The Glass Cannon Podcast - Cannon Fodder 6/28/23

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

Jared Logan sits in for Troy this week as Joe and Jared discuss this week's premiere of Season 2 of Haunted City as well as Side Quest Side Sesh and Blood of the Wild. They nerd out on the 2E Summoner, discuss Jared's prep for his big stand-up show at Gen Con, and announce a new Glass Cannon Live! tour date that's been added for this September! For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Deals so good, everyone approves. Only at HomeSense. You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Welcome to Cannon Fodder. A behind-the-scenes look at the Glass Cannon Network. Yo, what is going on, everybody? Welcome back to Cannon Fodder. It is Wednesday, June 28th, 2023, and I'm your good buddy, Joe O'Brien.

And I am Troy-less this week, as Troy has left just ahead of me to go out to sunny Los Angeles to, of course, advance our business interests out there on the West Coast. But I do have a thrilling guest in for Troy LaVallee this week, the one and only Jared Logan. Jared! What's up, buddy? Yeah, what's up? Feels good to be Troy-free. Doesn't it take your pants off? We're Troy-free.

It's good to see you, buddy. Seeing you virtually, I think that I'm probably going to see you in person within 48 hours. I don't know. That's right. Yeah, something like that. I'm meeting you at the airport. You're picking me up. We're at that stage of our relationship. We're still in that early stage. A little poster board sign that says Joe O'Brien on it. Mr. O'Brien? Mr. O'Brien? Can't wait. Can't wait. Yeah, Jared is going to join me today because we have got such exciting news to

talk about. While Troy is out getting things squared away in Los Angeles, we are out here about to air the premiere of season two of Haunted City. The Blades in the Dark campaign that Jared is running. It premieres tonight, actually, on our Twitch channel, twitch.tv slash The Glass Cannon, 8 p.m. Eastern. It goes live. Podcasts will be available on the Haunted City feed the next day. So that's really exciting. We're going to talk about that with Jared today.

We're going to talk about SideQuest SideSesh today because we have the joy of playing with Jared on that. We've got a new tour date we announced, so I'm going to mention that. And, of course, if we've got time, we're going to talk a little Blood of the Wild. I mean, it's going to be a fun show. It's great to have you on, buddy. So first, let's talk about Haunted City. Great. Haunted City is... People have been waiting for this for a really long time. And season two, you and I talked about, I don't know, maybe a month or two ago that it was ready to sit down and actually start

recording. What did that mean to you when season two was greenlit? And how are you feeling about the start of the season? Well, we had a lot of unresolved plot lines from season one. So I knew we had to go back and kind of see where those would go. So I was ready to do that. What else? I mean, I was so excited to sit down with Joe and Abu and Ross again, because they're always fun and they always make it crazy and chaotic and wild. Did something change about the start of your, like right out of the gate, like your preparation? Was it just fundamentally different than season one because of i mean how much you were dealing with in terms of baggage and plot lines of these characters and how many multiple characters are in the story now the main prep was just going back and watching the old episodes because it had been a little while and i had to do that but blades in the dark is a game

that does not want you to prep a role-playing adventure that's true they do not want you to make notes all the notes are in the book i i'm still a dork and i still do this as kind of part of my job so i was like i have to i have to be prepared and i still made like a page or two of notes to get ready and of course you know abu and those guys just exploded it immediately on contact with abu it was completely destroyed and that's great that's good you know i mean i really enjoy a game like that and i think that you know we we've recorded oh about half of the season already and i can tell you that we get some big payoff on some of the threads that we started in season one already already so if you want to know what happens to the remnant and celia khan is still

a big thing even though ross is now playing ekphelia, who is Josephine's dead lover who possessed Ekaprag Wody. I love it. I love it. Valkos remains a constant wrecking ball to any sort of semblance of a plot. I try to scrape together out of the detritus of my notes. Valkos keeps wrecking, balling through it. So, you know,

come and check it out because I'm really, really, I'm shocked by some of the stuff that has happened already, really. Valkos, played by Abu Salim. We got the exciting news before we even started taping on season two that Abu was going to be

in the next season of House of the Dragon, which was really exciting. Has that fouled up your ability to record with him? Like, is that screwed up his schedule? It hasn't fouled it up, but, you know, it's made it a little tricky here and there because he is shooting this summer. So, but so far, like I said, we've got a lot of it in the can. Like, I think we've got like half of the season in the can. I mean, that's amazing that he's like, that he's able to make that time for that. I just, I feel like a House of the Dragon thing would kind of be all consuming, but

it seems like he just loves doing this. Well, you remember House of the Dragon has 117 characters. I guess that's true. Yeah. And in any given episode of the house of the dragon they're like here's five minutes of that guy with the limp who wants to kill the queen and then that's that's they probably film all of that i mean that's a guy i just made up but they probably film like some of the characters all in one day and then they're done for the season you know it's

like yeah it's just uh yeah but but you know it is funny i always think when we're gonna re-up abu and get him back on the show i'm always like oh this time he's gonna tell me look i'm busy being in the game of thrones franchise and i just and of course he's the most hardcore hardcore he was the one that kept emailing me and going what are we playing man what are we uh well you know he just loves he loves playing the game so that is uh that's the best is when you have someone as talented as him who just is obsessed with the game you know yeah there's to me there's nothing quite like it when you're gming uh a game of any kind to have people to have a player coming to you and saying like, when are we playing again? Like, I'm so excited. I'm eager to play again. You don't want to feel

like you're always wrangling or like you are trying to like twist people's arms to come and play your game. You know, when people are into it and excited about it, it's just the best feeling. It's the best feeling. So you have told us that before about Abu and it's one of the reasons why we just absolutely love working with him because that kind of, he's got, you have to us that before about Abu, and it's one of the reasons why we just absolutely love working with him because that kind of – you have to have that raw, natural passion for tabletop gaming or you are not going to make time for it in your life. It is a time-consuming activity. This is a man with a new baby. Yeah. This is a man with a new baby.

He literally – he gets on the record and he's like, hold on one second. He finishes giving her a bottle and then hands her over and is like give me the money or i'll cut your you know it's like right into character um what a pro what a pro infectious enthusiasm love love love that man got to meet him in person for the first time a couple months ago. Oh, that's great. He actually visited LA. Oh, that's great. Hopefully that happens more often soon. Yeah. It would be phenomenal one time ever to be able to tape an in-person Remnant session.

Yeah, that would be awesome. How awesome would that be? We'll keep that on the list of like, let's try it if he's ever, you know, when he gets back in LA. Blades in the Dark is a phenomenal game that I cannot wait to play with you again. And we're going to be doing that at Gen Con this year. The Busted Mufflers are back. You're going to be GMing us. I'm so freaking excited.

By the way, tickets are still available for that if you want to pick it up. It's in a big theater. And there are not a ton of tickets. More than half are gone. But there are some tickets still available. So if you want to check out that show, go to the Gen Con events and look for Blades in the Dark live with the GCN. Our modern Call of Cthulhu show is sold out at Gen Con. So that's already passed.

So if you want to see us, definitely try to get tickets to that. I mean, oh, Glass Cannon Live sold out this week in Indianapolis. So we're very happy about that. But then there's Call of Cthulhu Live where there's tickets still available. And you're going to do a show at Gen Con this year. Yes, I'm going to do stand-up comedy. You're doing stand-up comedy at Gen Con. Amazing.

Yes. The title of the show is Charisma is My Dump Stat. And you can find it in the gen con uh you know catalog please come and watch me uh perform stand up some of it not all of it but a big chunk of it will be sort of dedicated to that audience you know stuff that they might find funny or interesting and then uh and then i'll be doing my act so please come and see me. Tickets are still available for Call of Cthulhu live at the Athenium. And those tickets are just 15 bucks. So you should definitely come out and see us there. That is the cast of all casts. I mean, no offense, Jared, but it's just a massive cast of

fantastic players. It's the whole Time for Chaos cast, basically, except Ross, because I don't believe he's making it out to Gen Con. If he is, well, you know, we'll talk and figure that out. But it's the time for Chaos Cast minus Ross plus you add in Matthew Skid and I. It's just going to be a really, really great time at the Athenium. So tickets still available for that. Check that out. If you get a second, while we're on the ticket, I'm going to get to – I want to get to SideQuest SideSesh with you in a second. Looking forward to talking about that.

But I wanted to announce a new date that was announced this week for our tour. We are coming back to Boston. We're headed back to the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, one of our favorite places to play. And we're going to be there on September 9th this year. September 9th. Go ahead and go to glasscaddenetwork.com slash tour to find out info and where you can get tickets for that. Jump on that quick, because we haven't been to Boston in a while. We haven't been yet this year. I think that those tickets are probably going to fly. So come and see us in Boston. Did you ever do stand up in Boston? Was that ever like on your tour?

Yeah, on your tour. What kind of, what are the clubs in Boston, the comedy clubs? Well, they might be gone now, the ones that I was doing. I did a place called, I think it's called The Gas, which was in, you'll have to forgive me because I never lived in Boston. So Alston, there's a neighborhood like to the north. And then I also did. I just Googled The Gas in Boston and it just came out. It was like Massachusetts average gas prices and every single link is about natural gas or gasoline in Boston. I'm not exactly sure, but it was, it was, uh, I did that.

And there was another place like near Harvard square where I would do it all the time. This was eight years ago, 10 years ago. So it's been a little while. I've been out here in LA for a while. Uh, well come and get those, uh, those tickets at the paradise and come hang with us in Boston this September. We're looking forward to getting back there. The, uh, the, the Gen Con standup show that you're doing, are you working material for that now? Is that something that you're working on?

Are you working on that at clubs around LA right now? Yeah. So the situation is that I'm actually running the whole show this coming week to kind of get it on its feet. But it's material i've been working on for the past couple months so okay so you've been working on people only know me from my game mastering i started as a stand-up comedian in chicago and then i was a stand-up comedian in new york where i was you know i was on comedy central i had a half hour special and things like that and then i came out here to la and I've been a little bit more making my money writing, uh, since coming out here in LA and playing role-playing games. But, uh, but I

still love standup. My wife and I do a show every week together at a bar in Echo Park. And, uh, I've just been booking a bunch of shows, working on my standup to get kind of like a new act together, a new, a new hour. So, uh, that is what people will see in at gen con and you know some of the material you know that's kind of like nerdy material like how does that go over with say you know a random a random bar crowd well it's interesting the ultimate would be to get like a joke that's about a very specific nerdy thing that hits just as hard with a random bar crowd as it would with a nerd crowd yes and sometimes you're able to you're able to create something like that and it's very gratifying and other times you know you you think okay this got this got a good response it wasn't like over the top but i think in front of people who know magic the gathering this will get like an even bigger

response so i'll keep this on the i'll keep this in the repertoire or whatever so it's interesting to kind of work that out a little bit you know um a lot of my act is improvised anyway so you know when i'm on the road and doing my act like i do a lot of material that i that i've been working on but then i also talk to people and make up stuff on the spot so um i can't wait i can't wait for gen con this is probably a weird question but to ask but are you nervous well always because gen con is you you love gen con you love gaming you love that community to get to, to combine the two things you love the most, stand up and gaming, and do it on a stage at the biggest gaming convention, you know, that we are all, you know, huge fans of. Yeah.

Yeah, I didn't know if that was making you nervous at all. Well, not until now, Joe. No, I, of course, you're always nervous. I mean, that's part of the fun of it, You know, it's like, you know, going up for a big show and Steena was like jumping out of a plane, you know, like, Oh, I hope the parachute opens, you know, but the, you know, the trick is that oddly enough, like by the time you make it to the big show, like the hard work is done. The hard work was getting up night after night and little bar spots and stuff and trying to make jokes that aren't working work

and then and and having to hear no laughs from something you've tried the second time or the third time that was the hard part by the time you get to the big show like it better i mean it better all be working like you know right or or you better have like a damn, I mean, it better all be working like, you know, or, or you better have like a damn the torpedoes, fuck it attitude about it. Like, and, uh, and I tend to combine hard work with a fucking attitude and get through it somehow. So good, good. Uh, that's funny.

I've never quite heard that, uh, that exact, um, analogy, I guess I could say for, doing a stand-up show. It's like jumping out of a plane. You get a thrill from it. There's a thrill associated with it, but there's danger. There's risk, for sure. People get addicted to it. They get addicted to it. But anytime I would get to perform stand-up on TV, people would be like, are you nervous? And I'm like, the hard part is done now. Getting someone to say, okay, I'll putup on TV, people will be like, are you nervous? And I'm like, the hard part is done now. Like, getting someone to say, okay, I'll put you on TV, that was difficult. Now all I have to do is go out and say the stuff, you know? Yeah. And enjoy myself. That's a trick. You got to enjoy yourself.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I would always say that, too, when I was coaching speech and debate in college, and we were dealing with, you know, kids that were, and I had come up through this, too, like you had prepared things to such a degree that you knew the beats of like every syllable, every way that you would land every argument or every point, or even every line of poetry, whatever it was, like you were going to say, and you were going to land it in a very, very specific way. And you did not improv a lot, you did not throw things around you like you had a very good a technique that you needed to stick to. The danger in that, and I would, this is what I would tell people when I was coaching them is that like, if it gets to that, you're definitely grinding, and you're definitely working your ass off to make it so perfect in competition that you excel that you separate yourself from everyone else. But you also run the risk at that point of not enjoying it anymore. Yeah.

To the point where you're just not having fun. It's also calculated that there's nothing fresh, there's nothing original in it. So that is also a dangerous trap. And you have to walk both lines, like you want to feel so confident in your preparation that you can nail what you've prepared exactly as you want to do it while also making it feel fresh and also enjoying doing it so that, you know, when those laughs come, it just, it feels so great. You know, um, it, it's, it's an interesting, uh, an interesting thing because we, we do that so rarely anymore with our, you know, in the glass kind of network. It's just not something we really do. So for years now, for years, I've been performing and it's all basically improv. And so I'm always kind of a fish out of water. And it's not nearly as prepared

as I'm used to being. But there's a lot of fun associated with that. You know, there's a lot of fun when you don't have to do as much preparing and you can just, you know, risk it, roll the dice and see what happens. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of not preparing too much, you know, kind of perform to see what happens. Like, yes, I have things that I have prepared. I have ideas that I'm prepared to say to hopefully make people laugh, but also kind of do it like you do role playing to kind of see what happens. Yeah. Do you ever find that your stand up preparations,

your jokes that you're that you're working on your bits that you're that you enjoy and like, are maybe going to be part of the show? Do they ever come out in your podcast that you do on the GCN, like in your banter or whatever? Do you ever drop little bits? Or do you like, do on the GCN, like in your banter or whatever? Do you ever drop little bits or do you like, do you just like purposely not use them in those situations? Yeah. So I don't, I'm not going to take a bit that I do in my standup and like work it into a conversation on the glass cannon. That seems a little bit psychotic to me, like, because it really is friends sitting around talking and teasing each other before they play a game so it would be kind of weird i mean sometimes i will be gauche and say

actually i was i was doing a bit about that and then i'll tell people what the joke was but like i i don't really never pass it off as not a bit you've already done before or something you know what happens is the reverse which is i find that i come up with a lot of joke ideas when i'm like at a party talking to people and i say something and people are like that's funny and then i go oh yeah that that was pretty good and then i'll go and i'll make a note of it and then if they see me perform like three months later they're gonna be like was he frying goddamn material on me at that party and i and it's like no i that was the first time i said it i swear oh that's so i love that you described that behavior as psychotic like trying out bits on your friends without them knowing you're trying outfits. I will engineer this social encounter.

How can I bring out the emotion of joy from Joe O'Brien? His breathing and complexion have changed. My jokes are working. Yeah, that's iconic. Well, it's usually pretty easy for me. You crack my ass up on Blood of the Wild. And in SideQuest SideSesh, we were so excited to have you on as a player this time, which was great. Let's talk about SideQuest for a little bit.

We're only two episodes in. We did character creation, and we've done an ep. There was a variant of the last two weeks here on the Glass Cannon Podcast. And I just – it has a tone all its own, SideQuest SideSesh. And it is so fun to be a little bit more laid back with our characters and and all that stuff and i talked a lot about our characters last week on uh kind of fodder so i just kind of want to kick it over to you right out of the gate first let's talk about your overall impressions of uh of the game and the group so you know you

sat down and everybody made these characters well you you know, what stood out to you? What did you think coming out of the character creation session? Well, let's see. I felt like I was being the nerdiest one because I wanted to do a class from a, like a non-core book. although no you you you you i felt better with you there because you wanted to be an an ancestry from a non-core yes for sure from outside the core book so i i felt like you know it was like this whole thing is like uh now we gotta get a whole extra token for jared because he's two characters he wants to play two characters because i'm playing a summoner yeah you were that you were the problem player the player that made the gm do extra work right exactly although troy doesn't care and of course

it's like no problem but like it is funny like uh just uh normally normally i'm very drawn to classic i you know i i think you could play the class of fighter a million different ways you know and i think it's or barbarian or one of the you know old school classic kind of things um and and have a good time with it so i normally am not really that interested in in sort of like something like a summoner but i played we actually just finished the fall of plague stone which is a 2e scenario module for uh for pathfinder my friends and i at home finished it that's how addicted to Pathfinder I am, is that when I'm not recording, I go ahead and I play some more.

Unheard of around here these days. Everything we play, we record. So that is so cool that you got to play Plague Stone just with your buddies. Yes. And one of my pals, Ross Bryant, he played a summon summoner and when i saw how the class worked i thought oh this is so fun i love this so i'm sorry you ran it though you ran i was the i was the gm okay but i watched him play a summoner and his summoner is extremely different from the summoner i created but that that was part of what drew me to it. I was like, I really like mechanically how this class works. And I think I could come up with a different take on it, you know, fiction wise. So I wanted to play, that was the top of my list was Summoner. All right. Well, can you give

me from your experience from Ross and then your reading of the book, can you give me a quick version of what the Summoner is mechanically in 2E? Kind of what are its can you give me a quick version of what the summoner is mechanically and kind of what are its, you know, it's what main concepts make it different from a wizard or a sorcerer? And, and yeah, so how does the class work? So as a summoner, you have an Eidolon, which is a pet. It's actually an astral being that you project out of your body in some way and there are a bunch of different options for what your eidolon is it can be like a automaton construct thing or it can be a demon or it can be a fey creature and all the different eidolons in the book and i'm sure they'll release more at some point have different capabilities and things but basically it's sort of uh another a whole other pc that sort of works in tandem with your main pc and

what i really like about it is the way that they share actions because it occurs to me that in pathfinder action economy like making the most of it can be kind of tricky you know you get those three actions and sometimes you don't know what to do with that third action or even that second action. And what's great about the summoner is the summoner and its Eidolon can they share actions. So if I can't think of something for my for my summoner guy to do over in the corner over here, surely I can think of something for his Eidolon to do. So it's easier to kind of think up, i'm gonna have you know and then the other thing about it is like they have this act together action where you kind of get a free action for one of them so if my summoner casts a two action spell but if i use the act together action my summoner casts a two action spell and then my eidolon gets like a free action from that like because they are like you can use that for your eidolon to like move exactly and then your third action can be the eidolon attacking so you've

cast a spell and your eidolon moved and attacked all in one round with only three actions exactly i mean isn't that brilliant? That's so fun. And so what are the limits of act together? It is one free action that you can use once per round. That's correct. Okay. Yep. Once per round.

And if I use act together and I can only think of a one action thing for my summoner to do well, then I'm getting a little less out of it. Right. You know what I mean? Like, but I'm still getting that free action. So basically I love that i also love that the summoner the actual character that that is summoning the eidolon it has no proficiency in armor whatsoever so you basically have this squishy little guy and you've got this eidolon out there that is a lot more durable, but they share hit points. Okay. Share hit points.

They share hit points. I didn't know that. That's cool too. Yes. But the deal is like, okay, my, my summoner is really squishy.

Do I use my Eidolon to sort of stay close and protect him? Do I kind of have them move around together or do i split them up do i you know do i get more on the offensive with my eidolon and get him out there in the fray and hide my summoner over here just how the battlefield you know works with the two characters is really interesting to me that sounds really cool i didn't realize that that adds a layer of tactical depth that i enjoy in these kind of games absolutely and then the focus spells are cool too, because my summoner can cast things that boost like power up the Eidolon. So that,

again, that helps with like action economy. Like I have something to do. That's like useful that, and it's cool. It's cool to like, like pour power into, you know,

my, my guy has a dragon so he can pour power into his dragon and make the dragon more formidable. And is this, is a focus spell, like are you picking one at first level? Is it like a class feat? Is that what your focus spells sort of come from? Or do you have multiple focus spells out of the gate?

You don't, I don't think you have multiple out of the gates, but I think you get another one pretty early on. Like third level, second level? Yes, third level, I think. Very cool. So what happens if the Eidolon is reduced to zero hit points? If the Eidolon is reduced to zero hit points, then you too, the summoner, are reduced to zero hit points because you share hit points. Makes sense.

Yeah, okay. So I play a summoner in our 1E game, Legacy of the Ancients, and I've been playing one for a while, but I've never even peeked at the 2E version. So I was curious of what some of those rules were like, and that is a very clean rule. I'm realizing when you share hit points, it's just when one goes down, both go down. Right. And I like that that connection is so powerful that even if the quote-unquote pet goes down, both go down. Right. And I like that. That connection is so powerful that even if the quote unquote pet goes down, the summoner is going to go down with the ship, so to speak. That's really cool.

And also. What about bringing in an Eidolon? What does that require? Bringing it in? Summoning. Summoning the Eidolon. Three actions to manifest the Eidolon. Ah, okay.

So it's like a full round just to manifest it, but once it's manifested, the Eidolon gets one action. Oh, on the round it's manifested. On the round that it's manifested. Oh, that's fun too. Okay. It's like, boom, he's here, but he's able to

claw something or what have you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Or move into the battle or something. The Eidolon in one e takes one minute to summon so it was kind of a you if you didn't have it and combat started suddenly you could you weren't summoning in your eidolon oh wow but the one e summoner also has a really powerful spell list uh and so you can you can cast spells you could also summon other monsters uh very easily is does that feature factor into the 2E Summoner at all? What is your spell list like?

Are you a spontaneous caster, a prepared caster? I am a prepared caster. I have a pretty limited spell list. And I hope I'm getting all this right. I want everybody to know that I also am fairly new to – Just learning it. Yeah, for sure. I'm learning it and i'm i'm a i'm rarely a player so but basically i believe i'm a prepared caster and i have a pretty small um selection of spells because i'm not supposed to be mainly a spell caster i do know that i think some of the class features later

make it very easy for you to summon other things as well so you get to where you are summoning all kinds of creatures in addition to your eidolon and do you ever uh okay and you never have like two eidolons like you never have two different creatures not at the same time but you can never switch between two creatures that both have the effects of an Eidolon where you share hit points, all that kind of stuff. Like your Eidolon is always going to be your Eidolon. Your Eidolon is your Eidolon forever and ever. As far as I know. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That is, that's a, that's awesome, man. So, uh,

but then you went like, we went a little bit wacky, you know, with our ancestries, there's a our ancestries there's a null there's a skeleton there's an automaton and then you go human uh for this one yeah yeah yes you went off the core book for for class but you stayed with human for summoner is is there a mechanical reason for that or was that straight uh role-playing reasons i i thought it was really for role-playing reasons because you know uh a gnome makes a good summoner there's a there's an ancestry or two that make you know excellent summoners but for me like i wanted to do one of my favorite things about the character and i i hope it fully

comes through over the course of the whole game is that it's like the eidolon is like this incredibly powerful weapon you know it's like this my my eidolon for my character is a red dragon and it's like an extremely dangerous little mini nuke you know that lives inside my body and my thought was like this guy has inherited it like his grandfather slew that dragon and since then that dragon has become like this astral form that it like has to obey that that family line but my guy is like a two generations later and he's like a fuck up and a and a jerk and a like a lazy fool and so can he you know handle having an inherited power like that and the answer is undoubtedly no he's going to just really screw up really badly but uh we want to see him fall we want to see the journey or maybe or maybe he will turn it around i I don't know. So to me, that storyline worked best with a human

because to me, there's nothing about that that says gnome culture or, you know, like there wasn't the angle of him being a different ancestry didn't quite work for me story-wise. Makes sense. Makes sense. I love it.

We're coming, we're running up on the end of our time here. So I want to be quick Just a real quick mention to everybody that we are The reason that Troy Can't be on it this week is because He's out there in LA prepping for our show in LA Which is happening tomorrow night, Thursday night June 29th, we'll be at the

Terragram Ballroom live At 8pm Wait, no, I'm sorry, 7pm I don't know, it's either doors at 7 or show no, I'm sorry, 7 p.m. I don't know. It's either doors at 7 or show at 7. I'm not sure. But definitely the website says 7 o'clock. 7 p.m. at the Terragram Ballroom tomorrow night, Thursday, June 29th.

And there are still tickets available. So if you want to come out and see us, please pick up a ticket. Come out, hang out. It's going to be a great time. There's going to be a ton of GCN West people out there as well coming by the show. Josephine McAdam is going to be there, among others, Nora, etc. Paula Deming from Blood of the Wild, Mary Lou from Blood of the Wild. So a bunch of fun people hanging out. If you want to pop by and grab a ticket, come and see us tomorrow night. And then we fly out to Seattle and we're playing at the Triple Door in Seattle on Saturday night this week. So just a reminder to everybody that we're headed out of Triple Door in Seattle on Saturday night this week. So just a reminder to everybody

that we're headed out of town this week for a couple more live shows. I want to jam in two minutes here on Blood of the Wild. I know it's not a lot of time to discuss it, but for those that don't know or don't subscribe, it's our $10 weekly 2E campaign series on

Patreon of Jared running myself, Skid, Paula Deming, and Mary Lou through the quest for the Frozen Flame Adventure Path. We are now 26 episodes, I believe, into the adventure. It's been a fantastic campaign so far. Everyone is having so much fun. I can tell you that for sure on the player end. What have been your thoughts of your first six, seven months of running 2E and running this campaign? Well, I just goddamn love it. And I'm someone who's played a lot of role-playing games, you know, on stream, on podcast, but I hadn't played really this long term a Pathfinder game. Even 1E, right? Like you never played oney like at all basically right no and when you're talking about a game like pathfinder which has you know tactical combat

and you know a pretty robust rule system it's so lovely to play week after week after week you know hours of the time you really start to like get can handle on the rules i mean pathfinder you know it's it's the work of a lifetime to learn all those rules but like you you know you you learn more quickly and i just love having a campaign that happens like that often and like with people that i find really entertaining and really love playing with. Yeah. I mean, and I think that this adventure path has a great combination of combat and non-combat things to do. And that's super key for me as well. combat isn't just isn't social encounters there's a lot of seriously it's called blood of the wild because a lot of it is out in the wild and so it's a lot of dealing with survival in a really interesting way weather factors in night and day factor in food hunting foraging all these things matter and then the people that you meet or see across the plain or at the, you know, at the riverside, you have no idea who you can and can't trust.

It is a completely wild region. There is no king. There is no government of any kind there. I mean, you're not paying taxes. There aren't even really villages yet that you've stumbled across. Yeah, right. There aren't even like thanes, right? Like there's not even a makeshift system of a government.

It is a – they're truly wandering – what's the word I'm looking for? Hunter-gatherers. It's truly hunter-gatherer followings that move across the plains and everyone's just trying to survive in a land of prehistoric danger both from the animal standpoint and from even you know the plant standpoint like there's just a lot of dangerous dangerous stuff out there and it's it's been really really fun to navigate and like you said I can give everybody a quick peek behind the scene behind the scenes on blood of the wild which there's one thing a little bit different about Blood of the Wild, which is it has been recorded at a more regular clip than almost any other show that we do.

A lot of the other shows, because their casts are involved in so many other shows, require such, you know, kind of catch-as-catch-can recording sessions. Right. Whereas with Blood of the Wild, you've got Skid and I, but then having Mary Lou and Paula Deming, who do not have a ton of engagements on the Glass Cannon Network, it's a lot easier to stay in a consistent schedule. And so we've just been recording so regularly in that show. And I feel like you can tell. Things flow easier. The mystery is so right at our fingertips. Everybody is on point about what's going on and the relationships and what we're searching for and all that stuff.

And I'm sure it helps from a prep standpoint for you to just kind of be in the same rhythm every single week recording. Oh, yeah. And I just love that the characters start to get some depth, I feel like, because when you get in a rhythm like that, people really start to learn each other's characters, not just their own, but that's important too. And then just extra little things start happening. I mean, can I spoil a little bit? Can I spoil? Sure.

You can spoil a little bit can i spoil sure you can spoil a little bit yeah i mean at some point you know a wall is like working on a tattoo for olog like that's like a little bit of extra interesting you know detail that i feel like uh a pure dungeon crawl wouldn't have you know like it just it's just this extra little level of and i and i'm interested to find out what happens with that plot line because at some point awol is gonna have to roll to see how he did on this tattoo that is permanently on olog skin and uh really if you ask me that's where the most suspense in the show is coming from for me is is that but you know that's coming up but um is awol's craft checks yeah yeah so i

mean like you know that's that's what's so wonderful is sort of the depth that you get with the characters and the depth that you get with their relationships yeah and i and i i also think that that stems from the buy-in that you have particularly from uh from skid and paula and mary lou i don't want to just lump myself in, but Paula and Mary Lou have so committed to these characters. Their characters have so much depth. And Skid is obviously doing it as well. Olag is an amazing character and so deep and so complicated.

And somebody who played the barbarian class, like I've never seen anybody play it in 2E. You know, there's these nuances to the class that are frightening and he's really playing up rage like it's something that everyone should fear yeah not just the enemies and i love that the rules of rage have started really mattering to the role playing of olog and that is really really cool and uh yeah it is frightening sometimes because he's such a big teddy bear, except when he's raging. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, it's just amazing. So anyway, uh, Jared, thank you so much for hopping in this week. Uh, replacing Troy on the FOD.

Uh, we greatly appreciate it. Everybody, please come out in droves tonight and watch haunted city season two premiering tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern on twitch.tv slash the glass cannon. The podcast and YouTube

video will release the very next day, and that'll be the cadence. Every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, you're going to get an episode of season two of Haunted City. So come and check it out. And in the meantime, you can see Jared on, you can hear Jared and see Jared on SideQuest, SideSesh and Blood of the Wild on Patreon.

So thanks again, buddy. Have a good one, and I'll see you in a couple days. Thanks, Joe. See you soon So thanks again, buddy. Have a good one. And I'll see you in a couple of days. See you soon. See you, buddy. Bye. Thanks for listening to the glass cannon network for more podcasts and live streams, visit glass cannon network.com and for exclusive shows and content you can't

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