Mad Dungeon podcast

MD 412 – The Fluffy Detective w/ Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games, Assemblage, The Goodest Girls, Psychic Trash Detectives)

Epic Levels — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games. She did editing and art direction for Assemblage by Nat Mesnard and illustrated by Jill Colbert of Manfish Inc. Assemblage is a card-based, GM-less, gamescience-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster. We talk about Against the Gloom and The Goodest Girls, her sequel to Psychic Trash Detectives, where you earn real treats for stupid human tricks in this zany, diceless, sitcom story game about senior shelter animals living their best lives together!

Crowdfunding now is Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera, an anthology of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other ephemera that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this book, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share: featuring cryptids like Bigfoot, Mothman, Nessie, and more.

Follow Brigitte: website – IG – Bluesky – Itch / Follow Scryptid: Website – IG – Bluesky – Facebook – X – YouTube

MD 412 – The Fluffy Detective w/ Brigitte Winter

The Fluffy Detective (TFD) was exiled from a heavenly realm to make the world a better place by solving mysteries. They can return home once they solve their final mystery.

TFD wears a classic noir trench coat that’s filled with adorable, cuddling critters that are the bodiless spirits of mysteries that need to be solved. Their power increases based on the amount of unsolved mysteries in the coat.

TFD’s furry face can shift into any of the faces associated with the mysteries in their coat. TFD gains some of that spirit’s memories, mannerisms, and helps them blend into different situations. Strange music plays while the face transformation takes place. Photos of TFD come out blurry, and they have the power to make others not remember them if they wish.

TFD’s detective office home is in a cozy cave den, deep in the side of an active volcano that gently smokes like a chimney.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brigitte Winter

Appendix N: The Great Mouse Detective, “Bugbear Barber” by Epic Levels, Hellraiser, Zootopia, Popples, Humphrey Bogart, Sam Spade, Cinderella, Monsters Inc., Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Golden Compass, His Dark Materials, Studio Ghibli, Memento, Angela Lansbury.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dirty 20 – Charity TTRPG Event at Titmouse Animation Studios (Burbank). Dragon Warrior (Steve Albertson) is running games all day in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2026 from 9am-11pm: Game links: Mystic Punks – Thrill Kill Ministry at 9:30am – Mystic Punks – Goblin Museum at 2pm – Dice Chainsaw – Cursed Cabin at 6:30pm (playtest of upcoming game).

Tiger Wizard’s Patreon: Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular.

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

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Thanks for listening to Season Four of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create system-neutral, playable content using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 409 – Messy Mass of Mice (M³) w/ Andre Novoa (Games Omnivorous, Mausritter Month, The Job)

Epic Levels — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivorous. We talk about Mausritter Month (Nov. 2025), a group-collab project featuring an all-new setting for Mausritter JUNK CITY alongside an abundance of fantastic new works from sixteen of Mausritter’s community of third-party creators, including our own Tiger Wizard and Joey Royale’s Tails from the Night Market, a collection of darkly whimsical adventures for exploration, mystery, and horror beneath the carnival’s painted smile. Mausritter is an ENNIE Gold Winning (Best Family Game 2021), rules-light tabletop RPG, developed by Losing Games in collaboration with Games Omnivorous, and published by Exalted Funeral.

We discuss THE JOB, a fast-paced RPG about pulling off legendary heists with dice stacking. Think fast, move faster, and whatever you do—don’t drop the stack. Hex World (Undying Sands, Bottled Sea, Boreal Frostlands, Hexcrawl Toolbox), cartography-heavy physical hexagonal tiles to build worlds with art by Kevin Cannon. The artistic collective of The Dead Robotz (Death Robot Jungle, Electric Mangrove, Putrescence Regnant: Black Phlegm Edition, Tides of Rot) RPG settings in the form of vinyl LPs. Frontier Scum, a rules-lite Acid Western roleplaying game. He helped put out Prismatic Wisdom (Prismatic Wasteland) by W.F. Smith.

Follow Games Omnivorous: Website – Bluesky – Discord – Facebook – YouTube

MD 409 – Messy Mass of Mice (M³) w/ Andre Novoa

The Messy Mass of Mice (M³) is an intelligent hive-mind swarm created by the grossest of necromancers. Entire ancient civilizations have been wiped out by previous M³s. Its sole drive is to feed its forever-hungry mouse swarm more rotting food and flesh. It loves urban settings.

This amalgamation of undead mice, trash and rotting food is an amorphous mass that can take on different forms. If it isn’t stopped, it will continue growing until it overtakes the world.

Day one, it’s the size of a small human (150 lbs.). Two days, the size of a grizzly bear and weighing about a ton. Three days, the size of a bus (5 tons). A week, the size of a town. Two weeks the size of a large city. A month, the size of a mountain. Six months, the size of a country. After a year, the planet is a Messy Mass of Mice.

Assimilation: It fires out a single mouse, or overwhelms with its swarm. The undead mice want to crawl into your mouth to gain control of your mind. If a M³ mouse is inside of your body, you are under its sway and are a mindless drone who’s only goal is to bring it more trash to build its size.

Zombie Lord: Anyone who dies after being bitten by M³, rises from the dead as a zombie who serves the M³.

Dumpster Diving: This teleportation ability allows M³ to move from one pile of trash, and emerge from a different pile of trash.

Trash Juice Trail: It leaves an infernal trail of garbage water that magically never goes away until cleaned with bleach.

Aura of Stank: Within 30 feet of M³, or its trash juice trail, you must save or be sickened. Touching M³ transfers an aura of stank onto you until the soiled area is cleaned with bleach.

Swim: It’s a good swimmer, but it contaminates any water source that it goes into.

Weakness: Cleaning products, particularly bleach (sodium hypochlorite – NaClO).

Treasure: Inside of M³ are wonderous, yet gross treasures.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andre Novoa

Appendix N: Mausritter (RPG), The Secret of NIMH (1982), Rat Bastards (Chicago punk band), The Worm That Walks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PAX Unplugged : Hang out with Tiger Wizard and Dragon Warrior Nov. 21-23. Tiger Wizard will be manning the Exalted Funeral booth, and Dragon Warrior will be running his Mystic Punks adventure Thrill Kill Ministry in the Alexandria RPG Library room everyday at 10am.

Tails From the Night Market: Tiger Wizard’s project for Mausritter Month, co-written and co-illustrated by Tiger Wizard and Joey Royale from Get Haunted Industries. Is live now, along with all the amazing Mausritter creators this November.

Tiger Wizard’s new Patreon: Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular.

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 408 – Terra Cotta Dream Thieves w/ Brad Kerr (Between Two Cairns, Necrotic Gnome, The Dream Shrine)

Epic Levels — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Brad Kerr, writer, editor, game designer and co-host of the podcast Between Two Cairns. We start off talking about the Swords and Wizardry (Mythmere Games) game Brad and Steve played with Matt Finch at Gary Con. Brad gives us his hot tips on building a good module:

Fun interactivity: Give players weird toys to play with. Make a dungeon a weird playground.
Be original.
Give your dungeon a little freak for your players to hang out with.

We talk about his work with Necrotic Gnome (Old-School Essentials Starter Set & Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire, Carcass Crawler), The Dream Shrine (a dreamworld escape-room adventure module), Hideous Daylight (a pen-and-paper adventure module of sun-soaked horror. Compatible with Old-School Essentials and Cairn), Temple of 1000 Swords (a tarot inspired TTRPG dungeon-delve for OSE, Sun Bathers (Old School Essentials – Adventure Anthologies Vol. 1), about a messed up temple on an island.

And we ran out of time before getting to his Wyvern Songs (a high-fantasy adventure anthology for OSE), Demon Driven to the Maw (a party-crawl adventure for Cairn), Fabien’s Atelier (a puzzle dungeon adventure module for Cairn), and Head Puncher! (a competitive dice & doodling game of injury and humiliation).

Follow Brad: Website – Bluesky – Itch – Between Two Cairns

MD 408 – Terra Cotta Dream Thieves w/ Brad Kerr

The Terra Cotta Dream Thieves (TCDT) are a break-dancing rock band of brownish-orange fired-clay monsters. They’re multidisciplinary artists (music, painting, performance, dance, etc…) who rampage through a town, grabbing people and dragging them across a PPP, painting with their blood and gore. People are nothing but paint to them. Their medium is destruction.

The act of creating a PPP, the design of the painting on the PPP, and the display of the projection behind a musical performance is the gestalt of their art, a tapestry of horror. Whoever has the most ghosts in a PPP is the current TCDT leader.

The PPP (Psychedelic Projection Pillow): This magic item is a pillow made of rock, yet it’s incredibly comfortable to sleep on. A process of smashing a humanoid body against this rock is called ‘Blood-Painting,’ as gory sacrifices are necessary as material spell components. They smash heads into a PPP to slam folks dreams into it. If one gets blood-painted and survives, their dreams are stolen into the PPP and they’re unable to get a good night’s sleep or recover any used spells. If one is blood-painted and dies, their ghost is locked into the PPP. Smashing a PPP returns the stolen dreams to their owner, and releases the ghosts trapped within.

Uses of the PPP are as follows:

Dream Projection: all of the stolen dreams and ghosts’ memories merge together in a psychedelic mélange of images and color. The TCDT use these projected images as the background for their rock concerts that they perform for nefarious and infernal art fans. A target hit directly with a dream projection must save or become hypnotized.

Ghost Glean: When you sleep on a PPP, you commune with the ghosts trapped within and may attempt to glean information that they knew in life. Some collectors want a specific PPP to get information from a specific ghost. Some collectors want a PPP to use offensively, to ghost a rival, and then glean their secrets using the PPP as a medium.

PPPs are highly valuable art objects, but they’re incredibly unethical to own. The price goes up based on the amount of dreams and ghosts locked into the PPP.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brad Kerr

Appendix N: Delicious in Dungeon (manga and anime), Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Cell (2000), Inception (2010), The NeverEnding Story (1984), The Rock (1996), The B52’s “Rock Lobster,” Predator (1987), Jefferson Airplane (band), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, MtG ‘Blood Artist,’ The Judgement Night soundtrack (1993).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tails From the Night Market: Tiger Wizard’s project for Mausritter Month, co-written and co-illustrated by Tiger Wizard and Joey Royale from Get Haunted Industries. Sign up now to be notified when it launches along with all the amazing Mausritter creators this November.

Tiger Wizard’s new Patreon: Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 407 – Scissor Pit w/ Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes, 1-900-Phantazy, Zombie Braineaters)

Epic Levels — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Brian Shutter. We talk about Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes upcoming miniatures skirmish game called Violence, Action, Cash and Prizes, and new supplement Deities and Demi-Bros (a wrestle pantheon for your games), 1-900-Phantazy (you play a kid stealing your parent’s credit card to go on this d12 & d6 epic adventure), Zombie Braineaters with John “Hambone” McGuire (a survival horror gauntlet, in which the expectation is that the character you start with may not be the character you end with), Roller Brawl (miniature skirmish wargame made with members of Gwar), Battle Binders with Brian Colin (A5 sized velcro ringed binder to hold your TTRPG paper stuff), and announces Battle Binder Blitz month with lots of our favorite creators!

Follow Brian: https://linktr.ee/NeonLordrpg

MD 407 – Scissor Pit w/ Brian Shutter

The Extreme Pogo Origami International League fights in The Scissor Pit arena, a circular brick structure that has fifteen L-shaped, platform levels that are floating at different elevations above a large pit filled with deadly implements designed to excite the audience of rich gambling fanatics that watch from above.

After each full round of combat, the fans throw a barrage of paper money, origamied into ninja stars, paper footballs, paper chainsaws, etc… Each combatant must make a save to dodge this barrage and not fall into the pit.

Each combatant is given a specialized pogo stick and its matching paper weapon. They start on the top platform and fight in a battle royale to the last person standing. Anyone who touches the contents of the pit is eliminated. The winner gets to collect the thrown money in addition to a significant cash prize.

The traditional pit is filled with scissors, but sometimes they’ll shake things up by filling the pit with, roll 1d10: 1) balls, 2) slime, 3) spikes, 4) a sarlacc, 5) shredded paper (death by a thousand cuts), 6) fire, 7) turtles, 8) gelatinous cubes, 9) water, 10) syringes, etc…

1d6 Paper-wielding pogo warriors:

Spring-heeled Jack wears a Union-Jack-flag cape and a paper top hat. He wields a paper cane with a hidden paper knife inside, and rides a Victorian-era penny-farthing pogo stick with one big wheel.

Rocket wears an asbestos-lined, fire-retardant, Evel Knievel style jumpsuit with a crash helmet. He wears paper bat wings with razor blade edges to cut enemies, allowing him to easily glide to lower platforms instead of falling. This daredevil rides a rocket booster pogo stick that can blast him to the top platform while burning everyone in his path.

Mead (The Note-orious One) wears a Plissken-style single-colored tank top, and black & white composition-notebook-patterned camouflage pants. His pogo stick matches that pattern, and has distinctive handlebars with tassels. Its hand lever triggers fire out razor-confetti that can cut one to ribbons. His catch phrase is, “I put the die in diary!”

Paper Back is a duo. The massive, super-muscled Paper rides an industrial jack-hammer pogo stick that can damage the platforms. His Kuato-looking twin brother Back rides on Paper’s shoulders, armed with a spitball blowgun. He aims for the eyes.

The Grid, a doodlemancer, wears a blue graph-paper dress with a pocket protector filled with pens. When she draws on her dress, the arena’s layout changes to her specs. She rides an ‘80s synthwave, Hackerman time-travel pogo stick that allows her to hack space-time and teleport while inside the arena. She shoots a blue, glowing, moving-matrix-code net from the bottom of her pogo stick.

Paper Jam, The Copy Catter wears a middle-management office shirt and tie tucked into khaki slacks, and loafers. His hair is slicked to the side and covered by kitty cat head phones. He rides a massive copy machine pogo stick that can copy other warriors’ paper attacks, and plays jock jams from its speakers to hype himself up.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brian Shutter

Appendix N: Gwar, Robocop (1987), Frankie Freako (2024), Psycho Goreman (2020), Freddy Freaker, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Zombie (1979), Gate of Hell (1953), Dead Alive aka Braindead (1992), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Zombieland (2009), The Dead Don’t Die (2019), 28 Years Later (2025), Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (2004), Underworld (2003), Walking Dead franchise, Cemetery Man (1994), Return of the Living Dead (1985), The Running Man (1987 and 2025), Forbidden Psalms, Vast Grimm, Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash, Battle Royale (2000), Joust (Atari), Saw 2 (2005), Scissor Sisters, Passion Pit, Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter 2, Bloodsport (1988), Spider-Man (2002), American Gladiators, Escape From New York (1981), Bane (Batman), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Total Recall (1990), Kung Fury (2015), Paper Mario, Unbeatable Banzuke.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gamehole Con: Come out and meet Dragon Warrior at this October 16-19 in Madison, WI. He’ll be taking selfies and talking about the show on Podcaster Row.

Tiger Wizard’s new Patreon: Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 406 – GART: Goblin Art Collective w/ CJ Somavia (GLAIVE, Grand Rituals, Hothead Collective)

Epic Levels — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is CJ Somavia. We talk about Hothead Collective (which is pretty much CJ and whoever he’s working with), Grand Rituals (a system agnostic toolset to introduce big magical rituals into your fantasy TTRPG), and GLAIVE (a quarterly glossy magazine dedicated to gaming and its subcultures). We discuss the difference between a magazine and a zine. GLAIVE Issue #1 starts with a full page illustration from Tiger Wizard, then goes into an interview with NYC wargamers, NYC gaming stores, the history of dungeon synth music, sketch pad illustrations, an adventure, a gaming zodiac, and more.

MD 406 – GART: Goblin Art Collective w/ CJ Somavia

GART is a collective of murderous, vapid, goblin hipsters snobs. This dark ensemble is always fighting amongst themselves about what the full name of their crew should be, while working towards an enigmatic and insidious end goal. They inhabit gonzo urban centers where they can bring the chaos and mayhem of their art to a population before moving on to the next city.

Bushwick Billy – Has a streetwear brand, magazine and physical store called BILE. His performance art: One, he carries a bag of colorful junkfood, eats it, then vomits those colors on your shirt and shoes. Two, he takes your clothes by force. Three, he creates a visual display of your clothes at his shop where he sells them for an obscene sum.

Greenpoint Gary – This performance art skateboarder douche does pop shove-its into your ankle or ollies onto your toes… although, he’s incapable of doing a kickflip. He’ll challenge you to a game of S-K-A-T-E, cheats by whacking you in the legs with his board, then spraypaints “GG” on you or the nearest wall before skating off cackling. He tags “GG” everywhere in his wake.

Van GoBlin – This impressionist painter chops off other people’s ears. He uses the blood to paint on human-skin canvases, and turns the ears into gruesome ear-rings. These paintings and jewelry are sold in their hard-to-find-unless-you-know-the-way, dark-Tor X-sy shop.

Williamsburg Wendy – This fashion influencer sets up a stage in dark alleys and on quiet docks. Here she skins and mutilates a victim to prepare their skin as clothing. She teaches at the local fashion institute, has a ghoulish cut & sew line sold in stores, and her macabre, haute couture, custom-fitted clothing sells for a very high price.

Red Hook Reggie – This hipster pirate catches mutated fish in polluted bodies of water, then taxidermies them to sell in his homegoods storefront. He takes the most terrifying catches to his secret lab backroom where he’s creating an army of undead, mutant, frankenstein fish.

Brooklyn Banksy – This political artist makes floating domicile installations and aquatic vehicles, like a jet ski made of taxidermied tuna and crabs, using Red Hook Reggie’s fish. These sculpture houseboat flotillas are quite appealing and are free to stay in. The rub is that Brooklyn Banksy lies in wait in one at random to attempt to kill the occupant… this is his true art.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, CJ Somavia

Appendix N: Carcosa (weird science-fantasy horror setting), Goblin Cock (band), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Epic Level’s Goblin Museum from season three of the Mad Dungeon podcast, Mad Max, Waterworld (1995), The Hobbit (2012-2014), Gwar, Bushwick Bill, Silence of the Lambs (1991), Ed Gein, Jack the Ripper, Hudson Hawk (1991), Thirstin Howl the Third, BAIL Magazine, Chad Muska, Demonlover (2002).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gamehole Con: Come out and meet Dragon Warrior at this October 16-19 in Madison, WI. He’ll be taking selfies and talking about the show on Podcaster Row.

Tails From the Night Market: Tiger Wizard’s project for Mausritter Month, co-written and co-illustrated by Tiger Wizard and Joey Royale from Get Haunted Industries. Sign up now to be notified when it launches along with all the amazing Mausritter creators this November.

Tiger Wizard’s new Patreon: Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular.

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 405 – H.O.M.E.: Sly Motherships w/ Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink)

Epic Levels — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink, who’s on their 68th release! We talk Forbidden Psalms (miniatures game, inspired by and compatible with MÖRK BORG), Liminal Horror RPG (rules-lite survival horror roleplaying game), the Cairn 2E box set (game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood), The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain (an adventure scenario on a sleeping volcano on the cusp of endless wild for Old-School Essentials), Survivors of the Core Wars: an NPC deck for Mothership RPG (full color art and stats), and Seas of Sand by Sam Sorensen (a toolbox setting guide for old-school RPGs about a vast desert-ocean of liquid sand).

Follow Jarrett Crader: Website – X – Instagram

MD 405 – H.O.M.E.: Sly Motherships w/ Jarrett Crader

On the top of a frozen mountaintop is H.O.M.E., the current nesting grounds of sentient spaceships called motherships. Each mothership lies hidden under the snow where it has burrowed a nest to incubate their kinderships in the cold. Nesting grounds can be found in any planet’s arctic conditions during their nesting season.

Each metallic black mothership is the size of a city, and has a birthing canal that slingshots out 1d4 kinderships at the conclusion of the birthing season. They launch out of this tube at rocket speed, flying into space before returning to their mothership.

The motherships defend themselves with a psychedelic avalanche of kaleidoscopic snow. When hit, you go on a psychedelic trip for 1d4 days. People use this as a recreational drug called S.N.O.W.

Snow Angels are a thrill-seeking hobbyist group that follows the motherships to their birthing grounds to have a big gay dance party surrounding the birthing event. They sell mag-boots specifically designed to traverse a mothership’s exterior and subdue the effects of psychedelic avalanches to recreational levels.

Kinderships are one-of-a-kind smaller sentient spaceships that can fit a crew of 2-10 people, depending on the ship’s proportions. They grow very slowly, over hundreds of years, to eventually become a mothership. They will stay with their parental mothership until they find a crew that’s worthy of them.

Here are 1d6 kinderships… and there are so many more.

Caretaker: This symbiotic ship attaches to the mothership and feeds on her fuel lines. It travels to places where the mothership needs repairs, and sends out KNDR, plump humanoid robots with flesh, blood, curly hair and shoeless hairy mag-feet that maintain the mothership.

Maggot Brain: It’s a weird, funky, gross maggot of a ship. If you board the ship, it will try to infest you with burrowing cyber maggots that will give you a psychedelic freakout. If you survive, you have “the funk,” making you a distinct funktified individual who fights the status quo.

Nightmare: If you board this haunted liminal horror ship, it will try to take your soul, skin and blood (in that order).

Sleep Banana: Visitors can board this ship, which looks like a semi-peeled banana, to sleep. While you sleep, you can commune with the mothership. It’s a family affair.

Disco Discovery: This space party bus is shaped like a merkin-covered jock strap with thrusters, whose spherical hulls are covered in shards of mirror.

S.S. Frontier Psychiatry: A place to clear your mind and get right with your god, particularly after taking a dose of psychedelic avalanche.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Jarrett Crader

Appendix N: The Avalanches album Since I Left You, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament Funkadelic, The High Crusade by Poul Anderson, James Bond title sequences, Dragonlance fantasy race kender, Battlestar Galactica, Dragonlance, Slow Sleigh to Plankton Downs (Melsonian Arts Council), turtles nesting season, Event Horizon, Men in Black.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

The post MD 405 – H.O.M.E.: Sly Motherships w/ Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink) appeared first on Epic Levels.

MD 404 – Championship Belt of the Verdant Wastes w/ W.F. Smith (Prismatic Wasteland, Prismatic Wisdom, Barkeep on the Borderlands)

Epic Levels — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is W.F. Smith of blog (and future RPG book) Prismatic Wastland. We talk about his new physical book Prismatic Wisdom (a collection of his blog’s best advice, theory, and mechanical innovations), Barkeep on the Borderlands (Gold Ennie winning barhopping fantasy adventure) and his blogger-pals / co-writers: Zedeck Siew, Ty Pitre, Nick LS Whelan, Marcia B., Luka Rejec, Gus L., Emmy Verte, Chris McDowall, Ben Laurence, Ava Islam and Anne Hunter. We discuss his history with B2: Keep on the Borderlands (how Barkeep is a pseudo-sequel), pub crawls in Athens, GA, and how he’s a “pun-first” writer. We dig into how much he buys from Exalted Funeral and that he won the Wrestling Championship Belt from their 2024 FuneralMania summer sale.

We briefly touch on his games: Big Rock Candy Hexcrawl Pamphlet (a lackadaisical, idyllic paradise inspired by leftist folk music), Trouble in Paradisa (detectives at a ritzy beachside resort), and Wonky Willie’s Authentic Interactive Extravaganza (an anti-A.I. candy factory adventure).

Follow W.F. Smith: Website – Bluesky – Itch – Patreon

MD 404 – Championship Belt of the Verdant Wastes w/ W.F. Smith

The Championship Belt of the Verdant Wastes was created by a primeval nature spirit named Creature of the Green. It poured its love of nature into the belt, imbuing it with its lush essence.

The belt has its own ecosystem of greenery, moss and fungus that’s seen with the naked eye, but on its surface is a civilization of microscopic mushroom folk called Foos. As you wear the belt, its greenery will grow onto your body at a rate of roughly one inch per day. This expands the Foos’ civilization and grows their tech. You’ll be completely covered in 30 days, becoming a verdant avatar of the Creature of the Green.

Like professional wrestlers and gods, the belt gains its power through devotion to the wearer. You must complete a previous level before moving on to the next level.

Level 1: The Foos worship you as their god.

This happens immediately when you first wear the belt. Removing the belt causes the greenery to slough off your body. Putting the belt back on will take an act of reconciliation and another 24 hours of growth to regain the Foos’ devotion. When you walk, a trail of lush greenery follows your steps. As The Green Walker, you can be a savoir to the wastelands.

Level 2: A crowd is currently cheering you on.

If a group of 100 or more people chant your name, you may conjure vines to create a pro wrestling stadium with a ring for 24 hours. You gain bonuses for performing rope maneuvers like drop kicks, moonsaults, flying clotheslines, frog splashes, etc…

Level 3: You’re currently a verdant avatar for the Creature of the Green.

Grow into a 300-foot tall plant kaiju that you control from the inside like a mech. You can fit up to ten party members on the inside that control their own plant-based weapon system.

Nemesis: Wearing the Championship Belt of the Verdant Wastes makes you aware of the wearer of the Championship Belt of Blight (and vice versa), which has equal but opposite powers. The current wearer, your new heel archenemy, is a magic axe wielding lumberjack wrestler named Tough-Actin’ Tin’ac’tin.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, W.F. Smith

Appendix N: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Flow (2024 film), luchador wrestling, Magic: The Gathering cards with the keyword verdant, Tangled (RPG), George Carlin’s American Dream (documentary), Swamp Thing, Adventure Time, professional wrestling (The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Ausin), Princess Mononoke, Ultraman, Godzilla, Dr. Seuss, Foo Fighters, Gundam, Lion Heart, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Settlers of a Dead God (RPG), Super Mario Bros.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 403 – BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino (ARKYVR, OMENDROME, Alewood Games)

Epic Levels — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Rhodrick Magsino, owner and main designer of Alewood Games. We talk about the Baltimore indie TTRPG scene and how filmmaking and music production influence his game design. We dig into his games: Remember Frankie (his Tom Waits-inspired storytelling/lyric writing game),Traysikel: Ride or Die! (an anti-colonizer, punk rock fantasy motorcycle adventure that takes place in a fictional Philippines), ARKYVR (where you play a documentary crew in Mothership RPG), OMENDROME (a supplement for ARKYVR with filmmaker-centered mini-adventures), The Revolution Will (a Gil Scott-Heron inspired d20 table mini-zine).

Follow Rhodrick: Website – Bluesky – Itch

MD 403 – BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino

BeakMaster (they/them): This large bird creature has an excessive amount of beaks in their odd physiology that speak simultaneously. This hip hop bard shows up in markets and bazaars to sell you music albums in compact disc (CD) form. They have 1d6 albums for sale every time you meet. They’ll provide a CD player boombox with speakers or a personal unit with headphones with each purchase. Once you meet BeakMaster, they will always be around: at parties, on the street, in front of stores, at the bottom of dungeons, even in other dimensions. BeakMaster concerts have been world-changing events.

Rap Cacophony: By beatboxing and rapping with all their beaks, the BeakMaster may attack with a mindbending cypher of rhyme-schemes that discombobulates a weak mind. All within 20 feet who can hear must save or roll a d8. On a 1 to 4, the target does nothing. On a 5 or 6, the target does nothing but join the cypher with their own beatboxing or lyrics. On a 7 or 8, the target attacks a randomly determined creature, including themself.

D6 Payments: The payment will change each time you meet BeakMaster.

A baked good: It must be made with love, delicious, and have taken time and effort.
Your immortal soul: You sign a record deal to be part of BeakMaster’s posse. BeakMaster can always communicate with you telepathically, and you’ll be a part of their crew in the afterlife. You no longer have a soul and all that entails.
A gallon of your tears: It will take 12 + 1d12 days to produce a gallon of tears without magical help.
All of your blood: They’ll also accept the equivalent volume from another source as long as it’s mostly your blood.
Half of your liquid assets: This includes money, jewels, stocks, bonds, equipment and all of your holdings.
A pack of crayons: They’ll recommend a demon to summon that’ll trade you a pack of crayons.

D6 Albums: Each album is an hour long. When you listen to a full album with intention, you’re imbued with its special ability for 24 hours.

Self-titled: Get a mirror reflection of yourself. This incorporeal illusory duplicate has the polar opposite of your personality and cannot interact with the material world, or leave your side. When you’re targeted with an attack, there’s a 50% chance they’ll target your duplicate.
Squawk Lobster: Gain a weirdly fashionable, feathery yet hard, carapace across your back, giving you an additional armor bonus.
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius gains a 30-foot area of effect fighting bonus while in a phalanx-esque formation.
Various Artists: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius forgets their name, identity and past. Targets don’t need to listen with intention, but must hear the entire album.
Counting Crows’ Feet: Grow razor-sharp talons on your hands and feet that act as weapons and double your run speed.
BeakBoxer Remix: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius swaps bodies with a random participant in a brain remix.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Rhodrick Magsino

Appendix N: Wu Tang Clan, GZA, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, and fast rappers like Eminem and Twista. Chicago cultural phenomena, rapper Sharkula and others who sell physical rap CDs on the street. The B52’s “Rock Lobster,” The MET Gala, Roadrunner (cartoon).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 402 – Pizza Queen w/ Andrew Kolb (Wonderland, Oz & Neverland Role-Playing Settings)

Epic Levels — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Andrew Kolb. We talk about his Role-Playing Settings of Oz (city point crawl), Neverland (hex crawl) and his latest Wonderland (dungeon crawl) where he pulls from the surreal and silly collage art of people like Terry Gilliam. We talk about how all the Lewis Carroll characters are agro with Alice, and making their stat blocks and special moves (inspired by his love of Chrono Trigger). The locations as topsy-turvy geometric block shapes, and building out their themes.

We also discuss his brightly illustrated Mab Graves’ Drawlloween challenge books Booburgh, the cutest little monster town where he designed each storefront to look like what it’s selling inside, and Necronomicorp, a catalog of creepy & cute products that mimic the big box stores that wreak havoc in small towns like Booburgh.

Follow Andrew: Website – Instagram – Bluesky – Facebook

MD 402 – Pizza Queen w/ Andrew Kolb

Pizza Queen is a large, blobby, alien xeno professional wrestler who’s made entirely out of pizza. She has a second face on her torso that fires out a hot pizza pie that causes fire and bludgeoning damage. That pizza then stands up as one of the three minions (see below).

When a fight starts, she casts calzone effect, which summons crust from the Earth to create a pizza-dome battle arena around herself and all combatants.

Deep Dish: She secretes hot grease making her difficult to grab. The grease will constantly flow, filling the enclosed calzone.

Side of Marinara: Those within three feet of Pizza Queen, must roll to avoid being sprayed in the eyes with hot marinara. If you take damage, save or be blinded for 1d4 rounds.

The Supreme: When there are five pizza minions, Pizza Queen immediately does a call and response with her minions. She yells “snicker” and they yell back “snack.” Then together they form a massive pizza-amalgamation, doubling her size, hit points and damage. Pizza attacks do double damage and minions are twice as big.

Pizza minion wrestling warriors:

1) Pepperoni & Dynamite Pie: Explodes when it hits you causing 10 feet of splash damage. If Pizza Queen misses it becomes an animated pizza wrestler with a spicy attitude and has the move “The TNT Stunner.”

2) Laser-Mushrooms Pie: Fires like a chakram weapon with a mushroom-powered laser edge. If hit, there’s a 10% chance to lose 1d4 fingers. It becomes an animated pizza yogi that strikes with gooey, stretching appendages.

3) Hawaiian Pie: When hit, this pineapple and ham pizza charms or repulses the target with fear, depending on their feelings about Hawaiian pizza. It becomes animate and performs a hypno-hula-dance. It will put a molten cheese lei around the neck of those under its thrall, or a burnt-tongue kiss that’ll burn the roof of your mouth.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andrew Kolb

Appendix N: Little Caesar’s Pizza, Spaceballs, TMNT, Queen (band), Alice in Wonderland, Jabberwocky (poem), Ghosts & Goblins (video game), Chrono Trigger, Tron, Xena, Street Fighter 2, Earthbound.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 401 Toe-Based Space Wizards w/ Zach Cowan (aka Bat Alchemist, producer of the Mad Dungeon podcast)

Epic Levels — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:00:57 +0000

MD 401 Toe-Based Space Wizards w/ Zach Cowan (aka Bat Alchemist, producer of the Mad Dungeon podcast)

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Zach Cowan

Our guest this week is our Mad Dungeon producer, the Bat Alchemist himself, Zach Cowan, a location sound recordist and video producer located in Atlanta. We talk about what season four is all about: We’re making a zine of TTRPG content to use in your home games with each of our guests contributing a page or two, while continuing to utilize our ‘mad dice’ improv style of word play.

Andrew has his first child and talked about being a new father, working on lots of art including Pukeapocalypse, his job as the in-house game designer and editor at Exalted Funeral.

Steve talked about the industrial music Mystic Punks adventure he wrote. He went to ShimpCon, a not-so-secret home con of Doug Kovacs (DCC, Inferno Road) where he played Dolmenwood and ran Mystic Punks in the Epic Levels’ Goblin Museum adventure where the PCs played a ska band. He also played Joyride: Survival of the Fastest (2024). They talk about Matthew Sargent’s College of the Third Wave: a Ska Bard Subclass for 5e.

Zach has been playing Mothership, and a combat-heavy D&D 5E game. Talked about how great both the Mothership Companion App and Warden Educational System – Basic Training Course are. Zach will be running Tiger Wizard and family through a campaign of Brindlewood Bay.

D8 Toe-Based Space Wizards

1. Wiggle Toe

Appearance: They have feet for hands and feet for feet, but that doesn’t matter because they levitate instead of walk. Their nose is a big toe.

Magic: They cast smelly spells, like stink bomb and unknown scent, by wiggling their toes. Wiggle Toe can’t smell the stank, but everyone else does.

2. Tough Toe

Appearance: This eight-foot tall, muscular brute’s head, arms and legs are all big toes.

Magic: They cast gravity-based crushing spells.

3. Blaze Bunion

Appearance: This metatarsal-phalangeal wizard is a giant foot with a head where the ankle would connect to the foot. Their hair is the tendons tentacling out.

Magic: They carry an oversized nail file magic wand that casts bunion, a spell that causes painful bony bumps to grow in a target’s joints, making them stiff.

4. Turf Toe-ny

Appearance: This gentle foot masseuse wizard wears flowing robe scrubs and twinkles around on their tippy toes.

Magic: They cast healing spells, particularly heeling, which causes sore feet to relax and become rejuvenated.

5. Split Nail

Appearance: This shadow ninja wizard’s fingers and toes are split down the center.

Magic: They cast cutting spells, and fire off adamantine toe nail projectiles that when hit causes the target’s nails to painfully split in half.

6. Flat-Arch Mage

Appearance: This tall, pro space ball player wizard is wearing a space ball jersey and shorts, has a high flat-top fade, and is wearing space sneakers that allows them leap great heights to dunk on you.

Magic: This high level space wizard casts spells that hinder your dexterity. Being hit by any of their spells causes fallen arches, and the target becomes flat-footed.

7. Crevice Pressure Witch

Appearance: This hunchy witch’s body is covered in writhing toes. She has a sweet tooth for toe jam and can be bribed.

Magic: She shrinks to go into small places, then grows back to full size to explode them. She particularly enjoys crevices of the body that are darker, moist, slimier and unwashed.

8. Toe Jam Courier

Appearance: This space postal worker wears the standard uniform of short-sleeved shirt, tie, shorts and brimmed hat with logo underneath their glass orb breathing helmet.

Magic: They pilot a space mech angel to deliver jars of toe fungus to beings who think it’s delicious. They have magic space cleats that: power the mech, allows them to walk on any surface regardless of gravity, and gives them a shredding force kick.

Appendix N: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Alien, Archie Comics, Mystic Punks, Spy Kids, Ant Man (Marvel), Archangel (X-Men / Marvel), Pulp Fiction, The Boys, Masters of the Universe, Conan.

Based on Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast episode MD401

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 312 Season Finale – Goblin Kings and Popstars Sing – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:00:57 +0000

Season Finale – Goblin Kings and Popstars Sing

Bat Alchemist uses gym-kata to make his way through the swarm of goblins dance-fighting to Enrique Iglesias. His staff Clippy continues to push him to be more fit. He moves under the bleachers and sees bad-kid goblins smoking cigarettes and making out. He unsuccessfully tries to convert them to the Vat Spawns’ side, so he melts them with an acid potion.

Warlock Rock summons her soulbound-weapon punching daggers in a blinding pink light. She punches into the goblin swarm, but they’re too wiley to be hit. Warlock Rock hits a button that raises a fashion-show catwalk in the center of the room. She sashays her way to the Goblin King, does a diving punch, but misses and lands sprawled out on the floor behind him.

Dragon Warrior runs on the top of goblin heads and lands on Lotto the demon dog, and commands Lotto to breath fire on the goblins while running to the goblin king. Lotto gets slashed, hacked and bit as they run through the goblin swarm while blazing a flaming path. Rocky-Staroth tries to regain control of Lotto the demon dog, but Dragon Warrior maintains control. Dragon Warrior miscasts the spell Poison Lick of Fug making his own face quite gross.

Tiger Wizard misses whacking the goblin king with his wand. The goblin king polymorphes Tiger Wizard into a goblin adorned with goblin skulls… he’s now Goblin Wizard. Ariana, polymorphed into a goblin (Gobliana), successfully snaps Tiger Wizard out of his polymorphed mind control, then takes a Gobliana-sized bite out of the Goblin King’s leg.

Goblin Wizard climbs up the human-sized Goblin King’s shoulder, wacks him in the face with his wand Dorkus, then gruesomely peels the mask off of the Goblin King. Goo, like pizza cheese, still connects between the mask and the Goblin King’s face. Goblin Wizard puts the mask on becoming the new Goblin Wizard King. He begins to succumb to its power, including growing a tiger-demon face on his torso. He uses the mask to calm down the throng of goblins.

Dragon Warrior stabs Rocky-Staroth in the chest with his soul-bound sword. Bat Alchemist strong-arms Rocky-Staroth into teaching Goblin Wizard how to use the mask. He turns Ariana back into a human. Goblin Wizard finishes off Rocky-Staroth and puts everyone back to work for Dr. Dre-colich. Warlock Rock makes friends with Ariana, and all of the Vat Spawn ride off into the sunset with Ariana for future adventures involving a mysterious Beibataur.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

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Thanks for listening to Season Three of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels alternate between “Rise of the Vat Spawn,” an actual play using Mystic Punks RPG, and Side Quests where we interview other game creators.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 311 Enrique Iglesias Murder Dance Party – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:00:57 +0000

311 Enrique Iglesias Murder Dance Party – Rise of the Vat Spawn

The Vat Spawn watch the Goblin King polymorph the missing Ariana from a beautiful pop star into a grotesque goblin. A hundred goblins cheer him on as the transformation occurs. “Goblins is people?” Dragon Warrior queried.

Bat Alchemist lights a joint from the demon dog’s fire breath to regain his lost health. Then he reverse engineered Warlock Roc’s listening device to play Enrique Iglesias through the tone-stone walls, causing them to gather in one area for a makeshift dance party. Turns out goblins are obsessed with Enrique Iglesias.

Tiger Wizard takes advantage of the distracting dance party, springs through the door, and casts Nitar’s Fireball, serving a dish of fiery destruction.

The Goblin King breathes fire from the demonic face in the center of his torso, but Tiger Wizard and Bat Alchemist move out of the way. The goblins swarm the Vat Spawn as they fight-dance to Enrique Iglesias.

Dragon Warrior sits atop the demon dog Lotto and charges into the room. Lotto breathes fire into the goblin horde as Dragon Warrior swan dives into the goblins as he casts Pognif Explosion exploding himself and a single goblin to bits… and then he reforms.

Bat Alchemist uses his soulbound weapon Clippy’s ability to hit multiple targets. In return for his services, Clippy demands to be of assistance immediately and makes Bat Alchemist do calisthenics to get better at attacking.

Tiger Wizard dances through the goblin horde to whiff hitting the Goblin King, and notices that he’s wearing a wooden mask.

Warlock Roc attempts to sneak away, but trips on her high heels into the goblin horde. Dragon Warrior wades through the gobs to give Warlock Roc a healing potion, which brought her back to full power and made her glow pink.

The Goblin King grabs Tiger Wizard and begins polymorphing him into a goblin. Tune in next week to see how goblined up Tiger Wizard gets.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PAX Unplugged: December 6th through 8th in Philadelphia. Come say hi to Tiger Wizard at the Exalted Funeral booth, and play some games with Dragon Warrior every morning at the Alexandria RPG Library room.

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 310 Demon Dog & A Monarch Menace – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:00:57 +0000

310 Demon Dog & A Monarch Menace – Rise of the Vat Spawn

The Vat Spawn take out the final elite goblins. We meet Lotto, a 10-foot demon dog. Bat Alchemist sucks venom out of Warlock Roc. They explore further into the goblin museum, finding horrific paintings of former goblin kings, before discovering the current Goblin King’s chambers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gamehole Con: October 17th through 20th in Madison, Wisconsin. We’ll have a booth right up front in the Podcasters and Press section. Come say hi to Dragon Warrior and pick up some Dungeon Cats and Mad Dungeon season three Rise of the Vat Spawn swag!

PAX Unplugged: December 6th through 8th in Philadelphia. Come say hi to Tiger Wizard at the Exalted Funeral booth, and play some games with Dragon Warrior every morning at the Alexandria RPG Library room.

Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral. Delve into lush carpeted dungeons to vanquish giant rats, demonic dog spawn and the half-full food bowl. Fight with claws, purrs and advanced reflexes for the treasures contained within. You only have 9 lives. Live them adventurously!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms. It’s an intense dose of nostalgia and comedy for geek-minded connoisseurs of gaming & fun with features from nerdcore legends Mega Ran and MC Frontalot.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 309 Balls: Crystal, Disco & Fire – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:00:57 +0000

309 Balls: Crystal, Disco & Fire – Rise of the Vat Spawn

The Vat Spawn finish their fight with elite business goblins that includes disco floors, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-ing a dead goblin to find true love in secret nap spots, and lots of Nitar’s Fireballs were a’flyin’. A crystal ball houses a goblin spirit to find down-on-their-luck victims as part of a larger goblin conspiracy. And a fire-breathing demon dog is awakened.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is out this now. It features Mega Ran, MC Frontalot, Denkles and Dizzy the Bard dropping verses alongside Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard all set to nostalgic beats by Inner Resting. Give it a listen, share it with your friends, dance to it on TikTok.

NEW POSTER MAP: We have a new poster adventure map now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral based on our Mad Dungeon season one, episode 20, Song of the Shriekfrapp, with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11×17 front-side poster image!

The water is draining away at the secret golden oasis because of all the infighting between the adorable, ear-like loboids. Can you help the tiptoers, bouncers and striders to stop bickering and unite with their magic dance to save their home from being destroyed by the slumbering Shriekfrapp? I hear that it’s good luck to flip a gold coin into the water when you arrive.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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MD 308 Cursed Swords & Velvet Cords – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:00:57 +0000

308 Cursed Swords & Velvet Cords – Rise of the Vat Spawn

The Vat Spawn follow beefy elite goblins into a room of swords with a goblin museum curators arguing about presentation. The head curator laughs as Dragon Warrior touches a cursed codeine razor and is weakened with magical addiction. A big ole fight breaks out with Tiger Wizard trip attacks and a fun knife-in-the-head polymorph into goblin hipsterdom.

Bat Alchemist finds some mystically placed stanchions & velvet ropes, and he corrals in the curators behind the ropes to watch the fight.

Warlock Roc has on headphones that are giving her an audio tour, and learns about The First Year Being Rich Cutlass. She grabs it and brandishes it without blasting off its power… until she does! The cutlass pulls all metal (including magic swords) into the sword, nearly killing everyone.

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MD 307 Goblin Guards & Credit Cards – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:00:57 +0000

307 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 Wizard uses a Mad Dungeon word to change the fabric of reality to create Tone Stone Touch Pads for bureaucratic transactions, and now the team has a Goblin Museum bank card.

They pay for a tour of the museum. They’re given four beefy goblins as escorts: Gilbert (IRS suspenders), Stink Pits (no shirt, tie, cargo pants, dollar sign tattoos), Glerbnid (big feet, toes busting out of dress shoes) and Tor (eye magnifying glasses). Room one of the tour is of the banking area. Tiger Wizards’ obsession with the vault causes conflict with Glerbnid, but Warlock Roc calms the situation down. They move into the next room of weapons and goblin museum curators who laugh and threaten to disembowel Dragon Warrior after he touches the Codeine Fountain Razor and buckles to his knees.

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MD 306 Ducats & Deposits – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:57 +0000

306 Ducats & Deposits – Rise of the Vat Spawn

The 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.

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MD 305 Mutilations & Standing Ovations – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:00:57 +0000

MD 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 features Mega Ran, MC Frontalot, Denkles and Dizzy the Bard dropping verses alongside Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard all set to nostalgic beats by Inner Resting. Give it a listen, share it with your friends, dance to it on TikTok.

MYSTIC PUNKS KICKSTARTER: The Kickstarter for the core rulebook has successfully funded. It includes art from our very own Tiger Wizard, and an entire adventure from Steve Albertson aka Dragon Warrior.

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MD 304 AGAB: All Garys Are Bastards – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:00:57 +0000

MD 304 AGAB: All Garys Are Bastards

This 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 the municipal district to the colosseum where the executions will take place. They attempt to enter through a side entrance guarded by a DJPD officer by telling him that they were bringing The Coroner as a last minute addition to the public execution. The Coroner flips out at this undiscussed plan and runs away.

Bat Alchemist utilized the Mad Dungeon word “sexy” to make every officer’s name Gary. AGAB: All Garys Are Bastards. They make friends with this Gary and he lets them into the colosseum just in time to see ten people be mutilated and dumped into the Necropolis below.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MYSTIC PUNKS KICKSTARTER: The Kickstarter for the core rulebook is live now, and includes art from our very own Tiger Wizard, and an entire adventure from Steve Albertson aka Dragon Warrior.

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MD 303 City Streets & Spaghetti Treats – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:00:57 +0000

This 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 venders selling bags of spaghetti everywhere, and that their public transit system, The Rock Ride aka The “R,” moves along the perimeter of the city’s 100-foot tall walls. They move from an undead district, through the interior wall to the market district, to the entrance to the inner concentric circle wall to the city center.

There, they’re stopped at a Def Jamisus Police Department checkpoint. Warlock Rock fails at casting the spell candy talk, and is frisked. The DJPD finds a joint and the entire crew is detained. Will they be thrown into the slammer, or make a mystical escape from the fuzz?

ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our latest song “More Than Meets the Eye” is out now on all streaming platforms. Give it a listen, share it with your friends, dance to it on TikTok. This is leading up to our new TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP, featuring Mega Ran, MC Frontalot, Denkles and Dizzy the Bard dropping verses alongside Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard all set to nostalgic beats by Inner Resting.

MYSTIC PUNKS KICKSTARTER: The Kickstarter for the core rulebook is live now, and includes art from our very own Tiger Wizard, and an entire adventure from Steve Albertson aka Dragon Warrior.

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: Epic Levels will be attending this small press festival along with our pals at Mystic Punks RPG. It will be on March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

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MD 302 Condos & Conspiracies – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:00:57 +0000

This 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 building blocks of the city before the Vat Spawn take an elevator to the top side, to the city of Def Jamisus. The elevator music is exactly what you’d expect.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats is live on Kickstarter for Zine Quest, and fully funded! A game about cats going into dungeons, slaying vile creatures and getting away with the loot!

You can have your cat in the zine by simply backing at any level! The campaign is now live on the Epic Levels’ Kickstarter! Back now!

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th! We’ll have some of our goodies for sale, and a bunch of free stuff to fill your pockets with! Come say hi!

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration. We’ll be podcasting live, interviewing legends about the what D&D has meant to them. We’ll also be promoting our season 3 actual play using the Mystic Punks RPG ruleset found exclusively at Exalted Funeral.

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MD 301 The Necropolis – Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)

Epic Levels — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:00:57 +0000

Welcome 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 in, the city above (Def Jamisus),its political structure, the great dragon wars, and the dragon orbs that he desires.

They fly through the necropolis on Dr. Dracolitch’s back to a walled enclave filled with the mutilated exiles of Def Jamisus, learning about how crime is dealt with in Def Jamisus. They return to Dr. Dracolitch’s to heal their wounds, and are introduced to Anoop’s grow room.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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MD 241 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 2) w/ Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay, Sean K. Reynolds

Epic Levels — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 09:00:57 +0000

For part two of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay and Sean K. Reynolds.

Marc Miller, legendary creator behind Game Designers’ Workshop (GDW) and owner of Far Future Enterprises, talks about the many additions of Traveller and dying during character creation, Frank Chadwick’s Twilight: 2000, and both of their 2300 AD.

Shanna Germain, award-winning author, editor, game designer and co-founder of Monte Cook Games, talks about Consent in Gaming, Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, Numenera, The Ultimate Micro RPG Book, No Thank You, Evil! (a kids RPG), The Magnus Archives, and her upcoming fantasy novel about tattoos full of ashes, slipping into little critters and why the prison system sucks. Follow Shanna: Website – Patreon – Instagram – Twitter – Facebook

Chris Lindsay, product Marketing Manager at Wizards of the Coast & D&D Studio, talks Dungeon Masters Guild, being head Dungeon Master for the D&D Adventurers League, D&D in a Castle, Planescape, and The Deck of Many Things (2023). Follow Chris: Instagram

Sean K. Reynolds, designer/developer at Monte Cook Games, talks TSR (AD&D, Marvel Super Heroes), WotC (Greyhawk Campaign setting, D&D3E monsters), Pathfinder, Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, The Weird, Cypher System Starter Set, and a new cozy, coffeeshop, witchcore supplement It’s Only Magic (a modern fantasy setting genre/rules book for Cypher System). Follow Sean: Instagram – Twitter – Patreon – Bluesky is @SeanKReynolds

MD 241 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 2) w/ Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay, Sean K. Reynolds

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Monte Cook, Mike Mason, Skip Williams, Jeff Richard, Joseph Goodman, Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay, Sean K. Reynolds

THE LOVE WIZARD BAZAAR

The Love Wizard Bazaar is a labyrinthian community of shops, stalls and homes that surround Mookie’s tower. It’s a warm and inviting place of exotic items & smells, and filled with passionate denizens who indulge in primal carnality. It’s a market of beauty, danger and luxury. Wine is plentiful and spontaneous performances erupt constantly. Mookie is singing “The Power of Love” from the highest spire.

Mookie the Love Wizard: Mookie is an immortal god of love posing as a wizard. He created and peopled the entire mega dungeon through his cosmic sphere of influence—the strong, clichéd, meta belief that journeys are about the “friends we made along the way,” much like the Mad Dungeon podcast itself.

Wizard Tower of Love w/ Monte Cook: Mookie will allow you to leave the dungeon after you’ve made a lover’s leap from the top of his tower while holding the hand of a true love that you met in his dungeon. You’ll take no damage from the fall and gain the reward of becoming eternally clean. The purity of your love gives you the blessing that dirt and grime will never stick to you again. Mookie will then create a portal for you to return home.

Places of interest:

The Gas Top w/ Mike Mason: Inside a fog is a tall, spindly, ethereal undertaker in a top hat. Inside the hat are strange, glowing-orange, lumps of raw ginger that he offers. If you eat the ginger, the hat appears on your head like a flaming demon crown.“You’re now the owner of the Gas Top. I’ll return in a year to collect the soul of the hat’s owner.” While wearing the hat, you may create and become fog. You can transfer ownership using the ginger.

Grand Master Lucille’s Skip-Kick w/ Skip Williams: This amorphous squid blob creates pseudopod appendages from her body and secretes a slick grease. She’ll teach you her legendary skip-kick if you can defeat her, a maneuver in which one does a short shuffle to transcend time and space to surround your opponent with a flurry of roundhouse kicks. A successful hit sends the target skipping across the floor for 100 feet, like a stone across water, blasting through any obstacles. A critical success kicks them 30 seconds into the future.

Flying Crimson Chaos Beaver w/ Jeff Richard: The corrupted and horribly warped FCCB desires destruction, carnage and pretty flowers. This bus-sized menace has an eye-patch, face scar, and its primary weapons are a monstrous tail and one beaver-tooth fang that can chop a tree down in one bite. The Matchstick Army is the FCCB’s cult of animated tree splinters who attack as a swarm and can become a dam in an instant. The FCCB has a band of kidnapped celebrities manacled to his tail.

Col. Cybercop w/ Joseph Goodman: This techno-dungeon shrine contains the rusted hulk of Col. Cybercop, the robotic body of a famous avatar of law, war & technology. Solving the puzzle of his anatomy will open a panel that says Switch Here For Weapons. Three weapon switches: 1) Automatic pistol with quickdraw thigh holster, 2) A bipedal gun drone and the visor that controls it, 3) Cyber-knight wristwatch that can summon a hard hologram cyberhorse mount, and a USB cable that straightens out into a cyber-lance that impales people with information.

Laser Sword Assembly w/ Marc Miller: Space marine drill sergeants stand behind a recruiting booth with a laser sword manual (study for a bonus) and a variety of laser sword parts. They’ll allow you to keep the laser sword if you can assemble it blindfolded faster than one of them, but they’ll be relentless in their attempts to have you enlist immediately. If you assemble it incorrectly, the blade’s pointing the wrong direction injuring you. Lose 1d4 fingers.

Skedaddle: The Mice Prison Rodeo w/ Shanna Germain: A large terrarium contains a misty, castle-like, old-west rodent prison run by hippy mice. In front of the castle is a rodeo arena where tough, tatted-up prison mice in adorable lil’ cowboy outfits train in wagon-wheel treadmills before competing for time off of their sentences. Events: cockroach lasso, opossum wrestling, cottontail tie-down roping, and bucking pit viper riding. A crowd surrounds the terrarium, betting on who will win/survive, including a wizard who offers to shrink you down to compete.

Anfernee, Dealer of Anthropomorphic Antiquities w/ Chris Lindsay: This bombastic hippofolk street vendor wears a tutu and a trenchcoat filled with contraband. He’s selling vials of illicit goo (types: red dragon, titmouse or untainted) that brings objects to life, and recently animated objects: flowers, a pack of spork commandos willing to go on missions for you, a bandana blindfold that tells you what it sees, and a small glass jar mushroom terrarium with googly eyes and talking moss mouth.

Yorin, Broomstick Custodian w/ Sean K. Reynolds: Yorin is of an ambiguous humanoid species with intensely blue eyes. They facilitate a broomstick crafting area consisting of: bristles growing out of pots to make the brush, a variety of yarns to attach the bristles to a staff, and a bucket of 3 types of magic staves (fire, charm & cursed). A successfully crafted broom will fly and either: leave a trail of fire, dazzle folks watching you ride, or curse you to carry your broomstick until you can talk someone else into taking it.

Appendix N: Hudson Hawk, Harlequin novels, Game of Thrones, Huey Lewis & The News “The Power Of Love,” Go (board game), Peanuts (Lucy making Charlie Brown miss the football), Mortal Kombat, Jean Claude Van Damme, Little Richard’s “Lucille,” Status Quo’s “Pictures Of Matchstick Men,” Metalocalypse, Robocop franchise (and statue in Detroit), TMNT (mousers, animals in ooze), Rifts (Palladium), Micronauts, Batman, Rubik’s Cubing Competitions, Hellraiser, The Hobbit (Thorin’s song), Star Wars: Andor, Michael Bay films (explosions), Beauty and the Beast, Moon Knight, Fantasia, Toy Story 4, Harry Potter (quidditch), The Craft.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats will be coming to Kickstarter for Zine Quest this February! A game about cats going into dungeons, slaying vile creatures and getting away with the loot!

You can have your cat in the game by simply backing at any level! The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level’s Kickstarter! Click the “notify me on launch” button to make sure you don’t miss out!

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th! We’ll have some of our goodies for sale, and a bunch of free stuff to fill your pockets with! Come say hi! http://www.gamefacecon.com/

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration. We’ll be podcasting live, interviewing legends about the what D&D has meant to them. We’ll also be promoting our season 3 actual play using the Mystic Punks RPG ruleset found exclusively at Exalted Funeral.

NEW POSTER MAP: We have a new poster adventure map now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral based on our Mad Dungeon season one, episode 20, Song of the Shriekfrapp, with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11×17 front-side poster image!

The water is draining away at the secret golden oasis because of all the infighting between the adorable, ear-like loboids.Can you help the tiptoers, bouncers and striders to stop bickering and unite with their magic dance to save their home from being destroyed by the slumbering Shriekfrapp? I hear that it’s good luck to flip a gold coin into the water when you arrive.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 240 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 1) w/ Monte Cook, Mike Mason, Skip Williams, Jeff Richard, Joseph Goodman

Epic Levels — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:00:57 +0000

For part one of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with Monte Cook, Mike Mason, Skip Williams, Jeff Richard & Joseph Goodman.

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 based off of the horror fiction anthology podcast. Follow Monte Cook: Website – Twitter – Facebook

Mike Mason of Chaosium and creative director co-author of Call of Cthulhu discusses CoC, Alone Against the Static, Arkham Unveiled, the upcoming/updated Cthulhu By Gaslight and his podcast with Paul Fricker Eldritch Stories. Follow Chaosium: Website – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube – Facebook

Skip Williams “The Sage” talks D&D 3E, “Sage Advice” column for Dragon Magazine and his current work with Gary Con and their Founders and Legends convention for this year’s 50th anniversary of D&D and the birth of roleplaying. Paul Stromberg will be there with his Legend of Wargaming. And Skip will be running some Chainmail games. Find Skip on Facebook and at Gary Con: Co-Event Manager & Honored Guest

Jeff Richard, creative director of Chaosium talks Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, the Horror on the Orient Express board game, and upcoming RuneQuest projects: Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way, the Solar cult book, Dragon Pass, and a starter book. Follow Jeff on Facebook and Chaosium: Website – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube – Facebook

Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games talks Dungeon Crawl Classic (DCC), Grimtooth’s Old-School Traps, Adventures on the Purple Planet & Beyond, Appendix N, Robocop, and our mutual love of Colonel Lou Zocchi of Gamescience dice. Follow Goodman Games: Website – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube – Facebook

The Mad Dungeon season 2 #dungeon23 Mega Dungeon is almost complete!

The season finale super room will be revealed next week along with the final mega-dungeon that we spent a year creating with all our friends!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by Tiger Wizard. You can have your cat in the game by simply backing at any level! The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level’s Kickstarter! Click the “notify me on launch” button to make sure you don’t miss out!

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski (Titmouse, The Legend of Vox Machina, Mighty Nein)

Epic Levels — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Chris Prynoski, owner of Titmouse, and we talk about his start with drawing D&D characters and Titmouse as a t-shirt company. We discuss his beginning with Beavis & Butthead, Freddy Got Fingered, and Metalocalypse. We touch on Venture Bros., Superjail, The Amazing Screw-On Head (working with Mike Mignola & Paul Giamatti), Star Trek Lower Decks, Big Mouth, and Titmouse’s latest Scavenger Reign.

We spend most of our time on the Critical Role animated series The Legend of Vox Machina and the upcoming Mighty Nein.

We talk about the power he gained as steward of The Sandal of Gygax, his game group the Murder Hobos, his D&D art party, the Titmouse RV w/ Erol Otus art, his secret game room half-van at Titmouse, his blacklight DM screen w/ Skinner art, and playing D&D with a mechanic involving a gumball machine in Bugbear Canyon outside of Austin, TX.

Follow Titmouse: Website – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube – Facebook – Titmouse merch

MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski

This mall department store has an iron portcullis separating you from a horde of nugglets that are currently ripping the testicles off of some unlucky NPCs. You see them painfully transform into nugglets themselves.

In front of you are fitting rooms, six racks of necropant styles, a workbench with a skin sewing machine and a tip jar filled with coins from destitute widows. A big curvy skinning knife hangs next to a pile of corpses that have been skinned from the waist down. Tapestries with hot pink triangles and neon swirls, depict models wearing the necropants with nugglets about to chomp on their balls.

At the workbench is Hangin’ Brains, the seamstress necromancer. She tells you that “you’ll make a good pair of necropants.” She then demands that you choose pants from the rack before she releases the nugglets on you, and that only one style will give you immunity from their bite. She can turn into a pair of pants and fly away. Once you choose your pants, she raises the portcullis, unleashing the nugglets.

Nugglets: These feral, waist-high, jaundiced scrotoids are dressed like department store catalog models in ill-fitting short shorts and overall shorts, with their own balls hanging to their knees. These zombie-like living testies will try to chomp your nards, and if they do, it’s only a matter of time before you’re a wee nutling like them, trying to eat low hangin’ fruit.

Necropants: Choose a style of pants from one of the six racks. Made from human skin, they each have distended testicles and magically adhere when you put them on, becoming your skin. They can’t be removed until you convince someone else to put them on, or you remove the curse. All necropants will double your coins when put between your scrotum and those of the necropants, but only one will protect you from the nugglets’ bite.

1- Purple-Veined Jeans: They’ll form a coin barrier between your nutsack and the necropants’ nutsack giving you immunity to the bite of the nugglet with a decoy scrotum. The proper choice to win.

2 – Harem: Made of loose and flabby skin, these flappy MC Hammer pants make you feel “proper,” until you realize that all movement blows the pants open to expose your scrotal region for easy chomping.

3 – Bidol the Sentient Scrotal Sleeve: Gently insert your sack. If the SSS doesn’t like how you slid it in (and he never does), he’ll editorialize what it thinks about your balls before belting out a “rebel yell” to call over the nugglets to bite you. Sweat! Sweat! Sweat!

4 – Necro Booty Shorts: You look bootylicious, but you’re cursed with Titmouse’s irresistible animation, a never ending dance of the legs, convulsive laughter and the compulsion to render adult animations.

5 – Kilt of Many Circles: A breezy skirt covered in circles and holes that’ll expose your ballzak.

6 – The Unreliable Codpiece: This platemail codpiece has a lock and key. Lock the codpiece and think you’re safe, but it intentionally opens up at the most inopportune times.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Chris Prynoski

Appendix N: George Romero films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead), Tromeo and Juliet, Powell Peralta’s Ripper logo, necropants, Billy Idol “Dancing with Myself” and “Shock to the System” music videos, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Natalie Imbruglia “Torn,” Michael Jackson “Thriller” video, Rob Zombie “Living Dead Girl” video, The Temple of Elemental Evil (D&D), Johnny Got His Gun, Metallica “One” music video, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs “Meal Ticket” segment, The Walking Dead, Silent Hill, Upright Citizens Brigade “Little Donny,” Critters, Ghoulies, the art of Patrick Nagel, Duran Duran.

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Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 238 Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin’s Chuckle Cottage w/ Amy Vorpahl (D&D, Dimension 20, Critical Role)

Epic Levels — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Amy Vorpahl and we talk about her work as the voice of Fizban in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, her Candlekeep Mysteries adventure Kandlekeep Dekonstruktion, her Dropout TV work as character Efink Murderdeath on Dimension 20 Side Quest Escape from the Bloodkeep, and Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom.

We get into her D&D music, including her latest album Behold Her Dreams and its accompanying music videos. The show she sold to Hulu called Must Love Dragons about nerdy girls dating, that ended up not getting made and her horny Hallmark-ish X-mas movie. We discuss other streaming things she’s done from Geek & Sundry to Critical Role and her D&D Beyond show “Jingleshearth.”

Follow Amy: Website/Newsletter – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube – TikTok – Bandcamp

MD 238 Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin’s Chuckle Cottage w/ Amy Vorpahl

Ask the players for a silly name, place and object to fill out this 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 Cottage: This hipster bachelor pad is quintessential cottagecore with its bucolic, bespoke items of luxury and comfort. Delightful desserts are available everywhere. Paintings of wizards and dragons line the walls, but above the cozily burning fireplace is an incorporeal phantom portrait of a sheet-with-eye-holes ghost that’ll consume you with psychic damage, turning your hair gray, if you look at it.

A magically animated red-plaid Duvet will fly to whoever is most cozy, swaddle them in a warm embrace, and deliver hot cocoa to its chosen champion. This person gets one “do-over” in the game. Duvet a sweetheart, yet formidable in a fight, and can speak when their mouth is unbuttoned.

Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin: This old, jolly, red-plaid clad wizard is a Santa (not thee Santa) with pointy cheeks, long white hair & beard, and a golf hat with a pom. He loves eating sweets. He speaks in a Scottish accent, and knows your deepest secrets. Sarguar is sitting on a rocking chair, smoking a pipe, sipping cocoa with peppermint schnapps and picking at a plate of haggis. He greets you with a big “Ho Ho Ho,” in a thick Scottish brogue. He stands up slowly with his pipe, offers you Magic Cookies that’ll make you feel: 1-cozy, 2-whimsical or 3-awful, and gives you the rules of the game. He has a massive bag of swords to give away to the winners.

The game: In real life (IRL) don’t laugh or even smile for up to 4 minutes or you lose. Players have to make eye contact with one other person. DM may say the name Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin and read the above ad-lib to attempt to evoke laughter. Everyone else must remain silent. If you make it one minute: +1 tiny olive skewer sword, two minutes: +2 short sword, three minutes: +3 long sword, four minutes: +4 Vorpahl Sword!

Don’t laugh. Don’t warm your hands by the fire, and don’t you dare eat those cookies!

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Amy Vorpahl

Appendix N: Pee Wee’s Playhouse, D&D (Tasha’s hideous laughter), Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Shrek, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Santa Claus, Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, Aladin, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Ghost Story (A24 film), It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Evil Dead 2.

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We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. Dragon Warrior will be running games in the space set up by our pals at the Alexandria RPG Library at the RPG Library in Room 108B! Event Tickets will be available in-person, starting at 10:00 AM on morning of the event.

Dragon Warrior will be running OSE: Old School Essentials – Mad Dungeon Rooms from the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast on:

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

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The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman (Tabletop Gaymers)

Epic Levels — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Justin Nauman, president of Tabletop Gaymers, whose mission is promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion by championing the visibility and recognition of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and others) community through tabletop gaming. 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.

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MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman

This room has two thin runways, one in front of you, and one directly across from you. Below the runways is a 30-foot drop to a magnetic floor that makes escaping your armor without help impossible. The walls are lined with armor and the catwalks are lined with brightly colored shields that represent each of the dance houses, with the visage of the house mother. Once you agree to the gayme, the lights shift to strobes, a disco ball, lazer light show, and a DJ starts playing music.

You’re welcomed by the floating Bearbara Grizzelich, a drag performer dressed as a leather-daddy bear with a fake beard, massive amounts of faux chest hair, a pompadour, and black leather chaps with flowing fringe. They explain the rules and hand out a ribbon to the victor. Magic ribbons: “Sashay Queen,” 1/day fly 30 feet. “Bear Pride Flag,” 1/day briefly doubles your strength. “Drag-on King,” 1/day briefly boosts your AC.

Sashays & Shields: This ball competition consists of walking like a supermodel down the catwalk and back in full armor with a shield. Dex checks. Don’t fall. Grizzelich will judge you on dance, beauty and realness. After each walk the loser has one of their three chunks of runway drop away until one falls to their doom. Choose a house’s armor and shield before you compete. That house will cheer for you, and your ghost will join their house after you die. An opposing house’s champion ghost will haunt their respective armor and choose their shield with the longest stream of ribbons.

Dance Houses: Each wall has a viewing booth occupied by the ghosts of previous competitors who now occupy one of the four dance houses: Queen, King, Genderfuck or Camp. Ghosts who win are either allowed to go to the afterlife or gain another ribbon. They almost always take the ribbon.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Justin Nauman

DJ horn attribution this ep to: neilyhype

Appendix N: RuPaul “Supermodel,” Right Said Fred “I’m Too Sexy,” D&D, Paris is Burning, Madonna “Vogue,” Blazon (shield and heraldry board game), Grizzly Man (Werner Hertzog), Chicago Kings (drag performers).

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The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 236 Basilica of the Last Bout w/ Jacqueline Bryk (A Thousand Yards Of Lace, Vampire: The Masquerade 5e, World of Darkness)

Epic Levels — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:00:57 +0000

This 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 The Wheel, and her upcoming A Thousand Yards Of Lace, a hack (with permission) of Thousand Year Old Vampire.

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MD 236 Basilica of the Last Bout w/ Jacqueline Bryk

This pugilist’s mausoleum is a gothic cathedral with rich textiles, details of gold and precious metals, a checkerboard floor, a large chandelier made of stainless steel championship belts. In the center of the room is a boxing ring. Inside of the ring, on a dias, is a coffin. Inside the coffin is the corpse of Eva Slaughter “The Red Reign of Pain,” a yoked goth-girl boxer who sold her soul for a championship.

The Devil himself is sitting in a sticky bubble-gum couch on a hell-rift in the floor. He lets you know that if someone doesn’t step up to marry Eva’s ghost, that he’ll happily drag her soul to hell. This is her last shot at getting out of the contract.

The Funeral Mourners: An eccentric cast of boxing champions, wearing cultish robes, black veils and boxing trunks, stand in a circle around the ring, each on their own glowing rune-inscribed tile. One member of this bloodsport coven is hanging Eva’s championship belt when you arrive. They all stomp one foot in unison when you arrive, and turn to face you. They give their last words, each one emphasizing how someone needs to step up and marry Eva’s ghost so she can have a good afterlife. They then look at you, as though telling you to do it, then gesture to the only open floor rune remaining to complete the circle.

Ghost Marriage: If you choose to go through this ritual, you’re bound to Eva’s ghost, who rises, dukes up, from the coffin. A wispy ghost ring wraps around your finger, tethering you to your new ghost wife. If you accept the responsibility to take care of Eva, you have to keep up her name by burning effigies of money and other items for her to use in the afterlife. Make offerings daily, or she’ll haunt you. Do well and have a nice romantic haunting, otherwise you’ll get slow-hand-punched by your new wraith wife.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Jacqueline Bryk

Appendix N: Diplomacy (board game), Spawn & The Violator (comic book), Call of Duty (video game), Fabio (romance novels), John Waters, second chance romance novels, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, Robot Jox, The Lily and the Horn by Catherynne M. Valente, Edgar Allen Poe the boxer, Bluebeard’s Bride RPG, ghost brides, Jupiter Ascending, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, Ronda Rousey, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Ghost (film), Ghostbusters.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by our own Tiger Wizard. The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level’s Kickstarter! Click the “notify me on launch” button to make sure you don’t miss out!

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Dragon Warrior will be running OSE: Old School Essentials – Mad Dungeon Rooms from the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast on:

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 235 Sluggoth Love-Off w/ Alex Roberts (Star Crossed, For the Queen)

Epic Levels — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Alex Roberts who won the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming for her game Star Crossed. We discuss Star Crossed, the two person game of forbidden love with a Jenga tower, safety tools when playing TTRPGs, and her card-based storytelling game For the Queen. We also talk about her next Bully Pulpit release, the supplement Star Crossed: Love Letters which is crowdfunding on Backerkit now!

BACK STAR CROSSED: LOVE LETTERS ON BACKERKIT

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MD 235 Sluggoth Love-Off w/ Alex Roberts

There’s a love triangle between Sluggoth, an elder space-slug deity with a 30’ aura of peace & love radiating from them, Captain Blaarg, an arrogant yet handsome yellow gelatinous creature, and Percival Blorp, a glowing space-skeleton with expressive eyeballs, eyebrows and buck teeth. Percival wields their grandfather’s antique space pistol. They all believe that this stupid joust thing is only done for silly cultural reasons. “We should all stop fighting and just kiss already!”

This competition cooking show is for the hand of the fair Sluggoth. This royal wedding, broadcasted to the galaxy, is the event of the season. Lizard-monkey attendants are making sure Sluggoth’s special day is perfect. You’ll have time to mingle with the participants before having to choose a side, becoming sous chefs for your champion in this joust of manners and culinary experience.

This cute room has several tiered, levitating platforms where gelatinous flowers called vegelitins are growing. There’s a stable of talking, sarcastic, three-headed riding birds with wings of daggers to cut the flowers, used to reach the floating platforms. Whoever makes the best edible arrangements between three courses while using the surprise ingredient wins. Sluggoth will judge on presentation and taste, and crown the winner.

The Slug Bishop, a large symbiotic slug on a human host’s head, presides over the show. This charismatic leader of the Sluggoth church and game show host is working the crowd, conducting interviews and keeping the show entertaining.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Alex Roberts

Appendix N: Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament, Ren Faires, A Knight’s Tale, Starcrash, Roger Corman, Beyond the Stars, Joust (video game), Warhammer 40k, Enemy Mine, The Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator, Alien Nation, District 9, Alf, Midsommar, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Salacious B. Crumb), TV cooking shows, Elton John “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Dragon Warrior will be running OSE: Old School Essentials – Mad Dungeon Rooms from the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast on:

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 234 Gold in the Blood w/ Max Moon (Abyss of Hallucinations, Twelve Years RPG)

Epic Levels — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Max Moon of Max Moon Games. We talk about his latest project Abyss of Hallucinations (out via Exalted Funeral and is Kickstarting now), which is a setting based on Aleister Crowley’s Book of Lies, and is compatible with MÖRK BORG. We also discuss The Demon Lord Expansion for Twelve Years RPG, Fairyland, and his music projects including his dungeon synth project Cthulugans.

Support the Abyss of Hallucinations Kickstarter here!

Fully funded and all stretch goals are unlocked!

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MD 234 Gold in the Blood w/ Max Moon (Abyss of Hallucinations, Twelve Years RPG)

This immaculate, gold-plated room’s walls have an opulent bas relief carved into white wax and accented with gold gilded flourishes and gold filigree. It depicts scenes documenting the process of making gold heads culminating in last year’s winners of the “best costume” contest. They’re making these heads as macabre costumes for a Mardi Gras-esque festival back in Fairyland, with their head through a hole in the top, arms through the ear holes and their legs coming out of the neck hole. They can fly while wearing the heads. The smell of molten gold and gore here is potent. The doors to this room are cracked to let it air out.

Gold Heads: 1d100 heads are scattered around the floor like a production line—a ramshackle museum of blobby, half-melted, screaming faces of gold. Some of the heads have gold smoke wisps coming out of them as fairies are just chillin’ in there, smoking gold foil joints.

Gold Fairies: These one-foot tall creatures with golden skin and wings are stoned and having a good time. Their goal is to get you into the hotbox and collect your head. They’re trying to get to 100 heads. If you’re the 100th head, they’ll cleanse the room in fire with the wizard crucible. They’ll offer you their fairy weed and try to talk you into the hotbox. “Come into our art gallery.” “Don’t worry, we’re just smoking this gold.”

The Hotbox: This phone booth sized box is horribly stained with blood and has three chambers. The topmost contains molten gold in a magic crucible above the door, originally invented by a wizard to keep his soup hot. Below that is a chamber large enough for a human to stand in. Once the door is closed, the molten gold is poured over their head. A guillotine mechanism severs the head and contains it in the “head chamber.” A trap door grate opens beneath the chamber, dropping the body down a chute into the compactor pit. The gold head is then easily retrieved by the fairies.

Compactor pit: This narrow pit is filled with waist-deep blood that’s peppered with gold flecks. The walls then compact to turn the corpse into a meat cube. There are as many meat cubes down here (and their loot) as the 1d100 rolled for heads earlier. Living here in the gore is an amorphous carrion devourer made primarily of eyeball stalks.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Max Moon

Appendix N: Marvel (Adam Warlock, The Sovereign, Cable), Labrinth, The Dark Crystal, Pinnoccio, Brigade (Image), Ben Franklin, Indiana Jones, “Never Let Them Know Your Next Move” memes, Home Alone, Game of Thrones, David Cronenberg (Videodrome), Star Wars: A New Hope, True Romance, Carnival/Mardi Gras, Blade, Cabin in the Woods.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Dragon Warrior will be running OSE: Old School Essentials – Mad Dungeon Rooms from the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast on:

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

The post MD 234 Gold in the Blood w/ Max Moon (Abyss of Hallucinations, Twelve Years RPG) appeared first on Epic Levels.

MD 233 Fen of Frogore: Ooze, Booze and Canoes w/ Alex Kammer (Gamehole Con, Frog God Games, The End of Everything)

Epic Levels — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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), where you can take characters from levels 1-12 levels, explore the Haunted Steppes in the Lost Lands with overland travel, find proto-Tibetan culture, minor haunts, cosmic horror weirdness with decay and a corruption mechanic, meet some friendly gnolls, and hopefully prevent the end of everything.

Follow Alex: Website – XTwitter

MD 233 Fen of Frogore: Ooze, Booze and Canoes w/ Alex Kammer

The Fen: This subterranean lake is a mix of groundwater, accumulated peat, nuclear waste and slimy frog skin. The smell of rot and decay is made worse by the strange mutated flora and fauna that inhabits this swamp. Nuclear barrels float next to hundreds of bowling-ball-sized disembodied Frogore eyes that watch you and blink. Other debris clutters the lake including a bookcase, red drapes, and a chest of drawers with fanciful carvings showing bucolic agrarian scenes of crops at different levels of maturity. Inside are moldy clothing, overalls, breakfast cereal and a banjo. Supplicants live in huts on long legs that stick out of the water. They’re connected by a network of docks with a canoe for every hut. You can use canoes to reach the idols.

Supplicants: These banjo-loving, mutated frog-folk have been blessed by Frogore. They aren’t interested in helping you out. They simply want to keep this area radioactive and toxic. They’re quite radioactive and use Geiger counters to make sure everyone and everything is radioactive enough for their liking. As caretakers of the idols, they arrange offerings of booze and cans of toxic sludge to venerate this god-like creature. They hang smaller versions of the idol on their doors and wear as pendants around their neck to identify each other as initiates.

Five Idols: These 10-foot stone images of a friendly frog in overalls with a wheat straw in its mouth undercut the folk-horror of the situation. Each idol has drifted to the center of the lake, facing in different directions. You can summon Frogore by either turning them to face the center of the lake, or arrange them in the shape of Frogore.

Frogore: This froghemoth elder god is wearing overalls and its skin is sloughing off from all the nuclear fallout. It has hundreds of eyes that fall off of its body, and grow back just as fast. Frogore loves getting offerings of bags of booze and cans of radioactive materials that it’ll pop open like beers. In return, Frogore will bless you with its ooze, giving you a mutation. A loot pile of discarded offerings rests at the bottom of the lake.

Mutation chart (Roll 1d6):

1- Gain a prehensile sticky tongue, but you always have flies buzzing around you.

2- Grow five bulging eyes with slit pupils, but gain perfect underwater vision even in murky water.

3- Leap 4x as high, but now your resting position is squatting.

4- Can make a slick, caustic slime coat your body, but you always stink like a marsh.

5- You gain a swim speed with webbed hands & feet, but you can’t wear gloves or shoes without pain.

6- Amphibious, but you must wet your skin once an hour or take one damage as you dry up.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Alex Kammer

Appendix N: The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Call of Cthulhu (weird mysteries and deep ones), Dig ‘Em Frog (mascot for Honey Smacks), The Three Investigators (Alfred Hitchcock), M. Night Shyamalan films, Kermit the Frog with a banjo, Deliverance, TNMT, Captain Planet.

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Also, Tiger Wizard speaks with Tony Vasinda of PlusOneExp where they discuss RPG Zine Club, a monthly membership subscription service featuring fresh zines from emerging and expanding creators across the globe.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check out all the amazing dwarves from our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest with judges David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and our own Tiger Wizard. Congrats to winner Lukasz Piwinski and thanks to all the artists who participated! Keep your eyes open for another contest next year!

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We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. Dragon Warrior will be running games. Sign ups are now available. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 10:00 AM CST – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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Dragon Warrior will be running OSE: Old School Essentials – Mad Dungeon Rooms from the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast on:

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 232 Paper Pirates of the Renegade Heart w/ James D’Amato (One Shot Podcast, Campaign: SkyJacks, The Ultimate RPG series)

Epic Levels — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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 Renegade Heart

All sides of this room are a sepia-toned parchment treasure map that hides an expansive ocean beneath, causing some of the drawings to sag and become smeared. The floor is primarily ocean with an island, and the ceiling is an antediluvian dome star map. Years of abuse have distorted the typesetting: kerning, tracking and letting. Once you enter the room, the door becomes a drawing as well, trapping you inside. Bones of the people who starved to death before they solved the puzzle or joined the crew line the floor. Only living 3D people can solve the puzzle.

Puzzle: There’s no escape unless you can fix the jumbled elements hidden within the map: Pirates is misspelled as Piarets. The treasure chest lid has the wrong perspective. One pirate’s eyes, nose, ears and beard are scattered around the map and need to be moved back to their face. A monkey and a parrot have swapped faces. The pirate ship’s sail is on its keel. And finally, one wall is too long. You must fold in either side to correct the image and discover the “X” that the treasure will come out of once all six items are solved. Folding this wall in the wrong direction creates a 2D kraken that you set loose.

Treasure: Formed from the map, the Crown of the Pirate King is a document giving you the legal title of Pirate King that’s folded into a wearable crown. The crew of the Renegade Heart will follow you for a while, and you can brandish this document in any pirate-based situation where pirates will consider you in charge.

Crew of the Renegade Heart: These 2D pirates living in the walls of the map are in need of a king. They can only escape the map when someone is crowned the Pirate King. These pirates belong to a massive polycule. They can save you from starvation by bringing you into the world of the map, but you have to woo them to invite you into their polyamorous network. They vote to bring you into the relationship like they vote for a captain. Then you must wait for someone else to come by and save you.

Inside the map is a Wax Cylinder Player. Most wax cylinders are podcasts recorded by the pirates: The Seven Seas Cast, Billy Bones’ Walk the Podcast, etc… There’s also music of varying genres that’ll give you a bonus to woo the pirates if you can get the vibe right. Roll a D100: 1-80 podcast, 81-99 music, 100 a cursed cylinder that summons a 2D elder god sea beast on the map.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, James D’Amato

Appendix N: The War of 1812, One Piece (anime), Infinity Train, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Flight of the Navigator, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” Mad Magazine, Burger King crown, Photoshop, Looney Tunes “Duck Amuck,” Highlights Magazine.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. Dragon Warrior will be running games. Signups TBD.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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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

Epic Levels — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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

Tiny Tarts Restaurant is a highly sought after date location that’s been a real hit with the single’s scene and thrill seekers alike. The Gygaxian horror of this room has been scrubbed and replaced by romantic things: mood lighting, flowers and a “Tiny Tarts” neon sign (logo that’s a flail with a hanging chain that ends in a heart of spikes).

As you enter this romantic restaurant, you’re greeted by a lich maître d’ wearing a nametag that says “Tart”. Tart stands at a podium that’s covered in blooming shrink shrooms. They’ll explain the rules of the room, and with your permission, shrink you down with the shrink shrooms’ spore gas. “Shrink shrooms is how you get shrunk down.” From the podium, you zipline to Shinkland, which looks like a grapefruit hockey puck in the center of the room.

Shrinkland: This crowded, pocket-sized carnival adventure park is quite romantic, but rife with dangers. Lots of single Lilliputians are looking for love, but beware of thirst traps and honey traps. The zipline lands you in an oversized garden where you can pick and give people flowers, but be wary of garden mites, and living thorny roses. From here you can enjoy the other carnival games: bug wrangling pit, marksman range, flea circus, strawberries big enough to feed 20 people, and a pretzel with jello and pudding in the holes for spicy wrestling. On bad days, rats the size of dragons will attack Shrinkland, devouring everything.

To become unshrunk, you must find someone to be in a consenting, mutually beneficial relationship (that can be aromantic), and leave as a pair holding hands through the Tunnel of Love.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Tyler Crumrine

Appendix N:

Polly Pocket & Mighty Max, Tales from the Crypt, Dating apps (Tinder, Hinge, etc…), ‘80s VHS dating tapes, Friends (TV), Looney Tunes, The Bachelor / Bachelor in Paradise, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Zipline sketch), abandoned buildings of Pittsburgh, Gary Gygaxian dungeons, Grave of the Fireflies, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” World of Warcraft, Downsizing.

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This week Tiger Wizard teams up with celebrity judges David Hoskins, Erol Otus to discuss their judging criteria and their love of dwarves as they judge the winners of our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest in the break of this episode.

Best Dwarf Drawing Contest: All Dwarf drawings are in, submissions have closed, and our amazing panel of judges have reviewed all of the entries. We’ve announced the winners in this episode!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. Dragon Warrior will be running games. Signups TBD.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 230 Cyber Sisyphus w/ Andrew Clayton (Foundry Virtual Tabletop)

Epic Levels — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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

MD 230 – Cyber Sisyphus

This retro-futurist conception of London streets is covered in a thick fog. You can’t see more than a foot in front of you. The floor goes uphill and has the pattern of a circuit-board maze of perpendicular lines that the Cyber Sisyphus, a boulder-size orb that glows neon blue, is to be navigated to a concave nest at the top. Each dead end has a floating proximity mine that ticks like a timebomb. It explodes when the orb gets too close, briefly blowing away the fog and knocking you back to the starting position.

There are two levers on opposite walls. One moves the orb north/south, and the other east/west. There are two pairs of cyber goggles. One that allows you to see the north/south walls and the other the east/west walls. Everyone must work together to solve the maze through this asymmetry of information. When the orb moves, it leaves a glowing force field behind it so you can’t backtrack or cross where you’re already gone. Each player can only see a piece of how to solve the puzzle and must communicate with verbal instructions.

Hiding in the fog with his cane and cloak is Jack the Hacker. He hides in the shadows, cackling, giving instructions on how the room works and threatening to kill you if you fail. Whenever any aspect of the puzzle doesn’t go right, he mocks you to increase your levels of tension and frustration—talking about how much smarter he is than you—bragging about his algorithmic efficiency.

If you solve the maze, Jack rewards you with a combustiboard. This floating hoverboard can jump 20 feet, leaving an explosion that deals blast damage. The Cyber Sisyphus shrinks to become part of the board and the orb can be shot out of it like a cannon ball that grows into a cyber-boulder.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andrew Clayton

Appendix N: The Fog of War by Errol Morris, Darknet Diaries (podcast), Shadowrun, Mission Impossible, Breath of the Wild, Jack the Ripper, Hackers, Star Trek (The Holodeck), Sherlock Holmes, Tron, The Matrix, Silicon Valley, Golden Eye, Acade (villain of Spiderman).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All Dwarf drawings are in, submissions have closed, and our amazing panel of judges are reviewing all of the entries. We’ll be announcing the winners very soon!

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We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. Dragon Warrior will be running games. Signups TBD.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 229 Book ov Blood & Fire w/ Luke Crane (Burning Wheel, Torchbearer, Mouse Guard, Miseries & Misfortunes)

Epic Levels — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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. Teflon rafts float in the pool that will cook you if you stay on them too long. Out of the fire and into the frying pan… literally. Trap! A portcullis drops down in the doorway you came through, cutting you off from escape. The ledges collapse underneath you. Jump!

On a stationary center plinth is orc lawyer Janet Reno Nevada Esquire, wearing a pantsuit with heels. She’s chained to a massive lectern where the Book ov Blood & Fire rests. It’s a treatise on religious subjugation disguised as self help rests on. She’s bleeding fire, yelling her true name and the name of her true love (who’s somewhere nearby). She desperately looks up rules as fire shoots out of the book. She’s suffering and has been driven to this state by the cursed book.

Mounted on a pole and wheel contraption, she wields the oversized Book ov Blood & Fire like a flail to knock you into the pool, or flings pages for a ranged attack. If a page hits you, make a mental save (with a solid debate argument) or suffer The Rules: When you bleed, your blood becomes fire. You must say your true name and the name of your true love.

Reading from the cursed book chains you to the lectern to guard the room. It makes you invincible, but you’re always under the mental and physical pain of The Rules. The pool of fire-blood is from the collective wounds of all of the cursed book’s previous owners. You can heal Janet’s magical wounds to calm her down, but to break the curse you must bring her true love before her.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Luke Crane

Appendix N: Fahrenheit 451, The Bible (Ten Commandments), Chicken Soup for the Soul, Warhammer 40k (the librarian), Carrie (1976 film), House of Flying Daggers, American Gladiators.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All Dwarf drawings are in, submissions have closed, and our amazing panel of judges are reviewing all of the entries. We’ll be announcing the winners very soon!

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The new Games Omnivorous Kickstarter is live now, and completely funded! FRONTIER SCUM is an ENNIE-winning rules-lite Acid Western roleplaying game. An auto-destructive, violent and LSD-infused take on Spaghetti Westerns, about wanted outlaws making their mark on an unreal Lost Frontier. Probably getting shot before having the chance to shoot. A rough-and-tumble world of insatiable greed where scum live one slug from the grave.

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy.

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

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MD 228 TacocaT Cafe w/ Matthew Grau (CthulhuTech, Gwar vs. Time, League of Legends)

Epic Levels — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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 menagerie of delicious tacos, hot sauce and churros. The proprietors are Keeper, a kindly middle-aged woman who’ll train you to see a TacocaT, and Sage, an old, bearded, zen dude with long hair who’ll teach you to symbiotically bond with a TacocaT. They’re both wearing deer antlers covered in hanging crystals.

To see a TacoCaT, you must clear your mind and think only taco thoughts. When you do, there’s a ton of them. They’re everywhere and it’s cat chaos. They’re pouring out of an interdimensional TacocaT waterfall into a cuddle puddle pool in the center of the room. Keeper & Sage have more than they can handle, and want to make sure that they go to a good home.

A TacocaT is an adorable, squamous, symbiotic dream cat from the elemental plane of tacos. They have hard-taco-shell armor with fur tufts poking out between their plates, a hot-sauce hiss, and excrete delicious churros. When you bond with a TacocaT, they can regurgitate an infinite amount of tacos of whatever variety you can imagine, and they can attach to you to create a full body TacocaT armor. A TacocaT chooses its symbiotic host and bonds for life.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Matthew Grau

Appendix N: Lovecraft’s The Cats of Ulthar, Black Panther afterlife, Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat, Lofi hip hop meme girl with cat, Spiderman villains (Venom, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard), Captain Marvel’s flerken cat, “The Lovecats” by The Cure, X-O Manowar (comic), WildStar (comic), Tacocat (band), Peter Pan, Kiki’s Delivery Service (Studio Ghibli).

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG by momatoes aka Bianca Canoza. It’s a rules-lite, tension-heavy, adventurous race against the clock to slay the apocalypse. Capture your imagination with near-inescapable dooms that threaten limitless worlds…for a heart-racing story to remember. A high-quality, lushly designed and illustrated game.

It has its own fantasy d6 RPG system with rules for building engaging, tightly-paced stories through the Doomsday Clock and a trinity of Omens. You pair Skills with problem-solving Approaches. Player-driven combat with intent-based initiative. Esoteric ways to recover magic like eating an entire door, and 40 Spells & Techniques.

Check out the character Steve made:

Professor Ion Silver: Bureaucratic engineer who feuded with all four corners of the wind and has an innocuous fourth eye.

Blood: 2d6+1 (9) / Guts: 2d6+2 (10)

Approaches: Creative: +1 / Careful: +2 / Concerted: +0

Skills: Tinker +2, Academic +2, Insight +1, Arcana +1, Focus +1

Items: Well-rounded education [+1 Guts Damage]

Spells: Trinket (Minor magical effects certain to delight anyone.) “From dust to dust” (Craft anything you’ve seen from a handful of dust.),

Technique: “Uncanny Alarm” (Ask the fates about an action’s consequences.)

3 Questions: Prof. Silver differs from other people because he has four eyeballs: two normal, one on his forehead & one on the back of his bald head. People whisper that Prof. Silver can see how things are constructed on an atomic level, that he carries around the ashes of a murdered lover, and that he has built a device that can raise the dead. His most painful lesson is to not treat people like machines or he may never be loved.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check out Steve and Andrew on the Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes Stream this Thursday night at 8pm EST. It’s Ravioli for Randy!

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All Dwarf drawings are in, submissions have closed, and our amazing panel of judges are reviewing all of the entries. We’ll be announcing the winners very soon!

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Monsters! Mazes! Martinis & Minotaurs! The Epic Levels – Armor Classy CDungeon is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral. This amazing artifact is both a compact disc of the fantasy RPG hip hop album, and a full-color compact dungeon adventure that’s based on the album’s songs and Wisconsin oddity attraction, The House on the Rock. The included system-agnostic mini-adventure features a fully illustrated 10 room dungeon crawl.

Art & layout: Tiger Wizard

Written by: Steve Albertson

Additional artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Michael Mauldin

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Mason Grant.

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MD 227 Gorm Gasher’s Nickels w/ Chris O’Neill (9th Level Games, Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying, Kobolds Ate My Baby)

Epic Levels — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is owner & chief creative at 9th Level Games Chris O’Neill. We talk about his Polymorph system, the engine that runs his games Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying, the new edition of Kobolds Ate My Baby and his latest Return to Dark Tower RPG is available for pre-order, a companion to the board game of the same name by Restoration Games.

Follow 9th Level Games: Website – FB – IG – XTwitter – YouTube – TikTok

You step into the all wooden interior of a massive slot machine with no other way out. 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 a new nickel is placed in the slot hundreds of feet above you. Roll a DEX save to avoid being hit by the giant wooden nickel.

The wall with the wheels is slightly transparent like stained glass and light shines through. You can barely make out the mountainous figure who’s plunking in a neverending barrage of nickels, but you can make out the rules of the game printed on the glass facing away from you. In reverse it reads, “Three crowns wins the jackpot!”

Roll 1d6 to see what wheel symbols hit: 1) Good-cherries, 2) a crowned tooth, 3) sausage nunchucks, 4) the numeral 9, 5) an eyeball, 6) a crown. Hitting a crown or crowned tooth are partial wins and cause a small earthquake as nickel winnings move out of the machine.

The game: Rig the wheels to hit the three crown jackpot, but remember the winning combination on the wheels are facing away from you. When you hit the jackpot, a magic crown prize materializes (see below), and the floor opens up. You and the nickels spill into the giant casino’s shag carpet floor, that to you is like a forest.

This wooden magic crown is actually a pinky ring for giants. It glows in the presence of buffets, and once a day you may summon four teenage ninja bullywugs or use its luck power to reroll a die after you’ve seen its result.

Gorm Gasher: This poor giant troll has a gambling problem. He wears a green visor and sits on a sad stool putting a nickel in the slot, pulling the lever of the one-armed-bandit (which always gives him a splinter), and watches the spinning wheels with intent. He has a stew pot on either side of him. One contains a plethora of wooden nickels. The other contains a simmering stew with PCs family members in it waiting for someone to help them. He’s ecstatic when he wins.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Chris O’Neill

Appendix N: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV, Secret of the Ooze, Mutant Mayhem), The Crown, Game of Thrones, The Weekly World News, Burger King, Wheel of Fortune (TV), Shanghai Knights, Castlevania, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta Aug 31 – Sep 4. Dragon Warrior will be running games.

Fri 9:00 AM – Mystic Punks: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sat 9:00 AM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sun 1:00 PM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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Art & layout: Tiger Wizard

Written by: Steve Albertson

Additional artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Michael Mauldin

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Mason Grant.

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MD 226 Cauldron of Sadness w/ Gavin Norman (Necrotic Gnome, Dolmenwood, OSE – Old School Essentials)

Epic Levels — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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. We discuss all the fun things that come with it: the books, minis, the soundtrack on vinyl by Tales Under the Oak, and so much more.

Dolmenwood is a fantasy adventure game set in a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Like traditional fairy tales, Dolmenwood blends the dark and whimsical, the wondrous and weird.

Streamlined rules and helpful introductory materials guide novice players, while unique new magic and monsters bring a fresh sense of the unknown to veteran role-players. We’re launching the three Dolmenwood core books, plus a range of delectable extras.

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You can walk on the six surfaces (north, east, south, west, ceiling, floor) as gravity seems to work in all directions here. Ladles and spoons line the walls. Tables on each surface are covered in knick knacks. There’s a hellfire coil in the center of each surface that the cauldron likes to sit on. It only turns on when the cauldron moves to a new surface. Three cackling witches (maiden, mother & crone) are flying around on their broom and tidying up. They’re here simply as observers of the cauldron. “Don’t mind us. Boil and bubble the hot coil is trouble.”

In the center of the room is the legendary Fey Cauldron of Sadness and Joy. This sentient magic item was forged of iron in a mold of pixies. It contains brews that connect to fey dimensions of pure sadness and pure joy. It has arms to stir itself and quick legs that dance and leap from surface to surface, yet it never spills a drop. It has a duality of goblin faces on either side. One is the quintessential personification of sadness, the other of happiness.

The game: PCs secretly write down six items that are connected to their past. Designate three as happy and three as sad. One of these items appears on a table on the surface of each of the six directions. The cauldron tells you to each choose an item that isn’t your own, and add it to the cauldron. Rotten or perfumed mist rises as the cauldron stirs an item into itself. Roll randomly for which surface the cauldron will move to each round. PCs tell the cauldron when they’re done adding items.

Resolution: If more sad items were added, it opens a portal to the fey dimension of sadness and sorrow begins to take over the world. If more happy items were added… fey dimension of happiness. If there were equal amounts of happy and sad items, the cauldron shrinks down and becomes a small pouch. Once a day you may draw from the pouch to pull out a specific item that is meaningful to whoever you’re targeting. Roll a d6: 1-3 the item makes them sad, 4-6 the item makes them happy.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Gavin Norman

Appendix N: The Black Cauldron, The Beastmaster, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Whinnie the Pooh (Eeyore), Hellraiser, Willow, Beauty and the Beast (1991), D&D b/x, Return to Oz, Amelie, Batman, UHF.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Join our very own Tiger Wizard on the third and most likely final chapter of the Sky ov Crimson Flame this Saturday from 7 – 9 pm EST on the Goodman Games Twitch channel. He’s got two of his original 4 characters still alive, but will they make it through? Tune in to find out!

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We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta Aug 31 – Sep 4 . Dragon Warrior will be running games.

Fri 9:00 AM – Mystic Punks: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sat 9:00 AM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sun 1:00 PM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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Art & layout: Tiger Wizard

Written by: Steve Albertson

Additional artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Michael Mauldin

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MD 225 Idea Pool w/ Joshua Therrien

Epic Levels — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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.

A series of catwalks look down into the Idea Pool, where aquatic alien creatures swim through cosmic liquid infinity, the psychic aether that binds us all. Elias Thugburger is a carnival barkin’ salesman in a tweed suit, dixieland hat with hooks in it, and carries a cane. He stands on a dias of discarded religious iconography from ideas left behind. The game is rigged, but he’ll tell you the rules. Pay him a meaningful memory that you lose forever, and in exchange you may put together a fishing rod and cast it into the Idea Pool. The memory you put in influences what you pull out.

“Step right up. Introducing the World-Ending Fishing Rod! What will you believe from now until the end of days?”

World-ending fishing rod: Assemble your rod from the following tackle pieces by choosing one rod, reel, hook and bait. Each piece of tackle has a numeric value. Add up the combined four items for a total score from 4-12. Here’s the result: 4) World-enhancing idea creating a utopian era. 5-8) Banal idea. “All cheese must be free,” or “shoes should be tied.” 9-11) World-changing idea that spawns a new religion and a religious relic appears. 12) World-ending idea that begins a dystopian armageddon.

There are 81 possible combinations:

Rods (east wall): Corn stalk (1), Obsidian harpoon (2), Orc Spine (3)

Reels (north wall): Snail shell (1), Celestial hair ball (2), Cow hoof (3)

Hooks (west wall): Molten plasma (1), Kraken beak (2), Superglued toenails (3)

Bait (south wall): Gummy worms (1), Old boot (2), Photo of your best friend (3)

Cast your line into the Idea Pool, and pull out a talking fish who whispers the idea in your ear. You cannot unhear it. Once put into the world, this idea is and spreads like a virus. When you speak the idea, it gets stuck in someone else’s head, passing sonically, from mouth to ear to brain, and it never leaves one’s brain.

On a wall are two conspiracy boards with yarn linking different combinations of fishing rod possibilities. The Pope of Fate is working on the world-enhancing fishing rod board, and an evil cultist is working on the world-ending fishing rod board. They were in a race, but now they’re all out of memories, and are sitting near the boards nearly comatosed, unable to speak. They’re a cautionary tale of what can happen if you become obsessed with this.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Joshua Therrien

Appendix N: David Lynch, Twin Peaks, The Bible, Lovecraft, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hellraiser, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Pepe Silvia).

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

We chatted about doing this on our Old-School Essentials episode, and so, we’re really doing it! The contest will be open for submissions through August 31st 2023. You may submit a Dwarf you’ve already drawn, or draw a new one. You must be the author and owner of the Dwarf Drawing, and be okay with us sharing it along with your name on our social media. You can submit any kind of Dwarf you like. Warhammer mohawk Dwarves, Gimli’s, Silly named Snow White Dwarves, Heck! Even Dark Sun Mul (Dwarf Human Hybrid) will be acceptable!

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We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta Aug 31 – Sep 4 . Dragon Warrior will be running games.

Fri 9:00 AM – Mystic Punks: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sat 9:00 AM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sun 1:00 PM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral, with art from our guest Brian Colon of Vast Grimm. This is the true story – of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god – trapped in a time loop – working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide – to find out what happens when people stop being polite – and start getting healed: The Heal World. BUY IT HERE.

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MD 224 Citrol the Star Troll w/ Darcy Perry (Duckquest, Star Hat Miniatures)

Epic Levels — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is New Zealand writer, artist, musician and game designer Darcy Perry. We talk about his Ennie nominated RPG DuckQuest, his work as a sculptor & painter at Star Hat Miniatures, playing blues music, contributing to the revised and expanded edition of Petty Gods (ORC), and co-authoring Quack Keep (Fifth Wall Games & Miniatures) with famed artist and game designer Jennell Jaquays.

Revisit our review of DuckQuest in Mad Dungeon episode SQ 035.

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A summer breeze carries a citrus smell from the massive fruit tree in the center of the room. There’s no ceiling revealing a night sky filled with stars. Hummingbirds, squirrels and doves flutter and frolic amongst the simian trolls who catch and feed moranges to their master Citrol. Some swing from the branches by their tails, while others sanitize the room with buckets, mops and cleaning supplies. A hideous little squirrel, wearing a cute acorn hat, is at a small workbench barbarically ripping open moranges and cramming them into spray bottles. Plucked feathers and juice-like-gore are everywhere. Each spray bottle of divine citrus cleans on a godly level and if sprayed directly in the face, causes someone to forget the last hour, but they’ll feel refreshed. It cleans the slate. There’s a bucket of butterfly nets that give you advantage to catch the fruit.

Citrol the Orang-a-Tang: He was born a glowing star troll, but was cursed to be the tree of memory and thought. The moranges grow from his boughs. He knows which person each fruit is linked to. He bleeds delicious juice, turns to stone in sunlight, and is hyper-intelligent from his millenia of being this tree. He has the face of an orangutan-troll in the center of the tree trunk and small, nubby arms to eat his own fruit. He speaks openly and honestly about what he is and what can do.

Moranges: Peeling this feathered fruit reveals meat of glowing, shimmering stars. When picked, wings sprout and they soar around the room. You have to catch it to eat it, earning the right to consume the memories of the multiverse. Eat the fruit and gain +1 on an intelligence stat for 24 hours, and learn the memories of one person. If you know the right fruit, you can learn who loves you, wants you dead, or what the creature in the next room is up to.

A glass container with a lid and three buttons to control the speed is hidden away in the corner, the juicing machine. If you mix more than one morange and drink the juice, the history of your world changes. It’s only different for the person who imbibed, for everyone else, the world has always been like this. Roll 1d8: 1) toy land, 2) sombrero land, 3) 1920s gothic horror, 4) weird wild west, 5) space land, 6) wrestler world, 7) everyone has a pet dinosaur 8) everyone has an extra appendage.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Darcy Perry

Appendix N: Odin’s ravens Hugin and Munin, Troll Hunter, Alway Sunny in Philadelphia (pay the troll toll), the Quidditch snitch from Harry Potter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Stargate, Ken St. Andre, Bible (Genesis), Pulp Fiction, Snow White, Shakespeare, Cinderella.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Folk Arcana, written and illustrated by Johnny Bloozit. This is a system-independent book of witchcraft magic items, with a focus on storytelling possibilities, rather than tactical combat effects. Guaranteed to add a dash of narrative spice to your table.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We’ll be sharing a table with Brain Colon’s Creature Curation.

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We chatted about doing this on our Old-School Essentials episode, and so, we’re really doing it! The contest will be open for submissions through August 17th 2023. You may submit a Dwarf you’ve already drawn, or draw a new one. You must be the author and owner of the Dwarf Drawing, and be okay with us sharing it along with your name on our social media. You can submit any kind of Dwarf you like. Warhammer mohawk Dwarves, Gimli’s, Silly named Snow White Dwarves, Heck! Even Dark Sun Mul (Dwarf Human Hybrid) will be acceptable!

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We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta Aug 31 – Sep 4 . Dragon Warrior will be running games.

Fri 9:00 AM – Mystic Punks: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sat 9:00 AM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sun 1:00 PM – Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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MD 223 Pool of the Acid Wasp w/ Gavriel Quiroga (Hell Night, Neurocity, Warpland)

Epic Levels — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Gavriel Quiroga and we talk about his Worlds of Quiroga projects: his 80s metal, doom biker RPG Hell Night, dystopian tech-noir RPG Neurocity, and He-Man on acid in Patagonia science-fantasy game Warpland. Check out the Hell Night playlist.

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In the corner is a titanic skull-shaped wasp hive that has a steady stream of gooey acid pouring from its mouth, like a waterfall, into a birthing vat pool with larvae floating in it. Consuming acid from the pool gives you a psychedelic experience.

In the hive are horse-sized drones, workers, warriors and one queen named Avispa the Wild Child. All of the wasps have beast-like intelligence, and tendrils that look like handlebars on their midsections that they use to grapple and attack. Avispa secretes psychedelic acid, and if she chooses to inject you with her bio drug, save or transform into a mindless queen wasp. Become someone’s mount, or start your own hive somewhere. Avispa can also flap her hypno-wings to make a buzzing sonic attack that calms you, so she can inject you peacefully. You can undo the wasp curse if you can find a good enough wizard to process the acid into an antidote.

Priest Judas lives in a shrine to Avispa and has written the words “Ride Beyond and Behold!” in blood on the wall. He keeps buckets of blood next to his shrine to keep up his mural. He wants only the freshest blood, and will be happy to take yours if you don’t need it. He’s here to walk you through the ceremony of transformation. In the center of the room is an altar to prostrate yourself and say the holy words that will call out the queen. He’s been bottling the acid into proper doses and is happy to sell it to you.

The Stinger Gang of mutant-biker wasp riders are here. It’s a right of passage to come here and tame a wasp mount, aka “cyclostinger,” aka a “stinger;” but today’s a special day, a wedding. They’re rooting on a member trying to coax the queen out to turn him into a “stinger” so his new wife can ride him as a mount.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Gavriel Quiroga

Appendix N: The Crow, Ghost Rider, Lobo, TMNT, Misfits “Skulls,” Weird Science, Class of Nuke Em High, Mandy, Ninjak (Joe Quesada), Alien, Futurama, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, American Werewolf in London, W.A.S.P. (the band).

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about the adventure Void Lord by Frank Gillam & Robb Leef, for both Old School Essentials and D&D 5E. This is part of Exalted Funeral’s The Endless Summoner sale, where from July 26 – 31, 2023, they’ll take 20% off of all sales.

In Void Lord, an ever-consuming pocket dimension rips planar chunks from nearby realities as it grows. With a tragic villain only fueling the chaos, your party will have to frantically fight with light and limb to survive and find a way home… The Void Lord is a 3-part, linear adventure for level mid-level parties that explores darkness and light both as concepts and mechanics. The party will have a frantic fight to overthrow a romantically-driven despot, stabilize a dimensional void, and escape with their lives.

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Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We’ll be sharing a table with Brain Colon’s Creature Curation.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Mason Grant.

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MD 222 Changarro of the God Burrito w/ Levi Nunez (Loot the Body, Skate Wizards)

Epic Levels — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is psychedelic indie-rock musician Levi Nunez of Loot the Body. We talk about his music, The Barrier Peaks Song Book (a concept album based on Expedition to the Barrier Peaks), his musical #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 (Goodman Games, DCC), his collaboration with artist Michael Hsiung on Skate Wizards RPG (based on Ben Milton’s Maze Rats), and his latest EP called +5EP contains the songs “Black Pudding,” “The Goblin Way,” “The King of Elfland’s Daughter,” “Roll Another One” and “The Necromancer.”

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Changarro: This sacred temple is a simple, hole-in-the-wall restaurant has picnic tables, a table of condiments (salsas, peppers, crema, etc…), is covered by a tent with strings of lights and has an opening in the ceiling to fly out of. Dungeon denizen skateboarders sit at tables eating hunks that they cut off of the God Burrito. They know not to order a burrito.

An Aztec-style mural is actually the secret recipe codex. The sacred 7-layers are cleverly embedded within the image of a person riding an uber god burrito wurm over sand dunes. In front of the mural is a small shrine to the God Burrito with santeria candles, food offerings and some coins. A modron mariachi band plays ranchera, giving you musical clues if you’re on the right track or not.

The God Burrito: In the center is the proprietor, a 30-foot godhead burrito wurm with short arms, making burritos with his little hands, drooling salsa, and wearing a bloody crown of thorns. He’s taking orders on a raised dais, behind a circular counter with dozens of ingredients on it so it’s easy for him to reach.

The great burrito swap: Build the sacred 7-layer burrito and it becomes your sentient burrito steed and all curses are lifted. Choose a size before you order to determine the size of your sentient burrito steed familiar. Sizes: small (skateboard), medium (horse), large (sandworm). When a correct ingredient is used, its image illuminates on the mural. Build a burrito with the wrong ingredients and you become the cursed God Burrito. It opens up its outer tortilla, pulls you in, and spits out the previous proprietor, Trejo. Trejo will immediately order the sacred burrito and fly out of room on his new steed.

The sacred 7-layer ingredients: myconids (mushroom folk), vegepygmies (mold folk), shredded behir beef, salsa verde made with radioactive tomatillos, black pudding, beholder eyes, chalky cilantro stems.

Other ingredients: french fries, white rice, spanish rice, black beans, pinto beans, refried beans, grilled chicken, ground beef, carnitas, carne asada, lengua, pollo asado, chorizo, barbacoa, al pastor, sautéed onions and peppers, guacamole, cheese, lettuce, shredded cabbage, lime, pico de gallo.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Levi Nunez

Appendix N: Aladdin, Skate Wizards, Dune, Taco Bell, Beast Master, Krull, Breath of the Wild, Trejo’s Tacos.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Mystic Punks: Crypt written by Anthony Maloro. Cover Illustration by Sally Cantrino. Layout and Illustrations by Jay Domingo. Editing by Jarrett Crader. Dear Don Qui by Nathan Tersteeg.

Using the Mystic Punks Quick Start Rules, you’ll be grave-robbing at Snowvale Cemetery, looking for The Majick Book of Licar hidden in the Hemlocke Family Crypt. Will you stop a small, but deadly, group of Licar worshiping fanatics from ushering in a demonic age of darkness and pain?

Available July 26th for Exalted Funeral’s Endless Summoner Sale.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We’ll be sharing a table with Brain Colon’s Creature Curation.

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MD 221 A Brush with Death w/ Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink, DCC, Troika!, Mothership, MÖRK BORG)

Epic Levels — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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 by KD (for Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG), Beyond the Silver Scream by Forrest Aguirre (for DCC RPG), Distress Signals by Reece Carter (for Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG), Dread Nights by Will Rahman (a standalone expansion for Forbidden Psalm compatible with MÖRK BORG RPG), Garden of Corda by Cade Crites (for Troika! RPG).

We talked briefly about their upcoming books At the Mutants of Madness and At Ease.

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General Paste, an anthropomorphic tube of toothpaste, rides on a storm cloud that rains down green rock candy that he tries to get you to eat. A river of rock candy flows from a large mouth into a river that ends by going down a grate. Scattered throughout the room are 32 decayed and jagged teeth minions waiting to ambush you with a plaque attack.

If your teeth touch the rock candy, d32 of your teeth rebel, but you do gain one of the following advantages. Roll 1d6: 1) Gain 1d6 hit points. 2) Your fingernails turn into sharp rock candy claws for the day. 3) Energy boost to take a 2nd action. 4) Speed boost for an additional 10-feet of movement for an hour. 5) Happiness: you can counteract ennui or sadness effects. 6) Allows you to speak in the language of the teeth… any teeth.

A dentist office area contains a dental chair to strap you to and extraction tools mounted on the wall. Hidden inside the chair is the magic item: Insurance Card. This card can force a cleric to heal you, or you can use it in other bureaucratic ways like filing claims against monsters who hurt you.

Teeth minions: Teeth who rebel grow legs & arms equipped with hammers or pliers, and rip themselves from your mouth. They grow to a foot tall and attempt to liberate the rest of your teeth with the rock candy or through violence. These teeth speak their own adorable tooth language. There are rumors of the legendary candy of this room that can give you XP, but it’s a lie spread by the teeth minions like door-to-door salesmen.

If you have no teeth left the rock candy has no effect and the teeth minions will leave you alone.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Jarrett Crader

Appendix N: Call of Cthulhu, The Mist, Super Mario Bros. 3, Hatfields & McCoys, Ghostbusters (Slimer’s Ecto Coolers and toothpaste), Creepy Crawlers (toy), Sealab 2021 (Stormy), X-Men (storm), Aquafresh toothpaste, Rumble in the Bronx, Die Hard, Home Alone, Tiger Wizard’s Dental Dungeon, Clive Barker’s “The Body Politic” from Books of Blood Vol. 4, Evil Dead 2.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Vorpal Almanac by Levi Combs of Planet X Games and illustrated by Sally Cantirino.

Within these pages you will find 22 magical blades of all sorts. Dare you harness the inner magic of the crystalline sword Mournshard? Are you willing to pay the price
to tame the hellbound blade Nygotha, the Crimson Requiem? Do you possess the mettle to command Videns, the Sword of Many Teeth?

Contained within are full descriptions for each blade’s powers and abilities, but also its dark history and secret lore on the long road to falling into its latest wielder’s hands. These weapons can be placed into ongoing campaigns, dropped into a one shot, or you can sample the flavor and use it all elsewhere.

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Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We’ll be sharing a table with Brain Colon’s Creature Curation.

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MD 220 Judgment of the Locktopus w/ Andre Novoa (Games Omnivorous, Mausritter, Frontier Scum)

Epic Levels — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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.

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This sandy beach has a deep pool of water in the center with The Locktopus partially submerged. Pleasant waves lap against the shore as a calming, gentle breeze blows across the blue and white Portuguese tiled walls.

The Locktopus is the benevolent animated skeletal remains of a dire octopus. It has eight bone tentacles that each end in a key numbered one through eight. This is an avatar of the octopus god Godtopus.

The Locktopus tells you about The Octobox, a beautifully ornate box with matching Portuguese tilework and a single keyhole, that’s submerged 20 feet below the water. The Locktopus tells you to choose a key and dive below to open the Octobox. When the box is unlocked, it rises out of the water and opens like a flower to reveal a dining area with a bell jar on a counter. Inside of the bell jar is an octopus salad with chopped onion, garlic, parsley, salt & pepper, coriander, lemon, olive oil, and served with a side of sweet potatoes.

The Locktopus says, “It’s the time of judgment. Eat me or be eaten.”

If you allow The Locktopus to eat you, present yourself on the counter and allow the Locktopus to devour you. You are reborn: go up one level and now you glow, have a halo and are a cleric of Godtopus. For you, it was ten lifetimes in the octo-realm. For those watching, you’re gone for one minute.

If you eat the octopus salad, you are judged. Each key used to open The Octobox has a different effect:

You die in d6 days.
You’re transported to the octopus dimension where you are fed to the octopus lords.
Your bones turn to cartilage. You’re a pile of flesh that can’t walk and need to be carried around in a bucket, but can swim like an octopus.
You’re omnivorous and have a 50% chance of being compelled to eat any item you come in contact with.
D4 uncontrollable tentacles grow on your back.
Siphon and gills, you can only breathe water now.
You turn into an anthropomorphic octopus.
Your body becomes covered in annoying suckers, but you’re better at climbing.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andre Novoa

Appendix N: Inception, Old Boy, The Boys, Aquaman, The Menu, The Giving Tree (book), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (sarlacc pit), Lord of the Rings (Gandolf’s rebirth), Spiderman, Arrival, Hellraiser.

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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)

Epic Levels — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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! – A Bad Game for Bad People, a game for Cramps fans and Monster Kids, a juvenile delinquent monster rules-lite RPG based on Nate Treme’s Tunnel Goons.

We explore his YouTube exploits with Joey Royale’s Pizza Party (Goodman Games), and Neon Lords – Ravioli for Randy. We explore the Appendix N stuff he’s selling on Etsy, specifically A Canticle for Leibowitz. We talk about his comedy hip hop past as The Great Gabba Ghoul, and his song “Uncle Steve” in particular as it hit too close to home for Dragon Warrior. Listen to his other music project Get Haunted on Bandcamp.

Follow Joey HERE and Etsy

Pizza Parlor: There are eight tables set with pizza accouterments: table clothes, forks, napkins, parm, red pepper flakes, etc… In the center of each table is a pizza sculpture shaped like your favorite pizza mascots holding an item: Freddy Freaker (rotary phone), The Noid (Yo-yo & pogo stick), Little Caesar (spear), Chuck E Cheese (guitar), Fatz Geronimo the Showbiz Gorilla (keyboard), Mama Celeste (pizza cutter), Red Baron (triplane), Totinos Boy Tennessee, a Pizza Freak (bass guitar).

A claw machine sits in a corner. Insert a coin and make a DEX check to win a prize. The machine will give you what you need most at that moment.

The Get Haunt-afire Explosion is a two-piece (drums & banjo) animatronic band shaped like large connected pizza slices. They play the song, “That’s Amore” when you enter the room. If you can sever this connection, it’ll un-animate the pizza golems.

Eight 10-foot tall windows, two on each wall, are covered with metal shutters that roll open when the band finishes playing. In the sky is a pizza moon with a face who stares back at you from every window. The moonlight animates the pizza golems. Closing all the shutters renders the pizza golems lifeless.

If you eat the pizza, animated or not, it comes to life in your belly and will burst from your stomach. When you kill an animated pizza golem, it combines with another pizza golem and they double their hit points. Devouring our fluids prevents their staleness. They take their victim’s tech to build up the animatronic band. These golems worship the pizza moon as their god and the band is their altar. When all 8 pizza golems are combined, they refer to themself as The Omega Slice. Their jump kick is a highly practiced finishing move and their holy symbol is a jump kick silhouette in front of their moon.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Joey Royale

Appendix N: TMNT, Batman (1989), Mortal Kombat (Liu Kang, Johnny Cage), Kung Fury, Tetsuo: The Ironman, Turbo Kid, That’s Amore (song), Spaceballs (Pizza the Hut), A Trip to the Moon (1902), The Mighty Boosh, Freddy Freaker, “The Wonderful Window” by Lord Dunsany, Five Elements Ninja, Duel to the Death, Alien, Gremlins, Get Haunted (band), Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about UVG 2E, The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City by designer, artist, and writer Luka Rejec.

Luka’s other work with Exalted Funeral Press includes writing, art, and design on: Witchburner, Longwinter: The Referee’s Book, Longwinter: The Visitor’s Guide, and the adventure for OSE, Holy Mountain Shaker. Published by Exalted Funeral in collaboration with WTF Studios.

Revel in the return of the anticipated UVG 2E, now dazzling with fresh cover art that teases countless otherworldly adventures. This epic journey has expanded – from the previous 200 pages to a robust 250, infused with larger and more evocative art to enliven your psychedelic metal quests.

Welcome to The Ultraviolet Grasslands, the roleplaying game of heroes on a strange trip through mythic steppes in search of lost time, broken space, and deep riffs. The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City is a tabletop role-playing game book, half setting, half adventure, and half epic trip; inspired by psychedelic heavy metal, the Dying Earth genre, and classic Oregon Trail games. It leads a group of ‘heroes’ into the depths of a vast and mythic steppe filled with the detritus of time and space and fuzzy riffs.

What’s new in 2E?

Expanded content from 200 pages to 252 pages.
Streamlined character rules make for smoother gameplay, while an expanded array of caravan options, vehicles, and equipment lets you equip your party for any eventuality. A brand-new bestiary section offers a menagerie of friends and foes to encounter, and revamped spells give you more magical tactics to explore.
Fancy a companion on your epic journey? Choose from a table of 50 adorable pets. To keep you organized, there are revamped character and caravan sheets. And, to fuel your wanderlust, there’s an expanded map featuring the whole Circle Sea region.
But the crowning glory? It’s in hardcover again – and it’s bursting with more pictures! Embrace the art, savor the stories, and visit the Vast Lands with UVG 2E.

What is included in the bundle?

UVG 2E Hardcover Book
UVG 2E referee screen
UVG 2E map pack

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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MD 218 Mossy Mermeth Lab w/ Ian McGarty (Silver Bulette, Mutant Crawl Classics – MCC)

Epic Levels — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This 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), Rocky’s mega dungeon and the Independant 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 and repel down a greasy, lubed-up slide that leads to the mermeth lab. They’re coming in hot!

Mossy Mermeth Lab: The moss that grows on the walls here is being processed into the drug mossy mermeth. First hit gives the user a sense of euphoria and a haste-like ability. Second hit and save vs. overdose. Highly addictive. Tweaked out, sharp-toothed mermaids work in waist-deep water to make this dry narcotic powder. Workers toil along an assembly line conveyor belt: pulling moss off the walls, drying, smashing, powderizing, packaged into air-tight bags, then sent down another greasy underwater funnel to a distribution center. They will use bags of mermeth as ranged weapons.

Mermethod Man sits upon a golden throne on a dias/DJ booth that overlooks the work area. They have tentacle hair that sprays poison, an oozi in each hand that shoots slime like a grease spell, and their turntables have a sonic attack that can deafen the area and nullify magic.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Ian McGarty

Appendix N: YouTube video of an eel swarm eating pizza, The Little Mermaid (1989), Captain N: The Game Master (Mother Brain), Narcos, Earthworm Jim, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Sarlacc), New Jack City, Juice, Daredevil (series), Wu Tang Clan, Scarface.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Abyss of Hallucinations Box Set with Map and Poster, a MÖRK BORG setting inspired by Aleister Crowley‘s Book of Lies, by Max Moon.

This opulently constructed zine is decorated with two-color screen-printed pearlescent white & gold ink, on a pink cardstock cover. Volume 1 & Volume 2 contain 44 pages each for a total of 88 pages of setting material printed on 70# smooth paper and saddle-stitched with gold staples. Each copy is stamped to indicate the volume number.

Book of Lies and Book of the Law are reprints of Aleister Crowley’s original writings with new layout and design by Max Moon. They are screen-printed with the same inks and saddle stitched with the same gold staples to match seamlessly with the Abyss of Hallucinations set.

The Abyssal Box is a two-color screen-printed 6×9 white box with a raised swirl texture featuring gorgeous artwork from renowned occult artist Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos.

The box set includes:

Box of the Abyss: Screen printed with art from Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos
Abyss of Hallucinations Volume 1 Print + PDF
Abyss of Hallucinations Volume 2 Print + PDF
Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
Vaults of Eternity Risograph Pamphlet Adventure Print + PDF
Mega Therion Sticker with access to the Tenth Crown of Chaos
Mega Therion poster
Fold-out map of the Abyss

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MD 217 Still Life of the Blue Demon Graffgoyle w/ Banana Chan (Forgery, The Revenant Society, Tiān Dēng, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall)

Epic Levels — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Banana Chan of Game and a Curry, and we talk about their projects The Revenant Society, Tiān Dēng, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall and their latest project Forgery, a solo horror paint-by-numbers TTRPG about an art forger commissioned to recreate a cursed painting.

Banana Chan’s 2022 releases:

Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding Vol. 2
Deimos Academy
Advanced Lovers & Lesbians (Thirsty Sword Lesbians)
Betrayal at House on the Hill 3E
Fiasco expansion pack: Join the Cult
Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes
Evolved Mecha + Monsters 2

Follow Banana Chan at: Website – IG – YouTube – Twitter – TikTok

A blue graffgoyle sits on a blue-stained couch watching a VHS copy of Wild Style. He holds the can of Blue Demon. This filthy studio apartment contains a hoarded menagerie of hip hop cultural keepsakes. Four bedecked pillars are each dedicated to his love of the culture: turntablism, rapping, breakdancing and his favorite, graffiti. He can’t pay his bills, but he’s happy to share his passion for “graf” or challenge you to a rap battle, DJ competition or dance off.

Can of Blue Demon: This magical can of blue spray paint has six separate powers that can be unlocked the wielder tags a structure with a power word: LOCK (lock or unlock all the doors). SHOW (see the outlines of the people in the building like X-ray specs). PAL (someone in the structure acts as if they’ve been your close friend forever). LORE (knowledge of the building’s history). LOT (the power to cloud minds, the building’s there, but people can’t see it). HIVE (look through the eyes of a randomly determined occupant, and hear what they’re thinking. Jump to another person within sight). Instructions are written on the can.

Corruption: You slowly turn into a blue graffgoyle everytime you tag a power word. First, your spray paint finger turns blue, then your arm, then your entire body. You’re fully turned after 12 uses and now turn to stone in sunlight. You can spend 6 hours power washing the Blue Demon tag to remove it from the structure and from your corruption total.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Banana Chan

Appendix N: Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Escape from New York, Animals, Sex in the City, Dark Days (documentary), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord of the Rings, The Shadow, The Gunslinger, Metal Gear Solid, Gargoyles (TV), Wild Style, Style Wars.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Lilliputian: Adventure on the Open Seas by Matthew Morris.

It’s an adventure game about exploring the vast and expansive ocean, filled with uncharted islands, hidden treasure, weird weather and unspeakable horrors. Character creation is fast, fun and random, classless, and relies on fictional advancement. It is based on Mausritter by Isaac Williams, Into The Odd by Chris McDowall and Cairn by Yochai Gal, and more.

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Atlanta Game Creators Cabal, a social event to bring together professionals and people interested in the gaming industry in Atlanta who are passionate about creating board games, card games, tabletop RPGs, and video games.

This event is an opportunity to connect with other Atlanta gaming creatives, share insights and experiences, and learn about other gaming projects happening in Atlanta. This event is open to anyone in the Atlanta area with an interest in creating games or the gaming industry, including streamers and hobbyists.

The event will be held in the Brigantine Beer Parlor and Recreation Hall in the back of Argosy in Atlanta, GA on Thursday June 8th from 7pm – 10pm.

RSVP here: https://meetu.ps/e/M81Wl/wlcvm/i

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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MD 216 Crucible of the Chainslime w/ Levi Combs (Planet X Games)

Epic Levels — Wed, 31 May 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Levi Combs of Planet X Games. We talk about Vulgar Display of Magic, Three Curses for Sister Saren, and his currently Kickstarting project Chainsaw Warlock, Hecatomb Creeps and Other Ungodly Bastards, all about evil NPCs.

Back the Kickstarter right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetxgames/chainsaw-warlocks-hecatomb-creeps-and-other-ungodly-bastards

Follow Levi at: Exalted Funeral – IG – FB – Twitter

Look for Levi Combs of Planet X Games and all of the Independent Publishers Union at the North Texas RPG Con this weekend.

This primeval room of stone has jagged, ornamental spikes protruding from the floor, and a jar dispenser at each door. Hundreds of bulging, slimy polyps hang from the ceiling.

Inside a polyp: Roll a d6: 1) Green slime 2) Ochre jelly 3) Gak: makes you hallucinate that your friends are zombies and you’re on a game show. The rest are filled with a chainsaw wielding villain 4) Pot bellied butcher wearing your flayed face 5) Child-sized pig-headed creep 6) Foxy gogo dancer with a chainsaw leg.

Three spigots: Each gargoyle-faced spigot has a vat on top where you are to place a green slime, ochre jelly and gak respectively. When each vat is filled, turn the spigot’s massive stone wheel (strength check) to process the ooze. It moves through runic circle grooves into a crucible that builds a chainslime.

Chainslime: Stick a limb into the chainslime and it permanently attaches. This symbiotic chainsaw has a whirling blade of slime and three modes: green slime, ochre jelly or gak. This intelligent weapon psychically bonds to you and is your new little globby friend.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Levi Combs

Appendix N: The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Winnie-the-Pooh (Eeyore), Beastmaster, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Army of Darkness, Dead by Daylight, Motel Hell, Mandy, Planet Terror, You Can’t Say That on Television, Hellboy, Cabin in the Woods, Spiderman (Venom & Carnage), Mangalores (Mangalore Mountain).

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The event will be held in the Brigantine Beer Parlor and Recreation Hall in the back of Argosy in Atlanta, GA on Thursday June 8th from 7pm – 10pm.

RSVP here: https://meetu.ps/e/M81Wl/wlcvm/i

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The Vault of Mini Things – An RPG Encounter Toolkit is up now for crowdfunding at Backerkit.

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MD 215 Jewel of Jarnjeeves w/ Brenda Ho (Weird Works)

Epic Levels — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Brenda Ho of Weird Works. We talk about their tarot decks and how they can be used for divination and for your RPG games. Their fantasy themed Adventurer’s Tarot: Empress Deck can be used as an initiative system. Their cyberpunk deck Eldritch Overload contains exciting characters, locations and trinkets. We talk about their art and graphic design background and newfound love of risograph printing.

Follow Weird Works at: Website – FB – IG – Twitter – TikToc – Patreon

The Tomb: 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 into two parts. The good part is the husk you see who made it to Nirvana. The evil Jarnjeeves is alive and trapped inside the orb. A menagerie of two-headed animals float in various orbits around the orb.

Jewel of Jarnjeeves: This grapefruit-size crystal sphere is extremely fragile, and if broken will release the evil wizard. Orb powers:

Radiates a potent masculine fragrance that draws animals to its powerful aura.
Ponder the orb to transform yourself into any animal, but it has two-heads.
Ask the trapped evil wizard a question and he has to answer in a meaningful way.
Dominate creature: target must save or their head tears into two halves (good/evil). They’re your minion until you make another minion. Only one at a time.
Corruption: The more you use the orb, the more you need to use it. The longer you’re attuned to the orb, you grow two heads (good/evil).

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brenda Ho

Appendix N: Beast Master, Sokushinbutsu, Conan, Pondering My Orb meme, Army of Darkness.

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The event will be held in the Brigantine Beer Parlor and Recreation Hall in the back of Argosy in Atlanta, GA on Thursday June 8th from 7pm – 10pm.

RSVP here: https://meetu.ps/e/M81Wl/wlcvm/i

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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MD 214 Dance Dungeon w/ Keith Matejka (Thunderworks Games, Roll Player, Cartographers, Goblin Vaults)

Epic Levels — Wed, 10 May 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Keith Matejka of Thunderworks Games. We talk about how you can play Roll Player and Cartographers with big groups of players, and how you can play every Thunderworks game solo. We then dig into the art and gameplay of Goblin Vaults, a strategy card game featuring bidding, card placement, and scoring patterns. Wager cards to win loot from the central cell block, then stash that loot wisely in your vault, earning gears based on the position of cards within that vault. You can also gain gears from scoring objectives that change each game.

With cunning and clever scheming, make your bid to be feared amongst your peers! You’ll need wits and luck to play your cards right as you fill your vault and influence the warden in your favor. After nine rounds, whoever has the most gears wins! Learn to play Goblin Vaults at TheGameBoyGeek.

Follow Thunderworks Games at: Website – FB – IG – Twitter

Dance Dungeon: Water tubes line massive mirrored walls to power the water wheel torture machine. This device has a lever that goes from “little jig” to “dance machine.” Tethers connect goblins to the machine and Lockwork Goblin.

Lockwork Goblin: This colossal goblin-shaped golem, made of thousands of locks of all types, has exterior ledges and steps to climb it if you’re agile enough. It’s lonely and wants friends, so it violently brainwashes goblins with the machine to be its pal and perform dance numbers. In the center of its torso is a prison cell containing goblins pleading for you to save them. Its forehead contains a vault door that leads to emotional baggage and gold. It has hundreds of scraggly teeth that are one-use magic keys that’ll open any lock. When it swallows, it can decide whether the object goes to the head vault or the torso prison.

Dance Goblins: Converted goblins wear red thriller jackets, a lock necklace and are tethered by the head to the Lockwork Goblin. The tether is like an addiction, with strong withdrawals when detached. Rewiring works 100% on goblins, but has a 50% success rate for everyone else.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Keith Matejka

Appendix N: Princess Bride, viral video of prisoners dancing to Thriller in the Philippines Breakin’, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, Inhumanoids (D’Compose), TNMT (Krang), A Clockwork Orange, Project MKUltra (secret government program), Willow, The Manchurian Candidate, Star Wars (Order 66), Shadow of the Colossus, Pulp Fiction.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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MD 212 Kibo’s Corner of Eclectic Treasures w/ Matt Johnson (Portents of the Degloved Hand, Raven Portents)

Epic Levels — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:00:57 +0000

On this special Exalted Funeral sponsored episode, our guest is Matt Johnson, owner of Raven Portents, where we talk about his web comic Dew Claw and his new Exalted Funeral exclusive product Portents of the Degloved Hand, an Omen Sacrifice Deck compatible with MÖRK BORG.

Back it on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/portents-of-the-degloved-hand-for-mork-borg

Portents of the Degloved Hand is an Omen Sacrifice Deck, compatible with MÖRK BORG. This deck allows players to give up a character’s omen at the beginning of a playing session (or during a break) and exchange it for a “reading” that gives the character a portent. Exchanging an omen for a portent is a simple and quick two-step process that involves rolling a 4-sided die and drawing a random card from a deck determined by the die roll.

When a card from the Portents of the Degloved Hand is activated by the player on a turn of their choosing, additional chaos, misfortune, and dark humor is brought into the game scenario. This deck offers a great opportunity for MÖRK BORG players to expand their character’s options and enhance the insanity that most sessions experience.

Follow Matt at Raven Portents on IG

Check out Pig Borg by Gizmo the Bugbear, author of Book of Misery and more!

Kibo’s Corner of Eclectic Treasures: This pawn shop & apothecary has odds and ends hanging on the walls. Glass counters hold the valuable items. The most expensive item here is a lightsaber keytar. A jar filled with teeth hangs from a ribbon with a sign that says, “Guess how many teeth!” Guess correctly and get a free psychic reading from the proprietor Kibo, guess wrong and one of your teeth teleports into the jar. There’s a separate room where the proprietor Kibo reads fortunes with a deck of coffin-shaped cards.

Kibo, The Failing Hope: She wears a cybernetic asthma mask over her pug face. Her large bulbous eyes look in opposite directions. Her lower torso has been replaced with metal spider legs. She exudes a breathy femme-fatal energy, while still being motherly, yet is prone to random bursts of zoomie energy. Kibo fosters competition between her pups, and will send them on quests with customers.

Kibo’s puppies: These commerce-savvy pups have their own glass counters to sell their wares. Maggot Mouth (mastiff) sells diseased items. Scorched Bone (beagle) sells destruction items. Black Ribbon (rottweiler) sells death items. Double Power (dachshund) sells disaster items.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Matt Johnson

Appendix N: Dick Tracy (film), Star Wars, A Boy and His Dog, Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (Short Round), Inspector Gadget, Wild Wild West, Toy Story, Clone Wars (Darth Maul)

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MD 213 Dungeon’s Got Talent w Tony Vasinda (PlusOneExp, Through The Void)

Epic Levels — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Tony Vasinda of PlusOneExp where they make bespoke, alchemical beard & lip balms inspired by classic tabletop tropes, and YouTube and podcast content from interviews with creators to actual play one-shots and campaigns.

We talk about his upcoming space crawler Through The Void utilizing their Together We Go system, and I, Toaster, an old school inspired RPG where you take on the role of small appliances in a big world.

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Dungeon’s Got Talent: This crowded arena has three tiers and a large circular field with a lone microphone in the center. Posters of other champion finalists line the walls. The judges booth juts out from the center of the 2nd level.

Trap: A large cage drops over anyone around the microphone, and minotaurs drench you with bad blood to enrage Nightmare Folklore who emerges from the floor. Fight or out perform the jazz bull to score points with the judges. A minotaur jazz band accompanies the fight from an orchestra pit.

Nightmare Folklore: This giant, intelligent jazz bull has horns like saxophones. “Fighting is like jazz. You have to break tradition.” Timing is important against his sonic attack (damage & save or be deafened), but jazz has variable timing with his hoof stomping (haste or slow effect).

Judges: Matador Dave (the spiritual wizard), Thragg (long retired dungeon delver with sorrowful eyes), and Labyrinth Larry (makes mazes for the local newspaper) each have a red buzzer they hit when they don’t like something. Survive and impress the judges, and they’ll invite you back for the finals. Winner gets a ring of three wishes.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Tony Vasinda

Appendix N: Ferdinand the Bull, Taylor Swift, Lionheart, Kick Boxer, Spiderman (Sam Raimi), Birdman (2014), “Devil Went Down to Georgia” by Charlie Daniels Band, Batman (60’s TV show), Carrie

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MD 211 Gross-o-matic 4000 w/ Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands)

Epic Levels — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:00:57 +0000

This week’s guest is Brian Shutter. We talk about Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands. Swingin’ swords and choppin’ lords vs. mutants and mullets. Gonzo vomit punk cassette-futurist RPG. New adventure Space Bulk involves interstellar space trucks around orbital space stations.

Brian does a show called “Wax Pax Massacres” where they open old trading card packs and eat the 40-year-old gum from it. New show Spin or Die with old gumball machine toys. We talk Homies, glow in the dark aliens & bugs, bootleg Madballs buttons, glow-in-the-dark bugs, and gel Gundams.

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland “Total Carnage Edition” had a successful Kickstarter!

In this game, character creation’s most important aspect is your hairstyle and sunglasses. “Attitude” is how cool you are in civilization, but sleaze (anti-charisma) is how much respect you get in the Wastelands.

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Gross-o-matic 4000, the number one tourist attraction of Dusseldorf: This steam-powered Rube Goldberg gumball machine takes up the whole room and works like this: Insert one gold coin – dominos fall – an accordion hits F# – a goat screams – an infernal chicken squawks and lays an egg that is the plastic capsule – a giant axe swings down to cut open a thin gel (save or take axe damage) – the capsule plops through the gel and onto the floor… better catch it.

Instructions on the wall: To reset the machine summon Cluckstohpeles “The Demon Feather of Dusseldorf.” He’ll only come once an hour.

Hans Von Hosenscheißer: This simple farmhand works hard, saves his money and plugs every coin he makes into this machine. He has lots of items and is willing to trade, but the only thing he wants is the Savage Barbarians’ Dolf Brazenstein card to grant him courage to ask his true love on a date.

D12 prizes:

1) Sea monkey spores, snort like a drug.

2) Baby gelatinous cube.

3) Face hugger xeno egg.

4) Crusty ogre snot like play-slime, silly putty.

5) Stretchy frog with slap-hand sticky tongue.

6) Savage Barbarians trading cards volume three with ancient sentient gum.

7) Ear spider that bites your eardrum to translate languages, one damage.

8) X-Ray Spex: glasses that can peel the skin off of whatever you look at.

9) Worms: bait for reverse mermaids, fish on top half.

10) Scratch and sniff stickers of various species’ baby diapers. Adhere to a surface, scratch and 30 foot radius of sickening.

11) Painful temporary tattoo of hideous monster hula girls, actually permanent.

12) Cyclops eyeball in blood brine. Eat it to grow a 3rd eye, gain 24 hours of true sight and attacking enemies crit on an 18.

Savage Barbarians Trading Cards: These one time use cards will give you an advantage while holding it in a specific situation. Roll a d12 to determine which card is in your capsule.

The complete set:

Dolf Brazenstein: grants courage.
Wilhelm Wildefelle: grants ferocity.
Otto Wildetunika: grants savagery.
Heinrich Unzivilisiertepelzstiefel: grants bonus to be rude with added ‘tude, dude.
Friedrich Leichtsinnigehosen: grants bonus to reckless behavior.
Franz Starkeknochenhalskette: grants physical strength.
Gustav Wildarmschienen: grants the companionship of one wild beast.
Elsa Aggressivesstirnband: grants aggression.
Erna Stolzesarmband: grants pride.
Fritz Strapazierfähigergürtel: grants resilience.
Frieda Primitiverrock: grants primitive regression.
Berta Einschüchternderohrring: grants intimidation.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brian Shutter

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MD 210 Nakenben’s Court w/ Johan Nohr & Pelle Nilsson (MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG)

Epic Levels — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 08:00:57 +0000

Our guests this week are Johan Nohr & Pelle Nilsson of Ockult Örtmästare Games & Stockholm Kartell. We talk about MÖRK BORG, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world.

We discuss Putrescence Regnant, their vinyl record in collaboration with Andre Novoa and Manuel Pinheiro of Games Omnivorous and Exalted Funeral. We touch on their KARTELLIAN CLAMOR podcast.

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Nakenben’s Court: A cultist wearing a flayed skin cloak is posted at the door to warn you to not enter these sacred chambers. This desolate, muddy field is filled with webs of sinew and obscuring smoke. Slowly swaying discarded skin suits cover small smoking volcanoes, facing the altar as though at worship. Inhaling the smoke causes you to start throat singing.

Throat-legs stretch from the ground leading to an organic sculpture of Nakenben sitting on a raised altar. Offering a sacrifice will reveal the true Nakenben. You might be an unwitting sacrifice. The spider god Nakenben has eight heads with long, singing throats for legs. Each head eats bodies whole, stripping them down to their naked bones, and leaving holy relic bone-scrolls covered in glowing sigils.

They process the following bones to contain spell-like abilities: skull = confusion / rib = suffocation / femur = berserker rage / radius & ulna = haste / clavicle = enfeeble / hammer, anvil, and stirrup = deafening / horn = fire breath & fire immunity / spine = mind control puppeteer (area effect). Break the bone to cast the spell.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Johan Nohr, Pelle Nilsson

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about What’s So Rotten About Zombies Defending An Ancient Temple? by Stuart Watkinson.

You are the undead horrors that protect an ancient temple. You’re rotting away and can hardly hold yourself up, but you are persistent, and your God is on your side. It is for telling stories about the monsters and exploring the motivations of evil creatures. It’s dark, grim, and probably goofy.

Content Warning: Death, mutilation, gore, dark themes, religion and worship of evil, and violence.

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MD 209 Diesel Djinn w/ Luke Gygax (Gary Con, Gaxx Worx)

Epic Levels — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:00:57 +0000

Our Guest this week is Luke Gygax of Gaxx Worx and Gary Con. We talk about the excitement behind this upcoming Gary Con. Andrew shares the story behind his d20 wrist tattoo that got on Gary Gygax’s passing. We talk Luke’s scenarios for his World of Okkorim campaign setting, The Heart of Chentoufi, The Eye of Chentoufi, and the upcoming Fate of Chentoufi. We talk Strange & Grimm RPG, made for Everyday Heroes RPG. We discuss Joe Manganiello’s upcoming Dungeons and Dragons documentary.

Luke Gygax is the son of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax and Founder of Gary Con, a memorial convention held annually in Lake Geneva in honor of his father, Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. Luke literally grew up at the gaming table with the designers that built the foundation of the RPG industry. He played the iconic character Melf, aka Prince Brightflame, whose name has remained on spells from AD&D to today. He also play tested numerous iconic AD&D modules and games such as Star Frontiers, Dangerous Journeys and even Cyborg Commando, as well as created creatures like the bullywug all before he graduated high school.

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Diesel Djinn: This gasoline-soaked airplane hanger hosts a clunky rocket pack that’s oozing diesel. Pull the ripcord (str check) to call forth Jason Sludgetham, an oozing Earth djinn (gasoline subtype) who powers the rocket pack and is always connected to the exhaust pipes. He wants nothing more than to be set free with a wish.

Complete his obstacle course to attune to the rocket pack, and he’ll grant you 3 wishes. 1) Fly through hoops that get smaller. 2) Pick up the heavy crate and deliver it to a high scaffolding. 3) Dead drop, cut off the engine to land on a small pad close to the deadly ventilating ceiling fans.

Born of the corrupted rocket pack, this room is guarded by one large, mischievous, flying diesel ooze whose drippings make tiny diesel oozes. The slightest spark ignites the room dealing fireball damage to everyone inside, unless the ventilation is turned on.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Luke Gygax

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Tangled, a level-0 funnel for Old School Essentials (OSE), with an old school video game visual vibe that can be played in 2-4 hours. Written by Josh Domanski, and Reilly Qyote the beautiful full wrap cover was illustrated by Luis Melo and the retro video game styled pixel artwork on the interior was created by Postmodern Ouroboros AKA Francisco Jimenez.

The outskirts of your hometown are being encroached upon by a writhing carnivorous tangle of bramble and vines and with the defense of your friends and family foremost in your thoughts you must venture into the heart of the tangle to put a stop to it.

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MD 208 Spudlings’ Secret Garden w/ David Lapp (7th Sea, Doomtown, Pine Box Entertainment)

Epic Levels — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:00:57 +0000

Our Guest this week is David Lapp of Pine Box Entertainment where we talk about his collectable card games 7th Sea: City of Five Sails & Doomtown: Weird West Edition (originally Deadlands: Doomtown). We also hit on the history of CCG’s including AEG, Chaosium, Legend of the Five Rings, and Warlord: Saga of the Storm.

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Spudlings’ Secret Garden: This old retired couple are root vegetable monsters with poisonous tendril whips. He’s a potato in a speedo. She’s a carrot in a bikini. They’re cooking flayed skin underneath a huge heat lamp that deals UV damage to unprotected skin. They’re lounging in Adirondack chairs, basting the skin until it’s ready to eat. Around the chairs are the bodies of skinned adventurers. They feed their poison into beach umbrellas that occasionally spray the room with a poisonous mist.

This beachy room is their dream retirement spot where they construct pre-packaged and branded Spudlings’ Snack Traps for sale. Their workbench contains tools and a wide variety of deadly things like knives, spikes & acid.

Each wall has a “torture” device that they love to use, but would damage you. One wall has flailing, poisoned whips. A shotgun wall fires salt and birdshot. One wall is a cheese grater, and they sleep on a bed of nails. There’s a printing press in the corner where they make fliers advertising their traps. The only way into this room is through a secret entrance.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, David Lapp

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MD 207 Idon’tcaribou and the Igloo Warriors

Epic Levels — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:57 +0000

No guest this week as Andrew, Rob & Steve discusses the games they’ve been playing this winter.

Andrew played a Magic the Gathering meets Warhammer 40k commander extravaganza with Necrons, Tyranids and a Sol Ring. Painting minis to play Kill Team and MtG mega game.

Steve played Reykholt, Left Right Center, Horse Race, Codenames, Sriracha the Game, Cosmic Encounters, Showdown Yahtzee, Anomia, but focused on Smash Up where you combine themed card decks of ninjas, pirates, aliens and more to take over bases.

Rob continues playing World of Warcraft: Dragon Flight and they flex on how good their dragon riding skills are and powering up their paladin. It’s impossible to call Rob a filthy casual with the sheer number of hours they’ve logged.

Idon’tcaribou and the Igloo Warriors: This barn is missing two walls. Outside is an infinite tundra of icy conditions, swirling wind, snow and frosty grass. Inside are lofts with hay and stalls containing normal caribou. Broken-off antlers litter the floor. A coat rack next to the door has fur-lined parkas that give you advantage against ennui and cold damage.

A massive igloo with smaller crunchroach igloos all over it is in the center of the room. This is the turtle-like shell of the Idon’tcaribou, a dire beast with antlers growing out of it in all directions. It gores with its antlers, which break off and immediately grow back in a new shape. It shoots freeze rays from his eyes and has a 10-foot aura of ennui that’s linked to the cold (crunchroaches are immune).

Crunchroachs are tiny insectoid igloo warriors in furs with harpoons and shields. They swarm to create shapes like a hammer or a big hand that deals cold damage. If hit, roll for a location on your body and that part is frozen. This sentient community of crunchroach warriors have a symbiotic relationship with the Idon’tcaribou. Captain Crunchroach is their leader.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Rob Bellury

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we discuss their new release the Herbalist’s Primer, a system-agnostic illustrated guide to real-world magical plants. Inspired by the 19th-century herbalists and the millennia of folklore, myths, and legends, it brings a wealth of easily-accessible, organized information straight to your gaming table.

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MD 206 Ricksanthemum Garden w/ Brendan LaSalle (Goodman Games, DCC)

Epic Levels — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:00:57 +0000

Our Guest this week is Brendan LaSalle adventure writer for Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC). We talk Xcrawl RPG and his latest adventure is 2023 Valentine’s Day Module: Love Mutants of Castle Heartache:

Ever been dumped so hard you transformed into a bloodthirsty mutant monster? We see you, hero. Olathvee, Mad Un-God of mortal passion, lies heartsick after his romantic advances went ignored by the otherworldly object of his affection. Now his cosmic desolation grips our entire world, separating every lover from their other and threatening to end civilization within a generation. The only chance for mankind is a dangerous quest that will pit our lovelorn heroes against Olathvee’s own castle guardians, mutated by metaphysical anguish into horrifying creatures. Who dares to delve into the darkest, loneliest corners of Castle Heartache?

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Ricksanthemum Garden: A field of flowers obscures a mysterious smoking chasm. Save when you enter the room or you’re compelled to descend into the chasm to feed Rick all your good vibes. Veiled in the mist are carnivorous plants that’ll attack if you try any shenanigans. Opening two doors will air out the room and break Rick’s spell for everyone in the room.

Flower list: Deadly Peonies, Flaming Asters, Iron Roses, Orange Orchids, Tripping Daisies & Ugly Poppies. Wear the correct 3 flowers (orange, ugly & tripping to spell “OUT”) to counteract Rick’s smoke.

In the depths of the chasm is Ricksanthemum floating above a pyramid bouquet. He’s a hovering cow-skull demon with a unibrow, adorned with evil vines and flowers. Pheromone smoke billows from his eyes, mouth & flowers. Rick wants you to sacrifice yourself to him by staying here forever, sharing the beauty of the world. Once you’re under the thrall, vines lovingly entwine with you until you’re mulch. There’s some nearly dead folks that love being here.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brendan LaSalle

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MD 205 Flail Milk w/ Justin Sirois (Severed Books)

Epic Levels — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:00:57 +0000

Our guest this week is Justin Sirois of Severed Books and we talk about his projects Caver, Cube Dice & Sickest Witch. Steve and Justin talk about a shared love of punk band The Dead Milkmen and his artwork in Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera by Andrew Ervin.

He’s currently Kickstarting his latest: SIS/TR: A Rare Geometry for Mothership RPG, an interactive mini with turrets that acts as a deadly puzzle for your party & a 60+ page hardcover book with rules and stats for SIS/TR as well as a vicious starship adventure.

Pledge here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinsirois/sistr-interactive-mini-and-turret-system-for-mothership-rpg

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This Flail Milk factory houses Crystal Shit, a three-headed cow beast who’s fused to the floor.

Neighbor Head: Their extendo-neck ends in one of the player’s actual neighbors’ head. It wears its utters like a jester’s cap, producing household cleaning products as milk.

Robo-Head: This cyber-head controls one spindly arm with utters in their armpit. Its milk powers the Tin Cuppers, and recharges batteries. They grow new minions in small birthing sacs.

Cow Head: She produces rage milk, throwing the drinker into a barbarian rage. Gaze attack, save or attack the closest person to you who isn’t Crystal Shit.

Tin Cuppers: These tin cans with handles fill themselves up with milk from the teats and bring it to vats in each of three corners, where it is sent through tubes to other parts of the dungeon.

Flail-Static Joe: This jumbotron A.I. hangs from the ceiling making sure that milk production and deliveries are happening on time. A lightning flail drops menacingly from it to ward off danger or discipline the workers. A mounted control panel can slow down or stop production, but that’ll make Joe mad.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Justin Sirois

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MD 204 Vainglory Hole w/ Thorin Thompson (Owl Knight Publishing, Goodman Games)

Epic Levels — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:00:57 +0000

Vainglory Hole: This room is bisected. On one side is a washroom with three magic mirrors promising a better you. Mirror 1 (Charm Hole): Shows you with great charisma, beautiful, a leader. Mirror 2 (3rd Eye Hole): Shows you with a 3rd eye in your forehead and with infinite cosmic power. Mirror 3 (Power Hole): Shows you with massive muscles and dexterous ability. None of the mirrors do what they promise.

There’s a stand that’s holding instructional pamphlets on how to use the magic mirrors and their benefits. A lock box labeled “tips” is there for you to leave some money, but it’s trapped with a slime shotgun if you attempt to steal the money. A wash basin filled with stinging salty water has a sign that reads, “Rinse after using the mirrors.”

Unbeknownst to the PCs, on the other side of the wall is a gremlin beauty salon. When you push your face through the mirror, it sticks to the magic material, tears off your face, then drops your slimy face into a face-goo container that the gremlins use as a beauty product. The gremlins simply continue cutting hair and gossiping about the dungeon.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Thorin Thompson

Our guest this week is Thorin Thompson of Owl Knight Publishing & Goodman Games. His current Kickstarter campaign, Sky ov Crimson Flame & Blights ov the Eastern Forest funded in 12 hours. Two adventure modules for Dungeon Crawl Classics brimming with FOUL SORCERY and the ABHORRENT STENCH OF CHAOS! Go back it now!

Thorin’s a whiskey fueled bibliophile, with a penchant for cats. When not obsessively hammering keyboards into oblivion he can be found working on a multitude of television shows/movies sets or reading some Appendix N tome with a feline familiar always close at hand. Owl Knight Publishing is the inevitable conclusion of his sordid history with fantasy literature and the desire to continually create stories from the influences of great authors and their works.

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MD 203 Ichor Heart of War-Den w/ John “Hambone” McGuire (3,2,1…Action! Games, Vintage RPG)

Epic Levels — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:00:57 +0000

Ichor Heart of War-Den: This swampy room comes to life when you enter the chamber. Veins move black ichor throughout these walls and ceiling made of flesh and machine. Sprinkles of black ichor fill the room, making it difficult to breathe. The floor slants toward the center like a bowl, shifting and popping you into the air towards War-Den (Dex save).

War-Den is a 10-ft., sentient, beating robot heart of black diamond who’s spewing noxious fumes into the air. A legendary, emerald skull hovers above them. Their veiny, needle-tipped tendrils attempt to pump you full of the black ichor to turn you into a pollutor.

Pollutors are War-Den’s hive-mind cyborgs created to expel toxic fumes from their robotic parts to terraform the planet. Pollutors will always come to the aid of War-Den, especially if they or their emerald are taken.

If injected by War-Den:

Round 1: 1d6 damage as metal debris grows out of you.

Round 2: You’re changed into a pollutor and are forever connected to War-Den and other pollutors.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, John “Hambone” McGuire

Our guest this week is John “Hambone” McGuire of 3,2,1…Action! Games and co-host of the Vintage RPG podcast.

We talk about their projects: Escape from Point Nemo, Children of UMA, Mini Sub Mania, Devil into New Jersey, Rocket to Russia, Hotel Exorcist, and pamphlets Grounded for Life, Ski Quest.

Back their currently running Zine Quest Kickstarter here: The Sunset Limited, A Penny Dreadful Train Robbery for 3,2,1…Western!

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MD 202 Shrine of the Technosaurus Rex w/ Zac Goins (WoGD – World of Game Design)

Epic Levels — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:00:57 +0000

Shrine of the Technosaurus Rex: This room is covered in thick, sloppy, dripping layers of colorful paint. Each wall has a massive throbbing orifice that’ll occasionally spray a deluge of paint into the room. In the center of the room is a mound of paint covering long-dead cyber-sloths cultists, reaching to pull the lever that summons the T-Rex. An eldritch dial surrounding the lever can be moved to change the orifice liquids, 99% chance it’s paint.

Under the layers of paint, in a corner is a see-through gun-locker filled with magic acetone that’ll destroy paint and drain the color from anything. On the walls, under the paint, are the instructions on using the dials and summoning the T-Rex.

The T-rex is actually a painting service that’s violently malfunctioning, but can be fixed. It has a bite, stomp, tail whip and a harvestable tongue that’s a wand of paint spraying. If you are hit, save or suffer the following conditions: Yellow Bile: Stinks & sickens. Cyan Slow: Depression. That’s why they call it the blues. Black Slick:- Slippery like a grease spell. Magenta Brain Addle: Discuss your latest art project.

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury, Steve Albertson, Zac Goins

Our guest this week is Zac Goins, publisher & Kickstarter Consultation at World of Game Design (WoGD), a collective for writers, game designers, tabletop boardgame & RPG designers, artists, cartographers.

We talk about their projects: Realms Of Elghrune Box Set, GrymWyrd Tales – Volume 3 & 4, and 7 Aboard the Shackles an adventure compatible with MÖRK BORG.

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Realms of Elghrune: Box Set for a new RPG made with Blood Moon Entertainment

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MD 201 Celebratory Configuration w/ Zach Cowan

Epic Levels — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:00:57 +0000

Welcome to the first episode our Season 2! This time around we’ll create a single room with each of our guests until we’ve populated an entire Mad Dungeon!

Room 201 – Celebratory Configuration: This cyberpunk room is quartered into red, blue, green & yellow sections, and is cluttered with discarded tech trash. A hoarding gremlin is organizing it all by color.

In the center of the room is an infernal Tandy 1000 computer with a robotic hand on the back holding the Floppy Demonic Discus. Insert the Discus and the computer will turn on with text reading: “Would you like to play? y/n”

The game: The computer will show a random sequence of ten images (Apple=red, Sun=yellow, Frog=green, Water=blue). When you return it’s always +1 image. PCs must stand in a colored quadrant and say the color of the item in the sequence. Fail: get shocked for 1hp. Succeed: glow sticks fly out of the computer screen and wrap around the PCs necks, healing all damage and raising morale as cenobite party imps appear and throw you a bangin’ party.

This week we lay out our plans for 2023 and our sweet new Mad Dungeon format.

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MD 023 Necroprancer and the Mall Santa Massacre w/ Zach Cowan

Epic Levels — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:42:57 +0000

In our season one finale, you’re wearing holiday themed costumes while volunteering at the mall’s Christmas Town when an evil wizard dressed as Prancer unleashes a ghost-blizzard santa-storm that sends the mall into an arctic pocket dimension. You must assemble the Candy Cane of Doom, confront Necroprancer, and reverse his necrocamera spell to save the holiday season across the multiverse.

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We finish up an exciting first season with a wholesome family episode to celebrate the holiday season with our very own producer Zach Cowan. We discuss holiday traditions before building you a very special holiday dungeon of necromancy and consumerism.

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MD 022 Meowmodon Cave w/ Diogo Nogueira (Primal Quest, Halls of the Blood King)

Epic Levels — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:42:57 +0000

Monstrous big cats are maiming the denizens of the deep jungle. Ratfolk survivors have found their ancient cave home and have hired you to help them put an end to this terror for good. Battle through cat cultists and their saber shark synth tigers (SSSTs) to stop the murder, mutilation and the feline goddess Meowmodon from entering your realm.

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Dinosaurs, aliens & elder gods! We talk with game designer and artist Diogo Nogueira about his new game Primal Quest- Essentials, a streamlined NeOSR system of weird stone and sorcery adventures, and the Primal World of Thaia, a zine that will support the game’s setting and provide rules to play with both Old-School Essentials and Primal Quest.

He’s the creator of Old Skull Publishing, author of the Gold Ennie Award adventure of 2021, Halls of the Blood King, and games such as Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, Lost in the Fantasy World, and The Dead Are Coming.

We also talked about his art and drawing analog vs. using a tablet, our favorite dinosaurs, heavy metal horror and sci-fi and dungeon-synth / dino-synth.

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This episode sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release – Kalunga Plateau issue 2 by Gustavo Tertoleone of Pitch Black Lair.

Hidden in the depths of the most secluded jungle is a plateau dominated by monstrous beasts and primal tribes. This place holds uncountable amounts of gems, gold and silver within long forgotten caverns, protected by reptilian monsters, humanoid beings and powerful shamans. Are you brave enough to explore the Kalunga Plateau?

These products are unofficial content for Old School Essentials, but is also compatible with most OSR games.

Issue #1 is a toolkit containing a setting, rules for character creation, a list of new spells, new creatures and many tables with content to play at the Kalunga Plateau; an unknown place hidden in your campaign setting ready to be explored.

Issue #2 offers expanded content containing a lot of details about several tribes from the Plateau, many information on the creeds, spirituality and religions from the tribes, and details about the 4 great kingdoms in the Plateau.

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MD 021 El Malört Conspiracy w/ Amelia Antrim (Character Creation Cast, Ennies Judge)

Epic Levels — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:42:57 +0000

After a night of partying at the space docks with your celebrity pal Juice Maloose, you wake up with a hangover in the parking lot of El Malört’s, a 24-hour Chicago themed Mexican space diner. You’re here to participate in an eating competition to win an alien martial arts manual. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of The Malört Conspiracy before you become the newest El Malört’s franchise owner?

*Malört brand used with permission.

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This week’s guest is Amelia Antrim, we talk about game design, what makes a good game and the secrets of Chicago food and beverages… and Malört in particular!

She was a judge for the 2021 and 2022 Ennies awards, and is the co-host of Character Creation Cast, a podcast that explores the world of RPGs through the lens of character creation. Each month we sit down with guests (podcasters, designers, gamers) and run through the process of character creation in a new system.

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This episode sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release – Garth Grimgar’s Guide to the Flora of the Dying World, a brand new supplement for MÖRK BORG.

These are the field notes of the famously reclusive Occult Herbmaster Garth Grimgar, found in the ruins of his hut years after his death. The precise meaning of Grimgar’s astrological diagrams was known only to himself. It is a secret he has taken with him to his grave. Despite the possibility that he was dabbling in blasphemy, the Church Elders have elected to preserve his notes for the potentially useful knowledge they might contain.

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MD 020 Song of the Shriekfrapp w/ Erol Otus (Legendary artist at D&D, TSR, DCC, MtG, OSE)

Epic Levels — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:42:57 +0000

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This week’s guest is Erol Otus. We talk about his cover for the Old School Essentials Box Set, his Dying Earth adventure from the DCC Kickstarter. He’s doing lots of pencil sketches for Magic the Gathering‘s Forgotten Realms set. We talk about some of Dragon Warrior’s favorite art from Alma Mater RPG (1982), and his time as a staff artist at TSR and his time in Lake Geneva. We talk about his painting process these days, and how he’s been listening to Goldfrapp, “Tiptoe” and XTC “English Settlement”

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This episode sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release – Forbidden Psalm: They Came from the Necropolis, the latest mini-expansion for the Forbidden Psalm skirmish miniatures game, is chock-full of help and horror for those willing to part with enough dosh.

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MD 019 Head Kicker! The Musical w/ Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland)

Epic Levels — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:42:57 +0000

You’re a tourist visiting the sweet-smelling hometown of Connor Woodpond, the one-hit-wonder mega-star who wrote your favorite song, “Furry Boots and Slick Razors,” but he hasn’t been seen in years. There’s something about this town that just makes you want to sing your feelings. After your opening number, a mysterious figure in a trenchcoat and fedora implores you to save the rec center from Head Kicker and his bitchin’ Camaro gang, The Mutated Mullets.

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This week’s guest is Brian Shutter. We talk about Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands. Swingin’ swords and choppin’ lords vs. mutants and mullets. Their appendix N contains no books, but it does have music and movies like Mad Max and The Warriors. Brian’s favorite movie is Dawn of the Dead (1978) and we talk about the different VHS covers that were available. Brian does a show called “Wax Pax Massacres” where they open old trading card packs and eat the 40-year-old gum from it.

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland “Total Carnage Edition” on Kickstarter!

His new kickstarter is up and we talk about stretch goals of temporary tattoos, pogs, and we recommend xeno smut posters and Lord Randy action figures. In this game, character creation’s most important aspect is your hairstyle, and “attitude” is how cool you are in civilization, but sleaze (anti-charisma) is how much respect you get in the Wastelands.

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MD 018 The Witch of the Waves w/ Ed Greenwood (The Forgotten Realms, D&D, TSR)

Epic Levels — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:42:57 +0000

Captain Spike and his PiRat vikings have pillaged the coast of its precious paper and kidnapped villagers saying things like, “you look like a rat queen.” The villagers have collected a small amount of money to hire you to help them. The village leader introduces you to a swarm of rats in a trench coat who teleports you to The Witch of the Waves, a magical ship, to pursue Captain Spike to his lair so you can save the kidnap victims and stop this menace once and for all.

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This week’s guest is Ed Greenwood. We talk about Lake Geneva, his character Elminster, creating The Forgotten Realms, and his clandestine meeting with Steve in Los Angeles. He’s recently worked on DMs Guild – Thay Land Of The Red Wizards. A new Volo’s Guide for a city we haven’t heard much from in the past.

He’s currently working with Andrew Valkauskas (creator/designer/publisher of the Fate Of The Norns RPG) on a complete, detailed fantasy city (Ath Cliath, or Viking-ruled Dublin, circa 835 AD) usable with any RPG but designed for Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok – The Children of Eriu. You can follow their progress via their Patreon.

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MD 017 The Heal World w/ Brian Colin (Vast Grimm)

Epic Levels — Mon, 16 May 2022 19:42:57 +0000

This is the true story – of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god – trapped in a time loop – working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide – to find out what happens when people stop being polite – and start getting healed: The Heal World.

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This week’s guest: Brian Colin. We talk about his new TTRPG, Vast Grimm, a brutally horrific sci-fi port of MÖRK BORG and crowdfunded on Gamefound and distributed though Infinite Black. Brian is also an artist focusing on sculpture and taxidermy monsters. He released the Vast Grimm adventure Into the Wurmhole, Quickstart Rules Adventure for Free RPG Day 2021. Also check out his Crawling Death, Below the Dying Forest a Mörk Borg Adventure.

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MD 016 Blood Mud w/ Alyssa Faden (fantasy cartographer)

Epic Levels — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:42:57 +0000

You’re recruited by a secret society to infiltrate the grand opening ceremony of the New Colosseum, a tasteless theme park built in and around the original Colosseum. Billionaire scoundrel artist and owner of the New Colosseum, Crassus Kapoor, has pilfered holy sites from around the world to build his grim epcot catacombs in the hypogeum beneath the Colosseum. His hubris causes the blood of 400,000 deaths to rise as undead graveyard elementals and murder the crowd. You can stop the mayhem by locating the four pieces of The Seal and return them to their shrine rooms in the labyrinth of the hypogeum!

This week’s guest: Alyssa Faden is a professional cartographer and GenCon panelist since 2012. She’s best known for her incredible cityscapes and stunning details. Her clientele includes Monte Cook Games, Kobold Press, Profantasy Software, Gygax Magazine, Golden Goblin Press, Troll Lord Games, and Frog God Games.

We talked about drawing Chaosium’s Gaslight London map, and doing research at The Library of Congress. Working on an updated “Cosmology of Roleplaying” from Gygax Magazine. Her 12-foot by 12-foot Tegel Manor battle map. How she listens to Antonio Vivaldi or audio books while she works, and her Dungeon Morph Tiles for INkwell Ideas.

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MD 015 Sword Art Island w/ Ginny Loveday (Designer’s Den, D&D Adventurers League, MomoCon)

Epic Levels — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:42:57 +0000

You paid good money for the hottest ticket in town, an invite-only art exhibit on Sword Art Island by the world famous Two Hands Sword, a magic sword that helps the wielder create great works of art. You arrive at the island with university art students, and couples looking for a wine & paint date weekend. You’re greeted by the pretentious art critic, Al Success and his retinue of snobby snoobs and robot butlers. Something odd is happening on the island. One by one, people go missing. Can you solve the mystery of Sword Art Island?

This week’s guest: Ginny Loveday is host of Designer’s Den on Twitch and co-host for the D&D Round Table podcast. She’s a bestselling D&D designer/editor and Guild Adept for the DMsGuild, Social Media and Community for Baldman Games, RPG Director for MomoCon, Organizer for Maydays Tenday Online Charity Convention, Save vs Hunger, and D8 Summit charity conventions.

We talked about her participation with the Den of Assassins Kickstarter, Animal Adventures: the Faraway Sea, and her two D&D Epics Terror in Ten Towns and Ravenloft Mist Hunters.

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MD 014 Prince of the Carrion King w/ Matt Kelley (Exalted Funeral)

Epic Levels — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:42:57 +0000

Help a devoted ghoul king retrieve a cursed locket to reunite with the ghost of his long dead lover queen, but you inadvertently raise the dead and summon a sexually unobtainable Purple Prince demon lord. The overgrown graveyard turns into a bustling center of hot-rod zombies, greaser ghouls and preppy mummies all going on dates at a gruesome fast food joint, making out at the undead drive-in theater and engaging in groovy dance fights. Can you learn the moves of the four dance masters before the purple rain drags all of the enthralled lovers to the Purple Prince’s hellish underworld?

This week’s guest: Matt Kelley is the owner of Exalted Funeral, a DIY indie web store & small press publisher for RPG, heavy metal and occult literature. We talk about the Google+ days, the OSR, and how he sold his Magic: The Gathering cards to fund what is now one of the coolest communities built around a love of tabletop, zines and the dark arts.

The next big project is the Feb. 23 launch of Old-School Essentials Fantasy RPG Box Sets (OSE) from Necrotic Gnome. Support the Kickstarter HERE!

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MD 013 NekroBarge of Pawlee the Elder Lich w/ Keith Baker (Eberron, Twogether Studios, The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance)

Epic Levels — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:42:57 +0000

Save your loved ones’ immortal souls from being consumed by the NekroBarge as it travels down the infernal River of Time to the netherworld. You’ll fight grim reapers, hunt ghosts and sabotage the psychopomp captain in this fight against time to stop the regeneration ritual of Pawlee the Elder Lich.

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This week’s guest: Keith Baker is a game designer and creator of Gloom & the Eberron campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons As owner of Twogether Studios, he recently released Dread Metrol: Into the Mists – An Eberron / Ravenloft Crossover for DM’s Guild and The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance board game.

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MD 012 Scapulator and the Tithe of Gains w/ Grant Howitt (Honey Heist, Spire, Heart)

Epic Levels — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:42:57 +0000

Lich lord Scapulator has built Crush Hammer Gym, a colossal skyscraper in the shape of a muscled arm flexing with a bulging bicep. He’s lured muscle wizards here under the guise of a fitness cult, but his actual intentions are to mystically syphon their strength into the gym to give it enough power to punch The Moon, a loving & benevolent god who looks down on the world while threateningly holding a shiv. Can the PCs stop Scapulator before he can initiate his world-ending punch of vengeance?

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This week’s guest: Grant Howitt is an Ennie Award winning RPG creator of Honey Heist, Spire, Heart and dozens (hundreds?) more games. He’s one third of the game company Rowan, Rook and Decard. We talk about his games Havoc Brigade, Goblin Punks, One Last Job, Orcball.

His current project through his patreon is one-page game collaboration with folks like: Becky Annison (Lovecraftesque, Bite Marks, When the Dark is Gone), Nathan Blades (Queer android game show host), Jay Dragon (Possum Creek Games), Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures), Thryn Henderson (Small Town Skeletons, the Mixtape onepages, RYNE), Chloe Mashiter (Time Heist, The Andromeda Ward) and many more.

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MD 011 The Worm that Glows w/ Jenna Marie (Chaotic Click Clacks)

Epic Levels — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:42:57 +0000

It’s hive mind vs. hive mind in this psychic invasion story! You’re consensually swallowed by Jonah, a gargantuan psychic fish whose mission is to keep reality intact. Jonah’s insides are a massive honeycombed hive-city whose inhabitants are psychically connected to Jonah’s mind. Trolli, a million glow worms, is a hive mind of chaos. They’ve infested Jonah and are ripping reality apart. This has severed Jonah’s psyche into four distinct brothers. To destroy Trolli, you must reintegrate the brothers and activate the sonic statue to save Jonah, the city and the world.

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This week’s guest is Jenna Marie is a professional podcaster and owner of Chaotic Click Clacks where she makes handmade dice and other nerd crafts. She’s a writer and social media guru for LostLorn Games, the new gaming company from Mark Rein-Hagen (World of Darkness games, Ars Magica). Check out their latest KickStarter for The Curse of BloodStone Isle.

Jenna is COO of Maximum Roll Entertainment where she is also the in-house dice designer, and Co-hosts the Maximum Roll Entertainment Podcast. She is a performer in the 5E actual play podcasts Crumpets and Kerosene and the LostLorn Chronicles.

Follow Jenna Marie: Etsy, Website, Instagram

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MD 009 Iron Dwarves + Fairy Dust w/ Andrew Kolb (Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting)

Epic Levels — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:42:57 +0000

Fairies have kidnapped the dwarven children of the Iron Helm Corp. and the PCs are tasked with rescuing them. Things get complicated when they discover that the fairies were taking the kids as revenge for the dwarves kidnapping and torturing the fairy folk. The dwarves utilize a captured fairy’s iron allergy to locate ore deposits. The only way to bring peace to the region is by softening the hearts of Iron Helm Corp’s top dogs by solidifying their will-they-won’t-they office romance with a forged love letter.

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This week’s guest is Andrew Kolb who wrote, illustrated and designed Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting (Andrews McMeel Publishing, Amazon), and keep an eye out for his next book set in the land of Oz. His first picture book, Edmund Unravels, was a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Kids.

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Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting

Mermaids, sword fights, and adventures through Neverland are all fun and exciting—until you’re staring down the mouth of a crocodile big enough to topple a castle. Journey into the world of Peter Pan and its mysterious inhabitants.

The book is a feature-length hex crawl campaign, intended for sandbox exploration. You’ll find endless adventure inside, lovingly adapted from the tales of Peter Pan and tailored for an older audience. Each hex is self-contained, brimming with lore from Peter Pan and the Darlings’ escapades.

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MD 010 MekaVoid MotoKvlt w/ Levi Combs (Planet X Games)

Epic Levels — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:42:57 +0000

You’re hired by the president to kidnap his daughter who’s joined a mechanized space-biker kvlt run by a genocidal techno-squid that’s turning organic worlds into cyber hellscapes.

This week’s guest is Levi Combs of Planet X Games. His latest project RAYGUNS & ROBUTS, a rules-light retro atomic-sci-fi RPG zine, is on Kickstarter now. Purchase his other projects at Exalted Funeral:

Jungle Tomb of the Mummy Bride (5E & DCC Compatible)

An Occurrence at Howling Crater (5E)

Escape from Skullcano Island (5E)

Glimmering Crypt of the Ioun King (5E)

The Phylactery #1 (zine)

The Phylactery #2 (zine)

The Phylactery #3 (zine)

Magic & Shit (zine)

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RAYGUNS & ROBUTS is an all-new, high-quality FULL-COLOR zine from Planet X Games that focuses on retro science fiction roleplaying in a galaxy menaced by killer ROBUTS (yes, ROBUTS – it’s just more fun to say it that way!), slimy, green space aliens and a rogue’s gallery of super-scientists and evil geniuses! Every page has the heart and feel of the old school atomic sci-fi movies, serials and stories that we grew up loving so much and the rules are light enough that it can easily be adapted to any OSR or rules-light RPG setting. If you’ve ever played the first edition of the world’s most popular RPG or any of its retro-clones, the rules in RAYGUNS & ROBUTS will be very familiar to you.

RAYGUNS & ROBUTS is a universe filled with galactic space rangers and square-jawed heroes zipping across the phlogiston, with a jet pack strapped to their back and a raygun in hand. A setting where killer ROBUTS run rampant in a galaxy-wide rebellion and alien threats bent on bringing the galaxy to its knees hatch their diabolical plots in an endless cycle. It’s a universe filled with strange alien worlds, futuristic technology, and bizarre super-science that man was never meant to possess. Ancient civilizations cling to long-dead moons and cosmic winds bear strange tidings from beyond the pale. Hyperspace lanes span the galaxy, inhabited by genocidal space-pirates ready to loot your starship and enslave your crew. It’s a vast galaxy of proud warrior races, dogmatic alien lifeforms and technological intelligences that can turn hostile at a moment’s notice!

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MD 008 LAW & ORC-DER w/ Tim Kask (TSR, OD&D, Dragon Magazine, Curmudgeon in the Cellar)

Epic Levels — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:42:57 +0000

“You stand accused of crimes against orcdom!” The PCs have been captured and brought to the volcanic orcish city of Zajar Mal to stand trial. Will your dwarven public defender Anoya get you through this bureaucratic nightmare of gladiatorial fights and iron gut contests? Or, will the orc prosecutor, Cruelty DeKill be able to prove your weakness with surprise witnesses and violent objections to the dishonorable Judge YouDie and an unwitting jury of kidnapped citizens?

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This week’s guest is Tim Kask. He was hired by Gary Gygax as the first employee of TSR and helped establish Appendix N, the backbone of the Dungeons & Dragons OSR. He was editor of Little Wars & The Strategic Review, which later became The Dragon, and then Dragon Magazine. He edited the original D&D rules: Eldritch Wizardry, Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes, and Swords & Spells. Tim now hosts his YouTube show Curmudgeon in the Cellar where he answers the internet’s questions about Od&d and the early days of TSR. Tim drinks Sparkling Ice with caffeine and NOS orange… like a true gamer.

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MD 007 Stacie Stardust and the Dimension Boppers w/ Winston Ward (Infinite Worlds Magazine)

Epic Levels — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 19:42:57 +0000

The floor is lava on an interdimensional scale! Stellar slap bracelets blast down from space and onto the PCs wrists, choosing them as Dimension Boppers (DBs). Hologram teen Stacie Stardust emerges from a bracelet to warn them of Silliw E’curb, harbinger of a cosmic world eating horror. Silliw, a glowing obsidian meteorite, hits the ground and corrupts the world. The DBs have to travel across parallel dimensions until Silliw evolves into a humanoid form that they can bind with the slap bracelets and syphon its power.

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This week’s guest is Winston Ward, the editor of Infinite Worlds Magazine, a science fiction fan’s dream. Filled with page after page of vibrant art, mind-bending fiction, original comics, and exclusive interviews with celebrities and legends of the science fiction world, Infinite Worlds sparks the imagination like no other.

Founded in 2018, Infinite Worlds is the world’s best science fiction magazine. Progressive and inclusive with a mind for science and reason and a semi-retro punk/metal aesthetic, Infinite Worlds is the ultimate cult collector’s item. Each issue is 60+ full-color, ad-free pages of original stories, mind-blowing art, cutting-edge comics, and exclusive interviews!

Follow Infinite Worlds Magazine on Instagram / Infinite Worlds Podcast / Twitter / Facebook / Patreon

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MD 006 The Ripening: Race for the Super Citrus w/ Mason Grant (Gamma Wave Games)

Epic Levels — Tue, 11 May 2021 19:42:57 +0000

Super scientist Bobby Vellum has been terrorizing the countryside with his zeppelin mounted gamma cannon, polymorphing the denizens into hulked out lizard monsters under his control. But lo, a prophecy foretells of the ripening, when brave warriors would scale the world tree to pluck the super citrus to save us all.

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This week’s guest is Mason Grant (AKA Inner Resting) is a game creator, graphic designer and musician. You can check out his games Universal Elements (a fast pace space race) and Prime Ordeal (a monster brawler card game) at his company Gamma Wave Games. Mason produced much of the music for this podcast and our Epic Levels’ album Armor Classy. Check out his SoundCloud page here.

Follow Mason here: Facebook – Instagram – YouTube – Twitch – mason-grant.com

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MD 005 Jungle Cult of the Dragon Monkey w/ Zach Cowan (Mad Dungeon producer)

Epic Levels — Thu, 06 May 2021 19:42:57 +0000

It’s Dramomas, the winter solstice feast where demigod monkey-dragon Dramomo delivers delicious banana sculptures to the good denizens of the jungle. But instead, an icy blue beam fires into the air from the top of the Dramomo Temple. A polar plague slowly freezes the jungle, leaving everything slick and sharp. Dramomo calls to his prophet Jayne Goodwill to find help.

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This week’s guest is Zach Cowan, RPG pro and producer of this very podcast!

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MD 004 Skin Thief of the Half-Buried Titan w/ Jeremy Deram (People Them with Monsters)

Epic Levels — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:42:57 +0000

The Skin Thief, an evil BMX wizard, has flayed off Teddy Saturn’s magic bicycle tattoo, stolen his magic tattoo gun and is back in his half-buried titan carcass lair. Teddy promises to give the PCs a magic tattoo if they can get his stuff back.

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This week’s guest is Jeremy Deram of People Them with Monsters blog, DCC RPG Reference Booklet (a reference booklet with all the commonly-used charts from the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG with illustrations from Stefan Poag & Doug Kovacs), and his megadungeon The Ebon Megalith.

DCC RPG Reference Booklet cover art by Doug Kovacs

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MD 003 Jelly Pope w/ Nikki Johnson (Slaydies ATL)

Epic Levels — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:42:57 +0000

You’ve heard that the town of Peachykeen has a drug problem, only to find out it’s a suburban utopia with manicured lawns and a culinary obsession with jelly and gelatins. It’s all dinner parties and sock hops until… Assimilation! The Jelly, a gelatinous deity in the center of the town’s volcano is worshiped by the villagers as they increase the ranks of their extraplanar hivemind overlord. Today’s the day that the Jelly Pope is going to complete his year-long ritual and erupt The Jelly into our world.

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This week’s guest: Nikki Johnson of Slaydies ATL, an ongoing magical girl campaign Hunt for the Heart Shards every Friday at 8p.m. Eastern on Twitch.

Links:

https://twitter.com/thewiggedDM

https://twitter.com/SlaydiesAtl

twitch.tv/SlaydiesATL

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MD 002 Tower of Slime with Jay Domingo (Mystic Punks)

Epic Levels — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:42:57 +0000

This gruesome, slime-draining, copper tower mystically appears in times of need, a harbinger to when a world-ending kaiju event is about to occur. The tower can transform into a giant robot to defend the world, as long our heroes can solve the mysteries inside before a mega-beast of legend destroys the planet.

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This week’s guest: Jay Domingo is writing the TTRPG rules adaptation of the solo Mystic Punks RPG. He wrote the Mystic Punks‘ North City Park zine adventure, and the upcoming intro adventure Crackdown at I-V Park. The current solo zine compendium is available in print and PDF via Exalted Funeral.

Overview of Mystic Punks RPG

Students have gone missing at Star Valley High School and no one seems to care. You determine that their disappearances are the result of an otherworldly invasion. As a teenage misfit, you’ve only ever used your mystic powers to perform dark rituals, but now those powers are the only thing that can save your classmates and stop a supernatural legion from consuming you and your school. Mystic Punks: Collected Edition contains the four out-of-print roleplaying game zines and a new, final scenario that concludes your adventure!

From Mystic Punks: Collected Edition

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MD 001 #CancelSatan w/ Anthony Meloro (Mystic Punks)

Epic Levels — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:42:57 +0000

21 Jump Street in a necromancy high school in Hell. You’re summoned by Zomb Petty to help him in his coup against Satan. Go undercover and coerce Satan into the compromising position of committing a good deed. Go public with a video of the event to get him canceled and ousted as headmaster of Skeletal High School.

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This week’s guest: Anthony Meloro is the writer of Mystic Punks RPG available in print and PDF via Exalted Funeral.

Overview of Mystic Punks RPG

From Mystic Punks: Collected Edition

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