D&D Court: Newbie PVP, Rat Gods, and Baptized Dogs

catching up on this episode 7 months after it aired, it’s awesome they opened with solidarity with MN! crazy tho it took a white woman losing her life to ICE for the crew to make a statement, esp considering all the months-long terrorization of black and brown people in the cities the crew live in

Been catching up with naddpod for a while and just got to this episode. As someone from Minneapolis, thanks again for thinking of us. We're still in the long tail of the damage done so I really appreciate the acknowledgement here.

God damn that first case. Some folks just don't know how to set reasonable expectations

Too many comments to read them all to see if anyone else posted, but different denominations have different baptism practices. Some do full submersion, some do a sprinkle, and I think it's also possible to do something in between. The point of baptism (in my protestant belief) is for you to intentionally make a public statement of faith. I wasn't raised in a church that does blessings, but if pets can receive formal blessings, it seems there isn't any sort of commitment implied on their part. Just a kind of "God be with you" kinda thing. I think Murph had it with the rectangle/square analogy. :)

For the Jenny/Jimmy case: are we sure Jimmy and his table are your friends, Jenny? Cause going full aggro on your character not just once, but twice, as a new player and having the table & GM be ok with it both times sounds like you unfortunately joined a semi-problematic table - or at least one that plays the game differently than what you're looking for. This is definitely a situation where the GM should jump in and squash it - especially if one of the players isn't into it. But again, since they didn't, and the other players didn't do anything about it - twice! - , then you might have to see about finding another table/group that plays more like you'd like to.

Rather alarmed that the first case began with "player death"

Jake goes on to the confession, and I out loud said “this is still D&D Court?” 🤣 wtf is happening

Re: pet baptism. I would argue that the difference lies in who (or what) is being baptized/blessed. Emily is human and thus has a soul = baptism. The dog is not human and doesn’t have a soul= blessing. Also, I have been a Christian for 25 years and have been going to church for longer and I have NEVER heard of animal baptism. I’m for it though. I’d love to get my cats blessed. Also, do we think the pet blessing is a denominational thing? I’m Presbyterian.

So In defense and support for he MTG dice roller, I used a spin down because it had a cool design and matched my character, playing at the table openly rolling with I rolled 4 nat 20's and practically soloed our first boss when our party was split and my fellow player went down on one turn. To be fair I was a rogue and had advantage every turn for hiding. But I still felt really bad

As a Minnesotan, thanks for the support! It sucks here right now.

This Pepe Le Pew erasure is insane. #Confirmed Loony Tunes farter

as an irish person, the end of this podcast amused me, but I must admit the mispronunciation of barry keoghan hurt me

I’m trade marking “Straight Edge Baby” for my punk band. I’ve trade marked it! You can’t use it!

As someone who was there when ice gassed kids in Portland, fuck ice, love to Minneapolis

I love my unproblematic faves shouting out a wonderful charity. Go naddpod

Have the dream monster come back again and again until the rogue gets the last hit- it's her nightmare, she HAS to be the one who finishes it, or it still has power. I would even explain it as the creature being Lich-like, and the Phylactory is their psychic bond with the Rogue PC.

Emily calling out that it was a dude (or at least he/him) going after a fem character, calling her overpowered n shit, freaking healed a piece of my soul... feels like women & fem presenting people so often have to tip-toe around calling out reoccurring misogyny in nerdy communities, and just having her pointing out a pattern I'm SURE she's more than familiar with felt very refreshing!!

This Minneapolis resident thanks you for your service.

sending so much love from the twin cities, thank you so much ❤️ this pod has been helping me stay sane, and these comments give me so much hope. also👋 hi to my fellow Minnesotans!!

Minneapolis resident here, love you guys and I’m grateful you had that donation plug at the start

Proudly donated. FUCK ICE AND FUCK DONALD TRUMP!!!

The Spindown die from MTG is the same probability as a standard D20. Distribution doesn’t affect probability as far as the expected outcome. If you can stop a spindown die consistently on the high side without anyone noticing, then you should be a Vegas magician.

What about Dr. Barber, the famous doctor barber?

The only time I've ever defended myself with "it's what my character would do" it's because I did the dumbest possible thing I could've done in that moment

It was so healing watching Jake apologize to Caldwell.

I have to say that In regards to the Battle master who used to be A powerful Wizard is cool AF and there is Precedent for wizards spell to cheat Immortality fucking up and leaving then at Lvl (Rude Tails of Magic Fredrick Debonseby is a. Lich restarting as a Lvl 1 wizard ) the other player sounds like he was Giving an Unsolicited Option and considering it Important enough to change your Character that's Meta Gaming and Misogynistic

I need someone else to know that my husband and I have to play NaddPod if we have our cat in the car with us (our currently reality). It calms her down. If we pause it to chat, she will yell at us until we turn it back on. Whiskey says thanks for another great episode!

Reading the comments after donating, warms my heart and encourages hope in a better future. Much love to Minnesota and elsewhere, standing against these atrocities being committed by this horrible administration.

my church was a full-dunk church

I wasnt raised religious, but I kind of live at a cat rescue so I recently learned about the blessing of the pets lol. The humane society and some church ladies borrowed cute cats from us to join their congregation's pets in getting blessed. Kind of cute, 100% did not go though

I’ve been feeling so helpless lately, I immediately burst into tears and donated $100. Thanks y’all 🥹

Um... I have rolled an mtg life dice MANY times instead of a D&D D20. 😳😬

Murph, Emily, Caldwell and Baliff Jornk - as a resident of a Minneapolis suburb who’s also been impacted by ICE I can’t tell you how nice it was to hear your callout at the top of the episode. Even more impactful was that I was listening to it on the way to a protest. Thanks for raising amazing immigrant assistance nonprofits in our community and for your love and support - it’s sorely needed right now.

Good luck circumscising a parrot.

To add to the defense on Caldwell, Misadventures of Flapjack had a whole character called Doctor Barber whose name explains his whole deal

Stay strong Minneapolis. Let's go Wild and I'm sure you have other sports teams as well.

As a former Catholic I was shocked at the concept of dogs getting a blessing until I remembered my robotics team got our robot blessed by one of the priests. We had to cover it in plastic because he insisted the holy water was integral

“Yeah hon, a bit.”

Big thank you and lots of love from this Minneapolis resident. Have been finding comfort in re listening to old NADDPOD episodes.

Thank yall for speaking out <3

I think yall are missing something on the rat question. The rats in this case were just flavor representing the rope in Rope Trick, which is a regular nonmagical rope. The spell just creates the portal at the top of the rope and holds it in the air, but the rope itself can absolutely be attacked or cut. The nature of the rats is irrelevant, its just a rope in this moment and the player is right that he should be able to break it.

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Praise Dice Christ.

I'm pretty sure our parish priest blessed all 400 of the cows on our farm.

In my wife’s home town, the priest blesses the fishing fleet every spring. No holy water dribble, but the boats are all floating in the harbor when it happens. Make of that what you will.

As a Minneapolis resident, I really appreciate the shout out at the beginning of the episode to donate and help! Thanks Murph, Emily, Caldwell, and Jake!

Em got that dawgtism

Cried when yall mentioned the Palestinian relief fund and again today. I'm so glad I chose to support you guys so long ago. Thank you!

As an MN Resident, thank you for the shout out, we can use all the help possible! And of course, Fuck ICE!

Also, when Murph says I'll bless your dog he kind of sounds Native, which was nice. Even if it was an abjectly bad Irish accent, it was a kind of decent Chippewa accent

The apologize to Caldwell bit got me.

As the son of immigrants, the beginning of this episode fills me with joy. Thank you for always using your platform for good. May Maw Maw honor you always

Some of y'all need new friends-

Hot take: Jimmy has a crush on the OP of the second story

Donated through your link. You guys rock. Thanks for saying something and supplying resources to help. ❤️

Thank you for using your platform to speak out against the injustice in our country. I’m grateful to be a patron to a group of compassionate people.

First things first...Vancouver BC stands with all you in Minnesota, and all cities/states who are standing up tp Trump as he tries to muzzle and cage so many of your friends and family. Shel B has the right of it...from what I see Trumps actions are so close to Hitler's hostile takeover of Germany, so, stay strong and don't stop fighting! Second, about elbow hitting...3rd edition (yes I'm old) had a "called shot" mechanic so you could target specific areas, but it added (I think) +5 to +10 to your opponents AC, and you did like an extra d(whatever) of damage...but if you crit, that was when limbs were severed. It was fun, except when the DM cleaved your head off in the second round of combat.

I think you have A LOT of fans from Minneapolis (it is a nerd stronghold, visit Dreamhaven Books and Uncle Hugos!) and we really really needed to hear this. I see from the comments I'm not the only one who cried when we heard our city's name in your mouth.

Catholics and Anglicans celebrate the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi by holding an animal blessing.

Hell yeah NADDPOD with the MN shoutout/fundraising!

Growing up as an Episcopalian aka Catholic Lite, I went to plenty of Feast days of St. Francis of Assisi. The most powerful moment in teaching me the depth of kindness was when I was 12 or 13 and my guinea pig died the night before the blessing. My mom talked to our priest to clear it, but he was kind enough to give my animal a blessing to send them on their way. Religion didn't stick with me, but that sort of shit really did. He didn't have to do that, but he did and the impact was real for little pre-teen me. PS. Thank you for including the pre-roll. It feels good to have reality acknowledged

Thank you for speaking out. We’re fighting hard in Minneapolis!!!!!! It’s so hard and bad here, but community is strong. Also check out standwithminnesota . com !

Thank you for speaking out against ICE!

Thank you for speaking out against ICE and providing a great resource to donate to🩷

We're just gonna breeze past the fact that Emily's church told her she couldn't keep coming to mass unless she got baptized??? And also they baptized her without her parents present? What kind of messed up church was this?

Brings back memories of a C1 short rest in which there was the call to abolish ice in the twodio. Stay strong, Minneapolis ❤️

Thanks, you guys! Minneapolis appreciates you!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I am so happy and proud to be supporting y'all as creative and as human beings helping ❤️❤️ Thank you for being Kind 😇

❤️ Former Minnesotan here, and it means so much to hear the crew voice support for the people ther and shout-out a great org for donations!

Statistically speaking a spin down is just as random as a traditional d20. Humans dont understand random lol

My church baptized (not blessed) our dog. There was a specific day for pet baptisms.

Thank you so much, Two Crew, for the message about Minneapolis. I'm so happy to hear people speaking out about what's been happening here. I started crying at work when I heard Murph standing with us. You guys are the best and I'm proud to support you.

My wife told me about pet blessings when she was a kid, which floored me as a traumatized ex-Catholic who was told my pets couldn’t go to heaven because they didn’t have souls

Sent a donation from the UK. Thank you for posting the link, I'm sure the NADDPoles will be very generous!

I never feel bad supporting yall you da best

Thanks for your note about Minneapolis and encouraging ppl to donate. I live there and it means a lot

Listening later on but just stopping in to say THANK YOU from Minneapolis. We're holding the line. Fuck ICE!

Am I the only one from the universe where Alan Cumming doesn't have an S in his name? How do I cross back?

Based intro. Made a donation. Sending a hearty “Fuck ICE” from Toronto, Canada.

Please don’t engage with that Amos person acting in bad faith in the comments, they’ve edited their comment several times which changes the context of the replies Edit: he deleted his comment

thank you for bringing attention to us here in the twin cities. im an educator here in saint paul and so many of my kids and their families are terrified to leave their homes, so much to a point where we have nearly half our school doing temporary virtual learning. i want to commend the two crew for using their platform to raise awareness to this absolutely disgusting abuse of power. much love and FUCK ICE!

In my town there was a yearly non-denominational mass blessing of dogs at the dog park.

Me at the 50 minute mark "Where are the baptized dogs, rat gods, and newbie pvp?" Me at the 55 minute mark "Ohhh"

The court was very magnanimous about Jimmy because my first instinct was to attack him first

Just to be clear if I won a laptop reward for one time use on Survivor I too would listen and write into Naddpod

Thanks for using your platform to bring attention to whats going on and how to help. So proud of you guys!! Fuck ICE!

Did anyone else hear Murph's serious voice right away and get worried about the two crew? Anyway, THANKS for speaking up and FUCK ICE!

i would think shitting yourself is a free action akin to dropping concentration, and the enemy would have to do a medicine check to see if theyre actually dead

Big love from the Twin Cities, thanks for the support NADDPOD!

Someone needs to play a Baby Barber, STAT.

Abolish ICE

Big respect putting that bit up top. Y'all could've said nothing but are helping bring eyes on a way to help and that's pretty cool

big thanks from minneapolis ❤️

Love how obsidian was infact a baby unicorn and perfect for the boy mom arc but Jake slaughtered them with his voice

Fuck yes, and FUCK ICE.

Thank you from Minneapolis 🩵🩵🩵

I will say it would be over powered if the clone used to be a wizard and still remembered all they knew as a wizard ie having an insanely high intelligence arguing they are still proficient in arcana checks etc. but if you say they lost that knowledge just remember they once were smart and had magic that’s fine and fun. It’s also not far to be able to get extra skills for free. It would be a little OP to get free proficiencies or an extra high stat. So I get feeling bummed if this one player will be both the brains and the brawns can kinda make everyone else feel obsolete. But if the DM says hey you don’t get the intellect of the OG character and only sometimes will say hey you get advantage for this history check that’s fun but if it’s all the time a permanent buff bc they would know everything that’s not fun. I did a oneshot where all my backup characters were also my wizard who cloned himself and had different classes to take over if I died. So it’s a fun idea. The other player shouldn’t have been so rude they should have been like hey does this mean they get an extra bonus profiency in history? Could I get a freebie as well then?

Omg Minneapolis mention! That's where I live. We deeply appreciate the support. Rebel Loons stay strong. ❤️❄️

From a Minneapolis resident, all this support from people all over the world is really moving for me. Especially from a community and creators I look to for light in dark times. And truly the donations do help, I know a lot of people here that are happily supporting a lot of mutual aid financially and with boots on the ground. If you're able to donate, I know it goes a long way for helping people here.

My dog got holy water and a laminated certificate with a picture of a painting of st Francis and a little prayer on it

Can you imagine blessing your dog and it starts growling at the priest lol

Thanks for the support from MLPS!

I'm listening to the one where the bard cakes their death by shitting themselves and yeah? That's one of the symptoms of death? I feel the dm had a direction to go of "they're disgusted but want to rob you still" if anything because I think they went way too hard of saying this won't work. incontennence is a famous post mortem symptom (albeit usually after a bit though).

The opening ❤️❤️❤️ I love you guys so much.

In Minneapolis. Thank you for the support and love. Your laughter helps bring the sustenance we need to keep our personal humanity. Truly, your dumbassary helps immensely.

Lots of love from Ireland, destroy ICE, end the fascist regime and shoutout to the hate that one bot "durrr idk what's going on durrr guys facism cool and good" moron in the comments!

That depowered level 19 wizard turned battle master fighter sounds rad as hell! She’s welcome at my table with that character any time. 🤩

Instant tears from this Minnesotan. Thank you NADDPOD!!!

Loved the Anti Ice start

Naddpod continues to be based

I would argue that rats are splinters of God's infinite grace

fuck ice. so grateful that you're using your platform, appreciate you guys <33

now imagine listening to the dog baptism part on your walk to class and looking up to see a lab trip a runner by jumping straight in front of her all while emily questions her dog blessing

love yall

Absolutely based intro, will support xxxxxxxxxxx

Solidarity with the people of Minneapolis, and with all those targetted by ICE and the US border. Those of us in Britain should remember we have similar orgs committing similar crimes, and a rising Nazi movement of our own. I've been attacked by three thugs while taking down flags on public lamp posts alone (for non-UK readers, neo-Nazis have launched a movement called 'operation raise the colours' to signal support for mass deportations), we need to be brave and look out for each other.

Thank u for using your platform to support us on the ground in the twin cities!!!!!

Thank you for sharing a resource to help people in Minneapolis!!! All my love to the Minnesota Naddpoles here ❤️

Honestly you're all such consistently good folk, it's lovely to see!

My wife is from Minneapolis! Thank you for saying what you said and for amplifying ways to help!!!!

Huh. Probably going to get yelled at for this, but I'm on the other side of the ICE stuff. But I'm obviously in the minority here. I wonder why this audience is so heavily in one direction, and I wonder what I'm missing that y'all aren't / what you're missing that I'm not. Genuine question.

I can't believe the amount of support we've been getting here, the rest of the country actually watching and listening, hoping for some edge over this imperial boomerang. We have a pretty good network of mutual aid here (it's socialism lite and that makes this administration nervous) so please keep in mind that if you want to be able to resist in the long run too, you have to start preparing to rely off each other if they decide to punish your state with a series of funding cut as well. Also thank yall for making a podcast we can escape the man made horrors with, it's genuinely healing.

Thank you from Minneapolis <3

Fuck ICE! We stand with Minnesota

THANK YOU ALL so much for commenting on what’s been happening in Minneapolis

I don't play a Hunter in WoW, but I assume they basically work the same as Warlocks, constantly tearing open portals, but instead of 30 imps from the Twisting Nether, it's 30 crows from the Emerald Dream

It's been a nightmare in the Twin Cities. Thanks for offering some support. We love naddpod! Abolish ICE!!

I know it’s a joke but I have to chime in and say. Baptism is a promise, like marriage vows, and blessing the animal is like a birthday cake wish. Some denominations, like baptists, dunk you. Others do a sprinkle. I don’t think anyone dunks babies. I think it just looks like they’re dunking the baby cause the baby is smaller. (Also shout out to rapid response. RRNs do such great stuff)

St. Francis of Assisi is the only saint (besides Apostles) who was even mentioned at my church. He's the patron of animals and the environment and his feast day became World Animal Day, lots of denominations do the blessings of the animals and I think those services go into "Stewardship of Nature" topics

Fuck ice. But reminds me of a story of c1 where I think murph is razzing Jake about having ice in his drinks and is jokingly labeled pro ice.

Got choked up at the intro love for Minnesota. TY for being a blessed escape via my ears most times & crystal clear about helping in dire times.

I’m in Minneapolis right now and cried with the “we love you Minneapolis” thank you Naddpod

FUCK ICE!! LOVE THIS POD!

FUCK ICE, All my NADPOLE HOMIES HATE ICE

FUCK ICE!!!!! MPLS strong 🩵

god i love this show, FUCK ICE !!

fuck ICE!!

Love y’all! So happy to said something about MSP

Fuck ICE!!!

Remember folks, you miss a hundred percent of the fascists you don't punch.

I did, in fact, win the DARE essay contest in 5th grade. Wonder how many of my enemies are just biding their time until we find ourselves at the same table.

Hell yeah fuck ice

Minneapolis resident. Fuck ice. Appreciate you guys!

Goated intro! Thank you for not staying silent

Just here to add to the chorus of FUCK ICE. Thanks for using your platform to promote human decency ❤️

I'm always team Murph #abolishICE

Here is your reminder that it is your god given right as an American to punch a fascist. Captain America was created for that sole purpose. Be like Captain America.

FUCK ICE thanks for saying something. The people who complain when things "get political" have the luxury of not having to worry about their way of life being affected by politics. For the rest of us who already can't ignore current events, thanks for reminding those who aren't affected for now.

Hell yeah! Love to hear the Minnesota call out.

Thanks for speaking up and offering support.

Fuck ICE. I appreciate you guys speaking out and offering an avenue for support <3

Oh my God a rare 7:30pm PST episode.

Impeccable timing for my drive home!

All rice

Ooh, first! Love you guys, thank you for the message at the beginning. Fight the fascists!!!

and to think i was about to go to bed!

NO ONE is doing it like naddpod