I don’t even know where we put Podcasts these days. Music/Creative feels more fitting than General to me? Let’s go with that. We have an old thread but fresh szn = fresh start

S3 of The Adventure Zone begins TODAY! Me/Brian/Rose, maybe Sock? all listen. It’s three brothers and their great dad playing tabletop RPGs together. This season they’re going back to DND

It’s really great and others should join in and listen along with us

Ep 1 was juuuuust posted

3x01

- Griffin already killing it with the music

- Travis replaces Griffin as DM. PROS: Griffin gets to play, Travis doesn't play. CONS: Griffin doesn't DM, Travis does DM. We'll see. I'm excited for Griffin as a player

- I'm anxiously awaiting their characters. Must be so much pressure on them at this point to come up with fun ones. I'm excited to meet their characters at the start of a season for the first time since ~knowing the McElroy fam

- Oh god Justin's voice is killing me. "I sleep on da floor". What a great intro. He's easily the best at creating characters here

- Sir Fitzroy, Argo, and...no name

- Clint falls out of his character voice so quickly all the time, it's so funny

- Sir Fitzroy, Argo, and...Bud. They took a page out of our MOTW terrible naming book

- Speaking of which, ha ha something strange with a normal name, Gary!! Like imagine a fish named STEVEN! Classic Travis. Can't wait for an against type BOB!

- Clint shouting for help from Gary or Groundsy for no reason made me laugh

- SPEAKING OF WHICH! Every single Travis NPC has "kind eyes". Everyyyy siiinnngleeee oooooooone. You'll hear it all the time now, you'll see

- Ayyy Matt Mercer shout out

- "This is pain...to me......to see." I lost it here, Justin's character is the best by far

- The theme and idea of the world is fun so far. The NPCs...are not. He threw so many nondescript ones at us. Gonna take some time to learn them that's 4sure



Line of the episode: "This is pain...to me.....to see." from Justin

3x02

Didn’t love:

- Travis’ classes and games. The coin game and dodgeball were dumb and awkward. Right now it feels more like one of their live episodes based on a very specific hook which are good for one shots but not full campaigns, hopefully that changes

- Still way too many NPCs and nothing sets them apart

Loved:

- Justin going to accounting class. Saved the ep really. Justin is hysterical and that scene was killing me, I wanna listen again already. Much like Amnesty Justin is carrying this on his back so far

THERE IS A SPLITTING

3x03

More of the same pros and cons

Cons: Travis as DM obv. Lack of fun NPCs. A poor job creating these class lessons that are supposed to work well with dnd mechanics but don’t at all

Pros: Justin. That’s basically it! His character is easily one of my favorites between all three seasons. His fence scene and dunce talk were killing me. He continues to carry