WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.129 --> 00:00:01.659 Matt: Let's let's just see what happens. 00:00:01.703 --> 00:00:08.373 You know, Alison, this is what I'm considering the Session Zero of ADHd20. 00:00:08.373 --> 00:00:09.243 We're testing things out. 00:00:09.243 --> 00:00:10.713 We're trying to introduce ourselves. 00:00:10.713 --> 00:00:13.373 We're trying to understand the milieu, the campaign. 00:00:14.333 --> 00:00:15.113 Alison: To that effect. 00:00:15.113 --> 00:00:17.343 I don't know if you do, but I have a d20. 00:00:17.363 --> 00:00:18.293 Ready to go. 00:00:18.503 --> 00:00:19.073 Matt: dang. 00:00:19.673 --> 00:00:22.163 Alison: Should we have to like roll off for anything? 00:00:22.193 --> 00:00:22.553 Matt: Oh boy. 00:00:22.613 --> 00:00:22.943 Oh boy. 00:00:23.003 --> 00:00:23.333 Oh boy. 00:00:23.483 --> 00:00:24.593 Pressure. 00:00:25.473 --> 00:00:26.333 Alison: Not to put pressure! 00:00:26.513 --> 00:00:28.273 Matt: No, I love it so much . Listen. 00:00:29.323 --> 00:00:30.253 Oh, yeah, that's right there. 00:00:31.093 --> 00:00:32.443 Alison: So here's what I propose. 00:00:32.473 --> 00:00:35.763 I think you should give like the quick little elevator pitch and 00:00:35.763 --> 00:00:39.453 then let's have a roll off to see who goes first and introductions. 00:00:39.513 --> 00:00:43.143 Matt: Gosh, you've already come up with a fun way and implemented it. 00:00:43.263 --> 00:00:43.653 I love it. 00:00:43.683 --> 00:00:44.073 Okay. 00:00:44.133 --> 00:00:44.583 Alison: Let's go. 00:00:44.733 --> 00:00:45.106 Matt: So. 00:00:45.134 --> 00:00:47.394 Welcome to ADHd20. 00:00:47.414 --> 00:00:50.534 It is a podcast that we're, you know, we're kind of gonna feel out. 00:00:50.564 --> 00:00:53.444 And why are we going to sort of feel out what it is? 00:00:53.714 --> 00:00:58.757 Well, the idea came to me, number one, because I play Dungeons & Dragons. 00:00:58.897 --> 00:01:01.187 My friend Alison plays Dungeons & Dragons. 00:01:01.727 --> 00:01:05.633 And we work together and the two of us both have ADHD and that's 00:01:05.633 --> 00:01:07.163 just kind of the way that we live. 00:01:07.307 --> 00:01:10.570 We're gonna figure out how those two great tastes tastes together. 00:01:10.630 --> 00:01:15.770 I expect there will be talk some weeks about ADHD and then more about D&D. 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:19.220 You know, kind of, depending on how we're feeling. 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:22.784 And then of course having ADHD, we're going to probably you 00:01:22.784 --> 00:01:24.134 know, also throw the script away. 00:01:25.364 --> 00:01:26.654 And talk about whatever else. 00:01:31.477 --> 00:01:36.002 So one of the best things about this podcast for me, has been to get to know, 00:01:36.101 --> 00:01:40.271 uh, what it's like to be ADHD, even if I've lived with it all my life, just kind 00:01:40.271 --> 00:01:44.621 of to be able to put names to symptoms. 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:47.960 And I know that that sounds strange to say. 00:01:47.960 --> 00:01:51.680 There's, there's such a freedom to like, go on the internet and look 00:01:51.710 --> 00:01:56.876 up time blindness, or executive dysfunction and to go, Oh, right. 00:01:57.073 --> 00:02:02.403 So there are some in particular that sound so cool, that I was like, Hmm, 00:02:03.873 --> 00:02:11.463 what if, what if you created spells in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons 00:02:11.463 --> 00:02:16.103 5e named after symptoms of ADHD. 00:02:17.853 --> 00:02:18.613 Alison: I love it. 00:02:19.350 --> 00:02:23.460 Matt: Because like I said, there is a symptom called Time Blindness. 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:27.308 It's a real thing and it's, uh, I don't, I don't think they know exactly what it is, 00:02:27.308 --> 00:02:31.928 but it's, there's something missing in my brain where, especially if Hyperfocus is 00:02:32.018 --> 00:02:36.177 involved, and that's another spell name, I just always think that I have enough time. 00:02:36.577 --> 00:02:41.924 However, there's also this, symptom, if you will, where you will start 00:02:41.924 --> 00:02:45.854 something and you will get so sucked into it that you can't get out of it, 00:02:46.214 --> 00:02:48.224 which isn't also part of time blindness. 00:02:48.224 --> 00:02:48.524 Anyway. 00:02:48.529 --> 00:02:51.294 They all kind of, do that dance, together, with their snappy 00:02:51.294 --> 00:02:56.244 names to turn into spells for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. 00:02:56.267 --> 00:03:00.737 Alison: So what was interesting to me about this is I started this exercise 00:03:00.742 --> 00:03:05.507 of if I were going to create Dungeons & Dragons spells out of the tenets of 00:03:05.507 --> 00:03:12.271 ADHD, First I went to all the bad places I to, you know, distraction and getting 00:03:12.271 --> 00:03:16.648 in my own way and impulse, so then I was like, Let me, let just, step out 00:03:16.648 --> 00:03:20.158 of, you know, my perspective right now and, and replant myself somewhere else. 00:03:20.428 --> 00:03:23.098 What would be some of the, like the buff spells? 00:03:23.098 --> 00:03:25.755 What would be some of the good parts 00:03:25.775 --> 00:03:28.835 So, um, so yeah, so I don't know, do you wanna read your list? 00:03:28.835 --> 00:03:31.575 I can read my list and then we can pick a couple that we wanna 00:03:31.575 --> 00:03:32.005 Matt: Yeah, sure. 00:03:32.475 --> 00:03:32.965 Alison: into? 00:03:33.092 --> 00:03:33.362 Matt: Yeah. 00:03:33.525 --> 00:03:33.945 let's do one. 00:03:33.975 --> 00:03:34.245 Okay. 00:03:34.245 --> 00:03:37.856 So I've got Time Blindness: range 60 feet duration, one turn. 00:03:38.186 --> 00:03:40.646 Uh, and it's a targeted spell, Time Blindness. 00:03:41.456 --> 00:03:44.996 And when you cast time blindness onto a target, the target is 00:03:44.996 --> 00:03:46.526 given a wisdom saving throw. 00:03:46.586 --> 00:03:49.916 So, in other words, for those who don't know what that means, this is a spell 00:03:49.921 --> 00:03:51.806 that you can resist if cast on you. 00:03:52.106 --> 00:03:57.746 But if they fail, they immediately lose all concept of their placement in time. 00:03:58.356 --> 00:04:03.776 Any time based action they're preparing, combat, movement, et cetera, cannot 00:04:03.776 --> 00:04:06.176 be completed on their next turn. 00:04:06.362 --> 00:04:10.082 So with Time Blindness, I kind of took it into a space where it's like, 00:04:10.082 --> 00:04:12.387 basically, you lose your turn, right? 00:04:12.487 --> 00:04:16.671 They just get so, confused in time that they have to wait 00:04:16.671 --> 00:04:18.231 for the whole turn to go. 00:04:18.291 --> 00:04:20.151 So that's what Time Blindness felt like to me. 00:04:20.366 --> 00:04:22.836 Uh, so yeah, tell me about Impulse? 00:04:23.012 --> 00:04:25.809 Alison: So one of the things that makes Sorcerers special is they 00:04:25.809 --> 00:04:30.612 have, this font of sorcery points that they get to choose at various 00:04:30.612 --> 00:04:32.742 levels what their sorcerery points do. 00:04:32.742 --> 00:04:37.182 So Cast on Impulse, I thought maybe could like quicken the casting time somehow. 00:04:37.752 --> 00:04:41.682 Um, especially if it's like casting time of, you know, ritual spells or 00:04:41.737 --> 00:04:46.407 ones that have a one minute casting time as opposed to a single action just 00:04:46.412 --> 00:04:48.847 to kind of get that spell out quicker. 00:04:49.127 --> 00:04:53.957 And then I called one Spontaneous Performance because I do think 00:04:53.957 --> 00:04:57.167 that sometimes we can just kind of blurt things out. 00:04:57.377 --> 00:05:01.412 In D&D you know, sometimes you have to give what's called a performance check, 00:05:01.772 --> 00:05:05.342 uh, to see were you able to deceive them or were you able to pull off. 00:05:05.342 --> 00:05:08.522 So I, I wonder if Spontaneous Performance could give you some kind 00:05:08.522 --> 00:05:13.172 of special something to, make that check happen a little easier for you. 00:05:13.382 --> 00:05:15.782 Maybe just an advantage on performance checks. 00:05:19.483 --> 00:05:20.203 Matt: Hi, Alison. 00:05:20.508 --> 00:05:20.988 Alison : Hi Matt. 00:05:21.028 --> 00:05:22.268 Hi So excited. 00:05:22.698 --> 00:05:24.718 Matt: I know we're super psyched today because... 00:05:25.251 --> 00:05:27.561 ... Alison : we have our very first guest for 00:05:28.421 --> 00:05:29.031 Matt: Doooooh! 00:05:29.491 --> 00:05:30.271 That's amazing. 00:05:30.601 --> 00:05:37.441 Yeah, it's our very first guest and he's someone that we both respect so, so much. 00:05:37.494 --> 00:05:38.756 He's an inspiration to us. 00:05:38.756 --> 00:05:43.449 He is, a kind of a full time, game master for you every Thursday night. 00:05:43.449 --> 00:05:44.794 Alison : Living the dream. 00:05:45.044 --> 00:05:49.374 That GMing for me is the dream, but like being a full time Game Master. 00:05:49.545 --> 00:05:50.127 Tey: It is. 00:05:50.177 --> 00:05:52.865 That's how I, that's how I'll introduce my voice. 00:05:52.895 --> 00:05:54.455 Hi everyone. 00:05:54.695 --> 00:06:01.565 I'm Alejandro Tey and I am living the dream of being Alison's GM every Thursday. 00:06:01.569 --> 00:06:02.379 That is the dream. 00:06:02.539 --> 00:06:03.939 Matt: That's the perfect intro. 00:06:04.025 --> 00:06:07.253 Um, Alison, you, you do have some topics cuz otherwise we'll 00:06:07.253 --> 00:06:09.353 just, we could just tangent for 00:06:09.903 --> 00:06:11.873 Alison : Would be on brand and I wouldn't mind. 00:06:12.053 --> 00:06:17.325 Um, so in preparation for Tey coming, one thing I have gotten to know 00:06:17.325 --> 00:06:20.205 is that Tey loves a D100 table. 00:06:20.229 --> 00:06:24.310 There are tables in all that we do .Your wild magic surge table 00:06:24.310 --> 00:06:26.603 is a thing of art and beauty. 00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:30.940 So in that same spirit, I have finally put together a D100 table, an ADHD100 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:34.579 table that will become, you know, just like the outline, the thing 00:06:34.579 --> 00:06:38.149 we'll probably forget about half the time, but, you know, keep us honest. 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:40.821 And naturally it is not finished. 00:06:41.781 --> 00:06:44.211 Cause why would I have finished something I started? 00:06:44.451 --> 00:06:46.981 But I'd also like for, to also go ahead and roll some D100s so 00:06:46.981 --> 00:06:47.671 we can break open this table. 00:06:48.585 --> 00:06:50.885 Tey: I'm so I am so happy. 00:06:50.923 --> 00:06:52.723 I am kid in a candy store right now. 00:06:52.896 --> 00:06:57.466 Because the, Okay, so right before we get into this, the reason why I 00:06:57.826 --> 00:07:05.896 love random tables is because to me, that's, that is the third element of 00:07:05.896 --> 00:07:11.806 what makes a tabletop game so good. 00:07:11.806 --> 00:07:17.043 And so juicy is you, have, your players each coming to the table, 00:07:17.743 --> 00:07:23.983 you have a mechanics system of some kind that allows for, you know, 00:07:23.983 --> 00:07:28.273 resolution of these narratives, strings and conflicts or whatever. 00:07:28.783 --> 00:07:33.602 And then you have random chance, just random ass chance and the way 00:07:33.678 --> 00:07:39.253 that can spur creativity and allow stories to take new directions that 00:07:39.253 --> 00:07:41.533 you did not conceive of in your mind. 00:07:42.343 --> 00:07:43.374 It's fantastic. 00:07:43.374 --> 00:07:48.136 Especially if you're in the GM chair, you are naturally always 00:07:48.141 --> 00:07:49.636 thinking a couple of steps ahead. 00:07:49.641 --> 00:07:52.626 You're always thinking of like, Okay, well, if they do this, 00:07:52.626 --> 00:07:53.706 then probably will do this. 00:07:53.756 --> 00:07:57.739 Even if you're a very fly by the seat of your pants, improvisational 00:07:57.739 --> 00:08:02.389 GM, which I am like, I do not don't script anything ahead of time. 00:08:02.821 --> 00:08:08.191 But when you roll it on a table, you can't plan for that and you just have to react. 00:08:08.191 --> 00:08:12.781 And that state of being of just reacting is my favorite thing. 00:08:12.901 --> 00:08:15.061 So that's a very long way of saying I'm ready to roll. 00:08:19.436 --> 00:08:21.206 Matt: So that is a big word for me this year. 00:08:21.206 --> 00:08:21.836 Community. 00:08:22.076 --> 00:08:25.176 And I think at the very start of this year, we just kind 00:08:25.176 --> 00:08:27.650 of like sounded the call. 00:08:27.650 --> 00:08:28.370 Alison: Nerd Horn. 00:08:29.622 --> 00:08:33.585 Matt: Okay, that sounds weird. 00:08:35.205 --> 00:08:36.735 What does the nerd horn sound like? 00:08:44.385 --> 00:08:44.775 Or this. 00:08:47.477 --> 00:08:50.537 Is that the nerd horn or maybe is it both at time? 00:08:50.717 --> 00:08:51.977 I don't know the nerd. 00:08:52.007 --> 00:08:53.597 We, we sounded the nerd horn. 00:08:53.597 --> 00:08:54.497 I'm gonna go with that. 00:08:54.827 --> 00:08:56.447 I'm gonna "yes and" your nerd horn. 00:08:56.747 --> 00:09:01.837 And I'm gonna say we sounded it and people came and we went from like 00:09:01.837 --> 00:09:08.231 zero to 60 for our Discord, which it's just such a fun place to be. 00:09:08.231 --> 00:09:13.881 Like I wanna just hang out with people and talk about nerdy things like 00:09:13.881 --> 00:09:19.471 TV and books and everybody it is so interesting, they have such interesting 00:09:19.476 --> 00:09:21.861 things to say and it's really fun. 00:09:21.861 --> 00:09:29.060 So, um, this is a, an unapologetic, nerd horn toot. 00:09:31.546 --> 00:09:33.416 Alison: Oh, absolutely not. 00:09:38.596 --> 00:09:40.866 Matt: Oh, whoops. 00:09:40.906 --> 00:09:42.126 Alison: I hate that so 00:09:42.376 --> 00:09:46.426 Matt: Yeah, that's, that's, a, that's a, not even a working title. 00:09:46.431 --> 00:09:48.886 That's a not happening title. 00:09:49.126 --> 00:09:50.086 Anyway, so 00:09:50.193 --> 00:09:53.193 Alison: Well, and, I wanna toot our own nerd horn for a second. 00:09:58.545 --> 00:09:58.785 Matt: Okay. 00:09:58.990 --> 00:10:00.180 Alison: Oh no. 00:10:01.155 --> 00:10:01.515 Matt: Yeah. 00:10:02.205 --> 00:10:02.365 Oh, yes. 00:10:04.530 --> 00:10:08.240 Alison: You know, we, give ourselves a lot of shit for the thing. 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:10.670 Again, that place of lack, the things that we don't get done. 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:16.130 think that we are especially prone to do it as people with ADHD because 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:20.960 the universe has told us for so long, you're lazy, you're unmotivated. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.335 Like all of these things that now that we are evolved beings who know that 00:10:24.470 --> 00:10:28.580 it's not that we're lazy or unmotivated, brain is literally working differently. 00:10:29.210 --> 00:10:32.300 I don't like the overuse of literally, but we have to use it. 00:10:32.300 --> 00:10:32.780 There it is. 00:10:32.990 --> 00:10:34.780 We are spicy Okay. 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.570 So I wanna focus more on the things that we get done in instead 00:10:38.570 --> 00:10:39.590 of the things that we don't in 00:10:39.590 --> 00:10:39.820 Matt: yes, 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:40.640 Alison: same spirit. 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:44.090 And I love that we just came out of the gate swinging this year. 00:10:44.390 --> 00:10:44.990 like, you know what? 00:10:44.995 --> 00:10:48.650 It's time we are, we are ready for our Nerd Herd or our Revenge of 00:10:48.650 --> 00:10:51.930 Nerds, the Nerd Alert or all of these different, we're workshopping it 00:10:51.950 --> 00:10:53.390 Matt: We're working, we're working on it. 00:10:53.543 --> 00:10:53.753 Alison: Okay. 00:10:54.123 --> 00:10:57.243 Whatever we're gonna be called collectively, we just did it. 00:10:57.336 --> 00:11:00.576 And we've stopped worrying about if it was ready or if it was good 00:11:00.576 --> 00:11:02.076 enough or if it was organized. 00:11:02.346 --> 00:11:06.786 And in fact, I think that's been part of the delight of the first week of it 00:11:06.996 --> 00:11:11.676 has been giving the community some, some stakes in it, some level of ownership. 00:11:11.726 --> 00:11:14.456 Truly, what kind of topics do you like? 00:11:14.456 --> 00:11:15.686 What do you wanna see here? 00:11:15.686 --> 00:11:20.756 What's, what's your definition of a thriving really tremendously fun community 00:11:20.756 --> 00:11:22.106 and they're giving it to us, man. 00:11:22.346 --> 00:11:23.216 I love it so much. 00:11:23.216 --> 00:11:25.256 So thank you guys for being a part of it 00:11:25.306 --> 00:11:29.626 Matt: and, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna say thank you, Alison, because I think that 00:11:29.626 --> 00:11:37.636 a big part of this, this new confidence and this new, we just gotta do it for me, 00:11:38.536 --> 00:11:43.791 in last year, this podcast was by far one of the best things of 2022 for me. 00:11:44.071 --> 00:11:49.501 And, and so yeah, that's, this podcast kind of is, gave me the 00:11:49.501 --> 00:11:54.631 confidence to say, okay, let's go. 00:11:54.820 --> 00:11:55.240 So, yay. 00:11:55.270 --> 00:11:55.780 Good job. 00:11:56.113 --> 00:11:56.923 I'm shaking your hand. 00:11:57.613 --> 00:11:57.973 shake, 00:12:00.860 --> 00:12:04.730 Alison: The level up is saying, no, this is what I 00:12:04.730 --> 00:12:05.690 am, this 00:12:05.750 --> 00:12:05.990 Matt: a little 00:12:06.020 --> 00:12:06.800 Alison: I'm capable of. 00:12:06.830 --> 00:12:07.280 Yeah. 00:12:07.380 --> 00:12:07.870 Matt: Yeah. 00:12:08.277 --> 00:12:11.607 Alison: In D&D, when you build a character, you choose your race, 00:12:11.787 --> 00:12:14.907 you choose your class, you choose your subclass, you also choose a 00:12:14.907 --> 00:12:19.137 background, and I think you were mistaking your performer background 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:21.357 for your entire personality. 00:12:23.712 --> 00:12:27.702 Matt: And that is exactly what I wrote down right before we talked today, the 00:12:27.702 --> 00:12:31.728 difference between background and class. 00:12:31.758 --> 00:12:32.598 The passion. 00:12:32.828 --> 00:12:34.358 Like how, what are my life things? 00:12:34.358 --> 00:12:38.228 You know, my, my personal life, my, my career life. 00:12:38.438 --> 00:12:39.998 But that's, that's the difference. 00:12:40.257 --> 00:12:45.357 One is my like training, and that's having clients and, and learning about 00:12:45.357 --> 00:12:47.486 code, and working together on that stuff. 00:12:47.486 --> 00:12:49.286 that is my background. 00:12:49.316 --> 00:12:52.706 But what, what is this that we're doing right now that's more 00:12:53.395 --> 00:12:53.875 Alison: Magic. 00:12:54.895 --> 00:12:55.315 Matt: Magic? 00:12:55.315 --> 00:12:56.725 Yeah, that's, that's the fun. 00:12:56.725 --> 00:12:58.315 That's the leveling up. 00:12:58.345 --> 00:12:59.995 That's the stuff that actually level up. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:00.745 That's the class. 00:13:00.745 --> 00:13:03.655 That's what you, that's the core, Right? 00:13:03.963 --> 00:13:04.573 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:13:04.804 --> 00:13:05.224 Matt: Yes. 00:13:05.229 --> 00:13:05.767 Sometimes 00:13:05.999 --> 00:13:07.137 Alison: Well, I love all this. 00:13:07.137 --> 00:13:08.457 I had no idea what was coming. 00:13:08.457 --> 00:13:11.237 We turned those mics on and we got there as per yoozsh. 00:13:11.426 --> 00:13:13.266 Matt: As per yoozsh. 00:13:13.826 --> 00:13:15.716 Ya level up! 00:13:17.536 --> 00:13:20.556 I love it. 00:13:20.556 --> 00:13:21.406 Alison: Good work us. 00:13:21.596 --> 00:13:22.016 Matt: Good job. 00:13:22.016 --> 00:13:23.036 Alison: Thanks for being on my podcast. 00:13:23.591 --> 00:13:25.041 Matt: Thanks for being on my podcast.