Playing Games with Strangers

As the party searches for a way to stop Lolth once and for all, Stumblefoot receives a divine vision that reveals long-hidden truths about their enemies, the fate of Gareth, and the fragile future of Towerfall. Meanwhile, Wilder discovers that Lolth's influence may be closer to home than anyone feared. Faced with impossible choices and no easy answers, the party must decide how much they are willi...

A disturbing discovery inside Castle Mannligar sends the party on a search for answers that leads them to one of Towerfall's best-kept secrets. There, they uncover dangerous new magic that may offer hope against Lolth—but at a terrible price. As the heroes continue searching the abandoned castle, long-hidden prisoners and forgotten truths come to light, while Pooh is drawn into an unexpected encou...

With Towerfall's leadership in turmoil, the party begins the difficult work of rebuilding a kingdom. Old promises are honored, new allies are sought, and preparations begin for the conflicts still to come. But a return to Castle Mannligar reveals that someone has been busy covering their tracks—and one unsettling discovery suggests that the castle may still be hiding dangerous secrets. Episode eng...

In the aftermath of a hard-fought victory, the party scrambles to escape Castle Mannligar before enemy reinforcements arrive. A daring gamble presents an unexpected opportunity to strike another blow against Lolth's influence, while an emotional journey to save a fallen ally pushes the group to their limits. As old wounds begin to heal and new threats emerge, the heroes realize the fight for Tower...

The search for Nikis leads the party deep beneath Castle Mannligar before a shocking discovery sends them racing to the highest reaches of the fortress. There, a desperate confrontation forces Orbog to face the man who has haunted his life, while Emryn risks everything to save her brother. As battle erupts in the throne room, long-buried truths begin to surface, changing everything the heroes thou...

The story shifts away from the rest of the party as Callum finally returns home to Palashuk in search of answers about his family and his past. What begins as an emotional reunion soon uncovers long-buried truths about his parents, his own mysterious nature, and the forces shaping the world around him. As old questions are answered, even greater mysteries emerge, leaving Callum with a new purpose—...

The party's search for Nikis takes an urgent turn after devastating news reaches the Thieves' Guild. With time running out, old alliances are tested, new responsibilities are accepted, and a daring assault on Castle Mannligar begins. As chaos erupts across Northern Towerfall, the heroes launch a desperate rescue mission that forces them into their most dangerous battle yet. Episode engineer(s): Da...

After regrouping in Northern Towerfall, the party begins searching for a way to overthrow King Valt and break Lolth's hold over the kingdom. As new clues point toward hidden dangers within the city, Aelin sets out to find her missing brother while Wilder and the others seek answers from the remnants of the Thieves' Guild. What they discover reveals just how much has changed since their last visit—...

Callum finally reaches the mysterious barrier surrounding Vassar and discovers that reality inside is far stranger than he ever imagined. While he searches for answers about his mother, Emrine and Wilder continue their dangerous mission inside Castle Mannligar. With the castle on high alert and every mistake threatening to expose them, the pair must improvise their escape before the entire fortres...

While Callum returns to his long-lost homeland in search of answers, an unexpected encounter reveals a place where time itself no longer behaves as it should. Elsewhere, Wilder and Emrine find themselves trapped inside an enemy stronghold after their infiltration goes disastrously wrong. Forced to improvise new disguises, evade an escalating search, and decide how much further they're willing to p...

As plans to fake Orbog's assassination move forward, the party seeks guidance from an unlikely ally whose conspiracy theories may contain more truth than fiction. A prophetic vision forces everyone to reconsider their strategy, while Wilder volunteers to face the dangers waiting inside Castle Mannligar alone. When a simple exchange goes disastrously wrong, a desperate rescue mission begins beneath...

With Orbog's staged assassination only hours away, the party works through the final details of their dangerous plan while debating how best to outwit both Lolth and the Thieves' Guild. An unexpected conversation with Emryn's family sends them on a detour to visit her eccentric brother Ethan, whose paranoid worldview seems absurd—until one of his wild conspiracies proves disturbingly accurate. As...

As the party prepares to fake King Orbog's assassination, Emrine and Pough grow closer through an honest conversation while Wilder and Stumblefoot negotiate the final details with the Thieves' Guild. Their search for new equipment takes an unexpected turn when a magical treasure chest reveals a secret connection to Castle Mannligar's royal treasury, allowing the party to outfit Emryn with powerful...

With the party reunited in Northern Towerfall, attention turns to the bounty on Orbog's head and the impossible task of satisfying an assassination contract without losing a friend. As Wilder continues reconciling the memories of both Felix Tinsdale and Wilder Filch, the group searches for a way to outsmart the Thieves' Guild through deception, resurrection magic, or careful negotiation. Their sea...

As the party settles into hiding in Northern Towerfall, old wounds begin to heal while long-buried truths rise to the surface. Emrine returns home for the first time since her resurrection, Wilder struggles to reconcile fragments of a forgotten past, and the group uncovers a heartbreaking lead in their search for Ashlinn. With new allies potentially within reach and Orbog's bounty still hanging ov...

Separated by the fall of Southern Towerfall, the party slowly begins finding its way back together. Aelin and Pough navigate an occupied city, Stumblefoot and Orbog continue searching for their missing companions, and Wilder finds himself caught between two very different lives. As the group's paths finally begin to converge, new mysteries emerge that may reshape everything they thought they knew....

Wilder's fractured past finally catches up with him as he awakens in Northern Towerfall to discover he has been living a second life as the thief Felix Tinsdale—a man with a daughter, a criminal reputation, and a forgotten mission to assassinate Prince Orbog. After Stumblefoot restores his memories with Remove Curse, Wilder is forced to reconcile both identities while keeping his deadly past hidde...

The world continues to fracture as the party struggles to recover from the fall of Southern Towerfall. While Callum discovers that Mirabar has been reduced to a smoking crater, Wilder awakens with no memory of his past and learns he was originally sent to assassinate Orbog. At the same time, Stumblefoot infiltrates the occupied castle to recover a cache of royal gemstones, only to witness Aelin's...

Separated from the party during Orbog's disastrous coronation, Stumblefoot unknowingly uncovers a web of hidden secrets beneath Southern Towerfall. After discovering secret passages beneath the castle, he follows a mysterious minotaur into the city's criminal underworld, overhears negotiations for a powerful magical sword, and accidentally stumbles upon an entrance to the Underdark itself. Returni...

King Orbog's coronation descends into catastrophe when King Vult returns with a shocking announcement: he has remarried, naming his new queen—Ashlinn—as Southern Towerfall's rightful ruler. As hidden loyalties are exposed and the ceremony erupts into violence, the party is torn apart by betrayal, devastating losses, and the revelation that Lolth has been manipulating events from the shadows. By th...

With King Orbog's coronation only hours away, the party ventures into Southern Towerfall in search of proper attire and a coronation gift, only for Pough's disastrous shopping trip to leave a pottery shop in ruins. Their morning takes a far more dangerous turn when they uncover Bastite negotiating the sale of a powerful wish-granting sword to members of the Cult of Lokitomhiddleston—including the...

John and JS were out for our last Session Friday, so Dave assembled Josiah, Celeste, Squid, and Eric to play a very meta game of Goat Crashers. Goat Crashers, if you haven’t heard of it, is a one-page RPG created by Grant Howitt . In the game one player (the Goat Master) leads a group of goats through a party-crashing adventure. We took a step further and had Wilder – not Dave – run the game with...

As Southern Towerfall prepares to crown its new king, the celebration is overshadowed by unanswered questions and growing unease. With a trusted ally missing, tensions rising within the royal family, and troubling cracks beginning to appear beneath the surface of the kingdom, the party discovers that not every battle is fought on the battlefield. As the coronation draws near, they must decide who...

As Southern Towerfall prepares for a long-awaited coronation, the party finds itself pulled between competing responsibilities, impossible choices, and growing distrust. Old bargains continue to cast long shadows, while unexpected discoveries within the castle raise troubling questions about who can truly be trusted. With tensions rising and the kingdom on the verge of a new chapter, the heroes so...

While the rest of the party faces dangers far from Waterdeep, this special side story follows Gheroth's lonely vigil to protect the church he helped build. As a series of unsettling attacks grows increasingly personal, Gheroth uncovers a threat lurking much closer to home than he ever imagined. What begins as a simple night watch soon becomes a desperate fight for faith, survival, and the future o...