Matt “Briefcase” Brown 🔜 PAXAUS

Well hello there! I'm Matt or Briefcase (He/Him). I'm a full time professional dungeon master, content creator @SplitThePartyTV, mini painter and general goblin menace. Find all my various nonsense here linktr.ee/briefcasebrown Biz: splitthepartypodcast@gmail.com

Bro, this is crazy!!!

Calling all content creating Riftbounders! Beginning with Sydney, if you're looking to attend any 2026 Regional Qualifier as an official creator- there's an app for that! Apply here: riot.com/3PlhsBu

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

It’s time for the annual repost of this cursed as hell birthday Air BnB trip we took a few years back to what can only be described as “The Orgy Cave” after seeing what was inside.

@LHP64D Also, isn’t this just a differently costed rebuke?

I think Chaos shouldn’t have stun on it. It feels like it dilutes the color identity of Calm/Order. Admittedly it’s the first ever Chaos Stun and it enables a very Chaos mechanic… Just, please be careful with color identity, it’s important.

@LHP64D Purple also has so much going into it already it doesn’t need another colour identity’s toolkit

@LHP64D Still in disbelief but we’re out here 🙌

@NoFunBrown SHIT DUDE WELL DONE

I can finally say after a few weeks of lining up this trade I actually have this little guy in my hands 🥹 #riftbound

First look at LEGO Tony Tony Chopper.

@Astrokerrie Absolutely here for Riftbound, MTG and RPGs 😍

Looking for creators interested in TCGs, RPGs and TT. Particularly MtG and Riftbound 🩷 👉 forms.gle/yDLhaKJaw6Xhs8…

OH. MY.

We've got a new show live for the first time at @TheGameExpo! Join forces as the audience to pull one over the players and even the DM! With just your phone you choose the direction for the story – will they meet a dragon or a muppet, you decide! It's INDECISION DUNGEON!

Not attending @TheGameExpo as a creator this year because I’ll be apart of the crew!!! If you see me over the weekend I’ll be getting photos of everyone having a great time. See y’all there!

To celebrate over 100 copies sold of my guide “How to Become the Next Best of Jax”, I’m hosting a giveaway to thank everyone for the support! 🎉 🏆 Prize: 1 Origins Box (I won with Jax) How to enter: • Like this post • Repost it • Follow my X profile • Follow my Metafy profile - bubo As an extra thank you, the guide is also 15% off for a limited time: metafy.gg/guides/view/ho… 🎁 CODE: CELEBRATE15 📅 Winner announced: March 23 Good luck everyone! 🍀

Found a shiny Froakie nice! More Nuzlocke right now w/ @briefcasebrown and @misskass

The GOAT #PokemonWindsWaves #Pokemon #Browt #pokemonart

Hey Riftbounders! TL;DR (more in the thread - 1/11) 1: We're discussing card bans in the near future based on overly-dominant play patterns, but none to announce today, nor an expected date for bans. 2: Expect a separate rules update on 3/30 for the new mechanics being introduced in our next Set, Unleashed, as well as a few clarities around penalties, judge rewind, edge cases, and more. Read on for more!

@LHP64D BRO

Nah my #rbspiritforged luck is unmatched ANOTHER ON! That’s 9 in 9 boxes and 1 pre-rift kit?!

Macragge blue vs night lords blue

We decided to UNLEASH the Jungle with these Runes, releasing with the next set Unleashed on May 8th!