Actual play with sparks flying sideways.
Dice Fiends runs on ensemble momentum: fast jokes, rules checks, character drama, and sudden pivots into heartfelt consequences. Recent arcs move through time travel, masked heroes, undead family business, and dangerous supernatural weirdness without sanding down the table’s messy energy.
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Dice Fiends is an actual-play show built from momentum, cross-talk, and the particular comedy of a table trying to make a strange scene behave. It is not tidy. That is the point. Recent episodes frame superhero arcs like comic issues, complete with covers, titles, powers, labels, and trouble crashing into already-complicated lives. Warped Reality brings time travel anxiety, older selves, preferred names, and characters trying to decide who can be trusted when the future is standing in front of them. Milltown Malevolence leans into masked heroics, reactors, odd dimensions, robot fights, team influence, and plans that begin sensible before someone chooses the louder option. Hellraisers keeps a D&D thread alive with undead siblings, vampire-hunter tension, knife-forward romance jokes, and names the table clearly enjoys saying out loud. The show’s strongest texture is the blur between play and commentary. A roll is never just a roll; it is a chance for someone to question the move, stretch the bit, spend a team resource, or admit that nobody remembers the rule cleanly enough. Characters still get emotional weight. Selma accepting a mantle, Kid Resonate shifting away from ordinary life, Dusty searching a house for signs of interference, and Elvna stepping out of hiding all give the comedy something to push against. Dice Fiends likes danger, but it also likes aftercare. Closing beats often fold credits, exhaustion, gratitude, community notes, and small affectionate sign-offs into the same messy room as the jokes. The result is a supernatural-adventure feed for listeners who enjoy actual play as a social machine, not just a plotted story. It rewards patience with inside jokes. It rewards attention with recurring character pressure. Most of all, it rewards anyone who likes hearing a group make each other laugh while still letting the fiction bite back.
Made for: For listeners who like fast ensemble actual play, visible rules chatter, superhero and fantasy chaos, and emotional turns that do not require the table to stop joking first.
What sets it apart: Dice Fiends keeps the table noise in the engine: recap, correction, bits, dice math, and sincere character work all happen together. Its supernatural and superhero arcs feel improvised in public, with the cast constantly rebuilding the scene while it is already moving.
Dice Fiends is an actual play podcast featuring a wonderful cast of chuckle-friends. Our story is similar to many: in an attempt to have fun one late Saturday evening, 6 strangers came together for a one-shot, but had so much fun that we extended that one-shot into a two-shot… and then a three-shot… and then we turned it into a whole campaign! Since then, we've expanded beyond Dungeons and Dragons and to other games systems for one shots such as Hardwired Island or Shadowrun Anarchy and we hope to branch out ever further. But one thing's for sure, whether we're diving into...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dice Fiends makes tabletop mechanics, comic-book framing, and freewheeling cast chemistry work together as engines for improvised story.
Dice Fiends turns tabletop sessions into unruly ensemble storytelling, with Chell and Frindicle guiding separate campaigns through fantasy danger, superhero conflict, and warped realities.
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Time-travel chaos, odd banter, and a clear character turn keep the episode moving.
Warped Reality #4, Other Selves, drops older Captain Resonate, Kid Resonate, and a power-plant attack into the same time-travel tangle, and the episode works by keeping the ground under them in motion.
A messy, affectionate actual-play reunion that lets the jokes and the stakes land together.
Dice Fiends lands as a noisy but affectionate reunion, with Dusty checking Cora's house for anything Mr. Untethered may have left behind while the table keeps the scene moving with jokes and sharp back-and-forth.
A messy, flirt-forward D&D return that lands because the table keeps the scene moving.
Dice Fiends turns the Island of Undead Siblings into a joke with teeth: a vampire hunter, a search for undead brothers, and a reunion that keeps sliding between flirting and threat. The episode works because the table never lets the bit stall.
A college reactor trap and a robot fight keep the episode moving at a lively clip.
Dice Fiends turns a college reactor trap into a messy, quick-footed run, with White Rabbit, Lycan, Chomp, and a pile of fake authority badges all crammed into one bad plan.
A suspicious door, a busy table, and enough dread to keep the jokes sharp.
Dice Fiends turns this stretch into social tension as much as story tension. The table stays in motion, trading corrections, jokes, and quick resets while the party follows the lit path, clears the scan gate, and keeps coming back to the same uneasy question: what is behind that…
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
Dice Fiends' 'Kinder Center Heroes: Warped Reality #4' is a superhero TTRPG actual-play session centered on time travel and alternate-dimension collisions.
Dice Fiends' 'Kinder Center Heroes: Warped Reality #3' follows Cora and Dusty using Dr.
Dice Fiends' Hellraisers Episode 256 is a D&D 5e actual-play session that opens with the party celebrating their defeat of Nat Cross in a tavern before accidentally destroying it — Moxie throws the SS Flumist, their autonomous familiar sailboat, at guards and the party becomes fugitives again.
Billy is trying very hard not to become a news story.
Dice Fiends opens in a sleepy sprint and immediately starts talking over itself.
The episode begins with chaotic banter and character introductions for a tabletop RPG session called Milltown Malevolence.
A group of friends play a tabletop RPG, with the episode featuring a scene where a character uses powers to investigate an apartment.
A comedic actual play RPG session where the cast introduces characters and jokes around before starting the game.
A group of friends play a superhero-themed tabletop RPG, with the game master describing a scene and players reacting in character.
The cast of Dice Fiends begins a new session of a tabletop RPG, introducing themselves and their characters with humorous banter.
The cast introduces themselves with humorous pronoun banter and sets up a new arc in their actual play campaign.
The cast debriefs after a trip to Colorado, discussing Chicken Nugget Day and a character's vacation request, with humorous banter about mechs and bunny forms.
Host Monty interviews speedrunning champion Zeo White about his strategies for beating Cloud of Darkness and his experiences at Hotel Final Fantasy.
The group arrives in a town and discusses room assignments before starting their adventure.
A group of friends play a Monster of the Week one-shot, introducing their characters and setting in a humorous, improvised style.
A group of friends play a tabletop RPG campaign, with this episode featuring a confrontation with guards on a spaceship.
The hosts discuss a satisfying spike in their game, then recap how Julia and others escaped from the ark's chamber by breaking coffins and fighting guards, with Sticks hiding their eidolon.
The host Chell apologizes for poor audio quality due to recording issues but expresses excitement for episode six of 'Our Last Summer'.
The cast introduces themselves and their characters for a new campaign in the 'Our Last Summer in Eidolon' game system.
The group recounts training with eidolons in a hyperbolic time chamber, visiting Bethany's apartment to watch Breaking Bad and smoke weed, and now heading to warehouses to save Yuri from a threat by an eidolon user.
This episode features the hosts introducing their characters and pronouns for a role-playing game session in the podcast series 'Our Last Summer'.
The cast recaps their previous session and jokes around before continuing their sci-fi D&D campaign.
The Dice Fiends begin a new Eindelon campaign after a summer break, with a comedic cast introduction.
A two-player actual play session of the superhero TTRPG 'Trapped in the Rubble' with a villain and hero in a dimensional adventure.
A group of friends play a tabletop RPG called Cornfield Cryptids, introducing characters and joking around.
Two superheroes, Noir and Warp, have a humorous conversation about putting peanut butter in a gas tank while on patrol.
A group of friends joke and banter before starting their tabletop RPG session, with humorous dice rolls and character interactions.
A fictional news broadcast reports on teenage vigilantes fighting a bald wolfman in the rubble, interspersed with sponsor ads.
A group of friends play a tabletop RPG, with the episode featuring a comic scene in a cafeteria after a chaotic event.