The Glass Cannon Podcast - Cannon Fodder 7/12/23

Episode Date: July 12, 2023

Cannon Fodder is recorded IN PERSON from the new studio this week…and a whole slew of guests are on hand to break in the new place. We discuss the premiere of Season 5 of Get in the Trunk, our upcoming character creation for the Marvel RPG, and of course the adventure that will follow at San Diego Comic Con! In We Are Stupid, Professor Eric returns to let us know who was right and who was wrong in Episode 4 of Side Quest Side Sesh. 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

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, July 12th, 2023, and I'm your good buddy, Joe O'Brien. And I'm Troy in the stude la vallee. In the stude is short for in the studio. Because that's where I am. You didn't know the lingo. It's TV lingo. That's what we say

backstage. At the stude. At the stude. You guys wouldn't understand. You're too busy working in finance and driving a bus. That doesn't make any sense at all. That's all of our fans. All of our fans working on Wall Street and drive buses. Welcome back, everybody.

Troy and I are indeed coming to you live from the new studio. We have gotten together here to test out a bunch of stuff and figured, hey, why not record a FOD while we're here? And this is what you call, Troy, the final dress. Yes. The final dress before the episode one recording of Gatewalkers. And in order to do a final dress, you have to have the entire cast. You do. You can't just fake it and play all the characters yourself.

Right. Then it's the penultimate dress. Right. And no one cares about that dress. That's what we've been doing for four months. But now, it's been four months the penultimate dress. Right. And no one cares about that dress. That's what we've been doing for four months. But now, it's been four months of penultimate dress, but now we've got the entire cast of Gay Walkers is here. Whoa.

What, what? Skid, Mar, in the house, in the studio, sitting across from me. It's the final countdown. Baby. Oh, man. This spot's going to be popping off. Skid, how are you, buddy? Amazing. Great. How are are you, buddy? Amazing.

Great. How are you liking the studio? This is so cool. It's so, Troy's saying, this is the most comfortable we've been playing any game, maybe ever, together. Yes. So, this is awesome. And it's like, it's so great being in here now. And then it was just like, this is great.

But then, like, actually getting a look at what it looks like on screen it's like this is awesome the lighting and everything this is just it's so great i'm so excited it's incredible we are filming all of this right now as part of a test uh high quality cameras high quality lenses picking up everything that's going on here but you all will never see it because we look terrible uh according to sydney emmanuel who's teaching us how to do makeup sydney oh man if only we were recording the part where i was explaining makeup to everyone that was the hardest i've laughed in weeks i don't even wear a lot of makeup i watched a youtube video to then explain to you guys what makeup does. And we must have discussed face primer for an hour.

Skip called it primer most of the time. I'm so proud of all of you. I think we can all agree what we discovered was that Sydney's in the pocket of big makeup. Man, she's trying to sling shit at me. It costs $35. It says it's.8

ounces. What the fellas have learned is makeup is an He's trying to sling shit at me. It costs $35. It says it's 0.8 ounces. What the fellas have learned is makeup is an exuberantly expensive shithole marketplace. Kate, correct? As someone who wears a lot of makeup? Back me up. Back me up. I was really surprised that you were taking that initiative. I just sat here in silence and giggled.

You didn't do anything at all. really surprised that you were taking that initiative. I just sat here in silence and giggled. Kate, this is, uh, there's a lot of questions that are inappropriate to ask a woman or a coworker. Uh, this might fall into that list. For example,

jumping without a safety net here. How much money do you spend on makeup In a year This week You might want to make that interval a bit smaller A year is a lot I mean I'm also like lumping in skin care with this Because you cannot have one without the other

That thing said it was for.8 ounces How long does it take you to go through.8 ounces There's a It's not a moisturizer it's a hydrator that I use twice a day. That's probably like, it's definitely less than two ounces. It's less than three because I can bring it on a plane. It's $52. And how long does it last?

That's the other important question. Maybe like a couple months. Okay. All right. Yeah. So yeah, it's an expensive marketplace. Yeah. You know who else had a lot of opinions on it?

One of the producers of Gatewalkers. Frances Maremma, who's also in the house. Not on mic. Give us a yell, Frances. Hi, guys. The other thing we discovered is that both Frances and I worked in the makeup industry. Makeup moguls. You know it's a scam.

Oh, no, it's completely a scam. If we get enough comments on whatever social media post announces this, maybe we'll get Francis to take us to Sephora. Or Ulta. That would be great. I'll take a sponsor from Ulta. Doesn't matter. Not picky.

We've been looking at sponsors for lights and tables and we need to call up Sephora. Yeah, see, they got all that extra money just laying around. Apparently we need to, otherwise we'll all go broke. Seriously, we'll put it in the show notes makeup provided by ulta yeah that sounds crazy but like every game show has that yeah why didn't we think of that we should go to them we should go to botany botany 500 for suits just have all the game show sponsors we'll just approach them all 500 uh just a. Men's Warehouse. Just a moment ago, you heard the voice of my good friend, Matthew Cabotacaz, who's sitting right next to me. It's been a long time since Matthew has had the pleasure of sitting next to me while we play a tabletop role-playing game.

I'm a little afraid. Normally, when you sit next to me, the way you slam the table, both my life and the lives of my items are all in danger. This is a more solid table, though. This is a much more solid table. Have you told the story of the table on the fond? I don't believe we've told the story of the table. I think we've mentioned it in general, but I don't think we said that this table was custom made for us by McD's aunt. And it is an astounding Knights of the Round Table piece of work.

It is a giant piece of wood that McDermott could not have said more times. Once you set that table up, you'll never move it again. He was like, it cannot be moved. He's like, it's a thousand pounds. We were in a meeting and we were going, this was months and months and months ago. We were going over table options and we were talking to some table designers. And then McD at one point was like my aunt could make one and like whenever anyone offers something like

that I'm like oh cool but then we continued to talk and he was like no she can like legit make a sweet ass table I'm like alright let's fuck it let's do it and I mean he would send me photos every night because he would work all day for us and then go over his aun to help, like, polish it.

And they came in, what, like a month and a half ago? A couple of his cousins, his aunt and his mom set up this table. And we have the most beautiful, largest gaming table we've ever played. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's an eight-foot round. I'm not even sure what wood it is but it's a beautifully stained dark brown wood table with an awesome light wood cross

through the middle of it. It really does feel like Knights of the Round Table. And this inlay that goes across is not cosmetic. It is there to look good but it's actually covering the seams where you had to put the table together because it could not be built in one piece.

It's just too large. We wouldn't be able to get it in an elevator or in a New York City building. So yeah, this table is amazing. I can't wait for everybody to see it. We've come a long way from the hollowed out insane asylum that was the Androids and Aliens set. That's exactly what that was. There's cameras and lenses.

I mean, this is just a a dream it's really coming together and it looks uh i've got a monitor behind my gm screen here and it just it looks absolutely amazing looks like a dream dream come true it's a really it's a dream come true and uh we're so excited to have so many people worked on it and obviously we'll have more to say about that down the line the one last thing i'll say about the table before we move on i I have to say it. The most famous line that came out of it for me was McD saying, I walked in one morning and my aunt looked at me and was like, to make this table, I needed to use pie. She was like, actual pie was necessary to make the table. Not actual pie.

To do the math. She had to use whatever five digits deep the number of pie in order to accurately make the table because it was all math to make this thing work.

You know my wife knows pie to like the 72nd digit. It's a whole thing. People who memorize pie. The woodman knows it to at least nine or 10 just in casual conversation. I'm like, you loser. 3.14. Anybody know

beyond 4? 1.4. 3.1415. Yeah, 1.415. 1.4149. It's 1.4149, right? Anyway, call in if you know more. Nobody here has a device connected to the internet that we can Google. You can just Google it.

All right, Kate, spoil it for us in a minute. We're going to head into typical. She's working it up. She's got giant letters on her screen. Giant numerals on her screen. All right, read them off. Go. 3.14159265358979323847.

It's kind of getting hard to read. I can't believe you knew that many. Ladies and gentlemen, Kate Staines. Wow. I'm't believe you knew that many. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm very smart. You're actually blushing right now. Stop. Guys, it's the primer. He doesn't know how primer works.

I've never seen pie recited by skin that's so hydrated. Are you trying to call me greasy? No, no. A lot of things were said about my Italian-ness. In that makeup discussion, by the way, that will go on repeatedly. People had a lot of opinions about a lot of people's skin.

Yes. Matthew's the only one at the table that needed a hair light. Our cinematographer, Matt, who has been instrumental in helping to put all this together. Thank you, Matt. He kept saying things along the lines of, could you be less Italian, Matthew? He kept asking him. It's hard.

It's hard. People only can do what they can do. It was like cold steel right through my heart. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about what's going on this week. Let's get back to the freaking fodder. It's going to be tough.

I could talk about makeup all day. But we really need to get back to big news this week as Get in the Trunk returns! Last night, if you don't already know, Get in the Trunk Season 5 streamed last night, releases today on your podcasts. Or, I'm sorry, on Patreon. On Patreon and on YouTube.

Yes, but Season 2 is releasing on the free Get in the Trunk feed. We started that Get in the Trunk feed earlier this year. Season one is available for free on there to kind of coincide with season five, which will only be available on Patreon for now. Season two of Get in the Trunk will be available

for free on your podcast app of choice. This week, episode one of season two. Episode one, yeah. So every week we're going to release a new episode in conjunction with season five. Awesome. Well, you know, also exciting, we have the entire cast of Get in conjunction with season five. Awesome. Well, you know, also exciting. We have the entire cast of Get in the Trunk here.

Francis is producing, but otherwise Skid and myself and Troy and Sydney all here at the table. How are you guys feeling so far about Get in the Trunk season five? Obviously, you can't be too specific because we've recorded ahead. But how about just the pilot? What were your thoughts on the pilot, Sydney? I think I said it after we had recorded. I had to go upstairs and lay down. It was exhausting.

I felt like I had lived a thousand lifetimes. But in such a good way. But enjoy the show, everybody. It's such a wonderful way that only Get in the Trunk does where it's like you get so sucked in. Like I feel and I'm so excited that I get to continue with Vicky.

I'm just, you know, it always depends. Each season we've kind of played new characters except for Roger Comstone and this season we bring a lot of characters back

which is just awesome. Which is really cool and that is to say like later in the season too a lot of characters come back. It's just a very, it is a bizarre season and i'm having a blast and i hope people really enjoyed the pilot as much as i did awesome also this week

marvel rpg yes talk to us troy well uh we announced a couple weeks ago i think that uh we're going to be at san diego comic-con next week which is just fucking nuts i do feel like i just got off a plane and i've got to get back on one to go to San Diego. But the good news is you get to get on another plane the next weekend. I know, isn't that fun?

Yeah. We're heading out to San Diego. This is, for most of us, if not all of us, our first Comic Con. First time. Yeah, first time for me.

I've been to New York Comic Con. Our first real Comic Con. Yeah, first San Diego. No, I used to go to like, when I was living with nick nick lowe and everything i would go to comic cons everywhere but i've never been to that one why because that's like isn't that the most famous one yeah it was just like the most expensive and it was just you know i really i always really wanted to go but it was i always i'm going to like shithole places like philly and philly comic yeah they can't give tickets away to philadelphia yeah that was actually my favorite because we'd all just hop in the marvel van and like drive down there it was awesome but uh

somebody was asking me this the other day could you nail this down for me before we do this marvel rpg you never worked at marvel no no but you just hung around so like literally the editor-in-chief was even just happy that you were in the office like yeah yeah well that was one actually it was at one of the philadelphia comic cons and joe casada was the editor-in-chief we're hanging out in the marvel suite and it was like derrick robertson is having a discussion about wolverine how high how tall wolverine should be with bill j, who was the president. And Andy was there, who I do franchise fan guys with, and Joe Quesada,

who was the editor-in-chief, leans over to Andy and is like, what does Skid do here? It's like that Seinfeld where Kramer just starts working. Yeah, that's what it's like. I don't even work here. Baby takes the morning train. His briefcase is just full of Ritz crackers.

There were so many people. Yeah. A lot of people just assumed I worked there, including the editor-in-chief. But how did you start going there? Was it Nick or Pat? Yeah, it was Nick. And then I met Pat and Andy and Mark Beasley and all those guys. You would just hang out there.

I would just go. There was a couch. There was this nasty couch sitting in editorial. And I would just come down after a temp job, whatever nasty couch like sitting in editorial and uh i would just come down like after you know a temp job whatever i would just come down and plot myself on the couch and just hang out like whoever walked by like start a conversation that was my it was a different time it was just walking to an office building without an id and it was because there was someone stole an ipod from marvel offices and like after that point it was just we need id from everybody who comes in and after that point, it was just, we need ID from everybody

who comes in. And after that point, I couldn't hang out there anymore. At least you had an iPad. But I had a nice iPad. All right. So we are going to be playing the Marvel RPG.

This is, we're working directly through Marvel with this. Yeah, it's very exciting. We met, you talked about this before. We met a fella at Gen Con who was working on the RPG, was like, we'd love to have you guys play it.

Let's keep in touch. This was last Gen Con. CJ? Was that who that was? Yeah, CJ. CJ. And Matt Forbeck, who is the lead designer on it. Yep, was there as well.

And so now this week, tomorrow on Glass Cannon Labs, we're going to create superheroes. We're going to create not one,, not two or three or four, but six superheroes. This is going to be a seven person cast. And so everyone, I didn't think Nick would even be available. And, but yeah,

no, we're going to have a Nick, Nora, Alicia Marie, and you three knuckleheads. And we're going to create a original superheroes to play in a kind of pre-written adventure at comic con next week. So tune into labs. It's gonna be a kind of pre-written adventure at Comic-Con next week. So tune into Labs.

It's going to be a lot of fun. And then obviously, if you're going to be at Comic-Con in San Diego, please, I think it's at the Omni Grand Ballroom at 5.30 p.m. on Friday. Pacific time. Yep. Which, yeah. 5.30 on Friday. Yeah.

Omni Grand Ballroom. Yeah. That's it. And Nick is, Omni Grand Ballroom. Yeah, that's it. And Nick is going to be joining us there. And do you have a superhero concept in mind you've already thought of, Matthew, or are you winging it tomorrow? I have two options. I have a feeling I'm going to have to ditch.

Gobblegool Man. Gobblegool Man. Gobblegool Man's number three. I have a feeling I'm going to end up just ditching both of them and making something up at the moment. Okay. All right. Skid, do you have an idea, a superhero you've always wanted to be that you're going to?

Yeah. I actually. I knew it. Marvel had a contest back in like 1987. It was just like, invent a superhero, like write in with your superhero idea. If you win the contest, we'll include your character in an upcoming story, which I can only guess was a legal nightmare. I don't know why they ever did that. But I had this idea of this character

that I came up with back then, and I got really attached to them. And so maybe I will. Wait, this is in 1987? Yeah. So this idea is basically as old as I am. Yeah, older than most of the people here, including all of our staff.

Very impressive. I'm trying to see what happened in 1987. That's like when the Simpsons debuted on the Tracy Ullman show. I think it was the year before Tracy Ullman. I'm looking at major events in 1987. The first Simpsons cartoon. I was 87. One year old.

Full House debuted. Yep. Star Trek Next Generation was year old. Full House debuted. Yep. Star Trek Next Generation was on at that point? Yeah. So this character has been in the hopper since Full House debuted for a while. Oh, this is when Reagan delivered his big speech at the Berlin Wall. Was your character very heavily influenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall? Yeah, he was very political.

Very political. Politically minded character. Very active. Kate. What? What is your favorite movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Oh my God. You know, it's just really hard to choose one.

Good answer. All of the heroes are so good. Wow, your PR team has trained you really well. That media training really shined through there. Holy shit. I've been practicing. That's what they say. Answer the question you want to answer, not the one you really well. I love media training really shining through. Holy shit. I've been practicing. That's what they say. Answer the question

you want to answer not the one you're asking. Have you read any comic books? Are you ever into comics at all? I liked Rat Queens for a minute.

Oh, Rat Queens is great. Yeah. And then I forgot about comics and found something else. What? I don't know. Meth.

It's like something else. Meth. The memorizing pie. a gateway when i can just sit here memorize all these numbers the crystals do that to you um what else yeah that's marvel uh that's very exciting marvel that's that's pretty much it role-playing game yes we're gonna have more to discuss in the coming weeks as more new stuff we got new stuff airing uh it well next week we'll talk next week on gen con dude i'm pretty much i'm almost locked in with all the cast for the booth. Yeah, but we can't announce stuff yet.

So we will within the next week or two. We'll have cast to announce. We'll give you ballpark times. If you want to pop by the booth and see a live taping of one of these shows, you can. Glass Cannon Lives. You mentioned Chicago and St. Louis tickets are on sale. Those are flying. Yes. I can't wait.

VIPs are flying off the shelf for those. Yeah, we're about to shut down. I think they're almost sold out. It's amazing. Thank you, St. Louis! Boston tickets are cooking too for September and I got a wonderful text for an email. Huge breaking news. I don't know if we even

said that originally Sydney was not going to be at the Boston show. No, I think we did talk about it. We may have. Yeah. And your plans, you got your calendar wrong. You're going to be there! Yes! Yeah! Sydney's there! Surprise!

Sydney. I will say one of our favorite pastimes in all the tour dates has been talking about the fun we were going to have on the Boston show when Sydney wasn't there. We kept praying. We were like, you know what else we're going to have on the Boston show when Cindy wasn't there. We kept praying. I'd be like, you know what else we're going to do in Boston? She'd be like, guys, would you stop? I was truly upset. I was really excited and I love Boston

as a city and you guys were like, we're going to go to Treehouse Brewery. We're going to have so much fun. We're going to the Sox game. Are we going to the Sox game? It is going to be the single greatest trip of the tour. I'm so happy I can go. You get to watch me miss the exit after Treehouse every single time. Also, the reason that this mix-up happened is the most Sydney thing ever, because you

were like, I can't make the Boston show because I have a major international trip planned, which is true. And she just had the dates wrong of her major international trip. For months, the dates were wrong. In my defense, it is Xavier's friend's wedding. So I'm in the passenger seat for it. I'm like, whatever the plan is, I'm on board, whatever we're doing.

How's that bus driving going? We're just driving that bus right over Xavier. You're not gonna listen to this. You can't get mad about this. Xavier doesn't regularly listen to the FOD. It's weird. But we're going early. We have a wedding

and we're going early and I thought we were going just much earlier than we are. So that was my bad. Great. And you have your passport. I have. You know what's good?

I'm going to go home and I'm going to make sure. You don't want to go to Houston again. It's where I think it is. That really is a me thing now. International travel is not my forte. Yeah.'m going to make sure. You don't want to go to Houston again. It's where I think it is. That really is a me thing now. International travel is not my forte. No, it is not.

But you love doing it so much. I really love doing it. Do you feel more prepared for the international travel now that we shit on you every time you have to go somewhere? Yeah, I hear you guys in my head when I'm packing my suitcase. I'm like, Sydney. No, I don't know. It's always stressful to travel. I feel like we do it so much.

I haven't traveled internationally since I had kids. And so I'm out of practice. And I just can't even imagine how many times I'm going to look in the same pocket for the passport. Like over and over and over. At the airport. I just did it. Yeah. With a child.

That was interesting. Oh, yeah. How was that? How was the flight? First flight with a baby? Mirror was great. Okay. Good.

Shockingly easy travel. Matthew cried the whole time. Matthew shit his pants. that how was the flight first flight with the baby mirror was great okay shocking shockingly the best i mean so getting there was largely fine the mirror's big thing is she gets car sick no matter what the situation is. Just like me. When you're coming back, we were in Aruba for family vacation. My parents were there. It was very lovely. When you're coming back, I don't know if this is true of a lot of other places,

but you do U.S. customs in the Aruba airport. You go through security and you drop off your check luggage and then you get out of security and then you pick up your check luggage again and you go through U.S. Customs. There's like a big room with the American flag and it's like you just walk through Customs as if you were going through at an American airport. And yeah, it's a trying experience. As you can imagine, an 18-month-year-old after going through two instances of security and then getting bags and dropping off bags and having to pull out things and put them back.

It was just – Matthew's head wanted to explode. I imagine there was a lot of sweat. There was a lot of sweat. Matthew's a sweaty fella. Again, more comments about my oily skin. Well, if you just had a primer and some transition powder. You don't need the hydrator. Stop putting on so much hydrator, Matthew.

Let's talk about SideQuest SideSesh. SideQuest SideSesh is Troy's been off FOD for two weeks. I've had the pleasure of talking about it with both Jared and Skid. Thank you to Jared for guesting. Thank you to Skid for guesting on the FOD during that time. And we talked a little bit about Psyquist side session. But this is when we really start to get into the thick of it. Four episodes in here, we have an encounter in the jungle, and we're really opening up these characters.

So let's – Matthew, you haven't been on yet. We haven't spoken to you yet. Talk to me about the idea, the genesis of the idea for balthazar the mild the automaton monk 7 000 year old balthazar mild serial killer would we go that far can he can anyone confirm can anyone show me a body uh he's also a barber i want that on the record i mean it was i was reading through um the pies of materials and I got through, I arrived at guns and gears, which I remember arriving at the old studio and Troy throwing, like theatrically throwing in the garbage.

He didn't want to play with a gunslinger ever again. And I would do it again. But you didn't tell me that there was an automaton in there. You didn't ask. I didn't. So no gunslingers for you, Troy, but you're cool with robots. He's not robots he's not a side cross side sesh i'm cool with pretty much anything yeah um but yeah no gunslingers and robots you know there's a there is an automaton gunslinger it's like there's a with a gun for an arm basically i believe you wait do you have a gun no damn that would have

been cool oh i'm a 7,000-year-old. The soul of a man who was put into a magical automaton and has been around for 7,000 years as a part of a long-lost civilization. He's a barber by trade, both in the sense of the haircutting and also the healing of the sick. But somewhere along the way in those 7,000 years, his programming started to get a little corrupted.

And now he may or may not be a serial killer. So you are a robot. I'm an automaton. You know what? We were just talking about Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, which I just started really getting into. And Sidney is a big fan of it. You should watch this now. I mean, it's different, but kind of there's some similar things with soul bonding to a robot.

I was just thinking that. Did you say this is on Netflix? No, it's on Hulu. No, it's on Hulu. Oh, it's on Hulu. I've got, I just, we had so many trips lately,

uh, across the pond and not across the pond, across the country. I'm sure we passed a couple ponds. Midwest, a pond? I'm sure we passed a couple ponds going across the country. That's cool.

I refer to, uh, Lake Huron. It's a pond from up there. I was like, I really want to watch some anime, something I can just quickly digest. So I Googled best animes of all time, and I've watched so many of them,

but I used to be way into anime. Actually, Francis and I, we used to work at Kim's Video. We'd just be renting anime left and right. And paying for them? Sure. No, we'd get free rentals. It was fine. Is that true, Francis?

Sure. No, we got free rentals. It was fine. Is that true, Francis? And so I always heard about Full Metal Alchemist, but I never – I was like, I'll try it. I just feel like it's going to be not my jam. It is my jam. Yeah.

It is so unbelievably good. Highly recommend it. But anyways, dude, you like stretching your boundaries of what you view. I think you'd get a kick out of this. On Hulu? Oh, yeah. I can watch it on a flight. I'm using my brother-in-law's account.

Can you download on Hulu? Yeah. On your device? Yeah, that's what I do. How does the downloading work? Like, does it work well or not? Because like, Paramount Plus is unusable. It expires after 48 hours.

Well, no, that's fine. But I mean, like when you actually hit download. All right, so Apple Plus is unusable. It expires after 48 hours. Well, no, that's fine. But I mean like, when you actually hit download, all right, so Apple TV originally comes out and you hit download on like, I would watch an episode of, what's the freaking show that- Netflix? Oh, no.

The Apple, now I got it. Foundation? Severance. So when Severance came out, I was like, I want to download some episodes of this, take them on the flight,

and it'd be like, download. And it just like, would not. It would take forever and then be like, download fail. Whereas like, Netflix, it'd be like, I want to download some episodes of this, take them on the flight, and it'd be like, download. And it just like, would not. It would take forever, and then be like, download, fail. Whereas like, Netflix, it'd be like, download, and just, you know, you're fine. Well, now Apple TV is like that. So they figured it out, and they fixed it. Paramount Plus, I was trying to download Star Trek for the flight. Nothing.

Just loading, loading, 10%, 15%, 18%, fail. Do you pay for the, like, you have to get the all access or whatever they call it with no ads for Paramount Plus to download. Otherwise, you can't download. Oh, well, no, I don't have that. Why didn't they just tell me that? They should have.

So you're just sitting there like an idiot waiting for hours. Come on, get to 19%. Get to 19. Why didn't they show you any progress? I know, that's weird. It did show me progress.

It would say download fail. Maybe it was actually just measuring your frustration. Because it's like he's 19% of the way to figuring this out and getting the full package. Wow, what does the full package cost? I don't know. Damn it.

I use my mother-in-law's account. Everybody else is using other people's accounts. Everyone uses my Hulu account, though, so I should. Okay. I don't. I use my brotherhood. Your- Full Metal Alchemist, okay.

Yeah, brotherhood, though. There's two. There's two different ones. You want to... Full Metal Alchemist, okay. Yeah, Brotherhood, though. There's two. There's two different ones. You want to watch Full Metal Alchemist, Brotherhood. Okay. That's the one that's closer to the manga, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Your mother-in-law is a huge fan of our show. She is. I think she should send me her password. She owes us that. Oh, she uses Paramount? Yeah, we don't get the full access. You can use mine. Oh.

For Paramount? You have the full John? Yeah. Skid. Skid has every every subscription I already use his MLB I'll just sit there this weekend and just like watch the Phil's game

I use the sea of Skid I use the Criterion to watch Reds on the flight back from LA alright that's right I always see like what Matthew's watching

on Criterion I always see what's on there that's amazing I watch stuff on Criterion just to impress Matthew in case he sees something on there I have this log in and I'm like oh you did watch. I was like, let's see what's on there. That's amazing. I watch stuff on Criterion just to impress Matthew in case he sees something. I have this a lot again. I'm like,

oh, you did watch something. I was like, oh, I should watch that. I was just watching Paths of Glory last night. That's what it was. You should watch some like real tricky ones

and just like go to sleep and then Matthew will be like, well, I have to watch Andre Rublev. Right. Got him. It's like Garsky. Anyway,

Balthazar the Mild. Balthazar the Mild. Well well done love balthazar the mild uh troy i haven't had a chance to ask you your thoughts now as we've gotten into side quest side session uh first of all are you comfortable saying what the module is on a can of fodder or to us yet because we're kind of into it now but i still don't know technically what the name of it is but i see people uh people in the nation are very excited they're very excited about this you know who else is excited is professor eric he was like you know he was like i'm so excited to see what you do with this module yeah i mean i really i i don't want to talk too much about that just because there's

there's reasons for that there's because there's a lot going on but anyways i i read a lot of different things trying to decide what to do. Side by side, the first season, there were these great Pathfinder modules that lasted for a couple levels. They were like, I don't know, 30 pagers. And that was great because we didn't know how long we were going to do it. I'm like, well, I think this will

get us through 12 weeks if that's how long this is going to be. I'm like, well, let's do another one, another one. As I started to read the ones that exist for two, one, they're a little bit longer and two, they just weren't hitting the way that I wanted them to hit. So then I just started looking through Pathfinder society scenarios and I

read through tons of them until I came to this. And I was like, I think this is going to be right for the tone of this show. And then obviously you guys create characters that just blew it out of the water. And so I'm really excited to see what you guys do with it. The reason I don't want to, I guess it doesn't really matter. It's a two-parter.

It's a two-part Pathfinder Society scenario. Oh, wow. So that's why I was excited about this because I was like, depending on how long we do this. Well, it's a good thing we're making real fast progress. Part one. I'm excited to see if we get to the second part because it's wildly different from the first.

And I think that if we were able to play this out as the full second season, it would really be cinematic, a cinematic journey. That's cool, man. Were the two parts in different seasons of Pathfinder Society? No, they were back-to-back. They were back-to-back? In the same season, yeah.

And I was a little worried because they're so different. I was like, I don't know if they're going to mesh. Like if we're in the zone for one thing and then there's a huge switch in tone, is that going to change? It becomes Starfinder Society. Yeah. Part two is in space. It's in space, yeah. Oh, my God.

I mean, if any show could handle it It would be Side quest Side session It would be just Another episode Of side quest Side session It's all starship combat The entire second half

It's been great though And especially experimenting With foundry You know we've had A lot of fun This was the first one Where we really dove Into combat on there

And we've played around With it obviously Over the past few months But it wasn't Until we This was like my I think the first combat That I really ran In Foundry. And so I was like, oh, okay, hands on, this is a lot different than theoretical and studying. And so it was great. But it was smooth. I like

the look, love the initiative tracker. I love seeing initiative and knowing when I'm on deck and all that kind of stuff. Like, that's great. Obviously, we could have done that with Roll20, but it was always kind of chunky when we tried to do it in the past, so we just eliminated it from our workflow, so to speak. But yeah, it's been awesome so far. And you know, we like to roll physical dice. I know a lot of people are like, why aren't they using all the capabilities of Foundry? You mean

like this? We like to roll... Natural 20! See, that's why we roll real dice. It's just that much more satisfying. You can't replace that feeling. It's just better. If I want to play a video game, I'll play a video game, but I think there's still so much that we can do with Foundry, even if we have to re-enjoy doing certain

things manually. It's going to be so much easier for my prep. I mean, just having all the monsters. You use the PDF to Foundry module. I just take the Pathfinder Society PDF, load it in, all the maps are in there all gridded and ready to go cool with all the dynamic lighting and all the monsters are there the stat block is there so i can just tick things off i cast that spell that i know it's cast you know

this is stuff that people have been talking about for a long time and we it's not that we weren't aware of how great foundry was it was just we we had to cross some t's and dot some i's and now things are getting excited. But it's also – we are – not to pat ourselves on the back too much, but at this type of industry, we are a large ship, and it takes a while to turn. Because we have content that is constantly being recorded every single day of the week. So to change something that fundamental to the process, to have the time to properly, you know, practice and learn, we didn't have time. Any of our practice time was spent making other shows. So it was really tricky to work that in.

But I'm glad that we got that, you know, well, you did a lot of the heavy lifting on that. All of the heavy lifting on that. Well, it's exciting, though. I said today, I was like, I could never teach anyone what I've learned because it would take too long. Just watching videos and just experimenting with it. But, you know, I've been really happy with it. And Psycho Side Session in many ways is just like Strange Aeons. It's like gearing back up for the big show, which is coming.

And so getting that into our body, experimenting with just improvving in low prep versus improvving in high prep. And so, yeah, I've got a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that has been making this really fun. It's just fun to play with Jared again because we never really get to we brought him onto the network and we're like, go make other shows! It's nice to have him be a part of it. It's awesome. And to be a player with Jared. Yeah.

We're so used to having him run stuff for us. It's nice. It's making me laugh so much. This is the thing. This is the thing when he was like composing a song and he just like got frustrated

like down and threw his loot like smashed all the cups in the ship's hole in the galley it is like threw his loot

the socks so funny man you'd appreciate it I gotta listen he's playing a summoner musician oh amazing who is just like he's kind of he's inherited he's inherited He appreciates it. I gotta listen. He's playing a summoner musician. Oh, amazing.

Who is just like, he's kind of a- He's inherited a dragon. He's inherited a dragon as part of his family line. It's his tattoo. And it causes him great pain to summon and bring out. He's like, no, man, don't bring out the dragon. No! And then it tears forth from his body.

Yeah, you would love it. You got to check it out. And he's also, the other thing I love about him is that he was like in a band that kicked him out of the band because he's such a pain in the ass. He's like, I'm more independent now.

I'm writing my own stuff. Good stuff. And more to come, obviously. We've got several weeks ahead on SideQuest Sideshush. Is there an end in sight, Troy, for SideQuest Sideshush that people should know about good stuff and more to come obviously we've got several weeks ahead on SideQuest Sideshash is there an end in sight Troy

for SideQuest Sideshash that people should know about or is it the foreseeable future right now I have an end in sight but I will not share it publicly you haven't shared it

privately no no no I mean we're we're really really close you said this is our final dress

and it really is today's studio day is is the hopefully our last time in here. Now we have all the lights hung, and everything's ready to go to really practice this. That's why we're shooting this. We can look back and be like, let's move this camera a little bit this way, a little bit this way, refocus this.

Get everything done because— Get some primer. Get some primer. And get cooking because once episode one starts, that's it. That ship has left the station. Yeah, that's the thing. To continue with ship metaphors. And so we just want to make sure we get all the kinks out and don't like by episode five be like, ah, now we figured it out.

We want to get that all out of the way. So this has been a very productive day even though I'm just like I'm ready to go. I'm ready to play. Oh, dude, I thought that today when I left to come in here. I knew that we had too much work to do dress tech wisewise, that we weren't going to actually record an episode. But it is time. It's just I've had this character too long, and I'm so excited to take them out for a spin. So I want to play.

I'm like, well, all right. I'm sorry. No, Sidney's chair made the funniest fart noise. Farting? No. I already know. I tried to be professional. Yeah, it was a chair.

Cindy's just like, my chair made a noise. She's sweating. I heard it. I just looked over. I saw Kate Lashley. I was like, wait. Her chair smells now, too. I'm trying to readjust. This is like a new setting.

I was trying to readjust my chair, but I was like, don't pick it up on the mic. I wanted to scoot it. Wait, listen. Can you hear it? I heard it again. That was the noise. Sorry about that. Sorry.

That's my chair. And then me and Kate made very awkward eyes. That's fun. We're having too much fun today. We got the giggles. This is fun. This is a fun day, man. Something about being together.

Thanks for the laugh so much. In the same room? I know. It had to be round. You know, the last show, Andrews and Aliens, when we did in public, like we were How are we sitting? It was more of a horseshoe. It was a horseshoe. We wanted this to be round for several reasons. It's like an infantry square. It's like a Napoleonic infantry square.

This is so much better. This is why King Arthur he arrayed his court this way. If we ever use minis, we have to use those long pokers. You move them on the battlefield. Yeah, like shovel board sticks. We poke them. I travel 15 feet.

I move my infantry. Yeah, that would be fun. We could never record it, but it would be fun to actually play with a map. Imagine that's how we started this shit, playing with a map. I'd be like, let's pause for 15 minutes while they draw the next one. I know.

That's so crazy to think of. That's how we used the printer paper to cover up. Whipping away. Ah, the old days. Remember that, Kate? Oh, yeah. Back in 2015. Crazy.

You were crazy back then. You were crazy. You were cra back then. You were crazy. You were crazier. Oh my God. You guys were crazy. You were crazy. Speaking of crazy, we,

this is our first real chance in episode four to make some juicy mistakes in SideQuest SideSesh. And Professor Eric, as always, has called us on the carpet. It's time for a little

We Are Stupid. Oh, I thought we were done. No, not even close. We're never done being stupid. No, we are not. This is a very interesting situation. That's our... That's nice.

That's our theme. That's our theme for We Are Stupid. Very interesting situation. Well, we've got a few things to check into this time around. I'm going to start off with a sentence I think Troy loves to hear. I see it right here on this page. Troy is right. Yeah.

Come on. About first line of the first point. Let's just stop there. Troy is right on the speed. Remember there was that entanglement spell that had a large area, and on a failure, were in tank it created difficult terrain automatically and on a failure reduced your speed by 10 feet and i was saying for a 25 foot movement person pc this would be you couldn't move because effectively difficult

terrain would make your movement 10 feet in a round and then if your speed was reduced by 10 feet you would be essentially immobilized. But Troy said that it was calculated the other way around. So first, you reduce your speed by 10 feet, then take the difficult terrain penalty, which means that your movement would be five feet in a round. Professor Eric agrees with Troy. Ding, ding, ding.

Give one to Troy. You reduce the creature speed based on the circumstance penalty first, then you take off the additional cost for difficult terrain. So that's good to know. Yeah. If you have a base of 25, it's reduced to 15 and each square movement is 10, et cetera,

et cetera. I'm trying to get better at just like making a call on the fly, even if it's wrong, just so we can move on. Like sometimes I'm just, I really want to know the right way, but then it grinds things to a halt. I just,

especially as we get into gate walkers, I just want to like, let's figure it out later. You know what I mean? Well, this is why I really appreciate Professor Eric, honestly, because it's like, we do, we want to get it right, but we need to move on and taking notes to look back on it later. It's just not something that we do well live. And so we'll make the same mistakes over and over again. And so to have someone else listen to our work with an ear only toward the mistakes is a great thing. And I can't wait to have it for gatewalkers. So we can, you know, really just keep getting sharper and sharper. Speaking of which,

point number two is the fly traps hungry flurry, which is an interesting rule that we've brought up before on FOD already, because of strange aeons. And it's a great point that everybody should kind of realize the the fly trapsry Flurry must target different creatures. This follows a common theme that Eric had pointed out to us before in PF2E design, which is anytime you have an ability, and I think that the Double Slice, that Ethel's Double Slice, for example, is an exception to this, but it's the rare exception. The common pattern is if the action strike efficiency economy lets you do two attacks without the map, because that's what double slice does, right? Yeah, you do two attacks without the map. Double strike seems to be the exception. Most of the time, whenever you postpone the multiple attack penalty until after all the attacks, it forces you to target different targets. Why does it say that though?

Or is it saying it in a different part of the book? I don't know the answer to that question. This has come up before and I was like, I don't like it. It doesn't say that. So it must say somewhere, unless it's implied. It's implied.

I'd like to imply it a different way. I just don't think it's. Yeah. Hungry flavor. Well, that's a good question. Eric, get on it.

This came up before and I don't remember what we resolved on, but I remember being like, I didn't read that anywhere. So unless that's something in, like, another part of the book, I don't know if that's – that might be the spirit of it. But, like, I don't care about the spirit of it. I mean, Double Slice specifically says you must have the same target. Yeah, like, Hungry Flurry does not. Hmm. Yeah, that's a good question, whether it's implied or not. I'm sure it's not.

And I'm sure if it's not listed in the stat block, then it must be listed in some more general rule that says all flurries must attack different targets, but whatever. Yeah, like the hungry flurry of a weak flytrap doesn't say that, but the hungry flurry of an elite snapping flytrap does say each against a different target. So I think depending on what the monster stat box says it should so maybe that monster was a was a um an exception but it's possible i missed it but i guess i can't remember what the exact monster was i don't have that in front of me right around but um yeah i can't remember uh just looking at two different flytraps here one says it and one doesn't yeah okay so maybe it was uh maybe it was a i'm looking at fly trap creature family uh maybe it was an exception to the rule on this one but let us know eric uh where we can find

that rule if it is indeed a raw rule uh this is also a good one to know a question that i always have yes confirming your decision on the show. Stepping out of difficult terrain requires no extra cost or penalty. So if you're currently in difficult terrain and the next square is not difficult terrain, you're good. No penalty. You can step out. So that's good to know. I'm in the pocket, dude.

You are in the pocket. You know who's not in the pocket? This guy. Uh-oh. I don't know if I really cheated, but he said, Ie's character had been a sword and shield had been sword and shielding for the journey you hear that passive aggressive tone i know what you're saying eric all right i thought joe's character had been sword and board sword and shielding for the journey so switching to the bow at the start of the combat would probably have been a fairly – it would be fairly action expensive.

Step, free, drop sword, drop shield, draw bow, shoot once, or step, shield, sword, stow shield. Don't even have the bow out yet. So, yeah, it would have been a lot. I don't know what I did there. I have no memory of that event. I think it's just fair to assume you cheated. I think it's fair to assume that I said that I drew the bow just before that combat because we were in the jungle and it was edited out. Here's what I say.

If no one heard you cheat, did you cheat? Exactly. If a cheat falls in the woods. If a cheat happens in the jungle and no one's around. If a cheat cheats in the forest. I will say you have a lot of shortcomings as a man, a player, a husband and father, I assume. But you always take that extra action to draw weapons,

whereas everyone else that I play with assumes that their weapons are ready at all times. So I'm going to take your side on this one, John. All right, all right. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. You purchased that goodwill with multiple wasted actions.

You've heard that. You purchased that goodwill with multiple wasted actions. You've heard that. Troy blasted out at us a targeted sleep spell, if you remember. We all saved on it. It didn't affect any of us. However, Professor Eric mentions, and I love when he does this, just a reminder, sleep has the incapacitation trait, which you never mentioned. Yes. Which I thought you would have if you ever see it. I want to try to train myself to do that too. Anyone that's playing a caster in Gatewalkers,

look at every spell, see if it has incapacitation, because that's a huge deal. Eris knows this now, because some of your spells are very, very deadly if we don't realize that trait. My bad. I'm just saying your character is deadly what is it doomed something something of doom uh impending doom yeah yeah incapacitation trait so uh sleep it makes a lot of sense because that's the kind of spell that could f you up if you fail on that and then you're suddenly just down and out of the combat you're unconscious entirely drop everything in your hands that's a big deal so let's make sure that we get the incapacitation right. In this case, he says he looked it up, and it would not have mattered

because it was high enough level that we still, if we failed, would have failed. However, if we are a higher level than what it requires, then a failure is stepped up to a success. So you'd have to critically fail to even just regular fail on sleep. It's this thing that we've got to remember to read the traits. And I still forget. Me too. I didn't see the incapacitation. I'm so bad about it. Yeah.

If we just, it's just, we're not used to it from Pathfinder 1. It's like, always read the traits because there are some surprising ones. It is a, it's a new concept. Yeah. Yeah. That is, that is proving difficult to get used to. Yeah. It's easy, it's easy to remember on the weapons I find, but anything else, I just, you just

tend to like read the text. Yeah. except for the last one yeah well never read that we've made a lot of that and i think that's a gross oversimplification of what happens a couple more quick things then we're going to get everybody out of here i think troy this is professor eric speaking i think troy might have gotten the two stat blocks crossed. Right here it says Tori, so I'd like to correct Professor Eric. Oh, well, yeah,

I corrected it for him, but he called, I think he thinks your name is Tori. Does he think my name is this whole time? Does he think I'm Tori? I assumed your name was Tori

and you just changed it to Troy because you were embarrassed. I did. They changed it at LSI. It was a nickname you gave yourself. I changed it at LSI. Maybe he's making assumptions about how you would vote in England.

Personally, I'm a Whig. I think Tory might have gotten two of the stat blocks crossed. How dare he? Because I didn't. Right. Who's this Tory from? I don't know what actual play he was listening to, but that Tory's really got to stop getting those stat blocks messed up.

I don't think any of the croc warriors have aos now this is a classic situation where i believe if memory serves i stepped away from a creature and you were like wouldn't you know it whatever joe steps away from a creature and doesn't check first that creature has an aoo and you just made that up apparently because that creature doesn't have there's a beloco veteran and there's four Beloco warriors. The Beloco veteran. I happened to step away from the one guy. You stepped away from the veteran.

The veteran had the AOA. The warriors didn't. Now, I'm sure he was listening intensely. I may have had the warrior accidentally take an AOA, but I'm not prone to making that. Well, he says flat out an upgraded version of that warrior does. So you're talking about the veteran. Yeah. But shouldn't be in the encounter unless you have level four or five uh pcs so uh or five level three pcs so

yeah it looks like you unfairly bumped up the encounter i don't think that's true and i want to talk to the story fella this story fella's gonna get a piece of my mind is tori like the good version of you yeah the good twin oh no the good twin? Oh no, Tori's coming out. You're the anti-Tori. That's the one we've gotten to know better, but we want more Tori in our lives. Alright, last thing I'm going to mention here is just

this is another good one to keep in mind that I got it right once in Strange Aeons, but then I've forgotten the rule again. Somebody rolled a natural, not a natural, somebody rolled an adjusted 15 on an escape attempt against the Dryad. I think that that might have been Karazor. I can't remember.

I feel like Karazor was grabbed at one point. So a 15 on the escape attempt, according to Professor Eric, would have been a critical fail since she has a plus. Oh, sorry. The Dryad was trying to escape. Right. Would have been a critical fail, natural one, since she has a plus 14. So sorry. The Dryad was trying to escape. Right. Would have been a critical fail, natural one,

since she has a plus 14. So she can't try to escape again. So it's an important note. I read that because she was trying to escape. I was holding her. You were holding her. Yeah, I did.

Did I say I rolled a natural one? No, I think you just said 15. I would have said natural one. Yeah, he said she has a plus 14. But I think the 15 was still crit fail. And I remember reading it. I remember reading it because you were trying to escape and I pulled up the text, but I don't remember saying it. Anyway, at the end of the day, regardless, it's important for us to remember if we're in a grapple situation, we're trying to escape and you critically fail, remember, you can't attempt again that turn.

That's the critical fail penalty. Yeah, all of those actions have – almost all of them, have critical fail things. Like, if you try to shove someone and you critically fail, I think you, like, fall and drop your weapon or something. So, like, we have to get used to doing that, too. Like, bring up the action, look at the things. Disarm, critical fail is like, yeah, you drop your weapon or something. What about things like retching? Like, if you critically fail when you're sickened, can you not try to, like, retch again? Is it similar?

Is it only like- That's a good question. I'm going to look it up right now. I'm not sure because retching is- What are you laughing at? Can you critical fail puking? Yeah, I don't know. Nothing came up.

I just happened to be a lot. I don't think retch is an actual action. You don't roll a die to retch. Oh, you don't? You just use an action. You spend an action to retch in an attempt to recover. Oh, I thought there was a flat check. That immediately allows you to attempt a fortitude save against the DC. That, you don't. You just use an action. You spend an action to retch in an attempt to recover. Oh, I thought there was a flat check. That immediately allows you to attempt

a fortitude save against the DC. That's what it is. The fortitude save after the fact. Okay. Yeah, I was just like, the critical fail for shoved if you're trying to shove someone is you lose your balance, fall, and land prone. See, that's amazing. That's so embarrassing. That's really embarrassing.

And you have to make that noise. Whoa! All right. Well, I think that that's going to do it for us here. Man, this was so awesome to like. This is the first time that we've gotten all together at the studio around the table and did like a nonstop sort of real test, stress test of the system, all the cameras running, all the lights hot.

And how's everybody feeling? Are you still feeling comfortable temperature wise? Are you starting to get hot? I'm good. I'm feeling good, but I'm worried if I was wearing a long sleeves, I might be a little, I would hope I had some powder on.

Until you said that, I didn't know you weren't. Hey Matt, let's just make sure I crush it every time Francis how's it looking back there alright that's

gonna do it everybody thanks for hanging out with us on another week of the FOD Troy and I will be back

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