Come on, Matt, you can do better than that.
Mm. Foggy, what is you make?
Okay, not quite, but I’ll take it. I’m making a little something. It’s someone’s birthday today.
It’s, uh… it’s our creator. In a way. She’s… You know what, it’s really hard to explain, and now we’re getting into the territory of meta-gaming, and I’m not sure if that’s where we should be going.
Yeah, like when you play an RPG, and you let the actual world affect the game.
Have you ever heard of Dungeons & Dragons?
It’s a game where you build a fictional fantasy character, and then you meet with a group of other people who have fantasy characters, and there’s a game master who tells a story of what the fantasy characters are doing, and you pretend you’re in this world with your character and do stuff there. As your character. Like real adventures and puzzles and fighting monsters.
Foggy, I think Matt’s eyes just went really wide. You know, figuratively speaking.
We not play, why? I want to.
Well, first of all, we’re just three people. It’s more fun when it’s a bigger group. Second of all, there’s a shitton of rules. Like how you fight, and how the weapons work, and what magic spells you can use. You can’t just make that stuff up out of the air.
It’s called the Player’s Handbook.
Yeah, like a million years ago.
You know what, Matt? Let’s go out together. I bet there used to be a few game stores in Brooklyn, and it’s not something that would be high on the raiding list. We can probably find a Player’s Handbook or two.
Well, we’ll still need a game master.
I’d be willing to give that a shot.
Yeah. You don’t trust me to do it?
No. God, no. That’d be awesome, actually. Now I’m excited, too. I think I’m gonna make a Half-orc Barbarian.
Foggy, you’d be a total Dwarf Cleric. Or a Human Bard. Matt could be… hm. A Tiefling Rogue?
Okay, I think we have some explaining to do. We better block the afternoon.
We need the handbook first.
Well, Matt, there’s your next mission.
Okay. Karen. We go. Now. Bye, Foggy. Later, see.