While looking at dnd.wizards.com today, I noticed an "article" which was a podcast interview that featured Dylan Sprouse (from Zack and Cody) talking about how he has been playing D&D since he was a kid and, apparently, not only is he part of a PUGCrawl D&D liveplay group (which he tweets about for live sessions - and looking at his Twitter he did another event today promoting new D&D products) - but he also made a guest appearance in "Force Grey: The Lost Episode" (which I somehow totally missed).
On the internet Matt Mercer is known as a "DM God" and people aspire to be like him (which I don't blame them for since he is so entertaining with the voices and emotion - though, if I was going to nitpick his style, he needs to stop telling the players what their characters think and feel because I believe the DM should set the scene and then ask that as a question of the players, but whatever - other than that, he is amazing); for readers who may not be familiar with him, he is a voice actor who does YouTube videos with Geek & Sundry. He has a regular D&D group full of voice actors and he was the guy who famously got Vin Diesel to play D&D with them while Vin was out promoting one of his movies.
When Wizards of the Coast was promoting the Storm King's Thunder storyline not only did they have Chris Perkins running the Acquisitions, Inc. group in "tie-in" adventures with giants, but they also brought in Matt Mercer to run a new group called "Force Grey" (as part of the legendary Waterdeep adventuring group dedicated to protecting the city - though they ironically left Waterdeep as adventurers tend to do). I watched the episodes without realizing that there was an extra one made after the Acquisitions, Inc. cloud castle battle. This "Force Grey: The Lost Episode" hilariously shows Matt Mercer DMing the Force Grey group showing up at the cloud castle after the Acquisitions, Inc. team has left. It fills in a gap in the Acquisitions, Inc. storyline and made for a funny crossover location (though I wish they would have actually had the 2 teams meet up as a super RPG event, like what sometimes happened in D&D Encounters/Adventurer's League/Expeditions.
Not only did they miss out on having the teams meet up for a huge battle, but they were also missing some of the Force Grey team members; Matt Mercer did a fine job with having their characters there at the beginning and end of the session (run by him and sidelined, of course). Dylan Sprouse made for a fun replacement, playing a firbolg druid. I was happy to see that, like me, he plays the druid with a creative spin and used the beast wildchange and animal interactions in fun ways.
Inspiration
Already familiar with Force Grey as a part of the Storm King's Thunder (since the major storyline NPC the frost giant Harshnag is written as a part of the Force Gray team), I mentioned them and had them as part of the campaign lore. Harshnag teamed up with my group's characters and nicknamed their team "Force Green" since they were so nature-oriented. Sadly, in our game Harshnag died a hero's death facing the ancient dragon enemy that plagued the group (and I don't think the Force Green name has really stuck yet, but I still have some hope).
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