Short Rest: Eldermourne - Ep. 41: Cerenysus (w/ Q&A)
Check out NADDPOD's Patreon exclusive after show! This week, we discuss the events of Eldermourne - Ep. 41: Cerenysus and answer your questions about the campaign. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
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i love murph so fucking much for getting iced. what a champ
I realise this aired 5 years ago, but as someone currently running an eberron campaign who's written herself into a bit of a narrative corner, the knowledge that the living spells are from Eberron has just saved me - thank you Murph!
God I forgot about Icing people. Now that phrase is ruined. Instead of burning hands, Emily's next character should have Smirnoff Ice Hands.
2026 bud for ya'll returning to eldermourne after galaderon
Did they ever do more of campaign 2 for live shows?
3rd time listening to this campaign and its so good! These guys are awesome at what they do
Unfortunately Campaign 3 in fact became spit focused with the DS
I never would have guessed that the riverboat shanty was written so early in the season! Incredible work from emily
caldwell contemplating playing a werewolf barbarian and the idea of a beastial/animalistic character and it manifesting into sol the frog is so fucking perfect XD
I love that at one point, campaign 3 was in fact, shit based.
i hope FETA is pronounced like the cheese
I made a bunch of different builds to play around with for my group's next campaign, and one was a shifter (can't remember which sub race) path of the beast barbarian. I wound up going with a ratatosk (tradvakt) path of the world tree barbarian, since I find the idea of a size small squirrel-folk as a barbarian to be delightful! I'm keeping the shifter barbarian build around in hopes I can play with it in the future!
Lol at saying that everybody has been around cocaine confidence.
I haven't, and I can't think of anything in media that registers like that. I just have to take their word for it!
Fun lore dump! Tenser was the PC for Ernest (anagram fun!), the son of Gary Gygax, playing through Castle Greyhawk. Tenser's Transformation and Tenser's Floating Disc are named after him. https://www.enworld.org/threads/ernie-gygax-shares-a-little-of-tensers-history.664380/
Full 2nd listen through and all the more excited for y’all to return to Eldermourne one day — thanks for all the laughter, tears, and everything in between!!
The Ice-ing story reminds me of college when a friend of mine ran a sex ed event that involved lots of condoms (as bingo markers). The leftovers got hidden around another friend's room and just popped up on a weekly basis forever. The last one got found during the NEXT school year in a box of cold medicine that got moved out of the dorm and then back in....
Second listen through, my soul yearns for more tales from Zelbudar!
When he said cold piss I immediately thought of sodastream lol a cold piss soda so fucking gross, or even worse.... what if you ended up liking it.. you end up having hydrate throughout the day so that your piss turns out to be the right flavor. I'm not weird you guys are weird.
sparkling piss. i hate that i'm curious now…
Definitely want that next adventure with the Time Devil!
I listened to the finale while driving and I had to fully pull over when zirk died, I then went to the grocery store and cried in the cereal isle during the epilogue
Where do you shop that has islands for cereal? My stores only have aisles :(
I like the way Zirk's relationship with his mum ended and personally wouldn't want them to reconcile. Sometimes there is no redemption. Some of us want nothing to do with our mothers. I also really liked the complex feelings Fia had for her dad. There is that childish love that she has for him, but its at war with her pain and anger over everything he did to her. Deep down there is a part of her that is still that little girl, his little girl, that he raised, that he betrayed. Basically, as an abused child I really loved the representation of these complex feelings and relationships. Thank you.
Yo idk if y’all will see this but I just started dming a campaign for my friends and one guy’s character just became a chronurgy wizard. whenever he chronal shifts I can’t stop myself from saying “chrrronal shiift” in fia voice. Emily Axford…if you see this you have influenced me, queen. Much love to you all!
Frozen Barbarian Jake would just be the Encino Man build.
Every Christmas I pray for the revenge of Yugo. Listening to that one shot has become a holiday tradition for me on par with the Grinch.
Have you seen the New York show
Bladesinger wizard is so fun
Hahaha at our wedding a friend gave a nice speech later on at night reception and presented my husband with a nice scotch bottle only for him to open it to find a huge can of Smirnoff Ice. Iced at your own wedding ....cold (ice cold 🙃)
just gotta put it out there that my spotify wrapped is 71,000 minutes long and emily was my third artist <333
the fact that the all cure elixir is what ended up saving Zurk is APEX STORYTELLING
Also I think Jake should check out the barbarian/rogue multiclass. It’s one of my favorites, and with arcane trickster you can have spells!
I know I'm like 3 years late to this comment but oh my god, barbarian/rouge is my absolute favorite multiclass. Both classes on their own are great but dipping even a level or two into either is just so incredible. They compliment each other so we'll for not sharing any saving throws, and when you take a dip into one you are so tempted to keep on putting levels into it. Even if you were, just as an example, primarily a barbarian, rouge levels feel SO good. Like, you get advantage on dexterity saves after level 2 of barbarian, if you eventually get high enough level that you can get rouge to level 7 with however many barbarian levels you may have you can just start tanking even better with evasion. Hell, even level 5 rouge makes you an insane tank with uncanny dodge as a reaction. Even a one level dip into rouge is insane because you can get expertise in athletics and become a grappling maniac! And rouge dipping into barbarian, you can take more hits, you can get even better with dex saves aiding your rouge abilities even more, and potentially get even better AC from unarormed defense depending on how you're built! I've seen this pairing compared to action movie heroes or, depending on how you frame/build the character, the killers in thrillers, and it's insanely acurate. Such an insane pairing, even if it can be a bit difficult to build mechanically. It just gives you a lot of power in a fight, and it's very rewarding to play out.
Fuck yeah trinyvale!!!!!!!
God I wanna see Jake play an eldritch knight so bad
My pick for live shows would be hex bloods if that is an option. Plus it's only 16 episodes for people to catch up on.
You have a bud of a sailor listening
#releasethecharachterstestingouttheirvoicescut
Eldermourne was supposed to be low magic, so I’m guessing from the hint that C3 will be lots of magic! Woohoo! So excited they are ready to dive in!
If that was "low magic" then I'd hate to see what high magic is
This is the best birthday
theyansweredmyquestiontheyansweredmyquestiontheyANSWEREDMYQUESTION. Hearing Jake say Michael F was super dope I'm so jazzed I literally punched the air at work.
The realization that Caldwell's first name is not Caldwell has rocked my entire understanding of the universe. I knew about Murph! I wasn't prepared for this revelation after years of watching him on College Humor and listening to NADDPOD!
Yes scoobie doo John Cena mixed bag. A thousand times yes!
They should all check the Tasha's Cauldron sourcebook. So many cool classes. Could see Jake as a Rune Knight for sure. They have more sorcerer classes and Druid (which I think is where path of the beast came from)
I love the idea of Caldwell just playing a straight up tiger (with player stats) how creative! I think that there could be plenty of possibilities and explanations that may reveal themselves over the course of the story as to why he is a sort of sentient tiger, and what happened lol. I played a Tarzan like druid once that had a modified sticks to snakes spell. We found ourselves in some kind of jurassic park like science lab and through some wandering the party found My best friends character (had just gotten off work), a cave man frozen in some ice. We thawed him out and he played him very skeptical of the party. At some point, the party was trapped because of tigers. Caveman and I both got nat 20s on our animal handling/nature checks to tame tigers and that's how our characters became friends as well lol. My DM literally squashed my druid further into the story line, so I asked if I could essentially continue in the story as the tiger. Alas, to no avail :(
It's insane to think that icing people has made such a comeback. Or did it ever go away? I remember doing this a literal decade ago 😂
Emily, in an Arcadia Magazine, there was a sorcerer subclass based on Titan Heart, and when you use sorc points, you can get beefy and large and be useful in melee too. Just cause I see you like combining melee+ranged, spells and swords. Sorcadin with titan heart would be dope.
Okay but hear me out: a one shot where they all play personifications of high level spells.
Take me to Zirch (Zirk Church)
Emily have you considered the Stone Sorcerer subclass from Unearthed Arcana? It’s my favourite sorcerer subclass
Is there somewhere to download or buy Emily's songs
More guests on D&D Court! Does this mean we might get the DM's Supreme Crit Justice Brennan Lee Mulligan?
Hi! As a fellow ukulele player I was wondering if y’all will be posting the chords for Emily’s River shanty! It’s so beautiful that I woke from a dream with it in my head! And it was such a joy to play one big bed when those chords went up ☺️ thanks!
Accidentally deleted my last comment, but someone in the Discord (username fluteloops#3378) transcribed them! They’re also organizing a group cover of Ill Luck Henry, and most likely will do one for LtRF as well. Here’s their message with the chords: "**CHORDS** (thanks to jay @goldenjaytime for help!!) VERSE A/D/A/gbm/D/E/gbm (end with an E7 + bm after the gbm second time around in each set) CHORUS A/E/A/D/A/E/gbm/bm (drop the bm on repeat) BRIDGE D/E/A/gbm first two times, D/E/C#7/gbm"
Sorry I couldn’t make the live stream, Saturday was my thanksgiving dinner, but y’all made my flight to Hawaii go by fast AF on Tuesday, happy thanksgiving y’all thank you goons for keeping me sane during work and this pandemic!
Is the next arc going to be Mavrus and the boys go on a ski trip?
You give each other Smirnoff ice?? As a joke?? And the American one has fuckin bread in it? What’s happening
To be fair there's a huge difference between bread and gluten. That's like saying you're drinking a scuba tank every time you drink water because they both have oxygen in them
The Blade of Disaster has hardcore Charzard energy
Murph: your logic was sound, but hearing « so it’s not as warm » made me yak
As someone who Dms for a circle of the moon Druid barbarian, it’s A LOT when they’re a great player. Extreme tank levels
Man. You have to let Caldwell play a Full Caster for once. I’ve always thought Conjuration Wizard would be a great one for him. Just having the ability to summon a copy of any non-magical item you can think of, as well as all of the great new summoning spells they added with Tasha’s would serve his creative instincts really well. Also agree with Emily that Sorcerer subclasses are kind of underwhelming. I think they’ve started to go in the right direction with the newest ones, but all the old ones are so lacklustre, especially at higher levels, but sharing a casting attribute with 3 other classes makes them pretty good for multiclassing.
Rick Perry dice? *Edit: oh I guess he is a prop/set guru for D20
Jake should go wild-magic barbarian?
I recently played an ancestral barb/ soulknife in a extended one shot that our dm absolutely hated. Just hid behind a rock and threw mind blades at a dragon and gave everyone resistance to everything. It’s not the most exciting for big moments but it was fun to play.
I think Tenser was Gygax's son Luke's character.
Melf was Luke's character. Tenser was Ernie Gygax's character. Tenser was one of the first 2 characters ever made for D&D.
An idea for the new campaign based on the talk of characters in the end: It would be funny to see everyone play against their type, jake is spellcaster, emily is melee and i guess caldwell just is not silly at all. Then, like the new suicide squad, just let everyone die in the first episode and introduce the real characters after.
OIIN OIIN OIIN OIIN
Does anyone else have the same issue of being really excited to share naddpod with friends n family as an example of something I really enjoy n coming to the whole dragon pussy bit each n every time?
I just shared it with a friend and he loved that part lol
Just realizing this right now, but the Third Mates are still basically no bodies. No one knows what they did. They aren’t heroes of the land. Which seems fitting.
IMHO How ISN'T wild magic sorcerer a interesting sub class. A little chaos is good for RP.
It's fun, but it's also the go-to sorcerer class and we've played it before off mic. We also did a season of D20 where the entire story was built around it, plus the mechanics of R. Cane were built around it. We've kind of exhausted the wild magic surge table between the two shows imo. - Murph
Em, you kept that song from our ears for THAT long???😳🙂
I agree with Emily about sorcerers, I love playing them and I love the vibe of innate magic, but the subclasses just aren’t very interesting to me
Two levels of paladin makes College of Swords Bard perfect, it’s my favourite build! You can heal and buff/debuff and inspire, but also go into melee and wreck house with smites using the bard’s spell progression
I’m amazed Emily doesn’t seem interested in a wild magic sorcerer that would be some very interesting RP
Take me to Zurch
OIN OIN OIN
Zirk getting Terminator-ed by a fairy devil is such a freaking great plot hook
I will second eldritch knight's awesomeness
Dragon colostrum.
I also love Tenser's Transformation Em, is my favorite spell
yo murph are you planning to do a wheel of time show mixed bag?
Perfect timing Murph, as I bake cookies!
I was also obsessed with Scooby Doo as a kid… and still am a little bit
YES! 🙌
Me hoping this dropped in time to cook dinner 🙏