Campaign 3 Announcement & Discussion

The Caldwell joke about playing Olaf unironically foreshadowing Sal’s resist death ability??

my eyebrows involuntarily raised in intrigue when Murph first mentioned the magic tech company name

Good job i agree

Starspawn!

This episode was amazing to listen to. Part of the mystique/allure of these shows does play into my enjoyment in terms of filling in the mental gaps; I’m gaining a lot of insight getting to hear you guys think out loud about a topic you’re excited about and experienced with. Thank you!

Emily, I appreciate the enthusiastic nut milk recommendation! Elmhurst has survived and I will try it!

Not gonna lie, as a DM who doesn't really feel like she knows what she's doing, this episode is very helpful. I like peeking behind the screen because it helps me understand how to build my own, thanks Murph 🙌

Lmao I'm playing chrono trigger as in listening to this

There’s a scene in my mind of the New Crew stumbling upon an ancient half elf whose kind of crazy, but then it’s a full Yoda situation and it’s been Hardwon the whole time. I even see a cliff hanger ending of “and as he walks you notice his robe brushes to the side ever so slightly revealing the biggest quads you’ve ever seen”

Halflings live up too 250!! Bev confirmed

Going back to Ezry! Loved that place and always got a FFIIV vibe from it. It being in the future I'm hoping for some sick FFIIV references with that 80s steam punk fantasy feel. Really looking forward to it! Edit: Not that that's what I want you to do it's just a feel I got. With the bubble boy stuff they were the shelf dwellers. Edit 2 for when if don't go to Ezry first: I'm going back to Ezry, Ezry, Ezry, I'm going back to Ezry.... I don't think so.

This is giving me Arcane vibes and I’m very excited

it's missing a spoilers for frozen 2 tag

I want the Naruto characters just so Zac can come in as a special guest Shikamaru tbh

So glad it's fantasy and not cyber punk

Sounds like Jake should play a Rune Knight. Elemental Magic, but it's all Giant-themed.

I'm staring at my "The Realm of Bahumia" wall scroll while listening to this episode

Im sobbing

Now basing bones day/no bones day off whether Murph is wearing Jack skellington boxers

Ooh I like the idea of an astral soul hardlight arms (possibly warforged?) monk

I have to say, as a die hard NADDPOD fan from day 1, I have an unhealthy addiction to Bahomia, whether it be nostalgia of the adventure along with the players or my first real DnD podcast experience I can't really say, probably a mix of both. When I heard this announcement, the tingle of anticipation and excitement was palpable throughout the room... (to the point of an open joyful outburst of emotion that truly chilled and frightened my 3 year old daughter causing a guilt I now must harbor...) I have listened to campaign one from beginning to end at least 4 different times now, and will probably never stop it has become a comfort food of sorts while at work, so thank you all for that. This truly lifted my recently sullen mood and I believe this to be the greatest gift given to me this hoglidaze season. To Murph, thank you for this fantastic opptunity I could not be more excited to experience Bahumia in a whole new way. Jake, Caldwell, and Emily, Thank you guys so much for the laughs, and the characters I truly do rely on to get through those tough days. I can't wait for more. Best, Zach S.

Rune knight for Jake!!!

What patreon level do we need to be to see Murph in the Jack Skellington boxers?

Emily I know this is basically moonshine but you could be a mating season eladrin

There's a subclass that exactly matches the "intelligent barbarian that rages and gets strong" concept Emily was pitching in Grimhollow: The Player's Guide! It's a pretty good book, I recommend it!

Caldwell, if you play a descendent of Red AND go for the experimental chimera beast... whelp, I guess you have created Red XIII from FF7 and I approve 👏👏👏

I recently ran a humble wood one shot for my group that I picked up at my local stores free RPG day! It is an adorably cute setting that I would love to run as a campaign one day

And here I am, with a rat rogue and a wild magic changeling with dissociative identity disorder haha My rogue's story is basically that's she was a lab rat for a mad alchemist, turned into a rat-humanoid hybrid and she ran away with her still-very-much-a-rat-brother. Halfling stats, level 9 rogue with 3 levels of fighter, this character is B-R-O-K-E-N haha but it was my first character and I swear I didn't optimize it like that on purpose. Just chose what seemed fun to play at the time. My changeling is Murph's worse nightmare : I chose my spells, I chose my 3 other identities, but they are PTSD trigger-based on a backstory that I know almost nothing about. My DM has fleshed out a traumatic event from my past from which the alters protect me. They have a knowledge of the main girl, but she doesn't know them. I never know when I'm going to change! Makes for pretty funny situations since they're all so different (main is shy, 1st alter is a little hyperactive girl, 2nd is a super stern female elf, and last one is a very flirty man). That with the wild magic, it's just a fun chaotic time.

I can't wait to see the next naddpod logo and how it changes for Bah2mia

Oooh guests!! It would be awesome if Caldwell's drawga/drawfee friends could guest

Yay more content! Don't worry about anyone saying they expect to see old characters, you've done more than your due diligence, they're either trolling or can't be helped

Can’t wait for #Bah2mia!

Calling it now Jake is a bubble knight

You need to call them the fey archipelago the Fey Isles

Starspawn

@Jake if you play an EK you should definitely take Silvery Barbs introduced in Strixhaven. It’s like shield but better imposing disadvantage on any successful roll. Then you can give someone advantage on their next attack roll, etc.

@Murph Great job. I agree. If you haven’t seen Netflix’s “Arcane” it might inspire you for your return to a new Bahumia

Dosent the phb say that halfling live to the middle of their second century? They talk about them as if they are definitely dead.

I hope that there are flashbacks in BahTWOmuhia where the crew gets to play as The Boobs

@Murph Great job. I agree.

we need more Fortnite conversations, we need a stream where the crew play Fortnite

EMILY! Emily, Emily, Emily! There is some really phenomenal third party content called Grim Hollow and they have a barbarian subclass called Path of the Fractured - it's exactly what you described with the Jekyll and Hyde barbarian! Please check it out - I'd love to hear you play one!

If the eladrin came over, did Trish came?

I also just finished playing a circle of stars Druid slskdjfh

Omg as soon as I heard that the Eladrin came over i knew Emily would want to play Eladrin 😂 I’ve been looking at the race myself, in particular paired with path of the beast barbarian!! I feel so in sync with them LOL

Ahh yes! I have been re-listening to Campaign 1 in between episodes of Eldermourne, and JUST finished! What amazing timing!

YES!!!! I was hoping for a Future Bahumia campaign so this being announced on my birthday was like a gift from the universe!!

Damn will Jake ever not play a fighter as his main character? Lol

I'm not going to go back and read everything so feel free to ignore this if it was already said, but 200 years means nothing for the Band of Boobs, Moonshine's Timeless Body means that she can live for 7,500 years. If she started the campaign at 20 years old, then she's now the equivalent of a 40 year old Elf. Beverly is an Undying Sentinel and simply doesn't suffer the harms of old age including dying from it. He can still be a 216 year old goofball. Finally, Hardwon could come back at any time using True Resurrection. The spell can't bring someone back if they died of old age, but Hardwon has died before and they're all crazy enough that they could kill him with a Disintegrate spell (after an awesome crickwater fueled battle royal ceremonial-murder party) and return him to life in a new young body.

Listening to Jake describe his potential character immediately made me think of the Rune Knight from Tasha's! A fighter that can increase their size and utilizing Frost and Stone runes.

I am currently playing a Circle of Stars Druid whose star map is tattoos on her body, so when Caldwell mentioned his little bullywug Druid friend, I got really excited. I'd love to see someone play this subclass cause it's a blast.

Is anyone else a little disappointed? I was hoping to see something new. I’m a little concerned. Between the rushed ending to Eldermourne and now I return to some thing they know well, I’m kind of wondering if Mercer is feeling burned out. If he is, I hope he knows he can handover the reins. He has very capable people around him.

SO GLAD on the starting location - a massively underrated chapter in C1!

SO GLAD on the starting location, a massively underrated chapter in C1

C H I L L S. I have chills. Fuckin hell, i hope we see beverly toegold the 8th the paladin captain of hillhome 😭

Great job, I agree

Talking about fae of other seasons is so interesting, I live in a tropical area near the equator (southern hemisphere) so there isn't much of a change between summer/autumn/winter/spring, but we are heavily impacted by a wet season and dry season

Caldwell if you could do the style you could play a marionette like character with the thing connected to the stings being hard light or something cool you'd amaze us with and have them come pulling stings to a pocket dimension or something.... Listening along play a frog please

I have 150 skins and 400 emotes... I'd love to add some Naddpod skins to my Fortnite collection.... I'll get you a crowned victory I promise

Oh hell yes! This sounds so good, I'm so excited, starting 2022 off right, thank you sweeties <3 Also this is such a good excuse to re-listen to Campaign 1

If everyone plays a wintery character, we could call them the cold brew crew. Instead of going to bars, they're regulars to the new coffee chain, STARSPAWNBucks

If Emily wants to do a port city that is also like Vegas then she needs to do a little bit of research on Macau, because its what she’s dreaming of.

But in all seriousness this sounds fantastic. I liked that Murph said full on cyber-punk was too far and then described the vibe he wanted for the world. I think that vibe sounds great

Jake just wants to be from the Frigid North so that Murph stops razzing him with the Frost Dwarves

LOVED caldwells idea about a sort of cyborg astral projecting monk! We have a one shot coming up in a very tech post apocalypse worls so was going to try my hand at a way of astral self monk who uses a VR headset to chanel holographic arms so love that our minds were even a little bit in synch on that one Genuinely SO excited to see Bahumia again with all its old similarities and new differences! Going to be a fun one

I cant help but imagine a bullywug barbarian that when they rage they croak and puff up their throat bubble. It could even act as like a moral battle cry! Or a bubble shield lol, tough toads for the win

I kinda want to see Caldwell as one of the multi-plainer races or fey races from the unearthed arcana

You know which NPC is available for a comedic return? Pendergreens

The sweater crew. 😅

Can Caldwell just play a very rebellious Beverley Toegold VII and be like a rogue or something

Also a large Tree Ent could be a nest for a dragon/bird beast

What if Caldwell played a Barbarian/Monk that rages into a beast and does karate?

I'm excited to see what Emily's next build is gonna be, especially if she goes with something like the Eladrin concept! I could absolutely see her playing another Wizard, especially if this campaign goes to a hgher level than Eldermourne, although it might be fun to see her play like a City Domain Cleric with the whole cosmopolitan fey vibe she talked about

Pendergreens is still alive though, right? 😈

Archiepelago? Ur gonna pass up the chance to go from fae wild to fae isles?

Water genasi could also be cool if Jake wants to do cold stuff, although goliath seems more fun

the idea of caldwell as a little frog!! an incredible chink in murph’s no-goof armor. consider: jake plays a big beefy woman from the north and emily plays a fun weird eladrin guy. maybe?? anyways eldritch knight sounds so sick all these world ideas are so fun and I have so much trust in this team to build a super cool campaign together

Please have a shaman saying "bahumia"

Whether Jake's Knight is Runic or Eldritch, I'm sure he'll be a big beefy bearded boi with quads that shake (or freeze) the earth

As a mail carrier please don’t send milk. Lol

Jake can i suggest looking into Rune Knight it has alot of giant flavor and you would get to be the biggest person in the room at any time. Also it does have some magical aspects to it!!! Also what level do you think you guys will go to?

Caldwell please be a bullywog who has nightmares about a old wives tale where a young warrior came for their ancestors and their teeth. He could be into josh fit, the ancient mystical body training technique. The people need it!!

#releasethenanakindleafcut

Any chance for the third DnD movie Mixed Bag in January?

So excited! I’m already imagining knitting some tiny fan art sweaters. So that’s got to be canon. 😺

What's going on with the One Hells and the Dusk Mother?

i honestly was hoping caldwell would go with blood hunter like he said he might but i could see it being a little alchemist-esque.

will our new heroes find the contingency letters on a shipwrecked S.S. Stormborn?

sweata weatha crew

Oh yeah, and I forgot to say: I was literally, no joke, playing Fortnite while listening to this episode and the fact that you guys started making Fortnite jokes midway through was absurdly funny to me. I could not handle Emily's delight at hearing that Kakashi is in Fortnite.

I'm only halfway into the episode, but I want to chime in and say that a peace between dwarves and frost giants in a frozen mountain kingdom sounds fucking metal as hell, and "a country of big tough dudes" is exactly what I would want to embrace as a player. That's why I need to speak to Jake specifically: Jake, you are your own person, your character is yours to play, but if you embrace this tough guy frozen warrior idea, you have the chance to play fighter for a THIRD CAMPAIGN IN A ROW, and I think that's HILARIOUS. It's also genuinely a huge, huge buff to the image of fighters in the public sphere since so many people think they're a boring, basic class for new players. Not only that, but you have a chance now to play a third HUMAN fighter, the most white bread commonly-mocked "boring" option in a fantasy world, and you have a chance to OWN it, playing three completely unique, lovable characters that are all human fighters on a beloved DnD podcast. I do not want to corner you and say you have to do this. I will adore literally whatever you want to explore because I've grown to love your style over the course of the podcast. But I do want to emphasize that I think Jake being "the guy who always plays human fighter (but surprise, they're always a banger)" is VERY FUNNY. Also, don't forget that Rune Knight is a fighter subclass literally themed around giants and their runes that lets you grow to giant size.

Caldwell's bard suggestion reminded me of the college of the dirge singer from the exploring eberron companion book. Not a big fan of the class features but the lore is great! Love you guys!

I gasped out loud at work when Murph said welcome back to Bahumia. I’m beyond excited!

My friends who have no idea about this podcast have adopted happy hedgehoglidays because I was saying it so much

An honor to get my shoutout in this episode :D (Even if Murph and Emily seem to have lost internet at the end there.) Since Caldwell drew pigeon Murph, he's got character art already for when he finally gets to play a pigeon and Humblewood provides the stats. No excuse now!

Omg I’m so excited!! This is going to be such an awesome campaign ❤️

Oh shit, Elmhurst nut milk is my absolute favorite!

Welcome to Ba-two-mia!

Can't wait to see 227 year old Hardwon who refuses to die so he doesn't have to commit to Gemma

Jake a half giant half dwarf would be so fun!

I JUST, like 5 minutes before listening, bought a gladeholm sweater and now I’m so thrilled about my choice and can’t wait for it to come!!!!

Love that Murph gets to make his own Shinra.

Ok I love Feagus but what about Fealand pronounced Fealend

i am SO excited to be back in bahumia omg and i look forward to seeing what characters y’all come up with for the updated setting!!

Should we be asking the questions here for the short rest or will there be a post?

Wasn't Tonathan some half god now and super special? I don't think he would be dead. Also I just realized Tonathan has Nathan in it and I've listened to campaign 1 three times now.

We've gotta go back!

Litttttttttttttt 💜💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I believe that the Dresden Files has been mentioned by you guys, but another fun (but gritty and dark) urban fantasy that the idea of cosmopolitan Fae reminded me of is Dead Witch Walking (going from memory but I think it's the first of the series) just a great depiction of fantasy creatures in city settings

Hey Caldwell, I'm worried something I sent you guys didn't arrive. I sent the NADDPOD team a set of engraved medals and a thank you note for being with me during both my marathon and half marathon. Did you get the medals?? So excited for campaign 3!!

Circle of stars druids are incredible. I played a Water Genasi Pirate- Circle of Stars Druid/Pact of The Genie Warlock I was a genie in a ship in a bottle. The aesthetic was 👌👌👌👌

Are we ever gonna get cool boy winter?

Waiting for the Yugo: No Way Home - Enter the Yugoverse Christmas special in 2022

I forget if Bev ever switched back to OotA after his arc, but if he did I bet he is still alive 200 years in Bahumia's future!

JAKE RELEASE THE LETTER

Extremely excited for Campaign 3! An idea for Emily's Eladrin, if you want to stay out of the bounds of the four seasons- maybe an Eladrin of the leap day, February 29th? A fey who is outside the rules of the courts because they're not technically of any of the seasons. That way, you could still use the blue + white dice!

What has Beverly been doing since he should still be alive as an oath of ancients paladin and if we see the band of books again will it be as npcs?

The whole trickery spellcaster has me stoked for maybe a full campaign Bard. Illusionist wizard is also cool. But for a 3p party bard is just absolute cool. So many options stemming from that. I've always been curious about stat generation for this show. I imagine it's point buy but maybe it's standard array or even a zoom call dice roll 4 drop 1

What's the spelling of Elan? Alan? Elon Musk's name? Or are the capitalists named ilan, which i will try not to take personally

Alternate idea for Eladrin : I played an Eladrin Graviturgy wizard in a Strahd Campaign who was booted out of the Fey Wilds before she got a hold of her abilities so her season would change with her mood.

Also for the bullywug Druid, wizards did come out with a frog adjacent lineage supplement called the grung

Oh, look! A hype train to February. *Gets on board train.*

I need the frog Druid so badly, please give him big sword it would be so cute

If we don't get that little weird frog guy, imma riot.

Emily should read neverwhere by Neil Gaiman- kind of like the Fey in a cosmopolitan setting. It’s also a great book!

Tomato town was destroyed by Thiala

HELL YEEEEAAAHHHHH

Frostwind sounds perfect for a Rune Knight

Murph said he can't imagine a worse scenario than having to improvise a character constantly learning things about themselves. I immediately started sweating profusely thinking about the fact that I'm running an entire campaign around that premise. All six of my players don't know who they are and are constantly learning about their past and who they are. (It's a very fun & cool campaign though!)

I love the idea of the details within a season, reminds me of the solstices and star formations, and how they used to be central to a lot of spirituality

Yes!!

OMG

I JUST finished eldermourne, this'll be the first time where I'm following along as it goes I'm excited

The campaign after the campaign after the campaign after the campaign

RELEASE THE LETTER, JAKE

SPOILERS FOR FROZEN 2

Immediately getting Final Fantasy VI vibes and I. Am. Here. Forit.

Bruh this setting is so hype

Can we make Tonathan a regular?!

Can't Wait! I'm on my second playthrough of the first campaign. This time with the short rest 😀

Omg! I gasped out loud and scared my family once we got past the intro, I'm so excited! 😄

Awwww sheeeiiiit

At work, but stoked to listen later.

I truly cant wait to listen to this but i just gotta say that Emily, your music is absolutely amazing, thank you so much for putting it on Spotify, ive been listening to it nonstop since it came out!

HOLY SHITTYTT

Welcome to the abstinence campaign on main

YOOOOOO

Happy Hogladaise ya filthy animals!

So we calling campaign 3 “Ba2mia”? Cool? Cool!

OHMYGOD

LETS FUCKING GOOOO

Needed this on my birthday thank you, helped a lot 🥲🥲

OMG OMG OMG

BACK?????

Listening intently.

😍😍😍😍😍

AHHH HOLY SHIT YES. I paused Spirits Podcast to listen to this

The fastest I have ever clicked on a notification!!

Campaign after the Campaign after the Campaign after the Campaign!!!

Listening as soon as the livestream is done. Can't wait!!!

Fastest tap ever cant wait to listen at work tomorrow😝

Yay! Campaign 3 during my birthday month! Best present ever!

February! Amazing, can't wait to hear what you have in stock for us

Hell yeah fastest click ever

AW SHIT!!!!

Immediate click on this notification

OH MY GOD ITS HAPPENING, EVERYBODY STAY CALM

Yayy!!

Woooooooo

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY so excited for this !

What an absolutely Robert Evans intro.

Woo!!!

I am so very ready

i’ve never clicked a notification so fast

Let’s goooooooooo

I’ve never jumped on a post so fast

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING

OH SHIT