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16. Dungeon Daddies ft Matt (Our DM!!) · Amigos, Afraid!

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Are we live? Yeah.
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Wait, we're live. We're streaming right now.
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We're streaming on Twitch. On the Daily BJ Twitch channel.
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Everyone turn on your cameras because it's the Twitch channel.
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Yes, which I will definitely be making by the time this airs.
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Right now it's Twitch with a silent T and it's TUITCH.
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What Twitch? You know, I used to have a
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twitch. You didn't.
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Like a physical 10. I want to.
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I want to have the doctor for it.
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Would they prescribe you? No, they looked at my mom and
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they said, he's just shrugging because my mom would ask me
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questions and she'd be like, mijo, what do you want to eat
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for dinner? And I would just, yeah, like,
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shrug my shoulders. And I would do it so often.
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And my mom thought I was twitching.
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She's like, after the 300th time, she was like, I have to
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take this boy to the doctor. Yeah, and then she said, Mijo,
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we're not paying that copay again.
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Figure it out. What?
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If I call you Twitchy Webito, Yeah, say that again.
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He's been calling me a certain name.
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As of this morning, Jerry has a new nickname.
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It's Webito. Because he's egg boy.
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He loves eggs. And I will call you Twitchy, OK?
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I think that's good. I can't believe I shared that
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today. Thank you.
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Anyways, welcome to the Daily BJ.
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I'm Brian. I'm Jerry.
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And together with the daily BJ. Daily.
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Not weekly. Daily.
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Am I drunk? No.
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I'm watching Jerry drink and I think I'm drunk.
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It's osmosis. We're here with the special
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guest. You've heard us talk about this
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person, talk about what we do with him on a weekly basis, what
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we've. Done to him.
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What he's done to us, what he's done to us, the pain, the
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torture, but also the elated sensation.
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There's been laughs, there's been tears.
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There's been singing. There's been singing and
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dancing. And dancing.
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And emotional trauma. Damage.
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Sorry, emotional damage and pain.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to not
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only a dear friend, a close friend.
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Dare I save my biological father?
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But he is our Dungeon Master. Yes, we have our friend Matt
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here. Hello.
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Hello. Hello.
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Thank you for having me. It's, it's, I think it's the
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hair and the beard that really like, you know, people can tell
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us apart. Like, hey, you know what?
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That's his kid. Yeah, I see.
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Look a lot. A lot.
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The jeans have definitely come through.
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Your blonde beard is slowly coming in, and your blue eyes.
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The blue eyes are, yeah, I think it's a blue eyes series.
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Blue eyes are they're slowly getting there someday.
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Someday. Someday, yeah.
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Oh. We're here with Matt, who is our
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dungeon Master, our DM. Yes, the source of our pain and
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suffering. Yeah, Two years.
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Two years for Jerry specifically.
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November is when we started the first time.
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Your two year anniversary. My 2 year anniversary, is it
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coming up? Yeah.
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Damn, we got to go big. I know we got to go big.
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Something someone's got to die. We go back to Stride.
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Oh my God, we get the gang back together.
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You. Wanting to go back to stride.
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No, no, Curse of Stride everyone.
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If you want to cry yourself to sleep, play this game.
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Yeah, so introduce yourself, Matt.
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You're a Dungeon Master. What does that?
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Mean so as a dungeon master, I, I guess I control the game of
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D&D Dungeons and Dragons. I'm, I'm more of a, consider
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myself a world build builder than a storyteller.
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I look at the players as the storytellers and I just create
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the world and you know, I, I just facilitate this game that
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we play weekly. That's a big word for Elmo.
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Weekly. That's that's crazy to think
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about. That's a blessing.
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It's a skill. It's a hardest part of the
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entire game. You know, it's it's legit when
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you hit up your friend and you're like, hey, man, you want
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to hop on, play some, you know, Fortnite, play some rivals,
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whatever. And they're like, can't, I'm
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prepping for tomorrow. And by prepping, it's like, you
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know, all the background, all the background things that us as
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players don't see, right? Because it's DM stuff.
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Because he hasn't planned. Created out of his own little
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mind. Yeah, it's a trip.
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It's, it's more of, you know, I had one of my old DMS tell me
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that D Ming is like making a cookie, but the players decide
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what goes between it. So it's like you could be making
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a sandwich. You create the bread and the
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players create the inside of it, you know?
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So think of it as like, it could be two cookies on the outside
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and then steak in the middle. Like, you never know what it's
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gonna be, you know? That sounds pretty good.
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It sounds like our games where he has a plan and we completely
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do the opposite of yeah, what's expected.
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Yeah, that's crazy. Did you make me a sandwich?
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You made me a sandwich. So the same day that we totally
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live stream to you guys when you listen to these episodes?
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Yeah, the day we meet for Dungeons and Dragons.
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Yep. But a Thursday tradition now for
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Thursday. Since what, in January of this
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year? February, Yeah, so good.
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Like 6-7 months. Something like that, yeah.
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Yeah, about that, yeah. Where we all get together, we
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have all our dice, all our trays.
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Our salaries. We just had our 24th session.
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20. Fourth of our second.
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Campaign. Second campaign.
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Yeah. 24th sessions. Yeah.
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And it feels like we've only itched the surface.
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Yeah. You know, like, yeah, who knows
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what's next? And, and I wish we can go into
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detail about like what we're doing and everything, but it's a
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lot, guys. If you guys really want insight
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on what our campaign is, our first one is on Spotify.
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Yes it is. We would love for you guys to
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listen to that. Yes, it is.
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That'd be amazing yeah, that that campaign was was was kind
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of like, you know, new for both of you guys completely never
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playing before and Dulce and you know, like that was my first
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time DM ING like a full full campaign in a couple years too.
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And what a different second thing is compared to women.
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Yeah, man, that was like just horror, horror, horror.
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Thank you. I was about to say, can you
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describe it in one word? What the campaign was, yeah.
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Horror. Yeah, it was a horror campaign.
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It was. So yeah.
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Well, I would like to dive into some questions for sure.
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Yes. And for the first question I'd
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like to ask you what is Dungeons and Dragons for those that don't
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know? And why do you think people
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should give it a try? So Dungeons and Dragons is a
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tabletop role-playing game where you sit down with friends and
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play make believe. There's a many ways to play it.
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You can go off of a module, which is like a a book you can
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buy off the shelf and it'll give you the whole story front to
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back. You can run it that way and just
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it's adventures. And I always look at it as the,
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the, the greatest video game of all time.
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You know, it's, if you like video games, board games,
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anything like that, mysteries, movies, It's, it's all that in
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your mind. You know, I think the best part
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about it, why people should give it a chance is because it's,
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it's once you're in a group like we have, that's like a solid
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thing and you like find that, that, that group, which is very
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hard to find. We do have something special, I
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believe. But either way, it's like
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community, you know, like just being able to create something
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with a group of people and live and play and just like, you feel
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like you're in that world when you're there for those a few
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hours a week, you know? And I think that's the biggest
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thing, is it brings people together that you wouldn't
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expect whatever come together, you know?
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And it's like, I believe that D&D connected all of us and
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maybe never would have even met or known each other otherwise,
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which is pretty cool. Yeah.
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We're all very diverse and I think it's just a very cool
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thing to do. We had been talking about it for
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like months before Jerry met you.
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I had thrown around the idea of like, oh, Dragons always like to
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play because I don't know if it what people nowadays is if it's
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something new that you've like seen on social media or
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something. I first discovered it with
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Critical Role. No idea what it was.
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It was just recommended on a YouTube video and I'm like, what
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the heck, This is so cool. I want to do this.
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And I think the interest is it draws in different types of
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people for different reasons. The reason I was so interested
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in it, in it and why it I have so much fun doing it, is I came
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from like a theatre background way back then in high school,
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where this to me is like you're living and breathing improv.
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I love that. Right, that's amazing.
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Like I I very antisocial growing up.
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I would just, you know, like I had friends of course, but it
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was always a small group of friends.
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I was a musician and a nerd and just like to stay home and do
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bad things but. Elaborate.
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I'm kidding. Commit to your crimes.
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I was, I was very, I'm very shy. I still shake at times when I
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have to speak in front of you guys.
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Like internally I'm like vibrating sometimes, you know,
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just 'cause it is like the first time I ever played D and DI was
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like my hand was shaking trying to write notes, you know, I was.
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Like me the first time I played with you guys.
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Yeah, same. But it's just wild to think that
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now it's like, I can just comfortably do this, you know?
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Yeah. And but I think that's what it's
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all about is like, like you said, you already had this in
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you. I didn't have it in me until I
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was 35. You know what I mean?
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Which is crazy to think about. Yeah.
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And I think that's like that'll lead me on to my next question
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because you answered some of it. But why do you think it's such
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an important game to you personally, and what keeps you
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coming back after all these years?
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So I think the, the thing about it is I've always loved video
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games, movies, like comic books, like escapism, you know, like
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just to be able to go to another, another area and
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another world and be somebody you're not.
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And just like, you know, be that cool guy walking into an alien
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bar with a blaster on your hip, like just awesome, you know,
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like, and that's what always keeps me going as Adm is like,
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what world can we go into? Like, what can we do next?
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You know, And I think like on a like a more meta personal level,
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it's like the the the friendship and the hanging out every week.
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It's an excuse for us all to hang out, you know, and just
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like like we always do it mainly Thursdays, but how like this
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last weekend was like, we did it a brunch and made a day of it,
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then all like couldn't breakfast and that shit's rad.
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Like people don't even do that just hanging out.
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And especially these days, you know, and so I think like the
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friends and the, the friendships and relationships is a big part
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of what keeps me going. And the stress reliever you can
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have like, like, you know, we mentioned before how like
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Thursdays are always the worst day of the week, but then play
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DND and it's just like such a stress reliever, you know, just
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to get away, think about other stuff and just let it go.
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That's awesome. I think it's definitely
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self-care for a lot of us. And like you said, it's a
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Thursday. It's like at the end of the
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week, but not really. And then it makes Friday so much
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more enjoyable and it makes it go by so much faster.
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You're like, wow, I just had a really nice, cool session or
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really shitty intense session, but it still feels like a dent.
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That was really fun. You know we.
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Have one more day till the weekend.
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One more day and then it's a weekend, you know?
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But we got to escape our regular life for a couple hours and I
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think that's so cool. And yeah, be that person you
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aren't comfortable being in, are not normally in real life and
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expand on that, you know, have fun with it.
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And yeah, I think that's, I think it's awesome.
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Totally, and you get to play around with with the like the
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character building is one of my favorite things for the game.
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You do have there's a certain set of classes, people who are
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not super in the know the game. You have your DM, which would be
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Matt, telling us what the world is, and we create our
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characters. How are they gonna exist in that
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world? How are they gonna cooperate
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with one another? Yeah.
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How are you gonna either inject yourself in this character or be
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someone completely different? How are you gonna adapt to that?
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It's so fun. Yeah, it is fun.
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And being on this side of the screen, like, it's like, I get
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to watch this is like my, my weekly Game of Thrones, you
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know, like I just get to like. Here's Brian.
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Never seen it go. Play and like, you know, just
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watch what you guys do together. It's never what I expect.
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Yeah, you know, like I'm always, I always feel proud when, when I
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can hook you or get the gasp or get the, the, the shock at the
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table or whatever. And then I'm like, yes, it were,
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yeah, you know, but there's so many times when you guys do that
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to me, you know? And it's just like, oh man, I
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didn't see it going this way at all.
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And so, yeah, that's, that's the best part of it.
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And it's really cool. It's cute at the table.
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Like sometimes I'll look around and I see the gears turning in
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people's faces. Yeah, very specifically on
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Frenchy and would say I just literally, I'm like, they're on
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to something. Yeah, something's cooking.
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Yeah. The the, the brains of the team
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are working. Yeah.
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The leaders, yeah. No, it's, it's always a trip.
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When you expect one thing, it does it.
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You make a left turn and you're just like, how the fuck did we
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get here? You know what the hell is going
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to happen next? Like, yeah, it's it's super
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cool, right? If you get a chance, do it.
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Yeah, Listen to our episode, listen to the To the Morning
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Crew Spotify episodes. You'll you'll get the gist.
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It's so much fun. I'm telling you guys, you need
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to try it at least once. Yeah.
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At least. Once.
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So for those new, brand new players, what does a typical DND
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session look like? And it could be from start to
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finish, same day, but as a Dungeon Master, how do you help
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set that stage? And you kind of talked about
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this already. Yeah, like one thing that I
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think that's important for Adm, especially depending on like if
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you're playing a game like us, where we're weekly, we're on
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schedules, we have lives, we all have to get up early the next
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day. Like time, time management is
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like the biggest thing in DND that's hard to manage, you know,
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And I think when you set up a session, you got to always like,
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I'll have three to five things ready to go and I'm always ready
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to throw three to five things out the window.
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You know, like it's like, I know where I want to start you guys,
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you guys, I give you an objective, you know, you have to
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get there somehow. And from there it's however you
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want to do it. And I just try to think of the
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time and it's like, I, I've think I've gotten really good
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over this last year or so, like budgeting what we can and can't
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do, you know? And there's always a thing where
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you, you know, start and there should be a fork in the road
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that takes you two different directions just so you guys have
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options. Yeah.
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But you should always be ready to throw those options out the
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window, you know? But I think for a simple
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session, if you're just to run one your first time ever, I have
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like a, a model that I kind of use where it's just a, you know,
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get in, get an item, get out, keep it simple, keep it basic.
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And it, it really just all depends on what you want to do.
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There's a lot of one shots online and things that can
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explain the game to you. But for like full campaign
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sessions, when we're at the point we're at right now, it's
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just kind of like I have an idea and a guideline.
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But again, it's really tough to, this is a tough question because
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it's like it really depends on what's going on in the game, you
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know? Yeah.
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I kind of rambled, sorry. No, no, no.
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I was going to say, you mentioned one shot.
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Can you explain what a one shot is for the Yeah so.
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A campaign is usually two or more sessions.
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I would say technically I would think 33 sessions and it's a
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full story, however long. But a one shot is a story then
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and a game you could play all in one single sitting.
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You know, you, you want to have a beginning, middle and and a
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resolution solving a murder, playing a game of clues, kind of
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like a one shot. You want to figure out who
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killed this person or who stole this item or you guys save the
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Princess from the castle. It's just a game where you sit
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down one whole session is it's completely over.
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The story's over. Cool.
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Yeah. Now you know.
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Yeah. One shot.
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One shot. Do it right now.
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Try. I would love to try one DM ING
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session, I think just on the creative.
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I think you'd also be really good at that, Brian.
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The creativity part is what excites me the most of like like
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you said, I'm going to have 345 options, let's see which one
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goes. But what blows in my my mind is
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how do you have so much developed that you can do either
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one of those? So I mean, I think it might come
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to a surprise to you guys, but I would say now I've I've learned
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after all these years, well, you know, I've probably been playing
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for about 6 and DM ING for probably 4 of that time.
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And now I know to I don't bring a lot prepped.
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I know the, the, the gist of the story.
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I know The Who, what, where, when, why that kind of stuff.
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But all the little things like I, I think the best DM's roll
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with the punches and allow the players to really build the
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story, you know, but it all depends on the type of game you
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want to play. But the game we play is the way
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I run things is very cinematic and very storytelling.
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And that's the story matters. And so I always think like in a
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situation like that, it's you guys tell the story and kind of
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lost track of what I was, what the question was again.
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How you kind of answered it? How do you you have so many
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ideas? Is there some things that you
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would Then you're like, you know what?
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That was really good. I want to recycle that for
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something else. Oh.
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Yeah, You never throw them away completely.
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You just always set them aside for another day.
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You can always rescan it. You could the, the, the bank
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robbers don't always have to be bank robbers.
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They could be a gang later down or a group of thugs here and
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there. You know, like I always have
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tons of ideas that I'm like, oh, that would be cool.
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That would be cool. That would be cool, you know?
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Bookmark it for later. Yeah, exactly.
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And like I have things from our current campaign that happened
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in that first couple sessions that can totally, I'm like,
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maybe I should bring that back up now, you know, like so yeah,
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it's definitely possible to to rehash anything.
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I think that as a player, I think that reminds me of like
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when your character dies and you spent like a lot of time on it
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and everything, you're like, I do not want to throw this away.
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So you just recycle the character change, you know, drop
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a letter and then just like reskin it.
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And it's not, it's not a bad thing, you know, but it's just
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it's funny how it goes both ways kind of man kind of kind of kind
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of. All right.
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Next question. Do you prefer a high level
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campaign with world shattering stakes or do it?
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Or do you enjoy the smaller quirky adventures that live in
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the margins? I mean, I, I feel like there's a
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place for both, you know, like right now we're in high fantasy,
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high stakes, everything matters. And and. 2 1/2 weeks, we're
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playing a Halloween 80s slasher. The one shot that doesn't, does
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not matter at all. And it's definitely staying in
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those margins. You know, you know what you're
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what it is. So as far as campaigns go, if
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it's something I'm investing my time into and and all that, I
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want it to matter, you know, But the most important rule at the
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table by far, as long as you're having fun, you know, that's
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that's the biggest thing. If you're not having fun, if
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you're uncomfortable with any of the, the, the topics or if
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you're not comfortable with a player like talking to you a
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certain way or treating you a certain way or the DM treating
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you a certain way. Anything that's, that's
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definitely 100% reason to not want to play at that table.
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But I also think that, you know, fun is the most important thing
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and, and you got to make sure that as long as you're having
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fun, it's the right game for you, You know, and if for me,
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again, the, the high fantasy, high stakes is always the best
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'cause it feels like you're like in the middle of, you know,
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every like every other week. Brian's like, is that music from
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Skyrim? You know, 'cause he's, I could
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even tell he's like, oh, I feel like I've did like that's what
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we're dealing with, you know, like I love that stuff.
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Like it, it's, it's really cool. And, but I think the right
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table, you get all of that. You know, this campaign we've
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had the the high stakes, we've had the the scary moments, we've
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had the laughter joke, stupid moments.
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Like. You know, and so I think that's
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the the best combo as long as you're having fun.
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We were super close to starting our own brewery at the top of
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the hill in a in a Gimbels house.
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You know what? Fuck the story.
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We're going to start our brewery here and just, you know, open
21:58
up, open up shop. I think that's the the best part
22:01
of our group is we have a lot of different personalities that
22:04
make a very interesting bunch 'cause we do have like the more
22:09
serious, at least my character is very goal oriented.
22:12
But then we also have like Dave and Steph who just have the
22:17
funniest one liner sometimes. But even I'm like, you know
22:21
what, let's they're right. We we should move in this
22:23
direction instead. I think it's a, we have a very
22:28
unique group. We have like all types of people
22:31
at our table that just make it so funny.
22:34
Yeah. And.
22:35
Playing with your friends, I think, and this goes back to
22:37
your old point, Brian, how we thought about this, starting our
22:42
own like, you know, group and everything and playing without
22:45
knowing anything we're going to. Start from scratch.
22:47
Someone who had played one one I think one shot or mini campaign.
22:51
I don't remember how long they played.
22:52
We're like, OK, you're going to be our DM, let's get people
22:55
involved. Yeah, well, like, let's do it.
22:56
We just got to buy the books and buy our dice and we'll make it
23:00
happen. No fucking way, no shot.
23:02
Like, I mean, you do, you can, but like it's, I think at this
23:07
like from what we know, what we've seen it, it just it seems
23:10
impossible. Yeah, we need to give, it seems
23:12
impossible, Matt, some credit of the fact that him and Frenchie,
23:16
the level of commitment I went, went in with like this basic
23:20
knowledge of like, OK, there's going to be like paper maps on
23:22
the table and have little characters.
23:25
And even before I started, because Jerry had started like a
23:28
good 2-3 months before I was included, I got a message from
23:32
this person I haven't met saying, hey, by the way, go onto
23:35
this website and create your character.
23:37
Because the day I showed up, there's a little 3D printed
23:40
character that I'm going to use for the foreseeable future.
23:45
And they have this cool like visual map.
23:50
It's it's not paper. They have ATV.
23:52
Yeah, it's ATV. He.
23:53
Has mood lighting. He has music from.
23:55
Dave Yeah, they've like we were using the the maps, remember the
23:59
the maps on the wall. Were our first maps for
24:01
different maps. And like, we had so many maps
24:05
printed that it was just like, my whole closet was just, I'd
24:08
open it up and maps would fall out.
24:11
And then Dave brought that TV over.
24:13
He brought it over once or twice.
24:15
And then like realized that like, I was like, Oh my God, can
24:19
I like, use this all the time? And so it's literally been at
24:23
our house now for a year and a half.
24:26
And yeah, we have a really cool setup.
24:28
We like to make it, you know, feel like you're playing DND,
24:33
you're in the room, you know, like we're very much maximalist,
24:36
so. No and and it's hard to cut you
24:38
off, but if you walk into their place, like there they have the
24:42
coolest setup ever. Like their walls are packed with
24:46
just posters, like memorabilia, collectibles, toys, like mood
24:51
lighting, like everything in their place is just like
24:54
jaw-dropping because it's cool. So you guys have a super cool
24:57
place, guys. I appreciate.
24:58
That and and then yeah, same thing when I first sat down at
25:02
your table. I think you dimmed the lights
25:04
red and I say I think because I don't know my colors and you
25:10
started reading the intro distrade and or what?
25:12
I'm sorry it. Said Lord Drop, in case you guys
25:14
didn't know Terry's color blind. Lord drop red green color
25:17
deficient anyways. And then you started reading
25:20
something off of like stride or something.
25:21
I don't know if it was from the manual, but I was like, oh, fuck
25:24
this. And there was there was a music
25:26
in the background and I was like, oh, damn, this is it.
25:29
Like fuck. That was when I was shaking.
25:31
Like my moment of just like, oh shit, like bubble guts at my
25:35
fucking blood pressure was like over 200.
25:38
Yeah, crazy. But yeah, it's been, it's been
25:41
an amazing. Word that I think about that
25:44
opening session so much compared to where we're at now.
25:47
It's it's a wild thing about. It's a journey, I think when
25:51
when you try to go in around the Table 1 by 1 to describe your
25:54
character. Yeah, dude, I was shitting my
25:56
pants and I was like fuck, fuck. And like Frenchie had a super.
26:00
I forgot who went first, but I think Frenchie went first.
26:02
I think Sushi went after right. I would think Dave might have
26:05
gone, but then I was like, uh, my character is he's an elf.
26:09
He's like 6 to 1. He has green eyes.
26:13
And. He does nature.
26:15
He has nature stuff. And I was like, like, that was
26:17
yeah, dude, I was losing my mind.
26:19
I was like, it's, I was so nervous.
26:20
That's funny. Yeah, honestly, Because to us
26:23
the three of them were like. Pros.
26:25
They are pros yeah, all three of them are pros and they're like
26:28
fuck, they're judging me. I fucking suck at this already.
26:32
I I was thinking about the role play I'm.
26:34
Like we would always look at like sushi.
26:35
Like can we do that? Yeah, we do that.
26:37
Yeah. It was like the one play that
26:38
was there and like he could see us, we could see him like, can
26:42
we do this and. Then we look at, we look at Matt
26:44
like. Will that work?
26:46
Can we? Do that.
26:46
Do that, yeah. So funny, but when you first
26:50
came in, Brian, I remember what was the best part was your
26:56
commitment. That's the thing, DND takes a
26:58
commitment and it takes a committed person.
27:01
And so I knew right away when you're like, oh, I've already
27:04
listened to all the sessions up to.
27:06
This point I did my homework. And I was like, what?
27:08
And that was like 11 sessions or something.
27:10
They're all like anywhere between 5:00 to 9:00 hours.
27:14
Probably. Some of them are long.
27:16
Yeah, that was when you guys were playing weekends and it was
27:18
like. Super long hours, yeah.
27:21
And then like. So when you came in, you were
27:25
like, oh, you guys are like, like celebrities, like listen to
27:29
you all the time, like. I had your voices through my car
27:32
speakers for like 2 months. Yeah, damn, it's wild.
27:36
But then we wrote that into your character.
27:37
Yeah, yeah, I just him. Man, he was following us guys
27:41
this whole time. I love.
27:42
We had fights, we had near death experiences, right?
27:45
He was my baby. And he was just watching.
27:48
He was just watching. I don't like him at first.
27:49
No one did. No one liked your.
27:51
Effort. At the very end, people weren't
27:52
trusting me. Well, we had a, We had like.
27:55
A Hey, how about people watching?
27:57
And a conspirer. Hey, I was just doing what I was
28:00
told. I was under contract for sure.
28:03
The bad guy You. Were you were allegedly
28:08
allegedly and now you're bashful.
28:10
I'm bashful. All right, well, so can you tell
28:14
me what's the funniest or most chaotic thing a player has ever
28:17
done at your table? I completely derailed your
28:20
plans. Yeah, So funniest I would say
28:25
honestly, like one that first comes to mind is the bakery
28:29
inspectors, like the the bakery inspector thing.
28:34
I that and that 20 of him just trying to like where you guys
28:38
are all trying to lie to this old lady that you don't realize
28:41
there's a hag and she's like trying to keep you out the whole
28:46
time. And you guys are trying to lie,
28:47
lie, lie, roll, fail, roll, fail.
28:50
And then Dave out of nowhere just like, come on, guys, I'm
28:53
sick of all the lying. Fine lady, we'll just tell you
28:57
the truth. We're actually bakery
28:59
inspectors. And then I told him to roll
29:02
deception in your old and Nat 20 on it.
29:05
And she was like, OK, come on in.
29:09
Like you guys have to pretend to be inspectors inspecting the
29:12
kitchen and all this stuff because you're looking for
29:16
children pretty much. And then there's a bag in my
29:19
house. And that really, I did not
29:22
expect that at all. And that's just one of those
29:24
things. It's like there's a saying rule
29:27
of cool. You just got to let things cool
29:30
happen if you know, And so that that that that was definitely
29:34
one of the. Funnier moments.
29:36
I agree. Yeah.
29:37
Damn. For those that don't know, a Nat
29:39
20 is a critical success. So how would you put that in,
29:44
you know? So that's AD 20 is a 20 sided
29:49
die. So rolling the highest number on
29:52
it gets you the the biggest outcome for your damage when you
29:56
roll damage. So you get to roll double your
29:58
damage if you get a Nat 20 or a critical success.
30:02
Amazing and. I will say, like, when that
30:06
happened, I forgot if I was outside or I had tried doing
30:09
something and then I was like, no, I'm just a stable guy.
30:12
I'm just, I'm just here for the horses.
30:14
And yeah, a hag is like this, like super evil, gross.
30:18
Witch, witch, witch. Yeah, told Hag.
30:21
Magical old lady. Yeah and disgusting.
30:24
They were running a bakery but they were using non conventional
30:27
cooking material. Yeah, they were cooking the
30:29
kids. They were cooking.
30:31
They were cooking in there. I I we will not say who ate
30:37
those. I did steal a pelt, I think a
30:40
rabbit pelt, which it was just a pelt.
30:42
Oh, my gosh. Put it in my bag for so long.
30:44
And then my back started moving. Yeah, this was sessions after I
30:46
forgot about that pelt. I don't even know what I wanted
30:48
to do with it. And then something was moving in
30:50
my bag and it attacked me like at night because it was just a
30:54
freaking. That's cool.
30:55
Yeah. That's so crazy, scary,
30:57
disgusting, disgusting. I think that was that was the
31:01
episode episode because they recorded that one.
31:04
I think of it as episodes, yeah, yeah, instead of sessions.
31:07
I think that was the session right before I joined.
31:09
It was because Baba Lai saga. Because we left.
31:13
And I fell off a tree. And we were looking for Dave,
31:15
right? Yeah, we went back looking for
31:16
Dave. Yeah, that was for Rev. And he
31:19
helped you find. Yeah, Dang, wow, look at that.
31:22
I. Know this is making me nostalgic
31:24
even though it was a year and a half ago, I want to go back and
31:27
listen. Oh my God.
31:29
All right, what's the hardest behind the screen decision
31:33
you've ever had to make? Where where you had to choose
31:36
between the rules and the story. So the hardest thing for me
31:44
ever, as Adm by far, is, is watching one of my players die.
31:50
And man, there's been some like, you know, Frenchie, she died
31:58
three times, like, and one of them was from me as Adm, another
32:03
one was from me as a player, and another one was for her just
32:06
willingly giving her life. She said yeah, she's she's
32:09
experienced at all. Yeah, she has.
32:11
And like, so when I, you know, DM her her first death or
32:16
whatever, it was very like it's touching and it's hard to think
32:21
about, you know, like most recently in the last few years
32:25
is definitely your character here.
32:28
Jerry's I'm. Over three guys, I'm one for
32:32
four now, but the. Session is campaign for now.
32:35
It it's crazy to think how so your first dance was in session
32:41
3. Yeah, like early on my voice
32:43
cried because I'm about to cry. I know.
32:45
My jaw dropped listening to that.
32:46
Like no way, Jeffrey, you just started.
32:49
And it was just running out of the house and rolled again.
32:52
This is this is the way that Jerry always dies.
32:55
Yeah, he always rolls 2 Nat ones back-to-back and the opposite of
33:01
a Nat 20 is a Nat 1 and that's something that usually is a
33:05
critical failure and something bad usually happens however the
33:10
DM wants to deal with. You're Jerry, you die.
33:12
Yeah, but at our table I make, I could be a little tough
33:16
sometimes, but I'm very forgiving on a lot of things.
33:18
But with when it comes to crits, I make Nat funds mean something.
33:22
Yeah. And so you were trying to jump
33:24
out of the house and you rolled in that one.
33:28
And so you kind of got stuck on it, like you were last in line.
33:31
And I was like, OK, roll one last time.
33:33
Everyone rolled before you got out.
33:35
And then I was like, one last dive, that one, and the house
33:38
just crumbled on you and you died.
33:41
Your first character. My first character.
33:43
And but man, what a freaking can I cuss on this.
33:48
Yeah, of course. OK.
33:48
Absolutely. What what what a fucking arc
33:50
that you had as beauty O dude like main character.
33:55
Totally. I think you were the Strad main.
33:57
Character, I mean the way once again this goes back to Brian
34:00
being double agent. I mean, he was building me up to
34:03
be the next evil ruler of this place.
34:06
I didn't. Think you would be evil?
34:07
I just wanted you to be the. Ruler the guy that takes over
34:10
the vampire, evil leader, king, whatever he was.
34:14
OK, he just happened to be a vampire and a king.
34:16
I just wanted to make you a king.
34:18
Is that all you wanted, Brian? Is that all you wanted with him?
34:21
No comment. My character was promiscuous.
34:25
What? Do you mean by that?
34:27
Elaborate. No comment.
34:30
You have to listen. You have to listen.
34:32
To find out, you have to listen to episode, whatever episode,
34:35
all, all of them beauty O my character was for sure my first
34:39
and favorite character cause of all the things that let up after
34:42
that moment, right? Like the, the individual
34:45
one-on-one sessions that happened after that death and
34:47
death is death, you know? But in this campaign, it's so
34:51
much more. Dude and like when seeing
34:54
everything that you went through is beauty O and like I know the
34:59
that tie up a campaign was your guy's first campaign.
35:02
So going into this new campaign, it has you were 6-7 months in,
35:07
like you said, and once still don't trust things because of
35:11
the previous yeah, which is fine and totally makes sense.
35:16
And so like I've seen the effects of that on layers.
35:20
And so it's like seeing you die and then come back and then all
35:25
the things that you went through in there and then Dave dying and
35:28
like every everybody dying in that campaign pretty much.
35:32
But beauty O and just how much do you remember?
35:35
Like the the walk we took and stuff.
35:37
You were you. Were devastated, I was.
35:40
And like, I was just like, fuck, like I felt bad, you know, But I
35:44
don't feel bad. Like, you know, I don't take any
35:46
blame. I always.
35:47
Yeah, no, never, please. At that point.
35:50
Yeah, my dice. I rolled those dice.
35:53
So I had the dice that killed my first character encapsulated in
35:59
a Etsy like D20 holder, and it was a necklace that I wore for a
36:04
couple months. That dice disappeared along with
36:07
a necklace. I don't know where it went, I
36:09
think I told you, but right before I moved, it's going to
36:10
come out like it's going to be behind something.
36:13
It did not. That thing disappeared.
36:14
It vanished, but it took that dye with it.
36:16
So right. Like, yeah, it was just, I don't
36:19
know. That was a trip to that comment.
36:20
I wonder if it's like like I have this red bracelet, which is
36:23
allegedly when you it breaks, it's because it protected you
36:27
from something. And I wonder, I wonder if that's
36:30
what happened with your necklace.
36:32
Maybe. Took all that negative energy
36:34
and said you don't need this. I'm a little bit somewhere.
36:36
Maybe. Maybe that.
36:38
That's a cool way to think. About it but.
36:40
Thank you. OK, OK, then I.
36:42
I just said like, oh, yeah, no one's died.
36:44
And then I remembered. Yeah, yeah.
36:47
That one was really rough for, Yeah, like the look on your and
36:50
Dulce's face, like when I like went in and again, two net ones
36:55
back-to-back. Yeah, 2 back.
36:57
To back two chances and you failed both times right
37:00
back-to-back. And so, like, I rolled the dice
37:04
and it's so funny when I go like, I think I have enough dice
37:07
and then I have to go get more dice.
37:09
And like, you guys are just like, oh, crap.
37:12
Yeah, when he's when he's digging through those little
37:14
shells and you hear the the dice, you're like, fuck, he's
37:18
grabbing more. What the fuck?
37:20
And then I turned and looked at you and I was like, So what is
37:23
the last thing you'd be thinking about?
37:26
And like, Dulce just was just like, Oh my God, Dave was upset
37:31
with me. He talked to me afterwards.
37:32
Like, I can't believe he sent the mind flare on us at Level 3.
37:37
You know, he's like, I want this, I want this, I want this.
37:40
I need all these items out to protect me.
37:43
Dude, it was no joke. And I mean, I I did, I went
37:47
outside. I fucking shed a tear, dude.
37:49
I was crying. I was like, what the fuck?
37:50
It was frustration, it was sadness.
37:52
It was like, and nothing against Matt, like it was never again,
37:55
but it was yeah, I was, you're like, am I cursed?
37:58
Dude? I was pissed, dude.
37:59
Like I was just like, why do why am I in this situation again?
38:04
And then why are my dies giving me ones to kill me again?
38:07
But yeah. And it was also because I think
38:09
I spent a lot of time on the back story, a lot of time on
38:12
like, even like the the friends of the how they're connected to
38:15
the story and how they're connected to this.
38:17
And it was a lot. Yeah.
38:18
So I think that kind of like brought me back to like, hey,
38:21
this this can happen. You know, death is real.
38:23
And that was one of the first things you said for the second
38:26
campaign. Yeah, this is in Shroud.
38:28
Death is real here. Yeah, so you guys give it in
38:31
Stroud. We would bring everybody back,
38:32
you know there'd be. Consequences with a new crazy
38:35
ailment? Yeah, you're blind.
38:36
Exactly. But like, yeah, and this one, I,
38:39
I felt so bad, like, and those are like the moments that like
38:43
I, it just hits me sometimes. Like that session a couple weeks
38:46
ago when I was like, it was just thinking of your guys's like the
38:51
connection with your Ravager and all this stuff that nobody
38:54
listening to this is going to understand.
38:56
But just like telling these beats in these moments, you
38:59
know? And then like I get to my to
39:02
Jill, who is Frenchie, who is my wife and like just picturing her
39:07
standing there alone with nobody to hold her and like be with
39:11
her. Like I got so like, emotional.
39:14
He was Karine Guy. He was Karine.
39:17
I needed a minute, like I was just like, it hit me, you know,
39:20
and like, I'm a very emotional person.
39:23
Maybe that's why I, I DM, you know, It gets me through it.
39:29
This game has got us through. We've been through a lot, but
39:32
it's got us through a lot. I think it's just like, you
39:35
know, both in game and out of game play DND guys.
39:39
And you answer this, I think throughout your whole time here.
39:44
But if someone is brand new to DND, whether you know as a
39:50
player rolling for the first character or as Adm running
39:54
their first session, what's one piece of advice you give them to
39:57
make the game fun and memorable? We touched a lot on like just
40:04
have fun. Yeah, but to like part of that,
40:07
I think, and one thing of advice that I have learned now is there
40:11
are no rules that that's the the number one thing is don't ever
40:16
think like, oh man, they're not going to like this or it's not
40:21
going to go that way or you want it to go here and be mad when it
40:24
doesn't because it's, there's there's no rules to this game.
40:28
And it should again, be fun. Of course there's stressful
40:32
moments and things you go through at the table and things
40:35
I go through with prep and you know, I spend, I don't know,
40:39
probably 8 to 10 hours a week prepping like after work and
40:44
stuff like that, you know, and just while I'm at work, I'm
40:48
talking to my phone and like all that.
40:49
And so it's like, it, it, it can get stressful and, but I just
40:54
always try to remind myself that you're playing with friends and
40:59
it should just be very a thing of release, a thing of enjoyment
41:04
and just no, no stress. Don't bring stress to the table.
41:08
And just remember it's fun and there's no rules.
41:11
There's no right way to play D&D.
41:14
There's no wrong way to play D&D.
41:16
You know, like you can like Critical Role or you can like
41:20
dungeons and daddies shout out, you know, and they're very
41:25
different games and very awesome in their own ways.
41:28
And so there's, there's no right or wrong way to do it.
41:30
Just just have fun. Yeah.
41:32
What's the biggest thing? Beautifully said.
41:35
Brian, yes, I think you make a great DM.
41:38
I think so too. We'll see if I ever do, we'll
41:40
come back. We'll touch.
41:41
Base I think Brian would have the voices, the story.
41:46
Smoke. Look at that, yeah.
41:49
Live in this table for 30 years. Where'd Brian go?
41:52
I mean, that kind of sounds like.
41:53
Yeah, but when I try to do my own accents in games and never
41:55
works. Except when you do the humano.
41:58
Oh my God. The Humano one's great.
42:00
You're all a bunch of idiots. That literally can't comes out
42:02
of frustration, which is great, which is like crazy.
42:05
I should let it out because I'm like, I can't do anything to
42:08
help them. They're being stupid.
42:10
Dude, Humano is the most logical party member, yeah.
42:12
But who? We have a team leader now.
42:14
We have a team leader now. It is Brad Jackson.
42:17
Good old Jill. Jill Clearwater Stillwater
42:20
Stillwater. Jill Stillwater.
42:22
Stillwater Clearwater is when the douche runs clear.
42:24
Sorry, wait. What?
42:28
Sorry. Keep going.
42:29
OK, well, on that same note, I have a bonus question for you,
42:33
and I did not tell you about this.
42:36
There's a lot of creatures and beasts in the world of DND.
42:41
Yeah. Which beast in DND?
42:46
Or race. Or or race, sure.
42:49
Or race. OK is your hear me out.
42:53
What do you mean like a? Elaborate, Brian.
42:57
Like hear me out is like OK, people won't find this
43:00
conventionally attractive or what I'm like normally into but
43:03
there might hear me out like OK guys like hear me out.
43:07
I know y'all don't agree but like AT.
43:08
Fling No, no, no, so this is this would be my hear me out is
43:15
gnomes. So gnomes, I think always have
43:19
the wrap of like the cute little jolly, Yeah, like Snow White 2
43:26
shoes Snow White, you know, like all that kind of stuff.
43:29
And like I think the best the the, the hear me out thing is,
43:33
they're terrifying. If you asked me something that
43:37
big running up to me, I don't care how happy they are.
43:40
It seems very like forceful and very small and I can't get to
43:46
them and they can outrun me and probably hurt me.
43:49
And so I think you know, that's why Gimbal the the rogue gnome
43:56
in our group or our our game. He's the scariest of.
44:00
All you have said that. Multiple times like what's the
44:03
movie with the with the little the little lawn gnome that has
44:06
the teeth and like blonde gnome with teeth?
44:09
I have no idea. Gosh, I can't remember, but
44:13
yeah, I always thought that those tiny little rosy cheek,
44:17
bearded, bald little, yeah, they're, they always terrified
44:24
me. Always.
44:25
Yeah, there. You hear you out there?
44:26
You're right here. Hear me out.
44:27
Like wait. Hear me out.
44:29
Well. I might be confused on the
44:33
question. OK, my let me let me rephrase or
44:36
let me give you an example my hear me out.
44:39
Like all this out if it doesn't work would be so I'm confused.
44:43
Hear me out is like listen guys I know y'all don't agree but
44:49
Stroud was kind of daddy. That's a hear me out like y'all
44:52
might not agree but I'm over here like sweating down South
44:56
when Stroud came out. Oh, so like a physical
44:58
attraction? Yeah, Yeah.
45:00
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
45:00
Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, OK.
45:03
I mean, that's easy now. Mind flares bro.
45:06
Like whoa. With the slimy tentacle, yeah.
45:11
They can like penetrate your mind, you know, like they mind.
45:17
They can know your deepest desires and play with that kind
45:20
of stuff while they you don't even.
45:23
Have to spook to you? Yeah, and then afterwards you're
45:25
left with your scramble brain calling them the freaking Chosen
45:27
I. Mean well, that's how much
45:30
you've fallen for them. They just whipped you.
45:32
That's how whipped you are. Dude have.
45:34
You. Seen a my player in the last 30
45:36
days, I'm a little scared. Me.
45:39
I don't know. I don't think so.
45:41
We. Should check for signs in
45:42
Frenchie. Oh my God, she's got purple
45:48
eyes. Fun fun fact, since we're on the
45:51
on the topic of Frenchie, the daily BJ has also I guess turned
45:56
out to be a love matching game because our DM here married
46:02
Frenchie through this podcast. And that's so crazy because
46:06
Jerry married through the podcast.
46:09
Through the podcast, Yeah, they met that day.
46:11
Match came dude this is. They met that day and then got
46:14
married like 2 years before. That's crazy.
46:16
Yeah, wow. And.
46:17
Then future guests Pedro Pascal is engaged to Brian.
46:25
I love this level of manifestation.
46:28
Roll for it. Oh, I will roll for it.
46:31
He's going to roll for this. Oh, we're all rolling for this.
46:33
Roll. I don't have to say, he said.
46:35
Use my dice. Give me a luck.
46:36
Roll I literally don't have a dice tray we're.
46:38
Rolling live on the daily. BJ.
46:40
A. 10 my he. Rolled A1 guy I'm.
46:43
Not getting engaged to Pedro Pasai.
46:45
Roll. Roll again.
46:47
No, I'm committing to my fate. OK, that's fair.
46:50
So what happens now? Whoa, what happens?
46:52
Between me and Pedro, Pedro, if you're hearing this, I know
46:55
there's still a chance. Just give him a chance.
46:58
Yeah, maybe there's a Pedro Pasquale out.
47:01
There maybe different maybe. Maybe Pablo Pasquale?
47:04
Pablo Pascal Maybe. It's his.
47:06
His brother. Maybe.
47:08
Maybe, I don't know. Maybe.
47:09
You know what? At least by association.
47:11
I can't believe. You roll the one that's crazy.
47:14
Well, he wasn't. Prepared.
47:15
He's not his natural dice I don't have.
47:17
AI don't have a dice tray. When was the last time you used
47:19
those dice? I've never those are the ones
47:21
Dave gave me. Oh, that was because they were
47:23
rolling terrible for him. And I rolled them.
47:25
I rolled them. It's because I don't have a dice
47:27
tower. And Brienne, you.
47:29
Need to burn those dice. Yeah, you do.
47:30
What I have right here, funny enough, is my Azurek dice that
47:33
I'm also too terrified to roll for anything else.
47:37
Why? I don't know.
47:38
No, it's fine. They were kind of hit and miss.
47:40
Follow the juju, which is kind of fun.
47:41
Follow the Follow the energy. As stressful as it is to get
47:44
like A1 when it comes to like your life, sometimes when you
47:47
try to do something and you get a one, it ends up being really
47:49
funny. Yeah, that's true.
47:51
Can I ask you guys a question? Yeah.
47:53
So Speaking of dice, and this would be fun for the listeners,
47:57
I think what are what is one of your like dice superstitions?
48:05
Like any kind of do you guys do anything to charge your dice,
48:09
talk to your dice, work with your dice?
48:12
Do you believe in your dice that way?
48:13
Like how? How do you guys look at your
48:15
dice character? I have one under way.
48:18
I have certain dice for certain players which like I like.
48:22
If I use it for a one shot, I will not use that for my main
48:24
character. Like these are like no my one
48:26
shot dice are like the dice I hardly pay attention to.
48:29
I don't touch those dice, but for a one shot they're like
48:32
dispensable. I don't care.
48:33
Like, yeah, I can use them anytime.
48:35
Also, I'm not a fan if Dulce like rolls my D 20s if she needs
48:39
like AD 10 or like, oh, I need that.
48:41
We know when someone asks like I need like AD5AD6, right?
48:44
Sure, those are like extras. But to roll AD 20, I think it's
48:48
a little sacred. Yeah, I'm not gonna say no.
48:50
I'm not gonna like no and then like take it out of her hand.
48:52
But like, I feel like don't do that.
48:54
Don't roll, don't roll my D 20s don't.
48:56
Give it weird vibes, you know? Right.
48:58
You know, or like when someone using my dice tower.
49:00
That's fine, right? Just don't do it with my dice.
49:02
Yeah, Frenchie won't let me touch your dice.
49:05
She just refuses. I feel it.
49:06
Good. Yeah.
49:07
Yeah, that's valid. Yeah.
49:09
I mean, if you want to touch my dice, you can.
49:11
You roll a lot of not 20s, roll a lot of not 20s.
49:15
He rolls really well. Matt Rolls.
49:17
Last session he rolled A disadvantage and he said OK,
49:19
disadvantage is when you roll with two dice, but it's at a
49:22
disadvantage so you take the lowest.
49:24
He rolled a 19 out of 20. Yep, Yep.
49:27
And all the time I'm tell Brian like.
49:29
Look over it. Yeah, it's true.
49:32
Whereas rolling with advantage means you roll twice, you take
49:35
the highest, which is fun. I also love that when you roll
49:39
your dice, it's the wood. So it's always like that.
49:41
Clank, clank, clank, right? I love that ASMR. If I had a
49:45
bowling alley, it would be about the right size.
49:47
I need to roll my dice. Wow.
49:54
Yeah, I don't think I have superstition.
49:56
I'm trying to think of like what I do with my dice.
49:58
You're a little stitious. Well, I mean that right there.
50:00
That's a superstition. You.
50:01
You I don't I don't touch these. These are separate.
50:04
He's not in this campaign. I used to do the same thing with
50:06
the one shot, but then I bought some really pretty woods that
50:09
I've just been using. I think I'll use different
50:13
colors depending on different things because my character's
50:17
color screen, my character's color scheme to me is very like
50:22
jungle with like bright, a mix of bright neon.
50:25
So I don't have them with me, but I have like this dark green
50:28
one and then a bright orange one that I think of like senpa suchi
50:32
Marigold flowers. So sometimes I'm like, oh, this
50:35
is kind of feeling like like magic or like.
50:39
Yeah. Death Afterlife related.
50:41
So I'll roll the orange one and then I'll roll my green one for
50:44
like all other stuff, but for damage.
50:45
It's to my damage Ties is always the orange one always, yeah.
50:49
OK. That's cool.
50:51
Yeah, I haven't. I haven't touched my beauty of
50:53
dice since my green like gold ones.
50:57
I haven't touched them. I just, it just doesn't feel
50:59
right. It's it feels like Yeah, it
51:01
feels, it feels. I don't know.
51:02
It's yeah, I don't like it. Jerry got me my first, Jerry got
51:06
me my first set of dice and I lost him before I even played.
51:11
Really don't know where they went.
51:12
We got it for his birthday. They were.
51:14
We're like cosmic something. We're like, perfect.
51:16
Which is perfect cosmic. Brian.
51:17
Yeah, Yeah, he lost it. Yeah, I have.
51:19
No idea where they are. I went through So what show I?
51:21
Went through all my kind of friends is that.
51:22
I don't know. Hey gang.
51:24
Oh shit, can you hear us? You watch it twitchy?
51:33
Yeah, I thought I forgot about that Mister Twitch a lot.
51:38
I know they do say that you sound like an owl.
51:41
Who, who? Who says that?
51:46
Who, who? Who?
51:47
Who? That's rude?
51:49
Who they? How dare they?
51:52
How dare they? Dare they?
51:55
There you go. He mental.
51:56
Yeah. Wow, Matt, it's been a pleasure
51:59
just from walking outside to throw away the trash and then
52:03
you asking like, what are you listening to?
52:05
I'm like, who the fuck? I'm like, oh shit, yeah, I've
52:09
seen these guys. These are new, new people,
52:10
right? And then I I did, I think I
52:12
forgot your guys's name for the first time.
52:13
I'm like, what's your guys's names again?
52:15
But no offense, it was just that's fine.
52:17
Terrible with names. Probably clear a few more times.
52:20
To learn news and. Then he invited me into his home
52:23
and I'm like. Yeah, you.
52:25
Can either kill me or I can see his cool cards.
52:28
Yeah, I don't need baseball. Cards and you show me baseball
52:30
cards. Theoretically yelled really loud
52:32
and it could have come saved you.
52:34
Maybe. They lived on top, like on top
52:36
of each other, by the way. We did, yeah.
52:38
We were. They were neighbors.
52:42
I never called you that once. He thought it, yeah, Nope.
52:47
But never vocalized. Never said that.
52:49
It's OK, we're we're proud to be bottom, but.
52:53
Good for you. Love that, good for you.
52:54
More representation. Exactly.
52:56
That's awesome. It's 2025, goddamnit.
52:58
Yeah, it is. But yeah, we were neighbors for
53:00
a couple years and whenever we needed something, we would just
53:04
lower the string with the, yeah, a cup or something, or like a
53:08
plate. Is that a couple times?
53:10
Don't scratch, dog. We did, yeah.
53:12
We all got flour. Couple times.
53:13
Sent beers back and forth that way, Some food back and forth,
53:17
yeah. Yeah, that's cool.
53:19
Good times. It was good.
53:20
It was. It's crazy, Yeah.
53:22
And now we have some dumb people who live up there so.
53:25
Are they dumb? I mean.
53:27
Yeah, they're dumb. Yeah, they're dumb.
53:29
You're listening to this. You're dumb.
53:32
Yeah. You got anything you want to
53:35
plug? Yeah, you're a man of many
53:36
talents. Many talents.
53:38
Not really. I mean, you can see me on
53:42
Thursday nights. Yeah.
53:46
I don't know. You know, I don't.
53:47
I don't have a lot of social media stuff.
53:49
I just kind of, you know, keep it low key.
53:52
He's elusive. Yeah.
53:53
OK, but maybe we could, you know, maybe we could upload this
53:57
new podcast, our news, that crap campaign we've been working on
54:01
if people are interested, maybe if you leave a comment and
54:05
subscribe and smash the like button is that.
54:08
Yeah, I love this. Yeah.
54:10
Do you have a like button on Instagram?
54:12
We do, yeah. Follow us on Instagram daily BJ.
54:17
Just a glimpse, a glimpse of what we do every Thursday and
54:20
what's kind of taking over our lives.
54:22
Yeah, when this episode drops, we'll have a little compilation.
54:25
We'll post a little reel of yeah, what happens around the
54:28
table so you guys can have a little behind the scenes that.
54:31
'D be really cool and if you're interested or have further
54:33
questions we obviously didn't dive into like the mechanics of
54:35
D&D and like the character customization and build but like
54:39
those are all things that I think are very accessible if you
54:41
search up how to that's what I did but yeah, that's honestly I
54:44
that's where you get all your information but if you have any
54:47
specific questions for Matt myself, Brian, please throw it
54:50
in the comments. Yeah, comment on the on the
54:52
Instagram. We'll reach out.
54:53
We'll find you. And I would say like there's
54:56
lots of the for for shout outs, I guess I'll shout out Critical
54:59
Role, Dimension 20 dungeons and daddies DM dudes like the the
55:07
there's a lot of stuff out there, a lot of good resources
55:10
that are the best best stuff. Lots of content you can just
55:14
watch. If you just want to learn what
55:15
it's about, just go watch some dimension 20 on dropout.
55:18
It's the best. That's on my watch list.
55:22
Yeah, same. Brandon Lee, Mulligan, it's top
55:25
DM. Matt Mercer, Matt Colville.
55:29
Those are probably the top three.
55:31
Matt this. Ones Matt Olson is dungeons and
55:32
daddies. Just dads.
55:34
Yeah, OK. My mind is in the gutter.
55:38
And it's funny every time they started like this is dungeon and
55:40
Daddy's not a BDSM podcast so. That was more in line with what
55:45
I was gonna. It's very loose.
55:47
They they it's not hardcore, it's more role-playing.
55:50
So but it's funny, funny stuff. I have a goal this year to or
55:55
with this character to just expand on the role play and then
56:00
just do more like do more of that.
56:02
So yeah, we'll see. We'll see how that goes.
56:04
Yeah, I think I've. But it's a campaign.
56:06
There's more opportunities too. Yeah.
56:08
It's not like we're fighting for our life every day.
56:09
Exactly. It's every other day, every 3rd
56:12
day pretty. Much but Thursday.
56:15
Yeah, Thursday we're back. We're back, baby.
56:18
Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about, lot of questions to ask,
56:21
Yes. We do a lot of kissing, yes.
56:27
We haven't done that yet. We haven't.
56:28
I have you have. Yeah, my character doesn't
56:31
remember it anymore though. Why?
56:33
That's right. Because you at the DM asked me
56:37
to give up a memory. Oh.
56:38
That's the memory you. Gave and that was the memory.
56:40
I gave up. I got a boyfriend waiting at
56:42
home and he doesn't. I don't even remember him.
56:45
You said who? Well, just a kiss.
56:46
Oh, just a kiss, yeah. You said who, who, who he's a
56:51
who he's an. Alone.
56:55
OK guys. Thank you so much for listening.
56:57
As you guys know it is song recommendation segment and I was
57:03
told y'all have some song recommendations.
57:05
I do. I brought a song because you
57:08
asked me to bring a. Song guest of honor.
57:09
You can go first. So in in honor of the great
57:15
Brent Hines, one of my favorite bands ever, Mastodon, I want to
57:19
say The Last Baron is the song recommendation off the album
57:23
Crack The. Sky, I will listen to that on my
57:26
way home. It's my favorite Mastodon song.
57:28
Mastodon. Such a great name.
57:30
Yeah. Rest in peace.
57:31
Rest in peace man. My song is going to be New York
57:36
by Sex Style. I think I've recommended some of
57:40
their music, but great. You want to like pick up your
57:43
day and just get lit and get turns and stuff.
57:46
Sex style New York. As the resident gay of this
57:51
podcast, I would like to recommend recommend the girl
57:55
group Cat's Eye with their song Mia.
57:58
So good. So much better than their gnarly
58:01
song which is grew on me a lot. But MIIMIA is like full on like
58:06
heavy dance pop. It's so good.
58:08
It scratches my brain in the best way.
58:10
So please listen. New song kinda last couple
58:13
months. New aerosol.
58:14
Yeah, Cool. Like a bag of Takis, Like a.
58:18
Bag of Takis that be shitting. This has been the Daily BJ.
58:25
The Daily BJ, we're so sorry, but also thank you.
58:29
Big thanks to Matt for joining us.
58:31
Matt, for being here. Thank.
58:32
You so much I really enjoyed myself.
58:34
I think we're sorry. Last thing I would like for Matt
58:37
to roll. Oh shit, To see how well this
58:40
episode's gonna do. Yeah.
58:41
Did you bring a dice? Of course he did.
58:42
Of. Course, he brought his dice.
58:43
I brought dice. Should I get a dice tray?
58:45
It's got some. ASMR in there.
58:46
This is kind of a pseudo tray. See how that works?
58:51
That was a few I like. That was the first set of that.
58:53
Matt gave me that brand, this brand who's a Cthulhu.
58:57
Whoa, I like that box a lot. OK, So what are we rolling?
59:00
You're rolling for how well this podcast, this episode's going to
59:02
be. The success of this podcast.
59:04
The success of this podcast, Let's do that.
59:06
The success of this. Podcast, the whole entire.
59:07
Thing, the whole. Entity guys, I'm stressed.
59:11
This is how I feel in the game. It's a 12.
59:13
That's a 20. It's a 20.
59:16
It's a 12/20/12. 20. We're going to do moderately
59:21
successful. Why?
59:23
We're going to be moderately successful.
59:24
It's a that's better to living. It's better to.
59:27
Living but when you guys. Were.
59:29
Better than A1 be like trying to do something.
59:31
You're like 16. I'm like bro that's a good role.
59:35
Like you always want the 20s. We are great Trigg guard
59:40
Matthew. Yeah, we're triggered.
59:43
Also, that's not a 12, it's a 12/12.
59:46
That's right, we screwed that up.
59:48
It's all good. It's all good.
59:49
We. Make it.
59:49
We just do it again here. We'll do it again.
59:51
We'll reshoot. It.
59:52
Yeah, we'll reshoot it. OK, yeah, reset the camera. 12
59:58
Perfect. Yeah, There we go.