The Analog Dungeon Podcast

With the rift in the rear view, Russell and Jeramy trade their explorers’ hats for gladiator helmets in the final part of G2: The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. Grugnur’s hall might look like a page right out of Architectural Digest with its cold color theming and meticulously styled trophy rooms, but behind the design panache lies a frozen murder factory unlike anything the vaunted G serie...

The frozen fun continues in part 2 as Russell and Jeramy dive deeper into the titular Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl and they aren’t the only ones! A bevy of ogres and giants chill out while hoping to hang with the Jarl provide a rainbow coalition of bad guys as the boys push ever closer to the icy lair of the Jarl himself. But it turns out humanoids are the least of their worries, as death...

Zip up your parka and strap on your snowshoes because the giants are back and this time… they’re frozen. Russell and Jeramy continue the legendary G series with G2: Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl! Gary Gygax’s 1978 frozen fortress crawl has everything you’d expect from a deadly winter wonderland: frost giants, yetis, winter wolves, and enough icy environmental hazards to make summitting Ever...

It’s a rare part 4 finale of B4: The Lost City , and the reason is clear. You see, the pyramid is just the beginning as Russell and Jeramy officially enter Cynidicea, a whole city filled with freaks and a weirdly large number of people pretending to be freaks. Not only is there an entire city to explore, but a whole damn mega-dungeon that leads right into the jaws of Zargon, a basically unkillable...

If you ever think your job is lame, just be thankful that you don’t have to be buried with all your coworkers like the poor subjects of King Alexander. Also… why are there so many animal people in B4: The Lost City? Russell and Jeramy investigate in part three! While we’re asking questions, here’s another one: how the hell are we supposed to get all of this loot out of here? It’s almost like the a...

The mystery of what exactly happened to Cynidicea is officially solved in part two of B4: The Lost City, and we have good news! The eldritch horror-turn-cult figure responsible for the downfall of this particular civilization is just Zargon, the coolest dude ever, who’s vibin’ on a higher frequency and providing top quality za to his couchlocked disciples. Then the boys meet the other two factions...

Tom Moldvay’s 1982 sun-bleached fever dream of a dungeon starts with Russell and Jeramy lost in the desert and ends… well… maybe never! In part one of B4: The Lost City, the boys discuss the merits of survival in D&D while trying desperately to avoid eye contact with a bevy of masked weirdos trying to build them coffins and offer them sips from the honey pot. Finally, they meet the first of th...

In the final episode of Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Russell and Jeramy come face-to-shin with Chief Nosnra and 8 metric tons of his best buddies, liquored up and looking for a fight. Then they venture down into the lower level of the steading where clues to the mystery at the heart of the G series await, along with a literal army of orcs, a weird temple looking to drive you crazy, and the tr...

It's the party of the year and crashing it is at the top of the to-do list as Russell and Jeramy take on the title locale in part 2 of Steading of the Hill Giant Chief! Napping guards, giant rugrats, mountains of treasure, and a great hall packed to the rafters with way, WAY too many enemies present a unique challenge: face the full wrath of Gygax head on or sneak around like little sneaky sneaker...

Gary Gygax called it one of his favorite creations. Stephen Colbert has declared his love for it. Wizards of the Coast has called it the greatest D&D adventure of all time. And did we mention it's the first module TSR ever wrote and released? Russell and Jeramy tackle G1: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, the granddaddy of them all, to see if it (and its author) can live up to the incredible h...

It’s the finale of B3: Palace of the Silver Princess and we have the ruby in hand… but this castle still has teeth! After an art gallery of doors and a teacup named Spotify , Russell and Jeramy finally come to the most infamous room in the book and, perhaps, all of D&D history: the illusion-wielding Decapus, a monster so powerful it critically hit the module itself. Just when it feels like the...

Holy tonal shift Batman! Part 3 of Palace of the Silver Princess goes from poetry fragments and hat pins to Uncle Travis’ Murder Emporium faster than you can say weapon-tailed marmoset . Russell and Jeramy then head to the tower to meet its weird, alignment-obsessed alien(?) guards and the infamous three-headed, multigender Ubues, which turn out to be more wacky than salacious. It all leads up to...

It’s time to kick in the gate and get real weird as Russell and Jeramy charge headlong into the titular Palace of the Silver Princess! The guys accomplish a bit of a speed run, lucking into empty chamber after empty chamber, fall face first into a Rube Goldbergian pit trap, attend an impromptu gender reveal, and find the first clues as to the final resting place of the colossal ruby called My Lady...

Deemed “too SPICY for 1980”, Russell and Jeramy dig into B3: Palace of the Silver Princess, one of the most infamous D&D modules of all time. So why did TSR print thousands of copies only to try to dump them all in the Lake Geneva landfill the next day? It’s a behind-the-scenes story with so many twists and turns it makes Real Housewives of Beverly Hills look like the Beverly Hillbillies.&nbsp...

If Russell and Jeramy thought the hard part was getting to The Forest Oracle , in part three the module takes great pains to remind them that it still has a lot of weird left in the tank. The hard won cure for the curse in hand, they head back toward The Downs, dealing with a band of bougie bugbears and the world’s cuddliest yeti only to discover the module’s climactic “twist.” Saving The Downs fo...

If Russell and Jeramy had a nickel for every time they’ve lost all their worldly belongings in this module only to regain them all again, they’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s still weird that it happened twice, right? In part two of The Forest Oracle , the guys find treasure inside the monsters and get pick-pocketed by a body of water on their way to meeting the guy who’s name is wr...

Is this the worst Dungeons & Dragons module of all time? Russell and Jeramy dive head first into N2: The Forest Oracle to experience exactly what made the internet dub it the Worst. Module. Ever. In the first episode, our heroes experience life on the rails as they’re ambushed by a whole town and forced to help lift a curse. As their journey begins, they meet a group of non-joking, non-singing...

Russell and Jeramy finally add some evil to all the chaos as they cap off the legendary Keep on the Borderlands! Featuring a cadre of sexy orc muscle mommies, a hipster gnoll microbrewery, and an awkwardly named shrine full of undead that would make even the holiest cleric utter a few select four letter words. The epic finale will leave you with just one question: Did Gary Gygax know how alcohol w...

The titular Keep gives way to the iconic Caves of Chaos as Russell and Jeramy venture forth into a veritable buffet of classic D&D foes: featuring clueless goblins, oily kobolds, entrepreneurial bugbears, and literal s#&! eating rats. In the end, they’re left with just one question: who are the real monsters here?

It’s one of the most iconic modules in Dungeons & Dragons history, responsible for teaching millions of the earliest players the ropes: Russell and Jeramy dive into Gary Gygax’s legendary B2: Keep on the Borderlands from 1979! In episode one, we learn how the keep came to be, meet a bunch of nameless NPCs with spicy secrets, and prepare for the journey outside the walls and into the iconic Cav...

The fiery finale of The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina gives birth to the Dragon Tiles Extended Universe, where things immediately go off the rails. The Revenge of Rusak spirals into political coups, illusions gone wild, and a reborn villian with a Tim Curry-esque flair for the dramatic.

Russell and Jeramy strap on their 3D glasses for a trip back to the 80s, when D&D tried to leap off the page and onto your tabletop with 3D Dungeon Dragon Tiles, including the adventures The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina and its sequel The Revenge of Rusak ! Featuring a haunted house where every sofa hides a classic D&D foe and the bathroom has a secret backstage entrance, they trace a wi...

The finale of In Search of the Unknown sees a once orderly dungeon completely off the rails. Russell and Jeramy try to make sense of the Room of Doors (or is it a Room of Rooms?), marvel at the evil genius behind the teleportation room, and attempt to find out, once and for all, if they've been eating all these rocks for no reason.

In Part 2 of In Search of the Unknown, Russell and Jeramy continue their delve into Castle Quasqueton, rifling through jars in a wizard's lab, inventing a few cursed magic items, and taking a detour through the infamous Room of Pools. Along the way they finally answer that age old question: what would YOU do with a pickled cat in a jar?

Russell and Jeramy dive into the murky waters of earliest D&D, repleat with publishing drama, lawsuits, and a dungeon with a very funny name.