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The unofficial D&D podcast that helps to put humans back into humanity & breathe life into your games

19/03/2025

For the March episode, I brought back two of our first guests of the podcast, Elizabeth and Michael Horsley! They make a pair newlywed pair of half-elven merchant cart drivers…fantasy truck drivers! Will you aid them and earn some wages of peril?

Episode 145 - Antoine and Mina: Fantasy Truckers

https://sidekicksandsidequests.com/145

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+rATntTrk

24/02/2025

Here is one interpretation of the podcast’s own Duncan the Fighter from the Random Encounters! Designed by my wife and I, Duncan is chaotically good and charging forward in BG3.

19/02/2025

Welcome to Season 6! My next guest for February is , a curious culinary anthropologist of the world of D&D! He has published a new 2024 rules Bastion upgrade for kitchens, so we combine our tables to create a tavernkeeper who needs your help to help her feywild friends!

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+g6LNLMR6

https://sidekicksandsidequests.com/144

15/02/2025

Thanks to the folks for birthday money, I finally got us an Xbox Series X and now downloading Baldur’s Gate 3!

Which of the podcast characters should be my first character?

Duncan? Sonja? Krislee? Korrak? Orion? Agape? Lifespell? Or Annebelynn Mithralshaper?

10/02/2025

Happy birthday to me and the podcast. (Thanks for the recent photo, Anson!)

Taking a new approach for Season 6: monthly episodes.

With this busy season of life, my family takes priority. And rather than feeling like constant catch-up, I can have episodes ahead of time!

22/01/2025

Alright! The last episode of Season 5 is going to be our Parleys at the Platter #3. Since the new 2024 rules premiered, I thought I would be lovely to have a conversation on game design, play, and D&D. I’m so happy to have been able to speak with Dr. Paul Gestwicki, Alyssa Visscher, Benjamin Huffman, and Mark Thompson!

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+a9kPs1dp

08/01/2025

My next guest is game designer Jessica Marcrum! We roll the dice to create Corazon, the meazel who teaches cantrips to kids! He wants you to go to the hag’s hut and steal her spellbooks…and sourdough starter…for the kids!

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+aTzKtdRd

Episode 142 - Corazon's Cantrips for Kids!

30/12/2024

Merry Christmastide! Now that the immediate celebrations have subsided, I’m happy to share this episode. I spoke with Nicole aka and we rolled the dice to make Rime! She’s an adopted manticore of a brass Dragonborn chocolateering family. She’s concerned for the Emperor’s hoarding problem.

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+sbsqMZpe

13/12/2024

role_play_chat had me on his podcast!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/role-play-chat/id1470969449?i=1000680204641

13/12/2024

Sorry for the little delay, but my next guest is game designer Eva Terra. We roll the dice to make “Goob”, the Tabaxi cobbler of lifting shoes. He needs your help to stop a pair of stalking, evil shoes…

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+lnWLP6Ls

06/12/2024

My Secret Santa gift from work! The Dungeons & Dragons dndwizards LEGO lego minifigs!

27/11/2024

I’m joined by Randall Hampton of “Little Game Masters TTRPG and Books”. He brings us his own character today, Zaxibus. He’s a retired adventurer who started a tavern (sounds familiar!) called Prickly Pete’s Pouring Station, and the heroic horse graces the place! Zaxibus needs your help to recover a fallen friend’s favored piece of jewelry.

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+bu1fZxnv

14/11/2024

My next guest is Mat from the podcast “Role Play Chat”! We mix and match with an idea and the dice to create Ambrose Eusebius. He is a cleric of healing with a dark heart. Will you help rid the town of the evil plaguing it?

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+2MBBPzyk

06/11/2024

Sorry for the delay, but my next guest is Jade! We roll the dice to create Timothy, an aspirant duergar knight! With a mushroom companion, he found a dog with a jeweled collar and map. Will you help him in his quest?

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+FWNvifXc

03/11/2024

Dad and Son fought the Hollow Dragon and saved all the Halloween Candy! My boy’s first D&D game. Thanks Mom!

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween and 14th Anniversary of me playing D&D ever! Enjoy this picture of me from 2010 as Riff-Raff!

16/10/2024

My guest this week is Dr. Emily Friedman from Auburn University. You may know her work online for the study of actual play TTRPG and her various writings! We roll the dice to create Sven, a secret slaad in academia! An advanced lecturer who could use your help to get him out of a jam: he needs some of the highly popular jam in this college town.

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/bbqOFofQ+xgsC-OY0

10/10/2024

Howdy everyone! So, I’m trying something new. For the past year, I’ve been having fun running one-on-one D&D with a friend, and it’s been wildly fun and creative for me, to engage with our game a little bit every day. So wouldn’t you like to as well? Go to StartPlaying and see!

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Sonja helps the adventurers Ellywick and Hobart with this dangerous cargo of Antoine and Mina. They discuss now at journey’s end of the right thing to do.