view Lin-Manuel Miranda play a sorcerer / elven leader living on stage, and it was glorious.

Miranda, the legend of Tony's best-known theater for his musical "Hamilton," was a surprise guest on Tuesday, July 17, at the launching event of "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins ", a new graphic novel by First Second Books based on the first arc of the hit podcast" The Adventure Zone ".

The Maximum Fun series, launched in 2013, is a comic fantasy narrative series that finds Griffin McElroy as dungeon master of an epic game of "Dungeons and Dragons" played by his brothers Justin and Travis and their father, Clint.

Listen: Check out our interview with Travis McElroy on "The Adventure Zone", "Bubble" and "My Brother, My Brother and Me" [19659008] The Engagement of Tuesday night at Manhattan City Hall were conceived as a celebration of "Here There Be Gerblins", McElroy's collaboration with artist Carey Pietsch

but when bad weather interfered with theft from Cincinnati and Miranda. (who was already scheduled to be on the spot, according to the program of the evening) played the role of Taako, the character of Justin, for a number of readings of the book

Griffin (taking over his role of DM) and Clint McElroy (as dwarf cleric Merle Highchurch were joined on stage by rapper Jean Grae (as orc warrior Killian), Mary Wiseman, star of Star Trek: Discovery (replacing Travis as human fighter Magnus Burnsides) and the musical duo Paul and Storm, with Greg Storm. "DiCostanzo providing live musical accompaniment and telling Paul Sabourin. . @JustinMcElroy : Our flight was canceled, @travismcelroy ] & I can not do the @TheZoneCast live reading!
Geoffrey Rush, in full Elizabethan dress: Do you know the piece?
Me: … Every word pic.twitter.com/pLXuboFmqW

– Lin-Manuel Mira nda (@Lin_Manuel) July 18, 2018