Episode 0: Prologue

This episode was released February 19, 2018.

Summary
In this prologue, Stephen Kelly describes the show as a real-play podcast, meaning that they are collaboratively telling an improvised story that uses the mechanics of 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. The goal is to combine a fast, funny fantasy plot with a bunch of silly jokes.

Stephen Buckley introduces himself as dungeon master (DM) and gives an overview of the world of Second Best. To deal with the constant crises of the world, one nation has organized a group of powerful wizards and brash bold warriors, some of the finest adventurers this world has to offer (Milarien's Finest). This podcast is not about them. Second Best follows the second string (B- or even C-list adventurers) known as the Tranquility Team. The Tranquility Team is called in for small jobs that the Finest can't be bothered to address, often things the Finest caused themselves.

Ali, Glo, Marty, and SK also introduce their characters.
 * Ali Gordon plays a character named Brywyn Vox Moorwalker, but everyone just calls him Bug. He's a human paladin who'd never hurt a fly. While some paladins are devoted a specific cause or deity, Bug fights for the power of friendship. He likes poetry and hugs.
 * Stephen Kelly (SK) plays a character named Gail Tartarsauce. Gail is 54-year-old human rogue who's a lady. She is a sneaky person who can steal things and kill people in a sneaky way. She's a mother of two kids who are away in college, who's taken up her rogue profession again because she loves it. She's a very fancy competent lady with white hair, comparable to Maggie Smith or Glenn Close.
 * Marty Scanlon plays a character name Hue, a female tiefling bard. She has dark red skin and purple and white braided hair with goat-like/ram-horns that hook behind her ears and a tail. She has yellow eyes that glow. She's a very talented and gifted musician, and also fancies herself a talented stand-up comedian.
 * Glo Tavarez plays a character named Yolanda, who is a high elf cleric with the Nature domain. She loves nature and she's a pothead because she's a *high* elf. She smokes weed and is always tokin'-tokin'-tokin'. She has purple skin and two long braids.

Quotes
''"Hello, world. And welcome to Second Best, a D&D adventure starring a bunch of New York City improvisers." --SK''

"Second Best takes place in a world I've created. This world is chock-full of delightful disasters: rampaging dragons, sinister demons, and just preposterously stupid problems abound." --Stephen Buckley

"I think I've once described him as looking like a golden retriever who got really buff but also ran through a couple of fires." --Ali Gordon in describing Bug

"Clerics are, like, they're like cool 'cause they're like--I don't know what clerics are." -Glo describing Yolanda.