Tortle Tank: Tortley Awesome! (w/ Robbie Daymond)

I feel like we as a community moved on from Jake’s British accent too quickly

I’m so late to this but I have a revised goodberry pitch to balance it a bit: If a party member has the goodberry spell, they can cast it and distribute berries before combat, and anyone who gets one has the option of holding it in their lip/cheek while fighting. No concentration checks necessary, it’s just there. If you go down with a goodberry in your mouth, make a d20 luck check: - on a 10-20, the goodberry is swallowed and you pop back up w/ 1 HP (this consumes the goodberry, so you need to put another one in your mouth to use this again) - on a 5-9, the goodberry stays where it is in your mouth, and is not consumed (so you stay down but can use it again later in combat if you’re revived by other means and go down a second time) - on a 1-4, you choke on the goodberry and take one death save fail (the goodberry is consumed by this and cannot be used again)

What do they mean by time his eggs?

The British accent. 😂😂😂 Had me laughing out loud at the gym.

Caldwell at 44:52 - "Let's put a terra-PIN in that!" 😃

honestly my low con squishmallow sorcerer is so fun to play. it helps that we have two tanks in the party tho. if my guy gets hit once he sulks for the rest of the session he is PUNY. he takes frequent elaborate baths also i love high stakes so im addicted to the rush of "if i get hit one more time i will DIE" i found out i need that to enjoy combat in dnd lol

I’m late to this, but personally, I feel that (re the tarot deck death saves) I think that if you pull the death card, you should get more of a reincarnation thing. Because it’s not just about death!! The Death card is about endings AND rebirth.

To add to the jar of bees idea you could work in the jar of nannerflies precedent. You get a jar with a few bees in it and every rest you can roll for bees and they can go up or die off. Then set a threshold (say 5) for every time the number of bees breaks the threshold that's another d6 of damage when you finally use it.

Murph what if they broke up at 6am?

I think the goodberry idea could be saved by instead of it giving you 1 hp when you go down instead it gives you one automatic death save success

Put the “save point” coin in a magic shop with a sign that says “Do Not Flip”. Your players will flip it, piss off the shop owner, and now there’s a hook with no stakes (in their mind) where they owe him something. When they return to the timeline the shopkeeper will have no idea they flipped it and think it’s been stolen.

Omg...so unhinged!! Love it!!

The yelling "bad for audio" all over eachother is insane.

I know you guys will never see this but this gives off Ryan Nurphy energy so hard. https://x.com/dbperfectshots/status/1881907912035225623?s=46&t=NCsD5QosYdgm0tbtOun5qQ

Hey Jake, for the next fighter you play, would you consider third party content, specifically laserllamas alternate fighter?

I became a enamored with Robbie on breath of the wild one shot he and Emily were in! Thank you all for existing!

Losing it at Jake’s British voice omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Caldwell channeling his inner Horus this episode.

CCL (tread soooooooo sooooo carefully)

Props to Jake for making a character with low con hilarious. Caldwell as well! Nyack having a weak stomach was an incredible way to make it work for roleplay. Then taking it a step further with the Jampion Ranger. So good.

I've always understood DCs to be target numbers (meets it beats it), so ties really aren't even a thing. Even in an opposed roll, one player is just setting the DC.

Can we get another Baggin it with Balnor ep with Balnor C1 interviewing the C3 and the young stag? Feels like the right time!

I love the person who thinks casters are underpowered because they don't get to make attack rolls when the martial/caster divide has been a problem in dnd since like. 3rd edition

Are there always that many splashes at the beginning?

Oh man, egg futures reminded me how nobody ever agrees to accept my resource futures as payment in Catan.

I absolutely love my charming sorcerer to only have a passive perception of 9 (in a horror campaign). It’s SO fun

I vow to fix the Tarot Death Saves.

Thank you for treating us to another turtle tank, oh wise turtles

The jar of bees is some Enter the Gungeon shit!

I do understand the concept here. But I also think some people should maybe just give other games a try instead of trying to fix 5e.

How many eggs would I have to give the tortles to buy Caldwell's head of lettuce?

Thank you for covering my tarot pitch! Extra info: it is woven into the narrative so it does make more sense, there's a whole mysterious dimension that only our characters can access, and the effects of the cards are linked to that. As a ranged healing caster, it takes a while for melee characters to disengage and come and get you with potions, even with the best intent in the world. I didn't give representative examples I realised, almost all cards are some way of getting the downed player back into the fight with some added risk rather than affect the rest of the party. If anyone wants the list, let me know! A shame not to receive those wet wet eggs, but pleased to have triggered the introduction of 'i'm in therefore I'm out' to Robbie.

We just circled back to crit confirms

I kinda fuggin love the save coin idea. Specifically, players get one and they spend it at interesting points. I as the dm keep track of those points, and when we have no shows for a session, prepare a one off at the split time with some cool prizes at the end

god i can just see the RealGrinch-like smile on Emily’s face as she added the 6th fuvking splash sound in this intro how have i never noticed that before did i unlock a new splash by joining a higher tier on the patreon

The Caster…greedy. When you fail a save, you still take half damage unless they’re built around it or it is a spell balanced on being Save or Suck. If a Martial misses, they miss completely or now can deal very minor chip damage. Casters have the better end of jt

Robbie fits in so well. Please do more with them. They're awesome!

That goodberry idea is essentially giving you 10 death wards, which is a 4th level spell for a 1st level spell. Just a fair bit overpowered.

😂

Emily hear me out on my Fun to Play Low CON score character. I LOVE to play either a horribly old person with terrible con that's like 100 and on the verge of dying or a low con volorole sick goblin Wizard that likes explosive or aoe spells that will most likely die.

As a British person, I DEMAND Jake do that voice for a whole season. I will have to listen to everything 5 times before I actually hear what he's saying, but that just means it'll be 5 times better than other episodes.

Best Tortle Tank Ep yet! Hilarious!

Iconic guest tbh I’ve never heard of this dude and I’m a fan instantly

I'm glad we got a sneak preview of Jake's NPC voice for the upcoming campaign.

were there always this many splashes at the start gdvjvkgfn

The save point mechanic is similar to the "Time Warp" cards that B. Dave Walters gives out. Once per campaign rewind, then you have to hand the physical card over to the DM. I got one from him and got to use it (with my DM's consent) in a campaign. It actually made for a great moment.

madam, would you like your omelette lightly fucked or aggressively fucked? all on accident, of course.

"Oops, not again, HAAH" abt accidentally fucking lettuce is sending me 😭😭

Leaning so hard into tortle behavior has made me actually enjoy tortle tank

I really wanna know the rest of the tarot card one

For people who aren’t aware, the log cabin Republicans are/were a branch of openly gay Republicans (dw Robbie I got your reference)

10 is actually objectively closer to a Nat1. And an 11 is closer to Nat20. The midpoint is 10.5, since it's from 1-20 not 0-20

I zoned out for maybe two minutes and came back to ‘She’s a honeycomb that feeds bees corn?!’ 10/10 no notes

Huzzah

Caldwell casually dropping "Mercerful" at 4:28 killed me and was criminally underappreciated in the moment

Petition for Jake to become the next James Bond for that accent alone

Dear tortles. I am British, born and bread. And I would like to say. Don't hate Jake's British accent. I mean it's bad. But it is at least original. And it is way closer to accents I recognise than the standard Dick van dyke faux Australian cockney that most Americans do. Well done Jake.

Robbie is 2/2 episodes mentioning his butthole. This guy can fit into any group.

Big Robbie fan

At this point Caldwell HAS to draw everyone as turtle executives, based off of the descriptions they’ve given.

wow. I didn't know my headphones were at full blast when I started the episode and I thought I got shot with a shotgun when the wave .mp3 played

Robbie Daymond played a character in CR that had like a 4 charisma and it was the source of such beautiful comedy

What an incredible pull with Robbie, stoked!

Super excited to hear that Robbie came by to take a dip in the tank!

Where are merch this month ??

Robbiiieeeeeeee

Let's get wet

OMG Robbie!! I love him so much on CR, can’t wait to hear him on this podcast!! I get so happy anytime there is crossover between NADDPOD and CR :)

Among us

Can’t wait to get wet and wild with the tortles

So ready for a dip in the tank