Short Rest: Ep. 73: Pandemonium

"The 'A's get the peg" - Murph

Discrete math (as a class) is usually an introduction to formal logic which is how theorems and proofs are constructed. Instead of being calculation based it teaches mathematical argument basics and is the foundation that abstract math is built upon (as opposed to applied mathematics where you are using math to solve a computation question for the sake of an application.) if you ever did proofs in a geometry class, discrete math is the class you dig further into those tools and start applying them to things other than geometry.

Just let Caldwell play Clyde WTF

No one at my university knew how to tutor discrete math 😭 it was a nightmare for a freshman that tested out of lower maths

bricks are forks don’t @ me

Mostly unrelated, but I do find Caldwell's description of prayer up top extremely sad. That's not how it should be, is all I'll say.

I want to say this episode is so full of everything the makes D&D what it is! Pure fantasy enjoyment. It also has one of my favorite possibility my favorite moment of NADDPOD! When Moonshine casts stone shape and heals Beverly I just think WOW what a brilliant mind you have Emily! I love this podcast!

For the curious, discrete mathematics is just math involving "discrete" objects, rather than continuous ones.

I was a math major before i went on to philosophy and all my friends would go "discrete math shhhh 🤫 its discrete"

I finally got to listen to the Short Rest, and I totally called it that you were using Orcus as the demon. As soon as you described the wand I thought "He really described that wand in detail. Who is a giant demon with a very specific wand? Orcus!"

Thank ya! I thought they would ask about him when they met up at Gladehome lol

I have a question, I may have forgotten, but what ever happened to cawcaw

This battle kind of reminded me of harry potter: goblet of fire when caldwell said that they were on this battle where they had to win before they could actually get an adult

Rules Lawyer Moment! Bev should've only taken 1 failed death save from falling damage, usually you'd take 2 fails from a hit but that's because attacks within 5 feet auto crit on unconscious targets. Falling damage shouldn't crit.

Is someone going to do fan art of Ren laughing at a poor?

Loved this episode, my question is would any of the party members pick up the gnome's cloak or would they leave it there. It could be useful just sayin.

After all the shit the BoB have put up with from gnomes I wouldn't blame them if they just massacred every one they see from now on

Man, those power word kill attempts and Bev falling had me shook. Also, my physics professor actually wrote a book called "The Physics of Superheroes", and my professor used superhero examples all the time! Probably close enough to the physics of D&D?

Yeah you have to think of it like this, how long would it take you to swing a sword at a dude and then look at an amulet?

So are we not going to talk about how moonshine was on the thrown with the crown for like 5 minutes? Wasn’t that what would declare the challenge over releasing all the masters?!

'Sode thicker than a bowl of oatmeal 🍑 I almost weeped when the kill spell was directed at Moonshine 😭

Omg. Can Caldy's second character be a sorcerer dragonborn mortgage hoarder?

Did anyone else notice healing word is a bonus action normally? Moonshine should have been able to cast it and a normal action spell without using the thinking cap.

Damn Murph is savage! Sicking a Demon Lord on the Band of Boobs! Fcking cool though very sweet episode!

Seriously though, a dozen long stem roses to Zac Oyama. Imagine if Hardwon had taken him instead of Ren down to fight the gnomes

Ot, and I'm not sure if this has been suggested before, but Naddpod has to start selling ads to joinhoney.com, if only to force Murph to start doing the Honey Goblin voice more!

I'm getting some deja vu here...