Short Rest: Hearthside Chat

The Harry Potter movie/book discussion 🤐

Listening to this in 2025 and I’ve only just realized how similar Binky Fiasco and Fia Boginya are to each other l… it clicked when Emily said she liked “Fi” as a nickname for Fiasco

i play a Revived Rouge in my regular campaign and it rules soooo much, my DM has done an absolutely phenomenal job making her past lives be a really satisfying part of the story. it would be so cool to see you play one even as a one shot, Emily!

I'm currently playing a really crunchy min max paladin. 3 lvls of Champion fighter and the rest paladin, Firbolg race, and wields a maul with the key feat of the character being blugeoner. On my turn I bonus action turn invisible (Firbolg hidden step ability), attack with advantage from invisibility and if I crit (on a 19 or 20 cause Champion fighter), blugeoner feat kicks in which gives EVERYONE advantage on attack rolls on that target until my next turn. Plus when I crit I use my max level smite available which ends up being 4d6 from my weapon plus 12d8 (if you have improved divine smite or 14d8 if the target is a fiend or undead) when using max smite at 4th level spell slots. Not only do I do big damage but I also help my team hit/crit more consistently by giving them advantage as well!

You’re never too old to read Harry Potter. Just got my girlfriend to read through the whole series for the first time and she just turned thirty. Don’t deny yourself of the magical feelings within those books

Ok I def read Harry Potter on a beanbag chair. Em you made me feel seen there lmao

Wait which one shot does Caldwell play a half giant?

HEXBLADE PALADIN! Short rest smite slots with a sick damaging cantrip in eldrich blast.

Bard Paladin BABY. multiclassed at level 5 from bard to paladin and got smites on smites

Emily!!! There is an unearthed arcana paladin oath that is like, exactly the flavor you’d like I think! It’s called Oath of the Watchers and I play a paladin in a campaign of beginners because they all chose squishy things and needed a tank. I also don’t like paladin flavoring but it seemed the best choice and I had a really hard time connecting to the character until I found this Oath!

No frozen 2 spoilers?

Favorite fight was the first encounter with Ulfgar on the ship.

Ya’ll was Jake not Crabster?? I swear this was not a Caldwell...

Ok, hear me out: Balnor is Amy. Constantly forgotten and pushed to side for the no. 1 hot chick (or rather, Dad), Rouge (Bev Senior)

I would love a one shot of Jake going to visit cord alone and confronting cord and his dad to fuck shit up

Wasn’t Hardwon the first one to call Moonshine “Moonie”? I just have a strong memory of her saying, “Who always takes care of you?” To Hardwon and him replying, “That’s my Moonie!”🤔😅

I hope you guys do reuse some of the music from campaign one in campaign two. I love the music Emily’s written and think it would be great to carry it forward.

Yamber is the color of your energy

Thunderstruck by AC/DC should be considered as Hardwon and/or Moonshine's wrestling walk out song

Thank you for the lovely chat!! Watched this and the short rest back to back and I loved Caldwell’s transformation on animal crossing opinions. Also! I’m sewing a ton of face masks for people and if you all (or any of those nurses that messaged you all!) need, please let me know!! Stay safe and thank you again!!! 💖

Emily & Caldy, please let Moonshine know that mammals that lay eggs (ie. platypus, echidnas & Jake's aunt) have their own special name: monotremes! - (Also there was an echidna in my garden over the weekend and it was the best thing ever and my druid is going to be turning into one all the time now)

Emily, there is no current consensus on the "dangers" of aspartame unless you have PKU. A bunch of it is detailed here. https://www.healthline.com/health/aspartame-side-effects#side-effects

At this point it’s Jake obsessed with triss, he’s had opportunities for other love interests and blown past them

Unfortunately I would launch my cat off my bean bag chair during my HP reading breaks...

EMILY I LEGIT READ HARRY POTTER IN A BEAN BAG CHAIR!! That's how I started reading the series. <3

Hot take: New music, but reuse old themes if the new campaign is set in Bahumia and old characters are mentioned/return in some capacity

I want to play a Cultbreaker Paladin so bad now- and for some filthy metagaming, half-casters are my favorite thing to play! I like Ranger/Cleric builds (esp Fey Wanderer, if you want more spell-y flavor), or any CHA based caster/Paladin. I know Emily's played a couple Hexblades, but those are so versatile for multiclassing. And right now I'm leveling my Arcane Trickster Rogue into Bladesinger

My dad read me the first 4 HP books and the last 3 I insisted on reading alone in a trashed lawn chair I dragged up into my dilapidated tree house lol

please bring back Matteo from the first arc i miss that delightful nature douche

Balnor is big the cat!!

I stan Jake so hard for standing with his decision that Hardwon wants to end up with Tris. It's not what's best for him but what Hardwon thinks is best. literally the commitment to not step out of character and meta game about what would be the best fit??? k i n g

All Y'all, esp Emily - as far as music for campaign 2, if you decide reusing themes from 1, what about pulling a Daft Punk and doing a bunch of remixes? Even for a similar classical-music feel, going with variations on an existing theme gives a great sense of... Being the same NADDPOD™ brand, but being different enough to feel unique to a different campaign.

Murph- sorcdins are meta op especially with a third multi class on rogue or ranger👌👌👌

Thanks for answering my question! Also, I feel especially good because Murph and I prep our campaigns the exact same way, I love planning a session to orchestral music, namely Nobuo Uematsu. Also, you all could do worse than to have a Dave as your lord and savior.

Fuck yeah go beyond(burger) em. Also I did read Harry Potter on a bean bag chair no joke 😂

Hey Emily, the book with the alien you mentioned might be My Teacher is an Alien. The alien turns out to be kind of a good guy too if I remember correctly.

For Emily, I believe that the Artificer has access to smites and also low level wizard spells, so that could be an option to look into if you want to go the half martial/caster route.

Fiasco Falls would be a dope place to be from. Just throwing that location out there

Loved re-listening to the live show this week. I was cracking up--definitely brightened an evening alone in my apartment! Thanks for all the content guys--you're all a spark of light in a dark time!

Beware the Frozen 2 spoilers

Pickle your dice, whiskey dunk your nugs.

I definitely read at least one Harry Potter in my Papasan chair.

Is anyone else not getting this weeks episode and short rest on the short rest podcast on apple podcast. I got the episode on NADDpod but not on short rest. Not sure if it’s me, apple or what

100% read HP on a beanbag chair.

Emily and Caldwell, what are your fruit/flowers in AC?! I have cherries and pansies. I Need to find someone with roses 😘😅 A rose from the boobs would be v.special!

Quarantine drink of choice: Grog. 1 part rum + 2 parts water in a tall glass. I call it proactively treating the hangover. Quarantine noms: rice or bread + what I call "Perpetual Broth and/or Stew". Step 1. Start with enormous pot of broth or stew panic-made at start of quarantine. Step 2. Consume from pot. Step 3. Refill with water and other ingredients as the contents dwindle. Step 4. Heat and repeat til society returns to normal or rapture. Whichever comes first.

Thank you for all the content Daddy Murph...Fuck you, I love you. Eat a rat.

Balnor would be Bigs the cat

Emily, I saw that one of Travis's dogs was Fig and that had crossed my mind.

All in the name of DAVE

A handful of blueberries is not sad!

Yooooo that wrestling entrance question was a good one. V v v nice

I feel SEEN after Emily made the comment of reading Harry Potter in a bean bag.

Murph, love whiskey but Bulleit isn't the way to go: https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/08/homophobia-allegations-from-the-daughter-of-bulleit-bourbon-s-founder-are-rocking-the-beverage-industry.html

Sorcerer/paladin is one of the best multiclasses in the game; you can’t smite above fourth level but you get SO many slots and you can regenerate them with metamagic AND you can build it so you get two attacks as paladin and then use metamagic to turn a high level spell into a bonus action it’s the craziest shit

Murph, to answer your thought chain there. Paladin and Sorcerer (sorcadin) is widely recognized as the most busted thing you can do in 5e. Typical builds are 2 paladin/18 sorc and 6 paladin/14 sorc. Twincast haste and greater invisibility, Quicken booming blade for extra attacks, and having nearly full caster slots for smiting are some of the highlights.

After seeing the thread of The Struggle, much appreciation for still posting 🖤 and heck yeah, Animal Crossing heckin rocks.

Also, I saw there were technical difficulties this week, and honestly with that combined with general life difficulties because of The Whole Situation it would've been totally okay for you to miss a week but here you are making passionate and interesting content, you're genuinely such an inspirational group of people

I've been playing animal crossing for fifteen hours, just now turning it off to give my eyes and thumbs a break, this is perfectly timed. I bend the knee

Murph you’re a HERO

Been waiting for this! Thanks for continuing to put out such wonderful content for us during this trying time!