D&D Court: Bonus Cases - The Hot Burger Ending

woah woah woah blackjack is still fun with no stakes lmao no need to hate cards for no reason

"Third Degree Three Cheese burns" is SUCH a good pull from Jake, damn these really do have replay value !

When you remember how difficult it is to get your D&D group together post school life if that casino case happened I’d be so upset

Mario Pizza submitter, if you are here, please submit an update!! We need it

Why is it always pizza!? What’s so funny about pizza? And why do people think that’s the best funny name? It’s so trashy to me!

I gotta say, I'm 100% on the players' side in the casino. Sometimes you find out you just want to play cards all night! The prep isn't gone it's there for next session. The only thing better than having a fun activity you planned is finding out the activity is cancelled, and you get to stay home.

Ogdensburg mentioned !!! (The only notable things there are the bridge to Canada and the psych ward)

Gang I don’t have any cases but I wrote a lot of “Jake Intro” insults that you can feel free to use. They may be repeats from old eps and overall they’re like 3-4/10s tbh. But there are more that this and it’s just for those who feel stressed about writing a jake insult before their case. I’m taking that one for you lol 😅 For those with cases to share: - Who’s Baliff Is It Anyway? - A Baliff So Lowly I Wouldn’t Even Trust Him To Clean My Cat’s Litter Boxes - The Grinchly Judges (affectionate) and the Baliff That I Wouldn’t Touch With A 39 and 1/2 Foot Pole (derogatory) *(this one I’m genuinely proud of and I’m sorry) - Jake. If that even is your REAL name - Amir’s weirder and less funny work acquaintance - Hank. Obviously these are jokes and I think Jake is probably perfectly fine, (never met him, can’t say for sure) so one come for me please

I've heard a lot about this bailiff and it's mostly mixed

I also immediately thought that the 80s case they were driving in a snow storm 😂

shoutout Ogdensburg

I've listened to this EP like 7-9 times now. It's weird that the section re: my ask gets funnier and more encouraging each time I listen to it. I have reached out to the DM and he has been very encouraging. I've also reached out to the friend since the general consensus was that what he did was fucked up. So I kind of was like. So what the fuck was that? More on this as it developes?

Anyone else feel like the guy ditching his friend with his party is giving real John Wolf energy?

'have your burger and fuck it too' goddamn it Caldwell XD

Anybody else getting a ton of emails right now starting with the first episode and counting? Small L

1) Before I started playing in earnest, I only ever played NPCs in other people's games. I'd ask my DM if they had a goal the NPC wanted to achieve and how much they'd give to achieve it.

Always delighted to hear Caldwell say stuff like “Honkai Star Rail” and “goon”

I think this is the second case where a player wanted to play Mario but the DM worried it would ruin emersion

Did they acknowledge the kidnapped PC in the Casino case? Those PCs just abandoned their kidnapped friend? Maybe that DM needs to return only to narrate a montage of them in the casino interspersed with the kidnapped friend being hurt? Because they left someone behind??

I’m all caught up with NADDPOD (started listening well over a year ago), and now I don’t know what to listen to when I go to bed anymore! 😩

i’m the friend who asked Ian F to dm for my friends and i :—) fun fact: in mario pizza player’s previous campaign, his character slowly turned into caillou, to answer emily’s question lol

Omg, I'm heartbroken for the casino DM. What happened there is my absolute nightmare. You deserve far more respectful players & friends.

Is it maybe in honor of Mario Puzo, author of the Godfather?

I IMAGINED IT WAS A SNOWSTORM TOO EMILY! So funny, wonder why haha Heart absolutely broken for the Casino DM. We need to get like a Gofundme or something for them

“Playing D&D for ACTUAL money??!” Emily, I have INCREDIBLE news for you 😂

omg my heart breaks for the casino DM. I'm not even there and I desperately want to see what these fantasy games are and try out the cool magic drinks! I'd have to try everything, that's so fuckin cool!

I actually had something like the abandoning friend thing happen to me with a former housemate - it sucked, and I don't see that guy much anymore, but I still had an okay time with the group. The difference (and something that might be relevant here) was that it was a paid DND thing, and he was having money trouble, and the group could only run with a minimum player buy-in per session. So it was shitty, but he might have decided that the only way to quit without screwing over everyone else was to loop in a friend.

I went to WWE Smackdown a few weeks ago and had a sign that said “this is narratively satisfying.” I am just now realizing that sign was inspired by you all at Naddpod 😁😁

my body started decomposing at “i’m gooning for that cheese”

I first started playing D&D back in 85

Im obsessed yall picked Annie’s submission.

The last 90 seconds of this episode were a fever dream

I never thought I’d hear the term goon here lol

hey guys love the show so much i guess i was wondering what the last minute of this episode was about maybe in your own words

"You can have your burger, and fuck it too." ~NADDPOD, 2k24

When in the course of human events…

Re: blackjack and how much work GMing is: Often when someone is thinking about buying a boat, an experienced sailor will tell them that they will have to do ten hours of maintenance for every hour of sailing, and if the buyer isn't put off by that, maybe boat ownership won't be a disaster for them. I don't think GMing is quite at that ratio, but maybe 4:1? 16 hours for of prep for a 4 hour session?

For my previous year-long monthly campaign I did successfully make and use a build for "bounding" as a character from pop-culture! Our DM was using elements of The Witchlight Carnival, so I created a bard based on the muppet Mokey from Fraggle Rock. She experiences a loss of innate skill in that show similarly to the description provided in our module, which helped me round out my character by pulling details from their lore. Then I had lots of space to improvise against a familiar framework, within an fun new unfamiliar setting♡~ I made a playlist as well to help settle into it and direct my focus toward details I'd like to either exaggerate or soften. The tone of my approach was perhaps not the same as Mario Pizza though lol 🤣. It can totally work, but you need to be matching the energy of the setting/module and your group at least to begin with. 💞

I'm not caught up yet so this may already have been proposed and/or judged, but I'd love to hear the Supreme Crit's decision on https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/1fm7puh/no_the_2024_war_caster_feat_does_not_work_on/

Nothing to say other than I was listening to this when cops came up to me parked at the beach bc they thought I had weed in my car. I think this blaring while I played pokemon go made them decide to let this poor innocent nerd go without much fight 💀😭 thanks NADDPOD🤦🏻‍♀️

Two really important points everyone seems to missing in the Mario Pizza case: 1: His canonical name is Mario Mario 2: is this player Charles Martinet and why are you trying to stifle that wonderful old man's joy.

The abandoned friend story reminds me of how I ended up finding my current D&D crew. I was just signing up for games with people on roll20, and ended up in a game with 5 other players and a bad dm that ended after a tpk. Then one of the players who left right after the game invited me to a new game with a whole different crew. Then they left that game after 5 session and invited me to a new game also with entirely new people. Then the exact same thing happened a third time and I haven’t heard back from them since then. Anyways I still play with both of the crews he left, though the third group has been on hiatus since the DM moved across the country.

Being from Ogdensburg, NY…visiting that red roof Pizza Hut will be punishment for funcle enough. And if you try to do a show there you will have at most maybe 4 guests. St Lawrence County has more cows than people 😂

So you're telling me Murph it's fine with us playing Mario but we can't play fat bastard????

Holy shit, Caldwell’s idea of springing DnD on people playing at a blackjack table is great. I love a silly, hyper-specific vision of poetic justice haha.

The real issue with Mario is that he should be a Monk.

Hearing bailiff cake break while reading that first case - I needed that

How many times could you roll a d20 at a craps table before you get banned from the casino for life?

Alright so for my dad's case (Ride and Die) a few things: 1. They lived in northern Pennsylvania so it honestly probably was snowing 2. I've asked my dad about the character before and he just kind of shuts it down and doesn't even want to try, but next time I'm home to visit I'll try again! 3. Listen I only asked for the light punishment for my dad bc he's being very stubborn and refusing to play because of something that happened 40 years ago, but still understandable on his end so I rescind my request for light punishment and apologize to the court 4. NYE is my dad's birthday and he usually has a gig to play (jazz musician) so Xmas Eve is actually perfect I think 5. My "uncle" has been my dad's bestie for most of their lives but I've always been kinda frustrated by him tbh so phenomenal idea for my "uncle" to be the bbeg actually... Anywhoozle thank you for your ruling, benevolent court and ballif! Appreciate y'all so much ❤️

I just gotta say this: Darcy isn't a boy-next-door type. Sorry, it's been bugging me since the original case.

I feel like the casino one depends on a bunch of stuff. If they play super often then maybe they just didn’t really feel like playing through a session that time and would rather have chat and hung out with their friends. I’ve had a session go similarly once, and people were just overwhelmed with their actual life and sometimes you don’t realise how draining role playing will be til you’re at the table doing it.

I absolutely feel Murphs energy in this I would be so hot if my “friends” did something like that so disrespectful and mean that poor dm! Especially because Ive run casino encounters and they are so much work you need to make a bunch of custom rules for the games AND make the environment vivid and fun. Casino DM if you’re reading this leave those players and find some new people; it’s not worth the stress of dming for people who don’t want to play your game. I have dmd for people like that; and I quit because it was terrible. now I have a wonderful group who actually want to play the game I spend like 7 hours a week setting up.

I like Mario being a halfling considering his height relative to normal humans in New Donk City. But, I think he makes more sense as a monk than a bard.

This guest bailiff is killing it I hope you guys bring him back some time

i've been asked to dm a campaign for friends of my sister and did end up inviting one of them to leave the group because she wasn't taking it seriously enough (and the other players were), and i talked to her first, then her friends, and then we made the decision together

Still in session, huh? Come to Medford!