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Advantage is a homebrew, actual-play, 5th Edtion Dungeons & Dragons audio drama focusing on storytelling and character development, and a member of the Darkmore Podcast Network.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Character history and audible rules negotiation turn this campaign into fiction built collaboratively, one decision at a time.
Advantage | A 5e Dungeons & Dragons Podcast builds its serial through decisions made aloud. Recaps return the party to unfinished business, while Zach, Yessi, Steven, and Sarah restate characters whose allegiances, titles, and family histories keep the campaign's larger…
A siege plan calls for duo earthbending; you get the spell debate along with the stunt.
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A shaggy return to Endelfike built on disguises, banter, and lived-in oddness.
Advantage turns the return to Endelfike into a quiet kind of covert repair job. The rebuilt kravi, with its white sails, dull hull, and missing dragon figurehead, gives the episode a disguised, hands-on feel, and the table keeps that mood alive through details like Fang's room…
A road rescue turns into a loose, talky episode about travel, safety, and music entering D&D canon.
After Yaoshin, Sandy, Severin, and London save a fair maiden on the road, Disadvantage lets the rescue open into a broader conversation about why travel feels dangerous.
A loose D&D skirmish where table chemistry carries as much weight as the Thunderwave.
Disadvantage treats a D&D encounter as a compact study in table chemistry. A traveling party runs into hobgoblins, Thunderwave nearly clears the field, and the last survivor turns on Severin after the spell.
A discreet market stop turns into a beanie fitting before Grimton sees what everyone missed.
Nonchalance follows the party as they try to slip through town after Agnarr Elfbreaker's brother puts a bounty on her head, only to end up at the back door of Njall the Woller, a tailor and dye worker caught off guard by unexpected company.
A save-heavy silt battle turns movement rules into tactical panic and a high-five joke.
Advantage drops the party into a save-heavy fight where every bit of movement matters. Agnarr is prone and surrounded by mephits going after Grimton, while Urshan has a quicksand monster to handle, and the table keeps sorting through rage, smites, teleportation, and the…
A siege plan turns into improvised earthbending, miniature-building jokes, and Zach's suspicious murder talk.
Plans and Holes turns a tabletop fantasy objective into a brisk comic exercise in tactical improvisation. The party is working through a proving meant to help Fitska become the Jarl of Skuld of Endelfilk, and the route runs through stealth, siege weapons, and a very large hole…
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
The players introduce their Dungeons & Dragons characters and begin a journey on the Huntress longship, carrying a cumbersome magical runestone as they travel east in a cold, misty environment.
The podcast celebrates its seventh anniversary by introducing the cast and their characters, reflecting on the show's history since 2016, and announcing a traditional mailbag segment for the occasion.
The players discuss Fitzka's proposition to complete a proving quest involving retrieving and swapping a MacGuffin in the Fjords of Finjasca and Aether to become the next Jarl.
The players introduce their Dungeons & Dragons characters and begin a scene where Agnarr Elfbreaker, an orc barbarian, comforts a companion after a traumatic event while riding back to a hunting lodge.
The players of Advantage resume their role-playing campaign after a nine-month hiatus, fast-forwarding three months and twelve days to a harsh winter in Endelfilk where granaries are less full than in previous years.
The party deals with a complication in their plan to destroy coal from the ship Anthem, which is being delivered to a warehouse under Urshan's apartment.
The players discuss their characters' plan to ambush a group including Iron Tusk while hunting, with a focus on Fang's oversized boar spear.
The players describe their characters and the journey through the Boreal Forest to the Jarl's Hunting Lodge, noting environmental details and personal connections.
The players discuss preparing for the Verbulg spring festival, learn about Orc traditions from Elder Svik, and receive news of a wedding between Yarl Kotko Gullsson and Hvitska the Gentle from Ruffilk.
The hosts introduce their D&D characters and announce an upcoming mailbag episode for listener questions.
The hosts discuss their annual mailbag tradition and begin with a user-submitted question about using theater of the mind in fifth edition D&D and its impact on podcast editing.
The hosts introduce themselves and their characters, then begin answering listener questions for the podcast's 9th anniversary, starting with a question about Agnarr's leadership development.
The players introduce their Dungeons & Dragons characters and discuss how their campaign has derailed after making a deal with a devil, leading to chaotic in-game consequences.
The players discuss their surprise and frustration when an ice devil in their Dungeons & Dragons game proves immune to fire damage during a dramatic combat scene.
The episode segment recounts a tense scene where Fitzka is taken hostage by people on the shore after being approached by a boat, with characters introducing themselves and the show.
Advantage's Plans and Holes follows the Huntress beneath the Fords of Finjaska as the party tries to protect Fitska's Runestone, close an Underfjall tunnel, and keep Gleb Headtaker from getting a direct route south.
Advantage episode 3.22, 'The Realm Of Eemental Silt,' drops Zach, Yessi, Steven, and Sarah into a plane where there is 'no true up' and every step can sink.
In this episode of Advantage, the Dungeons & Dragons party introduces their characters and backstories, then recounts their mission to intercept a coal ship bound for Endelfilk, purchased by warlord Kuning Gleb Headtaker for weapon-making.
In this episode of Advantage, the characters are introduced with their detailed backstories, including Agnarr's secret visit to her baby sister and the party's plan to assassinate Jarl Irontusk.
The party disguises Agnarr's ship for a covert mission to sink a coal shipment, while Agnarr secretly visits her sister Fang to gather intel on Iron Tusk's hunting plans.
Hayden Worth’s music makes the crowd obsess over “burn down the field” while Severin and Yao Shen notice something magical is wrong.
Severin's Thunderwave drops six hobgoblins at once, leaving only the captain standing.
Njall explains why Ruffoak ordered lots and lots of wool, but not tailored garments.
Advantage's five-year anniversary panel recaps the campaign from Session Zero through 108 story episodes and the current Arc Two storyline.