About the show
The unofficial Dungeons & Dragons podcast that helps to put humans back into humanity and breathe life into your campaign NPC's with backstory and bravado.
Sidekicks & Sidequests is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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Episodes
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Episode 132 - Peep the Kenku Guard
July 24th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 23 mins
We join the table of Hillary Shurtleff to create Peep! Peep is a young kenku in the local town guard, with plans and ambitions to climb the ranks...all the way to the top! But his grandfather keeps wandering deeper and deeper into the woods...will help the elderly man before its too late?
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Episode 133 - Druthers & Druthers the Pair o' Legals
August 7th, 2024 | Season 5 | 2 hrs 2 mins
We return to the table of Johnny Stanton IV and bring along his co-host Travis Reaves. Together, they improv-create themselves the best (para)legal team of giff brothers, Druthers & Druthers. If you have troubles, they will represent you...and then find you a lawyer in the Astral Sea! However, their sidequest will test your legal and moral boundaries, weighing the pros and cons...
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Season 5 Update
September 13th, 2024 | Season 5 | 2 mins 33 secs
Just a quick word about what's been going on...
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Episode 134 - Daniel the Bobyr Baker
September 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 26 mins
We join the table of Dylan from the Kill Every Monster Podcast to create Daniel! Daniel is a Bobyr, one of my homebrew beaverfolk, who is a master baker in a sleepy hamlet. With no time for adventurers, he sends them on fool's errands. But what would happen if you actually find one of the Three Orbs of Harglax?
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Episode 135 - Steinway, Mabel, and the Balloon of Necromancy
October 2nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 41 mins
We join the table of Hannah Wright from the Inn Between Podcast to create Steinway and Mabel! Steinway is a tween boy, loyal bad guy minion in the Lich King's Army. Mabel is the skeletal balloonist of an advanced balloon airship! But these two have crash landed and desperate to find a fuel source in the nearby cave: a black pudding! Will you help these two get airborne?
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Episode 136 - Sven the Secret Slaad
October 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 59 mins
We join the table of Dr. Emily Friedman from Auburn University to roll the dice to create Sven! Sven appears as a Kalashtar, but is a secret green slaad within academia! He lectures on very high level magics of the multiverse, but hardly has the time to indulge the simple pleasure of life, like jam. Won't you help him out of a jam and acquire some jam in this hectic college town?
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Episode 137 - Timothy the Gallant Knight
October 30th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 48 mins
We join the table of Jade to roll the dice to create Timothy! Not to be confused with our favorite dragonborn blacksmith, but a duergar teen knight! A wetstone cutter who longs to escape the Underdark and become a knight like in the stories he found. He stumbles upon the party with this strange dog with a jeweled collar and map...will you help him on his path towards knighthood?
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Episode 138 - Ambrose Eusebius the Hidden Heretic
November 13th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 51 mins
We join the table of Mat from the podcast "Role Play Chat"! Bringing a character to us and infusing him with random dice rolls, we create Ambrose Eusebius, a cleric for a god of death, sent to heal the lands from ravaging plagues, undeath, and other ills of the world. But there is a darkness that lies beneath the golden hair and angelic eyes. He needs your help to free a source of suffering for his town...will you help?
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Episode 139 - Zaxibus and the Prickly Pete's Pouring Station
November 27th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 36 mins
We join the table of Randall Hampton who brings his own RNG-made character: Zaxibus! He's a retired adventuring wizard now turned into tavern proprietor! Even more famous than this wizard is the horse that the bar is named after. Zaxibus is offering a lump sum of gold or a Mug Club(™) Lifetime Membership for the return of a fallen comrade's necklace...from the Goblin Fortress.
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Episode 140 - Goobles "Goob" Horseradish the Cobbler of Lifting Shoes
December 11th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 19 mins
We join the table of Eva Terra to roll the dice to create Goobles "Goob" Horseradish! This elder tabaxi with a strange name is a cobbler of lifting shoes ("moon shoes") that keep you up off the ground! He values hospitality and for proper business to be conducted in his shop. But he needs the help of the party to find the missing pair of shoes that have gone bad and stalk the town...
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Episode 141 - Rime the Manticore Chocolatier
December 25th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 29 mins
We join the table of Nicole the GameMasterMom to roll the dice to create Rime! Rime is an adopted manticore in a family of brass dragonborns, making some of the finest chocolates in the desert. Not only are her skills renowned, but she even has the ear of The Emperor of the Capital city nearby. Her beloved customer needs help organizing his dragon's horde...are you up for the task?
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Episode 142 - Corazon's Cantrips for Kids!
January 8th, 2025 | Season 5 | 1 hr 50 mins
We join the table of Jessica Marcrum to roll the dice to create Corazon! This teenage meazel is teaching low-level cantrips to the younger kids in this swamp town, calling himself a professor! Taking a rebellious and redneck approach to arcana, he's looking to upgrade his library: the green hag's hut should have PLENTY of books for the taking...along with a 100 year-old sourdough starter...