Homebrew fifth edition play, dice rolls and crude jokes intact.
Under DM Matthew, a group of adventurers works through a homebrew fifth edition campaign, moving between in-character haggling with the locals and athletics checks in the middle of a fight. The table talk is crude and drifts off topic, and even the sign-offs slip rulebook jokes in among the housekeeping.
PRESS PLAY
D,D Podcast is actual play from a homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign under fifth edition rules. DM Matthew runs the world, and the players, in character, describe themselves as a group of confused adventurers. The show's name is spelled with a real comma, and one sponsor read admits that a comma does not work well in a URL. The recording keeps the mechanics of play out in the open. In one fight a raging character, held near a creature's mouth, escapes its grip on a 19, then rolls a one on the check to hang on and falls, with the fall damage halved by the rage. By the next turn the creature's mouth is full of ants. Just as much happens away from the dice. At Mr. Noklin's warehouse, where magic items change hands for a reasonable fee, a silver bribe slips through someone's fingers and the offer goes up to gold. Meanwhile, Sophie Schubert's jester makes shadow puppets on the warehouse. At a shrine that offers diagnoses, the price is a small donation to the alms box. A request to enumerate it gets the reply that the amanuensis has taken all the goods to market. Johnny Scald spends the same scene with a hand in a cornucopia and an apple in his mouth. The DM's narration is where the show gets careful. In another scene a character named Roz prepares a portal ringed with nine empty circles set about every 40 degrees. She whispers to a chest, takes out chalk and a well of glittering green ink, and scrawls sigils while mumbling formulas in a monotone. The table does not stay that composed. The jokes are crude, and one detour turns into a case for Always Sunny as a sitcom that never pretends its awful people are good. The episode titles show the same love of puns, from Haint Misbehavin' to Manniacs and Magic Items. The sponsor reads are played as bits too. One greets former subscribers to Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine and then speaks straight to their dogs. The sign-offs also borrow from the rulebook. Leftover turkey calls for a potion of acid resistance, and listeners are invited to write in by sending a tiny beast with a message of up to 25 words. One closing notes that a listener named Alex means Johnny must now be called fan favorite Johnny Scald. In one cold open DM Matthew says the group is not dead despite months without updates. 'Ep 41: Welcome to Season 2' announces that the show has joined the River City Podcast Federation, which is based mostly in Portland, Oregon. It also calls itself an unofficial season two that can be started without catching up first, which makes it the natural place to start.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants actual play with the rules audible, like escape rolls, athletics checks and bribes haggled in silver and gold. It also suits someone who doesn't mind crude jokes and sitcom tangents at the same table.
What sets it apart: It keeps the rolls and rulings in rather than smoothing them into pure story. It pairs a DM whose narration can turn slow and exact with sign-offs that tuck rulebook jokes into the housekeeping, from acid resistance for leftover turkey to a 25-word message carried by a tiny beast.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A roper fight becomes a brisk mix of ants, fall damage, and tactical nonsense.
The episode resumes with Jeff, Johnny, Eamon, and Sophie in the middle of a tentacle attack, then leans into the messy comedy of turning a roper's mouth into an ant problem.
Black Shuck clues, invisible anatomy, bone fears, and unruly riffing make for a messy, funny mystery chapter.
Black Shuck looms over this loose, raunchy installment as a fresh lead circles back to Klein's investigation before his disappearance. That trail pushes the group toward Hell's Fisher, while an invisible companion who is clearly not newly dead turns a practical obstacle into a…
Roz opens a portal with a 12-second window and enough warnings to make the crossing feel dangerous.
Roz's portal room works as a tight piece of fantasy process. Nine empty circles ring a larger one, two bottom circles sit apart, and the finished spell gives the group just 12 seconds to get through.
A magic-item exchange slides into crooked bargaining over bribes, nomancello, and owl skin rugs.
A magic-item negotiation gives the episode a crooked little stage for fantasy improvisation. Mr. Noklin acts less like a shopkeeper than a broker, arranging exchanges for interested parties and eventually naming a hundred-gold-piece entry fee.
A shrine visit turns apples, underwear, and platinum rings into oddly useful quest resources.
A shrine consultation turns into a comic negotiation as Johnny Scald reaches into a cornucopia with an apple in his mouth and the group looks for help with Shemiyaz.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
D, D Podcast Episode 46, titled "Penis Squid," centers on a roper ambush that lifts Eamon and Sophie 25 feet toward a mouth 50 feet above the cave floor.
DM Matthew opens with a Black Shuck lead and then drops the party into Fontanella, where a chapel funeral turns chaotic when a body sits up and speaks.
D,D Podcast Ep 44: Fontanella in Winter spends a long stretch on expedition prep for a snowy, mountainous trip to Fontanella, including rope, crampons, pitons, an ice axe, a bowie knife, and 10 days of food.
D,D Podcast Ep 43, “Manniacs and Magic Items,” moves from a cornucopia recovery plan into a magic-item exchange with Declan Nooklan and a civic negotiation over a Maniac parade.
D,D Podcast Ep 42: Soul Affliction follows the party from the Gobble Inn to the Temple of Fina after the "soup of shame" leaves them with strange symptoms.
The show opens by announcing that it has joined the River City Podcast Federation in Portland, Oregon, and tells new listeners they can start with this “unofficial season two.” Much of the episode is spent re-establishing Flush Fights, including the Barbatum, the Lapisacua, Jutland, the Gobble Inn, and Herzog Werner’s estate.
D,D Podcast Ep 40 centers on a Dungeons & Dragons market-day skill challenge built around the annual Black Freeze Day, where coal miners come to town to buy supplies and the merchants are trying to sell them goods.
D,D Podcast Ep 39, “Black Frida's Day Eve,” follows a tabletop scene where the party gets dragged into securing a business permit from Marty, a councilman tied to the Eagle Economic and Global Attractive Location Association.
D,D Podcast Ep 38 ends season one with a loot-sorting session, a magical Battleaxe +1, and a locked room tied to C.
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The party sneaks into a room full of kobolds doing laundry while singing a draconic song, preparing for a potential fight.
A group of players continue their homebrew D&D campaign, recapping a previous encounter with fish creatures and making jokes.
A group plays a homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with the party investigating a tavern called the Salty Screw.
The inaugural episode of a homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign where the DM sets the scene in the town of Flushfights.