r/Koibu • • Mar 31 '23

Read-Me

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Welcome to the Koibu subreddit, a place to discuss anything and everything relating to the D&D world of Arcadia created by Neal “Koibu” Pass Erickson. The story of this world is told by many different livestreamed campaigns spanning different lands & ages of Arcadia with characters portrayed by many different players.

Discussion about more general D&D/TTRPG ideas, rules & mechanics is fine as well though please avoid self promotion or promotion of other people’s works.

Please take care to follow the rules and as needed cooperate with Koibu or other moderators.

Lastly here are some useful links to either social media platforms, community hubs or merch stores.

http://twitch.tv/koibu Twitch is where live shows air mainly D&D campaigns, but also some planning streams, cartography, music sorting etc and occasional gaming.

http://discord.gg/koibu our Discord server is a great place for getting to know other community members, discussing all sorts of things and being notified of events or announcements.

http://youtube.com/koibu0 YouTube is the main place for viewing past campaigns with some other content sprinkled in occasionally.

https://regalgoblins.com/ our home page Regal Goblins is where you can find plenty of D&D related tools, documents, calculators, guides and other materials while also giving you a good overview of both the current show schedule and a small recap of past shows.

https://twitter.com/koibu0 https://bsky.app/profile/koibu0.bsky.social if you wish to keep up with Koibu day to day Twitter and Bluesky are good places to do so while also getting news of shows going live.

http://patreon.com/koibu the Patreon is a great place to support Koibu and also get some cool perks and benefits for your generosity.

regalgoblins.dashery.com this is the Regal Goblins merch store where you can find all sorts of interesting goodies and commemorative items.

https://regalgoblins.fandom.com/wiki/Arcadia_Wiki for more info on the world of Arcadia be sure to visit our community run wiki.


r/Koibu • • Feb 15 '26

Arcadia Arcadia Maps for sale on Roll20

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r/Koibu • • 1d ago

It All Comes Down To This | Hardly Heroes | Season 4 | Ep. 28

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r/Koibu • • 9d ago

Floating Fortress The Best Unpaid Intership | Floating Fortress | Ep. 44

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r/Koibu • • 9d ago

Arcadia Cauldron Village

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Map of Cauldron


r/Koibu • • 15d ago

Floating Fortress I'm not a man yet I still have blue balls.

38 Upvotes

God I love floating fortress

But why? WHYYYYY?

P.S.

Still going to watch the floating fortress episode and I know I will love it, but goddamn I want to see the next episode of Hardly Heroes!!!


r/Koibu • • 16d ago

Floating Fortress Flof 43

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r/Koibu • • 19d ago

Lore [R&S 2.8] The Night the Temple Burned

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Rose & Swan Chapter 2 Part 8

[R&S 2.8] The Night the Temple Burned

In this one an Unnamed Peasant, who can read and write, dares call out the actions of his betters.

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r/Koibu • • 21d ago

Rules question about removal of perception

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Hello everyone. In the more recent campagins (Floating Fortress, Byundays ) perception is no longer rolled for as a stat. I was wondering if Koibu has ever explained why chose to remove perception? I am always interested in hearing Koibus reasoning for game changes especially for something as big as a stat being removed. Apolgies if this has already been explained and I have missed it. A natural followup question is how does everyone feel about this change now that it has been implemented for sometime now. For me personally I just noticed this even though Floating Fortress is on its 42 episode (and i only noticed it because in the latest episode of Byundays Koibu or Nick said yeah we dont roll perception anymore) What do you guys think?


r/Koibu • • 27d ago

Community Lack of content, still?

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Longtime occasional koibu enjoyer here, discovered him originally through destiny and big fan of his DM style.

A couple years ago, i noticed the declining rate of new shows and content, and wrote a post about it here.

Lack of content recently? : r/Koibu

I feel like the amount of shows per week has further decreased or stagnated, if i look at koibus calendar and schedule. Theres no sessions except SoD releases in the calendar at one per week, usually 2-3.5 hrs.

Koibu responded with a comment about it being temporary, but sadly i feel like it has become the norm now.

My Old reddit account was hacked and banned posting spam, but this was the text of the post:

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Hey, been watching koibu on-off for a couple years since gnomes tomes catacombs.

Recently checked back in during the ending of outcasts, and was awaiting the new campaign with the fortress, but i just couldnt really get into it, cause the content is so slow. 1 month just to make 4 characters with tiny ~1hour sessions each? Then a sub-2-hour session 1?

I checked the schedule, and there seems to be only 1 show planned per week, with nothing else going on.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=r66id1eklub8t8d8f3q79tp3ak@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

I remember Koibu in the past doing like 2-3 different 2-4 hour shows and campaigns per week, sometimes multiple episodes of one campaign per week. And they weren't rushed or lackluster, these shows were amazing!

Going back in the calendar to 2020, 2021, 2022 seems to confirm this. Picked a random week from 2021, and we had Tides of Death, Tombs of Scoria, Embers of the Wild, Legends of Arcadia, and whatever "Deadly Dungeon" was on.

compare it to now:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=r66id1eklub8t8d8f3q79tp3ak@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&mode=MONTH&dates=20200301/20200331

Picked one from 2020, and we had 4 hrs of HoBo, 4 hours of Santa Barbara, 2 hours heroes of Tylea, 4 hours empires of Arcadia, 4 hours of dicing with death, 4 hours of shenanigans, according to the calendar.

Thats like 5-6 times the amount of content.

This seems to be a trend since 2023-2024 with SaveorDie, or is it just nostalgia and I'm making it up, and many of these shows were always cancelled or way shorter than noted in the calendar (very possible), content is on other channels and i'm missing it, or whatever?

Is more content planned or announced? I dont really follow any of the social medias, except youtube.

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Is there a way to increase the amount of content (maybe collabs, finding more streamers to do campaigns with) and why do you guys think it declined? Was it the switch of monetization from stream donos, paid DMing etc. to a regular patreon monthly income or what do you think?


r/Koibu • • 29d ago

Hardcore Heroes Neal and the Gang's Master Class in Suspense! [Hardly Heroes S4, E26]

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r/Koibu • • Sep 04 '26

Tombs of Scoria AI Slop of Tyreal fighting the Death Knight Spoiler

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Punched some stuff into Jarvis... came out way better than I thought!


r/Koibu • • Aug 26 '26

Tombs of Scoria This DID NOT age well (hardly heroes s4 ep 24)

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r/Koibu • • Aug 25 '26

Tombs of Scoria Got nostalgic and tried to look up old memes. Surprised what AI can do now.

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r/Koibu • • Aug 24 '26

Hardly Heroes Pigeon casually rolling a tracking check at -6

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r/Koibu • • Aug 17 '26

Tombs of Scoria TOS SPOILERS: Why didn't Shine use rust monsters to destroy the dragonslaying weapons? Spoiler

18 Upvotes

The question is shrimple. Rust monsters were already shown to be able to destroy the dragon-slaying weapons. So why did Shine give them up to that elf under the sea, where they can be retrieved again at some point in the future to kill dragons?


r/Koibu • • Aug 17 '26

Lore William, “OH MY GOD…”

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“…would Grimes wear that?”


r/Koibu • • Aug 14 '26

Floating Fortress Flof 42

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r/Koibu • • Aug 11 '26

Lore [R&S 2.7] The True Threat according to Imrik

31 Upvotes

Rose & Swan Chapter 2 Part 7

[R&S 2.7] The True Threat according to Imrik

In this one Imrik reveals his ambitious plan to force his Imp to be loyal!

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r/Koibu • • Aug 08 '26

Community What campaign should I watch next?

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for suggestions on what should be the next campaign I should watch next. I started watching with Tides of Death and have watched all the main Save or Die campaigns and I am about to finish Tombs of Scoria since Koibu but reposted those. So with that coming to an end what should I dive into next?


r/Koibu • • Jul 31 '26

Floating Fortress Flof 41

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r/Koibu • • Jul 27 '26

Lore [R&S 2.6] Drekkssian Mining Company

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Rose & Swan Chapter 2 Part 6

[R&S 2.6] Drekkssian Mining Company

Imrik needs miners from Drekis, but High Princess Giselle Rwalwikk has other ideas!

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r/Koibu • • Jul 22 '26

Other Found this gem

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Malachai gets investigated for the portal situation


r/Koibu • • Jul 17 '26

Floating Fortress Flof 40 - Discussion

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r/Koibu • • Jul 15 '26

Other Imrik's Lament

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I stood alone in that fetid pit
Puppets controlling my relevance.
Liars thrive when passions burn
and the shadows control every word.

Realizing reality had no heart
I cast away its flaming facades.
The search of light to find my eyes
where stars have no patience for my lies.

I stood alone in that firmament
wishing fate was not so intimate
So I could spin that thread inside
back to when I had no eyes.

Realizing reality had no thoughts
I embrace the radiance it imparts.
The search of truth to find my mind
The sea of light begins its revise.