Guardians of the Flame

At the end of each episode, the audience is given a questionnaire to fill out in which they can vote for their favorite player character. The player characters who receive the most votes are invited to participate in a special adventure designed to kill them all. If however, they do survive, they will receive the honorary title known as Guardian of the Flame.

Guardians of the Flame have powers above and beyond those of mere mortals. They can heal themselves indefinitely, resurrect a party member once and heal a party member once. So it's quite useful to have a GOTF in your party (or summon one onstage at an opportune moment).

GOTF episodes take place once every blue moon (3 months or so) at the discretion of the Dungeonmaster.

For more information on GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME in our GUIDE TO ATOLL, click here.

Dungeon Master
Guardians of the Flame

Congratulation to our Newest Guardian!

TAD POL

This was the best written of the four Guardian episodes I've seen or been in. Not only were there many challenges (including many ethical quandaries) but everything tied in extremely well with the theme of "chaos in the flow of time" - slow time, reverse time, time vortices, etc.

Our Elder Guardians

Nick Neisler
as
CLASH

Erich Schneider
as
Heliodorus

Born to a clan of sun-worshipping families, Heliodorus was seen in his teenage years to have the "Mark of the God". From that time he was trained to be a holy warrior in the service of the Radiant Lord. Now he travels throughout the land promoting the true Solar doctrine, dispensing aid to the weak and punishment to the unrighteous. Bound by a strict moral code, he calls upon the power of the Bright One to aid him in times of need. He has a special hatred for the undead and other creatures of darkness.

Spenser Flugum
as
Ted

Erich Schneider
as
Loong
Loong is a warrior monk from the Monastery of the Gold Mountain, in the Arda Mountains of eastern Hormound. He wanders the land pursuing perfection of body and spirit and seeking knowledge of the Twin Principles and Five Processes, so that one day he can pass his order's Examinations of Mastery. Along the way he lends his skills in unarmed combat and magic to various worthy causes, as part of his order's mission of leading all thinking beings to the Supreme Enlightenment of the Perfect Ascended Masters.

Tim Ritenour
as
Brother Pious

Bill Paley
as
Mycroft
An older mage, a Guardian of the Flame, he tends to wear a vest, a flat hat with a gorgeous plume, and he finds it difficult to resist a book or scroll. Not a great fighter, though adequate, he is fairly successful with spell use. Tends to fight with short sword and dagger.

Sylvie Danials
as
Cleopatra

Mike Axelson
as
Carl Spackler
You see, I've got a plan here, really it's about a six year plan, cause right now, you know, I'm guardian of the Flame, which is important because Flame can really burn up the greens and fairways. But I figure, with the amount of study I'm putting in you know, I can be the Dungeonmaster in like six years. I mean, like Lamias, you know. that's the kinda stuff I know about that makes me you, know the next in line. I've also invented a new kind of weapon. It's a whip, and it's made out of genuine cowhide, diamond claws and northern Atoll sinsemilla. What's great about this is you can fight monsters all day, and then go back to your shack and get stoned to the begeesses. Which is nice.

Enrique Munoz Jr
as
Golgotha
Mightiest of the Guardians (so he thinks), who wanders the land with his Spoon of Doom and Crest of Zest seeking his friend. He never grows hungry after eating the fabled Phoenix eggs.

Joe Adelsick
as
Talos Blackwing

Jim Partlow
as
Sarky
A vertically challenged dwarf. He is the eighth dwarf that Disney did not want. This left him very bitter and, you guessed it, very sarcastic. Fortunately sarcasm is only one of his many talents. He is also a magician and knows a thing or two about a thing or two, and is also a vaunted Guardian of the Flame. Following imprisonment by the Dark Knight Sable, Sarky was secretly turned towards evil by the Knight. As leader of Sable's forces, Sarky was briefly known as the Dark Flame before eventually being subdued by a band of adventurers and cleansed of Sable's taint. He has since reverted to his Guardian ways, albeit just as gruff and sarky as usual.

Anna Valleser
as
Mouse
Mouse has really, one simple goal in her life: to spread joy and love of Kender everywhere and go home. Needless to say, she is incredibly naive in many aspects of life, but what do you expect from a Kender? She is one of the founding members of the soon-to-be well known Kender Scouts. It bothered her and her friends that so many other races were wary of her kind and they felt that something needed to be done. Hence, the Kender Scouts. They agreed that instead of "forgetting" to return things, they would trade for them. And what would they trade? Why, cookies of course! It pleases them to no end that the cookies are becoming far more popular than they had expected. However, if she would remember to actually get something for her cookies, she may yet earn her merit badge.

Doron Kipper
as
Clig