Hearthside Chat: A Champagne Tree Retrospective
Added 2024-12-26 21:55:51 +0000 UTCJake brings your questions (and a bunch of terrible puns) to the 2 Crew for a chat about Campaign 3 and beyond. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
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Literally same!
Allie Fawcett
2025-02-15 18:26:07 +0000 UTCCatching up right now and had to come here to make sure someone had commented about the Warriors musical!! So worth a listen
Aria
2025-02-14 04:28:43 +0000 UTCSo happy they gave us a non-zero chance of Twilight Sanctorum coming back. Genuinely excited for whatever comes next (including Skaldova).
Bryce Peterson
2025-02-10 07:25:30 +0000 UTCYou guys could use the cyberpunk red system, but set in Ezry
Evan McDaniel
2025-01-10 13:24:13 +0000 UTCCame here to say this!! Murph needs to listen!
Austin C Bell
2025-01-08 16:18:09 +0000 UTCKickin it with Kenna?
Brady Patrick
2025-01-07 10:08:56 +0000 UTCWARRIORS IS A MUSICAL. Lin Manuel Maranda released a concept album with a bunch of big names like literally a few months ago. Please listen to it it’s amazing 🥺
Noah Jeans
2025-01-05 15:46:07 +0000 UTCCheck out Notability on iPad for note taking. I use it for work and personal note taking and journaling but you’re able to upload pdf’s and images really easily and edit them in the app. Seems like a solution for wanting the convenience of iPad note taking while getting to physically write on a character sheet potentially?
Christian Waters
2025-01-04 21:44:44 +0000 UTCIs Jingle Caldbells just too far from the actual name? Also love Snowflake Brrrwitz. Sleighbell Manner/Manor?
sabertruth19
2025-01-04 19:51:23 +0000 UTCThat's why I always do the Calcifer yule log lol
Caitlin Littleton
2025-01-04 02:49:48 +0000 UTCemily loves john wick so much i wonder if she got to see monkey man !! my favorite action flick of the last several years
Laura !
2025-01-03 20:31:30 +0000 UTCbring back the crick tshirt 💔💔
Kathryn G.
2025-01-03 12:58:35 +0000 UTCOn the topic of Emily mentioning the want to do a Cyberpunk style campaign, there is a TTRPG called Cyberpunk Red that is based on the Cyberpunk games in that there are different type of edgerunners you can be. I know that that game has a lot of fun mechanics that could probably be pulled from if you were to do a Cyberpunk type adventure
Ben
2025-01-02 21:11:47 +0000 UTCthank you!
Genaro Morales
2025-01-02 06:50:03 +0000 UTCLol. Love that Warriors the musical is a thing now.
Dani Burke
2025-01-01 22:32:54 +0000 UTCcan’t emphasize enough how hype i would be to see the two crew play with the cyberpunk red system and/or make a mini-campaign with heavy cyberpunk themes. my partner and i are obsessed with it and want to learn the system/run games, so it would be both entertainment and education 🤣 can’t wait for you to chip in, chooms!!!
Amelia Granato
2024-12-31 18:44:13 +0000 UTCJust saw Caldwell yelling "Olaf dies in frozen 2" out of a car window
John Tirella
2024-12-31 16:57:55 +0000 UTCIn regards to one of the last questions, I thought C3 had the PERFECT balance of throwbacks and new stuff. Lots of C1 references, but it in no way overshadowed C3. And C1 stuff tied in in unique ways to C3 that were unexpected.
Nick Andrusin
2024-12-31 13:56:25 +0000 UTCThe 2 Crew could play a Root: The Roleplaying Game Campaign based on the boardgame Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right. You get to be cute little woodland animal vagabonds doing adventures in a dangerous Woodland beset by factional conflict. Simple rules and rolling with a lot of player flexibility. Cat or possum character!
Ryan Nolan
2024-12-31 02:18:31 +0000 UTCBring back the Baggin!
Glenn Dowdle
2024-12-31 01:16:33 +0000 UTCLOVE the idea of new mini campaigns and seeing new/exiting material. Into the shift, but praying that we get non-5e content. I’m so oversaturated on this system
Thermovore
2024-12-30 21:33:36 +0000 UTCthey'll be filled with ball bearings and peanuts
Jorgus
2024-12-30 15:39:44 +0000 UTCyou could say he's jaking his dm debut
Jorgus
2024-12-30 15:21:45 +0000 UTCGotta say, would love to see a Cyberpunk Red session from you folk. There's even baked in support to fantasy it up via the Elflines Online material.
Dave 3D Art
2024-12-30 08:43:19 +0000 UTCam hoping so hard for the hotboy skie trip and/or more twilight sanctorum.
Lee
2024-12-30 06:46:49 +0000 UTCJake campaign incoming!
Cody Gustafson
2024-12-30 00:51:20 +0000 UTCHey Murph, was the large scale combat at the green knight castle the same mechanics you had madefor the Hexblood large scale battle? The one they never ended up using because they went all rogue and assassinated the king instead. I just happened to listen to the hexblood episodes between the green knight castle siege and this one and I gotta know now.
Cody Zimmer
2024-12-29 22:26:56 +0000 UTCI really hope that someday as a prank Emily leaves every d20 she owns on a 1, In inconspicuous places around her home. Just to see how many it takes Murph to find and fix before he realizes it’s a set up.
Matthew Chen
2024-12-29 21:18:13 +0000 UTCMOONFALL REFERENCE FROM CALDWELL THE MOON IS A MEGASTRUCTURE
Briar Bertolin
2024-12-29 21:18:00 +0000 UTCLove “the warriors” idea Murph has
Jbird723
2024-12-29 17:11:07 +0000 UTCMurph put out a charcuterie board of tiny L’s for the haters to snack on this episode
Henry Giles
2024-12-29 08:03:28 +0000 UTCAnyone else wanna start of 2025 with the Trinyvale Triplets? I think we need that
Tonks
2024-12-29 04:33:13 +0000 UTCThe new years song is Auld Lang Syne :) I only know this from the Unsleeping City because Siobhan I think sings it haha
Nicole Jordan
2024-12-28 21:50:59 +0000 UTCOmg I was so hopeful about a Xunark x Callie moment but the Young Stag x Callie has is awesome
Nicole Jordan
2024-12-28 21:50:08 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite things is when they're workshopping a pun and I come up with a great one that I keep screaming at the podcast and then Caldwell later comes up with it. It's the best form of validation. (In this case it was the "Brrwitz" one)
mike
2024-12-28 19:40:52 +0000 UTCWhat is Caldwell's first nickname? Calling zine? I'm so confused
Genaro Morales
2024-12-28 19:35:15 +0000 UTCOh I would love more adventures in different systems and settings!
Adrian
2024-12-28 16:52:27 +0000 UTCMurph and Lin Manuel Miranda on the same creative page. Literal Warriors bway show coming from LMM.
Pat Swoboda
2024-12-28 14:26:46 +0000 UTC“thats how they built the Taj Mahal” is the wildest defence for your bs
Transfemmes4murph
2024-12-28 13:17:27 +0000 UTCSooooo… Cool Boy Winter WHEN???
Tuesday Hernandez
2024-12-28 11:55:26 +0000 UTCi wonder if we'll get some twilight sanctorum dice in the future...
Ilana Galpert
2024-12-28 06:38:06 +0000 UTCI wish that instead of throwaway damage/gags, characters faced more social consequences for their dumb jokes. In frostwind, when Hardwon insulted the frost dwarf government at the bar, they kicked the party out, which led to them going to the wedding with less information, which led to one of the best moments in the history of the podcast. When sol insulted that fire giant guard and just got punched, I was disappointed that there was no social consequences. C3 had a lot of moments where the characters were absolute *assholes*, which was super funny, but I just with the NPC’s had a bit more backbone instead of just ignoring it.
Amanda K.
2024-12-28 03:38:53 +0000 UTCWatched The Warriors the night before listening to this and I immediately wanted to steal the ideas for a campaign/arc
Great Molasses Flood of 1919
2024-12-28 00:46:40 +0000 UTCI love the idea of shorter stories
Dru Thomas
2024-12-27 22:55:15 +0000 UTCI swear murph just loves everything that I love. The Warriors is one of my favorite movies. Cyberpunk was also one of my favorite games. Please do that idea murph!
Eric
2024-12-27 21:55:02 +0000 UTCWelp can’t wait until campaign 4.
Ryan
2024-12-27 21:06:20 +0000 UTCI’m so glad you addressed the AI fireplace scourge on youtube this year
Kali Berg
2024-12-27 20:06:48 +0000 UTCRe Mac, it's true that there are some useful, and genuinely generative applications for "AI", mainly recognising patterns in very large/complex datasets. This has uses in the sciences, both "hard" and "soft" (people may have heard the example of genetics before). However, the current expansion of "AI" IS a net negative given the devastating environmental costs, to say nothing of social ones. Even the positives are double edged, given the same capabilities will be and are being used by dodgy outfits, e.g. racist and otherwise oppressive police forces (see "predictive policing" in Bristol in the UK context). Even if this expansion facilitates some useful stuff, the benefits skew toward the rich (both in terms of individuals and countries), while the costs skew toward the poor (likewise). So I'd say it's inherently evil beyond any utilitarian measure, we don't have a right to sacrifice people over their heads. To be clear, my ire here is directed at the big corporate/government actors pushing "AI", and informed evangelists. Not, for example, people watching random videos with "AI" content on YouTube (although feeling how I do it's not something I do).
ACK
2024-12-27 18:19:19 +0000 UTCThe wild, high fantasy land of Cambridge, Mass. they could get Sam Reich to guest as the mayor
Jake Alcott
2024-12-27 17:57:57 +0000 UTC#Crittsburgh2025
Trevor McDaniel
2024-12-27 16:43:01 +0000 UTCKnowing how S tier the puns are it has to be a pun. Especially since it's Champagne instead of Campaign
KingHalt
2024-12-27 16:02:34 +0000 UTCCambridge lol
Jonathan Goddard
2024-12-27 15:53:22 +0000 UTCJake Effect Snowitz was RIGHT there, guys.
Jarod With
2024-12-27 14:55:53 +0000 UTCWould be sick to see the 2 crew in a different setting than high fantasy! (Maybe with the cyberpunk system??)
Pedro De Oliveira
2024-12-27 14:05:09 +0000 UTCCan we please have an Air Gear style warriors ezry cyberpunk? This is the best idea I've heard in a while
Jonathan Goddard
2024-12-27 13:11:02 +0000 UTCabsolutely stayed up past my murphew listening to this 😌 when remembering bits that had me laid out, I’m now realizing that in my mind I combined the little fae wild gang at the bar with the surprise round question about what to do when challenged by a motorcycle gang (not in your hometown) bahahaha
ak
2024-12-27 10:36:20 +0000 UTCnow THIS
ak
2024-12-27 10:22:18 +0000 UTCRe: Cyberpunk and The Warriors. Have you ever thought of running the cyberpunk red ttrpg? Also if you want an insane version of the Warriors I suggest checking out High and Low the Movie franchise on Netflix. It's.... it's insane
Takowowo
2024-12-27 07:47:57 +0000 UTCMurph bringing the big grinch energy today - gotta take so many Ls this go around. SNOW JAKE HER-MITTS FTW!
Adam Sutton
2024-12-27 07:36:24 +0000 UTCTotally crazy to hear about the Warriors in this! Lin Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis just released a mixed tape based off The Warriors in November, with a gender-switch for the Warriors. Features a lot of the Hamilton cast, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and a ton more. They are likely working on the stage production now, but the album is cool, so you should listen to it if you can!
Maggie Schaller
2024-12-27 06:59:48 +0000 UTCThanks for the run. Catch your breath, and get ready to do it again
Ryan Higgins
2024-12-27 06:36:39 +0000 UTCA session 0, that's so exciting
Felix
2024-12-27 06:29:00 +0000 UTCMight I recommend: “All I Want for Christmas is Hugh”
Aaron Bowyer
2024-12-27 05:11:25 +0000 UTCHoping for new settings but also fingers crossed for things in Eldermourne. I loved the style of it!!
Emz
2024-12-27 04:27:18 +0000 UTCfake fur mitts
colby
2024-12-27 03:41:08 +0000 UTC“Warriors killed Cyrus, man!” Come out and plaaay!
Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord
2024-12-27 03:22:53 +0000 UTCListen to the episode and can't tell if the title is a typo or one of Jake's puns
casey eats pizza
2024-12-27 03:05:34 +0000 UTCRe: the theatre troupe and gossip rag regret… I’d love a theatre group that travels to different regions that’s actually a cover for them both seeding rumors and gathering gossip, like information brokers.
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Thx to the 2 crew for a gorgeous c3. Now Kenna, go get yer girl
2024-12-27 02:44:58 +0000 UTCSo, 8-bit book club, hell maybe even Jank as a first time guest, should watch The Warriors
Clay Brannam
2024-12-27 02:31:17 +0000 UTCLove you guys!!! Also Flake Burwitz, had me dying
Ryley D
2024-12-27 01:57:31 +0000 UTCJingle Cauld the Wells
Ian Hudson
2024-12-27 01:55:02 +0000 UTCsome AI is good, generative AI, especially in Art, tends to be especially not that tho
Mark Friedgen
2024-12-27 01:33:52 +0000 UTCDawg I’m trying to figure out what this means because I know it can’t be a “Jingle All The Way” reference.
Josh Kumar
2024-12-27 01:30:46 +0000 UTCOmg running an oops all bards campaign that starts with a traveling theater troupe has been a dream of mine for years. Seeing Emily's take on that would be amazing.
xatlern
2024-12-27 01:23:23 +0000 UTCRealising at the end why what you said is a terrible take and then still saying it is so wild to me, you had the chance to not post it which makes me realise you didn't understand your terrible point at all
Ben Daly
2024-12-27 00:42:24 +0000 UTCJake saying “that’s how they built the Taj Mahal” was an excellent point and Out Past Murphew should have taken another tiny L imo
Deena Shirkool
2024-12-26 23:37:56 +0000 UTCGodsmack style!
Bryan Barton
2024-12-26 23:26:23 +0000 UTCWhen Jake said "I'll just use a quarter" it made my teeth shiver.
Xanian Jamfalcon
2024-12-26 23:13:00 +0000 UTCOof, I felt this like a gut punch 😭
Bloop bloop
2024-12-26 23:12:58 +0000 UTCLin Manuel Miranda recently wrote a musical of The Warriors.
CSmall
2024-12-26 23:11:15 +0000 UTClol imagine jake decided cake wasn’t for him but DMing was and that’s what session 0 will be next week
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Thx to the 2 crew for a gorgeous c3. Now Kenna, go get yer girl
2024-12-26 23:04:37 +0000 UTCI loved everything you've done! I really hope that future series play with other systems, as you go for shorter series.
Miz_erable
2024-12-26 23:02:17 +0000 UTC"Net" goods has simply not proven itself to be true. Some standalone goods, yep. Net goods - nope.
Kellyd
2024-12-26 23:00:34 +0000 UTCHow about Jingle Cald "the" Wells?
Miguel
2024-12-26 22:58:12 +0000 UTCI know I'm never gonna change your mind, and also this is absolutely not the time or place to have this discussion, but there are net goods/positives to keep AI around and help people. AI is simply a tool, but if you wield it poorly you'll get less than favorable results and may end up hurting others' hard work in the process. Though I also understand that I'm making a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument when I'm really not trying to. Do what you will.
Mac
2024-12-26 22:56:26 +0000 UTCThe only song balnor plays is wonderwall
Jonathan
2024-12-26 22:54:49 +0000 UTCOut past Murphiew is phenomenal
Evan Cordero
2024-12-26 22:53:34 +0000 UTC“He stands alone, Godsmack style” is going into my lexicon
timweather
2024-12-26 22:50:58 +0000 UTCSnowflake Hermit sounds like an obscure class that Emily would play.
Allen S
2024-12-26 22:35:35 +0000 UTCThere is something undeniably sexy about "HerMittens"
Leomund's Tiny Nut
2024-12-26 22:18:40 +0000 UTCCaldwell never failing to remind everyone why AI is pure evil makes me feel so seen. AI is destroying not only the physical world but also society and if you use it you fucking suck!!
Kellyd
2024-12-26 22:12:13 +0000 UTCOoooo I love a hogliday hearthside
Heavy Harry
2024-12-26 22:10:20 +0000 UTCCampaign 2025
Jesse Dunlap
2024-12-26 22:03:09 +0000 UTCHappy Hoglidays!
wick
2024-12-26 22:03:05 +0000 UTCNew campaign in a dystopian future America.
Jesse Dunlap
2024-12-26 22:02:44 +0000 UTCThank you guys so much for the wonderful campaign! I really look forward to these chats. I can't wait for the future
Adam Kepper
2024-12-26 22:02:42 +0000 UTCNext campaign takes place in Medford, MA?!
Jake Alcott
2024-12-26 22:01:43 +0000 UTC
