Triforce!

[@maleusgaryn8227]

Finish the book, Lewis. Taking Simon through a Dwarven- themed adventure would be wonderful.

[@TiredCzech]

it would be so good, especially for jingle jam.

[@ZhangWei02]

Would be great to have tutes or ciran back as artists (no idea how to spell their names).

[@TiredCzech]

@@ZhangWei02 I mean, sure, but Nina is also a great artist

[@mooncat7009]

lewis is a really kind guy ❤️🙏👍

[@a.garcha199]

Lewis is actually a decent writer, does anyone remember the yogpod where Simon read through Lewis' book, the last watch? I quite enjoyed it actually I've listened to it a few times since.

[@James-ee1wn]

I was disappointed he copped so much shit for it

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

@@James-ee1wn what do u mean?

[@cryptomancer.]

yes, that was amazing in my opinion. not only the writing and story, but also the fact that he wrote what he knew and what we loved them for then - warcraft

[@skelletonneofgecs631]

@@PolarBear-rc4ks people thought it was really boring and it was a bit of a meme

[@kevinbass139]

Listening to Lewis read his book makes me want to hear the rest of it, I hope he does finish it

[@johntan4997]

Pflax already hinted at publishing it. Lol

[@thecanadianguy1662]

And don't forget, founder of the Yogscast, and the greatest one of all, a friend of Sips

[@gabrielvalencia7647]

Great summary

[@DamnCyrus]

Perfect

[@vabu94]

A friend is a bit of a stretch. Maybe an acquaintance would be more accurate.

[@vabu94]

@Dr Bavlkishug. M.D Cognitive-Enhancement Therapy Damn, I completely forgot that. In that case friend is an understatement.

[@vabu94]

@Dr Bavlkishug. M.D Cognitive-Enhancement Therapy Thanks doc! I appreciate the assistance with this particular misunderstanding.

[@frenchynoob]

This is why I dont let other people read my stories

[@thatoneranger1055]

Do it Lewis! Do it! We love the crazy dynamic duo of you and Simon!

[@MrSaucyBeans]

Lewis did a decent job writing that book and I'd be interested to hear more just as a laugh. I always feel bad for lew lew when pyrion and sips taunt him when he's talking about something he likes lol. Also that pukie mukie or whatever its called pokemon is based on a sea cucumber as you said, in real life sea Cucumbers expel their stomachs from their bodies in order to entrap pray. These stomachs are white which is why the fist is in pokemon. Look it up its interesting!

[@kingkuma4112]

iirc sea cucumbers have one hole they use for everything, but don't quote me on that

[@skelletonneofgecs631]

The one time I was okay with it was when Lewis was talking about being a voice actor for Civ and felt like an asshole for saying mean things to players. Lew Lew goes "...yeah, I think everyone should try it" LMAO he's so funny.

[@channelmen]

I really hope Lewis gets this done for next year's Jingle Jam!

[@PotentiallyAndy]

Mr Flax, thank you for taking the extra time and effort to make the audiobook audio nice and clean. I appreciate it very much Sir

[@tomtedh5158]

I could listen to Pyrion talk about D&D for hours.

[@jakeypakey2]

Lew, that's better writing than I've read in most of my Graduate students' works

[@noodlecat_]

Lewis going through trying to understand Pokemon is adorable , I would love to see him go through the games x3

[@charliecrome207]

Which 3?

[@phlegmconnoisseur2241]

Sips' sewer problem unbalanced Jersey so much that world war 3 is starting

[@misomiso8228]

16:00 I definitely think there is an Art to writing a good Fighting Fantasy. You can divide the best in several tiers: 1. Ian Livingstone one true path with great ‘writing tone’: These are the early classics of Deathtrap Dungeon and City of Thieves. You have to play multiple times to find the correct path (usually with hidden numbers), and the writing is of a fantastic quality. Very British. 2. Steve Jackson Creativity: Steve was always the more experimental writer, and so his books are the ones that push the genre. Creature of Havoc, House of Hell, Sorcery!. All great. 3. Johnathan Green Books: J Green is the later FF writer who’s name has become synonymous with gamebook fiction. He’s written what many consider one of the finest FF books ‘Howl of the Werewolf’, which was written with lots of community feedback. Spellbreaker, Bloodbones, and Stormslayer are also all good. 4. Newer Star Author books: These are the recent ones with big name authors. Charlie Higson and Rhianna Pratchett so far, but probably there will be more. 5. The hidden Gems: This is the largest list, but also the hardest to quantify. Some books had great gameplay but poor theme, and some had poor gameplay but very creative theme. Some highlights: 1. Stephen Hand books (Dead of Night, Shadow Warriors, Moonrunner (Moonrunner is loved) 2. Vault of the Vampire (Good theme and Adventure) 3. Rebel Planet (Best Sci-Fi) 4. Sword of the Samurai (Japanese themed) 5. Midnight Rogue (A thieves test) 6. Night Dragon (More Mature book)

[@wickedwickedweasel1234]

Great comment, I learnt a lot reading it :) thanks!

[@GItoKeG]

Finish the book. We want to see both of you read it! Make it a series!

[@arirejtman]

38:11 I’m happy hearing Pflax do such iconic impressions. XD

[@lsandqvist]

Lewis is a cool dude

[@PotentiallyAndy]

I remember doing choose your own adventure type books. There was a space one where you used dice and had stats. One where you went to the center of Earth. Both of these had death branches like normal. However my favorite was a time travel to dinosaurs one where the death branch would instead loop you back to an earlier point in the story. I liked that one

[@ugli968]

As a new driver I thank you guys. Your podcasts make my commute much less stressful and I actually enjoy the journey along the way thanks to you guys! Keep it up!

[@ryannickerson4702]

Really liked the reading, I once made a Choose your own adventure that was secretly set in 40k. Made it in attempt to get some of my friends into the lore. I'll show you mine if you show me yours Lewis!

[@littlewannabe9173]

I WANT MORE OF LEWIS'S BLAH BLOO BLOO!

[@asher6612]

Lewis should do a stream of him writing the choose your own adventure story. I think people would be really interested in that!

[@stonesol]

I want more of Lewis's Bla Bla blu

[@mattlevens6382]

As the french should know we will defend a tiny island to the death

[@freakyskull516]

that choose your own adventure book by lewis sips described sounds a looot like the stanley parable...

[@Rincewindl]

lewis, this fucking book is actually hilariousm don't stop it

[@joshconfer209]

New weekly feature. Pflax messes up Lewis's attempt at writing. Great job lads!

[@rreeeekk]

That book was kinda bomb

[@joshconfer209]

I would legit read it for sure

[@bigdonny5569]

20:56

[@raymondc9513]

Perhaps they could call the book 'Yogventures' or something like that

[@Likeitornot91]

Lewis that was good, I would love to see you and Simon tackle this

[@TheNoobchat]

Pyrion - calls all kinds of drugs 'awesome' Also Pyrion - Won't let his kids play pokemon games (???)

[@Coldyham]

He has no foundation for consistent morality, we know this already

[@ColossalDave]

Tom is a great GM. Love Lewis' writing, the murder mystery in a recent Jingle Jam was a highlight for me. The Fighting Fantasy streams are my go-to audio books for long drives, as well as the Yogsquests GM'ed by both Lewis and Tom.

[@dantheman4628]

I'm looking forward to Triforce episode 199.9

[@joshualarsen7011]

I really enjoyed hearing Lewis’s book :D

[@Dylan-id1dx]

❤️❤️❤️ love this podcast

[@the_drgoblin]

I have fond memories of the dragonology choose your own adventure books

[@tree427]

19:06 pyrion has been alive for all of about 10 seconds and is already having an existential crisis

[@misomiso8228]

Lewis MUST contact Ian and Steve and get this book published! Then sell it tied in with Jingle Jam for Charity, and watch the sales skyrocket! (It does seem a bit complex though Lewis...)

[@phoenixsoren]

I really want this Fighting Fantasy to be in this year's Jingle Jam, hopefully for sale.

[@WildWestRaider]

This episode reminded me of Pflax when he giggled doing his Glug voice from the Bodega audiobook. It caught me so off guard, good laughs 😂

[@ianfink4311]

I WANT MORE OF LEWIS'S BABABABLOO

[@loganforsythe3966]

I'd buy lewis' book

[@rgfella]

No one tell Lewis that Pyukumuku is based off of sea cucumbers ejecting out their guts.

[@hermatic1]

Loadingreadyrun have been doing choose your own adventure books on "dice friends" Adam plays while on stream with Paul and or beej very funny and entertaining. Thanks for this vid lads. As always you guys are a great distraction from pain. regards.

[@greengrendel]

Lewis should write this with Twine, as a multiple choice adventure, that way he can do tags like he says.

[@TiredCzech]

I need that choose your own adventure to be finished.

[@MayuFuji]

Pyrion: "they ran out of ideas for pokemon" meanwhile gen.1 is literally just real life animals in cartoon form

[@finleyjennings6051]

People are weirdly snobbish about gen 1 Pokemon.

[@frank9644]

All you need is two dartboards, one with animals, another with pokemon types. Simple as.

[@wake8993]

I want more of Lewis' blardabloo!

[@NimsoStudios]

I did a bit of voice recording at Ubisoft (where I work) and yeah I was very careful with the page rustling because of recording sensitivity. I've literally never heard my voice with that clarity before!

[@somedice6548]

Maybe you shouldn't look too closely at the flowers, Tolkien. Do like Sips and give them a good sniff instead.

[@patrickmellor4704]

more of this lewis

[@nicklassveder1342]

Give us more of the adventure book The new bodega segment of the triforce =)

[@Njald]

I want more of Lewis's Blah blu blue

[@xryz]

Have they watched seaspiracy on Netflix? If not they need to see it. Sounds like the Jersey conflict is related to what the documentary covers.

[@Mikemih]

Ngl, quite a good first page, very nice!

[@Alcsaar0]

The comparison between Gen 1 and Gen 8 was kinda skewed because in Gen 1 the legendaries came last (Zapdos, Articuno, etc) where as in Gen 8 the legendaries were listed first. That is why the names are so weird.

[@xXIDanIZz]

I want more of Lewis' blahbliddybloo!!

[@willmartin6002]

honestly i would read this book

[@djfuzzo1]

so, whens the full version of lewis' big adventure? timestamps for alternate choice pages

[@misomiso8228]

15:12 The Sorcery! series is amazing, and the first two of the ‘Inkle’ adaptation is fantastic, even better than the paper adaptations if I’m honest. However 3 and 4 are not worth playing as they get very complex.

[@acmb_]

yay triforce

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

Leader of the Brindley Bunch, skinny Phillipino boy.

[@gabrielvalencia7647]

Why a Filipino boy lol

[@Speederzzz]

I thought he was Lebanese!

[@Soccer333bc]

I want more of this is! Bla-blah bla-blue!

[@rpreston5867]

lewis" tinkerking adventure

[@sonicfactory-uk]

Please finish your CYOA Lewis! (Un)paid (voice) actor.

[@JackVGM]

ffs Pyrion reading out the names of the Gen 8 legendaries hahaha tbf the legendaries do have weird af names, wait until they see the Ultra Beasts, I'm playing Pokemon Snap while listening to this podcast

[@cbailey5635]

Bodega adventure book!

[@Speederzzz]

14:34 I thought PFlax was gonna write an erotic vore fic XD

[@Haltz_aeon]

Did not expect Pflax to be preaching good RPG practices. Huh. Good on 'em.

[@divamon5602]

Niceeee!

[@tylerstulz9453]

Yogventures the book

[@SGz_Eliminated]

I thought Jersey was in Canada not gonna lie

[@spongeguy6256]

21:00

[@eruner11]

I want more of Lewis's bah blah, blah blue

[@that-guy-pearce]

That's... a Shadow of Israphel plotline?

[@87TheMan87]

I certainly enjoy the rpg topics they are talking about here. Gotta say though, a lot of the time the fact that people don't enjoy things is their own lame decisions on how to play the game. Also often applies to dnd players , unfortunately. The more you immerse yourself, and the more commitment people have, the more fun it gets. In choose your own adventure books, if you made 30 decisions and then get to the point where the left rope kills you and the right one doesn't, the reason people like Lewis and Pyrion cheat is that their objective in playing the book is getting to the end as fast as possible, so they intend to do the exact same 30 decisions again, by which they ruin their own fun. Instead, if you explore the book, and every time you die make vastly different decisions based on what you learned before, not trying to skip to the end, there is no reason to cheat and skip the left rope / right rope thing, and it remains fun.

[@cald1421]

20:17

[@Flummiification]

The question is: wine or cheese?

[@P_80_]

I want more of Lewis’s blah bloo bloo

[@TheDeeZieShow]

I don't know about you guys, but I'd really like more of Lewis' blah blah blee bloo.

[@JamieAubrey]

Shame this isn't 1 hour 2 mins

[@JimothyTheGreen]

Choose your own adventure books do suck pretty bad. It seems like something that could be done well though.

[@GretchenDawntreader]

I've heard some runup to Humankind about can this compete with Civ...were they treating offering Lewis to be "in the game" as some sort of favor or honor they were granting to him that he should be grateful? That sounds like they got a lot of free work and assets for their game FOR FREE. Lewis had to submit a bunch of sets of photographs, and spend 2 days recording lines in their studio? Free? That sounds weird for a business leader of a media company who works tirelessly for charity and all. Sounds like Humankind kind of used Lewis because he's so agreeable or something.

[@Jakem763]

Sips might be my favorite person on earth

[@knitterknerd]

I try hard not to mentally "diagnose" people, as someone without any kind of psychological background, especially people I don't even know. But Lewis makes it so hard for me to not be 438% positive that he has ADHD. I identify *so hard* with needing to trick myself into doing things.

[@bhume7535]

Sometimes I feel like ADHD is so common that it is just a different way thinking instead of a "mental condition" y'know?

[@thefinal9923]

"Nobody listening to this is that irresponsible to be doing that stuff." Me: 👀

[@tomadamo3226]

Hey bois

[@hemmi12344]

Those pokemon names honestly just sound the same.

[@gabrielashworth7163]

Typical Lewis writing about huge dwarven pipe...

[@creatureofvenice]

Beep

[@namnams1495]

I'm surprised Lewis has a path of exile addiction, considering so many people cant even play because of the terrible Texture Streaming that makes everything not load until a minute after you got killed by them.

[@fezzverbal]

I want more of this blah blah bloo!

[@lin90210]

Well Lew Lew under 40s wont take AstraZeneca and Pfizer is normally just thr max side effect of a punched arm feeling

[@MayuFuji]

An auto-rpg for Lewis? Sounds like you should play mobile gacha-games : ^)

[@PotentiallyAndy]

You said the Pokémon’s name wrong. It’s pronounced “Charlizard”

[@gregoryspatisserie9858]

I’ve come over from Spotify to say ted and sips were awfully rude to Lewis today. Let the man read his damn book then give your snotty opinion afterwards.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

I agree! A bit mean, I understand they are trying to make jokes and be funny but there's a time and place for everything.

[@_nervous_6359]

Pyrion does a pretty good rick voice

[@gh8n9o]

Pyrion's argument that "its not fun so it must be good for you", is stupid. I imagine getting shot isnt fun and it certainly isnt good for you

[@a.garcha199]

I don't think his point was everything that isn't fun is good for you, his point was everything that is good for you isn't fun. Obviously that his own flaws in the fact that working out is good for you and some people find it fun, but that's just poking holes in a throwaway sentence.

[@markhackett2302]

The Red Box D&D wasn't the first, OG. It was the Basic D&D game, at the time when there was the Basic D&D (with the extentions to higher levels in the Expert, Companion and Master levels and finally expanded near the end of life to Immortals), and Advanced D&D which covered the entire level range appropriate (Basic D&D rulesets expanted to Level 36, AD&D was 1-20 on the same game book). The original first Basic D&D edition was the Blue Box. There was one last Hurrah for the Basic series in the D&D Compendium, which repackaged the Basic ruleset up to level 36. The basic ruleset was simpler and had fewer rules, less equipment armour weapons and so on, compared to AD&D but AD&D was a pretty extensive ruleset with a lot of fluff. AD&D had you be tougher in earlier levels but it was harder to earn enough cash reserves to progress in equipment, and the rules mostly escalated too high by about level 20 hence why they capped it at that level in those days. Basic D&D had cheaper armour so you could offset the general lack of power early game with giving your fighter plate armour.