Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 23

So when are you trapping the triplets in Lord X's (old Sonic.EXE) world? They'd fucking hate it, X can torture them for fun while being called a husk fucker, and they all get to become Sonic characters

There is a Simpsons episode where a Krusty doll says the Talkie Tina line to Homer. I think tree house of horror season 4

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the way murph keeps saying BELLOWING is making me cry with mirth (…murth?)

i cant wait for turtle onyx in witchlight hahaha

Not to be the guy to say “well after the fact” I did want a STROUGER Strad but it was a great campaign.

I worked at an elementary school where the janitor had an "I ❤️ Ass" bumper sticker prominently placed

I got my ass handed to me as Strahd. Maybe three rounds at most. I tried to do Great Invisibility to not be seen, but I had a player cast wall of fire and I was pretty much done.

the creepy doll conversation reminds me of something my mom (who loves horror movies) always says: “there’s nothing scarier than scary children” and I think that extends to dolls

Peaky blinders but teasey danglers

I feel caldwell where you just deep dive into a module and then want to keep running it. I'm always at the ready to bust out Strixhaven

You guys could make an entire sketch show out of sketch ideas pitches on short rests. The dramatic stair push ending with the person just being a little hurt? Brilliant. And of course, the “Peter Pan helping you fly, but the grumpy guy falls and breaks his legs first” would be a viral hit. There’s truly been so many others

Matt Colville, a river to his people, over floweth into NADDPOD

There’s a great episode of ologies about why dolls are creepy- there’s a theory humans have evolved to interpret anything that looks sort of like a human but not quite to be a corpse, which encouraged us to develop burial traditions to avoid contamination. It basically applies across the whole uncanny valley, and it’s why we don’t find something creepy that looks less like a human but acts like one (ie C3P0) - so basically any time we see a doll it’s just our brain telling us to avoid a dead body, which is very healthy!

time enough at last is such an emotionally devastating episode of the twilight zone

Oh have I got some Strahdj stories after playing through the module once and I just finished DMing it for a second time. I’d love to hear how other DM’s and players fared in Barovia.

I just realized did Onyx leave Obsidian in the hotel? Haha

as someone who usually listens to a little bit of naddpod while getting ready for bed, and who had a super strong fear of dolls as a kid, the end of this episode took a turn for me lol

loved this campaign, can’t wait for the next. Caldwell really made strahd his own, did a great job!!! I ran Witchlight for my local game shop, cannot wait to see how the Triplets break it

Playing in Wild Beyond the Witchlight right now and can't wait to hear the triplets tear it apart

Thanks for such a fun campaign y’all! It was really helpful to have something so reliably silly to look forward to in these really scary times🩵

Jenns has Targaryan hair in my head cannon

What's the next campaign?! Cinnamon Rises?

I remember Talky Tina! That episode scared the crap out of me as a kid!

hot boy ski trip now pretty please

The extra work of a module is definitely learning what a module is actually for.

That was a great adventure! Really excited to see what comes next! Might be too much of a cheeky peek behind the screen, but I would love to listen to a "GM's homework" session/livestream where everyone brings some ideas and workshops what they would want to run next (sort of like the session zeros with character ideas you've done in the past).

Loved this whole campaign! And since the Druncle asked, i didnt beef up Strahd so much but I used Dungeon Dudes’ “mythic actions” rules when i ran my Strahd campaign. It made the action more intense and pushed my players’ HP to the limit.

Not to defend WotC as a Pathfinder player, but you can turn off third party stuff when you create a DND Beyond sheet

BEGGING for glass ass in the merch store (and also more bon frere merch before the April live show pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease)

On Strahd’s hot brother, real life Dracula also had a younger brother named Radu “The Handsome”

I would be interested to hear the 2 crews take on new counter spell rule. No offense to the lumpiest of glass monkeys himself but per 2024 rules Strad would have made a save. And could have used one of his legendary resistances for it. I like it. It’s more streamlined and instead of a spell level vs spell level which has always felt very meta gamey to be like “well what level do I think they are casting so I can auto beat it”. It’s more breaking someone’s concentration in making the spell happen. So like hitting someone on a longer duration spell this is magically hitting them to try and mess them up. I like it and like that it doesn’t cost a spell slot if it doesn’t work. I loved this ending and it was perfect triplets but the 2 3rd party spells that didn’t have any saves and the old counter spell makes this a perfect example of why BBEGs get legendary resistances.

I will say the new MM definitely has spell casting enemies they just have done a better job with laying out what level they can cast and kept the numbers very low or infinite. For example I’m using a CR 21 lich on my party next session and he has plenty of spells but doesn’t deal with spell slots.

I’ve been waiting a year for more Skaldova 😢

I guess I’m the Scrooge here but I do not share the excitement for more triplets, especially in beyond the witch light. The whole carnival/circus aesthetic is something I despise in general.

Fingers crossed for March Dadness in the near future!

Another buttoned up campaign. Great job 2 crew!

I love the OG Twilight Zone - it holds up immaculately. I believe the episode Caldwell was thinking of is called “It’s a Good Life,” which I won’t spoil but indeed features a very creepy young boy and a cornfield.

The triplets going to witch Light is insane. I truly cannot wait

I wanted this campaign to keep going! There was so much still to explore! XD Can't wait for the Strahd stories episode now! ^_^

Who needs animorphs when you have teensects?

Cannot wait to hear all of Caldwell's voices for Witchlight

I’ve got 9 sisters and they all had an assortment of dolls, my mom had those really life like ones, and they would constantly put dolls in my bed or like in the slats of the bulkhead above me or just thrown them on me. I still don’t like dolls.

As a kid i was playing on a gameboy while walking down the stairs and i tripped and because i was hunched ovver the screen i perfectly frontrolled and landed on my ass without any injuries,

Jens having black/silver?? hair was such a crazy reveal

murph originally described jens as looking like loki, so that’s where the black hair came from. and then everyone just decided he was blonde lol

Strahd has a million bazillion ways to hide from the players if he starts losing the fight and its honestly just great that it didnt go that route as much as I would have loved to see Jens reactions to the Scooby Dooing

This was so good! Great job everyone 👏

What a truly amazing campaign! I can't wait for whatever comes next! This is one happy customer 😄🥳

Tiny bow!!!!!! Had me dying of laughter in public 🤣😂

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