Henry the No-Grab-Ass Consent-Crabgrass

You sir, or ma'am, or they (?), won the internet with this.

How its not a shirt by now, I have no clue. I'll buy it in a second.

Thank you for your service. People tend to jinx it

Put this on a shirt!

Too cute!!!

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The line about why Essek floats everywhere is so funny. What a guy

Counting tho, that shit is for extremely smart crabgrass

Maybe it should match their breathing in and out?

Well of course, it is my voice afterall

@@henrycrabgrass well yeah, but...like... how?

With consent... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Just imagining Caduceus learning he can talk to animals cause he sat upon a horse is so funny. Talesin is a gift.

Ehhh... well, it doesn't help that a lot of his characters get pretty samey over the course of a campaign. In every city you get: Corrupt Official who Doesn't Trust Anyone x10 Cute/Chatty Shop Owner Creepy Shop Owner Blacksmith Inkeep who Is Friendly or Flirty Inkeep who Doesn't Have Time for You They're all good characters, but you could pick up the gnome Sheila Bobsnopper from Nicodranas, and drop her in Rosohna as a goblin with little feeling different, or drop her in Uthodurn as a dwarf with again little different. Beyond architecture and biome, Matt's major towns have essentially the same personalities of a corrupt secretive government, an ineffective religion, a magic shop, a general store, a blacksmith and a couple inns.

@@magonus195 Well, to be fair, if you have a campaign that's over 800+ hours long with over a dozen cities, there will be a point, where characters kind of blend together. That's why I love Dimension20. The stories are shorter and often take place in only a couple of places, so there is more time to flesh out the NPCs (also it helps that it's played by super chaotic comedy improv-actors/actresses)

@@MAFDTTSdeda I don't think it's the 800 hours, I think it's Matt and his personal tastes and politics, and how those inform his worldbuilding. Every city is a sort of fantasy LA, with a grabbag of every race available; and because Matt went on record that he thinks "evil races" are a bad concept, we can't see a greedy orc horde, or tyrannical hobgoblin city, or evil drow kingdom. Everything becomes more or less the same in different colors. I have had a few different DMs, and none of them have this problem in worldbuilding, even though their characterizations pale in comparison to Matt, and his improvised characters in particular.

@@magonus195 Anytime I hear any one say they know what Matt thinks or what's going on in his head I think of Vilya and I laugh. Very hard. Also...how exactly does Matt not wanting to make races "evil" make things boring or make his characters blend together? Seems like the opposite. Since "evil" races are cliche at this point and eschewing that as a crutch he could use makes it so he has to work harder to establish more individualized behavior, backgrounds and motivations for his characters.

@@magonus195 Although I agree with you to a degree that for the amount of worldbuilding and elaborate creation of culture and history Matt does, sometimes these decisions don't have big consequences on the characterizations. Like goddamn, the Kryn dynasty has a culture around "proven/remembered" reincarnation, but the people act not much different? Shouldn't this aspect of the culture totally change their relationship to the passing of time and death and therefore their behaviour? The only thing where it kind of shines through is their connection to the beacon and the logic of dunamancy and unfortunately, the only Kryn character we have extensive contact is Essek, who is still rather young and is still in his first life cycle. But I, too, am against "evil" races. In real life, there is no such thing as "evil cultures", only "evil" personalities and we still have totally differentiated cultures around the world. I mean otherwise, there won't be the rural/urban discussion or the contemporary American and British culture are very clearly different although both stem from the Anglo-Saxon ethnic/culture group. In this aspect, I think Brennan Lee Mulligan is the better DM, but he studied Philosophy and Sociology (the second part I am not that sure if that's correct), so he has the education and mindset while creating a culture, to ask the correct question to find out the consequences for the people (an example would be the High Elves of High Court of the Fantasy High Campaign... Although it is taken to an extreme for the comedy) But I don't think at all that all DMs have to have study Sociology to be good, I mean examples where Matt is successful are the folk on Rumblecusp, Ludinus, Ikithon and Halas.

So cute!

I'm genuinely not sure as to how much of that was Jester, and how much of it was Laura Bailey feeling guilty that she hurts grass when she walks on it.

@@Zombiewithabowtie Yeah, that's fair. Lol, I love Laura.

I expect you love Ashleys halloweens costume then ^^

Thank you Thank you

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He's probably tired of the lifestyle and wants to go his own way.

I’m getting flashbacks of the Sun Tree only not an asshole

For me, Viktor is number one.

Kiri

That's what I'm doing right now.

You mean all the sun of the city where it’s eternally night time?

@@mqrgan I actually started watching right before travelercon. before that id just catch highlights. I didn't know about the nighttime stuff.

@@mqrgan they do have little lights with a daylight spell on them, that's how the tree is surviving

@@mqrgan intelec

​@@mqrganread this the same as "you mean the porn books we read?" When Jester and Beau were talking about relationships

As it turns out, all crabgrass has a collective root hive mind.

@@Zkillmcskillet385 They are Legion. Does this unit has a soul?

@@tomaszskowronski1406 Henry is the BBEG of the campaign. We didn’t ask for his consent to live, he shall have his revenge.

Pot of Awakening!

@@CraigPaschang Uncommon item, found commonly in college dorms.

You stop that.

Hush now.

Silence. I don't want this thought out here

No no no not quite. Matt mentions that when Jester goes back later to visit the same spot, there’s a group of Henry’s “descendants” who have heard about her.

well, this was in response to jester having an existential crisis about stepping on grass, caduceus' response was basically "yeah they're gonna be a bit uncomfortable, but they can take it" is how i understood it

I think it's not "when you sit on a horse," but "well, you sit on a horse." Its an example of something similar to stepping on grass

@@Arkegox No, he's talking about him (a vegetarian) walking on and then eating grass is similar to other people riding horses and also eating them

He’s basically saying not to worry about stepping on grass. Using the example that they ride horses and aren’t bothered by it. Everything has its place in life and worrying about all of it helps nothing. It’s said in a confusing way for laughs, but makes sense when you think about it.

Mercer has years of experience and is both a writer and an actor. It's unfair to yourself to compare because of that, and Mercer wouldn't want you to feel discouraged either. Don't put yourself down because you didn't think of it, instead take inspiration from what he does to add to your DM skills.

@@sibs8705 first of all thank you for the encouragement and the positive outlook. I understand that I'm not fair and I'm not really sad or anything, just a little (a ton) awestruck and humbled.

@@Ssmot Same. I felt the same when I started dming (2 years ago, wow) and I still feel the same.

To be fair it depends on your players a lot, sometimes it is better to convey information quickly because players might want to move the story quickly. This depends on the playstyle of the game too

Henry is the name of Ashley's (and Brian's) dog who is often seen on Talks Machina. He is the sweetest, bestest boi and is loved dearly by all the cast.

I don't remember Arin ever making that voice. The closes I could think of is "show me boobiez" voice from house party

We both know if he did, Henry would sound more like Peewee Deedee