The Tortle Tank: Homebrew Review! (w/ Jasper William Cartwright)
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Welcome to Tortle Tank, the show where four flippered financiers review your D&D homebrew and decide if they want to invest their hard-earned eggs. This week, the Tortles, as well as shellebrity guest Jasper William Cartwright (3 Black Halflings) take a look at crit-inducing coins, initiative hacks and one confusingly stealthy doll. Let's dive right in!
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Comments (77)
That coin of certainty still amuses me. Just such a poor idea
I lost it when Murph defended himself about the “overly masculine” metal dice. Also, I loved listening to Jasper laugh this entire episode! He was such a delight and great addition to the chaos table!
But where do i find the tub brisket one shot 😫
im ngl i love fleshy so much 😭😭
Whoever Nathan T. Who sent the gang Reingeist- I live in your area! Let's go to a live show someday
"He's lost in the tank" nearly killed me😂
When you think about it everything’s already a 50/50 chance because it either happens or it doesn’t so we should all just use coins.
This has the kind of energy I want to bring into the real world. There's a 50/50 shot I win the lottery if I play, and I love that. XD
I feel like the throwing dice rule just came up when a bunch of players were rolling and one time a player hit another die, and it was ruled that it was allowed. But I think its only intended in cases where multiple people are rolling, as opposed to some sort of advantage or luck point where you decide to start chucking extra dice.
I'm a 5e DM, but I really love 2e. It is great for multi-classing and it offers so much customization.
There’s something about the camaraderie pertaining to D20 truck nuts in these comments that makes me love this community.
From the shout outs… Rhinegeist is awesome. So glad it’s in IL now.
Uhhhh we have Rhinegeist in IL???? This changes everything
Bold of yall to assume that I won't put D20 truck nuts on my Honda civic
Same.
It is 1 die and multiple dice. 😁
I don't know how to feel with Murph correctly guessing my age right with the truck nuts bit
Anything with one or more Halflings in it is a good plus up for an ep! Love having jasper in this
I want those truck nuts lol
I'm sorry but dice bocce is already being used. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818197062/bocce-dice-0
Damn I didnt put a turtle pun in my pitch.
The future mavarus chronicles could really benefit from fuck points 👉
Man I completely underplayed Fleshy's role in the description. I gave him to the team Cleric because his heavy armor meant he kept failing stealth checks AND it made him question his own God as it was a "living" automaton, something he would view as heretical, and he was always fighting the juxtaposition of "devout follower" and "independent do gooder".
There was such strong Billy Mayes OXYCLEAN energy from Murph that I think his next gig needs to be an infomercial. This was the try out. “ONE IS NAMED APPLEKIN AND OTHER ONE IS NAMED ORANGEKIN” 😂😂😂😂
Murph: "One.. ironic.. 19 year old." Me: "Actually I'm 22"
My slammed drift truck would love scraping truck duts
I need to learn to drive and get a truck now
Fia had that tight Josh Allen spiral
I would buy D20 truck nuts almost immediately to put on my Toyota Matrix.
100% would buy the D20 truck nuts for my DM 🤣
God help me I heard the call for fan art of a Bailiff Tortle with a big ass and handcuffs and I delivered.
I miss our owl entrepreneurs, but i do love the new tank. maybe there's a compromise here. there are owl bears and dragon turtles--why not owl tortles?
Absolutely living for this format! More plz 🙏 Great inspo. And also now I’m thinking of lizards with nipple tassels - but entirely no nipples 🤷
I love Emily's laughter of pure joy at the concept of yeeting dice at other dice.
Yeah! Bocce ball rules 😂
I like the B team idea, I was already planning on doing something like this in my campaign, inspired by a similar mechanic in Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Revelations
I’m definitely the dice truck nuts kinda guy😂😂😂
Lol my first dnd character was a halfling bard and I drive a Ford f150 XL, 2 different Ford rangers, a Chevy S10, and a Dodge Dakota for my job. So I would buy at least one pair of truck d20 nuts!
I've got a bright pink 94 F150 lwb 2wd. Understand completely.
My fave thing about Jasper is that he can be on either end of the Caldwell-Murph dichotomy. Like he absolutely has hardass no-nonsense DM-Murph energy but equally the Jasper/Caldwell combo is just *chefs kiss* 😂 I'd love to see a chaotic Jasper/Caldwell vs sibling energy Jake/Em one shot or something... Although Murph may need a complete nonsense detox afterward
i think you guys should run seasons of this and then at the end each have to run a one shot implementing all of the home brew rules you’ve collected. or an all out brawl like the 8 bit book club monster mash and you use them like skills against each other LOL
...what's wrong with metal dice?
dont yall SELL a challenge coin?? why does no one have a coin!? 🤣🤣
I actually DID use the challenge coin! It's normally on my bookshelf where I record. However, when you live with a toddler things are rarely where you last left them. ~Caldwell
I know that it’s readily evident if you’ve been within 10ft of Caldwell opening his mouth, but I love the self awareness of his insanity
Alright alright alright. I love owlbear cave and I love that it is back, revamped, full of tortle references. I also love having Jake put his business side to use throwing jargons around in context to homebrew ideas and eggs. Tortle tank and Dungeon court are the perfect "D&D shows abou d&d that are super fun and don't need to be actual play". Also Jasper works so well with the crew!
Hearing them say “tordle” so much reminded me of this wordle joke I made a few months ago. https://tordlehost.github.io
So yea... might be stealing the truck nuts idea. I'm sure to give by word of mouth where the idea came from. ❤
I don't know if you all actually read these comments but I sent you all some stuff in the PO box a while ago and I don't care that much about the shout out but I am bit worried you didn't get it?
You could try posting this question in the community feed—Caldwell responds to questions over there pretty regularly!
I would find some way to put truck nut dice on my tiny corolla I need them
Currently saving for a truck and I would definitely buy some truck twenties
#releasethepumpkincut
Jake absolutely killed the intro my god
More then one Emily and murf I'm 37 lol
I DIED when Murph screamed his tangent
I was already deciding this episode was one of my favorites and then THAT happened! It solidified my decision.
Caldwell's commitment to the bit even to the detriment of the pod... incredible
I would totally have truck twenties if I had a truck. But I have a van 🥲
Id like to point out the two crew or choo choo crew put out a deathsave coin, in the merch club, not long ago. Similar to the coin of certainty.
I personally love the group rolling tray idea, and will be suggesting it to my no chortle DM
Aw man the slime was me! I asked them to put a message for you in the package but I guess they didn't. Glad you like it!
I just discovered the fun of playing with a slime and thought a Creek Water slime might tickle Emily's fancy
'The Pumpkin Chronicles' and 'The Pumpkin Guy' are basically Grib (Jacob Wysocki) in Zak Oyama's Rotating Heroes Podcast 😂
yooooo shout out to rhinegeist! i moved here recently and they got me into beer. cool to know fellow naddpod lovers work there :)
Right?! We Cinci-nadpoles need to get on pitching a live show here. (Also, welcome to town!) Rhinegeist's rooftop is gorgeous and I think it's out of season but Night Whale is such a Fia beer.
I think about emily saying "your stupid, thunking metal dice" all the time from when murph tried to roll them on a starstruck odyssey
the throwing your d20s at one another to change the roll and them talking about the utter chaos of rolling has beardsley energy/behavior written allllll over it
I don’t even own a truck and I would absolutely buy a set of d20 truck nuts
I ran a Goliath Barbarian and fellow PC was a kobold rogue. We crafted a backpack for me to carry her around on my back like Master Blaster. She got sneak attack every attack every time
Initiative grouping is used in baldurs gate 3 the game! Works really smoothly to speed up combat.
The metal really shows how stupid this will be, in a good but douchy way.
Yall gunna get lost in the tank again
So glad to witness the return of turdiss. Edit: I listened to this right before bed last night and my dreams were haunted by Emily chuck checking D20s in the background.
YAY! so excited to listen.
jasper!
Literally was just checking Patreon for the new upload! Awesome! So stoked
