It was super attentive to d&d details such as almost all the classes of the party using intelligence as dump stats or the specifics of the spells mechanics while also not needing the audience to know any of that to have a good time and understand what was going on.

And the use of d&d lore and mechanics were woven into the characters and narrative, it wasn’t just hey remember this thing from d&d. Way underrated, probably bad marketing.

Trust no one. Using the framework of Noam chomskys manufacturing consent to help identify biases and read between the lines is a pretty good strategy though.

I think pet implies some level of affection. Pretty sure to them we’re just livestock.

Yes, both of them at the double tree inn obviously