WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.050 --> 00:00:00.380 Matt: Okay. 00:00:00.710 --> 00:00:01.100 All right. 00:00:01.140 --> 00:00:01.460 Okay. 00:00:01.465 --> 00:00:01.730 Okay. 00:00:01.730 --> 00:00:02.780 Calm down everybody. 00:00:02.780 --> 00:00:03.290 Calm down. 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.490 Okay, Alison Hi. 00:00:08.165 --> 00:00:09.215 Alison: Matt, Hello. 00:00:10.055 --> 00:00:13.895 Did you know that in our outlines I have titled the very first thing 00:00:13.895 --> 00:00:15.965 that always happens "Hello, Alison." 00:00:16.685 --> 00:00:17.134 Matt: Really? 00:00:17.254 --> 00:00:18.785 That's Hello? 00:00:19.655 --> 00:00:20.525 That's adorable. 00:00:21.415 --> 00:00:27.475 I did do some homework, because here at ADHD20, a podcast where we try to find 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.745 the intersection between ADHD and D&D, 00:00:31.175 --> 00:00:31.785 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:00:31.785 --> 00:00:34.345 Matt: We often give each other homework. 00:00:34.636 --> 00:00:37.056 Alison: Cause you know what people with ADHD love? 00:00:37.606 --> 00:00:38.866 Deadlines and homework. 00:00:38.986 --> 00:00:40.606 Matt: Deadlines and homework. 00:00:40.606 --> 00:00:42.076 Two bits, but right. 00:00:42.136 --> 00:00:48.406 First, we're starting out by rolling on the ADHd100 table that you 00:00:48.406 --> 00:00:50.926 lovingly created, and I rolled a 33. 00:00:51.556 --> 00:00:52.066 Alison: Let's go. 00:00:52.066 --> 00:00:52.516 Let's go. 00:00:52.516 --> 00:00:52.966 Here we go. 00:00:52.966 --> 00:00:53.566 Here we go. 00:00:54.166 --> 00:00:59.356 Um, what, ooh, what book changed your life? 00:00:59.356 --> 00:01:01.276 How is that for a dramatic way to ask that. 00:01:01.336 --> 00:01:01.876 Matt: Wow. 00:01:01.881 --> 00:01:04.126 What book changed my life? 00:01:04.419 --> 00:01:06.489 I think there's a number of books that changed my life. 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:07.149 Let me think. 00:01:07.249 --> 00:01:07.669 Okay. 00:01:07.699 --> 00:01:11.429 I'm gonna go with one that's a little strange. 00:01:12.044 --> 00:01:13.994 But it is the first thing that came to my head. 00:01:14.216 --> 00:01:16.796 Lake Woebegon Days by Garrison Keillor. 00:01:18.146 --> 00:01:18.546 Alison: Interesting. 00:01:18.656 --> 00:01:19.406 Matt: Isn't that weird? 00:01:19.556 --> 00:01:23.666 I, I, I don't, Let me think if I can even tell you why. 00:01:23.666 --> 00:01:24.236 I think, 00:01:24.736 --> 00:01:26.171 I read it when I was really small. 00:01:26.171 --> 00:01:31.886 It was, uh, my dad bought it cuz Dad was a Garrison Keillor fan, and we used to 00:01:31.886 --> 00:01:33.776 listen to Prairie Home Companion together. 00:01:34.376 --> 00:01:38.256 And for those of you don't know, Garrison Keillor is a, writer and a 00:01:38.436 --> 00:01:46.480 teacher and was a, uh, radio show host for decades, of a program on NPR called 00:01:46.570 --> 00:01:50.230 Prairie Home Companion, which was kind of, it was an improv show actually. 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:54.635 I saw it twice live and it, I never knew that, that it was basically improvised. 00:01:54.818 --> 00:01:57.430 Comedy and, and music and all these things. 00:01:57.430 --> 00:02:00.830 Anyway, and then he had sort of a tragic fall because he was a 00:02:00.830 --> 00:02:02.150 casualty of the #MeToo movement. 00:02:02.460 --> 00:02:04.500 You know, because I think he was a grumpy old man. 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:06.960 Slightly creepy, grumpy old man. 00:02:07.350 --> 00:02:13.140 But anyway, I loved Garrison Keillor and, uh, that book was the first time I 00:02:13.140 --> 00:02:16.440 remember as a child reading and laughing. 00:02:17.385 --> 00:02:21.762 And reading and crying, but not in a bad way, like in the way 00:02:21.762 --> 00:02:23.912 that a book could emotionally. 00:02:24.512 --> 00:02:25.122 Alison: Move you. 00:02:25.152 --> 00:02:25.772 Matt: Move me. 00:02:26.692 --> 00:02:27.302 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:02:27.392 --> 00:02:28.202 Matt: And world building. 00:02:28.292 --> 00:02:29.882 Honestly, to be perfectly honest. 00:02:30.332 --> 00:02:36.176 It's very interesting because Woebegon is supposedly in, you know, the Minnesota 00:02:36.566 --> 00:02:41.756 area, the Midwest, mid Midwest area, but it's, it's also a fictional town. 00:02:41.756 --> 00:02:44.410 So, there is some cool world building going on there. 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:45.490 So that's my favorite book. 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:49.870 Uh, one of them, at least the one that I changed my life in some way. 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:51.850 Alison: I learned something new about you. 00:02:51.850 --> 00:02:56.890 I knew about the Prairie Home Companion fandom, um, but I did 00:02:56.890 --> 00:03:01.220 not know that a little young Mattie once read some Garrison Keillor and 00:03:01.850 --> 00:03:02.150 Matt: I read a. 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:04.490 Alison: Kinda shaped the storyteller that you would become, 00:03:04.610 --> 00:03:05.960 Matt: I think I read all of his books. 00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:06.650 I did, yeah. 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:08.270 He's, he's an incredible writer. 00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:11.746 To the point where I actually thought about going to study with him. 00:03:12.246 --> 00:03:16.833 He was a teacher there and I was like, I would love that, but I didn't. 00:03:17.637 --> 00:03:19.497 Alternate Universe Matt did that. 00:03:19.947 --> 00:03:21.387 Uh, Alison what did you roll on? 00:03:21.387 --> 00:03:22.857 The D 100 table. 00:03:23.892 --> 00:03:33.042 Alison: 76 trombones, let the big parade with 110 coronets close at hand. 00:03:33.832 --> 00:03:35.222 I, won't keep singing it though. 00:03:35.222 --> 00:03:39.632 I could because we all know that my brain has nothing but, uh, song lyrics. 00:03:39.962 --> 00:03:42.902 Matt: Tell us about the last D&D character that you built. 00:03:43.429 --> 00:03:46.949 Alison: I guess that would be Cora, my sweet little Storm Sorcerer. 00:03:46.969 --> 00:03:49.219 Speaking of Matt and world building. 00:03:49.579 --> 00:03:54.169 So back castle birthday, we kicked off a new campaign in the world 00:03:54.169 --> 00:03:56.209 of Tataria that Matt is creating. 00:03:56.579 --> 00:04:01.769 My first ever character was a Sorcerer and I really, really loved a lot of the 00:04:01.769 --> 00:04:05.759 mechanics of that class, but because she was my first character, I played 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.949 her not knowing how to do anything. 00:04:08.729 --> 00:04:12.679 Um, and so I really wanted to play the class again now with, you know, 00:04:13.289 --> 00:04:18.209 two plus more years of experience, uh, but in a completely different way. 00:04:18.415 --> 00:04:22.075 I didn't mean to make my character's name rhyme with one 00:04:22.075 --> 00:04:23.605 of my other characters names Sora. 00:04:23.925 --> 00:04:24.705 But here we are. 00:04:25.005 --> 00:04:28.545 Uh, I actually picked Cora cuz Cora is, uh, the name of one 00:04:28.545 --> 00:04:30.765 of my great grandmothers and I've always loved that name. 00:04:31.245 --> 00:04:34.095 Uh, and so when I was looking up, I knew I wanted to do something 00:04:34.095 --> 00:04:36.915 having to do with, you know, kind of controlling the elements in the weather. 00:04:36.915 --> 00:04:40.455 I wanted to go that kind of bend as opposed to the pure just 00:04:40.455 --> 00:04:43.755 chaos and wild magic that my first character Lavinia had been. 00:04:44.475 --> 00:04:48.795 So I started looking up names that meant things and then just 00:04:48.825 --> 00:04:52.365 kind of like playing however many degrees of separation from there. 00:04:52.635 --> 00:04:56.895 So one of the names that I liked in that flavor was Tempest. 00:04:56.895 --> 00:05:00.855 And so then I started looking up variations of the name Tempest 00:05:01.245 --> 00:05:03.795 and Coratine, Cora for short. 00:05:04.155 --> 00:05:09.495 Um, and then I chose sea elf because of all the kind of traditional D&D 00:05:10.125 --> 00:05:13.005 races I had yet to build an elf. 00:05:13.005 --> 00:05:15.855 So I kind of wanted to lean into that. 00:05:16.095 --> 00:05:16.655 Matt: I love that. 00:05:16.655 --> 00:05:17.275 Alison: Yay, Cora. 00:05:17.525 --> 00:05:18.395 Matt: Hey, Cora. 00:05:19.389 --> 00:05:24.669 Probably disclaimer at the top of this show, this might be a D&D heavy, uh, 00:05:24.669 --> 00:05:30.519 version of this podcast, though I will say it will, it definitely will touch 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:32.859 on a lot of ADHD at the same time. 00:05:32.859 --> 00:05:39.099 I mean, I don't know, this might be the one that sits the most directly in the 00:05:39.174 --> 00:05:39.624 Alison: on it. 00:05:40.609 --> 00:05:41.809 Matt: Let's get into it. 00:05:42.017 --> 00:05:45.467 Alison: This episode is, is your sweet darling brainchild. 00:05:45.632 --> 00:05:45.902 Matt: Yeah. 00:05:45.949 --> 00:05:46.973 Alison: So take it away. 00:05:46.973 --> 00:05:51.498 Matt: So one of the best things about this podcast for me, has been to get to know, 00:05:51.597 --> 00:05:55.767 uh, what it's like to be ADHD, even if I've lived with it all my life, just kind 00:05:55.767 --> 00:06:00.117 of to be able to put names to symptoms. 00:06:00.215 --> 00:06:03.455 And I know that that sounds strange to say. 00:06:03.455 --> 00:06:06.605 I don't know if that's sounds sad to people. 00:06:06.605 --> 00:06:09.215 I hope not, but I, I mean it in a good way. 00:06:09.239 --> 00:06:13.955 There's, there's such a freedom to like, go on the internet and look up time 00:06:13.955 --> 00:06:18.785 blindness, or executive dysfunction, you know, to look these things up and just 00:06:18.785 --> 00:06:23.689 get this, the encyclopedia of information about this stuff and to go, Oh, right. 00:06:23.885 --> 00:06:28.465 So there are some in particular that sound so cool, , that I was like, 00:06:30.685 --> 00:06:38.275 what if, what if you created spells in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons 00:06:38.275 --> 00:06:42.915 5e named after symptoms of ADHD. 00:06:44.665 --> 00:06:45.425 Alison: I love it. 00:06:46.162 --> 00:06:50.272 Matt: Because like I said, there is a symptom called Time Blindness. 00:06:50.272 --> 00:06:54.121 It's a real thing and it's, uh, I don't, I don't think they know exactly what it is, 00:06:54.121 --> 00:06:58.741 but it's, there's something missing in my brain where, especially if Hyperfocus is 00:06:58.831 --> 00:07:02.989 involved, and that's another spell name, I just always think that I have enough time. 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.099 Like, I look at the clock and it's 2:09 and I'm like, Oh, okay. 00:07:07.099 --> 00:07:10.119 I don't have to be there somewhere until 2:30. 00:07:10.169 --> 00:07:15.039 So I don't have a concept of, of that amount of time from, from 2:09 to 2:30. 00:07:15.062 --> 00:07:20.342 to a lot of people, they can feel the minutes go by, I'm assuming. 00:07:20.342 --> 00:07:21.182 I have no idea. 00:07:21.182 --> 00:07:25.904 I don't know what it's like, but . They know that from 2:09 to 2:30, they have 00:07:25.971 --> 00:07:27.541 this amount of time, whatever this 00:07:27.541 --> 00:07:31.311 Alison: Time enough for three emails and, Yeah. 00:07:31.941 --> 00:07:33.081 Matt: Whatever it is. 00:07:33.141 --> 00:07:40.281 They have a connection to the concept of time enough to stop in time to 00:07:40.281 --> 00:07:41.701 do what they need to do at 2:30. 00:07:41.721 --> 00:07:42.741 Well, I don't have that. 00:07:43.461 --> 00:07:49.431 Uh, and it's amazing because I think I was a good 30 minutes late to the recording 00:07:49.431 --> 00:07:51.291 of this because of time blindness. 00:07:51.541 --> 00:07:55.951 Thinking that I could do this and this and this, and this in the amount 00:07:55.951 --> 00:07:59.401 of time that I needed before we were going to sit down and record. 00:07:59.881 --> 00:08:00.721 It's a real thing. 00:08:00.871 --> 00:08:02.011 It's very frustrating. 00:08:02.011 --> 00:08:03.271 But it does help to know what it is. 00:08:03.331 --> 00:08:06.759 So time blindness, and then there's Executive Dysfunction. 00:08:06.819 --> 00:08:07.119 Right. 00:08:07.119 --> 00:08:08.049 Or ineffective. 00:08:08.475 --> 00:08:09.975 Executive functioning, right? 00:08:10.335 --> 00:08:14.802 Where, that's basically just, you know, the inability to understand priorities, 00:08:14.802 --> 00:08:20.856 to wake up in the morning and look at your day and be able to properly place 00:08:20.856 --> 00:08:25.382 all the things that you need to do in that day for the maximum amount of 00:08:25.382 --> 00:08:28.242 satisfaction and effect and, um, success. 00:08:29.032 --> 00:08:32.346 Alison: Can, and this really truly is a question because I don't think 00:08:32.346 --> 00:08:35.706 I understand enough about executive function or dysfunction as it were. 00:08:36.216 --> 00:08:40.386 But my understanding is that it can also impact tangible things too. 00:08:40.386 --> 00:08:44.367 Like looking at a room or a cluttered desk and not really understanding 00:08:44.367 --> 00:08:49.617 the path from where you are to, it's clean, it's done, it's organized. 00:08:49.667 --> 00:08:51.582 Matt: I think so, yeah, I think that's a big part of it too. 00:08:52.377 --> 00:08:54.027 Alison: That's where I've run into it a lot in my life. 00:08:54.027 --> 00:08:56.757 Like my friends, you know, will see my house and be like, just, just clean it. 00:08:57.177 --> 00:08:59.757 And I'm like, but like, what do I do first? 00:08:59.757 --> 00:09:01.977 Like, could you just, could you just gimme like a little hint? 00:09:02.007 --> 00:09:05.097 Cuz I don't know, I look at a messy room and I just kind of wanna sit 00:09:05.097 --> 00:09:06.927 down and cry and, and then ignore it. 00:09:06.957 --> 00:09:10.587 I don't think, like, Oh, the first thing I should do is go get a basket 00:09:10.587 --> 00:09:13.647 and, and put all the loose items in it and then I should take out the trash. 00:09:13.647 --> 00:09:17.427 And, you know, I don't, my brain just doesn't those tasks like that. 00:09:17.838 --> 00:09:20.183 By the way, I love that you gave a disclaimer that this was going 00:09:20.183 --> 00:09:24.263 to be a D&D focused, non ADHD, and what did we immediately do? 00:09:24.713 --> 00:09:26.333 Launched into talking about ADHD. 00:09:26.333 --> 00:09:26.453 I 00:09:26.593 --> 00:09:29.618 Matt: think I think there has to be context because I've chosen three 00:09:30.018 --> 00:09:33.788 of these symptoms and I don't think, probably not fair to call them symptoms. 00:09:33.788 --> 00:09:34.958 I don't know what you would actually call them. 00:09:35.228 --> 00:09:37.200 Uh tenets of ADHD? 00:09:37.470 --> 00:09:38.700 Alison: There you go. 00:09:38.730 --> 00:09:39.390 Okay. 00:09:41.090 --> 00:09:41.780 Matt: I dunno. 00:09:41.790 --> 00:09:42.810 I have no idea. 00:09:43.260 --> 00:09:44.970 Uh, I don't, I don't know. 00:09:45.071 --> 00:09:47.501 And so, yeah, so, and then, and then of course the big, big, 00:09:47.501 --> 00:09:50.291 big one is hyperfocus, which a lot of people could go into. 00:09:50.441 --> 00:09:54.581 It's not necessarily only ADHD, but it's very different for people who 00:09:54.581 --> 00:09:59.601 have ADHD because due to executive dysfunction, there is, there's plenty 00:09:59.606 --> 00:10:03.975 of times that you're not focusing on what you need to or should focus 00:10:03.980 --> 00:10:06.695 on, and you're all over the place. 00:10:06.695 --> 00:10:12.042 However, there's also this, symptom, if you will, where you will start 00:10:12.042 --> 00:10:15.972 something and you will get so sucked into it that you can't get out of it, 00:10:16.332 --> 00:10:18.342 which isn't also part of time blindness. 00:10:18.342 --> 00:10:18.642 Anyway. 00:10:18.647 --> 00:10:23.112 They all kind of, do that dance, together, but those are the three that I chose with 00:10:23.112 --> 00:10:29.622 their snappy names to turn into spells for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. 00:10:29.645 --> 00:10:30.755 Alison: Love it so much. 00:10:30.815 --> 00:10:32.195 Matt: I don't know what, how do you wanna do this? 00:10:32.195 --> 00:10:33.755 Do you wanna, do you have more to add? 00:10:33.755 --> 00:10:35.345 Do you want me to go through what I've got? 00:10:35.345 --> 00:10:35.975 What are you, what are you, 00:10:36.245 --> 00:10:38.975 Alison: Yeah, let's say I did not get as far into my 00:10:38.975 --> 00:10:40.355 homework assignment as you did. 00:10:40.355 --> 00:10:42.365 I came up with kind of a scratch list. 00:10:42.365 --> 00:10:47.255 So what was interesting to me about this is I started this exercise of if I 00:10:47.260 --> 00:10:53.359 were going to create Dungeons & Dragons spells out of the tenets of ADHD, First 00:10:53.809 --> 00:10:58.369 I went to all the bad places I went to, you know, distraction and getting 00:10:58.369 --> 00:11:02.746 in my own way and impulse, so then I was like, Let me, let just, step out 00:11:02.746 --> 00:11:06.256 of, you know, my perspective right now and, and replant myself somewhere else. 00:11:06.526 --> 00:11:09.196 What would be some of the, like the buff spells? 00:11:09.196 --> 00:11:10.846 What would be some of the good 00:11:11.566 --> 00:11:11.896 Matt: I've got, 00:11:12.106 --> 00:11:15.166 Alison: So, um, so yeah, so I don't know, do you wanna read your list? 00:11:15.166 --> 00:11:17.906 I can read my list and then we can pick a couple that we wanna 00:11:17.906 --> 00:11:18.336 Matt: Yeah, sure. 00:11:18.806 --> 00:11:19.296 Alison: into? 00:11:19.826 --> 00:11:20.096 Matt: Yeah. 00:11:20.366 --> 00:11:21.446 Let's, let's, let's do one. 00:11:21.476 --> 00:11:21.746 Okay. 00:11:21.746 --> 00:11:24.621 So I'll just go through the three that I've already described. 00:11:24.721 --> 00:11:28.332 So I've got Time Blindness, range 60 feet duration, one turn. 00:11:28.662 --> 00:11:31.122 Uh, and it's a targeted spell, Time Blindness. 00:11:31.932 --> 00:11:35.472 And when you cast time blindness onto a target, the target is 00:11:35.472 --> 00:11:37.002 given a wisdom saving throw. 00:11:37.062 --> 00:11:40.392 So, in other words, for those who don't know what that means, this is a spell 00:11:40.397 --> 00:11:42.282 that you can resist if cast on you. 00:11:42.582 --> 00:11:48.222 But if they fail, they immediately lose all concept of their placement in time. 00:11:48.832 --> 00:11:54.252 Any time based action they're preparing, combat, movement, et cetera, cannot 00:11:54.252 --> 00:11:56.652 be completed on their next turn. 00:11:56.838 --> 00:12:00.558 So with Time Blindness, I kind of took it into a space where it's like, 00:12:00.558 --> 00:12:02.863 basically, you lose your turn, right? 00:12:02.923 --> 00:12:07.047 But if a spell is being cast, spell won't go off until their next turn. 00:12:07.090 --> 00:12:08.320 They basically lose a turn. 00:12:08.370 --> 00:12:12.553 They just get so, confused in time that they have to wait 00:12:12.553 --> 00:12:14.113 for the whole turn to go. 00:12:14.173 --> 00:12:16.033 So that's what Time Blindness felt like to me. 00:12:16.278 --> 00:12:16.398 Alison: love 00:12:16.413 --> 00:12:19.603 Matt: Got Hyper Focus, which also has a range 60 feet. 00:12:19.603 --> 00:12:23.353 The duration is until the target action is completed. 00:12:24.163 --> 00:12:25.633 It's also a targeted spell. 00:12:25.813 --> 00:12:29.653 If it cast on a willing target or yourself, I guess, the target 00:12:29.653 --> 00:12:33.583 gains advantage on attack or saving throws for one turn, and then 00:12:33.583 --> 00:12:36.223 casting time for spells are doubled. 00:12:36.343 --> 00:12:40.407 And so Hyper Focus to me has this buff concept. 00:12:40.407 --> 00:12:40.767 Right? 00:12:40.767 --> 00:12:46.227 Because, uh, but it, but again, because it's more about time than it is ability. 00:12:46.377 --> 00:12:52.647 So I was trying to factor in the idea of if I am hyper-focused, it doesn't 00:12:52.647 --> 00:12:54.717 necessarily mean I'm doing better. 00:12:54.717 --> 00:12:58.942 You don't get like, a, a plus to the attack, but it does mean that 00:12:58.947 --> 00:13:02.032 you are more concentrated, right? 00:13:02.152 --> 00:13:05.452 So I kind of thought, well, Advantage would take care of that, right? 00:13:05.632 --> 00:13:09.502 Advantage would take care of, of an attack in saving throws. 00:13:09.532 --> 00:13:13.798 And then another aspect of it is if you cast an unwilling target, the target 00:13:13.803 --> 00:13:16.708 has to continue the action that they're performing when they hit the spell. 00:13:16.713 --> 00:13:19.948 And this one's a little bit weird, like, we could work this one out, but I was 00:13:19.948 --> 00:13:20.458 Alison: uh, 00:13:20.621 --> 00:13:24.159 Matt: That they, they'd be able to save, but if they were attacking 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.659 someone else, then they would have to attack that same person next turn. 00:13:29.469 --> 00:13:32.799 They can't move to a different target no matter what's happening. 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.549 if they're taking their move action, they have to keep moving in that direction. 00:13:36.579 --> 00:13:41.649 Again, trying to kind of lock into the hyper focus, cuz that's all you can 00:13:41.649 --> 00:13:43.149 do, that's all you can think about. 00:13:43.149 --> 00:13:43.539 Right? 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:45.009 All right. 00:13:45.524 --> 00:13:46.254 Alison: I love that. 00:13:46.432 --> 00:13:48.172 Matt: And the last one is Executive Dysfunction. 00:13:48.172 --> 00:13:49.252 And this one's very simple. 00:13:49.252 --> 00:13:50.452 There's a wisdom saving throw. 00:13:50.662 --> 00:13:54.982 And if the target fails, the target cannot perform any action except for 00:13:54.987 --> 00:13:57.522 their bonus action if they have one. 00:13:59.692 --> 00:14:03.279 And, uh, for those that don't play in one turn of combat, usually 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:05.499 there is, three kinds of actions. 00:14:05.499 --> 00:14:09.399 There's the combat action, there's the movement action, and then there's 00:14:09.404 --> 00:14:12.279 the bonus action, basically, which can be a bunch of different things. 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:18.759 It can be a, dodge so they can dodge things or it can be, um, 00:14:18.922 --> 00:14:20.392 what are some other bonus actions? 00:14:20.392 --> 00:14:22.432 Alison: There are certain spells that can be bonus actions. 00:14:22.432 --> 00:14:23.900 Like healing word is one. 00:14:23.900 --> 00:14:28.640 Um, Everybody has the two weapon fighting bonus action. 00:14:28.640 --> 00:14:32.050 So anybody can wield two simple light weapons. 00:14:32.385 --> 00:14:32.945 Matt: right? 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:34.130 Alison: Um, 00:14:34.867 --> 00:14:37.507 Matt: But I kind of took it to the idea of like, that is the 00:14:37.507 --> 00:14:38.827 only thing that you can do. 00:14:38.827 --> 00:14:40.987 So you can't actually have a main action. 00:14:40.987 --> 00:14:43.897 So if you're hit by the spell, and you were planning on attacking 00:14:43.897 --> 00:14:46.507 or maybe someone's attacking you and you can't even really defend 00:14:46.507 --> 00:14:48.097 yourself, cuz that would be an action. 00:14:48.397 --> 00:14:52.687 And you can't move, you can't do anything except take this bonus action. 00:14:52.687 --> 00:14:56.017 So it would be just randomly casting a spell or, something, you know? 00:14:56.017 --> 00:14:59.480 And that felt like executive dysfunction for me, because it would 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.835 be, you know, maybe the thing that's not the priority in your life. 00:15:03.495 --> 00:15:04.515 And those are my three. 00:15:04.825 --> 00:15:07.175 I kind of imagine most of them as cantrips to be 00:15:07.245 --> 00:15:07.855 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:15:07.925 --> 00:15:12.305 Matt: And a cantrip is your school level spells, right? 00:15:12.305 --> 00:15:16.755 Like they don't do much damage and they, um, though cantrips kill. 00:15:16.775 --> 00:15:18.065 Alison: Matthew, cantrips Kill. 00:15:18.155 --> 00:15:21.185 I accidentally learned in a game not too long ago that you actually 00:15:21.185 --> 00:15:23.115 can kill a foe with a cantrip. 00:15:23.255 --> 00:15:23.465 Cuz 00:15:23.810 --> 00:15:24.290 Matt: Oh yeah. 00:15:24.335 --> 00:15:25.120 Alison: It was just a cantrip. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:29.765 I was trying to kind of knock them, you know, flat for a second, but instead 00:15:29.765 --> 00:15:31.505 they were dead in the first round. 00:15:31.625 --> 00:15:32.075 Oopsy. 00:15:33.290 --> 00:15:33.650 Matt: Whoops. 00:15:34.520 --> 00:15:36.990 Uh, so yeah, tell me about impulse? 00:15:37.760 --> 00:15:38.870 Alison: Cast on impulse. 00:15:38.920 --> 00:15:42.747 So one of the things that makes Sorcerers special is they have, this 00:15:42.752 --> 00:15:47.000 font of sorcery points that they get to choose at various levels 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.650 what their sorcerery points do. 00:15:48.650 --> 00:15:53.090 So Cast on Impulse, I thought maybe could like quicken the casting time somehow. 00:15:53.660 --> 00:15:57.590 Um, especially if it's like casting time of, you know, ritual spells or 00:15:57.645 --> 00:16:02.315 ones that have a one minute casting time as opposed to a single action just 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.755 to kind of get that spell out quicker. 00:16:05.035 --> 00:16:09.865 And then I called one Spontaneous Performance because I do think 00:16:09.865 --> 00:16:13.075 that sometimes we can just kind of blurt things out. 00:16:13.155 --> 00:16:17.320 And D&D you know, sometimes you have to give what's called a performance check, 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:21.250 uh, to see were you able to deceive them or were you able to pull off. 00:16:21.250 --> 00:16:24.430 So I, I wonder if Spontaneous Performance could give you some kind 00:16:24.430 --> 00:16:29.080 of special something to, make that check happen a little easier for you. 00:16:29.290 --> 00:16:31.690 Maybe just an advantage on performance checks. 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.350 And then the final one, um, Matt's gonna get excited now. 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:35.650 I love 00:16:36.310 --> 00:16:39.160 Um, my final one is actually the one I gave the most thought to though 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:40.527 still not Matt level of thought. 00:16:40.527 --> 00:16:44.268 I called it multitask, um, there are certain spells that are, that are 00:16:44.273 --> 00:16:48.798 concentration spells, so you can only have one concentration spell up at a time. 00:16:48.798 --> 00:16:50.928 So I can't cast two concentration spells. 00:16:51.498 --> 00:16:54.588 I would have to drop the first one in order to cast the second one. 00:16:54.648 --> 00:16:56.308 And that's frustrating as a caster. 00:16:56.343 --> 00:17:00.333 Or when you take damage in combat, you have to go through what's 00:17:00.333 --> 00:17:01.743 called a concentration check. 00:17:02.253 --> 00:17:06.663 So I thought multitask would allow you to have, you know, two 00:17:06.663 --> 00:17:08.553 concentration spells up at a time. 00:17:09.073 --> 00:17:13.508 Or typically speaking, if I have a concentration spell up, and the, you 00:17:13.508 --> 00:17:18.398 know, the DM knows this and, and causes damage to me, he'll have me roll a 00:17:18.398 --> 00:17:23.568 Constitution saving throw, and it's either half of the damage that I just 00:17:23.568 --> 00:17:25.968 took, or 10, whichever number is higher. 00:17:26.778 --> 00:17:32.782 So if my Constitution score is not very high as a caster, my charisma is I could 00:17:32.782 --> 00:17:38.152 like swap out my performance ability score for my Constitution modifier. 00:17:38.932 --> 00:17:44.152 Just trying to find some ways to like lean into the abilities over like the 00:17:44.152 --> 00:17:46.952 natural born tendencies, if you will. 00:17:47.592 --> 00:17:48.442 Matt: Wow. 00:17:48.518 --> 00:17:50.882 Alison: So that's my list.. 00:17:50.952 --> 00:17:55.458 Matt: There's some really great ones in there with some amazing mechanic concepts. 00:17:55.458 --> 00:17:59.200 I think my favorites are definitely multitask and spontaneous performance. 00:17:59.290 --> 00:18:01.660 I mean, spontaneous performance is super simple. 00:18:01.660 --> 00:18:02.350 It's just Yeah. 00:18:02.370 --> 00:18:03.750 advantage to performance check. 00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:09.720 You call upon your, you know, your ADHD power and uh, and it just 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:11.910 gets just a little edge because 00:18:12.315 --> 00:18:15.420 Alison: You get to maybe either advantage or, you know, some of them are fun 00:18:15.420 --> 00:18:17.410 when you get to like roll an extra d4… 00:18:17.430 --> 00:18:17.920 Matt: Or a d4. 00:18:17.940 --> 00:18:18.270 Right. 00:18:18.360 --> 00:18:18.870 Exactly. 00:18:19.050 --> 00:18:19.410 Yeah. 00:18:19.650 --> 00:18:22.440 Alison: So, but I always love an Advantage situation. 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.569 Any others now that we've started talking through this, like come to mind of just 00:18:25.569 --> 00:18:28.479 like kind of kindling for the bigger fire. 00:18:28.494 --> 00:18:31.338 Matt: Yeah, I think, I think you kind of touched on it, a little bit 00:18:31.343 --> 00:18:36.018 somewhere in there, but, along with Time Blindness, there is also, object 00:18:36.303 --> 00:18:37.263 Alison: Object Permanence. 00:18:37.338 --> 00:18:37.728 Matt: Right? 00:18:37.728 --> 00:18:42.768 And, and, and in and in the spell form, I would imagine that it could be something 00:18:42.773 --> 00:18:52.334 like, if you cast it when, when a target is close by another object, like a chair, 00:18:52.394 --> 00:18:54.649 a table of this or that, the target. 00:18:54.649 --> 00:18:58.944 Alison: I was gonna say, if it had some kind of like spacial awareness implication 00:18:59.304 --> 00:19:04.954 to whoever you're fighting they perceive space and time differently than reality. 00:19:05.874 --> 00:19:09.174 Uh, the other thing I could think of for, for Object Permanence is 00:19:09.204 --> 00:19:11.994 almost as a shield for yourself. 00:19:12.054 --> 00:19:17.814 Like if you're not in some direct line of sight of theirs, they forget you exist. 00:19:17.814 --> 00:19:18.384 Right? 00:19:18.384 --> 00:19:19.224 Matt: Ooh. 00:19:19.269 --> 00:19:20.679 Alison: That's right. 00:19:20.679 --> 00:19:21.129 Yeah. 00:19:21.219 --> 00:19:24.609 It's a shield for yourself, so then that way it's like, well, you have to be 00:19:24.609 --> 00:19:28.779 within this space and within this angle. 00:19:28.809 --> 00:19:33.249 Otherwise you, they can't think to turn around behind them and fire a spell. 00:19:33.609 --> 00:19:36.999 They're only focused on what's directly in front of them or something like 00:19:37.149 --> 00:19:43.329 Matt: Or, or, or even it kind of like a subset of, uh, what's that spell? 00:19:43.329 --> 00:19:46.449 Uh, Duplicate, or Shadow Self, or something where it's like, 00:19:46.627 --> 00:19:49.952 Object Permanence, ghost, whatever it is, doesn't move. 00:19:50.102 --> 00:19:54.637 It's simply that you get perfect evasion without any kind of attack of opportunity, 00:19:54.697 --> 00:19:59.004 you are still standing there, because a person just doesn't pay attention to 00:19:59.004 --> 00:20:00.099 Alison: It doesn't register. 00:20:00.149 --> 00:20:01.254 Matt: That you're still right there. 00:20:01.374 --> 00:20:02.214 Ooh, yeah. 00:20:02.379 --> 00:20:04.389 Alison: Are you, are you writing this down or do I need to write 00:20:04.449 --> 00:20:05.829 Matt: Okay, I'm writing Writing down 00:20:06.349 --> 00:20:07.399 Alison: Um, what else? 00:20:07.399 --> 00:20:08.029 Matt: What else? 00:20:08.089 --> 00:20:09.019 Um, 00:20:09.284 --> 00:20:13.831 I bet there could be something, to do with like, extreme loquaciousness. 00:20:13.851 --> 00:20:14.691 Is that, is that a word? 00:20:14.691 --> 00:20:15.361 Loquaciousness. 00:20:15.651 --> 00:20:16.461 Like talking too 00:20:16.891 --> 00:20:17.381 Alison: ness. 00:20:17.811 --> 00:20:19.131 I would, Yes. 00:20:19.131 --> 00:20:21.681 I was about to say, something about interrupting 00:20:21.921 --> 00:20:22.401 Matt: Yes. 00:20:22.431 --> 00:20:23.061 Okay. 00:20:23.301 --> 00:20:23.901 Right. 00:20:23.937 --> 00:20:25.137 Oh, that's good. 00:20:25.287 --> 00:20:28.047 That's good cuz that would also kind of probably tie into a 00:20:28.047 --> 00:20:29.847 counter spell -esque thing, right? 00:20:29.847 --> 00:20:33.567 Like if you cast Interrupt it doesn't stop the spell. 00:20:33.572 --> 00:20:37.287 But again, like it has some sort of mechanic where it, Yeah. 00:20:37.527 --> 00:20:37.947 Okay. 00:20:37.977 --> 00:20:38.757 I like that one. 00:20:39.342 --> 00:20:40.872 Alison: How fun would it be? 00:20:40.962 --> 00:20:44.532 Like, I know we make fun of me for getting really frustrated really easily 00:20:44.532 --> 00:20:46.992 with tasks that seem new, feel foreign. 00:20:47.382 --> 00:20:51.702 Like what if there was some kind of like frustration tolerance, where 00:20:51.707 --> 00:20:56.652 you just like kind of implode or, or there's some kind of dire consequence to 00:20:56.782 --> 00:20:58.902 you getting overly frustrated in game. 00:20:59.397 --> 00:20:59.817 Matt: I like 00:21:00.027 --> 00:21:03.157 Alison: like explosive frustration tolerance, 00:21:05.757 --> 00:21:09.137 Matt: If you suffer from explosive frustration tolerance, 00:21:09.407 --> 00:21:10.967 See your doctor immediately. 00:21:11.267 --> 00:21:13.050 Um, those are really good. 00:21:13.050 --> 00:21:13.989 Yes. 00:21:14.454 --> 00:21:15.024 Alison: One more. 00:21:15.099 --> 00:21:15.609 Matt: Okay. 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:16.719 No, don't stop. 00:21:17.304 --> 00:21:17.874 Alison: Fidget. 00:21:18.114 --> 00:21:20.334 I think that there has to, like, we have to be harder to hit 00:21:20.334 --> 00:21:23.844 because of like the, the, the fidgeting and the what, what is it? 00:21:23.944 --> 00:21:24.514 Matt: Stemming. 00:21:24.514 --> 00:21:25.114 Alison: Stemming. 00:21:25.144 --> 00:21:25.354 Okay. 00:21:25.354 --> 00:21:28.624 So we need to have some kind of like fidget and stemming something or other, 00:21:28.624 --> 00:21:32.314 but like, yeah, I have to be harder to hit because I'm constantly in motion. 00:21:32.563 --> 00:21:34.393 Matt: This is really, this is really great. 00:21:35.153 --> 00:21:37.943 I really, I really love this. 00:21:37.943 --> 00:21:38.887 Alison: I do too. 00:21:38.887 --> 00:21:43.687 This is, why when you, like when you told me about this topic, this is why I got so 00:21:43.692 --> 00:21:46.267 excited cuz this is such a good idea Matt. 00:21:46.272 --> 00:21:48.907 Like, ah, it's so good. 00:21:48.907 --> 00:21:51.237 Putting it out into the universe. 00:21:51.237 --> 00:21:54.897 If there is somebody out there that just wants to pay us to come up with 00:21:55.152 --> 00:21:55.572 Matt: Yeah. 00:21:57.027 --> 00:22:00.417 Alison: Flavored D&D spells, we happily accept the contract 00:22:02.622 --> 00:22:03.432 Matt: We accept. 00:22:03.981 --> 00:22:04.701 um, 00:22:04.746 --> 00:22:09.403 Alison: And if you, dear listener, can think of anything that we left out or 00:22:09.408 --> 00:22:14.443 that you'd like to add to or manipulate in any way, my goodness, please chime on in. 00:22:14.728 --> 00:22:15.178 Matt: Please. 00:22:15.208 --> 00:22:15.448 Okay. 00:22:15.448 --> 00:22:16.858 Here, let, let me just say this. 00:22:17.008 --> 00:22:21.358 Yes, I did start this podcast today off by saying this is gonna be very D&D heavy. 00:22:21.363 --> 00:22:25.378 However, obviously we're speaking from, personal experience. 00:22:25.468 --> 00:22:28.378 I don't care whether you know any mechanic of Dungeons & Dragons. 00:22:28.378 --> 00:22:31.473 I don't care if you don't play any role playing game that's 00:22:31.523 --> 00:22:33.203 not really the point of this. 00:22:33.263 --> 00:22:38.373 If anyone's listening to this because they too have ADHD or, or a 00:22:38.373 --> 00:22:41.643 loved one that does and, and thinks about this stuff all the time. 00:22:42.093 --> 00:22:46.027 Uh, and just think it might be fun, we have a Patreon, you know, we 00:22:46.027 --> 00:22:50.137 have a Patreon, and we would love for you to, uh, be a part of it. 00:22:50.142 --> 00:22:57.217 We have a, we have a fun Discord channel, and, um, you actually are 00:22:57.222 --> 00:23:01.897 helping us do this more and, and better and spend time during our days doing 00:23:01.897 --> 00:23:05.047 it, which is truly making us happy. 00:23:05.947 --> 00:23:08.887 And we appreciate everybody that is a part of that. 00:23:08.892 --> 00:23:09.367 So, yeah. 00:23:09.487 --> 00:23:10.747 What do you think, man? 00:23:10.747 --> 00:23:14.587 Just come on, hang out and, and what, what have we missed? 00:23:15.007 --> 00:23:17.437 Which, which of these little tenants have we missed? 00:23:17.596 --> 00:23:19.036 Because there are plenty of them. 00:23:19.476 --> 00:23:21.496 Alison: I can't wait to play test these spells. 00:23:21.706 --> 00:23:22.876 Matt: I know, I know. 00:23:22.906 --> 00:23:23.506 Seriously. 00:23:23.746 --> 00:23:24.366 Alison: I love it. 00:23:24.426 --> 00:23:25.176 It's so good. 00:23:26.466 --> 00:23:28.236 Matt: Um, okay. 00:23:28.326 --> 00:23:30.366 Well, geez, until next time. 00:23:30.366 --> 00:23:31.696 Alison: Over and out. 00:23:31.976 --> 00:23:33.796 Matt: Oh, thank you for joining us. 00:23:33.796 --> 00:23:36.706 Thank you for joining us ADHD20. 00:23:36.706 --> 00:23:38.681 And uh, we'll see you guys next time. 00:23:38.861 --> 00:23:40.926 Oh, we, Okay, bye. 00:23:41.926 --> 00:23:43.376 Around near, 00:23:43.926 --> 00:23:44.416 near