Actor Matthew Lillard and screenwriter Justin Ware co-own a new spirits company with Blue Run Spirits co-founder Tim Sparapani that will launch later this year and are developing a line of spirits inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. The company is called Find Familiar Spirits.
The first product to launch will be Quest’s End, a new line of bourbon whiskeys, where every bottle and every flavor represents the next part of an ongoing story designed by veteran DM and game designer Kate Welch with illustrations by famed fantasy artist Tyler Jacobson.
Lillard explains that Quest’s End begins with “Sarin of the Pit, ‘born in the fighting pits, a paladin of the god of life, Inxa,’ and the bourbon whiskey blend features notes of vanilla and fruit” with an undertone of spice to reflect his fighting spirit’ (according to the bottle’s tasting notes). Distilled in Indiana and Kentucky, Paladin will be available for pre-order online starting October 4, ahead of its November launch.
He added: “Each of the bottles has a map on the back. It has hit points on its side, so as you drink hit points, you get stronger! One of the things we wanted to create was something very personalized, so the bottle looked beautiful. You are getting a story; a whole unboxing experience.”
Lillard explains, “Each year moving forward, we will continually find communities that have a fan base, that are engaged, passionate, fun-loving, accepting, and full of joy.”
Lillard is a huge fan of D&D and is also bringing more D&D to the small screen Faster, Purple Worm! Kill kill!which is described as a series of improvisations and live gameplay of the type “Whose line is this? – meets D&D”.
That series will air on the ad-supported free streaming channel (FAST) and the show spans 20 one-hour episodes and features a revolving cast of A-list characters played by Lillard, Set Green, Skeet Ulrich, Patton Oswalt, Deborah Ann Woll, Todd Stashwick, Michael Irby and others, and each “table is 100% new people going through a new DM, a new world, and the whole presumption is that there’s a monster and they all die eventually.”
Lillard says of the shows, “He’s an incredible ambassador for the game. Every single show is entertaining and every single show is interpreted differently. There is no wrong way to play Dungeon & Dragons.”
Source: THR
by Joey Paur
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