Sean Merwin

Thanks, Alex.

Yeah. Teos, do you want to direct our conversation from here in any particular direction?

Yeah. Teos, do you want to direct our conversation from here in any particular direction?

We'd love to have you on for any reason, especially because we're all excited about Game Hall being right around the corner and we're all preparing. I spent all weekend working on the events I'm running.

We'd love to have you on for any reason, especially because we're all excited about Game Hall being right around the corner and we're all preparing. I spent all weekend working on the events I'm running.

But we particularly wanted to have you on because in our show notes for the news, we started putting together our news and we're like, hey, Gamehole Publishing launches Wardens of the East marches. And then we were thinking about, well, what should we do in the main segment? And we were thinking, well, what if we have Alex on to talk about this?

But we particularly wanted to have you on because in our show notes for the news, we started putting together our news and we're like, hey, Gamehole Publishing launches Wardens of the East marches. And then we were thinking about, well, what should we do in the main segment? And we were thinking, well, what if we have Alex on to talk about this?

Because Gamehole Publishing launching an organized play campaign, that's pretty cool.

Because Gamehole Publishing launching an organized play campaign, that's pretty cool.

So you're launching an organized play campaign, and the first adventures are at this Gamehole Con?

So you're launching an organized play campaign, and the first adventures are at this Gamehole Con?

Yeah. I mean, Teos and I came into the industry through organized play. So it's something that's so dear to us and we discuss it whenever we can on this show. And over the years, we've seen the rise and the fall of organized play through wizards, through various cycles of rules or of leadership or of corporate backing versus not corporate backing. And so it's always interesting to see other,

Yeah. I mean, Teos and I came into the industry through organized play. So it's something that's so dear to us and we discuss it whenever we can on this show. And over the years, we've seen the rise and the fall of organized play through wizards, through various cycles of rules or of leadership or of corporate backing versus not corporate backing. And so it's always interesting to see other,

parties try to take the most advantage that they can of what organized play can offer. So my question to you is, why now? And what lessons do you think you've learned that you mentioned over those years?

parties try to take the most advantage that they can of what organized play can offer. So my question to you is, why now? And what lessons do you think you've learned that you mentioned over those years?

It's really cool. And I share a lot of your sentiments around organized play and AL, and we would love for it to have that energy and excitement that it did in the first years, but it clearly hasn't for some time. So I get where you're coming from.

It's really cool. And I share a lot of your sentiments around organized play and AL, and we would love for it to have that energy and excitement that it did in the first years, but it clearly hasn't for some time. So I get where you're coming from.

For folks who want to know more about Eastern Marches, I don't want to go too long before we share some of that, of why folks should be excited about this. So you've seen AL losing some of its fire. You've put together a program that can do things that you couldn't do with AL. Maybe talk us through the Eastern Marches. What's kind of the high level of what this setting campaign is like?

For folks who want to know more about Eastern Marches, I don't want to go too long before we share some of that, of why folks should be excited about this. So you've seen AL losing some of its fire. You've put together a program that can do things that you couldn't do with AL. Maybe talk us through the Eastern Marches. What's kind of the high level of what this setting campaign is like?

That was the concept right so like I the the first event that we had in a Gen Con and there were actually, you know, the banners of the factions were hanging in the hall and they tabulated which faction won, which was this entire time. Right. And they were like, so it started that way and somehow it just