Hearthside Chat Q&A: The CRITerion Closet
As Skaldova Season 2 draws near, the Two Crew gathers round the fire to answer your burning questions about devil fruits, synth music and the source material that inspired Neo Galaderon. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
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late to the party but I’m here for some baroque bops
We need to sit with Squirreldova longer. Please
I think baroque and like hardcore rock guitar solos have a lot of crossover. Some rock guitar rifts are like etudes.
Hey Caldwell! The Who was one of the first bands to ever make the Synthesizer a mainstream instrument. Check it out
Duncle Caldwell, could we please get a pirate campaign? 🏴☠️
Emily and Caldwell do kind of have that “English teach abroad” energy in a good way
Hold on, a Knight of the seven kingdoms did affect a song of ice and fire series (GoT) . I won't say spoilers but it's all connected, same as House of the Dragon.
If you want the Star Fox fighter fight should check out Neon Odyssey
Murph reminding us all he’s from Jersey with the MCR ball knowledge
mentioning luc besson and not shit talking him is a weird choice also i play baroque guitar. please give us some and i fucking love the comic callouts at the end. great ep
I need a Naddpod one piece one shot like I’ve never needed anything more in my entire life
I need the baroque campaign like I need air - sincerely, an opera singer nadpole
No idea if this will get seen but I am an actual real life professional lute player/baroque music specialist that does crossover stuff with renaissance/baroque instruments in other genres, straight up hit me up if you do a baroque campaign and want real baroque instruments because I have GOT you. Look up what a theorbo is and tell me you don't want to write for that thing. It would be my actual greatest honor and the ultimate peak of my personal/professional life to contribute lute playing to a NADDPOD campaign.
How could they have forgotten that Longest Tom was hung?!
Blackfire Carnival had HEAVY Rakdos (MTG guild from Ravnica, black and red color combo) vibes
Emily you could definitely do a Devil May Cry or Castlevania style Demon Hunting campaign with a Baroque and synth soundtrack
Baroque campaign pleeeaasseee, emily!!!!!!!
Day 2 of asking for Hot Boy Summer
I’ve got a comic rec! Scribes by Nick Edwards. It can maybe be found on Instagram but also in Gumroad. I don’t know where else. It is Skaldova adjacent.
I got one of my coworkers to check out Dimension 20 when I told him Emily uses Fia's accent in Cloudward Ho. Eldermourne is his favorite NADDPOD campaign.
give jake the jacket jacket fruit
both Zudrick & Jens can be Final Fantasy 14 bcos playing dress-up is the true endgame & there are thousands of gear pieces to use! the way dark knights hold their greatsword in combat is very Zudrick to me lol
Proudly displaying my tiny L from thinking Caldwell wanted to murder his dog by giving her raisins.
Lol listening on the train in Osaka on the way to my English teaching job
I would LOOOOOOOOVE an animated series!!!!! Would be so cool if they could do it with an indie company tho
hey awesome people, how do I send a case to d&d court? I think I have a good case
Emily I would get inappropriately hyped for Baroque
Emily PLEASE give us baroque campaign
Answering the real questions!! Let's get Jens a Chocobo
Subway! That's the Luc Besson movie; I just learned about it this weekend. It has a baby Christopher Lambert and I heard it's really good.
Gens is a twink. Twunk at best, but he’s got dex, not str, so he’s slender for sure. Zudrick is like a muscle bear
I think Jake is ready to play a pure wizard. High intelligence evoker. He’ll still deal crazy damage
Longest Tom orders his Long Island Iced Teas extra long
Hearing emily and caldwell could've gone into language teaching is so interesting. In another timeline i think that's what i would've done, used to be super passionate about languages and heavily considered going that direction
EMILY baroque is not basic if YOU make it. I’d love it and love the oops all bard idea as well. The fact Emily herself makes the music is one of the many things that makes this podcast so unique. Making music YOURSELF and being creative with it will come across as authentic and unique which is the opposite of basic to me.
PLEASE DO A ONE PIECE ONE SHOT that would be so good with the Duncle running it. I’d love to see it!
I’d personally love to hear a Baroque inspired campaign. A French overture for a climactic scene would be tight as hell
In dog years my dog would be just a few years older than me
Emily and Caldwell, you'd be good teachers. -- Signed, A math teacher :)
Caldwell congrats on navigating the one piece spoilers like a fucking champion.
There is a one piece DND homebrew!
Throwing my comment on the pile for baroque support!
A suggestion for Emily. It wouldn't surprise me if you've already heard of this band, but if you want some inspiration for what to do with baroque, give Malice Mizer a listen. Their whole schtick is rock baroque. I recently started listening to them and they're a lot of fun. Similarly, much of the Castlevania soundtrack is kind of action oriented baroque.
Boggy's Ender exclamations are giving Nigel Thornberry. He said "Lord Nelson's Trousers, it's a Yeti!"
obsessed with jake absolutely reusing names for emily and caldwell and everyone reacting like this is the first time (it seems like jake has no clue hes used these exact same names but he absolutely has)
Ahh yes came here to say hard disagree with Emily. Give me baroque pleeeease!! Glad to see others agree!
Around the 38 minute mark, when they start talking about meeting with people to make a tv show; I feel like it must've been before CR released their shows....damn that makes me kinda sad
Damn, literally 48 seconds later Caldwell literally said "I wonder if those people are kicking themselves now Vox Machina is on its 5th season."
Re: Prequel campaign - a Calamity / Divergence style campaign during the Dragon-Giant-Human wars would honestly be so sick!
Yes! I mean Calamity is the perfect example of "You're totally doomed" still feeling hopeful somehow
Your pet is human for a day, and you guys ALL just wanna sidebar. " Bruce, Harriet can I level with you for a minute?"
Emily hospitality style? Are you talking about TC3 Cortland hospitality program? We do the culinary, agriculture and hospitality trifecta for the farm to table restaurant.. I bet you're talking about TC3. .
Yes!!! I instantly thought of TC3, and also Cornell, too! Cornell’s hotelier program is super renowned, and as someone who used to live in that area my ears perked up when she started talking lol
Hear me out, Gun Kata cleric baroque campaign
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Hell yeah, Secret Headquarters and Steve Wolfhard!!
Oops All Bards, Please, yes!
I love baroque! I think you're wrong axford! Just on this just this once! And Jake said it almost under his breath and it's hard to know if anyone caught it as much as we listeners did in the moment, but oops all bards?! Omgawd you guys have done that with monks and fighters and I think it's time for oops all bards! I'd love to see oops all wizards or OA paladins, like you're crusaders an something shakes your faiths. The ones people are always making so many homebrew subclasses for, those are the OopsAll some-class that y'all should do. But omg please I'm seeing some agreement in the comments we need the baroque campaign! Bach in the saddle again! Schubert your ass we're ready! With names like Amadeus, Wolfgang, Ludwig, Sebastian, Johanne, Frederic, Claude.. the Liszt goes on omg im sorry am I too hyped?
I loveeeeeeee BrendaElizabeth
EMILY WE NEED THE OOPS ALL BARDS BAROQUE CAMPAIGN
Caldwell, It’s been bothering me so I just have to say it… Paulie doesn’t have the rope-rope fruit. He just carries a shit ton of ropes with him. I’ll happily be proven wrong, but I just double checked the wiki. He has no devil fruit.
Oops all bards would be awesome
Another very important reason Zudrick is hotter than Jens: Jens would HATE that and would be heavily in denial about it and it would be very funny.
I will pay concerning amounts of money for a Mixed Bag on anything One Piece related.
Literally same
Once again I recommend Murph pick up Flee Mortals from MCDM, best monster design by far in 5e imo.
Caldwell didn’t want Kanjuro’s Fude Fude fruit????
Am I listening wrong? I feel like the music in episodes is never more than barely audible?
I'm surprised Caldwell didn't want either of the two canonical devil fruits based on drawing
Oh dear Emily Asked-and-Ansford, we will listen to literally anything you make
Two really good prequels are “Rogue One” (Star Wars) and “The Ravening War” (D20). Naddpod can totally do a prequel campaign set in bahumia where the stakes and plot aren’t directly connected to The Band of Boobs story!
I'll throw Andor and Halo Reach on top of those two great examples. Also with Alanis doing time alteration shenanigans you could adjust anything with multiverse ripples.
WERE GOING BACK TO SKALDOVA HOLY COW
emily i would LOVE to hear your take on baroque music that would make for such an epic campaign oh my god
Jake could be the Bike-Bike man, as if he was some sort of motorguycle?!
Murph’s autobiography title: finding your ninja turtle
Emily, you baroque my heart…. I love baroque music.
Not sure what Baroque is but it sounds delicious 😋
I'm here for the baroque!! Plus I think Emily could easily make it fun and desirable to the audience
Jake with the jacket jacket fruit would be so funny
I would be excited for boroque!!!! Fear not Emily!!!!
Baroque campaign 💀🌌
baroque parlor intrigue campaign PLEASE
Fyi this listener loves baroque
Brenda Elizabeth mentioned!
EMILYYYYY PLEASE GIVE US THE BAROQUE CAMPAIGN!! Your former choir/orchestra kids are begging for it!!
Seconding
Loading up a snap pop in a boba straw and blow gunning your buddy is some good mildly dangerous fun
I love how Caldwell played off wanting the Gum Gum fruit without giving away the real reason it would be perfect for him. If you know, you know.
A One Piece one-shot would be sweet
wave shaaaaaaapes. one of the few things i know something about! (takes deep breath) all sound (really, *ALL* sound!) can be perfectly represented as complex collections of sine waves varying in pitch and volume over time. for a wave of any shape to repeat cyclically at a pitch (pick A4, which in concert pitch repeats 440 times per second, called 440 Hz), every sine wave that makes up that wave has to repeat at an integer multiple of the pitch. this is called the "harmonic series." So for A4, the fundamental (sometimes called the "first harmonic") is the pitch itself (440 x 1); the second harmonic is exactly double (880 Hz = 440 x 2), which is a perfect octave up; the third harmonic is at 1320 Hz (440 x 3); and so on. the relative volumes of these harmonics determine both the cyclic wave's visual shape and how it sounds. on to the question about what determines common cyclic wave shapes! Early analog synth designers (Alan R. Perlman, Bob Moog, Don Buchla) and the musicians they were working with (Elaine Radigue, Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani) needed a mix of (1) wave shapes that were relatively simple to generate with the fairly primitive electronic components available at the time and (2) wave shapes that were musically distinct and useful. very remarkably, these two considerations align with each other and lead to the traditional complement of wave shapes. a square or pulse wave (signal jumps straight up and down) contains only odd harmonics, which has a hollow sound closest to a clarinet. a sawtooth wave (signal goes up in a straight line, then jumps straight down [ED: nick's description below is clearer, one side is gradual and the other is a jump]) contains a mix of even and odd harmonics and is both physically and sonically related to the way a bow (violin, viola, etc.) creates sound from a string. a triangle wave (up in a straight [ed: gradual] line, then down in a straight line) has relatively faint odd harmonics and sounds quite close to a flute (which, when played gently, actually approximates a sine wave). most analog synthesizers (even these days) start with a "core" that creates one kind of wave (often a triangle or sawtooth) and surrounding circuitry that creates other waveshapes, almost always including the traditional waveshapes, from them. it's a bit of a cartoon, but "east coast" synthesis (Perlman/Moog) typically starts with a complex wave (square or sawtooth) and removes harmonics (using filters) to make the wave it smoother and simpler. "west coast" synthesis (Buchla) starts with a simpler wave (triangle or sine) and does something called "wave folding", which actually adds harmonics to create increasingly complicated [passes out due to lack of oxygen]
Dude yes . Thank you for this-- and shout-out to Wendy! I love sound so much. You're right allllll sound. What makes things sound like themselves(timbre) is all of the frequency and amplitude of however many overtones. You ever seen where they take an audio clip and slowly release the high pass filter and it becomes a human voice, but before that it was a low sine wave? My only note on this is your description of a sawtooth is kinda almost a square wave, sometimes called a pulse wave. A sawtooth jumps to the peak and *gradually goes down til it reaches the lowest point and jumps back up to gradually sink and so on. But thank you for taking the time to explain for the curious ones!
My brain refuses to accept that Zudrick and Jens have a similar build lol.
A Venture Bros mention?! Be still, my heart
Go Team Venture! Toooouch Vs.
YES PLEEEEEASE to a baroque music campaign
As a retail worker I was insulted that Jake just assumed he could easily go from manager to store owner. Then I remembered hes a cis straight white man so yea probably.
Murph and Emily!! If you want to get your cat to go outside without freaking out here's what worked for us: 1) put JUST harness on cat and leave it on them for a few hours around the house. Do this a couple times a week. 2) once the harness is no longer instant nightmare, get a dog stroller. The kind that has a hood that can zip up and has see through and non see through cover options. 3) walk around neighborhood with your cat in the stroller. Have them clipped into the leash but let it stay loose unless needed. 4) if they seem to be comfortable with that, let cat free roam in the car (with harness on) BEFORE driving anywhere. Our cat did so much better in cars when we gave her time to explore before we started driving 5) take cat in public with stroller and have a grand Ole time
We did almost this exact thing except we have a Bubble Backpack rather than a stroller, but it's more for from house to car, and from car to our spot in the park, but once there it's just harness and the smallest thinnest retractable leash
“Listeners don’t want baroque” NOT true I love baroque music please do what music your heart desires Emily askedandansford
Emilyyyyy I believe in your ability to put a fun twist on baroque music and EVEN IF YOU DIDNT IT WOULD BE FIRE
Go Baroque Go Broke!!! Jk I would love some foppish bards getting down to some chamber music
Trinyvale Troubadours? Twerking to the sweet sounds of Obsidian's singing?
HARRIET IS 14?!
I always forget about Jake’s wordplay nicknames for everyone during hearthside chats, it surprises and delights me every time!! Also, baroque music is incredible!! a campaign with that aesthetic would be amazing!! Makes me think of something like woodcarving partita from castlevania
Wait, what Jens and Zudrick are BUILT THE SAME?!?
Yeah that was.. surprising. I think(now, based on his assessment which is contrary to my initial conception) zuddy is probably sinewy under all that armor, and just uses it totally differently. No flowy dances just plant and lance.
Been a while but first.
I gotta say, I am surprised that after so much GoNG talk they haven't mentioned the Cyberpunk TTRPG even once.
Haven’t listened yet but I want to know what there is to say about devil fruits… I can’t wait for that lol
I still pray for a return to Eldermourne. She is the goth middle child of the Naddpod universe.
I can't wait for the campaign 3 level time jump and lore depth of Saul Bufo n friends but for eldermourne. Maybe Hank's son? Or something in the Duskmothers territory? That pantheon and vibe is so good and stands out, it's just on the other side of twilight sanctorum from here in bahumia. But fret not! We're expecting a Skaldova salad and I believe we will be sated. *Romaine accent* "for now... Muahahahaha"
Since a friend challenged me to it so I started over and read 1115 chapters in3 weeks 2 days 12 hrs and 33 minutes
About Emily's music: I did almost my entire last oil painting with "Haunting Visages" on loop, the soundtracks are inspiring! (Also this might be the place to humbly ask for the guitar track that plays during the hell arc in c1 to be released in full)
The Bonfrierres in a elizabethian/edwardian kings court murder mystery would be gut-busting hilarious
A sidebar, milord? Again I invite thee to ... 'fess up and admit you forgot Carl's birthday
INCORRECT I NEED OOPS ALL BARDS SO BADLY WITH SOME WEIRD GREGORIAN CHANT AND BAROQUE
I got a question. Why are you guys so AWESOME? Thanks for doing what you do and keeping us entertained all these years.
Emily is talking about the JET program! I did that in Fukushima between 2021-2025. It was awesome. Unfortunately the English level and expectation varies from place to place My countryside schools were just doing it as a government/curriculum obligation. Where's big city kids take it REALLY serious. Unfortunately more and more places are looking at alternatives to JET because it costs the local boards of education money to have JETs, and the wage just went up so they're looking at cheaper alternatives 😭😭x
Re: doomed prequels, Rogue 1 was great. So good it spawned andor, which is arguably its own doomed prequel. And I liked exu calamity well enough.
I ate the Slip Slip fruit
Are there any classes they haven’t covered between the 4 of them? Was Calliope a sorcerer eventually? I know Mavrus was a sorcerer but like the main cast and Jake.
I support baroque!!!
Flubber still rules, my 9-year-old sister watched it for the first time recently and loved it
Emily: the listener loves baroque and would not be bored!!! 🥹
Rachel dies in One Piece
Fuck you 🫶
I always knew Jake was a bondage freak
Muwahaha
Go Baroque or go home!
Did you hear about the harpsichord quartet? They've Baroque'n up. Sad really.
I want the baroque campaign soooooo bad now EMILY PLEASE
I know a bunch of classical musicians I will try to single-handedly make an audience for this campaign
Emily, one of your albums was my top album the last year I looked at spotify wrapped. I have to disagree about the amateur musician comment 😅
Why is this guest "Jake" on q&a?
Fellow nerds and music lovers I made a playlist of every song mentioned in Naddpod minus the Christmas music and update it as I listen on Spotify. Put your phone in a solo cup and please enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1GV0I1qQZBjiNdMiVh9RQk?si=NZz9QOZcTj6HPfDQd_HW1w&pt=fc954cdd3d19396a7570fe69ab2de163&pi=0k-Sf73gQGGxl
Ty I was thinking about making one because I couldn’t find one but this is so much better!