Swapped souls, failed rolls and a table full of arguments.
Save The D8 plays tabletop role-playing out loud: a narrator sets scenes and calls for rolls while four characters bicker, bargain and blow their checks. The numbered Epochs follow a fantasy party through soul swaps and mirror traps, and The Castaway Chronicles drops its players into a zombie outbreak in South Lake Union.
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Save The D8 is tabletop role-playing played out loud, with the dice, the rulings and the squabbling all left on the record. A narrator paints each scene and calls for rolls. The players answer in character, then break character to complain. The numbered Epochs follow four adventurers, Brash, Giddy, Aminta and Haven, through a fantasy world called Foon. One stained-glass floor in that world is decorated with mosaics of their earlier exploits, among them mini-golf, surfing dwarves and an airship dragon, which shows how easily the story swings between the epic and the daft. A soul swap runs through several Epochs. Aminta ends up in Haven's body and Haven in Aminta's, and the players argue over which name to use, soul or body, until someone offers to flag soul names out loud. It is small table business, and the show keeps it rather than cutting it. Elsewhere the party moves through a big top where a stained-glass Harlequin laughs down at them, and after stepping into a beam of light, each notices the others wearing that same smile. A mirror trap goes wrong. Brash jumps through and comes out fine, but Giddy stays trapped on the other side while hundreds of tiny Giddy figures go after Aminta. Another episode introduces Jynormus Gash, a figure who wipes a barbed-wire monocle on his arm with his eye still hooked to it. That same episode hands the party cast roles for improvised shows, including a sentient filing cabinet and a complainer who never works, in a sketch about a soul-harvesting office facing an audit. Wild magic is a hazard too: one player bags a suspect fragment while another refuses to go near it because it burns. Rolls matter and often disappoint, with an 11 on an arcana check and a 15 on persuasion both falling short. Some rulings lean toward story, as when a player is credited 'based on your character not your stat sheet.' Several Epochs open with a 'Previously on' recap, which helps anyone arriving mid-story. Outside the Epoch numbering sits The Castaway Chronicles, with Section III set during a zombie outbreak in South Lake Union, where the undead get mocked as tech bros and the harbor is a bloody mess of broken-into cars. The players make do with a roller skate and a first-aid kit, and someone suggests using a Sharpie to mark the edge of an infection as it spreads. For a quick taste of the humor, Epoch #132- The World's A Stage! is a good sample, since its improv prompts let the cast play straight comedy without leaving the campaign. The comedy is crude. Profanity is constant, sexual jokes come often, and the descriptions run to gore and body horror.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys actual-play role-playing with the out-of-character jokes and arguments left in, and who is comfortable with crude humor, heavy swearing and gory description.
What sets it apart: Instead of a tidy story, it keeps the table itself on the record: players fighting over names after a soul swap, grumbling about initiative, and rulings that sometimes favor character over the stat sheet. The Castaway Chronicles adds a modern zombie scenario alongside the fantasy Epochs.
People are getting abducted from their homelands and trapped in a prison with no name. Prisoners are kept under substandard conditions and either executed or forced to work for the prison when their time comes. Four of these prisoners plan to escape this terrible place and find their way home!
Hundreds of tiny Giddys attack; your hope of keeping this fantasy adventure orderly is gone.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A demonic office audit turns cursed workplace roles into a macabre stage show of escalating bodily chaos.
A barbed-wire monocle sets the tone as Jynormus Gash presides over a grotesque theatrical spectacle inside the Citadel. Once the fates select The Orifice, the group is dropped into an open-office nightmare where demonic soul reports, an audit, and cursed workplace roles turn…
A magic glass, a loose wild-magic spark, and a chain devil in crushed velvet pull the party into nastier territory.
Save The D8 follows the party after Lazator's circus tower, where victory over the Avatar leaves them with a new liability: Giddy's magical glass.
A body-swap fantasy scene turns identity confusion into brisk, uneasy comedy.
Body swaps are funny until everyone has to decide who they are, and Save The D8 sits right in that unease. Giddy, Brash, and their smaller selves are pulled into initiative while arguing over names, bodies, intelligence, and who gets to move first.
Painted glass, swapped bodies, and tiny mirror Giddies make one strange corridor a chaotic fight.
Fractured Reflections places its adventurers on painted glass over a star-flecked void, then pushes them through a mirror corridor filled with stained-glass memories of Foon.
A body-swap mystery curdles into vows, masked Harlequins, and a deadly beam of light.
The episode takes a body-swap mystery and keeps tightening it into something stranger: a search for a guarded heart, tangled vows, evasive answers, and a very literal Harlequin.
In a zombie apocalypse scenario set in Seattle, two survivors argue about strategy and survival skills while dealing with the undead.
Save The D8: Epoch #132, “The World’s A Stage!” centers on a party bargaining with Jynormus Gash in the Citadel, where he asks for “real theater” instead of “fuck-slop” and offers the heart of Lord Tenenbrunth as the prize.
Save The D8 #131, “Magicule Storm,” sends the party through a shatter storm, a glass-scarred badlands, and into Velsintra, a city built on art-deco excess and hedonism.
Save The D8 episode “Epoch #130- A Million Little Giddys” opens with a fight against tiny mirror versions of Giddy, including Locate Creature, fairy fire, and a swarm that deals 37 slashing damage.
Save The D8’s “Epoch #129- Fractured Reflections” follows a body-swap party through a painted-glass corridor, a puppet gatekeeper named Lala, and a mirror carnival built around the evil laughing god.
Two people argue over the correct order of their names while someone asks for dice rolls.
Save The D8’s “Swip/Swap” sends four players’ characters into a mirrored hallway after their bodies are swapped.
Lazator’s city centers on a smashed-together carnival spire, with distorted performers and tiny pink and blue demons.
Save The D8's “Epoch #125- Between A Horde and A Tentacle Monster” follows Brash, Giddy, Haven, and Aminta through a Dungeons & Dragons battle with Lusax.
Four prisoners plan to escape a mysterious prison and find their way home during a zombie apocalypse.
In a zombie apocalypse scenario set in Seattle, two survivors argue about strategy and survival skills while dealing with the undead.
Four prisoners plan to escape a mysterious prison, with the episode featuring a combat encounter where a character uses rage and teleportation.
Two teams compete in a D&D Olympics event, navigating the Tomb of Horrors and earning points for roleplay, combat, and treasure while facing traps and a time limit.