It's time to forge the narrative.

Everybody welcome to Forge the Narrative.

My name is Paul Murphy, you're a host.

I'm joined today by Carl Tuttle.

Hey, thank you for having me.

And Chris Morgan. Hey guys. Carl's from the independent characters. As you probably already know, Carl, thank you very much for joining us. No, thanks for having me on. We've been trying to make this work for a while, and I just finally had an open spot. This is episode 198. We are the Bell of Los Souls podcast. You know, And we've got a lot to talk about. This episode,

I know we didn't have an episode last week. I've been traveling and the ATC was this past weekend

where my team wrong way kids. We finished in the top 20. I'm pretty happy with that. Taking a couple

people who had not been before. Is that out of 20? Yes, out of, that's how you phrase it. You know, when you're the top three company, you create, you say that you're, you know, if you're the number three, you know, if you're the number three, you know, I'd like to say that we're in the top two podcast. I take that. Both represent here year. No, thank you.

He was adding his death blossom to the group.

I'm kidding, of course.

Both Andrew and Adam were at the ATC on different teams as well.

So when we're all back together, we'll talk about our experiences.

But the ATC was a fantastic event.

There were 60 teams there.

Over 300 people game. I guess 300 people gaming, but way more than that in the hall, playing other games at other events in the hall. You know, it's like the Wild West coming hot off of the release of 8th edition. There were some compromises that Shane had to make on the modeling, and I think that's getting a lot of the attention, but that was such a minor concern.

He relaxed, not the Wiz-Wig, but the painting requirement for this event.

And let's just say that there are a few people, but it was only a few took large advantage of that. But I know that relaxing that

requirement was one of the big pushes to get everyone on board with moving to 8th edition so

soon after the release. So it was a necessary evil for this year, but next year it will be back

to normal, where everyone's on basically the top of their hobby game. I had to make some compromises

in that regard for the GT I ran a couple weekends ago. When it's this close to an addition change,

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