Not Another D&D Podcast - Hearthside Chat Q&A: Home for the Hoglidays

Episode Date: December 23, 2022

Speedy Greetings, everyone! To celebrate the Hoglidays, the 2 Crew gathers by the fire to answer your burning questions about Campaign 3 AS WELL AS a bunch of vaguely seasonal questions about winter traditions, the Holidays and more. We also (predictably) get way too deep into Reindeer Lore. Merry Hogsmas and a Happy Sonikkah to all! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Yeah. Oh, my side chat. Wait, this is the way to the main feed. We can't be doing the short rest sound. Well, it's on our side chat. We're getting cozy. We're getting dangerously close to the fire. I'm wearing some thick cotton socks

and I'm putting them just oh so close. They're burning up. Oh, and they're're fast fashion so they catch on fire real quick. Oh, yeah There's their dialogue. You shouldn't remove the guard the fireplace screen. Come on, bud. Oh, it's fusing It's fusing with my toes. So we gathered some questions from our patreon and we're gonna answer them with a little twist with a Hoglade twist happy hogladeys everybody happy and we're gonna answer them with a little twist with a little holliday twist. Happy holliday's everybody. Happy holliday. So we got questions about the campaign, about kind of NAD pod this year, campaign three.

News boring. News boring. Fucking likes that bullshit. It's wonderful, it's great, but it's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit.

It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. It's not the holliday spirit. the Hogladei spirit that happened to be in in this current. Yeah, it can't shud on them too much because we will have to answer some of this. Yeah. We do run a D&D shirt. And we did ask for that. Yeah. And they are good questions. Yeah. We're just overcome with the Hogladei spirit.

So we also got Hogladei questions. Right. And so what we're going to do is we're going to roll. And on a one through a ten we answer something about the campaign. On a one through twenty we answer a Hogladei question. Yeah. That's the thing about the Hogl'll live in through 20, we answer a holliday question. Yeah. That's the thing about the holliday's, you never know when it's coming.

Right. And specifically, we're using a dice, given to us by Andrew T. and Savannah, that they made just for Merf, which is inspired by Mountain Dew and Monster Energy, and it's like a nuclear-green-dice. Absolutely sick. One of the key ingredients in a hogliday nog is Mountain Dew. And with that, why don't I go ahead and roll this electric green dyes.

So gross. All right, let's do what I get. Yeah. Oh, it's a hogliday, man. Happy hogliday, Sam Radd. Happy hogliday is right off the bat. Happy hogliday is getting Hogladei spirit. The Hogladei's.

So this one is for everybody, but I'll direct it first to Little Drummer Brie. Wow. Yes. Oh, I love it. Jeff Free writes, best Christmas present you've ever gotten. We'll send it around the table. Oh, I remember being super pumped about the Sega Genesis when I got it late.

I didn't have the first one. There was like a first one that had a little switch on it that like clicked over. So I didn't have like the first one, but my friend had it. So I was super obsessed with it. And I finally got a Sega. I think my Christmas when I was in second grade.

And I remember like, I wanted it so bad. Did you ask, what did you write a letter to Santa? I don't think I wrote a letter to Santa. I was a little bit religious, so I kind of just, I just kind of prayed Santa. I thought Santa could like, read my thoughts. I think yeah, we all thought that Santa was like in like the pantheon.

If Santa's magic, why do we need to write to him? He's a saint. Yeah, Saint Nicholas. Exactly. I grew up half Jewish and we had to circle what we wanted for Christmas in the catalog. Santa really needed to be told exactly. You also grew up with so many siblings,

so that's just parents who are like, we don't have time. Christmas morning was so exciting because this year volume of presents was just really huge. Because there was six years. But then when it was all said and done and you had your tiny little pile, you always felt underwhelms. How were there a hundred presents in the week 10 for me?

Did your parents ever pad the tree? Because I've started doing that for our family now, where I just like the look of a full tree. Oh, you just put empty boxes in? full tree. With a whole lot of gifts. You just put empty boxes? Not empty boxes, but like if I'm getting like a gift for myself or like say that we're like buying a new cast iron pan. Or something like that.

You'll throw that shit under the tree. Oh yeah, yeah. I'll do that if I get like two shirts for Emily from the same place. I'll like crack it open and separate the shirt. So if you present under the tree, you gotta get the spread. Yeah.

Yeah, that is nice. Yeah, what are your guys favorite? I have a very specific memory mainly because my family razzed me about it for years afterwards. And if you brought it up to this day, they would. It was when we first got like a Dell PC, I think. Yes. I remember specifically it had a Pentium 2 processor chip

And I was like I guess like eight or nine and I remember like jumping up and down to be like oh my god It's got a Pentium 2 process Your dad just punched you in the So it's on the mind and then like every year afterwards like my whole family be like it's gonna Pentium 2 processor That's a great joke. It's gonna bring him up. I'll be right back to see your family. You actually did it, it's a big joke. They're kinda right, man.

You're looking weird. I know they're right, okay? My best Christmas present was the chat-acquins, signature Dave Matthews guitar that I got junior year of high school. Wow. Try making fun of that asshole. So defensive.

Who's Chad Atkins? I think it was another guitarist and Dave Matthews played a chat atkins, Gibson guitar. So like a legendary partnership. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, so it wasn't, it had nothing to do with Dave except Dave liked that guitar.

This was Dave's guitar, yeah. It was Dave's guitar, but it's Chet's guitar. Right, exactly. Yeah, okay. Great, yeah. You love Dave so much, that was your's guitar. Yeah, it was Dave's guitar, but it's Chet's guitar. Right exactly. Okay, okay great You love Dave so much. That was your favorite present. You know, yeah, you can get like a bike when you were I got in in N64. I got a bike One Chris miss my dad gave me a pocket knife his grandfather had handed down to him Yeah, but you can't be fucking Jimmy thing on a bike. Can you? I don't know what that is. What's that?

That's a Dave Matthew song. Yeah, I know. This is interesting, but it's no dancing dancing. And what was your favorite Dave Matthew's gift? I didn't get any Dave Matthew's gift. My sister was the Dave Matthew's gift. What was your favorite gift though? I remember my worst gift. Okay. That's actually great.

That's great. That's actually another. You looked at me, was it from me? No, it's from a long time ago. Okay, good. By the way, that's another question. Oh, so yeah, go ahead. Okay. My mom's dad gave me a hard rock cafe shirt

to somewhere he went. Hahaha. Very, I did like hard rock Atlanta. I was like hard rock heaven. Okay, it's pretty sick. Okay. I'm a nine year old from Albany. It was like literally maybe even younger than that.

You can wear this to school and your friends will think you went to Minneapolis. Yeah. Could you imagine being good day, gonna be? Everyone's just being like, how am I supposed to feel about this? Wait, did anyone else have like a weird like hard rock cafe cred thing at their school? Where like people would wear like a hard rock cafe shirt and be like, holy shit. You went to the hard rock cafe. Really? Okay, so maybe that was just going up because he was from the south.

So maybe that was going on. You went on from fucking Nashville. There's something great music venues there and everything. Yeah, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah. You were going on, yeah.

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They were like the hot young contender. Oh Yeah, rain forest cafes they were they were never loose on the street Where they always in the mall I guess you can get a loose There's a loose one there's You can't pay. I know what it is. What are you saying? Yeah, there's a loose one. There's one that's straight up a fru-can-volcano. Oh, Disney Springs and Disney World. Oh, yeah? That's as loose as you get.

Yeah. It's very loose, yeah. And there's one in Death Valley. And that's the only building there. Really? Just like the Rainforest Cafe. Super loose. Yeah, so it's very loose.

Oh, wow. Yeah, interesting. They did missile testing. In your body So it's very loose. Yeah. Wow. They did missile testing. In the kitchen. Yeah. With that, I think it's time to move on. Okay.

Is that one more roll if we get hot today? Here at Campaign 3. Okay. Okay. I got it. Roll the three for Campaign 3. That is cool. Okay.

So first question. Actually, does that really roll? Why don't we direct it at Emily Ask Words? Jesus Lord. King. King. King. Is that my role? Why don't we direct it at Emily ask words? Lord Jake They're just all piercing arrows right into my heart. I love it Everyone at home is currently standing to give you a standing over you even if you're driving Driving give Jake a standing up. I'm steady now. What is the question, but I'm asking you words.

Yeah, really? I just filled it down to its base components. Yeah. All right, Lexi H asks, question for Emily. Any tips on managing stocked spells for characters like Druid's When Sessions Span, several in-game days? I'm a new player, and I play with a lot of non-casters,

and often find myself struggling to keep my list ready. Yeah, I mean, really, I like having the definitely like having your cards is really helpful. I have been using for like current campaign three. I basically use D&D Beyond because I realized I was missing a character sheet like I missed the tactile experience, so I have a written out character sheet that I refer to for skills and stuff like that, but I'm digital for spells. Yeah, digital for spells is great. It's kind of the easiest version. As much as it feels very romantic

to hold the little cards, I think it ended up being, especially with a druid where you have so many spells, it's kind of the most practical. Right, so go dittled. Yeah, and it's digital. Yeah, go dittled. Go dittled. Go dittled.

Go dittled. It's the holidays. Go dittled. Sometimes when I misspeak, I know that it will be edited out. But if everyone makes fun of me, I know that it has to stay in it. It's more down. And I was really hoping that would not get an action. And it escaped that day.

Yeah. It had breathing room on either side. My other thing you looked down is the problem. I absolutely didn't get a sock in it. I clocked your reaction to you and I'm gonna replay it. When I mess up, when I mess up, I just look mad and I hold my hands up to be like everyone's dumbstreet to really get up to this.

Think of I did that, you guys would click and do even more of that. You have to be real. You have to be real. You have to be me for a long time. To get that kind of respect. To hold out your hands and be like, don't make fun of me.

That's not inviting the wolves. No, it's not about, it's not about don't make fun of me. It's like, I'm trying to read the recap here. And I have to edit this later. Please don't make this harder for me. Oh, man. Obviously, I mean, yeah, you guys make fun of me. What is that?

I'm gonna make fun of me. God! Edit this out! Edit this out. Edit this out. Diddling is what we say when you misspeak now, right? Yeah, that's just officially what it is. Cool.

I mean, it is. It's not at all. Can you cut out that dittling made earlier? I refuse to live in this reality. I demand to live this down immediately. Okay, call the way you want to give this thing a roll. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Come on.

Give her a roll. 18. Nice. Take me to the hot. Love it. So why don't we direct this one to? Happy Holidays. All I want for Christmas is you.

Oh! Oh! More standing ovation, please. Ask some words. Ask some words. Ask some words. Reading under pressure writes, what would be the best Christmas movie to be trapped in? Ooh, the best Christmas movie to be trapped in.

This one can be open to the floor. Obviously, yeah, but you've got great name right? So what's the, yeah. So you can start it and then, what, the best Christmas movie? I guess you best start it. I just feel like, you know, like and then what Best Christmas movie. Um, I just feel like you know like muppets Christmas Carol. That's just like a good reality to live I guess it is Victorian England so that's not

It's like everything sucks, but there's muppet You're smuffin' or that ass muffin' in the movie. Yeah, don't be a shit in the story. Where are you sick? We're gonna drain your blood. Look how funny the doctor is. We're not gonna come in.

Michael can is human. I think there's some other humans that all have their soul. I don't know what that they're seeing. Is it just Michael can? No, he doesn't. He has like a next guy right? He's got a different life.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying like, as I'm dying of consumption, if I see that little shrimp, if I see that little shrimp hanging out with Gonzo. I think I'm just saying like as I'm dying of consumption if I see that little shrimp If I see it little shrimp hanging out with gone so Michael can Absolutely try and get shredded what's wrong? Pepe I think is the shrimp thing? Yeah. That little shrimp would like put it just

really, I could believe in God in a Muppet world. Wow. That's good. Yeah, that's a good one. It has some like horrifying implications of like you are just in Victoria. With a bunch of Muppets. It's like, oh my God, how do I find companions? Yeah, everyone's a Muppet. Uh-huh.

I plan on watching Die Hard this year for the first time. Okay, Die Hard would be bad. I'm just not bad. I didn't look at you. Our world, but there's just an extra terrorist attack. Right. So I was thinking maybe that would be interesting. And only one action hero can solve anything.

Yeah, but like Bruce Willis would probably be like more, I would have a better chance of meeting him in the die hard world. Because you're just so famous. I would probably meet him. Yeah, super interesting. There's a better answer, which is Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, which is one of my favorite holiday films.

So there's a lot of muppets in your family. There's a few, man. And it's actually pretty disturbing. Can you imagine being friends with a muppet? Like, you're a real life. Christmas. How good would that be? If you just walk down the street and then just like a fuzzy little guy pops out the

window and says, hey, cold, where are we going? I think the muppets are funny, but I don't want to be friends with them. Yeah, I was going to say I'd like to watch them and then it's over. It is true, on Sesame Street, all the humans are kind of put upon. They're like having to deal with Elmo shit a little bit. Oh, you don't want to hang out with Elmo. I can have a beer with stat learned Waldor. Absolutely.

Guys, we can't get super thrilled. It's a good idea. There's too much Muppets. We're trying to sell out recently. I like them up, but we do need to. We have to. We have to. We've got to put the braids., but we do need to. We have to go. We gotta put the brakes. We can't really do short rest and talk about muppies for 20 minutes a get.

Hit our quota, I understand. Hard time thinking of Christmas. I got one. It's home alone, home alone for me. Also that implication. I mean, that one, the worst fucking crime is the sticky bandits, just like Rob People's House. Yeah. It's fine. Everybody lives in a, just like, rob people's houses. Yeah. Yeah.

And everybody lives in a fucking mansion in Chicago. Yeah. Going on vacations. And mom and dad are fucking gone. Yeah. That's cool. So in this, you are, Michael E. Colocken. Absolutely.

And you're very clever. You're very clever. You're clever little boy. I'm home alone and I'm watching movies. But nice cream, eating pizza, making mac and cheese. But there's a very scary furnace in the basement, Jake. Did you consider that? I feel like just since I'm older now,

I could probably, I'd be okay with this. I would be fine. You could also just live the movie. You can just stay in your home by yourself. Yeah. Yeah. But this has to be a loan on Chris Living. You have to be like, hey, mom, I'm trying to live,

I'm trying to live out something here. Can you call me an actor? Wait, get some juice to break in. And they're kind of menacing. They're also pretty funny. You can do this thing. I want to move to the suburbs. Yeah.

Jake, I think you could pull this off. I think that like you, when you and Jill and Tucker are going to Florida for your Christmas vacation, annually, yeah. You just get like a body double to pretend to be you. Interesting. I bet they would notice. By the time they get all so. your Christmas vacation. You just get like a body double to pretend to be you. Interesting. I bet they would notice. By the time they get all so.

That they also got a body double to try and trick you out of going. Oh, they're really different. By the time they get to the airport, you're scot free. And then you can terrorize a pizza delivery guy. Yeah, that's, oh, I do want to, yeah, I want to be mean to delivery people. Yeah. And I want to shoot a baby gun in my house. What about just nightmare before Christmas?

I was going to say that. Oh, yeah. That's just a cool world. That's great. That's great. Because then you could live in Halloween town. That's great. But it's still technically a Christmas Halloween town.

And also think about all the other holiday towns that you could go to. Yeah. You just hop in a tree. Right. You got a freaking Easter. You're a world. You're a world. You go to freaking Easter. You go to the world. You go to the world. Saint Patrick's Dayland. Yeah.

There's a reason they only went in the one door. Yeah. What would everyone's Halloween town, Sonah be? Like would you be like one of the little like creepy kids with a mask? Oh, weird little guy would you be an Iggy Boogie? I've actually never seen this movie. What?

I never saw it. I watched Die Hard. You watched Nightmare Before Christmas. Let's rendezvous. All right, cool, yeah. Meet up in the New Year's, see you in 2023. We'll be changed people. You're a Skellyhead.

I've shaved my actual head to look like Christmas. Yeah, stitches in my fucking face. Emily heard her feet for some reason. I would say I have to be the pumpkin king. What I would do is I would lock the door behind Jack and steal his identity. When he goes to the Christmas world, I would just lock the door and say, now I am the pumpkin king. Okay, so you would be like a con man. Yeah, that's cool. That's pretty cool. A con, Skellyhead. Scally head. That's great. Yeah, I would just be your dog. Be zero the guest. I think I will be like a pile of bones that sometimes like animated to be a person and

and would play your bones like a xylophone or something. Yeah, I would basically be like, have you guys ever been to an aswary which is like a bone cathedral made of bones? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I thinkWary, which is like a bone cathedral made of bones from people who died in the play. I think I would be like essentially like a moving pile of bones that could take on different shapes. I keep trying to go, but it's just always booked. The Osu-Wary? Yeah.

It's just really popular this time of year. Yeah. Let's roll for the next one. Yeah. It's an 11 baby. It's a 12-year-old. It looks like a holiday. Wow, it's like we're on the polar Express

Yeah, and Sonic's yeah I'm like just playing Sonic actually haven't seen the polar Express but that seems like that would be a fine one to be in You're just on like a train. Yeah, you're on a train. Yeah, I don't really fast though. There's the train I think so it's got to get all the way to the North Pole. That's fine. Yeah That's it honestly it sounds just really lovely. It's a train for children. It's fast, but probably safe. But the problem is, I wouldn't want to be

on there with all those kids. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They will be. You'd rather be home alone. I'm telling you. That's nice. I'm home alone anytime I'm going to sit in town.

It's not bad. You guys are missing out, being covered in coal with all the other muppets as we work our shift. Okay, this question is for Hark the Harold Axford San. This is my gift. This is my gift. Actually, it's a pretty interesting question.

Chris asks, holiday themed questions. If you could, would you hook up with Santa or his wife? And I don't think that's like an either or. It's just like either are either of them interesting to you. I would say that Mrs. Claus is more interesting to me than Santa Claus. He's kind of like really straightforward. We don't know enough about her. She's mysterious, right? Yeah, that's true. That's true. I would cock Santa. Is that right? Yeah. I mean, you know when to do it. Right? There's definitely 24 hours left.

Yeah. And the rest of the time he's probably busy in his shop. Yeah. But that's not the enemy you want. Santa Claus. Oh, that's true. He knows where he lives. Yes.

He knows when you're awake. Yeah. He knows if you've been back. He definitely knows. Santa knows if you've fucked his life. Yeah, he does. It all that. He definitely knows. Santa knows if you fucked his wife. Yeah, he does kinda know. It sounds like the tag to cooking claws. Yeah. I think anything that happens in the claws household,

I think everyone in the claws family knows about it. So I think you gotta do, I think it's gotta be Santa. Pincensual has gotta be Luke's claws, yeah. Yeah, right. There's something like hot though about the woman behind the great man that everyone talks about that no one knows about, right? And she's like secretly not satisfied. She's like secretly the fucking mastermind of the whole thing.

Right. I think you would have to like make it a long-con situation where like you are one of the elves. Uh-huh. And you're just like talking to Miss Clause a lot. You're like, hey, I need you to sign these forms. You know, I'm so excited to be here. That's how you come onto an egg.

I've got some forms to have forms for you to sign. But you go into our office and you sit up on our desk a little bit as you say it. Yeah. And you're like, you can use whatever kind of pen you want. Even red. So just feel like. Oh, huh. I guess this isn't the load bearing desk.

See, I broke it a little bit. Shit, I have to go get some new forms. Can anyone make a case for the attractiveness of Santa Claus? He's a big powerful man, certainly. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's in charge, which is hot. Yeah, you're right. And he does it with a smile. He's a big powerful man, certainly. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's in charge, which is hot. Yeah, you're right. And he does it with a smile.

He has a cool car. Cool confidence, cool car. Yeah, he's a nice to animals. Nice to animals. Nice to animals. I don't know. Does having a bunch of brain tea or anything in your service?

He's got a lot of occasion days. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And he's giving. Uh-huh. Right, giving, selfless. Okay. And sometimes he wears a Hawaiian shirt

and drinks Coca-Cola. The outfit, is that like loud festive? Uh-huh, yeah, he's very proud of his look. He's like not ashamed to like be bold. Yeah, like living in the North Pole, you would think that you'd be wearing like animal fur that are like dark and stuff and woolen, but he's just wearing like a silly red suit.

And I feel like normally a beard that long is like really gross, but he's clearly putting a lot of attention into it. I feel he has a big dick. Okay. Yeah. I think he does seem like, he's another problem with Sanit.

He goes bad, he knows everything. You know what I mean? I could seem being clingy, but he knows everything he knows what you want, right? Right. But what if you hook up, it goes so well and it comes over on December 29th, too. Like, hey, let's Christmas again. And you're like, whoa, all right.

You can find the new bond to the next season. Like once you're in the year. Yeah. Right. And then just be time to show it up. It's gonna be clingy. That's something that I need to consider. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. And then just be time to show him up. I can be clingy. That's something that I need to consider. Yeah, okay, okay.

All right, so it seems like everybody is kind of a maybe. Yes, so we're here. We'll maybe fuck Santa, we'll see. Hard to ghost. Yeah, I'm literally, we've had one question about it. I'm gonna roll, I know I'm gonna get a hoggly day question. 90% of the audience is all about the hoggly day questions, and there's somebody sitting there with like a DM's guide

being like, please tell me how to play the game. Scrooge is called this. And we're just talking about having sex with Santa Claus. There we go. Yeah, I see. Just for them. So I'll ask a very crunchy question then. OK.

A Y and Murphy. Wow. Woo! Woo! How has Murphy stepped up his encounter planning? It's always been amazing, but so far, Campeon, but so far, Campeon? No, no, no, no, no, no.

He did it all, he did it all. He did it all. No, no, no. Hey, Ditto Ditto. What does? Oh my God, another Ditto. He did it all. Oh my God, another Ditto.

Campaign three has been blowing my mind and I've been stealing lots of it. So thank you. What inspiration has been there and what process is there for planning them out? Yeah, thank you very much. I think that with Campaign three, I think that we're in a little bit of a position

where we do have to keep like, upping the ante or at the very least, we've gotten to a point where we can't just do like, you guys fight five bully wugs and we just, you guys take your hits, they take their hits and that's it. And first of all, Saul would be kind of like appalled. If you did that. Yeah, he does not want to have to hit another frog.

Right, but yeah, I think that having like lots of movement and the battlefields changing and everything, and even the encounter in the first episode of the campaign was you guys chasing those rat dudes on catching them on the cart like that. The cable cart zip line. Yeah, the cable cart zip line. So it's not even something as complicated

as adding a ton of mechanics or something. It's just like making the battlefield interesting. Yeah. It's always more fun instead of just being like, I run 30 feet along the grass to the other guy in the middle of the field. It's always more fun to be like, you guys are on top of a building. And this other guy's three roofs away. You got to do an acrobatics check to jump from one roof to the other to just after them.

But then other than that, it's kind of a straightforward mechanics like under the hood. Have there been any encounters that you feel particularly proud of? Wow. One that has not come out yet. Oh, I'm proud of that one too. That's the best advice. Let's give that thing another roll. I crit. Oh!

I crit so we can do campaign or the Haglidae. You gotta do Haglidae. You gotta do Haglidae? I think so. Why do we do one of each? With the crit, it's one of each. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's cool.

Joseph Mick D asks, how does Dice Christ prefer we celebrate Christmas? Oh, you know, we talk about. Pickle your dice, of course. Yeah, yeah. Pickle your dice. Put them by the moonlight, pick a little fresh. Is there maybe some sort of ritual where you leave your dice out for Dice Christ?

And like, oh, it's like leaving cookies out for. Yeah, and then Dice Christ comes. You leave your ones out, and then D leave your what you leave your ones out and then dice Christ comes along and turn. That's long as long as we're freshly pickled. Yeah. And is there any gifts? If you've been that's how you find out if you've been a good PC. Right. If dice Christ comes and turns your ones. If you if you've been bad dice Christ strangles you in your sleigh.

We don't talk about how brutal the religion is. Yeah, it's pretty intense. Maybe I also like to maybe dice-crice like if you're very good, believe you like a little home-brew item. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, a cloak of invisibility. You've just never been able to see it in your house. Yeah.

Yeah. Some people say that dice-crice is actually the DM, but like I believe you have to have a little dungeon magic. I think you have to believe it. Oh, that's good. Yeah. And I think that it's actually dice crisis leaving those home baritums for you. That's cool.

Yeah. Okay. What do you think you do instead of a stocking for dice criss-t? Mm. It was a dice bag, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's good. It's really all one-to-one here. Yeah.

No, it's all it. It's buttoned up to me. Yeah, we figured it out, we solved it. Okay. You still leave out milk, though, for some reason. Well, here's a campaign question called, What Would Hugh Do? Another shoe based. What would Hugh Do?

Uh, Casa D, writes, How Would Saul and Albe Celebrate the Holidays at Launchpad? Oh, here it go. Wow. That's fun. I think we like briefly mentioned some sort of like bullshit holiday called Feastmas or something like that. The Feastmas ball or something like that.

Yeah. Or there's like an exchanging of food or something like that. So it's just like a glorified potluck. Yeah, I think it would just be like, as the world is falling apart around them, there's just a magical fake snow coming down on the university and everything is perfect and wonderful. It's like a little holiday adventure. Yeah, the gargol is singing a song that's like everything is fine. Everything is wonderful. Look at the snow. Look at your friends.

Frog Pal, we have to save mothership. I'll get my sweater. I think that, yeah, it's like, there is probably like a simulated adventure every year where they have to save Santa. Yeah, it's just like, at a certain point, you have to wonder like how just accident prone is this old man. They're like, they're saving him every year. And I think it would be like, high in propaganda.

You could be like, feel like, thank God for this mothership technology. We never would have been able to save Santa. Thank God for these new air pods. Yeah. All right, sweet. You wanna give that thing another roll? Oh yeah, it's back to you.

Oh, back to me. What would you do? What would you do? What would you do? What would you do? Chandler Tanner, 14. All right, respect the hoglet. It's the hoglet.

These dice are incredible. The hoglet is, these dice are incredible. The hog has come home, sir, smut, rights. If you could switch to holidays, what would they be? Oh, switch to. Oh, so you just have like Christmas in November and this is what Thanksgiving is? Yeah, that would probably be the most and not the most one.

I don't, yeah, it would be, I guess. But I do feel like Christmas Earth. Thanks to be as a nice ramp towards Christmas. Like that's cute. And Halloween in the summer would be really fun. Almost like an early spring Halloween, so it's almost an emergence rather than basically everyone's wearing costumes.

Easter and Halloween seem like that would be. I thought the only problem is, the only note is that I do like it when it's like a little spooky and cold outside. The leaves are changing for Halloween. I agree, I would just say. However, I do remember being very mad as a kid when you'd be in like a cool costume and then it'd be like you had to wear coat and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Emily's on to something with this kind of like mid-Somar level festival where everyone's kind of dressed as like sprites and pixies and like it's sort of an unawakening ritual. We're like, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I think I'm inventing a new holiday rather than I like that, right?

Or not inventing. I'm sure there's one that exists, but I'm suggesting a different holiday rather than just switching holidays. We should just do costumes in May too. I know. That's what I'm trying to say. I could get into spree or somewhere.

Mace first was all dressed like fairies. I think Labor Day and Memorial Day, because I get those two confused all the time, and it's... Yeah, but they're, yeah, yeah, okay. I'm gonna say a little controversial, I think that we should move Christmas to actually put it in July,

because I think that like, or move Thanksgiving because I think that like- I can move Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving Christmas, like, conjunction too much. It's too much. Yeah, I like it. I love it. I love it.

It's like the only time of the year that things actually slow down. Everything is just go, go, go, go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think like, I think that you just, you keep the same amount of break, but like there's no like Thanksgiving run up. There's no like Thanksgiving runway.

You just have like, like a month of Christmas. So I'm kind of Thanksgiving in the summer would also be good, just like a huge feast in the middle of the summer. Oh, like a barbecue? Yeah. Yeah. I think Thanksgiving gets kind of swallowed up

in the December holidays. Yeah, if you're always deciding when do I go home home for the whole of holidays. I think it could get. Yeah, I'm sure it's exciting. When do I go home home? Yeah, both of them. I can't do this. Yeah, especially if you live far away from where you grew up. And it's like, well, I'm going to go home for, I'm going to go home on like November 25th and December 25th.

Give me a week of hot dogs in the summer. Just like instead of a turkey, you just somehow make one really big hot dog. Oh, that would be kind of cool, because then I feel like that would change the Thanksgiving food, right? It would have to. Yeah, because thanks to you having a good food, it's through like root-based food. Yeah, I would. Much prefer a fucked-down hot dog something.

Yeah, are you kidding me? Yeah. Hot dogs with like a circle of burgers around it. I think we're describing worth a joy. Yeah. There could be like a hot dog eating contest. I love that for Thanksgiving. By the word.

That's just non-patriotic for the July. Which is kind of what we need. I think we're out of something here. Everybody likes hot dogs. The feast of July. I don't know. It's just a... We're thinking about a eliminating Thanksgiving.

It's sort of combining it with the Fourth of July. I'm thinking of the Vatour and the Food. Yeah. And focusing on the food. We should just be more of a hot dog-based holiday. Yeah. Oh, that's what we celebrate. We're celebrating.

What are we celebrating? We're celebrating. What are we celebrating? We're celebrating. What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? What are we celebrating? I put them in my mouth. Oh, I need the dogs across the world from the north to the South. You've got I think the one stands that was all we needed Just the one stands that was the joke

Let's put a period Let's roll that dice That was We had to talk about our stupid show Let's roll that dice roll. That's it. That one. Oh! That means we have to talk about our stupid show. Wow. Okay. Why don't I- Do you got any Jake puns?

Yeah, I have Jake's takes. I like that. Jake's takes. But I also have one called group investigation check. Okay. That's cute. Yeah. Should we do two since you're older than that one?

Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Okay, great. So you, Syfqift q asks me specifically will Jake ever multi-class? Eldritch night with some barbarian rage would be amazing Oh, and that just basically just gave me the idea to do that I really need to roll with it. I get I get to The way for strength checks wait when you're raging. Yeah, oh never mind mind. Oh, you can, if you take, I think you have to take two levels to do reckless attacks. Yes, that's what I want.

I really just need to. Yeah, so you need two levels. Okay, you are a tank as it is as an eldritch night. And then on top of that, to get barbarian stuff is pretty damn good. Yeah, really. You can't get spells as a barbarian, okay? Oh, you can't get spells while you're in a rage.

Oh, that is kind of tough. Yeah, that's interesting that they would say that Eldritch Knight and Barbarian is... I can see it though, because if you just change which spells you use, right? Like, you change, you would only take spells that maybe you would use out of battle, you take spells that you, and it's easy enough,

you get multiple rages, you can come out of a rage, cast a spell, go back into a rage, you can come out of a rage, cast a spell, go back into a rage. I like the style of it too. Where you kind of have this intelligence to yourself, and you can cast spells, but then you cast that aside at certain points to just go all out.

It seems like it's character arc, realm of two, just for becoming bigger. And like, whole altress getting to your head. Yeah, yeah. So the answer to your question is is I'll just do it with his zest right now. You're changing your character sheet right now. Thanks for the idea. Yeah, and then send it to the episode as we speak. Okay, and the other question that I'll ask about the campaign, Sigmund G writes, if you had to pick one NPC to join the blue crew, Balnor style, what would it be and why?

Interesting. We kind of have had like a rotating cat. Yeah, there has just been like one that fully. Yeah, like bumpy, hung around for a little bit, and Elzor hanging around for a bit, Albin. I did like Elzor, but I think maybe that's just because they had some really cool hooks. Yeah, I think that like as like a dragon rider, I wouldn't want a character that could almost

like kind of overshadow the party. Right. Elzor is fucking powerful. I think the nice thing about Albin was just to have like a spellcaster that was using in Chantor Stats, so he didn't have that many offensive things. It was literally like he could cast haste on people and stuff. So I think my quick answer would probably be open. Yeah, but would you level up Albin?

I guess, I think I'm not looking to one-to-one duplicate campaign one. Yeah, I think the only, literally the only reason Bound or came around with you guys the whole time is because you drew the card. You get a night that comes around with you. Yeah, the stuff with like, you know, you guys had it normally be like instinct.

No, not at all. Like you guys had old cops with you guys, a glean with you guys, a url in with you guys. Like there was always a rotating cast of people that were joining you guys. It also feels like every NPC that we meet has like such a, such kind of like their distinct mission.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Belnor just did it with a blank slate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Balnor just did it with a blank slate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, with Arthur. Yeah, being pulled from a card means that Balnor can just kind of follow along without having his own need. Totally, yeah. So you think that it won't be Schroemrat? It is Schroemrat, yeah.

You guys are gonna get to that. Yeah, just bring in a deep dragon around. Yeah, so I guess the moral here is we need to be just constantly searching for enchanted books and cards so we can just pull a creature from it. Just ask every NPC, are you Balnor? Yeah. Anything's possible.

Maybe he'll show up. It was also nice to the space that Balnor occupied because when you forgot to attack with him, it wasn't, it was just funny. You know, like it wasn't like, it wasn't like, oh no, this person who is intricately tied to this story didn't get to attack in their story. Like it was just like, I forgot to attack with Balnor,

moving on, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like shit, he didn't do eight damage. I'm really sorry. It was a while he would crit, which was so. Yeah, yeah. It's like shit, he didn't do eight damage. I'm really sorry. Well, it was a while who had crit, which was so fair. Yeah, I think Valnor had like my favorite crit. He did have some good, he was able to do a decent amount of damage by the end because he was a champion fighter.

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You're backing the high-growing days. I couldn't tell if they had left a word out, but I think this is really funny. Daniel B writes, what are each of the Trinaville triplets Christmas stockings? So not in just what are the what are each of the tri okay. What are you just... Love it then.

And by the way, if this is the question as you intended, I think it's brilliant. I think mine is, Jen's is like a very fancy boot. And he is very large. He is furious if anything is in it. I think he just, he just happens to hang his boots near the fireplace

so that they're toasty. And then he freaks out an attack Santa Claus If he tries to put like candy canes in it. Onyx says like a fishnet made of lace Fishnet stocking made of lace and she's really confused. Do I nothing's ever in there? If you try to put anything in it falls in the fire Santa puts loose immonims in there in the fire. Santa puts loose immon imms in there. We're just burning cold directly in our house. We don't know how to open the flames. Does anyone else getting light headed?

The landlord never showed us how to open the floor. Niak never wore shoes or socks. It's always barefoot. So maybe one of Jens' gloves. I would love to see it does a candy cane and each finger of the glove. Oh. Also, yeah, Jen's wakes up first, finds his glove full of presents for Niac and just throws them out. So they can put their glove on, yeah.

Yeah. I feel like Keychain. Keychain doesn't understand shoes in general, or holidays. So I feel like Hayes would be probably a salad spinner or something like that. Just something like he found in the kitchen and put in the heart.

Just to fit in. Yeah, that's cool. And we would incorrect him. Yeah, we would even notice. I'd be like, who are you? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna roll. 16. 16.

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16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. and Murf, what stats would you give to one sucked into a fierce spike? Ooh. Okay.

Okay. How do we suck a candy cane? I, I gotta be honest, I go hook in mouth. Right? Oh, like a fish style. I was the bottom of my mouth. I fish hook myself. Whoa.

That's good. With a candy cane, I just go nuts. Right. You dangled it from the ceiling and you hook into it. I think you, I think you have to go hook in mouth because you gotta deal with it eventually. I go butt first. You go out first, you hold the hook.

I'm gonna ask first. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like to shiv it. I like to get that nice point going and I point it all the way until I've got the U shape and then I put it in my mouth like a mouth guard. That's how I do the whole. I have them before, yeah.

That was good. I don't think I don't usually finish a candy can. I don't think I do either. I think it's just so sweet. Too much sweetness. Yeah, but like you already started it. You already started it. Yeah, it's like minty.

It's nice. It's like so much. It's so much. It's so much. Give me a peppermint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little bit small that I can handle. I'm gonna give you some candy can, that's what it's like.

Yeah, I'm gonna give you some ziploc bags for the Christmas so that you can just like mail your leftover candy canes to me. I can't wanna carry out. I actually have Ziploc bags on my right. Oh, you get those like red and green candy canes? Oh, those are good. I don't, I don't go in for those. Really?

I needed your name. That was your problem. I'm sorry. I followed the letter of the wall. And it's this out. It's just like the holidays at home. The family descends into an argument over something petty. You know what I love? Sorry, I followed the letter of the law. And it's this out. It's just like the holidays at home. The family descends into an argument

over something petty. You know what I love? It does nothing for the taste, but I love a candy cane tube full of M&Ms. Oh, me too. The best candy cane is fucking in on it. I'm so obsessed with M&M. Because I also do love that.

I'm so good. I'm truly so good. When they make them red and green, oh, that's the best. And then how would I stat a candy cane out? I would give it dagger stat, so it would be a D4, but it shatters after you use it once.

Whoa, gorgeous. Is there a shatter damage? No, just, oh, we can do like an ice knife thing. It doesn't have like an ice knife thing. We can do an ice knife, yeah. That's cool. So everybody else within five feet takes 1 D4. I think Calder might give up can do ice knife. Yeah, that's cool. So everybody else within five feet takes a five one before I think colder Mike give up a sword for that. Yeah

The candy cane wielding barbarian. Oh my god. Imagine how sad Cold, if you want to tell everyone about your new weapon Candy cane Colder, huh? Giant candy cane. Half? Yeah. I looks like the barber's job. Why are you fighting with the hook, Dan? It's January 16th, man. All right, so why don't we go ahead and roll that bad boy again?

Here it comes. That's an eight. An eight. We're going to the campaign. OK, Mark K writes, what is the most surprising thing each character has evolved into? And the same question for Murph but with NPCs.

Interesting. Is there anything that your characters have evolved into that you weren't? I think it's very cool with Callie that we've kind of naturally found a way to kind of shift your Paladin God from sort of the art The arcane smite to the serpentine smite has been very cool Yeah, kind of find that as you go because a lot of people you know when you start out playing a paladin

She's like I'm a paladin. I'm a paladin of this God This is how it is and I thought it was very cool with Callie that it was like statted out like oh here She is a synth eldritch night. And then that transfers, like, you guys lose that power. And then she dedicates herself to something new. I never planned on taking a third level of Paladin. It was only when Mother Ship was so bad that I was like, okay, if I'm gonna keep these smites around,

I need to pledge myself to someone else. Yeah. I mean, I feel like Murph did a lot of the leg work for Saul, which was like giving him like this kind of like background in Moonstone was really good because I feel like for Saul I always thought of him as like a frog in an actual aquarium that was like the big dome of Mothership and then like breaking out of that and trying to like find his swamp more or less. Yeah.

And now like knowing that there's this like moonstone connection has been big for him. And the way he's kind of like styled his fighting to be a little more like physical unless these magical gauntlets has been fun. But I think the real answer is learning that Saul is a hot frog. It was early on. But I dropped that. I dropped that.

We don't make that joke anymore. But it's true. You don't make that joke anymore. But it's true. You just have to make the joke. It's still true. Yeah. It's hot to me. You still hot to me, dammit.

I guess when I was thinking about Calder, I was like, I was sort of imagining him having something to prove, which he still does. But I didn't imagine him having like that, I'll pledge myself to anybody, like the kind of like the little brother energy that he does still have, was not really part of like my character creation,

but I think that's just like where he, what happened when we started roleplay. Yeah, he's got like Ultras too, you've basically just got like a bully in your, in your helm. Yeah, call there's like a little bit beta and I'm into it. Yeah. Oh, the alter ego's thing is something that's been fun.

And that's been like, for all of the characters, yeah. I would be like, Saul is like, glommed onto it especially. Yeah. He's getting swag Daniels, decks ready. Maybe, pay penny. Yeah. I think when I originally started, I thought that,

the like, her, her, because it starts with like, Kaliope has like a little who am I journal? Yeah. And I think I thought that was gonna come into play and that was like gonna be how she developed. And every time I thought to write in it, it just felt so small and unimportant. So I feel like the revelation that what she actually

needed for self-esteem was to commit herself to something rather than think about herself was, yeah, yeah. It was like an interesting, because I didn't think it would go like that. But then as I was playing it, always felt just writing in her, who am I journal, didn't feel like pontificating about who you are. Yeah, it didn't feel like it was what she needed. Yeah, right.

And then deciding, like, oh, actually, a self-esteem kind of can come from having something you're working for, like almost like being a self-esteem can come from having something you're working for, almost like being a verb rather than a noun. This is just purpose. I think you found a much more meaningful version of that with the star chart, which is like, I was just thinking about the fact that you made that

star chart initially after Mother Ship fell, and then that just tied in beautifully to becoming a star-circuit palette in later on. initially after like Mother Ship fell. Yeah. And then that like just tied in beautifully to like becoming like a like star certain paladin later on. So like I think that that's the better version of the journal. Can I have to like sat down and like made art a few times, right?

Yeah. Just kind of like taking him what's around you rather than like going inside too. Yeah. I also secretly originally when we started, I thought she would like kind of become a musician. Because I was like, I write the music for the show. She's a bard, she could develop in that direction, but it just roleplay wise, never really

made any sense. And I was like, I think she's more of an aesthetic experience, more like an aesthetic bard than, here's my trade and I do. Right, yeah. I do miss the bird pipes though, you should break those bags. They're pretty slim. I see if I am crit.

I think part of it is we turned the bird pipes into counting crows. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But I think like I was like also open to like if she like wanted to explore poach or something, but again, it was like, it just didn't feel like what she needed. to explore poach or something, but again it was like it just didn't feel like what she needed. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. It's like you have so many ideas going in and then most of them are thrown away. I think that's the fun part about it though is like I'll be driving over here and I'll be like this is what Saul's gonna say this episode. Yeah. Yeah. And then he'll call himself swag Daniels, and that's just, yeah. And that's just where we're going. You can come up with that on the way over there. Yeah.

Really shoehorn today. That's on the spot. Also, I would have never expected that, because I feel like both Kaliope and Calder have like sibling, like issues with their siblings. So then it feels fun. Like we've kind of fallen into this like, like childish sibling, like we've kind of fallen into this like like childish sibling.

Like energy and it feels kind of fun because it's like oh we both kind of want a sibling interaction because we have shit with our sibling. Right, that's true and that's also like how we learn to express love for each other too. It's just like bickering with siblings. Yeah, sometimes you just like do stuff to like turning into me. It's going on. I feel like also we always fight over stuff. I want that. Yeah. Valley, no.

Wait. I like complaining at Golders' World. Just whining and grumbling. Like, probably bad at it. Golders does say wait a lot. Wait. No. No fair. No their does say wait a lot. Wait. No. No fair.

Just a huge child. Why any Batman? Yeah, why not Batman? Yeah. You guys want to do one more question? We got, I think we're back around to Jake. That's a hoglet A. Yeah, I like that.

What? That's on the hoglet A. A little. A hoglet A. A little treat. Caitlin hot lid, a treat. Caitlin Kay asks, which of Santa's reindeer would each of you be and why would called well be Rudolph? Thank you.

Wow. I believe this for myself. Why would call well be Rudolph? I think as he would want it the most. Yeah. I'll give you guys a little. I think I can say off the most. I'll give you guys a little. I think I can I think I can say off the off my head off the dome. Dasher dancer, prancer, fixin, comic, cupid, donder, blitzin, and root off. Are there a nine of

them? Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you said donder. You did you did you did what you said donder. Wait, what is it? Donner. Donner. And that's's actually who I would be yeah, yeah, it's not like the donner party Yeah, I think like they'd never name a reindeer after the donner party They didn't was it donner that was um Rudolph's dad that was for me to him He's very mean. I just watched it. He's fucking. so mean interesting. Yeah, dancers mean to Santa's like, oh that won't do what's with that weird little kid? What are their personalities like what I feel like Dasha is is fast Dasher's like go get them

Yeah This little cartoon that I have for dashers wearing that I have for Dashers wearing God. No, I cannot. That's not a cannot. But you have to admit that Dashers the fast reindeer. I don't. Is named first. Yeah.

I think Rudolph's got the best stats. I think Rudolph's a friend. Rudolph's a friend here. I think that's not. I think that's not. Yeah, zero appearances, except for one fucking Christmas. Well, I mean. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Wait, oh, you're just stuck around. Let's talk about this for a second. Okay, Rudolph not coming. Whoa. Let's talk about this for a second. Okay, Rudolph not gonna- Whoa, you're just in the song. You're right. You are right. I mean, there's nothing- Is Rudolph fanfiction?

Did you not know this? Rudolph was like invented in the 50s. I'm only 37, I don't know. You remember the 50s? You remember 30 years before you were born? I feel like this is one of those- this seems like a Murf-fax. This is like kind of a weird depressing thing Murf-fax for people to- Save this for the short rest.

Because we probably do have to go deep. We have to go deep. We have to go deep. Like where does the, if you were to read, if you were like, I want original Santa. Right. We're not in this rude off- None of this rude off-, fanfiction, bullshit.

I mean, you gotta go to the Northern European folklore, where it's just like some sort of like old man who like wears a big robe. Does he have that, so I know that Santa, that you can find stories about Santa without Rudolph. But can you find stories of Santa being like, on Blitzon, but definitely not on route?

Oh, okay, no, this is what I thought, which is not really fair because I didn't say it before I looked it up, so I can't really take credit, but. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't believe you. Okay, the 1823 poem by Clement C. Moore, a visit from St. Nicholas,

also known as Twisted Night Before Christmas, which you guys know. Oh! And that is from 1823, it's a poem. More rapid than Eagles, his corsairs, they flew, and he whistled and shouted and called him by name. Now Dastard, now Dancer, now Prancer and Fixin, on Comet, on Cupid, on Dunder, and Blixum.

No! No! No! We said it was Blixum! I'm Blixum! I'm Blixum! I said Dunder. You're closer than all of us.

Oh my God. We have Dundered and Dittled this day. We really have. Oh my God. So there is no Rudolph in this. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Now they say that.

Wait, and then it looks like more altered the names of the last two reindeer several times in an early 1860s version of the poem written as a gift to a friend. They are named Dner and Blitzen Donner kept Donner. Yeah That's wild. That's what a thoughtful but weird gift But also I rewrote my old poem from 1825 for you and I changed the ringer's name to Donner I I changed the rangers name to Donda. I definitely have friends who would do something like that.

And I would definitely be like, whoa. It's crazy that Rudolph comes like, to me, Rudolph's ancient history, because it's in the 50s, so what would I know? But it's just like, no, these other rangers were hanging out for like 130 years beforehand. I'm intrigued by Blitzen. I'm intrigued by Comet.

Like I have curiosity. Could I have that energy? Yeah. Like if Kauwell's Rudolph, Jake is Donor slash Donor slash Donor. I do have a lot of personality. You want to smash her? No, I mean, I just am describing Dash's personality. I don't know if I am actually.

You want to deliver people food? I think I'll probably comment. I was thinking about comment. But I think know if I am actually. You want to deliver people food. I think I'll probably comment. I was thinking about comment. I think blitzin'. Okay, so if you want comment, I'll go blitzin'. Okay, I'm gonna take Donner, because that's the mean dad. Yeah, checks out. You're my mean dad.

I'm called those mean dad. Donner, Dunder, Dunder. And with that, we're gonna go ahead and wrap this one up. Thank you all so much for listening. Yeah. You can head on over to our Patreon to listen to more Hearthside questions for more Haagladei spirits. For more Haagladei questions,

where we'll talk about reindeer war. But also part of the one campaign three. Yeah, perhaps. Oh, maybe. We shall see. Yeah, you can head on over to our Patreon. Patreon.com slash an ad pod that's any DDPOD do not sing yet. Oh, we do it. My guide, you can head on over to our patreon patreon.com slash an ad pod that's any DDP OD do not sing yet Do it I don't want to hear any singing not about Rudolph that fan fiction

invention The new fangled rain Dear Classic freaking dunders Blitzin like have a have like a talent. I mean blitzin implies I mean a fast as well I want it to be the strongest and kick the hardest in the Which reindeer canonically kicks the hardest which reindeer because Donner so who is who are Rudolph's parents in the movie

it's Donner and it's Donner and listen no no no no I don't know if the mom is the mom is just like the sexist she's just some random master reindeer the 60s possibly be one of them. Female ranger can't pull the sleigh. Oh no no I the answer it's Mrs. Donner. Is it really? According to Wikipedia, yeah. Because they have a name.

And Mrs. Donner. She's Mrs. Donner. When is Donner's birthday? Yeah, oh, I'm gonna guess December 13th. Yeah, gotta be. Because I think that Rudolph is born like a little before Christmas, if I recall, from the, because I consider the rank and bass,

like the B.O. and all canonical approach to the reindeer lore. So what's Blitzon like in that? Can you kick hard? Yeah he kills a hunter. Yeah he breaks San is a red one time. Oh yeah that's a viable skill because like you know San it is a home intruder you might need some defense. Yeah All right, I feel like we're getting back into it and we should be saving this for the show. Yeah We're getting it. Yeah, actually because there's another another story with 10 and then and then it talks about Rudolph Okay, okay, we don't have anything they'd like to plug. I would love to plug our PO box It's been a lot of gifts We've got gifts as well.

It is the gifting season. I want to give a shout out to all these little hogs that gave us beautiful gifts. 19-20, Hill or Savin who number 222, Lois Police, California, 90027, is where you can send stuff. We got from Kaylee H from Bees and the Burbs, some more honey.

Ooh, thank you. Thank you, little woman. And a hat that I'm currently wearing right now. She's rocking it, yeah. I love it. I'm obsessed with your honey. Oh, thank you. We love that. And a hat that I'm currently wearing right now. She's rocking it, yeah. I love it. I'm obsessed with your honey. I'm obsessed with your hats now. I was looking at your website.

You guys have little carved wax candles. Whoa. I love bees in the burbs. Yeah, in the burbs. Official unofficial honey of NAD. This is official. The paperwork hasn't been signed yet., yes, we're getting there. So thank you very much, Kaylee.

Andrew G sent us a ton of beautifully painted mini figures. Thank you so much, Andrew. Our next home game is going to absolutely rip. A fun point about these minis, they were all sent in pop-tards boxes. Oh, that's where. Yeah, it was very smart. I did get excited thinking that someone would send a pop-tards. Thinking that you were just going to get a bunch of pop-tards. Yeah, because I'm not going to did get excited thinking that someone would have done a pop tart though.

Thinking that you were just going to get a bunch of pop tart? Yeah, because I'm not going to buy pop tart for myself. But if somebody sends me like smore flavor pop tart, I'm going to eat them. Because I don't love a pop tart. Go on. Well, you can just have your red and green candy cane.

And I'll have my pop tart. Do you guys remember to toast your strudals? A lot of toasting strudals. Yeah. Those are fun because you get to do a little like creative icing man I would eat as many as I could sneak Did you like go down stairs in the middle of the night? No like throughout the day Where you wouldn't you get sick? Oh?

Sneaking around yeah, did you live in giant's house and you had to sneak out from behind the walls and steal a bunch? Oh, good Lord. Save it for the short rest. All right. Johnny and Sav sent Emily a pair of rubber ducky earrings. Murph, what's that to those boosts? Those are going to give you, that makes

Kali completely immune to bludgeoning damage. Wow. Where do you get hurt? Oh, yes. That makes Callie completely immune to bludgeoning damage. Wow. Where did he? Oh, yes. They're very painful to put on though. Wow. That's cute.

Adrian, aka at Wild Magic Bags sent us some big plush D20s, including. Oh, they're really cool. They're really fun. They sent a small one for my daughter, Sydney, which is very fun. She started showing an interest in my dies now I had to give her one the other day and she calls it a number ball Mike C aka pattington to super fans in us a ton of toilet paper, which I think was inspired by a bit of total tank As we said that you should start bringing toilet paper apart to a party. Yes, that's to replenish the.

It gives really nice stuff. That is a really great. Yeah, we will think about you when we shit. So thank you very much. Or as Mima calls them notebooks. Yeah, that really made me laugh. What the God about that? Good, Murph.

Kevin W. Sennos, wood-burned cutting board. It has our logo on it, but instead of podcast, it reads, not another recipe. Oh, yeah. That's sometimes how I feel when I'm cooking. That's not at all. Another recipe. Because you're just chopping up big slab of beef.

Yeah. Let's see. Josh R. Sennas, Donkey Kong and Sonic theme of dice bags. Oh, so cool. Honestly, I'm matching up with Donkey Kong ones. Really nice, really quality, perfect for the hoglet days. So thank you very much, Josh R. I'm so appreciate it. Thanks to everyone that Sennas, all of these wonderful items,

we really appreciate it. That is all for me. Sweet, check out our live shows. We've got a bunch coming up, nadpot.com slash live. Still got tickets left for our Boston live show. We're at it. We added a second night. It's going to be D&D court.

It's going to be loose. It's going to be fah-ha. You're a good type. It's going to be an as loose as the Rainforest Cafe. So loose. In that valley. Can you believe it? With that, we're going to wrap this one up.

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Sheldon the mushroom turtle. Straw man, 18 wheels of rubber and steel, potato master, Dr. Tulkus, Tis the Great, Derek Davidson, Tristan G, and Cal's corporate corruption hashtag CCC for life. That's it, I'm wishing you all the most blessed, most festive hog latais. Muah wishing you all the most blessed, most festive hoglidays. Muah, muah, good bye, sweeties. That was a hit gun podcast.