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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.
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Episodes
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Episode 143 - Parleys at the Platter #3: Game Design, Play, and D&D
January 22nd, 2025 | Season 5 | 1 hr 43 mins
Happy New Year! My apologies for the delay on this episode. For our third Parleys at the Platter special, I invited Dr. Paul Gestwicki, Alyssa Visscher, Benjamin Huffman, and Mark Thompson back onto the podcast to discuss something in the zeitgeist with the new 2024 Rules being published: the nature of game design, the idea of play, and how it all relates to D&D. So join this globe-spanning panel (USA, Canada, and the UK) as we discuss everything from the 3rd party developers and homebrew content, to OSR & 4th Edition, and our (at the time) speculations and hopes for the 2024 rules.
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Season 6 Update
February 19th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 min 49 secs
What to look forward to for Season 6.
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Episode 144 - Thalara Solanis and the Almiraj Lodge
February 19th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 46 mins
We join the table of Eating the Dungeons to use TWO sets of random tables to roll the dice to create Thalara Solanis and the Almiraj Lodge! She is a young and successful Vedalken running her own tavern and alehouse, and she keeps the atmosphere both professional cozy with all these rabbits around...or are they more than meets the eye? She needs the party to go to the Feywild to check on an old friend...
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Episode 145 - Antoine and Mina: Fantasy Truckers
March 19th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 40 mins
We return to the table of Elizabeth and Michael Horsley, another three-peat and roll the dice to create Antoine and Mina. A pair of half-elves who are striking out on their own as newlywed merchant wagon team (a.k.a. fantasy truckers). With limited choices, they accept a job to transport highly dangerous, arcane ingredients along the road. Will you and your party journey with this wagon and earn your wages of peril?
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Episode 146 - Einon the Dragonborn Minstrel
April 16th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 35 mins
We join the table of Frederick from Hell's Enemy to roll the dice to create Einon! He is a buffoonish, bronze dragonborn bard who exudes both confidence and delusion. He's run into trouble and needs the party to go retrieve a painting from his old apartment...the trouble is...there's more to this painting than meets the eye!