Ep. 74: Highprince of Hell (Mage Madness with Zac Oyama)
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Music/Sound Effects include:
"Crackling Fire" by sagetyrtle at Freesound.org.
"Gypsy Violin Variation" by Howard Geisel at Freesound.org.
"A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford.
"Unknown Tome" by Emily Axford.
"A Tale's End" by Emily Axford.
"Lucanus Aer'Tea" by Emily Axford.
"Snake Fight" by Emily Axford.
"A Sign From Melora" by Emily Axford.
"Sea Beast" by Emily Axford.
"Shadowfell Sneak" by Emily Axford.
"The Valiant Ol' Cobb" by Emily Axford.
Comments (37)
The origin of the legendary sidebar.
The sidebars were born here
Can I sidebar with you real quick?
I inadvertently listened to hot boy summer when I was at ep 50 and I love hearing the origin of the side bar from Mavris.
(Was trying to) quietly cheer to myself during my flight during this oh my goDDDDsssss For real tho, I'm at my connection in Phoenix on the way to the east coast, not for fun. My first time taking a flight and not looking forward to where im going. I've got at least 20 hours of NADDPOD downloaded for it and im so grateful. Keeping one leg in Bahumia is what's going to save me in all this. I dont ever need them to see this, the boobs deserve this either way. I bend the knee always.
Ooh OG sidebar in this ep?
I've already been feeling emotional lately and now this episode has me out and down
Doing a relisten years later and I think Mavrus missed adding +4 to his death save from Bev’s Aura. Oh well it set up a dramatic death.
Not only that but literally right before Beverly used an action to feed him a Greater Healing potion which should have used the homebrewed potion rules to give the full 4d10+4 HP, not a rolled amount. Mavrus wouldn't have been downed by that next attack at all meaning no Death Saves necessary Doesn't really matter anymore though lmao
Mavris is the Ned schneebly of the university
This is the episode that got me to subscribe to dropout for d20. Zac and Emily dnd players of all time
Cancelled my subscription because of eps 73 & 74. I am all for heroes succeeding but the plot armor (Akorat not killing Bev with 2 attacks left, but has enough time to kick him) and twisting of the rules was just ridiculous. Even a Tolkien novel has more realism and that's saying something in fantasy. Final nail in the coffin was Bev putting a holy amulet into Akorat that conveniently did not kill him but let's keeps him alive to prevent his dad become next in line. Could have been so great storytelling to make him choose... when nothing ever has any consequences and everyone always survives / gets rescued / win then there is no point in listening to the episodes because what else could happen then a full out win
ok cool
I wish Emily had taken the emotion of Paw Paw brutally going down to fuel her 102 freaking points of damage. That was so badass and she made it too jokey.
Super want the BoB to put Akorat in the gem with pentagreens
The whole time I was convinced the random necromancer was going to be Ilsed. Guess I was overthinking that one... Anyway great episode. Mavrus is absolutely hilarious.
Is Akarat dead (and Bev Sr. is the new bad boss) or just in a suspended state of 1 hp and serving as a key chain so Bev Sr. doesn't get even more damned than he already is?
My understanding is that Akorat is dead and Bev Sr. Is the new Dark Lord in Akorat’s place.
Did pawpaw die? I don't think anyone healed him.
Murph said in an earlier episode that pawpaw has plot armor. He can be knocked out but can’t die.
Put Akarat in with Pentergreens
So I hate to be a bit of a rules Lawyer but I don’t want you to get womped in future big encounters as badly Daddy Murph. The way contagion works is weirdly worded but important. The effect of contagion does not happen until the target has failed 3 saving throws. Akorat should have had at least 3 turns where he got to try and save against flesh rot. Also being a paladin I assume he was immune to disease, contagion specifically states that the spell does not work on people immune to disease. Again, I hate to be a rules lawyer, i just want to make sure you know this so in future encounters it isn’t broken (the way it was played here was basically more powerful than some 9th level spells)
To further elaborate on why this is important, one of the diseases you can give is “Slimy Doom” which says if anyone deals damage to the inflicted target they are stunned for their next turn. The way this was run in that episode potentially lets moonshine win against Theiala (or literally anyone) by herself just by casting it turn 1 and repeatedly doing anything that guarantees at least 1 point of damage every turn. The reason the spell works this way is because the effects can cripple anything in the game if it takes effect, thats why they basically have 3 turns to try and win the fight (or avoid the oncoming effect) because otherwise they are done.
"First one.......Nat 20."
MURPH JEREMY CRAWFORD UPDATED THE LANGUAGE ON CONTAGION so that it is not so broken because all of its effects are so game breaking the spell only takes effect after three failed saves
It’s just a really not fun spell is all I know everyone hates rules lawyering
Holy crap. Warm, fuzzy, wonderful sode. Loved it, love you guys.
So all of gladehome watched the finale round on pay per view??
So with that update, does this mean we’ll only get one nannerfly effect ‘sode on the feed and the rest are livestream exclusive?
Ahhh. I think we all felt warm & fuzzy after that, Jake. Such a sweet ending to an awesome ‘sode. 😍❤️
God bless Emily!!!!! LEGENDS only!!!!!!!!!
Pelor damn it Murph crying again. My heart just broke for Bev.
#TeamRen
"Dirtiest of The Clean, Cleanest of The Dirty" fuckin brilliant, Caldy
Is NADDPOD not hosted on Spotify? Or does it post a day late?
The version with ads posts a little bit later than the Patreon version, and Spotify can sometimes be a little later than iTunes
Somehow I went thru the entire day thinking it was Wednesday until I got this notification and thank goodness I did. Much needed podcast 👏🏻