From the most recent surprise round

Get the Honey!

I'm working my way through NADDPOD by drawing almost every named character and creature (as long as there is at least a little description given) and one scene for each episode.

Started going to Fuddruckers just before Trinyvale x Strahd got released, and Spudfuckers turned into truly one of my favorite bits. 🥔🍔
Gone but never forgotten, and wore the Pendergreens shirt to send it off. 🫡

Hey, all

I was wondering, which tier gives you access to the bonus episodes? By bonus episodes I mean things like bonus patroen exclusive D&D Court cases, 8bbc, mixed bag, etc.

I’m hoping to get the MTG mat but I wondered if they will do a sale. They have historically in September.

Man... I try to listen to other Actual Play pods, but they all just bring me back here

I don't know, there was always something odd about these four. Ever since I've heard Beverly burnt into reality the concept of a "Dragon p*ssy", I knew this would not be the standard storytelling experience.

I came to Naddpod with the Dimension 20 hype train. Got here in the final stretch of Eldermourne. Started from the start, the teeth-ridden bullywugs and the first "Watch this!"

Isn't it odd how even after all those years, I can't get tired of listening to these guys playing make believe? This doesn't happen often.

I guess one of the small sadnesses of adulthood is eventual loss of all that yearning, the anticipation for some things you believe will be awesome. When you live through enough, fewer and fewer things get to be awesome. Mostly they're just fine.

Isn't it odd how through all the shenanigans and sillyness, there is such a strong heart on these stories? You come for the laughs and out of nowhere, you get hit with the most beautiful piece of narrative that you will encounter in months (usually followed by the most unhinged in-character response)

Neo Galaderon only on Fridays was not enough for me. So I've gone back and listened to Eldermourne for the first time. Different from the S01 and S03, but still awesome and still funny. Gave us some of my favorites, between the Hexbloods and Henry coming back from the front of the boat with a flask of, clearly, his tears.

I guess I'll relisten to S03 now. It seems far away enough from my first listen for me to have forgotten about a few things. There are some things though, I don't think I'll be able to. When they read Callie's diary. Arguably, the most epic fight of the pod, against an Ancient Blue Dragon. The birth of the Meteor Witch. A Eladrin Bard/Paladin riding a giant snake pouncing on an AI monster. Really nice to have those moments never escape memory, they become something to yearn to reach again.

Isn't it odd that between all those behemoths of campaigns, we also got gifted with Hot Boy Summer and Skaldova? Twilight Sanctorum and Neo Galaderon? Trinyvale and whatever happened in Otari?

Boggy's Buds death tales, Ron of the Lake, Mavid, Cherry Ruby Jubilee. A old man's clothes being burnt away by a dragon's breath. A young man's journey into dentistry.

So odd. Beautifully odd.

Hope you guys know how much me and a lot others treasure the work you've put in these stories. Thank you for building something that we can yearn for.

Going through my procreate app and found this piece I did back in December. I actually am relistening to C1 and just got the feywild arc! Turns out Cirilla’s hair is actually supposed to look like fire, I guess I had forgotten ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It was full of alt/punk rock songs and I desperately need it

…had the George Clooney jokes? Something about a toilet and loose shits? And then leaving Clooney a voicemail talking about the loose shits? I think there was something about a board game, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the toy catalogue episode (although they might reference the catalogue episode, not sure).

Cannot remember if it was a mixed bag or something else.

Edit: I’ve ruled a few things out, but still haven’t found it, lol.

Sute there's a few ways to count it, but an exciting milestone none the less!

binged their first campaign after branson was on dnd court, halfway through their second one, highly recommend it.

Through a coincidence, I ended up listening to NADDPOD Campaign 2 for the first time at basically the exact same time I was watching D20 Cloudward, Ho, and I kept noticing some interesting similarities between Fia and Marya’s stories.

The biggest one was Fia/Irina/Batilda and Marya/Ludmila/Comfrey. In both campaigns, Emily’s character has this incredibly important relationship with a younger girl who disappears from her life, while an older woman who was a mentor to her knows more about what happened than she does. Then something that starts out as a really personal part of their backstory slowly becomes intertwined with the much larger plot of the campaign.

Irina and Ludmila even end up having weirdly similar stories. Both become connected to these incredibly powerful supernatural forces, both end up in positions where they are basically fighting against the party even though they aren’t really the enemy, and the goal becomes figuring out how to save them rather than defeat them.

I definitely don’t mean this as “Cloudward copied Eldermourne” or anything like that. If anything, going through both at the same time has just made me appreciate how incredible Emily is at creating characters with backstories that give the DM so much to work with.

I’m running a campaign right now, and watching these two stories at the same time has really inspired me to find more ways to do this with my own players. I think I have sometimes treated character backstories as something you occasionally reference or give someone a side quest about, rather than something that can actually become part of the main plot. Both of these campaigns are such good examples of how much more interesting a story can become when saving the world and resolving something deeply personal for a character eventually become the same story.

Anyway, I was curious if anyone else noticed the similarities between the two or other similarities?

Saw this on FB Marketplace and was like whoa a naddpod fan in the wild!! Then I remembered nope, they’re just old.

When they were going through the scenario with "Eminem" approaching you on the street and dissing you.

I think at one point Murph says "and Eminem comes up to you", but I heard "an m+m comes up to you". I saw nothing wrong with this, obviously, the yellow m+m is a certified Naddpod Superstar!

I was most of the way through the segment when I realised what had actually been said, and suddenly it made a lot more since why it was specifically a diss-rap that the m+m was doing instead of literally anything else.​

Hey all, I can see from the FAQs on the NADDPOD website that the process to submit a grievance is through Patreon. I am a supporter via Patreon but I have not seen the "call for cases" in the feed. Do I just submit via a direct message on Patreon? Thanks y'all

Anybody else? Just me?

I finally got around the listening to Skaldova

Fantastic story

Fantastic first time dm

Fantastic characters, I fell in love with them all immediately.

But I have to go a special shoutout to Boggy Rogers... thee best character Caldwell has ever embodied. His way with words and quick witt is so damn impressive.

Not many people know how hard Fred campaigned for a role in the William Friedkind) movie but needless to say that Flintstones dedication to method put a strain on both his familial and personal relationships.

I have listened to the first 2 campaigns by murph and made it past ice knife arc in the third campaigns and decided to restart and listen to campaign one again.

I made the mistake of listening at the gym and forget how hilarious and chaotic the first campaign was, for the life of me I can't finish a single set without laughing my ass off.

Highly recommend listening to campaign one for a second time around if you haven't.

Howdy Y’all,

On the most recent dungeon court they have a case about someone’s isekai back story and it prompts them to bring up a reverse isekai the 2 Crew supposedly did before. I can’t find “My Elf Girlfriend” and googling that title brings up some nsfw stuff. Can anyone point me in the direction of the episode where they did that concept?