20:00

particular sites and might vie to win

20:02

a prime perch. On the

20:04

surface world they choose mountains and rocky bluffs, they

20:06

ambush prey by diving from high above or

20:08

by springing from shadow to all coves. A small

20:10

number of gargoyles, the bravest and most vicious, live

20:13

in cities where they perch on the eaves,

20:15

the spires of the tallest buildings and the guise

20:17

of stone statues. Yeah, as soon as

20:19

you learn about these though, you have to go

20:21

destroy all the fucking gargoyles in your city, right?

20:23

There's no way that you can just allow like...

20:27

It does seem like a poor practice. Yeah, and

20:29

you know if you're like walking through a cannon

20:31

and you see one random fucking gargoyle up on

20:33

the cliff side that you need to stay away

20:35

from that shit. You're gonna mostly see the

20:38

statue version ones like on

20:41

a wizard's tower, right? And who's gonna go

20:43

tell Alastair the most

20:45

powerful wizard in the realm to take

20:47

those down? That's true. No one's gonna

20:49

tell him to do that. I

20:52

don't know, man. I think you're gonna want to get

20:54

rid of your gargoyles. Never.

20:57

Never. I love them very much. I

20:59

think half of them are fake. I don't give a shit.

21:01

He's like, that's the point. Those

21:04

are my friends, okay? What

21:06

are you, what are you doing?

21:08

Seize the interloper. Yeah, seize the

21:10

interloper, motherfucker. Tail of the creature's

21:12

watchful evil have become ubiquitous across

21:14

the ages. Comms superstition holds that

21:16

their presence, though undesirable, wards off

21:18

worse problems. Kings,

21:20

priests, mages, and nobles erect

21:22

gargoyle-shaped statuary on their

21:25

estates to quote unquote, guard their

21:27

holdings. This trend further muddies the

21:29

origin of the creatures, which came

21:31

first, the gargoyle or the statue.

21:33

Is a grotesque carving a dormant

21:35

gargoyle or just cut stone? Every

21:37

crouched, bestial sculpture is suspect, and

21:39

that fact suits their builders just

21:41

fine. There you go. Fuckin', we

21:43

were here first. Fuck all

21:45

you guys. Indeed. It suits

21:47

some gargoyles, too. They take

21:50

advantage of the confusion by perching among

21:52

grotesque statues placed by builders. These statues

21:54

are almost always high overhead, where one

21:57

more won't be noticed. I see.

21:59

Other gargoyles. avoid buildings adorned in

22:01

such figures because they, too, cannot

22:03

tell the difference between a real

22:05

gargoyle and a sculpture without

22:07

a close and risky inspection. So

22:10

a dormant gargoyle doesn't just resemble stone, it

22:12

is stone, and unless it moves, it

22:14

can fool others of its kind. Some

22:17

gargoyles stay away from the buildings

22:19

that might already be claimed by

22:21

rivals. Yeah, it's like checking birds

22:23

and reptiles for gender, or

22:25

like parts to figure it out. It's like I

22:28

gotta get, like... You gotta get up in it.

22:30

Another gargoyle is like, does this one have

22:33

the stink? Exactly. I must

22:35

put my face where no face should

22:37

go. Yeah, and the risk

22:39

being that like the gargoyle that's faking

22:41

it is aware that you're a real

22:44

gargoyle. It's about the, taking the face.

22:46

It's trying to smell you. Yeah, exactly.

22:48

Like it's getting up into your private

22:50

places. Your nether regions. Your nethers. Temples

22:54

of... Your nastiness. Your nastinesses. Temples

22:57

often erect diabolical statues that resemble gargoyles

22:59

to ward off intruders or to remind

23:01

their followers of the fiends that oppose

23:03

their beliefs. Evil

23:05

faiths sometimes encourage real gargoyles to roost

23:07

on the rooftops of their temples, offering

23:09

a relatively safe layer in exchange for

23:12

strikes against their enemies. Although

23:15

gargoyles can be as ferocious as

23:17

slods, their behavior is more consistent.

23:19

Accordingly, some elemental powers have learned

23:22

to harness gargoyles' natural savagery and

23:24

territoriality, employing them as hunters, messengers,

23:26

and sentries. Lacking keen intelligence, gargoyles

23:28

often consent to serve such masters,

23:31

especially those who can provide them

23:33

with a domain to defend. Nobly

23:37

Freight, especially exploit gargoyles, using

23:39

them to terrorize slaves or

23:41

hunt escapees. Gladiatorial arenas

23:43

in the city of Brass and other

23:45

civilizations in the elemental chaos often feature

23:48

gargoyles as first round contenders. The

23:51

Dao also use gargoyles as defenders, supplying

23:53

them with weaker prey to state their

23:55

destructive appetites. As

23:58

the elementalists say, gargoyles are creatures of the eye. gargoyles

26:00

with the elemental fire of

26:02

fire elementals. Then there are the, here

26:06

we go, capoacinths. Very

26:08

good. These are gargoyles

26:10

that live underwater. Their wings are used

26:13

to aid in their swimming. Other than

26:15

their habitat, they're the same as land-dwelling

26:17

kin preferring shallow waters and undersea caves.

26:19

I don't have a good like off

26:21

the top name for wet gargoyles. Yeah,

26:25

me neither. They're just wet gargoyles. Then there

26:27

is the marg oil.

26:29

There we go. Even more vicious

26:31

than normal gargoyles, marg oils prefer

26:33

living underground and are sometimes found

26:35

leading a group of normal gargoyles.

26:38

Their skin is much harder and they are more

26:40

difficult to spot against stone. Also, they're bigger. They're

26:43

dire gargoyles. That's what they are. They're

26:45

dire gargoyles. Oh my gosh. Gargoyles live

26:47

for about 50 years, but

26:49

they do not age well in stone form.

26:51

Because they spend most of their time in

26:53

stasis, it's possible, even common for gargoyles, to

26:56

live for centuries. They rarely

26:58

die of old age. However, they delight

27:00

in torturing weaker creatures and sometimes misjudge

27:02

their targets. Almost inevitably, gargoyles

27:04

are slain by adventurers, other monsters, or

27:06

their own kind. An

27:08

elderly gargoyle is more likely to assume stone

27:10

form and never reawaken than to simply let

27:12

its years run out. Yeah, I was going

27:14

to ask if that was the like, I'm

27:17

going to perch at master's dormitory

27:20

one last time. If

27:23

I see a really bad

27:25

interloper, I'm going to like all

27:28

my style, like jump off this ledge

27:30

and throw my last punch. Yeah. Put

27:32

your back into it. Yeah. I watched

27:34

my hero academia. Yeah, that's good. A

27:36

bunch of it. I don't know what

27:38

the, cause I know you probably watched

27:40

a subbed, right? I absolutely. So I

27:43

don't know what the, what the quote

27:45

is in that scene that you're referring

27:47

to. It's very early

27:49

on. It's pretty early on. It's hard to even

27:51

call it a spoiler. I know, but still spoiler,

27:54

but that last punch that you're referring to, but

27:56

in the English dub, which is the one I

27:58

watch, he says, uh, switching

32:00

explosively from attentive and guarded to tumultuous

32:02

and destructive. A gargoyle might crouch in

32:05

stone form for 10 years, ignoring hundreds

32:07

of travelers to pass beneath its perch,

32:09

and then spring upon one particular victim

32:11

who seems no different from any other.

32:15

Another gargoyle might refuse to let any creature

32:17

pass without accosting them. That's

32:20

all I have on gargoyles. We're going to take

32:22

a short rest and then we'll come back and we'll read the

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me just do it on the other side. Now it's up here on

42:02

the right. False appearance. While

42:04

the gargoyle remains motionless, it is

42:06

indistinguishable from an inanimate statue. Multi,

42:09

oh we got actions. Multi attack, the gargoyle makes

42:12

two attacks, one with its bite and one with

42:14

its claws. Bite is gonna be

42:16

a melee weapon attack, plus four to

42:18

hit, reach of five feet, one target

42:20

hits for five or 1D6 plus two

42:22

piercing damage. We also have the claw,

42:24

melee weapon attack, plus four to hit, reach of five

42:26

feet, one target. It's gonna

42:28

hit for five or 1D6 plus two

42:31

slashing damage. Pretty standard when it comes

42:33

to the attacks. I think again, the

42:35

things that make this stat block interesting

42:37

are the being

42:39

able to attack from surprise. Yeah, the false

42:42

appearance. Being able to fly 60 feet

42:44

is very far, that's very fast. So this thing

42:46

can be super mobile if you play it right.

42:50

And then the being able to resist

42:52

bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non-magical attacks

42:54

that aren't animantine is great

42:56

against a low level party because most of them shouldn't

42:59

be having magical weapons at that point. It

43:03

could be tanky and fast, it just

43:05

doesn't really hit that hard, but that's okay. If

43:07

it's doing all the other things. I think it's

43:09

doing what you need it to do for a

43:11

challenge rating two creature. And

43:13

the high AC, well you know, 15's

43:16

pretty high for CR2 is good. 50

43:20

HP's not a lot, not at

43:22

all. No, but that resistance

43:24

I think can basically doubles

43:27

it. That's basically what we're doing here is

43:29

we're putting the resistance on it,

43:31

we've got a decent AC. That's

43:34

gonna make this creature carry to be a good

43:36

mini boss or a boss

43:38

for low level. Yeah, I see this

43:41

being like an oh

43:43

shit challenge for a level. Three

43:46

to five party? No, I would say two to

43:48

three party. Basically you throw one or two of

43:50

these depending on their level at the very beginning

43:52

of a dungeon to give them that feeling like

43:55

oh fuck what are we in for? Cause obviously

43:57

that didn't take us out, but that was tough

43:59

and we just. Scott here kind of feel yeah,

44:01

I'm putting my best stuff at the front of

44:04

the dungeon if I'm an evil archmage And

44:06

then I'm like like my best Sentient

44:09

people I'm gonna put Most

44:12

of them towards the front and keep

44:14

like my most trusted towards the back

44:16

sure yeah And then I'm gonna booby

44:18

trap in between you know here

44:20

and there yeah, not everywhere cuz I Function

44:23

it's gonna have places. I need to be yeah,

44:25

and I don't need these giant powerful monsters in

44:27

my way Yeah, like giant powerful monsters and know

44:29

who I am up at the front. I'm gonna

44:31

let me in I'm gonna go down a hallway

44:34

I'm gonna hit the fucking stone code to let

44:36

me through the spike trap And then I'm gonna

44:38

go into the rooms I need to go into

44:40

and then I'm gonna go pet

44:42

my fucking naga or whatever the fuck I got in

44:44

the back My

44:47

chimera your chimera yeah, I don't know come

44:49

here if I could Absolutely,

44:52

so we decided pull up the the

44:54

Nabassu stat block When

44:56

I say substantially more powerful, it's like

44:58

it's oh my god 15

45:04

fiend you can find this one in either morning

45:07

kind of some of those or multi

45:10

Monsters of the multiverse yeah It's

45:13

a demon yeah, tell me all about this demon bro. You're

45:15

the fiend again. It's true 15 minutes Yeah, of course

45:18

more than kind of this here. It is more to

45:20

kind of do you picture? Fucking

45:22

what's his Benedict Cumberbatch as morning kind of

45:24

I don't I do because I

45:26

it's like so close to dr. Strange and the

45:28

multiverse of madness that I guess so well You

45:30

know he his picture is on

45:32

the cover literally looks like Benedict

45:35

Cumberbatch to like a little bit He's

45:39

got the he's got the okay, dr.

45:41

Strange. Yes, dr. Strange Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah,

45:43

okay, okay Like

45:47

Benedict Cumberbatch at all He's

45:49

got the mustache That right

45:52

they're different guys. Yeah, they're different guys, but

45:54

they went to high school together right as

45:56

they go to the same like as a

45:59

ball person that those

46:02

of you yeah those of you those

46:04

ball don't know I am bald well

46:06

it's not always bald I use a very long luscious

46:09

hair but that's not what we're talking about right now

46:11

but as a bald person you

46:13

learn very quickly that bald people

46:15

in media are almost always the

46:17

villain almost across the board is

46:20

a trophy thing never except for

46:23

one punch man you don't see a bald hero

46:25

very often now more than kind of

46:27

is not a hero he's kind of an asshole but

46:29

he's not a villain and for that I appreciate him

46:31

I'd shout out to Dominic Toretto who's

46:33

not necessarily like I mean he's a

46:36

hero right who Dominic Toretto I don't

46:38

know that it's Vin Diesel from Fast and Fierce okay

46:42

he's bald and and a hero well

46:44

right yeah he is the protagonist hero I've

46:46

never seen any of those movies what

46:51

they're fucking hilarious they're not my speed

46:53

really ah that's a good one not

46:55

your speed it's worded

46:57

God okay back to the Nabasso

46:59

please will is slow and temperamental

47:03

let's go okay Nabasso

47:05

medium fiend demon typically chaotic

47:07

evil I mean I would

47:09

veto that and it would

47:11

have to be always right

47:13

like gargoyles are chaotic

47:15

evil and these ones were corrupted by the demon

47:17

Lord Orcus how would they ever not be that

47:19

implies a lore reason right right like so typically

47:22

they're chaotic evil and that would mean that there

47:24

is a lore reason for this one specific thing

47:26

that somehow we did not cover in the year

47:28

of the fiend I don't think so maybe that's

47:30

something we can look at or maybe we'll reveal

47:32

itself as we didn't cover there's too many yeah

47:34

maybe that's something that will reveal itself as we

47:36

read the stat block we got an armor class

47:39

of 18 natty HP

47:41

is 190 20d8 plus 100 speed is 40 feet and can fly 60 feet so slightly faster

47:47

than a gargoyle on land strength

47:51

plus six Dex plus two con

47:53

plus five intelligence plus two wisdom

47:55

plus two charisma

47:57

plus three so they're Sam

48:00

Blood has been replaced with demon blood and

48:02

that's why they are this way. They have

48:04

the body of the gargoyle But they have

48:06

the blood of a demon Saving

48:09

throws strength plus 11 decks

48:11

plus 7 skills perception plus

48:13

7 damage resistances to cold

48:16

fire lightning beep is from

48:18

non magical attacks We

48:20

have damage immunity Poison

48:22

that's poison just poison and a condition

48:24

immunity poisoned senses dark

48:26

vision 60 feet passive perception 117

48:30

that's more like it. Fuck. Yeah, it feels

48:32

better Languages

48:34

abyssal and telepathy 120 feet. It's

48:36

it's cool I

48:39

like the sort of tie-in like this

48:41

is a demon version You

48:44

know the elemental chaos the demonic chaos fourth

48:47

edition. It's all it's all come together

48:49

here. Yeah in a fifth edition way

48:52

Challenge rating is 15. They're gonna yield 13,000 experience

48:54

points They are

48:56

operating on a plus 5 proficiency bonus

48:59

Excuse me demonic shadows the Nabasso

49:01

darkens the area around its body

49:04

and a 10-foot radius Non-magical

49:06

light can't illuminate this area of dim

49:08

light pretty cool. Told you I was

49:10

getting shadow demon vibes. Yeah Maybe

49:13

maybe some that work for shadow demons are

49:15

not well shadow demons are chaotic to shadow

49:18

demons are way lower on the totem pole

49:20

Compared to these guys they've infused the shot

49:22

They've sucked out all the sandblood and put

49:24

a shadow demon in baby in the veins.

49:26

Yeah Devour soul

49:28

a Nabasso can eat the soul of a

49:30

creature. It has killed within the last hour

49:34

Provided that I need that so it's there you

49:36

have folks canonically your soul is in your dead

49:38

body for at least an hour Provided

49:41

that the creature is neither a construct

49:43

nor an undead The

49:45

devouring requires the Nabasso to be within five feet

49:47

of the corpse for at least ten minutes after

49:50

which it gains a number

49:52

of hit dice eight are sorry

49:54

d8s equal to half the

49:57

creatures number of hit dice roll

49:59

those dice and increased in the

50:01

boss's HP by the numbers rolled. For

50:03

every four hit dice the Nabasu gains

50:06

in this way, its attack deals an

50:08

extra three 1D6 damage on a hit,

50:10

fuck, and Nabasu retains these

50:12

benefits for six days. So

50:15

the only way I see this really being, well

50:18

I see this being utilized in two ways. One

50:20

is like you do some of this beforehand, like

50:22

this Nabasu is even more powerful than normal because

50:24

it has devour two souls or whatever. But the

50:27

other way, the first way that I see it

50:29

being used is like a Nabasu attacks, actually kills

50:31

one of your party members, eats a soul and

50:33

runs, dips out, and now

50:35

you have an hour to hunt that motherfucker down

50:37

or your buddy Bob is dead for good. Not

50:40

dead for good. A creature devoured by a Nabasu

50:42

can be restored to life, but only by the

50:44

wish spell. Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a

50:46

tough one, that's a little nice spell. Yeah, as

50:49

a dungeon master that saw people

50:51

draw from the deck of many things

50:53

many times, wish rarely,

50:55

rarely comes up actually. It

50:58

only came up once out of

51:00

like 10 to 20 draws. Wow.

51:04

Yeah, I saw a lot of sadness, a

51:06

lot of funny stuff too. Also

51:09

cool, like if you're like a pit fiend

51:11

or something or I guess not a pit

51:14

fiend, but whatever, what's the equivalent? Oh

51:17

my God. Demonic boss monster. Oh

51:19

my gosh, why am I drawing a blank? It's the one that

51:21

looks like a ball rug, it's the baller. The

51:23

baller, yeah, if you're a baller and

51:26

you've got one of these hanging out with you, you're

51:28

like a party comes up to chit

51:30

chat and wants to fight you and you're like, I don't

51:32

have time. I'm gonna take one of

51:34

the souls I carry on me out of my little

51:36

bag and feed it to my boy and leave him

51:39

behind to fight you guys. Sensubine. Yeah, sensubine, sensubine.

51:43

Magic resistance, the Nabasu has advantage on saving

51:45

throws, against spells and other magical effects. This

51:47

is a crazy cool monster. I like it.

51:51

Actions, multi attack, the Nabasu makes one

51:53

bite attack and one claw attack and

51:55

it uses soul stealing gaze. is

52:00

a melee weapon attack with plus 11 to hit,

52:02

reach of five feet, one target. It's gonna hit

52:04

for 38 or 5d12 plus six necrotic damage. Claws,

52:07

a melee weapon attack plus 11 to

52:09

hit, reach of five feet, one target.

52:11

It's gonna hit for 28, 4d10 plus six,

52:13

force damage. Cool, cool. Soul

52:16

stealing gaze. The Nabasu targets one creature it can

52:19

see within 30 feet of it. If the target

52:21

isn't a construct or an undead, it must

52:23

succeed on a DC 16 charisma saving throw or

52:25

take 13 or 2d12 necrotic damage. The

52:29

target's HP maximum is reduced by an

52:31

amount equal to the necrotic damage dealt. And

52:34

the Nabasu gains hit points equal to half that amount. Let's

52:37

see. So it would steal little parts of your

52:39

soul. Right. This reduction

52:41

lasts until the target finishes a shorter

52:43

long rest. The target dies if its

52:45

HP maximum is reduced to zero. And

52:48

if the target is a humanoid, it

52:50

immediately rises as a ghoul. I love

52:52

that. Under the Nabasu's control. You can

52:54

check the monster menu for ghoul. That's

52:56

fun. Wow. Not

53:00

a gargoyle technically, but still

53:03

a really cool stat block. Kind of way a

53:05

hundred times cooler than a gargoyle. Yeah. Maybe

53:08

you can like have

53:10

a gargoyle that's like been corrupted by

53:12

a demon, a

53:14

local demon and it's like

53:16

halfway in between. Ooh, it's like mid

53:19

transformation. Yeah, like you know, bump

53:21

down the armor class one or

53:23

two and the HP. Yeah, make it a challenge rating

53:25

like eight creature. Yeah, so here's the, basically we have,

53:27

what I'm trying to say is we have the gargoyle

53:29

at one end of the scale and the Nabasu at

53:32

the high end of the scale. And you can kind

53:34

of mitigate the stat block and be whatever you need

53:36

in between. And if you need the Nabasu to be

53:38

even stronger, feed it your friend's soul. Absolutely.

53:41

Or your enemy's soul. Indeed, indeed.

53:43

Whatever's clever. Okay, cool. I'm a

53:46

big fan of the Nabasu. I mean, the gargoyle's

53:48

stat block is fine. It's well made enough. It's

53:50

a little boring, but the Nabasu is pretty impressive

53:52

and I like it a lot. It's exactly what

53:54

I would expect from the game, which is like,

53:57

you know, at the lower levels, you don't need a lot of excitement.

54:00

to have an interesting combat, especially with something

54:02

that can camouflage and hide itself the way

54:04

this thing does. I think the execution placement

54:06

of this thing in a dungeon or in

54:08

some open field or something like that, like

54:12

when I say open field, I mean like

54:14

a terrain of types. Is that a gargoyle

54:16

out in an open field? It's

54:18

just standing there. Standing in the middle of a meadow. No,

54:21

not like that. But

54:24

having a creature like this

54:26

just sort of randomly placed

54:30

like why have we been seeing gargoyles in

54:32

these random places and then you find out

54:34

like the boss of whatever area you've

54:37

been traipsing about has been

54:39

spying on you with his gargoyle homies. Indeed.

54:42

There's a lot of cool applications for the gargoyle.

54:44

Very early, one of my first campaigns I used

54:47

one and the fight went really well. It

54:49

was cool because your party

54:52

members walk into an area

54:54

and there's statues. I

54:56

had mine in like a circular kind of area.

54:59

And then all of a sudden it just like walks out and

55:01

it's like one of these guys is here and it's time to

55:03

fucking fight. And yeah,

55:05

it's not something, it's

55:09

a very gritty good

55:11

ambush monster. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously

55:13

like classic for our reason. Yeah, so I can

55:15

vouch for it as somebody who's used it but

55:18

that's everything that we have here. All right, well

55:20

with that being said, I think it's time, we

55:22

took some downtime. Let's go, let's take some downtime

55:24

and go to our favorite tavern where we open

55:26

up a Dungeon Cast reader mail bag. Let's do

55:29

it. [" moral fury

55:31

of our lives and lives"] Well,

55:40

hello everyone we're back again and we're

55:42

sitting in our cozy Dungeon Cast tavern.

55:46

Will what's your favorite drink to get while

55:48

you're here? Goddamn

55:50

it man, you gotta put me on the

55:52

spot. Absolutely. Gotta

55:56

flush it out a little bit. Yeah, sure, absolutely.

55:58

Give me some warning next time. Rock

58:01

and roll, rock on emoji, sunglasses

58:04

emoji, thumbs up emoji. Indeed. Thanks

58:07

a lot, Christopher. Indeed. We appreciate your

58:09

time. Yeah, I honestly had no idea

58:11

about that connection, so now I know.

58:13

Thank you. Now we have the

58:16

Chaos King, or the Chaos King, has

58:18

also sent an email. Hello, Will and Brian. I

58:21

am a young viewer, and I am a big

58:23

fan of your podcast. I'm just saying hello. I

58:25

don't have money to support you on Patreon, but

58:27

I would if I could. Oh, well thank you.

58:30

Some kid on the internet. Thank you, some kid on

58:32

the internet. Thank you very much. Hey,

58:35

if you guys don't have money to give

58:37

us on Patreon, that's totally fine. We

58:40

really appreciate everybody that does. You guys helped float

58:42

the show in a big way, but not

58:45

saying that. It's not mandatory. We

58:47

didn't make this show. We appreciate the sentiment.

58:49

To make money on Patreon. It's really

58:51

nice that we do, so yeah, thanks

58:53

a lot. Just

58:56

glad that you're here. I hope you learned

58:58

all kinds of cool curse words from me. Our

59:04

last email, no subject, but it's from Destin Lee.

59:06

Sup, heroes? Thanks for the fun and

59:08

love. I love you guys having much

59:10

fun. Spinning good words. Bravo

59:12

for the stories. Appreciate

59:15

the love and like on my

59:17

Bazim Gorag request. I've

59:20

been homespinning this Slod Demi-Lord under

59:22

an alt name, but more

59:24

of the known canon on this monster would

59:26

be great. Slim pickings out there. Some

59:29

of it's like that, huh? I'm a 54

59:31

year old feller. Started

59:34

playing in 1980. I have

59:36

a 20 plus year long world build project

59:38

getting close to being put on the table

59:40

by title of Terrors

59:42

of Taru. That's awesome.

59:45

That's really cool. They said, thank

59:47

you, high primary of Taru, et

59:51

cetera, et cetera. Well, thanks Destin.

59:54

That's crazy. 20 plus year

59:56

long world build is quite the feat. Indeed.

1:06:00

and just has it. It's just like eventually we

1:06:02

will cover this, but the multitude of topics the

1:06:04

game has is D&D's not the

1:06:06

only thing we're gonna be doing. Yeah,

1:06:08

number one, D&D's not the only thing.

1:06:11

We tend to have themes

1:06:13

throughout the year, so we're trying to make

1:06:15

room for that. We have Patreon voted episodes, we

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have to make room for that. And when

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new interesting things drop, like a lot of

1:06:21

the new players handbooks coming out this year, we're

1:06:23

gonna have to cover that too. So

1:06:26

we only get 52 of these sons of bitches

1:06:28

a year. And we

1:06:30

do what we can when we can. Right,

1:06:32

and we would love to do more drop,

1:06:34

but there's just not, weekly is what

1:06:36

we're gonna be able to do. That's

1:06:38

the way it's gonna be. But will there be

1:06:41

a Serik episode? Yes, I definitely want a Serik

1:06:43

episode. I'd love to have Diggy on for that

1:06:45

episode because he hates Serik, and it'll

1:06:47

be very funny to explain how terrible Serik

1:06:49

is while he seeps over it. There

1:06:52

was also one of our patrons

1:06:55

chimed in on that and

1:06:58

said, to be fair, they never said

1:07:00

when they'd get their own episode. Yeah, that's exactly.

1:07:02

It might be 50, but there'll be a Serik

1:07:04

episode. Right, so unless something

1:07:07

major happens and we just can't do

1:07:09

the show anymore or don't want to

1:07:11

for whatever issue comes up, which you

1:07:14

don't really foresee those types of things, right? We

1:07:16

plan on making the show for

1:07:19

as long as we feel like it, pretty

1:07:21

much. So eventually it will get their own

1:07:24

episode, but we're not

1:07:26

promising them and we're not promising

1:07:28

when either. So

1:07:32

traditionally, as what I was trying to say, is

1:07:35

a lot of those things that we have talked

1:07:37

about in passing have gotten

1:07:39

their own episodes. So just

1:07:41

be patient. Or chime

1:07:43

in like that and, okay, well,

1:07:45

now it's refreshed and maybe it'll

1:07:47

come sooner, maybe not. It's

1:07:50

hard to say. But we hear you is

1:07:53

what I really want to say is you're

1:07:55

not unheard in this matter.

1:07:58

It's just, we're gonna do it when we do it. So

1:08:00

that that's all I'm sorry. I wanted to

1:08:02

chime in and address that because I'm sure

1:08:04

that People listening to

1:08:06

older episodes are gonna hear stuff like that and go

1:08:08

look. Oh, did they do it yet? Oh, they did

1:08:10

it and be disappointed and I'm sorry about that Yeah,

1:08:12

but that's just the way it is and

1:08:15

we'll get to when we get to it though.

1:08:17

So keep hanging on There's lots of cool stuff

1:08:19

to talk about indeed. There is forgotten realms. It's

1:08:21

not the top of that list. It's not All

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right, next up we have a five-star review

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the dungeon cast. Thank you and boom very

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nice five-star review I wonder if they're two and

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a half doors big That's

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a Dima that's a I

1:08:50

didn't get it. Yeah, I get it now.

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Okay last up we have Overexcited

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about everything has left a five-star

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review sick. Absolutely. I'm

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into your vibe Absolutely

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fantastic. I've been playing D&D for 20

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years and still I learned so much

1:09:06

new stuff with every episode of this

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podcast The hosts are fantastic. The topics

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are interesting the music rips I

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find myself recommending episodes to my friends

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constantly Search for any topic and they

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table. Thank you Brian and well for your

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years of hard work and dedication Thank

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you overexcited about everything. I appreciate it much appreciated

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all the review. That was last one, right? It

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was last one. Thank you guys so much. You

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can go to any review our

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more show so please Please

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help So

1:09:58

that's That's it. We

1:10:01

finished our tavern snacks. I'm

1:10:03

out of peanuts, and I had

1:10:05

my first corn nuts for

1:10:08

the first time that were like house-made. Oh,

1:10:11

in the real world? Like actual corn kernels fried

1:10:13

in oil and salted. That's awesome. They were delicious.

1:10:15

Really? Nice. Holy smokes. It's like if you could

1:10:18

eat the things at the bottom of your popcorn

1:10:20

bag. Yeah. And not

1:10:22

destroy your mouth. Okay, for sure,

1:10:24

for sure. You know, they're actually, you could chew them. It

1:10:27

was so good. Okay. I'd be

1:10:29

don't try them one of these days. It was a

1:10:31

Peruvian place. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, super good. Nice. Oh,

1:10:34

and the braised meat. I don't know if

1:10:36

you guys know, I'm kind of a foodie a little

1:10:39

bit. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, I'll

1:10:41

bring some of that to my tavern talk, and that's it.

1:10:43

Now, I think we're going to be ready for long rest

1:10:46

territory. Are we good at it? Let's take a long rest.

1:10:48

Let's take a long rest. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the long

1:10:50

rest. This is the part of the show where we tell

1:10:52

you about all the stuff that's going on with the Dungeon

1:10:54

Cast. One of those things, Starseeker's

1:10:57

Guide to Dragonstar is

1:10:59

on its way-ish, yeah? Yep,

1:11:01

working on the last chapter. Lots of monsters.

1:11:04

So many, so many monsters. Thank you to

1:11:06

everybody who has supported that project. Will's been

1:11:08

working his buttocks off, getting a

1:11:10

very cool book written, and we're

1:11:13

all really proud of him, so thanks, Will, for doing that.

1:11:15

Thank you. I appreciate it. Like we said, we're going to

1:11:17

be making some adjustments to how the

1:11:19

show is formatted. You've heard a couple of

1:11:21

them in these recent

1:11:24

episodes and upcoming episodes, so keep

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an eye out for that. We did want

1:11:29

to tell you about our new merch shop, so

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thank you, Dustin, for doing so much cool

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work in the merch shop. Yes, there's

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now a growing collection

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of super freaking

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wearing one all episode, and

1:11:44

you'll see it again in the next episode, with the

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Ooz Roomba shirt, but I believe

1:11:49

there's an Asmodeus design in the works.

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There's a couple awesome Demogorgon designs on

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there. There's a Bahamut's design, Bahamut's gym.

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There's all kinds of cool stuff on there, so if you guys... our

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fans of the show and want to get a really

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1:12:52

which episodes we want to go by, but we usually

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much unless it's too crazy. And

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then we also have other

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Yeah, in the description you'll find links to

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saw some disparaging stuff about

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Instagram using artists'

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posts to curate their AI-generated

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art. Oh boy. And

1:13:27

so I see a lot of artists

1:13:29

leaving Instagram right now, and I do

1:13:31

not blame you. Oh wow, no, honestly,

1:13:33

I'm learning about this right now. Yeah,

1:13:36

that's been an unfortunate thing that happened.

1:13:38

I'm on Instagram a lot, you can follow me,

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SoundGoodInc, if you want to come

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chat with me. I'm

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posting stuff about my turtle or whatever, dude, I'm

1:13:48

not doing a ton of D&D stuff there, but

1:13:50

some of you guys send me funny D&D memes,

1:13:52

and I think that's pretty cool. You

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know, feel free to continue to do that and come

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interact with me there. You can

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also find us on discord. That's

1:14:03

a great place to come to talk and

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chat with us There's like the only social

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media actually personally partaken Yeah, discord is great

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for a lot of things if you're in

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the dungeon cast discord and you want to

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ask us something in real time Well, we'll

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probably answer we I usually try to get

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in there and and if it's

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in that particular thread But there's lots of stuff to do there. We

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have a really awesome team that Admins

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and moderates that stuff for us. So

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thank you guys very much for

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doing that Also, thank you

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to our team that helps us do cool stuff In

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the background just want to take a second to shout out

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then I think is there anything else

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you know, it's taking a long time

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far. So we're gonna finish recording The

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