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It's broadcasting. Kind of spontaneous. Oh,
there's some folks hopping in. There we go. Hello!

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This was a random thing that happened, so why not.
Hi, guys! Wow, that's a lot of "hey ya"s. Hi! From

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Belgium, too! Nice! Yes, I'm wearing the same
clothes from last night. It's been one of those

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days. I think I got to bed at 3:30am-ish.
Anyway... not hungover. We didn't, like, drink

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drink. We just had a drink and walked to Bob's Big
Boy and had shakes and ate food you shouldn't eat

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at 2:30am and woke up feeling really bleh, but
it's fine.

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Don't apologize for not seeing the episode. Civil
War is a very strong draw. Not a Strongjaw. Hmm,

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that was kind of fun. Anyway. This is a
spontaneous thing. Doing a bit here before I go

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ahead and do more work with Marisha's dad on our
room. Glad you guys liked last night. That was

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interesting! I guess part of this brief Periscope
is-- oh I'm sorry you're upset that I cut my hair,

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but I have to because it'll just keep getting
longer and it gets ridiculous. It'll grow back,

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which is nice and has to go shorter before we can
get longer again. So sorry. The mane will return,

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I'm sure, in time.

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Yeah, I guess I'll start with saying that man,
last night was crazy. Major props to the players

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for actually pulling out some tactics there in a
circumstance that was pretty rough. I wasn't sure

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how that was going to play out and a lot of
circumstances-- a lot of really lucky

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circumstances, very good rolls on key moments
really made a difference there. It's interestingly

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frustrating at times because when things happen
too perfectly on a televised-- or a live stream

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like that. When certain rolls go so good, it's
almost like, "Man, no one's going to believe

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"this," but no one's going to fudge the rolls.
Everyone's policing each other's die rolls and

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it's just incredible. It was ridiculous.

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I think Grog's arc of coming under the
understanding that his strength comes from his

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friends and not from himself was cool and his
realization and using this to draw Kevdak out into

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the open was pretty neat. I don't want to give too
many spoilers, per se, but between some very key

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usage of spells and abilities, some really good
rolls for them, bad rolls at certain key moments

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for the enemies, and some really great tactics,
they managed to-- "Why was Fireball halved on

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"Kevdak?" Because Kevdak is a Totem of the Bear
barbarian. They actually reduce all damage they

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take by half except for psychic, which is nasty
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have because he's a frenzied berserker.

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But anyway, hopefully I'm not giving too much lag
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I'm trying to make sure that doesn't happen. I'm
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vertical. I always forget to do that. I feel awful
after the fact. I'm like, "Ugh, why did I do

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"that?" It's easier to hold that way.

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Anyway, but there were some really hairy moments
last night, looking back on it, too. If Laura

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hadn't gone in there and done what she did with
the broom, Grog would be dead. If she had taken

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more damage in advance to that or any of the
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Pike also very close to death. What the
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killing blow on Kevdak, they wouldn't have stopped
fighting. The combination of having the one that

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challenged him deal the final blow, the one they
actually knew, was what gave them pause, that

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moment of the shift. If just a random half-elf
with daggers, or if Vex had shot him with an arrow

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and killed him, it would have been less of a fall
of their ruler to another power that

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they understand and acknowledge. It would have
been just an assassination from a nameless,

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faceless creature. They would have just been like,
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The fact that Grog managed to deal the final blow
really put it in a situation where that battle was

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able to come to a rest, which was crazy. And then
the series of social dice. I have seen a little

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bit of discussion online because I always like to see
how people's thoughts or opinions on ways that I

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can improve based on feedback and stuff like that.
There are some frustrations some individuals

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voiced with with the fact that the bloodthirsty
barbarians didn't just continue to attack and

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slaughter. Why would they even stop when their
leader was killed? These aren't mindless

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bloodthirsty barbarians. Some of their actions may
fall into that category at times, but understand,

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there are many different facets to a culture
beyond just bloodshed. They have people within

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that they try and protect. There's a tenuous
social relationship with the River Maw that

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they've taken in. There's a lot of factors at
stake there and I tried to insinuate that, even

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then, this relationship between Vox Machina and
the now quelled conflict at the moment is still

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tenuous. They've lost their leader and, at that
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have taken any semblance of power and as opposed
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"everyone and everything!" They're just feeling it
out it seems. I don't want to spoil anything

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because I'm sure a lot of it will probably play
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Yeah, there's a lot of interesting facets beyond
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It should be interesting as it plays out. Things
happen for reasons. My narrative is far from

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perfect. I'm having to write on the fly a lot of
the times and doing what I can with what free time

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I have. People are more than willing to go ahead
and tear apart elements of it. That's totally

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viable, but I try to do the best I can to have
things make sense. It anything's confusing, trust

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that there's some reason as to why I did it.
Whether or not you may agree with it, that's

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totally fine on you.

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Anyway, it was a fun episode and I'm proud of
them. The challenge level is still jumping as

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things go and I'm curious to see how they deal
with next week. But yeah, it's crazy. "Did Scanlan

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"get an alignment change?" One act will not give
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alignment. However, continued things towards that
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that way. We shall see how that aspect will play
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which should be interesting. Stats for the items
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was going to see Travis wanted to post them
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the Titanstone Knuckles, when attuned, grant a
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Strength, as well as allowing the user-- I think
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think it's long rest, to be under the effect of
the Enlarge spell. It's not a spell. It's not

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concentration, but it's the effect of an Enlarge,
which is why Kevdak was able to grow, and it gives

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them the Siege ability, which means he does double
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objects and structures, much like how an earth
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effect of that vestige. It's pretty fun. It's like
an improved Belt of Giant Strength. A couple of

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different fun things. The bloodaxe is not a vestige;
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It's a +2 greataxe that deals an extra 1d6
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does not do additional damage to undead and
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thing is when it it brings the creature to zero,
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think those are the benefits to the bloodaxe. So
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"Are they fighting one of the dragons?" We'll see.
I have ideas on how I can handle the whole tribe

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fighting a dragon. A lot of this is going to
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they all suddenly dove under the banner of Zanror
or Grog. The tribe is two different tribal

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backgrounds that were tenuously under a tyrant's
rule, essentially. Whether or not some agreed with

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him or not, they were all there for the point of
survival and the advancement of their people. Now

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that that has been taken, it's a very interesting
social point in that tribe's existence and I think

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next episode will definitely bring some of that to
light. So yeah. Should be fun.

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Let's see if we can dig in. A few more minutes of
your questions, then I got to jump on some stuff.

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I just wanted to hop on and say hi to folks. "Did
I see the Superfight promo cards?" I did! They did

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not tell me they were doing that. It was a cool
surprise. The fact that they have those made is a

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weirder part of my reality. I'm still adjusting to
it. It's very strange. "Can't the tribe build an

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"ultra anti-dragon thing?" They're not builders,
per se. They don't have a whole lot of time, but

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we will see. "Do I blame Wil Wheaton for my loss?"
No, I don't consider it a loss. It was a fair

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challenge. There were three different moments
where they almost lost party members last night.

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Not like zero hit points, like those barbarians
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away. They would continue to cut until there were
just pieces left. So yeah. There were a few kind

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of hairy moments where I wasn't sure. It was quite
an intense evening, definitely.

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"Do I enjoy druids?" I think druids are fantastic!
They're vastly improved in this edition over the

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fourth edition. I've always loved druids. I think
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and has unique variety to play style,
which I like a lot.

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"Do I think the dragon has a chance
against 40-plus barbarians?" Well,

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they're not all barbarians, for one.
I say barbarians because it's just

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an easy term to say, but they all have
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there are handful of druids, a few other
specialties. We shall see. A lot of people versus

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breath weapon can be a real fast battle sometimes.
We'll see what they come up with. I'm letting them

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all figure it out. "Am I in Overwatch?" I am! I
voice Jesse McCree, actually, the cowboy character

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in Overwatch. I'm really excited that that game's
about to come out. It's a fun one. As you're

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playing it in beta now or getting it soon, get
used to hearing the horrible phrase of, "It's high

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noon." It should be fun. (laughs)

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Um, let's see.

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"Advice on getting into voice acting?"
There's this great website that can

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break down any answers I would have for you called
Iwanttobeavoiceactor.com. It's run by Dee Bradley

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Baker. It has one of those comprehensive
breakdowns of exactly the answers to the question

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you're asking and way far better than I could. So
check that out, definitely.

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"If you would have two of your favorite bosses
fight in the game, who would it be?" Oh, two of

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them fight each other? Oh man. Huh. The Kevdak and
Greenbeard combo is actually a very nasty combo if

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they're not held at the same time. Greenbeard's
initial tactic, actually, was either he had a

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number of heals to back up Kevdak during that
entire fight, as well as the ability of-- he was

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going to cast Sunbeam and go earth elemental form.
He would then be an earth elemental shooting beams

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out of his hands in a very Iron Man way. That was
going to be one of his aggressive tactics. Trying

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to line up shots. Yeah, there are a lot of things
that-- Scanlan definitely was the MVP of that

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battle. At the very top, if he hadn't they
utilized the Cutting Words to lower the saving

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throw on a Kevdak against the Hold Person, that
would have been a whole different ball game. With

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both him and Greenbeard locked down, that pretty
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It was intense.

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"What did I think of Sam's shirt?" It was amazing.
He held onto that the entire day, didn't show that

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to anybody until he unveiled it on the stream and
that was pretty great. "Did Scanlan choose to hold

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"Greenbeard at random?" Possibly. He just said the
the guy with the green beard, and I was like, "All

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"right. Cool." I know people keep asking about why
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They haven't been in a situation where it's really
been a concern for theirs yet. I have a feeling

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this is going to occur when they have a little
less stressful environments to have discussions.

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"Osysa plus mate versus Thordak, who wins?" I
think Thordak would probably have that fight,

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probably. Yeah, probably. He's a rough one. "Am I
surprised that Grog killed Greenbeard?" I wasn't

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sure which way he was going to go. That was very
much the, "Which path to the herd do you choose at

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"this moment?" You have two individuals that have
some semblance of status within the remnants of

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the herd and it seems that only one of these two
you can choose to go with. Both can work towards

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your goals, it just depends on who you trust the
path more and who you think the others can rally

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behind. Zanror's probably going to be a harder
sell to the rest of the tribe than Greenbeard

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would've been just because he'd been established
for so long, but like I said, a lot of that's

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going to play out in the next session, I'm sure.

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"Is Allura still in Westruun?" Last they saw via
the scry, she seemed to be radically propelling

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her way via the travel spark-- I think it was out of the library
there, the Cobalt Reserve. That's last they saw of

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her. We'll see. Am I planning on bringing in a blood
hunter PC? If the story brings them to cross one

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of the orders, possibly. They exist in the world.
They haven't really been in a position where

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they've encountered any yet. They're still very
minimal in presence. Marisha is actually off to a

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shoot right now, so she's not here for this one.
"Would Kevdak's rage have fallen if they would

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have waited around to attack him?" He would have,
actually. If they would have kept him there, his

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rage would have fallen and he would've taken full
damage after that round, but I guess they also

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just wanted to try and burn him down as best they
could. They did a lot of damage to him, but that

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rage, with the half reduction, kept him going for
a long time.

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"How do I remember so much that's happened
previous games?" I don't know. I still forget a

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lot, I'm sure. I have to go back and remind myself
occasionally, but you live in this world the way I

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have, some of the stuff sticks, I guess. I also
might have a problem. Let's see. I'll do a few

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more of these questions and then I got to get some
work done, but I thought I'd pop in with you guys

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for a minute. Let's see. "Should Grog's rage have
kept up?" Not while he was inside the Raven

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Queen's amulet. That put him at a round with no
attack or damage comparatively, so the rage would

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have dropped. Let's see.

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"Any surprises in last night's episode?" There
were many surprises. Many tactical surprises by

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the party, many rolls and responses that surprised
me. The fact that they brought Kevdak down so low

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and then went up to 70 points from the Heal and
then they brought him down just back to that 70.

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I'd already calculated, looking at him, he was on
that tail end and that happened to be the final

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blow was Grog. That was a big surprise and really
swung things in their favor. Like I said, if any

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other PC had gotten killing blow on Kevdak, the
battle wouldn't have paused. They would have seen

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that as an act of assassination and would have
just kept attacking. It's pretty crazy. Let's see.

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"Been doing the RPGs at Momocon?" I mean, I don't
do a lot of ancillary RPGs because it's hard to

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organize and, to be fair, I spend most my time
doing this one, anyway. I can't burn myself out.

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I'll be doing panels and stuff probably on gaming,
Critical Role, and things like that. So if you're

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coming to Momocon in Atlanta, I'll have panels
regarding those topics.

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"Why no door involvement?" Look, Tal'Dorei, look,
the doors have had their day and will have them

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again. It can't all be doors. Besides, that would
be unfair, TPK them instantly. Oh cool, you got

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Loot Crate because of us? Awesome! Yeah, it was
really cool of Loot Crate to reach out. We've had

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Loot Crate for a long time ourself. We have a few
friends that worked with them in the past and

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they're a really nice company. I mean, thanks to
you guys we're getting to the point now with the

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show that we can have sponsors, which is cool
because that helps us out. It means that we can,

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for me especially, means that I can spend more
time focusing on the show because it makes a

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little more on the side for me. Which is good and
it means that we can provide a lot of special

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discounts for our fans and we can help build
the brand into something that we never expected it

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would be. We're still holding on and seeing where
this whole thing goes. I'm blown away that the

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show is what it is, and that you guys are what you
are. So life's weird right now. It's good; it's weird.

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What about Matt Colville? I saw someone mention
his name there. Matt Colville is an amazing person

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and once again, if you haven't seen his videos on
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they're fantastic and very well thought-out and
thorough. He's an amazing writer and a really good

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friend and, because time and such has prevented me
from being able to do as many or as in-depth as

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the GM Tips episodes as I've been wanting to-- and
I hope to do some more pretty soon-- he's been

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helping fill that gap and do a far better job than
I could have, so definitely check those out.

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"Have Matt Colville on the show?" There's been
talk. We have a long list of people that want to

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be on the show and I'm being particular and
careful. I want to make sure that they're people

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that aren't going on just for self-promotion. I
want to make sure the people that are genuinely

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interested or passionate about either learning to
play or have played before and want to get on and

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do fall somewhat in an entertainment realm that we
do. Colville would be phenomenal on. He's

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definitely in consideration on my list, so don't
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"Critical Role stuff in Loot Crate?" That largely
depends on the how well the sponsorship goes.

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That's part of the discussion. If it does well and
enough of the audience takes to it and they

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find that there's a good overlap and that Venn
diagram of Critters and Loot Craters, I guess,

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I'm calling them now, coined it. Then there has
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down the line. That's what I'm really excited
about with this whole sponsorship is the

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opportunities to bring more of this world I made
up to physical form. It's been the weirdest

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experience in the world. I can't even. "What do I
think of the Savage World system?" It's great. I

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like it a lot, especially Deadlands. I'll keep
pushing that one because it's one of my favorite

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RPG systems. "Is my dad a bard?" Totally, and
actually he made a bard the one game I tried to DM

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for my parents. He made a bard, named him
something Fender because he's my dad, musician.

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"Pop Funko Mercer." Someone sent me one, a custom
one, at Critmas and it's on my desk and it's amazing.

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Let's see, what other questions here?

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"Any update on the fanzine?" Yeah, the fanzine's
interesting. We were wanting to plan something

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We were working on a way that we could bring
the community and actually produce something

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official through Critical Role that would include
the community artists and hopefully do an occasional

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recurring thing like that where you're bringing
together. Partially into planning and the fanzine

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announcement happened. We were like, "Oh how do we
roll all this together?" So we love the idea, but

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we figured it might be cooler if we could go ahead
and work with them on a professional level to put

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something together, make it look really nice and
put it on like the shop sale, and actually make

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some money for the artists who put all this time
into it as well and have it be official. I

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probably shouldn't even been talking about this,
but whatever NDA. (shushes) Surprises. We have

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ideas, we have thoughts, and we're hoping to do
something really cool with you guys, with the

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wonderful art community that's come out of this,
so hopefully in the near future, we'll be able to

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talk more about it. You didn't hear anything here.
(shushes)

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Let's see. Have a little lag here. I'm not getting
any messages. Here, take three more questions than

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I got to run. All right. "Opinion on psionics?" I
have a weird history with psionics. Psionics have

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always been historically broken in a lot of ways
in older editions. I felt a lot of psychic powers,

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the way they were designed in the older, like
second edition, days were very out of genre for

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me, so I had a hard time enjoying them. They've
gotten better over years and I'm waiting to see

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what they do in fifth edition releases coming up.
It's a cool facet. I haven't quite found an

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implementation that I'm really happy with yet. So
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I will send regards to Dagon. I'm sure she'll
appreciate it by going (clicking). She's really

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cute when she's really relaxed and she makes kissy
sounds. We'll wake up and she'll crawl in bed with

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us and we'll go (kissy sounds) and she'll turn to
us and go (kissy sounds). We'll do that back and

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forth for like five minutes. It's the cutest
thing. Birds are awesome. "Thoughts on 3D-printed

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"minis?" Oh man. I would love that. Maybe one day
I'll get a 3D-printer and I'll put them out. I've

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seen some really cool stuff happen. I'm all about
like the idea 3D-printed terrain, as well. I think a

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few Critters who sent me some amazing things of
that. Based on just toying with and playing and

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expanding on the Dwarven Forge stuff. Last night
was like my grand magnum opus, a cityscape. I was

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really happy how that turned out. I hope it came
across well on camera for you guys, wasn't too

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confusing, but it could help elevate. Yeah, I'm on
this like terrain kick right now. Like, "How can I

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"do this?" Let's see.

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Okay. "Kevdak took half the fire damage, was that
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but I'll say it again. Kevdak was not a berserker
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One of their abilities is when they're raging,
they halve all damage except for psychic. That's

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actually their benefit. They're more of a tanky
barbarian, to clarify for you guys.

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"Tips to encourage players to roleplay a bit
more?" If you're running the game, just engage

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them as an NPC. Look them in the eyes and talk to
them as the NPC would, and if they begin to

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describe what they're doing, we ask them, "Well,
how do you say it? Go ahead and say it. Talk to me

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"about it as the character." Or even temporarily
implement the rule well, "Whatever you say, you

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"say in character." If they're really not
comfortable with that, then don't push them. You

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want to make sure people are playing on the level
that they're comfortable for, but if you can nudge

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them a little bit out of the comfort zone, they
may discover that they enjoy it more. It may take

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a little more work on your side as the DM to do
so, but yeah.

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"Any tips to calm an overconfident party?" Throw
something in their way they can't beat and teach

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them that sometimes you have to run. You have to
run. (laughs) There're many ways to do it and if you

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look online, there's some cool options for that.
I'm going to take one more question and I got to

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run and get some work done. Let's see, look
through here. "Do I use index cards to plan out my

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"campaign?" I don't use index cards. I print out
spreadsheets that I make in Microsoft Excel and

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cut them into smaller blocks that I then tape to
paper. So I use standard-sized pages, but I-- I

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should remember to take a page behind the screen
one of these days. I'm always such in the zone

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when I'm set up and getting ready to go in the
game because I have a lot of things I have to

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prepare my brain and load up all the mental
programs of what I'm about to run that I forget

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to. But I'll see if I can do that some point in
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"What do I think of 14-year-olds like you playing
D&D?" That's when I started, so I think it's cool.

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Be aware, some environments, especially in those
ages, kids can be cruel, but be prepared that. Be

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sure of who you are, have fun, and if you're not
having fun with one group, maybe find another one.

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"Are we okay to send character sheets for you to
use as an NPC?" To put in perspective, I'd say

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just in the past Critmas alone, I received about
35 to 40 different player characters people were

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sending me to use in the campaign. I'll reiterate,
I-- situation of favoritism, so I'm going to try

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to implement more possible contests in which we
can incorporate NPCs for the winner and stuff like

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that. We did that once before and it worked out
well, so I'm hoping to do stuff like that in the

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future. But I can't ensure that because it is a
weird slippery slope. But yeah.

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All right, I know I said one more before and then
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this will be the last one. "Do I feel physically
drained at the end of a session?" Yes, it's a very

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mentally and physically taxing experience running
that game. It's intense, so I usually sleep well

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the night after. Don't sleep well the night
before. Sleep well the night after. I try not to

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schedule something too early Friday morning, but
inevitably it happens. Like this morning I had a

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9:00am session and I didn't get to bed until about
about 3:00, so I got about four and a half hours

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of sleep last night total. So that was fun.
Anyway, guys, I've got to get going. Much love. I

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hope you all have a wonderful day. Thank you for
listening to me ramble for a little while. Looking

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forward to the next session and is it Thursday
yet? All right guys, take care.