Short Rest: C3 Ep. 5: Psi Guys

Emily you are so cool and inspiring when I'm playing my own characters

"hasted frog" sounds like some kinda delicacy, like foie gras

Emily is my favorite ttrpg player of all time. Her moves are legendary in roleplay and combat. The crown of candy thunderstep moment was awesome and it led me to play a sorcerer with thunderstep. It was fantastic when I used it too! Callie's detect thoughts this ep is such a good choice and adds so much texture to the fight!

My teenage fanfic shame was via Red Dwarf merch. I had this official diary/planner with pics of the cast and also occasional entries from the pov of the characters, mostly making crass jokes and taking the piss out of each other. I took it to school because I used it for writing down homework assignments but I'd also added my own self insert entries where I joined in on the banter and worse, flirted with the characters. The inevitable moment where another student grabbed it off me and read it aloud did not go well. I think I threw a chair at him 😂

Screaming ANI-MURPH at my phone lol

Lol man people are wild if they complain like this!

i love how they address the misogyny against emily so casually

Napped fans be better

Justice for Emily

Justice for Emily

Also who is hating on Em!? Hold me backkkkk 😤

You should read my lotr fanfic from 2001 👀

My favorite episode because thank you

You tell em Murph!

emily "as a woman" axford

Rav4 ride or die ✊

zirk is actually a good hang you guys just dont get him like i do. #hotgirlsforzirkvervain

Callie Finale was so fun! The temp HP could EASILY just have been fixed instead of erased. Just making the temp HP be based on weapon damage, even with flourishes, would be more than fine. It's just the smite damage that pushed it over the top a bit, but by default a non multi-classed swords bard gets flourishes

Late to the party, but asking Jake to understand "Digimon oc" is animal cruelty.

This is now my second favorite Short Rest episode due to: 1) Murph and Caldwell defending Emily. 2) “YOU HAD SEX THROUGH A BAG!” 3) Animorph fanfiction 4) Digimon OCs

Also, I'm ready to fight the Emily haters. People are dicks.

Here for the pod, staying for the Animorphs pic

Teachers use weekly planners/calendars! It may be niche, but there IS a market!

This is my first time listening to C3 w the short rest and listening to the episode i was like "wait the callie finale is so cool why didnt she use it during the rest of the campaign?" and now im so sad to find out it was bc people were being cruel online :(((

Still waiting on the beef of the week Calendar

Unbelievably disappointed cause I could see the haters coming from a mile when you said you were going to play a Bard/Paladin

Emily is so right about if Jake used it no one would care. Just like when they all complained about Moonshine's boon but nobody cared Jake broke the final encounter with Reckless Attack

Hell yes I love this beef! People who post mean comments can get wrecked, how boring! Emily is amazing. You are all excellent.

Every 3 months for Merch Club people, release a “Beef of the Week” 3-month bundle

DnD isn’t a game, it’s a roadmap for improvisational storytelling. If you want to complain about homebrew, go silently play a video game with rigid mechanics and don’t ruin everyone else’s creativity.

I'm pretty sure Murph had the staircase thing tuned properly. Those complications were going to hit pretty hard, so I think making it so they would hit 1 or 2 on average seems right. Players just got very lucky - no big deal.

jake having an overpowered mechanic wouldn't break the game bc he would just forget to use it

Need more animorphs content

EMILY AXFORD APPRECIATION FOREVER

I really enjoyed The pissed off gargoyles as well

Sad to see people get upset about the Callie finale. It’s okay to listen to an edited podcast show and HAVE FUN. Rules lawyers need to stick to the table.

This takes me back to a super cringey moment in 6th grade when I did a stage adaptation of an Animorphs book in front of my entire class. Murph, you get me brother.

Its so funny listening to a conversation with Caldwell and Murph talking about something with Emily and Jake just sitting there clearly not knowing anything about what they are on about

When I heard Finale I thought that sounded like the Jester's ability from Darkest Dungeon. Then I looked at the file I saw in fact it was that. I'm kinda bummed they won't be using it, that is such a cool ability and I loved having the Jester in my party.

I would lop my right arm off for a Murph beef of the week calendar

GOD I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH. 💗 i always knew you guys were comfy with one another, and hearing you defend each other made me so happy. rizzing the grumpies was fucking hilarious.

Omg, I am 35, have a mortgage, own a RAV4 AND would very much be ok if any of Emily's characters sexualised my d&d character. Caldwell and I are basically the same person! 😂😂

Honestly I love each and every character you guys have played, and Duck Team has been awesome!

✨EMILY APPRECIATION POST ✨ It boils my blood that you can tune into Emily being pressured into self-editing literally since the early days of 8 Bit Book Club. While I completely understand why she edits herself (because the critical misogynists are fuccing relentless), I can't wait to see the day where she sees what they say and doesn't let it impact her decisions at all, whatsoever. Is it so clear from her body of work that as an improviser, actor, storyteller, writer, and comedian, Emilys instincts are incredible. Probably the best natural creative impulses currently available for consumption, frankly. I quake for the world that gets to see Emily Axford's instincts completely unbridled. You don't deserve sitting in constant hypervigilance, Emily. And keep calling of out the bullsht! The community should know what you put up with in order to bring us this awesome work. Anyway. ✨💜✨💙✨

I rarely, if ever, leave comments, because I guess I'm shy in that regard, I feel like "who am I to say something? Nobody cares!" Ironic, because I guess that's how you get an overwhelming majority of comments criticising something awesome about the show. So here's a(nother!) positive countervoice saying you all are doing an incredible job and I love what you do so so so much. Campaign 1 in particular is my comfort listen, the Boobs were my friends during a 4-month stay abroad (4 months: too long to only feed off the friendships back home but too short to make actual friends there) and I'm relistening to it again and again (think I'm on my 6th? listen?). But I love all three campaigns. As a woman myself, I love Emily in particular because she shines so bright and is given the space to do so, too (something that should be normal but isn't) - y'all clearly love her and her work like I do and it does something to me to see (well, hear) it. Like I'm also allowed to take up space. But also just generally I get to bask in the glorious awesomeness that is Emily Axford playing DnD. This is very personal but I just wanted to add a positive voice to the stupid negativity (even though the resulting Beef of the Week was great XD ).

Y'all are incredible, beautiful, and hilarious, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! Thank you for bringing so much joy back into my life❤️

Murph I think you are one of the best DMs out there. Don’t listen to the idiots criticizing you. They can go listen to some other mediocre D&D podcast instead. I love you guys! Also Emily is my idol! I wish I could play D&D as beautifully as her. I love her chaotic nature and strive to think like her. Love you guys! #fuckthehaters

#JusticeForCallieFinale

Bring back Christmas! The spells were awesome

In middle school I tried writing a 4th lord of the rings book (cuz I had no life experience and no idea what copywrite law was). I wrote like 3 chapters over like 6 pages and re read it and it was embarrassingly bad so I gave up writing. Now it's my passion and I have 1 published and plans for like 6 more

It made me super sad to hear that they felt they needed to retire the Callie Finale. Personally, I think it's fine to have fun stuff like that in a game. If murph thinks it's too OP (murph, not some random misogynists online) he could nerf it or make it harder to use in certain fights. I prefer when the players are having more fun.

Caldwell literally started the entire show talking about Dragon Genitalia

I enjoyed the beef of the week

Everyone needs to stop getting on Emily so hard like what the hell. I’m glad that y’all laughed it off but bro let her play the game and sit back and stfu. Also Saul and Caldwell are the sexist frogs on the planet

Jake what’s the heat for accountants for?!?

Huge "Yes Please" to Animorphs book club mixed bag, I was in the right age group but just never picked them up so would love to hear about it through your eyes/brains

Callie Finale was a little OP. But who the fuck cares. I give my players OP shit all the time. It's fun to be strong. You give them OP shit, then dial it back till it feels right. Emily (and everyone on NADDPOD) are great players and fantastic performers. People need to get off their backs. Don't get rid of the homebrew Crickmas gift. I love seeing your guys' homebrew stuff. It's a huge inspiration for my own campaign. R-Caine, Giant Shredder, your monster madness tourney, all that I've used in my own campaign because it's such fun stuff. Don't get rid of that because of some haters.

The idea that Emily and Murph now feel that she can’t use her literal Christmas presents from him in their D&D game makes me want to rip my hair out. Like, they don’t storm into your house and take away the PlayStation you got for Christmas because it’s too good at playing video games. Sometimes insane, unrealistic shit can happen in the make believe fantasy game we like to play or listen to. And some listeners deciding to be sexist instead of just shutting up and listening to the show they decided to listen to is certainly ~ a choice ~

This episode made me thrum

If there's no more Callie finale I will riot

I second what Martin said previously. I love when the party is lower level. All too often the stakes of D&D shows are "save the world!" when low-stakes adventures are just as (if not more) funny and interesting. I'm here for the heartwarming and hilarious, not necessarily heroics.

I loved the Callie finale, and it was one of my favorite parts. But for the haters maybe have the limit where the temporary hp is her bard level + her charisma modifier.

I think there's an issue that is underlying this criticism, which I just want to posit. Preface this with I love all of you with all my heart and adore your work. See, I think you're all OP. I know Murph has addressed this many times before, during C1, C2 and now as well, but this is something that will continue grinding some people's gears, and it's going to result in disproportionate criticism of Emily because a) she's a woman and b) she is the absolute queen of D&D which means she is the best at using this OP-ness to punch way above her weight. I think there's nothing to ever apologise for and as you've said before - you see this as an entertainment programme first, and it's going to be different (faster, more streamlined, with more action and pazazz) than a regular game. However, I was among those who were wishing for something with a bit more of a slow start, that would ease listeners into your characters and their power more slowly than dropping into a level 5 party. I know Murph has stated several times that nobody wants to listen to a bunch of level 2s and 3s suck ass for several episodes. I just think there are people, including me, who would beg to differ. Having a low-stakes, low-power start like the Moonstone saga just allows people to get more on board with the characters as they are in personality and their own ways, without the characters being heavy hitters to begin with. Then, the power that comes with eventually getting higher level spells and second attacks and what not comes also as a progression from the sucky beginning, not a default. This all is not to say that the sexist criticism of Emily will stop, no matter what you do really. Similarly, people will keep second-guessing Murph's decisions as DM as long as he is one. Hey, I am sort-of doing it right here, even though I can't state enough how much of a role model he has been for me as I've become a DM over the past years. I don't know what the point of all of this is, maybe just to offer a bit of constructive critique in the midst of other, less kind and more sucky rants.. Love everything you do!

I absolutely LOVE when Emily calls out misogynists!!!!!

Jumping on the beef of the week. Emily you’re a great player/performer and it’s clear that you garner respect from every other player and dm you play with. I love how you balance your unbridled creativity so perfectly with being good-natured to the other people at the table. You’re an inspiring player and you deserve better than the nitpickers. Thanks for being such a role model!

I know I've just been lurking and listening for 3 years and don't comment but I can't believe how serious some folks were in Brian's Beef of the Week XD That's so wild to me!

PLEAAASE DO THE ANIMORPHS BOOK CLUB i would actually cry it would be magical

Hey, check out these buds

I really want to play the shadow/sorcerer grave cleric combo for a full campaign; would love to use something like corpse candle; it's such a vibe...

I normally stay away from “fandom” so I’m really glad that Murph calls out the weird misogyny in some comments. Emily is one of the best players in the world and is one of the funniest people ever. I love listening to her creativity and when my players are still shy about big swings I always have them watch Emily at the table to show how big they can go and I love it. Thank you Emily for being awesome!

Also late to the draw here, but if you guys are looking for Animorphs mixed bag material, there are two "Alternamorphs" game books. They're not particularly good, and both only offer death but they exist

Love it when Murph comes out swinging. Hahaha

Listening to this reminds me of all the stupid things I used to do and all the OCs I made when I was younger and I have never cringed at my past so hard before

We need that calendar

Wait i know i already commented BUT MURPH IF YOU SEE THIS CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU EVER POSTED YOUR FIC ONLINE -- SINCERELY AN ANIMORPHS MARCO FANFIC READER CIRCA 2006-2009

Would love to see a bookclub with Jake, and with Animorphs? Take my moneys

Paused the episode after the beef to say absolutely fuck them, Emily is such a fantastic and creative player who is one of the least power-gamey and most true to her characterization I’ve ever seen, and murph is so good at both balancing encounters/items/home brew, and fantastic about being transparent when something needs to be adjusted.

And then Murph turned into a Finch

jumping on this beef train ! i was baffled to jump on the discord and see people criticizing emily lmfao

I'ma add to this beef! If anyone has a problem with Emily then they have a problem with me!

How can anyone complain about Emily during gameplay? I’ve never heard/seen a better player of this game. She would improve anyone’s game by being a part of it.

Let Callie Finale!

Is the Callie Finale broken? Oh yeah. Is that wrong or the players fault? Absolutely not! If Murph wants to give some powerful abilities to his players he'll just up the challenge in fights and make them more interesting! Win win! #BringBackTheCallieFinale

The thorniest thorn of all: sexism

100% yes to both Beef of the Week and the Animorphs reading! 😂🤚

I would totally buy a NADDPOD calendar. And what if the weekly calendar was a tear-away? It’s just along version of the daily ones.

I love the new spells for Emily and an animorphs series would be amazing 🦆

When i was a kid, Klonoa 2 was my favorite Playstation game. There were these things called memory dolls that you collected. They were made of gears or cloth and stuffing or wood and stuff. Mine were made of mud, clay, and sticks. Hollowed out eyes and ugly rocks that served as noses. I kept them hdden far away along the that ran by my neighborhood. One day the neighborhood bully found them and told me he'd break them all if I didn't do something delinquents do. I spent an hour ferrying a population of memory dolls from the creek to my house. At least 50 or so ugly little rotten, dried mud and clay snowmen like "dolls" lined my back yard. Fast forward, I had hormone issues and I almost fainted out of embarrassment when my brother brought it up to my "cool" friends in high school.

Hearing Murph's beef made me so sad! I love all the amazing things you guys all do and I'm sorry people are being shitty on the comments! I love all the eps and I love your guy's content and please don't let assholes change the nature of your content! You do you boo!

Release the OCs, Caldwell!

Callie finale made me so excited I had to go back just to listen to really hear those sweet sweet mechanic!! Disappointed that other people decided to be dicks to Emily (not surprising still sucks)?? Truly wild- Emily’s incredible way of playing is foundational to how I understand and play dnd. And lucky for me by showing my friends this podcast I’m now the happy player of a 2+ year group in the middle of our second campaign!

I also have an Animorphs fan story that makes my stomach drop whenever i think about it: in 5th grade, a boy I liked also really liked Animorphs (and I thought he looked like Tobias, SWOON), and he said we should make an Animorphs Club. I didn’t want anyone else to be in it, so I wrote up a TWELVE PAGE test that anyone who wanted to join had to take, which had questions like “name 25 morphs Jake has as of the current book” and really obscure things. I printed out 10 copies of the test and brought them to school (because I wanted to keep up the illusion that I wanted other people to join) and The Boy Who Looked Like Tobias was like “oh even *I* can’t answer these” and gave it back to me, unfinished. Absolute devastation. My teacher saw me upset later and told me I was too old to be reading Animorphs anyway, and I stopped reading them out of pure mortification. I picked up the final book when I was in college (years after the series had finished) and I’m sad I didn’t keep reading them. :(

I could not disagree more? Litterly it's been so long since you havegotten into a fight that somone hasn't gone down? Shut up people it's a comedy podcast

Thank you for the Spells, Ill definitely use them in my campaign (for my players)

Murph, and Em, I love you both dearly, and I will fight your haters.

#BringBackCallieFinale!! Loving Campaign 3!! It's awesome!

It’s so mad that I’m a game where some people can literally commune with dragons, be virtually invisible and stealth out of combat, and turn into literal mammoths, that a good sword spell would be received badly… I genuinely shrieked with joy when callie whipped out that finale it felt like the perfect expression of her raw power! - I don’t know what these people in the comments are banging on about lol I loved it Emily keep up the home brew spells ! Although sort of worth the beef to now have the idea of an oiled up murph angrily defending his wife as slides down a 1000ft pole with a greased up Caldwell and his coquettishly flapping kilt

As an accountant, Jake's comment at 19 minutes hits home but this episode is brilliant regardless

It’s great to see I’m so late to the party here, but I’ll just add that I really liked hearing about spell from older editions, and as a caster devotee, Emily’s play style has completely changed how I approach combat. She’s a fantastic player to listen to and obviously a joy to play with.

I haven't seen any of the criticism myself, so maybe I'm losing something, but why does everyone think it is misogynistic to criticize this OP homebrew spell that even murph says is OP? They really harp on it even saying that people won't care about Sol's homebrew stuff, which all sounded pretty tame. I love the pod, but it seems like the criticism was fair, and something needed to be done, so I'm glad it has been.

Not going to lie, little bummed that the finale spell was received so badly, that was such a hype moment when I first heard it. It did occur to me that it was really strong and it could basically be used constantly, but Murph said he could nerf it a little and I trust Emily enough to not just use it constantly to plow through everything for the sake of making the story interesting it was just a non-factor and I was just excited to hear how Callie would have cool finishers. On a side note, beef of the week calendar. Not going to say I fully support the crew being the making it AND being the models, but I'm not NOT saying I would absolutely get one purely because the idea of it is amazing. So. You know. Take what you will.

Wow, check out these buds. Not really one for leaving comments, but happy to join the chorus of us on Patreon reminding the Quack Pack (still rooting for that title) that we are always sending good vibes.

As a 30-year-old on my third reread of the entire Animorphs series, please PLEASE read the first book for a mixed bag. They really hold up, and I think you can get a lot more out of the books reading them as an adult. Yeah, they’re still for kids, but the authors absolutely did not patronize their audience. The writing is great, the characters develop in subtle ways, there’s a realistic and not-quite-happy ending, and there’s so much good sci-fi and body horror stuff. The anti-war message is also really good for a kids series from the 90s tbh. Also, I think Emily would get a lot of enjoyment out of it if she continued with the series; it’s pretty much right up her alley with the animals and the alien politics. All that to say, if you were to watch the show, it’s awful. It is completely tonally different from the books, and very patronizing to their audience. It follows the 90s trope of adults playing children, and while their acting is okay for the most part, it’s hard to get past. The lighting and editing is TERRIBLE. The writing switches back and forth between just awful and pretty decent. It’s not even a fun-bad, it’s just a boring-bad. So if you’re going to do any Animorphs content for a mixed bag, I’d highly recommend reading the first book instead.

I'm not one to leave a comment, but I wanted to add another to the Emily appreciation pile. Emily using spells to do cool and wild shit is a major pillar to what this makes this show great.

Why dont you guys just play the animorphs video game for a mixed bag? Also fuck everyone who criticizes emily for stuff you allow her to do. The callie finale was underwhelming when i first listened anyways. Its not like she used it to cheese a miniboss or something she used it on weenies bro. Qq more i guess.

As always when the comments are mentionned it made me sad. Murph only registers the negative ones. Meanwhile there is an Emily appreciation post going strong on the sub right now, and something tells me they won't notice. I know the brain is conditioned for good reasons to register bad stuff first and foremost, but it still sucks. But then we got expanded animorph lore so I was happy again.

YES! THE BEEF IS GOOD BEEF!! Emily is fabulous, the Finale was great, and obviously Murph would have ironed out the health gain slightly. I'm so sorry that people ruined Christmas for Emily and decided Caldwell wasn't capable of maybe telling his close personal friend if something may have made him uncomfortable. I recently DMd for the first time, and NADDPod is the reason I felt confident enough to. Thank you so much for your fantastic show. You're all great and I appreciate you very much.

All I'm saying is that Jake really broke the game with all those success roles on the stairs and his character needs to be fixed.

I think I'm going to start leaving a positive comment for each of the Duck Team/2 Crew on every short rest: Emily, you are an inspiration to players everywhere and endlessly entertaining, never change your love for change. Caldwell, your work brings light and life to so many characters, and stories that have stuck with me and so many others. You deserve the RAV4. Jake, you run a fantastic business that brings joy to so many in a time when not a lot of businesses do. Like Bezos but with actual humanity (and much better hair) Brian (real name redacted) You're my favorite author, along with Tolkein, Sanderson, and Riordan, who I'm sure have some pre-teen animorphs fanfic level work. I'm sure there are many more crew members that I have no clue the names of, but each and every person on the naddpod team deserves a firm slap on the ass and a hearty "good game bud." I'm not simping, you are.

Brian writing animorph fanfic and hearing his friend read it aloud to him is like when my group of friends found my anime rp account and then we had a ten hour call of them reading out the tweets

Man I feel so bad for Emily. She legit can't have anything without some losers complaining about her being OP or that Murph is giving her preferential treatment. I love the Callie Finale and I think it's so awesome that she has such a powerful finisher especially given that this group doesn't have a martial heavy hitter. I also think it's insulting that people think up all these scenarios in which the Finale can be broken and just assume a) Murph would let Emily break the game and b) Emily would use it in an unfair power gamer way to begin with. Seriously people need to touch grass. Thanks for posting all the homebrew spells! On a side note, I can relate to Murph so hard. I had Inuyasha OCs/fanfic that my friends found and made fun of when I was in middle school. Definitely very cringe.

I loved all the homebrew spells! I trust you guys to know how to make the game fun and not unbalanced or anything. My favourite part of dnd is when you do something so well that you think you broke the game lmao. Oh! I had a sonic the hedgehog oc named strawberry who was pink and could shapeshift haha. Also the inside part of a bell is called the “clapper” and I think that’s wonderful.

Hi! First I would like to say, what will it take for us to get our hands on Caldwells digimon OCs. Secondly, I was a jock in highschool and I can confirm we got away with everything. My principals son was on the wrestling team so anytime I got sent to the office (which was rare) he just talked to me about the season.

PLEASE BRING BACK CALLIE FINALE! It's what Emily deserves!!! (Seriously though... Em is an inspiration to me and a lot of other gals in these spaces. She always deals with the shitty ppl with such grace and humor. Thank you guys for all being so awesome 💕)

Thanks for including the Beef of the Week and dragging the assholes who unnecessarily and unfairly criticized Callie and Emily. Bring back the spells!

I would absolutely buy a NADDPOD calendar

also I have to say the talk of animorphs is really hurling me back into the year of our lord 2002 when I was in fifth grade pretending to be an animorph during recess with all my weird nerd friends.

Please keep Callie finale, that shit is so cool!!!

The Callie Finale was rad!! I loved the mental image Emily created in that moment. Whether she's a player character or a DM, she has a really cool visual way of describing moments like that. 🥰⛈🌟 It's more important to me that the crew is having fun & enjoy their character's badassery with them, rather than worry about how a mechanic may *possibly* impact the balance of the game. Murph knows what he's doing lol. 😎 (Btw while I loved Animorphs, the big "cringe" fanfiction thing when I was a kid was Warrior Cats. Same energy tho lmao)

I absolutely loved the Callie Finale! I thought it was so nice to have Callie have this big moment because Emily is fucking amazing and deserves a big moment just as much as any man. It’s women’s history months you bitch as commenters, suck it

Who r these commenters? Like I'm having a great time lol

I hope you don’t actually get rid of the spells. I’m sure it was so fun for Emily since she knows all the standard low level spells. And it’s fun for most of us listeners! Maybe just balance the Callie Finale more?

Emily fucking rules, Axford 5ever

If you guys made a calendar I'd buy it

It honestly blows my mind every time you guys talk about the rage against Emily.... The internet is a crazy place. I'll just say once again how you have all been a massive influence on my enjoyment of media since you all started appearing on CH videos. I snubbed d&d for a decent decade but you guys convinced me otherwise and now I'm a total addict. Keep doig what you do.... The hate just means you're big enough that people feel you need to be negged. Love the support of these patron comments 🥰

BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF! Bring back the Cali Finale!! It's not even broken, Emily is just good at D&D, and has some amazing synergy with her paladin and bard abilities. I can't believe Caldwell mixed up Marco and Tobias! Talk about a fake animorphs fan, no wonder he stans Ax.

Don't cave to the pressure of fake fans! Bring back the Cali finale!

BEEF OF THE WEEK! BEEF OF THE WEEK! 🦐🦀🦕🦑💕✨🔥💣

As an 8bbc listener, I was surprised that the animorphs fanfic story returns to spotlight without any finches jokes

I was wondering what the meaning behind the animorphs cover image was. Very funny and great story to listen to, but irl would die inside if it happened to me. Loving the show and campaign so far is a lot of fun and i look forward to every episode.

Bring the Callie Finale back! Bullshit that these haters are being so ridiculous.

Good on y’all for calling out the (hopefully small but knowing misogyny in TTRPG communities, probably substantial) toxic fanbase that are constantly shitting on the awesome work you all do. D&D is becoming an even larger part of the social climate than it’s been previously and yet the kind of people who tore down Marisha Ray 7 years ago in Campaign 1 of Critical Role for not playing her druid the way they wanted her to (because sexism) are alive and well in 2022. Thanks for continuing to be one of the greatest D&D players in the realm, Emily, and thanks to you all for putting up with this incomprehensible criticism for so long. You’ve created the most wonderful stories, characters and memories and you *choose* to share them with a wider audience. Nobody is obligated to listen enjoy, agree with you, or play D&D the same way you all do, and I’m so sorry there’s people out there acting like you should be attending to their specific interests, beliefs and rules. The Dungeon Masters Guide literally says the rules are only there to facilitate storytelling, and the DM has the final say. You don’t owe us “accuracy” (which given the vagueness of so much of D&D hardly exists), or anything at all, so thank you for persevering through this bullshit and bringing so much joy to people even when they don’t deserve it! Looking forward to the NADDPOD calendar shop! ‘Creatures of the Crick’ (aka regular animals with weird teeth) would bring me great joy.

I'M VERY MAD ABOUT PEOPLE CRITICISING EMILY AGAIN. I AM JOINING THE BEEF OF THE WEEK. I'M ACTIVELY BECOMING AN OATH OF THE BEEF PALADIN AND I AM GOING TO CALLIE FINALE ALL THEIR ASSES.

I had two separate thoughts while listening to the episode. Wow, Jake has come a long ways and Emily is the best fucking player I have ever heard/seen. Then I get to the short rest and hear the Beef of the Week. Grill their asses Murph!!! Bring back the finale!!!!! #fuckthehaters

Real talk, I’m also a Rav 4 owner and fully test drove the CRV before I bought the Rav, and he’s right. Fuck the CRV, it doesn’t have the mid-size cargo capacity you need, may as well be a sedan for all the hauling capability it has.

Hi Blue Crew, would you ever consider doing a Naddpod casting call/auditions where patreon members submit a brief yet concise summary of their most creative or bizarre characters in the hopes to be cast in an original Naddflix series or even a summer blockbuster Naddpod film? Our characters need job opportunities outside of adventuring to expand their Resume and I'm also tired of always seeing Chris Pratt in everything. Also I love every thing you goofs do and can't wait to see what you do next.

I thought I felt called out for shipping Solby and then the Beef of the Week hit. They must feel so embarrassed... and they should!

I can't believe that people keep shitting on Emily! Bring back the Finale!!!

Love that we’re getting finch!murph lore

No not the finale!?

Beef of the Week or Beefing It With Beverly? Go Emily! Love the guys for supporting her on air! This group of friendos is so wholesome and I love it

I started listening to D&D podcasts way back when Penny Arcade did the first one I can remember to promote the release of 4E. Since then I've listened to damn near every actual play podcast that's come along. From Cyberpunk to Pokemon, Azeroth to Coruscant, I've heard it all. I'm not trying to flex or anything, I'm just establishing that it's difficult to image anyone more qualified of making the following judgement. Emily Axford is the greatest dungeons and dragons player of all time. The ease with which she both listens and plots, leads and lends a hand as needed to help weave story from the chaos is astounding. It's almost like having two DMs at the table, but one of them is doing it all with sleight of hand and a storyteller's intuition. There's plenty of funny pods out there with plenty of funny people on them, but nobody can step to Emily's style. She's got a sense of humor that invites other players to jump in. She'll spice up any bit another player brings to the table, and her earnest respect for even the silliest of narratives lends some much needed heart to this goofy ass podcast. I've never said how much I respect her work until now, but she really is the best in the biz.

Let me in on the beef!!! 🥩🥩🥩

Bummed that people were so negative about the Callie finale!! I loved it. Keep it in :)

I love the Callie finale :( i was almost cheering in public

here from Washington I also don’t own any umbrella

So frustrating to hear about the negative comments. You all absolutely rock! The show is what made me want to start playing d&d, and each new ep has me aspiring to be a fraction of the player that any of you are. Keep doing what you’re doing (please)!

I feel deep pain for Caldwell and his digimon oc because I too had one, but I was unfortunately not so lucky. I had drawn a digimon oc comic when I was 7 but I tragically forgot it in my mom’s minivan where my brother found it days later and read it aloud to everyone who happened to be in the car at the time. To this day I think that is my most embarrassing moment.

Whats everyone's build in elden ring?

I'm so sorry to hear about the idiot commenters. I did have a small thorn this week as detect thoughts only allows you to focus one person not multiple people, but I really really liked the way it played out narratively. Just figured I'd let you know in case it came up in the future.

Thank you SO MUCH for calling out the idiot commenters. Best new section of the pod.

Please don't stop using Emily's Christmas present to appease a bunch of bozos on Reddit. There's nothing I enjoy listening to more than Emily pulling out some fun new spell to shake things up, and no one I trust more than Murph to figure out how to deal with the shaking. Keep playing AP D&D, y'all. Don't let the standard level D&D players hold you back.

Caldwell, I appreciated the Turning Red reference, even though no one got it in the moment and Murph thought you were being literal 😂

I need more Animorphs conversation in my life. I literally have every book like a huge nerd (that's a good thing), but this short rest is giving me life. All the other stuff is good too, but listening to Murph and Caldwell nerd out about it while Emily and Jake stay silent is exactly the kind a person I want to be.

On bullying causing more of an impact than torture. I think it's mostly because it's personally relatable. It makes you think of something that happened to you.

Wow! Look at these buds!

I love the pure allyship of the beef of the week. Friends sticking up for friends. No sexist backseat DMs at this table! Emily, you are a phenomenal player and creative improviser. People are nuts for thinking you are trying to cheat the game or some shit when you literally ASK FOR DISADVANTAGE when it works for the story.

No more Callie finale?! I love hearing Emily do absolutely sick shit! Who are these haters?? I personally love these homebrew/Christmas spells since I've gotten to know a lot of the DnD spells at this point and these are so new and cool!! Similar reason to why I've been loving the new D20 season. Emily, if you see this, please know that what you're doing is super cool and to please keep doing you

Hey, happy to help fight any dickheads who are shitty to Emily x

Please Caldwell. Learn how to play a monk in combat. You never used your haste. Monks get 2 attacks at level 5, can use their bonus action for an attack or use a ki for flurry of blows for 2 attacks. Deflect missles works on attacks that hit you, not miss. I love you. Keep at it

I literally paused the episode during the beef because I'm so mad. What is people's problem? They've been giving you quality DND content and enjoyment on a weekly basis for how long and you still don't trust Murph as a DM? You still haven't realized how great Emily is? What the FUCK is wrong with people? Why are these people even listening to this show? The finale was a little OP but not game breaking, not at the level that Murph DM's. If you read this, two crew, please keep doing what you're doing and fuck the haters. This season is my favorite so far because you're all clearly having so much fun with it. Don't let the assholes in the "fandom" get you down and alter your game. I know Emily has a tendency to doubt herself and take criticism to heart but I really hope she just keeps on doing what she's been doing. Her experience and skill at this game are so top tier. Fuck the haters for real. The blue crew are fantastic just the way they are. I don't know how I feel about the rav 4 though. I'm more a Ford escape guy.

Ok wait. Where are they finding this criticism?? On the Patreon? On Reddit?

Not gonna lie, I saw those homebrew spells and thought one of them was called "Corpse Heist" instead of "Corpse Host." Now I want a spell called "Corpse Heist"

if y’all do an animorphs mixed bag I s2g I’ll up my tier

Emily, I know you don’t need anyone to defend you as you are one of the biggest badasses out there, but truly truly, haters gonna hate, toxic masculinity gonna be toxic.. you are an amazingly talented individual and an inspiration to all of us. They are a vocal minority who just don’t have much more to do.. Guys your podcast is one of the few things that keeping me sane these years, while living a pandemic in Hong Kong with insanely strict measures.. as it’s too depressing lately in here, most of my free time is listening and relistening to the podcast 😂 You have inspired me and my fiancé to so many things, we started a new venture because you and D20 crew have immersed us in a beautiful world of DnD. So I can safely say that you 4 have changed our lives. So please don’t listen to petty people. We love you. Thank you all, the entire team, for this show.

A beef of the week calendar sounds like a calendar of guys that look VAGUELY like Shia LaBeouf that would be made by amir

I say just lower the temp HP for the Callie Finale and keep it. Also, I would love an Animorphs drawing stream! Moonshine turns into PawPaw, Beverly into JawJaw, Hardwon into CawCaw, and Balnor into tuna.

Somebody get them the Animorphs choose your own adventure book

Team Emily and Team RAV4 🙏

Regarding the Patreon comments being more accepting than general comments, some of it comes from the fact that fans who are willing to pay are often more loyal. But I think a bigger part of it is the fact that we get to listen to the short rest. We see your thought processes, motivations, and reactions. We see that Murph knows what he's doing and how thoughtful of a player Emily is more than the general public. Maybe you could release a short rest into the general feed every once in a while.

Emily, you constantly inspire me!! I truly cannot wrap my head around people who see your immense creativity and feel anything but awe!! Fuck the haters, #bringbackcalliefinale

Hi! I track damage dealt and taken for my own stat tracking and enjoyment! Callie does not do an outsized amount of damage! In 5 episodes, Callie dealt 222 damage (shout out to the 2 Crew) compared to Calder (286) and Sol (207)! So people can fuck off with their bullshit. :]

EMILY!!! We LOVE the way you play! You come up with the most unexpected actions, and it’s amazing how well you know your characters. It’s been an absolute joy to listen to you play and see your characters unfold into something truly remarkable. Thank you thank you thank you for being yourself and giving such heart to this game. You’ve inspired both of us in our home game to play more personality-driven characters and to think outside the box. You’ve made our games so much more fun and compelling. We can’t wait to see what you do next. - Keegan and Sean

Honestly yall could make a calendar and have each month be a different character from the campaigns (like Beverly for March, Caldor for Decemeber, Mavris for July, etc etc) Hell with the number of lovable NPCs we have throughout the campaigns, you might have enough for the weekly calendar 😅

Sorry, I blacked out there for a second. Beef of the week finished.

I have a huge beef of the week, guys. How in the FUCK could Jake actually think the Honda CRV is even slightly superior to the RAV4?! My wife just bought (not leased -humble brag) a 2022 RAV4 Hybrid, and you know what she named it? RAV-ioli! Such cute naming can’t even be possible with the CRV!

Having Callie skip a turn for bullying was great. This is totally what inspiration is for in D&d. I know you guys don’t use inspiration, but it would have been a great time to start. When a character does something very in character but mechanically disadvantageous, it is a great time to give inspiration. Also I didn’t notice that the Callie finale is overpowered, I do think doom blade is definitely OP when you compare it to Booming Blade. Forcing an enemy to have to move away or take damage is more powerful than forcing them to have to stay in place since it forces more opportunity attacks.

The Callie Finale doesn't even seem that bad. It's a high risk high reward spell. The excessive amount of hp came from her stacking abilities and burning spell slots and the punishment for missing could get her killed. I feel like making the temp hp half the damage or making it a higher level spell would be an easy fix for it. Feels like a shame the spells were tossed out instead of balanced.

Learning that Murph wrote Animorphs fanfic made me scream! The show is so good and y'all are awesome. The Callie Finale was so good and I wish you didn't have to deal with the haters!

Fuck those nerds who complain about the calorie finale. Plah the game and get those dragon pussy fearing newbs out of here.

I love you guys so much! This show means so much to me because it's so obviously so much fun for you to make! Patreon got your back :)

Two minutes in and heard Murph is playing Elden Ring. Such a sick game, been having a blast. Just beat rot girl today, what a fight.

Why do I hope that Murph signs off that way forever?

I would have loved to see Murph's face throughout the beef of the week! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Murph, respect for telling your cringe story. Back during 8BBC, I was prepping to send 2 Anamorph’s books and a Mario Bros dvd to the P.O. Box, but then NADDPOD was born and I didn’t. I have them around here somewhere’s. Em, nothing said can ever change the fact that you rule!

The Animorphs TV Show was bot good. I did however once meet the guy who played Tobias at the mall. That was neat.

Wait who's complaining? Also love the animorphs chat! It's reassuring knowing other people read it and it wasn't a fever dream I dreamt up

Omg please do an Animorphs one shot for the mixed bag.

Please bring back the homebrew! We know you know how to run a game, whoever complain obviously doesn't understand this is about fun and entertainment and if they want a by they book style game they can go elsewhere. It's great to hear you have fun and honestly the cost is with it if she fails the role I think. #KeeptheCalliefinale #sexualizethefrog another great episode! Glad you guys called some shit out.

I have no idea why people feel the need to police Emily. It’s baffling. The only complaint I have is that every time someone says Calder, it takes me a solid minute to realize that they’re not referring to Caldwell.😂

1. I would buy a calendar 2. Guys! Those people are a vocal minority. Ignore those fools. You are great. I love Callie. And I love Emily!!!

I would buy a calendar! Can it be printed before 2023?

Yeah like what dreary, suffocating lives these folks must be living to come at Callie. Emily is one of the most creative, thoughtful and hilarious players I've listened to, and that she brings joy to her friends. Not to mention her utter loyalty to following what she knows to be most genuine to her character even if its not the most "strategic" move for the battle round and those risks take the show to a more meaningful place.

BRING BACK THE HOMEBREW SPELLS. BRING EM BACK. FUCK THE HATERS!!!!

Emily I know you don't need anyone coming to your defense cause your a badass but honestly you're the reason I listen to the podcast (Murph, Jake. And Caldwell you're great too). I love your creativity on the show, and you're hilarious. Fuck those miserable people needlessly criticizing you.

I doubt anyone is going to read this but I have to agree with Emily on manifestations. I’ve been relistening to 8 bit book club for ideas and I kept thinking: ‘I really hope they bring up Murph’s fanfiction experience and how it has played a role in his development as a storyteller.’ Glad we got an update! 😊 Well…speaking of being bullied for writing fanfiction… according to Jake I should have gotten more bullied for writing Kingdom Hearts fanfiction but instead I’m a loser 😁 thanks Jake! (Kidding, I’m kidding. It’s a joke, thanks for the call out. I became an accountant so I could help out my bud heavy dad with tax season during the day, and a fanfic writer at night to create insert OC backstories for my favorite fandoms) This energy is strong. Also, shout out to Emily for reminding me to keep fighting despite the fact that the odds are stacked against me. Thanks Em for speaking out and for kicking ass and taking names. People are just jealous of your quick thinking and cat like reflexes.

Also I had an idea for short rests if it pleases thee, your holinesses. Advice column? I know i've borked it as a dm before, would love to consult for advice sometimes

SUCH delicious beef. Yum yum. YOU ARE THE GODS OF YOUR DOMAIN, we the mere peasants. Much prefer roasting the audience to bending to their idiosyncratic whims

I love the Callie finale and I’m super excited to see what other fun stuff is on the Xmas list. If it’s a little broken who cares

I think Callie is freakin awesome and you should #KeepTheCallieFinale. Don’t listen to the haters! P.S. Caldwell, congrats on owning that rav 4!

Use whatever damm spells ya want Murph will balance. We all love to do a whomping now and then until the DM does it back

Murph release the fanfic. I will pay extra but i neeed to hear it

PLEASE read the Animorph books!!!!!!

Posting again because sexualizing Sol is really funny and obviously consensual and hat off to Caldwell for owning his Rav4

Tbh my only problem about the Cali finale and Doomblade is that these are sick spells and I want stat blocks for them so I can pitch them to my DM and use them for my villains in my campaign. Please!

The crew coming for the backseat DMs and players was fucking great haha. Voting to make “beef of the week” a regular segment.

I know this isnt the place for D&D court submissions, but i simply must. May it please the court: I am a long time listener of a popular D&D podcast. For the last number of years, one player in particular has been subject to chauvinistic criticisms and microagressions by a small number of (entirely male) practical puppets, on account of her apparent lack of male genitalia, and her obvious talent for creating fun characters, with cool abilities, that honestly are a true joy to listen to, and create some of the most memorable moments in D&D. I submit to the court that the offending d*ckheads of Reddit be subjected to the very abilities to which they object, and that their life force be converted into temp HP for the target of their mysoginistic abuse.

#bringbackcalliefinale. I am so happy you all exist. Just want you to know that.

Callie Finale was an awesome moment! I've been loving the bard paladin blend. Such an awesome build and I love homebrew adding something a little different.

#bringbackcalliefinale

First rule of homebrew: It's your game. Play however, whoever, whatever you want and use whatever spells, weapons, gear you want. If people complain, tell them to write their own damned game, record it, and become as beloved as you all are! You don't need the haters. They just drag everyone down to their level of misery.

I've been a patron for a while now and have never joined any discussion but I must now end my silence to say 2 things: 1) I will commit my mind and soul to an Animorphs book club. 2) Let Sol be hot, let Callie Finale, let Calder raz Albin forever.

Fuck.Them! The Callie fanalie was awsome and clutch! Emily you rock don't let trolls stop you doing anything! Murph ignore the haters too! You all rock be yourselves not what the trolls want!

I hope that Emily still ends up using a ton of those Christmas present spells and doesn't end up listening to those folks.

Do you think the man-boy wizard has the Enchanter stat block?

Also, the moment I saw the picture attached to the episode I thought "Ah, are we Morph-shaming Murph again?"

I'm upset that things were bad enough that Murph and Emily pulled the homebrew spell list, it was so cool and the Callie Finale was an epic moment! People telling a crew of friends how to play their game is so, so frustrating. It's the worst of backseating and misogyny.

Oh my gosh Murph is so right, people need to get off Emily's case

I unironically love that intro. Call. Out. The fans, babies!!

What animals would you all morph into? I mean besides Murph, we know he's a pigeon<3

Murph, my dude. Rule 1 of the internet - NEVER READ THE COMMENTS!! I mean, besides this one obviously. :DDD But for real - fuck those assholes, give Em her damn crickmas present back, and let the neckbeards choke on their lonely tears. Love, peace, and chicken grease!

Hearing Murph support Emily makes my little wholesome heart smile. Also my favorite Emily Axford moments are the ones where she fucks shit up. The Crown of Candy thunderstep to save Jorin - chef's kiss.

Animurph

tasty beef, buds edit: emily, those diary entries were *chef's kiss* my god that entire scene was incredible!!!! roses abound!!!!!! edit x2: gimme a naddpod beef of the week calendar i will use the shit out of it

Emily wonders aloud toward the beginning of the episode if she’s ever had Haste cast on her and the most memorable use is in the final fight of Unsleeping City when either Ricky or Kingston casts Haste on Sofia and she does like 4 attacks and like multiple flurries of blows and it’s fucking awesome. She does like 60 damage.

I bet the same people that complain about the Callie Finale will also complain that Emily "wasted" an action for Detect Thoughts

I wish everyone who nit picks Emily would fuck off. They’re ruining the podcast for the rest of us and the people who actually create the content. I hope they bring back Callie finale just to piss off the haters.

Ugh, the hate that Emily gets is absolutely gross. Kudos to the crew for calling it out, but I hope she doesn't return all of the hogliday gifts. Sometimes PC get to do cool things. It's fun. It's fun to listen to, it's fun to play, it's fun to watch. Why can't games just be fun? Also 200% would love to hear Animorphs content, those books were surprisingly dark and mature and would be hilarious to get y'alls take on it

If I could take my shirt off and get greased up for a moment, big sad that there won't be anymore Callie Finale, and I hope that fans can be less parasocial in the future. Another banger of an episode, loved it.

Would 100% buy a NADDPOD calendar…. Just sayin…

So brave of Murph to open up about his Animorphs fan fiction.

Man, people love to ruin good things don't they? I love the way Emily plays DnD, she exploits the rules and gets the most satisfying numbers she can, and I WISH my players would do that with the busted homebrew stuff I gave them.

Imagining a utopian world where jackasses don’t get off on critiquing Emily and the dynamic between us listeners and the players on NADDPOD isn’t dominated by this fundamentally divisive and misogynistic group of boring sycophants! But that’s just me

I want to see a one shot where Emily gets all the character moments, all the cool gear and special homebrew spells. Basically treat her like how these troglodytes act like/imagine like she gets treated. Just have her be a massive Mary Sue (that could be her character name!) Caldwell and Jake would be several levels behind and only just set them up for her. Murph doesn't let anyone else get any kills. The bit would get old within about 30 minutes, but it'd be funny!

I wish those who feel like they have to hyper analyze everything Emily does would go outside and touch some grass. You people are literal children.

CRV gang until I die 😤😤😤

Noo!! Let the Callie finale continue, anyone complaining is being ridiculous

Honestly fuck the people who are complaining about the Callie Finale and other homebrew stuff. It is 100% correct that if it was anyone else using it those people wouldn't care. But also? It is possible? To have? Fun and a little OP spells and abilities? And build encounters around that? It's the third season of this podcast people and Murph is a great DM. Some of the best parts of the podcast are when the players are able to come up with an awesome way to use something and whomp Murph. Plus it always leads to great character moments and fun role play.

8BBC is my #1 jogging podcast and I've listened to Em and Caldwell go off on Murph for turning into a finch in his Animorphs fanfic so many times, it brings me so much joy.

God!! I literally have more feelings about this short rest than I do the actual ep. Even in this comments section mfs are telling murph what he "needs" to do to fix HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT TO EMILY. Not to mention, like others already have, the inherent misogyny in this bs!! Emily is one of THE best dnd players in the game objectively!! She's so funny and cool and she is right to be pissed at this treatment. I am so heated about this and I can't imagine how Emily feels having to deal with this shit for years 🤢 Genuinely if you are one of the people who is coming at them for this, please take a step back and think about your biases and priorities. And realize that you are making it harder for our fave creators to have fun doing this thing they should enjoy :(

Please read the animorph series together (triumphant return of 8-bit book club??) : it’s so great. I remember checking the shelf at the library for new books in the series after school - it was like premium grade R.cane for middle schoolers. The hawk situation haunts me to this day.

Why can't people just shut the fuck up and enjoy the show? Emily is a ray of sunshine. It's good if she has cool shit. It makes the show fun.

ummmm does anyone think it's weird that Hardwyn talks about her quads so much? VERY obvious that emily is making everyone on the pod uncomfortable and violating the geneva convention...

GO OFF!!!! KILL THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

Fuck the haters. Bring back the homebrew only for Emily.

I gotta say it would be a lot easier to build a fire than y'all expect if Caldwell was allowed to use glasses and it was sunny and dry enough you'd have a fire going in like an hour.

Man I am so in favor of OP players lol it’s so much more fun to have some ridiculously strong player abilities and then throwing just as unbalanced enemies back at them #keepTheCallieFinale

Honestly, I'm here for you guys just kinda telling it like it is to all the armchair DMs and misogynistic imbalanced hate. Really sucks that y'all have to deal with that! When I heard the Finale, all I thought was "damn, sounds fun!" I wouldn't put it in my game personally, but that's part of the fun of DND, playing it to fit yourself/your group. It's exhausting seeing people online tell others "the correct way to play". Sorry if this is rambly, I just felt that catharsis from the Beef of the Week was well warranted and honestly maybe overdue. I have no input on whether finale and stuff should come back because it's not my game, and my opinion does not matter. All I think is that y'all should play how you want to, homebrew spells or not. If y'all are having fun, that's what really matters

When they said a beef of the week calendar with Murph I pictured him posing like Chidi with the WWF championship belt in the Good Place.

What no bring back those spells!

I have beef with Murph over Murph’s beef of the week. It is very lame that people nitpick Emily more than anyone else, but that doesn’t make the spell any less busted. I also don’t think it’s fair for Murph to be like come on guys of course I’m going to adjust it when he never did that with campaign 1 and Hero’s Feast. I think that’s why people were talking about it, free Hero’s feast seemed like it removed a lot of stakes at the end of campaign 1 and having something like that come in episode 5 is worrying.

Calder's economy of comedy is soo good. Everything he says is ice cold. I'm so excited for what Jake says next

i love the homebrew spells!! they're so creative and it's really cute and fun that it's a christmas present... i just don't understand people who complain after a single use of a spell. like even if it's unbalanced or whatever obviously murph isn't gonna let them just steamroll through his game? they'll tweak it! plus em succeeded! like if the roll went bad and everyone got advantage on her she'd be dead. it's like an ult or something. it's such a bummer that some people hate fun... also sol being an extremely hot frog failing his charisma rolls just makes me laugh every time. please make sexy sol calendars in additional to murph's beef of the week please. edit: also listening to murph recount the animorphs fanfic made me think of when my mother read my own self insert dark is rising fanfic out loud to my family when i was like 12 and then back of my neck started sweating. also i work for an accounting firm now. hahaha.

I would absolutely buy a Beef of the Week calendar

If I may, i'd love to hand out a rose for coming up with the name Pitcher from "a perfect pitch of chanting"

I actually LOVE my weekly calendar - just so y'all know hahaha

Thank you for posting the list. Looking forward to DMPC Hardwon wielding all the might of Zelbuldar!

1) am imagining a weekly calendar like the hobonichi techo weeks without the righthand notes page per week and instead a beefy picture 2) still having flashbacks to getting my own diary read aloud by my sister on the elementary school bus and mannnn yall played that ***so*** right, it was great and horrible and perfect. 3) justice for the callie finale!!!! Let Emily have fun dnd toys to play with that also fit so nicely narratively with her character!!!

I think we should stop sexulaizing Sol and start sexulizing Caldwell himself. Daddy, amiright?

Bring back the finale!!!!!!!!

I would participate in an Animorphs book club!

I feel like the people complaining about the spells has to be a vocal minority. I for one have been really excited to see Callie play with these spells and have enjoyed the spells we've seen so far, but I also don't comment much.

Please give Emily back her spells. Everyone knows the same BS spells in standard D&D. Let's hear some wacky stuff! I don't know why anyone thinks you guys take yourselves that seriously. This entire campaign is homebrew on top of homebrew, why draw the line at spells?

I agree with the two crews beef!

Plz make a meat calendar. I only need 1, but I'll buy 6 for gifts.

SEXUALIZE 👏🏻 SOL 👏🏻 MORE 👏🏻

ANIMORPHS ADVENTURE BOOK ON IT'S WAY TO THE PO BOX! Found it without a kids name inside and skimmed it... There's chances to continue even at failure points so it's nowhere near as deadly. It's also a shiny cover which screams 90s. Enjoy!

Wow! People need to chill the F*CK OUT! Enjoy the entertainment and stop backseat DMing

LOVE LOVE LOVE the beef of the week. Thank you for putting those complainers down in the ground

Murph, I took all that beef and made some delicious gravy, please feast upon this humble offering. Also, fuck the haters

#CallieFinaleEncore

I had this on while I was showering and almost drowned during the beef of the week segment because I was laughing so hard. BRING BACK THE CALLIE FINALE! It was so good!

Y'all should make a promo for the short rest on the main feed with "beef of the week" as a feature. Love hearing y'all razzing the comments section! I honestly can't imagine this podcast WITHOUT the short rest to cap it off. You folks are so damn funny and entertaining to listen to no matter the context.

THROUGH A BAG!!!

As someone who listens to podcasts about trains and engineering I would definitely hangout with zirk, for atleast 48 hours before getting sick of him

BRING BACK THE CALLI FINALE! Also, whoever is beefing on Em. I got beef with you. She's the most talented, clever, genius player. I love her RP and bring on more sexy frog love. Jeez, this upsets me so much.

I would 1000% buy a NADDPOD daily calender with like trivia and fun facts about the campaigns!

I never really understood how someone can power game this show its mostly a narrative cartoon than a dnd podcast. Don’t get me wrong I love the campaign episodes but I look forward to listening to the short rest at work. You guys described it the best it’s just a bunch of buds having fun and I love that!

I got beef with the beef. I do feel like the Calli finale is far too strong as it is. It feels a bit like a busted homebrew. I think it’s cool if they keep it but it needs to be tweaked if so. Either raise it from a second level spell up to around a fourth level and keep it as is, or keep it at second level and reduce the temp HP and damage a bit to be inline with the punishment of the spell. I feel like the comparison to hardwon’s damage is a bit disingenuous considering his entire subclasses existed to just make his basic attacks hit harder. I would say at their current level Calli can already hit much harder and on command rather than with Cristina an 18-20 on the dice. Emily Axford is the last person that needs to prove themselves and they already made an excellent build with Calli. It just feels like this 3.5 spell isn’t tuned correctly. I understand everyone wanting the PC’s to do cool stuff but compare it to the busted stuff that the triplets in Trinyvale have and you can see the problem. The overpowered homebrew stuff reduces the enjoyment of the combat even though it sounds cool. Murph and Caldwell already said that those three need to lose their stuff cause it’s too strong and I feel the same with this spell, I’m Just more worried about it because this is a longer form campaign and it could get messy at higher levels.

Jesus Christ. Hearing Murph and Em clearly cut-up about the Cally Finale is getting me so worked up. Emily is literally one of the best dnd players going around, both strategically and with regard to her role play, and the fact that people have this desire to attack her is not just a load of bull crap, it's downright shameful and an inditement on certain member of the dnd community. Firstly, and most importantly, because such a sentiment clearly comes from a place that inherently misogynistic. It is no coincidence that no one is complaining about the Sol's homebrew Bullywag race, nor did they about something like Nyak's jam points or Jen's Rebeccaning void. And people shouldn't complain about these things; they make the show better, and Jake, Murph and Caldwell are professionals who know what they're doing and know how to entertain us, just like Emily. The second reason that it is stupid, and from just a practical perspective, is that it will only ever actively make the show less dynamic. Do people not want the PCs to do cool shit? Do they just want the same spells and encounters every single time? This is the 3rd main campaign of NADDPOD, with 2 shorter campaigns on the side, and between pcs, npcs, and villians, a lot of the interesting mechanical shit has already been covered. Murph and Em adding these spells is not some metagaming bullshit to help Em win at dnd, it's a great way to keep all of us intrigued. Balls to all you Cally Finale haters, I will literally fight any one of you.

Just seeing the thumbnail artwork is enough to get me excited

Also thank you for the list of the spells! I’m gonna give some of them to the players in my campaign!

I thought the Cali finale was insanely dope but a really cool move! I hope Emily keeps using her homebrew spells

Justice for the Calli Finale! I am now in favour of her getting MORE HP. 50 HP! 100 HP! BREAK. THE. GAME. Also sexualise Sol MORE. Full beefcake calendar for Sol! Fantasy OnlyFans for Sol! Any time someone freaks out over Emily doing completely normal and entertaining things at the table that any male player would be praised for, double down till the beefheads' eyes bleed and they die of internalised misogyny.

Justice for the Calli Finale! Don't give in to the beefheads

Emily deserves to be able womp everyone without complaint 🙌 bring the Calli Finale back (if she wants to)

I've never felt so seen in my cringe years as hearing this Animorphs and Digimon talk. Thank you lads for sharing. The Beef section was thick and satisfying.

So for the animorphs, instantly Emily is a cat right, then Murph is either a juicy rat or king pigeon. Now what would Caldwell and Jake be?

My hot take is that anyone who talks shit about the Callie Finale needs to be Callie Finaled I will take no questions

sad to hear doom blade gone, I still hope Jake could have a tiny taste of spellcasting besides ice knife, perhaps reflavored green flame blade? it will be so cool

Don’t listen to the rats in the comments- calli finale was a finale for a reason - it’s only OP because of the downside of the risk of missing !!!

Animorphs??

Let Emily have her fun spells!!!

i love the beef of the week. please continue to call out anyone who says anything about emily 💖💖💖💖

Nooo don't give in to the haters!! Give Callie back all the OP things!! Dont let them stop you guys from having fun!

I need to see caldwells digimon OC

If Caldwell has a picture of his digimon character I’d love to see it!😧

justice for callie finale! loved the beef of the week, people are ridiculous, also Murph telling his fanfiction story had me crying, almost the exact same thing happened to me, i feel ur pain

on a lighter note, i Need the caldwell-karina-julia digimon drawfee episode where karina and caldwell know exactly what the other is talking about and julia is just going 'what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck???'

imagine having the same 24 hours in the day as any other person who chooses to listen to a podcast, for fun, because they enjoy it, and having that be the disrespectful and awful way you engage with it. what the actual fuck

bring back callie finale, i will personally fistfight everyone who makes emily feel bad for how she plays her characters i swear to GOD

I don't think there's a better sign of a good episode than a custom thumbnail.

The homebrew/improved spell list is so cool! sucks to hear about the complaints around Callie Finale, feels like some people just look for any excuse to be an armchair DM. it was very cathartic to hear you guys respond and clarify that y'all are, in fact, having fun and there's no need for the audience to freak out. anyways great sode, great short rest, xoxo 💖

Bring back Callie Finale! I like when you all have fun playing and the healz are tough to come by this campaign. Incredible short rest lol

There is no amount I, and I assume dozens of other totally normal ass dudes, wouldn’t pay for a Murph’s Beef of the Week calendar. EDIT: the neckbeard criticisms tossed at Emily and Murph legit bums me out. I hope the gang isn’t getting bogged down by the odd shithead on the internet because I’m loving these characters and this story. Also, controversial opinion, players doing cool shit is pretty frickin cool

Justice for the Callie finale

Legit I’m about to remake the “leave Britney alone!!” video about Emily Axford. Fuming hearing about the BS haters :/

Sometimes it really feels like this fandom doesn’t want you guys to have fun. BRING BACK CALLI FINALE

Every time the short rest thumbnail is a weird ass picture, you know it’s gonna be good

Em as a feline?!!

Im so excited when there's cover art for the short rest

Thank you for the spells!

Why is it animorphs? Lol

YES will listen to it tomorrow instead of doing work