Short Rest: C3 Ep. 67: Cyra

Shout out to Murph for not having the Fate Bringers target Kenna and allowing her to use the potions to save Callie and Calder 🙌🏻

I think this episode was a prime example of how theater of the mind combat can be a double edged sword. It made for an anwsome high stakes combat but I would argue that the chain lightning spell had no right to hit all three of them the turn it did. It was narrated Cali went 30 feet one direction, Calder went 30 feet a different direction, and Sol went 50 feet the same direction as Calder. Chain lightning has a jump range of 30 feet so I think it would have much more clear on a battle map that they were not all within 30 feet. Also I'm a little confused on the fireball damage numbers. How did Sol take 40 damage on a single half damage fire ball but on 6 with multiple fails Cali and Calder average about 107 damage each? Something smells a little fishy with Ryan's math.

A pitch for Campaign 4. The boobs all play members of the Brinesplooge clan that are a doth squad for a future Sir Gunk.

The 2014 elemental monk is badass. It was my first dnd character, and it has forever made me a monk believer. You say under powered, I say OTHER powered.

Eagley the Eagle in Peace Maker Hugs John Cena with his wings but im pretty sure thats a good CGI Eagle but i would be lying if i said i couldnt be convinced otherwise

Bear Prince hot tub is permanently ingrained.

Calder saving himself for Tris had me peeing. Wearing both promise rings… STAHP

Forcecage is SO wild - about a month after this ep, i had to figure out how to escape one as well with a dimensional shackle on, too, and it is really a daunting situation when you have no innate teleportation methods. i love coming back to this ep post that situation and seeing how yall handled it 💗

Ducks can hug Anime is science

👺👺☹️

Do a monster campaign! 3 monsters who just want to be good guys so bad!

Those ducks are hugging, but it is not the same hugging I imagined when thinking of Oli and Foster hug.

One of the players should run a honey prince one shot.

Murph got Peregrined by his own players! I love how you all "defied fate" more or less by completely changing the direction of the story.

Idk if this makes sense but I especially love when Caldwell has an epic combat or heartwrenching roleplay moment because he does love playing goofy guys. It feels so good to see Sol get to be awesome (which he is all the time but love to see it in an intimidating, badass way)

I love that Emily is like well idk if Callie and Xunarck will work out (no clue how to spell it forgive me) when it’s the least preposterous and actually healthy relationship of the three the pcs could have.

I can’t with the hugging ducks y’all 😭💜 I am soooo hyped for the rest of this campaign it’s been amazing. C3 is one for the books to be sure.

RESTOCK THE CRICK SHIRT IN UNISEX AND MY SOUL IS YOURS!!!! GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (i am far too silly for this world)

Can’t believe Jake almost died in Shadowfell AGAIN.

Perfect episode, but for everyone who think they could do the same at their table: to teleport out force cage creatures need to pass a charisma save. Not a comment on the episode, again, but just fyi for the players listening

Great episode! But on the topic of plans and traps buttoning up with mechanics... greater invisibility only lasts for 1 minute.

Tempered glass cannons, Pyrex cannons

There's something very poetic about the symmetry between the above-the-table situation of Murph not seeing the players' escape tactics coming, and the in-canon situation of the Fatebringer mages not seeing it coming either because the PCs are peregrine.

I just rebuilt my PCs (monk and Paladin) with the 2024 rules this week, and it was a trip this combat won in large part thanks to things that got taken away in the new rules

Someone (Caldwell, I think) quietly saying "Glenn-ipulation" but no one acknowledging it killed me

idk if y'all are gonna see this but i really have to say, a long time ago i wrote you all a letter and sent you a book by k.s. villoso and made a joke that was barely a joke about jumping a tier level if you supported her patreon and then i wrote another letter to correct the first letter and clarified that it was a joke because i was embarrased about it and *then* i realized you guys thought i was seriously and *had* supported her patreon and when i said it was a joke you cancelled the support and i think out of embarrassment she shut down her patreon because it took her back to just me as her only backer and I just I've carried this guilt and embarrassment for a long time and I'm so deeply deelpy sorry to everyone involved. You literally might not know what I'm talking about but I'm so sorry if you felt tricked into supporting her and i feel terrible for kind of inadvertently causing her to shut down her patreon and idk why i haven't sent this before now but i'm so so so sorry.

You know it’s a good episode when the short rest is on topic

This arc is insane.... Also #duckscanhug

One of the most anticipated short rests for me in a while!!!

Also, I just need to say that C3 has been amazing. Out of all of their campaigns, this one, to me, has felt like the most pure DND played by them. As a DM, I cannot begin to express the number of times I've began a session with an idea of how things will go, only to have my players completely flip the script and find creative ways out of my rail roading haha. The number of times Duck Team has found these creative ways out of sticky situations (callback to If I Were You) absolutely screams "friends playing at the table". Just pure fun and enjoyment. Fuck I love this show

This was the most on-the-rails short rest in months!

Caldwell roses all day today

Okay imagine if this pivot means we get to see the dusk mother again 😭 🤞

Absolutely loved Caldwell using the fear!!!!!!

A field of roses for everyone!! The role play, the plot twists, the battle moves! This episode should be made into a full movie!!!

Epilogue episode idea: one of the couples breaks up, and the other two try and help them get a new date.

i've noticed that every single time someone compliments murph he goes "oh, thanks." in the same monotone inflection every time. you could absolutely overlay every single instance of it and it would sound the same

Insane episode. Really highlights one thing about naddpod that is really special—we’re all riding the dice together week by week

Yes my favorite nadpod arc, impel down

Murph as Cyra, with Jake and Caldwell as triss would be diabolical.

the fact that triss 1 died at the hands (paws?) of the bear prince when in C1 the OG trisses were under the bear prince’s domain… triss 1’s fate was foretold from the start 😳 somehow some way her death launched her essence back in time and reconstituted as a dryad so she’s triss 1 of all the trisses lol

ducks CAN hug

Congrats to Jake for the first spit take i've had in months with the "I'm saving myself for Triss 2" bit

Caldwell, please draw Ollie and Foster with human arms hugging

The ducks are 100% hugging

Beans

"dude these is a hug dude... come on" - Brian Murphy

I’m usually with Caldwell but those ducks are hugging.

Those ducks are hugging

Would love to be the person who monitors google searches coming in on Monday morning and trying to figure out the spike in ‘ducks hugging’ 🌹😄 [spoilers] I, too, immediately thought the force cube was Cyra, but I didn’t think it was a ‘protect’ thing I thought that maybe she didn’t trust Calliope to not try to take the unified crown for herself so decided to do the thing herself like she’d planned. Felt immediately bad for thinking the worse of her 😬😳😞

The picture 😭

I'm shipping Calder and Cyra (don't tell Triss Two) it's the fire and ice of it all

This is the best, I hope y’all continue to make characters and stories forever

Yaba daba doo!!!! Please come to Medford, MA

Awwwwww that’s a nice picture

Holy shit I literally JUST finished listening to the ep!

i’ve never impatiently awaited a short rest quite like todays. what an excellent episode and great play from everyone!!