Joe has gotten so good at acting in character. The facial expressions even. This episode really shines a light on it.

The way Joe speaks about storytelling and how each session might have a moment that lives in your mind forever - inspiring stuff

That might've been the best on camera starting banter

Is Joe going to get a bottle cap for his heartfelt acting?

It’s insane how excited I get by GCN shows. I watch them more than actual TV lol

"Maybe she's wearing a whole shirt." Another low-key Skid gem.

Troy making himself cry as Hubert *chef's kiss* 🤣😆🤣

Matthew's "goddammit!" after Syd killed his new character had me rolling

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Hubert Hedge, MVP this episode.

The reason I love this show is because its seems more organic. Honestly just seems like a bunch of friends playing Pathfinder who are also funny, good at storytelling, and make mistakes like everyone else. Don't get that from any other shows i've tried, they seem too "scripted". If that makes sense.

Oh no oh no Sydney's gonna talk! I laughed so had my ribs hurt.

This episodes added character context and reprieve from the bloodshed is greatly appreciated.

Shout out to Joe's voice acting! Really remarkable. Troy is obviously very good, but I think Joe is the one who improved on it the most over the years, probably

I love Kate so much. "Reading puts me to sleep." Is so real

Hubert's confession got me laugh-crying, son of a...

And just like that, suddenly the characters click and I like them, now. Abject failure and meaningless death in a random encounter got them to bond, actually discuss the central issue of the campaign, and stopped them being quite so cryptic about who they are. Gatewalkers is now reminding me of the early seasons of Lost with the stranding in an exotic setting and convoluted backgrounds of seemingly random characters thrown together. Also, Troy as Ricky Gervais as David Brent as an anthropomorphic hedgehog (with a cloaca) is comedy gold.

In my 110 sessions long campaign, we lost 2 characters at session 3. At that point I was considering if I want to continue or just start over, but we kept going and had the best campaign ever (and like 5 or 6 PCs dying later on).

That saxophone riff has become my Friday morning ritual

Wow Troy. What a simple but very good question up top. I got involved when I was 14 after being told all my life how evil it was. The first time I saved a townsperson from a kobold I was *hooked*. I loved being the hero. still do. But I also love the collaborative energy when making the stories.

For a just a moment I was actually envisioning Matthew's character's really cool coat flowing almost like the supernatural mistcloaks, in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn universe. Before Sydney's interjection 🤣🤣🤣. I think she may have also been thinking back to older generations of flashers that were probably even more common before the age of mini camera phones everywhere. - It was once truly the Wild West of flashers, and Pedo salesmen, bringing it all back to the dramatic duster.

Excellent episode. The perfect comeback from the heavyness of the last teo weeks. The last 15 minutes was truly stellar content!

I'm so happy I discovered the GCP, this episode was one of my favorites! Ya'll are amazing, perfectly balancing humor and heartfelt moments. Also, I don't care what people say, I love Hubert Hedge.

Best pre-show Bant ever. Thank you for that. It got me thinking about why I play TTRPGs, and my answers were the same as many of yours. You all have SO MANY talented folks there, and yet you love the same things I do. Thank you for bringing this to life. And that episode! WOW!! Did anyone else find themselves weeping ACTUAL TEARS for a fictional character? SO SO good.

Asta stirs the pudding pot

Fun Episode everyone brought their a game tonight. . . . . The Flashbacks where great the Lucky and Talitha one was really bittersweet. The Buggles and Zephyr one was Wonderful. It was great to learn more about Brother Ramius. Getting to know these Characters better was really Interesting.

I've re-watched the moment when Hubert shares his personal fact multiple times and I cry with laughter each time, the timing, delivery and then each person's reaction is just amazing.

Sometimes you get so into TTRPGs that you end up making them as a full-time job.

as a listener since 2016, episodes like this make me grateful y'all decided to put more emphasis on video. 😌

I started listening to GCP, after I binged the live play Adventure Zone series, and I was looking for the next awesome live play to listen to and just happened across a youtube short of GCP season 2 and was instantly hooked. im starting to listen to season one giant slayers now while following season two fanaticly

We love some GCP!

Awesome ep! One of my favorites of the season.... and I LOVE this season. I'm catching up on a Strange Aeons while waiting for each weekly episode of this, but I'll be caught up soon! then what!? back to how I met you... Androids & Aliens! GCP rocks my socks off!

I'm so pumped about Matthew's new character! On a similar note, gosh darnit Sydney 🤣

At the risk if raising the bar for nerding out online, if they're on another planet in the same solar system, the constellations wouldn't be significantly different. Only the positions of other bodies within that system would be noticeably altered. Constellations visible from earth are made up of bodies which are many many light years from our sun, and would look basically identical on Mars as they would on Earth. The change in viewing location would be similar to what would be noticeable if someone looking at a cloud in the sky took a small step in any direction, assuming it's a calm day and the cloud isn't moving noticeably.

Best pre-game bant in a long, long time ❤❤❤

1:42:38 I was just thinking how well Troy will let an emotional scene run but will always save something for the end of it and then this happened 😁

Fantastic opening banter. ❤ I’m a joe all the way. I laugh hard and enjoy making stories

Role playing is like combining game of thrones with the NBA. There’s a story with plots and arcs and there are also rules and you have no idea how it’s going to go.

What a spectacular episode! Such heartbreak and humor interwoven together, and that ending, OMG, that ending. Sydney, "does it have pockets on the inside, like a....." 😂😂😂 so funny! Brilliant! ❤

I always wanted to play RPGs. Growing up i was extremely introverted and had no more than 1 friend at a time. I voraciously read, had family game night playing all the old folk games backgammon, trivial pursuit, scrabble, but always wanted to play the games I saw in the book store and hobby shops. I was too poor to buy these for myself so would just thumb through them and leave. I day dreamed all the time and would put myself in the books, movies, and comics I saw. I was literally designing RPG long before I ever saw or played one since I had no friend's that did. Wasn't to I went into the military and checked into my first duty station where I found my breakfast club. I have games constantly upwards of 16+ hours a week since 1994. Game on!

I like a serious bant question every once and a while. :) its nice to escape and to be entertained, but it's also nice to feel connected to a group of lovely fun people(minus troy).

Didn’t expect Syd to have started playing RPGs in my hometown! Fun connection.

This ep is like clipshow where all the clips were cut for time from the original episode

I am today years old when I learned I could watch the video version for my apple podcast. Brings the show to whole new level.

Telitha will never have pudding again!

The last few episodes were rough, ngl. But after this session? I'm back in.

This was wonderful through and through. Can’t wait to see y’all in Troy’s favorite city, Portland!

What a beautiful episode, both the bant and the game.

Yeah maybe I was exhausted after the last few weeks episodes, but god I love these people playing ttrpgs. No one has ever nailed what a real group is like at a table (but elevated) like the GCN. Is she humming the thing song? What balance Troy. I love it!

Joe seems like the best kind of friend to have 😍

I look forward to these eps every week now. Can’t believe how good the last few have been.

I really loved the starting banter of this episode. Wish we had more like these.

This is the episode I've been waiting for. It promoted growth of the story and these characters who have been feeling flat due to not having any connection with one another outside "we all went through a gate and got powers " that's the hook, not the foundation of long term roleplaying. They've treated combat exactly how they felt as characters a bunch of random people put together and not a team, not a group working together assisting one another to overcome challenges. Instead of a bunch of people fighting the same encounter but in separate rooms as there has been only a little interaction or assisting one another. I'm looking forward to seeing if this brings to combat the cohesiveness that we are now seeing in the character development. The death of a character isn't always bad and as much as some people dislike it, not every death is going to be from some epic battle. This what at first seemed like a meaningless death has finally made this group feel a cohesive in this last episode and is the greatest gift they were given. I love that there are real emotions in this show. This episode should have been heavy, they just lost someone that they've known for a months now ( even if we didn't get to see it that) it would have felt out of place to have a comedy episode after a death. If I wanted nothing but comedy even after a character's death then I'll listen to other shows but I want emotions where they belong. This episode reminded me why I fell in love with the GCP back when they first started and I listened to " this new podcast in the genre you like" recommendations as I was on my 3 hour commute home and got tired of listening to the same thing on the radio over and over

This was a really good question of the day, I love you guys because I always catch myself smiling just a little too much listening to a game I'm not playing in.

Beautiful ep gang. Thank you for sharing this thing we love.

This episode right here was amazing

random guess but i think Mathew might be playing a Thaumaturge

I very much enjoyed this episode!!!

Oh my god, literally the best banter yet! This banter is how I am going to get my friends to connect to the GCN like I am!!

Epic opening banter. 🤘 Edited: Epic episode!!!!

I first played DnD when I was 15, and got my first piece of loot. Instantly hooked. I wanted to power game and get artifacts and slaughter bad guys. Then in college I got into Vampire and Exalted with a group that taught me the gratification of story building collaboratively. Our most epic games never required a die roll. Now, at 39, I'm back into Dnd and there's nothing I love more than exploring every crag and crevice of a new character, and learning how to become them and think like them. It just keeps getting better.

fucking hubert, has got to be the funniest character that I absolutely cannot wait to see killed off.

I've always loved the way you guys use vignettes and it's paid dividends here. Great episode!

“Do hedgehogs have cloaca?” Exactly what I googled after Hubert’s interjection. Nice Sydney

Favorite ep, love what you do.

This episode was so fucking amazing, holy shit

Speaking of how many X level of class are there in the world... In ye olde DND for druids you couldnt level up beyond a certain level unless the druid that held that level would die.

This is absolutely my favourite episode of Gatewalkers . . . and it came directly after my least favourite episode! The narrative built among GM and PCs here is nothing short of astounding. Incredible work everybody, this one held my heart in a vice and just kept squeezing :D

if youre here to find out about matts new character, its at 1:47:37

What a superb episode: great inspirational banter and stellar flashbacks. It was a great decision to take that narrative detour. Joe, I've wondered before this whether at least some of your inspiration for Brother Ramius comes from the "whisky priest" in Graham Greene's novel THE POWER AND THE GLORY. If not, you might want to give it a read. It's been decades since I read it, but it sure feels like the two characters share some DNA.

Oh to be on a tabletop podcast...great episode as always!

A very special episode of The Glass Cannon Podcast.

Cool star wars boots too!!😂🤣❤️

imagine having a group of friends

That tracks, the day you meet Skid is a good day.

I can't believe it, but my partner Skwid had never even heard of the Thong Song. We had to pause and fix that. It was amazing. Thank you for mentioning this because it was clear now why he never reacted to me singing the song.

I have a really strong feeling that brother ramius is going to become the glue that hold this season together!

The thing is, Castrovel should have pretty much the same constellations as Golarion, since it's in the same solar system.

I love this show , and all of you do a bang up job in story telling! That being said......this is the wrong episode to watch whilst drinking!!! It's so sad that I want to kick a puppy.

Oh yeah! I forgot about THAT from last week!

......... Bits and bobs?! I am hoping for a thaumaturge

Matthew describing his character made me think of Mac from Sunny with the Duster

Throwback to the earlier eps: Fugyutroy!

Listened to the podcast version, great ep! It's good to slow down after heavy combat and a PC death. GCN always do great roleplay scenes. On a side note, in Newport (Wales) where I was born, a bunch of people did exactly what Joe was talking about - grew weed in the middle of thickets around the city 😂

I love how they all channel the living ghost of Nick Wiger mid ep.

I freaking love Sydney she is a treasure

Oh dayum I just noticed the ad at the break was for Get in the Trunk!!!

I feel like they went through *a lot* of stuff, 35 episodes in fact, to be level 2 ... ( I am presuming that, in this episode, they will at least reach 3. I am only in the banter part at the moment.)

Matthew: "He's got a lot of little pockets-" Me: " *chanting* THAUMATURGE THAUMATURGE THAUMATURGE! *banging fists on table* THAUMATURGE THAUMATURGE THAUMATURGE!"

There has been a lot of talk about how much the PCs would know about travel to other planets, if anything at all. I think this subject would have easily come up in dr. Ritalson's study of the aiudara. In how much detail he explained it to the characters is another story, but I think he would have mentioned something at least, just musing about the possibilities.

Are "17th level Casters" Skid's Rome?

Lovely roleplay EP. Touch of genius giving an early scene to the freshly dead character knowing Matthew would be mostly idle this EP. Can't wait to see what class he picked for this handsome pedophile salesman. My guess is Thaumaturge!

At the 90 Minute mark. I wonder if they are going to touch on that a part of Talitha *does* still live. Inside Asta.

From 1:19:38 onward, does anyone else hear someone playing some sort of mobile game in the background? Took me ages to pin that sound to this video as I thought it was another tab autoplaying something!

As a native Californian from a town just across the mountains from the Bay Area, whenever they say the Elven planet's name, I think they are saying Castroville.

Mental note, if I ever get to go to a live show, I need to grab vanilla and chocolate pudding cups for Joe and Skid respectively.

Sydney really is the new Ellinor.

SkittermanderMatthew or riot!

Idk why but I'm picturing Matthew's character being played by Skid's new best friend Christian Slater.

this is so good, and if the place isn't castrovel I'll lose my mind