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C2 Ep 37. Eberron Reviewed 7
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Come hang out as we take a look at the last arc and answer your questions!
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Introduction and Gratitude
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The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Laura Pickron, Darryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Deavius Poptart, Irene Villarito, Ryan Royce, Andy Dossett, Danielle Bramhall-Smith, Elizabeth Clark, Eric Whitman, Jessica Smith, Charles Compton, Natasha Rallerson, Richard Cree, The Cam Family, David Scrams, Dustin Troop, Edvard Arnoff, Michael Clark,
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Rebecca Gowman, and Shelby Johnson, as well as all of our generous patrons.
Podcast Overview and Listener Interaction
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Hello everyone and welcome to Eberron Renew, your stepdad's favorite podcast. We are an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. My name is Jeff. I'm Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Randy.
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I'm Trevor as you can hear by the fact has changed orders Eric usually goes last I know on the other show I go first so it threw me off it it it felt organic right up until somebody you know shine the light
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As you can hear, by the fact that I introduced the show, this is Eberron Reviewed, where we look back at the last four episodes, talk a bit about what happened, and answer listener questions. So, let's just begin at the beginning.
Recap of the 'Obligation Arc'
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This was a obligation arc.
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don't fill it it was not that funny don't give him that you know i think philips slap happy which is going to be very good for everybody tonight um so yeah it was hard obligation and it yeah the way they all are right now right and um
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You know, let's just stop it there. Guys, this was a good one. Thanks for listening. We'll answer your questions in a text document that we'll send out to you. Sign up for our newsletter if you want answers to these questions. No, it's a text document, dot TXT, just a text document.
Cath's Peril and Rescue Efforts
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Yes. New to open. Lots of rectangles because I'm going to put it in a really obscure font. Again, I don't understand why people listen to us.
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It was Hobbes obligation and that manifested in the form of the twin sister artists, fighter people. Corrupt cops. Basically putting, not cops, cop adjacent, putting out a bounty on just everybody. Everyone they saw or that might have been caught in the shotgun blast of Hobbes presence.
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and the person they caught was Cath. And boy, if you put Cath in peril and Sauna in, what's a good word? I mean, in crisis. Distress? Distress.
Hobb's New Task and Character Impressions
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I mean, I feel like it was true to Hob, but that's a combination Jeff can't handle very well without being like, yes, we'll do whatever it takes.
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So we used some of our connections that we've made over the past, uh, well, basically the whole campaign to try to figure out how to get her back. And it turns out the only way to get her back and relieve the, Oh no, we.
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We'll go back to that. The only way to get her back is for me to meet with the, he is not the head of, he's the head of this branch of House Dennith, correct? He runs House Dennith within the city of Sharn. Okay. I had to meet with him and agree, and we'll talk. Can we agree that throughout this upfront reboot, we'll refer to him as El Generalissimo?
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I mean, almost certainly. For no other reason other than I will mess that up. All right. So I'll stick with the general. And in my head, I don't know about you guys. In fact, I do know about you guys. You did not picture this person. But in my head, it was definitely Dr. Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, if you're of that side of things. Just because I feel like you described him as like a cannonball of a man. I mean, as soon as he was described as Boom Rush Russ,
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Maybe that's all I was. I immediately pictured Thunderbolt Ross from the Avengers films. So he was played by a mixture of Sam Elliott and William Hurt. William Hurt, yeah. So we had some different, we had different movies. That's a very different. Anyway,
Humorous Character Interactions
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Long story short, Hobb's new task that he has chosen to accept because, I mean, Hobb felt very backed into a corner by this and did not love it. And that's why he ended kind of in a mix, somewhere between a brood and a sulk, I think is the best way to describe Hobb's posture. But yes, that's what it is, a brook.
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Hop has to work with a minotaur he hasn't met to try to get more of the quote-unquote monstrous races and we will get to that to join the deneth faction of bounty hunters as opposed to the mercenaries mercenaries
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So there we go. Along the way, we saw some interactions between people that we'd seen before. Randy spoke with Vigo. Randy spoke with Vigo. And Raynard spoke with Verla. Okay. I mean, the destination-wise, they spoke. You're right. You're absolutely right.
Eris's Alchemy and Motivations
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and then we had a downtime episode that was just beat em ups and absolute just farcical keystone cops junk but man it was fun to play at the time I was giggling I had to mute myself to giggle a few times it was fun um sorry go ahead I said it was fun I was agreeing with what you said
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Okay, well if you could save those for the end, Eric, that would be great. I'm just going to go and mute my mic now so I can... Okay, these questions are going to be kind of all over the place as far as chronology because we pulled them from several different channels and frankly, I was too lazy to put them back in order.
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So we'll jump around a bit and At any point if any of you guys we don't have a ton of questions So if at any point if any of you guys feel like going off on a tangent about something you were thinking then please feel free I'll flash a red light when it's time for you to shut up So Laura asks
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Does Eris use magic to dye her hair? I feel like she wouldn't want to sit through a regular dye nor trust anyone to hold her head for that long which I think is a Good observation about Eris. You're correct Eris would not endure physical contact with someone for for that long or trust people to move her hair around frankly for for their own route for other reasons and
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I thought about this after the question was asked to decide what the answer was. And Eris uses an alchemical concoction of her own creation to dye her hair follicles. Okay, see that leads to something. Because she doesn't want to have to keep redoing it as her hair grows.
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If Eris has figured out a way to die living organic matter, she and Hobb might have to have a conversation about battle times. I'm very confident that Eris could give tattoos. No, no, I know she could give tattoos. I want situational tattoos. I want tattoos that let the rest of the group know Hobb's ready to throw down if we need to. Oh, you want like, you want like, um, to have like, uh,
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I don't know, some reptiles like change colors or octopus will change colors when it's ticked off. I feel like Aerys could do that. I started adding some points into alchemy after Vigo made Aerys angry. That feels super dope.
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Obviously he would not do anything to all I'm answering my own stupid hypothetical now He wouldn't also the tattoos he already has cuz I'm sure something but I could definitely see him adding one or two somewhere Oh, I could outlining them something I could make some in chat, but I could make enchanted tattoos Actually, I know mechanically that I can make enchanted tattoos
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Um, we also need to enchant radar to some tattoos that only appear when he passes out at the bar. I think you know what they'd be. I don't need to elucidate. Oh, I was just assuming it was like his, um, his address, like a return address for when he passes out at the bar. Please return. Please call. Okay.
Eris's Trauma and Group Dynamics
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Um, Shelby asks another question for Eris.
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For Philip about Eris. I'm not you know crazy. I mean I can answer them in Eris's voice, but that would get weird Yeah, Eris seems ready to go at a moment's notice. How do the other characters feel about fleeing shard if need be? Her assessment is not wrong
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Although I do think that it is fair to as much as you're willing to to maybe maybe just say why Eris's flight sensibility is so Triggered as opposed to any sort of fight or any sort of anything and I know there's a lot of that that it's Rooted in her trauma that we don't want to get into it. And if that's the answer then that's the answer I'll shut up. Um, well, why
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The root of it, you're correct, is in her trauma, in the sense of the, like, what's it, proximal cause. Right now, it's the fact that, oh my gosh, we've got a
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Uh, the, the dark lanterns know who we are. That's horrible. We're criminals and the dark lanterns know who we are. How in the world are we incompetent enough to have allowed the dark lanterns to know who we are? Uh, now, um, house Dennis, like the actual house Dennis, not just two rogue agents of house Dennis, but like the actual house is angry at us. And now we're doing jobs for them. And how is that going to conflict with the criminal organization that we already worked for? And now we're going to subcontract to tick off.
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House Tharashk? So that's why Eris is terrified and wants to flee. When you say it like that, it does sound bad. It is bad. It doesn't sound bad. It is bad. When you slowly leak it out and Jeff forgets the first bits by the time the second bits come around, it seems fine. As to why Eris responds this way, that is more linked to her past, but in
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I mean, as far as why flight over fight, the organizations that I have just listed are not organizations that you fight when you are us, or more particularly, Eris. Okay, so what about the other three of us? Why Rainard and Milo, or how do Rainard and Milo feel about possibly fleeing Sharn if they have to? Well, Milo,
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I mean, probably would only be if he had to. He's born and raised, grew up with the Boromar clan. He's essentially, in his head, they may as well be family.
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Um, cause you know, him, his dad, I mean, you know, that's, he just, that's how he grew up. I mean, if he gets in trouble, probably the first place he would think to turn to would be the Boromars. Fair enough.
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Milo and Eris grew up in very different circumstances.
Character Development and Regrets
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Do you have any thought about why Reynard may or may or may not leave Shorn if the going gets tough? Or maybe what it would take? A stiff drink. Oh, I think that.
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Yeah, he's gonna follow the booze wherever it leads. So just put the bottle in front of him. No, I think that, you know, he's not really holding on to anything there. So if they left, they left. Hey, Harrison, I already agree on something. I think with Hobb, it's just a
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He has no roots in Sharn. He has no roots anywhere. I mean, he literally was nomadic. Like the closest thing he has to home is where he did his monk training. But at the same time, I think Hob has taken a bit of comfort in having a group of people that he works with and does trust, even if he doesn't always, overall trusts and overall likes.
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Uh, you know, he knows that he can't fully trust any of them because we're all just incompetent, not incompetent. We're all screw ups. Um, and criminal, we're all losers. But so I think, um, while Hob has no, no reason to stay, he's not going to cut and run at the first sign of adversity.
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or the second or the third, Phillip. There are many, it takes multiple adversities. And Eric said, challenge accepted. And I don't know, just speaking of one of the things, I don't know if Hob really feels like House Deneth is after him. He knows he is currently indebted to House Deneth. And in that sense, after him, fine, but like,
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It seems calculated and emotionless. We can make this happen really quick and see if we can have some utility to this guy. I could be wrong. Obviously, those two sisters are mad, but they can come at me with another giant warforged and I'll, I guess, hang on the side of a train for a while again and we'll move on with our lives. Yeah, I just want to jump in on that point and like say that I would definitely like pull back the curtain a little bit and say that
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The direction that their father dealing with Hobb is certainly not where they thought it was going to go when they went to their dad and was like, hey, this guy almost got us killed on top of a train. Go deal with him.
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And of course, because their dad is a calculating big picture type of guy, took a different approach than anger. So your heart is apt, I guess. I feel like if he was a real big picture kind of guy, he wouldn't have the nickname Boom Rush.
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And I still, and I still, you know, Hob probably understands that he's still not on the good column of these two twins, but he's also not super concerned about that. If this is, if the best recourse was go to their dad and their dad was like, well, we'll handle it like this and it will be done, then.
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Okay. Oh, I thought of another one also because of Eris's involvement in not letting Hob die or in trying to avenge Hob when she thought he was essentially dead. Also, that that big mutant warforged now personally hates Eris. That one is that one. That is true.
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And that one is a result of the dice and not me. So, sure. Yeah. I mean, you decided to interpret the dice. Jerry asked, Jerry asks, how's the game going? You know, door trucking. Um, but, but then he follows it up with, are there any things you might want to change about your characters or any regrets about the game so far?
Game Mechanics and Character Consistency
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Um,
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I would have made a couple changes with the initial build of Hob if I'd known how our personalities of our characters were going to play out. I really did go into this thinking that Hob was going to be pretty quiet and not talk a lot and I know that there are probably people thinking that was foolhardy considering that I am the one that is playing Hob and you might be right and you can keep it to yourself.
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I took almost nothing social in the first build or the first experience, you know, kind of purchases that I did. I've since rectified that a bit, but basically I couldn't talk to anybody unless I was planning on threatening them. And everyone we were talking to was too powerful to threaten for a while. So it really wasn't great. So I wish I'd taken more social stuff at first and known myself well enough to know that I couldn't shut up.
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I guess I hesitate to call this a regret, but, um, I took the talent.
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signature vehicle, but the mechanical effective signature vehicle makes it easier to modify a vehicle. And Genesis has absolutely no rules for modifying vehicles. Um, but I really like where the narrative has taken with having that. So it's a pretty small, you know, it was like, I don't know how many XP, it was a small amount of XP. So it's not that big of a deal. Uh, so that's really all I can think of. I'm pretty happy with the way Iris is built. Uh, and there are.
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As I have come to understand Eris better and have re-listened to episodes, there are a couple of scenes that I think I played wrong. Wrong is not probably the right way since this is improv, but I played in ways that were less true to who I understand Eris to be. But again, that's just that's kind of just the nature of an RPG is you get to know the character. And so.
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Yes, things in the past, Eris did maybe contradict who I think she is now, but that's really, yeah, that's about as much as I can think of. And the game's going well. Enjoying the game.
Player Camaraderie and Character Adjustments
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I would say I would have played Raynard a little less of a butthead. Hey, hey, hey, pal. There's the time. People change. Can we tell you about how me and Phil tell you what Eric was like when we first met him?
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You can absolutely do that for any of us. I just like to pick on Eric. I kind of like where I am though. Fair enough. No, and I think you set up Raynard for an interesting journey. Yeah. No, I really, I mean, I give you no end of crap because I've known you longer than anybody else on this screen right now.
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I love the way you play Reinhardt. I think he's a great character, so I'm going to put that on wax so everybody hears me say, Trevor's a dear friend who I like very much and I like the way he's playing his character.
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Because they probably think you really hate me. Sometimes I remember that no one knows that I'm playing with, like, friends that I've had for years. And, well, these people I've known for years, Philip and I didn't really get friendly until we started doing this, but, I mean, his older brother was my roommate in college. We've known each other.
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Uh, so I do have to remember like, Oh, right. I should occasionally be like, I like these guys. And also I'm, I'm not an absolutely unrepentant. I don't know why they like me, frankly, but here we are. Uh, I'm sorry, Randy, I got off on a tangent.
Transition to Genesis System
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Do you have anything you'd like to add or you just, you feel pretty good about everything? Well, you know, I was a little hesitant when we decided to go this Genesis route.
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because I'm just so embedded in the D&D, but I have thoroughly come to enjoy it. It's a lot of fun. I'm really enjoying Milo. The only thing that really bothers me with Milo is he's super smart and I'm not. So sometimes I think that I don't live up to his intelligence level.
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I mean, I would say we've all done that. Trevor chose to play a charming character. I chose to play a strong character. Like, we're not really killing it here. I actually, I have one point on this question.
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Anything that obviously I don't control a character, but something that I would change hindsight being 2020 making this call Just over a year ago is when we made I think the final decision to go with Genesis I don't think I would have pushed for Genesis is hard if I knew that we were gonna be playing exclusively online for months upon months upon months because
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Uh, as we've, I think kind of brought up on the show, but certainly away from the mics, uh, Genesis is a game that thrives at a table and we're, we're finally getting some good online solutions for Genesis. Uh, but the role 20 API was not that. And so it was just a very, it was a hard experience early on and I feel like, uh,
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Certain parts of the campaign and getting our feet under us were maybe hindered a bit by the the tools that we had at our disposal. So that's something that I mean, if I knew it was going to be an exclusively online game, probably would have gone with something that had a bit more robust online toolset and save Genesis for another game down the road when we can be back around the table. So.
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That's my hot take. So please, please be less pessimistic and don't talk like this campaign is going to be over before we're allowed to play around. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. I'm kind of playing into both Randy and
Utilizing Game Triumphs and Advantages
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Eric's thing. I don't think this is a regret by any means, but I think it's to answer the question, how is the game going? I think we are all dialing in a little bit better on what we can do with triumphs and advantages. I think we're all having a little more fun asking
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more than saying you probably won't do this or just thinking you probably won't let us do this and not saying it but saying is this too much and going for it yeah and uh even that might have been reflected in the final edits i think a lot of the times that we're like is this too much and it's wildly too much eric just cuts that out to keep us me from looking like a doofus um but yeah i i think that
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I mean, I've, I can't imagine there's ever been anything that's any campaign that's lasted this long where you haven't regretted some choice you made in the first session or, or in the character build and tried desperately to get to 27th level. So you could finally get a second attack with your, with your rogue slash fighter. Swashbuckler. I don't know what that's. Uh, all right. I next question.
Mixed Feelings on Vigo's Character
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Okay, from Eric. Has the crew started to look at Vigo in a better light now that he helped them with this most recent issue? I mean, I understand the academic exercise of asking this question, Eric, but I think you know where this is headed from at least a couple of us. Nope. Just put another point in alchemy. I'll say that hob being
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pragmatist will not let it go by the wayside that Vigo did do something he didn't have to do to help this character as well.
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I know. It doesn't ingratiate Viggo anymore to Hob, but he might acknowledge it to him in person and say, thank you, knowing that that's the sort of... I've just lost the word. That's the sort of thing he would expect and want to hear. And Hob might do that just for the machinations of it. Right, before letting go of his shirt collar while holding him over a ledge. Look, I ain't ruled anything out.
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What about Milo? Obsequious. That's the word I was looking for. That's the sort of obsequious behavior that Vigo thinks he deserves. Did you say, what about Milo? Yeah. I mean, well, I was, I mean, I was waiting. Yeah. I think that's what he said. Oh, sorry. Milo has just, I believe, come to accept Vigo for who Vigo is through the years. You know, he's just,
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He's part of the family. He's a Boromar. Milo's going to respect him. I might not care for him very much, but he's just pretty much this is Vigo. This is how Vigo is. Just roll with it.
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Kind of like what probably Randy would do in real life. Raynard didn't know why any guys didn't like him. Yeah, it really does seem like that's the one thing that's happened in this campaign that Raynard has just kind of floated completely above. Like, full indifference towards Viggo does not recognize that Eris is enraged by him or that Hob is frustrated by him. I kind of dig it.
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Cuz I was I was trying to think back last up last up or the when we recorded that episode and think I was like Do I have a reason not to like him? For not okay, sorry coming to the table Eric says it for in the not asked Eric I mean about her potential to the table I
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And Milo totally gets why you guys despise him totally understands it Yeah, Erin's mad at all of you for not being as outraged as she is That's a perfectly fair response
Eris's Anger and Group Reactions
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It feels like now, and this is, this is warranted outrage for Eris. Absolutely. But it feels like Eris has probably gotten frustrated at the rest of the group's lack of outrage about certain things on other occasions that were less justified and severe. Possibly. I think there's a very specific reason why Eris is really mad that none of you are angry enough.
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Just so we're clear, angry enough is bloodlust. Willing to. Not necessarily that none of you have killed him, but that none of you seem willing to kill him. Willing to and itching to are different things. Eris has seen no display of willingness. Fair enough.
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I'll start off the next session with, I've reported nothing, just so you know. Push comes to shove. I'd kill him. Friends again. Laura asks, oh Laura, we owe you so much. Then you come in with things like, are there any meat places that are
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Okay, that's an answer. There you go. Satan's got his hand in all the meats. It was a meat processing plant because I thought what would be the wildest place to have zombie dogs. It wasn't a grand conspiracy tied to Zaden's meat processing in his office. I thought what would be a cool place to have a zombie dog fight and meat processing plant is what came to mind.
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If Satan does not have a meat monopoly, as it were. You had meatopoly right there. We need to know that warehouse burned to the ground after we left. Because otherwise, I can't eat meat in Charne anymore.
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Because I need to know that all of that meat was destroyed. I mean, one of them went into circulation. I bought the clean stuff. Hob knew what was up.
00:30:04
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Hob opened the fridge finds that reason. Nope. I reject that reasoning. There were zombie dogs in the building. All of that meat is also likely. It's also likely that Hob does not care. He was meat blind. He was meat blinded. He just, he saw it and he knew he had to have it. Cause he's dumb like his play. Um, okay. Laura continues with, uh, great questions. Uh, has anyone ever asked Raynard why he drinks?
Raynard's Alcohol Use and Backstory
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Certainly not on Mike.
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I don't think Hob has off mic either.
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Don't think Harris would. It seems like a big problem that he gets grief for, but people usually aren't just alcoholics for fun. That's right. I will shoot straight. I feel a little called out by this, justifiably. I'm not upset with Laura. Without going into too much detail, a history of alcoholism in my family, it's so easy for me to play the jokes for it that I sometimes don't think about how grave of a problem it really is. And I want to say,
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That if our jokes about that have offended anybody who's also gone through that I genuinely apologize and I'll try to be a little more Sensitive about the jokes I make hob will still get frustrated with Raynard for being drunk, but I'll try not to Be as light about it. If that's affinity buddy. I'm trying to think whether Ray whether Eris has
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given, I mean, Eris gives Raynard crap, but I'm not, I'm not sure if it's about, if it's been about that, I can't remember. I think it's mostly about the train thing. Yes. Eris is not over that because, because Raynard has not apologized and, and made amends in some enormous and elaborate fashion. Uh, so yeah, I think it's mostly been about that, but I think Eris. Hmm.
00:31:55
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I think that's something Aerys thinks is not her business, is probably where Aerys is on that. I agree that somebody needs to ask him, and I hope someone will, because I'm interested in the answer. Milo. Although it's probably not the sort of thing you can just ask straight. Yeah, see, I have thought about Milo having to talk with Raynard about it, but then I just keep thinking, are they at that place in their relationship where Milo would bring it up?
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yet and get a decent response out of rain art other than avoidance. Sure. And there's a part of me, I guess just in my head since
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fantasy tropes, D&D, or role-playing game tropes. It always starts at a tavern. There's always drunk people. There's a part of me, Jeff, that thought, well, maybe this just is not a thing that's an issue for people in Sharn, outside of his facility. And that's what Hobbes' issue is. Hobbes doesn't ever think less of Reynard for drinking, except for the fact that it might hamper his- It occasionally interferes. Right, exactly. Exactly.
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Um, yeah, I would say that's probably Eris too, is she's not thinking about it as she's probably not thinking about it as a problem in itself, just when it gets in the way of the job. Um, and Trevor, I guess is Raynard always drunk or is that just something you've chosen for him to be like, he just happens to be tying one on at the bar every time we start a new, cause we're not together every day. We're obviously we take weeks apart.
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He's not always drunk. Is he a functioning alcoholic? You know, he's a functioning alcoholic. He just needs, you know, two drinks per meal. Well, and I think to Laura's question a little bit like if
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If I was out if I was out at dinner at a place where I like the I'm a beer snob if I like like what they have I've never
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I've never in the United States had a drink. If Philip can call out, bring forth the honey wine, he will. That's very true. I've never, never been to a restaurant that served mead. Not even once. I think if you just kind of stripped down what we know, knew about Raynard at the beginning of this campaign, though, of like, Raynard was from an affluent family, his spending got away from him, and he was cut off from everybody that he knew and cared about.
00:34:45
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I think that answers Laura's initial question of like, why does Rainard drink, at least to a certain extent. So I guess that's also true. We don't know, at least I don't think we know what.
00:35:01
Speaker
what it was like before. We don't know what Reynard was like before everything fell apart. And maybe the next set of episodes where we get his obligation will say something. And that's not foreshadowing. We haven't played it yet. We'll give us some insight into that. But yeah, I think that's probably a big part of it is it's not a difference to us. It's not like he
00:35:24
Speaker
was, you know, it's not like any of us are well-adjusted. It's not like he was this super well-adjusted guy. And then things started to fall apart. This is the guy that we've always known. Right. And then Laura drops the banger to end this section
Raynard and Verla's Relationship
00:35:40
Speaker
of questions. But also, what does Verles see in him? He's a jerk to her every time they talk.
00:35:47
Speaker
Yarp. I think Eric is the only one who can answer that question because I don't know.
00:35:56
Speaker
I think there's a way we can add on to have Trevor have an answer as well, which is, why is he so brazen to this cop who, I mean, it's not like he's the CI, it's not like he's a stoolie, you know, that is kind of untouchable because she needs him. He's just a jerk that she hasn't arrested yet. So I think that's a good way to get something out of Trevor as well. This recent arc was particularly egregious. Up to this point, it's been kind of flirty banter.
00:36:25
Speaker
But it became actual insults this way. Well, the funniest part is it feels like Raynard forgot what the power dynamic actually was when he was inside her police office. Not when she was just hanging out in a crowd or at a party. It was when she was standing in front of her wall of commendations that he was like, okay, but seriously, what the...
00:36:53
Speaker
Okay. Well, first of all, in my mind, um, or sorry, in Reynard's mind, giving her advice was like paying her back for the, uh, the tips that she gave him. That when you, that I forgot until just now that you said that out loud on our podcast and I wanted to punch you through the computer monitor, whatever it is. Magic box.
00:37:21
Speaker
It was supposed to be a nice gesture. A nice gesture. Wow. Now, like, now Verla is even more angry, uh, via me. Um, to... Raynard's single, guys. Can you believe it? Um... No, I... In terms of what Verla even sees in him, uh...
Favorite Campaign Moments
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know either. It was just an interesting dynamic that got set up in that initial cold open where the back and forth between Raynard and Verla was a lot of fun. And so I decided to keep peppering Verla in arcs here and there is not a fill of something. I'm sorry. I remember listening to that first cold open on the drive to school with my daughter in the car.
00:38:21
Speaker
Rose listening to me and my friends be sarcastic with each other is deeply funny. But about the fourth time that Reynard and Verla went back and forth trying to have the last word and not like have the last zinger in that conversation, she just went. So, no, I think that
00:38:46
Speaker
I don't know, Laura, to fully answer your question about what Verless sees in Raynard. It's been a fun thing. And yeah, this last time, like the mascara thing, I think that there will be some consequences to that remark.
00:39:07
Speaker
Uh, the likes of which not even Vigo could concoct, but, um, he's gonna cut off your hands. Just one. Let's be fair. Let's give Vigo credit. He only threatened to cut off one. Yep. Um, so. Yeah. So, uh, I don't, I don't have a good answer, but I feel like saying he's a jerk to her every time they talk is.
00:39:33
Speaker
A little unfair. I mean, they have a banter. They have that kind of flirty antagonistic back and forth. Um, I'm just not very good at it. I mean, no, no, seriously. The first time, the first time I was cracking up because I was picturing it in black and white with some slow jazz in the background and a rainy night out the window. Like we were in an old noir movie because that's like, I felt like they were both going to be like this. Yeah. It was just.
00:40:03
Speaker
That just had me beside myself with laughter the first time because that's what it felt like. It felt like this one was an escalation. But I would agree that I don't think it's always been excessively unkind.
00:40:19
Speaker
It has been playful up to this point. No, but it hasn't always been bad, but it was like relationship breakingly bad this past time. And I think that's fair. No, this past time was was different in Verla's eyes anyway, despite the intention that Raynard thought he was giving some sound advice in reciprocation for her helping out. For an improvement in her eyes.
00:40:48
Speaker
It's almost like, and I don't know if anybody needs to hear this, but it's almost like your intent doesn't matter as much as the impact your words have on the other person. I don't know if anybody needs to hear that out there in TV land. That can't be right. I didn't mean to be insulting. Okay. Shelby, I'm sorry, are we... I'm good.
00:41:11
Speaker
Good. Shelby asks, what was everyone's favorite moment in the game so far? He says, not sure if you want to go into a campaign once below. Yeah, let's stick it to campaign. Just to narrow it down. Well, I think with some distance, we might have different answers than we did on our final campaign when reviewed. I can promise you, I haven't gone back to listen to anything except for
00:41:37
Speaker
I did go back and listen to the Thorin arc because it was, that was Drakir Thorin and Randy's craft were a long time. I think that's probably, that probably is, like that arc is probably my, my high point. The party that should have been. Um, but campaign two, since I have, you know, uh, curated the questions, I actually have one if you guys want to. Please do. It's selfish, but I loved that first downtime, the fight down. Yeah.
00:42:03
Speaker
I feel like it was the first time, you know, we'd had an arc to get our characters kind of dialed in. We knew it was low stakes, low consequences, so we could kind of play a little bit more. Um, and it was a good time. I mean, and it, it, it did further some other stuff. I mean, it showed Eris's very real fear of anything that invokes the morning and, um, Milo's kind of just dogged, uh, um,
00:42:32
Speaker
loyalty to the other three people in this group and and Haben Reynard not necessarily getting along great And it was just it was really fun at first that first downtime was a blast I think mine is I really enjoyed watching the other players faces on the screen As it became evident what Eris was doing with Verla's police radio when she called in the red cloaks like I
00:43:01
Speaker
got a lot of joy out of watching watching their facial reactions uh to that that was that was pretty great. I do wish we had been recording video for two reasons two things and one was that and the other one was also you when you were like oh just uh he's a cop back there in he's a dark lantern we're just like oh no
00:43:26
Speaker
Like I saw Eric's reaction that I thought how did you not see this coming? How did you not know that that's what I was gonna do? We've known each other for so long I thought you were I thought you were gonna call them back to go in and ruin his chance to extort us By making him go back into this but when you just I was really anyway Trevor and Randy and Eric favorite moments of the game campaign so far
00:43:52
Speaker
I really liked the party that people traded and it was fun to like, even as we were recording it, like jump back and forth to picture how things were happening. You're talking about the party that we, yeah, we were in different places, not the party we got invited to. Yeah. Right. You liked that episode where Hob couldn't start a car.
00:44:17
Speaker
When our, when our, uh, or I guess our artifice or expert, but our best driver at the time couldn't start a car in a sigil. Yeah. Randy, what do you got, bud? I'm not really sure. I can just, this whole thing has been a slog for Randy. He's just no joy anywhere. Yeah, man. I'm really looking forward to having some good time. I mean, I liked the party one too with Eris and Milo.
00:44:47
Speaker
in the room when Posey comes barging in and that was kind of fun. I mean, if I had to pinpoint one, we've got a real, I guess, we've got a real baby Yoda situation on our hands where no name that I come up with is going to be better than Posey and everybody's gonna be like, Oh, okay. That's fine. Oh, Doris. Cool. Cool idea. We're going to stick with Posey. Her name's Grogan. Um,
00:45:14
Speaker
I'll say I agree that the party infiltration is both my favorite and my least favorite arc of the campaign because what was going on with Aerys, Milo, Reynard, and Sana was wonderful. And when Reynard kissed Norsen Millhatch on the forehead,
00:45:34
Speaker
That's the moment I wish that we had video, because I was just stunned. Like literal jaw just hanging open in reality. I could not believe it. And that's why when the other players started concocting, well, how can we get Raynard out of this situation? I was like, no, no, no, no, no. This is for Eric. Raynard's going down.
00:46:00
Speaker
But, and the patrons know because I made a video on it for the Patreon about my biggest failure of campaign two thus far was the scene down below with the truck not starting. So yeah, it's a very polar opposites arc for me, but I think the two aspects that Jeff weren't involved in were highlights for me.
00:46:25
Speaker
You monster. You know, I wish you wouldn't leave so many reviews on iTunes that say that. I thought that was... No, no. I'm hoping it's just... No, and the issues with Jeff's part of that adventure were solely mine and mine alone. Shelby continues, has anybody developed any pet NPCs or favorites?
NPC Highlights and Interactions
00:46:48
Speaker
I think it's
00:46:50
Speaker
Viggo's fun to play just because of the reaction. It's fun to play a monster. It's fun to play a terrible person. I totally see that, Eric. It's real fun to play just an awful person sometimes. Hob hasn't interacted with her, but I enjoy Olive quite a bit. And Hutch, who I have got to interact with.
00:47:13
Speaker
And our, I'll never remember his name and I like him so much. Our scavenger friend. Scavenger friend, Grum. Yeah. No, Grum was our, was our boss. Uh, well, now the scavenger. Well, yeah, but the dwarf. No, the one that we went and talked to before we went to, uh, he was missing his hand. No, that's Holden. Okay. I didn't hear you say that. Say it again. Say it again. Holden.
00:47:39
Speaker
Toul van. Toul van. Toul van. Toul van, yes. Well, I didn't have any of it. Did it start with an H when you said it? I said Holden. Yeah, okay. I'm almost certain that's what's in my notebook. I'll tell you what, I take it back. I don't like it much anymore. That's a stupid name. That was all I liked about him.
00:48:03
Speaker
No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. The introduction of Olive was so... Tarvel. Tarvel. I never get his name right. Tarvel is his name. Good Lord. I just looked at my notes. I called him turn veil at one point during that arc, which is demonstrably wrong. Tarble. Anyway, check the wiki. What were you saying? The introduction of Olive is just so excellent. That's the way Eric brought her in.
00:48:33
Speaker
It's probably, that's probably, I, Philip, want to know a lot more about Sigil and Kath and Sana. But I haven't- I didn't even consider them NPCs. No, I know, I know. I just haven't found the one of them that Eris is really gonna connect with.
00:48:57
Speaker
Like Eris and Sigil both tinker sort of, but the way Sigil does it is so different from what Eris understands that I don't feel like she feels like she can talk to Sigil about it exactly. Like it's just entirely different. Because you guys feel like anti-polar magnets. You're the exact same thing and can't seem to make it where you got to find that right.
00:49:28
Speaker
She just hasn't had a lot of scenes with Kath and Sana, other than the train, or directly with. Um...
00:49:40
Speaker
I know, yeah, it's probably Olive. I was going now, starting to analyze all of my feelings about all of the characters and that's going to get tiresome. So it's probably Olive. I'm going to pretend that in my understanding, NPC stood for non-party character. That's fair. So I was going with secondaries because obviously Hobb and Cath are thickest thieves. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that makes her Jeff's favorite NPC, but she's definitely Hobb's.
00:50:08
Speaker
I gotta I gotta go with the sauna. I think Milo has. I don't know that it's played out a whole bunch, but I think he has a relationship with her. You know, she asks him to go to the parties at her parents and he's, you know, willing to go. I don't know. I just feel kind of a camaraderie with her. I'm going to say,
00:50:40
Speaker
that I do, I, well, okay. Is it, should it be who Raynard is attached to or I am attached to? Okay. I really like Sigil.
00:51:00
Speaker
I don't think there's any real relationship between Raynard and Sigil, but Trevor as a person likes Sigil. And of course Verla. Verla is an excellent NPC. And Posey, it's very hard. That's a very hard question. There are a lot of really solid NPCs in the story so far.
00:51:26
Speaker
The mythos of Posey is so overpowering that I can't honestly remember what she acts, talks, or sounds like. Oh, I can remember words you said. That voice, yeah, she's definitely Harley Quinn. And that's what she looks like in my head. She's got pigtails, like, on tavant pigtails. I don't know if Harley Quinn is tall. I don't know. No, Posey is a very tall Harley Quinn. Not only now, Eric, do we have a name, we know exactly what she looks like.
Rich NPC World-building
00:51:57
Speaker
I want to let me briefly amend what I said about Sigil. Eris is fascinated by Sigil, but that's not the same thing as being a decent friend to somebody. Yeah. Which is, again, part of Eris's personality problems. I will say that one of my favorite things about doing this campaign and hearing you all talk about the NPCs that you like is I
00:52:25
Speaker
I really wanted to endeavor to just kind of create a world for you all, like a world of NPCs and characters for you to interact with and have people like Norse and Milhatch and Olive and Posey and Verla and all these people just kind of running around in the world that you all can, kind of like we saw in the last arc, utilize in times that you need them to and be from a meta standpoint tools to facilitate storytelling.
00:52:54
Speaker
because I feel like that's something, that's a, it was a different campaign in campaign one where that wasn't necessarily something that you could pull off because you all were on the move so much, but in this one I wanted to have that world of NPCs lurking about. Yeah, campaign one, it was like we had our boat homies who were, you know, always there, but
00:53:18
Speaker
We only had arc long relationships with anybody else with a couple of exceptions, but So yeah, it wasn't just like oh, this is a specific situation that at which we know all of could be quite helpful or whatever It is exciting. So it also means I have to remember I'm right down everybody.
Eberron Technologies Wish List
00:53:36
Speaker
It was kind of nice when I could be
00:53:37
Speaker
you know i practiced studied for the test and i took the test and i was like all right shink shink don't need that one anymore eric i definitely have tolvin written down as the head of the peer lads so am i wrong um you can look up after that's not very important on the air that's this is wasting our time i'm sorry no you're good i got a hard out at 10 15 i gotta record another podcast um
00:54:02
Speaker
Okay, we're going to save the last of Shelby's questions for the end. We're going to jump to Laura. Laura wants to know what is Ulfin's pirate name? Anybody have any suggestions for Ulfin's pirate name? I have declared in Eris's patches what his pirate
00:54:18
Speaker
ship flag was like what his what his Jolly Roger was I think it's a red Kraken on black but I don't have that on that's on my laptop so I can't look it up just now I don't know that helps but I think that's that's what I have declared his flag is because that's one of Eris's patches
00:54:39
Speaker
Um, I don't know. I hesitate to try to make it up right now because I think it needs to be awesome. Um, and so unless Eric already has it in his notebook, I do not because he's a Canon character. So I didn't, I didn't fully flush him out. So I feel like if we feel like anything we invent right now in the next 45 seconds, it's going to suck compared to something. You shall know. We're in pressure. We're like,
00:55:05
Speaker
Next episode it's like remember back when they called you Davey two fingers. What are you talking about? Oh Reynard knows
00:55:17
Speaker
The I think uh, maybe not more interesting question, but another interesting question would be, is it a lineage name? That isn't interesting. Like, like the dread, Robert Roberts is whoever he was still out there. I mean, another fair question is, do we know, is that something he would tell us, or is that something that he's not broadcasting? Because, you know, piracy is a crime and orphans, orphans better at this than us.
Podcasting Journey and Community Involvement
00:55:45
Speaker
was an accountant for house Dennis back in the day it's like you know what I really want to do I want to open a pirate bar when I Yarg, yeah, that'll work. I mean you tell everybody you played high school football. I've seen no proof You can pretty much say whatever you want about your past. Yeah So no answer yet Laura, but stay tuned Okay
00:56:15
Speaker
And you guys can tell me, I don't, I don't know if this is a joke question or not. I, uh, it does Eris or Darren asked is Eris opinion about moving to storm reach going to worsen the longer Kyber shards goes on.
00:56:28
Speaker
I guess I think that's a joke. No, I mean, I I hope that the campaign will not move. Well, Eric has said the campaign is mainly is about Sharon, but I hope the campaign will not move to storm reach because I think it's more fun that we don't have to storm reach campaigns going on at the same time on our on our media. That was Eris's suggestion because I was trying to think where somewhere you could go quick and hide from from Sharon. And that was what came to mind.
00:56:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:01
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I really feel like we need to get out of the way up early. Do not expect crossover. Yeah, we are. There's no TGIF shenanigans going to happen between these two shows because who would deem it? Who would be the players? It'll be dueling. Also, the systems like just Trevor and Trevor and Colin famously don't get along. It's OK.
00:57:31
Speaker
I like this also from Darren. I want to know this as well. So does Eris Bird have the ability to like swoop into the skiff at a moment's notice in case the crew needs to make a quick getaway or is there always going to be take some time to transfer Tasha back and forth between. So I will explain the mechanics behind both of these things. The because no one else. Well, because it's in several. No, that's Eris is mad about that. But Eris wouldn't explain this.
00:58:01
Speaker
The introduction of Tasha, the elemental and vehicle engine, is because Aeris took the signature vehicle talent, which, as I've said, lets her upgrade all of her mechanics checks to improve on said vehicle and work on said vehicle. So she's real good at repairing and that sort of thing on our skiff.
00:58:27
Speaker
I kinda had in mind to take this talent, but Eris's sudden interest in fleeing made me go ahead and do it because I knew she would want to find a way to take Tasha with her, and since the skiff operates based on, in part based on the manifest zone that Sharn sits on, the skiff can't leave. So I took the animal companion,
00:58:54
Speaker
or animal bond or beast bond, or it's a third tier trait to let you have an animal companion, but I don't, but I'm not remembering the name right now. Uh, and I decided that it should just be the, and I knew the heiress would build one. The heiress wouldn't obtain one. Um, so I decided that it would be a chassis that Tasha could transfer into and that way Tasha could. So mechanic there, there's not really a mechanical answer to that.
00:59:25
Speaker
I certainly hope so is my answer, but it would be, it would be Eric's to adjudicate, um, what it would actually require. Sure. Um, okay. Eric asks, how does Hobb feel about the general calling the folks from DROAM monstrous races? Um, I think Hobb knows to pick his fights.
00:59:56
Speaker
especially when it comes to that, you know, being a Goliath working among halflings in a city that is predominantly more human-like races. I guess Goliath's not unhuman-like except for their abnormal size, so a half, you know, opposite halfling. But
01:00:20
Speaker
And also, I think the general wouldn't have used that term if he considered Goliath to be in that group. I think that he was talking about the more animalistic looking, at least that's the way Hob took it. But he just knows that there's battles to pick and the heart and mind of this dillweed was not gonna get changed in that night by explaining to him that monstrous races is an inappropriate thing to call another sentient being. I'm sure he's picked that battle before with other people.
01:00:49
Speaker
As far as how he feels, he didn't like it at all, but what were you gonna do at that moment? Danny asks, Eric, what will you name the hob and minotaur buddy cop slash enforcer spin-off podcast, the highly anticipated comedy of our time? And then there was a lot of speculation about whether the minotaur's name would be Calvin. And I informed them. And a lot of people trying to,
01:01:19
Speaker
asking why and then slowly figuring out Calvin and hob is pretty funny. And then Eric saying, well, it's definitely not going to be Calvin. Well, no, I said, they asked, is, is, is he going to be named Calvin? And I responded, not anymore. Um, there you go. Now he's going to be quilt. Although, you know, if, if depending on what this guy's name is, Tolvin and hob is still right there. That's true. Uh,
01:01:50
Speaker
Becca has one just for us, not about the show specifically. And she asks, what is a piece of technology or a feature that exists in Eberron that you wish existed in real life? And I'm gonna go ahead and make the exact tradition that you can't just say magic and move on. A skiff that works. Flying boat. Yeah, man, it's hard to say, pretty good.
01:02:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm I gotta put out cleansing stone. Yeah, like just walk over, touch the stone, everything turns gets cleaned. That's that's pretty appealing. That is pretty appealing, or whatever, whatever the the pleasant form of banishment is where I could just kind of like point to this dirty bowl and went through the sink to the sink. I know the sort of cleansing would do that as well, but
01:02:47
Speaker
Yeah, like I know we have airplanes and they're wildly more efficient, uh, or faster at least than any of these air boats that we've seen in Eberron, but something about just being up there on a deck sounds amazing and terrifying, but ever.
01:03:08
Speaker
I said, yeah, when everyone was saying yes about the hoverboards. Yeah, the little green goblin things that were from that one episode where those were pretty rad. Yeah. It is mostly modes of conveyance though, because a lot of the things that they use Magic 4 and Eberron, they use it because they don't have the electricity that we have. Well, and I also think all of these modes of transportation's lack of a fuel requirement is also pretty killer.
01:03:36
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you just have to enslave a being. It's not. It's domestication. Tasha's not enslaved. No. But I guarantee you that plenty of. Oh, I'm sure there are. I'm sure some horrible person in the houses has experimented with binding sentient elementals like Jyn and Efreeti and that kind of thing.
01:04:05
Speaker
Um, so sure. Yes. Because of course you would, uh, if you are a terrible, horrible megacorp. Right. Okay. Liz asks, how are you guys finding the newer program for recording now that you've been using it longer? And what was it called again? We're actually on our third program for recording. Uh, now, uh, I'll let Eric talk more about it's.
01:04:32
Speaker
ease of use, because we just pop on and talk into these black squishy. I mean, Randy and I haven't had to sit down and listen to an episode together and go beat for beat rerecording Milo's dialogue, which is pretty killer since we switched to this newest one. So that's good. No, we're on riverside.fm is the one that we're using now. It's a browser based solution.
01:04:54
Speaker
And it's great. It does all the heavy lifting, but doesn't have a lot of the reliability issues that we ran into in the past while still. The nice thing is it records all of our audio on our end, so the quality is a lot better than what we
01:05:12
Speaker
Initially had where it was a discord call that I was just recording on my computer Which yeah Yeah, if we only go through the evolutions, it was first just a discord call and then a discord call with a bot That was picking stuff up and then we went to zincaster which and we did zincasts for audio and we could see each other in the discord video chat and now where was riverside.fm which we
01:05:39
Speaker
Is also recording if we ask it to our video so it's displaying video for all of us so we don't have multiple screens up in addition to our RPG sessions and our character sheets and everything else not sponsored by but willing Yes, call us call us we'd love to Honestly, I I have really like it's got better. It has been a significant improvement of what else we've used. Yes. Yeah
01:06:03
Speaker
and for some reason my computer hates discord video chat and likes to just kick me out i haven't counted up with a few other people uh interesting i don't know why but i can kind of put the zen caster keep recording and so eric almost every episode had to edit out some cuz
01:06:19
Speaker
Um, so yeah. Yeah. It's called riverside.fm. And if Eric's talking to us about it is anything, it's the easiest one we've done so far. Yeah. As far as post. Yeah. I mean, it, it uploads everything directly for me to be able to use and the quality is really good. So yeah.
01:06:38
Speaker
OK, and the last question, we're going to jump back up to it. This question from Shelby, and he'd like to know why you hate dogs. Boy, the timeliness of this question for any of the listeners that have checked out the Twitch stream, I played a video game that had a had a bad dog moment and boy, I I had a breakdown on on on the Internet live for people to watch about was it walking dogs? Yes, of course. So I don't know why I do not hate dogs. I love them more than most other beings that reside on this earth. And
01:07:08
Speaker
I genuinely thought you were talking about last night's streaming where you had to cut it short because your dog had to- No, no, no, no, no, no. No. No, a bad thing happened with a dog in a video game and I lost it.
01:07:18
Speaker
Um, so no, I don't hate dogs. I love dogs. It's just that dogs are a popular monster card, apparently. Cause you got shadow dogs, you got undead dogs. Um, and yeah, I don't know. They, they. That is too. I mean, let's, let's, let's, let's not pretend that dogs are not scary and powerful and strong and ferocious when they choose to be. They're a great monster. To be fair, we use the term zombie dogs with this last episode, uh,
01:07:48
Speaker
for simplicity I mean the main one they were bar guests which are quadrupedal canine-esque undead creatures but they're not they're not dogs like it's not a mastiff that's running at you um so so yeah um I love dogs I love them so much and uh and also I feel like yeah I'm not gonna get into it a whole lot deeper but uh um I don't hate dogs that's all I'll say
01:08:20
Speaker
Anyway. Eric does love dogs. I've met all three of his. They're very well, they're very well taken care of and well-loved. True. I like how you almost said well-trained and then corrected yourself. Like, no, no. Well, I meant to say, I was trying to say well taken care of and I stumbled on the team, but yeah, no, I would never, I would never, Eric. I don't lie to the people. They're good dogs. They're good dogs. They're just far too spoiled to be called well-trained. Um, so anyway.
01:08:49
Speaker
Um, that's the last question. Um, I want to take just a second really quickly
01:08:55
Speaker
I can do it in the thing. So if you want to get in contact with us, you can always reach to us on the social medias. We are at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at TheGeekPantheon. You can find our Discord link at www.thegeekpantheon.com. Eric streams and the other show on our network, Kyber Shards streams on the YouTube channel, TheGeekPantheon.
01:09:22
Speaker
If you would like to join our Discord, we would love to have you. It's free to join. There are tiers that you can access if you go to our Patreon. Guess what it is? It's the Geek Pantheon. And join at those tiers. And I want to take a second. I shouted out Laura, a very well deserved shout out in the last episode. I would like to take a second to thank our Discord moderators who do a lot of labor for free, Irene, Cassie, Darren, and JT.
01:09:50
Speaker
have all been in the discord from the jump I think pretty much you know yeah we've gotten lucky enough to get to meet JT at gamer nation con a few times as well they do a lot of work they are very
01:10:06
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measured and and i think are they're just really good odds you guys and we're lucky that they volunteered and we're lucky to have them and they have invitations to laura's opulent pizza party whenever we're able to throw it for sure so people whose charm stat matches their speech yes and we have a lot of community members that do a lot of work for each other too which is awesome to see in our dm chats and our player character chats everybody helping each other out
01:10:33
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But I wanted to take a minute to thank those five people over these last two episodes for really just stepping in and doing a lot of work that we were either not prepared or not. Indeed. So thank you so much. Having said that, Eric, is there anything that I have missed?
01:10:50
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I stream on Twitch, twitch.tv slash the pantheon. If you want to go check that out. Um, that my bad, I completed that with you. But also, I mean, we kind of alluded that we were going to address it, but, uh, last episode was 200 total of the show, which is, um,
Celebrating 200 Episodes
01:11:05
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a bigger deal than I think any of us kind of gave it credit for that we've done this. I did explicitly say we were going to address this and then almost nothing. So thank you, Eric. I mean, 200 weeks. Well, a couple missed ones in there, but 200 weeks of content is not nothing. And I just want to take a moment to thank the the four knuckleheads in front of me. I don't know why I turned into a 40s Midwestern dad, but
01:11:35
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But just thank them for coming along on this ride with me when I made the silly pitch of, hey, you guys want to play D&D but for people? And all of them said yes at different times, granted. But yeah, so thanks. I said I'll play D&D and you can release it. Yes. Well, first you said, no, I won't DM it. I have too many games right now. And then you said, I'll play it and you can release it.
01:12:06
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That's true. And I think I said, whatever, dude, your funeral. You would have put this out there. All right. But yeah, and I guess a special thank you to Trevor for back in the original, original days being, I think the first person that said, hey, I'm thinking about starting a podcast. You want to do it? And he was like, I guess. So.
01:12:33
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Yeah, but yeah, and thank you to all the listeners that have joined us along the way. And the amount of growth that we've seen, especially in the last year, has been remarkable. And a big thank you to those of you who made the system switch with us. And I know that that was a big point of stress for me of
01:12:53
Speaker
Hey, you all like what we've been doing for the past three years where now we're going to do something different. Um, so, so yeah, thank you all. And, and as Jeff said, thank you to those, those of you that have, have stepped up in big ways, uh, to help the community cultivate and grow, but also thank you to everybody who's just showed up every week on Fridays to listen to us in your, your podcast app. So, um, it's.
01:13:17
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It's been a wild ride and literally my life would not be where it is right now if I hadn't started a podcast back when I did. Um, I would not, I would not have the, the career that I have now, uh, and my day job had I not started podcasting. So, um, so thanks everybody. And that's what I'm going to say about that. Huzzah. Can we stop being sincere now? Okay. Okay, cool. Okay. Fart joke, fart joke, fart joke. I'm Jeff. I'm Phillip.
01:13:48
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We're just gonna do it randomly this time too. It's my place I go second And I didn't know if we were doing it for real
01:14:02
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Wow. Anyway, thank you so much, all of you, for listening. If you had asked me four years ago, do you think this thing will go 200 episodes? I would have said like, only by sheer force of will. We won't have people listening to it, encouraging us to keep going. So, I mean, it really does mean the world. Thank you so much. And having said all of that, please have a great weekend. I'm assuming you're listening to this on Friday. And I have been Jeff. I shall be Phillip.
01:14:55
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I will be Randy. I'm Trevor. And I was Eric.