S4 Ep. 6: Ice Cave Zone

We are back after a long hiatus that we will reinitiate right after this episode. We take one part Cthulhu and one part Scooby Doo to create a frankensteined homebrew rule for a collaborative episode with Crash Course DM. Daniel gets interrupted while Daniel checks the recording. Also Josh is here again. Please check out Crash Course DM for the collaborative episode that will be released later this week.

Writing the description for this episode has made me realize that it would be pretty irresponsible to just falsely claim that your show has a celebrity feature in the title. We close it all out making a final fantasy boss fight, and that’s okay because none of those words are proper nouns. It’s the final episode for this show’s current format; what happens next is still up in the air, but we hope you enjoyed the journey (or at least some portion of it). Daniel secures some sponsorships, while Daniel eats burgers.

This episode: we do some RAMBLING, followed by some GAMBLING. We try to make a casino zone preamble to the final boss. Daniel trims a palm tree, while Daniel talks about leaf matchups.

Join us this week for a rant about Palword and the narratives it has sparked online, which is wholly unrelated to the thing we’re actually doing, which is designing the interlude part of our campaign’s final chapter. Daniel lists three activities, while Daniel gets lost.

This is it: we’ve finally willed ourselves to sit down and start making up a final dungeon. What’s even more impressive: we take actual notes for the first time, to great benefit. Daniel learns a new word, while Daniel gets emotionally invested.

Welcome to 2024 OSAAT. The first 9 or so minutes of this episode get pretty peaky so don’t forget to throw on your blinders. TBH we kinda forgot what we were doing last year so here’s us channeling Sonic, our favorite Blue Ball, and talking JRPG final dungeons. Daniel makes resolutions, while Daniel gets oneshot. Youtube Tetris video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU

In our arguably most anxiety-inducing episode yet, we are terrified to commit to anything but do end up with a pretty neat little pre-finale dramatic combat encounter. And yes, we also get introspective. Daniel explains a musical, while Daniel buys a hot dog in character.

Just in time for the holiday season, we throw together an underground snow biome to house the 7th and final emerald. Daniel vamps while Daniel looks up Sonic-related images.

We design a weird sort of psychological thriller quest about a lonely trickster demigod and otherwise do not go off the rails at all. Just solid, non-stop game design the whole time. Daniel tries some new sounds, while Daniel mentions geographical locations.

Our inspiration today comes from the feeling of disappointment you get when you go to a convention, among other things. Our Lightning Emerald is also in there somewhere. Daniel does an acronym, while Daniel joins the console war.