Twenty Sides: A DnD Podcast

They tied the tent shut from the inside. She was already in there. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 44. The prism works exactly the way Zalkum said it would, right up until he holds it to the light and tells them to keep watching for the flash. There is a crack in it. Not a chip, a hairline, the kind you o...

Something on the road opens its mouth and a human voice comes out. It is not its voice. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 43. Two days of walking back toward the outpost with the prism, and on the second night the howling in the trees stops being distant. Six of them are coming up the road, five ordinary an...

The prism is finally free. That is when the ceiling gives up. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 42. Annabel gets the prism off its arms with a set of thieves' tools while a reptilian head the size of a table works its way in through the roof. The armored thing they were fighting takes one look and leav...

Two figures in full plate turn to face the party. There is nothing inside the helmets. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 41. Another floor up in the sunken observatory is a room full of broken windows, and hanging in the middle of it on four metal arms is a prism catching light from every angle. One of the...

There is one telescope left in the ruin that still works. Looking through it turns out to be a mistake. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 40. They come out of the portal into ground they have never seen, black earth and burnt grass, two hundred feet from an observatory that has sunk into the ground. Somethi...

A bat flies into the tent, looks around, and flies back out. Nobody at the table thinks it was a bat. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 39. This picks up the same night. Zalkum leaves them with one instruction, tell no one, and a reason to take it seriously that has nothing to do with devils and everything...

They were inside the portal for an afternoon. Everyone at the outpost says they were gone four days. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 38. No combat this week. The party gets back through the gate with Miller's hood pulled low and a deception check standing between him and being turned away, and then t...

Three of them make it through the portal. One of them doesn't, and nobody notices until it's too late. The chapel fight ends here, and it ends strangely. The party has worked out the rule by now: every spirit they destroy adds another piece to the portal forming against the back wall, so the way out gets built one kill at a time. What they haven't worked out is what the spirits actu...

The figures in the pews don't look hostile. They also don't look like they're coming to say hello. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 36. Episode 35 ended on initiative being rolled in a dark chapel, before anyone had taken a single turn. This one opens with the party finding out what the spir...

A thousand-year-old hymn finally tells the party what this place was really built for — and why the people who kept the watch never left. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast . This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 35. The skeleton is down. Miller's eyes are still glowing blue. Before anyone can work out why, the party spots a faint light burn...

The fortress has given Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor powerful new weapons—but every discovery comes with a price. After defeating the drowned soldiers and searching the ruined courtyard, the party studies a mysterious military map showing a large force moving toward the darkness at the center of this strange realm. The markings suggest failed assaults, identified anchor points, and somethi...

The drowned soldiers are finally dead—but the fortress ahead may hold something even worse. Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their brutal first battle beyond the portal, surrounded by undead soldiers capable of draining away their maximum health. Already weakened by the creatures’ attacks, the party must finish the fight before the damage becomes impossible to recover from. ⚔️💀 Anna...

The party has crossed the portal—and the new world immediately tries to kill them. Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor barely have time to take in the strange landscape before drowned soldiers rise from the murky ground around them. Rusted blades swing, axes strike from behind, and every enemy carries an ability far more dangerous than its weapon: the power to drain the life directly from its ta...

The portal is closer than ever. After a restless night filled with questions, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their search for answers before stepping into the unknown. With Bram’s terrifying transformation still fresh in their minds and the mystery of Neithera hanging over them, every rumor suddenly feels important. 🌌👁️ Their investigation leads them deeper into the stories circul...

The portal has claimed its first victim. After Bram Deepwood murders a guard and vanishes through the portal, the outpost is thrown into chaos. Alarm bells ring through the night, soldiers scramble for answers, and the leadership of the outpost is left trying to contain a situation that may already be out of control. 🌌⚔️ But for Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor, one mystery overshadows all t...

The portal is no longer whispering. It’s speaking. As night falls over the outpost, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor keep watch over the mysterious gateway that has dominated every conversation since their return from Norvale. Rumors swirl throughout camp. Bram Deepwood remains as suspicious as ever. And the portal itself seems determined to draw attention. 🌌👁️ While Miller and Thelandor pat...

The adventure back from Norvale may be over—but something far stranger is waiting at the outpost. After returning with survivors and delivering their report to Brother Harvick, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor find themselves facing a growing problem. The mysterious Bram Deepwood has made no secret of his intentions. He wants the portal. And worse, he plans to reach it before anyone can stop...

Sleep doesn’t last long in Crownfall. As the party continues their cautious journey back toward the outpost, Annabel hears something chilling during her watch—a distant scream echoing through the darkness of the forest. Not once, but twice. 🌙🌲 The sound is wrong. Muffled. Painful. Desperate. Unsure whether it’s a trap, a prisoner, or something even stranger, Annabel and Quinn immediately begin i...

The unease around Bram Deepwood finally begins to crack open. After another tense night in the wilderness, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor awaken with growing suspicions about the mysterious traveler following them. Miller remembers almost nothing from his late-night conversation with Bram—and that alone is enough to set alarms ringing. 🌑👁️ Something is wrong. Quinn and Annabel quietly warn...

The wilds aren’t empty anymore. After realizing they were being followed through the forests outside Norvale, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor finally confront the mysterious humanoid tracking their movements. The stranger calls himself Bram Deepwood—a traveler claiming he only wanted safety in numbers after surviving the fall of Norvale. 🌲🌑 But something doesn’t add up. No one recognizes h...

Norvale is behind them—but something is still following. After uncovering the truth beneath the chapel crypt and surviving another terrifying night in the ruined town, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor begin the long journey back toward the outpost. The pale blue ash covering the graveyard still lingers in their minds. Quinn’s glowing staff raises more questions than answers. And the silence i...

The streets of Norvale fall silent—but the danger hasn’t passed. After surviving a brutal battle against gnolls and a deadly roc, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor finally reach the chapel at the center of town. The dead have been hidden, distractions have been set, and for the first time in hours, the party has a chance to move unseen. ⚔️🌑 But something feels wrong. Ash blankets the ground a...

The battle for Norvale spirals into chaos. What began as a stealth mission through the ruined town has exploded into a desperate fight for survival. Gnolls swarm the streets, magic tears through the battlefield, and now a terrifying new threat has joined the combat—a massive roc descending into the chaos with devastating force. 🪽🔥 The party is pushed to its limits. Annabel fights to stay alive a...

The plan was to move quietly. After discovering survivors hidden beneath Norvale and learning of more trapped beneath the chapel crypt, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor attempt to slip through the ruined town unseen. Familiar ground now feels hostile—every street a risk, every shadow hiding something waiting to strike. 🌑🌲 But stealth doesn’t last. Spotted by two gnolls—one gaunt, wielding a...

The fighting stops—but the silence is worse. After surviving another brutal night in the wilds, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor press forward toward Norvale once more. Their destination is clear: a root cellar in the western fields where survivors were said to be hiding. 🌾❄️ But something is different. The smoke is gone.  The fires have burned out.  And the land sits in an uneasy stillness....