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Paul Mata. The Mathemagician. Eric Mengi. Anna B. Meyer of Fantasy Cartography.

Paul Mata. The Mathemagician. Eric Mengi. Anna B. Meyer of Fantasy Cartography.

Tres. Joe Tyler. Marcelo de Velasquez, the Valiant DM. James Walton.

Tres. Joe Tyler. Marcelo de Velasquez, the Valiant DM. James Walton.

Ooh, find me at AlphaStream.org. From there, you can get to my videos, which I've been doing a lot of on the DMG, including these two part series on exploration. Where do we find you, Sean?

Ooh, find me at AlphaStream.org. From there, you can get to my videos, which I've been doing a lot of on the DMG, including these two part series on exploration. Where do we find you, Sean?

Uh, I'm going to finish clank, uh, legacy, uh, or at least get as far as I can before my kids go back to college. That's my plan.

Uh, I'm going to finish clank, uh, legacy, uh, or at least get as far as I can before my kids go back to college. That's my plan.

yes i have succeeded at being on a ladder and putting up lights i felled a christmas tree uh right after a family member said that uh well i guess we'll wait for you to cut that tree and i was like watch this and i sawed through that thing with dad powered ire in just seconds it was great and uh yeah we held the christmas tree it snowed and we saw a rainbow all while getting a christmas tree if that isn't that's

I hope all the bad holiday movies are making up for that.

The official D&D Virtual Tabletop, according to one of their recent advertising emails. That was awesome.

Yeah, it's cool. I mean, I'm impressed at how much they keep kind of rolling this out, right? We'd heard some rumors that maybe there was something that existed from, you know, before the acquisition of D&D Beyond even that was out there, a virtual tabletop they'd begun work on. But

they have you know come out with a solid initial release and then added things and it's easy to say oh man hit point tracking like my other virtual tabletop does that and sure but this started as something you know really light and more like owlboy rodeo and they keep adding to it and integrating which is nice so here when you now add a monster it'll pull its stat block across and it collapses nicely so you can kind of hide all that and just see the name of the monster in the initiative order or you can show more and more of the of the um

the stat block and you actually can click on like the attacks and the um uh you can click on skills you can click on things like that to roll the dice behind it right if it says d10 plus five is the damage roll you can click on that and off it goes and rolls it And that's really cool because before this, you had to do that over on something else, right?

Like in through the plug in that allows D&D Beyond to integrate with like Roll20 or you could do it with being in Discord, right? But you had to kind of move it across that way. Now you can do it directly there. And for hit points, you can just kind of subtract how much it's taken or state what the current value is. But you also can customize the max value, which is kind of a nice handy thing.

So you're able to kind of state this monster has this many hit points to begin with, and it's taken this many and just kind of track that as you go, which is very cool.

Yep. Yeah.

Yeah, I agree with you. I think it's still really in a nice sweet spot. And, you know, we joked about this before, but, you know, when you create a company and you kind of assign departments and you're creating teams and you're giving people different colored shirts.

And so when you say the D&D Beyond pillar and you say the virtual tabletop digital pillar, I forget the name of it, you know, like when you put people in different groups. they will do different things. And you, you know, if I were there or if I were advising somebody, if anybody's listening and you want a guy, you know, in the peanut gallery, here I am. You know, what I would say is,

The D&D virtual tabletop that is the 3D version sounds really complex, and maybe that's what it should be, right? A super complex, super amazing thing that you spend the time and you get the payoff of all that investment. Maps should be the opposite, right? The light, really easy thing. And if that's the way these pillars kind of shape up, I think they could both really coexist nicely.