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listening to the first ep of naddpod is like a rite of passage bc they spend a hefty amount of time talking about dragon genitals before starting the campaign and that will make or break you

“A bunch of cowards and the bravest little girl in the world.” - Neverafter, Ep. 3, about Ylfa Snorgelsson

“The world should have protected you, but you have been asked to protect it. What an honor. What an injustice." - NADDPOD, Ep, 97, about Beverley Toegold V

Something something about children being forced to grow up faster than they deserved because the powerful people around them aren’t doing enough. Gonna go cry thanks.

So my takeaway so far from watching more Dimension 20 is that people don’t talk about Zac and Lou enough, and Emily’s a way more savvy player than her fandom reputation would point to.

Dimension 20 fandom stuff leaked through to me through osmosis, and I don't think I ever saw anything about Zac and Lou (well, Lou pre-EXU: Calamity tbh) and y'all, they're both so good? Zac in particular is probably my favorite player at the D20 table. He's a master of the stealth one-liner, and his characters are always unexpected yet somehow perfect for the setting. I would love to see him let loose on a slightly more serious setting, I think he would kill it. And I've talked about Lou a lot before and how much I love his energy but he really helps the D20 table come alive and he's one of the most focused and savvy role-play experts in the group.

With Emily, the fandom narrative around her created imo a TOTALLY incorrect impression of what her playstyle would be. She’s way more tactical than people give her credit for, and tbh it’s frustrating to see her really solid storytelling instincts reduced to “she ruined Brennan’s plans!” or "chaos player!" Brennan lamenting her savvy gameplay moves seems to be mostly him being hyperbolic. In reality Emily's very good at seeing the big picture and helping make a great story. Having now seen her masterfully adapt to very different settings and tones between ACoFaF and USC, I think people don't appreciate how much she's paying attention and settling in to the story presented and really helping it thrive.

Heyo, so I’ve been doing some quote art for Not Another D&D Podcast! I decided to go ahead and share it with y’all, cause I’m kind of happy with how it’s turning out. So here’s the first one for our favorite fungus-loving queen Moonshine!

I listen to NADDPOD and Dungeons and Daddies regularly, and I couldn't recommend them more! I have had to pull over the car I was driving because I was crying so hard listening to NADDPOD, but I've also had to remove myself from a small shop because I was laughing so hard. I haven't cried cried yet while listening to Dungeons and Daddies, but I'm also not 100% caught up, and I have cried because I was laughing so hard.

Also, if you like what's happening on Dimension 20: Escape From The Bloodkeep, check out the rest of Dimension 20's games! Check out Fantasy High. Same DM all the way around (who is also a guest on NADDPOD at one point), I've cried cried and cried laughing. Great all around. (Also two of the players on Fantasy High are a player and the DM from NADDPOD, and several of the other players are also guests on NADDPOD).

So Critical Role is on hiatus this week, and they’ll be taking another break over Christmas and New Years. Are you bored and needing another tabletop show to scratch that itch? Yes, there’s TAZ too, but they’re biweekly so you’ll still have off weeks. And everybody knows about Critical Role and TAZ. Don’t you want to try some of the lesser known but still very very good roleplaying shows?

I hope the answer is yes, because I’m gonna rec some of my favorites! Please feel free to reblog and add your favorites too! There are so many very good D&D/tabletop podcasts/web shows that get overlooked and a Critical Role hiatus is a great time to shine some light on those gems! And without further ado:

Not Another D&D Podcast: the campaign after the campaign! NADDPOD is set in a world that has already been saved by a team of legendary heroes...except maybe the legendary heroes didn’t do such a great job saving the world as we thought and fucked up quite a lot and left mountains of problems to be solved in their wake! NADDPOD has a great story and drama and heartbreak, but mostly it’s wildly hilarious. The Band of Boobs consists of Hardwon Surefoot (a human fighter raised by dwarves who left home for adventure and is used to be being a big fish in a small pond,) Beverly Toegold V (halfling paladin boyscout and Very Good Boy who’s trying to earn his merit badges) and Moonshine Cybin (wood elf druid, hillbilly and chaotic bi who flirts with every woman she meets. She has a possum companion named Pawpaw. I love Moonshine.)

Dungeons & Daddies (Not A BDSM Podcast): Four dads from our world gets transported into the Forgetten Realms on a quest to rescue their sons! This podcast is extremely goofy and if you thought the McElroys played Calvinball, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Dad jokes cause psychic damage, and there are a LOT of dad jokes. It’s 90% hilarious shenanigans and then 10% feelings (I cried about a character called Lizardboy Scales McStuffins.) The dads are Darryl Wilson (barbarian and stay at home coach dad, big softy on the inside,) Henry Oak(druid and mega crunchy hippie dad,) Glenn Close (bard and rock’n roll pot-smoking dad,) and Ron Stampler (rogue, emotionally detached stepfather and honestly probably a cryptid. What the fuck is Ron? We just don’t know.)

Dimension 20: Escape from the Bloodkeep: this is a fairly short webshow, just 6 episodes long, and I admit that I only checked it out because Matt Mercer and Erika Ishii were on it, but I absolutely loved it! Escape from the Bloodkeep follows the subordinates of the Lord of Shadows right before the great final battle of good vs evil that they were totally going to win...except a couple halflings threw some magic jewelry in a volcano and fucked everything up. It’s wildly funny as a LOTR parody but the evil villains end up becoming a found family at the end, because of course they do. The vile villains include Efink Murderdeath (elven grave cleric who turned evil to rebel against her dad,) Sokhbarr the Boglord (half orc ranger and basically the Steve Irwin of monsters,) Kraz-Thun AKA Leiland (anxious insecure Ringwraith warlock,) Lilith (queen of the spiders and wine mom to thousands of tiny spider kids,) Maggie (tiefling barbarian and daughter to the Lord of Evil) and Marcus St Vincent (human pirate who sided with evil to get rich.) Dimension 20 has some other shows like Fantasy High and The Unsleeping City that I’ve heard good things about, but I haven’t gotten around to watching them yet!

Rusty Quill Gaming: I’ve only just started this one but I love it already! It’s set in an alternate 19th century London that has magic and all the usual fantasy trappings, but also Lord Byron is there? It’s a lot of fun so far but I’ve been told that there’s a lot of pain coming and I’m very scared. The squad (at least where I’m at) includes: Sasha (socially awkward human rogue,) Hamid (halfling sorcerer and Fancy Lad,) Zolf (dwarf cleric, has a peg leg and possibly the owner of the team’s only brain cell) and Bertie (human fighter and loud, flashy buffoon.)

And it’s not a tabletop/roleplay podcast but I only got into Rusty Quill Gaming because of one of Rusty Quill’s other podcasts, The Magnus Archives, which I can’t recommend highly enough. It’s a horror series that follows the new head archivist at the Magnus Institute, which is an organization that documents all manner of supernatural and spooky shit. What happened to the last head archivist? It’s a ~mystery~. At first it seems like a bunch of stand alone stories but soon you start to realize that there are all these threads connecting everything and I can’t really say much more because a big part of the fun is seeing how the overarching story comes together. Also lots of LGBT+ characters. The main character is canon ace. Please listen to The Magnus Archives.

Hope you’ll give some of these a try, and again, feel free to add your own! Give some other shows some love!

i’ll see you in the stars

It’s someone at the university who comes up with it. Naming stars after the four of them, her and Hardwon and Bev and Balnor. Hardwon laughs when he hears, his beard gone grey and laughter lines covering his face. I’m fucking positive I have a poem about this somewhere, he says, rummaging around his stump, and the conversation drifts away from the university’s decision to making fun of Hardwon’s early poetry.

It’s not brought up again until a few years later, after Hardwon dies. (In his home, with bev on his left and moonshine on his right and as many of his friends squeezed in as possible, the walls covered in his art.) Beverly and Moonshine are standing together in the Crick, looking up at the sky. 

Hey Bev? Moonshine says quietly, arm around his shoulders. It might just be me, but, remember when they named some stars after us?

Bev looks at her quizzically. Yeah, I remember. Why, what’s up?

Moonshine rubs the back of her neck with her other hand. Well… I was looking at them the other day, and Hardwon’s… it looks a little brighter. But I don’t know, it might just be me, missing him.

Bev looks up at the sky, searches out the constellation the university had dubbed ‘the Titans.’

It doesn’t look like them, not really. Four vaguely humanoid shapes of three different sizes, but when the idea had been put forward it had been agreed upon almost immediately, and none of them thought it would come to anything. 

But Bev looks and the cluster of stars that make up ‘Hardwon’ do seem a little bright. For just a second, Bev can hear Hardwon’s loud, joyful laugh on the Crick breeze, and he sniffles a little. 

Well. We did a lot of pretty wild stuff. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was up there, watching over us.

They lean closer into each other, and stare up the sky for a little while longer.

i had heard whispers of the “olaf dies in frozen 2” short rest but actually listening to it was so fucking funny

Picture this Brian Murphy, Matt Mercer, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Aabria Iyengar as players for a short d&d series. GMed by Anthony Burch.

Series premise; DB20. The four play as themselves attending San Diego comic-con. There have been rumors of strange goings on after dark and whispers of panelists disappearing. It's up to the players to solve the mystery that threatens to make this the last SDCC ever.

Also there should be a fifth person who plays an intern to one of the other players.

~ spoilers for eldermourne below ~

zirk virvain is just the archetype of the mad Victorian scientist but. morally good. like. he drinks piss. he has mommy issues and a gun. his experiments give him free ombre hair dye. he injects sludge into his friends. he got beat up by 40 year old children. twice. he chews on a stirring rod during autopsies. he had sex through a magic bag one time. he found the cure to death. he didn't even bother testing it he just straight up died and it worked. he technically didn't kill god but his friends killed god's daughter which is close enough.

"When there's a villainous man, I can't be attracted to him. But when there's a villainous woman... I can be. Y'know?"

- tarragon snakeroot

(Emily Axford)