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hello world

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welcome to today's dev update here at

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dnd beyond a lot going on this morning

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uh

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as you can tell van richton's guide to

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ravenloft is available

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for pre-sale order on the dnd

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marketplace right now

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this book looks great 30 domains of

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dread dark gifts

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new subclasses i'm very excited about it

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uh links are in the chat or if you're

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watching

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on youtube in the future it's in the

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description

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uh i am joined by uh melody set our

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community manager

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hello hello hey good morning uh i am

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joined by my cat sarah uh who

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uh is uh reluctantly uh enjoying her new

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position

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as drums when the dnd be on theme song

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plays uh

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today uh oh i'm joe uh i'm the the

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the content i'm you know i'm from the

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the school of content uh

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bard that's that's kind of character i

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am uh here i'm the face you'll be seeing

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on screen until i start to find some

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better faces to put on screen

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instead of me a lot to get through today

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we've got some candle keep updates uh we

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have a very special

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guest to bring on we have a job opening

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to talk to you about

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um and then our very special guest is

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going to talk us through some combat

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tracker updates and some really really

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cool insights into the importance

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and uh the importance of and future of

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uh the game log and i think you guys are

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really really going to enjoy

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uh getting some insight and some context

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uh around that stuff

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uh so let's jump in shall we

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uh hit us with that next slide sir

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there we go uh so candle keep mysteries

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pre-order swag

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is available uh candle keep goes up on

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the 16th i believe goes live so you've

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still got time to pre-order

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uh it's going to come with uh the

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researchers dice set

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uh which i just got to see yesterday it

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looks really really cool

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uh mr yeah i think actually those are

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like rolling in the stream heroes right

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okay great yeah oh yes yes they are and

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we've also got uh a nice little video

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preview of them

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uh mr box would you mind rolling that

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preview

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so you know obviously those are

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available uh when you pre-order along

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with all the other

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uh usual pre-order goodies uh i don't

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want to be too infomercially

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uh today with you guys just wanted to

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make sure you knew uh that they were

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for you um that said uh we've got a

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special guest i

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i just want to go ahead and uh bring him

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on uh i want to introduce you guys to

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andrew searles he's our senior product

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manager

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uh at d and d beyond hey man

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hey thanks for inviting me to your show

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thank you for being here thank you for

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coming all this way you

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well um it was uh you know i had to get

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up really early

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um you start to start the drive early no

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i hear you i hear you uh

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so uh andrew tell us tell the world a

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little bit uh about

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yourself what you do here how long

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you've been with d d beyond

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yeah um i have been with d d beyond um

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for a couple years two years now going

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just about two years and uh

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adam brought me on when he started to

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get overloaded with too much stuff to do

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me and another individual to do more

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product stuff

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so adam was having too many balls in the

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fire and so he

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hired me to to help with the um

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uh making product decisions about what

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are we working on

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and what are we not working on sometimes

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uh yeah helping us guide us in the way

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that we should be going so

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uh if we have not yet built your thing

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that you have suggested it's

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probably my fault and you can get angry

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at me yeah well that's

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that was that's my real reason for

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bringing guests onto the show now is

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pure deflection yeah absolutely just

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shift it onto you

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uh which twitter can we send them to

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yeah now they have a face with the name

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so uh andrew cool thing about you

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usually you have class

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outside usually when i talk to you have

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class outside

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yeah yeah um that is right i do

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live at one interesting fact i do live

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in an rv

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with my family and we travel around the

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country uh currently we are at tom bigby

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state park in mississippi tupelo

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grand canyon and

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um big bend and after that going to

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glacier national park in yellowstone all

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those things we're going to all the

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national parks

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so so yeah that is amazing honestly

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that's absolutely amazing um

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yeah i'm pretty jealous i just like i

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don't even see the outside

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that i have near me so i'm that's the

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i wanted my apartment has a nice patch

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of grass that's like pretty good

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um one tree i can see from this window

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it's a great tree

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it is pretty cool but i would i would

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say that anything cool comes with

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compromise

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uh so in my compromise is that i have to

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empty my own black tank and i'll just

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leave it at that so you guys can imagine

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what goes in the black tank so you will

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indeed leave it at that and even though

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andrew has given all of you a road map

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to his adventures if you are frustrated

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about the lack of your personal favorite

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feature please do not try to meet him in

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a natural

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we would appreciate that the dates will

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that's a really bad movie um something i

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wanted to jump into

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uh with everybody we wanted to start

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sharing this stuff on the show

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uh because so many of our incredible

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team members have come

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from the community uh a brand new

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superstar uh melody giusette

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for example uh humble beginnings as a

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uh in this community and now look she's

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very famous

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uh i'm the most famous yeah i'm the

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a-list

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i mean i'm in the next marvel movie

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probably no absolutely uh she

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she is captain marvel um and literally

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someone i

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rely on uh implicitly uh uh already in

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my short tenure here uh so we wanted to

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start making sure you guys knew about

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job opportunities

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uh to join the team again it's what we

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always talk about it's it's uh

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it's missionaries not mercenaries right

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and uh

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where better to find those missionaries

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than from you guys the people that

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love uh this product and this tool set

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in this game and this world in this

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community

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so we're looking for a software engineer

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um andrew i'm not gonna lie i'm a

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professional clown

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and i don't know what most of these

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words mean i'd

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love if you could give some context for

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what we're looking for for this software

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engine well

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what i would say is that uh most of

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those uh words

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if you are uh qualified for the job

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you'll know what they are yeah

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but they are um definitely a lot of the

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the top-end

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technology uh for front-end development

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back-end development that we're looking

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to build this on for the future

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um so i would also say too joe if i can

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um it is a it is a call out just like

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this that actually got me hired

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and got me moving forward so if you're

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like oh my gosh i bet there's millions

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of people that are going to apply for it

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and i'll never get it

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actually i i it was sam from critical

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that said d d beyond is looking for a

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product manager and i thought

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my god that's me i love d d

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i've used d d beyond all the time he is

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talking to me

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and so i applied and then i got the job

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if you are uh sitting there now thinking

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man that will never happen

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it does it did yeah i mean i mean

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same with me not for engineering because

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i'm an idiot

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um but you know for they we need we need

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a we need a creative we need someone to

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sort of help drive that

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and i was like that's what i do and i

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love this company and this cool set in

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this game like that's uh

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so shoot your shot is what we're saying

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uh you have

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three representations right here uh of

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what your future could be

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um either a professional dummy with a

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very pushy cat

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uh a superstar like mellie or uh you

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could be touring the national parks

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right now as an employee of d beyond uh

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seriously take those shots you you

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deserve

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the chance to do so okay if you if you

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think you're not good enough or you

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think it might not be worth it

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you are worth it and you are good enough

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and you should absolutely

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uh uh be swinging that back um for

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someone who is not athletic at all i use

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a lot of sports analogies i don't always

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if they're correct uh i think we should

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take a really quick question from the

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chat

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um which is from is it about vlan

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it's actually just about this job and

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it's where is this job

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located so i believe it's

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it's uh it's huntsville but they are

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they're good with remote that's that's

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nearly our entire engineering team has

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gone remote because of things that have

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happened in the last year

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uh for example i'm remote i'm not going

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into the huntsville office

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um yeah so if uh if you are

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um needing something that is remote yeah

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that does not disqualify you also if you

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so you could live in huntsville

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is it a benefit we don't know uh let's

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very cool town that's where space camp

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is uh i just like making fun of it

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uh as a man with alabama family myself

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um any other questions about about the

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gig mellie

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uh about the gig no so i think we can

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move right on

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well cool then let's let's jump in uh to

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some combat tracker

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updates andrew if you don't mind uh so i

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know that

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the feature that we want to talk about

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as being live today and get into a

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little bit

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uh before we get a little bigger and a

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little more esoteric is uh dice rolling

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on monster stat blocks

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yeah yeah um and i should clarify this

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is dice rolling on monster stat blocks

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that are in the combat tractor so

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um a common principle of product

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development is

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building small steps at a time and so

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this is a

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very small step getting some uh dice

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rollable on monster stat blocks on the

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combat tracker

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is actually pretty important for dms to

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be able to actually play

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with their players so when we add this

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while they're running a combat in in the

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combat tracker

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now they can see that stat block and

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then just click on those abilities just

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like you can on the

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the character sheet and roll those into

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the

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uh the game log i think we've got an

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image example too there we go yeah yeah

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yeah yeah so you see those boxes there

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you can roll

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um any one of those this is uh i will

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say a

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a mock-up we don't have it currently

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viewable

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so we can demonstrate yet but this is

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what it'll look like when it comes out

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so you can hit those boxes it'll roll

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the dice just like on your character

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sheet and uh

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yeah it's gonna be so handy for all

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those combats

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no i agree and just to uh to throw some

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shade at myself

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uh in setting up this presentation i

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listed this is live it is not

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but uh so that's my fault please yell at

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me uh but uh andrew

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uh is it is this uh what

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what should we officially call these

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things a soonish

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yeah yeah absolutely yeah if you can see

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it on this screen which you are seeing

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it now

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that means it is coming to a completion

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so

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i won't give you a date because we don't

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give dates but

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uh it's coming this is not one of those

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like

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next year's things coming soon and a

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small step but an important one

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and uh and i i kind of wanted while i've

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got you today to talk

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you know a little bit about some more of

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those kind of small steps uh

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and uh william if you could throw us to

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the next um uh

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slide there uh because one thing we sort

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of wanted to do

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uh was talk a little bit about uh the

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game log

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first of all i know you had a lot of

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thoughts around the game log

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uh why it's important to us

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um then we wanted to get a a little a

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little crazy

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and uh maybe even talk about that you

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know we know

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the the community wish list but i'd love

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to get into maybe a little bit of the

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developer wish list as much as we can

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without getting in trouble at least

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um uh don't let this be the dev update

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where we all get fired

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um that i cannot have that happen please

381
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we cannot burn this evidence this is

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live so

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but let's let's get into the game log a

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little bit uh you know the importance

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where you kind of see it going

386
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yeah yeah well um we can absolutely say

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that

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what is coming next for the game log is

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going to be some uh chat

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features chat like features i think that

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that makes all the sense in the world

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that you are able to share your dice

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rolls

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you can also just send a quick message

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along with that

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included in the chat log will come ways

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to be able to decide i don't want to

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share anymore

399
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like i i've shared too much it's too

400
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much sharing

401
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i still want to roll dice but i don't

402
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want to share it anymore um

403
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there will be settings for that um there

404
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will also be settings to be able to

405
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share with

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uh specific people including the dm so

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uh for all those uh rogues out there who

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like to steal things from their players

409
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i'm i'm one of those uh you can with

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this

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this new update you'll be able to send a

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a role straight to your dm so that they

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know that you can

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if you've stolen it or not um so those

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are uh

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definitely things that are needed and i

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think are completely obvious

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that are sort of uh we call those table

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stakes in the

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in the product world that um we can't

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really go

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on without them um and uh

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yeah that's just the start you're right

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joe like um

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the the game log when we released that

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and we've been working on it for a while

427
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now and i'm really glad that it's been

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out there and it's been so well received

429
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um we named it the game log because

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we knew it was going to be more than

431
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just sharing dice right this is not just

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a dice log this is going to be more than

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that we knew we wanted to do

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chatting which we were going to do but

435
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there's going to be so much more

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ideally without getting into too many

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details

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the game log helps you tell the story of

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what is happening

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right now and ideally the game log is

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something that we can then

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pick up and take with you wherever you

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go

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so no matter where you are on our site

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you'll be able to stay in touch with

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your game as it's being played

447
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so then you can just imagine all the

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different things that would be nice to

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have

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when you're say on a compendium page

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running an adventure

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or all the things that would be nice to

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have if you're on a spell listing page

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looking for a spell

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right like i might want to say

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uh share one of those spells with the

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whole group so they can read and see

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what it does for example

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or i might want to see that

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my uh dm has initiated a combat and i

461
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need a role initiative so

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i i can go ahead and do that while i'm

463
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there instead of having to go all the

464
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way back to my

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character yeah and i mean this is all

466
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part of the goal right is

467
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is sort of uh you know breaking down

468
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some walls and some barriers continuing

469
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to make the game easier to play

470
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um more accessible for everyone you know

471
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sort of regardless of skill level

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um that's something you guys are going

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to hear me

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beat to death is just how important i

475
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think it is for everyone to just be able

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to walk in the door and immediately

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start telling their stories with their

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friends

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um and that's why i really like this

480
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stuff it's just going to be such like a

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a focused tool for helping do that

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like a developed ecosystem where

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everything you need is right here

484
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yeah no absolutely and of course mel as

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we're talking i know uh we've probably

486
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got questions bubbling up so

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you can feel free to start uh dropping

488
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some of those into the conversation

489
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yeah so we got uh some game log

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questions we can hop

491
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to uh we've got one from santa czar1626

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a great job on the game log i'm excited

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to have this feature can you add

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text in the game log noting the start of

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a round and the start of an

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actor's turn in the combat tracker yeah

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that's a really great point

498
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the the game log when i was talking

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about small bite-sized chunks the game

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log is really at this point just

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sharing dice but that doesn't mean we

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can't do more with it especially when we

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start

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connecting the combat tracker and start

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identifying okay

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when does combat start and when is it

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somebody else's turn right

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those would be important things to know

509
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when you're

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say on a spell listing page looking for

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what spells you might want to cast

512
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right um yeah absolutely those are

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things that we would

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um we'd love to get to in the future and

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and i can absolutely see

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that is a direction that we we would be

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headed again not

518
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like tomorrow but but the the game log

519
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has a long future of of

520
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developments that we want to get to yeah

521
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absolutely

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and we get uh reason wolf's what about

523
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dice rolling on monster stat blocks on

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character sheet extras

525
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like wild shapes yeah absolutely

526
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definitely need those

527
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definitely need those i have a lot of

528
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characters with a lot of familiars and

529
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wild shapes uh druids and they got to be

530
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able to roll as well

531
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they do um that is that is something

532
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that we'll be looking at again

533
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just on the combat tracker to start with

534
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and then we'll start porting that over

535
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it's it's a it's a theme that we can use

536
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in other places yeah and you know

537
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something about

538
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uh you know these conversations as we

539
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have andrew and other team members kind

540
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of come on

541
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you know uh the immediate answer uh

542
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might not

543
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always be yeah we're on it and here's a

544
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date

545
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but you know i i do think it's important

546
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for the community

547
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to at least know you know like folks

548
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like andrew are like

549
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yeah yeah yeah no my druid also needs

550
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this you know it's definitely something

551
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that yes up there we're all on the same

552
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page we're all at the same barbecue

553
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yeah but part of my job is really um so

554
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i don't actually write any code but i

555
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worked with developers every day

556
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and i'm talking with them all the time

557
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part of my job is to really understand

558
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how the game is played and how people

559
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play the game so that that way i can

560
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communicate to them the importance of

561
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decisions that they're making

562
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um and and i don't just mean by

563
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uh playing it myself i play a lot of d d

564
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by the way

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both for work and just because i love d

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d but also i observe games

567
00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:28,720
um so we we study how people play

568
00:19:25,919 --> 00:19:30,640
d and d like a researcher would study

569
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,200
how somebody uses their product

570
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,919
um and we we are pretty rigorous about

571
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,559
that and

572
00:19:33,919 --> 00:19:38,720
and what we identify how we identify and

573
00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:40,640
we use that to help influence

574
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,640
what we build um it's one of the reasons

575
00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,919
why we pride ourselves on being a very

576
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,679
easy to use

577
00:19:43,919 --> 00:19:50,720
intuitive tool no absolutely and

578
00:19:47,679 --> 00:19:52,720
and yeah i mean i can't i can't

579
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,039
yell it to the rooftops enough it's it's

580
00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:58,960
a it's a it's a

581
00:19:55,039 --> 00:20:01,200
team of y'all like i i think you know

582
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,039
one of the things that again i love

583
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,520
about working here and working on this

584
00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:05,120
team

585
00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,039
is that it is literally people who were

586
00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,159
members of the d d community that were

587
00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:11,039
like

588
00:20:08,159 --> 00:20:13,200
how can we like just create something

589
00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:16,240
that can help us enjoy the game more

590
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,640
uh make it easier to play um

591
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,640
you know as opposed to someone from the

592
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,640
outside in going um

593
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,000
how can we make a few bucks off this d d

594
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,799
thing that's suddenly getting popular

595
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,400
again

596
00:20:24,799 --> 00:20:28,799
um uh mellie any other uh questions from

597
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,120
uh

598
00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:31,919
cat right now i'm sure we got toxic

599
00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:34,880
underscore

600
00:20:31,919 --> 00:20:35,679
core i have a lycanthrope i believe

601
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,600
lycan

602
00:20:35,679 --> 00:20:39,600
blood hunter player in my campaign

603
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,039
however each time he wants to hybrid for

604
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,440
me has to go to the builder and switch

605
00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:42,960
it

606
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,480
is there any plans of adding a tab on

607
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,840
character sheets for stuff like

608
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,880
these temporary effects for ease of

609
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,559
transition

610
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,799
yeah that's an interesting question and

611
00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:56,080
a very very specific

612
00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,080
character that you've created

613
00:20:56,159 --> 00:20:59,440
i would say one thing that the blood

614
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:02,320
hunter

615
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,520
is a is a non-official class we strive

616
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,240
to make sure that we are

617
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,840
supporting as close as we can all

618
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,039
official classes but bloodhunter is a

619
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,520
really fun one

620
00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:14,080
that we we wanted to add because of our

621
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,080
relationship with critical role

622
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,360
i say that to say that it is not that

623
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,760
we're not going to do something like

624
00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:20,240
that

625
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,280
but that um it wouldn't necessarily be

626
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,120
above say

627
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,559
other things that we would do to support

628
00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:27,600
maybe a cleric or

629
00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:30,400
a druid um so what we'll look for

630
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,159
a lot of times um is ways that we can

631
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,360
solve two problems with just one

632
00:21:32,159 --> 00:21:35,679
solution

633
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:37,200
and so it's more likely that we wouldn't

634
00:21:35,679 --> 00:21:38,159
necessarily go after this one

635
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,559
specifically

636
00:21:38,159 --> 00:21:41,679
but we might see two different things

637
00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:42,640
that can be solved with the same

638
00:21:41,679 --> 00:21:44,799
solution

639
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,080
um and so that that's how i would answer

640
00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:50,240
that question

641
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:51,919
yeah yeah absolutely uh i'd love to uh

642
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,840
uh as mellie sort of gathered some other

643
00:21:51,919 --> 00:21:57,039
questions uh from chat i'd love to

644
00:21:53,840 --> 00:22:00,960
um uh jump into a little bit of

645
00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:04,080
uh dev wish list stuff with you

646
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:08,000
i full disclosure to the team i

647
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,000
andrew's a preacher man and uh

648
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,080
i've been lucky enough to to hear andrew

649
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,320
preach a couple times to me about just

650
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,200
how much this matters and

651
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,720
seriously i i love it um i i honestly do

652
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,679
i get excited anytime i talk to you

653
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,919
about this stuff

654
00:22:19,679 --> 00:22:23,120
and so yeah i'd love to hear again you

655
00:22:21,919 --> 00:22:27,679
know uh

656
00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:31,120
uh don't get me in trouble but

657
00:22:27,679 --> 00:22:34,640
some thoughts on that yeah clarify

658
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:36,880
not a a literal religious preacher um

659
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,320
but i i do get passionate i do really

660
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,840
get passionate about what we build and

661
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,880
why we build it and

662
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,640
how we build it um for example

663
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,480
the game log is is a great example of

664
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,600
that we focus there's a lot of things we

665
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,799
can focus on

666
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:53,039
um but the game log is a is a perfect

667
00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:54,480
example of we have one immediate problem

668
00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:56,000
of sharing dice

669
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,320
we know we have to do that because it

670
00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,640
just makes sense it makes sense to help

671
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:03,280
the game move faster and keep people

672
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,240
in communication but what can we do to

673
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:08,000
push that

674
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,200
further when we when i mean i i to be

675
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,080
honest with you i've used

676
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,720
many many vtts um i've i've tested them

677
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,280
all out

678
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,840
i've used a lot of them um because they

679
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,200
do help

680
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:21,360
make gameplay uh easier when i use those

681
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,799
though the the interesting thing is is

682
00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:25,840
that

683
00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:29,039
the unsung hero

684
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,720
of almost every vtt is not the

685
00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:32,080
80 percent of the screen that is the

686
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,120
tactical map

687
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:37,600
but it is that sidebar over on the side

688
00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:38,799
because that sidebar is what connects

689
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,120
everybody together

690
00:23:38,799 --> 00:23:42,640
it is what allows you to start sharing

691
00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,960
things back and forth

692
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,400
it is really the backbone um and it's

693
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,279
unfortunate that it

694
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,159
it is the unsung hero because it is what

695
00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:52,320
everything is really

696
00:23:50,159 --> 00:23:54,000
sort of built off of i mean that is the

697
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,440
virtual the virtual version of that

698
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,320
communal experience that you're kind of

699
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,400
looking for right

700
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,440
that's right yeah it is what creates

701
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,200
this sort of

702
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:06,159
uh play experience or game space that

703
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,559
that um you might have heard it is what

704
00:24:06,159 --> 00:24:09,039
is

705
00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:09,600
um essential to being able to play that

706
00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:12,640
game

707
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,240
and then as we in

708
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,159
as we increase the functionality of that

709
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:19,440
game log i hope it only

710
00:24:16,159 --> 00:24:22,159
uh makes your play experience better

711
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,919
as a result yeah yeah well said it's a

712
00:24:22,159 --> 00:24:25,279
it's a lot of small steps that i think

713
00:24:23,919 --> 00:24:26,000
are building into something really

714
00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:28,000
really cool

715
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,400
uh down the road nothing got another

716
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,400
question

717
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,440
zxdm i was muted sorry love the combat

718
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:38,159
tracker

719
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,840
and these updates are very welcomed uh

720
00:24:38,159 --> 00:24:42,480
any chance of adding slash removing

721
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,799
monsters mid combat

722
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,000
yes um that is definitely something that

723
00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:48,240
has annoyed me

724
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,679
plenty of times among other things about

725
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,919
the combat tracker

726
00:24:49,679 --> 00:24:53,840
the combat tracker is still an alpha and

727
00:24:51,919 --> 00:24:55,679
i am keenly aware that it has been in

728
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,919
alpha for far too long

729
00:24:55,679 --> 00:25:00,159
far too long um that is something that

730
00:24:57,919 --> 00:25:03,440
we definitely want to try to fix

731
00:25:00,159 --> 00:25:07,279
um sooner rather than later

732
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:09,919
and i say that because um

733
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:10,880
the combat tracker is an essential part

734
00:25:09,919 --> 00:25:13,200
to how we

735
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,880
how we play the majority of the game

736
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,799
right and we need it

737
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,000
to be fully functional especially with

738
00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:19,919
features like this

739
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,679
uh the ability to add monsters and

740
00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:23,840
delete monsters in mid combat

741
00:25:21,679 --> 00:25:25,360
makes all the sense of the world i love

742
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,360
that sort of

743
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,480
you think the combat is going to go one

744
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:31,039
direction and you

745
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,760
have just barely defeated that last

746
00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:34,720
monster

747
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,440
only to find out that the mother spider

748
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,360
is actually

749
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,120
just over the ridge and you're going to

750
00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:41,279
have to continue to do this

751
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,720
when you did not have resources to do it

752
00:25:41,279 --> 00:25:44,000
right like that makes

753
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,559
all the sense of the world and is some

754
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,279
of the most fun boss encounters

755
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:50,240
and uh stories that you can tell in your

756
00:25:49,279 --> 00:25:52,400
story

757
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,000
and then you have the moment where the

758
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,200
druid summons

759
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,720
eight creatures to fight for them

760
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,520
and that's a lot of things in that

761
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,960
combat tracker with very low hp

762
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:06,799
yes yes absolutely those those the

763
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,360
beacons are lit moments are

764
00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:10,559
necessary completely necessary mellie i

765
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,919
think we've got time for about two more

766
00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:12,960
questions before we get out of here two

767
00:26:11,919 --> 00:26:16,480
more questions

768
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:19,279
all right well we've got one here from

769
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,159
uh organized chaos spelled very

770
00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:21,200
interestingly

771
00:26:20,159 --> 00:26:23,200
is there plans in the works to

772
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,279
incorporate activated abilities

773
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,240
and spells to show on the sheet like

774
00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:29,279
rage or

775
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,919
mage armor yes

776
00:26:29,279 --> 00:26:33,760
absolutely and not just showing those

777
00:26:31,919 --> 00:26:35,360
activated abilities but allowing those

778
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,400
activated abilities to actually

779
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:39,039
influence your game mechanics like dice

780
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,919
roll

781
00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:43,039
for example when you rage it's not just

782
00:26:41,919 --> 00:26:45,279
sort of a

783
00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:47,120
mad face that you get but you also get

784
00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:50,480
extra strength on your

785
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:53,679
damage rolls um and

786
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,559
it is it is in the works to try to make

787
00:26:53,679 --> 00:26:57,440
that happen

788
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:59,200
um because ultimately the character

789
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,200
sheet should be something that

790
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,039
does a lot of the back end work for you

791
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,720
so you don't have to remember it

792
00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:06,640
um so the purpose of something like that

793
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,880
being active would be that

794
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,480
now the sheet responds in a way that we

795
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,640
know this is active

796
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,640
it's going to change these pieces and

797
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,720
you don't have to remember it anymore

798
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,320
yeah another good example of that would

799
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,320
be like bardic inspiration

800
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,640
i have bardic inspiration but i always

801
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,919
forget to use it and when can i use it

802
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,600
and how do i use it so for example if

803
00:27:25,919 --> 00:27:30,000
you rolled something that

804
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,520
could like an ability score i'm going to

805
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,159
do an acrobatic

806
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,960
dodge out of the way uh i i want to be

807
00:27:34,159 --> 00:27:36,720
able to add

808
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,240
in that bardic inspiration into that

809
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,679
ability

810
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,880
skill check yeah definitely well it

811
00:27:41,679 --> 00:27:45,360
takes us from uh

812
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,960
you know just a great tool that helps to

813
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:50,000
a great tool that almost interacts with

814
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,000
you it's like uh

815
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,360
becomes your venom suit uh and

816
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,600
in in a lot of ways too just to kind of

817
00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:59,760
drive this point home we strive at

818
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,000
um one of the things i pride our

819
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,760
development on at dnd beyond is that

820
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,039
our tool solves problems while you're

821
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,200
playing the game and

822
00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:08,960
gets out of the way so it is like you

823
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:12,080
are playing d and d

824
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,919
rather than playing d d beyond right um

825
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,640
we should our tool should just fade away

826
00:28:13,919 --> 00:28:17,360
and you're just

827
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,799
left with the immersion and the

828
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:20,399
engagement into

829
00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,000
the the game that you're playing that's

830
00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:23,760
really well said yeah and that's what i

831
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,919
love about dnd beyond with my groups

832
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,440
is just how it makes it so much easier

833
00:28:25,919 --> 00:28:29,039
to play that we aren't

834
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,880
thinking about all of the like little

835
00:28:29,039 --> 00:28:33,360
details and mechanics we are just

836
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,600
enjoying ourselves at the table because

837
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:38,240
we've got this tool that is kind of

838
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,279
dotting eyes and crossing t's for us

839
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,440
we'll continue to

840
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:43,679
use that that methodology that thinking

841
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,320
that is that's how we build our tools

842
00:28:43,679 --> 00:28:46,320
and forgive us

843
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,919
you know uh forgive us of blowing a

844
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,240
little sunshine up our own butts but

845
00:28:47,919 --> 00:28:50,480
it's

846
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,480
yeah it's nice to genuinely work

847
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,760
somewhere where we're actually really

848
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,000
the thing that we're uh that we're

849
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,039
putting together um that's our last

850
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,640
question and then i think we

851
00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:01,039
to get out of here yeah newbie

852
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,520
underscore 101 are there any plans for a

853
00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:03,039
dm

854
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,399
view on the campaign screen to show

855
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:09,600
party ac hp skill bonuses other overview

856
00:29:06,399 --> 00:29:11,520
and state of the ability of the party

857
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,039
um there are plans actually and this is

858
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,679
probably a lot closer than you might

859
00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:18,640
think

860
00:29:13,679 --> 00:29:21,279
um one of the one of the

861
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,480
reasons why the combat tracker for

862
00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:24,080
example is not

863
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,320
something more than just alpha is

864
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:29,440
because these things aren't connected

865
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:32,720
and i've um i promise you that

866
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,159
um it is not lost on us the weirdness of

867
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,120
the fact that we have a character sheet

868
00:29:34,159 --> 00:29:36,880
that's pretty good

869
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,480
and a combat tracker that's pretty good

870
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,279
but those two things don't seem to talk

871
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,880
together

872
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:42,880
um those are those are problems that

873
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:46,320
we've got to solve and we we

874
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,799
will be solving them quickly um and and

875
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,399
those that you've mentioned ac hit

876
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,720
points skill bonuses

877
00:29:50,399 --> 00:29:54,240
those are things that can be dynamic and

878
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,720
change throughout combat

879
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,080
and it should show throughout the whole

880
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,600
system

881
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,200
and that that's what we want to try to

882
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,000
put in place

883
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,960
the the the you mentioned a screen for a

884
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,360
dm

885
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,200
on the campaign absolutely one of the

886
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,960
things i would mention too and i know

887
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,200
lots of you are probably in chat right

888
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,840
now saying like dm screen we want a dm

889
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,960
screen

890
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:19,679
um i think that the dm screen will be a

891
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,880
a great addition to our our platform at

892
00:30:19,679 --> 00:30:23,279
some point in the future

893
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,960
the one thing that i would suggest and

894
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,000
and think about the way we are thinking

895
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,600
about it is

896
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,279
we don't want to just recreate a

897
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,240
physical dm screen

898
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:33,760
right we want to um utilize the

899
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,840
technology that we have

900
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,039
to help solve the solve the problems

901
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,399
that come from that

902
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:41,520
so if and when we develop a dm screen in

903
00:30:40,399 --> 00:30:44,000
the future

904
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,600
it won't just be this sort of static

905
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,520
screen that you keep up to keep your

906
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,919
players from seeing what you've got

907
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,559
it will be dynamic and immersive and

908
00:30:49,919 --> 00:30:55,039
it'll allow you to play the game as a dm

909
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:56,559
much better um but that kind of thing

910
00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:58,320
takes time and takes uh

911
00:30:56,559 --> 00:31:00,080
thought and study and how people are

912
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,320
using it so

913
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,080
well i appreciate you taking some time

914
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,840
away from that thought and study uh

915
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,279
to hang out with us a little bit today

916
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,760
um i

917
00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:11,840
i think that's gonna do it for today uh

918
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,399
mellie andrew thank you so much for

919
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:16,320
for uh for for joining me uh thank you

920
00:31:14,399 --> 00:31:18,559
guys so much for being here and i

921
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,720
i hope you're sort of enjoying uh you

922
00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:21,279
know the slight sort of tweaks to format

923
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,960
for the dev

924
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,480
update you know i think it's important

925
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,880
instead of just kind of giving you guys

926
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,960
a

927
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,799
a vague calendar i want to start really

928
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,360
introducing you guys to the team

929
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:33,120
giving you some insights uh into the

930
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,559
tool set into the product and some

931
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,519
thoughts towards the future i hope you

932
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:38,080
guys enjoyed it

933
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:41,360
and uh we'll see you next week uh here

934
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,360
on the dev update thank you guys for

935
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,840
watching