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“I keep hearing about escapism.

And I was like, what’s that outside?

Brennan Lee Mulligan smiling and shaking his fists

Something rumbling in the woods?

And she’d be, ‘NO IT’S NOT!

‘So I’ve always had this issue.

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I need there to be something rumbling in the woods.”

“Turning my face from that doesn’t give me peace.

It doesn’t give me anything to look away from that.

Matt Mercer smiling and Brennan Lee Mulligan talking, with a white line dividing them

Fellow D&D legend and Critical Role DM Matt Mercer agrees.

“Yeah, I’ll say off that, there’s a difference between power fantasy and empowerment fantasy.

In small ways, it may be.

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But that’s the empowerment fantasy that I strive for.”

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