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2	* AwesomeEgo: Tandem the Spoony. While Noah is aware that Tandem is intended as a JackOfAllStats MasterOfNone (which is why he chose to play as a Bard), Tandem proudly declared that he was "the greatest swordsman in the world", and through luck and skill, managed to live up to that claim on numerous occasions. His exploits include:
3	** On the journey to Wonderland, he rescued his party from a CompellingVoice with some quick thinking and an oft-forgotten bardic skill, won a duel with a twentieth level monk[[note]]Which Spoony misidentifies as the Dormouse, it's actually the March Hare in the published module,[[/note]] and slew a ''lich'' at the end of the journey.
4	** When Spoony played with a character who was a kensai (a MasterSwordsman), in-character they took offense to Tandem's boast and challenged him to a first-strike duel. The kensai botched and threw his sword several meters away, while Spoony rolled an eighteen; the player roleplayed it as Tandem disarming the kensei. The player them talked Tandem up to others to get him into fights, all of which Spoony bested, culminating with him single-handedly slaying a ten-foot, tree-wielding gladiator troll.
5	** On a comeback adventure, he initiated the fight between the party and the Black Dragon by insulting it. Tandem ended up striking the decisive blow by [[CriticalHit stabbing it in the spine,]] crippling it enough for his fellows to finish it off [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill by shooting lightning through Tandem's rapier directly into the dragon's spinal column.]] To top it off, [[FlawlessVictory the entire party was unscathed by the dragon's attacks.]]
6	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: There are now EpisodeTitleCard intros for the videos featuring [[HeavyMithril "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)"]] by Music/BlindGuardian, sometimes replaced by the Music/VanCanto cover.
7	* BrokenBase: His "3d6 In Order" video and mindset has its fans, while others strongly disagree with an old-school thesis that, by Spoony's own admission, doesn't really work for any version of ''D&D'' after Second Edition. Similarly, some agree with his assertion that the use of other systems of stat generation that result in generally higher and stabler stats caters to powergamers and munchkins and encourages a toxic mindset of play, while others complain that using {{Honest Rolls Character}}s frequently screws over players who come to the table with an idea of what class they want to play, since the chance of rolling up stats completely opposed to their concept is high. Notably, an HonestRollsCharacter [[https://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/you-must-be-this-lucky-to-play/ has a less than one percent chance to qualify for some classes even in the editions of the game more friendly to it]], including classes Spoony has stumped for in the past like the paladin.
8	* ChristmasRushed: Spoony's review of 5e was done after a mere 24 hours of reading the PHB only, and it shows. He rails against a small selection of mechanics, only touches on a handful of classes (half of which aren't even mentioned), and spends most of the time comparing the book unfavorably to previous editions as a whole, when again he had only read the ''Player's Handbook'' and not the Dungeon Master's Guide or the Monster Manual. He also staunchly keeps the opinion he forms from this minimal information, even when the other books that were released at the same time as the PHB and were intended to be read with it contain things he enjoys from previous editions, like the DMG detailing how to use a grid map or listing a potion miscibility table.
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10	* HilariousInHindsight: He recounts in "Tandem's Last Ride" that he dislikes when players refer to each other simply by their classes and/or race. Many years earlier in the board game ''Dragon Strike'' that he reviewed, the game itself does not assign names to the characters other than the villain and the king; they are simply Warrior, Wizard, Thief, Elf, and Dwarf.
11	** Half-this half "embarassing in hindsight", at the age of 10 he created a D&D character named [[Wrestling/LanceStorm Lance Stormshield]].
12	** In "Thieves's World Part 2", when discussing how to kill [[spoiler: Tempus Thales]], he quotes an NPC who asks "How do you want to do this?" Fast forward a few years and that becomes [[WebVideo/CriticalRole another DM's]] signature PreMortemOneLiner.
13	* MoralEventHorizon:
14	** In the ''Thieves' World'' saga, after [[spoiler: Tempus Thales skullfucks an innocent woman and LoveInterest to death through her eye socket]], the [=PCs=] decide to make their rebellion against the Prince a bit more brutal. [[spoiler:So much so that Spoony himself is wary of his companions' mental stability.]]
15	** The leader of the ''Shadowrun: The Code'' group executes two hostages to ProveIAmNotBluffing, and then executes the rest once he gets the information he wants, hurling the bodies outside, purely on grounds to LeaveNoWitnesses because "[[DisproportionateRetribution They saw our faces]]." What's worse, ''this was the plan all along'' after the burglary went awry. A horrified Spoony promptly cracks the GodzillaThreshold and sends a highly-trained kill team to slaughter them all.
16	* MrFanservice: As a character, Tandem the Spoony generally portrays himself as a dashing, swashbuckler type. In the [=ConBravo=] WebVideo/D20Live game, the party is tasked with escorting their host's daughter - an attractive young woman - around town. Spoony's reaction? Without saying a word, he removes his hat and [[TheCharmer shakes his hair down]].
17	-->'''Big Mike:''' Good God, man, tone it down a notch!
18	* NauseaFuel:
19	** All of "The Toilet Pizza." To whit; a tale of a pizza he mysterious found wedged in the back of a bathroom stall that was so stale that it had become solid. And then he tricked another player into taking a bite. Spoony even admits in the video where he described it that [[AndThatsTerrible it was the worst thing he had ever done to someone]], and it was "really bad" in a way that he still feels bad about.
20	** He spends a fair time of "Vegan Steve & The Djinni of Jengai Fomogo" discussing how the group usually ordered pizza from a Peter Piper Pizza next door, because none of them wanted to leave the game for very long, except the pizza they made was extremely greasy and disgusting, to the point the slices were limp in their hands and toppings would slide off. He claims he once put a napkin on top of a slice and it dissolved from the grease. He also calls attention to the fact that a benefit of having pizza for their game was that it could be eaten cold; thankfully he does not describe what pizza like this tasted like after it had cooled.
21	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: At the start of "The Jedi Hunter", Spoony says that he hesitated to tell the story for this reason, remarking that his character's anti-Jedi tricks seem a lot less clever nowadays because later ''Franchise/StarWars'' media like ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' popularized a lot of the same ideas.
22	* StopHavingFunGuy: Spoony can be hard to watch when he gets into a grind of shouting about how spoiled modern gamers are and how much less challenging modern games are... even though cooler heads would generally say this is because modern tabletop games are [[FakeDifficulty better-designed]] rather than simply easier.
23	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For better or worse, Spoony is firmly a child of ''AD&D'' second edition. Many of his complaints about modern versions of the game sometimes struggle to stay on-topic and avoid going into great detail about how modern players are mollycoddled babies who don't have to ''[[StopHavingFunGuy earn]]'' their fun.
24	* ToughActToFollow: Some fans recommend watching the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' episodes last for this reason.

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