#i love erlin so much!!!!!

[cosmiado]

dear god y'all im SO fucking close to catching up on c3. im absolutely sprinting my way through it at this point because i will be DAMNED if im not listening and reacting live with everyone else when we finally get an Erlin Reveal. it WILL happen and i WILL be there for it

#naddpod #ba2mia #erlin kindleaf #HES MY BEST FRIEND I MISS HIM SO MUCH I NEED HIM TO BE ALIVE AND OKAY AND IN LOVE WITH BEV. ITS ALL FINE OKAY ITS GOING TO BE FINE

[dizzybevvie]

IMPORTANT INFO WHEN I QENT TO ADD YOUR ASK TAG TO THE ASK YOU SENT ME THE FIRST THIBG THAT CAME UP WAS YOR TAG BUT THE SECOND ONE WAS BEVERLIN. MWAH

AHHHHHH DJSDJSBDJSBSJSHHDBDWWKJFVEHRVF HEAD IN HANDS HEAD IN HANDS!!!!!

#THE FACT THAT YOU CAME AND TOLD ME THIS.... SCREAMINGKSBDKSBKDD BD #when i tagged it as beverly tag to keep it I also saw the Beverlin Foreverlin tsg and got a little giddy #THEY MAKE ME SO SAD RHEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY THEY ARE FROLOCKING THROUGH FLOWERS THEY ARE CHILD SOLDIERS UGHHHHHH #eds Erlin isnt gonna show up for another like 60 episodes now ndbskdbsmbddn #GOD THEY MAKE ME SO PROFOUNDLY SAD #thinking abt when Bev kissed that one boy because he reminded him of Erlin and he was afraid for himself and for Erlin and just did it #for comfort but ended up causing so much more stress and when he tells Erlin hes obviously distraught because hes 15 and its the worst #news EVER #n Erlin has always been trying to prove himself to Beverly and and and and he takes it really well but the actual apocalypse is happening #so hes at the end he just leaves and says 'Im not mad at you dude. Its the end of the world.' AHHHHHH HEAD IN HANDS HEAD IN H #but they end up making up and they dance together at the green teen jamboreen and journal together and and and #and theyre best friends and they grew up together and they play arcade games together and and and and and UHHHHHHHHHHHH #this got mildly somber but this is a /pos i adore them they make me so happy #ERLIN TAUGHT HIM HOW TO DO TOUCH HANDS. WHICH HE USES TO BRING ERLIN BACK TO LIFE AND. UHHHHHHH POETRY #WHAT AN HONOUR WHAT AN INJUSTICE ETC ETC #UGH... THANK YOU LMAIFNSKDBNSBDJSBD I HAVE TO KEEP LISTENING NOW I HAVE TO KEEP GOING #faves #THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY THEY MAKE ME SO SAD THEY ARE BESTIES THEY ARE IN LOVE THEY ARE MY GREATEST ENEMIES #I feel sick oh no not agsin disbdkbsjfvdbdbsns #WHAT HAVE I DONE LMAOBFKSBDJSBBDBSIDVS IVE BROUGHT BACK THE INTEREST NOOOOOOOOO #eddie tag #this is ur fsult /j #naddpod #apollo says stuff #beverly tag

[farbeyondtheflames]

I was thinking about campaign 1 again so I drew Erlin

#I love this halfling cleric so much I just #he’s amazing #naddpod #erlin kindleaf

[famderfries]

Caldwell dares to utter the word "Erlin" and I am laying on the floor in the fetal position and crying

#I JUST. LOVE THEM. SO MUCH 😭😭😭 #Beverly and Erlin > your faves #beverly toegold #beverly toegold v #erlin kindleaf #apollo says stuff #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #caldwell tanner

[chompe-diem]

i thought i was almost done losing my mind over my bahumia faves but JUST KIDDING i started the tomb of horrors stream and remembered Fully just exactly how they exist again and hcdhdgzhwjfuehfhsbfhyd

#theyre just sooooo. #yeah #someone talk to me about erlin Please #also bev and hardwon etc etc i guess but like specifically erlin i think just Deserves to be talked about #give him some spotlight i Love him and honestly So Much to say about him

[emiko-matsui]

I don't think you understand how much Beverly kissing the fae boy means to me. It's one of the most human character flaws Caldwell gave Beverly and I am kissing him on the mouth about it (no pun intended). The fact that he was in a relationship with Erlin and knew it was wrong, but still caved and kissed him... it's so good. When I was 15 years old in my first queer relationship that was something real, that was my best friend, and I valued nothing more than her and I would've also kissed that boy. I would've also known it was wrong and felt so much guilt and couldn't have stopped myself. I never got that opportunity and I am very grateful for that because I could never have imagined hurting her in that way, but when you're 15 (and maybe when you're queer, when you're seen by someone who's also not the ideal of society) all you want is to be loved. If somebody liked me like that, if somebody had shown me that interest, if somebody who was just like me had tried to kiss me. Yeah, I would've caved. I would've felt shit about it. I wouldn't have forgiven myself. I would've done it.

Today I would never cheat on a partner of mine given neither opportunity or wish. In no circumstance. But today I'm not 15 anymore. Today I just thank Caldwell for Beverly who showed something I didn't know I had been feeling at that time and showed that it did not make you a bad person. It made you 15.

#beverly 💞💖💓😫❤😭💘 #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #bahumia #beverly toegold #beverly toegold v #erlin kindleaf #caldwell tanner #beverlin #a faerie tale

[stone-stars]

actually it's. interesting to me the way clerics and paladins exist in naddpod. because divine magic isn't really ever about the divinity of it. it's about the devotion.

i'm going to loop back to beverly bc he's the most classic paladin naddpod has. but like. alright. you have erlin, who becomes a cleric not to serve pelor but to help people. he's so dedicated to bev, he wants to help the people he loves, and that's the way to do it. because he's not strong in the traditional sense, but he can be strong this way.

you have fia, who's a cleric because of her religious upbringing but mostly calls upon the trickster for her magic and if you really think about it the thing she is most devoted to isn't the trickster at all but irina. you have tarragon who becomes a cleric in repentance for her days as a soldier, but all of her cleric stuff manifests in dedication to her friends, to the bond they share.

and you have callie, who-- once she's freed from her tie to mothership-- has a paladin oath that is about her dedication to the wild and the serpents and her promise to help bring them home. her belief in and love and hope for them. and the idea that if she does she might redeem the memory of her mother.

and like. bev. who is very tied to pelor and the light. his oath morphs and changes with his worldview, and the way his powers manifest reflects what he cares about. in the end, when pelor is dead, he doesn't swear himself to another god. he swears himself to bahumia. the thing he's devoted to, the thing he's trying to protect.

it's like... divine casters aren't magical because some god chose them. it's because they chose to care. it's because they chose to look at something and say i am going to care about this so much that it becomes a source of strength.

#naddpod #it's very funny that i put erlin with a bunch of pcs here but like #a) sunny's influence #b) he is probably the most prominent cleric/paladin npc #except thiala but fuck her (lol) #anyway. thinking thoughts. #it's no wonder a lot of divine magic is healing #it's about love #hanbles #anyway it's 1 am i need. to go to sleep. my brain is broken

[queencaramilflinda]

I listened to the Thiala fight while watching Frozen 2: a research study

Idea curtesy of Alli @operationslipperypuppet

Spoilers for Frozen 2 and the Bahumia finale beneath the cut!

I am more than aware no one asked me to do this. But I have nothing better to do with my time, so, to quote the wise words of a gameshow host: without further ado let’s begin.

Research Question and Methods:

I’m not a science person by any means, but I feel it best to approach this in an academic manor. My research question was “How well do Frozen 2 and the Thiala fight line up?” and my methods for finding this answer was to play them both at the same time. I started the podcast at the time stamp 58:48, (thank you Alli for providing that) which is when Murph calls for the rolling of initiative, and I skipped past the opening credits of Frozen 2, pressing play on the movie on the 47 second mark.

My findings:

Here is a brief list describing the moments that lined up best between Frozen 2 and the Thiala fight.

Hardwon deals 297 points of damage while in Frozen 2 the land of the Northuldra is covered in a fog that traps everyone inside.

Galad shows up at the same time that the title for Frozen 2 appears on screen.

There is a comment made about how Galad needs to blow his nose, and simultaneously Anna touches Olafs nose on screen.

The Old Cobb flashback is very stressful but makes for a much better listening experience than what the movie wants you to be listening to at this time, which is Olafs “When I’m Older”song. Old Cobb is being hurt while Olaf is being… not hurt per se but put in situations for sure

The Galad attack that drops Hardwon in the same way Galad killed his father happens at the same time as Olaf talks about Elsa and Anna’s parents dying

Galad dies before Olaf, during the lost in the woods song in Frozen 2

Murph explains how Thiala lost humanity and gained control of full god powers as Elsa tames the water ice horse

I was hoping Thiala second form would happen with Elsa’s outfit change but unfortunately that’s not what happened

Spirit shroud happens as Olaf dies

There is a swing and a crit on Hardwon as the dam in Frozen 2 breaks

Erlin comes back at the same time as Elsa

Conclusion:

How well do Frozen 2 and the Thiala fight line up? Well… not great. This may be due in part to the way I synchronized the pieces, I wonder if I should have watched the opening credits of Frozen 2 instead of skipping them, or instead of starting from the call for initiative worked backwards from the time stamp the Thiala fight ends so I could make sure the two pieces of media were exactly the same length. As it stands Frozen 2 is about 10-15 minutes shorter than the Thiala fight, depending on whether or not you count the credits of Frozen 2.

I had a very fun time doing this experiment though! I genuinely love both Frozen 2 and NADDPod so this was great. If anyone wants to run this same study and see if they get the same results, or change the method a bit to see if it lines up better please do so and let me know how it goes!

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[operationslipperypuppet]

Top 5 Balnor moments?

Gosh I love my time traveling fail dad so much.

His goodbye letter. Incredible writing by Murph there. The perfect balance of hilarious and heart wrenching.

Reassuring Bev that things would be okay after telling Erlin about Terran. Just a beautiful dad moment.

Killing the hounds. Getting to get revenge not just for Bobby, but for Hardwon as well.

When he goes with Moonshine in Smuggler’s Bounty before the succubus reveal. So dumb funny.

When he got really drunk at the party in Saving Gemma Bronzebeard and burned a lot of bridges. “Balnor’s hips don’t lie, but they should have” etc.

#I love balnor wow #naddpod #asks #top 5 #sol-byufo

[naddpod-encounter-tourney]

Reborn:

Truly what can one say about Reborn?

It begins, beautifully, with Hardwon getting a real chance to meet Lydia and explain to her what she means to him as a person, even without her direct influence on his life.

We then get the reincarnation. Almost rolling a gnome. Seeing melora again, getting tattooed. "I've been a half elf ever since I met you." The hammer taking hardwon back. The wrestling match. The fact that the audio was nearly lost to the ages, but Emily was able to recover it with a years-old forum post.

Entering Hill Home. Bev stopping to buy a comic about a cleric (Emily's cleric) to give to Erlin. Finding out that Erllin and Egwene have been off on their own adventures with Red and Gunther.

Bev’s devastating truth. Erlin’s natural, yet painful, reaction. Egwene reassuring Bev. Balnor’s reaction, making sure Bev knew this happens to people, and that things can still work out.

Moonshine meeting Lucanus. “Hey mom and dad!” Hardwon tackling Denny. Denny getting polymorphed into a boot because he’s just that weak. The conversation with Meemaw. The actual introduction to Lucanus. “A man who never thought he’d have a child, holding his child.”

Talking to Martha Toegold. The fact that she knows already what happened to Bev IV. Telling Bev about the tree in the back. “A Bestiary of Devils and Archdevils by the paladin Beverly Toegold I”. “Your father has given you an instruction manual on how to beat him”.

Every single goddamn thing in between. Goddamn.

Heart of the World:

The Boobs take the Stormborn to the Court of Gods. They write letters to their loved ones and put them in the contingency cubby.

After a bit of a difficult trek, they happen upon a wall where they can hear the wishes and prayers of the citizens of Bahumia. They offer a “We are here for you” in return, and are rejuvenated by the reaction to their presence.

Once they get close, they call their berserkers. Moonshine turns them into elephants, then summons pixies to make the elephants fly. The Titans of Bahumia fly into battle Thiala on elephants. (Murph is given the chance to leave Emily over any of that bullshit if he so pleases).

The battle with Thiala begins. She brings back Galad. Hardwon does 297 freaking damage in the first turn. 1,082 total by the end of the fight. Moonshine uses cantrips where they count. Bev takes on his own fungal form, and eventually casts a bonus action revivify on Hardwon. Balnor dukes it out with some angels.

They see what the mind of Thiala wants them to experience. I cannot do the flashbacks as much justice as @misslevel , so here are those comments on them from a previous round.

Thiala takes a second form. Uses Alanis and Ulfgar to harness their energy and make things worse. Tries to actually destroy Melora’s heart, holding the world together. Moonshine uses Handy Andy to steal Erlin, he’s freed from the gem, and able to help heal everyone. Bev, Balnor, and Hardwon keep swinging.

Nearing the end and fearing things will get so much worse (Balnor and Hardwon keep going down), Moonshine casts Shapechange and turns into a Gold Dragon. She eats Thiala.

The Titans of Bahumia return their divine heart fragments to Melora, as they were just borrowing it. They give Pelor his heart back, resurrecting him. They save the last one for the Dusk Mother, and give her rule over the one hells, renaming it The Ruby Dawn.

Old Alanis, the traveler, returns, and asks Balnor if he’s ready. He says tearful goodbyes and returns to his timeline, ready to destroy the hounds and save his village. “It’s okay, Balnor. I knew like all the most powerful things in this world, I was only borrowing you.”

We move forward in time. They start finishing off Akarot. Set up the ritual to destroy the Hellfire Crown. Hardwon visits his father in Kord’s Great Hall. Bev and Erlin get to be kids.

A year later, they return to Moonstone for the Jamboreen.

Moonshine reacquaints herself with the dragon she hatched and invites him to live with her at the Crick. Hardwon asks for the same offer, and it is given quickly. They read Balnor’s letter by the fire. Our story then ends where it began, in The Hungry Trout Tavern.

#naddpod episode tournament #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #bahumia

[kindleaf]

I HAVEAWOKEN.family. redd and gunther love egwene because she's so much like redd. they love erlin because he's so much like hardwon. FUCK you.

#text #AAAAAAAA

[auteurdefeu]

Ba2mia Spoilers

I’m so mad that I’m doing math during my summer break for something so fucking heartbreaking but here we are.

Ever since Murph established that Beverly’s Oath of the Ancients “Undying Sentinel” thing, where he would no longer suffer the effects of old age, meant that Bev was theoretically immortal, I’ve had this terribly depressing thought.

We’ve been reminded on several occasions, since Moonshine’s talk with Jolene in c1 and Hardwon returning to the material plane in c3, that both Bev and Moonshine were going to outlive him. Moonshine’s first time bringing it up, about not wanting to know a world without Hardwon Surefoot, sprouted a lot of Hardshine angst fanworks… but one thing I haven’t seen people mention is, what about Erlin? Halflings generally only live to 150-ish. We can hope that Erlin joined them in going to the Astral Plane, but when was that?

Hardwon was 26 in c1, reportedly 226 now but having physically aged to about 80-90 since the passage of time is wonky in the Astral Plane and they don’t really age there. For the sake of this, I’ll be saying he’s closer to 80. We know he’s spent about 3 years back on the mortal plane. This leaves about 51 years unaccounted for, where they were all still likely on the Material plane. So that makes Erlin, what? 67? Almost half way through his life?

Erlin and Beverly have always been outgoing, and they wanted to have their own adventures, that’s what they set off to do at the end of c1 to fill the journal together. It seems unlikely they’d stay within the astral plane forever. It seems almost cruel to. Erlin’s bound to grow old, and Beverly will have to watch another person he loves die and be unable to do anything.

I suppose the “easy” answer to that is that it was young love that wasn’t meant to last. A love that survived the apocalypse, sure, but love seems so much easier in comparison to the end of the world. Ive seen the fallouts y’all write on ao3, it’s heartbreaking- but is that better than the alternative? Worse than trying? Is there a good outcome???

Anyway it’s 5am and I haven’t slept, so yes I am crying about “Beverlin Foreverlin” not being forever. Sue me.

#me crying over Beverlin? more likely than you think #there is the terrifying reality that somewhere out there Beverly Toegold V is an adult #no more acne and braces #a full grown halfling adult #back to crying over my little queers during pride month #bahumia #ba2mia #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #naddpod c3 spoilers #beverlin foreverlin #hardshine #beverly toegold #erlin kindleaf #moonshine cybin #hardwon surefoot

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[dizzybevvie]

(Dan Avidan voice) They're so in love.

#this is obviously about beverlin. its always about beverlin #they make me feel so weak #translation! Im on episode 19 of the relisten and so so scared #i love the galaderon so so much. this hurts my heart tho #galaderon saga^ #still mad they never go on a scenic balloon ride >:( #naddpod #apollo says stuff #bahumia #beverly toegold #beverly toegold v #ace attorney #<for the exasperated Dan quote #erlin kindleaf

[white-weasel]

hello my dear mutual i cannot add it to the tournament now but what was the straightbait couple you would've submitted

Hello beloved mutual! It was Hardwon Surefoot and Moonshine Cybin aka HardShine from Not Another DND Podcast. They are some of the biggest straight bait I have ever seen. I technically haven’t finished the podcast yet (have 5 eps left) but, I know they don’t get together. However!!! There is SO much joking flirting between them and the chemistry is THERE. There are three things that stick out for me though. Two require a bit of context (so please pardon the rambling below lmao)

First, the one that doesn’t need much context, is just how the party’s relationship is structured. It’s Hardwon, Moonshine, and Beverly. Beverly is a 15/16 year old boyscout and pretty early on Moonshine and Hardwon step into parental roles for him as they travel. Not like full on mom and dad, but it’s *enough* and I’m not trying to enforce like a nuclear family view of found family at all (because that’s what they are) but idk just how they act as a tag team in keeping Bev’s goofs and antics under wraps really gets me

Next, there’s a part in the campaign where (due to dnd plane shifting and time dilation stuff) the party reunites with some old friends who have aged, like, 40 years since they last say them. These two have gotten married and have two kids. One is named Beverlin which is putting together the names of Beverly and his canonical boyfriend Erlin. The other is Moonwon, aka smashing together Hardwon and Moonshine (I fully believe this kid’s name would have been Hardshine aka their ship name if Beverly hadn’t already named his sword Hardshine after the two of them). Just, there’s something there with naming the kids after these two ships that makes me go a little crazy

Finally, the characters these guys parallel also have a romantic connection, probably reciprocal but at least canonically one sided. The conceit for this campaign is that the world was already saved by legendary heroes years ago. And as you go on you get to see how each character of our party members parallels one of these heroes. For Hardwon, his counterpart is Ulfgar and Moonshine’s is Alanis. Ulfgar is very clearly in love with Alanis when we see them interact and idk if anything comes of this for them (once again haven’t finished the podcast) but it’s just very reminiscent of Hardwon and Moonshine could be.

This is utter word vomit rn and probably makes NO sense but yeah basically….. HardShine is my non-canon straight ship of choice now lol. Thanks for letting me share, I have been rotating them in my mind with incoherent thoughts for a little bit now

#idk if I should tag this because I don’t think this has enough meat to it for it to be interesting to other fans ahahaha #I just won’t i guess lmao #ask

[chemicalkind]

as my dashboard's foremost naddpod stan, do you have any episodes that stand out as your favorites/ones that affected you the most?

ok yes absolutely. so for bahumia the one that stands out to me the most is episode 70 i think it's like one of the best naddpod episodes. hardwon's reincarnation, bev telling erlin about terran, moonshine meeting lucanis. it's so good there's so many iconic scenes. also can't be bothered to figure out which episode this was but the fight with ezra the unkind is one of my fav bahumia moments i love when murph incorporates story stuff into battles. also i love the hell arc but specifically the personal battles in ep 81 like bev fighting bev sr and almost going with him and "a child has a duty to his father. a hero has a duty to the world" like ahhh and the flashback with bev and egwene as his dad performs that execution. bev is my favorite bahumia pc i think that impacts a lot of this lmao. ok but we all know eldermourne has my whole heart and i have a lot more favorite eldermourne episodes. episodes 4 and 8 are incredible i am always baffled by how good the beginning of eldermourne was like they went into that season straight away with so much emotion and story and good acting. all the flashbacks from the broken heart banshee episode are so good and also sadie's story makes me really sad i love her. and when they're telling each other about their backstories on the boat as they leave thornkirk <33. god i love the third mates. next i love love love the whole arc in sirenloch it is my favorite part of eldermourne hands down. i have relistened to all the zirk and stella moments from those like at least 5 times they make me go crazy, but the hank and hank jr stuff is also really good and all of that happening while the plot really starts to kick in. incredible. that's all like episodes 25-29, i really like 26 for the hank and his son scene and 29 for the scene where zirk leaves stella again. then i'm predictable and i fucking love the eldermourne finale. it's such a good finale like some people say eldermourne ended too soon or it should have been more developed but i feel like i was too invested in everything in eldermourne to be critical of it lmao. all of the fia/irina stuff is so good and painful, zirk's death and revival is such a good execution of his character arc and his themes like how he has this guilt around hurting people when he was younger and not helping them like he wanted to, and in the end he sacrifices himself to be able to help the world. and his work to find an all cure elixir and make up for his past mistakes is what lets him come back to life. god. sorry this post is really long but i have a lot to say about naddpod oops.

#naddpod #bahumia #eldermourne #sorry this post is so long #thanks for the ask leigh ily

[koszmarnybudyn]

Currently on episode 22 of naddpod and it is great. I love Moonshine she is such a sweet wierdo who is so kind but also so feral (i get the hype Emily gets now). I will continue projecting onto Beverly and you can't stop me (he feels like an autistic bisexual and i am right), he and Erlin are so cute together. I love the band of boobs so very much!!! They are my friends now!!! Caldweel and Murth have been slightly easier to identify by their voices now. Killing Galad was such a choice i really liked it (also he was annoying). Definitly expected Beverly's parents to be awful but they were not? Which makes sense. Eguene (Erlins sister idk how to spell her name) is the coolest and i love her. This whole podcast makes such nice animatics in my head :). The creek is such a wierd place but i am digging it. Again i love beverly there is just something about awkward teenege boys who are also badasses that i dig. i enjoy ol cob but not very much (he looks like benny the teen from mirakle workers in my head). I had ptsd flashbacks from dndads when the cards were drawn. Balnor is fun. I loved Hardwons backstory.

I think that's it for now, this is just me ranting again because i love this podcast.

#naddpod #me ranting

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