Short Rest: Eldermourne - Ep. 1: The Reaping Season

Go birds

Lilli of the bog

Yeah I also had a problem finding it but it's there, they just didn't put Eldermourne in the title. It's C2 Ep. 1 instead

WitchKnightRen

Anyone else unable to find the actual first episode on their feed? Found it else where & am loving this ach so far but figured it was worth mentioning

Babbles The Clown

ok but Resident Evil mixed bag when? Love that you draw inspo from that series sometimes, Murph.

Nova

Please come to Buffalo and celebrate NADDPOD and the Bills. We would love a live show <3

Ben Wilcox

Me and several of my coworkers listen to your show, we do roof and gutter cleaning. When Caldwell referenced the halbert being like a gutter pole I instantly felt like a badass, as I was using one at that moment up on a roof

Ethan Mann

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I'm stealing 'memory vault', I need it. If I can remember it...

Bec Robson

What were the statblocks for Syb and Fergus? As a dm, I’m really into the big slow heavy hitter and small fast light hitter thing and may want to use the stats in future games.

Abby Reeves

I subscribed about two weeks ago and now I'm almost caught up! The Rube Goldberg bit had me literally crying, that was so unexpectedly funny

Amanda

Jake is fully within his rights to play a brawler now; as of 3 days ago Unarmed Fighting is a fighting style.

MrMach6

Ok I’m super late but I want Emily to know that when you said you saw a slug race I got super excited cuz my home town in Oregon has an annual slug race where the town gets together at the ocean port to race banana slugs to win ice cream, since there’s literally nothing better to do in a small coastal Oregon village and then you said Berlin and I was like oh that makes more sense 😂

Zoe Bernhardt

In my head I always kinda saw henry similar to Tom Cruise from the movie Far and Away but just a little bit older

Jacob Stockton

Make Henry hotter.

Ben Delahay

Oh Henry totally looks like a grungy Colin Farrell in my head. Like pre glow up

Rachel Indelicato

I cannot accurately describe the look of sheer discomfort on my coworkers’ faces when they asked me why I was laughing so hard and I had to answer them, through tears of laughter, “A man on my podcast is screaming a detailed description of a Rube Goldberg machine.”

Emily

the sprites made me think of Spren from the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. Such great links to other texts

Travis Perkins

It’s cool to hear that using bells to control the undead exists in a range of media! The necromancers in the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix have a bandolier of bells, with each bell having a different affect (which is what came to mind for me listening to the episode). I’m totally loving Eldermourne- a giant bouquet of roses to all four of y’all!

Henry

Let Jake take the Unarmed Fighting style UA! Do it Murph!

Max

I'm calling it, Henry is going to get a homebrew harpoon weapon at some point. 1d6+strength check to pull a harpooned enemy towards him, maybe? That, or a trident.

Taylor Post

Henry can come in with a retractable guitar/halberd like brutal legend

Tom Dieter

I very much want the horseman’s bell to be a cowbell and when the gang finally faces him he goes into a rendition of Don’t fear the reaper.

Clayton Davis

A 'bill' or bill-hook is also a type of polearm like a halberd

Aidan Tesselaar

Sure, Jake could do some tried-and-true min-max feat optimization - but what would be more fun: Jake having an extra mechanic on top of Echo positioning to remember in combat or Henry having a little extra incentive to take off the gloves and pugilize every mildly antagonistic character in Eldermourne?

joel

Tavern brawler gives you proficiency with improvised weapons. I used this feat with a character, and it was a lot of fun. The improvised weapons proficiency came in handy and it was such a fun scene.

Bryce Baker

Sorry jake but go eagles!! Fly eagles fly

Brenda Gibbner

If you see this Jake instead of tavern brawler which can be a bit underwhelming, I’d recommend taking the pole arm master feat. It allows you to take an extra attack as a bonus action for 1d4 plus your strength modifier which you can flavor as a punch. You can also take an opportunity attack when someone enters your space!

Phoenix

So I have a few fresh water exospheres, and one of them is mostly just snails (and a dragonfly nymph). They can actually get pretty fast, but I've definitely seen them race before and I strongly suggest making snail races a thing.

William

Emily, don't feel bad about the cat food. I was feeding my cats one morning, and I made my coffee at the same time. I mashed up their food with some warm water (because that's where my life is now), and I had two bowls to carry. In a tired reflex, I confused my brain and rather than set down the spoon for the cat food, I put that sucker directly into my mouth. And deposited the coffee spoon in the sink. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ Spoiler alert, it tastes exactly as bad as you think it does. Anyway, love the new campaign!! Kinda wanna watch football with Henry, smoke my first cigar with Fia and fail a science experiment with Zirk. Keep being amazing!!

Stephanie F

this was great!

Randy

Henry can root for the Bills, a sport fishing team he used to work for fending off monsters as the fishermen fish for billfish (like a blue marlin) Did that make any sense? But of course they only catch bullywugs

Aaron Walsh

Omg!! The Geeky Blinders!! This campaign just fully realized itself in my mind! Love Peakey Blinders, Jake is Arthur, Emily is Polly, and Caldwell is Michael. And the Coup de Gras - Tom Hardy is in Peakey Blinders!!!! Worlds colliding! Worlds colliding! Love you!

Michael Lawton

Heeey there' is a unarmed fighting style in a UA is amazing for a boxer fighter ..1d6+str for damage or 1d8 if you are not using anything in both hands. I have some characters that are boxers because I love de concept XD

Gregório Avellar the goblin rogue warlock that is happy because Brazil is not that dystopian anymore

Not sure why I didn't think of this on first listen but for Henry's extendable halberd it reminds me of the hunters axe from bloodborne. So from now on whenever it sets pulled out I'm going to imgine the hunters axe being extended to a 2 hand weapon.

Adam Golden

There are bell-ringers in the game that make the monsters glow red, respawn, and attack more viciously, which is probably what he was inspired by!

FiendishNoodles

If you’re looking for a way to incorporate the Bills into the world, Marlins, Swordfish, and Sailfish are collectively called Billfish, which works well for a port town’s sports team.

Adam Pearce

I've heard of familiars giving the help action, but this is ridiculous.

tacticalgrandma

I love Murph so much omg 🖤😂

Allaura Kridler

At some point in the campaign they are definitely going to have to go to cor-con (easier to say and sounds better to me than coroner con). Great start so far :)

Keith robinson

I was eating so many mushrooms. I love mushrooms and it was too many mushrooms. I will undoubtedly try again in the future and add raisins to the menu! -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

spoiling movies is a beloved pasttime here on the naddpod patreon!!! -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

hmmm now I am wondering if all Eldermourne roses should be dead. -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

oh clever turning it into bludgenoning! -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

Yes, I love this! Based on all these comments, Murph and I came up with a specific list of ways Bukvar can help me, (arcana checks because he is a book), as well as some things he could help me with, but would put him in harm's way, since he only has 1 hp. I think the 1 hp limitation and the chance he could get "deanimated" gives enough of stakes that we won't overuse it. -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

hahaha you know, I never even thought twice about Fig smoking, because it was so in genre for a John Hughes movie. Glad to know Fia can puff with abandon! -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

oh very fun!!!

Not Another D&D Podcast

That's really great. I think since Bukvar is flying, I may use him in that way on occasion. Acknowledging that since he has 1 hp, using him in these kind of ways will incur a certain risk. -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

as a Statham aficionado, what are the best Statham vehicles? I deeply and passionately love almost all action movies. -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

Yes, that's super fun! I almost entirely forgot you can cast touch spells through your familiar. -Emily

Not Another D&D Podcast

Look I'm not saying I'll cancel my sub if you call yourselves anything other than the Geeky Blinders...

Emmie

And don’t forget it can deliver touch spells, so suddenly cure wounds ain’t so bad.

John Tanzer

As someone who both plays a familiar using wizard and is a DM for a warlock with a familiar, don’t put arbitrary limits on a familiar. The familiar having to get into a dangerous position to take a help action is penalty enough; most familiar critters will go down in one hit, and it takes time and resources to cast FF, so being reckless with your familiar can put you in a really rough spot.

John Tanzer

Being from Buffalo and hearing y’all mention the Bills had me

Mikey Malikowski

Emily! Raisins are a great vegetarian source of iron. Mushrooms too!

Giant Monsters on the Horizon

SPOILER ALERT FOR CRANK.... Jason Stathem dies at the end of the movie while falling from an airplane (?) to his explosive death.

Drew Smith

Also to weigh in on the tavern brawler feat for Henry, maybe Polearm Master for a little one-two action by hitting folks with the retractable handle, (also the change to opportunity attacks also seems apt for someone who was previously employed fending off river beasts) https://www.dndbeyond.com/feats/polearm-master

Schafe

Six sessions and a movie!

Maxwel Anderson

Can chime in, the Pugilist class is dope and solidly built.

Jordan K. Thomas

Dear Jake, the Kensei Monk is really fun, and you can still rock swords.

That Boy Lenin

Hey, this is a really good way of doing it. Kudos.

Dracothea

My first short rest ! And what a way to start things of ! Love the pure chaotic energy that's always present in the group. For Jake, I'm not sure if homebrewing is a thing he'd be even interested in but there is a class called the Pugilist by Benjamin Huffman. It might be worth checking out. I've been dying to play it for some time now. Thank you very much for the great quality entertainment you've given me the past few months, I needed it !

Martin W.

Such a great short rest!! It’s so awesome hearing how excited y’all are because I am the same amount of excited. Also the pebblepot / cup of sprite connections killed me

Liz

I've always ruled with help action that you have to be able to reasonably explain HOW the creature is providing the help. A book couldn't necessarily give you advantage on a ranged bow attack because... well... how could it? Unless it was in melee with the target, then I would say it's not a valid help action. However it could certainly help you with arcana checks if its your spellbook. Similarly, a pet snake couldn't help someone with a history check because that just doesn't make sense unless the snake is a historian. So it just has to make sense. Otherwise it gets pretty ridiculous.

Dr3vvn45ty

So the house rule for Help actions, is my familiars can only use a Help action for a few things Attacks, and things they are proficient in. So if Bookvar is like a reskinned raven he only has proficiency in Perception, meaning he can only grant help on Perception, and Attacking. Otherwise he is still useful for scouting, casting touch based spells through (like cure wounds!), and things like rogue sneak attacks. Given that he's a Spellbook and doesn't have eyes, I could see swapping in Arcana for Perception, but I really try to avoid making them permanent advantage machines in my games.

KeganExe

For boxer Henry there's a UA fighting style from earlier this year that is way better than Tavern Brawler. Jake could switch his fighting style over to Unarmed Fighter for 1d8 damage and some damage when he grapples! I think that would be perfect for Henry.

Codey Borges

With his “lance “ I assumed Jake was goin to take the pole arm master feat. I think he would like it

Good Guy Josh

OH ALSO there's a subclass literally called "Way of the Shadow"!!!

tacticalgrandma

You guys might hit on this in your monk discussion but the crunch nerd in me is too excited- the Class Features that are almost certainly going to be in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything next month has an option where you can make a martial weapon a monk weapon! It enhances Martial Arts, aka those dinky strikes you think Jake might not be big on. 2 Levels of Fighter & then going into monk would give you ki shit + second wind, fighting style, & action surge- I can see it being very cool

tacticalgrandma

It was so funny how y'all described Henry as like an old timey boxer with a gut, but when he takes his shirt off the biceps are still there. Cause thats about how I would describe myself. Lmao. I was pretty fit back in the high-school days, but now I'm a 5'9" dad with biceps still. Anyway. Love the show, and I can't wait for the next sode

Anthony Browning

on Em's query about not overloading the advantages of Bookvar as a familiar I'm always a fan of very characterful familiars with a vibe being limited to the stats they can help with. So in Bookvars case Int and Wis based rolls seems apt for a living book in a way that I don't think they bring much to the party for a strength check.

Schafe

A dead rose for Coroner Con. It was so funny to see them treat it like an exclusive venue, I would LOVE to see more.

Samuel Benhardt

Great first ep guys!!!!!!

Kyler Holt

Emily is brilliant! Suggesting using Greatsword stats for a one-two punch is inspired! I would suggest using the Maul*, as it does bludgeoning damage, instead of slashing.. but that’s semantics really. The mechanics of both weapons lends itself perfectly to that idea! 1000 roses to the Docent

theGRAINGERzone

Hmm, I thought the bell was a Garth Nix reference!

Gearoid Cotter

For the help action, I let them help out if they are proficient in the skill. Owls have Perception and Stealth, so they could help with those checks. For example, maybe Bukvar has arcana and perception, and he can help you attack with advantage if he flies out in combat (putting himself in danger).

I handle in-combat familiars just like I do summoned animals. They roll their own initiative and on their turn they can take the help action, but doing so puts them in danger of being easily one shotted by the enemy

Austin Smith

A new record, went off the rails before Brian could even introduce himself, bravo 👏

preston packer

I love the thought of Henry literally shadow boxing with his Echo. Can't wait to see how things play out.

Reki

I'm so glad Emily brought up the question about the familiar help action. I love Dimension 20, but the way familiars are used in that series to basically always give the character advantage is distracting and doesn't make sense most of the time. We recently had a conversation within my D&D group about help actions in general, and I think we settled on the concept that you can only give a help action if you have proficiency in that skill, or have something in your backstory that would explain your knowledge or experience to assist with the check for that specific instance. Like, your character might not be proficient in history, but if another character is trying to recall something about an area where your character used to live, you could assist them because ostensibly you would have some historical knowledge specific to that area. It prevents help action "spam" while recognizing class or background specific proficiencies and provides some neat opportunities for creativity and RP.

Cathy Lewandowski

Smoking is disgusting and Fig always made me nervous about it but Fia seems fine and it doesn't make me feel good or bad about it lol

1man2hands

Toy Story is the new Frozen 2

1man2hands

I love Murph's elaborate explanation of a Rube Goldberg, it reminded me of the pantomime that Mac, Son of Mumford would do

1man2hands

I watched crank while I was getting a tattoo and he doesn’t sleep he just fights

David Glidden

i mean they’ve talked about that philly garbage truck movie at least twice now, so honestly that one feels more apropos

H-Train

Im sure people have said it, but there the UA fighting style that allows unarmed do 1d8

Dr.Bees

Crank would be a good mixed bag movie. Crank 2 might be even better.

Daniel Sattler

SHORT REST FACT CHECK: the “resonant bell” item in bloodborne does NOT “make monsters go crazy”. its sole purpose in the game is to summon friendly cooperators from different worlds (aka other real people playing the game). the item our beloved direct messenger was probably thinking of was “Gascoigne’s Music Box” which when used DOES make a certain monster (minor spoilers for bloodborne: specifically Gascoigne) go nuts

H-Train

I got myself a familiar to help me aim and fire a small cannon. Story was, I had the attuned weapon feature. So I snuck onto a pirate ship and attuned their smallest cannon, and then I just summoned it whenever I needed a big blast to start the battle. My DM nerfed it in action economy, so it took an action to load, an action to aim, and an action to fire it. So I preloaded it, and had my familiar (a small celestial octopus) use it's action to aim the cannon, so I could run over and fire it when needed in a big fight. And that's all I used my familiar for.

Nathan T Wilson

it was called thin ice and it was one of my favorites even though I was never allowed to get it out by myself even though I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO MAKE A MESS, MOM,

Deirdre

For familiars - my pirate wizard has a bird familiar that is designed to be another pair of eyes (she’s a navigator for her ship) so i almost exclusively use her for advantage on perception checks. I’m with emily, anything else starts to feel excessive (and insane. how is a bird meant to help me with arcana??). We’re also an even party so my dm will use her to break group stealth check ties but not for much more than that

Helen Hughes

I could see henry in one of those irish fisher sweaters

Vie.

People kept treating it like medium meant ugly when it just means the average man. So I am kinda glad you back tracked a bit

Sabrina Bernaby

Hey there guys, first, awesome episode! Second as someone who was a diehard Jason Statham aficionado during peak Statham years, Transporter was the one where he's basically a getaway driver/illegal goods courier. The one where he has to stay awake is Crank, and it's done by him doing adrenaline inducing acts as well as mainlining crank, aka meth, because it somehow keeps him from falling asleep and dying after being poisoned. So yeah, Chev Chelios (either the best or worst character name ever?) gets into some meth-fueled antics. The More You Know (cue shooting star graphic).

holdybear

Just want to post that in the movie Crank Jason Statham is injected with a poison that if he falls asleep he dies, and he's trying to fight his way to the antidote

James McLaughlin

Even when he was first brought up, I imagined Henry looking kind of like Joe Dempsie in game of thrones season eight but a bit plumper and with his beard a bit more grown out.

Sabrina Bernaby

Bring it on, come on!!!

Ethab

Lol they are wild in this one

Jack

I don't have feedback re: find familiar, but I did find Phillip too mean and I'm hoping he can be obstinate and fight with Fia and undermine her without being explicitly verbally abusive (a bit too real!) Really looking forward to this campaign though 👏 👏👏

Franny McCabe-Bennett

You guys made me choke on my coffee with Geaky blinders!

Nesve Fowl

Hey Em! About the Find Familiar question, I have a toad familiar on my warlock! The main way I use him is by handing him off to my front-line allies before fights, so that I’ll have a Spare the Dying/Cure Wounds ready if they go down. If you don’t want to use help action abuse, loaning Bukvar to Henry is a good combat alternative!

Maddy Leaman

And there's an unearthed arcana feat that lets you take a bonus fighting style, so you can get unarmed fighting and great weapon fighting for the halberd

Aidan Boyle

Hey, Jake! There's an Unearthed Arcana fighting style called Unarmed Fighting that gives you 1d6 per fist, or 1d8 if you attack with both hands. It'll probably become an official option with Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

thaesimir .

Things will go your way ❤ you can get through this💪

Gugga

This is for tomorrow while I’m at work so I have to wait to listen thank you gods and goddess for this blessing😂

Jaydon

In Crank, Jason Statham's character is injected with a Chinese poison and has to generate adrenaline any way he possibly can to stay alive, and yes, that includes copulation.

Peach

Yes!!! I’m SO excited to draw Jake’s character

Jessie Kelly

So excited to be on a new journey

D'ran Dana

Why does it make so so happy to hear you dorks shoot shit for an hour 🤣

D'ran Dana

Yes we like before listening. We are that happy it's out. Can't wait to see what is going on in this ep Edit:cum jokes. Thats what we can expect at the top. 100% worth the prelike

Bob C

❤️ very excited to listen! All of you are so funny and unique and deserve twice as many nice comments as any hate u might get. Hope I didn’t jinx u

Molly Gould

Just got broken up with, I needed this right now ❤️

Dori

Woohoo!

Michael Shelley

Hello. First

David