Short Rest: Gangs of Neo Galaderon - Ep. 3

They did in fact changed it lol

Murph’s crush phone call story reminded me of when I was in high school and someone was texting me but I didn’t know who it was. At one point they asked me who I had a crush on so I said if I told them they would need to tell me who they were. So I told them who my crush was (a boy in my science class) and then they said “Oh.” And then they told me their name (some guy I had gone to middle school with). I’m guessing they were hoping they were my crush ☠️

My favorite part of short tests is when the crew goes off a tangent about their lives or media. So the tall-men story and phone call with the crush stories really made me happy and laugh!

Businessy business

fintech is also "hey i can make bank transfer to any bank for free and someone having my bank account number is in no shape or form a security threat". or ee venmo and apps like that that US has

The "Cologne" talks made me think of so much embarrassing stuff as a teenager. I didn't wear axe but I wore Bod. The scent was "Really Ripped Abs" and it did kinda smell like Cool Water. Also reminded that I used to use Speed Stick to stiffen up the "Straight-up-in-the-air-but-only-the-front-two-inches" hairstyle so many 13 year old boys had in 2002. It looked sweet with my flames Hawaiian shirt and Ball Bearing necklace and jnco's with a chain wallet. Smh🥴

"Double Pitts to chestey" imprinted on me so hard as a teen when that ad dropped. I still do this ritual to this day. 😂

Y'all really need to end every search with "-AI" or switch to Duck Duck Go where you can choose never to see those stupid AI summaries (for your own sanity and for water conservation, water quality, GHG emissions)

I kept picturing The Prototype as a cybernetic version of Max the bodyguard from Cats Don’t Dance (1997)

Can confirm a game of thrones slot machine, or another bizarre one is crazy rich asians

I can't believe they didn't bring up the Ally axe-bomb in dimension 20 💀

Olaf dies in frozen 2

My pops is an IT specialist and he's got to go to those go-live conferences all the time. Honestly it seems they do try to roll out the tallest men cuz he's 6'5" and he's said they've got guys showing up that even he's got to crane his neck to talk to. If you wanted to do the spray deodorant test, why not get those perfume testing papers?

This was a quintessential NADDPOD episode. There are many D&D podcasts I love (Critical Role, Worlds Beyond Number, Dimension 20), but the reason NADDPOD has remained my most consistently listened-to podcast for the past 5 years is simply that these 4 humans have the most impeccable chemistry and energy around each other. I hope they keep going for decades.

Murph don't forget the firghten3d condition means you can't move closer and have disadvantage on attacks, you don't HAVE to flee. Its to help make the dragon harder to hit seeing as once players hit high levels they fly through fights.

first time i literally havent been able to get through a short rest because im laughing too hard

Peer health educator

They did change it Murph is so right

I only recently discovered Cool Water after shave, I love it

Did Murph get an STI from Monster Tinder?

the slot machine convo reminded me of twitch streamer Jerma who was convinced the three stooges would soon be in Fortnite, and eventually admitted that he believed this because of the sheer number of three stooges slot machines in vegas

You can buy perfume testers! Little slips of paper you can spray scent on, to then smell. Also, you can cleanse your "palate" between smelling. Someone who I know who works at the Institute of Art and Olfaction (a real place I swear) recommended sticking your nose inside your own shirt or crook of your elbow to reset with a familiar smell (this person did a presentation of the smells mentioned into Joyce's Ulysses, as a part of a class reading Ulysses - so fucking cool).

A rose for all the memories the childhood talk brought back! ^_^ (A thorn for all the cringe it brought too lol)

Im pretty sure there was a DnD Court episode where they debated if a player can rage in a non aggressive way.

Can confirm there is a game of thrones slot machine and it’s wild

The business men are tall because they’re mostly high school/college athletes who didn’t go pro.

All the body spray memories conjure up a really visceral image of huddling between cars in the parking lot of a school dance spraying each other up and being too scared to split the one warm beer someone took from their older brother.

Calvin Klein Obsessiom in college and I loved my first real girlfriend who wore Elizabeth Arden Red Door. It lingered on my Swatch (it was 1986). When she dumped me I was crushed and just smell my Swatch. Talk about sensory memory.

Please please please do a Humblewood campaign! It's so fun, I love Humblewood 🩷🩷🩷

I NEED you to know that sudoku has nothing to do with maths and changing it to symbols makes absolutely no difference to the difficulty, this perception of sudoku is wild to me 😂

Sniff coffee beans between colognes like at Ulta.

So I’ve used fear a handful of times in my campaigns. It’s not something I uses super often for the reason you’ve brought up but you’re not always forced to run away when you’re Frightened. The Frightened condition aside from the disadvantage it causes, it just prevents you from moving closer to the source of fear. Some creatures have abilities that then make you have to run away while afraid but a lot of times I drop that part. Like I said, I don’t like to use Fear too much but it’s a tool I like to use with certain enemies who have almost an aura of malice that makes your arm hair stand up.

Peak lotr game was the best

The staying up late to quietly watch TV in your room conversation brought back a lot of memories of watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien with the TV at like...just loud enough to hear from about three inches away

In cologne shops they have test strips - you could do the same and just spray onto a piece of paper and pass it around and not have to bomb the room.

My brother is 6'3 and works in fintech 😬 he paid more in taxes on his investments than my entire salary last year. Also in high school I had one of those big boxy TVs that only got the basic local networks, but it had a built in VCR and DVD player and I had it programmed to record to a VHS so I could record those syndicated shows in the middle of the night or shows airing when I'd be out of the house.

In Australia AXE is called LYNX. Same product but the name is much cooler.

Murph is right they changed it to STIs to reduce the stigma since most of them are curable with antibiotics and the ones you can’t cure are extremely manageable

i'm begging for an Orlando return with a review of DK island at Epic Universe 🙏🏼

Florida mention! That’s wild because you should come back (please)

As someone who has a job that invites unwanted conversations the trick is to say something adjacent but boring. Writer is too interesting, advertising is the go to.

My family used to do a tradition of gifting the kids a new cologne every vacation. 'Scent memory' is legit; to this day Drakar Noir smells like Jamaica to me.

I was in Las Vegas for Christmas last year, and I can confirm that there is indeed a Jon Snow Game of Thrones slot machine

The middle school dating story is so nostalgic and so fucking funny

Please do the deodorant testing bracket because that’s something that sounds awful to do but hilarious to listen to Edit: you could spray each one onto a piece of paper and pass it around to make sure you got an accurate sniff as the room gets more and more toxic throughout the podcast

Just when I though I couldn't identify with Murph any more he drops the fact he also stayed up till 3am to watch The Critic

Taking a significant amount of psychic damage from the fintech/conference portion of this short test because my job is to literally make the trainings for those guys because they don’t know how to use PowerPoint and you all describing what you do to these guys was literally me last week saying I was going to see a show at Radio City and then having explain NADDPOD to them

Can Adam’s drill pierce the heavens? Also the fear mechanic should be used more. As a player I like having these status effects. They make the fight interesting and forces me to play the character a little differently. I don’t get why Murph would want to have immunity to these effects. Having the PCs be immune to fear is really lame and boring. Imagine going through a campaign with zero hindrances and no stakes. Thats what it sounds like Murph wants sometimes and it always gets unfun.

Monstinder. That is all.

I love how the Prototype is just Adam Smasher from Cyberpunk

Emily getting Axe bombed made for such a good D20 AP

When did STI's come out?

As soon as Murph did his intro, my immediate response was “they must have just recorded the energy drink mixed bag; he’s so energetic,” and within 10 seconds he confirmed I was right, lol

Caldwell below average height????? Which is crazy because he LOOKS tall to me and I don’t think he has tall energy

I like the energy behind this episode. Pun intended.

Gotta say I love learning everyone's past during the short rests. I don't know if its the Gorilla Mind or the other half doz energy drinks they imbibed, but I'm all for the history.

Public health student nodding adamantly when Murph said they changed it because they did. From what I understand it’s mostly because you can have an infection without having symptoms which is better described as an infection (you have some kind of germ) than disease (you are ill due to germ). It’s also partially just changing the words to try to get away from some of the stigma. But asymptomatic infections are a big thing — get tested gang!!!

is it just me or is the everyone speaking so quickly after having those energy drinks!! lol

Murph my man this is huge for me

MURPH THANK U. YOU LOCKED IN

Already!!!! Murph is on fire

can I just say I LOVE Thursday releases. This made my day! Thanks Murph!

earliest short rest ever?!?!? hell yeah :)

murph, you dawg

Let’s gooooo