Short Rest: Skaldova Ep. 1 - The Castle in the Cave
Added 2025-02-07 23:52:48 +0000 UTCCheck out NADDPOD's exclusive after show! This week, we discuss the events of Skaldova Ep. 1: The Castle in the Cave. Thanks so much for listening!
Comments
Omg I just came here to comment this... This is so funny.
Adam Kepper
2025-09-17 11:36:11 +0000 UTCHuh, this low key foreshadows Onyx putting the key in Piccolo’s mouth. Emily talks about having a bad memory but I wonder if some part of her remembered Caldwell saying that, prompting her to give it a shot
Kid Chaos, uneasily gazing at oars
2025-09-14 01:11:03 +0000 UTCI’m so late and this is my first time ever commenting, but I started listening to an ADDPOD last year, I finished campaign one, I’ve started campaign 2, and Trinyvale, i’m running The Sunless Citadel right now for a group of coworkers. And when I was listening to episode one of this, I realize that it was The Sunless Citadel and I’m really happy that I started listening to this podcast, I didn’t think that I could adapt the story to my own image. I wish I had done that Jake you are awesome!
LJ KA
2025-09-13 12:48:45 +0000 UTCLove this
Audrey B
2025-03-16 15:10:40 +0000 UTCSmall SPOILERS FOR BRIGHTSWORD I came to the comments looking for other people that thought it was either Palomidies pining after that lady or if it was based on Bedivere pining after Arthur
AJ
2025-03-02 19:36:19 +0000 UTCCaldwell, you gotta either read or watch The Last Unicorn after this campaign and keep an eye out for Captain Cuddy and his crew. He is SO Boggy-coded! But more churlish :D
Janna McKinley
2025-02-25 08:45:32 +0000 UTCI recently started reading The Bright Sword and I've been looking for a comment that confirms my suspicions, thank you!!!!
Paula A.
2025-02-24 19:35:09 +0000 UTCThere’s no way Boggy didnt ultimately betray his Buds.
wick
2025-02-24 18:06:32 +0000 UTCAll human fighters with Jake DM’ing is hilarious. 😂
Clayton Davis
2025-02-23 00:27:17 +0000 UTCflute boy was crucified, horrifying
Toblerone. jpg
2025-02-21 07:30:47 +0000 UTCPut some respect on The South Bend Shovel Slayers name! I will go to bat for my towns fictional serial killer!
John Freitag
2025-02-20 16:22:08 +0000 UTCLove the pull from Bewitched! Someone might've already said, but the daughter is, in fact, Tabitha, and the mother is Samantha. 😊
J. Gro
2025-02-19 21:28:39 +0000 UTCThank you!
Old Man Ballz 03
2025-02-19 18:20:16 +0000 UTCI just finished The Bright Sword!!! Thank you so much for the recco. You’ve never steered me wrong: Priory of the Orange Tree and now this!!!! I’m on a huge Arthur kick now. I even rented Excalibur 1981, one of my all time favs. Every great Brit actor is in it!!!
Michael Lawton
2025-02-18 17:52:17 +0000 UTCRight?! I immediately was like I neeeed Emily to drop some book titles!
Abby Mosley
2025-02-18 04:48:11 +0000 UTCBoggys "steal from the rich so we can party in the woods" reminds me of Syb from Eldermourne after they give them the boat "I'll keep on doing what I do... which is steal from the rich and give to myself.”
djspooky
2025-02-15 01:41:32 +0000 UTCCan confirm there were no C1 spoilers in here, for those wondering
Paul Morrison
2025-02-14 18:10:01 +0000 UTCbefore i listen to this, any C1 spoilers in the short rest here?
Paul Morrison
2025-02-14 15:49:17 +0000 UTCThank y'all for the funny, one of the few lights left in this bleak world, sincerely, never change you beauties!!
Broghar The Bugbear
2025-02-14 04:14:23 +0000 UTCIt’s nice to feel heard, like Jake’s skiffs.
Braydon Gilleland
2025-02-14 03:10:54 +0000 UTCThis is a safe place it’s ok
Timothy Gross
2025-02-14 03:07:42 +0000 UTCI may or may not be listening to just the short rest for the 4th time, and some would say that could be excessive, and I would say to those people… so what.
Braydon Gilleland
2025-02-14 03:07:09 +0000 UTCI’ve listened to the episode and short rest twice I need the new episode ASAP
Timothy Gross
2025-02-14 02:54:08 +0000 UTCI think the character Emily based her character on from Brightsword is Palomides
Mitch M
2025-02-14 01:22:26 +0000 UTCI had wondered the same thing. I just listened to the episode for a second time: when they leave the blacksmith Jake clarifies that their business there is concluded, which implies all their swords have been returned and some amount of time has passed. I think that means that their weapons have been all rendered +1 and the smith paid for his labours.
Nikolaus Cox
2025-02-13 21:39:37 +0000 UTCI love how all three characters are so different but so narratively complimentary. Willie has only ever served a deity, Sudrick has only ever served paying warlords, and Boggy has only ever served himself. Willie’s adherence to an inward-looking religion has rendered her naïve but hopeful. Sudrick’s service to whichever cause paid him the most has rendered him experienced but cynical. And then there’s Boggy, who realised that the only way to really feel joy in this grimdark world was to serve yourself. But in finding joy with his merry band of bandits, Boggy also rendered himself vulnerable to the worst heartbreak of all: valuing something real only to lose it. Even though he’s so merry and blithe, he’s as grimdark as the rest. I’m sure when Willie and Sudrick are sleeping in the mornings, Boggy gets up, walks off to a nearby brook, and smokes from a pipe and, just for a moment, hears his old buds playing the lute and dancing in the woods.
Nikolaus Cox
2025-02-13 21:35:19 +0000 UTCDid anyone else think that they all left their weapons at the blacksmith and them skedaddled out of town or was it just me? I thought Jake said they left their weapons with them so they could work on them to make them +1 weapons, but maybe I misunderstood?
Darkrisky
2025-02-13 20:20:06 +0000 UTCI agree that I like the new surprise round rules, but absolutely hate that you have to declare your luck points ahead of time. Feels like one of those things like the rule that you have to declare portent ahead of time that most tables are just gonna throw out
Kellyd
2025-02-13 19:08:16 +0000 UTChogust is gonna be WILD
Sami Kerwin
2025-02-13 13:37:23 +0000 UTCwelly’s on that no-nut july tip
Sami Kerwin
2025-02-13 13:33:52 +0000 UTCOnyx and Welly both be doin that now
KingHalt
2025-02-12 20:12:08 +0000 UTCJim Dale audio reading of the Harry Potter Books is by far the most incredible and a pure classic Check it out
James Drenning
2025-02-12 04:09:01 +0000 UTCJake literally might be the most creative creation of naddpod and dnd
James Drenning
2025-02-12 02:38:19 +0000 UTCZudrick has Cody Walsh energy, and I'm 100% here for it. Also, love that in the Jake DM'd campaign, everyone's a fighter.
Nick
2025-02-12 01:11:48 +0000 UTCBoggy just got back from a stint
Amanda 🐼
2025-02-11 18:28:08 +0000 UTC"We've all squirted our jonkers!" killed me. And how he is absolutely the most chipper dude despite having just gotten a dozen of his friends murdered.
Totally Offside
2025-02-11 16:51:54 +0000 UTCJust fully clocking that teen lmao
Billie Ash
2025-02-11 16:48:43 +0000 UTCMurders of crows have been know to form bonds with wolf packs. Where the crows genuinely scope out prey, lead the wolves to the prey, and once the wolves are done eating the crows can dine on the carcass.
TiredHoneyBadger
2025-02-11 13:09:53 +0000 UTCI adore Welly already, so good
Emma
2025-02-11 12:55:52 +0000 UTCBlack Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse for all the crow imagery!
Emma
2025-02-11 12:47:57 +0000 UTCdoes “carnal release” mean sir welly squirted?
Houston
2025-02-11 07:35:41 +0000 UTCI have been resisting to literally everything from start for a second time and I can not be happier
Hayden Staiger
2025-02-11 05:10:06 +0000 UTCUUGGHHHHHH THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY I AM FLOPPING LIKE A FISH IN MY BED LISTENING TO THIIISSSSS
Hayden Staiger
2025-02-11 05:09:40 +0000 UTCWe definitely, desperately need an official poster of Boggy's Buds that says "Rob from the rich, so we can party in the woods"
Dr. Z
2025-02-11 02:30:01 +0000 UTCFlute Boy 4 lyfe!
Dr. Z
2025-02-11 02:29:09 +0000 UTCIf you guys haven't read T.H. White's The Once and Future King, I must recommend it with my whole heart. The King Arthur story almost in the style of an early 20th century boy's boarding school/training montage. Very readable but also doesn't shy from the sorrow and the mysticism of Morte D'Arthur. Also Tom Bombadil gets on my fucking nerves, I'm sorry, I know I'm in the minority, my whole family is against me on this and covers me with shame and mockery. But I know a theater kid when I see one, even if he's immortal and high powered.
A Gunn, Banjo Boy of the Flatlands with two working kidneys
2025-02-11 00:57:17 +0000 UTCturbo murrrrttthhherrrred
A Gunn, Banjo Boy of the Flatlands with two working kidneys
2025-02-11 00:51:21 +0000 UTCMy favorite one of Boggy's Buds is definitely flute boy. I love that he doesn't get a name. I also hope he died horrendously because the idea of Flute Boy being turbo murdered just for playing the flute is so goddamn funny.
Laser Ranger
2025-02-11 00:37:23 +0000 UTCI think Emily’s character would love the bardcore versions of pop songs on YT, like birds of a feather. I have this cover on repeat and keep thinking of Welly- https://youtu.be/w0RFw0B8ivs?si=BvNsqkrzjK5pdBxW
Elizabeth Harris
2025-02-10 20:22:40 +0000 UTC"Rob from the rich so we can party in the woods" is ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!! I request merch posthaste!
Adam Sutton
2025-02-10 19:42:36 +0000 UTCLove when he plays the comedic foil of the group - he does it so flawlessly. I don't know of many people who do it better.
Adam Sutton
2025-02-10 18:59:12 +0000 UTCI got the vibe that Murph was intentionally playing a stereotypical edge Lord, just to show how it can be done in a party-constructive way.
ThacoIsWacko
2025-02-10 14:38:09 +0000 UTCMurphy your character is very "goblin slayer" animal main character. Please look this up.
James Wade
2025-02-10 14:35:38 +0000 UTCWelly is instantly a classic character, I lost my shit at "carnal release"
Lastwolf
2025-02-10 09:50:54 +0000 UTCJake, my dude, you are indeed a writer
Heather Johnson
2025-02-10 07:50:37 +0000 UTCI was waiting for someone to bring up soaking when Caldwell said the order of the oaken oar breaks their chastity by doing it underwater
Blue Bee
2025-02-10 07:17:19 +0000 UTCThis talk about The Bright Sword (which I haven't read), but it sounds like Emily needs to read The Fireborne Blade, that's a knightly honor quest.
Rachel Scott
2025-02-10 04:55:01 +0000 UTCJake dming feels so right especially with the writing. I’m excited for all the little treasures they will find!
anika lehr
2025-02-10 04:46:05 +0000 UTCI knew jakes game would be funny, but damn I bought in RIGHT away to this setting, great great GMing. Emily's character as a contrast to the other two more scummy characters makes it so interesting and good god funny funny funny as hell.
BeanCurdHero
2025-02-10 03:48:52 +0000 UTChttps://www.instagram.com/share/_zFL8wofM
Alyssa Catucci
2025-02-10 03:09:09 +0000 UTCJust here to drop off Grinch doin Blink182 for the naddpod fans
Alyssa Catucci
2025-02-10 03:09:04 +0000 UTCOne day I hope Jill hears how good Jake is at DMing and she finally returns his calls.
The Magic Strugglebus
2025-02-10 02:15:48 +0000 UTCBoggy has to be one of the most unhinged PCs in the NADDPOD universe. He rocks.
Totally Offside
2025-02-09 23:59:15 +0000 UTCGreat job Jake Boss
Mantross
2025-02-09 22:36:40 +0000 UTCWhen yall said don’t eat the mud… my mom grew up on a toxic waste site in Westminster, CA and my uncle and his childhood friends literally chewed on the goo that came out of their lawn.
Jorde
2025-02-09 20:10:59 +0000 UTCclassic Emily brain. going to be a great character.
Martin
2025-02-09 19:43:53 +0000 UTCI’ll check it out! I loved nettle and bone
TwoPuppetsTTV
2025-02-09 17:25:27 +0000 UTCI hope this Cake Boss DM guy Jed gets to be on 8bitbookclub What a wonderful band of shitheads! Looking forward to this campaign!
Slappy Dave
2025-02-09 17:14:43 +0000 UTCi read nettle and bone because emily recommended it and have become OBSESSED!! such incredible world building, i’ve never read a fantasy like it! if you liked it i would recommend “Someone You Can Build A Nest In” i’m halfway through and it’s FAB so far
Alannah
2025-02-09 16:28:09 +0000 UTCJake! This rocks! I'm so excited to hear more!
Victoria Fair
2025-02-09 15:56:57 +0000 UTCNot just me, but you, me, and Dupree
Jake Alcott
2025-02-09 15:39:53 +0000 UTCShout out to the sticker set designer for last Bahumia stickers. A squire never tires sticker is on the babys fisher price swing lol
Garrett Grosser (one big curd)
2025-02-09 14:45:59 +0000 UTCPlease take our money!
Rob H.
2025-02-09 13:59:05 +0000 UTCYou guys also inspired me to read more this year, I’ve read nettle and bone and I’m working on the bright sword
TwoPuppetsTTV
2025-02-09 09:36:02 +0000 UTC“Rob from the rich so we can party in the woods” needs to be on a bumper sticker
Andrew Jennings
2025-02-09 08:09:25 +0000 UTCTHIS WAS SO GOOOD AAHHHHHH Jake you’re the fucking man dude. 6 seasons and a movie please!
eliza sleepker
2025-02-09 05:44:33 +0000 UTCBunches upon Bunches of roses to Baby Baliff DM Jonk❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
KingHalt
2025-02-09 05:08:18 +0000 UTCI felt the same way! I love it!
Jillian of Midgard
2025-02-09 02:12:55 +0000 UTCAs a proud rat parent, a canvas sack ain't gonna do shit.
ACK
2025-02-09 01:00:50 +0000 UTCI need so many episodes of this. This is so fucking good jake! You knocked it out of the park! These characters are mad fun too!!!
Axyl and Olympia
2025-02-09 00:40:45 +0000 UTCPLEASE GIVE US AT LEAST A 20 EPISODES. PLEASE IM BEGGING HERE.
Braydon Gilleland
2025-02-08 23:13:42 +0000 UTCRob from the rich so we can party in the woods on a beer coozie please!
A. Stamper
2025-02-08 21:53:05 +0000 UTCLike I can't help but picture Brook when he talks. Boggy feels insanely Brook coded to me
Alec Simkiss
2025-02-08 21:34:26 +0000 UTCSame! A jolly character with an unspeakably tragic backstory is so One Piece coded lol, especially since Caldwell is a fan
Elizabeth M.
2025-02-08 21:33:30 +0000 UTCI read the bright sword after the mixed bag recommendations and lord it was such a good read! Instantly felt the bright sword vibe in Emily's character and Jake's world. Loved the first episode!
Becca W
2025-02-08 20:38:25 +0000 UTCholy shit Owen Wilson listens to the short rests
Ben
2025-02-08 19:53:48 +0000 UTCJust finished the ep and am absolutely hooked. Really digging this world and these characters!
Ben
2025-02-08 19:52:02 +0000 UTCJust dropping into to say this was the first ep since I joined COE- thanks for proving you are worth it! Love this world and these characters already.
Kaylie of the Order of the Oaken Oar
2025-02-08 19:10:34 +0000 UTCOmg yes please
Kitty Stryker
2025-02-08 18:53:27 +0000 UTCloooved the first ep. fun fact: my name is sabrina, and the other names my parents were considering for me were lydia and tabitha (beetlejuice and bewitched). happy to be represented here as a crow. 90s witch movies forever
Sabrina Chamberlain
2025-02-08 18:15:46 +0000 UTCWith his gravelly voice and the way he's saying "Muuuurrrrrdeeerrr", I'm just imaging Nathan Explosion in dark souls armor
Arturo
2025-02-08 17:26:00 +0000 UTCBright Sword is good and all but if you have not read Don Quixote yet it fits so well with this vibe. Edith Grossman’s translation is really accessible and there is a great audiobook version of it narrated by George Guidall. My usual selling point for this book is the chapter where Sancho laboriously tries to poop whilst holding onto the reigns Quixote’s horse while Quixote is riding it. Sancho thinks he can do it without being noticed.
Andy W.
2025-02-08 17:21:23 +0000 UTCBoggy reminds me so much of Captain Cully from The Last Unicorn.
Miranda the Dungeon Court Stenographer
2025-02-08 17:15:36 +0000 UTCI’ll I’ll SOB
Kevin Gutierrez
2025-02-08 16:32:54 +0000 UTCWhat a great campaign so far. I endeavour to listen to it all.
Hammy
2025-02-08 16:29:33 +0000 UTCI have to say, I love getting glimpses into Emily’s practice. Charging her dice under the moon to her sympathetic magic reference here, all fun stuff!
Casey Kerins
2025-02-08 16:12:30 +0000 UTCI would buy that shirt so fast
Sam
2025-02-08 15:37:08 +0000 UTCEmily keeps using various pronouns to describe Welly. Is this a mistake or is Welly repressedly multisexual?
Patty Crimmins
2025-02-08 15:19:00 +0000 UTCWelly and her two dads have such a good dynamic, I love this new setting. Boggy has potential to rocket to the top of my favorite Caldwell characters too (it’ll take a bit to overtake Sol for me)
Robert
2025-02-08 14:19:34 +0000 UTCI came here (I think for my first ever comment) to say exactly this
Stan BW
2025-02-08 11:45:51 +0000 UTCI simply cannot wait another week for the next episode. Please release the full campaign right this instant thank you very much!
Philipp Buir
2025-02-08 10:13:38 +0000 UTCThe bastions are in my 2014 version but it's really "yoy can offer this to your players and eyeball the rulings.
E. Filleul
2025-02-08 08:23:21 +0000 UTCWe need a ‘steal from the rich so we can party in the woods’ T-Shirt in the merch store IMMEDIATELY
Nataya Robertson
2025-02-08 07:11:53 +0000 UTCJAKE ! JAKE ! JAKE ! JAKE !
Freg! Freg! Freg!
2025-02-08 06:56:32 +0000 UTCWhen Jake mentioned always considering himself a writer… it reminds me of an OLD OLD video (maybe an early ep of if I were you?) but Jake mentioned a lofty dream was to one day write his opus and in so many ways, Skaldova is exactly that. I’m so excited for you, Jake!
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Excited to see Caldwell on Smartypants this szn, hoping Emily + Murph return to anarch era
2025-02-08 05:46:12 +0000 UTCDamn that first episode is so good, love the image of this trio
YourAnimeDad
2025-02-08 05:02:17 +0000 UTCOoooh "Roses grow in Skaldova" sounds like a song title 👀
Andi
2025-02-08 04:37:14 +0000 UTCCan confirm, one score is 20 years. I am enjoying this series already!
Shrish Jawadiwar
2025-02-08 04:16:01 +0000 UTCYou got send that to me when you do
James O'Reilly
2025-02-08 03:55:38 +0000 UTCHearing Jake tell me to unbutton did something special for me
Alex Cartwright
2025-02-08 03:32:36 +0000 UTCI also just finished Bright Sword! It dragged for me at times but I'm really glad I gave it a shot. It would be really cool if yall did a similar thing for future mini campaigns where you all get inspired by the same book. I recommend Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe.
Xanian Jamfalcon
2025-02-08 03:19:44 +0000 UTCLol i immediately went "well, now i have to draw that"
lucilia_illustris
2025-02-08 02:59:24 +0000 UTCJake is doing great and I instantly loved the characters, wonderful job everyone!
Zaq Putnam
2025-02-08 02:54:26 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
Grumpy Druid
2025-02-08 02:31:48 +0000 UTCyes! by lev grossman!
Amelia Granato
2025-02-08 02:31:13 +0000 UTCNeed some “Rob from the rich so we can party in the woods” merch now!
James O'Reilly
2025-02-08 02:25:53 +0000 UTCjodhpurs are those pants that kinda balloon out at the thighs and are tight below the knee. They're like a horse riding pant.
John Nickel
2025-02-08 02:19:53 +0000 UTCit’s worth it!! i’m almost done and it has been really good 😭
Amelia Granato
2025-02-08 02:13:12 +0000 UTCWhen they reminded me that this was gonna be a shorter run, I got so bummed, I’m loving it so much and already want it to be a full campaign lol
Joe Howard
2025-02-08 01:59:23 +0000 UTC2025: nouveau robin hood 2026: nouveau guillotine
nicknasty
2025-02-08 01:53:57 +0000 UTCNo spoilers but before I read the Bright Sword somebody please tell me if any pants get cummed in
nicknasty
2025-02-08 01:49:22 +0000 UTCWho got book recs for bird mythology?
Old Man Ballz 03
2025-02-08 01:43:04 +0000 UTC“Rob from the rich so we can party in the woods” merchandise where
Maddie Gombis
2025-02-08 01:30:10 +0000 UTCMan Jake you come along way from dragon pussies to cumming in your pants haha glad you pickled up the game and let the dice choose your fate.. can’t wait for more.
Chieftoad505
2025-02-08 01:27:23 +0000 UTCIt always makes my day to hear Tom Bombadil getting the respect he deserves!
Kelley
2025-02-08 01:14:05 +0000 UTCLove you guys so much for the excellent content and I've already stated it but have to yet again, great work Jake and the rest of the crew of course. Really looking forward to the rest of this story
Jacob Stringer
2025-02-08 01:13:47 +0000 UTCI think I heard "jumpers" but I might be wrong
Rafael C
2025-02-08 01:03:44 +0000 UTCBoggy feels like a one piece character to me
Alec Simkiss
2025-02-08 01:01:13 +0000 UTCAt least I'm not the only one lol
Michael P Mendoza
2025-02-08 00:56:39 +0000 UTCBoggy's voice kind of reminds me of Caldwell's character on The Rotating Heroes Podcast (I don't know how to spell his name lol)
Michael P Mendoza
2025-02-08 00:56:02 +0000 UTCOk, I’ll listen to the ep AGAIN!
Michael Lawton
2025-02-08 00:54:56 +0000 UTCI must have a shirt that says rob from the rich and party in the woods
Joshua Levy
2025-02-08 00:41:08 +0000 UTCZudrick definitely has goblin slayer energy
zach stewart
2025-02-08 00:19:23 +0000 UTCBecause we all know how much he has grown as a player. I feel like my little guy is going off to kindergarten, I am bursting with pride!
Michael Lawton
2025-02-08 00:12:44 +0000 UTCI am so excited for this!!
Michael Lawton
2025-02-08 00:11:10 +0000 UTCalright FINE I'll read The Brightsword
Evan Schmidt
2025-02-08 00:11:08 +0000 UTCfelt a carnal release when I saw this in the feed
Jayden guerra
2025-02-08 00:11:00 +0000 UTCIs it "The bright sword" a novel of king Arthur?
shrimpy_senpai
2025-02-08 00:10:57 +0000 UTCYeah I started it too based on their recommendation in the podcast, it’s so amazing!!
Delaney
2025-02-08 00:08:34 +0000 UTCStarted bright sword today and it’s amazing
crawdaddy
2025-02-08 00:02:20 +0000 UTCWhy am I so fucking emotional over hearing Jake talk about DMing
Kellyd
2025-02-08 00:02:03 +0000 UTCoh hell yeah!!
Alex Mayhem
2025-02-08 00:00:18 +0000 UTCI mean when have I NOT squirted my...jorpan? Idr what the item was...
Declan Konesky
2025-02-08 00:00:17 +0000 UTCBEEN WAITING FOR THIS OMG YES
CJA
2025-02-08 00:00:14 +0000 UTCNoice.
Jeremiah Mcmillin
2025-02-07 23:59:35 +0000 UTCSHOUTOUT TO THE CORE FOUR!
Magestain
2025-02-07 23:59:26 +0000 UTCYES
Phillip
2025-02-07 23:59:12 +0000 UTCBring me that sweet carnal release!
Pali Endi
2025-02-07 23:59:06 +0000 UTCOh wow
Jake Alcott
2025-02-07 23:58:19 +0000 UTC
