D&D Court: Flying Eagles, Shrunken Towers and Bird-lesque

“If you want to see pigeonhole, you’re going to have to go to the bird strip club, we don’t do that shit at bird-lesque” This is my favorite out of context quote ever

AH YES THE BIRD OPERA BIT HELLO AGAIN MY SILLY SWEET FRIEND

It's criminal that nobody laughed when Caldwell said that Hen House was another good name for the opera.

"For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects." Relistening to this episode, found this tidbit defining objects on roll20.net.

I’m pretty sure there is a comic where Vader starts to kind of care for a trooper or pilot, and respects him. But I think it ends in tragedy and Vader allowing the guy to be sacrificed in a plot or something

Ugh I quit hockey because I had to change into my gear in the car ride there and got so car sick every time

I fully forgot this ep was the origin of birdlesque, and so now I’m cackling at work and ppl keep looking at me funny 😭😭😭

Okay, so I’m re-listening to this episode and I just wanted to point out when Caldwell and Jake had the quick exchange about the “Hen House” being the name for the bird theater, I couldn’t believe it was so gently disregarded yet such a perfect idea 😂😭

manipulating size is a huge issue in 5e, which I think is why they don't have PC races that are large or tiny. imagine playing a fairy campaign wherein fireball was still fireball. if it still had the same radius but you were in some kind of adorable mushroom hut you would immediately immolate the tiny or diminutive size equivalent of a city block. Likewise if you were playing a giant and tried to use reduce on something, all the things of relevant size to you would be something that you'd less readily argue are objects. Murph is talking about using the spell to shrink a castle as being absurd but again, if you're a medium size creature and you're using it on a tiny size hut that a super small creature lives in my guess is he would allow it, tho I don't recall his position on the reducing a door so it drops out of the frame situation. He says you're "opening a bag of worms" (?) but really the designers did this in the first place. anyway besides all that nerd shit, this was one of the funniest DnD courts, forcing Jake to co-own the birdlesque house was hilarious back to nerd shit I don't know why Emily is talking like adding a d4 is less strong than giving advantage. Advantage a)on average provides about a +3.5, a d4 on average provides a +3 b) doesn't allow you to beat DCs you couldn't have beaten before, which a d4 does and c) giving advantage can turn into a disadvantage/advantage war wherein you're checking how many sources you have of either, whereas adding a d4 can just freely stack with other sources of extra dice such as guidance or bless

Guys guys guys...it's a chicken strip club (sandwich?) Opera

CASE UPDATE FOR JAKE: Sorry I am so late to the conversation because I only just listened to this episode (my husband and I listen to these together). So excited mine got picked (3rd time too thanks!) The result was is that we finished the campaign with me as the story DM and the combat DM (which was only 3 or 4 more sessions). In a later session he ended up having one of the NPCs be a huge hero and the NPC killed one of the BBEGs and relegated the players to only fighting the weenies, which made the players really upset. Needless to say, the combat DM and I absolutely got divorced after this campaign. I ended up splitting up my group of players into guys vs girls, which actually worked out because then the wives and husbands got to take a game night for themselves and the group that wasn't playing watches the kids. I let the Combat DM know that because the groups where smaller, I no longer needed a co-dm and thanked him for his help. It was a bummer because I could tell he was unhappy with the news, but my group of players are much happier with the arrangement, so it is what it is. :/ It was a valuable lesson in communication and expectations, and making the tough decisions to do what's best for a group of players. Thank you for the review of the case and for the valuable insight you all provided. I deeply appreciate the change to grow as a DM.

I was thinking about Tommy's bird drawings the whole time and then it came full circle.

Im hyped to see the return of hot cavill bird

I think a bird opera one shot should be Jake's first DMing

I cannot believe Emily dated tommy what a small world!!!

I like how all punishments just roped everyone into doing community service for The Court's new insane side hustle.

I am absolutely obsessed with the fact that Emily used to date Tommy Seigel. Jukebox the ghost is my favorite band of all time this is WILD

.... All i could think of during the first one was "D'Morce Court"

Important question…. Can we please get a ryan burphy one shot for a mixed bag 🥺🥺

I just recently heard about the field of ontology, so the "what counts as an object" philosophical debate is really intriguing to me. Kind of pointless to dig into, especially when it comes to DnD, but trippy nonetheless. If anyone wants to keep nerding out about it, Vsauce has a really awesome introductory video about it called "Do Chairs Exist?"

I've seen dual DM-ing on Fun City go well when one person just does story and the other just does bad guys and about half the NPCs

FWIW I would absolutely listen to the group playing sloshed as a non-canon ep or mixed bag or something 👀

The host hosting to get people to bring food is an episode from Hot Date.

Honestly, I would absolutely listen to a Mixed Bag that was just 'Insane Idea Shark Tank' with either insane ideas solicited from patreon, or each cast member bringing for their own insane idea and the rest of the cast acting as sharks for them. Birdlesque is a real winner here, guys.

As a Beth, oh my god, I’ll learn violin if you want. I just want to make my D&D parents proud, ok?!

Love it love it love it

I mean… I don’t want to be that guy, but if I ever run a furry convention. I’m making birdlesque and event.

Just want to throw out that if you're interesting in hearing some Co-GMs in action the real play podcast Fun City does this, they play Shadowrun (mostly). It is GMd by Mike Rugnetta from Idea Channel and Taylor Moore who plays many of the bad NPCs, and runs them in combat, though Mike still narrates things generally.

i was actually in a campaign where my DM had a witch doing magic experiments and she cast enlarge on a chicken cage and ended up having a bunch of medium sized chickens escape that we had to go find and fight and it was a great dumb encounter to have.

hold on, did… did emily date the “how much can you fit under your skin” guy? that song was legit my most listened to of 2020

I neeeeed an update om the dessert dmpc

The snack/treats behavior is a Hot Date episode!

mixed bag: drunk session.

Chicken strip

To go with the Reduce discussion, this is from the DMG: “For the Purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects.“

Murph saying "one HOT-ASS dude bird" completely broke me, lol

to answer murph’s “why do players hate playing” question, the answer is pretty simple. people often base characters off of certain aspects of themselves, in fact that’s how most compelling pc’s are made. not only that, but by the nature of the game, players are forced to insert themselves into their character’s point of view. it also just so happens that most people don’t like it when bad things happen to them. basically, i suppose it’s a kind of very common, very subtle “character bleed”. also, another reason might be that often players have a very specific view of what/who they want their character to be, and failing at a certain thing might go against that characterization. and so since they’re afraid to lose, they’re afraid to play. i guess then, the nuclear solution would be to always play fuckup loser characters with no relatable qualities or distinguishing characteristics aside from making shit jokes and having puns for names so i guess, tl:dr, the solution for players fearing failure is for every party to be made up of link pinkystink and tiktok the sorcerer. is that what you want murph?

I cannot believe that Emily dated the guitarist of my favorite band and I found out cause of Birdlesque

Anyone else notice Emily's audio seamed a little loud??

I second Ian's suggestion. Jake needs to DM . He's such a lord of the rings fan i think a short hobbit run or maybe a silmarillion deep cut , something short n nice but he can do it , I've listened to all your dungeon courts and it's a joy to hear how much Jake knows off the cuff after meeting him as hardwon surefoot, a virgin player. I'd love to see what he comes up with

Omg chirp n dales

That Rainbow Butter case is hurting my brain. I have the opposite problem with my DMPC. Our Fallen Asimaar Warlock got him from the Deck of Many Things at level 3. So my lvl.4 Fighter is just naturally better than the table. I WANT to kill him. I've already defeated 2 tough challenges by mistake. I've tried to "forget" his initiative to give my players a chance, but they never forget and demand "Wade helps." There having fun, which is great, but I feel like I'm holding them back

“Hot birds” are just the natural progression of sexy rat.

Also I think Rainbow Butter was actually sipping that RyanUrphSoda

I have three Silkie Roosters that would love to apply for a job at the Birdlesque

I can’t wait to roll for Ass-timidation lol

Allison, thank you for the reply! Unfortunately it didn't work. Apparently I don't have an app that works with RSS, even though both Google Podcast and Podcast Addict are labeled as supporting RSS with Patreon. For some reason D&D Court and Short Rest download and work just fine, but the main campaign episodes all download as something other than a music file. I'll just have to download the Short Rests through here, than download the campaign through Google. I'm a truck driver and don't have cell service all that often, so I have to download to listen, streaming just doesn't work lol! But thanks again!

As a Beth, I was laughing so hard being yelled at by my DM parents.

Apologies if this has already been asked but Jake’s “maybe in trinyvale bro” made me realize he’s the only non- dm at the table. When is the Dungeon Nephew one shot??

Weird question here, but what format do these download in? I am wanting to get back into the campaign again, took a hiatus while I waited for the episodes to build up, downloaded all of Campaign 2, but can't find a single music or podcast player that will play them. I even went to the download folder, selected a file, clicked on details, and it doesn't give the format. All it shows is the size and a paper with a dog-eared corner for an icon.

Will it be a traveling bird-lesque show?

Will Cher be in this rendition of Birdlesque?

2 things with enlarge/reduce. "That is neither worn nor carried" a tower is fixed to the earth, I'd say that's a form of wearing if you could at all wear a tower. Secondly, it only reduces the target to half it's size in all dimensions and 1/8th the weight. So it'd still be a massive tower and they couldn't crush it or carry it, unless towers are lighter than I thought, 1/8th of 10,000 tons is still 1,000+ tons

V serious as I say this - I actually have experience getting birds to sing for science. The trick is definitely to put males with hotter females - but the preference for females was really different across males!

Can we please please please get a Short rest/Bonus episode of you guys absolutely trashed trying to play D&D!! I imagine it being the most chaotic thing ever haha. Might need to get a sober DM to actually run it though and will probably have to be heavy on the RP rather then combat

Murph don't play coy, you've dated a pigeon before. You took Perry to a wedding and made out with them.

Has anybody been able to find Tommy Seagull (I guess that's how it's spelled?) on insta? I need this in my feed

So when are we going to get a Birdlesque Oneshot?

I rule in favor of the combat DM. I believe this argument voids any use of homebrew monsters at their table, if this dm can’t homebrew this monster’s stat block with higher level spells then what can they homebrew? Can they use non wiz released stuff? Do they have to write out everything they will use before the session?

Anyone else seeing shades of sexy rat with this hot bird business? Emily, what's with the attractive animals? I love it 😂

The DMG object rules say: "For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects". So yeah the tower can't be hit by Reduce by RAW, at least.

Great episode!

I can't wait for June when we get Hot Bird Summer. A bunch of sexy Aarakocra Bards at the opera. Also, the whole snack thing with the host keeping the snacks is legit a Hot Date episode

I relate to Jake's skateboarding experience way too much

Ah this week you're just chillin ay Jake? I think you should add the adjective, so this week you're cool, chill Bailiff Jake 😎

Please boost this because Emily NEEDS this info! Please, listen to Bird Boy! I know they're on Spotify but idk about other platforms, they make music with bird sounds!! She needs to know, naddpoles!

Dun Dun!

May it please the court!!

I object! 🙂

Yay! 🙌🙌🙌