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BONUS- Live at San Diego Comic-Con!

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Maya jabs a finger into an owlbear costume's belly and tells Dooley, "this is your last chance. Get out of there right now."

1. Knights of the Rolled Table's bonus episode, recorded live at San Diego Comic-Con, is a one-hour, non-canon D&D one-shot set at a fictional convention called "Ooga Booga Khan." 2. Zach hosts and DMs, Chris Daly handles art, audio and every NPC, and Matt Messerman, Carlos Guzman, Jen Crespo and Jeff Frank play de-leveled level-5 versions of their podcast characters. 3. Zach says he considers the audience "a part of the experience," so he asks questions and uses whatever audience members shout out, calling it a "lazy version" of DMing. 4. A kid in a Venom/Spider-Man costume picks the town of Drakkon on the map, and the audience supplies the convention name and the special guest "John Acorns," famous for playing the druid Barry Oaktree. 5. The party of Yenny Donk (halfling barbarian), Maya Cherie (half-elf warlock), Branch (goblin druid) and Randall (possum-folk bard and artificer with a bag of trash) is sent to find a disguised figure tied to the Platinum Syndicate. 6. Branch uses speak with animals on a gecko, who points them to Dooley, a flustered administrator with a pink beard, and Maya's 12 on a Persuasion check gets him to admit his boss, Terrell, yelled at him. 7. Terrell says a trashed exhibit room lost "the legendary staff with a spike on it," and Quash, the AV tech, takes measurements for repairs until Randall's garbage becomes soundproofing in a power-tool montage. 8. Audience members roll an inflatable die for checks such as Insight (12 against a character bonus of 4) and Intimidation (Yenny's 17 plus 2 against Quash), and the crowd votes by applause on whether Quash, Terrell or Dooley is the culprit. 9. When Zach announces the table has "closer to five" minutes left in the room, a front-row audience member sets the creature's weaknesses as "trash, bad singing, and ketchup," and Randall's Persuasion reroll after audience cheering lands a 19. 10. Suits D&D actual-play fans and listeners curious about audience-driven live tabletop.

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