Small Time Champion, Part 1 (Patreon)

Thus begins "Small Time Champion"! Usually when getting a party together, you try to create some reason for them to work together, but when it's the context of a reality TV show, it's much easier to figure out reasons why they shouldn't work and will have interesting conflicts with each other! The network did this for the ratings.

The players in the podcast often, but not strictly, correspond to real players in the original games. This is one of the cases where the rules are broken and the guy who typically plays Mayson's characters got bumped over to Lawry. He didn't play a low-energy downer of a character at first, but he took some actions later in the game that would have to be explained by a fairly pessimistic or nihilistic life outlook. That put his character in Lawry's hands, who then hams up that nihilism and will make the later behavior feel natural.