Jul 30, 2026 · 21 min · 7 segments
Welcome to another Heroic Roundtable! In this side quest episode from our main actual play campaign, we step behind the DM screen and explore how to give your D&D characters power outside of just…
All right, I have another reason to call you out.
What is it? In episode 28, Chad, in episode 28, Unmasked, why did you give LS, Brandon...
A straight up permanent benefit of always being able to read magic.
Let me actually take this one.
Face off.
Because I deserved it.
Okay, go ahead.
Well,
he was mad at me, and I don't want the rules goblin mad at me.
So, no, do you want to answer first? No,
no, no.
So, I actually, I love, I really love this idea of characters gaining permanent abilities outside of level ups.
And I think that there is some really cool ways that that can happen with LS specifically.
If you go back and listen to our whole show, all of the shows, again, you have to right now, if you're listening to this, go back.
You have to listen to every episode.
We'll be here when you get back.
Yeah.
Uh, so pause here, then come back.
If you listen to our episodes, I think you will find that LS used detect magic, like most episodes, most sessions.
He just kept casting it.
Right.
It's true.
And it even got to a point where you guys were fighting the alpha mana core and he was not fighting.
He was choosing to detect magic.
He was using that in an aggressive high pressure space.
All right, I have another reason to call you out.
What is it? In episode 28, Chad, in episode 28, Unmasked, why did you give LS, Brandon...
A straight up permanent benefit of always being able to read magic.
Let me actually take this one.
Face off.
Because I deserved it.
Okay, go ahead.
Well,
he was mad at me, and I don't want the rules goblin mad at me.
So, no, do you want to answer first? No,
no, no.
So, I actually, I love, I really love this idea of characters gaining permanent abilities outside of level ups.
And I think that there is some really cool ways that that can happen with LS specifically.
If you go back and listen to our whole show, all of the shows, again, you have to right now, if you're listening to this, go back.
You have to listen to every episode.
We'll be here when you get back.
Yeah.
Uh, so pause here, then come back.
If you listen to our episodes, I think you will find that LS used detect magic, like most episodes, most sessions.
He just kept casting it.
Right.
It's true.
And it even got to a point where you guys were fighting the alpha mana core and he was not fighting.
He was choosing to detect magic.
He was using that in an aggressive high pressure space.
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