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There's no dicking around with bad audio or trying to find footing for ten hours like other casts. - A campaign where the entire world can potentially shift on the whim of a funny joke, dice roll, or character action. - Actual, genuinely funny and creative humor performed by professional writers. - Blue humor that doesn't get too mean or punch down. - Very few battles (depending on your taste), but lots of humor, player choice, and the moving forward of scenarios. - Tightly edited to remove pretty much any dead air or dicking around by the DM/players (again, a preference to be sure). - Well-paced so that an episode rarely goes by without lots of interesting things happening. - Great use of guest players. - An actual impressive amount of Patron content. It's regularly updated with not just the requisite "Talking about the campaign" episodes, but also one-shots and whole other campaigns in different game modules. The extra campaigns receive just as much (and sometimes even more) love than the main campaign. They even released a full-length rap album where Will raps in his Geologist Dad's character about rocks. Then I would recommend loading up episode 1 and giving it a shot. Like I mentioned before, while the show gets better and better, I think it has the best start of any Actual Play bar none. I would recommend it even to people have no real interest in DnD and are just interested in a narrative comedy cast like Mission to Zyxx. If you're making your way through and are unsure if you want to finish the whole thing, then I'd recommend that you at least try listening up to the point where the cast comes face to face with "The Lord of Chaos." The Show Itself:  (unofficial fan art by @coastalkitty) The Premise: Four Dads from our world are magically transported to a way more chaotic, comedy-based version of Wizards of the Coast's "Forgotten Realms" world on a quest to save their sons and return home (as time goes on, they abandon Forgotten Realms in favor of their own creations). There's very little mystery in the base premise of what the characters are supposed to be doing as their overall goal, so any suspense or surprises come from the details of how they try to save their kids and get home. As such, there's less aimless wandering and asking NPCs about lore than the average Actual Play. The Dads play off of their archetypes really well, and the fact that the players are all professional writers means it feels like they have an understanding for what makes a good entertainment product. Anthony Burch: The DM. What makes Anthony stand out among other Actual Play DMs is that while he's really amenable to the insane bullshit that his players always want to do, he is equally ready to throw it back in their faces for hilarious results. I'm actually afraid to mention even the smallest examples as his DM choices are genuinely really shocking and funny on their own. His improv is also top-notch. He's regularly come up with random NPCs off the top of his dome who quickly become really funny and interesting recurring characters. Beth May: Everyone's favorite player, which the group even regularly acknowledges. She plays the emotionally under-developed Rogue Stepdad, Ron Stampler. As opposed to other podcasts whose chaotic players are usually hyperactive and manic, Beth plays Ron's chaos in a very understated way. Also unlike lots of chaotic favorites, the DM and the world don't let him act like a sociopath with impunity just because he's the most popular character. Matthew Arnold: Matt plays Barbarian Sports Dad Darryl Wilson, the de-facto leader of the party. Matt is good at playing a well-meaning jock dad without making him abrasive, so you get more jokes about him being a meathead who loves being a dad than having Darryl just being a jock dick like one would expect. Darryl has trouble relating emotionally to his son, and has great interactions with Henry and a lot of the NPCs. Will Campos: Will plays a middle-class, So-Cal NPR Hippie Druid Dad named Henry Oak. He has two beautiful sons, Lark and Sparrow, who are my personal favorite part of the show as his boundary-free parenting style results in his sons having trouble acknowledging other peoples' boundaries. Will is really good at feeling out joking about his character's liberalism while maintaining self-awareness of what he could be messaging, and is a good example of how smart and layered the humor can be. Freddie Wong: Plays the Bardic Rock and Roll Musician Dad, Glenn Close. Freddie originally plays Glenn as kind of a clueless stoner character, but evolves him into a better source of humor as time goes on. The Guests: While naming any of the guests or their characters could potentially ruin some of the best moments, it's worth noting that they all do a wonderful job and come up with great characters. Guests include Ashley Burch and Jenna Stoeber. They even did a crossover with popular podcast "Hey Riddle, Riddle!" that's really fun and creative. Fan animations (spoilers): Glenn, the Dumb Idiot Who Has a Lot of Charisma by Paula Peroff Henry Blows His Stack by Paula Peroff Henry and Ron Put on the Screws by Paula Peroff Supporting Role by Paula Peroff Round yon Virgin by CCRose (this one can be spoilery in that it may ruin a moment that normally has a great leadup) Power. by Soapitude Reading is dangerous and upsetting by Jane Mahoney Links: - https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/- Official site where you can find the episodes and free content, including transcripts. Also, merch. - https://www.patreon.com/dungeonsanddads- Patreon - Just search for the Reddit or Facebook or Wiki or whatever it's 2021. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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eke out posted:power rankings: Same, but Doug at the top.
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Jeremor posted:Scam Likely is one of the best npc's in any dnd podcast. Well, actually...
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Jan 28, 2021 22:51
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Ainsley McTree posted:That whole episode was just bananas yeah. I really appreciate this podcast's willingness to take big risks and then just live in the consequences, you never really know what's going to happen (or sometimes, which game they'll be playing) week to week. That was the episode where I started just running around, telling people to listen to the cast. After so many other Actual Plays seem to not want to take chances with their settings, it was incredible to see them willing to just vaporize what they had built up for the sake of laughs.
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DoombatINC posted:Oh my god you're about to meet Paeden Yeah, it's so weird to imagine my life before Paeden.
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Also worth noting that there's a stinger at the end of every episode. Most are just good jokes, but there are some that shouldn't be missed.
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You kind of just made me realize that they may not have thought the dynamic ads all the way through lately. EDIT: Flipped on a random episode while cleaning today and forgot about Geralt of Trivia. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Feb 7, 2021 02:44
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Guess I should have posted the schedule, but new episodes come every two weeks, and Episode 51 was yesterday: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/ep51
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I got about ten episodes in to DADDPOD before I realized "Wait, that Anthony Burch?" I think I was just so accustomed to being reviled by Borderlands' style of humor that I was surprised he was so funny. I'm starting to think that Gearbox was just not able to put the right voice to his humor as there were quite a few creative lines in Borderlands 2 that I think just didn't land.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:08
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DoombatINC posted:It's a controversial opinion, but I've always liked the writing in Borderlands 2 - even if the humor isn't for everyone, it totally landed for me front-to-back. At the same time I found BL3's writing to be so uniquely tedious and awful that I had to look up what changed between the two games. And that's when I learned that BL2 was written by the guy that does the dad podcast I like BL2 was definitely the best-written for me, especially the Tina DLC. When I went back to 2, I definitely heard Anthony's voice in quite a few of the better jokes. I just think that it was maybe the voice direction for certain characters that let some of the writing down. Then Anthony left and we got Borderlands 3, which was just insufferable.
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I can't imagine working at Gearbox was a great experience after everything we know, now.
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I was starting to lose it when the FF6 music started kicking in.
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Feb 25, 2021 05:10
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Deck Picks was the episode where I started recommending the podcast to everyone because it was around the same time that all of the Actual Plays I was listening to were becoming railroady and overly full of themselves when it came to their storytelling prowess. It was great to listen to an AP where they were willing to nuke their universe to squeeze out as many laughs as possible. The "Why didn't you kill Hitler?" exchange was incredible. Also love Beth referencing the fact that Jimmy was in the live-action Mulan.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:27
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Episode 53 is out: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes/ep53
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goblin week posted:OP for some reason you listed Glenn Close as a dad That's because you only believe the official story like a narc.
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Mar 25, 2021 07:28
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Real talk though I want the OP to be "hey you should listen to this show!" and to not spoil more than it needs to. I don't want to do what keeps happening for me with audiobooks/podcasts where I look up a character's name to remind myself of spelling or something, just to see the wiki article referring to said character in the past tense.
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eke out posted:anthony and ashly both revealing eachothers' teenaged fanfiction.net stories was incredible Yeah, that was when I had to pause it at work because I was holding back a burst of laughter.
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Came upon posts by this Redditor, ExOh95 (Paula), who makes some really high-quality animations, a few of which are from DADDPOD. This is from one of my favorite exchanges: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonsAndDaddies/comments/igc7sl/ns_dumb_idiot_who_has_a_lot_of_charisma/ Anthony: "You have a plus seven to persuasion?!" Freddy: "I specced all Charisma. I'm a dumb idiot who has a lot of charisma." Anthony: "That's- I mean, alright. And just as was your dream when you specced that way, you have now convinced an eight year-old.. (to throw a fight)." The first time Henry loses his poo poo: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonsAndDaddies/comments/hhkx0c/ns_animated_another_clip_from_ep_1_one_of_my/ The famous stinger from Ep. 1 that kept us coming back: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonsAndDaddies/comments/h8avzv/ns_i_animated_a_clip_from_ep_1_of_dungeons_and/
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She had another animation that I accidentally skipped over. Henry lends Darryl a hand: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonsAndDaddies/comments/j8ug4w/spoiler_kinda_spoiler_for_ep_23_i_climbed_out_of/
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I am on the prowl for any and all Dee Snyder fanart.
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timp posted:Anthony sort of hinted at the fact that those swaps were random but I don’t believe that son of a bitch for one second. They were all just too perfect to be chosen at random. Half of them even said during the last Talking Dad that they’d like to take on the very dad that they called. Yeah there was no way there wasn't going to be a Glenn/Jodie switch, and it was worth it. Freddy laying into Jody about the plantations, musical preference (including Jimmy's reversal), and dad gut were all A+ material.
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I'd like to stay off the mods' radar as much as possible tyvm
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I like how a DM threatening to enact the rules of the game that they're playing is used as an improv prompt.
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Heads up to the ad-free crew: I don't know if it was included in your version of today's episode, but episode 58 starts off with a podcast recommendation ad that has an all-timer Beth bit in it.
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Snowy posted:Yeah that was pretty fantastic. There were moments in that campaign that got me to actually squirm in my seat.
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May 22, 2021 01:39
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Next episode is recorded in the same room with one another: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYv1QxBn9I/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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Beth had a napalm burn on Anthony in this opening.timp posted:I love that they pulled a (Late TAZ Spoiler) Poisoning Raging Flaming Sword of Doom with the All or Nothing Coin on the Maul It's bizarre that they did this but ignored the pile of gold coins during the BDSM episode. I also just launched episode 1 to see if my "it starts good out of the gate" claim is true, and yeah it still sticks. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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I've taken kind of a break from DMing in recent months to maybe see if I can recharge my ideas, and one thing I've noticed in DADDPOD is that the party actually has a leader in Darryl (and sometimes Henry). I think that players in a lot of other Actual Plays are afraid to have "leaders" who keep the group moving along, which has resulted in a lot of APs hitting some roadblocks in terms of progression. Even Critical Role Season 2 was dragging really hard for a few dozen episodes, eschewing forward progress in favor of role-playing during long rests. Meanwhile, Darryl or Henry are usually helping Anthony to keep moving things along. I just really appreciate that.
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It's spooky because Willy talks exactly like my dad did to me. The only thing missing is Willy saying "I'm not criticizing you" or "You're being oversensitive" every time Ron objects to being insulted or told to shut up in front of a group of people. Even with all of that, I gotta say I loved the episode. I've been listening to the TAZ backlogs again and got super bored because they don't really have any villains, so I find it kind of refreshing and empowering to have a real piece of poo poo for the group to want to take down. That, and the jokes in this episode were some of the best in a while.
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Soysaucebeast posted:Oh for sure. I think I've given up on TAZ finally. Season one was amazing but Amnesty was bland and Graduation was so bad I stopped listening until they started their current season. I realized I was forcing myself to listen to it and now apparently Travis is a sex pest (according to Reddit, so you know how much that is worth) and I think I'm just going to unsubscribe. I only saw that Trav was being weird about linking listeners' Onlyfans, but I don't know much beyond that. It feels like they generally want their brand to be somewhere between PG and PG-13 but with the occasional "gently caress" thrown around. I'm 32 and I just don't really have the patience for listening Travis doing a baby voice while his brothers apologize for every other sentence they thought of saying.
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It's always weird how good Matt's little fill-ins for Darryl's character are. I loved the bit about the Pledge of Alliegance.
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So when I linked the website in the OP, my brain just completely shut "Ad Reads" out of my vision. So if anyone has listened to the show ad-free and missed the reads, then you too can easily experience some jokes and bits that you may have missed, including Beth's quest for a new mattress: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/ad-reads
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Well, as a little pick-me-up, here's some great Walter fanart from u/123yesnonono on Reddit:
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There's also of course The Adventure Zone, but I assume anyone in this thread has already given it a shot. Their most recent campaign feels like it's going back to basics with just some improvised interactions, so that's nice. I started to try listening to Dragon Friends and while it's very funny, the audio is not great for working on a factory floor. I definitely think that the fact that DADDPOD's audio is good quality right off the bat and edited for time make it the most accessible actual play I've heard.
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sexpig by night posted:This is my favorite loving podcast, this dumb beach episode bullshit was perfect after last episode. Pulling out the encounter table out of nowhere so it could result in Henry delivering heartfelt speeches to his children in mini-man voice is something so unique to DADDPOD.
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Cameos from Will and Beth for Jimmy's podcast: https://twitter.com/commandcast/status/1417241186142588935
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So with the finale coming up, I've finally decided to jump back into the Patreon content, and the extras really remind me of why I love the show. I used to think the good flow of the main show was due to the tight editing, but no, it turns out that they really are that quick on the draw most of the time. There was also a really good exchange early on where Freddy and Anthony were talking and Freddy said, "Every once in a while, I call Anthony and say 'hey we should all do this for the podcast...,'" and Anthony says "And then I'll say 'gently caress off.'" It just sort of reminds me of other Actual Plays that I've been falling off of that keep repeating that they're a "Collaborative storytelling experience," and how railroad-y and awkward they've become as a result. Meanwhile, I just heard the 'sunlight' exchange from the live show, and it makes me miss a lot of the fun that actual plays used to have.
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Underrated bits from the episode include Henry almost shaming Darryl's religion and Darryl greeting Gartok. Been blasting through the Patreon content so I can put up some info on it in the OP, and thoughts so far: -I started with that Father's Day 2021 live show and even though everyone seemed to want to spoil me on "that moment", it still came as a total surprise to me. -Walter/Paeden one-shot was kind of dull until it hit past the halfway point where they get to the UCB riffing and them trying to lay into Anthony just to have him throw it all back at them. The ending was also fantastic and Anthony has a future in voice acting if he ever wanted to go for it. There's a different dynamic to having a GM and two assistants for one player and I really like it. -Mountains of Dadness was really interesting and I loved how it tied back into the campaign. The comedy wasn't as laugh-out-loud as the main campaign, but it kept things moving along. I actually got way more into the story of it, which surprised me. -I'm at Talking Dads, roughly episode 40-ish, I think and I like that even with their kinda BSing cast, they make shifts to make it more listenable, like coming up with the "no more trying to get character canon out of us" rule which made TD more listenable. I recently finally went in and deleted my subscription to several big-name actual plays (I won't say them because I don't want to stir up that argument) because they've gotten really mired in their worst habits. It's nice to see that the Dads are willing to try and avoid those problems by self-evaluating. I'm about to start up All That Jizz. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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