WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Dungeons and Daddies: Fetch Quest, Episode 1 “All Dogs Go To Faerun.”
After completing the first season of their popular, dad-joke-centered Dungeons & Dragons podcast, the Dungeons and Daddies crew are branching out to tell a different story. In a mini-series to tide listeners over until Season 2, the crew is back with brand new characters and a brand new DM. Here’s an introduction to the mini-series Fetch Quest and the brand new player characters that Patreon members got a sneak peak of.
Fetch Quest tells the story not of human dads, but rather three dogs and one cat who, like their first season characters, were cast into a new and unfamiliar fantasy realm. Instead of meeting at the traditional D&D tavern or in a carpool, these characters all find their way to a vet clinic in Barstow, CA with different levels of urgency. While there, the makeshift team is sucked out of the clinic and into a traditional D&D world of Druids and magic. This group doesn’t have to rescue their sons, but they are committed to searching through the unfamiliar forest they find themselves in to find a Very Good Boy.
The first new character introduced is Donut, the 11-year-old black Lab played by Matt Arnold. Donut has lived his entire life at a truck stop, earning him tons of friends in the truckers passing through. Motivated by food, he seems eager to sniff out nearby snacks. Donut may be the oldest of the group, but that hasn’t stopped him from trying different stunts. The first episode finds him in the vet’s office to treat Donut’s broken leg, a result of trying to cross a highway to save a litter of hungry puppies.
Listeners then meet Cookie, Beth May’s character and a two-year-old Whippet with an Australian accent. Her owner is Agent Cody Banks, like from the eponymous movies, making her both a spy dog and a good girl. Cookie may be trained for action (and can even understand the the phrase “DOA”), but she suffers from anxiety. She wears a ThunderShirt, a special form of pet clothing design to wrap tightly around an anxious animal and provide some comfort. Though she claims its not in her nature, Cookie comes off as aggressive, lashing out teeth-first at the vet tech who tries to take her ThunderShirt.
Although Anthony Burch threatened to make Scrappy-Doo a canonical character in Fetch Quest, he instead brings Beignet (and a familiar French accent) to the gaming table. Beignet is a French Poodle and Instagram star, groomed for the social media life by her owner Kitty. However, Kitty’s affections have shifted to her corgi Churro, and Beignet has sought to continue to earn her approval — even to her own detriment. After a video of Beignet projectile vomiting a grape, a food that is notoriously hazardous to dogs, right on the beat of a Bruno Mars song went viral, the poor poodle has continued to try to recreate the magic moment to earn Kitty’s affection.
Freddie Wong is the odd-one-out of the group this time — he plays Mochi, an American Bobtail cat, or at least a cat who looks very much like this expensive breed. Mochi wandered into a local vet office off the street, where he set up shop as the clinic cat. He claimed his place as a bouncer or self-described “Patrick Swayze” of the group, though he seems less interested in keeping the peace than in throwing paws and putting dogs in their place. Mochi also claimsto be descended from a long line of imperial cats who trace their lineage back to Roman Egypt and that his true full name is the imperial-sounding Mochinius.
With DM Will Campos at the helm, Dungeons and Daddies: Fetch Quest has already started off with a bang, and is sure to get only rowdier and more chaotic from here. Like their previous season, Odyssey, this mini-series shows both a knowledge of the rules of the tabletop game, but a willingness to ignore them for fun mechanics (like scratch-and-sniff stickers) and to make collaborative story-telling more fun for the participants and listeners alike. While Fetch Quest isn’t designed to last more than three episodes, Donut, Cookie, Beignet and Mochi are already a memorable group of characters ready to take listeners on a fantastical journey.
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