Short Rest: C3 Ep. 20: The Sapphire Scale
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I want that on my tombstone: Died how they lived; Weirdly
It’s slugging… 😂😂😂😂😂 geckoing forever though
Murph’s “fourth man” characters are one of my favorite parts of his DM style. Every single companion, no matter how small the role, is carefully crafted to fit the teams and the story so perfectly.
Y'all have talked about using humidifiers a couple times now, and as a Southerner who's definitely never been to LA, the idea of intentionally making a home MORE humid is absolutely unimaginable to me. Lol
I’m in Oklahoma, humidifiers are a game changer during the dry, cold winters!! Can’t imagine using it during summer though
I'm addicted to spindrift
I had to read Guns Germs and Steel in highschool... I'm sure it's a perfectly ok book but the fact that I not only had to read it for class, but had to do so over summer before the class?! 🤢
Why does Murph try so hard to not clear his throat! Ahahaha it kills me
"Bad guy Coachella" I'll be using this to describe many-a-media property from here on out lol
Omg hearing Emily ask for mounted combatant
I was scared for a second when Emily was talking about dropping speak with plants. Murph roleplaying kelp was so good! One of my favorite bits of this whole podcast.
My skincare is a face wash, toner, serums, and moisturizer. My husband only washes his face maybe 1-2 a week. If I did that My face would break out so much so I do my complex routine. I like it though. Feels like pampering
This. I wash, toner, serum, moistizer. And every other day I do toner, retinol, and moisturizor. And on sundays ill do an exfoliating clay face mask Idk if it does anything but I def don't break out as often and It makes me slow down at the end of the day and keeps me from snacking cause I only do skincare after brushing my teeth
Omg please bring Cheswick back. He's my faverite 🤣
The level of room humidity suggested in this episode is standing in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa.
Whenever Emily casually mentions the hate she gets for playing well I'm like "defending Emily online isn't enough I need a sword". It's the fucking hypocrisy of it all - if Emily is doing well, they complain that her build is broken or that she is cheating and if she plays suboptimal they say that she isn't pulling her weight/dragging the rest of the party down. As a DM I'm always happy when my players do insane builds and get super powerful because that means I get to use stronger monsters and more difficult encounters, so I really don't see the point why taking a feat that suits your needs (mounted combatant for Callie and mobile for Sol) is a bad thing. Murph is a great DM so he would still make them work for it.
Misogyny is so fucking annoying like that, yeah
It makes me so sad that Emily feels limited on what she can do because of toxic people, I love listening to the awesome combos and feats that she comes up with!
I want the bureau of devils-on-your-shoulder workplace comedy
DO WHAT YOU WANT EMILY. The idea that you'd be on a giant duck dealing some awesome smites. We support you
and Emily build what YOU want for your character! I love when you make amazing builds! XD
when jake went to say what he had been reading I was secretly hoping he was going to say the animorph series ahahah XD
Laughed really hard when Bailiff Jake suggested blowing threw his helm on Chezwik (have no idea how to spell it).
Ain’t nothing wrong with day drinking lol
Emily pleeaaaaaase make the most broken build you can and beat hardwons 200 damage in 1 turn
Emily please stop making your build to please the 0.3% of the fanbase that don't like you. It's not like they'll change nor do they matter.
Book recommendation to Jake. Sapiens starts at the beginning of human history and is a super in depth look on how we work in general
Let's hear about the mounted combatant badass Calliope would be with that feat!
Just wanted to note that at the start of the C2 finale short rest, Caldwell correctly predicts that C3 would be a shit-focused campaign without even realizing all the impending poop checks
Guns, Germs, and Steel isn't very highly regarded by most academics even as a work of popular history. Jared Diamond is a bit of a joke tbh.
Happy that Jake's interested in history! Buuuut I absolutely hate this book. His emphasis on geographic determinism grossly undermines societal and cultural implications that mostly disproves his attempted anthropology. Globalization demonstrates this well, as many instances throughout history are shaped by geo-politics and faith. For example, 14th century admiral Zheng He could have conquered the pacific, the Eurasian coast, and East-Africa as admiral of the largest naval fleet at the time (the Ming Dynasty then boasted a flotilla of 9-12 mast ships, which dwarfed the the 3-4 mast Spanish Galleon 200 years earlier than their inception); what happens instead is that the ships are used for tributary collection for the emperor, and eventually left to rot on the south eastern shore once Confucianism and an economic crisis fails to inspire the empire to look outward--rather, the cultural shift in china brought upon an age of inward thinking. No germs, guns or steel here, just humans... humaning.
Caldwell reading One Piece makes me so, so happy
You guys are essentially power rangers! When they lost their powers!
knowing that the skincare term is "slugging" is cracking me up so much 😭
I have a Mounted Combatant Paladin (Actually MCDM Beastheart/Paladin) deffo a blast.
Emily, the skincare thing is called slugging <3
I think we can all agree we love hearing Murph getting womped by the crew. Let’s go for Mounted Duck Troupe! Who doesn’t love vicariously experiencing that sweet sweet feeling of rolling with advantage as a prayer to Dice Christ in search of the Holy Crit. She helps those who help themselves 🙏 Praise be to our bringing of success and failure! 😇 All ye whoeth protesteth against her wayeth shall roll 1’s until ye repenteth 😔
Em, I vote ya do whatever the fuck cool shit ya want!
All of u take The feats you want PLEASE I love seeing u optimize yourselves lol
maybe you can appease the naysayers by making your steed a negging misogynist
And a huge rose to just in general how this season really captures the mix of technology and fantasy. Finding the abandoned airship in the forest was really cool.
Emily - Charles Yu’s second novel, “Interior Chinatown”, is probably even better than his first (in my opinion). I highly recommend it!
Emily - Charles Yu’s second novel, “Interior Chinatown”, is probably even better than his first (in my opinion). I highly recommend it!
Cheswick definitely has cyanide poisoning from eating all those apple cores
The mana stone conversation was very interesting. I could see Callie go Oath of Ancients Paladin, Saul goes either Shadow Monk or Hand Of Mercy and Calder goes like a war priest Cleric of some frosty god.
Callie should take “Reduce/Enlarge” and ride a Large version of Foster
I say this as a totally UNBIASED fan, but Emily should be able to do anything she wants all of the time
I really hope that emily takes mounted combatant now. Give us the mounted duck warrior.
Also here to say I’m sorry people bully Emily. One of my favorite things about watching and listening to her play is what a power gamer she is. I want more “Wow I can’t believe she came up with that!” I know it’s hard with the criticism but so many of us love watching you come up creative builds and moves!!!
i will forever be referring to slugging as geckoing, lizarding, perhaps snailing
Calder needs a crag cat mount, a giant mountain cat thats roar sounds like human screams ,
Emily please don’t listen to the weenies who would complain about you taking an awesome character ability, people like that need to realise this isn’t their game, and they shouldn’t stop you from building the incredible characters that your heart desires!! The sexism of it all…argh!!
It kind of bums me out to see Emily nerf herself. It's one thing to avoid broken builds that would be less fun to listen to on a podcast but fully avoiding feats because people would bitch about some situational advantage rolls is super unfortunate. We come to hear friends have fun. As long as you guys are having fun it's going to be fun to listen to.
This is at least the second short rest now talking about one of y'all drowning. The true crime documentary when y'all drown is going to have a lot of content
I wish Emily would just take the epic stuff :(
I'm so mad at this fandom for bullying Emily out of being fucking amazing. Everyone loved Deadeye rolling 30s and Hardwon's insane damage rolls. Did y'all not see Saccharina blow Brennan's brain out of his ears in ACOC? LET EMILY DEMOLISH EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, Murph is smart and he'll step it up. I want crazy battles and brilliant moves. Naddpod fans deserve Slippery Puppet manouvers! Emily is a freaking star, let her shine
That's it too right, like you say Murph is more than capable of either making things harder or rebalancing stuff if it seems out of whack. Just let these people play :/
caldwell read pandora hearts, it’s peak fiction
While 'Guns germs and steel' presents some interesting ideas in an engaging way, it has received a fair bit of criticism since it's release. Normally I wouldn't go out of my way to poo poo someone's recommendation, but I think it's important to point out when a work of non-fiction should be read with a critical eye.
This is putting it lightly! Love the interest in history but this is BAD haha
Emily, for the love of everything, FUCK THE PEOPLE HATING ON YOU. You are my D&D hero! Your wonky ass builds are inspirational. I’m sorry the naysayers are being that shitty, but anything you choose to do will be bad ass regardless. Much love to all of you, but man that sucks that you in particular getting any degree of hate.
Emily is literally a dnd legend! Anyone who cast dispersions is soulless and should be pitied. We only get a few turns ‘round the sun, fill those moments with joy and surround yourself with others who fill you with joy. Each one of these folks feel like my family. That doesn’t happen often, especially from artists who perform. Thank you for this post and for everyone who stands up to haters.
One piece! My friend please do not look anything up and know that whatever you read it is the best you have read so far.
"Welcome to short rest everybodyHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
There's no way he's relaxing when he makes that sound 😆
oo idea for the reflavored Speak with Animals: Speak with the Wild - could encompass anything "of nature" etc.
Emily are you talking about slugging??? (admittedly geckoing sounds like a much more exciting skincare routine)
you are correct Caldwell, one piece is life
Can't wait to watch Murph on the next season of Making A Murderer
Bad guy Coachella is redundant
Emily! you should read (if you haven't already) This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone!
I think I have that on my Libby wish list!! I’ll def check it out - Emily
The lizard related skincare thing is slugging, not gecko-ing. It's when you cover yourself with vaseline before sleeping to lock in moisture
I AM A SMAPPHIRE