Helpful Goat Presents: A Games & Gaming Podcast

Goat's Eye View   is a series of conversations in which members and friends of Helpful Goat Gaming get together to chat about Dungeons & Dragons, roleplaying, and games in general.  In this episode (streamed and recorded on May 19, 2020), Galway chats with Helpful Goat stalwart Rachel (DM for our Ghosts of Saltmarsh  Twitch campaign, Nero in Tear: Moontree Isle , Clem in Goats & Dragons: T...

Behind the Goats  (hereafter rebranded as  Goat's Eye View !)   is a series of behind-the-scenes conversations in which members and friends of Helpful Goat Gaming get together to chat about Dungeons & Dragons, roleplaying, and games in general.  In this episode (streamed and recorded on May 12, 2020), Galway (DM of Tear: Beyond the Doors  and  Tear: Moontree Isle , Charity in The Fates of Ryn...

The Marauders regroup and begin sharing the information they’ve obtained. Putting the pieces together slowly, they realize that they might be in the middle of something big … something involving many guilds, groups, and gangs (including a certain silent order from Tear: Beyond the Doors!). Enjoy ... and don’t worry about that mysterious figure holding a locket, I’m sure it’s FINE!  You can chat wi...

Dent goes looking for answers. Nero goes looking for Dent. Dent finds … Ed? Ketch looks for answers. Finds mistakes. And the others, back at the Tattooed Tortle, try more and more to make sense of WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AROUND HERE!!! Whew. This is a deep episode. Enjoy!  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also ...

The Marauders are the belle of the ball! Everyone wants to dance, but is their card going to fill up? Witness five different groups try to pull the attention of the Marauders. Which of these left the mysterious note? Which group will like Jebediah the Lizard? Will it be the opulently dressed lizard folk? Find out in this week’s episode of Tear: Moontree Isle!   You can chat with us--and with other...

The gang gets caught in a rainstorm, finds more mysterious notes, and tries to learn more about the disappearances that once plagued the city of Amberheart. Is there a connection? Or is Ketch’s tail twitching for no reason?   You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , an...

The Marauders are separated and Ketch and Nero are … tied up ( cough arrested cough ). The gang finally meets back up after learning more about the Dwarves and Kobolds arrested as well. And as they free themselves and walk about the city, Dent has some unexpected complications.   You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can...

This giant-sized episode features your favorite Marauders looking for the Shadow Hand and getting into some trouble. Visiting Tormanrile, the PARTY SPLITS to (re)discover the nooks and crannies of the big city. Asking around, the group seems to light upon some real mystery, pineapples, and more disappearances. OH, and there’s an inn called the “Tattooed Turtle” -- a reference to our Fates of Ryn c...

To split the party or not to split the party? This is the question the Marauders ask themselves as they reach the once bustling city of Tormanrile … even while Tormanrile seems far less bustling and much more… eerie...   You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and che...

After investigating the camp of strangers and Will o’ Wisps, the Marauders find information that begins to piece together a tapestry that they cannot yet see. And now, they’re on the road again, to Tormanrile!  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and check out our...

Having discovered secrets in the church, the Marauders come back to the road. But it isn’t long before the keenest among them sees a makeshift blockade in front of them -- and two lights that quickly blink out. Check out this SHOCKING fight!   You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,   Twitter ,...

The Marauders’ curiosity gets to them as they painstakingly explore the old church, the surrounding graveyard, the time nonsense, and the abandoned building itself. There is clearly more than meets the eye here. It’s enough to make Ketch’s tale twitch!  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,  ...

As the Marauders get their bearings, time nonsense awaits them in an old abandoned building. But is that the only thing that awaits them? No, of course not.  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also follow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and check out our main podcast, Goats & Dragons: A Dungeons &...

Meet the Marauders … again! Fresh off their heroic efforts in Amberheart (see Tear: The Amberheart Mystery -- a D&D one-shot available right here in the Helpful Goat Presents podcast feed!), the Marauders question a stranger and ask themselves what to do next while getting in a bit of fishing.  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg...

Listen to the Marauders find their way through mysterious catacombs looking for their missing friends, family, and the people of Amberheart. Will they find them? What do these caves have to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the town? Is that Amber?  Note: The Amberheart Mystery is a D&D one-shot GMed by Galway and set in his homebrew world of Tear. It introduces the characters t...

Meet the Marauders! And see what they’re up to when they come upon a mysteriously empty town: their own. Where are the people? Where are their friends and family?? What is happening in TEAR!?! Only Galway the GM knows... and he ain’t tellin’.  Note: The Amberheart Mystery is a D&D one-shot GMed by Galway and set in his homebrew world of Tear. It introduces the characters that will go on to fea...

In this super-sized finale of Tear: Beyond the Doors, the group tries their best to confront “Purple Bone Daddy,” to find two of their friends, and to discover what the blight has been doing to the land. And while this is the final chapter of this story, Neldor has made it clear: these are only pages, and we can always turn them to see what’s next. So stay tuned for more of this world of interconn...

In the final episodes of this arc of Tear, the group has visions again as they begin to see the path before them leading in a single direction: toward a fight.  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also  f ollow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and check out our main podcast, Goats & Dragons: A Dungeons &...

We’re coming to the end of this campaign set in the world of “Tear!” As the gang questions the Sunleaf, they think they may have discovered their next target. To the Purple Bone DADDY!  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also  f ollow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and check out our main podcast, Goats &a...

Rook meets someone from his forgotten past. Their name is Tepple. Tepple dislikes the group and tries to kill them. This is how the group responds to Tepple. Spoiler: It’s pretty f#$%ing violent. Afterward, they escape with the Sun Leaf and finally get something they’ve been asking for for half of these episodes.  Please note: we want to acknowledge and apologize for the audio issues present in th...

In this one, the Unity attacks, there’s skeletons, a new ally, another morally dubious “ally,” and they find the Sun Leaf!!! Whew! You can’t miss this one as Tear: Beyond the Doors is winding down to its exciting conclusion!  Please note: we want to acknowledge and apologize for the audio issues present in this episode. Our editors had to use the livestream audio for these episodes, so there were...

This week's episode of Helpful Goat Presents features our new original theme music for Tear: Beyond the Doors! The theme is called "The Eight Pillars" and was composed by Sam Winnie, who also composed the theme music for Dom & Dragons over in our Goats & Dragons feed! We are so thrilled with Sam's composing and we know you will be too -- so give it a listen, and enjoy!  In this week's epis...

On June 26, 2020, in celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, Adam GMed BIG QUEER ORCS, a sequel to (and adaptation of) Grant Howitt's one-page RPG, Big Gay Orcs!  Now, to mark National Coming Out Day (October 11, 2020), we are pleased to release the podcast version of what was a truly fun and downright delightful Twitch stream experience. Listen and enjoy as six LGBTQ-identifying members of the Helpful...

This week's episode of Helpful Goat Presents features all new original theme music for Tear: Beyond the Doors! The theme is called "The Eight Pillars" and was composed by Sam Winnie, who also composed the theme music for Dom & Dragons over in our Goats & Dragons feed! We are so thrilled with Sam's composing and we know you will be too -- so give it a listen, and enjoy!  As the group settle...

The group explores their options within Stone’s Rest and the players lose their damn minds.  You can chat with us--and with other Helpful Goat fans!--on our Discord server at https://discord.gg/Q3AzpbN . You can also   follow us on Twitch,   Twitter , and Facebook , and check out our main podcast, Goats & Dragons: A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast ! And if you've enjoyed listening, please consi...