Dancing with Werewolves in the Moonlight

Murph on D20 compared to NADDPOD is like when an oldest sibling goes to their grandparents and gets to be a bratty kid like they truly are instead of just always being put in charge of babysitting the younger siblings because what’d you mean he’s doing an off-mic bit about fucking throwing dice 😭😭😭

immense brian murphy w for the way he did women dwarves in bahumia. all dwarves have beards, Including the women, Including the sweet pretty feminine dwarf princess thats the main character macho human fighter dude’s ex-girlfriend hes pining after. and then that pretty princess dwarf has a sister, who shaves off her beard. and in like any other media this sister whos clean-shaven would be The De Facto Love Interest bc shes more “human conventionally attractive and normal” (like in bg3 how they soften lae’zel’s githyanki features and karlach’s tiefling eyes to make them more “appealing” compared to other npc gith and tieflings). but NO. brian murphy instead made the sister whos clean-shaven a butch lesbian knight, bc he actually considered that this isnt our human society, this is a society where having a beard Is a feminine beauty standard, so the queer presentation would be shaving. also the way he communicated to the audience that this clean shaven dwarf woman was queer was by making her burst out laughing in disbelief that she would ever be interested in mr macho human fighter dude, then ask if she can ask out the horny busty grimy druid woman, and then later make her pine for that woman for 200 years.

listening to NADDPOD as an avid D20 fan is wild because every time a paladin casts 'detect good and evil' i expect the classic brennan response of "you don't detect good or evil, but rather an absence of energy that seems to disturb the environment around you. it's impossible to describe because you've never felt this sensation before... a mysterious aura pulses around you at a frequency that sounds like both the ending and beginning of all things" and murph will be like "yo that sword is straight up EVIL dude that is 100% a cursed sword"

Being a Podcast Person™️ is so humiliating because it’s like “sorry for just laughing out loud in public randomly everyone, the 4 adults playing make believe just had a great bit about poultry.”