The 鈥渁verage wizard makes 3 failed attempts to teleport to Eiselcross a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average wizard makes 0 attempts to teleport to Eiselcross ever. Essek Thelyss, who lived almost eight centuries and attempted to teleport to Eiselcross over 10,000 times, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
His anonymously submitted paper presenting a statistical analysis of his success rate and factors contributing to slightly higher odds was unfortunately rejected by every respectable arcane journal in Exandria. No one believed him.
Khary is playtesting a new specialty for the Weird class: the Monster
Marisha and Laura are playtesting new specialties for the Face class: The Director and Celebrity, respectively
and I believe Matt is playing a Detective
Edit: Marisha isn't playing a new class, her character is a director but her class is Journalist, as per the session zero.
liam鈥檚 reaction to essek casting widogast鈥檚 vault of amber (and frankly his reactions to any mention of caleb) was not only incredibly adorable but also it made me miss the dirt wizard even more
It's been interesting now that Dorian's back to watch certain segments of the fandom fixate on the idea that he's more than his relationships and claim it's reductive to focus on those aspects of him. Because on one hand, I agree that he's a complex and interesting character on his own; I've written several lengthy meta on him because I just think he's neat! On the other though, it feels disingenuous to claim that people focusing on how he relates to others are somehow belittling his character, because he's one of those characters whose relationships are deeply important to how he moves through the narrative.
He's very other-centred! His morality is focused on his friends and their well-being above all else, to the point he's made some noticeably Not Good choices or suggestions (Making his deal with Lolth; suggesting the group kill all the Pumats in order to get the magic items in the shop) for their benefit. The thing that initially caused him to leave Bells Hells wasn't any need to go on a personal journey, it was because he had to keep his brother safe. What brought him back was that the Sendings he got from Orym after the Solstice made it clear that he needed him. Even mechanically, he's a bard, the sole true support class in 5e. And the way Robbie plays him as such meant we didn't definitively know his subclass for months because he prefers to use his uses of Bardic Inspiration to buff his allies rather than to use Blade Flourishes. How he relates to and supports people is a massive part of his character and trying to erase that erases a large part of what makes him a nuanced and interesting character in the first place.
Laura: And she's tied into the box?
Spenser: She's tied into the box.
Laura: And she's freaking out?
Spenser: She's freaking out.
Laura: I'm going to try to calm her down. -gathers herself-
waking up in cold sweat and realizing we've never fully learned what imogen saw in dorian's head when she accidentaly read his thoughts during his performance in episode 6