Template template template template. Impressions: Nothing quite so exciting as an entire episode about a dude sitting in a room, narrating to the audience every single character's backstory while bragging about how cool he is. Just the way its presented has a very "dungeon master reading off the character sheets" approach. Probably half the […]
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