#i just started listening to naddpod's trinyvale

[koszmarnybudyn]

I really can't belive that after watching all of the first campaign my first posted/fully finished fanart will be of the triplets and not the boobs. Anyway these three are stuck in my brain and refuse to leave.

And no text and transparent backround version:

#trinyvale #Trinyvale #jens lyndelle #nyack of the ranafor #onyx lumiere #they are afwul but also great #i finished two games while listening to it while sick i got to episode 12 and am currently on the 20th #naddpod #its great #i think i like jens best just because i love an asshole whose going soft and because i have a soft spot for murphs charakters #there needs to be more fics and fanart for it #there are like 13 fics for it and also mostly smut or ship fics #i got to aster btw and i hate his voice im like emily with obsidian #wlwchiaki for it gave me life honestly go read them #i noticed i do mostly charakter lineups now i have a bad kids one started #i guess i like charakter design so that's why

[gooseco]

(half) brothers..

#uhhh gimme a brother/sibling dynamic and youve succesfully hooked me #trinyvale #naddpod trinyvale #naddpod #jens lyndelle #nyack ranafor #nyack of the ranafor #onyx lumiere #i love onyx too but these guys ... uhhh not sure how to draw jens yet but w/e #i started listening to trinyvale cuz im on the last ep of babumia that has deadeye in it and i love him so much i dont want brennan #to leave yet so im just delaying it heh #but now im invested in these good (bad) kids (adults) #not another dnd podcast

[alban-quinn]

So I finally caught up with Naddpod after binging it since around the start of the year (well, the main campaigns, I'm doing Trinyvale and Mavrus next) and... Well... Went into Campaign 3 spoiled of Hardwon being a temp party member when Calder leaves... Just no context of why he leaves or why Hardwon joins. So I just ASSUMED it was because Hardwon was actually Calder's dad and that man somehow got himself a hot giant wife. So Calder gets kidnapped or something so daddy Hardwon comes in to the rescue.

All the fanart I had seen of Hardwon being the responsible one now for Callie and Sol specially made me think that... So when I get to Calder doing his sacrifice play and Hardwon joining with beans... Well, the mood was whiplashed incredibly hard and I had to stop listening for a few days. Still tho, Hardwon has been amazing with The Duck Team and I can't wait for everyone to head to the Astral Plane once this current arc is done

#naddpod #not another dnd podcast #hardwon surefoot #naddpod spoilers #bahumia #calder kilde #duck team #ba2mia

[maniacmaniac-19]

I've just started listening to Trinyvale after finishing C1 of naddpod and for some reason I keep picturing Blavin as Jar Jar Binks

I don't know why, I know he's a halfling but my brain refuses to accept or acknowledge it

#naddpod #trinyvale #i had to record this in case my brain eventually corrects itself #i know jar jar binks doesn't sound anything like blavin #but when i hear blaven's voice #my brain is like #no #this alien race #not halfling

[utilitycaster]

re: your actual play post, apart from critrole are there other actual plays that are doing the whole "bad guys/neutral but not up to the mark" that you mentioned?

for cr, it's interesting and i guess kind of inevitable that we've gone from traditional heros -> reluctant heros -> neutral heros(?) caught up in the storm

i don't watch a lot of actual plays other than the popular ones, but it is very interesting to see the general trajectory the actual play space is moving in

I feel like the Mighty Nein are not really part of this trend - they're not as publicly acknowledged as Vox Machina, and they do take an unorthodox "not up to the task" (or more accurately "too traumatized right now for the task, we need to work through some shit first") route for a while, but they are pretty unambiguously working towards a heroic cause by the midlevels (and VM started off pretty scrappy too; we just didn't see them until they got respectable). Bells Hells do feel a little closer to this, though still leaning heavily towards the heroic. I think it's possible for them to decide to pull the ripcord, as they said, after their current mission; but I doubt they will, so they flirt with the theme but I don't think will go all the way. Which to be clear is the norm.

I mentioned a few things in my tags, so:

Candela Obscura chapters 2 and 3 flirt with this. In 2 the circle other than Sean is imo heroic, but also working a little outside the lines. Sean does make a turn that I don't think makes him the bad guy - it's pretty clear it's an act of misery and desperation - but does position him in a place that a lot of TTRPGs won't go. Chapter 3 is complicated because to be honest we don't really see the logic of Candela's actions in the final episode and some don't entirely follow for me, but Rajan and Elsie's discussions do cover this territory: as monsters, what side are they on? I think Candela Obscura is a game that really supports this should someone wish to push it there.

Trinyvale (side campaign for NADDPod) explores this in that the characters eventually develop into absolutely toxic assholes while still saving the world; however, this is a very very silly campaign in general so it's played for the humor.

Similarly, in Burnt Cookbook Party (spoilers - I'm not totally caught up but this spoils a pretty major aspect of the show that comes up pretty early), two of the characters go fully evil and the party fractures. HOWEVER, this campaign is set in a time loop, and so the consequences are lessened since we know the results aren't permanent (and indeed the big PvP moment is when the time loop restarts).

I feel this is something that Burrow's End (D20) sort of wanted to explore, but Last Bast was so obviously a police state that it was pretty clear the characters' desire to disrupt an existing stable society was in fact good.

This is all really speculative on my part - I watch/listen to a lot of actual play but there are plenty of major shows and infinite minor ones I don't follow at all or even know about. Obviously Critical Role or D20 are going to have more a footprint here than, say, BCBP. But I think people are trying to tell stories that interrogate whether, just because you met in a tavern or whatever, you should be tasked with saving the world, either because you're not actually that great of people or because you're not sufficiently competent in this particular situation, and that's really interesting to me. I think the reason I don't have any terribly clear answers is because it's really hard to do this and then find what that party should do instead.

#answered #Anonymous

[purplecladmerchant]

I think I'm gonna do the shout out.

Hello!! Im frey!

I'm into naddpod and looking for new people to follow/approach/befriend in the Fandom, sine my blog has been inactive so long it need fresh meat.

I started by ba2mia (sue me. I stand by my choice) and made my way thru bahumia+specials, now re listening to C3 and in my way to trinyvale.

I will kill for Caldwell, I'm Calder's whole fucker, and I just have known Beverly for a month but if something happen to him I'll kill everyone in this room then myself.

I'm into a random variety of other stuff but for now I'm looking for mutuals or just people to follow no matter much.

#naddpod #bahumia #not another dnd podcast #not another d&d podcast #freya's adventures #am like 29 and my blog is the one of an adult so #that just a warning for anyone who wants to follow back #be safe outthere. #also ill kil for brenan lee mulligan but this is naddpod no d20(?) #cant believe they cant bring deadeye back to the grand finale like everyone else cuz he FUCKINF DIED #other also about me is i speak spanish #hablenme en español guacho

[rooolt]

Recently started listening to NADDPOD and am about 6 episodes in. I was wondering, in ur opinion, when does the show like. get good? No offense to the show I love the band of boobs but everytime they start to do something funny or creative or interesting the DM shuts it down and punishes them for it? Am I missing a joke or does this get better over time or is the show just not for me? Sorry for dumping this in your inbox but i don’t want to post in the tag abt this?1

Nonono I get this so much, dnd shows are soooo hard to start, especially podcasts. It’s generally agreed upon fandom wise that it really picks up like episode 12 which has one of the most well known naddpod bits which granted is Murph punishing caldwell for a goof but he did kinda deserve it. Also that episode has Nathan drawfee who I LOVE and his characters so nice and fun. After that episode is galaderon saga which really introduces the main bbeg and has a lot of really fun and tense moments and introduces a lot of fun reoccurring npcs like maybe a love interest 👀👀👀👀👀. I’d say if after that point you like hate it still or aren’t intrigued then maybe naddpod isn’t for you, or maybe you could try eldermourne or trinyvale or even hot boy summer bc they’re great too. I won’t knock you for not liking naddpod if that’s how it ends up, but genuinely I absolutely adore it and it’s just generally like my favorite podcast

[talesandfluff]

I’m getting close to finishing NADDPOD C1, and was wondering if I should jump to C3 when I finish since it’s also set in Bahumia, and then go back to Trinnyvale and C2. Or should I keep going chronically?

I definitely recommend going through Eldermourne before C3, it’s really refreshing to have a different pace in a campaign, a totally new setting and worldbuilding, and Eldermourne is just incredibly special and well crafted. It’s my favorite naddpod campaign personally, those characters and their arcs are super touching and well done, and their friendship is simply perfect.

Trinyvale I haven’t completely finished yet, I listen to it when I’m in that specific mood to listen to three assholes, but it’s really wonderful.

You’d really deprive yourself of something great if you start off skipping Eldermourne and Trinyvale tbh, I think you should go at it chronologically with the main Murph campaigns. Although absolutely don’t forget to listen to Hot Boy Summer, to me it’s pretty much intrinsically part of the first campaign.

[fitzroycontent]

I realized I have a favorite character type and it’s elven fancy boys who are rich assholes and act like they’re better than everyone

#fitzroy maplecourt #<- obviously #and then a friend got me into fantasy high so #fabian seacaster #and then I started listening to trinyvale in naddpod #and #jens lyndelle #they all just have stupid names and they’re all kinda assholes it’s so funny #taz grad #fantasy high #naddpod #trinyvale

[freakshowcowboy]

Fuck dude

#sobbing and crying #bro i just finished naddpod campaign 1 and im so🥺🥺😭😭😭💕💗💘 #i hadnt listened to naddpod in like a year until i got a really bad headache the other day and needed to not Look at anything #and decided to pick it back up #i didnt stop listening for any reason thts just how i consume podcasts i binge them for a few days/weeks an then dont #listen to them for a couple years bc no matter how much i like a podcast the medium is rlly hard for me to stay focused on #but Bro #they. i. hhbbhbbbbbwwwaaahhhhhhh #i miss them already #hardwons movin to the crick yall! #moonshines raisin dragons! bev saved his boyfriend! and balnor the fuckin brave is going home😭😭😭😭😭 #yeehawing #anyways time to finish trinyvale and then start the new campaign

[ambassadorquark]

let’s see if i can rate the naddpod seasons’ accessibility for new listeners bc i’ve been asked a few times and i keep changing my mind as to which one would be the best to start with:

OG bahumia: pre eldermourne i really was like i feel like you can just go into this season from ep 1 if you want to try naddpod and it’s good so i’m sure you’ll enjoy it. now i think there are shorter/ongoing seasons enough that you can try a quicker to get through one first and then come back to it, it’s 100 episodes but they are fairly short for actual play. in terms of just the plot if that’s what you are using to determine which sounds most interesting to listen to first, the premise is that a party of three adventurers has recently saved the world and slain the evil demon god Asmodeus, but all three of them have sort of gone mysteriously missing and even though the world was technically saved there’s still a lot that still needs to be fixed or actually got worse. so the PCs almost need to pick up where the other party left off. it’s so good you guys. in my opinion it really pops off in like, the late teens to twenties episodes but is still very entertaining before that. however it is a little shaky at first just BC they hadn’t gotten into the groove yet so you may want to try a later season first in order to approach the slightly janky first few eps with more goodwill

trinyvale: a short season, 20some episodes. i can’t imagine starting with this one. here’s the thing about trinyvale: I genuinely think it’s one of the funniest podcasts ever recorded, but the run-up of the first few episodes is like, eh. it’s okay. it takes a minute to get really great. there is a different DM than the long form seasons, caldwell, so maybe if you’re familiar with his oeuvre and liked his work DMing drawga you would be able to get right into it but his style is quite different from murph’s. it has no relation world wise to the first season. it concerns three deeply unpleasant people who have been tasked by the shadowy organization they work for with retrieving various Crystals Of Significance from around the world. it’s very silly and most of the humor comes from the pcs being unbelievably awful. i love it but i don’t think i would recommend it as a first season unless you have some very specific interests re: wanting to hear Brian Murphy roleplaying as a bitchy gold digging stripper

hot boy summer/the mavrus chronicles: actually technically a spin-off from Bahumia DMed by emily and starring breakout guest character Mavrus, portrayed by zac oyama, who of course plays d&d with murph and emily on d20. same setting as season 1 but only like, 1.5 overlapping characters who aren’t even main pcs and a totally unrelated story. only 7 episodes! i saw people saying this is a good season to start with and i was like no way but it actually… might be?! zac isn’t a regular player and emily isn’t the regular dm but they’re both very good and if you just want to see what the hype around campaign 1 is about in a very quick, digestible format this season ain’t bad. it’s another short comedy season and is about what a guest character who appears several times in bahumia does when he hangs out with his boys. formatted basically like Dude, Where’s My Car? the reason i was dubious about it as a first season is bc it’s pretty different from the main ones but it is very funny, very short, and a good time had by all so why not

eldermourne: slightly divisive… it was plagued by scheduling issues during a turbulent time for the recording of the podcast and you can see it in the structure, but the PCs and world are probably my personal favorites overall. it’s only 40something episodes and set in a different, slightly more gothic setting than the previous season. the finale is somewhat open-ended due to its brevity so i believe they will be coming back to it in some capacity someday, i dunno. the premise is that three very sad people get involved with an ancient order of monster hunters in a world plagued by undead creatures and must find a mysterious demigod who the order is sworn to protect. i think this season has a really different feeling to it, it’s smaller and more melancholy. i recommend it as a first season just BC it’s pretty short, avoids the growing pains in the early eps of season 1 by simply being a well established podcast already and the characters are just so so good (henry is like my favorite NADDPod character full stop), plus i think you can listen to it, get endeared to the hosts and their chemistry, and then when you listen to the extended bit about dragon genitalia in the first episode of campaign 1 you’ll already like them and will simply find it funny. but if you’re looking more for an accessible “in” to the WORLD of the 100-ep season everyone talks about it may not be what you’re looking for bc it has nothing to do with it, haha. you will want to try hbs or perhaps even…

c3, or as i like to call it, ba2mia: THE NEW ONE… only has like 4 episodes so far… you can get in while the iron’s hot…! i think this one is starting to look like a great place to start and/or simply sample the vibe before committing to a huge archive binge… it’s set in the same setting at the first campaign but 200 years later and will not involve many actual NPCs and so forth from c1, but has already had some very fun references and developments from stuff that was introduced in the original campaign; it’s all explained in such a way that you could go into it with no context for any of it though. there’s even a stated goal that if you should listen to this one first you can listen to c1 as a “prequel”. it’s about three shitty defect supersoldiers at the bottom rung in the hierarchy of knights who protect a scientifically advanced magical city run by a shady corporation. I’ve really been enjoying it… and you can too

#beep boop #not another liveblog tag #i will never stop plugging eldermourne just based on my own personal bias #i love all the goth shit okay and i love DADS leave me alone #LONG POST !

[acepalindrome]

Friends, if you enjoy D&D/tabletop actual plays or fantasy or just great stories and great characters that are equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, I am begging you on bended knee to give NADDPOD (Not Another D&D Podcast) a try. It is truly so good and never gets enough love. To compare to other well know actual plays, it’s closest in vibe to TAZ Balance, so I would especially recommend it if you love TAZ Balance.

The episodes are about 90 minutes long on average and are very listenable. I tend to get bored with combat in actual plays sometimes, but the fights in NADDPOD are so fun and fast paced while not cutting any of the zaniness of a bunch of goobers playing D&D.

And what do you like? World building? DM Murph’s worlds are so fun and fresh and play around with existing D&D concepts of alignments and gods in ways that are so very satisfying.

How about some fantastic characters? The PCs are so entertaining and can be extremely goofy but they will make you cry, that is a threat and a promise. And Murph’s NPCs range from being complex and fascinating and lovable to the biggest shithead losers that are so fun to hate.

Want some queer characters? We got you covered, both the main campaigns and Trinyvale have canon queer PCs who end up in canon relationships.

Okay, but where do you start? There are two main campaigns and a ton of side stuff! I would recommend starting either Campaign 1 (Bahumia) or Campaign 2 (Eldermourne.) I love Trinyvale but I don’t think it’s the best introduction to NADDPOD, and Hot Boy Summer is best saved for after finishing Campaign 1. If you listen to the Donkey Kong oneshots first you might die in real life. You gotta build up to that shit.

I think Campaign 1 is overall the stronger story, but it does take a bit to get really really good, about 12 episodes in. It’s fun enough before that, and you should listen to the first chunk to get to know the characters, but once you hit the Galaderon arc the show goes from about 7/10 to 12/10. The basic plot is that it’s the ‘campaign after the campaign.’ The world has already been saved by a team of legendary heroes, but it turns out maybe the world isn’t as saved as we thought and maybe those heroes actually fucked some things up in a pretty big way. ‘Kill your idols’ is a big theme and it’s fantastic.

Campaign 2 jumps right in and is good from the start, but it’s a much shorter campaign and it has some pacing issues. That said, it’s still an excellent campaign and I’ve been crying about the finale all day. This campaign takes place in a dark fairytale inspired world torn apart by a conflict between two gods, the Reaper and the Trickster. Deals a lot with religion and faith and how they can be used to manipulate (like me, Murph is an ex-Catholic and his portrayals of this stuff hit me so hard.)

One of my favorite things is how well NADDPOD balances humor and drama. It’s easily the funniest actual play I’ve ever listened to, and someday I will learn to stop listening to it on earphones when I’m out on public because I always end up laughing out loud like a weirdo. But when the drama hits? It’s so good and poignant and both campaigns have god-tier found families that constantly destroy my heart with how much they love each other and make each other better and stronger in their darkest times.

I really can’t say enough good about NADDPOD. Please give it a try if you haven’t. And then tell me all about it because I love seeing people enjoy my favorite things.

And also be warned that if you start with campaign 1, there is a long bit about dragon genitalia in the first episode. People either love it or hate it. You’ve gotta just get through it.

#naddpod #eldermourne #d&d

[bensiskos]

ds9 & NADDPOD!

Ds9:

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): either weyoun or sisko!! I think abt sisko a lot <3 scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): ough definitely nog hes my little guy scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): y’know tbh it’s leeta and / or Keiko!! OH AND KASIDY!! THE GALS glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): WELL. it’s the founder <3 she’s even kind of gluppy I think <333 poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): weyoun again <33 oh and quark definitely quark horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): dukat its always gonna be dukat eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): brunt NADDPOD:

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): OH YKNOW. moonshine I think about a lot just because she’s like. So so interesting BUT also I just listened to the newest episode of campaign 3 and!! Emily’s new character who I can’t remember the name of was so so so good … ough scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): it’s bev it’s bev it’s bev he’s so cute and it’s so weird that he started out campaign one being like. My age… fucked up scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): uhhhhhhh oh what’s her name. MOXORA I love her I wish she got more time to be silly.. glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): any of the trinyvale npcs honestly <33 if someone makes a ref to them I’m like!! Yeah!! poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): GALAD ROSELL… he’s so pathetic I miss hearing his stupid voice horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): hmmmmmmmm tbh i don’t know!! All the naddpod pcs and npcs are fun I do like them.. eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): the entire vampire family from shadowfell fuck those guys

#HIIII VINNY THANJ U I LOVE NADDPOD #CAMPAIGN 3 EP ONE JUST CAME OUT TODAY!!!! #asks #Professorabacus #Finally got your url right…. Oh boy

[sky-bee42]

I just finished listening to campaign 1 of naddpod... and holy shit... the story is so fucking amazing... also the fact that hardwon in the final battle against thiala managed to hit her for over 1000 hp over the 5 rounds he was up for... and the npcs are all so fun and unique and cool...

Also im starting trinyvale now and just,, the prospect of a pastel goth aasimar warlock from the moon is,, so fucking cool?? With a toy unicorn who wears heelies?? I am only 20 minutes into trinyvale and i love the characters so much,,

#naddpod

[utilitycaster]

caldwell's dm energy is like the opposite of murph. i've never seen a more "yes and" dm

Honestly? while Caldwell is very “yes and”, even though one of the several reasons I started listening to NADDPod was all of Murph’s “there must be consequences for your actions” statements from D20 Adventuring Party/Adventuring Academy, the main NADDPod campaign included a whole lot of yes-and comedic improv. I mean, he said no to a lot of things but he also went with some of the weirder riffs even when they were disadvantageous and made no sense (like just to name a handful, PawPaw being a lawyer, Alanis doing huge bong rips, Moonshine and Hardwon not being able to read, the line ‘fuck you I love you eat a rat’, like 90% of Pendergreens’ personality and over half his name, I think Balnor’s tuna obsession was a player riff he ran with?)

Which, I should note, is really good DM-ing and something I’m finding helpful, as a person with similar There Are Rules tendencies - you will have far more control over the game as a DM if you turn into the skid and say “yes indeed, The Crick really does have water that’s caffeinated and alcoholic that you inhale” and then build the world your players joked about in all seriousness. Your players will love the world more because it will feel more like theirs, and that in turn will heighten the stakes. And also kind of like the post I made about Veth switching to serious mode on Critical Role, if you embrace the wackiness of someplace like The Crick and then threaten it in the game, it’s in many ways so much more jarring. It’s like...not that Helm’s Deep isn’t a fantastic and emotional battle, but it’s also what we expect from high fantasy (yes at the time it was in some ways codifying high fantasy but you get my point). The Scouring of the Shire though? Brutal.

With that total digression which is mostly me psyching myself up to embrace slightly more chaos than I’m used to said: you are 100% right about Caldwell being the most Yes-And DM. The whole Trinyvale campaign seems extremely in that vibe, (even though there is an overarching plot) and it’s so much fun.

#naddpod #Anonymous

[crocgirl420]

d20 anon here, a) i hope you are able to make more friends because you seem like absolutely prime friendship material!!! and b) now that i have only a little bit of trinyvale and hot boy summer to listen to before i'm all caught up on naddpod, do you recommend starting dungeons and daddies?

Awww thanks! I DO have many wonderful friends, but I moved a hundred miles away from them in March 2020, so…….🙃 it would be nice to have some people nearby.

Honestly I LOVE Trinyvale so I recommend finishing that first. If you’re having a hard time getting into it, I suggest skipping the first 13 or however many eps, listening to the mega-summary that Caldwell posted, and then listening to the back half. It got so much better once they started doing it weekly like the main campaign.

ALSO the new campaign is already halfway done! You gotta catch up!

Dungeons and daddies isn’t nearly as good of a story + is VERY light on the actual dnd. It is EXTREMELY funny, but there’s not much to sink your teeth into. This is a controversial take but it’s just my onion