Mad Dungeon
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMad Dungeon is a podcast where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable one-page adventure map using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games
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MD 307 Goblin Guards & Credit Cards - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
June 13, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB307 Goblin Guards & Credit Cards - Rise of the Vat Spawn The Vat Spawn peruse the lobby of the goblin museum when the alarm button gets pushed after Tiger Wizard is caught trying to steal trillmatic rings. A negotiation starts up on either side of a force field with a goblin on stilts named Snax. An elite goblin named Meat Fists swallows a cat whole and pulls out its skeleton to intimidate the crew. Bat Alchemist and Tiger Wizard calm the situation down with successful converse rolls. Tiger...
309 Side Quest - Elisa Teague (Marvel, The Crooked Moon, Surviving Strange Hollow, Gloomhaven RPG)
June 06, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBOur guest this week is Elisa Teague as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We discuss her history with the game, including a 13-year D&D campaign! We discuss her work with Founders and Legends, The Crooked Moon: Folk Horror in 5E by Legends of Avantris, Surviving Strange Hollow, Gloomhaven RPG, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game (Cataclysm of Kang and the upcoming X-Men Expansion Sourcebook. We get into our favorite X-people. Elisa has a love...
MD 306 Ducats & Deposits - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
May 30, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBThe Vat Spawn leave the colosseum of mutilation and head to Goblintown. There they infiltrate a secret epicenter of commerce in Def Jamisus called The Goblin Museum. Behind security doors, trades and saves are happening. Tiger Wizard, Bat Alchemist, and Warlock Roc make cash money deposits with an anxious goblin while Dragon Warrior admires a sculpture exhibit of famous goblin busts before all hell breaks loose. ANNOUNCEMENTS THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop alb...
308 Side Quest - Luke Stratton (Pirate Borg, Limithron, Free League)
May 15, 2024 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBThis week our guest is Luke Stratton, creator of Pirate Borg and we talk about his history with D&D and roleplaying, getting into the OSR and MÖRK BORG, a birthday surprise involving the film The Game, and how he assembled his pirate crew to make the game a success. Follow Luke, Limithron & Pirate Borg: Website - IG - Facebook - X - YouTube - LinkTree — ANNOUNCEMENTS THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP is out now on all streaming platforms. Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album features Mega Ran...
MD 305 Mutilations & Standing Ovations - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
May 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBMD 305 Mutilations & Standing Ovations This week the Vat Spawn, dressed as Def Jamisus Garys (that’s the police), have infiltrated the colosseum just in time to view the public mutilation of ten people, who were then dropped to the Necropolis below. The cops, who’s clothes they stole, found the Vat Spawn and a brawl commenced in the side hall of the arena. ANNOUNCEMENTS THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is out this Friday. It featu...
The Mad Dungeon Podcast Ennie submision
May 01, 2024 02:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is an abbreviated version of our episode last summer with Joey Royale. Be sure to check out the map on our website.
307 Side Quest - Sarah Moore (GenConTV, Formerly Feral Games, World of Chaldea)
April 29, 2024 19:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThis week our guest is Sarah Moore, host of Sarah's Table on GenConTV where she spotlights RPGs created by indie designers and small publishers. She's the co-designer of The Crowned, an RPG by Formerly Feral Games, where you play a god of a small slice of reality. Sarah is also the production coordinator for Actoroke and wears many hats for Peter Adkison's World of Chaldea. We also discuss what “joyful gaming” means to her. Follow Sarah (Pixies and Pins): Website - IG - Facebook - X - Sarah...
SQ 306 Stefan Pokorny (Dwarven Forge, The Dwarvenaut, Starforged)
April 17, 2024 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBThis week Stefan Pokorny of Dwarven Forge is our guest from our Gary Con 2024 series focusing on the question, “What has 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons meant to you?” We discuss his childhood in NYC and growing up with D&D, his journey from artists to sculptor of the most popular modular terrain for tabletop roleplaying, The Dwarvenaut (the 2016 documentary about him), and his latest venture Starforged (his new collection of hand-painted, modular sci-fi terrain cast in Dwarvenite). Follow...
MD 304 AGAB: All Garys Are Bastards - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
April 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBThis week the Vat Spawn are at the Rock Ride station platform with The Coroner. They’re stopped while trying to pass through a DJPD checkpoint. The fuzz find a joint on Warlock Roc and they’re detained. They unsuccessfully attempt to bribe the officers, and the cops call in backup. Tiger Wizard uses the Mad Dungeon word “sneakily” to create a cartoon style fight cloud, and they come out with their clothing swapped. The Vat Spawn escape in their new police uniforms, make their way through t...
SQ 305 Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games, Against the Gloom, Psychic Trash Detectives)
April 03, 2024 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBOur guest this week is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games. Brigitte (she/her) is a writer, photographer, and game designer based in Maryland. She consumes and creates stories and games that are queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird. We talked about Scryptid Games, Psychic Trash Detectives, Ball of the Wild and their Kickstarter for Against the Gloom where you play punk pirate troubadours who fight against the Gloom. We’re excited to announce that we, Epic Levels, will be providin...
MD 303 City Streets & Spaghetti Treats - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
March 27, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBThis week our heroes meet The Coroner in the basement of his mortuary. We learn that the dead bodies of Def Jamisus city are sent down chutes to the Necropolis below. The Marshal of Mummies explains that astral markers are needed to re-up their magical powers before leaving them with The Coroner to take them to view today’s public executions, and will meet them in goblin town later. The vat spawn move through the streets of the walled city, learning more about tone-stone, that there’s vend...
SQ 304 Mystic Punks RPG w/ Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo
March 20, 2024 19:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week we talk with Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo about their kickstarter for the Mystic Punks TTRPG, OUT TODAY exclusively through Exalted Funeral. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game We talk about all the fun things that come with the Mystic Punks Tabletop Roleplaying Game Kickstarter: All the rad art, including some from our very own Tiger Wizard. Weird Wanderings Vol. 1 - Mystic Punk adventures written by our own Dragon Wa...
MD 302 Condos & Conspiracies - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
March 13, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBThis week, the Vat Spawn chat about crime and punishment before smoking a joint to heal their wounds. Dr. Dre-colich shows the vat spawn to their very specific apartments and they get geared up for their intense four-part mission. First, infiltrate a goblin enclave to find CleRick Rubin's missing daughter. Second, cozy up to CleRick Rubin and the Mayor to find out where they are keeping the dragon orbs. Third, get the dragon orbs. Lastly, Party. We learn about tone stone, the musical buildin...
SQ 303 Luke Gygax (Gary Con, Founders & Legends, Gaxx Worx)
March 07, 2024 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBOur guest this week is Luke Gygax and we talk Founders & Legends (Mar. 15-20), Gary Con (March 21st-24th) and Gaxx Worx: Okkorim, G20 shoes and G20 magazine, Gooey Cube. The Tomb of Gyzaengaxx: Mega-Adventure & Campaign, 50 Years of Adventures - Essays collection. Follow Luke at: website – IG – FB – Twitter Follow Gary Con at: website – IG – FB – Twitter – TikTok – YouTube – Twitch ANNOUNCEMENTS DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats is live on Kickstarter for ...
MD 301 The Necropolis - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
February 28, 2024 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBWelcome to episode one of Rise of the Vat Spawn! In this episode, our protagonists are birthed from colorful vats before fighting some undead skeletal animals. Dragon Warrior gets stabbed in the guts. Warlock Roc gets sprayed by goo. Bat Alchemist manipulates that same liquid goo to freeze the baddies in places. Tiger Wizard tames a skeletal tiger. They’re introduced to Anoop, the Marshal of Mummies, and their creator, an undead dragon named Dr. Drecolitch, explains the necropolis they’re ...
SQ 302 Justin Sirois (GameFace Con, Severed Books & Toys)
February 20, 2024 19:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBThis week we chat with Justin Sirois of Severed Books & Toys to discuss the first Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th at Peabody Brewery. Sign up to be notified of his BackerKit to make Mork Borg Action figures that launches April 2nd. This is a collab with Johan Nohr & Pelle Nilsson. The 7-inch fully articulated figure of the skeleton from the cover of the MÖRK BORG. It will also include a zine written by Pelle and art by Johan, Dread Risen Zine. Listen to our Mad Dungeon epis...
MD 300 Session Zero - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
February 15, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBWelcome to session zero of our season 3 actual play Rise of the Vat Spawn where fantasy and hip hop culture are smashed together to create an epic urban adventure. Here we'll discuss what to expect for the season, including format, tone, safety tools, and we'll utilize Mad Dungeon words as we have in our previous seasons. We'll create and introduce the characters (Tiger Wizard, Dragon Warrior, Warlock Roc and Bat Alchemist) using the Mystic Punks RPG system. Steve gave the team his inspir...
SQ 301 Mystic Punks RPG w/ Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo
February 07, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBWelcome to our first episode of Season Three! This week we talk with Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo about their upcoming kickstarter for the Mystic Punks TTRPG, out exclusively through Exalted Funeral. Pre-save the Mystic Punks Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game?ref=clipboard-prelaunch We discuss our season three actual play in which mash fantasy and hip hop as we explore the city-state of Def Jamisus using the Mys...
MD 241 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 2) w/ Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay, Sean K. Reynolds
December 29, 2023 18:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBFor part two of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with: Marc Miller, legendary creator behind Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), Traveller and owner of Far Future Enterprises. Shanna Germain, award-winning author, editor, game designer and co-founder of Monte Cook Games. We talk The Magnus Archives and her next novel. Follow Shanna: Website - Patreon - Instagram - Twitter - Facebook Chris Lindsay, product Marketing Manager at Wizards of the Coast, head Dungeon Master...
MD 240 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 1) w/ Monte Cook, Mike Mason, Skip Williams, Jeff Richard, Joseph Goodman
December 20, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBFor part one of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with: Monte Cook of Monte Cook Games talks about D&D 3E, Numenera, Cypher System, Old Gods of Appalachia RPG and his upcoming The Magnus Archives. Follow Monte Cook: Website - Twitter - Facebook Mike Mason of Chaosium talks Call of Cthulhu, Alone Against the Static, Arkham Unveiled, the upcoming/updated Cthulhu By Gaslight and his podcast Eldritch Stories. Follow Chaosium: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - ...
MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski (Titmouse, The Legend of Vox Machina, Mighty Nein)
December 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis week’s guest is Chris Prynoski, owner of Titmouse, and we talk about The Legend of Vox Machina, the upcoming Mighty Nein, the power he gained as steward of The Sandal of Gygax, and his game group the Murder Hobos. Follow Titmouse: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Facebook - Titmouse merch MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski This store has a portcullis separating you from the nugglets, zombie-like living testies that’ll chomp your nards. Hangin’ Brains, the seamstr...
SQ 209 PAX Unplugged 2023 Recap
December 07, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week we talk about all the fun we had at PAX Unplugged 2023. Thursday: Andrew set up the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve said hi to Tony Vacinda (Plus One Exp), Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), Brian Colin (Vast Grimm), Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink) and Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands). Then they both went to a party hosted by 9th Level Games. Friday: Andrew worked the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve ran Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE: Old School Essen...
MD 238 Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin’s Chuckle Cottage w/ Amy Vorpahl (D&D, Dimension 20, Critical Role)
November 30, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBThis week’s guest is Amy Vorpahl and we talk about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, Candlekeep Mysteries, Dimension 20 , Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom, her latest album Behold Her Dreams, Geek & Sundry to Critical Role and her D&D Beyond show “Jingleshearth.” Follow Amy: Website/Newsletter - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - TikTok - Bandcam — Ad-lib: “I know that (a PC) kissed (a silly name) underneath the (a silly place) and you had your (a silly object) in your left hand.” Chuckle C...
MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman (Tabletop Gaymers)
November 22, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBThis week’s guest is Justin Nauman, president of Tabletop Gaymers. We talk about the GAYMER and ALLY Badge Ribbons that they pass out at conventions, Gayme Night for LGBTQ+ Community Centers and The Gaming Safe Space Initiative - in association with GAMA. Follow Tabletop Gaymers: Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitch - Discord MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman Two thin runways are above a 30-foot drop to a magnetic floor. You’re welcomed by the floating Bearbara Grizzelich, a dr...
MD 236 Basilica of the Last Bout w/ Jacqueline Bryk (A Thousand Yards Of Lace, Vampire: The Masquerade 5e, World of Darkness)
November 16, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBThis week’s guest is game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, and editor Jacqueline Bryk. We talk about her background in diplomacy and how that fits into how she designs games, TTRPG safety tools as a language of communicating with each other, and her surrealist fiction zine The Pinesorrow Collection, Vol. 1, a love letter to atmospheric storytelling. We discuss her LARP games like Send N00ds and solo games like Just A Little Time, I Have No Railgun And I Must Scream, and Butterfly On Th...
MD 235 Sluggoth Love-Off w/ Alex Roberts (Star Crossed, For the Queen)
November 09, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBThis week’s guest is Alex Roberts who won the Diana Jones Award for her game Star Crossed. We discuss Star Crossed, safety tools when playing TTRPGs, and her card-based storytelling game For the Queen. We also talk about the supplement Star Crossed: Love Letters which is crowdfunding now! BACK STAR CROSSED: LOVE LETTERS ON BACKERKIT Follow Alex: Website - Newsletter - Instagram - X/Twitter - Itch.io -- There’s a love triangle between Sluggoth, an elder space-slug deity with a 30’ aura of...
MD 234 Gold in the Blood w/ Max Moon (Abyss of Hallucinations, Twelve Years RPG)
November 02, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBThis week’s guest is Max Moon of Max Moon Games. We talk about his latest project Abyss of Hallucinations (Kickstarting via Exalted Funeral now), Book of Lies, The Demon Lord Expansion for Twelve Years RPG, Fairyland, and Cthulugans. Support the Abyss of Hallucinations Kickstarter here! Fully funded and all stretch goals are unlocked! Follow Max: Website - Instagram — This immaculate, gold-plated room has 1d100 gold heads scattered around the floor. Gold fairies are stoned and having a g...
SQ 208 Gamehole Con & Cabin in the Woods Con 2023 Recaps
October 26, 2023 01:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week we talk about all the fun we had at Cabin in the Woods Con & Gamehole Con 2023. At Cabin in the Woods Con 2023 we played: Pukeapocalypse - run by Andrew Bellury D&D 5E - “That Which Lurks Beneath” - run by Ryan Steffen D666 (Tiny Dungeon meets Maze Rats) “Wizard Robbers” where we rob the wizard manses from DCC’s Dying Earth Box Set - Jeremy Deram The Dept. of Kids Who Know There are Monsters Under the Bed - original game playtest - run by Zach Cowan Mystic Punks - “The Thr...
MD 233 Fen of Frogore: Ooze, Booze and Canoes w/ Alex Kammer (Gamehole Con, Frog God Games, The End of Everything)
October 18, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThis week’s guest is Alex Kammer, director of Gamehole Con. We talk about what to expect at this year’s Gamehole Con, October 19th - 22nd, 2023 in Madison, WI. We also discuss his upcoming D&D campaign book, The End of Everything that he wrote with Alan Patrick (out via Frog God Games). Sign up for The End of Everything Kickstarter pre-launch HERE. Follow Alex: Website - XTwitter — The Fen is a mix of nuclear waste and slimy frog skin. Nuclear barrels float next to hundreds of bowling-ba...
MD 232 Paper Pirates of the Renegade Heart w/ James D’Amato (One Shot Podcast, Campaign: SkyJacks, The Ultimate RPG series)
October 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBThis week’s guest is James D’Amato of the One Shot Podcast Network and we talk about Campaign: Skyjacks and where the the crew of the Uhuru is headed next, his home game Campaign Starwhal: Odyssey and how this is helping him build the game mechanics that will be the Skyjacks roleplaying game system, and his The Ultimate RPG series including his upcoming Game Master's Guide: Advice and Tools to Run the Best Game Ever. Follow James: Website - XTwitter - Patreon MD 232 Paper Pirates of the R...
MD 231 Tiny Tarts with Big Hearts w/ Tyler Crumrine (Beak, Feather, & Bone, Claw Atlas) and artists David Hoskins, Erol Otus join us to judge our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest
October 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBThis week’s guest is Tyler Crumrine of Possible World Games and we talk about his map-labeling game Beak, Feather, & Bone and its Ennie-winning (Best Cartography) expansion Claw Atlas. We talked about his one-shot games like Dating.Sim, what he’s learned from teaching game design at Carnegie Mellon University, and his upcoming RPG card project BAD BAD BAD. Follow Tyler: Website - Discord - XTwitter - Instagram - Facebook -- MD 231 - Tiny Tarts with Big Hearts As you enter Tiny Tarts, a ...
MD 230 Cyber Sisyphus w/ Andrew Clayton (Foundry Virtual Tabletop)
September 27, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBThis week’s guest is Andrew Clayton and we talk about his Foundry Virtual Tabletop and how it started with his own curiosity and playing online with his friends. We discuss Foundry’s place in the TTRPG community, its low barrier to entry for basic functions and how it’s great for technical folks who love to tinker. Andrew also answers several questions from friend of the show Jeremy Deram of People Them With Monsters. Follow Foundry VTT: Website - XTwitter - Bluesky -- This room is covere...
MD 229 Book ov Blood & Fire w/ Luke Crane (Burning Wheel, Torchbearer, Mouse Guard, Miseries & Misfortunes)
September 20, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBThis week’s guest is Luke Crane and we get into the philosophy behind TTRPG creation. We talk about making games as a teen, creating his games Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard and Torchbearer. We talk about his LARP Inheritance, and Luke and Steve playing it together at Gen Con 2023. Follow Luke Crane: Website -- Flaming blood drips from the ceiling onto narrow ledges over a pool of fire-blood that’ll stick to you like napalm. Trap! A portcullis drops down in the doorway you came through, cuttin...
MD 228 TacocaT Cafe w/ Matthew Grau (CthulhuTech, Gwar vs. Time, League of Legends)
September 13, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThis week’s guest is Matthew Grau of WildFire Games and we talked about his upcoming CthulhuTech: The Shadow War Quick-Start Rules (V2), working with the scumdogs of the universe to create his deck-building game Gwar vs. Time, his stint at Riot Games building the world of League of Legends, and growing up in the Twin Cities with D&D’s Dave Arneson in his life. — Follow WildFire Games: Website - FB - Discord This pleasant cafe’s walls are lined with tables and cat-condos covered in a menag...
SQ 207 Dragon Con 2023 Recap
September 06, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBThis week we recap our time at Dragon Con 2023, including their group costume as characters from the Disney Wasteland, wrestling, RPG panels, and of course tons of gaming! Steve ran our Mad Dungeon rooms using both Mystic Punks RPG and OSE - Old School Essentials, and playtested his Cursed Cabin RPG. Andrew playtested his upcoming game Postcards from the Apocalypse, and finally got to play Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (by Corey Konieczka, Fantasy Flight Games, 2008) and Teenage Mut...
MD 227 Gorm Gasher’s Nickels w/ Chris O'Neill (9th Level Games, Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying, Kobolds Ate My Baby)
August 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBThis week’s guest is Chris O’Neill of 9th Level Games . We talk Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying, Kobolds Ate My Baby and his latest Return to Dark Tower RPG. Follow 9th Level Games: Website - FB - IG - XTwitter - YouTube - TikTok - You step into the interior of a slot machine. The floor is an unstable pile of 10-foot diameter wooden nickels. In front of you are three massive wheels that spin vertically every time the giant troll Gorm Gasher puts a new nickel in the slot hundreds of feet above ...
MD 226 Cauldron of Sadness w/ Gavin Norman (Necrotic Gnome, Dolmenwood, OSE - Old School Essentials)
August 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBThis week’s guest is Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome. We talk about OSE - Old School Essentials, and his incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for Dolmenwood RPG with Exalted Funeral. The Kickstarter is live now though Sep. 8, 2023. Follow Necrotic Gnome: Website - FB - IG - XTwitter -- In the center of the room is the Cauldron of Sadness. It has arms to stir itself and quick legs that dance and leap, yet it never spills a drop. It has a duality of goblin faces on either side. One is ...
MD 225 Idea Pool w/ Joshua Therrien
August 16, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBThis week’s guest is Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard’s forever dungeon master Joshua Therrien. We talk about game mastering, preparing to run campaigns and deep diving into world building his campaign settings for The Scouring Campaign, The Wasteland Campaign and The Malagorn Campaign. -- Catwalks look down into the Idea Pool where aquatic creatures swim through liquid infinity. Elias Thugburger tells you the rules. Pay him a meaningful memory (lose it forever), and in exchange you may put...
SQ 206 Gen Con 2023 Recap
August 10, 2023 03:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBThis week we recap Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard's time at Gen Con 2023. Steve ran season 2 Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE - Old School Essentials. He attended The Ennies ceremony, attended several panels and played Hackmaster, Rocket Age and was invited by Luke Crane to play in his LARP, Inheritance. Andrew manned the booth selling Epic Levels wares alongside Justin Sirois (Severed Books) and Brian Colin (Creature Curations, Vast Grimm). He also watched the band Magic Sword perform, playe...
MD 224 Citrol the Star Troll w/ Darcy Perry (Duckquest, Star Hat Miniatures)
August 02, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBThis week’s guest is New Zealand writer, artist, musician and game designer Darcy Perry. We talk about his Ennie nominated RPG DuckQuest, Star Hat Miniatures, Petty Gods, and Quack Keep. Follow Darcy: Website - FB - IG - Twitter -- Citrol the Orang-a-Tang: He was born a glowing star troll, but was cursed to be the tree of memory and thought in the center of this room. The moranges grow from his boughs. He knows which person each fruit is linked to. He has the face of an orangutan-troll in...
MD 223 Pool of the Acid Wasp w/ Gavriel Quiroga (Hell Night, Neurocity, Warpland)
July 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBThis week’s guest is Gavriel Quiroga and we talk about his Worlds of Quiroga projects: Hell Night, Neurocity, and Warpland. Check out the Hell Night playlist. Follow Gavriel: at Website - FB - FB Group - IG - Twitter - Spotify — In the corner is a titanic skull-shaped wasp hive that has a steady stream of gooey acid pouring from its mouth. Consuming acid from the pool gives you a psychedelic experience. In the hive are horse-sized drones and one queen named Avispa the Wild Child. All of ...
MD 222 Changarro of the God Burrito w/ Levi Nunez (Loot the Body, Skate Wizards)
July 19, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBThis week’s guest is psychedelic indie-rock musician Levi Nunez of Loot the Body. We talk about Skate Wizards RPG, his #Dungeon23 project where he’s writing one song a month based on other creator’s #Dungeon23 projects, including “Ricksanthemum Garden” based on Mad Dungeon episode 206 w/ Brendan LaSalle, and his latest EP +5EP. Follow Levi: at Bandcamp - YouTube - IG - Twitter - Mastodon -- Changarro: This temple is a simple restaurant covered by a tent with strings of lights. An Aztec...
MD 221 A Brush with Death w/ Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink, DCC, Troika!, Mothership, MÖRK BORG)
July 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBThis week’s guest is Jarrett Crader. We talk about his history of editing and proofreading RPGs and the launch of his new company Space Penguin Ink, and discuss the products he’s selling: Adrift, Beyond the Silver Scream, Distress Signals, Dread Nights, Garden of Corda. Follow Jarrett: at Website - IG - Twitter -- General Paste, an anthropomorphic tube of toothpaste, rides on a storm cloud that rains down green rock candy that he wants you to eat. Rock candy floods from a large mouth into...
SQ 205 Magic the Hammering - BattleCards - Thunder Road: Vendetta
July 05, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week we celebrate Andrew's birthday by renting a castle and playing a pile of games: Thunder Road: Vendetta • Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza • Billiards (Cut Throat) • Jenga • Wavelength • BattleCards • Magic the Hammering (MtG Warhammer 40k commander meets Warhammer 40k Kill Team) • Dragon Death Race • Postcards from the Apocalypse • Fishbowl (Celebrity) • MtG: Lord of the Rings Commander -- Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of...
MD 220 Judgment of the Locktopus w/ Andre Novoa (Games Omnivorous, Mausritter, Frontier Scum)
June 29, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBThis week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivourous. We talk about Hex Omnivourous, (Undying Sands, Bottled Sea and The Hexcrawl Toolbox), Mausritter by Isaac Williams, Manifestus Omnivorous, Frontier Scum, Death Robot Jungle LP, Putrescence Regnant (MÖRK BORG LP) and playing music in general. Follow Andre: at Website - IG - Twitter — This sandy beach has a deep pool of water in the center containing The Locktopus, a large skeletal octopus with bone tentacles that each end in a key numb...
MD 219 The Omega Slice w/ Joey Royale (Get Haunted Industries, Darkest Dice RPG, DCC - Ninja City & One of Us #1, Weird Heroes of Public Access)
June 21, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBThis week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries. We talk about Weird Heroes of Public Access - Tales From Fairhaven Vol. 1, Get Haunted Industries, Darkest Dice RPG and Chick Tracts in general, Ninja City (DCC), One of Us #1 (DCC), and Stay Sick! Follow Joey HERE and Etsy — Pizza Parlor: There are eight tables set with pizza accouterments. In the center of each table is a pizza sculpture shaped like your favorite pizza mascots. The Get Haunt-afire Explosion is a two-piece (dru...
MD 218 Mossy Mermeth Lab w/ Ian McGarty (Silver Bulette, Mutant Crawl Classics MCC)
June 15, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBThis week’s guest is Ian McGarty of Silver Bulette. We talk about Jungle Incursion into the Lair of the Batmen for MCC, Fantastic Geographic Issue 2 and upcoming issue 3, A Night at the Lamb’s Bray, Fire In The MOHLE (MCC), and the Independent Publisher’s Union. Follow Ian at: Website - FB - DriveThruRPG — Eel Team Six, humanoid eels in full SWAT gear with assault rifles, are finishing their briefing to take down the cartel leader Mermethod Man. They explode a hole in the coral reef floor...
MD 217 Still Life of the Blue Demon Graffgoyle w/ Banana Chan (Forgery, The Revenant Society, Tiān Dēng, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall)
June 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis week’s guest is Banana Chan of Game and a Curry, and we talk about their latest project Forgery, a solo horror paint-by-numbers TTRPG about an art forger commissioned to recreate a cursed painting. Follow Banana Chan at: Website - IG - YouTube - Twitter - TikTok -- A blue graffgoyle sits on a stained couch holding the can of Blue Demon. He loves hip hop culture. Can of Blue Demon: Spray paint a power word: LOCK (lock or unlock all the doors). SHOW (see the outlines of the people in ...
MD 216 Crucible of the Chainslime w/ Levi Combs (Planet X Games)
May 31, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBThis week’s guest is Levi Combs of Planet X Games. We talk about his currently Kickstarting project Chainsaw Warlock, Hecatomb Creeps and Other Ungodly Bastards, all about evil NPCs. Follow Levi at: Exalted Funeral - IG - FB - Twitter -- This primeval room of stone has jagged, ornamental spikes protruding from the floor, and a jar dispenser at each door. Hundreds of bulging, slime-filled polyps hang from the ceiling. Three spigots: Each gargoyle-faced spigot has a vat on top where you ar...
MD 215 Jewel of Jarnjeeves w/ Brenda Ho (Weird Works)
May 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThis week’s guest is Brenda Ho of Weird Works. We talk about their tarot decks Adventurer's Tarot: Empress Deck and Eldritch Overload. Follow Weird Works at: FB - IG - Twitter - TikToc - Patreon — Jewel of Jarnjeeves: The self-mummified corpse of the turban-wearing mystic Jarnjeeves sits in meditation, holding a magic orb, at the top of a tall pedestal that’s surrounded by a treacherous and trapped staircase (false steps, spikes, turns into a slide, etc.). Jarnjeeves separated himself i...