Greetings internet. Once again it's time for a dandy podcast. I'm your

host Mike Merles and with me this afternoon is Rodney Thompson.

Hey everybody. So we're recording this podcast as a follow-up to the play test of D&D

next that we live streamed on Friday, July, 12th. 12th, yes.

Let's say 13th, that's a Saturday.

Yes.

The summer's going by pretty quickly and the entire process work in this game's going by pretty quickly.

So in any case, we wanted to, much like the last episode talk a little bit about the game the session

What we see and some of the changes I might expect or things that we liked about how things went or things we didn't like.

So Roddy why don't we start with you.

What were some of the things you observed?

I think this time around obviously we were a little bit more focused on sort of the story of what was happening.

We did some role-playing with the cult of many faces.

I think most of sort of my big takeaways from a debriefing standpoint

probably focus on the exploration rules that we used

and also a little bit on the way the combat shook out because that was one of those

situations where we were facing superior numbers.

So there's some example of how like our bound an accuracy system came into play.

But then also obviously the big exploding flamethrower or whatever it was was obviously another sort of what I would consider subtle benefit of the way that our core rules work. So this is where I turn it

back around on you. Obviously nothing that that James did could have been

scripted in game mechanics ahead of time, right?

I mean, it was all just, you know, him jumping up on the card and punching guys and then arrows

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