Tambok's Special Friend Show
The Tambok Special Friend Show is a show that will supposedly occur during a campaign in the future. If a player holds a Tambok Ticket at the end of the campaign, they add one character from the Unforgotten Realms Live universe, whether they are alive or dead. Multiple characters who share the same body or form may only be selected if the player has a ticket for each individual character. Nothing is known about the campaign or the show aside from Rob's statement: "Tambok lives in a city where it doesn't matter if you are alive or dead, as long as you have a story about you."
Requirements for a character to be added to the show
In order for a character to be added to the Show, a player must reach the end of a Campaign with a Tambok Ticket in tact. Meaning that, while carrying said Ticket, a character cannot be hit by a Critical at any point in the campaign or the ticket is destroyed. At the end of the Campaign, the GM will ask which character from any campaign the player with the Ticket would like to add. However, there are certain rules as to adding a character to the Show.
The character must not be:
- a Divine Being
- It has been stated by Rob that Tambok is a Divine Being in the Zarlin Catacombs Behind the Scenes video. He further explains that for example Glamourous the Glamourshark cannot be in Tambok's Special Friend show because they are both Divine Beings, and Tambok cannot put another divine being in the show, theoretically because he isn't powerful enough to.
- a Dragon
- Probably for the same reason as Divine Beings.
- a Goblin
- Weak
Characters
Current Characters in the Show
| Tambok's Special Friend Show | |||||||||||
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| Character | Added By | Campaign they were added in | |||||||||
| Fenrus | Roamin | The Sunswords | |||||||||
| K4 | Justin | The Unseen Rogues | |||||||||
| Bob | Justin | Okagnoma Guild Hall* | |||||||||
| Vanessa | Coestar | Okagnoma Guild Hall* | |||||||||
| Rafeal | Coestar | Okagnoma Guild Hall* | |||||||||
| Cain | Deadbones | Okagnoma Guild Hall** | |||||||||
*Note: these characters were added in Okagnoma Guild Hall character creation as a result of characters previously entered being removed from the show.
**Note: Deabones had his ticket destroyed when he critically failed in Woodcarvers, however Rob decided that critical fails should not destroy tickets and so Deadbones got to add a character in character creation of Okagnoma Guild Hall.
Characters that were barred entry from the Show
- Glamourous the Divine Being Glamourshark from The Zarlin Catacombs.
- Don the sentient Donkey from The Many Gobos of Pat.
- Warren and by consequence Terrence, the conjoined Goblin twins from The Many Gobos of Pat.
- Albert the deformed Monkey Fish and son of the Monkey Fish King, from Roamin's Band of Thieves.
Trivia
- Originally, Vitali Zankovich's Tambok Ticket in Woodcarvers was destroyed due to Rolling a Critical Fail. However, Rob has since retconned the destruction of the Ticket from Critical Fail rolls, and thus, Deadbones was allowed to add a character to the show.
Theories
There are theories that Tambok's Special Friend show is related to the book people (race mentioned in the Lore Building Week), or the "Believers". The connection is made because of Rob's quote: "Tambok lives in a city where it doesn't matter if you are alive or dead, as long as you have a story about you".
- Another theory is that Tambok's Special Friend show is a large 24 person tournament based off of the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise (as "Kombat" is an anagram of Tambok) with 20 contestants being picked by the players via the Tambok Tickets. Roamin, Justin, Coestar, and Deadbones would then pick characters to play in order to complete the 24-man bracket, and a special campaign could play out to cover the "show." Mortal Kombat is also known to bring back characters from the dead since many characters die in each tournament. Friendship is a special form of finishing move (offering a friendlier alternative to the Fatalities filled with blood and gore) featured in the second and third Mortal Kombat games, and Tambok's "Special Friend Show" could be a reference to that as a result. Tambok could possibly be controlling the characters as he is a divine being.
- With the tease of Rob's new game "Tambok", which is a game of UR Characters fighting to the death, it further supports this theory.
| Tambok's Special Friend Show | |||||||||
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| Host | Tambok/Rob | ||||||||
| Players | Coestar | Deadbones | Justin | Roamin | ||||||||
| Chosen Characters | Bob | Cain | Fenrus | Bumbley | Rafeal | Vanessa | ||||||||
| NPCs | |||||||||
| Locations | |||||||||
| Races | Dwarf | Elf | Gnome | Porc | Sun Hound | ||||||||
| Classes | Bard | Paladin | Warrior | ||||||||
| Legendaries | Tambok Ticket | ||||||||
