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I believe so, yeah. They were sponsored by D&D Beyond back when it first came out. Sam Regiel made up a commercial jingle for them, which later got an animation to go with it they would play every episode during the break in Campaign one. I’d assume they all started using it then and never...

I mean, it’s not that an early character death would be a bad thing per se. But, in that specific scene, it would have come across as arbitrary and unavoidable. Marisha had zero control over the situation, this character no one playing the game had ever seen before let alone interacted with just...

Again, doesn’t really matter anyway since the character isn’t dead.

I had something pretty similar happen in Curse of Strahd. That spectre in Death House is brutal.

Sure, but I’m not sure it’s the best tone to set for a long-form D&D actual play… again, though, he didn’t actually kill the character so this is all moot anyway.

It did escalate very quickly, which I can understand from a characterization standpoint - it was certainly an effective way to communicate how powerful, dangerous, arrogant, and callous that villain is. But, the idea that Brennan has might have actually have killed a PC after it was him who put...

I don’t know which picture you’re referring to, but it’s almost certainly trying to appeal to LGBTQIA+ folks and allies. There are a lot of us, we’re a market worth appealing to. This tends to be a generational thing. In my experience it’s gen X and some older millennial LGBTQ folks who the...

As any setting does to at least a certain extent. I liked how Brennan described it in an interview I saw on YouTube (heavily paraphrasing here): he’s spent a lot of years running D&D in a lot of settings that are pretty far removed from standard high fantasy. So being asked to run a game in an...

Yeah, I can see the parallels, for sure!

They haven’t explained the details yet. The first four episodes have the whole cast present and switching around who’s sitting at the table vs who’s hiding off-camera as the spotlight shifts between different subgroups. We’re just starting to get an idea of who will comprise the three main...

I can see the parallel between the Shapers’ War and the Last War. But, it’s definitely an influence rather than a direct point of reference. Personally, it looks to me more like a deconstructed Middle Earth than it does a palette swapped Eberron.

I definitely think he’s an aasimar divine soul sorcerer. That first the backstory and the stats, including his 20 HP at level 3 with 14 Con. That’s exactly right for a sorcerer if they’re using the standard max hit die at first level, half rounded up at each level after that. If he was a cleric...

Nice! I really enjoyed the first one, so I might consider it.

They are, yeah. I don’t have Beacon, but I saw a YouTube video talking about the cooldown.

Apparently in the Cooldown for the episode, Brennan asked who everyone thought came closest to dying that episode, and everyone thought Travis’ character, but he said it was Marisha’s. Like, when he said “if you keep talking to me, I’ll kill you where you stand,” he meant it, she would have been...

I was just saying lots of political maneuvering and espionage among the Schemers’ table

Depends if they shave

Is this like, an ill-conceived reference to some movie monologue or something?

Haha I think the only rules are “you win or you die.” It’s not a literal game, just the way the characters euphemistically refer to the political machinations part and parcel to life among the nobility within the capital of the kingdom.

King’s Landing. The capital city in Game of Thrones, wherein the eponymous political game is played at its highest-stakes incarnation.