Jason's Favorite iOS Apps for DnD Players (and DMs!)

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Hello Adventurers, guys, bluffing to
another episode of the podcast. I'm Jas

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Bortizo, I am Jim Crocker,
and I'm Joe McCall, and we talk

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about D and D topics near and
dear to role players. Hearts super psyched

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to get back in this episode.
This is stuff that back when we were

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doing our older show Comergons and Dragons, that Jim and I started really getting

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into was giving like very specific apps
and software and things that like really really

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really help new and season DM.
This is not a new DM centric episode.

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This is something that everybody can benefit
from. So we're going to revisit

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some of those that we've done before, a lot of new things have come

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out since then. But today's episode
is going to be I'm sorry to the

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Android users out there, but this
is going to be a very specifically iPhone

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episode. A lot of these apps
before you before you click away, before

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you hit the stop, A lot
of these apps are on both platforms.

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I wouldn't know. I don't have
an Android anymore. And there's at least

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an equivalent of dressed about all of
these that should be available on Android.

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And if you're an are an Android
user and you have favorite apps, I'd

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love to know them and talk about
them on the show. Hello Adventures podcast

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at gmail dot com. Tell us
your favorite Android apps to use for dming,

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because I have no way of researching
them, and I'd love to tach

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you to do the work for me. Be fantastic if you do that for

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me, please and thank you.
But today we're gonna be talking about iPhone

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and iPad iOS specific apps and how
they are useful not only too my game,

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but these were suggested to me by
other dms I'm friends with and make

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these a regular part of their game. So if we're good, let's jump

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right in. You know what,
I have a question that our audience might

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have, which is, are these
going to be resources that apply exclusively to

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running stuff online? Or are they
going to be things you have at the

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table with you when you're running it's
a physical game with your of these and

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ixctly a fantastic question that I really
should have addressed much earlier on Thank You.

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These are all stuff that I use
at the table. Not a single

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one of these are are really even
that useful for online games. Online games

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will have their own We can do
a whole separate episode on virtual tabletops and

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stuff like that, thoughts and plug
ins and and stuff that's even just built

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into the app itself. You don't
even have to add a whole lot through

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Yeah yeah, yeah, but using
like extensions to to enhance that there,

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we're not talking about any of that
today. These are things that lighten my

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load and my backpack by making sure
that I have things at the ready or

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even in my back if I didn't
expect to play D and D today and

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I just need some stuff, it's
on my phone. Yeah. So this,

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combined with episode three new DM resources
should really get you being one of

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the top dms in your area,
right, So let's jump right in.

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So number one, let's get the
big bear out of the room, and

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that is D and D Beyond.
It's no secret that this is the premier

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resource for players and dms. So
this might be obvious for a lot of

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our audience, but we are kind
of catering towards new players as well,

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so if you're not oftenmiliar with D
and D Beyond. It is now owned

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by Words to the Coast, it
wasn't always that way. It is a

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website that you can purchase your your
resource books through and kind of get social

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PDFs through. But most importantly,
the character creation from D and D Beyond

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is it's the best I've ever seen. I don't know really much many ways

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to improve that part of the website. It's their official proprietary character creation software.

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Yes, no, it is,
but even before I mean it was

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the official licensed one before. Yeah, before Watts you bought it. It

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was just it was. It was
incredible. Yeah, I was run by

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real players, real nerds, like
real either one of the original I'm not

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sure if she was a programmer.
I don't know her exact role in D

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and D Beyond, but she was
on shows like I'm actually on Dropout and

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then she was just awesome, remember
her name Off Hambish. She was fantastic.

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But for make up a character quickly
and going through all the proper steps

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and like really making the character,
not just a quick character creation like fact

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character dot com or any of those
sites I'll talk about another time, but

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for really creating your character and making
like a real working character sheet and upgrading

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and your level up and stuff.
Yeah, to the point where like I

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don't even print a character sheet anymore. No, I just have my laptop

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in front of me, and it
is not only it's not just as good,

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it's better if you purchase the resources
to have the access to the stuff

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that your character needs. And that's
yeah, and we can debate that another

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Well, we'll save that for another
show. Yeah, but unfortunately I have

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a DM who did buy most of
them, thanks Joe, and then I

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have access to everything that I need
mostly. Actually there's even a couple of

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things that I don't have access to, and I've I've built characters around those

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restrictions. But we're not here to
debate D and D Beyond if you're if

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you're unfamiliar with D and D Beyond, it really is the best, and

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it's not even close the best character
creation online. Yeah, for a basic

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character absolutely without purchasing anything else,
right on the on the on the D

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and D Beyond website for a free
account. Even with a free account,

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you can you can build a pH
B. You've got the three core books

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there, yeah, pretty much ready. Yeah, And that's and that's just

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the character creation. There are lots
of other things that that the site does

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with having resources and PDFs and just
a ton of things you can do,

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plus a very active user forum.
So those are all things you have access

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to. They do have an app. I don't super love the app,

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but the information is all there,
and it does sync across the board with

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your desktop version. I think the
desktop version is a lot better. The

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app's not bad by any means.
It's just a couple extra taps and clicks

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to do most things. More than
I like that being said, you can

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still do everything. Yeah, you
were talking about Android. If you're one

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of the people who's bringing like a
Windows tablet to the table, you're all

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set, are you saying that?
Because Joe has this Windows tablet right in

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front of us at this table.
That's not a tablet, that's a laptop.

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It's both. Yeah, there we
go, that's a laptop. Yeah,

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we're talking about iPads. But I
mean, but like joking aside it

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is. It's a website, so
you can run out on anything that you

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have a browser on. Now,
the mobile version of the website is worse

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than the app. Okay, yeah, yes, that all right. If

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you have an iPad, I would
just do it through through Chrome on there.

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If you have a laptop like I
bring to the table, just do

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it on there. But if all
you have is your phone, the app

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is usable. It's definitely usable,
and the fact that it still sinks across

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the board, so you can still
create your character on your laptop at home

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and then just bring your phone to
the table. In fact, having it

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being a little clunky might even get
your face out of your phone and back

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into the game a little bit more
so that actually it might accidentally make you

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a better player. It's good on
the floor. That's the app is good

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on the fly, but for mostly
everything, especially for a DM, like

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if you're gonna run encounters through D
and D Beyond or anything like that,

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if you want to level up your
character in line at the d m V

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or something. It's great for reading
up the dead. Yeah, but I'm

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super recommended for dms, But for
players, I think it's a must have

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if you're using D and D Beyond
for character creation, which really almost everyone's

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doing right now, because it's all
there, there's no reason for character for

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quick creation. I mean, it's
still it's still despite its flaws. I'm

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not going to say D and D
Beyond is perfect, and that's a whole

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other episode and a whole other thing
we can get into. But I think

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the app gets what it needs to
get done, and it does the most

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important thing, which is tying to
D and D beyond. All right,

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So that is we'll just we'll just
get the elefan out of the room.

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D and D Beyond app number one, all right, My next app that

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I think everyone needs to have.
I have a couple of these, and

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I like some for some reasons and
others for other reasons. I'm still kind

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of deciding which one I'm going to
make my main. But you need some

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sort of spellbook app. So I
have one called Spells, and I will

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have links to the app store for
all of these. But Spells is a

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very nice visual spell book that you
can save your favorite spells and kind of

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have your your spell book that way, and gives you the the real game

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text or what that spell does.
It is missing some it is it is

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beholden to the OGL. So pretty
much all of these apps are going to

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be missing a few spells here and
there that are OGL proprietary. And a

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very brief primer on on OGIL proprietary. So there's the official gaming license that

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allows third party works to have access
to a watching material, and some of

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that is kept under locking key for
wizards. So one of the most one

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of the most common examples that I
can think of that I run into issue

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a lot. It's a spell thorn
whip. It's just it's I never have

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a card for it. It's D
and D beyond that because it's wots.

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So if you have stuff that specific
to wats E, then that's what is

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going to do for you. But
so that stuff aside, and that's going

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to be across the board, you're
gonna be missing those spells on any on

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any reputable one. If they have
it in there, they're probably shirking the

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the O g L and they'll probably
right. So I found a couple of

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them that like spells is one of
my favorite ones, and spell slots five

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E. It's not as nice looking
as as spells. However, you can

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have multiple characters and multiple spell books
saved so you're playing in a few campaigns,

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or if you have something you just
want to make up for a one

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shot and not disturb the spells you
have saved for the other one, or

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if you're a d M, if
you want to have a couple of bad

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guys in there, that's yeah.
Or if you're a DM and your your

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players keep misreading spells conveniently or none
more forgetting whatever that's an option. There,

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So some sort of spellbook gap I
think is something having on there spells

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and spellslots five of the ones that
I have. Hello Adventurers, just stepping

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dot com slash voice. Now let's get

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back to the show. If you
are a DM that likes having ambience music

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sound effects, I know, Jim, you're not a fan on Beyond.

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Yes, I'm not a fan.
I mean I have by a processing difficulties

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to make it. Think like if
there's music going on at the same time

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I'm trying to run the game,
I just I get lost. But some

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people love it. Some people love
to have the little something in the background

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when it's done right. Yeah,
And I've had some dms that just have

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it too loud or have the raw
music on. And it's a skill in

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itself because you're already very busy as
another thing to manage, just another thing.

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I will say, playing I R
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or four, he had a playlist
of medieval sounding hip hop covers. Wow,

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and like, if that's the exact
vibe you want for your game,

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that's great. But if it's not, I could see that that that was

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cool. That was great. What
are they are they playing? Green?

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That was It was so cool.
However, so choosing the song and having

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the song change and finding the right
mood for the song is a completely different

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skill, and to balance that on
top of already being a d M is

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extremely difficult. You almost want to
have like a second DM to be your

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DJ. There is an app aptly
called dm DJ. I was actually on

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the beta tester program for this app
and it is now in full form.

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There's some entire drop down menus.
What type of environment are you in?

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So anything from a forest to castle
to town square, to under dark,

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like it'll have stuff that is thematic
for that scenario. And then you have

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an intensity level, so a forest
at are low intensity, and you can

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have sound effects. You can have
no hoofs clopping, and then you can

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crank up the intensity and the music
and the sound effects will ramp up.

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So I want to fight is coming? Just start slowly bringing it up.

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And I've had a lot of fun
with this, Joe is it just mirrors

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that. Like the most jacent thing
ever that the second app he recommends is

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to like audio, not taking or
anything like that yet, but just know

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you can you want to if you
want to. If it's like you're at

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the club while you're playing d D, We've got this for you. That's

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that's fantastic. On my phone,
I would have an app for it,

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okay, but because I think that
that would really come my way. But

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you want to note taking app?
This is called This is called docs is

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met by Google. It is the
premiere note taking app that I have on

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my phone. Tastic, happy Jim. Okay, fine, we'll get back

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into actual plane Jim. Right,
yeah, right, So I have a

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couple of these apps. Some are
very very simple, some are very very

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complex. It depends on what kind
of mood I'm in. I have one

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called D twenty calc It is literally
just looks at a calculator app and I'll

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just show it to you guys here
now you can't see it on the podcast.

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It does not look very different than
my standard calculator app, except you

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see things like a D four D
sixty eight, and I can I can

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punch in the equation for what kind
of dice I'm rolling. So for example,

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if I let's say I create on
a on a crossbow attack that I

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then get sneak attack on and there
was also the the wild magic barbarier gave

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me the plus D three for the
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things in there. I can just
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save the equation for future recall,
so I can punch it all in one

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hundred times. Yeah, and this
is great for if you don't have dice

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on you as you're in an environment
where you can't really roll dice if you're

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playing, if you're on a long
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and D without chucking dice all over
your plumber. So that's D twenty calc,

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which is the very simplified version.
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it feels like you're using a calculator. Then there's Sophie's dice. Sophie's dice

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is like fullief three D rendered.
That's like a you have to it's a

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really hard choice to decide which dice
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that's yeah, you get to keep
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nice and I had nothing to do
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fully rendered, fully like physics engine, Like you're punching all the dice that

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you wanted to keep. And not
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of seven, there's a wacky dice
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like shaped different, some that have
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custom dice. You can even like
have the side say whatever you Since it's

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an iPhone app, you roll it
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was pretty. This one's pretty for
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is pretty resource intensive. You're pull
Mike Gill Little Hot exclusively. Then you

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go back to D twenty cocktail cools
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it is available on the iPad and
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the table rolls, the ones that
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this is the one you can show
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the player roll for the table.
If you're the DM, bring it out,

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bringing out the iPad. Yeah,
and have them roll. If you're

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not using physical dice side tracking into
what do you call it, dungeon crawl

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classics, you can roll those D
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that. Yeah. Well, I
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in my game of Joe and there's
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three. Oh yeah, I'm sure
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one two three one two three.
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I don't know where to buy one. I see them advertise on Facebook

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all the time. Yeah, we
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I can't just go buy a D
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going to master the rest of my
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think they also sell a D one
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D two is just a coin.
Yeah, fifty sent they send your

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quarter. Yeah that's great. But
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you can get Sophy's dice. I
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to. There's some really cool stuff
in there. But joking on the side,

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the other thing that those are great
for is you know you need to

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pick a random spell from a spell
list that has twenty eight spells on it,

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any of those kind of things.
Yeah, where you go down and

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you can just go, you know, throw it in there, boom,

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roll it and then you don't have
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to forty, I'm going to re

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roll it, and yeah, that
makes it really easy. I'll say in

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about two seconds while you were saying
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and I punched into one D twenty
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All Right, that's like a spell
that starts with like probably tea or

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something like that. So yeah,
you so they're both great for running for

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rolling wacky dice you might not own, so even if you are rolling physical

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dice, this is just great to
have on you. Is a D twenty

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calc Sophie's dice, and any number
of other die rollers. Oh, actually,

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before I move on, a lot
of these dice are huge in the

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blind and vision impaired community. Very
early on in Commercidly Dragons, I was

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looking into braille dice and just trying
to see it because there's a massive blind

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division impaired community playing D and D. Especially for a game that is largely

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theater of the mind, you don't
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says on your die. There's braille
dice and a there's a resource out there

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that will give you I believe it
is dots Project something like that. I

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would they give a free STL that
you can three D print braille dice,

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But a lot of blind players will
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that they can speak voice commands into
it. Siri can do some of that

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already, And I'm just afraid of
my phone is going to light up as

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soon as I said that, but
it didn't. She could do some of

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that, but not all of it. And and complex dice calculations, you

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know, roll D twenty plus two
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D six plus five. She's not
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dice roars can. I mean,
we're all waiting for the day when we

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can say, Strie, I just
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phone. That's what we want.
Yeah, that's a dice roller. Apps

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one more half on here, and
this is where we start getting into this

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like cool fun DM stuff. So, Jim, how often do your players

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say, oh, I have find
a guy to borrow what's his name?

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I mean they do that fairly often. There's a website that I have for

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that, Yeah, that I use. Well, I got one on my

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phone. This is this is NPC
for hire the even for the free version.

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You get all the ablieviate, all
the humans in the in the free

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version, and you can unlock specific
areas for a dollar each. The website

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that I use is called Fantasy Name
General. Sooon and John. Yeah,

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so that's Don. John is great
because Dodge will stipulate backstories and stuff.

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Fantasy Names Generator will just give you
the name, but what they say,

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Okay, what's his deal? What
do you look like? What's how's he

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talking? It looks like me.
I mean, it's just like I don't

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have that part of it. I
don't have trouble with. That's not a

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thing that I need help. Yes, the name, but the names I

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need help with. And the nice
thing. One of the things I love

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about Fantasy Name Generator is that it
has you know, fantasy names, but

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it also has a vast array of
you know, different, you know,

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regular modern Earth cultures. And so
if I decide, Okay, these people

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here, I want their names to
be Indonesian, I can do that and

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call that up. These people here
are going to be you know whatever,

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Catalonian, we can we can do
that and call those up, and you

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you know, you click it,
you can go you know, male coded,

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female coded, or you know,
androgynous, and it will generate a

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list of ten As you click it
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I think it's just an amazing website. Because I play a lot of kind

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of indie games that use more modern
names, I find it more useful than

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some of these D and D specific
ones, you know, like I would

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have to dig to find drown names
on that site, I think. But

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but it is a great site that's
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Yeah, that being said, so
what we can do on f PC for

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hire? So I got it in
my hand right now. We can look

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for an adventurer, or a clergy
or an entertainer. There's a bunch of

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jobs here, or we can have
any job. So let's say we're in

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a tavern and I'm looking for I
want to talk to the band. Yeah,

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so we're just going to tap entertainer
and it will just give me a

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random one with a with a photo. Oh that's it's got a little character

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portrait with a name, raised her
job, and a quick little one sentence

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on what's her deal? So I
just clicked on entertainer and I got Joanna

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White, a human entertainer. If
Joanna sends his carelessness or a lack of

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forethought, she is sure to point
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One tap I've got for the day. I can keep refreshing until I find

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someone interesting enough. I can save
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So to have to start at the
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I said, it's all humans.
For the free app, there are seventeen

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that you can additions to it at
dollar each. I think for a couple

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of bucks, just get the ones
that you need and I might get this

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a track and folcus they go into
an area where dragon boards are are common.

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Does that have a provision to allow
you to add your own notes to

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it as you find out more about
those characters or it wouldn't be in the

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app. However, you can create
your own that does have DM notes the

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on the ones that make yourselves if
you want to keep them all in the

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same place. I don't see a
place for you to add notes to existing

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ones, but then that's where your
your DM notes would come in. This

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is to get you started. So
this isn't all the apps that I use,

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but these are the ones that I
can really recommend for players to start

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with. You'll find the ones that
end up working for you better. There's

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a couple of different ones for character
sheets that I've had mixed results with,

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and it really depends on how you
handle your part of the game, but

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I think these are usable for for
anybody. So to recap we've got the

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old classic D and D beyond.
I've got spells or spell slots five E,

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D M, d J, D
twenty cock or Sophie s Dice and

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NPC for hire. And we don't
have links to the app store for all

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of those. I believe they are
all free. Actually I don't know if

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they are all free of D M
DJ might cost something. I believe the

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rest of all are. I'm glad
I got to thut you guys my phone

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for a bit. It is almost
dead now because I this episode took a

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while, so we're gonna we're gonna
call it here today. Thanks for thanks

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for joining me, Thanks for listening. This has been Hello Adventurers with your

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host Jason Portiso, Joe McCall,
and Jim Crocker, Producer, editor and

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engineer Jason Portiso. Our music is
by Nick Spurrier, artwork by Kristin Roderick,

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and with nothing else to add,
we're just gonna say goodbye. Editor