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Hey everybody, welcome to the Dungeon Cast, the podcast where we talk about everything

in tabletop RPG.

My name is William, and I'm joined today by Ryan, or Vivid Wizard, the game designer behind

beasts and basements, Father, K-3R, Art Teacher, 11k followers on TikTok, and over 10 years

experience as a Dungeon Master.

Welcome to the show, Ryan.

Thank you so much, a pleasure to be here.

So we have an interesting topic to get into.

It's a topic I've been wanting to talk about for a long time on the show, and what you

do with beasts and basements really taps into that, so I'm really excited.

But before we get into beasts and basements, and before we get into our tabletop RPGs

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