Undercommon Taste

This week, we begin our trek into the unknown in the Wilderness of the Beastlands. Join us as we discuss the overarching lore of the plane, its denizens, and how to navigate its uncharted depths. Be sure to return next week, when we do our deep dive into the individual layers of the Beastlands.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com/ucthomebrew Joi...

This week, we return to the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium to go through the four layers of the plane and discuss their major landmarks and denizens. Join us as we visit The Madhouse, Windglum, the Unseelie Court, and the Winter Hall of Loki, among others. Content Warning (sorry, forgot this last week): Discussion of madness and mental disorders.   This week's episode was sponsored by 3 Pillars o...

This week, we begin our descent into the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium. It was a long recording session (happens when you keep buying old books and incorporating the information), so we divided it into two parts. This first episode covers the overarching themes of Pandemonium, while the next episode will cover each of the individual layers in depth.  This week's episode was sponsored by 3 Pillar...

This week, we are joined by Matthew Ross and Fernando Dominguez, the creative and artistic minds behind the D&D 5e homebrew website Abyssal Brews. We have invited them on to discuss Campfire, their new 5e supplement which finds the elegant middle ground between montage and random encounter tables for narrating and resolving travel.  You can find Campfire, and all of their other content, on their K...

This week, we welcome Ethan H. Reynolds, the writer behind the new dystopian cyberpunk game Neon Nights, which has just released v1.4. Join us as we discuss his inspirations for the game and its simple yet immersive mechanics, the future of Neon Nights, and how Star Wars is totally a cyberpunk setting. We also have way too much fun in the creature creation portion of the show, ending up with a ter...

Merry Tarrasquemas! It's been one full year of podcast episodes, and we're here to celebrate with a one-shot adventure - specifically, Zikran's Zephyrean Tome from Candlekeep Mysteries. Today's cast has James as the Dungeon Master; Ian as Ereshki, the orc champion fighter; Mary Crowell as Lawbringer Trebin, the hobgoblin war cleric; Mitch Wallace as Gimble Shadowscale, the kobold thief rogue; and...

This week, we climb to the pinnacle of the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia. Come see all of the ways that law and good are conspiring to save the multiverse, and the tools they plan to use to do it.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram:  instagram.com/undercommontaste Support us on Patreon:  patreon.com/undercommo...

This week, we jump into the Pit and visit the varied layers of the Nine Hells of Baator. We talk contracts, the Fifth Element, and how everything is actually just Dante's Inferno, as we go through each layer in succession.  We've restructured the pledge values for our Patreon, and have opened up our Discord to everyone! Come on over and talk nerd stuff with us!    Find us on Facebook:  facebook.co...

This week, we continue our trek through the planes as we visit the Infinite Layers of the Abyss. Join us as we discuss soul-eating transdimensional ships, the super cool demon that isn't so super cool anymore, and why the phrase "river of liquid salt crystals" makes absolutely no sense.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on...

This week, we return to our planar travels as we visit the Olympian Glades of Arborea, the Plane of Chaotic Good. Join us as we discuss the elven afterlife, full of massive trees, killer parties, and literal D&D Las Vegas. Plus celestial eladrin, titan ruins, and a sea-lion god that hunts sharks, just because.   Find us on Facebook:  facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter:  twitter.com...

This week, we welcome the Magic Engineer, C.R. Rowenson, to discuss his love for magic systems and the Indiegogo campaign for his newest book, The Magic System Blueprint. You can find Clark online at https://crrowenson.com/ , and his YouTube channel, The Magic Engineer, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4TcDjakQUUFyGXTm7ZF1Q . You can also find his workbook, Restrictions May Apply, here:  h...

This week, we welcome Mitchell Wallace from Penny for a Tale to discuss his new game Necrobiotic, which was recently successfully funded on Kickstarter. Necrobiotic is a melancholy dystopian game set in Florence, Italy in the year 2100, where humanity is clawing back from the brink of collapse by creating constructs from the bodies of the dead to perform menial labor.  You can find Mitchell on Twi...

This week, we take a break from our planar travels to present another piece of homebrewed content for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition: the Dragoon class. Based heavily on the archetypical Dragoon, Kain, from Final Fantasy IV, this highly mobile spear-wielding warrior will rock your table with its high-risk, high-reward martial play style. We hope you love it as much as we do. Find us on Facebook:...

This week, we travel into Limbo, the Everchanging Chaos. We'll have no need of the Heart of Gold, as the whole plane is an Infinite Improbability Drive of psionic monks, chaos-born toad men, and the infinite flux of creation and destruction.  Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram: instagram.com/undercommontaste Support...

This week, we visit the Gray Wastes of Hades, the Plane of Evil. Join us as we discuss miasma clouds, schools of flying sharks, and the bleak expanses of the Underworld.  Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram: instagram.com/undercommontaste Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/undercommontaste    Our theme song is Massac...

This week, we have the privilege to interview Jacob Duerksen, the writer of "Heroes of Tara", a new TTRPG built on the framework of the 5th edition Open Gaming License. Join us as we discuss Irish history and mythology, and how Jacob combined everything together to make a truly inspired game. The Kickstarter for Heroes of Tara goes live on July 1, 2021. You can find it here: https://www.kickstarte...

This week, we continue our tour of the Outer Planes in the Blessed Fields of Elysium, home of the guardinals and Pelor (Praise the Sun!). Join us as we discuss the plane of good, complete with its low-key insidious mind control, the Orcgate Wars, and psionic flying elephants, among other things.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Und...

This week, join us as we begin our self-guided tour through the Outer Planes, starting in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus. We talk about modrons, Judge Dredd, the sum of all knowledge, and how 2nd edition movement speeds make no sense.   Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join us on Instagram:  Undercommon Taste Support us on Patreon:  Undercommon Taste  ...

This week, we interrupt your regularly scheduled planeswalking to welcome Jonathan Pruitt, half of the YouTube dynamic duo of WebDM, here to discuss the Kickstarter for the book Weird Wastelands. Weird Wastelands goes live today (June 9th), and you can check it out here . If you aren't familiar with WebDM, you can (and should) check out their YouTube channel, and follow them on Twitter .   Find us...

This week, we take some time to discuss an assortment of low-CR monsters in D&D 5th edition, and how to utilize them in more thematic and dynamic ways. Join us as we discuss the old mainstays of goblins and kobolds, as well as the lesser-used mephits and bullywugs, and how you might be able to kill... err... challenge your players. Yes, challenge. Our 1000 follower giveaway is still going on, and...

We've decided to take in a live show before we head to the Outer Planes in our planar travels, so this week, we have three new homebrewed bard colleges to share with you: the College of Metal, the College of Sophistry, and the College of Truthweaving.  This episode started with the Metal Bard, which was inspired by the recent Worldbuild With Us series, The Land of a Thousand Decibels, which you ca...

This week, we finish up our trek through the Inner Planes, visiting the Paraelemental Planes of Ice, Smoke, Magma, and Ooze, and talking about notable landmarks and denizens there. We also spend too little time talking about the Elemental Chaos (because it doesn't really fit into the Great Wheel cosmology), and give a brief overview of the Quasielemental Planes.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon...

This week, we jump into the elemental sandblaster as we continue our tour of the prime Elemental Planes. We discuss the Plane of Air, with its Citadel of Ice and Steel housing an unknown prisoner, as well as the Plane of Earth, and how it would be a really cool place to visit if the Dao weren't such terrible individuals.  Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew...

We begin our tour of the Inner Planes this week, discussing the Elemental Planes of Fire and Water. We look back into 2e Planescape and the 3.5e Manual of the Planes to build on the meager details we have been given in 5e, to give you the tools you need to send your players to deal with the efreeti or the marids.    Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew Join u...

This week, we shift our planar discussion to the transitive planes: the Ethereal and Astral. We discuss how they work, what hazards you might find on them, how you might get to them without 7th-level spells, and some adventure hooks if you want to linger for a while.  We also geek out over Astral Dreadnaughts for a bit.    Find us on Facebook:  Undercommon Taste Follow us on Twitter:  @UCThomebrew...