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to Cannon Fodder, a

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behind the scenes look at the Glass Cannon Network.

1:01

Yeah! What is going

1:03

on everybody? Welcome back to Cannon Fodder.

1:05

It is Wednesday, February 21st,

1:08

2024. And I'm your good

1:10

buddy Joey O'Brien! And I'm

1:12

Sydney Emanuel! I'm here too! Oh

1:16

shit! It's Sydney Emanuel joining the show.

1:18

Joining the FOD. We got a little

1:20

Troy on a mini vacay this week.

1:23

Happens to be on the FOD day.

1:25

I wonder if that's coincidence. Just trying

1:27

to shirk his FOD duties. But

1:30

I have been blessed with an

1:32

incredible co-host by my side today.

1:35

You know her, you love her, she's been around

1:38

forever on the Glass Cannon Network ladies and gentlemen

1:40

Sydney Emanuel. Thank you so much for hanging out

1:42

Sydney. The crowd goes

1:44

wild! The crowd goes wild!

1:47

I'm happy to be here. In my opinion Troy can

1:49

take a vacation any day and I will gladly cover.

1:52

Awesome. Good to know and I will

1:54

take you up on that. I regret it. And you

1:56

will regret that. I Regret saying that immediately..

2:00

Graduate from the Record please. I regret

2:02

saying that immediately. Ah, it's awesome to

2:04

have you on said thank you so

2:06

much for Pop and By I am

2:08

looking forward to hanging out catching up

2:10

a little bit. We're going to talk

2:12

news, we're going to talk some exciting

2:14

streams you and I are going to

2:16

be doing together. We're gonna talk. Man

2:19

for talk social media, We're gonna

2:22

talk. Glass. Cannon podcast.

2:24

You know gate walkers are stuff not

2:26

to. Everything's on the table today. I'm

2:28

really looking forward to this fun and

2:30

of course will have a little. We

2:32

are stupid and rounded out with listener

2:35

master's Student Bodies. And the we are stupid just

2:37

want to press a set of serve. Nothing I've done

2:39

will be in their. Guarantee. Hang.

2:42

In there folks sit around to see

2:44

of Sedates as at her character or

2:46

mentioned at all. in we are Stupid

2:48

ah kicking it off at the top.

2:51

Let's start with a quick excerpt from

2:53

you: What's going on? How are you?

2:55

what it? What he up to her

2:57

as less. Angela Ah I have

2:59

seen Izzi that projects come in

3:01

up and doing some design on

3:03

a short film and seen in

3:05

a short film different films. Ah,

3:08

and I'm doing some video games

3:10

South for a new podcast on

3:12

in our. And. When I'm not

3:14

doing that, I'm recording legacy with his his.

3:17

Cp of i guess that's of I guess

3:20

at Cydia. so I day stay busy and

3:22

planes and video games. Played. Same on.

3:24

very very busy. Up for the

3:26

audio listeners. Sydney looks very professional

3:28

Today says go a white collar

3:30

situation on our with his and

3:32

a sweater or sweatshirts. The sweater.

3:35

With. A sweater. It's. A sweatshirt. It's not

3:37

a hurry, but it's a sweatshirt. It's. A

3:39

sweatshirt? It's cool. It's got some odd

3:41

that Korean or something care seventies a

3:44

Japanese entity. The states have any. Ah,

3:46

Ok so Skate company threads her anyways

3:48

he came on I was like you

3:50

look very nice city since I went to

3:53

work today is a success of i

3:55

let my house. as

3:57

rare as for you for your sydney

4:00

That's great that you're keeping so busy. These

4:03

films that you're working on, either

4:05

being on or doing production design and

4:08

stuff on, can people see these anytime

4:10

soon? Are these a year

4:12

away? Are they half a year away? I don't

4:14

know what the timelines are for the kind of

4:16

projects you're working on. It's so hard to

4:18

tell with independent films. Sometimes

4:21

they come out, they try to do their

4:23

festival circuit runs. That's always the thing. Everybody

4:26

wants to submit it to festivals. Until

4:28

they start doing that, you don't see it. It doesn't see

4:30

the light of day for the public. Then

4:32

after it makes or breaks it in the festival

4:34

world, sometimes they just plop it on YouTube

4:36

at that point. They can just put it online. Then

4:39

other times they try to distribute it with, if it's

4:41

a horror film, they try to go through Shudder or

4:44

places like that. It's a little more upper

4:48

echelon. They don't just put it on Vimeo or YouTube.

4:50

These ones, hard to say. Don't know. Hopefully,

4:52

I always put something on Instagram

4:54

if it's out in the world because I want people to see

4:56

it. Where do people follow you

4:59

on Instagram? They could find me at Sydney

5:01

Gale on Instagram. Same as my Twitch if you

5:03

ever want to see me stream video games. Also

5:05

Sydney Gale. For those confused...

5:08

How do you spell Gale? I was about

5:10

to say, for those confused, my name Sydney

5:12

is spelled like Australia. There's two Y's. My

5:15

middle name Gale, also with a

5:17

Y. G-A-Y-L-E. Nice.

5:19

That's gay with an L-E. Thanks

5:22

everybody. That's gala. That's

5:25

gala. That's fantastic.

5:28

It's so funny. People could easily, easily,

5:30

without that clarification, misspell both your first

5:32

and your last name while looking for

5:34

you on social and then give up

5:36

immediately because that's how quick the human

5:39

brain will just shut you off. Speaking

5:43

of the human brain and how ridiculous

5:45

it is, you also happen to be

5:47

the centerpiece of the single

5:49

most watched short that we've ever

5:51

produced here, the Glass Cat Network. We

5:55

had a clip essentially go viral. It's

6:00

viral. If

6:03

you are listening to this or watching this

6:05

right now and you have not seen the

6:08

Sydney's Doing Math short

6:11

that went out on our, it's on our

6:13

shorts on YouTube. It's also on TikTok, etc.

6:17

It is blown up. Sydney, describe to the people

6:19

what happened. Man, I never thought,

6:21

I always thought that

6:23

like our stuff will blow up. You know, we're in

6:25

the TTRPG community. We've got great clips. I think we've

6:28

got great content. I'm biased, but our TikTok is very

6:30

funny. Our editing, you know, CJ is a wonderful editor.

6:32

We do a lot of great work with the clips

6:34

we put out. But this

6:36

one, especially, it was a shock

6:39

to us in the studio when Skid did the

6:41

drop that Nick Lowe made, which if you haven't

6:43

heard it, it's very funny. It's about when I

6:45

pause to do math, somehow I think

6:47

a little bit longer. It's

6:51

great, but it was it was a shock to all of

6:53

us and we were cracking up and it just the timing

6:55

was perfect. It was totally by accident. Like people asked in

6:57

the comments, did you guys plan this? You know, is this

7:00

the whole thing? No. And

7:02

we put it on TikTok and boy,

7:04

howdy, the amount of text, Joe, that

7:07

I have gotten from friends, random people

7:09

who aren't in the TTRPG community who

7:11

are like, I just saw you on

7:13

my for you page on TikTok. That's

7:15

you in that clip. And

7:18

an old friend who I use are just

7:20

not TTRPG people at all. An old

7:22

friend from Massachusetts Facebook messaged

7:24

me and said, I just saw

7:26

you on TikTok. I wasn't sure if it was

7:28

you, but then they said your name and I

7:30

knew it was you. So I've been cracking

7:33

up. It's great. It's very funny. And

7:35

I'm grateful that the clip is about

7:37

how dumb I am and how slow.

7:41

But the best thing, the best thing is

7:43

not only am I just like, I

7:45

wasn't even confused about the math. I was trying to

7:47

find something on the character sheet, but the timing was like

7:50

too good. But I was looking for it. But not

7:52

only are people like, ah, she's bad

7:54

at math. They also don't realize we're playing

7:56

Pathfinder because they're not familiar with the glass

7:58

cannon. play Pathfinder.

8:00

So they're all commenting that I

8:02

don't know the stats of a

8:05

katana in D&D 5e. And

8:07

they're like, 1d6? Is

8:09

she re flavoring a

8:11

scimitar? This is terrible. She's

8:14

doing a terrible job. And I'm

8:16

just dying inside reading those comments knowing

8:18

I'm just like, no, no, no, that's fine.

8:20

You're second edition. No, please. No,

8:22

it is. It is amazing. Like, one of the

8:24

things that jumped out at me from the comments

8:26

is those kind of

8:28

comments what I think of is like, it

8:31

continues to amaze me not that

8:34

so many people, so

8:36

many more people play Dungeons and Dragons, the

8:39

branded game as opposed to Pathfinder. That's not

8:41

a surprise to any of us. What's

8:43

such a surprise to me is that so

8:47

many of those people don't even know

8:49

there's another game, like they don't even

8:51

know any exists. Yeah. And like they

8:53

don't, they're not like,

8:56

in D&D, the thing is this, you know what

8:58

I mean? They're just like, a katana

9:01

is a D8. Like

9:04

period, like a katana uses your decks.

9:07

Yeah, period, end of sentence. We're not

9:10

playing that game. Like, and it's just so funny

9:12

how prevalent it is. Like, it doesn't even occur

9:14

to you that anyone can play anything else. I

9:17

think many people in those comments, if you

9:19

said like, it's a different TTRPG, they

9:22

would go, what's a

9:24

TTRPG? I play Dungeons and

9:26

Dragons. I don't know what you're talking

9:29

about. I don't understand that Tt game.

9:31

But you know what, I feel

9:33

like we're doing the Lord's work. I'm really happy

9:35

that that clip went went so viral, because so

9:38

many people I saw were like, I'm gonna check

9:40

you guys out. I'm gonna check out Pathfinder second

9:42

edition. Oh, I didn't even know about that, you

9:44

know, blah, blah, blah. I only play one.

9:46

Yeah, I'm gonna play QE. It was cool.

9:49

It was it was seen in real time, you

9:51

know, it was great. And then and also,

9:53

like, along with that, I also got I thought

9:55

it was really great to see how many people came out

9:58

of the woodwork and we're like, that is me. Like

10:00

that is me at my game table, you

10:02

know, and it's gotta like it's gotta feel

10:04

good to know that like tons of people

10:07

struggle with basic math in the heat

10:09

of the moment looking at dialect there

10:11

was one comment about you know some something

10:13

along the Lines of you know,

10:16

I can I could do all this math all

10:18

day in my head But show me a die

10:20

that says, you know six three and four and

10:22

I'm just like man Am I pretty completely shuts

10:25

that I just cracked out. I was like that

10:27

is so funny I felt I felt very seen

10:29

a lot of people were like, oh man I

10:31

want my GM to make a Custom

10:34

drop for me at the table because this

10:36

is exactly how I feel. So I'm glad

10:38

I feel seen I'm glad they feel seen

10:41

I do it for you. It's awesome. That's

10:43

awesome. Well, hopefully you'll see some of these

10:45

people You'll get more and more comments about

10:47

this as we hit the road. I mean,

10:49

we're going pretty soon on tour Starting

10:52

internationally. I know it's not we're less than a

10:54

month. We are less than a month from heading

10:57

to Toronto Talk to me

10:59

about the tour on your end of things.

11:01

Have you been to Canada? Have you been to

11:03

Toronto? I Have been to

11:05

Canada when I was a kid long time

11:07

ago. I went to the nonsense. No,

11:10

not since I went to the Thousand Islands So

11:12

I was on the East Coast but never to

11:14

Toronto. I went to Montreal

11:16

once and I'm pumped.

11:18

I'm not yeah me too bad. There's

11:20

so many new places were going this year, which

11:22

is really exciting Places I've

11:25

never been to like Toronto never been

11:27

to Vancouver really pumped for the

11:29

Canada stuff getting to travel Internationally

11:32

with the GCN and getting to see those

11:34

folks who have maybe not been able to

11:36

come to the States for shows That's super

11:38

cool. I'm super excited to meet all the

11:42

Conations The term that

11:45

I made up but yeah

11:47

other than that I'm super pumped

11:49

for Austin as well. I've never been to Austin

11:52

And never been to Austin.

11:54

No never been strange because you travel a

11:56

lot and you seem like an Austin type

12:00

Knew you're gonna say that don't I seem like an Austin

12:02

type. I don't know what that means. But

12:05

also your name is G-a-y-l-e.

12:07

Yeah Okay,

12:10

is it was misspelled at the beginning

12:12

of this? It

12:14

was just G-a-l-e. Oh man.

12:16

Well, that's on me. I didn't even catch

12:18

that job Just

12:22

noticed that incorrect it hilarious made a point

12:24

about talking about it, too It

12:27

is so heading to Canada for the or it's

12:29

heading to Toronto for the first time together. So

12:31

that's awesome Have you been to that? No,

12:34

I never been to Toronto. I have been to

12:36

Montreal So I went I went to Niagara Falls

12:38

when I was a kid and just sort of like

12:41

Stepped over for a little bit and then you went back

12:43

and then when I was in I want to say my

12:45

late 20s ish I

12:47

went just with my sister on like a little

12:50

4th of July like Just

12:54

sort of touristy like let's go somewhere We've never been

12:56

for a couple days thing and we went she at

12:58

this time She was in graduate school in Syracuse So

13:01

I went up there picked her up and we just

13:03

drove up to Montreal for a couple nights It was

13:05

super super fun. Did you that poutine? What's

13:08

that? Did you eat? Oh, of course. Yeah,

13:10

I really dug Montreal This is so cool

13:13

It's very very different than you know Your average American

13:15

city that you go to and so

13:17

I was like how you get a little taste of Europe

13:19

here like in North America, it was kind of kind of

13:21

dope and then always wanted to go to

13:24

Toronto Not that it would be I

13:26

hear Toronto is the most American ish, you

13:28

know city and but I'm just excited to

13:30

go because of Because I

13:33

know how many Canadian

13:35

nation members have traveled for years to all

13:37

of our shows and it's time for us

13:39

to go to them for once Right, so

13:41

I'm very excited to do a show on

13:44

their home turf and just see a whole

13:46

crowd full of Canadians And then Vancouver never

13:48

been to Vancouver and then Vancouver never been

13:51

to Vancouver I've got a really good friend

13:53

in Vancouver who has made multiple trips

13:55

down to our Seattle show I'm

13:57

excited to go to that show and see him

13:59

there and everything and what

14:02

about any other shows? Because we just announced a

14:04

whole big slate of them. Is there anything else

14:06

that jumps out at you in terms of cities

14:08

you haven't been to before or that you're excited

14:10

to see again? Yeah, I mean, Austin definitely never

14:12

been there. Very excited for the food, the people.

14:14

Everybody has told me over the years, like, go

14:17

to Austin, you'll love Austin. So what better time

14:19

than to do a show? Kansas

14:22

City, excited for that. Everybody

14:24

was telling us to go and, hey, we

14:27

listened. I've never been. I'm really excited. And

14:29

then Portland, even though I've been, I have

14:32

an affinity for Portland. I really like

14:34

Portland. And I haven't done

14:36

a show there with Glass Cannon. I

14:38

know you guys have been there before. Troy Swarz,

14:40

you would never go back. But times

14:43

are changing. Troy Swarz a lot of things.

14:45

Troy Swarz a lot, period. But

14:50

yeah, so I'm pumped for Portland. Are you excited to go

14:52

back to Portland? You

14:54

have a hatred like Troy Swarz. No, I really

14:56

like Oregon. And I'm really excited to go back

14:58

to the Pacific Northwest. I love

15:00

it in general. Yeah, I, yeah,

15:03

sure. I love the niche

15:05

there. Like, it's them. It's

15:08

St. Paul niche. By the way, Minneapolis

15:10

St. Paul niche. Oh,

15:12

yeah. Gotta tell you. They're the best.

15:15

You're incredible. VIP is almost sold out

15:17

already in St. Paul. So no way.

15:19

Yeah, a note to anybody listening or

15:21

watching or that's thinking about going to

15:23

that show. It's almost done. Like,

15:26

so you better grab your VIP ticket

15:28

ASAP. Nothing

15:30

else is selling quite this fast. So yeah,

15:33

back to St. Paul. We love everybody there.

15:35

But yeah, there's like these big pockets of

15:37

niche, right? And one of them is certainly

15:39

the upper Midwest there. And then another one

15:41

is the Pacific Northwest. I love seeing those

15:44

people. So very much looking forward to going

15:46

back there. Yeah, Minneapolis too, I should say.

15:48

Always, always a pleasure to go there. The shows are

15:50

great and the people are great. And hey, if we

15:52

catch a baseball game, that'd be even greater.

15:55

I mean, it's gotta have a special place. Isn't

15:57

that your first show? That's your first glass cannon.

16:00

was in that same venue, the Amsterdam

16:03

Hall and Bar or whatever,

16:05

and we continue to go back there

16:07

because it's just such a dope venue

16:09

for us to play. That was before

16:11

I even had a character. I played Winter Klaxa.

16:13

Oh that's right! Yeah, at the point of the

16:15

adventure that you were at for Strange Aeon's and

16:18

yeah, it'll be so nice to go back. I

16:20

love that venue. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.

16:22

Alright, let's keep moving here. We got a lot to

16:24

get to. I want to talk about Giant Slayer or

16:26

Giant Slayer. I want to talk about Glasskine Podcasts and

16:29

we'll listen to Mel and we are stupid, but

16:31

got to talk about the biggest news

16:33

on my docket right now is

16:36

a stream that's happening today.

16:39

Today! Live on the

16:42

main channel at the Glass Cannon on Twitch,

16:45

Sydney is hopping on with me to

16:47

stream a game that she is a beast

16:51

at apparently and I

16:53

stink. Tell

16:55

them what we're streaming. Tell them what we're streaming. Not

16:57

only Joe and I, but if you're listening

17:00

in the morning, get ready because at noon it's gonna

17:02

be me, Joe, Mary Lou, Paul

17:04

and Denny, and we're playing Helldivers

17:07

2. That's right. We downloaded the

17:09

new game and yes, we're waiting

17:11

to get into the servers like

17:13

everybody else. Stars, they're just like

17:15

you. Yep, come hang out

17:17

with us while we wait to get into servers.

17:20

It's gonna be awesome. For those that are

17:23

not familiar, I mean Helldivers 2 is blowing

17:25

up everywhere. It's the buzz for co-op shooter.

17:27

You know, great time, supposedly a fantastic time.

17:30

I'm very excited to play with you guys.

17:32

I don't know much of anything about it.

17:34

I've turned it on. I've gotten into it

17:36

a little bit just to get through the

17:39

tutorial and literally after we record

17:41

this, you and I are gonna connect our accounts and

17:43

make sure that we're all friends up and everything so

17:45

that we can get squad mates together for the

17:48

dive at noon Eastern on Wednesday noon

17:51

Eastern today we are going to be

17:53

playing and if you heard this a

17:55

little too late and you missed it

17:57

go check out the VOD I'm sure

18:00

It's gonna be a shit show. I'm

18:03

really looking forward to it. Mary Lou is fired

18:05

up Polydeming

18:08

is I think nervous Scared

18:12

man, it's gonna be so much fun I'm really looking forward

18:15

to it if you're listening to this in the

18:17

morning, you're making your coffee set a reminder

18:19

be patriotic To super earth and support your

18:21

local hell divers. Okay, we're doing it

18:23

for you. We're doing it

18:25

for Liberty Liberty Yeah,

18:28

I have my notes here from McD's like the things to

18:30

not forget to talk about Don't

18:32

forget to let them know you're spreading

18:34

Manage of Democracy this afternoon Sydney

18:39

Polydeming Mary Lou and I are gonna

18:41

put a squad of four together to

18:44

drop down onto a

18:46

planet somewhere where Liberty

18:48

is threatened. Yep, so we can spread

18:50

the joys of freedom. I mean, this

18:52

is gonna be amazing It's gonna be

18:55

chaotic. Please watch. Yeah, it's gonna be

18:57

crazy. Please watch And

18:59

what else so okay a couple more things on the deck

19:01

before we get in the GCP I don't

19:04

know if you know this Sydney But

19:06

our subscription service that we started up

19:08

when we moved off of patreon We've

19:10

just initiated as of last week a

19:12

30-day free trial So amazing if you have been thinking

19:14

about getting on and you're not sure you don't know

19:16

what kind of contents on there You want to test

19:19

out the campaigns that are on there? See if you

19:21

like them or not without spending a dime Hop

19:24

on and get on the 30-day free trial that

19:26

we have now. So check that out. That's gonna

19:28

be awesome And then Oh Nashville, we didn't talk

19:30

about Nashville. So Nashville is on the tour and

19:33

then combined in Nashville is

19:35

going to be the net first ever

19:37

Nashville retreat Which

19:40

is gonna be a bunch of added gaming and

19:42

hanging out in addition to the live show So

19:44

look out for information on that on our website

19:46

at glass kind of network.com So

19:48

you can find out the link is supposed to

19:50

drop today to buy tickets So if it is

19:53

on there go ahead and grab your tickets before

19:55

they get sold out There's gonna be a very limited

19:57

supply from what I understand very very

19:59

limited plot. But that's going to be

20:01

really fun to hang out with the nation.

20:03

All right, let's get down to business. This

20:06

episode, episode 22 of

20:10

Gatewalkers, we have

20:13

just come out of the oculi

20:15

fight and we are heading into

20:17

the this we head into the

20:19

stump, right? What we know of

20:21

as the stump, and then we

20:23

get swarmed by these tooth fairies

20:25

with pliers in their hands. Let

20:29

me just ask you first, I don't really know

20:31

your experience with swarms. What

20:33

do you think about swarms? Do you deal with swarms in

20:36

D&D 5e? Is that something you come across often? I don't

20:38

know. Yeah, you do. A lot of

20:40

the time, I think the number one sort of

20:42

general knowledge of the swarm is

20:45

if you hurt the individual, it

20:47

hurts the swarm. But

20:50

it's a little different, I think, in Pathfinder,

20:52

because you really need, I

20:55

don't know, I feel like a lot of

20:57

times swarms have these special abilities, like they

20:59

have DR, or they have resistances

21:01

to certain things, or only magic gets

21:03

through, you know, they have resistance to

21:05

bludgeoning or whatever. Yeah, I think

21:08

that they, if you boil it

21:10

down, I guess they essentially have

21:12

resistances to anything that is single

21:14

target. Yeah, right. And then weaknesses

21:16

to anything that is AOE. Right.

21:19

You know, multi target. So AOE

21:21

things get like exponentially bigger and individual things

21:23

get a lot smaller. But like, I don't

21:26

know, I just feel like we're never

21:28

quite built for AOE damage, you know,

21:31

like, we got into a hard

21:33

spot to we entered this tree stump, the

21:35

room we were in was quite small. So

21:37

yeah, also have a swarm like even if

21:39

we had, you know, skin, the goggles is

21:41

pretty powerful. And he can do some like

21:43

fire ice stuff, even if he had some

21:45

sort of AOE fire, or ice spell

21:47

that he was going to shoot off, it

21:49

was gonna hit all of us. Yeah, it was

21:51

gonna hit us. Yeah, it was level two. So like, you know, you

21:55

don't want to hurt your part, it's less

21:57

beneficial to try to do

21:59

a big AOE. where you could potentially hurt your

22:01

party members without healing capabilities. So

22:04

yeah, it was tricky for this with the tooth fairies.

22:06

But then also, forms always have these

22:08

messed up abilities where they release

22:10

a poisonous gas or whatever. And

22:14

these tooth fairies had one of those too,

22:16

which was when they die, they explode? They

22:19

explode into some sort of, I

22:21

don't know, like, I don't

22:24

know if it was like, a viper or

22:26

something that makes you sickened. It

22:32

just makes you sickened, but Troy had built it all

22:34

up to make us think that it was

22:37

gonna be like, 40

22:39

points of damage, fortitude, or like a

22:41

deadly poison or something like that. And

22:44

he played us like a fiddle, to be honest.

22:48

I was gonna say it was kind of bullshit. I mean,

22:50

Troy's right here. I could say

22:52

whatever I want. Say whatever I want. You

22:54

reminded me that Kate rolled, Zephyr

22:57

rolled a Nat 20 on

23:00

a knowledge check or on a perception check? Recall knowledge,

23:02

yeah. Recall knowledge. On these

23:04

tooth fairies that kind of figure out what was going on.

23:08

And Troy like, she played a

23:10

Nat 20, and Troy was like, oh, they've

23:13

got a death throw. You know, if you-

23:15

It's a character killer, I believe was the quote.

23:17

He said character killer, which he always says,

23:19

but it's so hard to know if he

23:21

means it or not. We were like,

23:24

the room is small. We were like backing up. We

23:26

were trying to get away. We were like, it's gonna

23:28

die. Who would explode? And I think, I forget who,

23:30

but they were just like, I can't

23:32

move out of it. Like, I'll sacrifice myself. I think

23:34

it was you, Joe. I think you were like, I'll

23:36

just stay near it. And we were like, no,

23:38

you can't. You can't. It

23:41

certainly made for some increased drama. So if

23:43

that's what he was going for, then bravo.

23:45

But yeah, it was, next day exploded. We

23:48

were all like, and he's like, and

23:50

you're all fine. We're like, you're a son of a bitch.

23:53

Yeah, I find swarms in general

23:55

to be like, it's so frustrating. So

23:58

frustrating. They seem

24:00

to throw them in every adventure

24:02

like they're always swarms lurking about

24:05

but I'm glad we fought through it And just

24:07

enough just in time to open

24:10

up a door to go deeper in and you Asta Opens

24:14

the door. I always open the door and

24:17

on the other side you see what

24:19

I Saw it first

24:21

before any of us saw it on foundry. Gosh

24:23

foundry is so great with the dynamic lighting

24:25

and when you enter a space So yeah,

24:27

I stepped in first immediate player

24:30

regret I like stepped in and

24:33

I saw I saw

24:35

a big centaur

24:38

woman who was like decked

24:40

in armor She had like

24:43

two spears and a sword

24:45

maybe a bow on her

24:47

back and I immediately Sydney the player

24:49

was like But

24:54

I walked in and you know in character I had to be like

24:57

hi, you know You see me. I'm not invisible Tried

25:00

to play it cool. I always

25:02

try to go for like a diplomacy thing

25:04

with Troy's enemies Yeah, never

25:07

ever ever works it like never

25:09

works, but I Appreciate and

25:11

applaud the effort. I think that that's it's a

25:14

good thing Matthew. Matthew is like

25:16

an expert at the diplomatic character

25:18

He always plays such diplomatic characters, but

25:20

Troy doesn't like roleplay. So he Let's

25:24

just cut to the killing. Yeah What

25:28

happened sorry, I don't know I

25:30

was gonna say that's basically what happened off the stepped

25:32

in and the centaur Was

25:34

like who enters the domain

25:36

of like knepo the slim and

25:38

we all were like, uh-oh Oopsie,

25:41

she's not on our side Right.

25:44

Yeah, so there was no talking and she

25:46

was like you're not worthy Yeah,

25:49

she's all like She's like a

25:51

serial killer. Basically. Oh, yeah, she was

25:53

like that. That's what he implies is

25:55

like she's She

25:59

watches her victims. She

26:02

hunts and learns everything about them

26:05

so that she can just like pick them

26:07

apart when it's time to murder them and

26:09

she's like and I guarantee you I will

26:11

take my time with you posthumously. I

26:13

mean it is so terrifying and I'm

26:15

not gonna, I can't scan ahead but

26:18

I want to tell everybody that I definitely

26:21

like told Troy, I was like just in

26:24

case you forgot, we're

26:26

second level. Yeah. Like I have no idea what

26:28

you're putting into these APs. I don't know what's

26:30

actually in there or what you're coming up with

26:33

but we're second level. I'm

26:35

very scared of this fight especially because not

26:37

alone, like not alone. We're also dealing with

26:39

some sort of like like

26:42

automaton or something. Yeah

26:44

there's like a robot ball

26:46

thing. Robot ball thing. Really important

26:48

piece of this episode that you seemingly

26:51

left out for whatever reason Joe. I

26:54

recall in the tooth fairy fight that

26:56

brother Amius lost a tooth. No

26:59

no that was a flavor thing.

27:01

You made it up. You

27:04

made it up. I was just dying. I love

27:07

making Joe mad. He did not

27:09

lose a tooth. They tried.

27:11

They tried to pull his tooth out. They didn't

27:14

get it because I think Troy said it takes

27:16

like three routes but they can. They have

27:18

reactions. But me and

27:20

Kate kept going oh no brother Amius

27:23

you lost the tooth. You have to talk like

27:25

this for the west of it. Joe was so mad having

27:27

none of it. He was like no I don't. I

27:29

don't like it. I didn't lose a tooth.

27:31

I like you disrespecting Amius. What's what we'll

27:33

call it. I definitely saw some comments on

27:35

that on YouTube. Thank you for those that

27:38

are comment on the tubes. I

27:41

appreciate you guys. New fan art. New fan art

27:43

needed. Somebody said they

27:45

were just absolutely losing it at

27:47

YouTube like just bullying me

27:50

whatever making fun of me as getting

27:54

a list because of this missing tooth. I was

27:56

speaking which I'll throw one out here and I

27:58

liked this comment. This is from SnuzzleBumble

28:01

on YouTube comments

28:03

that I love that this swarm literally

28:06

forces everyone to move each round. I've noticed

28:08

in some games people are still in the

28:10

mindset of just wanting to stand in

28:12

one place the entire combat. I

28:14

thought that was a really good observation

28:19

and it just highlights what we have found

28:21

we really enjoy about 2E as opposed to

28:23

1E is how stuck

28:25

in place you would feel because it

28:27

was so optimized to not move that

28:30

even when it was deadly or even

28:32

when it was a huge risk you

28:34

just didn't move because to stay was

28:37

so much more powerful. Now it

28:39

does feel like a much more fluid battlefield and

28:41

it's really fun to play that way. Positioning is

28:43

so important and really a fun thing to play

28:45

around with. You get the third action. Totally,

28:48

especially too because Kate's character is a

28:50

monk and she has her flurry of

28:52

blows but it's through her arrows and

28:54

she's super proficient with her bow. There's

28:56

always this level of backing up to

28:58

create distance and stuff. I think our

29:00

party handles that pretty well. Before

29:03

we get into We Are Stupid let's talk

29:05

about Asa for a second. We talked about

29:07

her a little bit in the studio FOD but

29:10

I'd just like to continue to explore that now

29:12

that you've had more time transitioning

29:14

from your initial fighter build

29:16

into Magus. Let me take

29:22

your temperature right now on the class so

29:24

far. Obviously you're only second level but how

29:26

are you enjoying the play style that you've

29:28

had with Asa so far? I'm

29:31

enjoying it a lot. I think

29:33

I'm still discovering the classic pitfalls

29:35

of sort of character building. I'm only at

29:38

second level but there's certain things

29:40

I'm starting to realize with the Magus and

29:42

I know I think the last FOD you

29:44

guys talked about this and I was jumping

29:46

in the chat, hitting everybody off. Some of

29:49

it is just very confusing wording on things

29:51

and I have to be really

29:53

on top of what abilities I'm

29:55

using at what time because for

29:57

instance the cascade Arcane

30:00

cascade stance. I'm very new to stances like I

30:02

don't play monks often So that's a whole part

30:04

of it and I get all these boons But

30:07

if I don't use it I can to hand my

30:09

weapon So it's sort of like and

30:12

I have to keep track of my action

30:14

economy because you know certain things I can't

30:16

do before other things so it's definitely not

30:18

like a I Would

30:20

quote unquote easy, you know if I

30:22

played a fighter, it's a little more streamlined It's a little

30:24

simpler. I can do this and then I can hit or

30:26

I can take a full ride, you know Yeah,

30:28

yeah, and if you remember we were we

30:30

were out together to a little lunch

30:34

In the city when you mentioned that you

30:36

were thinking about maybe playing a mages and

30:38

if you remember I was just like come

30:40

on I literally say don't do it. I

30:43

literally think Joe rolled his eyes right

30:46

and it had nothing to do with anything

30:48

but that that like I Didn't

30:50

know the first thing about the class It

30:53

is super super complicated and I was gonna

30:55

be I was just seeing down the line

30:57

all of the we are stupid emails we

30:59

were gonna get because you know, it's the

31:02

nature of brand new classes They're really hard

31:04

to play. Well the first time, you know,

31:06

I like a challenge, you know And I love

31:09

to try the whole point of playing TTRPGs is

31:11

to try new things, you know You want to

31:13

try a new character and when you have a

31:15

character die Perfect

31:17

opportunity to just fall

31:19

for the wall. Just try something new So

31:22

I'm having a lot of fun with it and I'm I

31:24

mean now I'm having the real fun where I'm like When

31:27

I get to level five like yeah

31:31

Yeah, so it's exciting but I'm just

31:33

also trying to be careful not to kill my

31:35

second character. So How

31:39

are you feeling about that with some time

31:41

having passed are you are you like super

31:43

into Asta right now kind of feeling? Like

31:46

you've moved on. Are you a little are

31:48

you still have some lingering feelings? Lucky.

31:52

Yeah, I miss lucky. I mean

31:54

I watched that clip We have a clip too of

31:56

the moment that I rolled in that one. Oh, yeah,

31:58

like it's brutal. I I'm not

32:00

embarrassed by it, but it's so raw.

32:03

I was so bummed, I was so

32:05

sad. And

32:07

now I'm like, obviously I'm like, yeah, whatever,

32:09

it's fine. I have my new character who

32:11

I really like. But again, I think the

32:13

thing that's the most bummer is

32:16

I never got to bring up anything,

32:18

all this cool backstory, all these cool

32:20

things that were supposed to come out

32:22

naturally through our gameplay and character interactions

32:25

with Lucky. They just didn't get to

32:27

happen. So it stinks to

32:29

like, it's like writing your first short story

32:31

or novel and then you're just

32:34

scrapping it and you're like, well, I guess I'll start over. And

32:37

nobody saw it. Nobody read it. Nobody

32:39

saw it. Well, you don't have

32:41

to answer this if you don't want to, but it

32:44

makes me wonder if, are there

32:46

any elements to Asta that are kind of drawn

32:48

from Lucky at all, things that didn't come out

32:51

that you were like, you know what, I could

32:53

still kind of use some of that, whether it's

32:55

personality stuff or background stuff or is there anything

32:57

like that? Or it's just completely fresh new, you

32:59

kind of dropped everything and started over. Honestly,

33:02

I feel like I dropped everything and started

33:04

over. I had such a clear picture of

33:06

Lucky. So to like dilute her into a

33:08

new character just didn't seem like it made

33:10

sense at all. I

33:12

guess the only thing that was similar was I still wanted

33:14

to play a sort of like animal

33:17

folk type character. I was so

33:19

excited about cat folk. And then I was like,

33:21

well, I'm not gonna play a human. So I

33:23

picked a kitsune. That would be ridiculous. That

33:25

would be silly. What kind of idiot

33:27

would play a human? Joe

33:29

loves humans. I

33:32

love them all. Well, that's not true. I

33:34

don't love them all. But I like, I

33:36

don't know. You know, Baldur's Gate 3

33:38

has got me a bit like off

33:41

the human track. What are you playing

33:43

in Baldur's Gate 3? No comment. Can't

33:46

comment on it. There's reasons. But

33:48

I just like that world is

33:51

so rich with how few humans

33:53

are like, yeah, part of the

33:55

main vibe of it.

33:57

The NPCs, the other party members, like

33:59

there's so. few that is

34:02

awesome. It's really cool to just like,

34:05

you know, feel out all

34:07

those different kinds of ancestries

34:09

interacting that way. Anyway, it has

34:11

me thinking a lot more. Look, I've

34:14

been called out on that before, but I think that

34:16

that's, I think it's when you

34:18

examine it, it's an incorrect assessment of what I

34:20

like to do and what I like to play.

34:23

But it's based around an idea that is a

34:25

correct assessment, which is that like, I

34:27

like the simple things, I like

34:30

the easy path, I like the, you know,

34:32

I like getting things spoon fed to me

34:34

as Troy says. And some of

34:36

that is there's definitely some truth to that. But,

34:39

you know, if you look back at my characters,

34:41

like there aren't that many humans, you know, there

34:43

really aren't I would always try to go against

34:45

it. And then I kind of came started coming

34:48

back to it and was like, I've spent so

34:50

long as not a human that now I do

34:52

want to play some humans, you know, and I've

34:54

really been enjoying brother Ramius for that reason. I

34:57

thought about going human for this too, because

34:59

I feel like I'm the opposite. I usually

35:01

don't. And now I'm kind of like, Oh,

35:03

there's some interesting ways to be a human

35:05

in a world full of these other, you

35:07

know, characters and races and ancestries. But

35:10

yeah, as for the ossed lucky thing, I

35:12

think I was just I didn't get enough of

35:14

the non human background. So I wanted

35:17

to carry that over. That was the only thing I

35:19

wanted to carry over. And it's kind of fun. It's

35:21

like, who are rare ancestry?

35:23

Like, yeah, yeah,

35:25

what's your place in the world, you know,

35:27

if you're sort of a lesser known ancestry,

35:29

more rare. So yeah, I mean, is asked

35:31

that so you say that asked that and again, these are

35:34

kind of things you can say, like, you got to find

35:36

out on the show, buddy, but like is asked, you

35:38

describe us as being from the Wildwood.

35:41

But like, is that like born and

35:43

raised in the wildwood? Because she definitely

35:45

seems to have some Eastern

35:47

influence, you know, and especially with her training and

35:49

her use of the katana and all that kind

35:52

of stuff. Did she travel here,

35:54

but hasn't told us that yet? Like, what do

35:56

you mean? She grew up in the woods by herself. Where's

35:59

the family? I mean it'll

36:01

come out in the game hopefully like as we talk but

36:03

this is why people listen in the fog Exactly.

36:06

Give a little behind the scenes actually no

36:08

no sprinkle sprinkle in some info in so

36:11

she is from the verdurian

36:13

forest of Kaldor which a

36:16

lot of kits kitsune are from like I

36:18

think three major areas Okay, this area specifically

36:20

is like a more modern

36:24

Kind of like metropolis kitsune town.

36:26

So okay, it's it's in the

36:28

forest But it's like it's not

36:30

by any means like extremely rural.

36:33

It's to them pretty urban But

36:36

yeah, so it's like she has

36:38

her family. I mean who knows what's going on

36:40

now, but like she grew up there She has

36:42

her family and I guess

36:45

what's the equivalent? What's like a rural? I guess

36:48

New Jersey like didn't grow up

36:51

in New York City She grew up

36:53

in like not even Hoboken little

36:55

further Where are you from? Where are you

36:57

live Joe? Cranford. Sure. Let's call it Cranford

37:01

But yeah, so it's it's a little

37:03

less metropolis. Oh, yeah, she had access

37:05

to you know, big city kind of yeah

37:07

She's had books. She knows right knows people

37:09

in places. She didn't just come out of a

37:12

bunker in the middle of the woods Yeah

37:16

Okay, interesting. But how far away is

37:18

the wildwood from there? I

37:22

mean is it like you know, you're asking me of

37:25

an actual map question question and I don't want to say the wrong thing

37:27

I feel like it's pretty far So

37:31

yeah, that's why I feel like she has traveled at

37:33

some point. Yes, and whether she did that solo or

37:35

with family Yeah, I'm curious to find out. I'm gonna

37:37

start digging into us a little bit in in our

37:39

gameplay have brother rain this Spark

37:42

up a conversation sit down by the campfire pull up the log.

37:44

She's an open book A

37:47

log she's an open book pull up

37:49

a log Let's get into we are

37:52

stupid here before we get some some listener mail

37:54

sing a sin Nick Sydney

37:56

loves you so much right now. I'm seeing a sin

38:01

I love you, Nick. Love

38:17

you, Nick. I was so excited to get to that. I

38:19

played listener mail before I did We Are Stupid. I know. I

38:22

was loving it though. I wasn't going to stop it. I mean,

38:24

I am really stupid. Wow. All

38:26

right. Well, welcome back to Mr. Real in a second.

38:30

Let's just because there's actually just

38:32

a couple quick things here. To

38:34

clarify, these are from Professor Eric. One,

38:37

Sydney, you do not hold a charge

38:39

in Spell Strike in 2E like it

38:41

used to be in 1E. We

38:43

just talked about that a little bit. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't

38:45

have to hold it, move up. If you miss it, it stays in

38:48

there. None of that. It is just that it was

38:50

only in 1E thing. It's gone in 2E. It's

38:52

all part of that one action. It's all

38:54

part of the, or what's two actions, right?

38:56

It's a two action draw. Two action draw.

39:00

It's all at that same time. He

39:03

did weigh in and say that we

39:05

did get stunning fists correct against the

39:07

swarm. They are capable to be stunned.

39:09

However, it does have the incapacitate trait.

39:12

We mentioned this. I'm not sure

39:14

if Troy wanted to just

39:17

let it get stunned or if it's

39:20

a little bit higher level and shouldn't have been stunned,

39:22

but I think it would have needed to

39:24

critically fail in order to get stunned. So,

39:27

yeah, just clarifying on that, but that could have been

39:29

a GM call at the last second. There

39:31

was, oh, yeah, there was also like

39:34

some online chatter of Zephyr being able to flurry

39:36

with the bow in hand. He's

39:38

just clarifying that that is correct, but

39:41

she can't do it when she's in the

39:43

monastic archer stance. So, when she chooses to

39:45

go into that stance, which is, I believe,

39:47

the only way that she can flurry with

39:50

her bow, she

39:53

cannot do melee

39:56

attacks from that stance. She has to

39:58

come out of that stance. stance.

40:00

She can't flurry in in melee.

40:03

But if she is not in that stance,

40:05

she can shoot her bow, just

40:08

not with a flurry. She

40:10

can shoot her bow just like normal and then

40:13

she could totally like shoot her bow and then punch

40:15

somebody in the face or do a

40:18

flurry of blows of literally hitting them physically

40:20

with the bow and then kneeing them in

40:22

the groin. You know that kind of thing.

40:25

All capable of doing that as long as

40:27

you don't first enter that monastic archer stance.

40:29

That is when it starts to limit what

40:32

you're able to do. So

40:34

then you would have to leave the stance which can

40:36

be done, we determined, by a free action of dropping

40:38

the bow. So if you just drop the bow, you

40:40

can get right back into it. So anyway, just to

40:43

clarify that there were some comments on that on the

40:45

YouTube video and maybe elsewhere as well. I'm not sure

40:47

if they were on the Discord. Alright,

40:50

let's get into Asta

40:52

here. Also, he mentioned something about

40:54

Buggles doing a point of splash damage and he's not

40:56

sure where that splash damage came from. So we just

40:58

have to talk to Skid about like, where

41:01

was this splash damage? Not sure if that

41:03

was a carryover from Aldo

41:06

or something. So I'll talk to Skid

41:08

about that. Let's focus in on

41:10

our mages here real quick before we get back to the

41:12

listener panel. I don't know if you know this. I don't know how I

41:19

didn't catch this, but

41:21

apparently you spellstruck twice

41:24

without the action to recharge

41:26

the spell strike. No way.

41:29

Way. At least

41:31

that's word on the street. That's unlike

41:33

me. Well, you know what it is unlike

41:35

me because we've talked about this at length.

41:38

You know this rule. I know. I

41:40

know. We've we've told it to me. I know. I'm

41:43

shocked I did this, but maybe it was just throughout

41:46

the round of combat when it came back

41:48

around to me. Maybe I just

41:50

forgot because it took a while. I don't know.

41:54

But I do know this rule very well. You have to

41:56

recharge. You have to take an action. You

41:59

have to recharge. We specifically talked about

42:01

this because we learned you can't

42:03

recharge on your

42:06

previous turn then when it comes

42:08

around then do your spell strike. It

42:10

has to be within the same round. So,

42:12

basically it's a three. Spell

42:14

striking is pretty much technically... I'm sorry. I'm

42:17

sorry. I don't think that's correct what you said. It is. I

42:20

think you're mixing up spell strike

42:22

with entering the arcade cascade stance.

42:25

No, no, no. Also, when you recharge

42:27

your spell strike it has to be

42:29

in the round. You have to either

42:32

do the concentration which takes one action

42:34

or you have to... What's

42:37

the other one? Had just cast a spell and

42:40

then you can do a two action spell

42:42

strike. So, in my mind spell strike almost

42:44

takes three actions because no matter what you're

42:46

going to have to recharge it by concentrating

42:49

or casting a spell then you can spell

42:51

strike. Wait,

42:54

are you sure you're not mixing that up with... How

42:56

do you enter the arcade cascade stance? I

43:00

believe I just... You know what? I'm...

43:04

I think you're mixing them up because isn't that where you have to

43:06

have just casted a spell or

43:09

you have... Your most recent action was

43:11

used to cast a spell or something

43:13

else. Ah, hold on.

43:17

Yeah, totes. Your most recent

43:19

action is to cast a spell. Oh, to cast

43:21

a spell or make a spell strike. And

43:24

the spell strike is you recharge it. I'm

43:29

bringing it up here now. I'm bringing it up too. I'm

43:31

bringing it up. I'm bringing it up. After you

43:34

spell strike you can't do it again until

43:36

you recharge your spell strike as a

43:38

single action. You can also

43:40

recharge your spell strike when you cast

43:42

a conflict spell that takes at least

43:44

one action to cast. Yes.

43:47

No matter what you still have to...

43:50

So they're very similar. Arcane cascade is

43:52

your most recent action, cast a spell or make a

43:55

spell strike. Right,

43:57

but you don't... But You have to do that like

43:59

in the... The same turn. This is

44:01

not in this, it's been rewarded. Ah,

44:03

it's not in this one, but it's

44:05

been rewarded to say your most recent

44:07

acts in this turn to cast a

44:10

spell or make a spell strike and

44:12

possibly sure you can't looping around to

44:14

the next round and then the what

44:16

was the other one the I'm Feldstein

44:18

spouse strike out so I'm going to

44:20

bring that up in a second. But

44:22

the spell strike. I believe you

44:24

can. So let's say. You. Move. Select.

44:27

what the? Here's my examples. You

44:29

move and then spell. strike. You.

44:32

Can use your single action to recharge it

44:34

in the next round. That's

44:36

the I would have to and

44:39

if you. Did. Not move

44:41

and you just today spell Strike! You.

44:43

Could then recharge it with your third

44:45

accept. And. Then they'll strike again in

44:48

the next round. Oh interesting.

44:50

right? I don't see why not. Know that's what I

44:52

saw it, but I wonder if that's what I

44:54

messed up? How could I have possibly. Done.

44:57

Spell Strike. Twice. In

44:59

around. Know. You d as you

45:01

did a spell strike and then the next

45:03

round I think you just did another spell

45:05

strike and know like you were like right

45:08

I spell strike and then I move away

45:10

from the swarm. It was something like that

45:12

and then I hadn't spent that action to

45:14

to recharges. It's a very easy mistake to

45:17

make. I'm not surprised at all the we

45:19

made it. yeah I'm surprised about is that

45:21

like that we didn't notice the at because

45:23

you and I had disgusted so much because

45:25

it seemed like a very important. Balancing.

45:29

Ah, mechanics to the spell strikes as a

45:31

such an awesome ability as it's a if

45:33

is not going to be happy if it's

45:35

going to be limited in like you know,

45:37

per day or whatever like that you know

45:39

how to. We. Add we

45:41

balance it and so ah yeah so

45:43

it it the frequencies. You can use

45:45

it as an until it's recharged you

45:47

know, enemy yeah and dumb. This.

45:50

is what i love you can't do it

45:52

again until you recharge your spouse or gets

45:54

a single actress as has the concentrate traits

45:56

you also return just gnostic when you tested

45:58

conflux spell that takes at least one action

46:00

to cast. Casting a

46:03

focus spell of another type doesn't

46:05

recharge your spell strike. Now this comes up

46:07

in Professor Eric's thing. Now I don't know

46:09

if you don't want me to talk about

46:12

this. Are you aware of something called dimensional

46:14

assault? Yes. Okay. So

46:17

what Professor Eric, I'm not going to blow it up because I want

46:19

you to be able to use it on the show and like, and

46:21

for, and I think people are going to

46:24

love this thing. I'm very excited. But if

46:26

you use that, that recharges your spell strike.

46:28

Yes. You just have to not

46:30

do anything. You can use

46:32

something that is very, very unique. This

46:34

is unique to the laughing shadow. The

46:36

classic shadow, hybrid study. But

46:39

the thing is the conflict spell, so it

46:41

is limited. Like spell strike does have its

46:43

limitations. You can basically use a focus point

46:46

in your focus pool to cast your

46:49

conflict spells, which are like these special

46:51

learned spells. But I only have

46:53

one focus point. So like I can cast this

46:55

once and use my really cool ability and then

46:57

I get my spell strike back, but

46:59

I don't get to use it until I rest again. So

47:02

it's cool for a moment, but if

47:04

I deplete my focus pool, I can't use it again

47:06

in a combat until I get my

47:08

focus points back. So that is a really

47:11

cool one because then I don't have to cast a

47:13

spell or do a different thing before my spell strike.

47:15

I can use my conflict spell. Yes.

47:18

So cool. I can't wait to see that. One

47:20

more thing real quick, and that is regarding

47:22

combining the strike and spell

47:24

strike damage pools before determining

47:27

immunities, weaknesses, and resistances. Professor

47:29

Eric, thank you for weighing in on this

47:31

because I was wrong. I was stupid on

47:34

this one. Though

47:36

Professor Eric says, I do believe it

47:38

is a somewhat open question, but I

47:40

feel the consensus is generally on the

47:42

side of keeping the damage separate, which

47:44

is what Troy's interpretation was. You

47:47

hit and your strike

47:49

resolves and then the spell damage

47:51

goes through. Okay. In this case,

47:53

both hits would have been reduced

47:56

by the swarm's resistance, which is

47:58

the ruling the show. For

48:02

when this could help, he's an example

48:04

of when this could help the party

48:06

is if you had flaming runes for

48:08

instance and you cast a fire spell

48:10

you could proc a fire weakness twice

48:12

on a single creature in one spell

48:15

strike. His experience

48:17

so far with this is that it

48:19

tends to favor the PCs

48:21

more than it hurts them. It just in

48:23

this case it happened to be a bad

48:26

scenario where it had resistance to

48:28

like every kind of damage except

48:30

splash. That really hurt

48:32

us in this case but most

48:35

of the time being able to split the

48:37

damage from different types is going to work

48:39

out. So very interesting.

48:42

Yeah so I'm happy with that interpretation for

48:44

now and I say we go with it.

48:46

All right we're running short on time let's get

48:48

some listener mail in here guys thank you so much

48:50

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48:52

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48:55

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48:57

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49:04

we've got one from YouTube and we've got

49:06

one that when it came in from the

49:08

website from YouTube paralyzed kid by

49:11

the way can someone explain to me

49:13

why they're always playing with headphones on

49:15

I get the mics being needed for recording

49:17

but why do you need to heat what do

49:19

you need to hear while sitting together at a

49:21

table good question do you

49:23

want to answer this one yeah well

49:26

for one it makes the audio so

49:29

much cleaner so we're not yelling across

49:31

the table like speaking at a normal

49:33

volume through an audio format for people

49:35

that listen to the podcast it's very

49:37

important if we can't

49:39

tell what what our volume is in our

49:41

monitor headphones it would

49:43

make for horrible audio for the podcast because we

49:45

all would be different levels talking really loud or

49:48

maybe you have to be able to hear yourself

49:50

so that you can keep yourself in line or

49:52

in check with however what most

49:54

other people's volume is now of course I'm

49:56

guilty of breaking that all the time But

50:00

if the headphones were off, it would be worse. Let's

50:02

just say that. And also, it's for Skid's

50:04

wonderful drops, because we have to separate the

50:06

audio, again, for the podcast and everything. We've

50:08

got to separate that audio out from all

50:10

of our microphones and stuff, so nothing wires

50:12

get crossed. So we would

50:15

never hear Skid's amazing drops, like

50:17

Nick Lowe singing, uh-oh, Sidney's doing

50:19

math. Oh, no. Oh,

50:21

no. Sidney's doing

50:23

my math. And

50:25

also, all the music. Yeah, all of the music. So all

50:27

of the background music that you hear during the show, we

50:29

hear it live. We don't put that

50:32

in in post-production. We hear it live. And

50:34

I've always been a big proponent

50:36

of having that music in because I

50:38

feel like it invigorates us live when we listen to

50:40

it while we're playing. And that's Joe on the ones

50:42

and twos as we're doing it. He's changing the vibe

50:45

up and helping us get immersed, which is really cool.

50:47

Yeah, so that's why we do headphones. All

50:49

right, one more here from Jack. Thank

50:52

you, Jack, for writing in. It

50:54

says, thanks for all the last three of the

50:56

years with Game Garage, New Game, Who This, and

50:58

Labs. We've all had the opportunity to try out

51:00

new to you systems. Which systems

51:02

have you really enjoyed? Which were just

51:05

all right? And what systems do you

51:07

want to try out? Personally, I think

51:09

Lancer has mech-based Tactic

51:11

Joe written all over it.

51:15

I'm not familiar with Lancer, but I'll have to check

51:17

that out. Sidney, of all these years we've

51:19

been playing different games together, what has jumped

51:21

out to you system-wise as something that you

51:23

really like? Or what's jumped out of

51:25

something you're like, I'm good on that. I don't really like

51:27

that system very much. You know, I don't

51:29

have many that I dislike. They're

51:31

just different. I think I've said it before, I'll

51:34

say it again. Delta Green, after

51:36

opening my eyes to Delta Green, Delta

51:38

Green is a game module. I have

51:40

become such a fan. I've

51:43

bought many APs of my

51:45

own, and I run it for

51:47

friends, not impossible landscapes. But

51:50

yeah, and getting to play Vicky Ricci is like

51:52

one of my favorite characters in a game on

51:54

the glass cannon that I play any game. So

51:57

definitely- Couldn't agree more. Joe

52:00

O'Brien weighs in. I

52:02

love Delta Green. In that same vein,

52:05

I have yet to play the Yellow

52:07

King RPG. Very

52:09

curious, coming from Delta Green and how much

52:11

I've enjoyed it, how much

52:14

I really liked Modern Cthulhu. We

52:16

played that at, where did we play that?

52:18

Gen Con? Yeah, Gen Con. Gen

52:20

Con, God, that was a blast. Yeah,

52:22

I guess I would just want to play more

52:24

of games that I've only dipped my toe into,

52:26

like Modern Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark,

52:28

when I got to join the Busted Mufflers, that

52:30

was really fun. And games

52:33

I want to play more. Morkeborg,

52:35

another one that we played. Man,

52:38

Morkeborg is so much fun. I would

52:40

love to play that again,

52:42

maybe even run that. That would just be

52:44

a blast. But yeah,

52:46

that's all I can think of off the top of my

52:49

head. Good choices, good choices. I am

52:51

such a system junkie, Jack. It's like

52:53

very bad to ask me this. I'm

52:55

not much of a critic. I just,

52:57

I love, like I find the good

52:59

in all RPG systems. Like I just,

53:01

because you can really pull amazing stuff

53:03

out of just about any system. And

53:07

there's very few systems that all in all

53:09

and wholly put together are perfect in every

53:11

way. But if you take

53:13

out some, you know, what works really great with them, I mean

53:15

that's what you see in a lot of game design is like

53:17

people kind of cherry picking what

53:19

works really well in one, adding it into

53:21

another and making their own kind of hodgepodge

53:24

system out of it. I

53:26

would say Blades in the Dark is probably my

53:28

favorite that I was exposed to that I didn't

53:30

know about ahead of time in terms of a

53:32

system. I love that system.

53:34

And I mean, I know that it again,

53:36

it was not inventing

53:39

the wheel, but the way that

53:41

it works and interacts with your with

53:43

your crew and the way that you do heat

53:45

and the way you do flashbacks and all that

53:47

kind of stuff. I just I love, love, love

53:49

Blades in the Dark. I think it's I think

53:51

it's phenomenal. And what

53:53

do I want to play? There really

53:55

isn't much I can think of that I want

53:58

to play that I haven't already. I kind of have to.

54:00

get like oh

54:02

oh there's a new one that was kick-started that I

54:04

really want to try out from the

54:06

makers. Oh I want to look this up. It

54:10

looks like I'm going to love it and it's

54:12

just because of the art and like the basic

54:14

like what

54:17

they have put out there as their mission

54:20

statement almost for the RPG. It's

54:23

from the it's called

54:25

like Legends in the Mist. That's

54:28

it. Legend. Legend

54:30

in the Mist. So go check out Legend in the Mist. Their

54:34

kick-starter is crushing it. It's in the middle of

54:36

crushing it. That is the system I really want

54:38

to try out. It's from the people that made City

54:40

of Mist. I never got a chance to play it but

54:42

I got it. I almost ran it for

54:44

New Game Who Dis. So I read up on it a little bit. Legend

54:47

in the Mist looks like the kind

54:49

of classic fantasy that I like with

54:51

mechanics that are very story forward and

54:54

are really good at developing character

54:56

like forcing character development on you

54:58

through dice rolls. I

55:02

think. I think. So this

55:04

is the vibe that I'm getting. It looks pretty amazing. Legend in the

55:06

Mist is something I'm looking forward to. So keep an eye out for

55:08

that. It looks really cool. Doesn't it?

55:11

Yeah. It looks so cool. I

55:13

would play this with you. Right. You

55:15

know what I forgot though Joe? You gave me you gave

55:17

me Pendragon. And I've

55:19

yet to dive into that and I really

55:21

really want to try that out. That just

55:23

reminded me. Speaking of game TTRPG Junkie.

55:26

I have so many things that I've like collected and

55:28

people have given me and I haven't had the chance

55:30

to play or run them. So that's that's definitely on

55:32

my list too. Awesome. Awesome.

55:36

That's such a good one. That's a really good answer

55:38

that I didn't think I was like I so am

55:40

looking forward to playing Pendragon again. Like I think I

55:42

think there might be some Pendragon in our future. Stay

55:45

tuned. I will let you know if

55:47

we get it going. But man it's just a

55:49

game that benefits from kind of campaign play and

55:51

I hope that we can get into a longer

55:53

longer Pendragon at some point. But Sydney

55:55

I've kept you long enough. Thank you so much

55:57

for filling in for Troy. It has been a

55:59

pleasure. hanging out with you and

56:02

I'm glad that you've offered to do this

56:04

every single week. I have

56:06

no life, so this is

56:08

what I do. This

56:10

was a blast, thank you for having me. I'm

56:12

always always happy to jump on and also especially

56:15

when the we are stupids involve Asta, I

56:17

love to be here in the moment to

56:19

defend yourself. No, to be corrected

56:22

and humbly bow before Professor Eric.

56:24

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56:27

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