00:00.00 sidekqpodcast And hello welcome to another exciting episode of sidekicks and side quest the best unofficial dungeons and dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion I've got an awesome guest for you this week but before I get to my guest I have to leave you in suspense with an ad read. From our first sponsor plus 1 xp Tony Vicinda is the mastermind behind this master craft of beard balms game design and community building. He's got beer bombs named after all of the basic stats from d and d so get a can apply it to your face smell that sweet aroma and that sweet victory that comes along with increased strength dexterity charisma. And more beards and beyond is of course the indie rpg that helped to launch this entire ship this entire navy out to the sea. But that's not the only game that tony's worked on noeree. He's also worked on games like repugnant eye toaster down. We go through the void va nagula. And brandstanding. 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And you'll get some savings on your purchase at no extra cost to you so again that codes randolph ah at checkout on the website page plus 1 eexp.com all right I have been told by and my imaginary lawyer off to the side that I should not delay any further and I should introduce you henceforth. To our aforementioned guest. So hello would you care to introduce yourself tell us who you are and what is it that you do so. 02:15.69 Legalkimchi I am not the imaginary lawyer I just want to make that absolutely clear hey folks. Um I'm legal kimchi I also go by Alex you can check me out on Youtube I make video essays. With regards to ttrpg topics sometimes political science topics and whatever tickles my fancy? Um, but been a long lifelong player of ttrpgs I like to consider myself a second generation player because. 02:44.82 sidekqpodcast Um. 02:46.38 Legalkimchi Dungeons and Dragons literally is helped me learn how to read so and it's It's been a part of my bloodline. Um and my my you know personal life for decades at this point. Um, so. 02:47.97 sidekqpodcast Or really. 03:00.87 sidekqpodcast Was it a family member that introduced you to the hobby to the game. Oh that's cool. 03:05.70 Legalkimchi My dad actually oh straight pipeline. So my my dad was at at university in in Indiana. Okay, and then he was in the army and there's a lot of d and d in the midwest in the in the 70 s at that time like he was there right? when. 03:15.17 sidekqpodcast Um. 03:18.47 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah. 03:23.90 sidekqpodcast He was on the he was on the production floor. 03:25.57 Legalkimchi All of this was happening. Um, so I think it was like late 70 s early eighty s he really got into it and so again before I was even born the game was in the family. Um, so we have 3 generations. 03:44.60 sidekqpodcast Wow, that's awesome see yeah I've got a very small child and I know when I had my guest Nicholas carterelli on he recommended a a website ah resource ttrpg kids and so he was saying oh with my children. My youngest was two and a half 03:44.70 Legalkimchi 3 generations playing um in my family. 04:03.92 sidekqpodcast When we got ah you know them to start playing d and d so I was like oh great I've got six months before I need to crack open the the 3 core books and start teaching my son how to play the math rocks game. So. 04:16.64 Legalkimchi Um, thank you. 04:16.72 sidekqpodcast Ah, but maybe I can find a good resource and and and get him introduced to the Hobby just like you have which is a perfect segue to the question of do you currently or have you ever played D and D before it sounds like you know if if your father was playing. You know the Og version of it I Imagine you've worked your way through the editions. Plus some. 04:35.37 Legalkimchi Yeah, um I got in in second edition though I grew up with the first edition books. So um and it's funny because my dad didn't actually get into d and d proper first he played. 04:40.90 sidekqpodcast M. 04:47.63 sidekqpodcast Oh oh I'm not familiar with this. 04:50.40 Legalkimchi Empire the pedal throne which is okay so empire the pedal throne is this wild thing. Little warning to folks. Um don't look this up but empire the pedal throne was created. 05:01.48 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, well then I guess I don't have to put it in the show notes. So. 05:09.53 Legalkimchi Ah, before D and D Um, not as an Rpg but as a fantasy setting and then D and D comes around and they do a tie-in and create this game empire the pedal throne where they use this amazing world. Um, and. 05:09.62 sidekqpodcast Me. 05:25.83 Legalkimchi Basically put on the original d and d rules to it and that's how we got into the hobby turns out the creator of empire the pedal throne huge neo-nazi and that's not just me saying huge neo-nazi because he was like a racist or he said some really bad things like he wrote for Neo -nazi publications 05:27.78 sidekqpodcast Oh. 05:34.33 sidekqpodcast M. 05:43.77 sidekqpodcast Ah. 05:45.10 Legalkimchi And made Neo -nazi books like 1 of his books outside of the techamel empire the pedal throne series was literally on you know, sometimes the bat. This is the blip from the back cover sometimes the good guys lose. Like when the nazis fell in 1945 and I'm like whoa so it it it. It's a what if alternate history if the nazis after losing world war ii um created secret underground cells and started well in in our. 06:03.92 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 06:21.20 Legalkimchi Language terrorist attacks against the United States and their language revolution. Um to overthrow the american government and finally win so like he's not the best like don't don't go buy that it's not a good game either. Ah, we have better games nowadays but but. 06:23.14 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah. 06:30.67 sidekqpodcast M. 06:36.30 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah you you have to learn your history. So then that way you don't repeat it. Yeah, oh. 06:42.39 Legalkimchi Yeah but but nobody knew that at the time right because he had 2 different pen names that he was writing in because he had the fantasy setting in 1 name and the other stuff and the other name. So nobody who was playing empire of the pedal throne knew that this guy was a neo-nazi. Um. But suffice to say my dad hasn't played it in you know 40 years so 07:01.89 sidekqpodcast Right? And I'm sure with the I've watched some of your videos especially on the politics and you're talking about your homebrew world and how you've ah established like these different rulers and stuff like that. So I'm sure if he already doesn't have a group that he's playing with I'm sure you've corralled him in. And you're like look at this much better setting that I've created and he's like oh yeah, this is my this is my jam. This is my bread and butter. 07:21.39 Legalkimchi Oh he he abandoned empire the pedal thrown back um in the eighty s so like it. It wasn't like a pull them in plus we've have a family game that's been running for years so that's all 3 generations play. Um, although. 07:25.86 sidekqpodcast And. 07:32.20 sidekqpodcast Oh awesome. 07:38.90 Legalkimchi I haven't played as much I'm the Dm for the group now and um I haven't played as much because I'm about to have kid number 3 so we're getting prep for that sort of thing. 07:39.36 sidekqpodcast E. 07:48.22 sidekqpodcast Ah, congratulations This is a pro family podcast so congratulations and I'm sure it is the grandfather and the grandchildren that are conspiring to throw all of your plans. 07:53.93 Legalkimchi Yay. 08:00.32 sidekqpodcast Ah, you know, littered with Monkey wrenches and all sorts of things with their silly ideas. So. 08:05.54 Legalkimchi It is my brothers who also play not as nefarious and you would think that having 2 older brothers in the group they would be the ones throwing you into the bus constantly because of sibling rivalry they're actually the most. Um. Role-playingist and let the Dm do his thing players in the entire group. My dad. My brother's kid are just it's good times. 08:35.69 sidekqpodcast They're the ones that are like this dangerous button. We shouldn't push let's push it 5 times just to see what happens. 08:40.74 Legalkimchi Because you know you're talking about a different generation. My dad comes from a generation where it's like oh this character died. Well I got 6 more. So let's go. 08:49.70 sidekqpodcast Ah, oh no, this is my one character I spent an entire weekend learning his lore and backstory and creating a whole mythical realm based on him I can't let him die. 08:58.84 Legalkimchi My my father has one player character. He has 47 versions of it. But it's basically the 1 guy and you know what more power to him he enjoys playing it and that's the key like if you like playing that keep playing that I mean. 09:09.40 sidekqpodcast I was gonna say are we on to Bob the forty eighth now at this point. 09:18.95 Legalkimchi Like my uncle who ah sadly passed away. Um, but he was in the game as well. He played Paul the avenger a lot like in every campaign and he would just show up and we'd be fine paul human fighter like that was it the whole every single time. 09:33.62 sidekqpodcast Wow, yeah I was going to say now that we have the language ah from the mcu like with Loki and variance and stuff like that now it's like it's pretty easy to adopt that terminology of like this is just the variant of Paul from you know. X universe that's now joined our game or whatever. 09:51.94 Legalkimchi Um, you see that's that's another thing you didn't even need to hand wave. It don't explain it. It's just a different Paul who's the same like it's. 10:01.56 sidekqpodcast So the world just accepts it like yeah, that's that's Paul yeah, it's like 1 of our episodes we had with by it my my guest and my friend Charles Bacii we rolled up a random teenage ah iliidd that worked for the local town and it was like a total conehead situation where the the. Proposed lore that we thought of was just like oh yeah, this illethid family just lives on the surface and they're just like the cone heads and everyone thinks that they're from a weird foreign land but they don't you know they don't know or they don't notice the fact that they have to consume you know human brains in order to live right. 10:36.36 Legalkimchi Um, ah. 10:37.25 sidekqpodcast You know, perfect? Well I think that's a perfect segue into the namesake of our show. You know being sidekicks and side quest after all, um, who is your favorite Npc or sidekick character whether they're from one of your illustrious games video games movie film, television, etc. And why is this character your favorite sidecaker in pc. 10:58.75 Legalkimchi Okay, so does it have to be a sidekick because with the npcs like when I think of npcs I also include villains in or or possible villain. So I I have 2 Um. 11:04.61 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, sure if you have a favorite villain. Oh yeah, for sure. 11:13.80 Legalkimchi That I think are my favorite 1 for tabletop and 1 for a video game. Okay, ah my favorite video game bill and is John Conrad from spec ops the line. Oh my goodness. 11:14.97 sidekqpodcast Me cool. 11:23.40 sidekqpodcast Okay, I'm not familiar with this one. 11:31.44 Legalkimchi This this is a whole thing so spec ups the line is for lack of a better term a third person shooter like military shooter that's kind of okay, decent gameplay. But it's an adaptation. And they never tell you this this is something you figure out over the course of time of Joseph Conrad's the heart of darkness. So it's it's basically apocalypse now in Dubai in the modern age and at the end of it. 11:52.38 sidekqpodcast O. Or. 12:06.35 Legalkimchi And this is a huge spoiler So I don't know if I should I should I go into spoilers should I Just Spoiler alert. 12:11.74 sidekqpodcast Um, yes boiler alert if you're gonna 30 seconds ahead skip ahead 30 seconds now if you don't want a spoiler. 12:16.79 Legalkimchi So Joseph Conrad when you meet Joseph Conrad at the end of the game. He turns to your character and starts speaking to you as a player and says things that make sense in both He's like why are you here? You're here because you wanted to be something that you're not. Which is a hero was just you're playing this game and he's like you've just murdered all these people to get to this point. Why what was the point you could have stopped at any time you could have put this game away. You could have just turned it off. You could have walked away from the console but you didn't because you wanted to chase that feeling and I was just like it's just a gut punch. 12:54.15 sidekqpodcast You. 12:56.24 Legalkimchi Because you're like yeah yeah, I'm just playing this game because it's a silly action game and I wanted to feel like a hero and disconnect and he's like can you do like think about what your estrogens what your actions are here think about what you did over the course of this video game where you're a military shooter and you're just killing. 13:10.88 sidekqpodcast I. 13:14.94 Legalkimchi Tons of people. There's a moral aspect to it like what does that do to your mind. Um, so yeah, like it was I love that moment and creating moments like that in tabletop it was a character that I created um. 13:34.23 Legalkimchi Which is ah lady jenicke um now I got the original idea for this from Matt Coville okay so Matt Colville yeah so if you know Matt Coville then you've probably heard of like lady Ariel the vampire queen and I was like that's a cool idea. 13:42.40 sidekqpodcast Um, we love him on this podcast. Yeah. 13:48.36 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yes. 13:53.24 Legalkimchi I'm going to steal that So the vampire queen in my world is an elf Queen who um, decided to create an area that protected her people. 14:00.20 sidekqpodcast Sure. 14:12.31 Legalkimchi Okay, so it's like a wasteland that was killed like was destroyed in a war against um, the emperor and she creates this like defensive bubble that has made her land impenetrable and the defensive bubble is not like a literal bubble. 14:18.65 sidekqpodcast Okay. Oh. 14:30.37 Legalkimchi It's just her military is so indomitable that she can't defeat the emperor but she makes it nearly impossible to conquer her territory and it's because exactly. 14:34.48 sidekqpodcast M. 14:41.46 sidekqpodcast Does she make it so that there's like perpetual darkness in the land or she's a vampire lord or lady and so then you know by her natural abilities as a vampire lord lady then she can just make the the natural area spooky or something cause I was getting wild Mount vibes. 14:48.74 Legalkimchi Yeah. 14:58.10 Legalkimchi Um, yeah, it's It's a spooky. Yeah. 15:00.21 sidekqpodcast You know, kind of like how the drow empire there just like the the sky is permanently dark. So the dro can you know be above ground and not have to worry about it and stuff. Okay. 15:09.28 Legalkimchi Yeah, it's it's sort of Raven Lofty um and the thing about it is when the players interact with her. They don't know if she's evil or good the vampire. Oh she's evil but she's against amper which means she's good and her forces. 15:21.36 sidekqpodcast The enemy my enemy is my ally. Yeah. 15:27.50 Legalkimchi Exactly and the army that she has is entirely composed of the undead. Um, but her but her people are alive. So. 15:33.49 sidekqpodcast Oo. And oh yeah, okay, yeah, one of my bonus episodes I shared a bit of lore where I came up with the dead lands and that there was a lich and this barbarian tribe who thought like she was a reincarnation of this of this deity figure that they served back in the ah you know like the. Tumultuous apocalyptic war when the gods and stuff were fighting and so the the horde continues and so there's these alive people that it coexist alongside their dead ancestors and so they can like see grandpa but Grandpa's like ah you know like a skeletal zombie barbarian basically and. 15:56.91 Legalkimchi Still. 16:11.94 Legalkimchi Yeah. 16:13.63 sidekqpodcast Stuff like that. So it's like this weird mix where they like worship her and they they're part of the undying horde is what they're they're called. So no, one's explored them yet in a game but I would love to turn them loose on on some campaign. 16:20.70 Legalkimchi Exactly. 16:27.71 Legalkimchi So my my last campaign that I ran her in um, the players meet up with her and all the people there love her because unlike any of the other nobles when she's raising her armies. 16:41.21 sidekqpodcast And. 16:43.67 Legalkimchi She doesn't ask them to fight for her. She doesn't ask them for taxes in Gold. She doesn't send them off into Wars none of them know the war they're protected by this undead Horde. All she asks for. Is their blood so they donate their blood to her to strengthen her so she can raise more undead and she protects them and so they're like so she's just she's taking your blood. Well she is vampire but she's not taking my gold anything that I make. 17:09.28 sidekqpodcast I. 17:21.90 Legalkimchi I Keep because it doesn't go off to some lord to pay for their castle and their food I give her the food. 17:25.16 sidekqpodcast And now I'm just curious about the whole the whole logistical operation of how they're acquiring. All this blood is it just like oh here's a bunch of cows and stuff like that or is it like I have to attach to a oh. 17:36.15 Legalkimchi Um, no, it's from the people it has to be human. 17:39.47 sidekqpodcast There's no loophole where they could just be like here's our prize cow. He is full of all that great. A blood you could ever want. Yeah. 17:45.80 Legalkimchi Yeah, so her rule is if you are a living subject and wish to have the protection of her armies you have to give your blood. It doesnt matter your age doesnt matter who you are you have to donate blood if you don't You're exile from the Kingdom. So. That's the price you pay. But you keep all of your gains. You're not taxed on money and you are safe. You are there are no bandits. There are no monsters. It is an entirely clean area. So. 18:05.12 sidekqpodcast Whoa. 18:17.28 sidekqpodcast Wow Yeah I don't know Yeah, that's like very stepford or something like that. It's like this weird eeriness where everything's clean and pristine and yet it's like. Oh with the monthly the monthly blood letting into the goblet that we have to give to the Skeleton who comes to the door to collect it or whatever everyone in the family you know, prick your finger and put it it into the blood goblet or whatever. Oh okay. 18:39.40 Legalkimchi Now like almost literally what I'm talking about so when when the players see that they have to make a decision was just like okay we for this are we against this are we going to try to curry her favor are we trying to kill her. It becomes a whole thing. So I love that. But. 18:54.29 sidekqpodcast Yeah, oh man, you know that just reminds me just because I put it on on Twitter we just watched the movie last night at the time of this recording but my wife and I finally sat down and watched Renfield and I was like oh this Renfield guy is totally like a warlock with a vampire lord patron pact. Thing going on so I was like that would be that would be interesting to write up I know someone on the Dm's guild has already done something but I was like if I can if I could make my own version of ah of a vampire lord warlock packed. But that's more like pact of blood so you do the thing in the movie where he eats blood but then he gets like barbarian rage and. Temporary strength and monk-like speed and reflexes and then just ages slower and that's like the main benefits that you get for being this kind of a warlock versus some other kind of warlock. So anyway, fun, fun little fun of fun aside anyway. 19:44.73 Legalkimchi Um, h. 19:46.98 Legalkimchi I haven't seen that movie yet. So I'm excited to go watch it. 19:51.73 sidekqpodcast Yeah, it's it's a robb. It's a Robert Kirkman so you know walking dead very over the top if you're squeamish with gore there is ah you know, but that labeled a you know, warning label to put on that but otherwise is it was a. 19:54.77 Legalkimchi We had. 20:06.22 sidekqpodcast Rollicking fun time with Aquafina and Nicholas Holt and nick cage. So the 2 knicks were you know hamming it up and all that good stuff. 20:12.99 Legalkimchi See I get to be the cantankerous old guy here because I was reading Robert Kirkman and walking dead back when issue one came out when I was in college like so which is. 20:22.13 sidekqpodcast yeah yeah I just caught it on Amc back when I used to pay for television like that in college. So. 20:33.76 Legalkimchi Oh man, Yeah, good times. 20:36.20 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and then to go along with the side kick question. We like to ask? What's been one of your favorite side quests either from Rpg Video Game b plot from a movie film television, literature etc. And why has this side. Quest been your favorite. 20:55.74 Legalkimchi Oof That's a good one. That's one I'm I Probably gonna have to think about um but just dead air on your podcast while I consider. 21:05.53 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, the the editing trick where I have to like skip ahead like 2 minutes in the in the time but no um I like to throw this nugget out because it's it's been helpful when we had our previous guest Dr Paul Gaswicki on who is a professor of of game design and computer game design at. All state university I really liked how he gave a definition to ah the side. Quest and the idea of a side. Quest is supposed to be something that either teaches you about the world or teaches you something about your character. Which I thought was really and intriguing and so when he gave his answer of a side quest he was like you know because he he thought of this really great question of like you know, like what is it? Um, you know that makes a man or something like that was was how he phrased the question and then he he tied it into Planescape torment and. That was the last great side. Quest he ever came across and stuff like that. 21:58.94 Legalkimchi Not not to be so self-serving. Um, but I'm going to go back to rpgs on this one. This is this is an encounter design that I use in a lot of my games and it is the players are traveling on the road. 22:02.68 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sure. 22:16.70 Legalkimchi And they come across an ambush and it's orc bandits. Okay, if the players are just responding as normal. They kill the Orc bandits is a very easy fight and they move on. 22:20.96 sidekqpodcast Ok. 22:31.10 sidekqpodcast I. 22:34.40 Legalkimchi If the players are paying attention and if they know me at all. They know that I don't throw you know straightforward encounters ever because why would you? um, they'll notice that there's a family. 22:36.46 sidekqpodcast So. 22:45.63 sidekqpodcast Me. 22:53.62 Legalkimchi Hiding like just off the road and like a ah bundle of bushes or trees or something and they'll realize that these orcs are just starving people who are desperate with Rusty weapons not because of some sort of barbarism. Or because of some sort of intrinsic evil that makes them roadbandits or something but there's like a desperate family trying to survive and they're trying to do it in the only way they know how and so if the players respond. And are able to diffuse the situation then they can create a bond with this family and that will actually trigger something amongst the marginalized orcs in the in the land because orcs are not treated well in. 1 of the areas this depends on what part of my world they're in but in this particular place where I put this encounter. Um, they will start currying the favor with orcs and in their time of need if they need one. They'll ask they can ask some of the orcs and then like hundreds of them will come to support them. 23:52.61 sidekqpodcast Sure sure. 24:10.20 Legalkimchi Because they showed them the humanity that no one else did and because of their showing of compassion as opposed to murdering that small encounter comes into ah like a play chip to a huge advantage later on. 24:14.61 sidekqpodcast Wow. 24:29.26 sidekqpodcast Yeah that's awesome. Yeah I know that that is good design of ah yeah, like um, you know like will Smith in the first men in black movie. You know I just imagine like you know that alien's not snarling. He's sneezing look. He has a tissue in his hand and he like goes through and points at all the things and they're like. This is the guy we need he pays attention to the details. Yeah, she's she's the evil one watch out for the little girls that read quantum physics books. Um. 24:47.72 Legalkimchi Exactly Quantum physics this late at night monsters everywhere. She's up to something. 25:01.42 sidekqpodcast And then finally to round out the personal interview section. We like to ask the question of what are you passionate about and why. 25:09.59 Legalkimchi Oh so many things so many things. Um I think it's analyzing things that I feel like get overlooked is something that I'm passionate about the 1 thing a criticism that I get a lot on my Youtube channel is. You're overthinking this to which I generally respond. Maybe you're not thinking about it um enough because maybe we should be thinking about things like this like understanding the root origins of things like orcs and where they come from and why we have artistic representations in a specific way. What tropes they feed into what biases might be under the surface there you know the things that you don't think about but continue to perpetuate certain ideas or systems that are in play because no one takes the time to analyze it and. From my educational background. Um I have a degree in political science specifically empirical political science. Um, which is sort of like the data-driven study of politics and I have a law degree so analyzing stuff and understanding where it's coming from is sort of. 26:23.41 sidekqpodcast Me. 26:23.97 Legalkimchi A wheelhouse for me and understanding that like trends and systems and stories and tropes don't just appear out of nowhere. They come from places and when you understand where the origins of what those stories come From. You can kind of understand what it may be perpetuating which may not be a good thing. And knowing about these sort of things can allow you to make informed decisions on how you want them or if you want them in your game in your fantasy in your worlds. That's something that I've always found fascinating. And I get annoyed when sometimes people are like you're overthinking this? No one cares I care number one obviously. And yeah, you know, ah while I don't have a giant channel. 27:08.60 sidekqpodcast I'm the one look at me I'm the one with the Youtube channel not you if you don't like it that make your own Youtube channel. 27:17.13 Legalkimchi A few thousand people apparently care. Um, so there's that and I think it's important to understand because if we just scrape on the surface and do surface-level observations then we don't gain a full understanding. It's only when you really dig in and understand all the variables. 27:18.00 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 27:35.79 Legalkimchi You can look at it and maybe you come out of there saying this is irrelevant. This is relevantt. But if you don't know any of those things to begin with you. Don't even get to that point. So. 27:46.14 sidekqpodcast Larry Go a very well articulated and defended closing statement here in the personal interview section that I think it's now time to head into a segment called Npc Creation all right. 28:00.77 Legalkimchi Yay. 28:03.10 sidekqpodcast And our npc creation segment is brought to you by you the podcast audience and our patrons from patreon so now is the time in the show where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a loud hurrah. So do you Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie answer jablinsky my parents we say? cheers. This again is for patrons who donate ah $2 or more a month and all of these folks who are my current patrons are my highest tier wealthy level patrons which means they get to introduce an element of chance to our random tables which we might get to use here today. So if you want to learn more information. Why don't you go on down to the show notes below go to my podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com/sidekicks and side quests in order to get these sweet sweet details learn about our 3 tiers currently asterisk and ah help us expand our operations. At the levitating platter in this demi planee in worlds beyond all right? So we were discussing before we hit aforementioned record button um that I believe today we're going to kind of ah outline a character that you've already got that you'd like to share with all of us today. 29:18.25 Legalkimchi Yeah, um I don't know if we can set up some of this for chance and all right, all right? Um, yeah I have a general outline but a lot of it couldn't be random and I think I can gain some inspiration. 29:20.57 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, totally we can do a mix and match if you want. Yeah. 29:35.77 Legalkimchi From ah some randomness. That's how I create Npcs in my normal game. So it's it's it's an idea mixed with dice. 29:37.90 sidekqpodcast And oh awesome. Yeah, we we love to hear that there we go. That's the way we do business here. So for the first question. What is your character's name if you have an idea or if you want to roll randomly. It's a d twenty sure. 29:58.46 Legalkimchi I have an idea for this one? Um I like doing this because it's I think it's underutilized and it can add some flavor to your game. Um. I like using family members names. Especially if they're ah, not standard and by that I mean english-american you know run-the mill like my name is Alex so that's one that's not ah out. Um. 30:17.93 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 30:23.81 sidekqpodcast In. 30:31.71 Legalkimchi How should I phrase this. It's not one that's um, unusual for but ah terrible. Um, so I'm going to go with ah both Ju Kang Bo Ju 30:32.49 sidekqpodcast I Don't know I think it's a pretty great name wink Great! yes. 30:47.63 sidekqpodcast Ooh How do I How do I So how do I spell that. 30:51.10 Legalkimchi B O Space J A N G. 30:54.87 sidekqpodcast J a and G O Jung Boat Chng cool all right? So we got a name and then the next question that we have here is ancestry for the character. So if you got an idea or if you want to randomize. 30:58.66 Legalkimchi Both tongue. 31:11.37 Legalkimchi I'm I'm going to roll this one I Want to roll that one. 31:13.97 sidekqpodcast Okay, so it's 2 d ten s for a d 100 effect 31:19.87 Legalkimchi Okay. 31:30.67 Legalkimchi 43 31:31.97 sidekqpodcast 43 as I scroll down the list. Oh hoo. Bo jung is a mimic. 31:41.75 Legalkimchi Oh nice. 31:46.75 sidekqpodcast I'm Hardy for some reason I'm getting like t terminator 2 vibes in my head of just like him like melting into the floor coming up and then appearing as a person or something who okay. And then let's see what is the job or role in society that we're going to normally find Bo Jung in this is either a d 10 role or or whatever you're thinking sure. 32:11.54 Legalkimchi Um, I'm I'm going to make something up for this one I am inspired by this unique ancestry. Um I'm going to state that pochang has assumed the role. Of Magical Armor. So one that protects the one wearing it. 32:28.93 sidekqpodcast Oh so he's literally just a piece of armor right now ooh. 32:41.62 sidekqpodcast Ok. 32:43.68 Legalkimchi And attacks a person close to it if necessary. 32:46.18 sidekqpodcast Oh so it's like you could be wearing armor and be protected and then if a enemy gets too close it just literally like this this a jump like bites off like a little minan's head and it's just like oh my gosh I didn't know my armor could do that o. 32:57.26 Legalkimchi Ah. 33:00.62 Legalkimchi Yes, yes. 33:05.30 sidekqpodcast That is cool that is ah that is an interesting take because I'm sure or I'm not sure I would it would be ah presumptuous of me to assume but are you familiar with the podcast kill every monster. Okay and they did an episode on the mimics. 33:18.80 Legalkimchi Yes. 33:23.31 sidekqpodcast And so they talked about like you know their whole scenario they ran was like a mimic who starts off as a coin in a dungeon and then eventually just grows bigger and bigger and bigger to encompass like a vault in a bank or something like that. But this is kind of like an opposite take of like a like a symbiotic instead of like a parasitic relationship. It's like. 33:34.11 Legalkimchi Who I like it. 33:42.63 sidekqpodcast A symbiotic relationship of like hey if I agree to be your armor and take like damage for you like I can eat like all the corpses you leave behind and stuff. Wow. Okay, this is oh man all cylinders are firing in my brain right now. All 3 of them that's awesome. 33:44.13 Legalkimchi Um, you need. 34:01.00 sidekqpodcast Ah, and then we need to finish I got a 3 cylinder brain. Let me tell you um and then let's see how old is ah po jung. 34:02.53 Legalkimchi Um I got one of them fancy 3 cylinder brains I see. 34:13.15 Legalkimchi Um I want to make ah, it's her because I named it from my grandmother. My great grandmother. Um, and I'm going to say she's like 80 years old yes 34:17.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, oh ah, wonderful. 34:25.32 sidekqpodcast An 80 year old mimic. Okay. 34:30.62 Legalkimchi Long in the tooth I I Love the idea of older characters and Npcs Um, like. 34:37.14 sidekqpodcast Awesome and then is she is she the size of like an entire suit of armor because I think it was discussed or you know some people have discussed about like the idea of the longer that mimics are alive and they're eating material and they're gaining in like. 34:47.10 Legalkimchi If. 34:55.54 sidekqpodcast Mass and stuff like that. So like 80 years I don't know how big how big of a mimic. Are we talking. 35:01.33 Legalkimchi You know I'm I'm not as red up on the ecology of mimics to be able to state how large it is so I I imagined I imagined her as kind of a breastplate. 35:08.75 sidekqpodcast But it's our podcast and our episode and we can do whatever we want. 35:20.92 Legalkimchi Size with a little bit of the skirt like armor skirt. 35:23.94 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, so just been a very finicky or pin. Ah a finicky or just like hasn't been very hungry I guess for a long while it seems or started off like really really. Tiny and it took 80 years to get to that point or something. So. 35:43.58 Legalkimchi Could be could be um, very selective diet on this one. 35:45.54 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Well yeah, especially if if she prefers to stay in the form of an armor piece. She's like why would I want to be a dirty coin or or like a rusty shovel. 35:55.65 Legalkimchi Um. 35:59.80 sidekqpodcast But I could be like a perfectly shiny piece of armor that I know people will want to pick up and use right. 36:03.19 Legalkimchi See I kind of think of her as like instead of like eating and just getting larger. She's eating and getting denser being more protective like she's using those calories or those nutrients. 36:14.98 sidekqpodcast Ooh oo. 36:20.80 Legalkimchi To create like a hardened Kiteness exterior so that the older she's gotten the more like tough she is. 36:21.86 sidekqpodcast All. 36:27.59 sidekqpodcast I feel like this has got to be like its own species or subgroup of mimics. You know like this sounds like too unique to just be like you know, whatever written Lo is like oh some wizard smoked something and then thought you know would be really great idea if I made. 36:44.80 sidekqpodcast Like ah like a amorphous shapeshifting ooze that just terrified. Everyone's waking nightmares Now this one is like weve we've developed the symbiotic relationship and the more we eat the denser we get so we can be like. Like armor mimics. Maybe they call them armor men it mimics or maybe there's a cool cooler term that I can't think of right now that would be like more in vogue in your world or something like that right. 36:59.36 Legalkimchi Um, move. 37:05.31 Legalkimchi Um, yeah, yeah I like that I like that just a separate species like everybody else gets you know, very variant species and nobody bats an eye right? this going to be my variant species. 37:14.48 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, are you I Hope you introduce this into your game Now you're now everyone's gonna be looking for like armor mimics and stuff like that to try and equip like. 37:25.74 Legalkimchi Maybe. 37:29.90 sidekqpodcast No no I got to find that armor mimic. We quick we got to keep going into more dungeons surely. There's one down here somewhere kind of a thing. Awesome. Okay, so we're what you can tell like this is the part now where the the ideas are flowing and so if you had to describe any other physical characteristics I mean I know with mimics Sometimes it's. 37:34.88 Legalkimchi You. 37:43.57 Legalkimchi Um, yeah. 37:49.60 sidekqpodcast It's hard because they can assume any form and we've already discussed some of the elements of her physical appearance but are there any others or maybe of maybe this genus in general or something like that that kind of sets them apart from the the traditional D and D art Book. That's oh they're a giant treasure chest with a. Barbed tongue that shoots out to get you in stuff. 38:10.98 Legalkimchi I'm going to say in this circumstance. Maybe not an armor mimic. Maybe we're calling this a metal mimic because it's heightened ability to mimic metal specifically and there are some mimics in this species. 38:15.48 sidekqpodcast Okay. 38:20.92 sidekqpodcast Okay. 38:26.86 Legalkimchi Or ancestry that go into armor and some that go into weapons become Swords Axes Um, some that become tools never embark on the adventuring life. Um, but they they specialize in their unique ability. 38:31.50 sidekqpodcast Ok. 38:46.21 Legalkimchi To turn minerals that they consume into the composite steel of their exterior. 38:53.68 sidekqpodcast Ooh. It's kind of like a answer to zns because Zorns are all about like yes we need to eat all the metals and the minerals and then we leave whatever's like not cool. Behind like magic items and stuff like that and these are like well we have to compete against zon I know we'll eat like you know, organic matter and whatever else and then we're going to turn like super tough because we have to be able to survive in environments that coexist alongside zn which are always going to eat. Metal and and stuff like that and. 39:25.40 Legalkimchi Zon Just an underutilized monster lovesorn that can talk anyway. 39:26.60 sidekqpodcast Indeed and that can talk that can talk. That's why I've had to remind myself. Yeah, yeah, and I think I've seen and I think I've seen because that's that's why I put mimics on the list because I'm pretty sure that mimics have the ability to communicate somehow like they can speak common or they can you know they can. You know, maybe they can use like ah like ah, an amoeba appendage and like do common sign or something like that who knows or they could just but blurbal and then people are like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like Peanuts ah like the teachers won Bump walk. But but but yeah, yeah, I understand what you mean?? yeah. 39:58.27 Legalkimchi M. Exactly Map purple Plant family. 40:05.39 sidekqpodcast And more more all right? and then let's see if ah, let's see are there any other physical characteristics that we haven't explored or you feel like that's pretty good. So. 40:17.28 Legalkimchi Well that depends that depends on the mimic. So let's leave it there. 40:22.90 sidekqpodcast Let's leave it there before we get to into the weeds. Okay, and then if you had to describe bo jong with 3 adjectives what 3 adjectives would you use. 40:33.87 Legalkimchi Loyalty. So I imagine her as being fiercely loyal. Okay, she's not an armor because she necessarily wanted to be in armor from the very beginning but she created a bond. With let's say an adventurer who um, rescued her as a as a young tiny coin mimic you know and ah nurtured her and saved her from a situation. She just created this bond and said I will protect you and your lineage. 40:56.44 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 41:09.27 Legalkimchi For as long as I can So as this mimic she has been passed down from generation to generation and is protected now The what great grandchild of the original adventure which is why she's eighty all right. 41:09.39 sidekqpodcast Moon. 41:22.85 sidekqpodcast Okay, and did the original adventurer who found her give her this name or like did the mimic communicate like oh no, this is what my name is. 41:34.51 Legalkimchi See I always thought like if we're going to create intelligent mimics. They have their own names and it might have been a circumstance where it's like ah in the mimic tongue it is but but which is imppronounceable by your by your human standards. But the closest approximation would be potang. 41:37.44 sidekqpodcast Sure yes. 41:45.65 sidekqpodcast But. 41:50.88 Legalkimchi Um, so loyal number 1 um, cautious. She's always nervous about putting her charge into danger. Okay, very protective. 41:52.72 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 42:05.31 sidekqpodcast M. 42:09.86 Legalkimchi Very much like the parent who's like ah don't run into the street. Okay, um, and um, almost almost yanking ah her her ward away from danger. So. 42:13.00 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes. 42:28.66 Legalkimchi Um, so very very cautious and um I would also like like I'm also thinking and this is something that actually comes from my mother just like a really condescending humor I don't know what the word for that would be. 42:46.97 sidekqpodcast Okay, condescending I'm trying to think yeah being doing this podcast long enough. You figure you you develop all the synonyms necessarily in your brain to think of it so kind of like ah like backhanded. Compliments or is it like you know, like very insulting or like degrading or not deprecating humor not self-deprecating but it's like deprecating to other people. 43:09.81 Legalkimchi Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like a well-meaning but also deprecating humor the kind of stuff that family when when family says jokingly mean things to you because they're family and. 43:21.84 sidekqpodcast Sure. They do it to bust your chops and just to get under your skin just so they can see you get a little riled up. Yep exactly. And. 43:27.60 Legalkimchi Sometimes that's what you do to show your affection. 43:34.90 Legalkimchi Yeah, yeah, so it's good-natured but you know, kind of jabbing. Um I could see her doing that as well. So that's what comes to mind. 43:44.74 sidekqpodcast You you like you're going to put on the armor for the morning you're donning your armor and it's just like you look like you've been putting on weight have you but you've gotten one too many sweet rolls at dinner. It's like ah well Chang I'm sorry it's been very stressful. 43:56.33 Legalkimchi Um, ah you see I don't like it's see with my mother would be the complete opposite it feel like are you are you eating enough because come on like you got to finish your meals here all right. 44:06.69 sidekqpodcast Yeah here. Oh I remember yeah I remember yeah Coco at the beginning. It's like oh I'm not that hungry for tamales you will eat your tamales. Ah yes, of course give me more tamales I will eat all of them. Yes. 44:10.73 Legalkimchi If you're going to carry me around all day you need some book. 44:24.23 sidekqpodcast Yes, Grandma yes, a boy live will do that. So. 44:27.54 Legalkimchi I've been in that specific situation and I just you know I sat there and I enjoyed myself. Okay, so it's stop fighting it. 44:32.15 sidekqpodcast Wonderful, awesome! And of course we like all of our Npcs to have cool things on them whether it's going to be a valuable item a piece of war a secret or an ideal or concept that they ascribe to so. I know sometimes when people bring characters or it's like a mix andmatch situation. There's a couple of different things that can apply. But if you just want to randomize like 1 thing. It's a combination role of the D4 and then a d six. So. 45:00.36 Legalkimchi Um, oh you know I like I like the idea role in this one so like a d four. Let's see I got a 2 in and d six six 45:04.20 sidekqpodcast So okay, so this is a piece of lore. Ah, okay, well your answer was provided by previous guest Jonathan Blevins aka the twitch streamer ninja's brother. Ah bo chong knows the location of every dragon. So yeah, there you go. There's a. 45:30.20 Legalkimchi Oh see the backstory revealed because now I'm thinking that the adventurer saved her from a dragon's hoard. She was a coin that wasn't a coin and because of that she has the animosity against dragons. 45:33.50 sidekqpodcast Valuable piece of lore. Yeah. 45:41.75 sidekqpodcast Ooh. 45:49.59 sidekqpodcast Did some spying looked in the secret files to figure out all the locations of ah that what was it in ah the original mission impossible movie. We have the dos files of every agent in Europe if this list gets out. 45:49.79 Legalkimchi Because of their green. 45:59.60 Legalkimchi Oh my goodness. The impossible Mission force and floppy drives Bla Foppy Disks I Miss Floppy Disks Um, not that they were good. It's just you know. 46:03.63 sidekqpodcast M I six is or the the mission Impossible bureau is ruined. 46:15.29 sidekqpodcast Yeah, there only are save icons and most people now are like that's just the save icon. No, that's a floppy disk. 46:17.62 Legalkimchi But. 46:22.30 Legalkimchi Now I'm thinking of this like whole world-building Backstory of the conflict between mimics like this specific metal mimic and dragons that they constantly get wrapped up in the Dragon's hoard and because they're unable to leave. 46:34.34 sidekqpodcast Woo. 46:41.53 Legalkimchi To eat because. 46:41.56 sidekqpodcast Um, and they have to compete against mimic hordes I think that was wasn't that something in fisbens or one of these other books where they were like a mimic that's as big as a dragon horde good luck fighting that. So. 46:52.25 Legalkimchi Yeah, ooh So there's like this natural animosity of dragons being tricked by mimics and thinking that their treasure and mimics being eradicated by these super powerful dragons and so them by coming together. 47:03.20 sidekqpodcast M. 47:08.66 Legalkimchi You know and you have the dragon cave which is actually a mimic and the whole purpose of that Dragon Cave is to eat dragons to protect other mimics. So these mimics are like keeping this one mimic alive. That's big enough. It's like the devastator combined transformer version of the mimic. So. 47:12.86 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 47:25.70 sidekqpodcast Ah, yeah. 47:28.24 Legalkimchi Yeah I could see that I could see that she's now one of the wanting to slay all the dragons for what they've done to her people. 47:33.71 sidekqpodcast Yeah, because maybe it in this world. It was like the one hoard mimic that protected all the other mimics and then you know some alliance of Dragons or whatever came together and destroyed it and so she managed to survive that and she's like through that Act. I Learned where every other dragon was in this world and if you want to seek glory then you follow my advice and I will teach you where to go to slay all these dragons. Ah this is pretty baller I like this Okay, very awesome. 48:01.73 Legalkimchi I like it I like. 48:11.70 sidekqpodcast And then um and then let's see the final thing of course is we like to give all of our Npcs Really cool side quest to offer up to their characters. So That's whether so whether you'd like to think of something random or be inspired by some of our dice rolls or you just want to roll another dice for a ah. The last one which would be a D 12 if you wanted. 48:35.80 Legalkimchi Let's let's roll some dice you ask a lifelong d and d player and what they want to do like if their response is not I want to roll some dice I don't know who you're talking to um, 5 48:46.83 sidekqpodcast 5 oh okay, well you you let me know if you think this sounds good. Um, this was submitted by previous guest Andrew Strother of role for persuasion podcast dying. So the npc is supposed to be dying from incurable disease and they need help to get the cure. So is this something that would go well or do you want to try and take a chance and roll again on the d 12 table. 49:05.98 Legalkimchi Um. 49:13.52 Legalkimchi Um, she's she's nearly at the end of of mimic lifespans so let's let's roll it again. Um I'm gonna go ooh I got a 12 49:18.40 sidekqpodcast Okay, page 12 okay, your answer was submitted by a previous guest Katie Demateus of the amateurish productions twitch stream. Play matchmaker for 2 people in the area that sounds something grandmotherly. 49:37.22 Legalkimchi Now that that now that's it. That's very grandmotherly. Um I could see that happening. Yeah. 49:47.26 sidekqpodcast I've I've seen these adventurers I walk around ah as the armor and I see these 2 people in the village and I know that they're right for each other but they're just too nervous to talk to each other. 49:59.29 Legalkimchi She morphs into Handcuffs and makes sure that they're stuck together. Ah so yeah I like that I could I could work with that I could work with that. 50:02.28 sidekqpodcast Ah, stuck in the middle with you and I don't know. Do you think you can roll with that work with that. Okay, so so now the question is okay so she's a suit of armor. She's a breastplate. 50:15.27 Legalkimchi You know. 50:20.15 Legalkimchi You. 50:21.68 sidekqpodcast And so she exists in a location where she can regularly see people and she's trying to play matchmaker for 2 people in the area. So so is she like is she with this descendant ah lineage of ah of the of the original adventurer is she sitting in some sort of. Curio magic item shop that just talks with the shopkeeper but everyone's too weirded out to like get the mimic armor and so all she has to do is just sit there and like you know, kind of like you know, ah the the hunchback of Notre Dame Quasimoto be like. I see all the people out there and I know their lives and I know what's going on and I know those 2 people would be right for each other if all they did was just talk to each other. 51:03.19 Legalkimchi I Think of her as being with the descendant of the original adventure seeing the world and because of the history of this particular fighting family and the prominence that they have a lot of which is due to her protecting them through their various misadventures. 51:20.49 sidekqpodcast Um. 51:22.80 Legalkimchi Um, she sees these two? Um, oh my goodness this is so on brand for me 2 nations about to go to war in a sort of Romeo and Juliet if they only met then we could stave off disaster by. 51:32.69 sidekqpodcast Like sweeping romances of old. Yes, okay. 51:41.30 Legalkimchi Exactly so preventing war by getting these 2 ah these two kids together in a room so that they could actually fall in love creating a courtship part Romantic comedy part. Political decision. 52:02.25 sidekqpodcast Yeah I was gonna say I don't know I can't think of the top of my head of like some rom com from the early 2000. It's like um, you know he's the prince of this ah you know warbent nation and she's the princess from this hippie nation. Like but then they met on some beach on a vacation hots spot. Will they find love and will they stave their countries from going to war this summer coming to a theater near you. 52:23.93 Legalkimchi Yeah, exactly. 52:31.58 Legalkimchi Ah, yeah, do I have a certain affinity to early two thousand s romcoms Perhaps okay all right, they're they're trash. 52:35.49 sidekqpodcast But perhaps we might be 1 to partake and indulge ourselves. Yeah, so. 52:46.22 Legalkimchi They're my trash I'm okay with that. 52:46.72 sidekqpodcast Yeah, it's okay to enjoy Cotton candy and popcorn empty calories are okay once in a while. 52:56.64 Legalkimchi Um, it can't all be thought provoking high art pieces come on. 52:57.98 sidekqpodcast And sure. Yeah, no, we we love the car. The we love the curveballs that sometimes the random tables provide and and they they stretch our brains to think creatively. So okay, so my question is okay so she. Sees these 2 people who belong to different nations to different factions who she believes if they could get together. They could stave off this war from happening whether that's permanently or at least delays it for a long time. Um, my question is is it like so like. Her descendant that she's protecting and she like oh I know every time we go into battle against this enemy ah enemy adventuring party and it's like you know the other person from that team every time we go against them I notice that you pull your bolt blows just a little bit or like. Your heartbeat changes your heartbeat flutters every time you lock eyes with them kind of a thing you know is it is it like that or is it like the armor just happens to know like oh this is the prince from that nation. This is the whoever from this nation. And just for my eighty years I know that if those 2 got together then everything would be fine. 54:09.41 Legalkimchi Yeah, it's It's part of the ah ah the idea that it wouldn't involve her human Ah, it would be something where it's um, part observational where I think of this like conversation happening between. 54:16.26 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 54:26.85 Legalkimchi Ah, her and her wearer where she's like I Just think these two would be great together and the wearers like oh of romance between them could bring peace to the Land. She's like yeah, whatever I Just think they they would make you know a cute couple. And she's just wanting to pursue that sort of she's just wanting to pursue the the kind of cute coupleness of it. He's like with an adventurer mind of how do we solve the problem that's about to ravage the land and she. 54:45.77 sidekqpodcast And they would make cute babies. That's all I care about. 55:01.20 sidekqpodcast So. 55:04.52 Legalkimchi Is really only concerned with protecting that family right? Her temporal concerns beyond that are like killing dragons saving the family anything outside of that is none of my business. But. 55:15.65 sidekqpodcast But these two I know that these 2 together that would be that would be aces. Okay. 55:24.70 Legalkimchi That's that's just you know her Hobby is bringing people together. Okay. 55:28.67 sidekqpodcast Okay, and so then okay so the armor the armor and the wearer are then going to the player characters to offer up this side. Quest and so what is going to be the reward for success. So somehow the armor and the armor and the armor bearer. Coming to the party and being like like boung. You know she's pretty observant. She's pretty smart. You know she's been around for 80 years she knows what she's talking about I'm tied up with this other thing but you know she says that if you can just get these 2 to fall in love then all will be well. So. If they come back successful in this endeavor. What's going to be the reward. How is Bo Chang and the armor beararer going to reward the party. 56:17.41 Legalkimchi Oof One could say that that type of work is its own reward I think of this as sort of like a change of pace when you're going through a long-term campaign and this may be like the the Golden Goose or the brass Ring. Of D and D campaigns having that long-term campaign but I think you got to mix it up a little bit. It can't all be ah fighting the evil guy winning the battle fighting the evil guy winning the battle. Um, sometimes you mix it up and create political intrigue Sometimes you mix it up and create soap operas depending upon what your players are looking for. 56:37.67 sidekqpodcast We. 56:53.23 Legalkimchi So when I see a circumstance like this I see it as sort of quitly romance I see it as like Jane Austen in the d and d game and it's one of those things where it's just a change of pace. Maybe it's 2 or 3 sessions where you have a comedy of manners. Um. Where exactly it's it's the party gets invited into a ballroom party and they're trying to get um these two. 57:13.77 sidekqpodcast It's a Gala episode. 57:29.20 sidekqpodcast These two youths. 57:29.73 Legalkimchi Mixed up kids together and and these whipper snappers. Um, and you know it just it provides a diversion. What happens they get the gratitude of these 2 people and it's not a reward that's part. Ah, like given to them by Boang or something like that. It is a reward that much like the oreg encounter that I was talking about beforehand just plays dividends later on because oh guess what they become a happy couple and. They do actually preserve it and maybe some other thing happens and now the adventurers need a favor from someone really powerful. Well they know these really 2 these 2 really powerful people who got together and owe their relationship to the party and so they're like okay old friends and. You build it builds history with the relationship between them and these powerful individuals so that they can get sucked into it so it kind of starts off as this sort of romantic comedy and then turns into a political play later on because now they have developed a relationship. They remember you know. Um, whomever like they remember Wesley from back at the ballroom and Wesley is internally grateful for what they did um and this little diversion this little change of pace then has material effect when you switch back into intrigue mode when you switch back into adventure mode. 58:52.50 sidekqpodcast Um, you. 59:04.70 sidekqpodcast M. 59:06.20 Legalkimchi And so it's one of those things where you know it spices up the campaign. It provides a little bit of a different flavor to it for a little bit but then it can seamlessly just transition back to having effect on the game world in real ways that the players can see in the future. 59:24.23 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, that's pretty cool. You know shaping the trajectory of ah world events I suppose then in that case, the political landscape but I probably would also say that probably a really easy segue into this whole dragon side plot of like. Hey I happen to know where all the dragons are and there's a lot of treasure to be had. So if you can kill them all then you know you can get yourself a mighty sum of loot and you know a healthy ah you know, maybe some of it you say for my. 59:41.60 Legalkimchi Um, move. 59:57.70 sidekqpodcast Ah, my armor minute mimic my metal mimic. Ah Brothers and sisters out there and they have healthy places to grow and then they'll find other adventurers and then our our lineage will will continue strong into the future since our mimic Horde overlord. 01:00:09.77 Legalkimchi You know. 01:00:13.92 sidekqpodcast Ah, tragically passed away or whatever. 01:00:16.21 Legalkimchi Um, and and it's funny because you can utilize these mimics as the magical items in the treasure loots like mimic Holy Avenger Mimic staff of the magi mimic bag of holding. 01:00:24.99 sidekqpodcast I. 01:00:34.24 Legalkimchi Which is basically just booming but but like yeah, just like your entire campaign. Every magical item is magical because it's actually a mimic and there we go the plot writes itself. 01:00:37.76 sidekqpodcast It's just a mimic eating your stuff and then promising to give it later. 01:00:52.56 sidekqpodcast Ah, it's like a flinnstone sort of thing the gut. You know the pig under the sink is the garbage disposal and the mimic is the garbage disposal and then I don't know it's a living kind of a you know Cutaway joke or something. 01:00:57.94 Legalkimchi Fish. 01:01:03.64 Legalkimchi Yeah, your mow in your lawn. It's a mimic exactly oops all mimics there. We go. 01:01:09.46 sidekqpodcast Mimics the campaign ah oops all mimics all right? and then do you feel like this pretty well rounds out the character you ready to head into the next segment I know our time is going long unless you had alternate. Okay, all right, Let's go all right. 01:01:20.79 Legalkimchi Ooh, Let's let's go. Let's go. 01:01:25.37 sidekqpodcast But we've learned so much about boat ju and everything else that comes along with her fabulousness that I think it's time we take this into a random encounter done. So the random encounter is a segment that has no ad read sponsorship at this point in the show of course because I'm on this new platform Zencastr. The deal is is like oh you know you know people will listen to your podcast through Zencastr and then we'll throw ads your way and it'll be cool and everything like that and um, you know so I haven't gotten any traction there and that's okay, but I would encourage you to listen to me there in other platform places and and stuff like that because. You know I want to give people who have cool projects and other things of that nature a chance. So if you have a Youtube channel that's that's a hit on the internet or you have a kickstarter or some other kind of Patreon and you want to you want to a little gold derease. The wheels with some promotion on ah on a third tier moderately successful d and d podcast then. Hey I am your man to do that. So I hope to hear from some rich noble woman or ecentric lord very soon and you can contact me through the email sidekicks and sidequest at Gmail.com to get those details rolling. So this is the random encounter section and so what we like to do is a role play vignette. Of our Npc that we've created on the show which I will be very curious to see how you ah, ah, articulate and translate how a mimic does communicate but I'm curious what kind of scene are you interested in presenting is it Bo Chang and the descendant having this conversation back and forth. 01:03:01.46 sidekqpodcast About the side quest is it just bo chang and the and the armor wearer just having you know, just some sort of normal conversation just to get an idea of the character are the are the 2 of them meeting a player character. One of my podcast adventuring characters to give the side quest. Or or something else something else. That's sparking your creativity and interest. 01:03:20.90 Legalkimchi Oo all all of that sounds interesting. Um, let's let's have a conversation between the wearer and and bojang. 01:03:28.57 sidekqpodcast So okay, so. 01:03:34.33 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, so this is like setting up the events before they go find someone else who can go deal with the side quest as it were okay all right? So do you have a name for this descendant that we should refer them. 01:03:34.91 Legalkimchi Maybe talking about that the the side quest. 01:03:53.28 sidekqpodcast As refer to them as. 01:03:55.78 Legalkimchi Um, you know what? since we're doing family stuff I'm going to shout out my my dearly missed uncle and named the descendant Paul after his character. 01:04:08.66 sidekqpodcast All Paul the avenger you said it was and I think well I think we've already written the name of the episode. So I'm I'm happy for that. So okay, so we'll do a scene between bo jong and Paul the Avenger would you like to care. Would you. 01:04:11.39 Legalkimchi Paul the avenger. 01:04:27.36 sidekqpodcast Care to set the scene for us. 01:04:29.94 Legalkimchi Um, okay, um so invitations have been sent throughout the land to prominent individuals including nobles heads of trade and heads of state. It's a gala a last desperate act to bring the leaders of the various communities in the area together as the rising tension and the prospects of war just linger on the horizon. So. There's a slight tinge of hope. In the atmosphere but also a sense of dread and a sense that this may be the last time peace between all of these individuals and their people can be sustained before the outbreak of war. Being one of the storied descendants of this adventuring family Paul receives the invitation and is going as the delegate of the family and representative there. But as the aspiring young. 01:05:34.87 sidekqpodcast M. 01:05:43.26 Legalkimchi Adventurer who just wants to live up to the generations of his family as being the Heroes of the land but not yet proving himself yet goes eager to see if he could solve it whereas Bojong is just really really happy to be polished. And ready to go to a party. 01:06:05.27 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so maybe at this point Paul is um, you know he's working and ah and polishing ah Bo Chang ah you know because he knows that she enjoys this part she he knows that she enjoys like a nice party. You know a nice break every once in a while from the combat and everything like that. And you know so he's just talking back and forth and you know so he's probably you know, just explaining that like oh we got this invitation in the mail and of course I'll I'll be wearing you underneath because you never know when something dangerous might strike and you would fit very smartly underneath. My ah my best evening wear that I will have to and then he makes a note of like and then I have to I have to make sure I go to the tailor and make sure that he's got the right fabric because they said that the theme was um, he probably I was thinking of like fish under the sea dance from back to the future but I was like no, it's got to be something like. You know, like ah hope springs eternal or something like that like some kind of theme. It's like okay, the hope and and eternal and spring and all that. So yeah I probably have to go get some sort of color combination to that effect. 01:07:15.76 Legalkimchi It's kind of like a greens and and blues like water and. 01:07:19.74 sidekqpodcast And yeah, maybe a splash of yellow some oranges or other like ah you know accent notes in there and stuff like that where it's tasteful and not garish or anything like that and so I guess he's he's polishing and and discussing the invitation and so then he um. Maybe maybe boong's being a little quiet and so he's just kind of curious as to like well you know like well what are you thinking? you know like you're you're being awfully quiet. Normally you would be super excited and Gidy about this like you know? Well, What's the deal kind of a thing. Yeah. 01:07:49.10 Legalkimchi You see. It's hard to get excited when we have a lot of tension. You know I'm I'm here trying to protect you in your family and it's been my honor to do so for such a long time and. Prospect of fighting is something where I get I Just know we're going to get sucked into it and I mean you're not the best Swordsman yet I mean you have potential I'm not trying to degrade your anything but you're not your father so and there's there's that too. 01:08:20.29 sidekqpodcast So he scrubs a little harder in one point that he's just like. 01:08:24.67 Legalkimchi Yeah, you see he would have scrubbed harder. You had a really good sword on but you know he had a lot of practice and you and these retired now and it's just you know I worry about your kiddo. It's it's It's what I do. 01:08:42.22 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes, yes of course Bo Chang I know I know you were you worry and ah yes, you know they say everyone's going to be there. You know lords and ladies margraves and duchesses and. 01:08:42.24 Legalkimchi I'm a worrier. 01:08:56.65 sidekqpodcast Archduke himself is supposed to be there that ah that young promising archduke the one with the fancy mustache. 01:09:01.82 Legalkimchi Oh I always thought the mustache was very very smart. You know I I always thought that the princess of of Iberia but what it would be would be a nice match for him. You know. 01:09:16.54 sidekqpodcast Really. 01:09:19.60 Legalkimchi Really good. Well you know you don't see it but she's she's very assertive and he's a little bit of a pushover. So I think that he needs a little little straightening out. You know I think by himself trying to be a leader would not be a good thing. She is a natural leader on the other hand I think there's. A lot there I do also think they both like fiddle music. Not my cup of tea. But I you know if they both like it then maybe it's something they can bond over. 01:09:46.88 sidekqpodcast Oh John I didn't know you were so well versed in politics where do you get the time to to be latest to be up to date on all the latest broadsheets and all these sorts of things and. 01:09:57.81 Legalkimchi What do you mean where I get the time I'm around you most of the time and while you're doing this thing and that thing I observe see with you. Kids nowadays you just go through life fluttering through I watch everything I watch you two. 01:10:11.71 sidekqpodcast So maybe there's a shimmer of like a bunch of eyeballs that kind of go across to like illustrate the point and he's like and he stops polishing for a second and returns to normal and then he like very cautiously goes back to polishing his spot. He's like. 01:10:28.14 Legalkimchi So he understand these sort of things. Um I a people watcher and the eater occasionally but mostly watcher. 01:10:33.32 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes, thank you for for continuing to protect me and my family and for not eating me I feel like at times maybe I felt a tooth poke through but but that must be my mind playing tricks on me. So. 01:10:48.39 Legalkimchi No, sometimes you need a right bite in the bottom get you in the right direction. You know it's it's It's just it's It's a love Munch theory. Don't don't worry too much about it. Okay, and if I wanted to eat you I'd eat you I Just anytime you get new a fight I get hit. 01:11:00.30 sidekqpodcast Ah. 01:11:08.00 Legalkimchi All right? So it's it's not something that I'm generally looking forward to. 01:11:12.56 sidekqpodcast That's true. You have you've seen many battles and I know I know these dragons vex you and surely you know we can we can revisit that you know we might have to you know we might have to get a party together if we are really going to take all these dragons down and he looks around the the. The home that you're in the ancestral home and sure it looks nice, but maybe it's fallen on hard times you know dad's puttering around and you know maybe some of the the care that went into this place has kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit and he's like. You know you know? Yeah I I need to help dad and mom out. You know my brothers and sisters you know I was the 1 chosen next to wear this and yeah, yeah, you know you you tell me? you've been telling stories about these dragons ever since I was little and all that stuff. So yeah. 01:11:58.10 Legalkimchi Well see your father. Not so much your great grandmother Now she was a dragon slayer fine fine with the sword used to slave dragons all the time. Of course we've spent all the money at this point and now we're here So when another. 01:12:13.48 sidekqpodcast Mean yeah. 01:12:16.22 Legalkimchi Dragon Hunt might be good. You know fetch a little coin save little of my folks everybody wins. 01:12:22.28 sidekqpodcast Indeed Yes, and so he gets like ah a renewed sense of purpose and he finishes ah polishing the armor he'll don it back on and he says I think it's time we head to the tailor. Let's get ready. Let's get ready for this gala. And yeah, you know. Got some got some interesting ideas. But yeah, let's see let's see what we can do what we what we can do. Yeah. 01:12:47.14 Legalkimchi Always looking out for you Dear Boy I'm always looking out for you. 01:12:52.74 sidekqpodcast And seen there we go so we did it. We made it through the random encounter. So what'd you think I was gonna say a house how soon until your next game with your family that you're gonna be dropping this whole mimic. 01:12:58.54 Legalkimchi See there. We go. It's fantastic. Ah, that was a lot of fun. 01:13:09.56 Legalkimchi Oh next next next session Mimic armor is showing up like that the oof it's happening. 01:13:11.27 sidekqpodcast Lo and your game o how long until the Youtube video how long until the Youtube video comes out and it goes viral. You see I was on this podcast I got this great idea. No one's doing it. 01:13:27.52 Legalkimchi I don't usually do dm advice on my Youtube but this one just it hit me and I had to. 01:13:34.58 sidekqpodcast I was inspired by this random dude to been up in Texas you know some other part of Texas ah, he doesn't matter. Yeah, funny, funny. Um, yeah, so we're here in ah the ran the. We're in the final thoughts section of the show and we've had a wonderful time going through everything discussing you know everything and and discovering this wonderful character and all this lore and everything so I always like to you know, kind of get feedback on the guest experience of the podcast and you know, just ah, you know. What your vibe check if you will. 01:14:09.47 Legalkimchi Oo vibejack. Ah this was a lot of fun lot of fun. Ah I I never get tired of talking to people about D and D um playing games and stealing their ideas because I think this is a specific medium where. Stealing from people Unabashedly is not only the way to do things. It's encouraged you know because anything any techniques any tropes or ideas that can enrich your game Um, from someone else's game. 01:14:34.90 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:14:46.19 Legalkimchi Fantastic because it increases the fun. You know its and and and I think shows like this and other D and D content where it's endeavoring to increase what fun you can have with an already fun game is is a good idea. 01:15:02.37 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah, yeah, we like to turn the world up upside down on its head and then ah you know reexamine things like the ecology and ah biology behind mimics and like what kinds of other types of mimics exist in the world. So. Yeah I love this and I would love to try and find a place in my world in my game. My homebrew game to stick this whole group of metal mimics that act as armor and stuff like that and so whether Alex decides to craft something and put it out there for everyone to use with a. You know all the all the jargon and all the technical mechanical details figured out that or you just decide to run with it yourself. You know that's what this podcast inspires to do is to give people tools and ideas and just good old fashioned fun. So. Yeah, so then as we're here in the the final closing moments of the show I always like to leave the stage the platform the microphone the soapbox etc to the guests. So what have you got to plug where can we find you online where can we hit the like share subscribe button on Youtube. And any other passions or causes that we need to know about. 01:16:15.28 Legalkimchi Oof so many things. So obviously youtube.com/legalkimchi if you want to see some of the video essays deep dives going into various topics both social gamewise all these sort of things. Ah you might enjoy it. You might disagree with me that's fine too perfectly fine I love having the discussion. Um, so you can check me out youtube.com/legalkimchi and if you really like the content and would like to support it as it moves forward patreon.com/legalkimchi as well. Um, so also all social media legal kimchi. I'm there I've recently worked on the vineyard rpg kickstarter which funded we're so excited about that. Um, it is the concept of what if um, an evil corporation existed and your medieval d and Dr for ah medieval rpg. 01:16:56.38 sidekqpodcast Whoo. 01:17:07.92 sidekqpodcast A. 01:17:09.98 Legalkimchi Um, it works with a d and d setting but very excitingly. It's set up for the um I'm blanking here hold on miracle of editing fifth is later fix this later. Um. 01:17:22.94 sidekqpodcast Yes. 01:17:33.42 Legalkimchi Um, tails of the valiant Rpg So it's actually designed for the tails of the Valian Rpg being launched by cooldt press. Yeah, so it's it's going to be compatible to other stuff. Obviously you can pick it up and put it in whatever game that you want but it's going to be sort of a flagship. Ah. 01:17:40.12 sidekqpodcast Oh the new cobalt. Ah, okay. 01:17:51.60 Legalkimchi Release related to tales of the valiant. So keep your eyes open for that. Um I think that's about it. 01:17:59.85 sidekqpodcast s awesome. Well alex a k a legal kimchi if that is in fact, your real legal name I thank you so much for being on the podcast for being an awesome guest a fellow texan I a tip of the hat to you and I can't wait to have you back on the podcast making more. 01:18:15.77 Legalkimchi Towdy. 01:18:19.49 sidekqpodcast Even more Npcs all right and I will stop the recording this.