D&D Court: Dog Slaps, Bath Bombs and the Messy Breakup Monk (w/ Robbie Daymond!)
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Dungeon Court is back in session, featuring our newest Justice, Robbie Daymond! Join Justices Murphy, Axford, Tanner and Daymond, along with Keeper of the Knife Bailiff Hurwitz, as they convene to pass judgement on your trials at the table!
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Comments (132)
I want to sentence Lady Macbeth to run Tomb of Annihilation for that group. That way she can live out her bloodlust fantasties and murder all her husband's friends.
Ftj lvl of
Insane episode to listen to while being named Skye lol
I've come back to NADDPOD after a few years and I forget how much I missed it. I caught up with the released episodes and I'm a binge listener at work. So I took up Critical Role to let the 2Crew build up more episodes. I planned on only the first CR campaign but the 2nd sounded interesting too. That was going to be where it ended but then I heard Emily was going to be in CR campaign 3. So I stuck it out and after all that time I figured I might as well finish it. Now, here I am picking up where I left off and couldn't be happier. Kudos to everyone, even Jake. Great end to your campaign 3! Murph, the best combat DM ever with cool mechanics and dynamic battlegrounds. Emily, the dice blessed, and an inspiration of a perfect player. Caldwell, forever in a space of pure fantasy creativity. Jake, an absolute bro of any party he's in. So glad to be back and as much as I hate to admit, I'll probably catch up again and hope CR has enough sessions in campaign 4 to let y'all build up again. At least this time it's Brennan as the DM, no hate to Matt. lol
There is an episode in 6teen where Jonesy pranks Jen by putting a beef bouillon cube inside the shower head before her shower. Is that a shower bomb?
I had to come here and say that "kill them all" caused a legitimate spit take laugh from me. That wife is a treasure.
It never came up, but the "guest murder monk" case sounded like a DM who listened to Murph's past advice on how to take away a magic item that's accidentally too powerful and/or the players are abusing. They got to have a dramatic fight, they only got knocked out instead of killed, and they were explicitly told where they could retrieve their stuff. My bet is that when they got to the king, one specific magic item was missing/broken/confiscated, and everything else got returned
I relistened to this episode again, not for the first time, and I still really hope they do have Robbie on for an actual play episode or arc. His sense of humor is just so perfect for NADDPod!
This is one I come back to relisten to a bunch because Robbie is so great with the crew. Seamless chemistry and charisma; if they started having guests for the main show again he’d also be the top of my wish-list. I bet he’d put on a “Lou in Hexbuds” level performance with them.
Didn't murph make a joke about an impossibly bad dm that made his pc watches why his turned into a dragon and fought the bbeg by himself in the air
Ryan Urphy, one-shotting a Tarrasque (that's some nice Tamarian for you)
Condoms for bath bombs? 🤦🏻♀️🤣
The two dms playing hero for eachother was fantastic i was drinking my energy drink at work when Emily started "transforming" into a dragon I almost choked i couldn't stop laughing i love this show
I think the only thing that could've been funnier for the level 5 monk was post whomping dude lights a cig and says was that as good for yall as it was for me hahahaha
Would pay good money for a D&D court windbreaker
Murph’s argument about what constitutes a messy breakup is why people picture him as a short king
What i wouldnt give to learn those two DMs listen to the show and have them write in trying to defend themselves
Was this in Madison?
DM for cowboy ninja is innocent! Plot devices from a new PC can be fun!
MADISON, WISCONSIN! WHOOHOO!! ❤️💪🧀
said nobody ever lol
As someone who works at lush.... yeah that sounds like one of our customers lmao
On the Kensei monk case…Monk’s get stunning strike at 6th level
I hate to break it to you but it is actually 5th level. "Starting at 5th level, you can interfere with the flow of ki in an opponent’s body."
Guys the first case is literally an old meme i keep seeing reposted for years, i think you all got duped.
Careful the young ppl and such will attack u for stating anything that sound like a complaint. Lmao i personally agree 👍
Sky reminds me of how my friends will never let down the joke that I only play racist characters.
hm. reconsider doing perhaps
If I don’t need to DM, sometimes even if I do, when something bad happens to me I always try to schedule D&D.
I LOVE Controversial Justice Daymond I think he brings some great discussion points lmao
I think what Robbie is missing is the breach of trust from the DM with his pet friend and the party. I think it feels weird if you have a surprise guest show up and they are against you. It feels suspicious. It feels like a weird collusion. The DM pet is in effect an “outsider” to the DM party relationship. This doesn’t feel like a totally consensual thing. If the DM had said “Hey what if I have a surprise guest some session. I think they’re gonna play a bad guy. “ and then everyone said, “That sounds good. ” then it would be okay a little.
To be clear, even if everyone consents, it’s still only a little okay?
The bath bomb girl and the DMs with main character syndrome cases both have the same solution: stop being friends with these people.
How is 1 level 5 player beating 5 level 5 players even possible??
We need more Robbie in the future. They were an excellent guest!
Jump scare Robbie randomly naming your city 😶
Robbie was fantastic. Fit the mood of the crew like a glove.
The Macbeth wife guy said his crew had a great time so I think he did the right thing!
one of the best dungeon court eps EVER 👏
I think the murder wife story might be my favourite ever
Robbie repeatedly going back to the evidence solidified him as best guest. Get this man a gavel & wig.
calling being late because of eating chocolate covered almonds "gangster" is crazy
the bath bomb case has very similar vibes to a real life event of mine and case I submitted, except our Amy never showed and it ended the friendship
Yeah it kinda ended our game. we could have extended and tied up some loose ends but that was it
Robbie talked about his butthole way more than I expected, hope to see him again soon. ❤️
I'm so hooked on DnD court, it's the ONLY podcast I'll take a break from The Stormlight Archives to listen to.
For the one shot I think it’s completely reasonable to lower the hp and health. They hadn’t played in months and this was a one shot so I’m assuming these are new characters the dm doesn’t know how to balance for. I know that most of what they said what a joke but Murph opened it up saying that if it was the first session it would be fine missing the fact that it was indeed the first session given that it’s a one shot. But even if it wasn’t a one shot and they had been playing for a while, balancing combats is one of the hardest aspects of being a dm at least in my experience. I mainly just feel the need to say all this because in the past (and much more occasionally now) I would have to change the stats of the monsters on the fly
Saw someone say they pictured Cecily Strong playing the Wife in a SNL esque skit and now I can’t imagine anything else
this episode RIPS
Another new guest, another sacrifice to POD. PRAISE BE THE YOUTH OF A NATION
I actually just got my wife into D&D!
Don’t forget to TPK the party so you can get smooches
My wife loves shower bombs! You set them by the drain and they encourage steam
Robbie, the bath bomb’s justice
Murph, maybe the breakup was at like 1am, Saying he broke up that day could be like if I said you posted the episode on Friday
In the words of Murph, "dare I say, GET EM!"
Omg I've been the submitter in the last case and it sucks so much. See if you can get them to hate each other in real life and then one leaves. That's how it resolved itself in our group and now the games are way better. Also, yay for Robbie!
It doesn't matter now I ended up leaving that group because the DMS started questioning the third DM on every decision he made and a bunch of other things
As far as post-breakup bad decisions go, beating up some nerds in a ttrpg is almost healthy
AAAAHH robbie daymond the goat of all time
Emily doesn’t want to fight Cerberus? 😨 don’t play hades 2 😭
i loved Robbie's return to evidence throughout. Please come back, Justice Daymond!
makes me all the more excited for the other guests
You all have absolutely had a "generous read" in a previous case about the EXACT situation that actually happened with the heartbroken monk 🤣
Obsessed with Robbie going edgelord and ruling "unfortunately I love this person" on the most unhinged cases 😂 Also so pumped to hear more about Emily's Date Everything character!
I'm nearing 40 and will leave groups if they have adult edge lords, lol.
Glaaaad to see Robbie occupying in a non-critical role space.
Please someone understand what i mean: Robbie's voice sounds a lot like Jasper William Cartwright's voice just with an American accent
I'm hearing Josh Gadd
Depending on the party composition, it's probably not too ridiculous for a kinsei monk to be able to take them all out with a little luck. If they only had like, a fighter and the rest of the party were squishies like a rogue, sorcerer, druid, and cleric and none of their ac was that great, if they missed a few times (not unlikely, monk could have 20+ ac with 20 dex, 16 wis, and agile parry from kinsei) and the monk could stun each turn and then just grind their stunned targets down (free crits on every attack) .
You don’t get free crits on stunned creatures
Robbie Daymond! Cool! Edit: whoa he got the Dungeon Court energy right off the bat.
Wooahhh what a pulll
ROBBIE DAYMOND!!!!!!!!!!
5 Skye’s murders and crimes.
"Why did I think the dog was dead" well Murph, that's because you would've killed the dog, ESPECIALLY if our boy jake was trying to pet it 😂
Spent too much time around Brennan, really.
Head cannon: Katana guest player is "DnD isn't about stealing girlfriends" guy post breakup
@ Bath bomb: the minute the person suggested someone pay for the bath bomb, after the other sufff? Yeah, they're not coming back to my table.
I was the submitter and she definitely isn’t. We could have continued the game but I decided to end it there.
I have never seen Robbie in anything but he has such great energy for this. I hope he comes back
He’s in Critical Role!!
Robbieee!!! My heart. He’s just one of my favorites.
29:17 - fushiguro asmr 👍
Convinced that bath bomb lady was Meredith Marks and this is a reference that very few people will understand.
Im biased cause Kensei monk was my first class but im on his side cause it must be awesome to win 1v5 (assuming it was above board). At this level it is totally possible to fight that many cause they could have crazy high AC and are attacking with better weapons than a standard monk
Seems incredibly unlikely. If he's using a katana then he won't get the 2ac from Parry.. but doing 50 damage in one turn with just unarmed strikes is very unlikely also. Along with then surviving everything 4 players can do before it gets back to you suggests some kind of shenanigans
What's with the dungeon court Tim Robinson's skits lately(tbf I love them)? Lady Macbeth wife absolutely makes me think of it.
The wife is 100% played by Cecily Strong
I thought you guys were going to rotate who was going to be the bailiff?
I would assert that the DM in the bath bomb girl situation should have acted much sooner. There is precedent in the Court for punishing the DM for failing to manage table decorum and etiquette, and failing to communicate proactively when irritants start to crop up. Fine people of the Crit, the final session bath bomb tardiness incident was a preventable offense. You've got to nip this stuff in the bud as a DM. Was bath bomb girl the actual perpetrator of the offense? Yes. Was it the DM's responsibility to keep the good vibes at the table by managing more proactively at the earlier hints? Also yes. 🎲
I have talked with her. She did have some hardships so it was one of those- talk with her but I understand why. Her puppy almost died and her grandfather did pass in December. This was the nail in the coffin though. All of this happened over like 2 months
my phone tried to connect to a marriot bonvoy as i was listening; the gods were looking down on me
is someone going to tell them shower bombs already exist
Yeah, Emily
Fuckin’ WHAT?! I love Robbie, he signed my PHB
I completely disagree with the dog slap ruling. I come from incredibly hardy stock and absolutely would have accidentally slapped a dog via too hard pet when I was a child. Perhaps the dm should have said "You don't know you're own strength and apply too much pressure to fast and the dogs legs buckle a little bit. It looks back at you confused, betrayed, and a little scared."
just made me think of the squirrel in bg3, you can accidently kick that critter so theres precedent i suppose
Robbie!!!
“Huh, I don’t know Robbie let’s check out his insta.” … “OH NO HES HOT”
Macbeth wife almost made me crash my car
Wow hearing Robbie’s low dark voice at 29 ish min just did something to me
GET OUT LET'S GOOO
NADDPOD always makes me laugh but I was in tears over this
Macbeth wife is an ICON
Theres a website called geekyclean that sells those dice bath bombs, they did some vox machina themed ones of i recall, I used them a few times, quite nice smelling
lol I got shower bombs for Christmas, they just sit in the bottom and release nice smell.
To that second case, I can understand why you two are married, that was incredible to listen to
how that bath bomb girl was still in the game for so long without an intervention is my question...
So this was my case- It was only about 3 months long after she joined and she was going through some issues with her puppy and her grandfather passed away at the start of December so I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. Also I’m really close with her friend so I talked to her about it as well which is how I found out some of these other things
Emily! As a fellow bath bitch, you can get things like a cover for the tub or a heater to keep your water hotter for longer!
This is truly sacred knowledge!!!! With the water heater I - a bath bitch - need never get out and will live my life as a sage old water dwelling pruuuuune!!!!
Caldwell! Did you know robbie voiced Hubert in fire emblem three houses, the one person your pc’s could pull!?
VOICE ACTOR EMILY?!?
Ofc Robbie loves evil vizier wife. Bro played Hubert Von Vestra
The way I GASPED at Justice Robbie Daymond 🤩
The fact that Jake says you shouldn’t slap a dog after all the animal deaths he caused as Hardwon is pretty laughable. Also if you make the dog a demon then those players are going to start slapping all the animals in that game
Dog slapper subclass is the equivalent of whatever the fuck Hardwon had going on whenever he crit against an animal
Horse hunter hardwon
Whoa! Robbie Daymon!? Emily is really cashing in those Critical Role connections!
the messy breakup monk is killing meee, easier ways to cheer someone up than sacrifice your table to him lmfao
Omg, it’s Akechi!!! 😱😱😱
ROBBIE FUCKING DAYMOND? INCREDIBLE
Yoooo they got Orbulon!!!
ROBBIE DAYMOND let’s fucking go
I can’t wait to listen to this one. I love Robbie.
Oh hell yeah we got Fushiguro on the podcast
ROBBIE DAYMOND??? I'm so ready for this episode.
Paid for internet on my flight in anticipation for this 😌
Nice right on time!
woo!!
Oh hell yeah