Before we jump into the episode, I just wanted to jump in here and let you know that we will be taking a little bit of a break.

We will have one holiday special to round out the year,

but we forgot to take our break in September,

and everything that we typically do here caught up to us,

so we'll have a little bit of a jump in time

to hopefully get us back on track and dropping episodes every week like we want to do.

And I am sure you want us to do as well.

But with that, we'll go to your regularly scheduled DMNastics.

Well, I think that's smashing.

Welcome back to DMNastics, the gym for Dungeon Masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac.

And it's me, your other host, DM Celeste, aka Sea Witch.

Oh, guess what, though?

What?

Because we had to do a background check.

We did.

Oh, no.

That's the name of the exercise.

That's what I'm naming it.

That's the joke of the exercise. That's what I'm naming it. That's the joke.

Because one of the things I recently did was I was introducing D&D to some new players.

And one of the things I brought up that I had, I've never said this at a table before, but like I brought up because I know in my

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