Hearthside Chat Q&A: The Sacrifice
Added 2024-11-28 16:24:24 +0000 UTC
Happy Thanksgiving! Join the three cree as they gather round the fire and answer all your burning questions.
[Skaldova spoilers]
Came back here from the future to say that I think Jake could really like the Call of Cthulhu system; it’s very intuitive for low-magic fantasy. Skaldova easily could have been a Call of Cthulhu mini campaign. Cults, old magic artefacts, and experimental drugs derived from dead gods are common plot devices in the universe. There’s even a pre-built campaign (can’t remember the name; sorry!) that I GM’ed ages ago that centres around a pitch-black drug derived from an Old God’s blood that’s being sold by a cult to university students.
Jude Bialik
2025-06-24 02:31:58 +0000 UTC
I can't begin to express how interested I am in not only watching the NADDPOD gang play Magic, but also to watch you all play the Magic modules in D&D. NADDPOD Ravnica would be amazing
Don Johnson
2025-05-21 10:06:08 +0000 UTC
Don't worry Jake I knew what song it was from your singing
Ian Mcilwean
2025-04-03 04:07:21 +0000 UTC
Also, red panda in a tiny sombrero. First thought, best thought!
J. Gro
2025-02-14 08:53:06 +0000 UTC
Evidence for murph becoming less of a hard ass as a dm, I recently relistened to C1 and the scene where Beverly wants to shove a javelin in a crocodile’s mouth, murph immediately shuts it down.. new murph would absolutely allow that!
Joshua Qualls
2024-12-27 01:00:12 +0000 UTC
I would totally watch a mixed bag of you guys playing Commander!!
Darkrisky
2024-12-18 02:17:57 +0000 UTC
I would love to see y'all play Magic the Gathering. It's been years since I've played, and it would be cool to see how the game has changed in that time
Zyrian
2024-12-13 07:52:25 +0000 UTC
Cowboy possum is my boyfriends favorite meme
Grass
2024-12-07 22:10:11 +0000 UTC
I feel like if Jake were to play MTG he would definitely be a Timmy, and for that I suggest Gishath
Rageboots
2024-12-07 13:33:17 +0000 UTC
I would love to see the shenanigans that Emily could do in cyberpunk red. I'd also love to see the character she would make.
CyberByte
2024-12-06 20:58:39 +0000 UTC
Please MTG!
Eric Dong
2024-12-06 18:03:55 +0000 UTC
I would LOVE to see yall do some MTG stuff! I just got into magic in the last few months playing commander with friends so knowing most of yall play as well is awesome! I'm excited to see what systems you all get into with the shorter stories, there's some really amazing stuff out there and I feel like y'all touched on a almost early Shadowrun world with this season and magitech becoming more prevalent
Juicedmark
2024-12-05 21:53:29 +0000 UTC
I also have a commander deck with that Hydra and I love it. It was awesome seeing Emily play it on Critical Role the other day. She went easy on 'em!
Lonestar
2024-12-05 16:17:08 +0000 UTC
Absolutely need a magic stream or video
Stephen Fike
2024-12-04 20:42:03 +0000 UTC
Emily, if you love Simic, look into a Volo, Guide to Monsters deck. It's my favorite commander, because it incentives using multiple creature types.
Kyle Patch
2024-12-04 18:52:04 +0000 UTC
ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY INTEREST AMONG ME AND FELLOW NADDPOLES sorry I’m screaming—I’ve been extremely hopeful you guys would play magic the gathering for a mixed bag or something! Friends agreed too ^-^
Alex DiFiore
2024-12-04 06:11:06 +0000 UTC
Shadowrun is my fav system. Really different system but my gosh it's fun!
SimpleWater
2024-12-03 16:50:12 +0000 UTC
Murph referencing the “most importantly be kind” meme was something I didn’t know I needed
Kat Sokol
2024-12-03 14:57:27 +0000 UTC
Would love if y'all started experimenting with making MTG stuff, my friends and I just got into playing Commander so I'm hankering for Magic too
Evan Schmidt
2024-12-03 01:07:16 +0000 UTC
Zaxara is so fun!
Frogndog
2024-12-03 00:05:30 +0000 UTC
GUYS FISH ACTUALLY DO WEAR HATS!!! Orcas have recently been seen to wear dead salmons as hats, which was a TREND that happened in the ‘80s with the orca community and has come back
Madelyn S
2024-12-02 23:22:04 +0000 UTC
Joining the gleeful chorus of those who would fricken devour some NADDPOD plays MTG
Jesse Amdahl
2024-12-02 19:37:46 +0000 UTC
I would 100% watch you guys play magic! That sounds fun as.
Ryan
2024-12-02 16:34:13 +0000 UTC
Magic content PLEASEEEE
geekvery
2024-12-02 14:54:32 +0000 UTC
I'd watch a magic mixed bag.
Also I'm the Merph of my magic group. Everyone knows I build weird stuff and if you let me do my thing then before you know it you're using someone else's hand to play. So I'm usually the first to be targeted.
Ghost
2024-12-02 12:37:28 +0000 UTC
I have never watched Magic or played Magic except once with my uncle and cousin -- and I would LOVE to watch you guys play Magic. Thanks for all the great content!!!
froggy
2024-12-02 02:08:50 +0000 UTC
Please please please please PLEASE record some MTG with Beardsley for a Mixed or something it would be so sick
Sarah Sullivan
2024-12-02 00:35:59 +0000 UTC
a horse in a jockey hat *now i am the rider and you carry me. gallop forth, my steed.*
Ilana Galpert
2024-12-01 22:31:36 +0000 UTC
The guitar solo-> symphony comparison is so apt, murph’s worlds have gotten so deep!
Tommy Self
2024-12-01 21:25:18 +0000 UTC
You guys gotta listen to The Howling Salt Mine — it’s Dungeon Court for Commander MTG!!! The host, Sam, is a huge NADDPOD fan
Also any time yall have brought up Commander the last few months I get giddy
Lindsay Lee
2024-12-01 18:41:20 +0000 UTC
If you did do an mtg mixed bag, it could be fun to build decks for each person based on their characters. Like Jake playing Jorn, God of Winter because Calder is snow/ice themed, Moonshine is elves tribal or hugs, Jens is a fight deck because he challenges people to duels, etc…
Could even have Caldwell make proxy art for the commanders so they are the characters but have the cards abilities! (Like the Godzilla cards in the Ikoria set)
AJ
2024-12-01 15:18:59 +0000 UTC
Anyone else chomping at the bit for another jasper william Cartwright guest dm mini campaign?!??!!?!
Carter Carter
2024-12-01 08:05:35 +0000 UTC
quick q: couple name gunkshine or moongunk?
skat
2024-12-01 00:34:56 +0000 UTC
It sounds like you guys should try "Monster of the Week" as a potential new system it's a very simple D6 system that focuses heavily on RP and story telling that's incredibly easy to learn and each player class is built around the idea of a different horror stereotype
Bradly
2024-11-30 20:14:35 +0000 UTC
I am so interested in seeing you guys play MTG!!!
Phillip Astorino
2024-11-30 20:11:49 +0000 UTC
Randomly restarted campaign three after listening to this and Murph is describing the 5 kingdoms 200 years later starts getting into asmodia and sure enough Caldwell yells out “how’s the food, though?”
Nick
2024-11-30 18:50:35 +0000 UTC
Such a good opossum meme
Katherine
2024-11-30 16:17:53 +0000 UTC
Oh gosh, I would love some more Eldermourne!! I need my Zirkuska!!!
KellBell
2024-11-30 16:08:09 +0000 UTC
I would love to see MTG
Colten Payne
2024-11-30 15:37:00 +0000 UTC
Adding my interest in a Magic the Gathering mixed bag! I stopped playing around the time Planeswalkers came out so this commander thing, and Em's excitement, has piqued my interest again!
Courtney F.
2024-11-30 11:58:29 +0000 UTC
Commander mixed bag would be so fun
Colin A Russell
2024-11-30 10:26:24 +0000 UTC
Would do absolutely anything for yall to do a magic the gathering thing
Mack0Lantern
2024-11-30 06:16:00 +0000 UTC
Elephant with a fez
Young Hemlock
2024-11-30 03:38:33 +0000 UTC
A magic the gathering mixed bag would be great
Blaine McClain
2024-11-30 03:21:17 +0000 UTC
I wanna play commander with you folks SO BAD, I gotta build a new deck anyway
Hex Sharpe
2024-11-30 00:52:27 +0000 UTC
Re: Call of Cthulhu i feel like people make a lot of assumptions about the system but the newest edition is pretty well constructed and covers a lot of the things people are skeptical about (fraught terms like "madness" for example). Also NADDPod is literally full of players RPing being charmed or otherwise being told how to roleplay so that doesn't seem like much of an issue
Alex H.
2024-11-29 23:38:03 +0000 UTC
Hell yeah NADDPod MTG mixed bag!
Akira
2024-11-29 22:27:57 +0000 UTC
So absolutely true about Murph being less of a hardass, I’m relistening to C1 and there is NO way C1 Murph would have let the Gunk shit fly
wizard wearing a poodle skirt
2024-11-29 22:14:48 +0000 UTC
MTG mixed bag a million times over plz
Hostage4hire
2024-11-29 21:59:07 +0000 UTC
I literally had to grab my phone off the counter — almost falling out of the shower, mind you — to recommend that y'all play the Shiver system!! Your character is a horror movie archetype (I was the "experiment" when I played with friends in a summer camp setting) and the system is both easy to learn and has devastating consequences if it comes to that.
Skyler G.
2024-11-29 21:53:02 +0000 UTC
Please play Cthulhu!
Witpending
2024-11-29 20:35:30 +0000 UTC
Bake Giblets!!
Kiyahn Navissi
2024-11-29 19:29:07 +0000 UTC
As a yugioh lover and non magic player, would love to see you play magic!
Rotem Cohen
2024-11-29 18:49:44 +0000 UTC
Please please please do a magic the gathering mixed bag
Elise Brinkmann
2024-11-29 18:29:39 +0000 UTC
I love call of Cthulhu and would love to listen to y’all play it! Shadowrun is cool too but it’s so crunchy that it would be a lot to learn for a short campaign
Julia Arbanas
2024-11-29 18:07:22 +0000 UTC
Attack of the Clones Mixed Bag when????
Sean
2024-11-29 17:54:25 +0000 UTC
I think I would pass away if yall ever ran Delta Green. That’d be everything to me.
Miranda B
2024-11-29 17:03:30 +0000 UTC
I would love to hear the gang play through the pathfinder beginners set. I have listened to those 4 episodes religiously they make me laugh so hard. Caldwell as the dm in there really shined too
Austin Wiggin
2024-11-29 16:32:21 +0000 UTC
I would LOVE a Commander video. Seeing Murph hit the table with "Krenko Kranks" would be awesome. Thanks for answering my question on my birthday!
Nick
2024-11-29 15:44:05 +0000 UTC
I’d watch the hell out of a magic the gathering session! I have no idea how magic works, but I didn’t know how DnD worked until I listened to your show either.
Some business advice for y’all (or just for Cake I guess). Y’all should advertise what you put on your mixed bag tier more often. Like I’m only at the short rest tier and I really have no idea what I’m missing by not paying for the higher tier stuff. You might be able to get more of my money…
Noah Muruve
2024-11-29 15:33:19 +0000 UTC
Man, Jake would love the 2024 fighter.
mail daddy
2024-11-29 15:24:08 +0000 UTC
and the starstruck live show that's happening next year. definitely giving us sso2 hints
Jorgus
2024-11-29 15:11:45 +0000 UTC
i would love to watch an mtg video also isu is the correct snow commander but i built one for a secret santa gift with chulane
Jaydon
2024-11-29 15:11:01 +0000 UTC
How do you not pick a paw paw in a wimple?!
Alex Herndon
2024-11-29 14:57:31 +0000 UTC
Emily talking about recording for D20 + Murph's hair in the Ask a DM stream = SSO2???
Pamphleteer
2024-11-29 13:50:09 +0000 UTC
Just a Thursday in Canada, but have a happy holidays everybody!
Adam Kepper
2024-11-29 13:37:49 +0000 UTC
Brine Turkey and the gobblers do it again
Max Larsen
2024-11-29 13:05:46 +0000 UTC
Emily, Omo is my Unmodified Precon for game nights when I go out to the local game store and I haven't lost a game yet with it. It's such a powerful fun Precon that can be modified in so many ways
Lorelei The Succubi and Kyra The succulent snack
2024-11-29 12:18:24 +0000 UTC
I love you, eat a rat
Jake Alcott
2024-11-29 11:42:34 +0000 UTC
Murph took no time at all to volunteer himself and had it all buttoned up to protect his friends. What an absolute king. 👑
Saint Panic
2024-11-29 10:55:20 +0000 UTC
He’s my favorite integrity buff.
Bryce Peterson
2024-11-29 10:12:01 +0000 UTC
SEAHORSE IN A YANKEE WITH BRIM?!?!?!
Shy-senpai
2024-11-29 09:17:19 +0000 UTC
The one game I would absolutely love to see them play is Fiasco. It would only be good for a one shot but since it's an improv game with no prep it might make a good off week episode. 0 it's basically about a group of people hatching a stupid plan and then immediately self-destructing. It's amazing.
Larry Scott
2024-11-29 08:02:32 +0000 UTC
Orcas are once again wearing little salmon hats, they used to 37 years ago but its back in fashion as of recently
Nathaniel Levy
2024-11-29 08:01:40 +0000 UTC
I want nothing more than the chaos of Emily Axford getting flashback mechanics
Billy Peake
2024-11-29 07:58:23 +0000 UTC
I need y'all to play magic!!!!!
Riley Barnett
2024-11-29 07:35:29 +0000 UTC
Murph is such a good little paladin. Immediately volunteering to be the one to be sacrificed, he can play a shithead but he can’t escape Lawful Good in the real world.
Benjamin P Parson Gomberg
2024-11-29 06:34:31 +0000 UTC
Here's a lateral event happening soon. “The Critical Role episode featuring a Magic: The Gathering, Commander game will air on December 3, 2024 at 7 PM Pacific. The episode will be part of the EverythingIsContent series and will feature: Matthew Mercer, Liam O'brien, Ify Nwadiwe, and Emily Axford."
Canid
2024-11-29 06:07:16 +0000 UTC
Please do a MtG video! I’ve been trying to learn for so long and would love to see how y’all play!
Erin
2024-11-29 05:30:25 +0000 UTC
YOU GUYS they are recording for D20, I can’t wait for more intrepid heroes
Renee Wild
2024-11-29 05:26:16 +0000 UTC
Now that Thanksgiving is here, I think it is time to post this song; the greatest song ever written about the Grinch.
You're a Dirty One, Mr. Grinch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX1pZUwUi_U
Michael W
2024-11-29 04:36:50 +0000 UTC
happy thanksgiving two crew! and thanks for answering my silly question!!🩷
abi_all_pink
2024-11-29 04:33:16 +0000 UTC
Kids on Bikes seems like it would be a good system for a slasher-flick style one-shot. Maybe a camp counselor themed thing, like that video game Murph and Emily did voice work for
CommodoreBlue
2024-11-29 02:32:12 +0000 UTC
Shadowrun in cyberpunk ezry would rock so hard tbh
Blue Bee
2024-11-29 02:15:38 +0000 UTC
I played Call of Cthulhu once. The first thing I did was punch a widow for the contents of a cigar box. The last thing I did was punch a ghost who was masquerading as my father. There was much punching in between.
Dave 3D Art
2024-11-29 02:12:47 +0000 UTC
Super interested in an MTG mixed bag episode!
Lokee Neuman
2024-11-29 02:04:40 +0000 UTC
I’m relistening to campaign one atm and it is wild how much everyone has quite literally leveled up.
Three days since the living room
2024-11-29 01:28:25 +0000 UTC
I feel the exact same way about movies Jake. I really dislike nihilistic horror movies and nihilistic movies in general even when they are really good. Like Hereditary I can appreciate is a good horror movie but I don’t want to rewatch it ever again.
Jonah Facciolli
2024-11-29 00:28:38 +0000 UTC
There is interest in a video MBoH that features you guys playing MtG
DMAN
2024-11-29 00:01:03 +0000 UTC
Since Emily’s watched Attack of the Clones we gotta hear her review of it!!
Olivia
2024-11-28 22:06:05 +0000 UTC
Nothing makes my heart sing more than getting a return to eldermourne with hexbuds adventure. Maybe a perfect time to introduce Caldwells character, monster of the week and do it using pathfinder
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl Loved returning to the Multiverse of Mavrus Happy Hogust Hoglidays to all nd to all a good tug
2024-11-28 22:05:45 +0000 UTC
And for that I love you, eat a rat
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl Loved returning to the Multiverse of Mavrus Happy Hogust Hoglidays to all nd to all a good tug
2024-11-28 22:04:26 +0000 UTC
Omg, please do space campaign!
Peydon Bush
2024-11-28 21:55:13 +0000 UTC
MTG mixed bag pleaseeeeeeeee
Zachary Mullins
2024-11-28 21:45:30 +0000 UTC
I would be very interested in an MTG video mixed bag!
ACK
2024-11-28 20:49:55 +0000 UTC
Blades in the Dark would be an excellent system for a cyberpunk Ezry campaign! It's such a fun system and it's crime focused
Bridget Adams
2024-11-28 20:29:37 +0000 UTC
pls play on video i’ve always wanted to try magic and would love to watch and learn
Mark Friedgen
2024-11-28 20:24:32 +0000 UTC
I always wanted to see the capital of the empire in Eldermourne.
ACK
2024-11-28 20:23:26 +0000 UTC
I would literally watch a weekly magic video
Michael Green
2024-11-28 20:11:00 +0000 UTC
a lovely honk shoo to you and yours
dryptid
2024-11-28 20:02:48 +0000 UTC
Yooo, a NADDPOD mtg game would be super sick!!! I would definitely like to see that someday!
Moses Ferney
2024-11-28 19:39:57 +0000 UTC
Murph in the last question just described Major Tom from the Wasteland game series. He's a cat with a cowboy hat that eats cigarettes
Albert Snipz, Family Counselor @Mangia's Ristorante
2024-11-28 19:36:29 +0000 UTC
I’m glad we got an update on Jake being a cake guy.
Natural Dragon
2024-11-28 19:16:08 +0000 UTC
Happy Thanksgiving Y'all! We need more Axford DMing and Jake's DMDebut!
Nick Lerche
2024-11-28 19:09:32 +0000 UTC
There is a super fun (and funny) game called Die Laughing which is exactly what Murph described - all the player characters are horror movie archetypes.
It takes about 1 to 2 hours to play and would make an amazing one shot. The game can handle 7 or 8 players easily and players take turns as the director (GM) so everyone gets to play. After your character dies, you become a producer which has its own powers, so you aren’t out of the game completely.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/263554/die-laughing
I played it three times at BigBadCon and it was so fun! (shout out to Karl Kreutzer for running it!)
Aly Sylum
2024-11-28 19:05:45 +0000 UTC
Thanks Cake!!!!
Sam
2024-11-28 18:49:40 +0000 UTC
Part of me is bummed Emily didn’t wait until Attack of the Clones comes back to theaters
JustSomeKnob
2024-11-28 18:44:45 +0000 UTC
Please, I need to see Murphy pumping out goblins, pissing off other players while saying, "krenko kranks" 🤣
tatsuo takao
2024-11-28 18:43:48 +0000 UTC
I submitted an animorphs related question and really thought this was my time to shine
Patrick C McAuliffe
2024-11-28 18:30:24 +0000 UTC
Recently got into magic this year would love to watch some plays!
Jennifer Barnes
2024-11-28 18:30:07 +0000 UTC
Olaf dies
Shane C
2024-11-28 18:24:34 +0000 UTC
happy bananksgiving everyone 🫶🏻
Zo Perry
2024-11-28 18:19:38 +0000 UTC
a magic the gathering commander mixed bag with beardsley would be amazing!!
Zo Perry
2024-11-28 18:19:17 +0000 UTC
would love to watch yall play magic!! happy hoglidays 🦃
lily 😦
2024-11-28 18:11:34 +0000 UTC
Murphy said in the Ask a DM live stream that since they'll be doing shorter adventures post C3, they'll no doubt do a run with the 2024 rules at some point.
GaiusOrpheus
2024-11-28 18:06:55 +0000 UTC
I love these holiday hearthside chats. I also really want to say thank you to the entire 2 Crew for everything you guys do. Campaign 1 was my first introduction to D&D, and I feel like my appreciation and enjoyment for TTRPGs has grown alongside each campaign you all have done. Immersing myself in Bahumia and Eldermourne with you incredibly charming folks has gotten me through family troubles, a pandemic, career changes, and uncertainty about the world. Thank you band of boobs for being your wonderful selves
jackalope503
2024-11-28 18:05:10 +0000 UTC
Sometimes you get to the point in a bit where the beginning is too long ago to remember and the ending it too far forward to see
Jake Alcott
2024-11-28 18:02:19 +0000 UTC
Would love to hear yall talk more about the dnd update once yall check it out ! Like how yall did the pathfinder episode.
Bam Bambi
2024-11-28 17:59:54 +0000 UTC
YIPEEEEE
Proopypants
2024-11-28 17:39:52 +0000 UTC
Magic live play when?!?
Nathan Armstrong
2024-11-28 17:19:50 +0000 UTC
Idk the reference but you have committed to the bit so hard every time I see you comment
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl Loved returning to the Multiverse of Mavrus Happy Hogust Hoglidays to all nd to all a good tug
2024-11-28 17:17:22 +0000 UTC
Emily running call of Cthulhu would be amazing!!
Gnaeus Corbulo
2024-11-28 17:09:57 +0000 UTC
Major C3 spoilers here in case any of yall are waiting to binge or not caught up yet!
Kellyd
2024-11-28 17:09:21 +0000 UTC
Ally being into magic was not on my 2024 bingo card! Delightful to hear
Gnaeus Corbulo
2024-11-28 17:07:08 +0000 UTC
Tub brisket when?
preston packer
2024-11-28 17:05:33 +0000 UTC
Thankful for this, thankful for Medford, MA!
Jake Alcott
2024-11-28 17:01:48 +0000 UTC
Getting a real rachel dies vibe from this title
Ryanne Wallace
2024-11-28 16:49:48 +0000 UTC
Thanks for the holiday drop. Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving.
Canid
2024-11-28 16:47:31 +0000 UTC
Happy thanksgiving, yall. Hearthsides are always some of my fav 'sodes. Hope everyone is staying relaxed, warm, and holding their loved ones close :)
Nadja Nordstrom
2024-11-28 16:40:26 +0000 UTC
Working today and this has always been a difficult time. Thankful for y'all, so much
Jon
2024-11-28 16:39:39 +0000 UTC
Happy Thanksgiving to the Two Crew and Naddpoles everywhere!!! Thankful for all of you! 🙏
Courtney F.
2024-11-28 16:38:31 +0000 UTC
Cat or table feels like a question they would put on an ASD test
Charlotte Gill
2024-11-28 16:34:23 +0000 UTC
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Jason Ramirez
2024-11-28 16:32:58 +0000 UTC
I hope there's no Animorphs spoilers in this. I just started book 51.
Ben Herman
2024-11-28 16:32:35 +0000 UTC
thanks I'm going to ritually sacrifice a turkey to this !
Egg
2024-11-28 16:31:51 +0000 UTC
Happy Hoglidays and a great Bananksgiving
Squirrelly Girlie the not very girlie squirrel
2024-11-28 16:31:44 +0000 UTC
First time I have ever seen the Patreon notification come up. Truly, I am thankful 🎉🙌
Theophilus the Thistle Sifter
2024-11-28 16:31:15 +0000 UTC
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord
2024-11-28 16:30:55 +0000 UTC
I gotta work today, but at least you can keep me cozy on the bike ride there
Allen S
2024-11-28 16:30:36 +0000 UTC