Short Rest: Ep. 67: The Kraken's Hunger

I have pendergreens on my keychain and I imagine having silly conversations with him some time.

Dust Devil is a mob in Westfall I think Murph was just thinking about WoW.

First off praise Dice Christ aka RNJesus. That said Murph hit the nail on the head with the confirmation bias point. Also the Band of Boobs is prone to extreme overly complicated hail marry moves to solve problems which lends it's self to opportunities where an exceptionally high roll or an exceptionally low roll then lead to a reaction from the world/Murph that is just as ridiculous as the original plan concocted. Which just naturally generates good story beats. Thinking of a specific example the Hardwon Milk Boy bit in the summer court, if Hardwon rolls a 20 or a 1 that still makes for a great moment. The only thing that really takes a wind out of that moment would be a middling roll like an 11.

"low level druids can feel a little useless" as tho entangle isn't a death sentence for melee enemies.

The Poly Trap is almost as good as the Woman in the Wall 🤣🤣🤣

How do they not say Twinzie Lohan

Million dollar question, can Lohan Klump?

There is SO much blasphemy in this short rest 😔😔

OCEAN GIRL!!!

Back when me and my current partners were still in a quad with now ex, we’d call ourselves “the quouple” bc we all thought it was kinda funny, but tbh we might have to adopt “fourple” if any of us do end up getting another shared partner lol.

"But I do have all the bad stuff that comes with it, like fear" Unfortunately too relatable 🤣

I can picture skullywug scuba suit so clearly because they do the same thing in Delicious in Dungeon lol

I have been wanting to build elemental benders ever since playing an elemental monk and being unable to use "shape the flowing water" like Katara. The druid lists in Xanathar's give you absolutely everything for each element. Now all I have to do is put it together to see if/how much home-brewing would be required and if I could talk my DM into letting me use it... I'm thinking a easy mod would be circle of land > circle of elements. Basically all it would really need would be custom circle spells, right?... Anyway. Sorry. Got lost in the mind palace.

randomness IS magical !!!

They don't need the eye patch, that's what the British accent is for

getting to these episodes right before passover has been really funny for me personally 😂😂 dont think i'll ever be able to think of moses without thinking of paladins again, which might prove difficult when i get to him with my 4th graders at hebrew school dkdjd

First time short resting. Came for the scuba suit, staying for the scheming.

I love that the Poly Trap is literally part of the plot of Marmalade Boy😂

Scuba suit was definitely mentioned in 66 short rest. I listened to it like 2 hours ago lol. So it wasn't kitchen talk and did infact possibly get people to subscribe to Patreon for the concept

😭😭😭😭😭 I finally have enough money to subscribe!!!! #pawpawsparalegals4lifeeee😭😭😭😭😭😭 this is my second time through this series and it's so ooo amazing still😭😭😭😭

Is Poly Trap the origins of Brendalizabeth?

Bingeing your podcast for the last few weeks. I wish I'd have found it a couple years back. I need pawpaw merch.

Dice devil to Dice Christ - what a change over the years!

Persona 5 does the eyepatch thing perfectly with the Wardens.

Hell yeah I love Ally Beardsley and they really do have wild dice rolls

What's wrong with swimming with goggles? Gotta see underwater

I could listen to hours of pensergreens at Subway! Too funny

I actually love the unhinged Short Rests :) Ya'll are so freaking funny, and you have me DYING

These short rests are so unhinged lol. I kinda wish they would get on track and talk d&d a little more though XD

Polly trap sounds like a bad porno movie to me

Pendergreens should get a goldfish so he can learn personal responsibility before governing again.

Omg! I absolutely watched the shit out of Ocean Girl when I was a kid and STILL (at 34) will bust out that swim in a pool...no one else I know has ever heard of it. Lol

Is there a Team Turn Your House Into A Sanctuary for Pregnant Single Cat Moms?

I re-listened to the past 3 episodes checking about a scuba suit. I guess I should have listened to the short rest right after

When people attribute fate, god, or other purposeful reasons for things that happen, I remember an ep of Radiolab that basically says, as humans, we tend to see the amazing rolls only and forget to consider all the times that rolls did not result in anything significant or that failed entirely. You have to back up and see the entire sample space to understand the odds in their real context.

#catsoftrinstagram

scuba suite mentioned in 66?

If you give the cat a safe place to have her kittens should would be fine. But taking her to a no-kill shelter would be best, so her and the kittens can be spayed and neutered.

There better be an update on this pregnant cat because I IMMEDIATELY became invested and I need to know what happens

Pendergreens working at a Subway had my dying. Rose for Murph!

I am on Team Take Care of the Cat. If something happens you will feel pretty bad.

When Jake says they're speaker goggles, all I can think about is a pair of goggles with red solo cups attached on either side

Definitely try to get her to a shelter/humane society. They'll be able to take care of her and be just fine. Then she and her kittens will be put up for adoption once they are old enough to leave their mom

Absolutely get the cat to a vet or a local non-profit animal rescue in your area. You can still visit her or see the kittens but life’s hard out on the street for a preggers cat and those bbs need some care. Plus getting her spayed post birth will help the community. But also adopt her and keep her forever after.

The dice ruling the story really feels true. While running a campaign the party had their bard ram a door with a roaring scream trying to make several of the enemies run. They got a high roll on the door bash, beat the dc check to scare several enemies. Later in the fight the paladin grabbed the door and got a crit while trying to use it to kill two enemies as she ran for the back stairs to slide down on the door attempting a kickflip. She failed the kickflip though. But holy hell were the dice rolls really fueling the story.

Murph, what’s your favorite Final Fantasy?

Pendergreens is quickly becoming my favourite character for Murph to play too, both short and long-form jokes with him are a dang (belly) gem every time!

Look after the pregnant cat murph. She'll be the sweetest cat, because she'll be so appreciative, and it could be there only chance

You definitely mentioned the scuba suit before this episode.

A One Shot about Pendergreens working at a Subway would be the greatest gift of all.

A fourple parent trap should be a hot date episode your welcome murf

I find it a little frustrating how slowly Jake is coming to understand his role as the martial in the party. Although, him embracing the sheer potency of the haste buff is a sign in the right direction. Combat feats would be the next step up, I don't think I've seen a single power attack or weapon focus yet.

I can't believe Emily has seen Ocean Girl. That news made me way too happy.

I can't believe I get to be Pendergreen's best friend holy shit

I am all for the Bob's kitchen convos

This comment is very irrelevant to this episode, but someone already did a D&D podcast about middle aged dads, and I believe that it is a great execution of your idea.

Out if the Abyss is my favorite d&d module to pull random stuff from!

I think the scuba suit came up last Short Rest? It definitely sounded familiar

Caldwell, I'm gonna need a "God doesn't play dice, that's the Devil's domain" design STAT. Featuring a dice devil sitting at table with a character sheet and PHB open, rolling a handful of different coloured dice. (please feel free to use this obviously good idea to make a shirt for the store, I only ask for one in return.)

I’m pretty sure they talked about the skully scuba suit in the last short test

Wonder if murph has ever read The Chronicles of Prydain because the flaming sword from the Sunken Keep early in the campaign had alot of similarities to the sword Dyrnwyn

Fourturple Trap talk: I fully expected Murph to jump in and steer it back. Unexpectedly happy he did the opposite!

Also, definitely take the cat in to a shelter for her to give birth. Those kittens need a chance and the mother needs to be spayed. That would be a huge help to the community (given how quickly her kittens would start making more kittens if left out there).

If y'all want to make Pendegost a better ruler for Shadowfell in the long term, I would suggest the only way is not to change him, but to change the way he stays in power. Reading the Dictators Handbook (great read), nicer rulers are that way because they need a lot of support. The more people they need support from, the nicer they need to be to the population. Hence democracies are on average better places to live than dictatorships. The worst dictatorships are those where the ruler doesnt need much support from the people (think oil rich like Lybia), here they just extract resources and grow wealthy and pay the army to keep them safe from the people rising up against them. Once you can't keep the army happy, that's when you fall. So Pendegost needs to be incentivise to keep the humanoids and not the monsters happy to make Shadowfell a better place.

Scullywug scuba suit made perfect sense. No context was necessary

lmao finally my scuba suit confusion is answered

Im surprised Captain Casper wasnt a thorn for Jake