Short Rest: Ep. 21: What's Amiss

I actually low key feel like moonshine is lawful. She is very principled and follows hospitality strictly, which is basically crick law. She feels betrayed when someone is inhospitable and punishes characters when it happens (the gnomes, her reaction to Mirabell). Lawful isn’t always about respecting the laws of the land but it’s about following your principals strictly.

If Crickmas is July 25, its my birthday!

Murph should be sentenced for saying Beverly getting an alignment shift means he takes control of Beverly. Characters undergoing an alignment change, even from good to evil, absolutely does not give control of the character to the DM. That would be a huge overstep unless the player decides they no longer want to play the character in that state. Ideally you should just help them find a way to get the character back to the alignment they want to play

Jake was right. We all fell in love with Balnor

How dare they besmirch Balnor like they originally did (I know they didn’t know what would unfold lol).

Crazy to hear back this short rest and Brian Murphy not thinking Balnor would not stay long

RE Jake's description of Ulfgar as the Crick Rot patient zero, the idea that a flight attendant - Gaëtan Dugas - was patient zero for HIV in the US is actually a myth spread due to misunderstandings and misrepresentations. When Dugas caught HIV, several thousand people in the US already had it, and he was actually never listed as 'patient zero' in the study which was claimed as the basis for identifying him as such - he was down as 'patient O', for 'Out of California'. This is obviously totally irrelevant to the podcast, but it's a damaging myth and hopefully a few people see this and learn something new.

"Retainer"

NADDPOD Newcomer. My brain likes to plant stupid images in my head for things, and no matter what I do, I can't override those images with more accurate or appealing versions. Case in point, I loved the convo about Hardwon's hat, because my stupid lizard brain immediately pictured it as the Cap'n Crunch hat, but extremely small, precariously perched on Hardwon's head, constantly threatening to fall off but always clinging faithfully to his scalp.

It's so funny Murph saying balnor won't be around long, and knowing that he's in all three major campaigns (kind of)

Relistening to this waiting for season 3, I had to laugh when merph said "Balnor won't be around long"

This episode of the sort rest is so prophetic it's crazy.

One of my favorite things about R. Cane is that the "addiction" mechanic is simply the gameplay benefit it provides. Like, it's just super fun to do a cool lightning smite. Disco Elysium does something similar where it doesn't track addicition to drugs, they simply provide insane benefits so you go out of your way to do them instead of using your money on other things.

Jake low key a divination wizard

37:10 Jake could never know how right he was🥲

The beginning of everyone’s favorite bag dad

It's really funny hearing how different Balnor was as a character at first and everyone's view of him. So fun to listen through again after finishing it.

"Lets be honest, he won't be around long" -- Murph, being wrong

I love that they're connecting evil!Beverly to the devil way before any of them has any idea that deals with devils are going to become central to the Toegold's story... Does Murph even know at this point?

I felt the exact same thing. Oh he's going to be nothing oh wait he's actually going to be a lot more...

yeahh listening to a second time is great. such a historic moment

Catching up on short rests after finishing the whole campaign. So funny hearing the early views of Balnor. Murph - "let's be honest he's not going to be around long". Jake & Emily we're going to fall in love with him. Cut to 79 episodes later...

New listener here! Found y’all through Drawfee and I’m absolutely loving this campaign so far! Can’t wait to catch up!

'Moonshine uses chill touch on Thiala' Hot damn Emilys been brewing her strategy for 2 years.

Moonshine straight up punches one of the three hero's.

I came to this episode to find out about your reactions to Balnore. You're my hero Jake. Hardone might be least in touch with his emotions but there's a pretty deep well there.

I love coming back and hearing Jake predict that they'll fall in love with Balnor <3

Relistening to balnor coming to being is just amazing!

This is only episode of short rest I can’t play. Second time going through them all was hoping it would play this time to get gangs first thoughts on Balnore

"DnD is so good cuz you can get a hat that makes you cooler... that's pure fantasy" -Caldwell

I might have been slightly off... have been picturing Old Cobb as the cartoon version of Splinter from TMNT. No facial/body hair, covered from head to toe in it... same thing!

Wondering if Moonshine is going to take a level in barbarian to fuel her rage against Mirabelle

Question. Does Jake record remotely? His voice has a recording quality to it that makes me feel like he's at least using a different mic to the rest of you.

I always pictured Old Cobb looking like Sam Elliot and not I'm honestly hurt this isn't true.

You definitely said "Pirate's Captain's hat!!" But, I agree that the pilot hat makes more sense.

Thank you S. Daddy