Short Rest: Gangs of Neo Galaderon - Ep. 13

Almost thought they didn't do one for this ep! It wasn't in the collection for me.

It would be cute for the arcade to make spacial 3 player video game about the party. And that way future friend groups of 3 will be able to play it together without one of them being on the sidelines, like aux on the boat ride

This campaign was pure art. Thank you for making it

I'm pretty late, and this will never be read, but... Jake said that this was the best ending of a campaign, and that makes me think that they would really love playing a campaign of Heart the city beneath, which is designed to allow PCs to have their glorious end during the end of the campaign! Plus the classes are absolutely weird, they'd love it.

The song Darkness from Daniel Deluxe has clips of Lord of Darkness from Legend. 🖤

I’m sure Jake has already done a lot of prep but I have been playing Call of Cthulhu lately and I genuinely think the vibes would fit really well with Skaldova with minimal squinting. Theres no real reason the little “magic” or supernaturality of the PCs couldn’t be made to work with the rules, and the oldness and bleak beauty of the world feel like a good setting for horror

The next campaign gives me "The Good Place" vibes for some reason

In cyberpunk lore “there are no happy endings” so it was actually perfect. You can’t beat the city. Using dnd afterlife to get a bittersweet ending was so cool

That gunship intro rlly does slap

the main reason it's good the campaign ended in a TPK (even if self inflicted by the players) is because a good cyberpunk story doesn't have happy survivors. It was either gonna be a lone and depressed Atom by himself in the wake of his friends' deaths, or all of them going out together. No other ending would be as cyberpunk. But this one is also good because of what Murph said with the whole afterlife bits beforehand leading up to it so it doesn't feel forced to technically keep the characters going even if they're not really "alive" anymore. Them all dying was the optimal ending, but the lone Atom ending would've worked too

Okay but how sad are Rovers Beep boops now. Because I now feel terrible for that fictional robot dog.

When they were talking about movie voiceovers in nite wave type music I was thinking “oh, like Tech Noir” It’s clearly the perfect example

I need Nathan Yaffe to be the Kill screens handler!!!

Caldwell just said “a slip of the mind”, like a slip of the tongue, and that is AMAZING.

These characters were my favorite combo of silly vs. serious since the Band of Boobs - I agree with Jake, I don’t know if any other trio could have had such a perfect TPK

I need Caldwell to listen to Exist by Avenged Sevenfold after hearing the spiel about a podcast in the midst of a song

al ? bw

Oh praise the lord, Skoldova! I cant wait!

I forsure thought Murph said at one point that Elmer was somebody we would recognize from campaign one, so funny that the answer to who he was is just a loving weirdo haha

SKALDOVA!!! BABY, GUNNA MISS THESE GOOBERS BUT IM READY FOR BOGGIES BUDS

This episode made me EMOTIONAL and I LOVED IT! This was a 10/10 perfect season - a perfect 13 episodes. I talked a little shit about this season in episode 1 and I WAS WRONG!

SKALDOOOOOOVVAAAAAAA

SKAAALDOVAA!

Dude. Skaldova coming back is GOOD FUCKING NEWS!

Skaldova season 2?!?!?!?! hell yea this is the greatest news!!

Skaldova season 2 innit!!!!

Do They Have Drop Box In Heaven is the sequel to I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

You should all play the cyberpunk ttrpg for a one-shot please

Once again I must recommend Murph check out MCDM monsters. From Flee Mortals specifically, but also The Talent class has a bunch of NPCs and this made me think of the Telekinetic Master/Expert/Talent. Just the design of these (and Flee Mortals) is so much better than other 5e stuff that it's kind of wild. I think he'd like them... also Emily would love the Beastheart class.

yall are echoing so many of the thoughts that i had myself 🥹💗 and that feels so good and more connected to the story 💕Loved loved loved the way this season ended! Truly so beautiful and poetic and perfect 💗 i cried and laughed and finished the ending with a heartwarming hope in my heart 💖

SKAAAAALDOOOOOVAAAAAAA!

I’m a couple episodes behind and accidentally clicked this short rest lol I’m so scared

Would love if Emily released more of her background tracks!! Specifically so I can I can play them in the background of the D&D games I DM. Would absolutely love to be able to play some of the Hot Boy Summer stuff for my table. It’s not too thin when we’re using it for the exact same reason you are!

Guess I'll be re-listening to Skoldova 😎

thank you for a great season GONG!!!! so excited for skaldova :DDD

This is one of my favorite recent Short Rests! Not that I don't enjoy the tangential insanity that they often (d)evolve into, but hearing the crew talk about the game / story with such enthusiasm and love always brings a smile to my face.

Holy moly. What an ending but also what an announcement. Skaldova is frickin beloved. So excited for it!

I am so happy skaldova is returning. I also want cinnamon and his two twin flames to return

@Caldwell the flashback of the SS stormborn carnival ride was giving me similar vibes to Panda’s story in JJK.

Guess Rover will pull a Hachikō 🐕 and wait for Aux to return

I accidentally started the wrong podcast and got spoiled, in true NADDPOD fashion, for the ending of the episode. About to listen to it now but kinda bummed I ruined it for myself. Should have realized when they intro’d a short rest but I was too sleepy to notice.

The music was amazing! Selfishly, I also miss Emily’s lyric based campaign end songs as well.

SKALDOVA IS BAAAAACKKK IM READYYYYY 😭😭😭😭😭

I thought it was great that you let the dice decide and went with the story. It increases the stakes of the show when you know the main characters might die.

I LOVE that y'all allowed the dice to tell the story here. . . . . . . . . . It's so easy to decide to avoid player death, I'm really happy to see y'all allowed the tpk but also demonstrated the way you can continue the story afterwards.

Rose for Jake for Aux’s touching realization that the others were dead with him, Emily’s ability to live so deeply in the character and make those powerful choices, and Caldwell’s badass finish of the prototype (and the prize counter line drop) and murphs beautiful storytelling - esp the pirate ship flashback and him talking about how it was prepped for whatever outcome. You guys fucking rock.

It's interesting hearing Em say that she felt the expected narrative was to fight for Neo Galaderon till the end and ride or die for the city cuz it seemed pretty plain that their drive was each other from the jump

Love the Bastion imagery from Em as she talked about the TPK. Also, I was mowing my lawn when the Skaldova announcement dropped, and my hands fully came off the wheel as I cheered. I can't wait!

this country music slander is redonkulous

GUNSHIP mentioned! The song Emily referenced is Tech Noir 2 and the opening monologue is John Carpenter!

will crangar be the god to bring magic back to skaldova?

Gangs of Neo Galaderon: Heavenbreak is gonna be so fuckin sick

I will say, my wife is a surgeon in the south, and tractor accidents are a weekly if not daily occurrence.

Somewhat ironically my partner was playing cyberpunk 2077 when he noticed me crying and I had to explain the ending to him lmao

Love hearing that the TPK was as exciting to play out as it was to listen to!! Really good vibes

The ending of the campaign reminded me of the book "This Perfect Day"

Skaldovaaaaaaaaaaa

More Serendipity! I've been wanting to do a relisten of something because I waited until all of Strahd was out to binge that-- finished it Monday. And landed on Relistening to Skaldova! Im loving the session 0 with precious hindsight. How great that I'll be refreshing my memory primed for the new Arc this fall!

Serendipity! I can't believe Emily was saying that she had dice not rolling above a 10. that's so crazy. if you guys remember it was a three to get it started and then it rolled a 10 and then a nine and then an eight like a perfect countdown to lift off to Mechanis!

The goal in most cyberpunk stories isn't to save the city, but to get out of the city. The Kill Screens did both better than most.

KILL SCREENS 4EVA!!!

Cyberpunk songs to study to would be amazing!!

That news at the end literally made me yell “YES! YES! FUCK YES!” in my car 😭

Skaldova!!!!!

Clearly they have to break out to make it to the realm of Crangar.

Totally agree with Jake. This dethrones Campaign 2 for my favorite finale| Edit: ROVER GOT LEFT BEHIND TO MOURN THEM!? I feel so bad for Rover

Skaldova season 2 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Ending the cyberpunk campaign with a big "fuck you" to the bad guys is the true ending in my book. Well done yall. ❤️

could not disagree more that it was fun *despite* the sadness i was yippeeing hooraying yaying as my beloved aux lay dying. me when the podcast is full of sadness and pc grief: 🥳🥳🥳🥳

They need to befriend and/or abduct their long-suffering robot handler, who is definitely getting fired over their shenanigans

It’s incredible, I cannot imagine a more cyberpunk ending than all the main characters dying together trying to save each other. Idk if Aux’s death hit as hard as Zirks (I remember his being really haunting, probably because of Emily’s reaction elevating that moment), but that story had a fairy tale ending because eldermourne was like a fairy tale. Zirk lived and the party moved on together. Neogaladeron is not a place of tidy happy endings like that and I love it.

Standing ovation, Hats off, a bouquet of roses, nay, all of the roses to Murph for his ability as an improviser, a writer/storyteller and DM on his ability to change the storyline at the drop of a hat. His ability to still provide a satisfying ending (new beginning?!) to a TPK. CUDOS GOOD SIR 👏🏻

I had a suspicion that we were going back to skaldova when Caldwell brought up bogs in the ep. I loved this campaign, and I am so excited to go back to skaldova as well. We are eating good!

This was such a fun season well done yall!

So many gifts!! Praise Be Crangar!!!

i totally get what emily said about backing tracks not sounding full on their own, but i know for me personally i don’t mind having more “background” music for the sake of using in my own games or as a work background!

Can't wait for 2 Skald 2 Furious with the Zu Crew

My coworker in the cubicle next to me didn't know I was listening to this so she was very graphically talking about cleaning her horse's penis while I WEPT over Aux's death

ATOM in an apron is giving Kryten from Red Dwarf vibes.

very Cyberpunk ending

Sick little trap is accurate!!! Crangar will be next saga s big bad or my name is RANCH!!!!

I agree with Jake, loved how this campaign ended. It showed how ride or die this crew was 🥹

the streets are my veins 🖤💔

What a wonderful ending to an amazing campaign. Thank you guys! You absolutely killed it!!!!!

Wonderful timing, last hour of work just got a lot better!

Only the Kill Screens would need to break out of heaven. They're definitely not built for The Medium Place.

thank god i need this after the finale 😭 cried on the highway listening to it

It’s my favorite ending to a campaign too!

THE SKALD AINT OVA

Yeeeeee dopamine before bedtime :3

beautiful amazing gorgeous campaign. the coolest battle design. the most incredible sensational music. thank you!

All Hail Crangar 😭! Great campaign 👏🏽

My insomnia is rewarded. Nifty!

Second!