The Adventure Zone

So I think what really made me fall in love with it was, as I mentioned, like getting to run for my friends and teammates.

From that original group that I was playing in, I learned about the Adventure Zone, which is what really unlocked everything for me as like D&D as a narrative, which I'm sure it did for a lot of people, which is fun now because now I can consider a couple of the McElroy members family there.

I'm in a fantasy football leagues with a couple of them and they're really good folks.

But that is what I think inspired me to run my own game, which is basically a reskinned version of the video game nature that Griffin ran for the Adventure Zone that I tried to use as the core conceit for my own game, which really we got less than 10 sessions in.

It went the way that most D&D campaigns go, and it just fell apart when we moved away from each other.

But the Adventure Zone was the basis for what I ran that first campaign on in terms of like having a set of MacGuffins.

I kind of I think I like set all of the MacGuffins to be surrounding the alignment chart, which I thought was kind of cool.

Like there was a different crystal that was supposed to represent each like lawfulness, chaos, good and evil.

because it's like a choose your own adventure type thing.

where you have to deal with a five-year-old constantly being like no no and I saved the day again with magic yeah and um after that like I don't know I played a lot of Magic the Gathering with my dad growing up and I was aware of D&D through him but I didn't actually play it until I had like a few bad experiences like trying to join random games and the first real game i played was like a group of friends who were like all cool and queer and they said like come play i said can i play dnd with you can i join and they were like i don't know and they said well first you need to know the rules and i was so broke i'm like i can't afford one of them books and they said don't worry just go listen to the adventure zone and Which is a wild podcast to suggest for learning the rules of Dungeons and Dragons.

But completely, I was like, I guess that's just how you play D&D.

I didn't know there were like

I don't have enough spare time to do this, to devote a day of the week to this, but you can have one of my stream days if it's good content.

I was like, okay.

I've listened to The Adventure Zone.

I'm sure this could be a thing.

Thank you so much for listening.

There's a new season of Adventure Zone going right now.

I think the second episode comes out this week.

The first episode's up.

God bless.

Uh, but there was a podcast, uh, with a bunch of like comedians called the adventure zone, uh, that they would put out like hour long episodes.

And like, it was them, uh, at least the first season was them kind of like learning to play D and D.

So for me, it was like more, uh, understandable and kind of like more accessible.

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Adventure Zone vs. Hercules.

Sorry, I don't want to derail.

What are you drinking? What is that? What are you drinking?

He stands behind a set of stanchions with a velvet rope across them.

Philo makes a religion check to see whom this person is.

That one never gets trotted out on the Adventure Zone, especially at live shows.

I'm so excited

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to TAS Royale, our Battle Royale winner-take-all season of the Adventure Zone.

We are currently in the throes of the final trial of the Octave Conclave, the Trial of Enchantment.

Chris, the sentient sort of mind dwelling within the Crystallarium, this giant mass of crystals at the back of the island, has revealed himself to be the true mastermind