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if you guys are

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just joining us again welcome to today's

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dev update

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uh we've got a special guest we're

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bringing up right now uh

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that's gonna walk us through a road map

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uh for character chief

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updates uh uh in the couple in the

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coming months

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and beyond uh ladies and gentlemen

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patrick bachman

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one of our senior product managers here

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at dnd beyond hey pat

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hey joe how are you i'm good thanks for

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being here dude

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hey uh hey melly

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hello hello so hey yeah

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yeah tell us a little bit about yourself

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where where are you at

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what do you do here how long you been

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doing it

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do you deserve to stay

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um yeah so um i

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am currently in my house as much as as

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pretty much everybody is these days but

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my house is in huntsville

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um so still back when uh um

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the whole thing got started still at

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that same group of folks

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uh i've been doing this now for two

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years

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in may um with

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fandom prior to that uh i was in defense

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contracting aerospace defense contact

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tracking specifically rotary wing

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and the reason i could do that was i'm a

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retired army helicopter pilot

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which is amazing i didn't realize that

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kind of a weird uh genesis uh

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but yeah so

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how do you go from being a helicopter

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pilot to

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making dungeons and dragons digital

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tools

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it's funny you should ask um so

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i was a dungeons and dragons fan well

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before i was a helicopter pilot

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right and i was a private in the army as

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a matter of fact i

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uh joe you had asked me to bring some

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nerd cred

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uh here's my nerd cred so this is my

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spell book

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from circa 19

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oh 1992. yes

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yeah oh no um so

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i'll open it up and you can see that the

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spells are literally written

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out in some type of fake german because

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i was in germany when

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i made this in in the infantry as a

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soldier

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before i was a pilot um and then you can

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tell that

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the character sheet in here somewhere

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is uh yeah that's a that's a second

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edition character sheet

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from way back oh my gosh um your spell

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book

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is the same age as me

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that's just how amazing this nerd comes

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out

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but yeah so i've been playing dungeon

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dragon since 1984.

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uh red box set um in wisconsin where it

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was born

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um joined the army uh when i was 18

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years old

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and then somewhere in there uh started

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flying helicopters

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so then flying helicopters got out of

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out of the army after 20 years retired

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and worked for rotary wing defense

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contracting and learned how to become a

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program manager and then once i knew how

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to become a program manager and i or i

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knew how to be a program manager

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and i knew dungeons and dragons and then

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i heard of adam bradford's

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net call to apply for a job i'm like

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oh my goodness that's that's it

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uh and so yeah about two years been

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well out of curiosity um i i know that

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like a lot of

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um uh enlisted

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uh uh soldiers in in the army and

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air force every people really like

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warhammer people really like

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x-wing is is it the same for d like did

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you did you play on bass did you have

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buddies that you played with

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yeah well it's grown um but back in the

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the uh early 90s um

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it was it was still a little nerdy uh so

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you know we we had the common room

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uh cordoned off and a couple of us

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started talking about it and we're like

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oh yeah we i did that

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well i did that you know it's um you're

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just kind of fighting out

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uh the secret lives of your of your

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barracks mates

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uh and then once we got together and

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figured out we had enough people to

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start a game somebody said hey let's try

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this second edition while we're at it

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everybody's been secretly buying it down

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at the bookstore on base

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um and reading it and nobody's pulling

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it out and saying look what i do

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and now no we all do this so you get

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that book man i bought that i didn't

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know you had that book and yeah

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so that's how it gets going but now uh

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you drive on a base now and they

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literally have dungeons and dragons

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uh and you'll see it on the big uh

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morale welfare

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um signs saying hey d club

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mwr come down and see it blah blah blah

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people playing magic gathering dungeons

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and dragons fantasy flight star wars

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awesome that's so cool we do uh in my

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previous life uh with uh with screen

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junkies on australia we do a lot of work

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with stack up

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uh which is a really awesome uh uh

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organization

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uh that works with uh uh veterans for

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suicide prevention they do so via gaming

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whether that's video games or tabletop

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and so i'm hoping to start bringing

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some of that uh over to d and d beyond

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because they're a great crew and it's a

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great cause

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uh and uh d d good for everybody uh

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for your health and otherwise uh i know

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there's probably a lot of people in chat

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that are like stop talking about your

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lives i want to hear about the stuff

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uh so at least like right now the boss

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uh was defeated the first time so

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they're

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entertained with a giveaway right now

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for like okay perfect

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but i will you know i'm trying to

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provide everyone a balance of like get

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to know everybody and then also i'll

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give you your stuff

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let's talk stuff pat uh uh

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i've brought you here to chat uh about

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about character sheets sort of about the

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the the upcoming road map on character

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sheets

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uh and uh we've broken it up as is

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tradition

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uh between what's done uh what's being

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and sort of what's coming in the future

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so let's let's just jump in man uh lead

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me through this a little bit

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yeah so um i i think it's really

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important to know where you come from to

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know where you're going right

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and how hard it was to get here uh so

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uh the team this was before i was on the

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team had finished up the uh the service

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migration

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and that was a big thing to get done so

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we could do stuff

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faster um so we started doing some stuff

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faster and those were like those bugs

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and updates and those little

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those little annoying things that you

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know people see

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uh when they they run the character

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sheet on those edge cases

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or or do this home brew thing and and

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get those things fixed

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and then dun dun dun this

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witch showed up uh by the name of tasha

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and she was worse than any witch

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uh i've ever seen in any movie um

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grew up with or saw on halloween quite

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vile evil

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and full of a bag of rules and tricks

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that put us in a tailspin um

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she seems so pleasant on the cover oh

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yeah don't let her fool you man

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just a pretty face uh no um she's bad to

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the bone and

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uh it's so bad that it still hurts right

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it still hurts

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um and we're still we still have some

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um we've gotten rid of the sucking chest

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wounds at this point

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but we do we still do have some bleeding

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and uh yeah so so tasha's is gonna be

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um and then of course when you introduce

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a bunch of new stuff

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you find out that it breaks old stuff

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when her cauldron spilled across our

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all the bugs right um but

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we're starting to see the light of day

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uh we're we just finished up with the uh

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simplified character

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data service this is going to allow

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other parts of our website specifically

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you talked to andrew last week i think

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so he's doing a lot of dm tools it's

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going to allow those dm tools to talk to

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character

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data better so first first big

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implementation for this is going to be

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to update our twitch

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extension so that cautious is supported

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inside there

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and then near-term-ish

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uh combat tracker real no kidding

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uh character data on the combat tracker

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which will be huge right we're talking

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about getting dice rolling for monsters

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on the combat tracker

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now you can see all your character data

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on the combat tracker

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now it's starting to really feel like a

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dm screen to run those combats and run

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them

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quickly efficiently um

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but big news uh right around the corner

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matter of fact

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the team is currently working on this

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right now as we speak

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is yes we're gonna support it

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keep the faith uh the life

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domain cleric disciple of life

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functionality yeah

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um i i probably should just take a bow

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and leave now

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because really yeah the show's over

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now we'll get we'll get into some

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details on the life domain clip we're

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going to give this

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the do it deserves so we can get into uh

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specificities and the challenges and the

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riddle that was

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the life domain cleric uh on its own

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show i think it deserves its own show

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but i think it's a good team it's a

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special edition i know

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uh that the beacons have been lit and uh

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and uh rohan's coming yeah yes quality

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of life domain cleric is on its way

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um yeah it does it does deserve it so

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i'm excited for that

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so that's what's being done right now

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right um and that twitch extension

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update that i talked about and then what

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we have coming

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is uh is really exciting um but what it

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means so

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so i'm gonna give you these two things

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and then what they mean

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or there's a little more detail there um

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the generic feature system so we have a

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features

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system and some of you actually use it

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when you do homebrew stuff

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but we're going to make a generic

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feature system that allows you to

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literally use

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feature-esque uh adjustments to the

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character sheet

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modifier to the character sheet

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additions to the character sheet

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that are calling on these categories of

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contracts and secrets and boons

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uh charms and blessings for all of those

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books

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um and then you know even like dark

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secrets that's coming

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uh here in a little bit with uh

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ravenloft stuff those kind of things are

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going to be able to be implemented into

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this generic feature system

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which is going to give no pun intended

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the character sheet a real boon

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so that's super exciting and i'm sure

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certain people probably have questions

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about that so

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i'll just let that happen um and then

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the other one i want to talk about which

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is a little further down the road later

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on in the year is

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inventory sharing uh and that's you know

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we get a lot of requests

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for this uh people are like why can't i

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put stuff in my backpack

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well you're gonna be able to right

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you're gonna get

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literally when i was introduced uh to

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this company that was the question

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people had for me was like cool where's

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my

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inventory sharing i was like okay i'll

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find out every every single post we have

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that's like a dev update or change a lot

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of people are like

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yeah but what about my bag of holding

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because like my artificial gnome

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is way over there carry limit right yeah

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and it

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it's such a pain look at you you look at

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your character sheet you look at your

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inventory right so i have a character

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seat up right now

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and i go to my equipment and then it's

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just a list

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and that's not how stuff works right and

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if i had a bag of holding and i'm

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carrying all of the party's loot

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in that list man right so

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um at least now i'll be able to have

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that bag of holding

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nest that up smaller so it's not

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annoying

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or even be able to have a shared bucket

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where maybe the party has a castle or a

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safe house or an airship

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and you can put stuff in in it right

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but yeah like paulie shorty's cool you

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could put

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you could put you could put it in there

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man um

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and then i love this oh my gosh the

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sharing spot is gonna be that uh

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that hey uh pc to pc you know you've got

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mail

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what um yeah ruined falkenberg just sent

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you a short sword plus one

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oh cool um and then i'll accept that so

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that's super cool

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now now when i say these things uh

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mellie and joe

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it's i'm talking about skateboard to

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ferrari

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right so the product life cycle um

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as you build it up to what it's gonna

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eventually be you start at the

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skateboard

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it starts to move but it's all you know

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leg propelled and then it turns into a

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scooter

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and then it turns into a little

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motorcycle then a car

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then a ferrari right so we're talking

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ferrari here

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uh skateboard in the near future you're

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gonna start to see some of these things

387
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right that's cool that's also how we're

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going to describe

389
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road map steps for everything from now

390
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on like is this more scooter right now

391
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or is this uh is this more like

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oldsmobile where are we at

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uh we invented the wheel yet yeah this

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is this is brad i think

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and uh nelly is people are uh getting

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questions in we

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we we can start peppering and

398
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interrogating this guy

399
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yeah absolutely i mean we have some

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general character sheet questions here

401
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uh if we want to start talking about

402
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that or if we want to continue on this

403
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and then come back to those

404
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sure sure uh well pat for one thing

405
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inventory sharing is going to be really

406
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dangerous for me

407
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uh because someday i will show you all

408
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my google drive which is just

409
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folder folder folder folder folder

410
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folder folder folder some of which just

411
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have one document in them but things

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need their folder things need to be

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nested

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uh so i cannot wait to apply that anal

415
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retentiveness

416
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uh to a character sheet i'm very very

417
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excited absolutely

418
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we got a question here from uh tayden

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uh with shared buckets will there be an

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ad remove list to keep an

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eye on what was added and it's like a

422
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log i would

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oh yeah so that's a that's a good point

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so um we have these really talented

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folks

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um on our team uh they're called tech

427
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ops folks

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right and they implement tools that the

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internet provides for us

430
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um people like amazon

431
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make and they say hey use this cool tool

432
00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,600
well there's a cool new tool

433
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that we're going to start implementing

434
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here soon that's going to allow

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us to log stuff log this this data

436
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so we'll be able to know when somebody

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levels up

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and track that and we're going to start

439
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to be able to maybe have

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a com a progression log of stuff and if

441
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you have a progression log

442
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for the character sheet you also could

443
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have

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uh um some type of log that's saying

445
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when stuff got removed or when stuff got

446
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added

447
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if that answers the question right so um

448
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to keep an eye on what was those

449
00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:47,920
notifications

450
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that's a huge boon too as me as a dm

451
00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,360
i feel like i have to keep so much track

452
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of my parties luke because

453
00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,480
they forget about so many things uh and

454
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then being able to be like oh right yeah

455
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okay i gave that to this person

456
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at this point is uh gonna be very very

457
00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:04,319
helpful yeah not everyone has it

458
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yeah not every table has like the person

459
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who's like i'll be secretary

460
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uh yeah it's gonna be super super

461
00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:11,839
helpful

462
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uh if we wanna know just how much people

463
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want this inventory stuff

464
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a lot of these questions that came in

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before you talked about it

466
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were asking when do we get inventory

467
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management how can i make my bag of

468
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,520
holding work so um

469
00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:29,280
they were very ready for this uh

470
00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:32,080
we got gida xtd

471
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um with the generic feature system what

472
00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,280
is the feasibility of expanding this

473
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into a homebrew class system

474
00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,200
feels like it might be designed for

475
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something like this purpose

476
00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:45,440
yeah so it's it's a little bit different

477
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um and when we talk about systems it's

478
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really easy

479
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especially for me who's not super

480
00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,840
technical uh to get into these

481
00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,559
conversations with the engineers and be

482
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like

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well if it's a box can i just take the

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box

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put it in the warehouse and can i take a

486
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whole bunch of the boxes and put in a

487
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warehouse and make a truck out of it

488
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and they're like no that's not how this

489
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works pat

490
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that's not how any of this works so i

491
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would hate to say anything

492
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um promising uh that

493
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that this would allow for home group

494
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classes um what it's going to allow for

495
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is you to be able to manipulate the data

496
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on your character sheet

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in a way that you can name like a boon

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or a blessing um and then in

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when you when you add it to the

500
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character sheet you'll have this

501
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you know how on your character sheet

502
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right now you look at the features and

503
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traits

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on that features and traits tab it says

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class features racial traits and feats

506
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well this right next to it it would say

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boons or blessings another pill

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or tab and then you would have a list of

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all those things that are happening to

510
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you

511
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um so is that another character class no

512
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another character class is a little

513
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deeper level of

514
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engineering that has to happen for that

515
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but it's not out of the realm of

516
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possibility

517
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that we get more customizable the

518
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further down we get when we make these

519
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systems that are um like lego blocks

520
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versus a system that's like a chunk of

521
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lead then you're just stuck with it

522
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right just like trying to add wheels to

523
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the bottom of it like that

524
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a sled could be a skateboard that's a

525
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great way of looking at it too

526
00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,559
is a lego block versus uh sort of one

527
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solid

528
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uh mass uh i think uh actually before we

529
00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:39,600
jump into back into questions pat

530
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uh you had sort of jotted down some

531
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thoughts

532
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uh for me about sort of the idea of like

533
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the player character experience and sort

534
00:19:43,919 --> 00:19:49,280
of the the life cycle of that

535
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um and uh if you don't think it's

536
00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,000
interesting to jump into we can just

537
00:19:50,799 --> 00:19:53,120
jump back into questions and you can

538
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,120
tell me to shut up but

539
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i i'd love to hear your your thoughts on

540
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it no

541
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it's it's it actually it came to me

542
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the other day um so i've been with this

543
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:07,120
team now since

544
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um august and i always wanted to be on

545
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this team

546
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um it's it's it the character sheet is

547
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a big freaking deal and it also

548
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:19,760
nobody else does a character sheet like

549
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d beyond a character sheet

550
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,799
which comes with all the works along

551
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,159
with it if it doesn't work

552
00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:30,240
it's more obvious but

553
00:20:26,159 --> 00:20:33,360
this the this flow we talk about this in

554
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product is a user flow and how a user

555
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or a customer wants to receive the thing

556
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and do the thing and there's different

557
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,320
customers too

558
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,679
there's customers that are like super

559
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:47,120
knowledgeable

560
00:20:43,679 --> 00:20:48,559
um and have done this a million times

561
00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,159
before they're going to enter a

562
00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:51,840
different place than somebody who has

563
00:20:50,159 --> 00:20:55,280
never done it before

564
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:58,799
but you want to serve them all without

565
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making it harder for individuals

566
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:02,559
so the thought was joe is is how does

567
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this work

568
00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:06,320
in dnd and one of the biggest barriers

569
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,360
to entry for dnd other than

570
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,880
finding people to do it with uh is is

571
00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,200
knowing how to do it

572
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,640
right that educational piece and the

573
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:17,120
character sheets the first

574
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,760
place that somebody sits there and um

575
00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:20,960
goes

576
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:23,280
what what okay i get strength

577
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,960
i mean but charisma i mean when i was a

578
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,280
kid i didn't know what the word charisma

579
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,400
meant

580
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,880
until i played d d i'm like charisma i

581
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,840
get it

582
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,200
right and then you start to

583
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,640
compartmentalize and have these

584
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,880
philosophical

585
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,640
understandings of what creates something

586
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,799
that's sentient and is recorded on a

587
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:44,240
piece of paper

588
00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:47,280
that education can be really really

589
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:50,320
uh deep and long and difficult

590
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,000
and um it's a real great tool that we

591
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,159
have here and an opportunity

592
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,559
to say hey let's educate folks as

593
00:21:54,159 --> 00:21:58,720
they're building the thing

594
00:21:56,559 --> 00:22:00,480
um and then the next thing that comes

595
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,880
along with education is the build

596
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:05,200
right you build it and you build it you

597
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:09,120
build it easy with those lego blocks

598
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:12,799
and uh it's not it's not like

599
00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:15,440
all right um yeah so

600
00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:16,960
what class and can i pick all right so i

601
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,320
picked that class and then here my

602
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,799
ability scores are

603
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,080
wait a minute this class i get a plus on

604
00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:23,200
you know what i mean it's all just like

605
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,520
right there

606
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,480
um and then once i built the character

607
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,520
then i wanna

608
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,960
i wanna judge it up um

609
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,480
or church it up or however you wanna

610
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,280
call it you wanna decorate it and make

611
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:37,200
it yours

612
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:38,000
uh the character i'm currently playing

613
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,120
right now

614
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:43,919
uh in my dale game is

615
00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,799
rune folkenberg um he looks like one of

616
00:22:43,919 --> 00:22:47,760
the vikings

617
00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:49,919
uh from the show but his background is

618
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,960
the rhyme of the frost maiden

619
00:22:49,919 --> 00:22:55,679
um his theme is the ice blue

620
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,240
he has the rhine dice and then he has

621
00:22:55,679 --> 00:22:59,440
this like

622
00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:02,480
glowing um uh

623
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:06,000
aurora borealis kind of uh

624
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,679
background and when if that's not

625
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,600
on there i just don't feel the game as

626
00:23:07,679 --> 00:23:11,600
much i'm in alabama it's not cold here

627
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,159
but when i turn this on it feels cold it

628
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,280
feels

629
00:23:12,159 --> 00:23:16,480
dark it feels mysterious uh so we have

630
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,559
this decorate

631
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,159
space that we want people to get more

632
00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:21,679
involved in

633
00:23:20,159 --> 00:23:23,280
and then get excited about we want to

634
00:23:21,679 --> 00:23:24,159
make it more available because right now

635
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,120
it's kind of

636
00:23:24,159 --> 00:23:28,320
yeah well oh it does that uh but we'll

637
00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,880
put it we'll put it in the

638
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,440
in the way right so you can see it and

639
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,679
then of course there's the play

640
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,280
uh which is obvious you have to be able

641
00:23:35,679 --> 00:23:39,039
to play on your character sheet and do

642
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,919
all the things and then maintain your

643
00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:41,840
character sheet

644
00:23:39,919 --> 00:23:44,080
uh so when you level up or get a new

645
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:46,480
thing or get rid of a thing

646
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,360
um and then we have the other part the

647
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,279
sad part right

648
00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,720
the game's over what do i do with the

649
00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:53,279
character sheet

650
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,080
what do i do with the character sheet

651
00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:57,600
man

652
00:23:54,080 --> 00:24:00,799
um it's over

653
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,799
so i have to retire it or it dies

654
00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:05,360
but then maybe we can immortalize it

655
00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:08,640
somehow so

656
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:10,559
this character is immortalized um

657
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,559
but my dnd beyond character my

658
00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,559
immortalization is a digital

659
00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:16,400
space just sits out there or i could

660
00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,840
print it i suppose

661
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,320
but maybe there's some neat ways to

662
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,679
explore there so

663
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,000
right from the beginning we start with

664
00:24:21,679 --> 00:24:27,279
education and then we're immortalized

665
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,840
and uh as our what how is it how's the

666
00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:31,679
uh

667
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:34,880
somebody help me maybe a line

668
00:24:31,679 --> 00:24:37,200
uh gladiator what we do in life echoes

669
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,919
through echoes through our digital tool

670
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,600
set

671
00:24:37,919 --> 00:24:43,760
um i believe that's that's what right

672
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,520
that's awesome insight actually i love

673
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:48,559
just that idea of the

674
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,799
the life cycle of of of creating a

675
00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:51,120
character playing and then them sort of

676
00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,559
still

677
00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:56,240
living on as like uh a creative part of

678
00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:56,960
us i think that's so cool and like how

679
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,000
can we

680
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:02,559
sort of assist and help and um

681
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,120
remove barriers to every step of that i

682
00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:05,840
think is

683
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:07,520
is really really cool um nelly i think

684
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,360
we've got time for you know like two or

685
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,000
three more questions uh for pat if we

686
00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:12,320
got him

687
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,320
sure i will let you actually go do your

688
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,320
job i appreciate it dude

689
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,720
yeah start upgrading that skateboard uh

690
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,080
so we got from kale the adventurer

691
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,679
this one was asked by a few people

692
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,200
actually are there any updates you can

693
00:25:21,679 --> 00:25:25,520
share with regards to

694
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,159
character sheets or builder for sidekick

695
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,720
rules in tasha sorry to reopen those

696
00:25:28,159 --> 00:25:32,880
wounds

697
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:35,520
pat that tells you tasha

698
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,840
there she is again um it's tasha all

699
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,840
along

700
00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,559
yeah so yeah we have a really great idea

701
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,159
for this

702
00:25:42,559 --> 00:25:49,600
um uh i don't want to let

703
00:25:46,159 --> 00:25:52,080
the cat out of the bag uh

704
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,240
it's not gonna be anytime soon but it

705
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:58,080
should knock people's socks off if

706
00:25:54,240 --> 00:26:00,720
the idea can come to fruition um

707
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,919
the characters team currently are

708
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,080
verticals if you will

709
00:26:01,919 --> 00:26:06,480
uh is the character sheet the character

710
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:10,640
builder the twitch extension

711
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:12,960
and the avre discord bot um

712
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,600
we're currently jockeying for more of a

713
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:18,559
we want all the sentient

714
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,000
elements of the game right the sentient

715
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:23,200
elements and the things

716
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,320
the tools uh and then like andrew's team

717
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,120
will take care of the

718
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,080
orchestration and the music and the

719
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:30,720
whole

720
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,600
uh we want to be have like here's your

721
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,720
here's your uh

722
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:38,400
artist and here's his horn go play um

723
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:41,279
but um you know that said

724
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,799
sidekicks is those sentient things and

725
00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:45,919
sidekicks

726
00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:48,320
are characters almost

727
00:26:45,919 --> 00:26:50,320
right um or you could play them as

728
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,640
characters actually watsi encourages the

729
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:55,200
potential for new players to use

730
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,880
kind of like an npc stat block to to

731
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,200
play a character because it's less to

732
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,360
have to deal with and consume

733
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,480
yeah so why couldn't why wouldn't it be

734
00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:06,159
real cool to

735
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:09,600
have an npc stat block like a sidekick

736
00:27:06,159 --> 00:27:11,120
that can level uh pretty easily a couple

737
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,159
touches of a button

738
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:18,320
or be it like

739
00:27:14,159 --> 00:27:20,640
going from a 1040 ez to a 1040 alpha

740
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,799
all you got to do is press the button

741
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,120
asks you about 50 questions and now you

742
00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:28,240
have a 1040 alpha

743
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:31,840
so yeah

744
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,200
maybe soon someday be cool

745
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,200
knock knocking yeah i think they

746
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,279
probably like yeah like

747
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,559
sidekicks i think uh you know they seem

748
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:40,080
really simple when you just have like a

749
00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:41,440
sheet of paper with stuff written on it

750
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,360
but i think people

751
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,799
don't quite realize like how much has to

752
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:47,200
go into like making it

753
00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:48,480
something that will be really functional

754
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,720
on dnd beyond

755
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,640
and i think the challenge and pat again

756
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,640
if i'm speaking out of turn

757
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,679
uh reach across the digital space and

758
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,520
throttle me

759
00:27:55,679 --> 00:28:01,440
uh but i think uh um

760
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,679
you know it it's one thing to just be

761
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,000
like okay sidekick it's it's added just

762
00:28:03,679 --> 00:28:05,440
like

763
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,440
it's it's added just like boons or

764
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,559
miscellaneous items it's just if i want

765
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,720
a horse

766
00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:11,919
i now have a sidekick right but i i

767
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,399
think

768
00:28:11,919 --> 00:28:16,000
uh the way you guys sort of look at this

769
00:28:14,399 --> 00:28:19,840
and what i want people to really like

770
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,919
understand and take away is you guys are

771
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,200
how can you do this beyond that like how

772
00:28:21,919 --> 00:28:25,440
can sidekicks

773
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,200
like actually like actively participate

774
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,520
in the game how can new features

775
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,279
really enhance and not just be a like

776
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,799
just a thing that you see with some with

777
00:28:31,279 --> 00:28:33,600
some stats like how can you interact

778
00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:35,840
with them

779
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,440
um you know how can they actually really

780
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,600
improve your gameplay i think is

781
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,640
is is really kind of how you guys look

782
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,080
at

783
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,679
most everything um so i i cause you

784
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,559
always see in the comments people like

785
00:28:45,679 --> 00:28:49,840
just

786
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:51,919
just add it and it's like

787
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,520
you have the button right here just

788
00:28:51,919 --> 00:28:55,520
press it yeah but

789
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,880
which is cool but like also like how can

790
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,720
we do more and how can we kind of go

791
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,760
beyond

792
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,760
yeah um you know you love

793
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,279
you love the enthusiasm of the click the

794
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,480
button and a lot of people will say

795
00:29:05,279 --> 00:29:08,159
click the button click the button click

796
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,919
the button or do the thing do the thing

797
00:29:08,159 --> 00:29:12,000
do the thing and it's great

798
00:29:09,919 --> 00:29:13,039
keep it coming because that's what feeds

799
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,440
our

800
00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:17,440
our hunger to do the right thing but

801
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,200
then when we get it behind the curtain

802
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,679
um we strip away the solutions we strip

803
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,279
away

804
00:29:21,679 --> 00:29:26,480
the all of the noise and then look at

805
00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:29,679
the real problem

806
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,760
and then try to solve that we're

807
00:29:29,679 --> 00:29:35,039
currently looking at a problem right now

808
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,159
that is um folders for my characters

809
00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:38,640
page

810
00:29:36,159 --> 00:29:40,240
right hey man can i have some folders

811
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,840
for my character's page i just got so

812
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,720
many characters

813
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,840
why do you have 150 characters i don't

814
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,760
even have time to play

815
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,520
150 characters i feel attacked i played

816
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:55,840
four times a week

817
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,840
ah yeah sorry um

818
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:04,720
it might be that that person is um

819
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:06,399
is actually making characters as npcs

820
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,919
and running them in their games

821
00:30:06,399 --> 00:30:10,000
and they need to have all the reference

822
00:30:07,919 --> 00:30:12,240
material for them they may 100

823
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,440
be doing that character folders or do

824
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,960
they need

825
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,840
an npc space right so it's trying to

826
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:22,799
find the right

827
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:25,360
solution uh to the problem versus just

828
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:27,039
making the button right well said well

829
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,559
said uh nelly i think we've got time for

830
00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:29,120
one more question and then we'll uh yeah

831
00:30:28,559 --> 00:30:31,919
one more

832
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,120
release man back to the street i think

833
00:30:31,919 --> 00:30:35,279
this one kind of ties into that

834
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,679
immortalizing your character

835
00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:38,799
which is can character sheet

836
00:30:36,679 --> 00:30:41,360
customizations also

837
00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:44,320
be available in the exported printable

838
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,000
version of the sheet

839
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,919
this is yeah this is exactly what we're

840
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,399
talking about so this immortalization

841
00:30:47,919 --> 00:30:50,960
thing

842
00:30:48,399 --> 00:30:51,520
um kind of came from one of our new

843
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,039
folks

844
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:58,480
uh who works in marketing um

845
00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:58,480
believe it or not uh so

846
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,720
why would the character sheet export to

847
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,760
some kind of

848
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,679
kind of icky pdf when we have all these

849
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,600
other assets that are attached to it and

850
00:31:07,679 --> 00:31:10,720
we could export that character sheet to

851
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,240
something

852
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,039
just cooler right um i was talking with

853
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,480
one of

854
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,600
one of the engineers on the team but

855
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,760
actually a couple of the engineers on

856
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,200
the team

857
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,640
wouldn't it be cool if it was like the

858
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:28,559
mad libs right as you hit the export to

859
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,679
to um immortalize it asks you a few

860
00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:31,840
things

861
00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:32,799
and then it mad lives it out for you and

862
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,919
it says ruin

863
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:38,000
volkenberg first of his name from north

864
00:31:35,919 --> 00:31:39,600
of the ice sea blah blah blah blah and

865
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,080
it's kind of like a heraldry

866
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,000
uh immortalization thing that you can

867
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:47,919
yeah you know suitable for framing

868
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,519
uh year in review but for your character

869
00:31:47,919 --> 00:31:51,519
yeah and that's another thing with the

870
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:53,840
uh you know the k the character

871
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:54,880
progression log right that that's gonna

872
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,159
help support those

873
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,080
that those data points are gonna help

874
00:31:56,159 --> 00:32:01,279
support these uh

875
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:03,760
these immortalization things

876
00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:05,519
whatever they are that we can make um

877
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,799
but you know that's that's down the road

878
00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:12,000
um and we'll definitely get there

879
00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:14,000
uh so yeah well dude

880
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,679
i appreciate you so much being here i i

881
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,519
think that this was really cool and

882
00:32:15,679 --> 00:32:19,120
hopefully people uh people got a good

883
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:21,279
amount of stuff to chew on

884
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:23,120
uh got some hints some stuff that's uh

885
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:25,840
coming up in the near future

886
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,279
uh uh pat uh where can people find you

887
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,039
on the internet or if you don't want to

888
00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:30,480
be found on the internet what should be

889
00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:33,440
people be looking at on the internet

890
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,360
instead um

891
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,640
so you know what you shouldn't be

892
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,679
looking at on the internet

893
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:42,559
people right

894
00:32:39,679 --> 00:32:44,320
right but if you want to find me on the

895
00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:46,480
internet uh yeah i'm not a big internet

896
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:49,200
person i am on linkedin it's my name

897
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,760
um and uh of course you can find me at

898
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:54,080
dnd beyond.com

899
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,519
um on the forums there and hit me up

900
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,039
anytime

901
00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:58,880
right on thank you so yeah make sure you

902
00:32:57,039 --> 00:33:01,519
guys are dropping in saying hey

903
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,600
uh mellie thank you as always for uh for

904
00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:04,960
uh uh co-piloting this thing with me or

905
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,760
actually just piloting i'm really just

906
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,200
sort of here to

907
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,000
drop snarky comments and uh that's my

908
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,080
job here

909
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,840
uh thank you guys so much and then if i

910
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,320
can uh uh just

911
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,760
uh back up to one key thing pat said you

912
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,440
know uh one of the first things people

913
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,799
do when they make a character is go cool

914
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,720
now where can i play

915
00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:24,399
go to our discord there's an amazing

916
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,039
community of people there

917
00:33:24,399 --> 00:33:28,640
that are looking for players are looking

918
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,640
to help you get into the game

919
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,000
um i still think dnd beyond is the

920
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,880
absolute

921
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,320
best way for you to just be able to dive

922
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,519
in start sharing your stories with each

923
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,120
other

924
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:40,799
go there there's a great community there

925
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:44,080
that is waiting specifically

926
00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:46,240
to meet you uh and uh you deserve uh

927
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,200
you deserve a good game of d uh we'll

928
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,519
see you guys

929
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,559
later on uh chatting about some new cool

930
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:51,600
stuff and

931
00:33:50,559 --> 00:34:07,840
we'll see you next time on the dev

932
00:33:51,600 --> 00:34:07,840
update thanks everybody

933
00:34:13,810 --> 00:34:25,400
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