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Welcome to another episode of Rank of Anime podcast, and today we're talking about
a bunch of crazy shit, including we're gonna be talking about finally Solo leveling
because I started watching it. We're gonna be talking about Midvatar, the mid
mid Bender, and uh, we're gonna be talking about other things as well.
Briggs has some ideas. Briggs has been streaming for like eighteen weeks straight,
so he's completely lost his mind. So we'll see what he says.
Yeab, Yeah, I lost my mind a long time ago. Boys exactly.
Also with us today, Truck and Briggs drugging Brigs fucking Briggs. Yeah.
I also want to talk about dungeons and dragons at some point because for
my sub on, one of the rewards I gave was I will run a
one shot under the dragon campaign for the RAN Cafe group. Hell, you
find one more person and we're going to talk about I have a couple of
questions I want to ask you guys and some stuff you need to talk about
for that after, but I say we start off with the Avatar live action
just quickly. Oh yeah, sure, for sure, of course. So
I'll be honest with you guys. Go ahead. I've been like I've been
listening to people like Goes and watched it. I like, watch Charlie's review.
I watched most of people and everyone's saying it's fucking mid and disappointing.
So I was like, you know what, man, I'm not gonna do
it. I'm not gonna do this to myself. I know Briggs said watch
it, but I can't. I started Rewatchingura log on and instead that's like,
you know, for my mental health, and I don't want to be
watching some mid ass shit Like I just just look at looking the casting for
Azula, like, bro, like that girl is not threatening or sinister looking
in the least. Okay, Like I can't. I can't bin into that.
I can't bin into that person being Azula because of Zula is such like
a crazy, uncanny character and this person cannot be that. So it's like,
you know, the original creators walked out on it. Everyone is clowning
on it. Some people, I guess liked it because some people like the
death note loove actually whatever. But I'm not fucking with it personally, But
I'd like to hear what you guys think. Sure, So personally, I
think I understand hearing other people's opinions and kind of basing it off of like
the look from an outside perspective, like how they like the casting and like
the character design or like the outfits and stuff like that. But at the
end of the day, I feel like you should at least give it a
chance and develop your own own opinion. Truck. Yeah, general thoughts,
Did you enjoy it? What did you like? What did you dislike?
So I watched the I watched the first episode and I got like twenty minutes
into the second episode before I jumped in the call. I will say,
so, I, unlike a lot of people, I didn't actually grow up
watching the original animation for Airbender. Like I it wasn't like part of my
childhood because, like similar to Pokemon, like my mom didn't let me watch
it, Like for whatever reason, she saw anything that was violent and she
was like, nope, not allowed kind of thing. Like my mom was
very strict growing I had very strict parents growing up. Uh, so I
didn't get to watch it until like the I want to say, like eighth
or ninth grade, So unfortunately, I actually didn't get to I didn't get
to like experience a lot of the nostalgia. So I don't hold a lot
of those opinions. So my opinions are coming from predominantly some of like the
memes and stuff that I have heard about from and like a lot of like
the like, like a lot of the like the very commonly known scenes like
that's my only Avatar like knowledge. I'd have very very little experience with it.
And I also watched the shitty movie from Forever again. That movie was
That movie was garbage, altogether. Positive of notes that I will say,
visually stunning, absolutely beautiful world, gorgeous sets, the costumes, a costume,
the costume, the costuming gorgeous. It looks fantastic. The bending special
effects is obviously improved drastically since the last attempt to make an Avatar live action
That are really good and some that are. There's some that are, there
are some that are, but I think overall, like from what we what
you see just in the first episode, like the bending looks beautiful, like
you know something land there my boy night Shyamalan. Okay, but uh so,
I honestly think the like it. It definitely does like the fire bending
genuinely genuinely looks gorgeous. Uh. I will say, from like the acting
that I have seen so far, in the just the first two episodes,
it seems like they tried to do a little bit blending, which didn't land
super well at least for like from from my opinion where they tried to still
make some of it. You know, it's lighthearted, it's a kid's show,
but then they also have a lot of really dark undertones and like in
the first scene you get to see some guy actually burning to death, Like
it just kind of seems like there's a it's a little bit jarring for me,
and some of the acting is a little bland. However, I will
say the one casting thing that they did correctly was Uncle iro. I.
I've only seen a little bit of him so far. I haven't seen all
of him, and I actually think he's my favorite. So one thing,
I don't think we're gonna see him naked? What I mean, why not?
I'm you said, I haven't seen all of him, and then I
made a joke. Okay, that's not what I was. That is not
at all where I was trying to go with that. But okay, I
don't know, I just think, yeah, or fucking weirdo anyway, I
just think I was just trying to say that like he was. I think
that they cast him pretty well. I think he seemed to like capture uh
because like you know, I again I don't have much avatar knowledge, but
I do remember like a lot of like quotes from Uncle Iro. I remember
a lot of his you know, like a lot of like his character,
his quotes and everything like that, you know, from the episodes that I
did get to watch, and he was always kind of like a fan favorite
of mine. But yeah, so I think that they did a pretty good
job casting him. I think he so far so far. Again, I've
only seen the first episode and then the first like this first like twenty or
thirty minutes of the second episode, So I don't have much to begin here
but to actually keep watching it if it wasn't for a podcast, based on
what you've seen, based on what I've seen, I mean, I I'll
finish it, like I like, I'll watch a couple episodes, but like
I think if I was just enjoying it in my leisure time, like I
probably would watch it just just to see what happens, see what they do
with it. But at the same time, like I also like when whenever
something has like this much of a boom of Like also, I will say,
the one thing that I find really funny is, so you know how
One Piece Live in constant in contrast to like how One Piece Live Action held
that number one spot on Netflix for so long, this has had like maybe
a couple of days where it was and then immediately got beat by Love Is
Blind. God, that's so funny, which I find hilarious because the tea
in Love Is Blind is far more entertaining or appealing than a New Avatar Last
airvender. Because they're like, we tried this once, already fuck it.
Okay, you guys, you guys ready for I'm ready to hear your opinions,
Briggs, because I'm pretty sure you got through all of it right.
I watched it all. Uh huh. I actually really liked it, do
you. I actually really like it. It's awesome. So did I have
a couple complaints? It was far from perfect. I just think it's above
midt. I think people are hate get the hate is overblown. I think
there's absolutely a hate boner for it because it hadn't even dropped yet and people
were hating on it left and right, exactly for a good reason. I
will explain this, Okay, So yes, let's hear the opinion from the
guy that hasn't watched it. I want to more of what Briggs had to
say about it. People hated on it even before it dropped, because that's
completely the fault of the people making the show. First of all, obviously,
the original creators walked out on the project because they weren't happy with how
it was going, so that is an immediate red flag. Then you had
you had the Netflix people saying stuff like, we want this to appeal to
a Game of Throwne audience, the Game of Thrones audience. We don't want
it to just appeal to kids, because the original was, you know,
primarily towards like teens and tweens. But then at the same time they made
comments like we made sok a less sexist because we didn't want we thought that
was inappropriate for people to be exposed to. Meanwhile, that was the whole
point of his character development. He starts off as sexist and then realizes that
he was wrong about that. But so they're the one hand, they're saying,
we want this to be more mature, like for a Game of Thrones
audience, and on the other hand, they're saying, our audience can't even
handle a guy who's sexist being in the thing and then growing as a person
as he goes through the adventure. So people were like, what the fuck
are these people actually aiming for? Like, what are they doing? Yeah,
I feel like they try to just keep kept their mouths shut because and
let the series speak for itself, because honestly, I have some issues with
it, without a doubt, but I still really enjoyed it, and I
do want to talk about it a little bit. So we're talking about the
acting. All the old men, all the older guys fucking killed it.
Oh, they be amazing. Talk to your acting from like Ang's Master to
Uncle Iro to even some of the older guys like the fire Lowered and some
of the about as Master. Yeah, I I genuinely like he stood out
to me in the first episode because reminder, only one episode in he actually
impressed me because I felt actually gripped by his character that in the moment of
like you know, and like recalling his conversations with his master, like it
made me feel a little emotional, like I didn't cry, but I felt
it, and I think he did. Like I I have to say,
like a lot of like the old like the adults that were cast genuinely shot
like they shined. They did a fantastic john every scene with uncle Iro from
him, like episode three onward especially just blew me away. Now, I'm
gonna have to watch it, man, it'd be fair. Though. Uncle
Iro is a highlight in the original too, so it's like, well,
and I think I think they did a good job with that, like a
character that I cared about from the original. If they butchered him, I'd
be sad, you know. Yeah, That's why I'm saying. I think
if it's like I feel like that, he's such an important character to cast
well, because if you fail uncle Iro, you fail the entire fandom.
And even like with his relationship with Zuko, I think Zuko and uncle Iro's
dynamic they killed really good. In regards to acting, I think Aang and
Katara at times sometimes a little short, but you know, they're young actors
playing younger people as well, so maybe sometimes it came off as cringe because
I got to remember that, like the person speaking right now as twelve years
old. Whatever. However, old Ang is right sokka. I think his
acting was fucking good. I think Soccer was good. They did so in
regards to like the whole like they made him less sexist in his development.
I will say he didn't undergo that development. There was like an old man
in like the water village who was sexist, who like came around, which
is kind of random. They tried to do it with him rather than like
Socca kind of had his sister's back. It made sense with how they changed
the story low key, but like, obviously it's important to have your main
characters change and develop and grow as time goes on, so I think that's
slightly a flaw. My one of my biggest gripes in the first episode,
when Ang finds out he's the avatar in the original, he freaks out,
He gets sad, super upset, and he runs away, and that's when
the storm hits and he gets stuck underwater. Fire Nation attacks the fucking air
village. Whatever. He doesn't want this huge responsibility, right exactly, and
he they do the same thing kind of where it's like he just wants to
be normal. He just wants to be a kid. He gets super sad
and upset, and then he kind of calms down a bit and says he's
gonna go for like like to think in the sky with Appa, It's like
he wasn't running away, Yeah, And I feel like the whole thing of
running away was important for his guilt later on. Yeah, right, Like
it's part of his character, Like he still felt guilty in this one because
he wasn't there to save the world and he wasn't there for like his his
people, but he didn't run away, So I feel like that takes away
from it a little bit. I felt like, yeah, no, that
was very strange because I feel like now the guilt of the like not only
just wanting to be a normal like you want to just be a normal kid,
and like the entire thing is now like now the kind of guilt that
he has isn't like, oh I ran away and this was my responsibility and
like I have to own up for that now. It's just oh my god,
everybody thinks that I am just a coward when it was a whoopsie daisy,
like it wasn't even his fault. He's like, it's not even my
fault, and now I have to like kind of like prove it. I
was like, that doesn't seem right. That was a change. I'm like,
that's that's not necessary. Yeah, that's an unnecessary change. I agree
with you. I will say I had one thing spoiled for me that I
am going to continue watching just to see, and that is the Cabbages guy
yea, a guy the og voice actor to voice that, and I heard
that instead of just you know, it happening like there was, because it's
such a like world no, like widely known moment that they had a lot
of build up for that scene for when it actually happens. Like honestly mad
respect that they actually went above and beyond to have something like that that like
could actually unify the fandom. I thought that was so funny and I cannot
wait to watch it. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious. It
was a hilarious moment overall. I don't think it's amazing overall. I think
it's worse, worse than original in a lot of ways. And they've made
some a couple of bad changes, but at the same time, I think
it's better than mid and getting more hate than it deserves. And honestly,
I gave it, like I think just below like a seven out of ten,
Like I gave it like a six point eight six point nine. Like,
Yeah, I think it's a like I would recommend. Like I think
someone could watch this and never watched Avatar and enjoy it. I think someone
who watched Avatar could still enjoy it with maybe like depends on the person.
Again, I'm coming with very little Avatar knowledge, so I'm actually excited,
Like I'm like, I have little, like very little childhood nostalgia to this.
There's some nostalgia that I have, but like not nearly enough to be
like one of those like people that's gonna like have a strong opinion about it
one way or the other in comparison to the original cartoon. However, Uh,
I am excited to see what they did with it, just to see
what how it how it stands on its own, and I probably will have
some gripes with it as well as I do with most things things that they
most things that they try to adapt, and you know, with from something
that has an AA thing and and I know a lot of the complaints have
to do with like the pacing of it, being like they were like they
they skipped through so much or they rushed through so much. And I'm like,
I feel like that's a very common thing though, because like we even
had pacing, Like there was even some pacing complaints that we had with the
One Piece live action, which we praised the ever loving fuck out of.
But it's like, I think Long Park and Anemeca agreed our long Park and
Broady were quite roush right, and they did that. They did the exact
same thing here, and again the thing is there, there's a difference there,
guys. That One Piece is a very very long story, whereas Avatar
is not. Really So, if they're going to commit to doing a TV
show on a beloved property, then commit to doing it right, you know,
having several seasons and doing it because you have a built in fan base.
If you do it right, you're going to be successful. Right.
Yeah, I don't. I don't think it was necessarily bad, but it
was. There were certain times where it's like you could tell that they were
just trying to get like an arc or like a trying to push it into
into an episode, and that's the that's the biggest time. The biggest thing
is like, I mean, yet, while I hear what you're saying,
and I'm obviously one piece is the larger story arc. But at the same
time, when you're trying to crush anything that's going to be longer than the
time that you are allotted to do a live action remake and you don't have
as much time or freedom, there's gonna be sacrifices. There's gonna be cuts,
and obviously not like the directors aren't going to magically make everything work out
perfectly one to one or you know, like they're going to make some changes
that people are upset about. I know part of it is Netflix's fault as
a company, because, for example, if they committed to four seasons of
Avatar, you know, the four nations for seasons forty episodes, it would
be much easier than not knowing whether they're only going to have one season or
two or or you know, so then they're trying to kind of like end
it in a way where it would be kind of satisfying. Stuff like that,
and that screws you up. If they could get that commitment ahead of
time. It's like, this is a beloved franchise, it has a huge
ndbase. We can definitely do this. I think that would be way better.
But they don't do that. They're just like, oh, we'll see
how it goes, and that's what screws them. I feel like it screws
them. But at the same time, definitely with Game of Thrones and stuff,
I think they might because I think Game of Thrones had like assurances they
would get a certain amount of seasons and stuff like that. But yeah,
I think the way Netflix does it is very stupid, and then they end
up canceling a lot of stuff because it doesn't mean people's expectations right. But
then you also have to take into account the budget that is needed for productions
like this. They wanted to get to a Game of Thrones and stuff like
that. There's big budgets for a for all sorts of shows. Of course.
Yeah, I agree the same balls. If you're Netflix, you have
to have the balls to actually commit to something and be like, we're gonna
make a high quality show and we're not gonna base it completely on how the
first season does. What you know, whether or not we're gonna review it,
because it's sometimes you have to make the investment. You can just be
like, oh, yeah, we'll see how it goes. Like yeah,
Adamactus to so I agree with you. I think like it was something like
Avatar or something like One Piece, and she's like, just do it right,
spend extra money, spend extra time, give us a couple more episodes,
or don't cover as much. I completely agree with you, But I
do want to say I've heard more episodes than you think, because isn't there
like three or four books and they're all like twenty four to like thirty episodes
or something like, there's quite a few episodes. Yeah, I think all
they wanted to do was get to the end of book one. They just
wanted to get to like it's like it's like the One Piece wanting to finish
the East Blue. Yeah, they want to first the first arc. They
wanted to end in a way where people would be excited for in two and
yeah, but then again that they get ten episodes, right, they don't.
They can't get any more than that. So it's like, yeah,
question, I wish it was more too big quick question, like for both
of you, just because and also chit chat as well. Do you guys
think that because of the like, do you guys think that the one piece
live action had any effect on how they went about like the production with of
Avatar Last Airbender, or like maybe the company's expectations for the success because of
how well they did one piece, or the fans expectations because of how well
they did one piece. Do you think how much how much of how much
of a role do you think that OPLA played in the overall results of like
gigantic? I think it's gigantic because at the end of the day, just
throughout like media, whatever, some whatever, something finally succeeds everyone else,
or in this case, the same entity is just going to try to copy
copy the copy the formula, right, And I feel like live actions failed
for so long because they would get a series like that's now, that's fifty
episodes, or they would get a series like fucking dragon Ball at a million
episodes and like let's make a movie. Yeah, you know, let's do
an hour and a half. I mean, they tried that with Avatar and
it was terrible. That formula will always fail because we're complaining about it being
rushed for when they give us eight hours Avatar or eight ten hours piece,
ten hours of one Piece. Yeah, they give us eight hours of one
Piece, ten hours of Avatar. Wait a minute, we got jipped one
Piece, fans, we got jypped. It wasn't wasn't one piece, it
wasn't eight it was well, it was eight episodes, I think one or
I think there was like the finale was like an hour and a half or
something like that. They gave us like an extra half. Yeah, No,
parts of one Piece were definitely rushed, but I think overall the adaptation
was far beyond expectations. Yeah. But one thing I was gonna say,
because you talked about like those, I'll just stuff like I rewatched Avatar as
an adult years ago, and I thought it still holds up and stuff.
But I don't think the fact that I watched it as an adult means that
I'm gonna be less upset if they screw things up. No, And I
know I don't think that either. I'm just saying that I don't really have
any like I didn't get to watch Avatar and it's and it's full. Like
I've never act like I haven't sat down and watched an entire season, like
as an adult, or like I the only like memories that I have of
Avatar was watching like being able to watch a couple episodes before my mom came
in and turned the TV off. Like I don't have a lot of like
like the only or like you know, maybe like I would sneak an episode
or two while at my cousin's house or something like that, Like I don't
have a lot of memory of this show, nor do I have like like
I haven't like connected with like I haven't rewatched a lot of it as an
adult either. That's all I'm saying is I don't have like there isn't gonna
be a lot of nostalgia for me, And I'm I'm saying like for me,
I'm coming into this pretty much live action only with very little memory or
of anything besides you know, my cabbages and like the boulder, Like those
are my memories of Avatar. Look, I don't. I don't have a
lot. And then you know, I thought the Lemur was cute, and
what's crazy? I read I watched it growing up, I read the books
growing up, and my memory of Avatar is still like this goldfish, goldfish,
I think it helped me enjoy it more because I remembered certain changes.
But like with one piece, dude, if they fucking changed a single frame,
I would know, Yeah, well yeah, with one piece, that's
that's that's a different ignorance. Ignorance may have been a little bit like Bliss
here, But honestly, I think I think it was a successful adaptation.
Genuinely I think. Okay, so hearing Briggs' takes on that, I feel
like I will probably, I will probably enjoy it because I don't have I
have very little, if any nostalgia factor outside of my cabbages and thinking Uncle
Iro is dad. Like that's it. That's it. That's all I meant.
I didn't. I didn't mean to take away like, oh, like
you know, if you watch it as an adult, then like you can't
be upset with changes, Like That's absolutely not what I mean by that.
I'm just saying that I don't have any memory of it, so I'm kind
of going into this live action only. Yeah, can I say something crazier?
There's one So there's some changes I hated. I think Zuko's relationship with
his father, the fire Lord. Yeah, and like that that dynamic with
the sister as well. Is better in the live action really because in the
in the original adaptation, we don't get to see like a crazy fight between
Zuko and his father. And Zuko, who's been training his entire life,
actually did well in the fight. But it was his his empathy and his
like, his his kind heartedness that made him hold back and lose this fight,
right, Like, he was actually about to have the upper hand on
his father, the fire Lord in the fight, and then he held back
and because and then and then his dad sends him away, right and like
like and I just like because a big thing with Zuko is the fact that
like his dad wanted him to be like whole blooded bla blah blah, and
then he still has some good in him despite trying to push it down and
fight it and trying to be cold hearted. Damn. I think it actually
worked better for his story. One. We got a cool fucking fight out
of it. You Like, we got to see like that empathy side of
him, like you didn't want to fucking bash his dad in the face with
fire versus in the and I think in the original it was just like I
refuse to fight you, dad, Okay, that's cool. Like that is
you know, I don't know that that's pretty cool. I'm I'm excited because
like like I said, I don't remember any of the key points at all.
I don't like, I'm not going to be able to pick up on
any changes at all. Yeah, So I think the only one that I
the only one that I picked up which a lot of people were like screaming
about, was that, you know, the the intro was done by somebody
different in the live action than in you know, the original like mm hmm,
the like the Elements speech. God, So like that was like one
big It was nostalgic to hear that. It was nostalgic to hear. Yeah,
I was gonna say. I was like, it's just like I'm like,
even as somebody who never watched, like didn't get to watch all of
the episodes of the show, like you you know, you understand when somebody
starts bringing out the Elements, what's going down? Like everything everything changed when
the fire Nation attacks. Everything changed in the fire most the spin off with
fire Lord Oza is the main character. I mean, they were the good
guys all along, right and in MAC I think you should watch it change.
I doubt I was, but I'm I feel like it's worth giving,
like giving it a chance for the sake, like even if it ends up
being bad or something that you don't like. I still think that trying to
like either like trying to blow it off and then like talk about everything that,
like, like everything that makes it bad without even watching it or giving
it a chance, like it it holds less weight. Like I think that
kind of argument can hold less weight. It's like, oh, I don't
even it's not even worth my time kind of thing. I'm like, Eh,
that's kind of lame. Like at least give it a shot and then
formulate your own opinion. Yeah, and formulate your own opinion on it.
I think that will hold a little bit more weight in like in an argument.
Yeah. Also, I think that genuinely we're going to see so much
more live action because they finally found a formula that kind of works. Yep,
and honestly kind of too. And oh one piece live action Avatar live
action. Like, I think they're both successes, maybe one better than the
other. I'm also definitely one better than the other. Definitely one better than
the other, let's be honest, Briggs. I think someone who hasn't seen
one Piece and hasn't seen Avatar, would enjoy the Avatar one more really Okay,
yeah, but stop doing this now you're pissing me off and making me
want to watch it so I can criticize it. Do it, and I
don't want to learn. I feel like my only complaints are because I know
the original Avatar like the ones that the changes I remember is what my complaint
would be. With one Piece, I just fucking fan boid, So any
change that they made, I'm just such a one P fan boy that I'm
like, you're like approved of it, approved of it, approved of it.
Yeah. It's interesting how different the two situations are, with those with
the original creators walking on like working on the one piece very closely. Well,
I don't think Oda would let anybody touch one piece without his stamp of
approval, to be honest, Like, I think there Is has gotten the
bag before for certain things, but I do think for this live action he
came through. Anyway, I think we move on to solo level and so
we could hear from anamac a little bit, go for it. Yeah,
so I do enjoy soul leveling so far. I think that it's cool.
How they brought in the whole gaming element and fantasy element into the real world
without going the classic game. It's like it's all a virtual world type thing.
And least I don't think it's a virtual world unless it's all like the
matre or something. But yeah, I thought it was cool. I thought
so far it was. It's like interesting a concept in terms of like the
main character getting like this I guess you call it second awakening or whatever,
where he he doesn't right away get stronger, but he has to like earn
getting stronger, kind of like in a game. So yeah, I always
just like it reminds me of Sytema, right, Like you know, Sama
has to do a certain amount of exercises every single day and then he gets
stronger. And it was literally a one punch Man reference, like his his
homework for the day was a hundred push at one hundred and six sit ups,
thank lumber one. Like that was actually a one punch Maan reference.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I That's what I that's what I picked up
on, And I thought I thought that was cool. And I thought,
obviously there's no explanation yet as to how this world exists, like how you
know, these gates opened. But then why does he have like a player
menu? You know, why does his power allow him to do that?
I don't know, but intriguing so far and interesting and it could still go
the I guess the one the sort of online where jin Wo jin Wou is
it? Yeah, if he where he just kind of like becomes overpowered like
Kirito. But so far, I thought that his like, you know,
he's gone through a lot and earned his success with Kyoto. We just kind
of meet him when he's already overpowered and he's like, oh, yeah,
in the past, you know, I I grinded. I was grinding hard
in the game. But yeah, I think this so far is promising,
but we'll see how it goes. But yeah, like I definitely am gonna
keep watching so far and I like it. One thing that I have difficulty
with is remembering Korean names, and that's something that I noticed also in when
I watch k dramas is they're so different from what I'm used to. And
I guess the Japanese names I'm used to because I've been watching so much anime,
but like the Korean names, they have two parts, and I often
like they mentioned like someone's name, and I'm like, bro, who is
that again? I don't I don't remember, but that's just probably like because
I'm not used to it yet. Quick question, how far did you get?
I think four or five episodes? Oh nice? Did you see him
enter a dungeon with Maybe this wouldn't have happened yet. I didn't say he
entered a dungeon with a guy with armor and shit went down? Or no?
Well is it the main the big dungeon with like the big statues.
No, so that's a cool concept. I think it's a really entertaining start
to a series with that dungeon where it's like a double double dungeon. It's
way more powerful than they thought. It was creepy as hell with a twist
at the end. Like, I think it's a good start. It probably
gets mult people's like interest. But there's another dungeon they go into afterwards.
That's episode five. I don't think you got that for five yet. Okay,
so maybe then I'm not in the in that one. I saw the
one where he goes into a dungeon by himself that like is like in the
subway station. Oh yeah, so you you watched four for sure? Yeah,
So he ends up like beating that dungeon and by himself, and it's
like people don't even realize it's a dungeon. So I thought it was cool.
Cool. He's kind of like it's like an what do they call that
augmented reality type thing, but like obviously it's magic, it's not tech.
But yeah, I thought it was cool, like he sees things that other
people don't see in the same location. Yeah, I think you should keep
on watching as well, because I think you might appreciate some of the darker
elements of this series because some stuff does go down. I'm not gonna spoil,
but it does get pretty pretty good. I definitely see because like when
he went into the dungeon where it was like huge statues and stuff, like
a bunch of people got killed. Like it wasn't just like, oh,
we all made it out a lot. It was like, no, like
some people, even people that we got like a little bit of a backstory
and stuff like that, they just got killed, bro, and just like,
oh shit, like this is They're not joking. I think some of
my chat is getting confused between you and goes in Right now, this is
so funny. Didn't you just read it and you guys do a podcast on
it. No, that's goes it. Yeah, that's my brother. We
have a similar voice though, Yeah, it wasn't still my favorite. Rude
You owe your life to meet trug Trump. Yeah, okay, you literally
owe your whole identity to a character I created. That's true. I guess
that's fair. I am. I am the solo leveler of you or whatever
that means. That's fair. Yeah, yeah, I have I have your
name and the name that you created and the design that you created, but
everything else is all me bybe Yeah, animat. I like that you pointed
out that he actually starts off week and has to work a little bit for
his power. Like, guess he was kind of handed. Like the ability,
the ability to gain solo leveling and actually get stronger and stuff. We
still have to work for it to a certain extent and grind. And I
appreciate that because the amount of anime nowadays that are just like I got eye
to another world with some insane skill or cheap skill. It's like, I'm
happy that's ability. It takes. It takes. It takes place in our
world to some fantasy elements powers, and there's a gates it opened, it's
like and then he has to like work for it, you know, anything
else. Some me think, oh, well, why you talk about Dungeon
and dragons though, yeah, okay, well you don't want to talk about
anything else about Soul Leveling because I feel like there's quite a bit of hype
for it, and uh, I'm just I think, yeah, I think
the show definitely has a lot of potential. I have heard from people before
that the webcomic kind of diverges from the original concept and some people didn't like
that. Oh I didn't know that, but yeah, light novel to web
comic, I believe. Yeah, whatever it is, whatever the original work
is, some people were saying that it kind of like that. I don't
know if it's the concept that changes or just like the perspective or something.
But people were saying that they don't necessarily like it. So I'm wondering what
exactly that is. I don't know, I haven't heard. Maybe maybe it's
the main character becoming like super op or something he does. So that is
one thing you were you were worried about, like the Sayo effect. He
h Unfortunately, the power creep is quick. Yeah, But at the same
time, you get badass moments, there are dark moments, and it is
hype. There's it's not it's not the best anime in the world or man
one in the world, but it is at the very least I feel like
it'll capture your attention and hold it. It's one that definitely, like like
when the Pandemic hit, like that was like the web tune to read every
single week like that, It was like that in Tower like that Tower God,
yeah, Tower of mid Like it was one of those things where like
that like those were the it things that would be on every web tune ad
and then like when those and the same with what was what was it out
of high school that got an anime like that? Similar Yeah, like those
like those were the it Like Manoa of the Pandemic, I will say easily
top three. So the fact that we're getting Solo Leveling last is kind of
funny. In my does be like a better version of the the other two
in terms of just how it's being adopted, like the quality of the animal
Like it feels like just like an anime. The only difference is that they
have Korean names instead of Japanese names, but like it feels like it's like
a proper budget, proper things that. Like, to me, the Tower
of God anime felt kind of like amateurish. Yeah, dude, I I
re read a little bit of Tower of God and the mod was a little
bit slower paced. But maybe that's what that's what the mon Maybe that's what
the fucking anime needed, just to be a little bit more stick to the
source material because it did not hold I don't know, Tower God could not
hold my hand. Yeah, I was gonna say, I was like,
I feel like, I feel like Tower of God was one of the first
like iconic Brigo hate Boner moments that I remember from back in the day,
like so much for me. They all thought I was gonna love it.
They're like, it's the one piece of Manoa. Oh yeah, that's right.
Everybody was so like. I was like, I was like, I
remember Brigo fucking hating the Tower of God. I think Crunchy Old did a
terrible adaptation. They did because they tried to make it crunchy Old original and
they saw how terrible that worked for them in the past. Yeah, and
God of High School looked bad ass. Fight scenes were badass. Apparently they
skipped a lot I'm like, no, wonder, I don't care about to
do these characters other than the main guy. They fucking skipped so much shit
apparently, And like Adam Back said, I think finally, having read both
Soul Lovely and and watched it, finally we're getting a good adaptation. Yeah.
And I can't believe that those fuckers at crunchyroll actually thought, you know
what, we are going to put out a high Guardian spice after everything,
and they actually fucking released Oh my god. Okay, I want to ask
you guys, what are your current experiences with Dungeons and Dragons. Been a
player for five years, player for five years years. I've done one shots,
ongoing campaigns. I have done one shots, and I've been in two
completed campaigns, uh. Two completed campaigns, two that went on hiatus,
one that I had won I had to leave because of familial issues. Uh.
And then yeah, so and I've and I've done a ton of and
I am also still in one ongoing campaign that plays monthly in person at the
table. So it's yeah. So I've had a lot of experience, and
I've done like a bunch of different world types, Like I've done one where
it's more of like a futuristic world setting where they we have like you know,
guns and Ammo and shit like that. I've done some steampunk esque world
settings, and I've done your classic fantasy world setting, so I've I've played
a lot of different I have a lot a lot of experience with a variety
of D and D campaigns and settings and played a middle multitude of characters in
classes. Whatever classes have you played. I've played a monk, I've played
a ranger. I've played a fighter, I've played a sorcerer and a barbarian.
Played quite a bit. I've played quite a bit. You played more
than me. All I've done is barbarian, rogue, and wizard, and
those are all fun. See, I haven't played a wizard yet and I
have I haven't played a wizard, which I really want to play. And
I also haven't played a bard yet or I made a bar oh. I
also I also made a rogue at one point for a one shot I wanted
to. I've wanted to play a barred really bad, like they're so fun.
Oh. I've also played a cleric. Clerics was my first ever character.
Clerics are so much fun. It's basically like I love the Cleric because
it's like you can heal, but you also, like Tank, everything can
do a shit ton of damage and you have a lot of spell slots.
It's great. I think a Cleric would be the next thing I would want
to play. It's fun, it's fun, very good support character ANIMEC.
Do you have any experience with Under the Dragons yet? No, I've never
played it. My only experience is that people keep talking about it and I
think it sounds like a cool idea, But I haven't played it, but
I have been looking into it more like truck John sent me some critical role
stuff. Oh nice. I sent him the first campaign out and saw how
how it's all set up and stuff like that. It's interesting. I'm definitely
down to do something like that. I just gotta obviously find the time for
something like that, because with family life and work life and everything, you
know, it's hard to find time. So what I'm thinking of doing is
I would just need you in a call for like thirty minutes, and that's
it. You would have to find thirty minutes out of your week to join
me in a call. I will set up your character or help you set
up a character. On a website roll twenty and then we play through the
website, and I think we just dedicate one Rank Cafe episode to doing a
one shot. I'm down. That'd be so fun. I do think we
would need like an hour and a half, though I don't think we get
it done in forty five minutes to an hour. No, So whatever week,
you guys know that you have nothing afterwards. Yeah, I would say
we could try a one shot. I think if we try it and we
dedicated a solid two hours to it, I would say it's like two hours
to be solid, because there's a lot that can happen in an hour and
a half of true gameplay. I mean, I'm sure if you guys are
in the middle of like a battle, you're gonna want to finish it.
We'll finish it, all right, I gotta go now, right, And
how do you feel about doing it for a Rank FA episode? I'm down,
especially if you're gonna do the heavy lifting, brigs. I mean,
if I'm gonna be the DM, like the player, the beauty of it
like I've been so I've been a player character for like three four years now.
I've never DM before, so I might suck just the heads up,
that's fine, but for the most part, the players just have to fucking
show up. The only type of prep you would need to do is like,
choose your character and your stuff. Just join a call with me for
thirty minutes so we could like choose your class and choose your like abilities and
whatever. We don't need to write three four page background like background stories,
like we don't need crazy stories or anything like that. So one thing I'll
tell you is that I don't know anything about classes. Okay, so when
I first joined One Piece D and D, I didn't know anything about D
and D at all. Russige didn't realize who he was inviting, and he
didn't realize how little I knew about one about D and D either, And
he's like, it's fine whatever, but I got I Dude. I still
don't know that much honestly. But what I would write, what Rustage recommended
me is He's like, choose a simple character to start something like a barbarian
or a fighter or a monk. Maybe monk's not super simple, but like
barbarian fighter, maybe a fighter. Fighter is very very newbe friendly. I
will say fighter is incredibly nube friendly because you just have so many like there's
so many things that you can do. Mm hmm, So like you could
be a barbarian is a guy with no armor with like he rage. He's
a beefcake. He rages, gets mad and has like an axe or sword
or something a big weapon. He usually usually two handed weapons, sometimes one
handed with a shield, but again it's usually not needed. Rogues tend to
be more assassin esque, right. Rogues are tricky because they die a lot.
Yeah, they're I mean, they're glass canons. You just you just
have to know how to like play them. You gotta be sneaky, you
gotta use stealth, you gotta disengage. You don't want to stay in front
of their beefcake very decks heavy and in the background. Stay in the back
line, try not to get dove. So I would recommend a simple character
for you to start, and technically you would have to come up with like
their name and like funny enough, Like I know it's so funny. People
in my chair are like, I want to see my character sheet and they
have like pages written about their fucking character. I did, dude, I
did one piece, D and D for three years. Want to know what
I told Rustage. My dude's Ragnar. He's jacked, he's got a fucking
eye patch, and he likes his family and we figured so funny. Dude.
Literally, I didn't write anything. I wrote nothing down. I didn't
I didn't write a single thing down. Every now and then Rusty would just
send me a message he's like and he's like, okay, and he would
be like, okay, what what what? What's the kid's name, Magnus,
what's the wife's name Hura? Okay? All right, Like four months
later he's like, or I'll be like, yeah, they got they all
got fucking kidnapped, and I'm trying to save them. Like it's like it's
very there's there's no actual writing. It was literally like a point yeah,
point four, like a couple points like this is who I am. You
don't here's my here's my hot take, and I and I Brigel will definitely
agree with me. Based on how Ragnar was made. You don't need to
have like seven pages of a backstory to have like to feel depth in your
dn D character. I have felt so strongly connected to some of my characters,
uh, and I have written nothing for them, Like my last character
that I recently retired because the campaign ended. Uh she she was written for
a one shot. She was I wrote her as a throwaway character. I'm
like, she's gonna go absolutely nowhere and then and like it's for a shot.
Anyway, that one shot turned into a two year long campaign, and
I cried when it ended. When it ended, and I like, like
it felt like it was the saddest thing for me to write retired on her,
like on her character sheet and like to actually put her away because I
was like, wow, like this this one character went through so much and
like and I wrote nothing for her backstory other than like what I knew was
gonna like supposed to be happening in that one shot because it was like we
were supposed to be traveling with my family. Oh guess what. All of
them died. Yeah, all of them died. And now like my dad
is like a devil, and like there's like all of these crazy things.
My mother is a dragon. Like it's like all of this like crazy like
stuff happened from just me going uh yeah, my like background is a black
dragon heritage and that's about it. Yeah, like that's how I happened black
dragon heritage because it was my writer, So to me, writing stuff is
not a problem, Like I'm literally writing a fantasy book right now. So
you'll have fun with D and D. That's what I'm hearing, Anna,
mag you are actually I feel like you will genuinely have fun doing that.
Yeah, I think, I think so. That's why I've been kind of
itching to try it for sure. No, I'm so happy. We'll start
off with a one shot and if people enjoy it, maybe we could do
it like every couple of months type of thing, as like a rank cafe
as well. We'll see. We'll see how you can you get guests for
that too. We are going to need at least one guest because I can't
have a two person party. I would say three max four. Ideally four
is nice, but maybe we'll start with three. And what I'm thinking we
can we can people. I don't know how people feel about me spoiling,
but I'm not gonna tell guys anything of that. I've already kind of been
planning in my head. I think we're going to start with this a very
basic fantasy world. Also again to the details, where it's just like you
two whatever characters you guys choose, just make sure they're like over eighteen and
under fifty please or under seventy, we'll do. You two are going to
be ventures, and you'll have your own reasons for becoming adventures. You guys
could decide that. I don't decide that. Yeah, and you know you
got their adventures. Wait, Like, I'm so excited. I'm actually really
excited. I've been wanting to play D and D again, like h ever
since my last campaign ended, and like I only get it once a month
or once every two months now, so it's like, oh, I'm actually
I've been itching to play, so like this is this is really scratching my
This is really scratching my itch. I'm really excited, and I'm gonna start.
Your guys, Clearly Stark John likes it and has experience, so then
she can kind of guide us through this. Yeah, I mean I've never
I've never I was gonna say i've never DMed, but I'm happy like I
and like that's the thing is, I will never like overstep when it comes
to that, because I know there's like a problem with some players that can
like try to backseat DM. I will not do that unless you are reaching
out to me for a lifeline. Yeah, if I ask you a question
or I asked chatic question, that's fine. Oh yeah. What I love
about Russig is D and D is like he just kind of makes his own
It's he has like the I'm not rule of cool whatever. It's like if
it's if it's fun, he'll let it work. Yeah, we don't need
it's a fucking like manual for like D and D five E and like all
the rules. But at the end of the day, Ruster has some of
his own home brewed rules that he prefers, and that's just the way we
play, like and chat. Sometimes it gets mad, like that's not how
it works. It's like playing every table can have their own set of rules.
Ultimately, it's up to the D to the DM to decide. I
hate rule lawyers like el L exactly, and I feel like we don't need
to have the perfect rule campaign. It's like, I'll decide things based off
of what I think is fair and obviously I want I'm gonna it's not like
I'm gonna make I want these guys to lose and die or I want them
to succeed and be easy. I'm gonna make it so that I think it's
a fair campaign. There's there's something like there's something that's like fun, like
a challenge is fun. Uh, And especially if we're not starting at like
level one, like dude, we're we'll be able to have a lot of
fun. It'll it'll be fun. It'll be a good I think even if
we didn't start at level one, which it's just it's hard to work up
from you. No, we're not going to start a level one, especially
for a one shot. Yeah, that's the other thing. So it's a
one shot technically, but if people like it, people like it, we
can make it in you. Yes, I wouldn't want to go like I
would say level three, level five max. That's yeah, that's honestly,
that's that's that's perfectly appropriate for one shots level either. So, like the
thing is that in MAC, like level one, you're basically a fucking civilian,
like you're an NPC that it's like a normal dude. Yeah, you're
a normal dude who could pick up a sword. But it's like if you're
level three, you might have a couple of abilities. So I'm going to
start the level three so you can, yeah, you start to pick like
the powers. So there's class, there's like within your class, you have
your own subclasses, uh and things, and usually three and five are where
you start to unlock those innate abilities, like Barbarians get to choose like you
know, their like elements and whatnot. Sorcerers unlock stuff around that level.
So it's like a video game, dude. So basically like every time,
whatever time you level up, you either get like improved like ability score,
like you like get stronger, or you get more like like vitality or whatever,
like health or whatever. Or at specific levels like three and five,
it's like, oh, I could use this type of attack now, or
I have disability and you add I would just add it to your sheet an
iMac and be like you could do this, yeah, and from us in
the meantime, I need thirty minutes of your time at some point to get
into a call, okay. And if you could come up with like,
actually, no, I'll get into a call and we could figure out the
name afterwards, you could figure you could figure out everything for your character,
and I just like, but before the session, tell me your name for
the session. Yeah, And well, I think it's appropriate to set a
day and time for this because it's going to be kind of like an event
for the Rank Cafe and then we can promote it and stuff like that,
exactly the class before we come with the name, I assume, yeah,
yes, but realistically I would choose between Barbarian Fighter, Ranger or rogue for
you like nothing with magic or anything like. And this will be streamed right
here on the RAN cafe, so be here. I'm just just to let
chat know like this, this will be this experience will be right here on
this very channel, so this will be super super exciting. I'm actually I'm
I'm pumped. I'm pumped. And then I'm sure offline we can probably talk
about who we can probably get as a guest. I don't know if you
have ideas in mind, art or anything like that, but yeah, not
really, not yet, but we'll get there. M hell, yeah,
I'm excited. This is I'm excited. I'm a little nervous. Well,
I'm not nervous for the one shot. It's more if this were to continue,
because I think I'm not the best storyteller. I think Animac would probably
be a great DM, but he has to learn the game. If I
knew how it works. Right now, I'm telling you right now, he
would be one of those real rotors, would have to like he would have
to learn how to make sure because, like they think, a big part
of not just the storytelling part, but like being able to let your players
tell the story with you is very very important. And I feel like that.
I think I think breaks like you will probably get the hang of that
pretty easily. Yeah, because I feel like I know better than you guys.
So that's the Yeah, exactly, You're going to be like, why
are these characters are really you're kind of dumb, Like you should just you
should know that there is a like you should know that you have to ask
me for a uh, like to check for traps because obviously this thing is
going to be trapped the way that it looks. I can't relate to this.
Yeah, A big thing is that the DM doesn't write the story.
The DM. What it does is you create the world and the NPCs and
like based off of your characters. You guys are adventures, right, so
I know you're going to go on adventures and try to like do a dungeon
crawl. Maybe we'll do or something like that. Right, we'll do something.
So I'll set up bosses in those dungeons or those adventures fights, or
it's just kind of like setting up a world, setting up you're setting Yeah,
you're setting things up for your players to tell the story. But for
example, like like this is not something I'm gonna do, but I'm missing
off the top of my head, let's say like I'm an MPC, so
I'm I'm a woman who wants my my dad saved. He got kidnapped.
So I put up a quest on the board and it's and you guys decide
to do it. So it's like I'm technically writing the story where it's like
this woman had their his father kidnapped, and he's now hiring she's now hiring
adventures. You guys chose the quest, and you're gonna choose how you go
about completing the class. I might set some some clues and some mysteries to
be solved in order to find out where the person is, but it's up
to you to figure it out right, And then when when you run into
people, it's up to you to see how you engage with them. Do
we like, are we murder hoboes or do we actually take the time to
talk to people? Yeah, are you gonna. That's a big thing that
not a lot of people talk about, is like there are different dynamics within
parties. How do we talk to each other, how do we problem solve?
Like, and it's there's a lot of there's a lot of there's a
lot of lessons that I like hard lessons that I had to learn in my
last campaign. Uh, Like we kind of murder hobode quite a bit,
and we've suffered the consequences because we like sped past like a lot of important
like details and important information that we could have had if we just took a
second to talk to an NPC and we didn't try to just figure it out
in our big dumb brains. And like, you know, it was just
one of those things where it was like you stuff, like like you're in
this game, your choices have an effect on how the world sees you,
and like you actually can make an impact on what happens, sorry, what
happens out in the world. And it's it's it's both though, like most
fun and frustrating part of this game. For example, like I was giving
an example about like you guys trying to say this person's husband or father or
whatever. It is and then maybe you find an information that at a bar,
someone knows the person or might have some information you guys walk in the
bar. It's like you could use charisma and like try to be charismatic and
like smooth the guy for the info, or like try to gamble the guy
for the info, or you can just torture the dude or try to be
like intimidating. However, your encounter with that NPC will now affect future interactions
with that NPC, right, Like if you are yeah, if you're an
asshole to this person, maybe three three fucking episodes later or three things later,
it's like, now you have a mission near there. This person could
have helped you if you they became your friend, or now they could be
their enemy since you treated them like shit. It's like I get to like
write that part of the story as the DM and it's fun makes sense,
Yeah, it's it's it's all. It's all very like Theater of the Mind.
There's a lot of what ifs uh And I think it's really I think
it's a really fun it's I think there's there's a lot of fun that can
be had, and I think the I think that the three of us would
actually do like have a lot of fun. And I think if we find
somebody that ends up like fitting the role of like that extra person to to
play in this with us, I think we will. We'll be solid to
run a few episodes, you know. I think it'll be super fun if
we had even if it was even if it was like a one off adventure
that only lasted a couple episodes, if we wanted to actually plan to do
like a full on campaign, like, I think we would have the what
it takes to do it. Yep, it's so fun. I love the
chats A normal trends. Newer players equal murder hobos, more experienced players equal
less murder hobo veteran players. Yep, it's true. It's very true,
very very true. Which if I want to be very machiavellian, which is
the best clause, Oh my god, you could be machiavellian as any class.
Yeah, it's your person Your class doesn't necessarily define your personality, all
of them. I'm just wondering if there's any classes with ability that are specifically
like good for manipulating people, uh anything, charisma based. You could have
rogues, you could have rogues, So you could have rogues that are you
can have rogues that are charisma based. You can our sorcerers are by default
charisma base, but they're not very newbe Friendly sounds like the best one because
you said new friendly plus riz bards are incredibly charisma based. But if I've
seen Animac as a bard, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I
just yeah, actually no, genuinely, if you guys have seen the image
of Animac on a horse, does he not look like a paladin? Kind
of that would be perfect. A beefcake with a sword and he like,
oh my god, honestly, that would be so great. Also, like
it also depends like when you religion when I absolutely would yeah, and you
could when you Truck John admitted that I'm a beefcake. Okay, I didn't
say that you were a beefcake. But you you want a sword, a
sword photo of course with a sword looks it looks, it looks beefy.
The armor is beefca like you can have you can have beefy armor. Yeah,
sure, truck, Yeah, anyway, I do want to know it's
okay at it back when you when you watch and you see a group of
adventures, or you see a group of individuals, who would you most want
to play, Like when you seek a party and like one guy like a
healer, one guy's a big dude with an axe. One dude's got like
a sword and shield, or one guy's got a bow and arrow, or
one guy's an assassin. Like who who seems the most fun to play?
I guess the main character who's kind of like doesn't show his hand right away,
but when he does need to fight, then he crushes you know what
I mean. I feel like rogue kind of suits that. I also think
it suits here like personality. Roads could be like like shifty and like intelligent
and smart about how they go about battle. Yeah. Yeah, very tactile.
Rose, You have to be very tactile to play, and I think
otherwise you'll do kid. Yeah, I think you'll. I think that would
definitely suit your place side. It sounds like me. I feel like if
Animac like walked into a when he when animc watches a fight, it's like,
why the fuck is this guy standing right in front of the big dude
with a sword. It's like I feel like Anima would be like, let
me sneak behind this guy or talk to him and then get a sneak attack.
M like, I already poisoned this guy. If Anima were to meme,
it would be a paladin, but I think irl definitely more suited to
a rogue. I think rogue works. What about you, Chuck, are
you is there a character that you're leaning towards playing UH or a class?
I mean probably either, I would I I would have to say either because
it's been years since I've played a cleric. I would love to play another
another Cleric, but there are classes that I haven't played yet, like Wizard
and Bard that I've been dying to play. I also haven't played a palettin
yet either, So like, I feel like I am kind of going back
and forth between wanting to do something that I know I've had fun with in
the past and would love to do again, or trying something completely new.
So yeah, I don't know. I feel like I would either go with
you know, I don't know. I feel like it's harder to find people
that want to play the tanky like the tankier classes, so like part of
me would want to le TOWRNS lean towards either a paladin or a cleric.
Uh, But I also just would love to play a bar because it like
looks like so much fun then. And also wizards are fireball, like wizard
cast fireball and only fireball. I mean, for example, that's like you
you could do whatever you want, especially for this one shot. I'll try
to set it up in a way where like you could play whoever you want,
because at the end of the day, like if you wanted to run
a wizard in a rogue, is that the smartest thing in the world,
Not at all. But so to explain to anamac is like I guess you
would notice from fucking m morpgs and fucking any fantasy nime you watch. It's
like a rogue is not a beefcake. A wizard's not a beef cake.
They're both strong in their own way, but like in fight, something they
take they take like there is a uh. There is a well known meme
in the D and D world that is, you see a wizard, it
it dies of one D four sneeze damage. Like they are absolutely squaishy,
like early level wizards are like you die any every encounter, like you're always
going down if you get hit. Barbarians and fighters are gonna have more HP,
right or like a monk could deal a lot of damage, you know,
like but also monks, monks you can't hit as well. Like it's
it's there's a whole balance. But for example, if you guys are an
adventure and you're about to go on a thing, like you could ask someone
at like the guildhall, Like you could try to convince someone to join you,
Like if you if you guys are a fucking rogan wizard, like we
need to hire or befriend a barbarian asap, you know, before we do
this, Yes, exactly, And that's why using your MPCs and kind of
like like having that ground of like knowing, like knowing your world is like
super important, and like befriending people like I don't know, it's I think
it's really cool. It's it's also, uh, I don't know. Dn
D is always just so fun because like there are I feel like it's so
I hate I hate that this has happened. But in two of the campaigns
that I have been in, I hate when I end up going on because
I'm not the one that writes like crazy backstories for all of my characters.
I usually kind of just make them up as I go. And twice this
has happened where my DM like finds my character super interesting and wants to go
down the rabbit hole of my backstory and I'm like, I don't have one,
and like they're like they want to make me like the center of attention.
I'm like, I'm a background character. Like I'm very eminence in shadow
this shit, Like, I want to be a background character. I just
want to be able to hit things with my sword or with a spell or
with whatever, or like you know, shoot it with my bow. Like,
let me let me be, you know, let me just be like
the guy that is like support. I want to be a support. I
don't want to be the main character. And it happens so often and I
hate it because I'm like, i just want to be the little guy in
the corner that just either is a beefy tag. I'm just a little guy.
Well, I want to be the main character, Briggs, so you
can you can push me for backstories and stuff that already for you. Sounds
good now, Well I'll message you guys. We'll try to figure out.
It would be so fun. Yeah, I'm excited. I wouldn't want to
do it next week obviously, but maybe two three weeks from now would be
cool. I think if we well, I think if we can plan with
whoever we want as our guest for that for the one shot, like who's
like somebody to prepare to play. Once we settle that, then I think
we can set a date for it, just because I want to make like,
I don't know, I feel like for this we might want to actually
promote it a little bit, and I would I would love to put post
it on Twitter and like, you know, get like a quick thumbnail for
it or something like that that we can use as like a guys, check
this out, raycif he's doing a one D like a D and D thing
and we have this person playing with us, and it's gonna be super fun.
It's about damn time we did this, guys. Yeah, so excited.
I'm so excited. I can't wait. I'm as scared about rulings.
It's my biggest fear is even about creating craft in the world and the characters.
I mean, voice acting might be a little scary because I've always voiced
one person when I play right, like and MATC, you get the U
set the voice one person and he could technically have your voice. Yep,
that's boring, but he can, dare you Briggs. But like but but
like for me, like if you guys go talk to like a woman working
at the counter, I gotta do the woman's voice. Yep, if you
go talk to an elderly dude sitting down, like I have to do the
elderly person's voice. And like a guy who is not my favorite my favorite
thing character, like the only the only thing that I like, or I
should say, the main thing that made me want to like give Dming a
shot was the variety of voices of like the NPCs and stuff and doing voices
because I always find that stuff to be so fun. But I've also like,
I'm like, I don't think I could give the time of day and
dedication that it needs like that it takes. I don't think I could focus
on that for that long, So like I've never wanted to give it a
shot, but like, the voicing thing is always so fun. One bribe,
I pretty much came up with a concept of like what we could have
done on the spot here. I love that like a bunch of group of
adventuress you guys have your own backsprices for while you became adventures and it's like
I it's like, oh yeah, a woman puts up a request on the
board. We started in a tavern. We start in the tavern in a
guildhall, like very like and then and that's the thing, like as you're
like, even though this is like your first time dming, like like a
starting the story in a tavern is like it's it's very common, and it's
you know, it's it's basic for a reason in that it works. It's
the easiest place to get this like like because I think a very uh one
of the like DM's biggest struggles is figuring out, Okay, how do all
of these very different people with very different backgrounds come together? Yeah, because
that is like that like that's crucial if we're gonna like how do we get
to the point where we want to form a party with one another, especially
for starting out to strangers. So I think, for example, like Ruster
would be like, this is a one P D and D campaign and you
guys are pirates. Make a character that that would want to be a pirate
for whatever reason. And I love that. I love that. That's so
that's like simple and to the point simple. Obviously, I am not going
to be doing the woman put up a quest father on the board, but
I'll come up with some other cool stuff. Yeah, No, it's gonna
be so I'm excited. I'm excited to see, like you play a d
M, and I'm excited to see Animac you know, dive into tabletop gaming
for the first time. Even though we're doing this through day scord. I
think it'll be praically. I think Risk counts as a tabletop game. I
do like like you know, t t r PG, you know, like
like it, like playing I definitely want to. Okay, let's do it,
guys. Excited over it, people, because we're gonna have some fucking
fun. Hell yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see who we come
up with as a guest. Maybe we'll drop a couple of names as options
in the or see if anybody takes interest in it in our group chat,
and we'll ideally people who have played played d before. Yes, that is
ideal. Yeah, I don't want to, Like, I think you and
I being the only people that have touched the game would probably not work the
best. But I want to ask tech that would be so sick. Oh
my god, I love teching. That would be so fun. But then,
oh my god, recond No, absolutely absolutely not, Nope, nope,
nope, nope, nope, nope, nope nope. Like I don't
know, a D n D game with recon might actually be like good content
in the sense that it's like, try not to kill yourself challenge how long
until? How long until Truck's character jumps off? A bridge? That's the
or a clip that's the that's that's the point of the camp. Hey,
why is it just you? The rest of us want to jump off too?
Okay, just if re complained, I would try to have him killed,
like I think. I think I wouldn't be recon just a railroad him
until he dies. Oh my goodness. But yeah, Matthew Jen you have
the ideas you guys have. Yeah, you could have three or four players.
Would that would be sick? I am so down? All right,
anything else guys want to talk about they or were down to wrap it up?
I am going to wrap it up because I really have to make your
g feel and use the bathroom cool. Yeah, I'm good, Thank you,
guys. I look forward to the d n D and yeah, let's
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