COMEDY - EP.#35.5: The The Adventure Zone Zone

COMEDY - EP.#35.5: The The Adventure Zone Zone
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[@bottlesalts]

Ahh. It’s really refreshing that my boy Justin confirmed Taako’s homosexuality. I love Taako so much.

[@titanking9130]

I mean....I picked up some solid gay energy between Klarg and Taako

[@SomeoneNews]

I would have loved to know when that happens

[@thecurtains]

I love listening to Griffin talk about what inspires different arcs, he sounds so passionate about it

[@greedthenyavaricious]

That remix of Deja Vu though. Crisp.

[@gabwood1514]

SPOILERS "He's dead as fuck. I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Barry's soul has left his body." REALLY Griffin. I see you're not outright saying that you WON'T bring him back, and that's a VERY clever way of deeply implying he's never coming back while staying truthful, but REALLY

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

10:58 Victor Frankenstein wasn't a doctor either. He dropped out of college.

[@gabwood1514]

I love how they added the music in the background as Griffin reviews everything that's happened

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Merle forgot his earring that helps him with perception and it bugs me everytime he cast zone of truth and forgets lol

[@fern5505]

Magnus is a himbo and i love him

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Is it Magnus or just Travis lol

[@prettymuchyeah7520]

@@therealfinnaspring8585 It's both

[@derp195]

As a gay guy myself, I think it’s really sad that Justin has to be bothered with the idea that he’s doing an offensive stereotype. This kind of oversensitivity makes people afraid to make lgbt+ characters. That’s not progress.

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

And at $1000 a month you get to be a guest on a max fun podcast of your choice

[@derp195]

lol I’d probably pay that

[@Blitzwaffen]

Roll 20 does have a virtual dice roller in it so everyone can see dice rolls.

[@jennyrosebane8129]

Well there is star wars, star trek (and yes there is tabletop for both SW and ST), shadowrun, cyberpunk, battletech (giant mechs), heroes unlimited, teenage mutant ninja turtles and other strangeness (a heroes unlimited extension, but can be on it's own), dead lands (a western trpg), role master, savage worlds, castles and crusades, mutants and masterminds, fate, starfinder, pathfinder, W.O.I.N, traveler, 13th, the strange, and cyber system. Most of these I have not played, but this is what I do know of currently.

[@tabithaaf]

23:46 justin i love you so much you are speaking to my FUCKING SOULLLLL with this, like this is seriously such a fucking problem for me all the time

[@skullptures142]

Spoilers for the whole series and the end: OK BUT TAAKO,, TACOS??? AND THE *HUNGER* I'm legitimately so fucking mad and impressed by Griffin

[@gabwood1514]

Oh I didn't even think about that holy shit that's genius

[@joaoguilhermeassim]

28:30 taco giving magic power... this is foreshadowing of the finale of adventure zone! interesting you genious

[@happyrobot3362]

"Barry bluejeans is dead as fuck" sure griffin sure........

[@Tesana]

I was disenchanted when I heard that the players fudged their dice rolls. The random chance is more exciting.

[@geekasauruswreks8789]

It's not a serious or competitive game. It's a comedy game podcast. No harm. I think it would actually be detrimental to the type of show they do if they didn't fudge rolls occasionally. It's not the same kind of show as Critical Roll, for example. Furthermore, they've failed rolls and Griffin has basically Deus ex Machina'd them out of the ensuing problems. IE, Klarg on the motorcycle when Taako failed a save in the Petals to the Metal arc. It would be worse if Griffin constantly had to do that to keep them from dying or failing to meet an important objective. I imagine he's in on it to some extent and possibly even encouraged it. This is coming from someone who used to be a complete "rules lawyer". Also, you may know this, but "Artemis Entreri" is the name of a character in the Faerûn setting. Your user name reminded me of him, but I see it's another book series.

[@Tesana]

Thou hast provided a valid point, @@geekasauruswreks8789. As for my username, I was a fan when I was quite young, so I chose it for KZbin at the time.

[@RDR911]

​@@geekasauruswreks8789 To many people, the rules system is an important medium to tell the story through. Dice and their inherent randomness create interesting, one-of-a-kind stories. If they didn't want randomness, Griffin should've written a book. Hell, I've felt many times that Griffin would probably enjoy being an Author more, what with his 15 minutes monologues.

[@geekasauruswreks8789]

@@RDR911 there were definitely elements of randomness. Like I said, I've been a rules lawyer. When playing, I agree entirely with your first sentence. Bottom line for me is: I enjoyed Balance thoroughly and fudged die rolls won't change that. If other people can't enjoy the story now, that's unfortunate because it's more fun to enjoy things. To each their own, though.

[@skullptures142]

45:50 break ends

[@notinspectorgadget]

Top Lad/Lass

[@acedaggie15]

Honestly, I didn't care about berry blue jenes until this explination and now I feel you have to bring back his twin brother or something. Or he could be a litch. Who knows.

[@notinspectorgadget]

Yes indeed... *who knows.*

[@maddyc2025]

8:06 I CANT FUCKING BREATH

[@notinspectorgadget]

I've never heard someone so ruthlessly lambasted by their own children before.

[@chasecollins3263]

I just have to know what that damn tattoo is now

[@kennethsmith383]

Well I dont know if it happened, but the one Justin suggested for Clint was probably, contextually, a Nat 1. Maybe Travis was a Nat 20 as a goof.

[@sofialaya596]

gm= griffin mclroys ah yes i get it now

[@thursty4boardgames944]

Got here first weeewee!

[@inkfrogg5593]

magnus is chaotic himbo

[@wor1dconquerer170]

Saying it would be disappointing to do a dnd show is disrespectful to their dnd playing watchers.

[@Sage_the_Turt]

well it's good they literally didn't say that, then

[@wor1dconquerer170]

@@Sage_the_Turt They Literally say it at 14:46 "if you expect us to play straight dnd I imagine this podcast would be kinda disappointing".

[@kennethsmith383]

I fully agree with them. DnD sucks to listen to. Maybe if you have minis and it's a visual medium. But a audio podcast? So many rules and things to get bogged down by. And if you're a player, that's fine. But if you want to listen to a campaign and especially if you want to hear a story, it's a bad medium

[@norab9112]

I think (and yes I know that I’m VERY late to this comment, but its interesting to think and talk about) that they meant that their style of storytelling wouldn’t translate well into a super rule-following dnd game, or be fun for them to do/play/gm. That’s what I took away from that conversation was at least 🤷‍♀️

[@markdumstorf5264]

Yes, and... not no, but....

[@audreyelizabeth2370]

Stop spoiling things in the comments???

[@prettymuchyeah7520]

I mean, the comments are a place to talk about the video and things related to the video, so, of course there's gonna be spoilers- that's why you don't scroll when listening/watching videos

[@DuckReconMajor]

@@prettymuchyeah7520 lol relevant username the comments are literally to talk about the video!!

[@turtledude83]

This is my fourth time through Balance, and while I understand the frustration with spoilers, you gotta understand that this campaign is years old and you scroll at your own risk. It is frustrating and I do get it sucks, but there's nothing we can do to stop others from talking about the podcast. Nor should we!

[@RDR911]

You're literally going to a discussion forum about said episode, what did you expect?? LOL.

[@markdumstorf5264]

Don't try to oversell this, guys.... Being a DM isn't that hard... If you don't think in a results-oriented way, the story evolves organically...