The Peddler's Tales, Episode 1: Cruella De Vil

The Wonderful World of Darklords

Welcome to Part Two of the Wonderful World of Darklords' Dog Days of Summer! Tom and Rachel have finally finished their summer travel and will be returning to regular episodes next month, but for now, we're experimenting with a bonus episode format proposed by the incomparable Kris Newton: The Peddler's Tales, in which D learns about various Mist Travelers who are beloved characters but don't have darklord potential. For that, we hard to start with iconic Disney villain who doesn't have a single one of our four darklord qualities: Cruella De Vil. (Look, if you find it tragic and relatable that she can't make a coat out of puppies, that's between you and Ezra.) Kris joins us as we discuss:

• The roles Cruella can play in your campaign, from pure antagonist to shady quest-giver;
• A spirited debate on the most appropriate base stats for Cruella, since we can't give her darklord powers to beef them up;
• How to emulate the feeling of 101 Dalmatians with a D&D party, since heavily armed transients have a far different skill set and problem-solving toolbox than a plethora of puppies;
• Cruella's potential mooks, henchmen, and criminal contacts beyond Horace and Jasper (prepare for more Disney Easter eggs, y'all);
• and more!

Full writeups for Cruella and her fabulous coat are available for free on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cruella-de-vil-87337130?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

You can find Kris at the now-completed Gameable Podcast (https://gameabledisneypodcast.tumblr.com/), the on-hiatus MegaDumbCast (https://megadumbcast.podbean.com/ and https://www.patreon.com/megadumbcast), the still-active NXT Wrestling Fan (https://nxtwrestlingfan.libsyn.com/), and occasionally on the still-active Hard Choices (https://hardchoices.libsyn.com/). Please note that all except Gameable are EXTREMELY NSFW.

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Arabian Dance, from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, via the European Archive

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: http://www.tumblr.com/darklordazalin

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