#just regular eldermourne

[purplecladmerchant]

Zirk hits me on a personal level.

[chompe-diem]

GIRL THE NADDPOD DISCORD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ELDERMOURNE SLANDER I CAN'T-

[lithiumrox]

bahumia had moonshine with her tits frequently out. eldermourne had hank with his balls hanging out of his shorts. even trinyvale had jens as a burlesque sword dancer. i think that means it's caldwell's turn to have a character who just straight up wears assless chaps on the regular or something equally wild.

[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

[swiftzeldas]

modern au eldermourne the third mates meet because they are all nocturnal. henry works as a security guard and always pulls the night shift. zirk is a biochem grad student who works third shift at the fcking morgue most nights. fia is in undergrad but her sleep schedule is just fucked up because she likes it that way. they end up meeting because they frequent the same 24 hour coffee shop to fuel themselves and their coffee orders get swapped (note: this is not a coffee shop au this is simply how they meet). fia gets henry’s regular medium roast black coffee and is like hm. this isn’t strong enough. zirk gets fia’s extra dark dark roast with two espresso shots and starts crying. henry gets zirk’s horrible sugary concoction and actually thinks it tastes pretty good but would never admit it. then they swap their coffees back and realize they walk the same way to get to campus each night and pass the same building which is FOR SURE haunted right guys? they investigate the haunting, resolve the issue, and then from then on they always are on call to investigate strange goings-on around town. (yes, this is just taz amnesty)

it’s also important to note that fia and zirk are around 21-23ish and hank is like 40 and lives in his ex-wife’s third cousin’s Nice House several blocks away from campus that he’s nice enough to let hank rent for way below market value but nobody on campus REALIZES that henry doesn’t own that place so there are for sure rumors that his relationship with zirk and/or fia is like a sugar daddy situation. fia is unaware of this. zirk is kind of aware but doesn’t care because he works at a morgue and everybody already thinks he’s weird as hell. (fia, not knowing how this looks: mr henry would you please walk me home? henry, who definitely knows the rumors but knows fia doesn’t: ......fine) 

[punkbarbarian]

1, 2, 16, 25, and 32?

1. what do you think your dnd race would be?

probably just a regular human. going full fantasy, a changeling. the trans gender urge to shapeshift.

2. what class?

in an ideal world. a paladin <3

16. what is your favorite dnd pod/vodcast?

d20 I love you but naddpod has really gotten my heart recently. eldermourne is so good

25. what is your favorite snack for dnd?

love me some chips OR some candy

32. most memorable npc you've encountered in a game you've played in?

probably wren if only for the sheer amount of times I have pissed her off and I like the voice bea you do :)

[ask me dnd questions!]

[gideonthefirst]

[ ID: A digital drawing of Fia Boginya, from the Eldermourne campaign of Naddpod. The background of the piece is grey. On the left is a drawing of Fia from the knees up. She's drawn as a silhouette, with her body turned away from the viewer, as her face is turned toward at the viewer. She is wearing a shawl and holding a longsword in her one visible hand. Her hair is short and black. It's choppily cut, and comes to about her chin. She has short bangs that come to just above her eyebrows. Behind her is the shape of a sun, drawn with white lines, and uncolored. On the right side of the drawing is a regular bust drawing of Fia. She looks the same, though now her sharp teeth are visible. Her eyes are looking up and slightly to the side. Underneath the bust drawing are drawings of her hands. She has an abjuration rune on each of her palms- the left is an eye with a small triangle underneath it, and the right is a thin sword.]

theres a lil witch at the edge of town.... ms fia ur so cool

[ambassadorquark]

Hi!! I hope your evening is nice :3 I finished listening to the Trinyvale campaign and it was amazing I loved the characters and the storyline and the jokes were fantastic!! I just started Eldermourne and so far it’s been so cool and the world has rly brought me in <3 what made you first wanna listen to NADDPOD?

nice, i’m glad! :D

i actually FIRST listened to the first few episodes back when 1 was still coming out bc caldwell mentioned it in a drawfee episode he was on i think? and it didn’t really click so i forgot about it. and then i started watching dimension 20 and i saw it mentioned AGAIN and i guess knowing 3/4 of the hosts is what allowed me to really get into it. pretty regular

[ambassadorquark]

Does Caldwell know zirk is an elf and can’t be sleep deprived

i mean afaik it’s canon that the characters in eldermourne aren’t the same as vanilla d&d races w/ the lore being they’re all like, distantly descended from whatever d&d race but probably mingled with other ones & they just use existing stat blocks for utility’s sake? zirk only needing 4 hours BC he simply doesn’t sleep is just a mechanic that’s been flavored for his character he’s not like in canon a regular fantasy elf