On January 24th, the HIT D&D -Akteplay series Dimension 20 Gave his sold-out Madison Square Garden debut. How did you prepare for “the glove in the garden”, in which actors brought their characters back Urban city Bogen of the show In front of 20,000 screaming fans? The answer varied from actors to the actor. With the crew in New York City, Polygon asked you to give up every sound with her ritual before the game.
Interviews were processed and condensed out of clarity.
Lou Wilson (Kingston Brown)
What I drive the most when it comes to performance is that your body has to hit your mind, and so these two things have to be warmed up. So I like to train before a show. If I don't get to a gym, I will just take a long walk, try to increase my heart rate, try to get my body hotAnd know that something comes.
And then I also like to make my mind right, so that's an intense musical task. Insulation. Room to meet the rhythm that I want from my brain, the pattern that I would like to go to the show. But then I also think, especially for this type of work – especially for D&D – depends a little with my friends to bring us all together and have the feeling of being on the same side Of course and probably with that to feel group before we bring the audience into this room with ourselves.
[In terms of music] I like to listen to things that are thematically connected to the energy that I want to appear on the stage, or is exactly the kind of things that get me up and running. I think I'll probably hear “Hypnotic” by Notorious Big a thousand times [before Madison Square Garden]. I'll listen to myself The song that the Alan Parsons project did [“Sirius”] That was the song of Chicago Bulls – I will listen to it about a thousand times. I will probably hear some opera. Things that are epic. Carmina BuranaI will probably hear that a few. And imagine the gates of the sky open as I step onto the stage of the Madison Square Garden. I think it feels like that when 20,000 people go bananas when they go on stage.
Allied Beardsley (Pete Conlan)
To prepare myself for a show, I have an old crab shell that, in my opinion, contains the soul of my past uncle. I touch that. I have it on a small altar. I like to wear a really specific lotion with a black and pepper, so I always put it on my chest and my stomach early in the morning. It is really important to delay caffeine and see natural light as soon as possible. And if you can, you get direct sunlight on stomach and chest. It is really important. I usually grind my own coffee beans and I do it outside in the sun.
I touch the crab shell, I put on the pepper lotion. I like to go to shows so that I can listen to music, but I try to hear this thing called “healing tones”. And it is like this special frequency, and they all have really embarrassing names like “forgiveness for themselves” – it's so hippie, it's ridiculous. But now I'm just really addicted to the feeling of calm I get.
I feel like I feel like it is difficult to get a full, deep breath and get the kind of groundness you need. With all our special comedy style, we usually like to play things as much as possible to highlight how crazy someone will go. And that is exactly what I like to make a show, almost as if I have just meditated and I am ready to only be as high in intelligence and normal as possible so that Lou can say something completely insane.
I really ignore it. I really ignore the show. I really don't try to think about it. I am one of these people who simply turn into an anxious cockspin when I prescribe too much. And so very signing, up to deeply lower, is my answer. This is bad for me. I'm starting to turn.
I like a small downtime – almost like in parallel. If we were in a room in which we could play a few games or something if we played Mario Kart. We have never done this to prepare for a show, always. But if we were to play Mario Kart, that would be my ideal version.
Brennan Lee Mulligan (Dungeon master)
The way I prepare for a live show is: I get my laptop. I open it and I open mine Campaign notes. I create a sentence from – [burps] Oh chicken sandwich! -T counting signs of action user hearing to laugh! I had a chicken sandwich and a little condemned! This is also part of my preparation. I prepare myself by making my wonderful and beloved friends laugh at my completely normal behavior. As I Try to stay locked up and my job to do America.
I will drink a big coffee with half and half and then drink that. And then I will drink another big coffee with half and half. I will hear the middle of the funny anecdote from someone, look up, “that sounds funny,” you can see if I can throw in. I can't.
Back to the ballpoints. I will look at my campaign on D&D Beyond. I will go through the statistics blocks of the various monsters who have to be there. I'll see Slack. There is a problem. Something has to change. Or there will be a tug of war: there is a technical problem; There is a possible artistic solution. A producer can offer something that protects my time at the expense of another technical aspect. And then I will go: “People, the show is invented. It's about gnome. I will do the gnome differently. “And then everyone goes:” Oh my god, he can just make the gnome differently. ” And then I do the gnome differently. And then the problem is solved.
Fun is overrated and it is important to stay strapped. There is nothing that I take seriously or more difficult than the joy and frivolity of the audience. And that has to rest on a foundation of extremely strict, inpatient foundation building. Hey, everyone can say: “Oh, it's a corn gremlin. What is the armor class? What is the hit cube? What is the attack bonus? “And that's the math of fun. And I do that before the show.
