Hearthside Chat: A Champagne Tree Retrospective
Jake brings your questions (and a bunch of terrible puns) to the 2 Crew for a chat about Campaign 3 and beyond. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
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Catching up right now and had to come here to make sure someone had commented about the Warriors musical!! So worth a listen
Literally same!
So happy they gave us a non-zero chance of Twilight Sanctorum coming back. Genuinely excited for whatever comes next (including Skaldova).
You guys could use the cyberpunk red system, but set in Ezry
Kickin it with Kenna?
WARRIORS IS A MUSICAL. Lin Manuel Maranda released a concept album with a bunch of big names like literally a few months ago. Please listen to it it’s amazing 🥺
Came here to say this!! Murph needs to listen!
Check out Notability on iPad for note taking. I use it for work and personal note taking and journaling but you’re able to upload pdf’s and images really easily and edit them in the app. Seems like a solution for wanting the convenience of iPad note taking while getting to physically write on a character sheet potentially?
That's why I always do the Calcifer yule log lol
emily loves john wick so much i wonder if she got to see monkey man !! my favorite action flick of the last several years
bring back the crick tshirt 💔💔
On the topic of Emily mentioning the want to do a Cyberpunk style campaign, there is a TTRPG called Cyberpunk Red that is based on the Cyberpunk games in that there are different type of edgerunners you can be. I know that that game has a lot of fun mechanics that could probably be pulled from if you were to do a Cyberpunk type adventure
Lol. Love that Warriors the musical is a thing now.
can’t emphasize enough how hype i would be to see the two crew play with the cyberpunk red system and/or make a mini-campaign with heavy cyberpunk themes. my partner and i are obsessed with it and want to learn the system/run games, so it would be both entertainment and education 🤣 can’t wait for you to chip in, chooms!!!
Just saw Caldwell yelling "Olaf dies in frozen 2" out of a car window
In regards to one of the last questions, I thought C3 had the PERFECT balance of throwbacks and new stuff. Lots of C1 references, but it in no way overshadowed C3. And C1 stuff tied in in unique ways to C3 that were unexpected.
The 2 Crew could play a Root: The Roleplaying Game Campaign based on the boardgame Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right. You get to be cute little woodland animal vagabonds doing adventures in a dangerous Woodland beset by factional conflict. Simple rules and rolling with a lot of player flexibility. Cat or possum character!
Bring back the Baggin!
LOVE the idea of new mini campaigns and seeing new/exiting material. Into the shift, but praying that we get non-5e content. I’m so oversaturated on this system
Gotta say, would love to see a Cyberpunk Red session from you folk. There's even baked in support to fantasy it up via the Elflines Online material.
am hoping so hard for the hotboy skie trip and/or more twilight sanctorum.
Jake campaign incoming!
you could say he's jaking his dm debut
Hey Murph, was the large scale combat at the green knight castle the same mechanics you had madefor the Hexblood large scale battle? The one they never ended up using because they went all rogue and assassinated the king instead. I just happened to listen to the hexblood episodes between the green knight castle siege and this one and I gotta know now.
I really hope that someday as a prank Emily leaves every d20 she owns on a 1, In inconspicuous places around her home. Just to see how many it takes Murph to find and fix before he realizes it’s a set up.
MOONFALL REFERENCE FROM CALDWELL THE MOON IS A MEGASTRUCTURE
Love “the warriors” idea Murph has
Murph put out a charcuterie board of tiny L’s for the haters to snack on this episode
Anyone else wanna start of 2025 with the Trinyvale Triplets? I think we need that
Omg I was so hopeful about a Xunark x Callie moment but the Young Stag x Callie has is awesome
One of my favorite things is when they're workshopping a pun and I come up with a great one that I keep screaming at the podcast and then Caldwell later comes up with it. It's the best form of validation. (In this case it was the "Brrwitz" one)
What is Caldwell's first nickname? Calling zine? I'm so confused
The new years song is Auld Lang Syne :) I only know this from the Unsleeping City because Siobhan I think sings it haha
Oh I would love more adventures in different systems and settings!
Murph and Lin Manuel Miranda on the same creative page. Literal Warriors bway show coming from LMM.
“thats how they built the Taj Mahal” is the wildest defence for your bs
Sooooo… Cool Boy Winter WHEN???
i wonder if we'll get some twilight sanctorum dice in the future...
they'll be filled with ball bearings and peanuts
I wish that instead of throwaway damage/gags, characters faced more social consequences for their dumb jokes. In frostwind, when Hardwon insulted the frost dwarf government at the bar, they kicked the party out, which led to them going to the wedding with less information, which led to one of the best moments in the history of the podcast. When sol insulted that fire giant guard and just got punched, I was disappointed that there was no social consequences. C3 had a lot of moments where the characters were absolute *assholes*, which was super funny, but I just with the NPC’s had a bit more backbone instead of just ignoring it.
Watched The Warriors the night before listening to this and I immediately wanted to steal the ideas for a campaign/arc
I love the idea of shorter stories
I swear murph just loves everything that I love. The Warriors is one of my favorite movies. Cyberpunk was also one of my favorite games. Please do that idea murph!
Welp can’t wait until campaign 4.
I’m so glad you addressed the AI fireplace scourge on youtube this year
#Crittsburgh2025
Can we please have an Air Gear style warriors ezry cyberpunk? This is the best idea I've heard in a while
Would be sick to see the 2 crew in a different setting than high fantasy! (Maybe with the cyberpunk system??)
absolutely stayed up past my murphew listening to this 😌 when remembering bits that had me laid out, I’m now realizing that in my mind I combined the little fae wild gang at the bar with the surprise round question about what to do when challenged by a motorcycle gang (not in your hometown) bahahaha
Re: Cyberpunk and The Warriors. Have you ever thought of running the cyberpunk red ttrpg? Also if you want an insane version of the Warriors I suggest checking out High and Low the Movie franchise on Netflix. It's.... it's insane
Murph bringing the big grinch energy today - gotta take so many Ls this go around. SNOW JAKE HER-MITTS FTW!
Totally crazy to hear about the Warriors in this! Lin Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis just released a mixed tape based off The Warriors in November, with a gender-switch for the Warriors. Features a lot of the Hamilton cast, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and a ton more. They are likely working on the stage production now, but the album is cool, so you should listen to it if you can!
Thanks for the run. Catch your breath, and get ready to do it again
A session 0, that's so exciting
Might I recommend: “All I Want for Christmas is Hugh”
Hoping for new settings but also fingers crossed for things in Eldermourne. I loved the style of it!!
fake fur mitts
now THIS
“Warriors killed Cyrus, man!” Come out and plaaay!
Listen to the episode and can't tell if the title is a typo or one of Jake's puns
Knowing how S tier the puns are it has to be a pun. Especially since it's Champagne instead of Campaign
Re: the theatre troupe and gossip rag regret… I’d love a theatre group that travels to different regions that’s actually a cover for them both seeding rumors and gathering gossip, like information brokers.
So, 8-bit book club, hell maybe even Jank as a first time guest, should watch The Warriors
Love you guys!!! Also Flake Burwitz, had me dying
Jingle Cauld the Wells
Omg running an oops all bards campaign that starts with a traveling theater troupe has been a dream of mine for years. Seeing Emily's take on that would be amazing.
Jake saying “that’s how they built the Taj Mahal” was an excellent point and Out Past Murphew should have taken another tiny L imo
Godsmack style!
When Jake said "I'll just use a quarter" it made my teeth shiver.
Lin Manuel Miranda recently wrote a musical of The Warriors.
lol imagine jake decided cake wasn’t for him but DMing was and that’s what session 0 will be next week
I loved everything you've done! I really hope that future series play with other systems, as you go for shorter series.
How about Jingle Cald "the" Wells?
Dawg I’m trying to figure out what this means because I know it can’t be a “Jingle All The Way” reference.
The only song balnor plays is wonderwall
Out past Murphiew is phenomenal
“He stands alone, Godsmack style” is going into my lexicon
Snowflake Hermit sounds like an obscure class that Emily would play.
There is something undeniably sexy about "HerMittens"
Caldwell never failing to remind everyone why AI is pure evil makes me feel so seen. AI is destroying not only the physical world but also society and if you use it you fucking suck!!
I know I'm never gonna change your mind, and also this is absolutely not the time or place to have this discussion, but there are net goods/positives to keep AI around and help people. AI is simply a tool, but if you wield it poorly you'll get less than favorable results and may end up hurting others' hard work in the process. Though I also understand that I'm making a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument when I'm really not trying to. Do what you will.
Ooooo I love a hogliday hearthside
Happy Hoglidays!
New campaign in a dystopian future America.
Campaign 2025
Thank you guys so much for the wonderful campaign! I really look forward to these chats. I can't wait for the future
Next campaign takes place in Medford, MA?!
Cambridge lol