Let's Be Legendary - The Feywild West - A queer actual play podcast

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Queer Feywild westerns with haunted hearts.

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Let's Be Legendary follows a long-running Feywild West campaign where family, trust, and survival are never simple. Recent episodes move between nightmare incursions, tense alliances, bounty-hunter codes, domestic vulnerability, and high-stakes fantasy violence shaped by character-first roleplay.

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About Let's Be Legendary - The Feywild West - A queer actual play podcast

Let's Be Legendary is a queer actual-play RPG serial built around the Feywild West, a setting where western codes, fae power, family loyalty, and violence keep colliding. It is not a loose hangout game with occasional plot. The recent episodes play like a continuing drama, with scenes that assume the audience remembers old grief, fraught alliances, complicated romance, and the cost of every rescue. Trust sits at the center. Characters talk about comrades, soldiers, family, pack, love, responsibility, and the fear of not trusting themselves, then the table tests those ideas in dream spaces, kitchens, bookstores, Feywild meetings, and violent confrontations. The Nightmare arc gives the show a horror-tinged texture. A train car vanishes into a void. Black rot reforms after being shot. A creature in Zachariah's mind turns a rescue into something stranger than a fight. The campaign also makes room for quieter pressure. Selene worries, plans, studies, jokes, and carries pregnancy as a real constraint on danger rather than a passing detail. Talia's support often comes through ordinary care: checking in, noticing exhaustion, nudging someone toward air, water, or a change of scene. That domestic attention is part of the show's identity. Big magical stakes are balanced by small, lived-in choices. The Feywild material expands the scope with alliances, rulers, tarot references, and ritual crossings, while the district storyline keeps political unrest and militia expansion close to the ground. The tone can be blunt and funny, but the copybook morality of heroic fantasy is largely absent. People love each other and still hurt each other. They joke while afraid. They make responsible plans, then discover that responsibility is not the same as control. The series suits listeners who prefer actual play with emotional continuity, recurring character relationships, and a theatrical approach to fantasy western storytelling. Its strongest moments come when danger, humor, and care occupy the same scene.

Made for: For actual-play listeners who like serialized character drama, family tension, fantasy western danger, and queer storytelling with emotional follow-through. It fits audiences comfortable with mature themes and occasional horror imagery.

What sets it apart: The show stands out for treating relationship fallout, pregnancy, trauma, and domestic care as core adventure material alongside gunfire, Feywild alliances, and nightmare combat. Its table gives melodrama and casual humor equal room.

In their own words

A Dungeons and Dragons podcast, currently set in a Wild West Steampunk world. Join our adventures as they wander the district as bounty hunters, seeking revenge and trying to unravel the mystery of their pasts. This is the Feywild West, Stay Legendary!

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Character intimacy gives this fantasy actual play unusual weight, carrying its humor, supernatural horror, and difficult questions of trust.

Let's Be Legendary lets character intimacy carry its actual play storytelling. Molly Hexcroft guides scenes that move easily from dice checks and tactical questions into conversations about pregnancy, trust, family, and fear.

Read our full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

A nightmare train car dissolves into black rot; you're still worried about Zachariah.

Press play if you want

  • the aftermath of a nightmare to get as much care as the fight inside it
  • a potion to reveal how characters see themselves in their mind's eye
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| S5 | Episode 30 | Old Endings, New Beginnings | Part 1May 28, 2025

A tense bridge story that turns unresolved dread toward Feywild alliance politics.

It begins in the aftermath, with no trail to follow and a choice to table the problem while the district stays on alert. That early restraint gives the piece a steady, uneasy pace before it moves into the Feywild and an alliance ceremony, where the 22-week pregnancy and the…

| S5 | Episode 29 | The Nightmare | Part 6May 14, 2025

A quiet chapter where trust, family, and responsibility do the heavy lifting.

This episode spends its time in the aftershock of trust. Zachariah remains magically asleep while Selene and Talia handle the strain in small, telling motions: a talk by the thinking tree, a trip to the bookstore for heavy medical texts, and the uneasy business of deciding when…

| S5 | Episode 28 | The Nightmare | Part 5Apr 23, 2025

A train car drops into the void, then the nightmare keeps tightening around Zachariah.

The episode turns a train ride into a nightmare with striking control: Bobby Grun takes a shot through the head, the wound blooms into black rot and a screaming mouse, and the train car drops away into the void.

| S5 | Episode 27 | The Nightmare | Part 4Apr 2, 2025

A trust trial that turns a potion into a memory maze.

This episode turns trust under pressure into its central charge. Talia and Selene take a potion, fall into a dark shared space, and meet altered versions of themselves shaped by their own minds.

| S5 | Episode 18 | With Bated BreathNov 6, 2024

Trust, disguises, and responsibility keep tightening as the story heads toward the Bear King's feast.

The episode settles into the uneasy pause before the Bear King's feast, where trust is thin, the militia keeps spreading to the outskirts of the district, and questions of family, pack, and responsibility keep circling.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Season 4 Retrospective Part2

    ·2h 7m
  2. 2

    | S4 | Episode 07 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 1

    ·1h 10m
  3. 3

    | S4 | Episode 06 | Kal-Kanar | Part 2

    ·58m
  4. 4

    | S4 | Episode 05 | Kal-Kanar | Part 1

    ·1h 6m
  5. 5

    | S4 | Episode 04 | Shadows and Silence | Part 4

    ·1h 39m
  6. 6

    | S4 | Episode 03 | Shadows and Silence | Part 3

    ·59m
  7. 7

    | Halloween Special | SoR | Episode 1

    ·1h 38m
  8. 8

    | S5 | Episode 30 | Old Endings, New Beginnings | Part 1

    ·1h 15m
  9. 9

    | S5 | Episode 29 | The Nightmare | Part 6

    ·44m
  10. 10

    | S5 | Episode 28 | The Nightmare | Part 5

    ·35m
  11. 11

    | S5 | Episode 27 | The Nightmare | Part 4

    ·1h 4m
  12. 12

    | S5 | Episode 26 | The Nightmare | Part 3

    ·48m
  13. 13

    | S5 | Episode 25 | The Nightmare | Part 2

    ·1h 7m
  14. 14

    | S5 | Episode 24 | The Nightmare | Part 1

    ·1h 10m
  15. 15

    | S5 | Episode 22 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 4

    ·1h
  16. 16

    | S5 | Episode 21 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 3

    ·1h 9m
  17. 17

    | S5 | Episode 20 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 2

    ·1h 4m
  18. 18

    | S5 | Episode 19 | The Bear King's Feast | Part 1

    ·49m
  19. 19

    | S5 | Episode 18 | With Bated Breath

    ·1h 6m
  20. 20

    | S5 | Episode 17 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 4

    ·50m
  21. 21

    | S5 | Episode 16 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 3

    ·50m
  22. 22

    | S5 | Episode 15 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 2

    ·56m
  23. 23

    | S5 | Episode 14 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 1

    ·1h 44m
  24. 24

    | S5 | Episode 13 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 5

    ·1h 21m
  25. 25

    | S5 | Episode 12 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 4

    ·1h 13m
  26. 26

    | Announcement | Small Break

    ·2m
  27. 27

    | S5 | Episode 07 | Friendship Unbroken | Part 1

    ·1h 9m
  28. 28

    | S5 | Episode 06 | Of Glass Houses | Part 6

    ·1h 34m
  29. 29

    | S5 | Episode 05 | Of Glass Houses | Part 5

    ·1h 15m
  30. 30

    | S5 | Episode 04 | Of Glass Houses | Part 4

    ·51m
  31. 31

    | S5 | Episode 09 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 1

    A queer actual play D&D podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world where bounty hunters seek revenge and unravel their pasts.

    ·1h 19m
  32. 32

    | S5 | Episode 03 | Of Glass Houses | Part 3

    ·1h 46m
  33. 33

    | S5 | Episode 02 | Of Glass Houses | Part 2

    ·1h 46m
  34. 34

    | S5 | Episode 01 | Of Glass Houses | Part 1

    ·39m
  35. 35

    | Trailer | Feywild West Season 5

    ·2m
  36. 36

    Update! We’re still here!

    ·6m
  37. 37

    | S4 | Episode 08 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 2

    ·1h 23m
  38. 38

    Season 4 Retrospective Part 1

    ·1h 58m
  39. 39

    | S4 | Episode 23 | Blue Sands Beach and Resort

    ·1h 49m
  40. 40

    | S4 | Episode 22 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 5

    ·45m
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    | S4 | Episode 21 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 4

    ·43m
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    | S4 | Episode 20 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 3

    ·1h 15m
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    | S4 | Episode 19 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 2

    ·1h
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    | S4 | Episode 18 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 1

    ·1h 6m
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    | S4 | Episode 17 | The City of the Dead | Part 4

    ·42m
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    | S4 | Episode 16 | The City of the Dead | Part 3

    ·34m
  47. 47

    | S4 | Episode 15 | The City of the Dead | Part 2

    ·38m
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    | S4 | Episode 14 | The City of the Dead | Part 1

    ·57m
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    | S4 | Episode 13 | The Barrens | Part 3

    ·1h 29m
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    | S4 | Episode 12 | The Barrens | Part 2

    ·1h 52m
  51. 51

    | S4 | Episode 11 | The Barrens | Part 1

    ·1h 18m
  52. 52

    | S4 | Episode 02 | Shadows and Silence | Part 2

    ·1h 23m
  53. 53

    | S4 | Episode 01 | Shadows and Silence | Part 1

    ·1h 41m
  54. 54

    | Special Project | Teaser Trailer

    ·2m
  55. 55

    Crossroads Teaser Trailer

    ·3m
  56. 56

    | S4 | Season 4 Trailer

    ·4m
  57. 57

    | S3 | Season Recap

    ·25m
  58. 58

    | S3 | Retrospective Part2

    ·2h
  59. 59

    | S3 | Retrospective Part 1

    ·2h 7m
  60. 60

    | S3 | Episode 60 | Checkmate | Part 2

    ·1h 30m
  61. 61

    | S3 | Episode 59 | Checkmate | Part 1

    ·20m
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    | S3 | Episode 58 | The Wedding | Part 2

    ·41m
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    | S3 | Episode 57 | The Wedding | Part 1

    ·50m
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    | S3 | Episode 56 | The River King | Part 4

    ·43m
  65. 65

    | S3 | Episode 55 | The River King | Part 3

    ·40m
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    | S3 | Episode 54 | The River King | Part 2

    ·53m
  67. 67

    | S3 | Episode 53 | The River King | Part 1

    ·1h 15m
  68. 68

    | S3 | Episode 52 | The Hag of the Evermarsh | Part 3

    ·38m
  69. 69

    | S3 | Episode 51 | The Hag of the Evermarsh | Part 2

    ·28m
  70. 70

    | S3 | Episode 50 | The Hag of the Evermarsh | Part 1

    ·44m
  71. 71

    | S3 | Episode 49 | Into the Wild | Part 3

    ·58m
  72. 72

    | S3 | Episode 48 | Into the Wild | Part 2

    ·29m
  73. 73

    | S3 | Episode 47 | Into the Wild | Part 1

    ·41m
  74. 74

    | S3 | Episode 46 | Problem Child | Part 2

    ·38m
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    | S3 | Episode 45 | Problem Child | Part 1

    ·37m
  76. 76

    | S3 | Episode 44 | The Grove | Part 10

    ·58m
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    | S3 | Episode 43 | The Grove | Part 9

    ·1h 7m
  78. 78

    | S3 | Episode 42 | The Grove | Part 8

    ·48m
  79. 79

    | S3 | Episode 41 | The Grove | Part 7

    ·55m
  80. 80

    | S3 | Episode 40 | The Grove | Part 6

    ·32m
  81. 81

    | S3 | Episode 39 | The Grove | Part 5

    ·34m
  82. 82

    | S3 | Episode 38 | The Grove | Part 4

    ·44m
  83. 83

    | S3 | Episode 37 | The Grove | Part 3

    ·49m
  84. 84

    | S3 | Episode 36 | The Grove | Part 2

    ·1h 7m
  85. 85

    | S3 | Episode 35 | The Grove | Part 1

    ·1h 26m
  86. 86

    | S3 | Episode 34 | Airpike Antics | Part 3

    ·43m
  87. 87

    | S3 | Episode 33 | Airpike Antics | Part 2

    ·1h 3m
  88. 88

    | S3 | Episode 32 | Airpike Antics | Part 1

    ·1h
  89. 89

    | S3 | Episode 31 | Gifts and Revelations | Part 4

    ·38m
  90. 90

    | S3 | Episode 30 | Gifts and Revelations | Part 3

    ·35m
  91. 91

    | S3 | Episode 29 | Gifts and Revelations | Part 2

    ·38m
  92. 92

    | S3 | Episode 28 | Gifts and Revelations | Part 1

    ·43m
  93. 93

    | S3 | Episode 27 | The Harvest | Part 2

    ·52m
  94. 94

    | S3 | Episode 26 | The Harvest | Part 1

    ·1h 29m
  95. 95

    | S5 | Episode 23 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 5

    A queer actual play D&D podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world where adventurers seek revenge and unravel their pasts.

    ·1h 12m
  96. 96

    | S4 | Episode 10 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 4

    A queer actual play D&D podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world where bounty hunters seek revenge and unravel their pasts.

    ·1h 18m
  97. 97

    | S4 | Episode 09 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 3

    A queer actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world where bounty hunters seek revenge and unravel their pasts.

    ·1h 21m
  98. 98

    | S5 | Episode 11 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 3

    A queer actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world, following bounty hunters seeking revenge and unraveling their pasts.

    ·58m
  99. 99

    | S5 | Episode 10 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 2

    A queer actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world, following bounty hunters seeking revenge and unraveling their pasts.

    ·1h 18m
  100. 100

    | S5 | Episode 08 | Friendship Unbroken | Part 2

    A queer actual play D&D podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world where bounty hunters seek revenge and unravel their pasts.

    ·1h 6m
  101. 101

    | S5 | Episode 30 | Old Endings, New Beginnings | Part 1

    Hidden gem

    Selene tells Zachariah, 'Je t'aimerai encore,' after admitting why she dragged him back through death's door.

    May 28, 2025·1h 15m·2 clips
  102. 102

    | S5 | Episode 29 | The Nightmare | Part 6

    Hidden gem

    Zachariah tells Selene and Talia that the train scene repeated "over and over" after his death, and he says he lost count after "three thousand." Talia pushes him on why he hid the nightmares, while Selene watches his vitals and hears that the nightmare returned after the Feywild trip.

    May 14, 2025·44m·2 clips
  103. 103

    | S5 | Episode 28 | The Nightmare | Part 5

    Hidden gem

    Selene and Talia enter a train-car memory where Zachariah Hayfield, Bobby Grun, and a young girl keep reappearing in a repeated robbery scene.

    Apr 23, 2025·35m·2 clips
  104. 104

    | S5 | Episode 27 | The Nightmare | Part 4

    Hidden gem

    ["Zachariah Hayfield stays asleep after a shared nightmare, and Dr.

    Apr 2, 2025·1h 4m·4 clips
  105. 105

    | S5 | Episode 26 | The Nightmare | Part 3

    Mar 12, 2025·48m
  106. 106

    | S5 | Episode 25 | The Nightmare | Part 2

    Feb 12, 2025·1h 7m
  107. 107

    | S5 | Episode 24 | The Nightmare | Part 1

    Jan 29, 2025·1h 10m
  108. 108

    | S5 | Episode 23 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 5

    Jan 15, 2025·1h 12m
  109. 109

    | S5 | Episode 22 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 4

    Jan 1, 2025·1h
  110. 110

    | S5 | Episode 21 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 3

    Dec 18, 2024·1h 9m
  111. 111

    | S5 | Episode 20 | The Bear King’s Feast | Part 2

    Dec 4, 2024·1h 4m
  112. 112

    | S5 | Episode 19 | The Bear King's Feast | Part 1

    Nov 20, 2024·49m
  113. 113

    | S5 | Episode 18 | With Bated Breath

    Hidden gem

    A queer actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast set in a Wild West Steampunk world, following bounty hunters seeking revenge and unraveling their pasts.

    Nov 6, 2024·1h 6m·2 clips
  114. 114

    | S5 | Episode 17 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 4

    Oct 16, 2024·50m
  115. 115

    | S5 | Episode 16 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 3

    Oct 2, 2024·50m
  116. 116

    | S5 | Episode 15 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 2

    Sep 18, 2024·56m
  117. 117

    | S5 | Episode 14 | Of Rot and Ruin | Part 1

    Sep 4, 2024·1h 44m
  118. 118

    | S5 | Episode 13 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 5

    Aug 21, 2024·1h 21m
  119. 119

    | S5 | Episode 12 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 4

    Aug 7, 2024·1h 13m
  120. 120

    | S5 | Episode 11 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 3

    Apr 10, 2024·58m
  121. 121

    | S5 | Episode 10 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 2

    Mar 27, 2024·1h 18m
  122. 122

    | S5 | Episode 09 | Wild Broken Hearts | Part 1

    Mar 13, 2024·1h 19m
  123. 123

    | S5 | Episode 08 | Friendship Unbroken | Part 2

    Feb 14, 2024·1h 6m
  124. 124

    | S5 | Episode 07 | Friendship Unbroken | Part 1

    Jan 29, 2024·1h 9m
  125. 125

    | S5 | Episode 06 | Of Glass Houses | Part 6

    Jan 17, 2024·1h 34m
  126. 126

    | S5 | Episode 05 | Of Glass Houses | Part 5

    Jan 3, 2024·1h 15m
  127. 127

    | S5 | Episode 04 | Of Glass Houses | Part 4

    Dec 13, 2023·51m
  128. 128

    | S5 | Episode 03 | Of Glass Houses | Part 3

    Nov 30, 2023·1h 46m
  129. 129

    | S5 | Episode 02 | Of Glass Houses | Part 2

    Nov 15, 2023·1h 46m
  130. 130

    | S5 | Episode 01 | Of Glass Houses | Part 1

    Oct 31, 2023·39m
  131. 131

    | Trailer | Feywild West Season 5

    Oct 13, 2023·2m
  132. 132

    Update! We’re still here!

    Jun 14, 2023·6m
  133. 133

    Season 4 Retrospective Part2

    Nov 16, 2022·2h 7m
  134. 134

    Season 4 Retrospective Part 1

    Nov 3, 2022·1h 58m
  135. 135

    | S4 | Episode 23 | Blue Sands Beach and Resort

    Aug 17, 2022·1h 49m
  136. 136

    | S4 | Episode 22 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 5

    Aug 3, 2022·45m
  137. 137

    | S4 | Episode 21 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 4

    Jul 20, 2022·43m
  138. 138

    | S4 | Episode 20 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 3

    Jul 6, 2022·1h 15m
  139. 139

    | S4 | Episode 19 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 2

    Jun 22, 2022·1h
  140. 140

    | S4 | Episode 18 | Letting go of Ghosts | Part 1

    Jun 8, 2022·1h 6m
  141. 141

    | S4 | Episode 17 | The City of the Dead | Part 4

    May 25, 2022·42m
  142. 142

    | S4 | Episode 16 | The City of the Dead | Part 3

    May 11, 2022·34m
  143. 143

    | S4 | Episode 15 | The City of the Dead | Part 2

    Apr 27, 2022·38m
  144. 144

    | S4 | Episode 14 | The City of the Dead | Part 1

    Apr 13, 2022·57m
  145. 145

    | S4 | Episode 13 | The Barrens | Part 3

    Mar 30, 2022·1h 29m
  146. 146

    | S4 | Episode 12 | The Barrens | Part 2

    Mar 16, 2022·1h 52m
  147. 147

    | S4 | Episode 11 | The Barrens | Part 1

    Mar 2, 2022·1h 18m
  148. 148

    | S4 | Episode 10 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 4

    Feb 16, 2022·1h 18m
  149. 149

    | S4 | Episode 09 | Bounty Hunter Blues | Part 3

    Feb 2, 2022·1h 21m