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b'Before there is a D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) podcast, there was a conversation about who and what we are doing. Listen in. Get some insight. Early episode with rough audio. Music by [Todd Ferguson, My Pet Machine on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/mypetmachine/) Logo by [Julie at Elaborate Flight of Fancy](https://www.facebook.com/ElaborateFlight/) # Transcript: *Music* **Nate:** Hello, hello, hello. I am Nate, your dungeon master and welcome to episode 0 of carrots and suffering, a D&D odyssey. This is a 5th edition D&D campaign where we do custom mechanics in a custom setting. You should probably expect a whole lot of intrigue and roleplay from us and probably a lot less dice rolling than you are accustomed to, if you are a classic D&D style player. I want to do a quick special thank you to Todd Ferguson of My Pet Machine for our tunes and to Julie at Elaborate Flight of Fancy for our Logo. This is episode 0, which means we don\'t actually get into roleplay we just sort of talk about the characters that we are going to play and the campaign that we are going to run. Hang in there and we will catch you on the flipside. And if your not up for that maybe just jump forward to episode 1. One last note, our audio quality for the first couple of episodes is god awful. We learned a lot and it shows. So see you on the other side of this podcast. *Music* **Nate:** Hi, I am Nate, I will be your dungeon Master. **Julie:** I am Julie, I will be playing a Wizard named Sylpha Lunari. **Mandy:** I am Mandy, I will be playing a rogue, named Jaelan. **Sandra:** And I am Sandra. I am playing a Druid named Sable. **Nate:** This is a campaign, that I ran once before with a very different group of people who did a very different job with it. And so I am expecting it to be fundamentally different. That is the probably going to be the limit of it because they were way in left field. **Julie:** That is true. One of my hopes for this is to discover what plot ideas and intrigue Nate might have had in mind when he ran it first. **Sandra:** It was that bad (laughter). **Julie:** It wasn\'t bad probably was far off the mark from what Nate intended **Sandra:** Oh, ok. **Nate:** No, they were the most Chaotic Neutral team by definition that I have ever seen. **Sandra:** Very Ohh-shiney. **Nate:** Yeah, well, I would be like, "All right the nobility is all getting up in your face for intrigue." and they would be like, "Aaaaa... Screw em!" (Laughter) **Julie:** F- the man. **Nate:** We are not going to do what you want, we are going to do our own thing. **Julie:** F-the man, we want to get out of here. (Laughter) **Sandra:** Get out of here. **Nate:** We hit some of the major plot points, sort of. **Sandra:** kind of like, bumped them with your hip and then moved on. **Nate:** Yeah. yeah. They were like... (Laughter) there was some semblance of what I wanted to accomplish in there and then a lot of just fly by the seat of your pants. *Music* **Nate:** So, when our campaign starts, there are some politics going on. So there is a bunch of royal families and I sent you guys an email that has the like listed out. We are probably not going to use all of them, but they are there for you to like add to your character background. The Regent is about to marry off his two kids. So he is going to make a marriage contract with other nobles children and who whoever lands those two jobs. essentially marrying into that family becomes the next regent or becomes the major domo and is responsible for all the daily activities of the city. And so it is really the two most powerful positions for the next generation are open now. So let\'s talk about your characters and maybe a little bit of how they fit into the world. Let\'s start with Julie on my left. **Julie:** My Character is named Sylpha Lunari and she is a young. I imagine her to be 17-19 years old. She is an aspiring mage and courtier in the kingdom. So Sylpha is inspired by a moth and her family manif'