Short arcs, lethal rooms, lively tables.
Quests & Chaos Short Shots RPG is a short-form actual-play feed built around one-shots and limited campaigns. Recent arcs move from a lethal Curse of Strahd Death House riff to Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, mixing tactical combat, haunted rooms, and fast table comedy.
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Quests & Chaos Short Shots RPG gathers the shorter, sharper tabletop stories from the Quests and Chaos table. The feed is built around one-shots and limited runs, so the action starts close to the danger and rarely wanders far from it. Recent episodes show a strong D&D 5e focus. Death House Revisited turns the Curse of Strahd starter module into a deadlier, leveled-up haunted-house ordeal. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle shifts the tone toward starter-set adventure, cloisters, Myconids, fog, fungus, dragon signs, and party trouble on an island off the Sword Coast. The table keeps the rules visible. Damage totals, saving throws, initiative calls, advantage chains, spell effects, and positioning all matter on mic. That gives the show a tactical spine. It also stays loose. Players joke about angry Jell-O, suspicious furniture, bad ambushes, and whether negotiating with a mindless enemy is still technically available. The horror material has teeth, but the room never becomes joyless. Ghost children appear in an attic. A skull pushes the party into a miserable fight. Spiders hide under beds and in webbed closets. A house shudders, enemies burst from the ground, and someone is usually one unlucky roll away from disaster. Then the table laughs, checks a tab, moves a miniature, and finds the next ridiculous detail. Alondra Heilman’s Death House episodes frame the adventure with a clear, playful sense of menace, keeping the party moving through rooms that feel both dangerous and absurd. The Stormwreck Isle entries have a more introductory-adventure feel, but still carry the group’s taste for quick bits and sudden peril. This is actual play for listeners who enjoy the mechanics as part of the drama, not as dead air. It works best when the pleasure is hearing a table solve problems together while the dungeon keeps getting meaner.
Made for: Best for D&D actual-play listeners who like limited campaigns, audible table chemistry, tactical combat, and spooky fantasy scenarios. It also fits fans who want shorter arcs instead of a sprawling long-form campaign commitment.
What sets it apart: The show pairs compact adventure formats with a table that treats danger and comedy as part of the same rhythm. Its recent episodes make the mechanics legible while preserving the messy fun of players reacting in real time.
Quests and Chaos Presents: One Shots and Shorts Shots, our collection of special programing. Short shots such as our multi episode Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign to one shots in various RPG systems.
A skull asks to talk mid-fight; you've never been more right to question its timing.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A deadly haunted-house finale where radiant damage keeps the fight moving.
Death House Revisited closes with the house still pressing in on the party, and the finale keeps that danger in motion. At initiative 20, a tremor runs through the building and a foe bursts from the ground, turning the space itself into part of the fight.
A jelly-covered treasure room turns into a fast, scrappy mix of tactics, timing, and table banter.
Sunfern's breath weapon turns a treasure grab into a sticky little crisis, melting back the jelly around the prize and exposing that the room is less secure than anyone hoped.
Child ghosts, dusty toys, and loose table banter turn Death House's attic into comic gothic trouble.
Death House finds its best shape as a tight gothic chamber piece, turning a locked children's room into a strange little playground of dread and jokes. Once the party uncovers skeletons among dusty toys, the arrival of two child ghosts gives the scene a sharp, uneasy charge.
A giant spider, a stubborn door, and ghostly children give Death House Revisited a twitchy streak of comic dread.
The party presses farther into Death House Revisited, Alondra Heilman's up-leveled take on the Curse of Strahd starter module, and the danger starts small enough to be funny before it turns sharp.
A stubborn skull demands Death House's destruction, while the party counters with bargaining, spell math, and desperate tactics.
Death House stays in pressure-cooker territory with a basement standoff built around a stubborn skull, exhausted characters, tense bargaining, and spellwork folded into an already ugly fight.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
“One must die” becomes a negotiation about Strahd, the house, and a sacrifice.
Alondra Heilman runs Death House Revisited as a "very spooky and very deadly" Curse of Strahd variant, while the party keeps spending inspiration and gear from Quests & Chaos merch promos.
Alondra Heilman leads Quests & Chaos through a hyper-deadly riff on Curse of Strahd, with the party checking the attic, the porch, and the house's shifting stairwells.
Quests & Chaos Short Shots RPG turns Death House Revisited - Ep 3 Part 2 - One Must Die - Curse of Strahd into a basement negotiation, a hidden-room crawl, and a final cliffhanger.
Quests & Chaos Short Shots RPG follows the Death House from Curse of Strahd as the party meets Rose and Thorn in the attic, hears about a monster in the basement, and uses the dollhouse to locate a secret door.
Death House Revisited replaces death saves with automatic resurrection costing two coins, one card, or equipment worth 1,000 gold pieces.
In Quests & Chaos Short Shots RPG, the party searches the Durst home during Death House Revisited.
Alondra Heilman runs “Spoopy Scary Skeletons,” a Halloween one-shot where college freshmen face skeletons and chanting in a library.
A group plays through the D&D 5e starter set 'Dragons of Stormwrack Isle', investigating a Myconid community and battling monsters.
A group plays through the D&D 5e starter set Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, beginning their journey to Dragon's Rest Cloister.
A group plays through the D&D 5e starter set Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, continuing their adventure after a break.
A group plays through the D&D 5e starter set Dragons of Stormrack Isle, continuing their adventure after a long rest.