Pokemon fantasy, dice drama, sprawling party chaos.
Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD follows sprawling tabletop campaigns through regions, tombs, caverns, rifts, and dangerous bargains. It suits listeners who like Pokemon-flavored fantasy with dice rolls, running jokes, combat turns, and cliffhangers that keep several threats moving at once.
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Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD is a long-running actual-play series that rebuilds Pokemon adventure as tabletop fantasy. It is not just a monster-collecting travelogue. The campaign excerpts point toward a world of rifts, regions, hidden cities, dangerous roads, black-market backstories, strange companions, and factions that keep moving even when the party rests. Drew is identified as the Game Master for the Laris region, and the show leans on that Game Master rhythm: recap, scene framing, player choice, dice roll, consequence. The tone is casual at the table. The fiction can still get heavy. One session follows CJ drifting in and out after an explosion, with damaged steel, burnt flesh, and a wounded companion dragging him away. Another starts with a tomb fight against duolems and a quadrolem, then ends at the edge of a silent underground kingdom. The Riftkin sessions add a more intricate fantasy-political shape, with the Signature Six navigating St. Hezekiah's tomb, Gotalen, Fletcher's Roost, Bill Winchester, Vorok, the Talcari, and the Broken Sun of the Eastern Mountains. Names and stakes accumulate. So do jokes. A dangerous night out can include interrogations, investigations, a mosh pit, and someone getting headbutted before everyone finally sleeps. The table is comfortable letting comedy sit beside threat. Creatures such as Willux and Wistvoids bring eerie environmental effects, while soul coins, gatekeepers, and black-green rifts add a mythic edge. The show also has the familiar actual-play pleasure of players testing plans in real time. Someone wants to sneak after a duke. Someone else tries to stop them. A poor agility roll turns intention into story. That tension between plan and dice is central to the appeal. For listeners who enjoy serialized campaign lore, tactical turns, and table banter that can pivot into a world-shattering discovery, Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD offers a large backlog with a lived-in party dynamic. It feels handmade, sprawling, and proudly specific.
Made for: For actual-play fans who want Pokemon-inspired fantasy with long arcs, tactical encounters, recurring party dynamics, and table humor. It best suits listeners who enjoy serialized lore and do not mind entering a story already thick with names and history.
What sets it apart: The show blends familiar Pokemon adventure language with D&D-style consequence, giving creature encounters, regional travel, and party choices a heavier fantasy-campaign shape. Its scenes can swing from goofy table chatter to faction movement, eerie discoveries, and cliffhanger reveals without losing the group's casual energy.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient scene-setting and lively table talk make its creature-filled campaign legible without sanding away the chaos of play.
Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD turns an ongoing tabletop campaign into briskly narrated actual play, with the Signature Six moving through combat, investigation, travel and uneasy negotiation.
A silent city, soul coins, and a mosh pit await once your initiative roll behaves.
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A quiet morning turns into a chase that points T toward Adolphus and the factions starting to move.
Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD turns an otherwise quiet stretch into a chase with real stakes. Coffee gets made, the train is waiting, and a tax collector's information sends T toward the man she believes is tied to her father's murder, while Buck tries to keep her from rushing…
A patient bridge into Ngo Thalin, where the city, the rift, and the gatekeeper's rules steadily raise the stakes.
Riftkin | Session 18 | The Gatekeeper settles into Ngo Thalin with a stark, cinematic opening: a steep cliff, a vast cavern, and a silent city across an oil-black lake.
A tomb crawl that shifts from combat bookkeeping to the silent city of Wotalen.
Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD returns to the tomb of St. Hezekiah the Sage with the fight already in motion: the chromatic wards are gone, the guardian golem is awake, and quick draws, duolems, and a quadrolem keep the party busy from the first roll.
A slow camp morning turns eerie, then spells out the woods' odd rules.
Session 15 opens on a quiet camp morning, with Adelaide sketching ways to alter the affinity of an as-yet-unborn cab last while the Signature Six are still asleep.
A clue chase turns into a bruising mosh-pit scramble without losing the mystery thread.
Faraday's debrief with Adelaide and Carol keeps the Bill Winchester and Slick Mickey threads moving, and the scene works best when it pauses to weigh the practical question of whether to chase the lead this evening, what the bounty is worth, and whether Slick Mickey could still…
Puzzle horror with table banter intact.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
A group plays a Pokemon-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign, exploring a ranch area with creatures like scrap yaps and elicults.
The first episode of a Pokemon-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign where players introduce their characters and begin their adventure.
A group of players embark on a Pokemon-themed D&D campaign, navigating caves and using magical abilities to cross a river.
Faraday, Buck, and Tea return to Fletcher's Roost and walk into Ember Lounge, where Vorok is negotiating with Fiora de Vries and Duke Adolphus.
The Signature Six reach Ngô Thálin, a "silent city" across a mile-and-a-half cavern lake, after blasting open a cave above oil-black water.
Boarding Party's Pokemon DnD session 17 centers on a fight inside the tomb of St.
A calm nighttime watch turns into a shared hallucination where each character sees the others as monsters.
Buck Winchester, Faraday, Carol, and Callum push a dockside hunt for Slick Mickey after Buck links the lead to Bill Winchester and Maria.
Bigby and Hydralight's Bang, Pow, Thwack combo deals 59 damage and interrupts Wormquake's Sand Pit.
“Riftkin | Session 13 | The New Boss” opens with an ancient prison council as one of its captives escapes.
At Idlegard Farms, the Signature Six take Connor's five-gold offer to remove invasive Cabblasts.
A group plays a Pokemon-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with the game master narrating a dramatic scene after an explosion.