The Season One Debrief

Mark:

[0m0s] It’s the Season 1 Debrief, our finale. Play this one by ear a little bit.

Jon:

[0m6s] Yeah, that’ll be a new experience for us. You mean wing it as we go?

Stephen:

[0m11s] You mean you haven’t got points?

Barry:

[0m13s] Are we still in? Yeah, it’s all good.

Mark:

[0m14s] So this episode of RPG Blokes, we are just going to wrap up our first series and talk about what we’ve experienced, how it’s been for us, and where we’re going to go next, and what we hope to have achieved. I think, you know, we can’t mark our own homework can respect to that but you know at least we can put down exactly what we’ve tried to do like a, blueprint on what a new player might like to learn and know about the game before he begins his first session or while he’s playing his first few sessions and then still engage those that are more experienced with the game and try and give insights that might be useful to anybody that’s played it or just conversation that might be interesting to people interesting to people that have played it for longer so hopefully we’ve achieved that we are doing this season by seasons because we do think there is no limit to how many episodes we can talk with this in mind. And so when we move on to our next season, we intend to be a little bit more generic in who we’re appealing to. So perhaps now appealing to you, if you’d started playing when you were listening to our first series and picking up, I don’t know, a month or two worth of play and then still listening to us, you’ll still get something out of it as we start to talk about other elements of the game that are less important as a starting player. I’m not going to introduce the blokes like I would normally, but they’re all here. Maybe they can introduce themselves.

Jon:

[1m32s] You’ve run out of casual insults.

Barry:

[1m35s] I’m amazed that you’ve managed to come up with so many introductions for what seems like so many episodes. I don’t think you’re getting enough credit for it. Most of them have been accurate and amusing.

Jon:

[1m44s] Don’t encourage him.

Mark:

[1m46s] Well, I don’t know whether I’ve got enough in me to do another season’s worth.

Stephen:

[1m50s] I’m sure you have. I’m sure you have, yeah.

Barry:

[1m52s] Well, then there’s only one way to find out.

Mark:

[1m54s] Yeah. So I think because I can’t introduce people in the way that I normally do, I think they should introduce themselves. So, first of all, we have here on my left.

Barry:

[2m4s] Barry.

Mark:

[2m6s] Hello, Barry. Barry, describe yourself.

Barry:

[2m9s] Fat and tired.

Jon:

[2m13s] Well, now you’ve stolen mine.

Mark:

[2m17s] Now, I could ask John, yeah, but it’ll be like we’ve got twins at the top.

Jon:

[2m21s] Tweedledum and Tweedledumma.

Mark:

[2m23s] And sitting opposite me is? John. Okay. And John, describe yourself.

Jon:

[2m28s] Much like my character name that I’m going to be playing, I think. We’ll say Fact Hunt, yes.

Mark:

[2m38s] Okay, and to my right, there is…

Stephen:

[2m41s] Stephen, that’s me. And we’ve allowed beer in this episode, so it’s all good.

Mark:

[2m45s] But we have to point out we just started drinking our first pint, so we do get a little bit tipsy. This is pathetic.

Barry:

[2m51s] This is the first time we’ve had alcoholic beverages whilst recording at any point.

Mark:

[2m56s] It is, yeah.

Stephen:

[2m57s] But it has been.

Barry:

[2m58s] I’m impressed with our restraint.

Stephen:

[3m0s] We should drink more, no good story ever started with.

Barry:

[3m6s] A glass of water do you know.

Stephen:

[3m7s] What I mean.

Mark:

[3m9s] Stephen describe yourself what’s that t-shirt.

Stephen:

[3m11s] It’s a t-shirt with a menacing looking thing on it angel I think well.

Mark:

[3m15s] There’s words at the top.

Stephen:

[3m18s] Sephalgero drink core or something.

Mark:

[3m20s] My god I thought you’d have an answer for me but.

Stephen:

[3m22s] I don’t it’s I just like the design to be fair and it was kind of like isn’t it a band No, I think it is a…

Barry:

[3m28s] It looks like it ought to be a band. It’s band-related, I think.

Stephen:

[3m30s] But it’s more kind of the genre of music. It’s like a metalcore. I don’t know. I just like the design, to be fair. But you’ve got an orange T-shirt on. That’s your favourite colour, isn’t it?

Mark:

[3m38s] If we could describe our characters ourselves, I mean, then I am wearing an orange T-shirt.

Barry:

[3m43s] Be safe. Be seen.

Mark:

[3m47s] Yeah, that’s the only way we’re going to get to the pub tonight. I’m back. We have a wrap party happening today after we finish this podcast episode.

Stephen:

[3m52s] And that’s nothing to do with actually rapping, yeah? Barry can rap.

Mark:

[3m55s] Can you rap barry.

Barry:

[3m56s] Word that’s.

Stephen:

[3m58s] A no you’ve been the most likely person to be able to rap surely.

Barry:

[4m3s] You know i can i can rap along with a few things that are fairly complicated but i wouldn’t entertain you guys no no no no no no no no no this is shower shit man.

Mark:

[4m14s] Nothing can inspire you.

Barry:

[4m16s] I didn’t say nothing could inspire me, but you certainly could.

Stephen:

[4m20s] Fair enough.

Barry:

[4m21s] That might have come across as a bit harsh. I just want to be clear that that was fully intended.

Mark:

[4m30s] So, yeah, we’ve got a wrap party coming up. We’re going to get on the bus when we finish this. We travel in style. We’re going to get the 89 down to Blackheaf.

Stephen:

[4m37s] It’s not an open-top bus, is it?

Mark:

[4m39s] No, not yet. That’s after season one.

Barry:

[4m41s] Is that is that where is that where we get like the ribbon parade.

Mark:

[4m47s] Yeah so this is a party everyone’s been invited to that’s listened to us and so if we see anybody there that we hadn’t ever seen before then that would be fantastic.

Barry:

[4m55s] I just if there’s anyone we haven’t seen before how are they going to know that we’re oh no hold on we’ve described job it’s fine it’s fine it’s absolutely fine i’ll go yep that’s the guy i’m easy i actually look More like.

Jon:

[5m7s] My artwork than anyone else.

Barry:

[5m9s] At this table. You absolutely 100% won the artwork competition. It is uncanny, but also you are the one of us who looks most like an RPGer.

Stephen:

[5m21s] I think John was based on his artwork rather than anything else, yeah. Weirdly enough, the artwork came first.

Jon:

[5m27s] If I’m going to lie after you, man, that’s nice of inspiration.

Barry:

[5m30s] Are we saying that John modelled his entire look after the artwork? That’s dedication. That is proper.

Mark:

[5m36s] I think it’s probably a good time also to thank Dawn Larder, who’s our artist that brought John to life and the rest of us.

Jon:

[5m43s] Does she have a page or anything? It’s always worth her.

Mark:

[5m47s] I don’t know if she has a portfolio page. I did ask her for a few details we can put up. I’ll do that with this episode, make sure there’s some contact details. So she’s a freelance artist.

Jon:

[5m57s] Because to be clear, she had like two, three photos of me, and she got it bang on. Really good.

Barry:

[6m3s] And I don’t want to make it sound like you won, but all of us were great. I wasn’t disappointed with mine. I just thought John’s was fucking uncanny.

Mark:

[6m13s] Yeah. Yeah. So you’re now a fighter as well, Barry, which I know you’re.

Barry:

[6m16s] Going to see. Well, and this is the thing as well. I play snooker with Mark occasionally. I’m used to him stitching me up. But yeah, in our gameplay sessions, he’s given me a class that I’ve never played before. So you, the listener, will watch me fuck up in real time or listen to me fuck up.

Stephen:

[6m30s] You just have to hit things. It’s the same as Barbarian. but you just don’t go just do it less angrily.

Mark:

[6m35s] Yeah he doesn’t have the defense of the rage listen.

Barry:

[6m38s] I don’t know if I have the range to role play less angrily just be an angry fire I.

Mark:

[6m44s] Suppose it’s a good time to mention what is happening next then so we are going to be playing session zeros and we’re going to record those they’re not going to be live, and we’re going to make up characters in the latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons, because there’s no point for us.

Barry:

[6m57s] Again, I haven’t played the latest edition. Oh my God, this is a really big moment. This is my first time playing a new edition. I’ve come in with 5e. I’ve only ever played 5e. You’re now going to what are they calling it? D&D 24?

Stephen:

[7m13s] Oh, it’s still 5e, to be fair.

Mark:

[7m16s] 2024 is how they’re differentiating it.

Barry:

[7m18s] Hold on, hold on. Hold on, are these old-timers going, no, it’s not a real edition? It’s not a real edition? Is that where they’re going?

Stephen:

[7m25s] It’s not a real edition.

Jon:

[7m26s] It’s a second edition. I’ve already done that.

Stephen:

[7m28s] I’m pretty sure it’s still called 5E. It’s done the clues and the name.

Mark:

[7m33s] It’s still 5E. It’s like the skills and powers thing in second that actually wrecked it. Who knows? The jury’s out on this, isn’t it, still? But we’ll be playing it.

Jon:

[7m40s] There’s enough people slating it on the shorts and stuff on YouTube already.

Barry:

[7m44s] This is where one of the things that I have, I really embrace my geek culture. I love my sci-fi I love my fantasy movies and fiction and stuff like that but fuck me we are some of the worst fans in the world it’s just like the fact how can you be so like you’re supposed to love this shit how can you be so miserable about it like Star Wars fans Star Wars fans especially do you know what I mean Star.

Stephen:

[8m7s] Wars fans have had to put up a lot of shit recently to put on Disney we can.

Mark:

[8m11s] Continue along with.

Stephen:

[8m12s] These fans I mean we could always.

Mark:

[8m13s] Pretend we’re the critical drinker or something and do.

Stephen:

[8m15s] A review.

Barry:

[8m16s] What the fuck is the critical drinker You.

Mark:

[8m19s] Wouldn’t want to.

Barry:

[8m19s] Watch him.

Stephen:

[8m20s] No, you wouldn’t want to watch him.

Barry:

[8m22s] Sorry, it sounds like a job I want to apply for, though. How does one become the critical drinker? I’m in.

Mark:

[8m29s] Yeah, but we’ll stick to script. We do have a script. It is a debrief. So I’d like to talk about the following things with you guys before we go out.

Stephen:

[8m37s] Go to the pub.

Mark:

[8m38s] Yeah. Get our fish and chips. What did you want?

Stephen:

[8m41s] About a sausage, John. See you looking at me there.

Mark:

[8m44s] So these are the things I’d like to talk about. What has been your favourite episode so far and why? Stephen?

Stephen:

[8m50s] I’d say the first one.

Mark:

[8m52s] Okay.

Stephen:

[8m53s] Because it was the first one. Great experience to just to do it.

Mark:

[8m56s] The first ever podcast.

Stephen:

[8m58s] Yeah.

Mark:

[8m58s] Any of us have ever done. I don’t know. Barry’s had a bit of experience behind the mic.

Stephen:

[9m1s] Yeah. I’ve never done anything like this before. Yeah. That’s been the very first thing. It was good to hear it back first time and think, oh, well, actually quite good. I wasn’t expecting it to be reasonable.

Mark:

[9m11s] The first one then?

Stephen:

[9m12s] Yeah. I’d say so.

Mark:

[9m13s] Okay.

Barry:

[9m14s] Can I just add something to that as well? And this is just completely on a personal note. one of the things that really worried me about doing this was that like in the past when i’ve heard my own voice recorded i’ve always like properly properly hated it hey i sound like, dickhead and i don’t know if it’s just that i’m that bit older now and i i kind of it’s never going to be true that you entirely don’t care what other people think but i think i care the least in my entire life about what other people when i heard my voice back i was like It’s fine. Why have I spent the last sort of 52 years being fucking self-conscious about something that is completely fine? Obviously, I thought that you guys sounded like dickheads, but I was fine.

Mark:

[9m56s] John, what’s your favourite episode?

Jon:

[9m58s] Both of those answers.

Mark:

[10m0s] Well, one wasn’t an episode.

Jon:

[10m2s] The first episode.

Mark:

[10m3s] It was a complete slagging off of his mates.

Jon:

[10m6s] Both of those answers.

Stephen:

[10m8s] Which is what you’ve heard comments for?

Jon:

[10m13s] Um yeah the first episode actually doing that that that was that’s a huge thing i mean i’ve done like a bit of online stuff but just sitting there and talking about the thing that i love the most with i mean i thought.

Mark:

[10m30s] You play something non-stop for 45 years and you can actually talk about it.

Jon:

[10m33s] Yeah. Oh, fuck, he’s off again.

Mark:

[10m37s] So the first one too. Yeah, for those reasons. Yeah. Okay. I get it.

Jon:

[10m41s] I mean, bits and bobs of all of them all throughout, but… getting the different points of view, sometimes entirely opposing, and I’m looking directly at Barry. But I haven’t always disagreed. I’ve just sort of agreed on something else. And so it’s just good to hear it.

Mark:

[11m2s] I’ve come to get you, John.

Jon:

[11m3s] That’s fair. Too late.

Mark:

[11m6s] We’ll get you one day. Barry, what should have been your favourite episode?

Barry:

[11m9s] So I think my favourite episode, because I have to cheat, would it be the um first session essentials part one and two i kind of feel like actually that for what we were what we were trying to achieve when i was listening back to him i felt like if i was a new player they would have been the most useful to me they would have been the ones that kind of allayed some of my anxieties and stuff like that that just i can rock up as i am i could forget virtually every single solitary item that i need and someone at that table will sort me out.

Mark:

[11m39s] Yeah and those um first session essentials most people do ask don’t they it’s one of the questions do i need anything should i bring anything and yeah if we’ve taken away some of those anxieties and made it easier for you to come along without having those questions answered personally then fantastic and i agree i think that hit the sweet spot in regards to what we were trying to achieve and what we’ve tried to achieve in the first season for me um the favorite episodes i’ve had i think just on a personal basis um not on their value i really enjoyed the alignment one yeah Yeah.

Barry:

[12m9s] No, that was a good one.

Jon:

[12m10s] How much did we cut?

Mark:

[12m13s] I think it was just great because with Barry kind of not quite getting it and not getting the alignment system, you know, not having the same approach to alignment as we do as old timers. I think it just really worked very well on the balance. And you really fought your corner really well. But we know you love alignment because I think, you know, listening back to it, it still comes across.

Barry:

[12m33s] And again, I absolutely, alignment is a really, really important decision. I just don’t think it’s fixed.

Mark:

[12m38s] You know.

Barry:

[12m39s] A proper a proper role player will their alignment will change throughout a campaign just like it you know no one is born evil.

Mark:

[12m47s] But you got it i mean you you know your experience with it was was there so okay i thought that all came together very well and i’d like to mention another one and that is a dnd the gateway system i i just think it’s our longest episode and you know we came across maybe a little bit fanboy did we i don’t know but was that the idea wasn’t it There was an enthusiasm, wasn’t there, and a genuine, heartfelt opinion of this game and the effect it’s had on their lives. And I think for me, that was one of my favorite ones to listen back to, too. The first one, there’d be a fondness to that, because the first podcast I’ve ever done in my life. Okay, so I’ve got another question here for you blokes. What was the highest point for you in the season, and what was the lowest, lowest point? Do you think we can answer that one? Shall we start with you, Stephen?

Stephen:

[13m35s] Let’s not.

Mark:

[13m36s] I’ll start with you, John.

Jon:

[13m39s] Sometimes being critical, because I’m a fan of the show, oddly enough. By the time it gets put out, I’ve mostly forgotten it until I’m listening to it and getting the same things triggered in my mind, the questions maybe I should have asked or said in the session. But it’s nice to go over it and see how cohesive it’s been, partly due to your editing, cutting out my waffle and stuff like that.

Mark:

[14m6s] That’s fine. But going back over it and thinking how you might have done it differently or even improving future podcasts by that kind of…

Jon:

[14m14s] Yeah, I’m very much aware of when I’ve absolutely dropped the ball or said something that I didn’t mean, but it’s still been picked up and opened up on by the others. So it’s all.

Stephen:

[14m24s] Just come up with one. I’m not sure if it… Did it make the podcast? This is my high and my low. When John said he was involved in naked roleplay or something like that. That made it, didn’t it? It did. It made it.

Mark:

[14m35s] It’s a Sex Dungeon podcast.

Stephen:

[14m36s] A Sex Dungeon podcast. That’s my highest moment and my lowest moment all in one time.

Jon:

[14m42s] That’s down to your VVD. I know, it’s done to my move. I’m accepting it.

Barry:

[14m47s] What happened was Mark made a joke in the introductions about him being the most likely to be.

Stephen:

[14m52s] In a D&D sex.

Barry:

[14m53s] He played with a guy who then went on to run a kind of top. It’s like Chinese Whispers, isn’t it? Yeah, well.

Mark:

[15m0s] So technically speaking, it was correct. He was the most likely to appear in one.

Stephen:

[15m4s] Well, that’s my highest and lowest point.

Jon:

[15m7s] They didn’t ask.

Barry:

[15m13s] But John still had his top off even though they hadn’t asked.

Stephen:

[15m16s] Apparently managed to put it back on again weren’t they exactly it’s been fun we pinned him on witchcraft though didn’t we yeah I think John’s had the weirdest role playing experiences which is kind of it wasn’t yeah it was weird it’s all weird one.

Jon:

[15m28s] Group’s as good as another it just changes how they play the game.

Stephen:

[15m32s] It was.

Jon:

[15m33s] It’s certainly an experience that.

Stephen:

[15m35s] Most people don’t get I remembered it Incorrectly, maybe, but I remember that.

Mark:

[15m41s] Barry, what’s been your high and low, would you say?

Barry:

[15m43s] Okay, so… Controversially, I’m going to answer this question absolutely deadpan and serious. Okay, so just strap in, folks. I remember saying to you early on, maybe even before we started recording, that if we just get one person who’s started the hobby or come back to the hobby, as a result of this podcast, then I would consider that to be an absolute win and a really valuable way for me to have spent my time. And actually, in our society, we’ve seen an influx of new members and the timing is just too coincidental for it not to at least some of them.

Mark:

[16m23s] Well, I’ve been told directly it has had a positive effect on newcomers. And so if that’s happening to us locally, we can just hope that that’s happening across our other listeners.

Jon:

[16m32s] Like I said.

Barry:

[16m33s] If we just get one person who’s come into the hobby as a result of listening to us, and if what you’re saying is you’ve been told directly that that’s happened, then that’s absolutely the high for me. The low, less deadpan and serious has been hanging out with you guys.

Stephen:

[16m51s] I couldn’t last, could it?

Mark:

[16m53s] My favourite, my high, I think, and I suppose we should be talking ourselves up here. I think when we found out that we were actually appearing in the top 10 podcasts in the UK games chart, genuinely, it was a big surprise. And… It obviously doesn’t take too many listens for that to happen.

Stephen:

[17m12s] We was above Critical Role, weren’t we?

Mark:

[17m13s] We was above Critical Role.

Stephen:

[17m14s] As in with their side quest one, whatever it was.

Mark:

[17m16s] Yeah. And so that was lovely because it gives you a little boost. And we understand that this is not a money-making thing for us, and it won’t ever be. And we’re doing it because we enjoy it. But that was nice to see. And I think it gave us all a little bit of a boost. So that would be the high for me.

Jon:

[17m35s] I was expecting maybe two, three people to listen. and it’s like triple figures and counting and that blows me away.

Mark:

[17m43s] Yeah, so yeah, we have definitely exceeded our expectations and before we started, we were clear that we’d be doing this regardless of how many people listen, but it is nice that people are.

Stephen:

[17m54s] We need to thank everyone for listening.

Mark:

[17m55s] Oh yeah, absolutely.

Jon:

[17m58s] It’s not often I get an ego boost in life. It might be misplaced because they’re always listening to you.

Barry:

[18m4s] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, don’t.

Jon:

[18m5s] I’ll take that.

Barry:

[18m6s] But you do this to yourself, John, as well, and you do it quite a bit. You’ll say something really positive about yourself and then backtrack on it. I was surprised to see that it went as well as it did.

Mark:

[18m17s] And if we can just cruise along as we are, we’d be more than happy. A low point, I’ve not really had a significant low, I think. I deal with a lot of the technical issues and the mix downs and things, and sometimes they can be quite difficult, I suppose.

Stephen:

[18m29s] It’s just in Barry, you mean? Is that what you’re saying?

Mark:

[18m30s] Okay, so my low point is dealing with Barry. I mean, well, fuck.

Barry:

[18m34s] Listen, I’m not being funny. that is not exactly an exclusive club.

Mark:

[18m40s] I remember I introduced Barry quite early on every table needs a Barry but you know obviously other consequences in cloning him that you wouldn’t really want to take on I do think that’s my favourite intro of the lot.

Barry:

[18m52s] It’s mine as well I’m not going to lie.

Mark:

[18m54s] Okay so that’s good I’ll move on to our final question of the debrief.

Barry:

[19m1s] We’re still super slick though aren’t we oh.

Mark:

[19m3s] Yeah look at it look at it this isn’t going to be.

Jon:

[19m6s] Edited at all like.

Barry:

[19m7s] A well-oiled machine.

Mark:

[19m10s] Season two or even further beyond is there anything you’d like to do in this podcast that you think we haven’t done any suggestions I.

Stephen:

[19m17s] Guess we are going to be doing actual play aren’t we.

Mark:

[19m21s] Yeah that’s not what we’re going to ever become about no but we are going to give that a little whirl and give an.

Stephen:

[19m26s] Actual example of playing you can speak about it as much as you want. You can have 15 episodes about it, but to actually do it and hear it is going to be certainly different, I think.

Mark:

[19m37s] So you think that’s important in the scheme of things?

Stephen:

[19m39s] I think so, yeah. I mean, yeah, it’s a game. We can talk about it and all the bits of it, but to actually hear it and hear it in action and us doing it, we’re not just all talk. We can play, apparently, I think. I think someone can. Who’s run it? Barry’s run it, isn’t he?

Mark:

[19m55s] We wasn’t going to tell him until he’s had a few pipes. Well, you’re pretty strong on that as an idea.

Stephen:

[19m59s] Yeah, well, it’s, yeah, definitely.

Mark:

[20m0s] That’s the time. Okay, great. John, anything you’d like to recommend for the future of our podcast?

Jon:

[20m6s] I would like maybe the occasional episode focused on a different system here and there.

Mark:

[20m12s] Focus on the different systems. Have a good chat about them. We’ve not done that, have we? We’ve tried to be generic, but focus on Dungeons and Dragons.

Jon:

[20m18s] We’ve mentioned quite a few, and I’ll do it again. The Blade Runner and Aliens. It’s fucking amazing. And they’re fairly recent things.

Mark:

[20m26s] We have name-checked these systems quite a bit throughout. So although we are Dungeons & Dragons-focused podcasts, primarily because we know that’s why most people will be coming through into the game to play, not that that’s particularly what we’d recommend is the best experience you’re going to get. Yeah, you’ve heard us talk about a lot of systems, and so, John, you’d like the opportunity to sort of delve into them a bit more and sell them, I suppose, and with as much passion.

Jon:

[20m49s] Sell the idea just to make it abundantly clear. But if people want to write in with a question about a system, any system, it doesn’t have to be D&D. I mean, you’ve got things like Sage Advice and stuff like that still online, whereas it used to be in the Dragon magazine. But I think we’d all be up for giving a personal slant on things or…

Mark:

[21m9s] Maybe invite questions and have a podcast with regards to answering those questions. Yeah. Okay. We can see if there’s enough people out there that are willing to pose questions to us. That sounds like a good idea. Barry?

Barry:

[21m23s] I think we’re in a really lucky position in the fact that we have quite a large society. The club that we play at is pretty good, and I think we should consider getting guests on. I know that we’ve got some really interesting people who are potentially from different demographics to us, who might bring a different perspective to some of the things that we’ve talked about. And I think that’s, yeah, I’d like to see us getting…

Mark:

[21m47s] A few different voices on.

Barry:

[21m49s] I mean, maybe we could have a woman on.

Stephen:

[21m50s] What?

Barry:

[21m51s] You know not a bloke an honorary bloke yeah anyone it’s crazy talk I know right but hey hey hey I’m just thinking outside the box boys yeah.

Mark:

[22m1s] Okay he was getting bored.

Jon:

[22m2s] Of people outside the age range that we was aiming at I mean that’s sort of a different thing and I mean what.

Barry:

[22m7s] We say like there are so many really fucking passionate interesting and dedicated people that play alongside us week in week out I kind of think we’d be mad not to tap into those perspectives especially.

Jon:

[22m18s] If we’re looking at different games again.

Barry:

[22m20s] Yeah Having.

Jon:

[22m21s] Someone that’s reffed a particular thing that someone else hasn’t.

Mark:

[22m24s] Yeah, that’s the way to go. Yeah, we’re guests then. There is a problem with guests. This unit I have here, the DLZ from Mackie, only has four inputs.

Barry:

[22m33s] I would happily share a mic with someone. Let’s not be on the wit of man.

Mark:

[22m38s] It’s not, is it?

Barry:

[22m39s] No.

Mark:

[22m39s] We could do that. Technical limitations aside, perhaps we’ll have our first guest on a podcast in Season 2. Good person.

Jon:

[22m45s] Someone talking about painting. That could be.

Mark:

[22m48s] Yeah, the paint monkey.

Barry:

[22m49s] Paint monkey.

Mark:

[22m50s] Because we make an appearance.

Barry:

[22m51s] Oh, no, no, no.

Jon:

[22m51s] That will actually be mentioned in next season because we’ve talked about it.

Stephen:

[22m55s] We should have a little paint monkey, a little picture.

Mark:

[22m57s] So that’s all about now. So we have a paint monkey, don’t we? He calls himself the paint monkey?

Barry:

[23m1s] His Discord handle is paint underscore monkey or something like that.

Stephen:

[23m5s] And he has to be a monkey in a cage painting.

Barry:

[23m7s] Yeah.

Stephen:

[23m7s] That’s what it has to be.

Mark:

[23m9s] A little picture.

Stephen:

[23m9s] A little picture would be nice.

Barry:

[23m10s] Yeah, if we had decided to call him paint monkey, I think that might be mildly offensive. But the fact that he’s done it himself means it’s fair game.

Stephen:

[23m18s] Yeah. Fair play.

Mark:

[23m19s] Yeah, so there’s a big good guess. We’re going to bring this to an end. Our bus is due. The next time you hear us, it will be session zero. So we’re going to do character gen. I’m going to be the DM. Unless Barry has a sudden change of heart tonight after a few points.

Stephen:

[23m31s] Code DM.

Barry:

[23m31s] To be clear, as previously discussed, when I come into character gen, I will have no concepts. And just to be previous clear, I will not be reffing.

Mark:

[23m39s] Okay. So, yeah, it’s me. I don’t mind that. That’s fine. And so we’re going to run the session zero character gen and then a session zero and perhaps the first session of a Sunday. and.

Jon:

[23m50s] If people like them drop us a line and that will encourage us I’m sure.

Mark:

[23m54s] Yeah we can do more of that kind of thing and then season 2 will be out later in the year, So look out for it. And as I say, it’ll be a slightly more advanced stage of our discussion on what you can get from this hobby and what to expect. And thanks, guys. It’s been a blast. Really good experience doing this with you. Any final words? That sounded wrong. Anything you’d like to round things off with?

Barry:

[24m20s] God, he’s fucking DMing already. I’m going to be nice for a moment. It’s out of character and I’ll probably need a shower afterwards. But, you know, I think we should thank Mark. Mark has, you know, genuinely been the driving force behind this. It was his idea, his concept. And the reality is all us three are about to do is rock up and chat shit. Everything else has been taken care of by Mark. So, yeah, cheers for that, bruv.

Mark:

[24m43s] Thanks, guys. I appreciate that.

Stephen:

[24m44s] Yeah, thanks to Mark and also our listeners. Absolutely. Please listen to season two.

Mark:

[24m48s] More importantly, the listeners.

Stephen:

[24m50s] Yeah. Equally as important, shall we say, because no podcast, no listeners, no listeners, no podcast.

Jon:

[24m55s] And let us know if we’re doing good.

Barry:

[24m57s] Yeah, more feedback would be nice. We’re on the socials. if there’s anything you want to ask us. We’re not monitoring them 24-7, but we will respond to messages, et cetera, et cetera. It’d be lovely to know what you think. And, you know, if you’ve got any ideas of anything you’d like to see for season two, that would be great.

Mark:

[25m12s] Yeah, we’d like to hear. I think what we’ve established really is that Facebook is a great place for us to hear from you.

Barry:

[25m19s] Middle-aged men in Facebook shocker.

Mark:

[25m22s] But also, come on, give us credit. Discord as well. We have a Discord channel for this, and we’ve seen people dip in and out and not really have traction with it because I can see it’s quite intimidating because it’s an empty space right now. But just come in and squat.

Jon:

[25m39s] And we’ve set him off already. I thought that’d be me, but no.

Stephen:

[25m43s] Don’t leave a mess.

Mark:

[25m45s] Just come in and cyber squat. Is that all right? No, he’s not.

Jon:

[25m50s] You can’t talk to some people.

Mark:

[25m51s] Yeah, thanks to Cobweb Forest and to Joe Pineapples that have communicated to us on that. Who are squatting. thank you guys so drop in there and you know that might be a nice environment for us to develop over season two sweet Stephen a word of wisdom please from you to finish things off so let’s slice and dice.