Sage Advice D&D

# Exported by Aegisub 3.2.2 hello and welcome to GM tips the show where my friends and I share with you our thoughts and suggestions on how to gamemaster your role-playing game I’m your host – setting Phoenix co-creator of Mays Arcana and a dungeon master for D&D let’s look back at some of my favorite moments okay now how can we take this interesting little character son that you make and how can we make her fucked-up dispense is sometimes about painting a picture of what’s not there versus what is there do the main thing about an epic adventure is that there’s a lot more going on than just what’s happening with the players themselves right there’s a lot of motion is laden you know moving parts and so forth it’s like the Battle of Helm’s Deep and so it’s it’s important to remember as the encounter progresses or as the adventure progresses to remind the PCs that there are these other outside elements inside the scope of the adventure they’re playing and that they come into play and that they interact directly with the characters so that when they have those moments in the game where they might stumble so they might be there to like pick them up so you know they he approach he’s playing a fighter my father is playing temp Rose Granger’s I remember and he was approaching for the close for combat and of course I breathed acid breath on him and then used the Bull strength and it was very very close fight and at the end you know they they prevailed in at the end he was like all right he’s like searching the ocher trying to figure out what item gave him these powers and I was like well no you notice there’s a black dragon tattoo on his bat as Chester River he’s like are you telling me there’s no item here this is just a natural ability that yeah and I was like yep he’s like that’s bogus I can’t believe what a chin CD on urs like yes so once that was sort of settled the kid looks up and he’s looking at all the papers so serious okay okay so he’s looking at these sheets like he knows exactly what’s happening then he looks at me dead in the face and he’s like can i play a pig and I was like yes sure why not and he goes can I be a ninja it’s okay you want to be a pig ninja this sounds great we’re gonna use this paper but you’re totally a pig ninja for Dungeon Master’s out there it’s important that you you write up maybe a handful of descriptions ahead of time so you know kind of where the direction you’re going and it’s perfectly okay to ad-lib out through the descriptions and go off-script and so forth but just to have something kind of to base yourself off of is really kind of key so you you know have that something to anchor you but but these are the theater of the mind is perfectly the best way to go in this case because nothing evokes the feelings that you’re gonna have as a player or as a dungeon master like what’s in your head putting everything out on to a battle mat totally puts it into a confining space that has limitations and an epic thirst of limitations so if you were in battle and you’re fighting in that immediate moment then the minis make sense but if you’re going to the destination or just just in the description it’s better to have everyone be present and listening yeah pay attention pay attention it’s very important Goblin Queen let us not fight I am like you I may look like a pig but I am half Goblin haha and that makes you my family we should not fight each other we should instead have a party oh and he rolled a 20 and I was like y’all are having a party there was one called I want to say it’s called the black cursor or something like that hey it was part of kind of like a Genghis Khan campaign where Genghis Khan is coming from the west from the east and he’s bloody and West oh wow and it’s huge it’s big epic you end up in the in the Khan’s presence and he’s like what is best in life and you’re like a lollipop so I just don’t I fundamentally don’t believe in balanced encounters I don’t know what the what is the fun of that right and that gets down to that thing about how the gobble you’re gonna beat the goblins it’s not a balanced encounter yeah right and then when you get to the end time you’re fighting the boss monster I’m a big believer in like stacking the deck hugely against the players and making them feel overwhelmed because everybody every player wants to be John McClane and die hard right they want to get their ass kicked but they want to win all the way through that feeling of victory being earned and that means that the bad guys have to be overwhelming it has to be like this feeling of despair we could never do it because when then then when they do do it they feel like heroes at which point as a DM you can produce this once they have this they can discover that there is a hidden message written on the bottom oh that is so cool it tells something you’d hold on to this yeah it’s it’s really fun and it’s a great mechanic because now that that’s in the game your players are gonna want to use their life first and foremost when you finish it I recommend this to any game session when you finish the game when you wrap up and the players are putting their dice away take notes of what just happened because it might be weeks and weeks before you play again and you want to remember it’s much detailed that final beat as you can so write down what happened right down this climactic beats that you want to open on next time and then when the players return take a moment to set the stage take a moment to you know really recapture and narrate exactly what you left on last be left off as the crawling of flames that distance the fire claim again to flicker and brighten the outskirts of your vision you see as the fume like thick black clouds fire up with ash and brimstone in the background is the shadow figure of the fire giant sharkon drags his blade across the rock the arcing of it down slamming with sparks into the stone before you glancing over your shoulder you look back as the warm wind hits the back of your neck you look down to see the thousand-foot drop into the large lava falls and open sea of fire what do you do I don’t you see are that way you killed help Oh remember when I said I rolled a 20 I lied I could roll on but instead I have a surprise for you Amy vorpal routine Ruttenberg and Matthew Mercer you guys are all back and you’re super back yeah yeah you’ve been gone a long time I know I almost had the beard for it too but I deserve it Mercer bearded yeah I don’t know how do you have a kitty Robert and how apparently I can know that’s partially why I did it was just to see if I could then I did that’s cool Hey today’s theme is community and we met because of celebrity charity 20 no I think it was named something else a long time ago but it was before any of us figured out how the heck to livestream our games and but more than that that was like a fun side thing the whole point of celebrity charity 20 was to get as many of our friends in one room to play at the same time and raise money for charity like those are the two things the streaming was separate but the community I want to talk about community with you guys I don’t I know our experience I don’t really know your guys’s experience even though I know that there’s got to be a back story with game masters like us there’s always a let’s start with talk about your community experience well I guess I actually so he started playing D&D in college and then I started actually streaming when I came out here with saving throw show and that was a small but intense community so it was it was very you know these people that come onto the channel you know their handles but then you also because of Twitter and the accessibility of Facebook and also if you also realize what their first names are and then you and we had I mean I guess it was around fifty people and that those aren’t that many names to learn so they’d come on or donate or do something and we’d be like what’s up that’s Josh that’s Lee that’s Travis and we would no and and the other thing is I always wrote songs for those streams so I wrote one song per game and now I have the album songs in the key of D and D but but they would expect that and to the point of now almost in every stream I go and I don’t sing a little ukulele song there’s someone there being like where’s that where’s my where’s my song so there’s a level of like friendly expectation there’s definitely a given of take and for the most part you can look at Twitter or Facebook and say oh look how many followers or friends i I have and look at that number and it has grown but I prefer to think of them as more of yeah like actual friends people that come up to me and say hey I just want to say hi and I’m like yeah like you you think that just because I don’t know your face I don’t know who you are but I know you I really really do so it feels really good the last thing I’ll say is this year I had a goal I do a lot of like self work and one of the things that I was supposed to do back in March or April was name my year and I had done a lot of work in my year was misfit no more and I can definitely say I definitely say that I feel like I belong I like how you name years like their episodes of a TV creative name like I I would definitely not submit that as a title for is no longer a misfit and your friends I’m so excited for that character in a D&D game I think for for me and I get to I’ve almost been I don’t wanna see coattails in a way but like like I came onto this far bit far after the rest of you guys so when I came into this thing and you guys all embraced me you know and then oh shoot don’t do that I’m gonna cry before that before that what like how I got here well I was in the early version of community in gaming right I was getting there that doesn’t just start off combat well it’s only for for me coming into this like I didn’t have a whole lot of experience with streaming most of the stuff I had been doing the long form or movie or I was doing voiceover for stuff and when I did my D&D experience was mostly adventurously to be in a way they were organized play and so when I really got into that I you know jumped in feet-first face-first whatever I’m gonna go feet first with Allen because then when they handed me a module and they said hey somebody didn’t show up can you run this and I’m like sure I haven’t played this one I’ll just you know run it and going from that to running seven games nine games in a convention and having prepped in one of them being an epic that I had to draw maps for like do all the crazy stuff that community not only being like like accepting of me as an individual when I sat down at the table is the first time to play but then is in an individual when I’m the one that steps up and as you can like has to facilitate their fun and being like yes this is the thing you can do and then now we go to conventions and like that’s mostly probably been where we build the most on that because like you say you know you know the names of the people that are there because because they’re interacting with you so much and like I met a lot of our fans for like at the convention and they’re like hey I know you and I’m like cool yeah and then like actually like a lot of our people like wow you actually like stayed and talked to you I’m like yeah why wouldn’t I yeah cuz I go to you all the time on the Internet yeah wait yeah you’re you’re a part of these things you know just the same as everything else so when the opportunity to to see this community kind of grow and rally around us and then like also Hollywood’s up a scary place for a lot of people and it doesn’t let people in and people don’t like people come out here with these dreams and expectations of something and it’s you really it’s a game of attrition and so to find people that are like-minded especially that want to play games that nobody else wants to play original yeah that that’s such an awesome community to be involved in like I’m so thankful to be sitting here on this couch with you guys and to have the people that are in our games and have the people that we get to play with and the people that want to watch us because they they commiserate with our stories not not just our story on the table but our story that we came out here with and they find courage in the courage we find in each other that’s really just the cyclical takes a village kind of thing it’s it’s to that point too and when you when you meet somebody and you’ve both come from a gaming background it’s different than like having a similar interest of like a movie or a television show or it’s closer to a book in somewhat cases because you’ve been through this adventure together but when you’ve had your own individual experiences when it’s separate times you’ve both climbed the you know the tower the Temple of Elemental Evil it’s it’s like both love that movie or that scene it’s like I lost my childhood friend in that chamber with the stone goggles I remember that chamber it was a bitch it’s that it’s something so visceral and so immediately bonding between the two of you and since these mean growing up with the communities that were so disparate and and so localized a different game you know gaming stores and internet communities and watching it evolve and expand and become more accepting and more open and more inviting we now see this wonderful merger of the the old-school gamers that were there when the game first launched back in the 70s in places the 80s and then we have a community people that grew up like that but then got too busy and got a family and kids and are now you know reintroducing themselves in their family demeaning community and we have all these new young kids that never had exposure to it that now are experiencing and learning what this incredible format of communal storytelling is all coming together and I see gaming groups of many generations you would never expect to see in the same room together at a convention running one shots for other people or for their gaming group and they’re all just genuinely excited to create together and there there isn’t like a strange hero-worship element there isn’t like a weird separation they’re there with you they understand that you’re a person that just wants to have fun yeah we’re there people and there are people and there aren’t a lot of lot of forms of media that allow that type of connection and and because of that the community feels so much more personal yeah there’s actually noticing recently how we’re all excited to play together whereas in the 90s and you know in the last ten years it’s like hey let’s go see a movie but that importance of getting there three hours ahead of time looks like we’re gonna go to a place and not talk well that’s fun and all but why don’t we just spend that five hours and play together and that’s really important that’s I love 2017 it’s really interesting you bringing up the word play actually there was a stigma there used to be where I was like I can’t tell men that I play D&D because they they will look at me and say I love you and and and this is real like this is totally totally my experience where it was like but I’m a three-dimensional infinite person like this isn’t the only thing that is cool about me however now looking back I’m like it was a connection that that both people were misinterpreting it really just meant let’s play let’s play let’s play whatever that was like you I would like to play and I like to play yeah I love you because I know that we have this possible yeah Emily play is such an important word universally in life I think culturally we try so hard to teach ourselves to stop playing separate from it yeah to understand that you have to maintain this this persona of an adult is responsible and doesn’t do these childish things like play anymore and I think you lose something that’s so intrinsically important to enjoy life when you do that and it’s games like tabletop gaming and communities like this that help people cultivate that again or never lose it because it’s in that space where you let go of that that responsibility and allow yourself to just enjoy creating with other people that you you find happiness and all other aspects of your life you find lasting relationships and connections with people and friendships and I mean this is just one avenue of what we’re doing what the community is doing but it’s one of the strongest avenues I’ve ever discovered to allow us to never you know lose that sense of play so important my parents like never touched the game before in their lives would probably have been categorized in that group that was like D&D isn’t that like Satan worshipping like are you sure that that’s a I mean like my mom when I when I introduced them to it in like Christmas of 2014 with 5e coming out and I like how does my mom like asked me to do a thing that was gonna take like 2 or 3 hours that I really didn’t want to do it was like sit down and watch some show or something like that I was like I will make you a deal I will trade you 45 minutes of D&D for your two hour program and she tried to back out after we made the deal and I said are you trying to raise a child that does not keep their word that’s a Covell sight checkmate yeah and she goes absolutely not six hours later with my sister my best friend from high school and my mom all sitting around playing panda over and then my dad wakes up he was sick he wakes up in the first and like now that my mom is just like running around like this is amazing she played her character’s name is Lancelot let’s talk about like the starting the starting creativity point and to now what she creates cuz her mind just went crazy on that right and then my dad wakes up and he’s like sir so wait so like could I like build a town could I have a like a business yeah dad you can do all of these things and if there’s not rules I’ll make them up and they’re just like now they’re invested they watch our shows they like go through my dad’s I’m not gonna say what his handle is on twitch but my dad is on twitch to watch the things that we do with our friends yeah he’s invested in what’s going he has me questions so I’m like dad I can’t tell you that it would ruin it that’s a good segue to the first question how has gaming helped you in life now some of us have been playing for over 20 years and some of us have been playing for under 20 years different stages of life I’ll say for me gaming I owe everything to it like I mean gaming of all types board games video games but tabletop gaming taught me social skills at a time where I didn’t have the opportunity to really feel comfortable enough and to lose that sense of you know not wanting to let go in a social space it triggered my love of performing arts and got me into theater which then got me into acting and then got me into my whole life right now it helped me facilitate a level of comfort to be able to take charge of a social situation and drive it when no one else is making a decision that’s the the GM yeah hers when no one else is driving the story you have to take charge of movement yeah and that is that has put me into leadership positions in different situations that has then given me comfort to create in spaces i io most of my closest friends I owe my fiance is that my relationship with her you know one of the first things he bonded over was me running D&D for her before we were even dating like so much of my life so like I yeah it’s changed me irrevocably genuinely they’ll be rocking chairs on the porch that’s like six of them like lined up in a row and a little table and probably still live stream problem tackling is coming faster than we want it to I think that it’s you know in a strange way like I had a lot of that stuff growing up you and I have talked a lot about like our childhoods and and the way that we found solace in gaming and we found like these things left and right that I started performing arts super young so I almost came in reverse of that right uh and I was in the military for a really long time and I went to war and I came back and one of the things that tabletop gaming has done for me has been to temper my take charge because I can be an aggressive person if I have to be and my voice can be very commanding but gmae teaches you how to control the flow of emotion with the people you’re connected to or how to connect to those people by drawing that thing ends the team does this really Rhythmics know things and sometimes you utilize that same thing and then sometimes it’s like where you’re just like you know and that’s a that’s a moment that when I realized that it had evened me out a little bit and dare I say that I have some form of PTSD that that is a thing that that makes that world normal and then that the friends that I have from the military or the friends that like work at Wizards that were in the military and went to war like we have these conversations about like yeah you too awesome and now there’s all this science backing up the Dungeons & Dragons or role playing or what have you is helpful for somebody’s mental health when the 80s was saying literally Tom Hanks will jump off a building like that’s such a powerful like look for a GM there is no finer moment than that moment where you pull the rug out from and say look at that you were standing on the truth the whole time and you chose to look the other way and that’s really what society did and that’s what we’re finding out this stuff is actually good for you writing a book on it right yeah well beyond you know I get to put this on my resume now like clip plays D&D and has played for a long time that that’s incredible 14 D Party leaders what 14 D for DNA you’re playing D D for D yeah I’m playing for yes exactly yeah I guess I guess yeah we can announce that now but beyond beyond that gaming in general I I did a lot of work um like a or I did a lot of research about what happiness was and there were three things that made people happy and they are community being feeling like you actually do belong somewhere which is arguably the hardest one to actually accomplish and then the second one is sustainability so if you can’t literally pay for food that’s a big factor but but between earning a decent living and then earning a billion dollars a year there’s not that much increase in happiness it’s like if you can sustain yourself that’s where the happiness comes from and then the third one is making other people happy making other people smile it has nothing to do with you and I think that you know gaming obviously for some of us can help pay the bills but if they can’t like at least crosses those two things off the list and it’s community and it is making other people feel really good and you and you get that joy right away so the biggest metaphor I can think of is actually with my family we they don’t really play D&D I’m the only vorpal who’s taking up the mantle but we do game a lot cards poker any tabletop games and and I’ve got a huge big old Catholic family so every Thanksgiving or Christmas law sit around and there’s a the biggest thing is will show up and it’s like there is drama there just is with all these people this one’s got a kid all of a sudden the guys not doing great this one’s got a mental disorder this one’s over here doing all this crazy stuff and then we’re like who cares do you want to play like if and it’s this thing where it’s like we’ve all got our shit who cares I love you and the way I’m showing you that I love you is to deal out a debt like heart so we’re gonna play hearts together spades you want to be my partner great don’t mess this up you know like the other stuff doesn’t matter because we’re able to to really really look at what’s important and that is problem-solving and puzzling out things together it’s one of the things too about the the idea of humanity where were tribal people by nature we we’ve survived and evolved and adapted by helping each other progress and helping each other be better people mm-hmm would that be through religion whether that be through just common interests whether it be just through basis of survival and as we’ve gotten this new technology age there’s been this this push of kind of individual segmented separate selfish world outlook mm-hmm I’m focused purely on my needs and what the next thing I need to achieve mm-hmm is in front of me Gaming is one of the one of the few things I find that universally brings people back to that tribal to the space that face-to-face element of us sharing experience together and working towards a common goal and to the family element what you’re saying I’ve seen so many families I mean talk about like you know that the weird teenage years or the parents and the kids don’t get along I’ve seen so many pictures and heard so many stories about families that through role-playing games and through tabletop games have rediscovered a family game night and as such read that reforged a bond yeah and a love and appreciation between parents and children and it’s just it’s awe-inspiring and so exciting oh yeah I want to jump in when you kept saying for D and E for Dini I kept hearing like fourth edition or something playing and we always throw out the release anyways just saying about like you know we’re so the 80s really in America is where we had that whole wall street like we’re speaking this is about me at my own in blah blah and the last 30 years basically our entire existence has been that whole like that’s the way that things go in the internet seemed like it was pushing that way until we created these little communities or like it’s almost like we’re where the resistance going the older generation sees the selfies and the snapchats and those stories and the streams and they see narcissism and what it really is is no we’re this is our way after this is like a fast way to have friends like we’re we’re making friends faster than you ever could narcissus okay what have been the most important lessons learned from live streaming games about like how to or really it’s your interpretation yeah yeah I I want to jump in and say that uh humility there there is it is it is a big fat mirror when a cameras on you and and you there is especially for me I’m a steamroller and I want to tell my story as a player you know and and with that when that camera is on you were just hyper aware that like wait that person you you were watching it through the lens so they might go like this and it’s like oh wait they were gonna have that moment and I I might have taken it from them and and it’s this humility of like well then I’m shutting up for a while so so that someone else can shine and there’s there’s this need there’s this need to tell your story and then you just need to realize there’s also would need to let the other person tell theirs and listen to them unless yeah I’m gonna jump the order and put Matt under the bus on this packable you say humility in many different ways I mean putting yourself out there for community to experience and something that is so personal as playing a game with people you care about can be a very very sensitive thing and the Internet is not always a very kind place so you learn quickly one to try your best to tune it out and you won’t always succeed because we are by nature insecure people that are trying to reach out for some purpose and other people around us but it’s it’s an important lesson for that process I’ve learned to focus instead on the positive to focus on the people that are along with you and excited for it and more importantly listen to your players because ultimately you’re there for the experience of you and everybody at the table and as long as you’re being genuine and you’re having a good time everyone else who matters will fall into and come along with you mm-hmm so I think I figured it out okay better be good I know right so I think that for what I learned most from that is that we have a responsibility as the people that are showing other people what this is I mean to a degree regardless of what how good our game is or how bad it is people look at that and go oh that’s how I’m supposed to do that this is what’s acceptable right so we have a responsibility to the people that are out there not to necessarily handhold them through a game that we don’t we have the responsibility to make this community real and to say like I’m I’m setting something up that shows you what’s acceptable in this game but also what’s acceptable about how to treat each other how many things in life did we learn from D&D like just the things that you and Satine were talking about during your GM tips is that you know like you’re talking about the the moments that you learned something that was a life lesson and we are here to pass that torch in a way to people that are on the other side yeah show them that they can do that thing and then also to help get rid of the bad stuff that has that plagued us for so long as individuals or as a community with gaming its suicide or mental health care issues that we are here to help you with because you’re not alone we’ve we’ve all gone through these things and that’s like a it’s that’s on accident like we’re learning and we’re playing weird people who have our own set of issues you know and we are learning about boundaries and how to communicate with each other and it’s all a learning process and yeah it’s funny because I see all this text on the internet like that’s how you’re supposed to do it this is a this is exactly the one way to do the thing and it’s like I’m going to your GM tips to learn the way and it’s like the most important thing is that we are all fallible and we and you have to learn from your mistakes we’re all being a beer and you can’t punish somebody for four and make it having accidents you know like do your best all you all you can do is better the next time and then try to protect those people when they do try to keep them you know like even if you have to take a step back from a thing and you need to take a break you need to have a moment where you’re like I need to step back and sometimes you don’t see it sometimes somebody else has to tell you like hey I think it’s gonna be a good idea for you to maybe sit out a little bit maybe take a couple weeks and that you don’t know to do that unless you’ve seen somebody else do it or you’ve seen something like nature versus nurture the nature part is we wake up and we’re like oh shoot I’m hungry outside of that almost everything else is nurture based on what we’ve learned from the people around us and that’s what we’re trying to do we nurture our communities we nurture each other we nurture our players at the table we nurture each other as DMS and that’s what we get out of this whole thing from live-streaming is it just a bigger platform to help people yeah we get a mic the drop and we’ll put it in post can it just be sprinkles the drop out of my hat okay so the community the greater community what is your what are your different experiences with the people who are on these adventures with you not at your table but the people that are watching the players oh my god when when you jumped off a cliff and turn into a goldfish I felt that way amazing and then when you see you can see that like it’s it’s not just about the GM you know it’s about everybody that’s there and and for me when Stettin melts people’s brains cuz I made one of the Sion things as if she goes in to investigate somebody’s mind she’s got a role to see how connected she is if she crits they melt I which is hilarious Lourdes she never crits so I’m thought it was safe yeah yeah moment you taught fate right yeah recently ask me how you dice treating you and I was like randomly it’s surreal I mean none of us when this when this experience we had to emerge expected the scope of community let alone the impact and the the connection that we’d have with it and the think responsibility of what you mentioned before is so big on this because we suddenly find ourselves thrust in this space where so many people are looking up to us that it’s our responsibility to be honest with the fact that all of our experiences all of our games all of our tips are just suggestions mm-hmm and that everything we offer is from our own personal experiences and there’s such a wider breadth of experiences out there to learn from beyond just us but as a community we’re allowing them to go out and find that and getting the chance to interact with these people who have been so invested in our stories I mean it it’s it’s humbling it’s inspiring I have cried many times in public in front of complete strangers because you hear stories you don’t realize how much of an impact his story can have on somebody’s life how many people out there I mean I we get we get emails weekly at people saying I was on the I was literally planning to kill myself and then I saw your show and I wanted to see what happen next episode next episode next episode and Here I am six months later and I found myself and I found the job and I found someone who loves me and that’s common and you you you think about how many people in this world just need that connection they need something they need a story to hold on to they need something to represent that darkness and the hope that a lot of this world doesn’t allow and I think ultimately what these stories allow for what the purpose of a role-playing game story in essence is to create hope and allow a path to that through challenge fraught with difficulty but to allow hope yeah and that resonates with so many people out there and we just not only grant that to them but empower them the ability to then go and create their own yeah and that isn’t read alone at GenCon like and Rudy you know me like I’ve never I’ve always felt like the weird alien girl who sits at the sidelines and is almost kind of accepted everyone like a little bit but I’m gen con’ was phenomenal and I was like people are wanting to take selfies and I’m like you don’t know how lonely I feel and that like they would take a selfie that I whip out my camera I’m gonna make like I haven’t had time yet but I want to make all the selfies that people posted and the ones on my phone like I’m making like a photo of it like a collage because like they don’t understand that for the first time in my whole life I no longer feel like a weird alien like I actually like I can share something with thousands and thousands of people and I like I mean that that rock that had been sitting on my shoulders and go on like I don’t feel a look I don’t think I’ll ever feel really alone ever again and it’s just because of this fucking community like it’s the coolest thing you know seven years when we did the charity event I could never ever have imagined this guy this beauty and all this amazing things that we shared just because we are little ass kids like I don’t get me cut you off from your sharing but like I am so grateful I’m so grateful that you guys are here sharing these last episodes of this with me because like this is why we do it I think knows what you do it that’s what you do it and you and you and it’s just like I think we’re the luckiest because we actually have a community that gets it like I don’t we don’t have trolls we have love like we have people who are like to be hurt roads paladin’s too might roll quickly it’s the ratio because no one’s going to watch something they hate for three oh my god episode 14 was the worst like dude if you’re there for that many episodes we wrap really quick but I want to hear you okay I have two things to say one is when you said alien it struck a chord because in college in theatre there was a man in the boy a kid in the green room and he was like I didn’t get cast I you know or they cast me as this clown but I always get casted as a clown I never get cast as a real person no one thinks I’m a real person and I go oh party like I think you’re a real person and he goes great that alien person all these weirdos like found it found something here so why not weird that I think I got weird we aren’t we’re just us and that is the coolest thing that we are super honest I hate to end this but you guys are just beautiful and amazing and thank you guys for watching this has just been incredible that’s the end of our show you guys tell everyone where they can find you on the Internet I think maybe we should do this again in here yeah you’re sitting over there I know you can find all of us here on a pretty regular basis yeah you’re being sundry alpha the internet mais Arcana anywhere that you can literally google us and pop that stuff up go ahead social media find me at Matthew Mercer on Twitter at Matthew Mercer vo on Instagram and critical role here Thursdays at 7 p.m. Pacific on geek and sundry’s twitch and I’m at vorpal sword on all of the things I am Rudi woot on basically all of the things and then you can find me on D&D twitch.tv slash D&D on Wednesdays and then occasionally on Tuesdays doing some some D&D there and the maze Arcana on Sundays running some orphan echo and abiram as always I’m Satine Phoenix at SETI Phoenix you can pick up and play one of my guild add up supplements for the tomb of annihilation on team skill comm watch me and her and him on sagas of sundry dread on project alpha comm catch me live with this guy every Sunday at noon on Mesa connoisseur phonetic oh I love my life TV slash D&D are you ready to that backwards I don’t care we’re doing it live Tuesday nights dungeon mastering sirens of the realms with this lady on twitch.tv slash dandy thank you guys for watching this is awesome we love geeking Center you love project alpha and Nerdist and all these and we love you see you guys next time however uh we’re not ending oh oh I actually ooh yes Satine yes well you GMS ow oh yeah okay oh okay okay okay full sprint running running through this forest this horn goes off you’re running you hear other things running behind you and suddenly the ground falls from beneath the three of you and you all fall cascading down with the light that is and the dirt and leaves and you all hit the ground boom and it’s quiet you hear footsteps from way above and you look up and there’s just one beam of light and the dust and finally you’re at peace but you look at each other and there’s this internal ticking clock going on in your head and parts of your face are falling off you’re looking and his he’s got scales falling off and you remember there’s one antidote and you look down to the end of the room and there is another small beam of light cascading down and one golden vial and you know that is the only antidote for what you have and there’s three of you who gets it first I turn look up to the beam of light look at these to shove them forward go Baldwin not alone I’m going in go get it girl I do

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