Today’s guest is the host of Dimension 20 on Dropout, as well as the dungeon master of the new campaign on Critical Role. He and his intrepid heroes of soldout stadiums like Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl, and he’s the only person to have ever successfully cast a fear spell on a real live horse. Brendan Lee Mulligan, welcome to the show. Josh, what a joy, man. Thank you for having me. I did I cast a spell on a horse. It was actually like to potentially protect children. Like, there was a real reason you cast a fear spell. >> We have to go back and test. First of all, I’m a larer. I do live action role playing. I was working at the Wayfinder experience where kids come and learn improv and fantasy role playing and theater and all these amazing skills and it’s just a great community of people. We were playing a game >> and someone in the game was playing a a a knight, a fell knight in black armor and like the armor is foam, the sword is foam. The horse is a real horse. >> The horse is mostly made of horse. >> The horse is mostly made of horse. And anytime you see that you go like, “Hey, I don’t know. We’re going to be like screaming and like charging into battle. This horse is going to be hearing battle cries. And to my knowledge, this horse doesn’t understand Meisner or Adler method. Strawber. Yeah. Yeah. The horse [laughter] Strawber and it’s a real problem when you see that. So this horse is barreling down. Now I’m sure the rider was a very accomplished rider. However, I am 15 years old and I see a real horse charging full speed at me. And so I blow on this little plastic hockey horn which creates time stop [laughter] and the the person riding the horse stops and I call out and this person that was playing tended to play these extremely overpowered characters. So I went I know if I cast a spell on this person they’re going to be like as a half fairy half demon I’d repel your spell. And so I said I’m gonna take a swing on this one. And I called out and said, “By my power as an arc mage of the Jaden Circle, I TARGET THE HORSE who I assume has no arcane defenses to speak of.” Fear by the power of nine. Fear. Uh, and to the writers’s credit, as a great l player, they whipped that horse around and rode off into the forest. >> Incredible. What a way to just like preserve all of the fun that’s being had and then also preserve mangled bodies from happening. preserve the 12-year-olds that I don’t want to be trampled by a real horse who’s going, “I have no ability to discern fact from fiction.