Surreal fantasy, sharp laughs, real consequences.
Curse, Code & Crown follows a live-play Dungeons & Dragons campaign in a fully original world. Its recent arc mixes festival intrigue, eerie visions, absurd comedy, and high-stakes choices for Eda, Gwendolyn, Maka Deathcap, and Duncan Kindano.
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Curse, Code & Crown is a serialized Dungeons & Dragons actual play with a taste for strange premises, theatrical character work, and sudden shifts in emotional temperature. The campaign takes place in a fully original world. Recent episodes follow the party through the Exile's Moon, a festival-like refuge where being a guest and being an exile may not be as separate as they seem. It feels warm at first. It also feels wrong. Eda approaches the place like an academic problem, asking direct questions and gathering information. Gwendolyn is pulled into awkward performances, social rituals, and choices about help, destiny, and obligation. Maka Deathcap turns stealth, caution, and odd politeness into comedy that still advances the scene. Duncan Kindano faces heavier material, including visions, false comfort, and a brutal effort to break through a trap. The show is often funny in the middle of danger. A bad prop-comedy act can sit beside a looming threat, and a haunted tent can become both a joke and a real lead. Dungeon Master Tom McGee gives the players a world with rules that feel specific: exiles, oaths, rituals, Dawnbreakers, symbols, instruments, and mysterious figures all carry weight. The table banter is visible, but it rarely drains the stakes. Rolls matter. Failures become scenes rather than pauses. The cast leans into character voices without losing sight of the larger story. That balance gives the series its texture: whimsical, sharp, occasionally grim, and always ready to let an absurd beat become consequential. Listeners who enjoy long-form actual play will find a campaign built for continuity, callbacks, and slow-burn revelations. It is not just combat and lore. It is social tension, improvised problem-solving, eerie fantasy logic, and characters trying to understand what kind of people they are becoming.
Made for: For listeners who like long-form Dungeons & Dragons actual play with character comedy, layered fantasy settings, and serialized stakes. It especially suits fans of table chemistry where jokes and serious choices coexist.
What sets it apart: The Exile's Moon arc shows the series at its most distinctive: intimate character play inside a world that can turn from festival oddity to psychological threat in a single roll. Its comedy is not separate from the drama; it often becomes the route into it.
Curse, Code, and Crown is an actual-play Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition podcast created by Dumb-Dumbs & Dice. A princess trapped in a suit of armour, (Laura Elizabeth, @elhamstring), a disillusioned royal guard (Ryan LaPlante, @theryanlaplante) and a fungus-worshipping Tortle (Tyler Hewitt, @Tyler_Hewitt) are forced to work together to save a fully original world created by our Dungeon Master Tom Mcgee (@mcgeetd)!
A clown's suitcase explodes after Gwendolyn rolls a one; your solemn fantasy mood gets a gentle shove.
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A D&D actual-play podcast where a princess, a royal guard, and a Tortle must save a fantasy world.
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A Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast where a princess, a royal guard, and a Tortle must save a fantasy world.