Sea elves, spike pits and one very unlucky archer.
Vicky's World is a Dungeons & Dragons actual play built on story arcs, with Vicky narrating as dungeon master and a cast of four joking its way through her world. One minute a player is quizzing her about rope length above a spike pit; the next, a botched shot is ricocheting off three palm trees.
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Vicky's World is a Dungeons & Dragons actual play, and it wears its campaign structure openly: episodes are numbered, grouped into arcs, and sometimes tagged in their titles with the arc they belong to. Vicky is the dungeon master. The adventuring cast is Jon Gracey, Sasha Ellen, Dan Simpson and Talal Karkouti. The stories range widely. In the City of Cats, as recapped in Ep20: STOP THE PRESSES (City of Cats), a man named Samir is arrested on his wedding day for a theft the party doubts he committed, a powerful family called the Saeeds holds far too much sway, a vault of secret-laden treasures beckons, and an assassin strikes in the night. The episodes tagged (Etienne Regia) take to the water. There is a quest for the Golden Isle, whose reward would finally pay for the trip home, a sea elf town called Lateu'ivae where the party hunts for an 'elfiltrator' on behalf of a magical being named Caresque, and a ship whose mast nearly splinters onto the deck. Ep41: INTO THE STORM PART I opens with talk of an intermission mini arc that Vicky planned between arcs, and its excerpt finds a player dangling over a ten-foot spike pit, working out rope lengths and leaps before remembering a knack for falling slowly. That fussy, practical back-and-forth with the dungeon master is much of the fun. So is the chaos of the dice. A natural one sends an arrow ricocheting off three palm trees and into its own archer's face. A player carves a target from neck to torso, divides it into four and serves it with a light garnish, prompting Vicky to note how much gets done in six seconds. When Sally hauls in the sails through magic and sheer grip, the table cannot resist a joke about fruit guns. Vicky's narration supplies the counterweight. She lingers on rippling chamber walls hung with ancient tapestries, a dwarven fiddle striking up a jaunty tune, and a captain calling for the finest grog and stew before one last happy night. Recaps can come in a character's voice, whether a party member listing what everyone got up to in town or a reluctant narrator eager to get back to the gardening. Sessions have been broadcast live on Twitch and then edited into episodes, and the feed also includes BONUS: LIVE AT DRAGONMEET 2021, in which one player's plan to ride a corpse is instantly nominated as the episode's title. For intrigue, the City of Cats run is marked in its titles; for ship decks, sea elves and island camps, look for the (Etienne Regia) tag. The numbering reaches into the forties, and the Ep41 cold open speaks of a final arc for the main campaign and plans for what comes next. It is a long campaign with a real throughline, and plenty of jokes along the way.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants actual-play Dungeons & Dragons where the table jokes and dice disasters matter as much as the plot, and who is happy to follow one campaign through numbered, named arcs.
What sets it apart: Vicky's scene-setting narration, full of tapestries, fiddles and promises of a richer world, runs straight into a cast that answers with fruit-gun jokes and carved-and-garnished targets. Recaps sometimes arrive in a character's voice, which puts a storybook frame around the chaos.
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A shit-smeared spike pit is where your heroic instincts meet Vicky's extremely specific geometry.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A sky-breaking disappearance turns into a filthy spike-pit scramble of peril, low rolls, and loose table banter.
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A jewel hunt, a corpse ride, and a murder thread make for a cheerfully wayward fantasy detour.
The jewel hunt gives this single-episode review its comic engine, turning a practical search into a loose fantasy riff on fairground prizes, a jewel shop, alchemy, and one especially strange attempt to ride and steer a corpse by its horns.
A ghost-haunted voyage slows beside an underground lake for music, stew, mischief, and one last happy night.
Vicky's World settles into a quiet underground pause as the party camps beside a subterranean lake after sailing on ghosts. Ancient tapestries seem to move across the walls, a stone staircase climbs farther into the rock, and Captain Stern's promise of a return to a richer world…
A damaged-ship rescue turns rope, magic, and absurd table banter into one tense climb.
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A collapsing sea elf town sets up a lively, dangerous fight where party banter and unlucky magic keep shifting the mood.
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["Vicky Hawley opens Vicky's World Ep41, 'Into the Storm Part I,' as a bridge between Arc Three and the final campaign arc after the crew disappeared at sea.", "Dan Simpson's Gwathryn wakes on a storm-battered rock outcrop, and a Sleight of Hand check to 're-ravel reality' lands on 22.", "The search moves through low clouds, lightning, burn-scored stone, a moldy chamber, and a dwarven corpse with mushrooms growing through her armor.", "Gwathryn then finds a hidden stone tunnel, a spike pit smeared with shit, and a sleeping gnomish woman with bone knives and a stone spear."]
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Vicky's World episode 'Ep39: ARRIVAL TO ISLE D'OR (Etienne Regia)' follows Sally Spearfish through a ghost-island detour and a Dawn Shield briefing beneath Vigonia Harbour.
Vicky's World episode 37, "QUALM AFTER THE STORM (Etienne Regia)," traps the Maiden's Revenge in a lightning storm off Etienne Regia while the crew fights for their lives on deck and in the water.
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Vicky's World Ep33 follows the crew of the Maiden's Revenge after they leave Frothborn, with Katayev Khan fixing the bounty figurehead to the bow while dangling from a 50-foot silk rope.
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