Mythic stakes, table-chaos delivery.
Some Would Play follows a long-running fantasy table through messy cities, Olympian disasters, suspicious nobles, and plans that rarely stay dignified. The appeal is the live friction: players arguing tactics, checking rules, derailing into jokes, then snapping back into the scene.
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Some Would Play is a long-running fantasy actual-play with the pulse of a home table left intact. It favors momentum over polish. Scenes build through quick exchanges, side comments, rules clarifications, and sudden dice calls, so the audience hears both the adventure and the people negotiating how the adventure works. Recent episodes split between street-level scheming in Ravencrest and the much larger Restoration of the Twelve Olympians arc. Ravencrest brings unemployment offices, class-divided districts, uneasy government work, Lord Blackbriar's carriage, private guards shouting about an assassin, and a party trying to turn a chaotic public incident into a controlled rescue. The Olympians material goes broader and louder. Rico, the Dungeon Master for Season 3, frames a campaign around Harmonia, the lands of Eris and Enyo, restored relics, Titans, Mount Olympus, and Zeus as the looming target. Debra plays the human rogue Neith. Matt plays the dragon-born monk Arifutan. Daphne plays the halfling druid Gilsire Venfire. Their table rhythm is fast and familiar, with jokes landing directly inside the action rather than waiting for clean scene breaks. A spell description can become a comedy beat. A failed dexterity roll can turn a rescue attempt into a character moment. A magical drink trough can produce tea, coffee, dragon milk, and a chain of increasingly silly questions. The show is blunt, messy, and knowingly absurd, but it still tracks tactics, stakes, and consequences. Characters heal injured strangers, tackle masked figures, ride Titans, blow holes in mountains, and try to manage divine-scale problems with adventurer-level planning. Recaps such as Debra's Diary give the serialized campaign some scaffolding. The rest stays happily unruly. For listeners who want tight studio storytelling, it may feel too conversational. For actual-play fans who enjoy hearing friends think, laugh, correct each other, and push a campaign forward in real time, that is exactly the point.
Made for: Best for fantasy actual-play listeners who enjoy visible mechanics, long campaign continuity, and friends riffing through tactical decisions. It also suits fans who like Greek-myth scale without losing the scrappy table feel.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the chatter in the engine room: rules explanations, dice checks, jokes, and scene narration all happen in the same breath. Its scale can jump from Ravencrest debt work to battling Zeus, but the tone stays unmistakably home-table.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Some Would Play pairs consequential fantasy campaigns with candid rules talk and a group dynamic that finds comedy inside nearly every tactical decision.
Some Would Play turns tabletop campaigns into loose, joke-filled group storytelling, with dice rolls and rules disputes sharing space with vivid fantasy scenes.
Ravencrest offers 3,000 gold each; you get adventurers who still stop to heal a stranger's knee.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Ravencrest delivers grim civic rot, charmed-horse chaos, and a debt-collecting hook with 3,000 gold in play.
Some Would Play frames Ravencrest's civic misery as paid work with a nasty shine on it. The party learns that the ravines function as slums, the marquee houses the government office, and Prometheus sits at the center of local power before a 30-gold advance and a promised 3,000…
Ravencrest's class divide sharpens when a small act of help points the party toward a masked-figure cliffhanger.
Ravencrest opens with class built into the city itself: the poor are down in the ravines, while commerce and government sit up around the marquee, with another district still left unnamed.
A mountain demolition plan turns mythic stakes into loose, funny table chaos.
The episode turns the question of freeing Gaia into a blunt, ridiculous mountain-demolition scheme, with Ares making the mountain itself the target.
Apollo's defeat gives way to Kronos' farm, magical drinks, and loose mythic table comedy.
Some Would Play opens Season 3 in the fallout from mythic violence, with Neith still trying to strike Apollo, Gilsire driving a javelin into his eye, Arifutan killing him, and Neith taking a piece of his soul as the volcano begins to stir.
A messy, rules-heavy actual-play fight where missed attacks, failed saves, and table banter edge the party toward disaster.
Some Would Play turns a fantasy campaign fight into a live dispute with the rules, as attacks keep glancing off a defense that shrugs off a 22 and even a 25.
A divine showdown where rules calls, bad dice, and table chatter keep cosmic consequences close.
Some Would Play turns a god fight into a clear, rule-driven crisis: Zeus is losing his godliness while Kronos becomes younger, stronger, and more vigorous. What gives the episode its charge is the clash between mythic scale and table-level fussiness.
Grim fantasy at mud level.
Fantasy rereads with jokes sharpened into arguments.
In this episode of Some Would Play, the party battles the sun god Apollo in his obsidian chamber.
A Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast episode where the party continues their quest to restore the Twelve Olympians, facing a crumbling pocket dimension and a hunt for a green dragon.
The Dungeon Master and players recap the previous episode where Poseidon transforms into an Elder Water Elemental and casts Feeble Mind on a character.
Some Would Play's Season 3 arc, "The Restoration of the Twelve Olympians," resumes with Rico, Debra, Matt, and Daphne returning to Harmonia after recovering the Cyclochronos, the Golden Apple of Discord, and the Robe and Necklace of Harmonia.
The party arrives in Ravencrest expecting debt-collection work for Lord Blackbriar and gets pulled into an assassination attempt within seconds of the handoff.
Ravencrest is split into the ravines, the marquee, and the spire, and the group starts at a broken unemployment office where a goblin hands out duplicate ticket number 93.
A Dungeons & Dragons campaign episode where the gods confront Zeus in a climactic battle.
The Dungeon Master introduces the season and players recap their last adventure riding Titans up Mount Olympus.
The Dungeon Master and players introduce themselves and recap the previous episode of their D&D campaign.
A Dungeon Master and players introduce themselves and recap the previous episode of a D&D campaign about restoring the Twelve Olympians.
Ares punches 50 feet into a mountain while Kronos tears open space to free Gaia.
Rico, Debra, Matt, and Daphne continue Season 3 of Some Would Play with the Restoration of the Twelve Olympians arc, and Kronos sends the party toward Gaia’s mountain instead of Atlas.
A D&D actual play podcast episode where the party continues their quest to restore the Twelve Olympians by navigating past lava golems.
The Dungeon Master and players introduce themselves and recap the previous episode of their D&D campaign, The Restoration of the Twelve Olympians.