Skaldova - Ep. 11: The Collapse

I love Lila. Like “I can’t argue with you guys you saved my life but man are you making it hard”

Everyone bullying Lyla is so funny to me. When Zudrick says "You're babbling" I actively cackled.

Murph conversationally railroading as a player will never not be funny

Tim Tam slams are the best and are definitely NOT just eating a bunch of 'cookies' 😅. Caldwell had it spot on but the biscuit has to actually be a Tim Tam

Do you think they will bring Skaldova back for 2026??

I loooove a timtam slam

on my relisten and omg the foreshadow of "boggy's really good at running away, he's done it a lot of times" ; A ;

I can't wait for more Skaldova if for nothing more than the potential for a Zudlock Crowlmes character arc. I need investigative Zudrick in my life.

Once again chiming in that I would LOVE for Emily to add her music to her substack

A garden of roses for you Jake! Thank you for this beautiful campaign

OMG! Jake is SUCH a good writer!!! That last scene under the stars✨

Boggy “Simone Biles” Roger has me cryinggggg 😭

Did welly just “hold on tight spider monkey”

I'm out of skaldova and I need more

Another beautiful constellation moment, I am once again asking for a NADDPOD Circle of Stars Druid 🥺🙏

I was actually in the middle of a Tim Tam Slam when I started the ep

Uhh I always wanted to use those stalagtite enemies!!

Emily's description of a Tim Tam Slam is an offence to my Austalian culture. Caldwell is pretty spot on though

"Funny hot reliable, what else does this guy have" is some next level wing man shit

Omg, so stoked to read the book Caldwell recommended. I was deep in an eating disorder and healed the way I thought about food through powerlifting. Put on 40lbs in a few years!!

Does anyone actually know what substack is? I googled it and I still don't understand

Emily thanking sensitive Salem was very sweet

I feel like the reveal that Zudrick is really hot is also an amazing homage to Jake and his fighter characters. Glad Murph can take up the “hot guy” mantel since Jake is DMing!

So when we say Skaldova is coming to an end, we mean just this arc, right? We've still got like 40 eps left with these characters, right? You're not expecting me to say goodbye so soon, right?

Theme Song of this episode in my head "Brighter" by Paramore "You shine brighter, than anyone does..."

This campaign has been so healing. Jake: you are amazing! Em: perfection. Murph: Zudrick constantly has me laughing out loud. Caldwell: I need more Boggy’s Buds tales!!! Love you all!!

My face after this ep 🥹

Love Emily’s euphemisms! “I’m feeling my heartbeat in places I don’t normally”

Emily’s “tiny Welly” voice was sooo good!

Doing great jake!

When Jake dropped that murph-style "here's how this is gonna work" on em i got SO hype. Love this pod.

Tim tam slams are very real Tim tams are an Australian cookie and you can eat them the way Caldwell described

The ending to this episode reminded me of when the heroes of light defeat Garland at the beginning of FF1. That feeling you get when you bring the princess back to the castle and the credits roll, at the beginning of the journey not the end. It invokes that feeling of "what will these warriors do next?". When the new boggies buds looked up at the stars when leaving the keep victorious, it just felt classicly nostalgic and made me look forward to visiting Skaldova in the future

I delay important business to write this. Timtam slams are a thing, common knowledge in Australia. I was enthusiastically shown this by numerous Aussies in my time there. You must understand that this is very common parlance. I am curious how Caldwell found out about this mystical Australian technique

It's so cool seeing all the crew have their own DM style, Jake's narrative prose and descriptions are incredible!

Jake, your storytelling has given me so many goosebumps it's unreal. I really really love the way you craft together a scene, the wordsmith in me is awed! The last look at the dragon's corpse? The Dawn Hold being a tomb for the worthy and unworthy? The description of Wellie gently settling Fay back into the world above? Beautiful, magical, incredible 🩷

Salsoa Salnu.

Enders kiss what an amazing episode!!! The skill checks, Jake’s narration, the close call and Emily’s quick mind. The world needs more Skaldova…

“indubitably”😭😭😭😭😭

PUT EM IN A BOGGY BAG

I was so stressed thinking that Boggy’s pitfall in episode 2 was inadvertently foreshadowing for a Boggy death.

For a moment there, the Carnal crew was turning into the Triples 🤣

Dude I thought boggy was so fucking cooked. I stopped scrolling on Pinterest just so I could be fully present for his (potential) last moment. Also also the bit with Lyla at the beginning was HILARIOUS, and the wombo-combo at the end with zudrick and wellie, was heartbreaking as it was amazing. Each episode of skaldova really just keeps getting better and better

Caldwell talking about a Timtam slam makes me feel seen.

Just bought my tickets for the Seattle live show while listening to this! see yall there!

Hearing tim tam slam played off as a bit has me wondering how many bits have actually been real things. It wouldn't surprise me to learn the Grinch is real and works at headgum. We got so few video eps of D&D court it's highly likely there was interpersonal conflict with the Grinch (who is real) that caused the working relationship to become untenable after only 3 eps.

Loveeeeee this one! Ropers are so goddamn scary lol. It’s some really good shit you’re giving us every single episode y’all, and hats off to jake especially— the monologue starting at 47:00ish really had me holding my breath

I trully can't wait for Hamdam to become one of the mad clerics in bloodborne worshipping some Cthulian creature.

I really like the skill challenge! Very well narrated! I know he’s never been on before, but maybe if you guys have Jake on 8-bit book club, he could read the book!

Boggie's bluster emboldened my baudiness. Welly's waves of warmth, warmed my heart. And Zudric's zen zone he enters when memorizing the faraway fjords, settles me. Hurwitz knocked it out of the park.

Banger after banger after banger Skaldova continues to impress every single week just absolutely A+ content

There's been a lot of D&D/timtam slam overlap in my life these past few months

Absolutely love the skaldova campaign, I hope you guys come back to this at some point like your did trinyvale and hot boy summer

Zudrick rules, that’s all.

…Starspawn

15 minutes left and I'm so sad this is almost done. What an absolutely fantastic story. Well done, one and all. So damn good!

Oh hey! Jake I also have been planning an upcoming chase scene and landed on doing a Colville-prescribed Skill Challenge. Small world!

Lovely episode guys! 💙 You keep me such good company

BUT TIM TAM SLAMS ARE REAL. They are a way to eat Tim Tam biscuits in Australia and New Zealand.

Hearing Swank so much this episode threw me for a loop

Zudrick ending up being just like D from Elden Ring is crazy

I’m backing Caldwell up here, Tim Tam slams are 100% a real thing.

OMG Jake, the encounter design is so good! What a unique challenge. That and the visual descriptions are just dazzling. Jill better watch out, seems like Tucker might have some competition

Team Knows-What-a-Tim-Tam-Slam-Is represent!

💐💐💐💐 A bouquet for each of you.

I had to send my cat down the rainbow bridge today, and I'm so glad to have my comfort food in podcast form here tonight. Thanks guys.

Tim tam slam is a very real thing

Murph not knowing what a TimTam Slam made me audibly gasp and half believed it was a bit

🎵 You know I go crazy for this NADDPOD fam 🎶 (to the tune of Sharp Dressed Man)

Hell yeah!

Hi Mr Brian, Mr Jake, mr tanner, & Anne with an e Kind regards, Michael

We’re absolutely gonna need more Skaldova. Jakes DMing combined with this trio getting to play as PCs together is just too good.

Perfect for lunch at work

Literally was bored and needed something to listen to.

No wayyyy perfect timing

Much love!!

SCALLLDOOOVAAAAA!!!

SKAAAALLLLLLLDOOOOOOVVVVVAAAA 🎶🎶

I’m sat.

I’ve never been so excited!!

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