Short Rest: Ep. 35: The Princess and the Bastard

This Murph guy is a liar

Every time I listen to this I forget how Moonshine abandons her post under the smallest possible amount of pressure. Like, yes, Murph intercepts Bev as her replacement, but even that required a roll at least!

I listened to the when it had came out and Gemma dying is still so tragic that I think about it sometimes

Making my rounds through the campaigns after the recent Trinyvale Arc. This whole episode was fantastic! I was at work grinning remembering what was coming.

Re-listening to campaign 1 and I'm still heartbroken for Hardwon and Gemma. I'm also Murph, I'd still be mad if another player attacked me lmao

They could’ve used Caw Caw to deliver the message!

just listened for the first time and that was the episode that got me to subscribe because I cannot BELIEVE what just happened 😭

Today is Thursday Dec 12, 2024 and I’m new here. It’s WILD to hear the Band of Boobs promote the fledgling Dropout bc I found Dropout before this series. This story has me in a complete chokehold and I’m GAGGED over Gemma’s death. I am here for the ride and am looking forward to getting current to see what’s happening with everyone now.

Can’t believe DnD Court was birthed from Gemma’s ashes 🤘😔

Re-listening to C1, so I'm super late to comment here, but I just remembered that this episode was the one that made me subscribe to the patreon for short rests. Such a dramatic episode amongst all the humor. It really hits hard even knowing what's coming. Just wanted to say thanks Murph for making such a good story and thanks to the Boobs for making such great characters

Still waiting for the Travis episode of D&D Court.

I love how Murphy planned this whole thing to pin it on someone but everyone has an alibi

Brennan is good, but he's not kill Gemma bastard Murphy level of diabolical

i just started listening to the series, and while i was planning on getting here on the patreon, this was the one where i IMMEDIATELY was like ok i cannot go onto the next ep without hearing what they all thought about this 😭 absolutely wild, such great rp!!

This was such a good episode for Jake’s roleplaying and it was a HORRIBLE episode for listening to at work and having a chill time.

This episode makes me cry god damn it murph

I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS EPISODE! 'GEMMA, GEMMA, WAKE UP" TORE ME IN HALF

This is my 3rd relisten to bahumia and I just realized murph stopped balnor from going up and standing guard even though he totally could have. Brian Murphy is a bastard man

Cold-blooded Murph. Insane story

I created a patreon account specifically to listen to this episode of short rest because this naddpod episode completely wrecked me. Just so you know.

But Emily didn't answer Caldwell's question, if someone reanimates a skeleton and there's meat around it, what happens

did 'dungeon court' become a thing?? I would be SO down for that and I'm sure everyone else would be too

Damn good radio 👌

this fucken scarred me for life,,, never gonna go on a goddamm balcony.

File is broken? Can't download or listen. Using android app

Fuck this episode. I just keep imagining how amazing it would look if Hardwon/Elias and Gemma got some art/a moment of them kissing with that gorgeous background, on the balcony, and Elias holding the dagger because he caught it between his fingers. Damn it.

Late to the party but lowkey found it funny that Jake referenced that Hardwon was dressed like Robb Stark and got his girlfriend killed in the face of a forced marriage... Seriously though. Ep 35 really solidified how epic this podcast is (caused me to immediately get on with the Patreon to be honest!)

Murphy tweeted that it would be up ‘Thursday night PST’. So I suppose he has a few hours to make good on that... :-)

Where's the next episode?!

Frantically refreshing Spotify & Patreon hoping this is all a bad dream... I need my boobs! (BoB)

Please Daddy Murph, give us the next episode!!!

I can hear the Arcane calling Hardwon... fantastic episode. I’ve been bingeing the show, and having this episode stand as my ‘To be continued...’ moment is clutch.

For us Bastards Of The Mountain, could Caldwell draw the SS. Stormborn

Hardwon didn't have his equipment on, and therefore didn't have his hat with the luck point boost, right? So while we are all bummed for Jemma's untimely death, hopefully Jake can rest a little easier knowing this wasn't an option! (Nevermind that Murph may have forgotten in the heat of battle haha)

Moonshine, don't let Balnor marry u, he may be ordained and not know it.

Here's hope for the best timeline being they find a way to Reincarnate Gemma within the next 10 days

How is Moonshine casting invisibility? It's not on the Druid spell list unless she were a different circle of Druid (Land-Grasslands)

Listening again and this is the most indepth look they have done into an episode

I'm surprised they didn't mention how great Balnor and his initiation were this episode! That actually got me a little choked up.

And Bev was just a level away from being able to cast Revivify (the material components of which Gemma was probably helpfully wearing around her neck already...)

Just after the kiss...my heart broke,you could hear the pain in jakes voice.great episode

Gemma and Hardwon's scene reminded me of the scene from IT Crowd where Moss broke up with Roy through DnD

i’m just thankful my roommates weren’t too concerned by the sudden shriek i made. it really was feeling far too good and magical to last. at least balnor finally achieved boob status!

I ended up listening to the rest of the episode on the floor of my laundry room, clinging to the dryer for reassurances that things would be ok. Spoiler Alert: the dryer doesn't care about my trampled heart and neither does the DM.

The tragedy is how easily this could've been avoided if Bev had just not helped that guy poop...

I almost car wreaked listening to this weeks episode....this is pure PODCAST GAMING!!!

Great work Murphy

#gotwhomped

Me and my sister spent the entire afternoon screaming and crying over this ep so aahhh thanks Murph for making my LITTLE SISTER CRY (it was so good though)

Fans last week: Ooh, they should have Jake's wife on to play Gemma! Murph this week: Yeah, about that...

Damn Jake, how’s it feel to get YOUR bell rung?

I want to just say how glad I am that this worked out so unintentionally perfect narratively. If PawPaw hadn’t been there, Hardwon would have been caught in an empty tower with his ex-lover’s dead body, with the murder weapon, and a note addressed from him to sneak away from her couriers, at a party he wasn’t invited to, days before her wedding! His friends were distracted and he finally got what he had been longing for. It was the perfect frame-job.

“Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck” -HS

Reincarnate would have had all kinds of interesting possibilities. Chances are she wouldn't have ended up a dwarf so she could have gone off and lived her own life like she wanted. Revivify was also a possibilty in the first few minutes, its a 3rd level Paladin spell. Though this is more interesting narrativewise, and I kind of doubt they would have had the diamonds on them the spell uses.

I think Hardwon would be able to take on an assassin barehanded. He'd withstand the two hits and grapple the shit out of a dwarf, something he has tons of experience with at the dwarphanage. And then paw paw woulda got Moonshine and Bev.

Murph discussed how dangerous a fight with the assassin would have been without Hardwon's weapons, but he is Athletic AF and there's a possible scenario in which Hardwon perceived the assassin and grappled them. Maybe giving away that he is present but also having successfully saved Gemma and captured her attacker. Grappling is an underused mechanic, including on NADDPOD. I wanna hear more BoB grappling! #endrant All in all this was one of my all-time favorite episodes!

This is why you don't keep owning your DM. They punish you, eventually.

That episode took my breath away. Such a rollercoaster of emotions. Idk what I’m going to do until the next episode!

If Moonshine had 5th level Druid spells, she could have cast reincarnate on Gemma. So sad! But I love this, so much?

Damn that episode was insane! The scene on thr balcony was so vivid, making the assassination 10x more brutal. Well womp'd, Daddy Murph, well womp'd.

Sooo, apparently I’m going to DnD Court?

This episode was such a doozy. I was getting ready to point out how funny it was cause I just watched J&A Double Date where Murph and Jake kiss, so the roleplay was a hilarious coincidence. Then Murph HAD to have an assassin.

Best episode of the pod yet!

I listen in work and genuinely needed a minute after this episode.

Hardbuns axe is named Gemma, we can only hope this is incorporated into future role play ;D

#ARRESTMURPH