Welcome back to D&D 404. I'm Jared, and joined with me
today are the other good deeds that you've done for other
people, starting with Dan. Hello everybody, I'm Dan.
I play Minnis Pebble Walker of the Ivory Boulders normally, but
we'll be playing someone else in campaign too to be talked about
next week. And I am the spare change to the
homeless person of this podcast. What I do is whenever I find
change on the ground, I have this old Tic Tac cup that I keep
in my car and I just keep putting change in there until I
see someone who needs money on the side of the road.
And that is my good deed that I like to do.
What about you, Alec? Yeah, that's a good one.
My name is Alec. I used to play Drill of the
Ashbourne and my good deed is I'm the one that like pulls over
and helps like push the car or like helps like roadside people
if they need it because I I've been in this situation where
like you're like fucked, dude. I could really use someone
pulling over and helping me. Most recently it was like a lady
in the rain. It was like this old lady.
She was like broken down. So like I got out and like
pushed her car and then like few other people like.
Yeah, and real quick, I just have to interject.
I did time Tony off for 10 minutes so he's not allowed to
give a. That's good.
Yeah.
I just thought. Yep. 600 second time out.
Nice. Nice.
Yeah. What about you, Jared?
I'm Jared. I played Armos and my good deed
that I've done actually did it today, which is where this whole
idea came out from. We go to Chick-fil-A all the
time and get the chicken biscuits in the morning.
And there's this guy. He's super positive, very nice.
He has one piece on his back of his cell phone.
So he's a fellow nerd. Started talking to him and we
see him maybe once a week and got to know him and found out he
was having a wedding. Ended up finding out also that
he likes Legos and got him a Lego set for his wedding.
And he barely even know the guy's first name.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
I have to, I have to banned. It's not Kate now because Tony
is using someone to talk through.
But yeah. What Lego set did you get him?
An Ewok? A collector's.
I think it's a collector's item Ewok thing.
But he was into Star Wars. LEGO's makes sense.
Yeah, it was. Really cool.
He was blown away by Fun Time. Fun time.
All right and that is our intro for the podcast welcome back
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you know, but without further ado, we're going to get into
some Q&A, some questions and answers with Jared here about.
Is me. Armos, we're going to start with
Armos from campaign one, Stan Honus on Instagram said.
My brother wanted to know what inspired you to do your back
story for Campaign one and Campaign 2, but we won't talk
about that quite yet, Randy, we will, it's up to you.
You know what, I'll, I'll talk about campaign too, a little
bit. It's very, very broad.
Very, very broad. So with Armos, I had no idea.
So it was my first time doing it and I was like, I was so nervous
about picking something that I didn't know what to go with.
So I was like, you know what? Just make it a blank slate, you
know what I mean? Make it.
I'll be the, the I was the warlock as a tiefling, you know,
trope and also didn't know my back story trope at the very
beginning. But then once we, me and Tony
worked on it a little bit and I he did most of the working, we
settled on what it was going to be.
And then after that, I think it was a few episodes in that I was
like, oh, OK, I think I'm starting to figure out how my
character is now, like, you know, how to play him as opposed
to how I like was envisioning on playing in, which was kind of
cool. But that being said, a little
sneak peek into campaign too is that we're not doing that.
So this one's going to be more thought out, a lot more kind of
planned. I'll know a lot more.
I learned a lot from campaign one, which is kind of type of
idea. So no more.
What is it? Amnesia.
Or whatever it might. Be yeah, that trope.
And before Alec gives us the next question, I am going to
say, because I'm seeing people put in the chat, hold your
questions right now. We're doing something new this
time. If you have a question
specifically about campaign one, hold it.
Once we get through the questions we already got, we're
going to open it up to y'all in chat.
All right? So keep them, keep them there.
Keep them with you. Yeah.
I'm trying to write down to it a few as much as I can.
The auto mod blocked armos. I saw that.
I think, I think Tony put a block on Armos because it's such
a bad character. You know, he's just got.
He's the, he's the, you know, everyone's scared to say his
name. You know, he may show up.
He may do it. Like what we got next?
OK so the second question comes from the discord.
Caden Blade asks do you think plain Armos as a true Nat
neutral helped you with your role-playing?
Second part is, do you think with where you have grown as a
player you're going to try to lock into a more restrictive
alignment and have just as much fun?
Interesting. So the first part, yeah, I
didn't know what I was doing at the the very first one.
I started learning about alignments probably pretty early
on when I was trying to cover the back story.
And then I'm like, I don't know what to make this guy like, it's
so, so tough to like pick something.
But now after that, I definitely locked into where he was
positioned. He's basically like, I'll do
anything to get, you know, his revenge.
And that was pretty fun to play. So whatever alignment that would
go chaotic, something I'm sure of some sort.
But as far as the new character or like, you know, following
characters from there, yeah, I'm trying to definitely figure that
out so that I can get in the mindset of the character and
then like role play him a little bit easier.
Especially being next to like Dan and Alex characters which
were just like so well thought out.
I was just like, Oh my God, this is tough.
Like, how do I, how do I even match this energy?
But yeah, pretty fun. It's funny because like I think
our most feels like the most thought out character because
when you gave Tony free reign, he made it integral to the plot,
you know? So I think, I think that worked
to your benefit for sure in that way.
But we I talked to Jared a little bit.
He's got some crazy stuff already planned and a lot of
secrets that I don't know. But.
The next question, also from Stan Honus.
What was your favorite episode of playing our most and favorite
part of the episode? This might be an obvious one.
Maybe we'll see. I mean, there is the episode and
if you know, you know, that is that is the most I've thought
about. But I will say early on, like
it's in the 80s, eighty 5 to 90 range.
It deals with a castle and it deals with me chasing something
and what happens after I catch that thing?
If you know what I'm I'm trying not to live.
I'm trying not to give too many spoilers away, but I think that
that's when there was a moment where I was like, wait, how can
I maximize what I'm about to do here?
And that was probably one of my funniest, funnest things.
I think that's honestly like as far as our podcast that's I
thought that that was going to be our climax.
I was like, I don't know how we could do better than those
couple episodes in that castle because like that was super fun.
Like I feel like every one of us had something awesome going on.
And that was actually a little behind the scenes where one of
when I went to find someone to do a animation for our like
podcast, easily the first episode that came to mind was
that whole that whole thing. So to be to be seen in the
future, hopefully so. But yeah, I would say that.
And then obviously the the the episode.
Yeah, the episode The Big Bang if you.
Will I? I got to say that's one thing
that I told Tony going into this next campaign, I definitely was
like, hey, I'll play whatever, like I'll I'll be the filler.
Like I don't want to step on anyone's toes if they want to
like definitely be, you know, a melee person or a cast or
whatever. I just want to make sure that we
have a good mix. And I was like, I'll be, you
know, I'll pick last. It basically is what I wanted to
do. But that being said, I couldn't
imagine. I I love the methodical, like
the, the way that you can be so methodical with spells.
I think that's just the funnest thing.
So I couldn't imagine playing someone that didn't have some
spells. Quick shout out to Steifenheimer
and Thai Port by the way, for figuring out how to get away
from the bot I'm. Actually turning it off right
now, so just give me one second by.
Spelling it literally the letter R and then most.
That's good. That's good, guys.
That's good. That's pretty funny.
Well Speaking of spells, the 4th question is from no one here in
the discord and they said what was your favorite spell as well
as what was your least favorite spell?
Least favorite spell was true strike.
I tried to use that so many times.
I just wanted to like just to utilize it in some way and after
I don't know how many episodes it took before like it was 30
plus before I realized, you know what, this thing sucks and I
have to get rid of it. I tried, I tried and I tried
because it was just like AI was like, I'm going to at least use
it once before I make a judgement on it to before I was
like, Oh yeah, this thing is this thing's pretty bad, But
that was that's easily my worst one.
I I I remember just being like I don't understand how this works.
Like I tried. To tell the full on crash.
I tried to tell them not to take it.
They made it better in 2024, so maybe you should try it again.
I did. I did see a little bit about it,
but yeah, so that's by the way, I turned auto mod off.
So hopefully Armos can, you know, let him let him fly now
then I would say my favorite spell, I mean LG Blast was the
one I used the most, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite.
But. I would guess so, do I All
right? Hang on, I'm trying to think.
Alec and I are going to type in our guesses.
Oh, OK. Oh.
OK, OK, OK. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I know what it is. I know what it is.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. I had AI had a brain lapse.
I don't know what. It what is it?
It's a clear winner. There's a clear winner.
All right, I put mine in the chart, but what is it?
Force cage. Force cage, of course.
That's a good one. That's a good one, Polymorph.
Polymorph was awesome, but like the amount of times I wished it
worked more than it did it it. The one time it did work was
with the like that was very crucial and very fun was what
the one I you know previously. Was yours, Alec?
I thought it was going to be hurled through hell.
Oh yeah, that's a. Future though, that's not a
spell, right? It's kind of.
I would, yeah. Definitely class it though.
See. Goes to show how much I know
about casting. But force cage is amazing.
The ambiguity in that spell in the text is just makes my brain
happy. There's so many cool ways that
you can use that that that I think they take it away in the
newest of newest edition, right. I don't think it has quite the
A. Little they they made it more.
I think they just made the text more specific so you can't get
away with bullshit. Our most fuckery that happens.
Tied into this infamous Dino was asking was there any magic item
or spell you wanted to use but never got a chance to moon?
Strike. Technically.
Technically, I don't think I ever.
Actually got to use it maybe once.
There, I mean, there was like when I looked up a bunch of
spells, there were sort of that were just like amazing sounding
like I think it was like meteor or is it comment or something
like that that you could do, but you can't use it as a warlock.
So there's there's those like, you know, things that I wouldn't
even ever had access to, which would have been cool.
But as far as like the ones that I got to use, Oh, oh, oh, I do
have one. I used it in towards the end and
it didn't work and I wished it did.
It was a mind spell and I'm blanking on the name of it.
We use it again. We were in arc 9.
I used it on one of the bosses and it didn't work.
And I remember being like oh God this would have been so cool and
perfect moment. But it it was an eighth or ninth
level spell. But yeah, that was about the
only one. I'll, I'll, I'll look up the
name. Gotcha for keeping us without
putting us off track too much. But.
So next question now. Yeah, Next question.
So the next question comes from the discord as well, and surely
asks how much of Armos is you or how much of you is in Armos?
Interchangeable. Is my answer no?
I don't know. I don't know where he is
actually. The line is blurred I.
Thought I was going to say line is blurred.
There is a lot of him in there, but like, his willingness to do
whatever to, you know, willingness to be uncompromised
in his goal is definitely our most both perfectionists.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah, true. Here it's like this is going to
go this way. Our most is like, we're going to
do this. Well, I would also say one of
the things that at least from like the viewage of, you know,
someone else on the podcast, one of the things that is definitely
in Armos, that is also in Jared is the methodical thinking of
how many ways to attack one problem.
Like for sure. Like just like thinking of all
the different types of solutions you could come up to like
problem solve something for sure.
There's so many clips of us on the cutting room floor of me
being like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
If we go there, then this happens and then this happens.
But if we go this way, then it's this and then this.
So we should maybe think about the and then Dan and Alex are
like, I don't care. Let's just go right.
And I'm like, no, but you don't understand.
We got to think this through. Right.
No, there is a lot in there and I think that's the hardest part
is going into the next campaign is trying to make it like less
it it's so like, I mean he's maybe one of the only characters
like I mean, other than the ones that you guys, you guys have
heard every character that I've played, which is kind of crazy
and that's it. There's no extras other than
maybe Sprocket, which I think even a few people have heard.
Oh. Yeah, so.
Sprocket's out of podcast, technically.
Yeah, which he's, he's amazing. But I, I, I feel like that's the
hardest part is like knowing when to when to not put so much
of yourself into a character, but then also put, you know what
I mean? I don't know but.
Stifenheimer had a pretty good question as well from the
discord. If you could go back and change
one decision in campaign one, what would it be and why?
Decision. Man of the entire podcast, like
I'm, I'm trying to think of a minor one or like a major one.
Right Max is a good one. One of the ones that, yeah,
definitely came to mind. I think it it definitely.
I have an obvious one for Menace if this question is brought up
next week. I'm trying to think of any that
I would have done differently. I'm sure there is like minor
things, but yeah, I think next would might have been one of the
biggest ones. But it was also like, I think it
plays his character though, like at the same time, because I'm
like, OK, my character would not.
He doesn't want to deal with this.
So I think it makes, it makes a lot of sense.
But yeah, I can't think of anything like major man, it's
such a good question that I, I really need a little bit more
time to think about it. I'm sure there's more, that is
just blatantly obvious. If it comes, if it comes up back
to you, if you, if you think of 1, we'll bring it up.
I will say everything that happens Arc 9, absolutely not.
Oh yeah. Absolutely.
I couldn't have wrote anything better for that to happen.
Like, I'm proud of everything that happens with.
You pissing off an old God? Nope, Nope, Nope.
Doesn't regret that in the slightest to this day.
Then this feels bad about it cuz droll yelled at him about it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But.
Well, Speaking of almost in this day a small bear hubby asks.
Do you think Armos will find love beyond his animals, and if
so, how many kids do you think he could tolerate having?
I, I don't think he's that kind of guy.
I don't think he's that kind of guy.
He, he, I don't know, he's too hot headed.
It would take someone with a with some some patience for you,
barely. You barely got through two
people putting up with him for four years, I'm sure, but.
Yeah, I I kind of put all these questions together at the end.
They're all kind of similar. Yeah, 'cause XD Knight Owl also
asked, Is there anything that you love about our most Reginald
and why? And Stifenheimer also asked, are
you going to miss Reginald in the new campaign?
Oh, yeah, definitely. I think it was it started.
It's such a good story. Like I think that's the the
biggest one. We even talked to Tony and made
sure that like, Hey, I don't, I don't think this is revealing
too much, but we even asked Tony if he like, you know, hey, I
mean, one of us could have something if you wanted, you
know, is there is there something you want to, you know,
that you would like to participate in or anything like
that? And he was like, no, just make
whatever character. And I even had an idea that we
could maybe run with for part of it.
And he was like, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine, It's fine.
So we definitely thought about it just because it was such an
impactful piece of campaign, one that we wanted to definitely
throw out there for another another go at it.
But I think adding our other cast member is going to be
pretty, pretty huge to to fill that that Tony void.
But it was great. It yeah, I wouldn't it is going
to be missed for sure, but I definitely what was the what was
the first part of the the question that was kind of rolled
into one is about Reginald and. What was?
Yeah. Well, like what did you like the
most about our most and Reginald like that relationship?
It it was not perfect. I think is, is, is the best
part. And it was just, you know, two
people, you know, there was a lot of give and then a lot of
take. And it was just this constant
like battle of, of whatever you want to call it, wits, power,
whatever it might be at some points.
But no, I, I think that was made.
It was a fun dynamic to role play for sure.
Yeah, and you actually technically already answered
Cinder Slime or Cinder Slime asked.
Will you have another companion? I can I can speak today like.
Yeah, Yeah, I think we. Maybe if we find one right,
like. Yeah, it's it's not out of the
like if Dan charms another snake, you know, you know, type
of situation maybe that something like that could
happen, but it's currently not in the playbook of the start.
So who's who's to know who's? To know.
Well, let's see. OK so Master Wolf Nathan in the
discord asks did you mean for a patient to be the big bad or was
that Tony's decision? Do you know what he means by
patient? Because I had no idea what this
meant. Oh, page patron, patron.
Is that what he means? Are you in the chat?
Did you mean patron? Patron.
Maybe it auto corrected? Maybe, yeah, maybe you're right.
Maybe it's Patreon. Patreon like a Patreon person.
I I'm more so threw this in because I I was confused by the
question. So that's why you lined it up.
So I would ask it right now. Yes.
OK. So you want me to do the next
one then, Dan? Or you want to do it?
Yeah. OK.
Next one. Yeah, just to like try to answer
that, I guess. Is that.
Yeah, we didn't. I didn't know what was going to
happen at the very beginning with it.
I assumed everything was just going to be puppies and
rainbows. And then once we got to arc 9, I
was, you know, very miss started seeing the the, you know, the
wallpaper coming off the sides of the house.
All of a sudden now I'm like, oh, but no, I I think that it
was, it was good. It was pretty cool.
Yeah. I'm trying to think of what else
it could mean, but I think it was Patreon if I had to take a
guess that. 'D be my guess.
Yeah, I'm reading it a few times.
OK, so Leilani asks in the discord.
Did you come up with your own ending in campaign one or did
Tony come up with it? Oh yeah.
So like going off and like like how you finished Armos's story.
Yeah, that's a really. Good behind the scenes question.
It is the yeah, the entire I, I I don't know if we've even said
this out loud. No, actually we have not.
We all wrote our own kind of like, OK, if things go really
well, what does that look like? And if things go really bad,
what does that look like? So we didn't know like, you
know, the idea of our characters, you know, making it
out or whatever it might be. But basically we had two
envelopes and it's like if character succeeds, read, you
know, envelope A and if they don't, the envelope B.
So there was a lot of fail safes just in case.
But yeah, the, the very I'm, I couldn't be more proud of the
like the last like line of campaign 1.
And I'm so like, it still gives me like chills that I worked on
that for so long, so, so long. And then I couldn't read it.
I I couldn't read it because I was getting emotional.
So I was like, Tony, you got to read it.
You got to read it. I can't, I can't.
It's. It's too.
You have to read it.
Yeah, that's the point. I know, but.
Oh man. It's too good.
But no. Yeah.
Tony obviously filled in the blanks.
You know, we gave Brock and he made it specific in the end.
We gave him the the the framework what we want it to be
and then he made little adjustments and things like
that. And then do you?
Have any insight on that, Alec? I feel like this is kind of a
three parter for all of us. Inside to what the actual
question like? What you wrote your own?
Yeah, you know, yeah. No, Jared, I think explained it
pretty well. I yeah, we were given OK if
things go right, what is, you know, Drell's future look like
if things go bad, how do you think it impacts like the people
you care about or something like that?
So I'm. Trying to think of some of the
other stuff that he asked us like.
Like where would they be in five years?
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, that kind of stuff.
Yeah. You know, fun fact for the
audience, Drell's final outro music is my favorite outro
music. He drills outro.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your jazzy kind of winter vibe
music is with the guitar is awesome.
Yeah, it is good. It just fit.
It just fits so well. It fits so well for like what
drills campaign has been I thought.
The jazz man, that's what it is. The Jasmine, that's a.
That was a great question. Really good question.
Yeah, it was. And you know what time it is is
time we're going to open it up. Not too many questions because
otherwise it's go for hours. But we're going to take a few
more questions live from Twitch. Do you have any more questions,
everybody about campaign one before we move on?
Let's see those in the chat. Oh, this is one we go, I don't.
This was one that I said I was going to copy and and read
later. It said if you if you replayed
the campaign with the knowledge you have now, what would you do
differently? Oh oh man, right question
Hyphenheimer. What MPC did you hate the most
to deal with? I think we know our Moses.
Which one? It's got to be Jack will sing
Yeah of. Course, I was making sure we're
on the same page there. I could think of a few that I
didn't. Like, oh, someone's got a
question about Hombre's heroes That's that's fun.
Throw it in while Jared answers the one he copied though.
Yeah, yeah, ask Hombre's heroes. Yeah.
So I think just everyone like I guess let's each answer one of
these. If you had to replay the
campaign with the knowledge you have now, what would you do
differently? I don't think I would do
anything as far as like character stats or anything like
that differently. I I think every spell I took
other than true strike, I think I would have kept mostly the
same. I think I would have taken the
same upgrades. I getting to level 20 as a
warlock. I still would do like that was
just like an achievement I wanted to do as far as like
role-playing and things like that.
I do think he needed a different voice, which I think maybe one
of the biggest things, like going back and listening to
episodes. That's my biggest like thing
that I didn't didn't love. Gotcha.
But I think that's maybe something I would do differently
that's, you know, not as probably not as a cool answer as
maybe we were hoping for, but. Dude, the reason I was stifling
laughter was because Ty Port asked why is E com afraid of
women. They have cooties.
It was something I was trying to like I'm trying to, I don't know
if you've know, but like I'm trying to play other versions of
characters that are so massively different than Armos that it's
it's so hard to it. I mean, we played my only
character basically, you know, for other than Hombre's heroes
and maybe one or two others is only Ben Armos.
So it's like, OK, I got to figure out like other like
imagine if you're an action, you know, superstar like actor, but
then you want to do drama. It's like OK, you got to like
you got to start somewhere. So it's like, let me let me
start to make him afraid in some places, which is kind of cool.
So, but what's your guys's answers to to that question?
What's the replay in the campaign?
Wait, Alec, you're on me. Give you all a little bit of
that. So I covered mine last week and
I don't know, I guess we could have Dan answer it too.
I don't want to have Dan give away too.
Much. I should just answer it next
time because Alec had a really good response.
Did he keep saying it? I think we just keep having him
saying. I wouldn't, it was just AI
probably wouldn't multi class. Oh, that's right.
Yeah, I would probably just decide to do like what you did
and just go like 100% level 20 warrior or fighter, playing too
much World of Warcraft, too much like level 20 fighter.
So yeah, I mean, it's fun. Like I liked it, but I think
that's like literally the only thing I would probably change.
And somebody asked that again next week for me.
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll save dance for his.
OK Sorry, sorry. They want to get such a campaign
too. Stuff.
It's such a good question that I was like, I hate, like answering
it just by myself because it's so good.
Yeah. I got a few extras here before
we get into campaign too, just because they are great.
Do you think playing Armos? No, we already answered this.
Have you ever? This is Cinder slime by the way.
OK, Have you ever had to roll for a weapon hit?
Role for a web? Oh like did I attack with my
like staff or something? Yeah.
I think I did. I attacked with the squid staff
once you. Shot a crossbow too, right?
Like early. I did like.
Early episodes you shot a crossbow.
I think so. Oh, I think you're right
actually. He definitely did his crossbow.
Yeah, I was going to say super early, like.
I think that's about the the most.
Other than that, I was just like, dude, my guy's a caster.
I was like, I and yeah, I'm glad that I had those opportunities
to see how that that combat went.
And then realizing, oh, I'm back here.
I'm going to, I'm going to go back this way.
I'm going to be 300 feet this way.
Hang on one second. I think The funny thing about
that answer is I think he just meant it as like you as an
individual person. Have you ever rolled the hip
because you keep playing like spell spell spell spell?
But you have AZ com. I know that, obviously.
Many times, yeah, which is cool. What's the next oddball question
we got Alec? This one is also from Anna
Master and it says Do you have any remorse for getting people
hooked on the Chick-fil-A breakfast menu?
Not at all. We just talked about this.
Absolutely not. It's amazing.
We got AI got a hook up at our, our local Chick-fil-A and yeah,
got him a, got him a Lego set for his, for his wedding that he
just had over the weekend. So Nope, not at all.
Make friends do do biscuits. What level of rewards here Are
you at Chick-fil-A? Oh.
You know what I keep getting like exclusive, like, hey,
you're, you're part of the crew now.
So here's a special thing that we're doing.
Let me see. I've noticed you've come in a
lot. Yeah.
I mean, I don't always order on here.
Where does it say? Serendipitous because I put red
on here before he answers. He knew this.
What's red members? Is that a big?
One, I think that's literally the highest tier you could be.
I'm I'm pretty sure that's right.
Oh no. I'm so glad.
Oh no, sorry. Red members are the second
highest tier. You could be a Chick-fil-A
signature member. Chick-fil-A One members are the
highest tier you could be. Yeah, life.
So I don't always order on the app.
So I didn't get I don't get a lot of my my points which I
should. Yeah, just scan the lifetime
points, the QR code, just scan the QR.
Code I know, I know I need to but lifetime points 9564 how
about that so? That's a lot of points.
Yeah, 6200 we. Yeah, maybe like once a week,
twice a week. This this week.
But surely breakfast, right? Sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The reason, by the way, Alex
said this is also Anna Master, is because he skipped a question
by accident. Oh oh.
Whoops, I thought Dan read that one the.
Next question from Anna Master is since you've played melee
combat and range combat, do you have a preference on which is
better? Oh, strange.
It's not a doubt. No, I, I, I said it already, but
like just spells being able to be methodical and like the in
in, can you say the word now? Imbued.
Ambiguate. Oh, ambiguous.
Yeah, the way that how the text is very ambiguous makes me
happy. And there's like, well, it says,
you know what I mean type of thing.
So how do we want to play this? I I like getting living in that
ambiguity little thing with a hit.
It's very like obvious and I wish I could play that better.
Like that's not that, you know, melee sucks in my opinion.
I just wish I could play better. That was me with ECOM trying to
trying to do that with the embrace heroes as being like,
OK, what can make this really cool?
So I was trying to describe attacks and things like that.
But yeah, in my mind, like I couldn't, like, I haven't told
Tony this. I was like, I couldn't imagine
playing D&D as a melee person just isn't my my cup of tea.
Like spells? Makes sense?
Spells and finger guns. All right, it's, I think it's
Twitch time. Give us some Twitch ones before
we move on to campaign 2 stuff. Yes.
So one of the Twitch ones we have type port 816 asks are you
guys dressing as your characters for Halloween?
Oh. My God, I have to.
I have to do the shoe thing on my knees.
Oh, why? Wait, you'd actually have?
Oh. For minutes.
Cut your hair into a Mohawk to you.
Yes, that's right. Yeah, I would just wear a bald
cap, but you can't do that. Oh my God, you know what you
know? Oh my God, I why did I not think
of this for Kickstarter? That should be 1.
Of our 12 hour stretch. Rewards.
Well, I was going to say a stretch reward like if we get.
It to award. Oh my goodness.
Say we get it to 1010 thousand, which is wild, which I doubt
we'll ever get to, but we could do like a cosplay.
Fine, we get to 10,000. We'll cosplay as our characters.
That would be really funny. Like, I know mine's kind of bad,
but Alex is kind of not funny. If you then we have to go into
Jared's local Chick-fil-A and buy Chick-fil-A breakfast as
their characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow. There you go.
Easy. We have scooters on the way back
too. Yeah.
All right, here's one from Shark.
Not sure if this is where to ask, but this is for everyone.
I'm starting 2 campaigns. Well we might be a podcast but
how do you all create your characters and their
backstories? How in depth do you go?
And do you ever use AI for help? I want a friend who made a whole
village with shops and a ton of MPCS.
Yeah, as far as characters, I mean, honestly, that was like
the hardest part is like when you're starting a character,
you're you're on a blank, blank piece of paper in front of you.
And it can be. You know, this crazy work of art
or it can be just like a silly story that you want to tell.
So first you got to figure out the tone that you want to go
with. Like there's nothing that you
can have a serious story and just have funny things happen
along the way. So it was like such, it's such a
process trying to figure out like what story do you want to
tell? If you want to get like really
in the weeds, like do you want it to be meaningful and have
some like, you know, really cool outcome at the end?
Like what do you want your character's arc to be like, not
only think of what are you they want to be at the beginning, but
where they want to be at the end as well?
Like is there growth? Like what?
What would you hope that they become like?
Luckily with Armos, I was able to like there was nowhere to go
but up because there was a blank slate behind me.
So kind of fell into luckily this great arc that he went
through. But with others like, you know,
Dan, Dan's character was so well thought out that I was like, Oh
my God, I'm stressed out. I'm just looking at the amount
of work he put into it. So going into this next
campaign, I had that same same idea.
I was like, I have a story that I want to tell and I'm going to
try to put as much work into it at the beginning so that things
fall into place as opposed to stumbling into them type of
thing. So just yeah, that's my I
thought, what about you guys? What do you think?
What? You got Alec thinking.
Why? Don't you go for a stand?
I will try. All right, so I'll give you
broad strokes, not on menace specifically, The most in the
most interesting characters come from integral flaws.
So I always start my character writing with flaws flaw The the
flaws need to be directly related to the story and to the
kind of character progression that you want to have.
So for Menace, his biggest flaw was I said I was going to talk
about minutes, but here we are. His biggest flaw was his pride.
And he has a Napoleon complex, so he wants to be like all the
bigger minotaurs. And he did not start his life
training the way he should to be a proper Ranger because he was
trying to do too many things and trying to be strong like the
other minotaurs. So that's why his strength
status +2, because he thought he needed that strength to be good
and to be considered a good minotaur.
And that created this whole very deep, you know, character arc
for menace, of growing past that and needing to become better
than the tribe, discovering himself and what makes him
strong in his own right. So always start with integral
flaws. I think that would be the
specific way to put it. That's what I got, yeah.
I think that's, I think that is a good starting point, like
identifying like either gaps or problems or issues that your
character might have and then kind of building your character
around that in helping develop that character's personality.
I think it's probably a pretty easy way to go when it comes to
like using like AI and stuff. I definitely don't use it in the
sense of like helping develop like the back story or using it
for like helping design my character or my character's
attitude or anything like that. I really only use it for like I
can't come up with any fucking names.
Like it's really names Like I can't come up with a fucking
name. It's 10 relatives names that
Tony wants and you know, all these other people that Tony
wants names for. So I just, you know, I'll use
like some sort of, you know, AI stuff.
Be like give me a Ladron, fucking follow Ladron names and
just stuff like that. Like very like surface level
things. Love it.
I think, I think it's all very good things to take with you
into building your characters for the campaigns if you want
them to be, you know, very dynamic because everybody's
concerned about them being feeling lived in, you know, real
characters. So I think all those things you
follow, those three things will at least get you most half, half
of the way at least. And it it also depends on like,
you know, the story you want to story you want to tell.
Like if you want to just be the biggest, baddest, whatever, and
you don't want to have any flaws, like go play that, you
know what I mean? If if you want to make something
really interesting and heartfelt, then, you know,
definitely go these approaches. But yeah, it just depends on the
vibe you're going for. But no, those are good, good
answers. All right, Alec, let's give us
one more Twitch comment or question before we move on here.
OK, Stiffenheimer is going to be asking, how many blood shards
does it take to make our most truly happy?
How many blood shards could almost Chuck?
Wait, wait. The correct answer is yes.
Correct. The correct answer is yes.
Yeah, you know, he had a mission and he was very effective at
getting those blood shards, so yeah.
That it was. But no, I I think that I don't
think there would have been enough, which was pretty cool,
so. All right, let's get to the good
stuff. We all know you're here for
Campaign 2 stuff, and Jacob Hudson asked best question that
anybody's asked what's your new character?
Oh, that's great. I.
Just I just want to know what's your new character, Jared?
Yeah, so he's a tabaxi. And you know what?
I pulled my little document because I don't want to say
things. I have it all written down and I
don't want to say things. That I'm not supposed.
To Yeah, so he's going to be a red panda and we flavored it to
be a tobaccy and he's going to be a Scion.
So a Scion is a new class in the Unearthed Arcana.
And I thought once I saw read about it, I instantly was like,
what would be something fun for people who are, you know,
veterans of D&D to like turn TuneIn and listen to and be
like, oh, that's really interesting because like, I knew
the classes that everyone else was going and I was like, OK,
let me pick something that maybe someone hasn't gone yet.
And I started looking and looking and then I stumbled upon
that these were going to be coming out here pretty soon, but
before the end of the year is what the thing said.
So I was like, OK, I got to do this.
I was like, it's just going to be too much fun.
So that's the that's the plan is to go with that that route just
to, you know, see how it see how it turns out.
And then also to see, you know, maybe it's just really, really
fun and maybe gets other people into it or the the struggles
that they have along the way. So I think it's a new
interesting idea for, you know, to throw out there.
So. Yeah.
So I'm, I'm excited. I didn't know what that was
until you mentioned it. Oh, the Scion, yeah.
So I don't know if I will. I don't want to say what the
subclass will because it might. I think it'll be more exciting
once we once we get there. But for the for the Scion,
there's four, there's four different subclasses.
So you can probably guess which one I'm not going to do.
I don't. There's, there's one that is
pretty obvious with everything that we've said that I'm
probably not going to do so right.
But other than that, I don't know what else I can share.
I've put a lot of time and effort into it, the everything
from where he's from to where I hope he goes, you know, if all
things go go right type of situation or where I want him to
go. And then you know what may throw
that all away depending on, you know, how the campaign's going,
so. Quick one before moving on,
Collins asked. Character name.
Oh, OK, so this took I I, Dan will tell you it took me months,
months to figure it out. It's because every I was like
Armos is such a awesome name, such an awesome name.
Like I, I, I can't. Armos.
It's Barmos. Yeah.
And season 3 will be Carmos. Exactly.
I actually, so that was one of the ideas that I had.
I was like, oh, how cool would it be if I change the letter
from an A to AB and then his last letter and then just do
like some some kind of fun tricky stuff like that.
Promos Xanon. Right, Yeah, yeah, something
something similar. But so then we ended up going
down AI went down a rabbit hole. I had probably at 1.30 names
that I were like maybes, but none of them really stuck out.
And then like, I just never found the one that really stuck
with it. And then I think, was it you,
Dan, that I was talking to? And then Dan started throwing
out some ideas. And all of a sudden, as soon as
I heard one, I was like, oh, that's a good one.
And then So what we're going with is Mylan.
Mylan. Yep, so there's.
Cool ass name. It is, yeah, it will be.
I don't want to say any more about it but that that's his
name. What is it?
Mylan Axon, Mylan Vaxson. Vaxson.
Yeah, that that's the new trend. It's going to be AV last name
every time I. Know I know I know as soon as I
it's even the last name took me forever to Oh my notice took me
forever to come up with but there's yeah it it's perfect
they're they're it's a perfect first and last name that's all I
gotta say it's it's all. Right, Alec.
Did we have any less obvious questions than who's his
character? Sorry, so clouds are nice?
One asked. Will your new character play
similarly to Armos? Oh, act Absolutely not.
That's that was kind of the the goal when we started.
When I started this is that I wanted to do something very
different, which is kind of a it's kind of hard because I put
a lot of like I've four years into one character.
Trying to play something else is very tough.
That's why it was nice to play the whole back Manitarians and
things like that, so that I can like wing myself off of the
addicting Bloodshard, a demon known as Armos.
But the as far as play, I think you can put some pieces
together, put some pieces together.
I think all of our characters will have, I don't know about
you, Alec, but I always want to have like one or two things that
I carry with me these campaigns. Like I'm always going to have a
fucking journal that's just always going to be a part of my
character in some way. Interesting.
Oh yeah. Did you bring anything over like
from your last character that you're?
They're always going to, I'm always going to have some sort
of note taking thing in my character design, whether it's
good note taking or bad note taking.
That's to be determined. My character will always have
some sort of note taking aspect because of the recap recaps that
we've we've done. Yeah.
In the past. So I'm going to carry that with
me. Pretty good by you, Alec.
See, one of the things I talked about last week was like not
wanting to play drill 2 point O Yeah.
So I feel like there will be those inevitable things I bring
over like or like subconscious things I bring over, but I don't
have anything like a character trait like I want all my
characters to have. And that's maybe just stems from
the fact is may I just want to try to play something completely
different and see if it sticks. Now, if he slowly starts to take
on Drell characteristics, maybe that's just Alec
characteristics, they're coming out in a new character, but
nothing I I guess I can't think of anything off the top of my
head. No, Yeah.
Yeah, with. One question.
With my character, I was trying to like I said, I was trying to
do something with the name to like make it something like all
the characters that I play would have some kind of, you know,
play on a letter or something like that.
But I will say the thing that will be coming over that Armos
has that I have that this character will have is a scar on
their their eyebrow. That's just one of the silly
things that I'm going to just character wise that I'll
probably keep bringing over. Or something like that.
Physical trait, right? That's a cool.
One yeah, something and. They're always going to be
scheming. Jared's a schemer.
There's no way. I can't try to tell me not to
breathe. I have to do it.
There it is. All right.
I had to get that out of him because that that I knew I was
like, he's always going to be scheming.
Son of a bitch. All right, Marcus.
Hey Julius Kendrick, are you considering multi classing in
this campaign? Oh, I don't know it it really
depends on how, like I said, what we're we're going to know
like how the Scion goes and I'll know right away, like, oh, hey,
you know what, maybe this is a little too difficult or maybe
this is going way too well. You know, I don't know if like
how balanced it is or like whatever.
So I'll know right away if I'll need to pivot to somewhere, but
I'm not set on being a level 20 scion at this point.
Like I I can be my character right now is like water.
He he can be whatever. He's When I started last one, I
was like, I'm going to have a level 20 warlock.
I was like, I don't care. Nothing was going to persuade
me. There's no no doubt in my mind
so. Definitely bring that question
back for me next week, Julius. I got AI got an answer for you
firm me. Wait, what's Julius's name in
here? I.
Can see no it's in the thing. He was asking questions in the
discord. Yeah.
Marcus. OK.
And then it looks like the last question we have from campaign
to on our side before we open up the call line is also from
Julius Kendrick. And he says or is asking, will
you be doing an actual voice this time or will you be just
you again? OK, First off, just me was
enough, you know what I mean. Hang on a second, but no, no,
no, I, I I definitely want to do a voice.
I just like the name and how there was like 30 iterations of
the name before settling on one. It's same with the voice and I
still frantically up to, it's going to be up to the wire what
it's going to be like. I, I still haven't settled on
one. I'm still stressing massively
about it because I want it to be really really well done and fit
his like personality and everything.
So Yep, can't give you a demo yet, but you'll know pretty
soon. Yeah.
That's a good question, though. I definitely want to like step
it up, especially with yeah, freaking these guys around here,
like. Dude I I just, I'll never forget
thinking I like had everything figured out with my character.
I was like, I have so much back story, this and that, and then
Alec comes in and he just hits me with like the most thawed out
character introduction I've ever heard in my life.
And I was sitting there going I'm a fraud.
This is like, what am I doing? I should be playing DND.
Like a character. Description yeah you came in and
you were like Drell is the blah blah blah blah blah blah and you
had this thing prepared and I was like Oh my God I.
Think I could probably find it too.
I remember, yeah. Now imagine me.
Imagine me. I was like, I don't know he's a
he's red. I didn't even know I had a tail
until we got our character art, which was like, I don't even
know 20 episodes later. I didn't know T flings had
tails. I.
Forgot. Like that's how new we were in
the D&D. Yeah, Oh, I forgot to tell you
guys. I also found some of the files
that I lost when I reformatted my computer and in them was my
D&D notes. That does include the actual
stats that Tony sent me for the Giant Slayer.
So it is now. Proof.
Oh, it's candid. Wow, yeah, 'cause last week Tony
tried to say that what he told me was different from then what
was, but it's also been proven multiple Times Now in the
Discord by the listings. Yeah, they they've been calling
them out all day in Discord, so it's good.
We got a bunch of note takers in there, yeah.
All right, shout out to the note takers.
Big shout out, we can go all night, but I'm going to say
everybody right now in Twitch, just start typing.
Any last questions you have, each of us is going to.
Pick right now. One, each of us is going to pick
one. I'm going to pick one, then out
to pick one, then Jared will pick one to end it.
So right now, everybody rapid fire any questions that weren't
answered for Armos. We're doing one of these next
week, right? Yeah, it's minutes.
Next week. It is me.
So if you while everyone's getting ready typing, if you
haven't stopped by, make sure to stop by next Monday same time.
9PN EST twitch dot TV/D and D4 O 4.
Yep, and you can ask your questions and get them answered.
We what you didn't hear in the podcast version is we are we
chill with everybody for like 10 minutes before we actually start
trying to figure out what the heck we're doing.
Or you know, trying to figure out how to word things.
You really get to see how the sausage is made.
Is what what I said earlier all? Right, I'm going to pick the I'm
going to pick the first one. All right?
Oh, pizza or Taco? That was the one I.
Was going to pick. Yeah, it's a good one.
You know what? Go for it, Go for it.
For me, pizza I love. That's a hard question, but
pizza? God I love tacos, but pizza?
Hang on, hang on, hang. On Wait You, Alec.
Oh, well, I feel like I'm going to be the odd man out, so I'm
just going to get this out of the way.
Tacos 1000% Yeah, yeah. I think you're going to be a
it's. That's a very thin line though,
between tacos and pizza. I do love.
Mia, don't get me wrong, I love pizza, but it's tacos.
Maybe it'll change once you come out to New Haven.
Specifically, pastor tacos. Love Pastor.
Yeah, pastor tacos. A pastor?
Gee, I knew Jared was going to be pizza.
That's why I had to get this out of my Yeah.
Pizza. Careful, you're you're doxing
yourself for the pizza box. What?
Not really. All right, Alec, pick a pick one
of these questions and Twitch. I will.
I will want to add on one more thing.
The older I get, the more tacos are pretty amazing.
Good. All right.
I I like to hear that. I'll go with the one from
infamous Dino and they're asking what kind of story are you
hoping for your characters in campaign to?
Oh, what kind of wait A. Real question, what kind of
story are we hoping for? Like, for our characters to
experience? Yeah.
Berea tacos, by the way, Those are so fucking good.
Top three is Berea. All right, continue with the
little bowl of Soulmate. Yeah, what?
Kind of story. Are you hoping for your
character? I want it to be the way that
campaign 1 ended is what I think was for my character
specifically. Like I mean, the other guys, you
know, I'm just trying to think of, I'm just speaking for myself
here. I want that more sprinkled out
through the campaign, which is really hard to do.
So I hope that I can accomplish something like that because
like, after that ending and writing that ending, I was, I
do, I, I still can't even listen to it without getting chills
because I was just like, oh, it's so good.
Like, I don't even care if anyone else likes it.
I don't care. It's my favorite thing that
I've, I've like got to do. And so I just hope that I could,
I could hope that I can accomplish something like that
sprinkled out so that it's not just, it doesn't take four years
to get there. That's my, that's my goal.
Yeah. And then Dan?
What about you? Well, I'm I'm going to answer
that next week. That's.
OK, OK. That's.
A good one to bring back next week.
Bring that back next week, come back next week and put that in
the discord or Instagram, because I will.
I already I'm thinking about it, but pick pick the last question,
Jared that you want to answer before we do the Patreon shout
outs. I have so much I I I wasn't
reading it because I was thinking about pizza Here, Wait,
I'll wrap a fire. I'll wrap a fire.
Little Caesar's all the way. Yes.
Is, you know, for for the price, yes.
If you had to choose to save one of your characters from falling
off a Cliff or a death, explain to their family what happened,
who would you choose? Menace, because he's the lovable
Armos is ready to die at any moment, I'm pretty sure.
Oh, to save one of your characters.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, I'm gonna have to say.
Then you'd have to explain it to them, right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm fine with that. I mean, it's gonna be mad at me.
I don't care all. Right.
What do you think Armos eventually died?
Whatever whatever he did, probably tracking down or
probably pissed off of God. I'm pretty sure that's the way
he goes out. I I can't imagine.
In a hilarious way. Just I mean, I'm going to say he
either makes it or he doesn't that I mean, he was on a he was
on a mission. So I cried.
Have you all decided on your alignments?
Yeah, I think yeah, I think I got an idea as far as where
where that goes and character graph and O 7.
Now you have Oh, that was something else.
OK, Is there any others? I think I rapid fired him.
That was good. That was good.
I think that's. Good.
Oh, is your is your story revenge or valor?
I don't know enough by your character to even guess.
It's, I don't think it's either. I'm trying to, I don't think
it's either. Believe it or not, I don't think
it's either. So there you go.
That's the most I'm going to end on that.
That's the most I can tell you. Yeah, there.
You go, do you have one last maybe comment about your
character you want to say or you happy with that?
I like him so much. When I will say this, I love red
pandas and so they're my favorite thing.
I look at red pandas. If I'm having a stressful day, I
will pull up, I'll just Google red pandas and then it's just
great. Recently there's a red panda
that like a children's zoo near where I live just got red
pandas. I'm going to try everything I
can to get a picture of with a red panda.
Even if they're in their exposure.
I don't want to like, you know, come into come into their house
or whatever, but I want to get a picture with that red panda
before we dropped the first episode.
So love red pandas. They're amazing.
I'm trying to learn as much about them as I can so that I
can like mimic some of their fun things with my character.
And I am so excited for this campaign and to get this
underway so. Yes, Sir.
Put a lot of work into it. All right, suggestion, Jared.
Should we be? Watching.
We're playing, we're doing. Playing you're doing I got I got
a few game suggestions if you want.
If you're into rogue lights, let me throw out a little game.
If you've played path of exile and you're a fan of a fan of a
part of that game. That is the skill gems.
If you like that and you'd like Rogue Lights, Shape of Dreams,
awesome. If you're into Hades 2 and you'd
like that but you want a multiplayer Sworn SWORN great
game and Megabonk if you like running around just having fun,
fun time. Three games that I've been
playing lately. Three, boom, there we go.
All right everybody, we're going to wrap it up in a second.
But without further ado, I am going to shout out the Patreon.
Sorry, we don't have the new format figured out yet, but we
are doing it at the moment. Starting with the top of the
tier. That's going to be the Bloodshot
Bandits. That is Artemis, Marcus Rico,
Benjamin Hayes, Amanda Dulong, Sly, Satanic Panic, Knock Mock,
Shirley and Phillip Buxton. The City of College alumni are
Robert Crisp, Sergio Rodriguez, St.
Chaos, Patrick Weinerstrom, David Lachance, Casey and Casey
Hombres, Heroes, Felipe Gonzalez, DND Virgin, Johnny
Tarr, John Carroll, Toby Large, Drown, Cypress, Dewind, Jet
Tillich, Brigader, Bjorn, Nico, Tim Camel, Chris Can.
And there's one I am definitely missing that is a new one that I
will say, as Jared says one more thing about his character.
The I closed my document of things I can't say and things I
can't say. So now I'm trying to trying to
look at it. Alex going to fill in this void
while I look for that and of. Course, Oh yeah, Bree Carlson
and night owl. Thank you for joining the raise
heroes. That's good to do it for today.
Alex, send us out with the most our most goodbye.
Give me your blood shards. Yeah, now you're giving your
blood stars. Come on.