Not Another D&D Podcast - Welcome to Not Another D&D Podcast! (Meet the Party)

Episode Date: February 2, 2018

DM Murph briefly talks about the setting for the campaign, then joins Emily, Jake, and Caldwell to chat about their characters! Get to know Moonshine Cybin -- a backwoods elf druid who had to leave her home, the ol' crick, cuz "something ain't right." Marvel at the athletic prowess of Hardwon Surefoot -- a human fighter raised by dwarves in a dwarphanage. Tussle the hair of Beverly Toegold the Fifth -- a halfling boy scout and member of the Green Teens Junior Paladin Association! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello orcs and gentle dwarves, it's Murf, your dungeon master for this D&D play podcast. I've got some solid players lined up, Emily Axford, Jake Herwitz and Caldwell Tanner. You'll be hearing from those guys in just a few minutes and you can hear our first full episode this coming Thursday. If you've never played D&D before, don't worry, because neither has Jake, and he's one of the hosts. So, you know, it's just collective storytelling with some dice rolling, you'll pick it up fast.

For this mini-sode, that's what I'm calling it, a mini-sode, I wanted to give you a little preview and talk about our game. So this campaign takes place in a world that has already been saved. The idea is that three legendary heroes have already gone through, defeated the big bad evil guy, and righted wrongs along the way. Jake Emily and Caldwell will start their campaign in this morally gray post-war world and have to deal with all of the problems caused by the legendary heroes on their adventure.

So I'll get more into the backstory about the world in our first episode. Right now I'm going to play for you a little intro that introduces the party. Then I'm gonna join Caldwell, Emily, and Jacob as they talk about their characters. So let's cue the temporary intro. Welcome to the campaign after the campaign. This is not another D&D podcast.

Let's meet our party. Part one, Surefoot, the bastard of the mountain. A human fighter raised by dwarves. Thick of cap and quad, six foot six of muscle and beard. The great acts of iron deep, pride of the dwarf footage. Having dug further into iron deep than any man or dwarf before him, hard one believes his next great adventure lies above ground and is set off to see the world.

Beverly Toe Gold. Pure hearted half-ling youth from the city of Galatoron, a five-leaf, green-team, novice paladin, in pursuit of the ultimate merit patches. Beverly has never disobeyed his mom and is an extremely good boy. Moon Shine Sabin, Crick Elf Druid, lover of fungus and ambassador of decay. Her people were ostracized by the high elves to the dank shores of the Crick, but now something to miss at the old Crick, accompanied by her loyal possum, pop-hop gump, freckled, ferocious, and dangerously fertile. Do you guys want to talk a little bit more about your characters, Emily?

You want to talk a little bit more about your characters, Emily? You want to talk a little bit more about moonshine before we get started? moonshine, cyber, cyber is my favorite. Yeah, moonshine, cyber. moonshine, cyber, you know, she's kind of a backwards elf. She met a high elf that probably turned their nose down at her, but moonshine wouldn't really give a fuck. There's some unnatural happenings down at the creek,

so the creek elves are looking for a new place to stay. So I heard some of them animals done dying. Some of them animals done dying, the creek elves are starting to get worried. They're fixing to make a move. Cricks drying up. Cricks drying up. Something's happening down at the creek.

Something's amiss at the creek. Well, come quick. Mima, come quick. Something's amiss at the creek.. Well, come quick. Mima, come quick. Something's a miss of the crick. What's the matter, Papa? Is it the crick? Papa ain't acting right. Papa, of course, is the possum.

Yeah, Papa is. How likely is it that Papa is just a stuffed possum? It's just a stuffed possum? He's always getting in the trash. He is actually getting in the trash. But so now she's wandering the world of Bahumia. She's got a little side project, which is collecting a sport library, which is basically at the time she sees a mushroom.

She collects some spores from it so that she'll always be able to make more of it. But she's got an overall big pocket full of mushrooms that are native to the creek so that she can, she can try to plant them in other climates and see what sort of environment they take a shine into because maybe the creek elves can move there. So like anytime we kill someone during the campaign,

you're just gonna plant a mushroom on their corpse. It's that kind of your calling card. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm just gonna sprinkle a couple spores and then when they see the dead body and they're like, there's mushrooms growing up. Moonshaw's been here.

That's it. Sibin. Call though, you don't have to talk about Beverly a bit. Yeah, Beverly is a 14, 15-year-old halfling from the city of Galatoron, kind of a privileged and pampered youth. He comes from a long line of Beverly's. He's actually the fifth Beverly in his line. And as I mentioned, he's a city halfling, which is a specific kind of subset of halfling

that, unlike most halfling shapes their feet and paints them a color, they paint their toes and the tops of their feet. Yeah. Since they live in an urban environment, they have no need to keep that hairy kind of rough look about them. I do want to warn you that moonshine's feet

are dirty and callous. Yeah, and that's gonna take some getting used to for young Beverly. You have to do it differently. Is there to shave your feet even on your journey? Absolutely. And keep them pretty cool. Or do you have to go to the top of the top?

For the redding, do you get threatened? That's cool. For their foot hair too. That city living. Gross slower than a normal halfling or does it grow in pretty much every day? I think it still grows in. You know, it's just like a five o'clock foot shadow.

And I think it, Beverly is very excited that his foot here has just started growing in. He's like just been shaving for like a year, I think maybe. Oh, like a point of pride. So this is kind of like a point of pride for him for sure. And like it's dancing. So maybe he only has like little peach fuzz feet. Yeah.

He's got little peach fuzz feet. But he's like making a big deal. He's always like, oh, before we go, I mean, I really got a shave. I really got a shave. It looks like you already have. And he's also like a boy scout. He's part of the green team.

He's part of the green teams, which is a junior paladin organization. He's a five leaf. There's, it's a six leaf system. The green teams are on. And when you reach six leaves, you become a full-fledged junior green night and all of the Beverly's in his family have been green nights and that's kind of the path that he's on. He's not sure if he actually wants to become a green night

but being a six leaf green teen is very good for your academy application. Flash forward 15 years from now when Caldwell has three boys and he has started the green teens for real Someone someone on our Absolutely our other podcast the Ape at Book Club somebody on that subreddit Suggested the name instead of green teens boy pals Paladins I really like green teens so I think what it'll be, it'll be sort of boy pals is sort of the Cub Scout to the green teens boy scout.

Oh yeah. Okay, I mean, if everyone's like, oh, you're your boy pal? No. No, it's already a boy pal. Yeah. I graduated beyond the boy pal.

I graduated from boy pal. I got, Oh, isn't that cute? It's a boy pal. I got all my patches from boy pal. And that's what sends him into a barbarian race. Don't you know,

I'm just on a boy pal. Just look at these, look at these beads that I have here. Each one represents a year, from Boy Pal. And that's what sends him to a barbarian race. Don't you want to be on a Boy Pal? Just look at these beads that I have here. Each one represents a year as a Boy Pal. So I'm kind of trying to get the last required merit patches necessary to become a six-leaf green junior junior junior green night. Yes, but those are very rare patches. So that's kind of like why I'm going on this journey is to try and claim those last patches.

Yeah. And you guys are all level. You have the patches. You just haven't sewed them on, right? Just imagine. You carry around all that. Oh, I have a lot of patches. Just imagine if that was the last year of being like a boy, of going from Cub Scout to

Eagle Scout. If it was like, cool. Now in your 16th year, you leave and live in the woods for a year. And that's how you become a Eagle Scout. I wish you were 17 if you were not dead. Yeah, your parents strip you new and give you a knife. That's how I got my Eagle Scout badge. So you're the badge you're looking for is probably since you're you are a level two paladin right level three if you take

The oath of ancients and become a green knight, right? You can speak to animals So that's probably the patch you're looking for yeah animal animal the animal relations animal relations I hope that I hope that pop on I hope that pop on like when you speak to a pop on my my possum He has like a really eloquent voice. Oh, absolutely. He is second wise. I can already tell you Papa is a dumb hit. He's so stupid. I'll tell you the wise things Papa says.

Moonshot, you're gonna see how sick Papa is. He was very eloquent. I, I think that he's, I'm like 90% sure he's dead. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait I have my little battle station here with my DMs. I'm like a dorky Howard Stern. I've got this guy behind the glass back here. This guy is dope, I think. A dorky Howard Stern. I'm gonna chisel that on your gravestone. I just haven't chiseled anything on it.

I'm gonna do a roll to see how powerful your baba buoy is. All right, first of all, 15. Wow. That's a pretty good job. Baba buoy, first of all, 15. Wow. That's a pretty good time. Boba Buoy, Boba Buoy. Say, 15 times. So, hard one, why don't you tell me about yourself? You fuck any chicks at a brothel.

Oh geez. It's gross. Oh. Tell me what was that like? This is, there's something about the, like the Howard's Tim. I'm really asking. I'm doing it. You guys are back in couches,

and I'm at a desk, and it's a real position of power. Yeah, sure. You're higher up. You have this, like, there's literally a fire breathing dragon staring at me right below you. Would you guys think it would be distracting for the podcast if I just had like a lip full of chew, like during it, do you think that the mic would pick it up.

I just feel like moonshine would. I mean, if you're gonna share it. Yeah, if you like my hate chewing on podcasts, so if you just did, yeah. Okay, Jake, do you wanna tell me a little bit about hard one? So he was raised in a dwarf an inch, right? He was raised, yes, he was left on the foot of the Iron Deed Mountains.

And as Emily, I have to give you credit for the Dwarf footage, so he's raising the Dwarf footage. He was almost raised by the entire community of Dwarves under the mountain, raised by the mountain you could say. Wow. He made a real name for himself

because he's a big, strong human towering over the Dwarves and he was amazing at mining the mountain. I'm just a picture you met a bar talking to a woman being like, I guess you could say my father was a mountain. Yeah, and that's exactly the kind of thing that he would do. To hard one, he's like the best athlete, the best high school athlete at a really shitty school, like big fish small pond.

Oh, I guess. Right, because he's around all these real heavy dwarves that can't climb or anything. So he thinks he's the best rock climber and everything. And in the mountains, he's, he leaves and he's like, I am the most famous person in Iron Deep. And everyone's like, well, we've never heard of anyone

that came out of this. Yeah, so like, did they just, to everyone else, he's just a big dumb dude that is walking around. You're like a really,'re like a legend, though. Really tall American in another country. Yeah, and then people, Torres are asking to take pictures with you and stuff.

I feel like you're like a traveling blonde. I feel like blondes when they travel to other countries. People are like, wow, you're magical. That's what I'm hoping for. I feel like you started track and field at your school just so you could be better at it than everyone else. That's it. Okay guys, let's be through with Javelin.

What's with Javelin? It doesn't matter. It's like you racing. It's a fucking stick, I can do it. Oh man. Just a hard one racing a bunch of dwarves and then being such a poor sport winner and just being like,

so good. So good. You can't keep up. That is it for episode zero guys. Hope you enjoyed hearing us talk about our party. Please subscribe to the podcast and listen to our first episode when it drops this Thursday. That's when we'll actually be playing the game. So thanks for listening.

May Bahamut keep you and may the Baba Yaga not take you this night. That was a Hate Gum podcast.