D&D Court: Cars PCs, Overly Engaged Players, and Razzing Rights

it's 1/400 to roll a nat 20 and nat 1 back to back

For Lightening McQueen case, feel like when someone insists on doing something like that you give them scenarios on why it won't work beforehand. How are you going to climb a ladder, how would you fit in doorways, etc.

its crazy that I'm in west haven listening to Jake talk about New Haven

Losing the invisible noble was the funniest shit I've ever heard. And I would agree with Murph if it was anything higher than a 1. Also, my guess would be that they didnt try anything else because they were laughing for 20 minutes straight and just had to move on

We had a character who's go-to move in an unexplored dungeon was to throw a body through doorways. More often then not it triggered a trap that affected him (poison arrows, a battering ram, loose rocks, etc.) but it's iconic now.

Dung beetles lay their eggs in their balls! They use it as food to feed the larvae

About the players who are frustrated with the one favored sorcerer, the best I can think of is taking the party to one of the non-mc’s hometowns. That way, someone is sort of forced to take the lead. Or try and look at what stats the others are better at compared to the sorcerer, and place puzzles and other challenges that play to those strengths.

My current game is stuck in a timeloop that we’re trying to escape! Our DM cleverly inserted a mechanic where if we become too aware of the timeloop reality will begin to break down, thus preventing us from asking too many questions. A perfect solution to prevent players from finding plot holes imo

Everyone's joking about pizza and Cars, meanwhile I'm genuinely losing my MIND at Murph not knowing what a time loop is ahfjshgkjg (for reference, a time loop is when a specific amount of time [usually about a day or so] is being repeated and only a few characters are aware. for example: Groundhog Day or "The Mystery Spot" Supernatural episode)

I, for one, very much appreciated the Grand Admiral Thrawn reference

Hey Murph, New Haven is the pizza capitol of the World, it’s offensive you disrespected it on the show, I think you must repent with a pizza tour

Love is a highway is awesome

HOLY CRAP Murph nailed that Wayne's world example 🤯 nice.. Also WHAT THE HECK?! What kind of church confession was that?!! Not even a confession! What a waste of church segment 🙄 I wanna hear about how someone screwed over their party and didn't tell anyone or did something in D&D. I can't belive you wasted my driving podcast time with that lame ass entry 😒

Nooo Dark is SO great!!!

so good to hear the ungenerous read of the wild magic sorcerer as someone who played in a game with someone who had a player with that main character mindset, he would talk over people and have extended monologues and sometimes the only way to interact with the story who be through him (he would not give anyone a beat to talk, would just ask a question and then make an often wrong assumption about their character). and this dude wasn't even DM favored. he would get in her way too [definitely not cool of the other players to just stop talking to them tho, especially at work; sounds like everybody needs to have a conversation and/or y'all just need to take a break from playing all together]

A surprise round where a lightning mcqeen self driving uber crashes into you and just says Kachow in a flawless owen wilson and speeds away and caldwell is in the backseat looking so scared

Y’all might like the kids show Puffin Rock on Netflix, it’s calming for my 3 year old and they just had a whole dung beetle episode

new haven IS the pizza capital of the world thank you jake

The dice giveth and the dice taketh away

I empathise with Lightning McQueen submitter- I had a player once request to play a broom. He didn’t want to be able to move or speak. He just wanted to be an inanimate broom. I did a really sick homebrew build for him using kobold press (can’t remember the details was ages ago) and gave him some awesome spells like infestation etc and psychic abilities and encouraged the other players to pick him up and carry him around and ensured he had lots of opportunity to interact and be present in combat and he STILL had a bad time. Sometimes people are committed to ruining their own fun ya know!

I would say that Lightning McQueen is a Paladin because he’s kind of a goody two shoes, but not smart enough to be a full spell caster.

is there a posting schedule? or when do they typically release the bonus cases

Do they post a schedule when they post ?

New Haven is not only the pizza capital of the world, Connecticut also has the most pizza places per capita of anywhere in the world. Frank Pepe’s and Sally’s are truly a cut above the rest.

I've been rewatching SVU and literally every episode I'm replacing with the Dungeon Court intro

NEW HAVEN PIZZA IS SO FUCKING GOOD ITS MY FAVORITE EVER EVER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Murph is eating a medium sized L

Bad news, I've got a D&D court case to submit. But good news: I can submit my first D&D court case. Lol

I’m sorry New Haven?? As in Connecticut??? As a Jersey native I think I’m obligated to be offended for my sibling state by the claim made in this podcast but also I now have to try their pizza bc like Murph I’m VERY skeptical but the people of the comments seem to agree…

“Deko” you’re doing this on purpose I swear

I don't know about you Murph but I am capable of casually putting down completely visible objects I have no intention of hiding and then not being able to find them thirty seconds later. Recently I mislaid a pillow, a large, very visible pillow, in my small bedroom which is also my living space, and didn't find it for several weeks. I wouldn't even need a nat 1 is what I'm saying.

New Haven pizza IS the best pizza! Anytime I'm driving from Boston to NY, I always make a stop at Frank Pepe's!

I agree with the dung beetle Jack, New Haven IS the pizza capital of the world

the cast of the naddpod extended universe grows ever larger

there is a car in my area that is decked out to look like lightning mcqueen. very well could be an uber

Can you guys please do a NADDPOD plane V2?

Shoutout New Haven pizza. Pizza capital of the world

I’m always amazed at how delusional New England is about their food.

Is there a 5% chance you hide something and don't remember where you hid it? Absolutely. Murph must have impeccable memory. I have spent my life looking for the remote and car keys that I had given them their own fancy holder and hook

"Imagine what it must be like to sit in a VO booth and make the biggest movies in the world". Jake is friends with Sonic, guys.

IT IS THE PIZZA CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

Bourne came out way before streaming, what did Murph mean?

new haven is literally the pizza capital of the world

Unbiased Canadian here— New Haven Pizza is better than New York Pizza. But honestly it’s all personal preference. But New Haven pizza is objectively better than New York. But also you do you.

Caldwell saw his chance to reference Cars franchise for the foreseeable future an absolutely pounced

Caldwell pronouncing deku as deco was a small L.

An update with context from the case of the missing corpse (ka-chow): the room in question was a normal room if you discount the presence of a murdering sentient sword. Our greed overcame us so immediately that we asked to reclaim the cloak about 2 seconds after we hid the body, so ostensibly we were still standing directly above the still-warm, invisible remains. This was an infiltration of a party at a castle rather than a dungeon, so trap doors were unlikely. However, we thought the image of us all putting the body down and then immediately fruitlessly patting around the floor for it was so funny, that we accepted our lost cloak and our razzing as the just solution to our immoral actions in the world thus far.

I want a coffee mug that just says “Tread so Carefully” and the picture is a snake with murph’s head, glaring at a foot that is about to step on him

Why does Murph not know what a time loop is

As someone who just finished running a very well received time loop arc in my home game, it was very frustrating to listen to Murph clearly not understand what a “time loop” was. My players didn’t do much on the final loop that will affect the future, but they could’ve.

I like how Murph brings up Dark to criticise time loops, one of the only pieces of time travel media to actual solve the loop 😂

people are gonna eat murph alive this ep new haven is the pizza cap

I’ve heard from a long time New York resident that Connecticut pizza is better than NYC pizza.

I would love to have video versions of these for the Patreon :)

My face hurts from smiling at these beautiful chuckleheads :D

Time loops a la Groundhog Day are explicitly changeable, that’s the point of Groundhog Day. Murph is thinking of something like Looper, where events are fixed.

Should have reskinned the car as a red centaur

Bourne is the new Anchorman 😔😔😔 why does Murph hate them both so much?

I am now overthinking whether Dark counts as a time loop.

I'm with Jake on this, Bourne till I die 🫡

There's no way the first case really happened, right? ...Right?

New Haven pizza is the best pizza

New Haven is the pizza capital of the world apizza

Hell yea New Haven, CT. Pizza capital of the world! (They put it on the highway signs when you enter CT)

every D&D Court needs to heavily feature a Disney movie or an anime to set up Caldwell for voices and lore drops

Lightning McQueens best friend Vince Van shows up and hilarity ensues

They call it groundhogs day in the time loop question, and then Murph reaches for any time travel example that isn’t groundhogs day…

Murph is wrong to doubt New Haven has great pizza, but right to point out that New York is right there. I am a Nutmegger and it’s time we all came to terms with how much better New York style pizza is.

The blind fish in Tennessee was not something I thought would be mentioned. I think about those guys all the time

I want to say I watched Cartoon All stars to the Rescue in Health Class back in the day

With how often I already misplace visible stuff, I would definitely forget where I hid my invisible dead body

With the invisibility cloak roll, the thing is that it probably shouldn't have even been a roll, and that's a DM L.

Wait time loop PSA! Yall should make one, I’m finishing a successful one rn. It’s actually a sick format because if you come up with interesting domino effect of events and interactions they can change them after they find out. (OUTER WILDS SPOILERS) I followed outer wilds format of having a catastrophic event at the end, having something that contains a piece of their soul, and a reason why time returns their souls to that place when they die. It’s a pretty buttoned up method tbh!

Wish on the Wild Magic table? Wish isn't on the Wild Magic table. This might be evidence of DM favouritism, as the only way that a sorcerer can get an wish through an wild magic surge in 5th edition is through an homebrew table.

That VA Animated Movie Money is no joke, Chris Rock has talked about how most of his money comes from the Madagascar movies.

Crazy how hard Murph is coming for Bourne

Mr Murph keep watching dark - your issue with it is part of it? Idk I don't want to spoil it - them doing what has always been done has consequence ?

New Haven IS the pizza capital of the world 😤 at least according to a few random rankings and my personal a-pinion 🤌🏼

Dark is in my top 3 pieces of media of all time. Highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Did this inspire me to make a Cars-themed TTRPG system?

Impromptu surprise round around 40 minutes in goes absolutely crazy

You have this listed as a short rest not mainfeed?

Shout to to Frank Pepe's New Haven-Style Pizzeria, used to go to the one near Boston all the time

I love how often they each make pop culture references that are good and accurate but none of the rest of them get the reference so the joke just dies in the room

*spoilers for statstruck odyssey* • • • • • • emily to murph: i’ve never fully romanced you as a PC to PC me, staring at my Barry Six x Sundry Sidney shrine: we kNOW

What's the name of the band Caldwell recommended?

Lightning McQueen is a swashbuckler rogue, but after training with Doc he took some levels in Monk in order to gain speed.

Murph’s “I just wanna eat yew!” Is gonna live in my head rent free

The engaged couple are clearly just some religious kids finally let off the chain haha. You guys joke about 3 years, sounds more like 3 months engaged haha EDIT Emily just made the same comment I made about 3 months haha

The number of times I had to watch Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue in elementary school

@murph- do you want me to write an animate werevovles and vampires 80s skiing movie so you can make money as a voice actor? i will

emily you need to get a letterboxd acc

Speaking of Time travel: imo, if you are going to introduce time travel in your campaign have specific mechanics built around it. Flushed out. It gets confusing so fast. I had a DM have player characters go into a "different" timeline or realm and rejoin the campaign as an older character. It happened to 4 different players at different times. Sometimes it was writing off players missing chunks of session. They would also level up above the rest of the group because they spent 1-2 years in the other realm...

10:05 the girls are fighting

So the time loop made me think of a way to do it. The players are in a loop, and every time it resets is when they level up. So some events remain the same, but they begin to change and branch out as the players become stronger.

I had a player who really wanted to be the main character from The Last Airbender, the little bald guy, in my campaign. I told her I had never seen the TLA and the setting and story would have nothing to do with the show. She was fine with that and played as a elemental monk with the rules as written from the Players Handbook. She was very respectful about it and it never took away from the campaign. I just once in a while had to remember that a licensed Nickelodeon character was running around with the party for no reason.

Whoever wanted to play Lightning McQueen, fuck that guy. I hate when a player just copies an existing IP character like a guy playing as Sam from. LOTR... Unoriginal. Boring. But then to go as far as playing as a vehicle is fucking nuts and not fun. Its like saying I want to play t-shirt.

Not even joking, this is my favorite podcast, show or piece of entertainment ever. I've listened to all the Cases so many times on repeat lol. I just cant get enough of it and I've never played DND. only BG3 😔

Portland Oregon literally has some of the best pizza you can get. Apizza Scholls, Ken's, Ranch (pizza), and more.

Cur-CHOOOOO 🚂

Thanks Mr murph

Yall keep edging us on the bourne series mixed bag

Thursday night upload!!

Short Rest thumbnail?

LETS GO

Hell yes

Hello all

I was going to save this but "Car PCs" pulled me right in

Woohoo thank you!!

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