MCA Media, Noah Downs
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A D&D actual-play podcast, featuring three content creators (and their lawyer) diving into a world of TTRPG mystery, fantasy, and fun, with special guest appearances from your favorite streamers, YouTubers, and TTRPG creators! Campaign 1 of Forgotten Paths was an "amnesia" campaign using the D&D 5E system.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Forgotten Paths turns friendly table chaos into collaborative fantasy mysteries where investigation, tactical play, and creeping dread continually reshape one another.
Forgotten Paths lets easy table chemistry collide with fantasy trouble. Noah Downs runs the game as GM, moving a changing cast from joking introductions into investigation, combat, and consequential choices.
Noah Downs has a whole town exhale spores, and your evening gets a little less cozy.
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A climb up the weather station turns a dropped recording stone into the episode's most effective source of dread.
A climb up the weather station turns a dropped recording stone into the episode's most effective source of dread. As the tower tightens from stairs to ladder, a second voice slips through the recording and steers the players toward fears of infection, spores, control, and…
A relic hunt finds a clear lead just as the threat starts moving faster.
Forgotten Paths sends a relic search down a trail of useful evidence and rising pressure. A 23 Investigation check turns up meteorological equipment, fresh MREs, basic weapons, 12 rounds for a blunderbuss, and a town map marked with a star beside a weather tower.
A sweet, rot-like smell leads Kaylin toward a stone plinth before spores rise from the townspeople's mouths.
Rot reaches Forgotten Paths first as scent and taste, giving the episode an uneasy physical charge before the threat fully shows itself. What begins in loose cast banter gradually narrows into a town of boarded windows, sealed buildings, and a Bureau agent whose attention seems…
Locke's tavern return leads into a cautious Wathan investigation involving a cylinder, a church, and unknown entities.
Forgotten Paths begins with Noah Downs bringing in Batty, Mick Laffy Taffy, and Kung Fu Fruit Cup, then nudges the adventurers toward Wathan, a weather outpost at the edge of a strange forest.
A loose, lively finale turns webbed combat, gold, and a forest-edge song into affectionate actual-play chaos.
Forgotten Paths uses its final episode as a lively showcase for table chemistry, built around fire damage, a silvered bolt, and a captain turning the battlefield into sticky terrain.
Eberron actual play with consequences.
Queer Feywild westerns with haunted hearts.
Messy magic, big feelings, louder table jokes.
Rock band fantasy, table chaos, real campaign momentum.
Fantasy chaos, movie brackets, table jokes.
Apocalypse planning, questionable heroes, real table chaos.
["Forgotten Paths: The Rot Beneath Pt.
Forgotten Paths: The Rot Beneath Pt.
Forgotten Paths: The Rot Beneath Pt.
Forgotten Paths: The Rot Beneath Pt.
Forgotten Paths: Beyond the Dark Pt.
The episode recaps the heroes finding the Deck of Hazzards and Devil's Orb in the Arcane's Tower, then transitions to a sponsor ad for HeroForge.
The heroes investigate a dark obsidian tower, find clues about a deck of hazards, and deal with time-altering magic.
The party explores a mysterious tower, finding a library with magical books and holographic messages about an orb affecting magic.
The party explores a magically charged island with an obsidian tower, facing traps and illusions, while the DM humorously narrates their misadventures.
The episode begins with a recap of the party's journey on a mysterious island toward an obsidian tower, followed by a sponsor segment for HeroForge's custom dice Kickstarter.