Grim dungeons, joking players, and nothing but critical success.
Adventure Incorporated is a Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast in which dungeon master Anthony Reed runs a party through numbered campaigns and multi-episode arcs such as The Pit. The dark scenery includes a path of bones and a crown heavy enough to make its wearer whimper, and the players keep interrupting it with jokes about demon wood and finger counts.
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Adventure Incorporated is an actual-play Dungeons & Dragons podcast, and Anthony Reed introduces himself as its dungeon master at the start of the numbered episodes. The numbers help. Titles such as 'C2E100 - The Pit' and 'C2E104 - The Pit' give both the campaign and the episode, so the serialized story is easy to follow in order. Reed calls The Pit a story arc, and it is dark fantasy. He describes a dungeon that smells of stale, old blood, a path of bones under a dark sky, and harpies hovering overhead like an honor guard. There is also a sarcophagus that has to be unchained and torn open before the two halves of the strangers can merge into one. A pact with the strangers keeps coming up in the table talk. So does a heavy dark crown placed on Freya, who whimpers under its weight. The table never stays grim for long. Characters including Belroth, Wesley, Deeran and Scarpin fill the scenes, and the players keep breaking the tension. Belroth, worn out and rolling at disadvantage, gets a three on an insight check. A climb turns into a debate over how many fingers Scarpin has. A voice blast splinters a door, and the table takes a moment to agree that demon wood must be good wood. The comedy comes from the table and sits right next to real stakes. Those stakes are clearest in 'Campaign 2 Q&A'. In it, the cast talks openly about a possible character sacrifice and about choosing to play that emotion out in the game instead of in a side conversation that might get cut. One player recalls having made peace with a character's death that never ended up happening. It is a useful look at how this table weighs the story against the people playing it. Reed calls 'C2E104 - The Pit' the final episode of campaign two and describes the campaign as a two-year run. Some intros mention Adventure March, which Reed presents as a way of giving something back, including a Q&A built from questions sent in through the Discord. The show is open about how it is funded: patrons get warm, extended thanks, a shop is mentioned, and the Discord is offered as a place to hang out. Episodes often end by wishing the audience nothing but critical success, which suits the show well. A newcomer should not start with the finale arc, because Reed's intros assume the audience has been following along. The numbering points back to earlier episodes instead.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants a serialized fantasy story with real stakes, with the players' jokes and dice-roll reactions left in, and who is happy to follow a numbered campaign in order.
What sets it apart: Adventure Incorporated puts dark dungeon storytelling and loose table comedy in the same scenes. Its Q&A shows a table that chooses to play emotional turns out in the game instead of settling them off-mic.
A band of adventurers team up to solve the mysteries of the world around them. Also, we laugh. A D&D adventure podcast!
A demon pact becomes a group project, and you get to hear the brainstorming.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A near-sacrifice opens into a candid campaign wrap-up about character change, risk, and the relief of survival.
Adventure Incorporated's Campaign 2 Q&A lets the end of the campaign breathe through a loose, revealing discussion of the choice that nearly sent Belroth to his death.
A bone-lined march, Freya's collapse, and Wesley Tallow's dangerous invitation close the Pit arc with bruised momentum.
Adventure Incorporated brings its Pit arc, and Campaign Two, to a close with a grim march over bones beneath a dark sky. Freya carries the dark crown until its weight turns from symbol into strain, and the surrounding details keep the scene from becoming only grand and bleak.
A fulfilled pact pushes the party toward glowing chaos as one adventurer remains paralyzed.
Adventure Incorporated's penultimate campaign episode sends its party into a stubborn dungeon problem: a magical chain that will not give way, even after focused spellwork, while one paralyzed adventurer is left mostly to the mercy of a Wisdom save.
A comic climb turns into a corpse's warning that chaos is coming for the world.
The Pit nudges Adventure Incorporated closer to the end of its story arc by turning a miserable climb into a sharp little comedy of problem-solving.
A pact in the Pit turns fatigue, suspicion, and a possible power vacuum into the episode's main pressure point.
Adventure Incorporated's episode 101, set within the Pit story arc, turns a dangerous agreement into a tense problem of wording, fatigue, and succession.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
The dungeon master introduces the episode, thanks patrons, and begins the Path of Fire story arc with character introductions.
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A Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast where a party of adventurers takes on contracts and solves mysteries in a fantasy world.
The dungeon master introduces the episode, thanks patrons, and begins the story arc 'Forging of the Stone' with the adventurers.
Adventure Incorporated's Campaign 2 Q&A centers on Anthony Reed explaining how a planned shorter run still landed at exactly 104 episodes.
Adventure Incorporated episode 104 is the final chapter of the Pit story arc and campaign two, with Anthony Reed opening the table, thanking patrons, and pointing listeners to a Discord Q&A.
Adventure Incorporated episode 103, The Pit, opens with Anthony Reed marking the campaign as penultimate and dropping the table into a fight above the Path of Bones.
Adventure Incorporated episode 102, "The Pit," follows Anthony Reed's table as the Pit arc closes and the party moves under the palace toward the Empress.
Adventure Incorporated episode 101, The Pit, starts with Scarpin lost in a magic-draining hallway and ends under the empress's audience chamber.
Adventure Incorporated episode 100 follows Anthony Reed's party as Bilroth, Scarpin, Ellery, and Deerin plan how to confront Old Scratch and prevent the demons of the Pit from reaching the material plane.
Adventure Incorporated episode C2E099, “The Pit,” follows Anthony Reed’s adventuring party as Nosferat admits the strangers hold his life in their hands.
Adventure Incorporated episode C2E098, “The Pit,” follows Anthony Reed’s adventuring party as it confronts Nosferat, two vampires, and a conflict involving the Empress and the Strangers.
Adventure Incorporated episode C2E097, “The Pit,” follows Anthony Reed’s adventuring party as a stranger warns that entering the Black City will lead to destruction.
Adventure Incorporated Episode 96, “The Pit,” follows Anthony Reed’s adventuring party onto a bone-lined path leading toward a demonic city.