Audience items

**Roll Your Own Adventure** includes four **audience submission items** which audience members can use to submit items, spells, words, or dice rolls that will be used in the podcast by the RYOA adventurers. Audiences can also submit stories, quotes, notes and more to the **Raylia Noticeboard**.

Items can be submitted on the RYOA website: Audience interaction submissions

These four items were inroduced in episode **02 // The Aylar Ruins**. Found in a chest deep in the ruins, a stone carving near the chest initially read *"Take your chances and our gifts, the chest is full, your future shifts" which changed to read*"*These items bind to one and all, speak their name and make the call*" once the chest was opened.

## Big Book of Words

**Official description: "***A large tome that binds the party with a charm. When the book opens to a word or phrase, it will instill bonuses to the member of the party who can work it (smoothly) into conversation**"***

**Image text:** A large floating green book labelled 'Big Book of Words' in gold lettering. The book glows with a magical aura.

In its introduction in episode **02 // The Aylar Ruins** it was described as:

> "The BIG BOOK OF WORDS binds the party with a charm. When the BOOK generates a word or phrase it will instil bonuses to the player if worked into their conversation in a natural way."
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**Practically:** The book provides an audience submitted word (or phrase) that the players have to work into the conversation. If the player uses it well they get a temporary +2 bonus to a skill of their choice.

## Schrödinger's Box of Otherworldly Items

**Official description: "***This small wooden plank box, when opened, may or may not contain a useful object.**"***

**Image text:** A simple wooden plank box with a sliding lid that is slightly open. A strong, warm glow is visible from inside the box, and a trail of magic sparkles streams out of the opening.

This item was originally called *Schrödinger's Box of Temporary Items* with the rule being that the item would last for one hour, and the box would refill d2 times per session, but the name was changed when the group decided that the items should be perminent or at least semi-perminent.

In its introduction in episode **02 // The Aylar Ruins** it was described as:

> "[A] small wooden plank box which may or may not contain an object useful to you. You just won’t know till you open it and find out."
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**Practically:** Audience submitted items will appear in the box at random. They could be magic, non-magic, an animal, a potion, a plant, literally anything. The player wil use a d20 to determine an object from a list of audience submitted items.

## The Pouch of Drawstring Magic

**Official description: "***This small blue and gold bag seems to be empty, but a scrap of paper inside holds a spell - scrawled onto it by the denizens of another plane. Once retrieved the party member holding the scrap can cast that spell until it vanishes.**"***

**Image text:** A glowing pouch, decorated with an intricate gold pattern of a bird and wildflowers. The bag's neck is tied up with string, and a strong glow emanates from the creased opening at the top.

In its introduction in episode **02 // The Aylar Ruins** it was described as:

> "[A] a small blue and gold bag that seems to be empty, however if you reach inside you’ll find a scrap of paper with a spell scrawled onto it by the denizens of another plane. You can use this once per day to cast that spell."
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**Practically:** Players can roll one d20 (orginally a d8) to reveal a spell from an audience submitted list.

This item has also undergone some changes, with players now able to roll to find out if they know what the spell is, and some spells firing automatically. Some spells have also fired on their own after waiting too long to be used.

The number of times a spell can be used varies. It's not clear if this is froma dice roll or from audience subitted amounts.

## The Orb of Second Chances

**Official description: "***The orb allows a party member to temporarily bind their own luck to the wishes of denizens in another plane. One dice roll must be substituted with the audience roll each session; if not used by the end of the episode it will bring bad luck to the party. This item cannot cannot be used for an initiative roll.**"***

**Image text:** A brightly glowing orb, surrounded by a faint ring of magic energy that appears to warp around the orb's surface. The inside of the orb has the faint shape of an icosahedron, the shape of a 20-sided dice.

In its introduction in episode **02 // The Aylar Ruins** it was described as:

> "The ORB of second chances allows a player to choose to substitute an unknown AUDIENCE ROLL at any time for one of their own rolls. It MUST be played once per session and cannot be used for an initiative roll. If not used by the end of the episode it will bring bad luck to the party. The orb hums slightly at all times"
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**Practically:** Audience members can submit d20 rolls on the ryoa.show website at any time. The most submitted roll since the last reocrding session will be the roll the player recives in replacement of their own roll.

This item has also undergone some changes: originally it had to be chosen to be used before the player rolled, now they can use it after they roll to replace their original roll. The way the audience roll was 'calculated' has also changed. Previoulsy, the average of submissions was chosen, but currently the most-submitted number is used.