Tortle Tank: Tortley Awesome! (w/ Robbie Daymond)
Added 2025-01-17 23:48:19 +0000 UTCWelcome to Tortle Tank, the show where the world's richest reptiles review your D&D homebrew and decide whether or not to invest their hard-earned eggs. This week, shellebrity guest Robbie Daymond! joins the Torts as they hear pitches about equality in spell saves, goodberry preparation, and jars of bees.
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I’m so late to this but I have a revised goodberry pitch to balance it a bit: If a party member has the goodberry spell, they can cast it and distribute berries before combat, and anyone who gets one has the option of holding it in their lip/cheek while fighting. No concentration checks necessary, it’s just there. If you go down with a goodberry in your mouth, make a d20 luck check: - on a 10-20, the goodberry is swallowed and you pop back up w/ 1 HP (this consumes the goodberry, so you need to put another one in your mouth to use this again) - on a 5-9, the goodberry stays where it is in your mouth, and is not consumed (so you stay down but can use it again later in combat if you’re revived by other means and go down a second time) - on a 1-4, you choke on the goodberry and take one death save fail (the goodberry is consumed by this and cannot be used again)
V Layne Berry
2025-05-29 15:19:12 +0000 UTCTime is eggs, like time is money
Lilli of the bog
2025-05-08 14:50:32 +0000 UTCWhat do they mean by time his eggs?
Austin Wiggin
2025-03-19 18:59:58 +0000 UTCCaldwell at 44:52 - "Let's put a terra-PIN in that!" 😃
J. Gro
2025-02-18 08:38:56 +0000 UTCI'm not sure, but I also noticed and felt it was a strangely long intro (for being just splash sounds)...
J. Gro
2025-02-18 07:59:25 +0000 UTCI would also love the list!!!
The Fun Yaunt
2025-02-14 03:18:45 +0000 UTChonestly my low con squishmallow sorcerer is so fun to play. it helps that we have two tanks in the party tho. if my guy gets hit once he sulks for the rest of the session he is PUNY. he takes frequent elaborate baths also i love high stakes so im addicted to the rush of "if i get hit one more time i will DIE" i found out i need that to enjoy combat in dnd lol
tiger
2025-02-13 16:15:44 +0000 UTCList us!
Claud Josh
2025-02-12 15:49:58 +0000 UTCI’m late to this, but personally, I feel that (re the tarot deck death saves) I think that if you pull the death card, you should get more of a reincarnation thing. Because it’s not just about death!! The Death card is about endings AND rebirth.
Casey Kerins
2025-02-05 23:48:24 +0000 UTCTo add to the jar of bees idea you could work in the jar of nannerflies precedent. You get a jar with a few bees in it and every rest you can roll for bees and they can go up or die off. Then set a threshold (say 5) for every time the number of bees breaks the threshold that's another d6 of damage when you finally use it.
Cooper Erikson
2025-02-04 14:33:53 +0000 UTCMurph what if they broke up at 6am?
Cooper Erikson
2025-02-04 13:32:52 +0000 UTCI think the goodberry idea could be saved by instead of it giving you 1 hp when you go down instead it gives you one automatic death save success
BOB BOBERSON
2025-02-02 09:28:44 +0000 UTCI'm very late to the conversation but I just wanted to say that I have used a similar "save point" item in a homebrew before! I made a 1 shot based on Doki Doki Literature Club. Save files are a big part of the story telling in that game so I gave each player one save item that they could use before any big decision and the whole party could return to that point. I've run the adventure twice and no one has ever used the item but I still think it's a fun option to have if it works in the story.
HeyYou'reCute
2025-01-29 16:26:49 +0000 UTCAlso. This item gives you the chance to fudge a devastating roll in the first playthrough and have your BBEG comment that “they feel cheated” and the party should be dead from that hit
Matt
2025-01-25 00:06:34 +0000 UTCPut the “save point” coin in a magic shop with a sign that says “Do Not Flip”. Your players will flip it, piss off the shop owner, and now there’s a hook with no stakes (in their mind) where they owe him something. When they return to the timeline the shopkeeper will have no idea they flipped it and think it’s been stolen.
Matt
2025-01-24 23:16:47 +0000 UTCOmg...so unhinged!! Love it!!
ADHDMoth
2025-01-24 18:18:05 +0000 UTCI am VERY interested in the list!
ADHDMoth
2025-01-24 18:05:08 +0000 UTCThe yelling "bad for audio" all over eachother is insane.
Zac Hoffman
2025-01-24 17:58:07 +0000 UTCI have been promising to learn how to run Fate for my friends for like 5 years now and haven't gotten around to reading the rulebook
Summer, Autumn Eladrin
2025-01-23 22:45:46 +0000 UTCI know you guys will never see this but this gives off Ryan Nurphy energy so hard. https://x.com/dbperfectshots/status/1881907912035225623?s=46&t=NCsD5QosYdgm0tbtOun5qQ
Easton Henrie
2025-01-22 21:03:35 +0000 UTCHey Jake, for the next fighter you play, would you consider third party content, specifically laserllamas alternate fighter?
Evan
2025-01-22 01:53:24 +0000 UTCI became a enamored with Robbie on breath of the wild one shot he and Emily were in! Thank you all for existing!
Melissa Shilale
2025-01-21 21:41:37 +0000 UTCI personally think the closest they have ever been was maybe early BX or or the full ODnD expression. Every hit point mattered and MUs were utility glass cannons like thieves. Martial could hit strong and survive plus got magic swords. Though I think thieves did too...
Declan Konesky
2025-01-21 19:20:04 +0000 UTCLosing it at Jake’s British voice omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Emma
2025-01-21 16:17:13 +0000 UTCCaldwell channeling his inner Horus this episode.
An_Armed_Bear
2025-01-21 14:49:29 +0000 UTCI would totally be interested in the list! This did sound like a really cool idea to me
Steppa
2025-01-21 13:42:09 +0000 UTCCCL (tread soooooooo sooooo carefully)
Nitzan Harel
2025-01-21 06:08:06 +0000 UTCHonestly, I love just having the option to fucking HYUCK a jar full of pissed off bees at a BEEG's cranium, then watch it horrifically backfire as the low HP tank that's been up in the mix since round one go down because he is deathly allergic😂
KingHalt
2025-01-20 17:16:51 +0000 UTCProps to Jake for making a character with low con hilarious. Caldwell as well! Nyack having a weak stomach was an incredible way to make it work for roleplay. Then taking it a step further with the Jampion Ranger. So good.
dylndmg
2025-01-20 15:48:14 +0000 UTCI've always understood DCs to be target numbers (meets it beats it), so ties really aren't even a thing. Even in an opposed roll, one player is just setting the DC.
ThacoIsWacko
2025-01-20 14:44:59 +0000 UTCCan we get another Baggin it with Balnor ep with Balnor C1 interviewing the C3 and the young stag? Feels like the right time!
Tonks
2025-01-20 05:33:57 +0000 UTCI love the person who thinks casters are underpowered because they don't get to make attack rolls when the martial/caster divide has been a problem in dnd since like. 3rd edition
Blue Bee
2025-01-20 04:26:33 +0000 UTCAnd Fushiguro on Jujutsu Kaisen!
Dominique Kupersmith
2025-01-20 00:19:00 +0000 UTCAs the person who submitted it, I'd love to hear it!
Sophie Buijsen
2025-01-20 00:16:51 +0000 UTCAre there always that many splashes at the beginning?
Tom Graham
2025-01-19 23:28:28 +0000 UTCOf sorts
KingHalt
2025-01-19 23:23:42 +0000 UTCIt's a delicacy?
CSN
2025-01-19 22:29:08 +0000 UTCOh man, egg futures reminded me how nobody ever agrees to accept my resource futures as payment in Catan.
CSN
2025-01-19 22:09:06 +0000 UTCI absolutely love my charming sorcerer to only have a passive perception of 9 (in a horror campaign). It’s SO fun
RottingLizard
2025-01-19 21:05:21 +0000 UTCI vow to fix the Tarot Death Saves.
I Love Not Finishing My Sentences
2025-01-19 20:31:15 +0000 UTCI love trying to introduce games with literally only page of rules to my 5e players and they groan “ughhhh 5e is just so much easier!”
Chris Swank
2025-01-19 14:54:58 +0000 UTCThank you for treating us to another turtle tank, oh wise turtles
Полина Милашевская
2025-01-19 14:25:44 +0000 UTCThe jar of bees is some Enter the Gungeon shit!
Brandon Wiens
2025-01-19 07:54:13 +0000 UTCI do understand the concept here. But I also think some people should maybe just give other games a try instead of trying to fix 5e.
Argonautica
2025-01-19 05:26:25 +0000 UTCHow many eggs would I have to give the tortles to buy Caldwell's head of lettuce?
KingHalt
2025-01-19 02:24:33 +0000 UTCSure but I'm still trying to figure out what was going on with that one. Did that person not play D&D? Do they resolve stuff in roleplay by just going "well roll a die about it" and then arbitrarily decide how well it went based on the die's result? Do they not set DCs and use modifiers?
catchTwentythree
2025-01-19 01:57:33 +0000 UTCIf I might offer a suggestion, these effects could be made more special if you used the entire tarot deck. There's a ~2/7 chance of a wild effect that way, while Swords and Wands could represent death save failures while Pentacles and Cups could represent death save successes.
catchTwentythree
2025-01-19 01:52:46 +0000 UTCThank you for covering my tarot pitch! Extra info: it is woven into the narrative so it does make more sense, there's a whole mysterious dimension that only our characters can access, and the effects of the cards are linked to that. As a ranged healing caster, it takes a while for melee characters to disengage and come and get you with potions, even with the best intent in the world. I didn't give representative examples I realised, almost all cards are some way of getting the downed player back into the fight with some added risk rather than affect the rest of the party. If anyone wants the list, let me know! A shame not to receive those wet wet eggs, but pleased to have triggered the introduction of 'i'm in therefore I'm out' to Robbie.
Sophie Buijsen
2025-01-18 22:56:34 +0000 UTCWe just circled back to crit confirms
Chris J.
2025-01-18 21:17:18 +0000 UTCI kinda fuggin love the save coin idea. Specifically, players get one and they spend it at interesting points. I as the dm keep track of those points, and when we have no shows for a session, prepare a one off at the split time with some cool prizes at the end
Austin Wiggin
2025-01-18 19:06:51 +0000 UTCHe's also the most recent English Dub voice actor for Tuxedo Mask
Adam Miller
2025-01-18 19:02:35 +0000 UTCHe’s been a special guest on Critical Role for much of their campaign 3 and also was in a Legend of Zelda one shot with Emily there too
Julia Arbanas
2025-01-18 17:28:42 +0000 UTCgod i can just see the RealGrinch-like smile on Emily’s face as she added the 6th fuvking splash sound in this intro how have i never noticed that before did i unlock a new splash by joining a higher tier on the patreon
Max!
2025-01-18 16:31:34 +0000 UTCThe Caster…greedy. When you fail a save, you still take half damage unless they’re built around it or it is a spell balanced on being Save or Suck. If a Martial misses, they miss completely or now can deal very minor chip damage. Casters have the better end of jt
Ben Delahay
2025-01-18 15:55:01 +0000 UTCRobbie fits in so well. Please do more with them. They're awesome!
Zach Downing
2025-01-18 15:40:42 +0000 UTCI don't think anybody caught it. I definitely laughed out loud.
Adam Kepper
2025-01-18 14:21:42 +0000 UTCThat goodberry idea is essentially giving you 10 death wards, which is a 4th level spell for a 1st level spell. Just a fair bit overpowered.
Adam Kepper
2025-01-18 14:19:57 +0000 UTC😂
Onyx The Dane
2025-01-18 13:43:08 +0000 UTCEmily hear me out on my Fun to Play Low CON score character. I LOVE to play either a horribly old person with terrible con that's like 100 and on the verge of dying or a low con volorole sick goblin Wizard that likes explosive or aoe spells that will most likely die.
Lorelei The Succubi and Kyra The succulent snack
2025-01-18 13:03:42 +0000 UTCAs a British person, I DEMAND Jake do that voice for a whole season. I will have to listen to everything 5 times before I actually hear what he's saying, but that just means it'll be 5 times better than other episodes.
Our friend Simon
2025-01-18 11:54:38 +0000 UTCBest Tortle Tank Ep yet! Hilarious!
Dominique Kupersmith
2025-01-18 10:11:16 +0000 UTCIconic guest tbh I’ve never heard of this dude and I’m a fan instantly
Olivia Francis
2025-01-18 08:32:13 +0000 UTCI'm glad we got a sneak preview of Jake's NPC voice for the upcoming campaign.
Shawn Harrison
2025-01-18 07:56:51 +0000 UTCwere there always this many splashes at the start gdvjvkgfn
dryptid
2025-01-18 07:18:22 +0000 UTCThe save point mechanic is similar to the "Time Warp" cards that B. Dave Walters gives out. Once per campaign rewind, then you have to hand the physical card over to the DM. I got one from him and got to use it (with my DM's consent) in a campaign. It actually made for a great moment.
Amaha Kassa
2025-01-18 06:52:21 +0000 UTCmadam, would you like your omelette lightly fucked or aggressively fucked? all on accident, of course.
preston packer
2025-01-18 06:13:16 +0000 UTC"Oops, not again, HAAH" abt accidentally fucking lettuce is sending me 😭😭
Ollie
2025-01-18 04:39:45 +0000 UTCLeaning so hard into tortle behavior has made me actually enjoy tortle tank
bradley Battaglia
2025-01-18 04:31:13 +0000 UTCI really wanna know the rest of the tarot card one
Wulfgar Ramsey
2025-01-18 04:17:18 +0000 UTCJust wanted to added mega-grats on all this voice acting work for Emily. So glad for all the opportunities she's being given and taking. Right on sister
Declan Konesky
2025-01-18 03:18:55 +0000 UTCFor people who aren’t aware, the log cabin Republicans are/were a branch of openly gay Republicans (dw Robbie I got your reference)
Rover Bernhard
2025-01-18 02:57:52 +0000 UTC10 is actually objectively closer to a Nat1. And an 11 is closer to Nat20. The midpoint is 10.5, since it's from 1-20 not 0-20
Michael Griffith
2025-01-18 02:28:57 +0000 UTCI zoned out for maybe two minutes and came back to ‘She’s a honeycomb that feeds bees corn?!’ 10/10 no notes
Aaron Sterne
2025-01-18 02:23:14 +0000 UTCHuzzah
Jake Alcott
2025-01-18 02:20:14 +0000 UTCCaldwell casually dropping "Mercerful" at 4:28 killed me and was criminally underappreciated in the moment
SPECTRESOUND
2025-01-18 01:43:14 +0000 UTCPetition for Jake to become the next James Bond for that accent alone
gung0ii
2025-01-18 01:26:18 +0000 UTCDear tortles. I am British, born and bread. And I would like to say. Don't hate Jake's British accent. I mean it's bad. But it is at least original. And it is way closer to accents I recognise than the standard Dick van dyke faux Australian cockney that most Americans do. Well done Jake.
Ben Beckwith
2025-01-18 01:19:55 +0000 UTCOMG I love how fucking unhinged this episode is
Declan Konesky
2025-01-18 00:43:31 +0000 UTC'no' .... So epic
Declan Konesky
2025-01-18 00:43:07 +0000 UTCRobbie is 2/2 episodes mentioning his butthole. This guy can fit into any group.
Xanian Jamfalcon
2025-01-18 00:38:41 +0000 UTCWilted 🥬 floating in the background
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! celebrating turning 32 by seeing D20 at MSG dressing up as Sofie Lee!
2025-01-18 00:35:31 +0000 UTCBig Robbie fan
Andreshmandre
2025-01-18 00:20:15 +0000 UTCAt this point Caldwell HAS to draw everyone as turtle executives, based off of the descriptions they’ve given.
CommodoreBlue
2025-01-18 00:15:02 +0000 UTCwow. I didn't know my headphones were at full blast when I started the episode and I thought I got shot with a shotgun when the wave .mp3 played
Jack Campau
2025-01-18 00:08:29 +0000 UTCRobbie Daymond played a character in CR that had like a 4 charisma and it was the source of such beautiful comedy
thiswayjose
2025-01-18 00:05:00 +0000 UTCWhat an incredible pull with Robbie, stoked!
Shawn Ritz Arthur
2025-01-18 00:03:25 +0000 UTCSuper excited to hear that Robbie came by to take a dip in the tank!
Evan Bartlett
2025-01-18 00:03:01 +0000 UTCWhere are merch this month ??
Nick francis
2025-01-17 23:59:42 +0000 UTCRobbiiieeeeeeee
Kyle Veach
2025-01-17 23:58:27 +0000 UTCLet's get wet
Oscar Brown
2025-01-17 23:57:31 +0000 UTCOMG Robbie!! I love him so much on CR, can’t wait to hear him on this podcast!! I get so happy anytime there is crossover between NADDPOD and CR :)
Delaney
2025-01-17 23:57:24 +0000 UTCAmong us
Dragonkillbot
2025-01-17 23:56:46 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to get wet and wild with the tortles
Jeremy Voigtschild
2025-01-17 23:53:44 +0000 UTCSo ready for a dip in the tank
Thermovore
2025-01-17 23:51:03 +0000 UTC
