ChasmQuest: an Actual Play D&D Podcast

ChasmQuest is a serialized actual-play D&D podcast about the Rowdy Boys and the dangerous fantasy world closing in around them. The campaign moves through Treland, the New Lands, the Abyss, pirate waters, divine secrets, and strange realms tied to oblivion. It has a strong adventure engine. Recent episodes place the party on ships, obsidian beaches, burning lakes, and the path toward Maelstrom, while old enemies such as Brim Corrin keep the story sharpened. The show cares about bonds between characters. Its season-finale material frames the Rowdy Boys as friends and family tested by fear, separation, love, and impossible odds. The drama can be grand and dark. Blades are sharpened before battle, patrons demand proof, fanged attackers strike before initiative, and visions point toward forces beyond ordinary understanding. The table never stays locked in one register for long. A tense scene may slide into jokes about piracy, body-switch impressions, tabletop door habits, a quivering mustache, or the weird math of a bad insight check. That looseness is part of the identity rather than a distraction. ChasmQuest sounds like a group that enjoys the story enough to take it seriously, and enjoys each other enough to puncture the mood when the moment invites it. Andrew is identified at the table as the dungeon master, with players including Taylor, Micah, Colin, and Brad appearing across the excerpts. Special guests also enter the campaign space, including Cass, Ray, and Kyrie. Downtime episodes widen the frame by letting the group reflect on jokes, episode names, campaign structure, and what might come next. Bonus one-shots lean into the cast’s comic timing, especially when body switching turns character voices into a table-wide game. The show is best approached as a long-running fantasy serial with accumulated lore and relationships. New listeners should expect names, places, and grudges that matter because the campaign has lived with them for a while. For fans of actual play, that continuity is the reward: heroic vows, messy plans, bad rolls, strange magic, and a party whose rowdiness is both brand and survival strategy.