Some information to close this off.
I bought a pad. It made a +/- 0.1C change. Didn't really do anything. I actually like the angle it puts the laptop at, so I'm going to keep it. Not for the cooling, which made no difference.
After much googling I came across a tip. In the advanced power settings, you can turn your CPU to 99% max/min usage. All this does is disable the Intel turbo mode, which is causes a lot of heat. After disabling Intel Turbo Boost, I found no difference in the framerates of the game.
Doing this, I hit 79C max on the CPU. Averaged out over the span of the game, it was 73.28C for the CPU.
It hit 72C max for the GPU. Averaged out over the span of the game it was 67.34C for the GPU.
This, to me, is much much better than 87 max and 84 average on the CPU.
For Windows 10 the settings are found in: Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options. Select the Power Plan and Change Plan Settings.
Select Change advanced power settings. In the new window, find Processor power management. In there you can change Minimum processor state and Maximum processor state. Set those to 99% and you're good to go.
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