Jesters of Ravenloft: A D&D Podcast

The troupe tried to heal up and strategize their next move, but Shadow Nemesis was fixated on his missing bag of holding, so they all complimented him until he felt good enough to join the fight. Tyler disguised himself as a Hecklin, but got hit and was revealed, Del rode Rumpleforeskin as the bone horse used their hooves to attack, Tyler and Shadow Nemesis dispatched a couple of Jecklins, and New...

In a stroke of extreme luck, the troupe managed to get the jump on a group of Hoechlins. New Rogue made effective use of his deadly spectral hands, Tyler did some impressive bladesinging to hold his own though he got stabbed rather badly in the process, Del summoned a boar and finished off the remaining Hoechlins, and Shadow Nemesis received a Flute of Rats and ignored the combat in favour of tryi...

The troupe and the were-folk set off towards the Rootless Evergreen. Tyler found a misty path that led them along a more covert route to the underside of the tree, Shadow Nemesis looked for loopholes to get the Doctor Deputy released from his oath to Tyler, and Del stole Shadow Nemesis’s bag of holding so he couldn’t use the doll’s needle to steal one of their bodies. Having climbed up through the...

The troupe entered the were-camp and lay down for a much-needed rest, during which Shadow Nemesis sucker-punched Adam and took control once again, and Del—ever the pragmatist—made them all focus on the fight with a promise to deal with him later. Del and Tyler learned that time didn’t work as expected in their current realm and that many of the folk they had hoped to save were already dead. With o...

The troupe continued to contend with the consequences of body-switching. New Rogue healed Adam’s accidentally-self-inflicted wounds, Adam couldn’t fight the influence of Shadow Nemesis and became a bit more evil, and the party tried to get Adam back into the doll body, but he unintentionally resisted the needle and remained a goat. Del and Tyler realized that Lucretia might make a deal with them a...

The troupe set off towards the were-camp. New Rogue struggled to comprehend the degree of body-switching that had occurred, Adam woke up as a goat, unable to speak and desperate to communicate that New Rogue had tried to kill him, Del calmed Adam down, and Tyler made a deal with the Doctor Deputy to let the squire fight for them if he kept the truth-bracelet on. Adam was finally able to request ar...

The troupe once again found themselves up against Lucretia Sanguine. New Rogue tried to strike a deal with her to both return Jack Magnum to him and return Adam to his own body in exchange for a child, but instead, she charmed New Rogue into trying to kill Adam, and Adam stabbed Jack Magnum with his doll needle, causing them both to collapse. Del and Tyler arrived on the scene and Tyler finally sl...

After realizing they’d have to wait a full day before Adam got his body back, Del stayed behind to keep watch over Adam and the squire, while Tyler and New Rogue left to search for Jack Magnum. New Rogue received an offer from Lucretia to exchange his goat for giving her a child, but he left her to consider it, and Tyler meanwhile consulted with Ezra to discover that Lucretia’s desperation for mor...

The troupe contended with how to handle the most recent doll body-swap. New Rogue threatened the Doctor Deputy with a game of chicken until Tyler put the squire to sleep, Shadow Nemesis temporarily took control over Adam and tried and failed to glue the black knight’s helmet back together using Del’s pickled finger, and Del finally managed to pull Adam-slash-Shadow Nemesis out of the bag of holdin...

As was inevitable, the troupe’s fears came true when Adam woke up in a doll’s body. Adam fought Shadow Nemesis for control before he was shoved into his bag of holding, where he accidentally smashed the Black Knight’s helm. The Doctor Deputy repeatedly hacked at Adam’s hand in the hope of removing the bracelet and liberating Shadow Nemesis, but the commotion quickly drew in Del, Tyler, and New Rog...

The troupe were reunited in the Vistani’s bar tent. As Tyler returned from his fishing trip, New Rogue followed up with Denton Arthur about Rumpleforeskin’s prosthetic leg with a very confusing letter, Del took over to provide actually useful information, and a very drunk Adam smashed up the bar, confessed to Tyler that he’d plotted against him, learned that he had a kid with Lucretia, and drank e...

The troupe’s very long, very bad day continued! Tyler awoke on the back of a dead ground worm to Lucretia Sanguine offering him a Nintendo Switch in exchange for giving her child, but when he refused, she stabbed him and he finally found himself being revived in the company of some very grateful were-people. Meanwhile, Del chatted with Rumpleforeskin about their mutually bad day and received some...

The troupe had some uncomfortable realizations about themselves and each other. New Rogue received a Rod of Double-Checking to help combat his tendency towards black-and-white thinking, Del played Warhammer with Lucretia Sanguine, who she learned to be Aesir’s mother, and a horrified Adam learned about his crimes as Shadow Nemesis and left to get a drink with New Rogue and the Doctor Deputy. Meanw...

A tense meeting with the Vistani quickly turned around when they were delighted by Jack Magnum’s tricks, but the rest of the troupe learned some hard truths. Tyler couldn’t get the hang of worm-fishing and found himself relegated to a corner, New Rogue learned that his relationship with Ezra might be superficial and that he should do some more introspection to deepen the connection with his god, A...

The troupe prepared to do battle with the approaching caravan, when New Rogue recognized them as the Vistani, the travelling performers they had met in Happy Town. But just as they were greeting each other, the Doctor Deputy—thinking that Adam was speaking to him in code—attacked. Del managed to think quickly and stop the squire momentarily, but when he kept attacking, Adam shoved him into his bag...

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With the rest of the troupe either sleeping or gone fishing, Del took advantage of a quiet moment to attempt to extricate the Doctor Deputy from his robot body, only to accidentally activate the self-destruct sequence. The squire got free and Adam shielded them as much as he could, but Rumpleforeskin had their leg blown off and they all got burnt in the explosion. Meanwhile, Tyler caught a glimpse...

As Shadow Nemesis relinquished control, Adam was torn from his nightmare and remembered nothing since meeting the Judge, so Del caught him up, leaning into the kinder aspects of who Adam used to be, but felt rather conflicted about it. Meanwhile, Tyler and New Rogue traversed the Barren Hills to the rough camp of the Weres, learning that Streamlabbing Tyler had displaced them from their home on th...

After speculating that the were-monsters were likely good people, New Rogue convinced them that the troupe were not in fact their doppelgangers and they all backed down. He and Tyler helped everyone heal, the Doctor Deputy got upset about not getting a were-monster body, and Shadow Nemesis suddenly realized that his new, mist-given bracelet was forcing him to tell the truth. New Rogue immediately...

The troupe debated what to do about the were-creatures. Shadow Nemesis wanted the Doctor Deputy to take one of their bodies, but they decided instead that New Rogue would approach them like a sinuous, hissing worm, assisted by the power of Del’s ghost story and Tyler’s familiar. Surprisingly, the creatures spoke and seemed afraid of New Rogue, mistaking him for his Doppelganger, so New Rogue magic...

The troupe left the Nameless Graveyard behind them, set off toward the Barren Hills, and immediately encountered the Nilbog. New Rogue tried to befriend the strange goblin, but just as the situation turned dangerous, the Nilbog froze and—seemingly possessed—told the troupe that the Watchers were impressed with them, and then promptly died. Unsure of what to make of this misty intervention, they co...

After several mishaps by Wet Change, Rumpleforeskin dealt the final blow to the Gargoyle King. Del learned from Werner that they would be safe until the following night, but without a clear foe, the quarrelling began anew. New Rogue offended Rumpleforeskin, Shadow Nemesis stole New Rogue’s Master P powder, and Tyler was constantly disturbed from his sleep by Jack Magnum. As a sort of truce, New Ro...

The troupe is locked in combat with the Gargoyle King and five miniature gargoyles. New Rogue focused his powers entirely on keeping his goat safe, Shadow Nemesis tried to strike at the king, but hit Del instead, Tyler effectively conjured illusory clones of himself to draw the attention of the gargoyles, and Del psychically attacked with a Cronenberg-like jamboree band. The Doctor Deputy discover...

Wet Change entered the church in the Nameless Graveyard and, when Del realized it was Thanksgiving, they decided to celebrate and found some food and drinks. Rumpleforeskin made a berry jelly and baked a calzone inside themself, they all played cards, and the Doctor Deputy put on such an incredible show with the Tech Deck that Tyler gave it to him permanently. They all said what they were thankful...

The troupe left Protection Town and set off toward the Barren Hills. Del got her phone out and shared photos of them all in happier times and New Rogue connected again with Shadow Nemesis by reminiscing about Wet Change’s more bizarre sketches until they arrived at the Nameless Graveyard. Coming upon a church, they investigated the strange statues atop it, and when Tyler discovered that those ston...