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One year ago, my daughters and I were sitting in the bleachers at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles waiting for five grown men to take to the stage and play make-believe in front of a sold-out crowd. That’s right, we were audience members at the first installment of the traveling roadshow that is Glass Cannon Live, an offshoot of the popular Glass Cannon Podcast, a weekly Pathfinder actual-play rendition of the Paizo Giantslayer Adventure Path.
If at any point before March 2018 you would have told me that I’d be attending a live recording of a Pathfinder actual play podcast, I would have laughed and said you were crazy. Yet, here I was, doing exactly that. So then, how did I end up here? Well, that, as they say, is a long story. It starts about nine years ago …
(Re-)Discovering Dungeons & Dragons
I had just picked my daughter up from second grade. As we were driving home, she asks from the back seat, “Dad, have you ever played Dungeons & Dragons?” Of course I had-I’m a GeekDad! In fact, D&D had been a major social outlet for me from about seventh grade through high school and into college. But at this point, it had been probably eight years since I’d played the game. She told me she and three of her friends wanted to play. So, being the dad I am, I decided to assume the role of Dungeon Master for this…
