The Tortle Tank: Homebrew Review! (w/ Jasper William Cartwright)
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Welcome to Tortle Tank, the show where four flippered financiers review your D&D homebrew and decide if they want to invest their hard-earned eggs. This week, the Tortles, as well as shellebrity guest Jasper William Cartwright (3 Black Halflings) take a look at crit-inducing coins, initiative hacks and one confusingly stealthy doll. Let's dive right in!
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Comments
Austin Wiggin
Whoever Nathan T. Who sent the gang Reingeist- I live in your area! Let's go to a live show someday
Murf'nLurph
"He's lost in the tank" nearly killed me😂
NursingWounds
This has the kind of energy I want to bring into the real world. There's a 50/50 shot I win the lottery if I play, and I love that. XD
Garrett Durham
When you think about it everything’s already a 50/50 chance because it either happens or it doesn’t so we should all just use coins.
Daniel Anderson
I feel like the throwing dice rule just came up when a bunch of players were rolling and one time a player hit another die, and it was ruled that it was allowed. But I think its only intended in cases where multiple people are rolling, as opposed to some sort of advantage or luck point where you decide to start chucking extra dice.
Katie P.
I'm a 5e DM, but I really love 2e. It is great for multi-classing and it offers so much customization.
Nick Powell
Uhhhh we have Rhinegeist in IL???? This changes everything
Morgan Monroe
There’s something about the camaraderie pertaining to D20 truck nuts in these comments that makes me love this community.
Morgan Monroe
I came here for this comment
Stephanie F
Same.
John The Third
From the shout outs… Rhinegeist is awesome. So glad it’s in IL now.
Zoe Jones
Bold of yall to assume that I won't put D20 truck nuts on my Honda civic
Jesse De La Rosa
It is 1 die and multiple dice. 😁
Blue Ashe
I don't know how to feel with Murph correctly guessing my age right with the truck nuts bit
Dylan Irish
Anything with one or more Halflings in it is a good plus up for an ep! Love having jasper in this
Max Roniger
I want those truck nuts lol
Emilia
I'm sorry but dice bocce is already being used. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818197062/bocce-dice-0
Glenn Dowdle
Damn I didnt put a turtle pun in my pitch.
SoupLightning
The future mavarus chronicles could really benefit from fuck points 👉
Kevin Wixom
Man I completely underplayed Fleshy's role in the description. I gave him to the team Cleric because his heavy armor meant he kept failing stealth checks AND it made him question his own God as it was a "living" automaton, something he would view as heretical, and he was always fighting the juxtaposition of "devout follower" and "independent do gooder".
Kevin Wixom
I've got a bright pink 94 F150 lwb 2wd. Understand completely.
Marge In Charge
There was such strong Billy Mayes OXYCLEAN energy from Murph that I think his next gig needs to be an infomercial. This was the try out. “ONE IS NAMED APPLEKIN AND OTHER ONE IS NAMED ORANGEKIN” 😂😂😂😂
Tyler Foster
Murph: "One.. ironic.. 19 year old." Me: "Actually I'm 22"
Josh Stadtmiller
My slammed drift truck would love scraping truck duts
Grass
I need to learn to drive and get a truck now
Jorde
Fia had that tight Josh Allen spiral
Tim
I would buy D20 truck nuts almost immediately to put on my Toyota Matrix.
Lady Land Puma
100% would buy the D20 truck nuts for my DM 🤣
Austin Johnson
God help me I heard the call for fan art of a Bailiff Tortle with a big ass and handcuffs and I delivered.
Ilana Galpert
I miss our owl entrepreneurs, but i do love the new tank. maybe there's a compromise here. there are owl bears and dragon turtles--why not owl tortles?
Marissa Bickford
Yeah! Bocce ball rules 😂
Marissa Bickford
Absolutely living for this format! More plz 🙏 Great inspo. And also now I’m thinking of lizards with nipple tassels - but entirely no nipples 🤷
Desiree K
I love Emily's laughter of pure joy at the concept of yeeting dice at other dice.
Plelk
Right?! We Cinci-nadpoles need to get on pitching a live show here. (Also, welcome to town!) Rhinegeist's rooftop is gorgeous and I think it's out of season but Night Whale is such a Fia beer.
Neji
I like the B team idea, I was already planning on doing something like this in my campaign, inspired by a similar mechanic in Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Revelations
Not Another D&D Podcast
I actually DID use the challenge coin! It's normally on my bookshelf where I record. However, when you live with a toddler things are rarely where you last left them. ~Caldwell
Bryce Vernon
I’m definitely the dice truck nuts kinda guy😂😂😂
Grace Bee
Lol my first dnd character was a halfling bard and I drive a Ford f150 XL, 2 different Ford rangers, a Chevy S10, and a Dodge Dakota for my job. So I would buy at least one pair of truck d20 nuts!
atlasrising
My fave thing about Jasper is that he can be on either end of the Caldwell-Murph dichotomy. Like he absolutely has hardass no-nonsense DM-Murph energy but equally the Jasper/Caldwell combo is just *chefs kiss* 😂 I'd love to see a chaotic Jasper/Caldwell vs sibling energy Jake/Em one shot or something... Although Murph may need a complete nonsense detox afterward
Emily Kelly
i think you guys should run seasons of this and then at the end each have to run a one shot implementing all of the home brew rules you’ve collected. or an all out brawl like the 8 bit book club monster mash and you use them like skills against each other LOL
Kyle Veach
...what's wrong with metal dice?
Dallon Taylor
dont yall SELL a challenge coin?? why does no one have a coin!? 🤣🤣
Dan
I know that it’s readily evident if you’ve been within 10ft of Caldwell opening his mouth, but I love the self awareness of his insanity
Nathann Morais
Alright alright alright. I love owlbear cave and I love that it is back, revamped, full of tortle references. I also love having Jake put his business side to use throwing jargons around in context to homebrew ideas and eggs. Tortle tank and Dungeon court are the perfect "D&D shows abou d&d that are super fun and don't need to be actual play". Also Jasper works so well with the crew!
Ariel, the Occasional Mermaid
You could try posting this question in the community feed—Caldwell responds to questions over there pretty regularly!
Ben Delany
Hearing them say “tordle” so much reminded me of this wordle joke I made a few months ago. https://tordlehost.github.io
Sand Panda
So yea... might be stealing the truck nuts idea. I'm sure to give by word of mouth where the idea came from. ❤
J. Marshall Smith
I don't know if you all actually read these comments but I sent you all some stuff in the PO box a while ago and I don't care that much about the shout out but I am bit worried you didn't get it?
Mae B
I would find some way to put truck nut dice on my tiny corolla I need them
Wyatt
Currently saving for a truck and I would definitely buy some truck twenties
Ryan
#releasethepumpkincut
Will
Jake absolutely killed the intro my god
Temedar
More then one Emily and murf I'm 37 lol
Megan Ortiguerra-Rojas
I DIED when Murph screamed his tangent
Chris Atkins
Caldwell's commitment to the bit even to the detriment of the pod... incredible
Declan Konesky
I would totally have truck twenties if I had a truck. But I have a van 🥲
Evilbob02
Id like to point out the two crew or choo choo crew put out a deathsave coin, in the merch club, not long ago. Similar to the coin of certainty.
Ben Jackson
I personally love the group rolling tray idea, and will be suggesting it to my no chortle DM
Sy Delta Parkertron
I just discovered the fun of playing with a slime and thought a Creek Water slime might tickle Emily's fancy
Sy Delta Parkertron
Aw man the slime was me! I asked them to put a message for you in the package but I guess they didn't. Glad you like it!
Robin Moran
'The Pumpkin Chronicles' and 'The Pumpkin Guy' are basically Grib (Jacob Wysocki) in Zak Oyama's Rotating Heroes Podcast 😂
Summer Rose (Grantaire)
yooooo shout out to rhinegeist! i moved here recently and they got me into beer. cool to know fellow naddpod lovers work there :)
Aiyana
I think about emily saying "your stupid, thunking metal dice" all the time from when murph tried to roll them on a starstruck odyssey
Aiyana
the throwing your d20s at one another to change the roll and them talking about the utter chaos of rolling has beardsley energy/behavior written allllll over it
Garrett Morrow
I don’t even own a truck and I would absolutely buy a set of d20 truck nuts
David Lipscomb
I ran a Goliath Barbarian and fellow PC was a kobold rogue. We crafted a backpack for me to carry her around on my back like Master Blaster. She got sneak attack every attack every time
sawnnyM
Initiative grouping is used in baldurs gate 3 the game! Works really smoothly to speed up combat.
Figgy_Blue
The metal really shows how stupid this will be, in a good but douchy way.
preston packer
Yall gunna get lost in the tank again
Kelley
So glad to witness the return of turdiss. Edit: I listened to this right before bed last night and my dreams were haunted by Emily chuck checking D20s in the background.
Hanna Wen
YAY! so excited to listen.
Rachel
jasper!
Alex Moore
Literally was just checking Patreon for the new upload! Awesome! So stoked