Plus One To Hijinks: A Dungeons and Dragons Podcast

Plus One To Hijinks is a Dungeons and Dragons actual-play show about friends turning fantasy problems into comic momentum. The campaign excerpts center on the Going Once arc, where characters chase clues around Barge Ride Inn and try to understand a suspicious auction. There are notes to decode, rooms to search, and rival groups to size up. There is also a gambling establishment called the Scarlet Hen, which naturally becomes a stage for a chaotic bar fight. The table has a taste for loud characters and ridiculous names. Mourn Cycles and quadruple D arrive as Degeneration Hex, a pair of warlock showmen tied to organized matches, magic displays, and feats of strength. That setup gives the show room for both mystery and physical comedy. A character can cast invisibility in one scene and another can charge down a ramp looking for someone to hit with a chair. The humor comes from that collision. Serious fantasy procedure keeps getting interrupted by table logic, jokes about legality, and players narrating choices that barely stay under control. Alongside the campaign, the show runs Carpenter Bowl episodes devoted to John Carpenter films. These side episodes put movies into bracket matchups, then move through likes, dislikes, votes, and fantasy-draft endings. Halloween, Ghosts of Mars, Escape from New York, In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Starman, and Big Trouble in Little China all become material for argument. The movie talk is not academic, though it does notice craft, context, tropes, sound, acting, and concept. It is friend-group criticism with a scoreboard. The register is coarse, fast, and self-amused. Bits land, get stretched, and sometimes become the point for a while. For listeners who want carefully edited prestige fantasy, this may feel too unruly. For listeners who like the sound of a table making each other laugh while still moving through a campaign, it has a clear identity.