Short Rest: Ep. 40: Into the Frozen Tundra

Responding to a years-old discussion to say I HAVE played a skeleton in D&D and she was one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played! She did in fact have a negative charisma modifier, but also had proficiency in intimidation because she was a human skeleton with a ram skull for a head and therefore, as my DM said, terrifying.

Caldwell foreshadows Atom Rom in this episode! I too would like to play a skeleton bard that doots a trumpet and plays ribs xylophone whenever.

It's a world of magic! There should be way more than your player handbook basics! I just played a ratatosk (celestial squirrel-folk of the World Tree) and made her a World Tree barbarian. Being small and violent is a good time!

Fun to listen later and hear the first stirrings of Sundry Sydney and Atom Rom!

New listener and first time commenter here! On the topic of Wrestlers and their abilities.. John Cena would for sure need some form of invisibility. Bard for sure too haha

Roll for sandwich probably came from this >.>

I was told to sound off in the comments with my skeleton's stats. 8 Str, 18 Con, 6 Dex, 15 Wis, 3 Charisma, 12 Int. I call him the Prime Skeletank Doomcleric

I can't quite explain why, but the "farting into eachothers butts" and "fart 69ing" discussion made me cry laughing

Could Rey Mysterio be monster hunter ranger?

Is it just me, or is pastel goth actually very much inline with celestial warlock? I don’t see them as clashing, it feels like the same vibe to me

I accidentally listened to this one out of order but the first 20 minutes was so off topic that I didn't get any spoilers.

Love hearing the early genesis of Emily's Starstruck Odyssey character.

expelliarmus also sometimes throws the target backwards so maybe it would still work on hulk hogan?? idk.

Caldwell describing sir Vissel Divanostra! Robot bard?! It starts here!

My first character was a tabaxi celestial warlock so this is hilarious to me 🤣

Skeletal unicorns 🦄 are NOT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!! iykyk

Bath of milk, for sure. Calcium is super important for my skeleton.

Hearing them come up with the idea for D&D fusion with Wrestling is especially wild after the announcement of D20's Titan Takedown. I hope Murph gets to make a guest appearance since he's not in the core lineup of players!!

@Caldwell, I like to imagine that DnD PC skeletons would consume like Brook in One Piece 🤣

For a short rest (or mixed bag), NADDPOD tall should have the guy who did roll for sandwich on TikTok 🤣

Wow on relisten emily did eventually get to play a sex robot (in D20)! Shoutout Sundry Sidney

I've made two tabaxi characters - one ranger (flavored as a snow leopard) and one rogue (flavored as a swimming cat). I get to embrace mood changes and going from playful to curious to aloof without abandon! Most of all, feline agility allows you to double your movement for your turn (there is a restriction so it can't be spammed TOO much). As a rogue, that means I can use a bonus action dash to get 120 feet and still attack! The greatest joy is to be hasted, thus recreating the zoomies. Emily, you simply MUST give it a try.

Foreshadowing the dancing skeleton in Twilight Sanctorum

Please take my money for a wrestling campaign

Flash forward to the rolling for Chinese takeout dnd court

i know this is a few years old at this point, but there’s a guy on tiktok (@adventuresinaardia) who does a series called “roll for sandwich” and it’s honestly really entertaining!!

“Playing a Goof is not acceptable to me.” -Murph, before playing Cody “Night Angel” Walsh or Krudbert.

Love the prediction of Tiktok’s Roll for Sandwich!

“Being super swole is magic.” OMG yes! Mashle anime anyone?

"It's a robot that's also a bard" ... Hatsune Miku?

Binging all the old short rests as a new patreon sub, and just got super excited to hear the first mentions of what i believe are kugrash and sundry sidney ❤️🎊🎉🎊🎉

The origins of Calder, Eldermourne, AND Sundry Sidney!

"who doesn't love a dancing skeleton?" i can't believe murph held onto this for five years

Just listened to this for the first time, and Caldwell mentioned "Tinybones" in 2018, and MTG has a card in Jumpstart (2020) named Tinybones. MTG lead times are two years, coincidence... maybe 🤔

SPOILERS C1 Murph: Now THAT is more my speed, if you're a necromancer next time and your little Pawpaw is a skeleton? I can work with that. It's the birth of Erdan!!! ♥️

The skeleton barbarian reminds me of Mr DeBonesby from Rude Tales of Magic in terms of a skeleton necromancer who wears a wig and a little suit and has a mustache

On the topic of the first Harry Potter, just found out he doesn’t successfully cast a full spell on purpose the entire movie

I’m very late to the chat here as I’m going back to listen to short texts- if one wanted to play a skeletal barbarian you could play an awakened gorilla brought back by a weird necromancer; you would have those massive guerrilla bones and scary as incisors you could do a bite attack with.

Cant beliece murphs fantasy racism smh not all goblins are goofy thats a racial stereotype perpetuated by groups of humans and elves

I want to hear the Jake and Murph very serious dnd podcast

Note to the site runners. This is missing the short rest tag for organization

Just now found out I don't have this as I'm making a playlist. That's happened a few times since episode one; are the short rest sometimes just not on the main list?

this short rest isn't tagged and took me forever to find it lmao

Warforged are an official DnD class. Also! You basically just described Travis Mcelroy's character in TAZ Hootenanny

The spells in the movies are dumb and not accurate. In the book they do what they're supposed to and nothing else.

So I’m only a recent Patreon subscriber and I’m listening to older episodes in between waiting for the new ones, so someone might have brought this up already but - Emily! Your skeleton idea, about the best grappler you can make is a bard/barbarian multiclass! Love your ideas 😁

I would for sure up my monthly membership for a wrestling themed DND podcast by you guys. I'm currently working on a battle royal event in my campaign where the NPC participants are based on my favorite wrestlers.

Pertinent to strong milky skeletons <a href="http://dudesir.tumblr.com/post/179059062077/datshortskirt-longjacket-seijass-seijass" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://dudesir.tumblr.com/post/179059062077/datshortskirt-longjacket-seijass-seijass</a>

Can’t wait for NAWWEDDPod

The Road Warriors- Battle Rage Barbarians

Can we talk about how amazing Caldwell’s computer voice is

Ha, love working for Praying Mantis Joe. Nother great episode.

I DO roll for my Jimmy John's sub.... With advantage of course. There is almost 20 options so Its perfect!

I don’t think Murph would be too happy with my Aasimar, Fire Genasi, Tabaxi party that are literally a band.

Hey please release more wrestling DND crossover content in any way possible, thanks.

Warforged Bard who only sings in Dubsteb/EDM!

I would be an extremely strong boned skeleton cause I would dip myself in liquid Mithril, which would also make me Silvery shiny!

Caldwell! If you read the comments... There ARE robot characters in DnD. They are called Warforged! The 5th edition is in beta testing right now but in the Wayfinder's guide to Eberron, your robard is more than just a dream!

So... Caldwell wants to play a jukebard?

Hornswaggle the halfling rogue with sneak attack

My worlds are colliding right now.

Please do a WWE themed one-shot or side story. There is actually a WWE style RPG book called World Wide Wrestling by Nathan D Paoletta that lets you build your own wrestlers and run your own show.

Randy Savage would be a Barbarian

My inner DM feels so bad for Murphy this ep 😂

Wrestling/DnD Pod please!!!

Caldwell’s robot voice is so good. He should definitely play as one.

This episode was the only time the band o’ boobs shenanigans actually made me mad. Y’all acted like fucking morons when Murphy was trying to tell you how serious the whole tundra thing was. 😂😑

You should do a one-shot with the band of boobs playing as their parents. Emily plays as Mee-Maw, Jake as Hardwon's father, and Caldwell as Beverley Sr. (Kind of like the Star Wars prequels or how Han came to own the Millennium Falcon in Solo) It would be cool to see origin stories and the first generation's adventures!

I like how Emily is essentially just trying to pitch playing as Brook from One Piece

Not another WWE&D&D Podcast

It would actually be kind of hilarious to have an episode somewhere where half of it is just Murph Dming Jake for like a harvest moon homebrew campaign and the other half is Caldwell Dming Emily for a goof gauntlet.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I love how murph manages to just barely keep this campaign grounded enough to be immersive! Stay strong murph!

I have a small complaint. Can y'all edit the MP3 tag so it shows up as The Short Rest - Episode xx? It's really annoying have to search for the newest episode under unknown artist then the song title is HUrl6NXFLA0xcrJ8f1i-C-hOlM_44pIjGkWptM-aWdKtw4kF8CazNjiD5cbvRHPe.mp3

I keep wondering if the episode will be that much worse if I listen to the short rest first. Help my dilemma and upload ep. 40!