode 17

Rijek, née Luskan

Castor finds himself in a strange land surrounded by Gnomes and Orks. One of these Gnomes (Bandi Xioroewin, hacker name: ZeroWin) provides Castor with information on the Sealer of the Guilty, and tells him to set sail. What horrors await our mighty heroes on the infamous Fang Island?

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Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

Map by Jared Blando, from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.

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Season One Setting Dump

The Death Save campaign takes place in some kind of alternate-fantasy Earth. It started in a Hungary analogue, Magyar being the name of the people who settled Hungary in or around the 9th century A.D. Here's a list of some of the places from Season One and their Earth counterparts

• Riverstone - Szolnok
• The decision was based on what Taulbee and Spike came up with at the beginning of the game - a landlocked city on a decent-sized river. Looking back I probably should have used Riverstone as the common nickname for the city with it's official Magyar name being Szolnok. Not that that kind of completeness would have come through on the podcast but if you're going to worldbuild, worldbuild motherfuckers. Also, the Tisza river, upon which Szolnok sits, flows generally northeast toward the Carpathians.
• The Goblin Wood
• Speaking of the Goblin Wood (even if it never came up in the game), in the context of this setting, it's imagined as a resettlement area for goblins. At some point in the past goblins were almost eradicated but the church intervened and relocated the goblins to a remote 'unpopulated' forest in northeastern Magyar. Now that area, beyond being one way into Voivojda, is akin to DCC's Shudder Mountains setting but rampant with human/goblin feuding. It's roughly equivalent to an expanded and perhaps more heavily forested Zempléni Tájvédelmi körzet, or Zempléni Landscape Protection Area.
• Vornek - Jászberény
• For this one I looked at roads north out of Szolnk, er Riverstone, heading north. One of the first images that pops up for Jászberény is of a sweet church. I honestly can't remember if I was already thinking of inserting A Single, Small Cut into the game or if seeing the church put me in mind of the adventure. As to the name change, I think I was using the Storygames Name Project to name stuff so it probably came from there.
• Salgo - Salgótarján
• Salgótarján is decently sized city in the North of Hungary and looked like a pretty good spot to place to put the border entry from Magyar into the elf lands of Naristria. Also, 'salgo' means 'shining' in Hungarian, so the city nickname became the Shining Gate in reference to the alabaster gate that fronts the mountain tunnel leading to the elf lands. Salgo is heavily influenced by both traffic around the Shining Gate and relative distance from the monarchy in Budapest, and as such, when there are not extraplanar incursions fucking shit up everywhere, tends toward a much more cosmopolitan city than most of the rest of Magyar. The Church is perpetually fighting against the influences of the elfs there, but mostly from afar, Salgo being seen as a hardship placement for troublesome church officers.
• Naristria, the Elf Lands - Slovakia
• Naristria, although not visited in-game, is envisioned as maintaining Slovakia's current borders and geography but those borders being tightly controlled by the elfs that live within. So, a closed-off mountainous country, riddled with rivers and caves, and almost exclusively populated by elfs.
• Russia - USSR
• The bounds of Russia roughly equate to that of height-of-the-cold-war U.S.S.R. Unless that counters anything already established. It's church and state are similar to that of Magyar but more controlling. Also, it's where orcs come from. Orcs were originally bred magically by Russian boyar magicians but that shit got out of control. Now they are all over the place, can interbreed with humans, and are a large part of the Russian military might and the main reason it's bounds are so extensive.

Episode 16

Season Two of Death Save begins! Castor Stone (elf paladin) joins Schnelthek Crystalfist (gnome rogue), Yaga (half-orc druid), and various npcs as our heroes find themselves in a cold, mucky swamp surrounded by crazy frog men. They make new friends and new enemies as Castor starts down the road to reconnect with the Sealer of the Guilty.

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Background sounds by Tabletop Audio.

Theme song is Hemispheres by Silent Partner.

Artwork by Erol Otus (cover of the TSR module Dwellers of the Forbidden City).

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