just a tgirl who loves d20 and naddpod

[marshmallsy]

the acoc candy couture vol 2 zine is literally the most stunning thing i've ever seen (CHECK IT OUT AND ALL THE OTHER ZINES FROM THE D20 ZINE JAM) and i drew the rocks sisters like i was fucking possessed or smth

i did a bunch of research to make smth sort of historically accurate for my primsy design last year. this year i wanted to just go off and go for pure vibes only. also i actually saved my process!

i knew roughly 2 things i wanted for this piece: outrageous medieval-esque fashions (historical accuracy not required) and also twists for their licorice hair. i put together a pureref, found a pose reference, and played with several different color palettes really terribly until i found one i liked! the details made me wanna die but the end result was sooooo worth it

[gingermarshmallow]

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*preposterous sputtering*

LOVE Brennan and Jujubee at the same table. 💖💖💖💖💖

[heytherecentaurs]

The quality of D&D actual play shows has only steadily increased over time. Every player is better than when they started, every DM is better, every member of each production crew is better, the editing and sound design in the podcasts is better, the encounter design is better, etc… I absolutely love the stuff from 5+ years ago and it’s only a testament to the people involved that they’ve made things better. We’re living at the best possible time for D&D content and there’s enough variety that you can find something to your taste. And that’s just great.

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[islandoforder]

it’s important to me that everyone knows that the reason murph always leaps in to explain off camera bits bc his own podcast hosts are constantly bringing up visual/off mic/short rest jokes, and he is so used to having to add context immediately and at all times

[phoenixremix69]

I know this can't happen for obvious logistical reasons, but I would love a time quangle episode where Evan Kelmp interacts with Arthur Auguefort, just him saying some really depressing unsettling shit and aguefort going "Haha, delightful! here's some pcp and a glock, go fuck shit up kiddo"

[rrat-king]

this trio is so infinitely cursed and yet fascinating

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I know it would just be Zac and Brennan talking at each other for three hours but I just need to see the universe where Gorgug is being forced to work with Aguefort and Gilear to fix the time quangle and in addition to dealing with those two he ALSO has to deal with Aguefort’s boyfriend, a human-sized chocolate bunny priest from an alternate universe

[avadaniels]

By many names are myself and my companions called. The chosen ones. The program of pilots. I am called the heir of Aqrabus, but also am I called by the name of my friends. I am Evan Kelmp!

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Evan Kelmp Dimension 20: Misfits And Magic Season 2

[thisisnotthenerd]

i don’t think you understand

we have had aabria autumn on d20 since 2020, when she stole the show as myrtle in pirates of leviathan. you could feel her inhabiting that mermaid over a zoom screen. felt like i was watching a mermaid roll around in a life-size martini glass full of vodka with my own eyes.

then she changed the game with mismag in 2021, bringing kids on brooms, personalized props, lighting effects, and projections to the dome, after which she held it down as antiope jones. the reluctant leader, the late bloomer who is not late but merely arriving in her own time.

in 2022 she came back with kisses, with regency, with good society, with flowers and tokens and projections and a willingness to follow up on consequences that never stopped moving. wuvvy my beloved. kill me with the devotion of a life lived in service to the one you love why don’t you.

in 2023 she was the spiciest assassin. fit for the genre in fits for the genre. replacing skalds like she was born to do it. and then burrow’s end. a genre exploration with a splash of the violence of dnd and the tragicomedy of family. beautiful sets, incredible audiovisual effects, and horror both visceral and cosmic.

in 2024? she’s back with wizards baby. she’s taking a 4 episode jaunt of americans becoming wizards in britain and making an adventure of eleven episodes. planets move, the dm screen talks, and the wind is on the rise.

aabria adds such a fun, artistic, genre-bending, cinematic flavor to her time in the dome; it’s no wonder that the Q4 mid-length season is hers.

[i-containmultitudes-deactivated]

cw: cannabilism

Just finished the fourth episode of MisMag s2 and am now contemplating the cannibalism inherent to Seegenpelater.

When the whaleship Essex sank, the survivors refused to seek refuge on an island because they believed the people there were cannibals. Eventually a lifeboat of survivors pulled straws to see who they would eat to survive: a man killed and ate his own nephew. I'm thinking about how, when they were rescued, the sailors refused to let go of the boy's finger bones. I'm thinking about a willingness to eat the ones you love because you wouldn't let anything challenge your worldview, your expectations of superiority and order, and now you've dug yourself too deep.

I'm thinking about how Lemli killed two people to make 206 magical objects per person. I'm thinking about how she snapped their bones one by one, from the femur all the way down to the tiniest bones in the ear. Who were they? Were they strangers? Perhaps friends, part of that crew unwilling to go into the NAMP world? Did they die willingly? Naturally? Or did Lemli indulge her favorite hobby, leading her victims to the sea? Where did she keep the bones? And where is Hoggle?

I'm thinking about the fact that familiars are extensions of the self, and how the people on Seegenpelater have slaughtered them just to get another hit of magic. How the mechanics of the game make it so when you have done enough magic, you can gain a magic item; the idea that you can then break that item to do more magic. I'm thinking about cannibalism as self-devouring in addition to the devouring of ones like oneself.

And perhaps most horrifying, I'm thinking about the fact that—had Evan not stuffed her in a body bag—Philtrum would probably be scrapped for magic, consumed piece by piece by the very people she convinced such cannibalism was necessary. Would she consider it a kindness that Evan spared her body from such a desecration (assuming the Pilot Program doesn't resort to using her bones later), or would she be outraged at the waste, and his denying her a chance at being a martyr like Professor Viniscus?

[slightlycrunchy]

is usha 100? 1,000? she hasn’t been kissed in 75 years. she knew einstein (carnally….?)

touch me on the neck and call me jeff but i think she’s ageless

[operationslipperypuppet]

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just a topical audio edit for your fine whatever part of the day it is when you've happened upon this.

Transcript:

Audio from FHJY Episode 16: Untapped Rage and NADDPod's Baggin' it with Balnor: Loud Libraries, Questionable Drug PSAs, and Staying Fit w/ Pendergreens. The difference in audio is shown with a cut. Murph: Oh, that's cocked. It almost was a nat 20, but you gotta honor the [strained] cock. --- Pendergreens (Murph): Yeah, you know, uh, sort of, when I smile, I do sort of an "o" face, cause, like, when are you more happy than when you're, uh, [starts to laugh] slangin' some rope. [Emily laughs] Jake: Oh my -

[brionbroadway]

are you a “i’m not going to leer at the minis, you fucking maniacs” murph or a “when i use clockwork leeches it gets me off” murph

[littlebearwithlittlebrain]

“I think our parents have had longer lives than us, so they’ve had a lot more time to fuck up. And so, their accumulated fuck ups are just bigger than ours. I think I have empathy for that.”

Damn Emily Axford really wanted to kill me on my way to work…esp after that messaging scene ugh. And ain’t that the a constant theme in NADDPOD? The Stormborns, Bev Sr., Hank, Stella, Krugen. Understanding but not forgiving.

[sideblogdotjpeg]

more of a half thought ! but its interesting how c3 handles the theme of repeating intergenerational cycles vs c1. like w c1 its v much history repeating itself, the same bands of heroes come together and fall apart in parallel ways. c3 i think so far has been kind of more about pc backgrounds and families?

like im thinking all the time about how swag is just a version of sol who didnt have friends, and otherwise their character arc (the way they seek connections/purpose and get exploited by them) is very purposely similar. then w the most recent ep, its callies mom as the descendant of aryox. the way her inherited gift causes her to fall down the same road as he did. cold and distant from the peoples shes fighting from, and dying in contrition.

.. if thats anything. theres also the ways duck team falls short of whats expected of them, and how that failure is what allows them to break out of those intergenerational familial cycles. (maybe callie especially? w like her inability to be stoic and her intensity of love is what allows her to reach out to the snakes and the wild)

maybe. or something . perhaps

[eursolons-mushroom]

After much planning, time and love, I've finally finished my World's Beyond Number nesting dolls. Im not one to make fan art, but this podcast has moved me to the point of creation. I simply NEEDED to have the gang for my desk. Im so happy with all the details I was able to fit in.