Hearthside Chat Q&A: Skaldova Reflections

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I know.

We did the short rest thing, but we sit close to the fire.

We get cozy.

I think we're, you have to imagine us all like lying prone, staring at a flame.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

With like the most flammable sweaters you've ever seen.

But we thought this would be fun.

We're going to do Hearthside this week in the main feed.

We're going to do something pretty fun over on the short rest.

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I thought it was a great thing.

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When Did Things Come Out is the name of the show.

When Did This Come Out is too good a name.

Yeah, that actually sounds kind of like a real show.

It's a good finesse to make everything sound as stupid as possible.

Yeah, it needs to sound really dumb.

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Next week, we will be back to D ⁇ D Court and then on to our next little campaign.

But we thought Hardside would be fun, especially because we just finished Skaldova, so I'm sure there's some fun DM questions and stuff for Jake.

Jake, you have

gathered the questions.

Why don't you take it from there?

Indeed, I have.

Why don't we kick things off right away with asked and ham damp surge?

Oh, asked and ham damn surge.

What do you guys think?

There's a reason we let him do it.

King Compilator over here.

This question is from Little Lad, and it comes

from Little Ladd.

Little Lad, Little Lad has a tiny question for you, Emily.

Little Lad writes, I am always impressed with

how naturally it feels like your characters evolve, i.e., Welly's movement away from sonnets and shifting view on the gods.

How do you know what your characters would think in the moment?

Are there things you do before sessions to get into their headspace?

I do.

Like, so for Welly, I was doing a little bit of sonneteering on the side.

Yeah, sonneteering on the side and i think that i was so romanced i i don't think i could have predicted her fully like moving she's not away from the gods but i couldn't have predicted i came into this being like oh she is going to like meet the gods and become one and become like almost like a priest right right um but instead the story took it in this really different direction so i had to be like what where is her head at at all times so yeah i think i do spend time being like where is her head at and i know i spent time after after that revelation I was like, there's a hollowness she could feel if she wanted to to be like, oh, this, this, like, really disappointing thing happened.

Like, I found out bad lore, and I could feel hollow after that.

And I could have like a little goth face.

But instead, I was like, but what is she actually looking for?

Is it gods, or is it something that's bigger than herself?

Something like magic is something that's, you know,

something bigger than herself to lose herself in.

So I was like, okay, actually, she's just too bright-eyed to be defeated

by this in this moment.

There is still a flirtation of something she can lose herself in.

It's like the song says, Where is your boy tonight?

And in this case, your boy is your player character.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

I listened to Where is Your Boy Tonight and journal at the same time.

It's actually called Hopio.

It's called Grand Theft Autumn, everyone.

Thank you so much.

I'm so sorry.

Parentheses.

Your boy tonight.

When did that come from?

Oh, let's not save it.

Save it.

You gotta save it.

Oh, that's a good one.

You gotta save it, but I'm gonna guess 2005.

But you gotta save it.

We gotta save it.

But that is, that is Emily's superpower is being super engaged and being the character.

Because I even hear it editing.

You'll hear as Jake is narrating, you'll hear like little gasps from Emily

of just as Wellie.

She just lives as those characters.

Yeah.

I mean, Wellie is very like awestruck by everything.

And so

I think me, when I'm playing that character, that I'm also awestruck by it.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Emily has the most beautiful of all of our mind palaces, I would say.

Yeah.

It's messy as hell in there.

It's full of sonnets, damn it.

Now poems.

All right, let's move on to Boggy, Roger that.

Whoa,

tin four.

This one comes from Adam T.

Yeah.

Caldwell.

Did you have any unused ideas for members of Boggy's Buds

who didn't make the cut and other ways those Buds might have met their untimely ends?

Wow.

That is a good question that I'm definitely prepared for off the top of Tom's head.

Yeah, William Schitz is such a good name.

What did you leave on the cutting room for?

Did every single bud get named all 12 of them?

No, there's only, oh God, don't make me.

How many are there?

There's Longest Tom, there's Dandio Candles, Sister Bix, Grandpa Crunchums, Flute Boy, William Schitts, and Lady Linnebeth.

I have a text from you that

has a list of a bunch of them.

Oh, really?

Okay.

Yeah.

Read the text.

Ooh, this is so we're getting a peek into your text messages.

Holy shit.

You guys want to peek behind the text thread?

Yes.

Longest Tom, short guy, Boggy's right-hand man.

Sister Bix, cleric and head brewer.

Dandy O'Candles, head peat carver, handles fire and food.

I've never seen him get burnt.

Perhaps a wizard, question mark.

Ooh.

Flute boy, actually really old.

Grandpa Crunchums, pickpocket rogue, actually a teen.

William Schitts, bastard son of a nobleman, paladin.

So you had some classes for all these guys.

Yes.

That is maybe the reveal.

The peak I can offer is that I based all of them off of DD classes because I wanted this to be like Boggy's old party.

Yeah, that's a Boggy.

So I don't know if there are any other names per se, but that is like a nice look behind the screen is that I wanted like kind of almost like this was Boggy.

This was my campaign before the campaign.

Yeah, gotcha.

I pictured them so different.

So then to add a D ⁇ D class onto them,

I'm like, oh, okay.

Okay.

Well, more from the buds later.

For now, let's go to Zud Pick Your Brain.

Yeah.

The more you crow.

Ooh.

That's my suggestion for us.

That's really good.

The more you crow.

In parentheses, just like Grand Theft Autumn.

Amanda M needs to know what color are Zudrick's eyes.

Oh, great question.

Oh my god.

I think all of our eyes are piercing.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess all, yeah, what color are Zudrick's eyes?

I have an opinion.

You have an opinion?

Yeah.

What's your opinion?

I think Emily gets to decide.

Yeah, Emily has to decide.

No, no, no, I want to hear yours first.

I want to decide.

I don't want to.

Canonize me, Captain.

Okay, so you know how you super live in your characters and stuff?

Yeah.

I don't.

So that's.

I never.

Zudrick didn't have eyes to Murph.

I would say

I don't think I know what color Wellie's eyes are.

Okay.

But

what color eyes do you think Zudrick has?

Because this would help me because I'm scrambling right now.

Copper brown.

Wow.

I love that.

I fucking love that.

I think if I'm thinking about it, Wellie probably has big brown doe eyes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That would be my first thought, but I've never thought about that till this moment.

But for Zudrich, I see like almost like brown with gold flecks in it.

That's interesting.

I love gold flecks.

That's perfect for Zudrick.

I would say almost maybe slate gray for Wellie.

Really?

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I could see that.

I don't know.

Something like that.

The color of the Keystone River.

Yeah, exactly.

I think the Dough Eyes is like spot on.

Yeah, Em, you're really, we should do a new game show called

Makes Your Eyes.

Because it's not catches your eyes because theoretically everyone already knows what their eyes are.

But Emily makes your eyes.

If your character doesn't have eyes.

It makes your eyes.

Half of fantasy writing is describing people's eyes.

So I think that this is like a service that Emily could offer.

It is.

I think I don't do, I don't think I do it for my characters enough because I kind of just like to let that be vague, but I do like reading it in other things.

Although sometimes it is kind of like, yeah, no, I do actually remember what color their eyes are.

Yeah.

His purple eyes furrowed.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, it is.

It is fun when it's really fun like the first like three times if they're like sprinkled out through a couple chapters, but by like the 17th time, you're just like, okay, I do actually have a shred of memory for what color.

Here's a chart with all the characters' eyes, just in case you forgot.

I love that, though.

Yeah.

The copper flex, that's the hope.

That's the hope.

Yeah, I think there's something about like, I guess like I thought of that because it's like I picture you wearing all this iron, but then like your eyes almost being different than it.

Ever so slightly like a different neck.

You know, that's rad.

Okay, now we have a question for the full Carnal crew.

This is a Carnal Cube.

Wow.

Zach T writes.

I believe you all said that you were planning on continuing to do some shorter arcs like this great season one of Skaldova.

Thank you very much.

Instead of any long campaigns for the immediate future, if that's the case, are we maybe going to see some more Trinityville perhaps in the near future?

So I guess this is a question for everybody, but maybe specifically, Caldwell.

Yes.

I think we can spill the beans right here.

Yeah.

Yes.

Spill the blood-soaked beans

because the next arc is going to be the Trinityville triplets in Curse of Straw.

Curse.

It is so fun to finally share that.

I've been laughing forever about when Calwell came to us and was like, I just had this idea that Trinivale and Strahd.

And I just was like, it's just perfect.

Like, it's so funny to be like, let me take the worst characters and put them in the most serious settings.

Yeah.

And I think we're going to delevel us, right?

Like, there'll be some kind of in-universe reason for us being deleveled, which will be so funny to be low status again.

Which also has to happen for NIAC.

I reread my Champion Ranger thing.

I was like, my God.

I'm taking that away.

Someone asked us in the Q ⁇ A thing.

They're like, what class haven't you played yet that you'd like to play?

And I was like, oh, none of us has played a Ranger, I thought,

as Jake has famously played a Ranger.

And then I literally wrote, like,

I guess none of us has played a Ranger except for Nyack that is completely broken by Jam Homebrew LOL.

I have so many jam points.

It's an insane amount of money.

You can't

pay to like make people fail their saves, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

Just use like one extra jam point and somebody act like they I use a jam point to make somebody roll and if they pass I can use another point and make them fail.

Yes I can catch

Jay could you really quickly tell me some of your other favorite parts about the subclass

cross them off my and I'm not going to tell you about my darkwing bow that you gave me either.

It was definitely Rangers are worse, but it was also like rewarding the kid that doesn't do his homework because me and Emily specifically picked classes that are like these classes fucking rock

just hexblade and then blade singer not blade singer yeah oh sword bard college of swords part yeah do you think you're gonna stick with those subclasses oh that's interesting

I think I am I looked around and I like was trying to think of like things that could happen that onyx would be like swaying in a different direction but I was like someone had asked on uh had asked like oh like how much does your like class like influence your character and I was thinking about how onyx I ended up making her really kind of easily manipulatable almost because she had this like weapon that was talking to her.

Yeah, so then it became funny to just be like kind of easily manipulated.

So then I was like looking for something, and none of them really felt right because I still come back to she had an evil weapon that was just manipulating her, you know.

Yeah, and then when we did the Moonstone mini arc, you also got a separate weapon that was manipulated.

Yeah, and I love it.

That's what I love to do as Onyx.

Just be like, yeah.

Well, you're about to go to a land full of unknown dark forces.

I know.

I know.

What about you guys?

Has anyone thought of reclassing?

I haven't thought of it yet.

I think, I mean, College of Swords is just super, super fun, but maybe I'll think of something that has more.

Suppose.

Yeah, maybe I'll do something that involves disguises or something.

I don't know.

The thing is, is that like parts.

I could see Jens

having a little bit of a disguise, more of a costume change.

Yeah, College of Glamour.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

I I feel like we would get dressed up for a new adventure.

Isn't there also College of Eloquence or something like that?

Because I can see Jens being like,

I'm the face of the team.

Yes, yes.

You know, I will say, yeah.

I will say, Curse of Strahd is much more social than you might expect.

There is a lot of encounters and random encounters with

werewolves and whatnot.

But I think a lot of it is kind of like convincing people to help you out.

Oh, boy.

So we're going to die.

I want to fail all of that.

I do kind of want to make Nyak like do like an emo thing, like a Toby Maguire Spider-Man.

Like, I'm going to dye my mullet black and be like a Gloomstalker Ranger.

Yes,

a good Ranger.

You should just do that one.

Nyack 100% should change his subject.

You'll have more fun with that.

Do you think it's going to be that Nyack, like because of where he's at, he's in an emo phase?

Or are we going to arrive and Nyak is just going to be like affected by the surroundings?

Yeah, I feel like he's so impressionable that he'll see like Jens putting on like eyeshadow and he'll just dye his hair jet black.

Oh, this is perfect.

You take all your jam and you put it in your hair and just gel it back.

I taste it.

So the jam is coming.

I just realized that like it's actually going to be kind of like strange for Onyx.

I couldn't even give her a goth phase because she's already a pastel goth.

True, yeah.

That's right.

And I'm not letting go of the pastel.

You can't.

The tough thing about changing subclasses is that like DD is so combat focused and like combat, I don't know.

I think it's really fun so I mostly do want to do combat and like the more like social classes of bard and stuff like that it's like with college of swords as a bard I still have expertise and stuff yeah I still have proficiencies in persuasion and things like that so it's like do I really need more than like a plus 12 to persuasion or something like that like I think I'd rather be able to attack a million times yeah I don't know like what the college of eloquence gets other than like great persuasion.

Are you good with like tools?

Maybe you're like really good at playing dragon chess or something.

Hey no, no.

That's the thing is is that like Jens was already great at performance and everything.

It was just like it just gives you everything that a bard has and then also stuff that a fighter has.

It's just good.

Yeah.

I should mention we're going to de-level down to level three.

So it is like the perfect time to pick up a new subclass if you want.

You know, okay, wait, what if though, if I didn't have like a weapon or something like that, like I could have like Jens be my patron.

Insane.

What kind of warlock do you think I would be if Jens was my patron?

Just whoever the but like the fiend

is it the fee is it the fiend?

Oh, no, it'd be the great old one because

fighting words.

What is he 57 or something like that?

I don't even remember how old

how old Jens is.

He might be six.

Actually, I will put my packed weapon there because I think I can just materialize it.

But I'm gonna I will ponder if I should switch to Jens being my patron.

Yeah, I'm the only one selling you a sword and being like, ah, yes, your packed weapon.

Until Callie was revealed to be like 50 or something like that, I was the only person that played the like fantasy species as being the age they're supposed to be, as Moonshine was famously 27 years old.

Hey, hey, Boggy's between 20 and 50 years old.

Hank was 41, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I actually played Welly to be unexpectedly older than he.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

No, I guess I meant like 70s or 80s because there's like all the like like elves and dwarves and stuff in the lore live to be like 300 or something else.

So like a young 700 would be 80.

Yeah, a young elf would be like 50, 60, 70, 80.

And you guys are always like, my elf is 25.

Actually,

it's a really good moonshine impression.

I'm moonshine.

I'm 25.

Young, dumb, and older than your grandpa.

I'm moonshine fucking Saiban.

I'm moonshine Saiban.

Okay, back to Skaldova, guys.

Come on.

Seriously.

All right, is another Carnal Q question.

Wait, I want a question for you.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, okay.

What do people demand it?

The Jake take.

Okay, the Jake Take.

The Carpe DM sees the Jake.

That's what I was calling it.

Sees the Jake.

Sees the Jake.

That's great.

That's great.

Carpe DM sees the Jake.

This is question.

Wait, wait, wait.

I actually think it's incredible.

Hold on.

You were wits.

100% 100% of the shots you don't take.

DM is a great.

That's just a great deal.

Hurt wits.

100% of the shots you don't take.

See, it's like

nailing Grand Theft Autumn, but not getting the parentheses.

Where is your boy?

Blair, the Bug Blair Barblarian, says, Jake, I adored your turn as DM.

I thank you for that.

Despite it being your first...

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to read this many compliments.

No, I want it.

They said that it, yeah, they said it seemed to come naturally to me, which I appreciate.

What surprised you about DMing, and how how do you think your experience will affect you play your PCs going forward?

Ooh, that's a good question.

You'll read the Ranger subclasses?

Yeah, for sure.

I think

the biggest surprise to me was just that like

the pacing was, I could never predict it.

I could like feel really good about how much I had prepped, but then I would like 10 minutes before we were about to record, I would like freak out and be like, oh, wait a second, I forgot this, this.

And what if they do this?

There's nothing for that.

Yeah.

And then sometimes, and then like, you know, one session we would be, you know, 25 minutes in and I'd read a paragraph and a half of my prepared stuff.

Yeah.

And I'm like, wow, we have so much.

But then other times we'd be 15 minutes in and I'd gone through a page and a half.

So

the pacing would just always, always send me for a loop.

But I think by the end, I learned to not be as nervous because I felt like it always balanced out.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're stuck on like one thing for a really long time and then everyone Naruto runs through the next three things.

Yeah, what?

Whoa.

Holy shit.

But I think it's probably too because, like, as a player, sometimes when you spend a lot of time somewhere, you're like, okay, I have to be well-behaved for a little bit.

Yeah, and well-behaved means like rushing through everyone else.

I was like, you're right.

I don't give a shit what this NPC says.

Yeah.

We've been mean to the teacher all week.

Yeah.

And then focus on it.

Something that I learned before, before this, since I had never prepped anything, I never really knew how much work and how, and how like rich, you know, the rest of the world was.

Yeah.

So I would always try to stay very on the rails as a player.

I would be like, you know, I don't want to like open any door or talk to random people because I'm just trying to like,

I want to be a little bit of a good student.

But now I realize that like.

you know, somebody like Welly, you interacted with my world so much.

And I actually really appreciated it because you're like unturning stones of like things that I had prepared.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so I think I'm gonna lose the fear of like, well, I don't want to ask so-and-so about this because what if they don't have it prepped or what if they hadn't thought of it yet?

Because even the things that I hadn't thought of, I actually loved being asked because it just showed that you guys were like engaged and curious in the world.

Yeah, and that's going to make me more curious as a player.

And also, like, when someone interacts with something that like you weren't expecting, sometimes you're like, oh, maybe I'll reward this with a hint that will pay off in three episodes.

Yeah,

totally.

Like you have random stuff in your mind that you're like, well, I'm not going to have one NPC say all of this, right?

But there's other stuff.

And then if someone interacts with something else, you're like, okay, actually, this is true.

I remember that with specifically Murph playing a detective for Twilight Sanctorum.

I got to give you guys so much more stuff just because like...

Murph already incredible at interacting with the world and playing a detective.

It was like so easy to just slip little things in because you were interacting with them.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't even think about how high investigation is like fun and also hard to DM for.

Where you're like.

It was good.

It was helpful for me.

I found it helpful because like you got like some like nap 20s that I was like, great, I could actually.

That is true.

It's actually more often that people miss stuff where you're like, fuck, I really want them to be able to get to this next thing because it's like interesting and I want the character.

It'd be cool if the characters knew this or something.

And then they miss it and you're like, I think that was a piece of of mercy advice that I got too.

There's like, don't ask for perception if you need them to find something.

Yeah,

everyone can roll an eight, and I'm like, huh, all right.

Yeah, with the eight, you see the griffin swoop down anyway, uh, because you have to fight this fucking griffin.

And that's actually what I planned.

Yeah,

it is.

I do think it claws you in the head, so I guess you would see it, huh?

I do think, though, you can kind of

save your ass.

So, if you accidentally do that, you can kind of save your ass by, like, if they get low, then they kind of like perceive it a little bit wrong, right?

Yeah, they don't perceive the most important part of it.

You can't ever have it so that they completely miss something that you need them to see.

So like in that case, if it was like, you're going to have a griffin swoop down.

Or they might think it's just a really weird eagle.

Yeah, or they might just like, it might just close in on them before they get ready and then it gets a surprise attack on them.

And then you roll initiative or something like that.

But yeah, always ways to spin it.

I've definitely had that happen a lot of times where it's just like investigate the room or something like that.

And I rolled a one, I rolled a one.

It's just like, well, I mean, you'd still see that there was a paper on the desk.

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, you're looking.

Someone has to take this letter, unfortunately.

Yeah.

You might not find like the secret thing under the desk, but surely you see that there's like, you know, someone just died here or something.

Yeah.

You see the dead body at the desk.

Yeah.

Well, you can't miss the dotty.

Off of that, yeah, I really liked how, I mean, I feel like Faye was like totally invented just because Emily asked like the right questions at the right moment.

Entirely.

There, I mean, there was, there, Darwin did not, in my prep, had no friends down

in the dungeon.

Emily asked, you're like, oh, I did.

Who did you leave behind?

I think he said a line that was like, my brothers and sisters.

And you're like, did you like, did you have someone you were close with?

And I was like, oh, yes.

Yeah.

So he would.

He definitely would.

But then Wellie having a crush on Faye is from Jake being like, she has a crooked smile.

Yeah.

And then that's when you lick the fingers and brush the eyebrows into place and get to work.

That's the back and forth.

DD is all about walking around saying, who can I fuck?

Yeah.

All right.

Now we've got one for the whole Carnal crew.

The Carnal Q.

Ella writes, How did you find playing in a low magic campaign when much of DD tends towards the magical?

Did you ever feel frustrated/slash unsure about characters' choices and encounters with this limitation in place?

I actually loved it.

Prefer it.

I loved it.

Well,

the new fighter, the 2024 fighter was so fun that it felt like we had so much in our tool.

Also, the different subclasses and everything.

I really loved the launch ability and everything like that.

I do, I mean, obviously, I love high magic campaigns because we've done a ton of them and everything.

But I do like at this point, giving ourselves limitations honestly kind of opens us up to more unique stuff and to just be like giving us access to everything just means we're just going to grab all the best stuff.

We're just going to be like, cool, yeah, counterspell, Misty Steph.

Yeah, I was going to say, I think it especially worked because we were all low magic So the when there was a problem It wasn't like we all turned to the magic user Right, yeah, yeah, it was like okay

Let's figure this out, you know, yeah, there is kind of an objective you could probably pick like 10 spells and be like every wizard uses these spells exactly yeah and whereas if we're all fighters or if we're all different subclasses then in that case we all have like a special ability or something that we bring to the table that feels different it felt nice like having all of the magic in the world be directed at us for the most part.

Yeah, it's just like anytime there's magic, it's being fired at us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so we did still have like access to magic and like that feeling of, oh, it's fun to get swept up in it.

Yeah.

But we got to be very like tactical and like, I liked using like fighter responses and things.

Yeah.

It did make the magic moments very special.

Like getting the ensorceled bow and you said that like it had the golden string on it.

That really hit.

Right.

Yeah.

So yeah.

Yeah.

And I remember like wanting to take take magic away because i was like oh man these guys are too good they're gonna fuck with me and ruin everything with their magic and then there was no magic and you guys still did that

oh yeah because we all have action search yes action search

turns out it was never about the magic it's just about like you guys are very good at dn it was it was fun though that like we all had um because we were all fighters it was like we're all gonna benefit from a short rest.

We're all like almost like tactically, we were all kind of on the same page of like, I could short rest right here.

Yeah, Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got to invade our campsite, man.

All right.

This is a question for Emily asked in ham damstered.

And it's actually thematically similar.

Nathan M writes, out of the plethora of characters you've created and played, which have been the most satisfying to play narratively and which have been the most fun mechanically?

I think that's so hard because I feel like I have, I tend to have like recency bias, either from a bad memory or just because, I don't know.

Yeah, that's what you're doing.

We've been doing this for, I mean, seven years is I think it's just like whatever one I've most recently played or I'm actively playing, I'm usually feeling like incredibly stimulated.

I mean, mechanically would probably be Onyx or Callie, right?

Those are like the most like powerful.

No, Fia was so fun.

Oh, true, true, true.

I love like Fia's mechanics, where I guess it's my only time playing a wizard.

I would say, yeah, I was going to say Fia because, like, you did so many fun things with like very simple spells.

Like, all of the Tensor's floating discs.

Tensor floating discs coming to me, too.

Yeah, something about a lot of wizard spells, um, you can get really creative with them, like, rather than just, like, yeah, Sophia was really great.

Um, oh, also, Terragon's snake root did some really fun stuff.

I remember, like, uh, it's the sigil spell, maybe, or, like, there's like one spell where you can, like, basically, like, implant a glyph and put a spell inside that.

You did some insane shit with that.

I recall.

Did I have that as Terragon?

I know that she had, she was a peace cleric, and there was something that I could, I could buff up my party so much.

Yeah.

It was like so powerful.

I do kind of like there's a recurring theme of we like these oops all one class.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it makes sense because it is you get to really like highlight the subclasses.

It is part of the world building too is it makes sense that there would be more adventuring parties that would be like, well, it is these group of knights that all, you know, hung out together.

Of course they would all be the same class.

That

makes sense.

It probably makes less sense that like a wizard would hang out with a fighter and a rogue or whatever.

It's kind of cool to like give them little elements

for flavor to differentiate them.

But yeah,

it is true.

Yeah, I feel like with three fighters,

there is like almost like a stamina issue.

Not an issue, but like we can just go for so long, so powerfully.

Yeah, that I feel like that party is like built for dungeon delving.

And like, which is kind of why Skaldova was like the perfect run for it.

Cause like we were just like, you did Skaldova in like three or four days, right?

I do.

I am definitely like, I have been loving playing a fighter amidst fighters, though.

So I am kind of like really eager to level up because I thought, I was like, oh, would Welly take any level of cleric or anything magical?

And I was like, I actually don't think I want to be a magic user.

I think I want to be a fighter who, like, I don't think that Wellie's idea is like, I want to feel magic coming from my fingertips.

She's like, I want to be absorbed by magic.

Yeah, you were like a knight.

You were like, I want to fight for magic.

I want to give my oath to magic.

yeah exactly yeah that's very sick i didn't even think about multi-classing i think we're all just so excited to get our second attack that i don't think i know yeah i'm just that is one of the that's one of the questions i was going to ask you guys about it is about multi-classing so it sounds like the answer is uh maybe no is everybody's just gonna take not because especially with like steel hawk and stuff which is uh my subclass is i want to find out like what i get yeah yeah also like my my subclass the first time i saw it was when i dm'd for the first time for the solstice uh it's a rune night Callo played a rune night.

Oh, yeah.

And I was like, oh, this is a really sick subclass.

And then getting into it, I'm like, this is awesome.

Like, there's no better feeling than that cloud rune where you redirect an attack.

It's so sick.

Yeah.

It's awesome.

Dude, that thing, I don't know how I forgot about it like literally every single time.

And you fucked with me with it a lot, but I always forgot.

You got to write a post-it note, man.

Yeah, dude.

Yeah, I love, I mean, the new fighter, like, it made me excited to play a fighter again.

I know it's a joke and I always play a fighter, but now I'm like, no, I'm like,

I get it now, though.

And also just like action surge is like the best feeling.

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I was thinking that, like, in the world of Skeldova, because I think currently the subclasses for the 2024 fighter, it's pretty limited.

It's like battle master, uh, champion, and I think weirdly like purple dragon knights.

Oh, yeah, purple dragon knights are cool, which I feel like would make sense in Skaldova because I know that um Cicada is like a black dragon, or maybe he's just black because of the

green dragon.

I actually didn't really think, I think it was, I guess, green.

It was Cicada's body had decomposed and made the and made like the pool black.

Check the tape.

Check the tape.

I think he was canonically green.

I remember him being green as well.

Check the tape.

Check the tape.

Or just, you know, check the tape and get him into it.

But anyway, there's definitely a purple dragon out there somewhere.

So you could version.

If you wanted to switch subclasses, you could be a purple dragon.

Yeah, that's cool.

There's a, yeah, the steel hawk thing is really cool.

I'm looking at it now.

Level seven, you get steel grace with

starting at level seven.

Wearing armor doesn't impose a disadvantage on your dexterity, aka stealth checks.

Wow.

And when you make dexterity saving throws, you can use your launch feature as a reaction.

And when you do so, you take no damage if you succeed or half if you fail.

Yeah, which is really neat.

And it's also like visually

or I guess

creatively interesting in your in the theater of the mind of thinking of like about to fall into a fissure or something during an earthquake and then you just like shove your lance down and jump up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's also very fun because we've been making fun of your stealth so much because of how clanky you are.

Shut up.

You just learn how to tiptoe.

Yeah.

I mean, the arc of Zudrick learning to be subtle.

Tiniest little creaks.

Zudrick learning how to trust and stealth.

Just oiling his armor.

Oiling his armor and his friendship.

Also, for narrative stuff, we have to shout out Cinnamon, which I think is probably one of your best narrative characters.

Oh, my God.

I do wish to return to Cinnamon, my complicated old man.

I feel like there's so many cool Pathfinder modules and whatnot.

It'd be fun to try and run another one.

It made me laugh so hard.

I would say that one in the macro was the most satisfying to find out that he was an iconic character.

And I didn't realize that.

And I improvised the movie.

This is like taking Xanathar or something and just making him a little fact about the spice trait.

What's up?

This is my take on James Bond.

Which is funny because it's much less controversial than my character, who is just super annoying because of his voice.

And my character had the same voice.

Now back to me.

It's time to seize the J, everybody.

Wow.

Cooper McCrory writes, question for the DM, Jake.

If you had to insert one of the NADPOD extended universe characters, i.e., the Grinch, Austin Powers, the yellow MMO,

into Skaldova, which do you think you could include without completely ruining the story?

Okay,

will you give us one second for us to get you have an answer?

Because I thought of it.

Yeah, I thought of it.

So let's go around the horn and I'll close.

I'll put all of them.

Let's guess what you're going to say before you start.

Okay, so the Grinch, no, right?

No, I was just like, oh, I was just saying Grinch in a cave.

Okay.

funny, like, hairy barbarian monster with like dyed green fur.

Okay, so the Grinch, I'll say, is a 5 out of 10 as a possibility.

Boomer Pooh, no.

Not a champ.

Boomer Pooh really does

0 out of 10.

Gen X Stitch, no.

Gen X Stitch.

No, I'll say if Boomer Pooh is a 1 out of 10, Gen X Stitch is a 3 out of 10

because Skaldova does have Gen X energy by being sad.

Yeah, Doctor Evil's too high-tech.

He could be a scholar, though.

He could be

a two out of 10.

It would be so reflavored that it would be

wait.

Gen X Stitch, though, okay.

I'm gonna

make a case for Gen X.

I'm gonna make a case.

Because Gen X Stitch is, he's sad because he's Gen X.

All right.

He's jaded because he's Gen X.

Very Skulldova.

Very Zudrick.

And then Black Lace, he's a little monster.

Oh,

okay.

Okay.

Yeah,

I'm convinced.

I think it's Gen - is the answer Jed X Stitch?

It was Crash Bandicoot.

Okay.

What?

Spoken like a man who has not played Crash Bandicoot.

I have not played.

But in our universe,

Crash Bandicoot is just a guy that is just insane, an insane beast that tries to kill you.

Oh, he actually follows you to the end of the earth and he tries to, yeah, he shows up to kick your ass

on one random night a year.

I don't remember what the exact existence is.

I could imagine like a feral beast running, like charging out of the woods, all claws and teeth, barking at you, chasing you into a field, nowhere to hide.

What do you do?

That's kind of like this crash bandicoot that I see.

Okay, I love it.

Wearing joy.

I love it.

Okay.

That would be like one animal that Willie would have to talk herself down from trying to befriend.

I can't wait for like whatever their holiday special is where the Skaldova crew meets Crash Bandicoot.

Okay, here's a fun question.

This one's from Goose Toes.

It's a Carnal Q.

What is your most and least comfortable voice to do for a character or NPC?

Whoa.

Oh, I'm very self-conscious about doing men because I'm very aware of the limitation of the lower register of my voice.

Oh.

Sometimes I see online, like when I do a gravelly voice, people are like, oh, your vocal cords, like, how do you do it?

I'm like, that's very easy for me.

That's like my comfort zone, a gravel.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The thing that gets me out of my comfort zone is if I ever have to do an accent, then I get certainly literally any accent.

You remember Zudric was originally supposed to be French?

Oh, right.

It would have never worked in retrospects.

I actually love where he landed.

I love where he landed, but he would be a very different character.

I think he's shaped more serious.

Yeah, probably.

It would have ended up being great because it just would have been a completely different journey, but it's hard to imagine.

I would have been.

The reason I didn't do it is because I was working on it.

And like, if I was concentrating really hard, I could pull it off, but that's just not a place to improvise from.

No, that's totally, yeah.

Yeah, I could say the hardest one that I like I lost.

I like can't do it anymore is Scout Master Denny.

And I think

it's too high, it's just super high-pitched.

And I think that maybe

I think that six or seven years ago, maybe I wasn't talking as much for my job.

I think I've just like ruined my voice a little bit by doing like pendergreens and shit for all the like just being like this, like talking like a fucking moron, you know, as Zudrick or Pendergreens or whatever, has now made it hard to do.

Hey, gang!

I can't even.

Like, that's not even his voice.

Yeah, that's kind of why you did, like, Crudbird.

Crudbird's like the alternate Scott Master Denny, where it's high-paced, but gravelly.

That's true.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can do this.

I just got it.

Yeah.

I feel you on that, though, because, like, I remember when we were doing, like, the Metal City Mayhem 2 shot and I had to do tails a lot.

Like, that's doing, like, childlike voices is very tough.

Because you have to go, like, really high up here.

Yeah, that's like a pretty damn good.

That's pretty damn good.

Really impressive.

Thank you.

I mean, I don't want to play with that character, but that is good.

Oh, come on.

No.

I hate him.

I kicked Caldwell in real life.

I kicked Caldwell.

Yeah,

can't do Scout Master Denny anymore.

I don't know why.

Whoa, I didn't even know that.

Yeah.

Wow, R.I.P.,

he's dead, I guess.

I mean, I guess he is dead, right?

Campaign 3 is dead.

200 years, yeah.

No, he's definitely

survived.

Anyone could do it.

But if he survived, though, he might be a different person now.

Yeah, true.

Right, his voice would have been a little wearier.

He could have picked up smoking.

Wow.

Oh, wow.

That's great.

Yeah.

He worked.

Your voice that you just did will work for him now.

Hey, gang.

So, Denny.

I vaped too much.

Sorry,

a really bad vape that messed up my vocal cords.

Okay, let's go back to the Carnal Q.

We've got two more questions.

This one is from Chip.

I'm Carnal Plivering.

Which one of Boggy's buds would you each want to play in a one-shot?

Whoa.

Well, now that I know they have classes.

Yeah.

I mean, probably Grandpa Crunchums.

Grandpa Crunchums.

Yeah.

The rogue.

Like, there's something about, I feel like I have met so many like friends who are young people who are refer to themselves as Papa or Grandpa.

So it's like, I feel like I'm already there.

I get it.

I see it.

I think I'm going to go the opposite direction and say flute boy because I love the idea of playing a character with a very like fantastical nickname that's just like a real grouchy old man.

Actually,

playing the flute longer and you can take a shit, kid.

Playing Cinnamon and playing an old man was like, I would like to play a lot more old men.

Yeah.

I do love playing old men.

I think for me,

my first instinct is Dandio Candles because I kind of picture him as like an artificer.

That's who I wanted.

Oh, you can have him because

he has the best name.

He has the best name.

I picture him literally having like a burning candle like melting on his head sometimes.

Yeah.

He's working late.

Yeah, because he also, yeah, he has all these cool inventions.

Uh-huh.

Quote, cool inventions.

An arrow with a boxing glove on.

Yeah.

He's Wiley Coyote, essentially.

Murph, I kind of pictured Sister Bix as a cleric of the same class as Mac.

That like holds up press like brewery.

That's sick.

I think she'd be fun to play.

Also, I think, I think it's got to be Longest Tom, though, because I love just a serious character with a short fuse who gets like really wacky when he like loses his temper.

Seems very fun to play.

And I picture him being like, maybe like a monk or something like that.

So I'm very familiar with that class.

It'd be fun to play, dip into that again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Longest Tom might be my favorite name because of my love for Tom DeLong.

Shit.

Maybe he's a bard.

Shit.

Oh, wow.

Do you think it's Tom DeLong?

Can I?

That's who I want to play now.

Yeah, I give you full permission to go in the Tom DeLong direction.

Can I give you

one more?

I remembered I have a little bit of backstory about Grandpa Crunchums that didn't cook.

Oh my god, yes.

So his real name is Mortimer Lunch.

Okay.

Mortimer Lunch.

And he was the apprentice chef

at a nobleman's keep.

And his master was executed for suspected poisoning.

Whoa.

And that was how he got mixed up with Boggy's crew.

He was a lunch named Lunch.

That's awesome.

Does he still cook or is like cooking?

Yeah, I think he's like, I kind of pictured it like his dexterous nature.

This sleight of hand was how he like chops up all the veggies and stuff like that.

Okay.

He's really good at julianing things.

Okay.

Yeah.

Wow.

So I think he's like a rogue, but also like does all like the prep cooking.

All the prep cooking, but not the cooking cooking because someone else does the actual cooking.

Yes.

I think that like Boggy is like the one that's like stirring the pot.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Well just going, oh,

I mean, I love that.

Oh, it's really cute.

I feel like

I want the next season of Skaldova to start with a flashback with the Boggy's buds.

Oh my two.

And Murph and Emily are playing two of the buds.

That's so good.

All right, file it away.

You just have a bud dice and you roll it to picture who you're going to play.

Our last question you guys have to indulge me.

It comes from Izzy and Izzy writes, what is your favorite Skaldova moment?

Skulldoment.

Okay.

Skulldomant.

Off the top of my head, I mean, really just like dungeon crawling in general and like each room having different stuff in it was so exciting.

But I think definitely the moment when Welly found out that she was descended from one of the knights of Princess Lena.

Yeah, that was very exciting.

I loved, I mean, again, this is kind of recency bias because we literally just recorded this like a week or two ago, but the reveal that Boggy was fucking lying to us the whole time

is awesome.

And I'm also like excited for the

retrieval of some of the buds.

I think that's a fun bud for the campaign.

I mean, on a similar note, I really loved Zudrich's face reveal.

Oh, yeah, that was really cool, too.

Yeah, it was also, it just like fit the tone so perfectly where, I mean, I feel like if I was doing it, I would have done something really fucking stupid where just like, brah, he has horns.

Oh!

Right.

But like, just the fact that it was like just like a

canvas of his past that we were finally allowed to see was just so perfect.

And it like instantly colored the character in a way that like, you know, brought like sympathy and light to him.

And yeah, I love that shit.

Also the Ender's waltz, like, y'all, y'all had amazing shit.

Oh, yeah, that was such a sweet moment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Lots of little moments of like hope and stuff from Welly and everything that really touched me.

I do like trying to trick Emily into having to write music.

Yeah.

Well, that one I actually prompted.

I was like, what's your favorite song?

Oh, I have another one that was hard to remember because it's been months now, but the reveal of the carnal release.

Oh, my God.

Oh, yeah, because I did it.

I didn't tell Jacob.

Oh yeah.

I don't think I knew it.

No, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, because you had told me a bunch of stuff.

You had told me, like, I think I knew Wellie's backstory.

So I think that's why it really made me laugh

is I didn't know about the coming in the pants part.

Yeah.

I only knew like, I knew you were like disgraced and were like leaving all this stuff.

You talked all this stuff through me.

So as you're telling me the backstory, I'm like, right, this part I know about this.

I know about this, like in my head.

And then she says that part, it just fucking threw me.

I think I also like had the idea to do it, and I was like, is it too far?

And then I think I was like, let's just wait till the moment and find out if it is too far.

And then I just went for it.

I think that you've got if you had said anything other than carnal release, it wouldn't have worked.

Yeah.

The most like era-appropriate term you could have used.

Yeah, just sold it so hard.

It was so crass and yet not.

I have a lot.

I think for Boggy, the moment where you're in the hole and you drop the act and you just say, fuck shit.

I think that was so funny.

That was so insanely funny.

And it like, it's such a great joke and also just like instantly doubles Boggy's depth.

It's like that's that is kind of the hint that we like that you followed through

at the very, very end.

It was so poetic that I fell in a hole again.

I'm so glad.

Yeah.

And then I, for Zudrick, I just, I love, I think it was episode four when you guys like finally get into the castle and you're just, and like Zudrick comes alive.

You're poking poking everything with the lance.

That was like the piranhas.

And then for Wellie, I think I just like, I loved how much Emily

helped me with developing the world and the lore.

Yeah.

Because, like, the entire thing was, I realized, like, as I was writing it, that it was like my love letter to hope and

like silver lining and optimism.

And the character that Emily made is just like the exact right,

like the exact right tool to unearth all of that.

And the fact that it like it ended with Boggy coming clean with Zudrick standing up for somebody like there you know magic isn't back but hope is still alive I think that was really perfect yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah another uh I guess it would be a rose for the like we're not doing that now we're not doing oh sorry sorry sorry I'll I'll withdraw

something else I'll drop my comment no a piecing a favorite part a favorite part if you will was the sort of failed religion check at the end of I think it was episode 10 where we kind of had to make our own peace with the situation at hand, which I'm nine.

Kind of goes on what Jake is talking about.

And also, really, really cool encounters, Jake.

I know we like womped most of the monsters.

Yeah, you did.

I know we kind of rocked.

I know we absolutely fucking rocked.

I love it, though.

I love finding like animals and monstrous.

But you also did a great job of like making the terrain always interesting.

It wasn't just like a lot of first-time DMs will just be like, you got this character, you got this character.

They're just going to to beat the shit out of each other until one of them hits zero hit points.

Like, that's what I did at the beginning of campaign one.

But you did a really good job of being like, even our first encounter was, okay, there's this aspect of the battlefield where like the land is getting ripped apart.

So you might fall in a hole or something like that.

And even just that adds, you know, it makes it twice as much fun.

Yeah, especially when you're doing theater of the mind.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Totally.

Yeah.

My pine cone for the fire is, which is that's what we're calling it.

Oh, okay.

Um, is really just getting to like kind of I don't know, write a little more with Jake, like getting to text back and forth about boggy stuff was it was really fun.

It's like I love that part of um any DM relationship where you're just like you text uh your DM an idea and you get to like go back and forth a little bit on it.

That's how it rules.

It was getting it was good getting to like invite uh Jake into the circle, as it were.

Yeah, thanks for finally texting me back.

Yeah, I never, I never text Jake ever, so it was nice to get to do it once.

Uh, sweet, thank you all so much for listening.

Uh, over on our Patreon, we will have When Did Things Come Out?

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The game show that is sort of.

If you've been waiting to subscribe, today is the day.

Yeah, today is the day.

This one's for all the history buffs out there.

Yeah, this one's for all the history buffs.

Not really.

Come on, wait.

Let's play one quick round right now with the Fallout Wave.

Wait, okay, yeah,

my guess is 2005.

I think that's when that album came out.

Shit, take this to your grave.

I'll say 2006.

I'll say 2004 because it was the single.

I think it's 2003.

Okay.

Jake is for sure wrong.

I'll look it up right now.

Okay.

When did Fallout Boy release Grand Show Theft Autumn?

No way.

Jake's right.

2003.

Jake is

right.

Fuck.

Because I fucking remember me and Eddie Bird in my sob.

Oh, my

God.

Summer of

junior year.

That's the sob of the summer.

Am I Zudrick?

Because I got to eat crow.

Although he would never eat a crow.

So am I the anti-Zudric?

You're Zudrick's enemy.

Wow.

Buggy used to eat a lot of crows and he's had to stop.

Sort of an interesting look into how quick we consume media now versus back then, because I have a distinct memory.

You don't have to make this

Fallout Boy really hitting.

I remember them being on the cover of Alternative Press Magazine in 2005.

And that was.

I think you're massive.

Yeah, shut the fuck up, everyone.

This

I was so confident that Jake was the guest wrong.

Jake is tape on.

For sure wrong.

Muncher crow, dude.

Back in the day, we used to just be able to be confidently wrong about stuff like that.

Anyway, more of this.

This is what the show is over on patreon.com slash nadpod.

That's NADDPOD don't sing yet.

Does anyone have anything they'd like to plug?

Yes, I would like to plug Kendra Wells has a Kickstarter for the sequel to one of their graphic novels.

This one is called Real Hero Shit Harder Than It Looks.

Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

Did Kendra do some art for Dimension 20?

Is that right?

Kendra, who did all of the art, all of the characters for Unsleeping City.

Oh,

I love that art.

Super sick.

Go, Kendra.

Go, Kendra.

I would like to shout out some P.O.

box stuff that we got recently, if that's all right.

Number one, congrats to the grads.

Can I say it?

Oh, yeah.

Congrats to City of Space.

Congrats.

Congrats.

Congrats.

We get a lot of like graduation announcements into the P.O.

box, and it always warms my heart.

It warms my heart to see it.

Enjoy your summers.

Pop that Fallout Boy CD into your Saab 900 ass.

Yeah.

2003.

Fuck.

And cruise down the CT15.

I also would like to shout out, let's see.

Oh, Cass sent us drawings they did of the Carnal Crew from Skeldova and some Magic the Gathering tokens they drew as well.

So we'll send those along to you too.

That's Murph and Emily.

Ian and Anastasia H sent us croc gibbets, including actual rock-croc gibbets, which I thought was very fun.

They basically glued some rocks to jump.

Oh, yeah.

My two favorite things.

Crocks and crocs.

Kelly D sent us flavored Kit Kats and souvenirs from their trip to Japan.

Murph and Emily will not be seeing any of those because I've eaten most of them already.

Let's see.

Oh, Adam M, speaking of rocks, this has been a very rock-themed campaign.

Adam M sent us each rocks styled to to our personalities.

Whoa.

Let's see.

Emily got colorful rocks and test pieces of jewelry.

Whoa.

Jake got rocks referenced in Skeldova.

I got rocks with character.

And Murph, of course, got some of Adam's favorite rocks since he's not much of an outdoors guy.

Thanks so much for all of the stuff.

We get like too much stuff to shout out.

I like to highlight some things, but please keep sending us stuff.

It's very fun.

Again,

thanks so much to everyone that submitted.

Sweet.

And Jake, your sub stack?

Oh, yeah, my sub stack.

Check it out.

It's substack.com slash at Jake Herwith.

And subscribe to Emily's while you're there.

Yeah, I know.

Oh, yeah.

I haven't posted anything yet.

I'm waiting to restack whatever your first post.

Really?

Yeah, dude.

I followed two people, you and my mom.

Oh, wow.

Somebody followed me on Substack because I started one so that I could follow people.

So I'm not posting anything about it, but thank you for the follow.

I'll read M's before she hits post, but other than that, I'm just not going to be involved, I think.

You have to listen to it, too.

It's a song.

It's oh, yeah, well, of course.

I'll have already listened to it.

Actually, you've already heard this song.

You've already heard this song.

There you go.

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Where is your one a night?

I hope he is a show to

2003.

It's the end of the show, everybody, and that means I need to shout out our benevolent Council of Elders, starting with Brad D, Jeffrey S, Lord of the Fjord, Later Mixed Gator, Matt M, Cutter W, Jeff C, Daniel G, Danielle the Dastardly Dame, Carpe Liam, Victor T, aka Balnor's Boy, Hoyd's friend, Justin I, Danny Danster, TJM, Trele the Cray, Christopher B, Daniel R, Jordan L, Cyborg version version of Josh the Cobald, Tar Gat, Stevie Wags, Hellish Rebuker, the NB DM PhD, Princess Yar, Jory S, Jack L, and Nicholas C, star of every film ever made in Bohemia, Mike H, Alka Smeltzer Plus, Great Value Gemma, Tyler F, Carbrow Chapel Hill FPV, Cece Lulu, Old Cobbs Dunkel, Older Burn, Hercule Poirot, The Rabbit Folk Detective, Timmy R,

Jakes Jerk Jelly, hashtag CCC,

Taylor B, the vengeful one-winged angel, Cass Strong Grinch, Steven, shout out to Bowie the Troll C, Mike K, Nick W, William W, Big Bad Beardo the Mad, Ananorama, Percival Frederickstein, Von Mussel, Klazowski, De Rolo III, Jay Dragonborn, Guardian of the Vibe, honoring the cock.

This isn't even my final form.

Ben A, Dave H, Not That Nick, Danny F, Hawkeye Pierce, Book Far's Assistant Issy F, Big Bad John, DPC Is Awesome, Sean, the Shade Tree Mechanic of Zelboldar, Summer Rose, aka Grantaire, Mark the Dark Lord's Taint, Cat C, Misa of House and Zunza, Ariel the Occasional Mermaid, Selena N, aka Valay C Raptor, B Perky Always, Pat L, Lauren H, Serve 16, Annie the Fae Wild Therapist, Pierogi Frenzy, Connor S, Salil, BioQuirt 7, Amberdextress, Bean Rat WasInnocent, Trub Hopdropper, Jack H, King of the Mole People under Iron Deep, dressed in blue and fighting his way through a bracket-style tournament, Valen, Podge, the bitchin' bunny bard, Druidic Peyton, Carlin C, Noah the Bullywug Boy, hashtag honor the cock, James G, Everything Bago, the Eladron who just wants to hang out with his pet badger, Stripey, Reverend Chatterbones, Han,

eric b marcos phd student like a wizard artificer irl learns the balanced druid frida m maggie holly the green laughing hyena cal and her cats portland star and berlin aaron b russell h a monk named dilgo yes the whole thing yes every time cody c lorelai the succubi and kyra the succulent snack mckenna stout your friendly neighborhood yaunt and youngle andrew and sid john adams we can be done with the presidential puns.

Meg, the mail carrier of Bahumia, James F, Austin S, Wayfarer, now has to do something with the trolls, get rid of them, turn to page 42, keep them, turn to page 69,

Oreo, Shane C, Barpo Goodbarrel, Barbarian, Garrett G, aka one big curd, Charlie Brown's best friend, Renee the Monster Captain, Olivia the Enchanting Bard, and Jared the soap opera cleric.

Want it known that the the Rue in Naruto is pronounced with the same emphasis and it gets cut off from there.

I'm assuming you're just saying we pronounce Naruto wrong.

It's Naruto?

Sure.

Blue Ash, Fico, Garrett the Artificer, Valkyrie the Gert C brother, Anthony the raddest of dudes, Jay, the fairies have returned to debauchery and must now go to the Carnal Corner.

Cantrip Dumbledore, the Bear Onesie wearing barbarian, Lexi H, MJ the BFG, Roger L, Nodrog the Pass-a-Fist Barbarian, Jean Luca, Leon K, legendary hero of Bahumia from a future campaign, shenanigans O'Connor, Mios the Great, Joshua S, Alexander, Linz W, Sky the Wise, aka the Lone Dungeon Master, Johnny Dude K, The Mischief of Nadpods Familiars, Pavu Eskanar, the Goliath Paladin providing service with a smile, Kit and Their Cat, Tim M, Tiles L, TR, MLG Cheeto, Shel B, Kenna's first favorite sprite girl, happy pride to Fia, Jens, Welly, Moonshine, and Beverly.

Papa says, Rear here, Rear Queer.

Jet S, Snailis, who's infecting Worcester from within.

A bone flute literally tells a story when played.

Jarrett, the soap opera cleric, who wants to say hello to his wife, Olivia, the Enchanting Bard, while she's at work.

Hi, dear.

Pawpaw Sky Days, Mimaw, Sky Days, Megan N, Anthony B., Savannah H, Balnor's best friend Steve, Stephanie of House and Zunza, Benjamin A, Gimli the Corgi, Papa and Foster's canine friend, Mikael A, Josh H., Pilot of the Nightmare Verse Flight, The Two Crew Blew Through, Jennery, Kelsey A., Ethan the Mailman, Maple the Shy Bookworm, Ashasaurus, Billy Batson, Tori the Tungsten Dragoose, Accidental Sharer of Recipes, Michael L.

S.

II, Carl B., Plumber of the Realm, Dex Riddlewell, Ace Dreggs, High Lord of Critzburg, Vin Diagram, Catamilius the Consumed, Clinton P, Cam the Frogman, Dean, Jake W says, Hi Mom, Tuesday Cross, the interactive fiction designer, Steve L, Tyler McM, Alex G, Zibadabachary, Kaylee, Katarina C, Misty, the crispy kitty, really hates flame skulls, Greg W.

There's so many of us now, but hey, you're doing great, and we love you.

Thanks, Greg W.

Baruch Thunderhelm, fifth generation Minotaur working as an abandoned labyrinth tour guide, Tupac Aubrey, Bony is dead, the Waterworth, Nick, Amy, Aegis Kunari, Ignition Class Petalstorm, Charlemagne, Not the God, DJ Dramamine, Alrich von Zerevich, and finally, my favorite patron makes me say penis on my show.

What a great way to end it.

Thank you all so much for listening.

Thank you to all of our Patreon subscribers and, of course, our benevolent Council of Elders.

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We'll catch you all next time.

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