Skaldova Season 2 - Ep. 3: The Big Sister

I thought Scaldova was meant to be magicless. Shouldn’t horseshoes “pulsing with magic” have been a bigger deal?

Lake Superior is one of the deadliest lakes in the world. It's such a interesting lake. Bodies are preserved by the cold water. No salt means it's much harder to float. The waves are large but closer together so the larger ocean boats sometimes can't handle the dynamics.

“It’s big, it’s fat, it’s magic” needs to go on some kind of merch

JAKE!!!!! THAT WAS DMing ON THE LEVEL OF ANY OF THE GREATEST! 11/10 I Truly felt the Magick

Ah yes the two genders: ghosts and squids.

i really think Jake needs to learn about mythic bastionland

Jake I love your campaign but you need to learn how to pronounce all the fun boat words you've been reading before you say them out loud

"A time far away but not so long ago" DAMN Jake

I cannot say how often I say “stop” in Zudrick’s voice throughout the day, that and “Welly.”

Firstly I absolutely LOVE this campaign but I'm gonna couch this with a big thorn.... Murph and Em are kind of power gaming this campaign. It's kinda circumventing a lot of Jake's interesting encounters

“And in Züdrich‘s defense, I don’t trust dachshunds” made me absolutely shout laugh. Thanks, Caldwell.

S-TIER NADDPOD EP RIGHT HERE

Plannings: "She is a mystery. She is a goddess, but she can be cruel." Welly: "Mmmh, hot." Absolute gold. I'm so here for the unhinged sapphic horniness for nature!

Jake as the DM responding to character lines reminds of narrators in comic books who always seem to respond to characters but not actually interact with them

"Plenty of lucky men drown in this lake" awesome line, esp. In context.

Man I just get more and more reasons for yall to visit Galveston Texas . You can have an encounter at moody gardens with otters, we got duck tours, a haunted Opera House to perform in, and a billionaire that owns half of the restaurant to shit on.

Lake Superior is bigger than most seas, is famously rough enough to sink ships, and could definitely conceal pirates and smugglers.

I love all the naddpod campaigns and have listened to them multiple times. That being said: there IS something special about the very first campaign. I get the same feeling listening to Skaldova as I do listening to the band of boobs...there's just some kind magic in it.

“Whenever I find wax I add it to the ball” I gagged

The number of sentences in this episode that started with “yarr” is giving me life

Music and sound effects were on point this ep!! Love the flute and the creaking metal with Zuddrick moves

freezing jeans is 1000% a prank, i've never heard of it as a way to care for them

I just wanna say that Skaldova has pretty firmly taken its place right up with C1 as my favorite campaign you guys have done (not that I don’t love the other stuff of course). From Jake’s choice of tone for world and his beautiful descriptions of it, to the hilarious but surprisingly grounded PCs everything just hits perfectly. Keep it up Josh, hope to see you on 8 bit book club

My minds eye truly doesn't know what to make of Cloud Rune Deflection, like what is actually happening when that happens :|c

ZUDDRICK DID WHAT

Emily!! Please consider releasing the Boggy theme song somewhere!! I love it so

I'm so here for Boggy getting some narrative focus. He set up so much lore, and it's always wonderful to see the serious side of a kinda goofball character. P.S. I still cannot shake my habit of picturing Boggy as Kaptain K. Rool 🤣🤣

I love being back in Skaldova!

This episode gave me full body chills Jake is very deserving of the first naddpod second season hes becoming one of my favorite of all time dms I really hope he continues to dm maybe we can get a season done by Emily as well?

That ending was glorious! Jake, you are absolutely crushing!! Love you all.

Does this campaign remind anyone else of Darkest Dungeon

You can tell how excited Jake was to do a boat episode

This is my favorite season, everyone's character is perfect and Jake has a wonderful DMing style unique in the group.

Wait, TWIST? Is Pullings a reference to Patrick O'Brian?!

Holy fuck one of my new favorite things to say at full volume by myself "WHATRE YOU WHISTLING ABOUT?!?!" Thanks for the gawd damn cackle you guys are always so damn funny

The flute boy song at the end brought tears to my eyes and granted me inspiration I can’t wait to meet this guy

I’ve been listening to NADDPOD since day 1 and the interaction between these three are some of the funniest things I have heard. Period. Zuddy might literally be my favorite character. Murph, this is comedy gold. I can’t breathe I’m laughing so hard.

Honestly - this ep brought a lil tear to my eye more than once. Bravo 2 Crew

Jake's pirate voice raises a question I've never considered--where does the stereotypical pirate accent come from?

One thing about ship lingo: it's all said like you've used the word ten thousand times and gotten bored of both consonants and stressed vowels. When I heard Jake say "gunwale", I went "Oh no! That's twice as pronounced as it ought to be!"

Murph coming in with "if he was a friendly ghost he would say hey" killed me

The 2 crew has gotta look up the history of the great lakes, especially lake superior, they can actually be like So Dangerous

Hell yeah, the Horseshoes of Speed is one of my favorite magic items, mostly because one of my characters is a 20 dex centaur ninja and my DM gave them to me as a random item without realizing they would work on me.

MURPH DID 67??? never in my life would i have called that

Bog tuah

Tooo long 😆

Jake’s description of Boggy not sure if he actually heard the tune hit some emotions for me for sure

Jake, love the campaign so far. The front of the boat is called the bow. It's pronounced like, "bau" or the bow in "bow-wow". Not a bow, like Boggy uses. Keep at it good man

Getting horny for mosquitos is a new low

What a fun episode! I loved the river encounters. Much more interesting in their structure than just normal straight fights. Plus the trio are so funny. The whole prismatic trout bit had me absolutely rolling. Welly lowkey mocking Zudrick and Zudrick sulking was probably my favorite moment. Plus Boggy’s despairing noise when Welly said they didn’t need the jewels lmao

Wait nooo theres something so sad with Zudrick being mad at his buds and going "well you havent tried to kill me like my last friends so this is great actually" 😭😭

Jake! As a fellow naval history nerd, I LOVE what you’re doing with the place :)

I feel maternal towards Zudrick

Pullings has to be named for captain Pullings from Master and Commander

Lake imogen is lowkey the size of a great lake, so it would probably resemble a inland sea more than a smaller still lake

The absolute hilarity of the fish using up an action surge. Chefs kiss

I love almost every single campaign and morsel of content but Skaldova might far and away be my favourite.

Mosquito women will be tickling my funny bone for a while 😂😆

I love that boggys theme is in the Trinivale “soundfont” for lack of better term

Omg I wasn't expecting the feels, Josh is killing it!!! 🤗💚🤗💚🤗(All love Jake)

I'm so glad Jake conquered his trepidation and began to DM, I could listen to him poetically describing environments and scenes for an age 🤩 and the scene with the bog bugle, oh my god 🥺🥹

I'm going to need one of those medieval knight vs snail arts only it's Zudrick vs the giant trout. Great stuff all the way through, very excited for Bog.

Excellent episode, one of my favourites

Crow tuah and six seven, zudrick really is a rough 23 y old

I just listened to Baggin' It With Balnor: Green Teen Quarantine, having almost finished re-listening to campaign 1. So Caldwell's hacking cough in the intro momentarily seemed to be in very bad taste. 😅

Welly's poem 🥺💙

Friday morning at work just got a WHOLE lot better.

God I love boggy’s story, i just cant wait to find out more🌹❤️

Boggy is the exact type of charming disaster I couldn't resist in college

I'm worried about the trout mom

Welly’s poem was beautiful, brings a tear to my eye 🥲

From drinking in the fiddle to this beautiful campaign full of imagery, Jake bravo

Right in time for bed

Yay

This made my week

Murph coming in HOT with a slant rhyme right off the bat is crazy work