#naddpod campaign 1 spoilers

[cntbtchthevapegod]

Theyre always having sm fun, i want ally back on naddpod, and this time as a PC not as a justice (not that those episodes of D&D court aren’t fucking stellar)

Also i feel like ally’s wild vibes would mesh with the blue crew and this new age in bahumia

Not to mention that ally is the only intrepid hero to not have done a multi-ep arc on naddpod so at this point its overdue…

…obviously i know naddpod is putting their guests on D&D courts and 8-Bit bookclubs presumably for recording ease I just miss guests in the main campaign :(

[detectivedeckerstar]

Oh my god I just started campaign 3 of naddpod i thought i was gonna be fine but murphs fucking smashcut to three graves joke PUNCHED me in the heart and then caldwell said "one big grave" and i fucking STARTED CRYING and i had to pull over to the side of the road I CANT FUCKING DO THIS

[white-weasel]

The fact that Beverly’s love for Erlin is the thing that kills his god Pelor, the most important and consistent thing in his life thus far, is absolutely heart wrenching and tragic. Brian Murphy I am in your walls

[heytherecentaurs]

Every time I listen to the scene in campaign 3 where Hardwon and Moonshine exchange messages I’m inconsolable and utterly consumed.

All the multiverse and the person she calls is him. The second he hears her voice, hears her fear, hears that she needs him, he can think of nothing else but getting back to her. And when she hears him promise to come, she’s so relieved.

I know he loved Gemma but Moonshine is the love of his life. Moonshine despaired she never found her person when he was standing right there with her. He has loved 2 women in his life. He blamed himself in part for Gemma’s death. If only he hadn’t distracted her. If only he’d been faster, stronger, more observant. Then he loses Old Cobb. And if he can lose someone like Cobb he could lose Moonshine.

He doesn’t run away because he thinks he’s no longer capable of fighting. He runs away because he can’t bear the idea that he could lose Moonshine and be unable to stop it. He preempts the potential loss by leaving. It’s fear. A twisted logic. By choosing to leave and effectively losing her, he won’t have to risk losing her. There are levels to loss. It’s better to not be with her than to watch her die.

Hardwon would’ve accepted going out in a blaze of glory. If he were past his prime let him go out fighting. Fine. But what if he couldn’t stop Moonshine from dying? What if he had to live in a multiverse without her? He couldn’t do it. He’d lost the woman who defined his youth, his backstory. Losing the woman who defined his life and heroism would be too much. Hardwon wouldn’t survive losing her. He was part elf since he met her. He is a tall dwarf, a half elf, a Stormborn and titan of Bahumia, every part of his identity has been hard won for Elias Stormborn II. He had to die to be a half elf but being an elf in his heart came easy because that’s the place Moonshine planted her spores.

He goes back for the same reason he left. Moonshine.

[shadelyn]

I love critical role, but the NADDPod parties really make me happy because cr parties tend to be more morally gray and, even if they're not, distrustful. And that's okay, sometimes I like watching that! But I adore what good, kind, and trusting people NADDPod characters tend to be. Minus the Trinyvale Triplets, but they're entertaining specifically because they're the exception. I'm currently relistening to the first time they met Ulfgar, and, man, Moonshine really let someone she'd only heard of take swings at her and almost kill her because she believed he was a good person and was just being controlled. I feel like many other parties would have just been like "welp, he's possessed, that's bad" and just treated him as an enemy but Moonshine would rather get knocked out and maybe die than not give him a chance to fight his mind control.

[nekoneeko]

please someone agree with me that ep53 is THE FUNNIEST episode of c1 naddpod ever. jake’s delivery of hardwon’s “so we’re goin’ milk distraction?” to almost immediately “ *excited gasp* bRothers!!” with the most audible smile is the best thing i’ve ever heard in my life. imagining hardwon dressed in a long frock with stage-level circles of blush and perfect little curls is a close second

[dndoofus]

The fight against Queen Ezra was so good, but that means I’m more than halfway through my relisten. Also the kiss!!!! Excited to get to listen to the short rest for it this time around!

[donteatthefishtacos]

He was half an elf as soon as he met Moonshine of course he ends up at the Crick.

My knowing this didn’t stop me from losing my shit when he asked Moonshine if he could go home with her.

don’t mind me just thinking about hardwon surefoot, the bastard of the mountain, the man who never had a home, returning to the crick and having a place that he is allowed to settle and be emotional/depressed and still be welcomed

[operationslipperypuppet]

i finally started listening to naddpod bc u always blog about it

my absolute favorite type of ask to receive!! welcome to fun times happyville where everything is great all the time and nothing will make you want to pace around a room for hours!

(in all seriousness this is great and i’m happy you’re starting it and i hope you enjoy it!!)

also if anyone is listening to naddpod for the first time 1) feel free to send me asks or messages reacting to moments as they happen, i genuinely always enjoy that and 2) i do post spoilers on here so be wary (only ones from new episodes (c3) are tagged with “naddpod spoilers” but i do try to be consistent with campaign tags and one could block those if they’re trying to avoid spoilers)

[itsjustjelly]

Currently trying to pick up a new dnd/ttrpg campaign to get into and listen to while at work, if anyone has any suggestions of ones you like, I am accepting anything, honestly the nicher the better bcs I've listened to a lot of the more popular ones.

Here are ones I have listened to/plan to listen to/refuse to listen to/can't listen to, just so you don't recommend any of these:

Have listened to-

TAZ Balance

TAZ Amnesty

TAZ Graduation

Critical Role Campaigns 1 & 2

Fantasy High (Freshman and Sophomore year)

Unsleeping City

Tiny Heist

Mistfits & Magic

JRWI Riptide

Blood in the Bayou

JRWI Convergence

Fated Five

Dungeons and Daddies

High Hopes Low Rolls

Anime Campaign

NADDPod

The Encounter Table (up until the split)

Rusty Quill Gaming

Fools Gold

Dungeon Meshi (not a campaign but its similar enough in vibes that I felt the need to include it)

Sword AF (plan to listen to season 2 when it releases)

Ones I either started and lost interest in, or just don't wanna watch/can't watch-

Critical Role Campaign 3

A Crown of Candy

Escape from the Bloodkeep

The Seven

A Starstruck Odyssey

A Court of Fey and Flowers

Burrow's End

Prime Defenders (got so many spoilers I lost interest)

Fantasy High Junior Year (paywall, plan to watch later)

Neverafter (paywall)

JRWI Apotheosis (paywall, been meaning to watch but I cancelled my subscription during their hiatus)

The Suckening (same as above)

Legends of Avantris (wanna watch but I have no idea where to start)

[beesorcery]

naddpod + d20 pcs organized by campaign, dm, in-game race, class, subclass, and multiclass !! first sheet is d20 2nd is naddpod

[quicklings]

C1 EP. 1: GREEN TEENS GONE - TIMESTAMPS

Under the read more you'll find timestamps for the first episode of the first campaign of NADDPod, "Green Teens Gone". This episode doesn't have an ad-free version posted on Patreon, so these stamps may vary depending on the ads you get!

These were done by @stone-stars who is wonderful and doing this project with me.

Obviously, spoilers for NADDPod C1 Ep. 1 below the cut.

[0:01:14 - 0:01:53] Murph plugs their projects

[0:01:54 - 0:04:19] loredump / character descriptions

[0:04:20 - 0:06:10] intros / Murph tells them about Moonstone

[0:06:11 - 0:08:02] dragon pussy

[0:08:03 - 0:12:10] why the heroes are in Moonstone

[0:12:11 - 0:19:53] [Exterior. Moonstone. Night.] / Hardwon enters the tavern

[0:19:54 - 0:22:45] Beverly arrives

[0:22:46 - 0:32:13] Moonshine arrives / Denny asks them to find the teens

[0:32:14 - 0:35:26] the barbarians

[0:35:27 - 0:38:20] ad break, varies

[0:38:21 - 0:52:55] Hardwon starts a fight / Fight!

[0:52:56 - 0:54:38] Bev kills the leader

[0:54:39 - 1:00:44] dealing w/ the remaining barbarians

[1:00:45 - 1:02:49] Hardwon kills the last guy / Mishka helps them hide the bodies

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

Hi I see you’ve fallen head first into naddpod which is amazing, who’s ur favorite character?(at the moment lol)

Lmao that's a great way of putting it I truly have fallen directly into this and I have fallen Hard

Picking a fave is so tough (I've been typing and retyping this for like... 45 minutes) but because tragedy is like catnip to me I think Hardwon is coming out on top at the moment.

(SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 61 of NADDPOD Campaign 1!!!)

Like one of the best things about tragedy is when it's self inflicted and Hardwon's current situation genuinely was his fault. And it kind of feels like rather than shaking his sense of identity it confirmed some insecurities about his, value as a person and so on y'know?

Plus the whole 'everyone I love dies haha' bluster after the Ezra fight that fits in so well with the 'Well my (insert loved one here) is dead so-' bit that he's been doing since like. Galaderon. He seems so scared of being alone and so certain that that's just the way it's going to be.

And I mean also Hardwon is The Fighter. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line and killing Galad was absolutely the choice that kind of guy would make in that sort of a moment. And to be fair. If he hadn't Galad would have stuck around to continue to fuck them over so in retrospect its a damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of situation which is... such a fun place to put your fighter.

Also I just love characters who are a little cringe fail y'know?

Also honourable mention; Moonshine with the whole 'Wait I think I would actually rather die than see my party members get hurt' development that's been happening the last 15 or so episodes

Bev is just such a Little Guy who is silly and goofy and absolutely Going Through It.

And also it still makes me insane after that chat with Alonis every time Balnor comes in clutch? Like he truly is the single grain of rice that tips the scale and I feel Some Kind Of Way about him.

[utilitycaster]

Hi! I absolutely love following all of your commentary, whether it be about d&d mechanics or ttrpg shows! I'm working through the Dimension 20 backlog. In one of the Adventuring Party episodes for Unsleeping City 2, the cast talked about their approach to inter-party romance, and that they avoid it for many reasons, but mainly because they are afraid of it pulling too much focus during play. This struck me as very different than CRs approach. (1/2)

Do you have any thoughts about the different approaches of these two shows to romances, and how that impacts how fans interact with the characters and ships? I don’t follow the tags for these shows usually, but it seems that CR has more fandom discussion and drama around ships, which may be more absent in D20 since romance between player characters isn’t usually an expectation. The hours of play also likely make an impact. CR has so many more episodes for relationships to develop. (2/2)

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Thanks! Honestly your thought here kind of sums most of it up: a 400+ hour campaign simply offers opportunities for romances to develop that a 40-ish hour campaign does not. The only D20 campaign where I recall extensive shipping was A Court of Fey and Flowers, where that was kind of the point, and there were two clear frontrunner ships that were very heavily signaled and did not conflict with one another.

I don't follow the D20 tags or fandom in the same way I do Critical Role (also I am behind on Neverafter so no spoilers), so I can't speak much to shipping culture, but I do recall that the D20 cast has, as you've said, brought up romances. Some of it is again that it pulls time and focus they don't have. Critical Role can have a date between Beau and Yasha that lasts two hours of streaming time and it's a small amount of time in the scheme of things, whereas that would be an entire episode of an (at most) 20-something episode run in D20. Brennan however has also mentioned that he has a preference for PC/NPC romances simply because NPCs can leave in a way that PCs cannot. I suspect that just carried over to how the D20 Intrepid Heroes cast prefers to play. A lot of tables don't necessarily want romance between PCs! And when D20 has had it, it's either been an expectation the cast knew about going on for that specific series (ACOFAF), something agreed upon between the cast members prior to the show as an existing relationship (Mice & Murder; this is also true of EXU Calamity), or very much in the background/in the finale (Unsleeping City's fling between Pete and Rowan).

I suspect there might be a few other reasons:

Critical Role, quite early in the run of Campaign 1, had a character confess their love for another, so I think the expectation that romance is on the table has been set in this fandom from the start.

The unedited nature of Critical Role has I think permitted people to read into OOC moments differently than in other, more edited shows, and obviously video gives you much more than simply audio to work with (though obviously this isn't a factor for D20 vs. CR)

I could be wrong because again, while I watch/listen to a bunch of actual play, I don't participate heavily in the fandoms of those other shows, but I think people have preferences for specific cast members or cast dynamics for Critical Role in a way I haven't seen for other shows and I think that colors a lot of shipping discussions. (As for why this is true, I think it's a combination of the earlier, simpler accessibility of the cast on social media early CR vs say, D20 and NADDPod - the internet climate changed drastically between 2015 and 2018 - and the larger cast size and again, longer lengths of time. For reference; when Neverafter is complete, the intrepid heroes cast will have played 117 episodes together, and with episodes mostly in the 2-ish hour range this puts them at roughly half the runtime of Campaign 1 of Critical Role)

[remidyal]

Naddpod C3

I skipped to Campaign 3 after finishing Campaign 1 for now, and I'm about 20-odd episodes in (they're doing some beast lord trials) and a couple of things spring to mind so far, spoilers below:

#1) I fucking LOVE Emily's character voice for Callie.

#2) Jake is going to be cruising for a bruising if Calder keeps pledging loyalty at the drop of a hat in the feywild.

#3) The actual number of good + powerful NPCs in Bahumia in either campaign is so low that running into one of them is always like a breath of fresh air; Jolene is more or less the closest thing to a 'big good' sort of figure that campaign 1 has, maybe shared with Alanis (who is presumably wherever Gladeholm went, though likely also still alive). Finding her again even just for a short scene was lovely.

[nekoneeko]

ohhhhhsh my godd i just finishebfd naddpod campaignb one EMILYS FUCJINF SONG AT RHE END!!?!??! AND THEY ALKJ JOINED IN????!!?