Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 13

its 2026 and they're still talking about vaccines... we will never recover

murph hates feathered dinosaurs bc it hits too close to city pigeon

penguin boy to raccoon woman pipeline here

So proud of Jake for making the Quail Man connection, so disappointed in Caldwell for not getting there first. Also, is the east coast not populated with quail? I'm surprised they all seem... well, surprised at what quail look like.

Dunk and Egg deserves a great adaptation. I’ve read all of GRRM’s novels and as many short stories as I can get my hands on and can confidently say Dunk and Egg is his best writing.

Guys I have, for years, had a sticker on my water bottle that I custom ordered hundreds of that says Quail Man as a reference to doug, this is an act of providence, praise be to dice Christ

The possibility of Onyx reincarnating into Binky Fiasco makes me fear for Caldwell's sanity

I have lived around quails for years and listening to Murph discover them and become a quail boy was delightful

thank you for making the fingernail a quail. i am a quail kid

Druid being the most underplayed class is probably correct even if the gen AI sourcing was off, people really don't like playing control casters and druids have like no mobility or blasting options, you just sort of plant your feet and concentrate on your big spell.

I was a bunny girl… no, wait not like that!!!

I am excited for RADDPOD to come out!

Just now getting to this one, and to address Emily's concern about the warlock misty step, that rule did change with 2024! Now, instead of only being allowed to cast "one leveled spell per turn" you're allowed to "expend one spell slot per turn." So, in this case where you cast it for free, you can then cast another spell!

Heard on the short rest you aren't doing the ghost Silverdragon! My favorite little lore area but Im excited to see the lake if you get to it. Great job Caldwell!! An excellent strahd run so far

I'm still wondering if he's going to run them through Bonegrinder. It seems like Caldwell's more focused on cracking jokes and running curse of Strahd like a Saturday morning cartoon. So I don't think so.

There's a special tool to open quail eggs. They look like scissors ✂️

The Beatles at least think that deva is pronounced "day-va", because Across the Universe has the Sanskrit "Jai guru deva" right before the chorus

The T-Rex was a predator, it likely also scavenged because pretty much every animal will also eat food it just finds. But the idea that it was an exclusive scavenger is like, one guy's fringe theory that got a lot of mainstream attention because people love that style of "you were wrong about dinosaurs!" clickbait that reduces scientific theory to easily digestible, shocking "fun facts" to one-up friends with. But it's not actually likely to be true. Similarly, iirc the current scientific standard is that baby T-Rexes had feathers but lost them as they grew up, indicated by the skin impressions we have of babies and adults. I feel a bit uncertain on whether to leave this comment at all because a lot of Short Rests have had passionate statements not to correct them because they can just look it up themselves ("don't @ us!") which I do understand, posting casual conversations online and being bombarded with "um, actually" by tons of people must feel exhausting. But this isn't like me wanting to be a know-it-all and feel superior to other people by correcting them, I just think it's kind of sad how easily misconceptions spread and I wanna give people who read the comment section a chance to consider this additonal T-Rex info and maybe read into it themselves if they want to :) Science is fascinating and always more complex than clickbait articles or fun facts. Stay curious everyone!

Too much joe Rogan and AI. Not enough grinch

Its not pronounced diva! Deva is a Hindu term, that would make sense to connect to angels! Its pronounced like Dhay-va

I can't believe they didn't talk at all about the fact that Chompo is Scrappy Doo?

I know next to nothing about GoT so at first I thought they were talking about a character named "Duncan Egg." Not too far off now that I look it up but for a moment I lived in a more beautiful world.

My middle son loved dinosaurs and construction vehicles. Then they came out with Dinotrux so must be a common interest for kids.

You just KNOW the short rest episode is gonna bang when there's a picture of a little guy on it. Cheers

This isn’t related at all but I have nowhere else to share this: https://youtu.be/by9H1tjNXEY?si=lS3XVuYmd1ocrdJF

Wolf kid here -- my first DND character was ALSO a druid with aspirations for a wolf as a companion 🤙🏻

I dont think all of these types of [animal interest] kids are phases cause youre just describing different flavors of autism special interest which usually change over time. horse girl? autism. marine biology kid? autism. the only one thats more plausibly a phase is dinosaurs but that's just because of how big they were in the 90s with things like jurassic park

Annette Funicello?

sweet scotch egg sounds like a quirky way of cussing. oh, and sweet blue hole. egg in a donut? sweet egg hole.

I will say, I've ran 4 campaings, played in 3. None of them had a Druid. It seems to be a lot people's SECOND choice (me included), but doesn't end up getting played.

If someone hasn’t mentioned it already there is a thing called Swedish Egg Coffee. Not sure how easy it is to make but it’s quite tasty!

Also also ALSO how did these elder millennials not reference Quail Man from the hit Nickelodeon TV show Doug?

I was the marine biology kid, and my last character was a water genasi druid. I was driving my DM nuts like Brennan spouting bird facts.

Murph becoming a quail boy on this day 2025.

I can’t believe they didn’t mention the Toys’R’Us Kids. Oh and one of my favorite facts is that the t-Rex lived closer to our time than to when the stegosaurus lived. And I’m waiting for Emily to talk about the Cosmere.

Cadbury Scotch Eggs

Jeremy Crawford and the official D&D team are the source for druid being the least used class, despite being beloved by many. They think it's because of it's complexity.

Easy, you play games, read Goosebumps books, guess what year things came out, and make fun of Sonic the hedgehog? What's there to not understand?

Emily is actually correct, the T-Rex wasn't just a scavenger, it was very much a skilled hunter

Ok so I do work in a higher end French restaurant and quail eggs are SO OVERRATED. They’re just not chicken eggs and they’re small and cute so they’re more expensive. Plus not many places have quails that they take care of to collect their eggs. They are super annoying to crack cause the membrane under the shell is super tough. I take a thin knife and give it a good whack to open them. Weird bit of knowledge that I never thought would apply anywhere lol so you’re welcome 💜

murph and emily need to be fred and wilma for halloweeen this year

I think the funniest version would be if jens became a kid, because no one would be able to retain the baser impulses of the triplets. Sassy 8yo Jens would also be so funny

Emily! That's definitely how you pronounce Deva. It means celestial being in Hinduism and Buddhism too I think. And can be akin to an Angel but somewhat demi godish. The d has like the 'th' sound from the word the. Like 'They-vuh' except skip the y sound finish to they.

i LOVE feathered dinosaurs and you can still make the feathers look a lot like scales if you want the classic look <3 and dragons that can flare feathers to look even bigger? hell yeah

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't paleontologist discover fossils of smaller dinosaurs and saw feather imprints on them, but is still not confirmed if the bigger dinosaurs were covered in feathers? Its probably pop culture's fault but I can't imagine a full grown T-Rex covered in feathers 😅 This is the type of discussions I expect from my favorite sports podcast

My dad is a quail guy, he loves quails and gives me reports on the quail families in his backyard

I once made the mistake of telling a Lyft driver I’m a podcast producer, and he IMMEDIATELY started telling me he was going to hire me because he wanted to start a podcast to “get the message out about chem trails.” Now I say I’m an “editor” which is also technically true and people assume I mean books which they tend to be less interested in or confused by.

I found out that warlocks are super customizable because one of my players is playing a new warlock and he took invocations that give origin feats, now he has like seven feats and I keep learning about new things that he can do, that even he forgot he can do.

I live Jake's confidence that he cpuld bully a feathered T-rex, when cassowarys exist and are absolutely terrifying in real life.

I'm surprised you haven't started claiming "When Did Things Come Out" as the podcast that you edit 😂 it's a fun game show! The format is sweeping the nation! With the horse girl categories, I think the only one I think of as a big one is the Dolphin Girl, which you kinda called out with the marine biology kid.

i love the mini game upon witnessing the cover for the episode before beginning to listen and guessing when and where its gonna derail and become the topic of conversation

“Look at this little gentleman” I’m obsessed with Murph finding quails

quail yeah

a traditional beef tartare calls for one raw quail egg!🪺 you mix it in with the tartare and it makes the texture really nice

EMILY!!!! WORM WIFE ATTENTION!!!!! In 2024 rules you can do spells of any level twice in one turn, but can only spend one spell slot each turn. So bonus action misty steps are okay after a leveled spell as long as they are specifically the charisma archfey charges, if you use a spell slot to misty step you’re correct you’re limited to cantrips OR spells as an action that do not require spell slots.

Hey guys haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet but why is there a quail on the cover! (/j)

was not expecting a reference to vtubers from caldwell

You know its gonna be a good short rest when the cover is some random bullshit with 0 context

Love the naddpod crew cant wait for more surprise round

I was wondering why our state bird was the thumbnail 😆 California quails are real cute, especially when they zip around in a single file line

Birds are dinosaurs!! A quail is a dinosaur!! Also love that Murph is becoming a bird guy

Emily the 2024 rules say you can only cast a leveled spell “using a spell slot” once per turn, so you can Steps of the Fey and still cast a leveled spell as an action!

For Emily's Misty Step question, 2024 rules limit you to expending a single spell slot per turn. So a free cast of Misty Step combined with a regular spell is allowed!

I have an unfortunate confession: I was never a dinosaur kid. And I specifically remember being like 8 or 9 and feeling very self conscious that I didn’t know more about dinosaurs because everyone else seemed very into them, but that train had somehow passed me by.

I bought quail eggs for my cats once, yeah, they’re pretty tough to crack

Quail eggs have a super thick, hard shell. That’s normal. My sister used to keep quail because she can’t eat chicken eggs but she can eat quail eggs, and she had a special tool that is specifically made to crack quail eggs open. It’s like a little handheld guillotine. It takes about three quail eggs to equal a chicken egg, and about three chicken eggs to equal a goose egg.

I think Emily's Deva pronunciation is right. But I'm no angelist.

Fun fact: the quail head plumes are also called topknots!

I was feasting at the discussion about how they talk about “their job” in the “normal” world. I am always wondering what it is like to do this professionally—how strange it must feel to be both kind of famous but also totally obscure.

murph's delivery of "what a little gentleman!" really caught me off guard, i'm not used to him sounding so genuinely delighted! quail talk was a very fun little divergence

Your go to for “what do you do for work” isn’t “I host one of the highest grossing podcasts on Patreon? You’re welcome for being in my presence??” Not… “I’m your DMs favourite DM” or for Emily, “I’m the greatest D&D player of all time,” or Caldwell, “I inspire the entire internet with both art and chaos?” and also there’s Jake?”

Quail eggs are a giant pain in the ass to deal with 😣😣😣

Listening to Murph discover his love of quails was a true treat thank you everyone

Thank u dduncula

I often lie about my job because it invites stupid questions and opinions that I don’t want to deal with. My go to is accountant. it’s boring enough that no one wants to ask anything about it.

When the cover is a random image you know it’s gonna be an unhinged episode

Have not listened to the episode but very curious why a California Quail is the thumbnail

for a second I thought I was looking at Brian Murphy the Finch

such a fun combat this episode!!

You *know* you're in for a treat when the short rest has a random ass picture as the cover

Hell yes

Im not caught up, but Im curious the relevance of a California Quail.

When I see a short rest with a cover photo I click play, it's that simple